[0:01] Okay, it was moved by council member Austin. Second of my council member, Wilding, all in favor.

[0:05] Aye. Okay. Welcome, welcome. You were right at the beginning. We're so happy to have

[0:11] Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District here for their annual presentation. And I'll have

[0:17] both of you come up. Jacob Young is the general manager, and John Richardson is the trustee

[0:22] that represents Bluffdale, Draper, and actually, John, will you tell us, is there another city?

[0:29] just those two includes water pros well so oh it does entities I guess okay great

[0:34] so Draper Bluff Dylan water pro thank you for representing our cities and thank

[0:40] you so much Jacob for being here thank you for having us so I have to have you

[0:45] guys use the microphone so that those online can hear you so you will just

[0:50] go back and forth with a mic okay I'm gonna kick it off here again John

[0:56] John Richardson, trustee representing Division 6, includes Bluffdale, Draper, and WaterPro,

[1:01] and I have Jacob Young here, General Manager at Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District.

[1:06] And yeah, we're so grateful for this opportunity to see you all and talk about some of these

[1:11] capital projects.

[1:12] And just really by quick introduction, I am a longtime resident of Draper.

[1:17] I grew up in Sandy, Utah.

[1:20] Actually went to Utah State where I got my Bachelor's of Science in Environmental Engineering

[1:25] and got my Master's of Science from the University of Utah.

[1:30] And my wife and family, yeah, we've been in Beck and Draper for about 12 years now.

[1:35] Before that, we were in Sandy.

[1:37] And I really want to emphasize to you all my qualifications.

[1:40] I heard our trustee recently describe the board.

[1:43] The trustee, there's nine of us, is kind of a fellowship.

[1:46] You know, to use the Lord of the Rings.

[1:48] We have a wizard, a dwarf, an elf, and I don't know which one I am yet, but that's really what it takes.

[1:54] we have a broad skill set and I've got more of a technical background I spent, so since

[1:59] my master's 28 years focused on planning, design, project management, construction of

[2:06] large water, wastewater facilities. And local clientele, I've been fortunate to work on

[2:12] projects across the U.S., but local clientele include Central Utah Water Conservancy District,

[2:17] cities of West Jordan, South Jordan, Central Utah Water Conservancy, City of

[2:23] Draper, even a little bit City of Harriman going back a ways. So anyway I've

[2:27] got a lot of relevant experience just wanted to highlight that if I could.

[2:31] And jumping into Jordan Valley you can see here we've got a large service area

[2:36] if you look to the map on the left we got a lot of conveyance facilities

[2:40] treatment facilities established in 1951 and serves primarily Salt Lake County

[2:47] wholesale water provider. And main facilities you can see up at the top there are the Jordan

[2:53] Valley Water Treatment Plant. That's the big one that provides most of the treatment of

[2:57] the raw water, which again comes from Deer Creek, Jordan Hill, down these aqueducts.

[3:03] So it's a pretty large service area. A lot of capital investment, a lot of infrastructure

[3:09] into that. And there you can see the divisions. So there's nine total, like

[3:14] we talked about, and of course Division 6 is Bluffdale, Draper. So governed by nine trustees.

[3:22] And we're talking about 100,000 people, all again in Salt Lake County, and 17 member agencies

[3:29] total. And we always talk in the water business about acre feet. That's kind of odd. If you

[3:35] think of an acre lot, a foot deep, that's the unit of volume. That's typical. So yeah,

[3:40] We provide 130,000 acre feet a year of water and treatment capacity again of 250

[3:47] million gallons a day.

[3:51] And there you can see some photos of the different

[3:56] trustees there.

[4:01] So what do we do? Yeah, wholesale water provider really

[4:05] want to focus on clean water, managing the demand, developing supply. That's a

[4:10] a huge challenge right now because we've got a historic drought. We've got that coupled

[4:14] with a lot of growth in the area still. So that is always a tricky thing, especially now

[4:21] when we're in a desert as we all know. We just had the whole western U.S., really one

[4:26] of the worst winners on record. Actually was the worst winner on record if you look

[4:29] at most states. So I've got to commend the district. Working with a lot of cities

[4:36] and districts for 28 years now, they're very proactive, they're very fiscally

[4:41] responsible, and I've seen a lot of cities and clients do a lackluster job,

[4:47] let's say, and Jordan Valley does a really great job.

[4:53] And yeah, just a quick

[4:54] overview. We'll give you an update on capital projects. I want to highlight

[4:58] what's impacting Bluffdale, as well as the water budget policy, drought

[5:03] response, water conservation, and if there's any issues you would like

[5:07] brought before the board. And time for questions. That will turn over to Mr. Jacob Young.

[5:13] Okay, I'll go through these quickly because I want to focus on what's most interesting

[5:17] to you. So feel free to guide that with questions here. But quick update on capital projects

[5:23] that we're doing that have impact on Bluffdale City. And just want to mention it is an

[5:29] absolute honor to partner with your Public Works group, with Bruce as your city manager,

[5:35] Michael Fazio, Shane, they to partner with them to provide this just life

[5:44] sustaining service to the community. We are just grateful for the partnership

[5:49] that we have and you know we know our role is to bring water from outside the

[5:56] region here so that it can be used by the community to thrive and grow.

[6:03] This

[6:04] demonstrate that. We are currently expanding the Jordan Valley Water

[6:08] Treatment Plant which sits right on your borders there and was originally built

[6:14] in the 70s has been expanded a couple of times and we're currently expanding it

[6:20] and while we're expanding that capacity from 180 million gallons a day to 220

[6:25] we're also taking advantage of the opportunity to enhance the resiliency

[6:30] So seismic resiliency and safety of the facility as a whole as well.

[6:37] Very happy to say because of the forethought that went into the previous design, some innovations,

[6:45] new technologies that were incorporating into this expansion, we're able to do it all

[6:49] within the same footprint of that treatment plant.

[6:52] So, the end result is we're expanding this for the capacity for about additional five

[7:01] million dollars per million gallons of capacity is what we're getting.

[7:05] Other entities across the state are spending at least five times that in order to get the

[7:11] same capacity.

[7:12] So, about 25 million dollars per million gallons of capacity.

[7:16] So-

[7:17] And why is that?

[7:18] Why do you think?

[7:18] So those are our new we call them greenfield treatment plants so they're

[7:24] totally new plants that are being built kind of at other locations really

[7:30] because of some of the foresight that went in when this this plant was

[7:35] originally built we're able to capitalize on that and like I mentioned

[7:40] with the new technologies keep it all within the so we're not really

[7:45] pouring new concrete and things like that. So, yeah, really excited about. Still, it's

[7:51] $200 million project, so it's no small project, but the impacts, the value we're getting out

[7:57] of each of those dollars is really maximized. We're doing that in four phases. That'll

[8:02] happen over several years that you can see there. Next is our seismic resiliency of

[8:09] our aqueduct system. So many people don't know, John mentioned, we pipe water all the

[8:15] way from the Prova River here to that plant there and then treat it and then pipe it all

[8:25] the way up to 2100 north. That pipes for the most majority of that whole length is

[8:32] about a six foot diameter pipe and built in stages as old as 1980s I think is

[8:41] the oldest of that and built to different seismic code obviously so we've

[8:48] evaluated all of that and identified a few places it's a critical artery to

[8:53] the valley here where we will be doing some upgrades to make sure it can

[8:58] and withstand the earthquakes that we're expecting

[9:01] for this area.

[9:06] It is, yep.

[9:08] So yeah, yeah, that's the thing about the work that we do

[9:14] is that most of it is very unseen.

[9:19] And yeah, so it runs that whole length.

[9:22] If you know where to look, you can see where it runs

[9:25] because there are no houses or structures of any kind over it and things, but great.

[9:32] And then also we've got several reservoir projects.

[9:34] I won't spend much time on these.

[9:35] These are critical for us that if the plant does go down, we're able to backfeed towards

[9:41] back towards Bluffdale in order to provide water while we address any issues that may

[9:48] come up at the plant.

[9:49] And then lastly, as we look to the future, how are we going to continue to meet growth?

[9:55] The answer is Utah Lake water, believe it or not.

[10:00] And there are technologies that we've been using for over 15 years now that we now know

[10:07] we need to expand treatment plants with the technologies to treat that water, to drinking

[10:15] water.

[10:15] so we're doing studies right now on how and when to do that. Any questions on

[10:21] capital projects before I move on to the next? Okay next is that you may have heard

[10:28] if not we wanted to make you aware of our new water budget policy so in the

[10:34] face of limitations to Colorado River water so you may not be aware but we

[10:41] import about almost half well sorry a little over half of our supplies are

[10:49] coming from the Colorado River Basin. So you've probably heard about some of the

[10:55] heated negotiations going on there. We're definitely impacted by all of that. So

[11:02] with the pressures there and then you've also obviously heard of the

[11:10] projects, supply project that we had been planning on for decades, the Bear River Project, there's

[11:16] now a certain high level of uncertainty with that.

[11:18] So we have developed what we refer to as our water budget policy, which essentially is

[11:26] stepped through that quickly here.

[11:28] So the history is that Jordan Valley has partnered with our member agencies to meet

[11:34] water demands by supplementing any of the your own local supplies with this

[11:41] water that we import to the valley and as we look at what's left of water rights

[11:48] that we already hold currently that leaves about 1.35 acre feet per acre

[11:56] of undeveloped land that's within our service area and so we've established

[12:02] that as the water budget for new development within our service area.

[12:09] So we will continue to aggressively pursue adding more new sources of water from outside

[12:17] the region.

[12:18] So that's our role of bringing that water in from outside the region.

[12:22] And we will continue to do that, but we've reached a point where there's enough uncertainty

[12:27] in those things that we feel like as a community we need to acknowledge the

[12:33] limitations that we have and not over commit our water to development or

[12:41] over commit the development beyond what we have the water to supply. So then the

[12:47] question becomes what if we need more than 1.35 acre feet per acre for that

[12:52] new development and we've established through this water budget policy of how

[12:58] we can get to yes on those developments that are important to the cities to

[13:03] happen by partnering with the cities with the developers to make sure that

[13:10] the water is there for those developments. That's in a quick summary what the

[13:15] water budget policy is. We've got these five tools I won't bore you with the

[13:20] details about those but happy to go into any of those. We've gone over that with

[13:24] your your Public Works staff in detail and they've engaged right away in as we've

[13:33] started using these tools and we're grateful for that.

[13:38] And so that's our

[13:40] water budget policy. Happy to answer any questions you might have on that.

[13:45] Okay, lastly is a drought response and water conservation.

[13:51] So John mentioned there are drought.

[13:54] Our actions are all governed by a drought contingency plan

[13:58] which we established back in 2021.

[14:02] And that specifies a few things.

[14:05] First is how we declare

[14:08] what level of drought that we're in.

[14:11] So we monitor that.

[14:13] And this year, following those criteria with engagement from all of our member agencies,

[14:21] our board voted that we were at a level two, which is a severe water shortage.

[14:27] And what that does is it triggers a series of response actions that we take that are

[14:31] defined in this drought contingency plan.

[14:35] Those are summarized here.

[14:37] The primary one that impacts our member agencies is that we called for a 10% reduction in that

[14:47] water usage from all of our member agencies. And that's over what last year's usage was.

[14:55] And that comes with...

[15:01] Some financial incentives or penalties, depending on how you want to look at it, if those savings

[15:10] aren't achieved. And so basically end up paying 125% of your current water rate if you go over

[15:19] 110% of your contract amount. And then it's more than double that if you go over 120% of

[15:28] your contract amount and we've also the other big response action is the

[15:35] advertising campaign that hopefully some of you have seen that is under this life

[15:42] is better with water and make specific requests of all residents throughout the

[15:48] our service area to use water more efficiently and effectively happy to

[15:53] say that that has been very effective. Bluffdale this chart shows where Bluffdale

[16:01] is projecting in relation to where those penalty fees kick in and you're

[16:06] projecting to be well under that mark so we appreciate that.

[16:12] There is still a

[16:14] little bit more that could be done though because you are projecting to be

[16:16] over the 10% reduction mark.

[16:19] So it would be great to see some continued concerted effort

[16:24] there on that.

[16:28] Any questions on drought response?

[16:31] Went through all of that very quickly.

[16:33] Yeah.

[16:35] Are you referring to, when you say going over our budgeted

[16:40] amount, so you're saying that Bluffdell, based

[16:44] on your historical numbers and what we need, you allocate a certain number of acre feet whatever.

[16:54] We're trying as a city to not go over that. Is that what we're saying?

[17:01] Right. There's two things at play there. The way water service from Jordan Valley works is

[17:07] So Bluffdale has a minimum purchase contract with Jordan Valley.

[17:13] And so that is a volume of water.

[17:17] And so for your case,

[17:21] I think it's 3,600 acre feet, is that right, Michael?

[17:24] Yeah, okay.

[17:25] So Bluffdale has a contract, a minimum purchase contract of 3,600 acre feet from Jordan Valley.

[17:32] And so with the drought to the level to water shortage, you can go up to 110% of that without

[17:44] any penalty.

[17:46] If you go above 110% of that amount, then a penalty fee kicks in.

[17:52] And then if 120%, even higher penalty fee kicks in and that 120% penalty fee is actually

[18:02] regardless of whether it's a level two or level one, level zero drought, I think.

[18:07] So that's how that works.

[18:08] What we've, the other component of this is we've asked for a 10% reduction from last

[18:17] year's usage from all of our member agencies.

[18:22] That's what the red dashed line on here indicates is the reduction, 10% reduction

[18:28] from last year's usage.

[18:29] And so, that's the ideal number.

[18:33] We'd love to see all of our member agencies hitting either that or below.

[18:39] And so, we're working with all of them to try and achieve that.

[18:44] And that's because of the drought grant.

[18:46] Right.

[18:47] Yep.

[18:48] Thank you.

[18:49] Great question.

[18:50] How do you calculate the contract amounts for the different cities?

[18:55] So those are requested by the city of what the what the city would like and so like your

[19:04] staff is doing a demand projection for their for your water system and they

[19:10] actually just provided a memo to me of what those projections are over the

[19:15] next five years and requesting certain increases for that and so we're in the

[19:22] process now of working with them to amend your contract to accommodate that growth as

[19:32] well.

[19:33] And so this, well, yeah, there's lots of details there.

[19:36] It's based on population, it's based on businesses, it's based on users, and it's

[19:41] based on growth.

[19:43] So with the state's big push for us to develop, develop, develop, and you're saying, no,

[19:48] we don't have the water, or we're going to find you if you use too much water.

[19:55] Yeah, so the purpose of the policy is not to say we can't grow because we don't have

[20:02] the water. It's to integrate that land use and water use planning efforts so that we

[20:09] can grow within our means. So that's really what we're striving for.

[20:16] But I definitely want to acknowledge what you've indicated there is as we face that

[20:24] reality, it definitely gets a little uncomfortable.

[20:28] But that's why we're here to partner to help figure out the solution to that problem.

[20:37] So we initially put this policy into place for developments like Olympia for the point.

[20:46] So far those conversations have gone really well, and we've been able to come to, you're

[20:52] probably aware those are some pretty high density developments, and we've been able

[20:56] to come to solutions that work for some very high density development there.

[21:02] Is Utah Lake still considered a superfund site?

[21:09] So there's a lot to that one.

[21:12] That's a great question.

[21:14] One of the highlights of that whole effort is, so the old Granite Steel site,

[21:32] the old

[21:32] And Central Utah Water Conservancy District purchased those water rights at just the right time.

[21:40] And so with the cleanup of all of that, there's been a water treatment plant that has been built.

[21:45] And so we're now getting an additional 12,000 acre feet from what were formerly Geneva steel water rights.

[21:54] So I think there's some real success stories there.

[21:59] I'm not privy to all the other details of the Superfund and things like that.

[22:06] What I can tell you though, on concerns of water quality for water in the lake itself,

[22:15] the treatment process we would be using that I mentioned we've been using for 15

[22:21] years, we have what's called our Southwest Groundwater Treatment Plant that was actually

[22:27] built with funds from Rio Tento as a groundwater remediation project to clean

[22:35] up groundwater about three million acre feet of groundwater that had been

[22:39] polluted during the floods of 83 from some of their facilities. They've

[22:46] collaborated, cooperated with Jordan Valley. We treat that polluted

[22:51] groundwater and the byproduct is drinking water. That's how advanced

[22:55] these technologies are, and that has been a great kind of pilot for us of where

[23:03] things are going for us, you know, for the state to do that on a much

[23:08] larger scale now. So we and the technology we use is the same thing they

[23:14] use for desalinization of ocean water. So it's called reverse osmosis RO

[23:18] treatment.

[23:21] I just want to say thank you to the Conservancy District. They

[23:26] invited our emergency manager along with other local emergency managers to the

[23:30] treatment plant to discuss emergency plans and so involving us in multiple

[23:36] ways we really appreciate that. I just want to make note of a few things we

[23:41] have been asked to reduce 10% and some of the things that Bluffdale City has

[23:48] done is we have a program called Neptune and we've asked all of our

[23:53] residents to sign up for alerts if they go over a certain amount of water usage.

[23:57] And it actually would have saved me had I actually signed up for it because we

[24:02] had a main water leak for I'm not gonna say how long. And so I think if we can

[24:09] encourage all of our residents to make sure to sign up for alerts and be

[24:13] aware every single week how much water they're using I think that's really

[24:18] really helpful. Another thing that we're doing as a city I know that we

[24:22] We are working on making sure to identify any leaks in the system.

[24:25] Our system is older, and so making sure that we're going through our system to find out

[24:29] where our water usage, you know, because some of it is due to leakage.

[24:34] And so we want to find out where that goes, and that's really vital, and that will be

[24:38] a continuous project that, of course, will need funding.

[24:42] So we're always doing that, but I appreciate, again, our public works department, our

[24:47] engineering department for working on those projects.

[24:50] and then also changing our landscaping requirements because as we know the

[24:55] majority of water waste is outside and making sure as a council we don't

[25:00] require we've changed what we've required over the years for

[25:04] landscaping and so we're continuing to look at that and analyze that in all

[25:09] areas residential and commercial and even locally for our government-owned

[25:13] facilities and so that we could do so much better we know but we appreciate

[25:20] the partnership that we have with Jordan Valley Water Conservancy. We also the

[25:25] rates just want to remind our residents that it's an enterprise fund in

[25:31] Bluffdale and so it's separate from property tax, it's separate from it's

[25:37] an enterprise, it's its own fund. So we just move the cost of water onto the

[25:43] actual user and so that's another reason to sign up for the Neptune

[25:48] alerts because you don't want to have to pay if you're using too much. And so all

[25:53] of those efforts combined and of course we would love other suggestions of what

[25:57] we can do to decrease our water use so that we have it available for growth.

[26:03] Yeah, I want to just acknowledge kind of second-year statements there. The city

[26:08] has taken some very significant steps in water conservation and we're really

[26:13] excited to see that and I've appreciated the partnership on that side of things.

[26:19] And it is definitely showing results.

[26:26] We track per capita usage, so usage per person, water use per person, through all of our member

[26:33] agencies to help us know where to focus our efforts and Bluffdale is moving their way

[26:38] down that list.

[26:39] So, yeah, it's great to see the efforts and the results there.

[26:43] It's great.

[26:45] Yes, please.

[26:46] Council Member Lord.

[26:47] I have a quick question.

[26:47] Do you have any oversight of the secondary water coming through our canals, or is that

[26:52] a different department?

[26:54] So we don't.

[26:57] So with the Welby Jacob Canal, we have an arrangement.

[27:00] It's a water exchange, basically, where we make sure that there's water in the

[27:07] the Welby Jacob Canal, but that's about the extent of secondary supply that we provide.

[27:15] So there is a bit of a disconnect there between the secondary water providers in the city and

[27:21] in the potable side.

[27:25] All right.

[27:26] Well, we sure appreciate both of you coming tonight.

[27:29] This was really helpful for us to get to know you both, first of all.

[27:32] We'd love for you to come more than once a year, actually.

[27:36] We'll do that.

[27:37] Thank you for the time.

[27:38] Thanks for all that you do.

[27:39] I really appreciate it.

[27:40] OK, thank you so much.

[27:42] All right, we're going to move on to public comment

[27:46] and open it up to anyone who's here.

[27:49] If you are here for item number 7.1,

[27:53] it is the public right of way, 1690 West.

[27:57] If you're here for that item, will you just wait

[28:00] and wait till that public hearing?

[28:02] If you're here for anything else

[28:04] and you would like to make public comment,

[28:05] we invite you to come up. Yes, please come up. Yes, yes, yes.

[28:14] Welcome, Johnny.

[28:18] I'd like to address the City Council. Yes, just tell it for the record your name.

[28:24] Johnny Loomis Jr., Springview Farms. Thank you.

[28:29] I'd like to bring back to your

[28:31] attention that it was told to me by your engineer that they were going to put up

[28:42] streetlights on Loomis Parkway or missing at least two streetlights and then

[28:48] he wanted to attach it to a project and I thought that at the time that it was

[28:55] going to be attached to 1300 west going over to 146 through 144 because it was a

[29:02] project at that that state but apparently didn't get matched up with

[29:08] that so now we're waiting until mr. Karchner can decide what project that

[29:14] can be attached to they don't the city won't have to purchase any land there's

[29:20] a right of way between my boys house and my house that I did with the

[29:24] city and they could put the light on there that would be one location and the

[29:30] other location is at the north end of my property and there's a right-of-way for

[29:35] utilities that another light could be posted there with the onslaught of

[29:42] daylight savings time coming that we children on the sidewalk and early

[29:48] morning hours and again in the evening if they're going to church for a

[29:53] project, but I'd like to see the attention of that brought to Mr. Karchner

[29:59] Wynne.

[30:00] He's going to be first available to tie that project to that with the funding available for

[30:07] the lights, not the property. And also, I'd like to address e-bikes and the speeding on

[30:18] Loomis Parkway. There's still quite a few cars that go over the speed limit of 25 miles

[30:25] an hour. And with the e-bikes, all of a sudden becoming a situation with our children, I'd

[30:36] hate for there to be an accident. I'm assuming that we're adopting state policy for e-bikes

[30:45] in Bluffdale. So, you know, just bring that to the city's attention. And then thirdly,

[30:52] I'd like to apologize for not attending the sitting meetings or being involved

[30:58] anymore but for health reasons I can no longer come up very often so I

[31:07] appreciate that.

[31:11] Hey anyone else tonight?

[31:15] All right well I don't see any other

[31:18] anyone else tonight for public comments so we'll close public comment and bring

[31:24] it back to our agenda. John I did send an email so you should get a follow

[31:28] up okay all right so let's move on to our consent agenda do I have a motion we

[31:34] approve the consent agenda second okay wonderful it was moved by council member

[31:40] Aston it was seconded by council member Smith all in favor hi great all right we

[31:48] have an ordinance that we're gonna have a presentation on thank you Grant so much

[31:54] the ordinance. It's a proposed amendment to chapter 7.5 of the city code and so

[32:01] we're gonna go to that point.

[32:18] I

[32:21] think we could just look at this and then you

[32:27] can just tell us what the code says. Because that is a lot more enjoyable. Oh

[32:34] Mexico. Yes, Mexico. Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

[32:41] Let's see if I can cover this for Fred here. Every year, the legislature changes some laws

[32:46] and this one, IHB 535 changed the way they directed cities and counties to dispose of

[32:55] publicly held real property. So a number of technical changes, the definition has

[33:02] It's not just sales, it can be sales leases, donations, duration over 10 years, joint ventures.

[33:09] So there's a number of different ways you could, I guess, dispose of some of your ownership.

[33:14] It doesn't include easements that are less than 50% of fair market value.

[33:18] We've had a few of those and also really short terms.

[33:22] It doesn't include sales to schools, other government entities, exchanges for comparable value,

[33:32] The minimum threshold in the state law is $500,000, but it does allow municipalities to set theirs.

[33:38] Ours has been set previously at $10,000, and it is not proposed to be changed in this ordinance.

[33:44] What it does also do is it lengthens the duration of the posting and noticing period

[33:50] and adds a couple little things like adding a sign and an announcement

[33:54] In addition to notices that go out, the typical ways that class A notices go to.

[34:01] And then if it's insignificant, you still have to post a sign, but you don't have a hearing.

[34:07] Okay, what's it look like in a text?

[34:10] A bunch of red.

[34:13] So this ordinances is, what is it, maybe five years old?

[34:16] And so what Fred did was just bring this up to speed with the state law, new definitions

[34:24] for dispose, what it doesn't include, what it doesn't include, some other things expanding

[34:31] what significant could be, some improvements such as the noticing stuff up to speed and

[34:39] the signage and I really oh it's class a notice and so not reasonable just follow

[34:46] the law class a is a dot defined a set of noticing criteria in the state law and

[34:50] we also have class a list in our city code at least in the zoning ordinance we

[34:55] do and really that's that's the gist of it okay

[35:02] I any questions on the state

[35:05] code. Can you go back to the Mexico picture now? Great. All right. Thank you so much for

[35:13] that presentation and to the work of all who went through that. Do I have a motion?

[35:21] I'll move that we approve ordinance 2026-14. Second. Okay. It was moved by Council Member

[35:28] Aston. Seconded by Council Member Austin. Can we have a roll call vote please?

[35:33] Council Member Austin. Yes. Council Member Astin. Yes. Council Member Wilding. Yes.

[35:38] Council Member Smith. Yes. Council Member Lorke. Yes. Motion passed. Thank you.

[35:43] All right Ellen, welcome. Thank you so much. I think this new code actually

[35:48] affected you. You had to go pound a sign into the ground and so it's already in

[35:57] effect and this presentation is the I think the place where you pounded

[36:04] a sign so yes speaking of water conservation it was very dry when I

[36:10] first tried it I just felt really weak and defeated but the second time

[36:14] worked after the rain thank goodness okay so thank you Mayor and Council so here

[36:23] Tonight we have a 1690 West Street vacation as you mentioned the applicant is court and Kimberly Dimmick or Dimeck

[36:31] Here

[36:34] to orange you

[36:36] The map area of the parcel

[36:39] the properties highlighted in red and then the

[36:44] sliver subject parcel or subject portion of the property that we're talking about is is

[36:50] in yellow

[36:52] Which is

[36:57] Okay well it's that little sliver there that's zoomed in and the property

[37:03] oh I see that's the zoomed in the property is on actually on the edge of

[37:07] the red yes yes I see it now and okay that's our right of way that's why we

[37:13] have that little zoom in there thank you yeah and then 1690 west as you can

[37:18] see just there in the center and then Redwood off to the west and then

[37:26] 146 down very bottom of the screen okay

[37:35] so here tonight the request is to vacate

[37:40] a portion of 1690 West it's 0.032 acres you can see it

[37:49] there we go okay sorry

[37:51] about that okay here is the subject property as well it's 1396.51

[38:01] square feet or .032 acres.

[38:06] Following the potential vacation approval there will

[38:11] be a separate disposition hearing for the vacated right-of-way. It will be

[38:17] required for left-dill city code 750 if the property exceeds 10,000 in

[38:23] market value. Engineering also has reviewed this piece.

[38:33] Following that

[38:34] disposition and acquisition the applicant will incorporate the property

[38:39] into their parcel and proceed with their proposed subdivision and the

[38:43] required right-of-way dedication to the city. So down below here is the

[38:50] dedication, approximate dedication, that will occur later with a subdivision.

[38:59] Also

[38:59] currently 1690 West is a major collector, but with the soon to be updated

[39:05] transportation plan it will be a minor collector.

[39:10] So they buy that from the

[39:13] city and give back to the city? The other the other? Is that correct? There

[39:18] will be another piece later that will be dedicated on this part of the

[39:21] subdivision process yeah but they are treated separately as of now there will

[39:26] also be an appraisal to determine that value at the time of the disposition

[39:37] because all we are doing today is vacating yes yes yes just the very

[39:42] first step we're not doing anything else today correct so this is again the

[39:48] just focus slide of the proposed property we're looking at tonight

[39:57] Councilmember Smith. Yeah just a question is the long-term plan for that street

[40:01] I know there's correct me if I'm wrong but there's sidewalk on one side and not

[40:06] sidewalk on the other am I mixing that up just just curious if this is part of

[40:11] maybe that overall plan in terms of like walkability and such. That's a good

[40:17] question.

[40:21] I'm gonna have Michael tell me if I may

[40:23] mess this up but the subdivision project will be required to put in

[40:27] their street improvements but I don't think we have a city project funded to

[40:31] do the whole side of the street is that correct yeah Michaels agreeing but we

[40:37] wish because that's been missing sidewalk you know maybe funding finds

[40:42] itself here sometimes the safest the west side was done on a safe sidewalk

[40:47] grant I believe and some other sources probably thank you we have a couple

[40:54] residents on the street who live nearby who had mentioned something. So I was just trying

[40:59] to learn a little bit more myself. Well we should actually note that and because this

[41:03] is just vacating the property but we should note it and see what it entails and grant

[41:09] money for safe walking etc. So that's a great future discussion.

[41:15] That is all I have.

[41:17] Okay. Before we go, oh let's have questions actually first and then we'll do our public

[41:24] hearing.

[41:29] All right let's open our public hearing and for this and

[41:44] we didn't

[41:44] receive any emails.

[41:49] All right we're gonna close our public hearing and bring it

[41:53] back to the council for more questions. Uh-huh councilmember Lord. The question

[42:11] or what?

[42:11] Road improvements, it could be for infrastructure, utilities.

[42:17] They just need the easement.

[42:18] Okay.

[42:19] I don't know so much that it's a need for an easement as much as it happens to be wider

[42:24] than the right-of-way we are proposing to be in place.

[42:28] Mayor, the applicant's engineers here, if you want to ask a specific question.

[42:33] Yeah, no.

[42:34] No, we don't need to.

[42:36] No risk.

[42:36] I know that.

[42:37] Yeah.

[42:37] Hi, my name's Marissa, I'm with Peterson Engineering.

[42:39] I'm a land surveyor and an engineer as well.

[42:43] Yeah, as far as the right-away goes,

[42:46] we're just trying to get those right-away lines straightened

[42:48] out.

[42:48] The land was originally UDOT parcel.

[42:53] And the UDOT plans were pretty wonky on the right-away lines.

[42:57] And they actually transferred that land to Bluffdale.

[43:01] And with that, we're just trying

[43:03] to get those right-away straight and out for the future

[43:05] improvements along with the development so that we can you know get everything taken care of all at

[43:11] once with the subdivision. Okay. Any other questions for me? It's great. I'm just wondering. That's

[43:19] great. No, I'm so glad you were here tonight. Thank you. All right. If we don't have any other

[43:24] questions. I just have one question. Please. Just so that we can cover our bases. Can you

[43:28] for see any reason why we wouldn't want to not vacate this partial just this

[43:35] piece for any future I mean 10 years down the road 50 years down the road no

[43:41] that's that's what we ran it we ran through engineering and I guess Michael

[43:46] would be the best one to answer that but he is he and his team have indicated

[43:50] no and that's why they double-check the legal with the proposed street cross

[43:56] section for this project and our new designation on the master plan and

[43:59] that's why we're here so we wouldn't have brought it to you if we weren't sure.

[44:05] Thank you. All right yes please councilmember Smith. Oh our our public

[44:15] comment is over but we're gonna be done soon so stay after and we'll be we'll

[44:20] chat. Oh I didn't see anyone come up. Oh darn it. Okay well I've closed

[44:27] the public hearing I'm happy to reopen it so come on up.

[44:40] We can't answer questions

[44:41] in a public hearing and so you just have to make a comment and so if you have

[44:46] questions it might be better to say. My name is Lyle Wilde. I live adjacent to

[44:51] this property. I'm the property to the north. I don't know if you can tell on

[44:57] there or not. But

[45:00] I don't know enough about this to answer the questions myself, but I think it's really important

[45:05] that this process take into account the effect of this on any other properties along 1690.

[45:14] I don't know directly what effect this will have, but I could see where there may be subsequent

[45:21] subsequent issues with how we deal with our own property after this has been done.

[45:31] I'm not suggesting that I disagree with it in any way.

[45:35] Only that I'd really like to know how it's going to affect the rest of us along there.

[45:41] And I think that might even play into the question of whether or not there's going

[45:45] to be further improvements along 1690.

[45:50] We, you know, you hear all kinds of rumors out there in the community about one-way streets

[45:55] and curb and gutter and sidewalks and all those other kinds of improvements, and we have

[46:01] things in our yard that go right up to the, or somewhere in there that might come into

[46:07] question on this.

[46:09] So I would at least ask that you all take that into account in dealing with this

[46:14] send that there's be some opportunity along the way to get those questions

[46:18] answered. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Alright, I'm going to close the public

[46:23] hearing and bring it back to the council. Can we just make note as to the

[46:28] staff that when the project actually does come to the council that the staff

[46:33] kind of addresses the impact and sidewalk improvement options or not

[46:40] or costs and just when that because this is just the vacation of this right of

[46:46] way so that's just a future really great comment I think to see how it's gonna

[46:52] affect that street so the project all right so with that do I have a motion I

[47:02] move that we approve ordinance 2026-15 second all right it was moved by

[47:08] Council Member Austin second my Council Member Wilding roll call vote please

[47:12] Council Member Astin yes Council Member Wilding yes Council Member Smith yes

[47:19] Council Member Lord yes Council Member Austin yes motion passed okay great I'm

[47:24] going to turn it over to the RDA chair for our RDA redevelopment agency

[47:29] meeting welcome to our RDA board meeting let's have a roll call please

[47:38] Chair Lord. Yes. Board Member Austin. Yes. Board Member Aston. Yes. Board Member Wilding. Yes.

[47:47] Board Member Hall. Yeah. Board Member Smith. Yes. All in attendance.

[47:54] Okay, we have an item

[47:58] RDA Resolution 2026-42 that staff presenter Stephanie Thayer is going to discuss with us.

[48:06] Yes. Thank you, RDA Chair and Board members. So there is an existing participation agreement

[48:14] with Plentiful Way Title Holder, LLC, and this agenda item is to request to assign that

[48:23] agreement to another entity which is named Independence Apartments Venture, LLC. It would

[48:30] simply be to assign that to that new entity and term 5.1 of the agreement

[48:37] does authorize assignment to another entity with RDA consent. There are no

[48:44] other changes to the underlying agreement. All rights and obligations will

[48:48] remain under the agreement and the new party would be bound by those same

[48:53] rights and obligations. Our understanding is that it's mostly the same group with

[49:01] some key people, but they are forming this new LLC. This is a standard in that

[49:08] industry where they might bring in some additional investors or party other

[49:13] parties. They can decide who to bring in as well as they may or may not choose

[49:18] to have a property management company. However, no matter who owns it, the existing agreement

[49:25] assigns the same duties and obligations, so they're still bound by all of that. So as

[49:32] far as from the city standpoint, all of that remains intact. There were no concerns from

[49:39] the RDA legal council on this and it's recommended the board approve the resolution consenting

[49:46] to the assignment. And I'm not sure if this is one of the parties here representing, if

[49:52] there's any questions specific that they could help answer to clarify anything, we could

[49:57] welcome them up as well. Would you like to come up?

[50:02] Would you like to come up, please? You look familiar. I think you've been here before

[50:07] a couple of times.

[50:07] Yes, I've been here. Yes. Thanks for having me. Thanks for explaining that.

[50:15] remind us your name my name is Ray Bryson and as companies do we change

[50:22] names here and there the the name of my company in the management company that

[50:29] that ran and oversaw the property in the development of the property was was

[50:33] Dakota Pacific at that time we've since changed our name to Six Ridge

[50:38] partners, all the same people, all the same players. So it's similar to what we're doing

[50:45] here is a name change. So Plentiful Way Title Holders was a combination of several key investment

[50:55] individuals in our funds and portfolios that came together to purchase this property.

[51:02] equity, and those individuals are rolling their ownership interest into this new entity.

[51:09] So we've gone out to the market after we got approval the last time and site plan approval

[51:16] from the Planning Commission.

[51:19] We proceeded with construction drawings and went out to the market to get equity partnership

[51:25] funding.

[51:26] So, Principal, who is a national insurance investor, has agreed to partner with us in

[51:38] our capital stack to deliver this project to the market.

[51:43] We are waiting on this vote to confirm that the RDA funds are available for this project

[51:51] to finalize our partnership agreements and sign the contract and hopefully break ground

[52:00] Monday of next week.

[52:02] So this is a great point for us to be in the project lifecycle.

[52:11] Any questions?

[52:13] I have a couple of questions just for interest.

[52:19] I know when you were here before, the goal was to start last fall or early this year.

[52:27] Was that interest rates, funding, kind of what delayed that?

[52:32] It's mostly related to the capitalization and equity partnership.

[52:38] We spread a net pretty far and wide, and we feel extremely fortunate to have found

[52:46] a partner-like principle. They, you know, as part of their business plan, are

[52:53] intending to be a long-term owner of this property, which aligns with some

[52:58] of the goals that we had previously presented to the Council, and they

[53:04] are continuing to invest not only in our market, but across the country. We

[53:10] have seen a significant amount of pullback from national developers and

[53:15] national investors in our market who are not finding opportunities to island or develop

[53:23] projects.

[53:25] We are one of a handful of developers who are moving projects forward this year, and

[53:34] we're seeing the effects of that throughout the market, trickling down to even subcontractors

[53:41] who,

[53:44] you know, many of whom are closing doors because there isn't work available for them.

[53:51] So this is one of many, and it took some significant effort to get to where we are, and that represents

[53:59] most of the delay in getting to this point today.

[54:03] Are you still planning on managing the property, your organization?

[54:08] Yeah, absolutely.

[54:08] So the partnership is comprised of 20% of our, you know, six rich partners entities and

[54:18] 80% of principal capital.

[54:22] In that organization, we are the six rich partners entity is identified as the development

[54:30] manager.

[54:30] and so we will act as manager for construction, manager for leasing and

[54:38] operations as the property goes forward. So you've got a builder lined up? Yeah

[54:46] fortunately it's the same builder that we had back when we spoke before. The

[54:51] pricing has been pretty flat over the last you know eight to twelve months.

[54:59] Yeah, that was my question. I was wondering if I could...

[55:02] Yeah, so costs have remained the same. We've been able to, within $27,000 of the original

[55:08] contract, hold pretty close to what that original budget was.

[55:12] Okay.

[55:15] Those are positives, then.

[55:16] Yes, yeah. All very positive.

[55:18] I have a question for staff.

[55:22] With the RDA money, did we put a timeline on it? They

[55:25] needed to be started by the con the agreement is a 12 month they have to

[55:33] start by so November 12th of this year so they have some time they do is is there

[55:38] any changes to this we could turn we could invoke termination if they don't

[55:44] start I think we don't have to but right that is one of the triggers

[55:48] potentially and so if they meet that November we can't invoke termination

[55:53] for changing ownership or anything like that right is there any changes to this

[56:01] project whatsoever besides the ownership nope still the 217 units that were

[56:06] approved facades are the same unit council the same park installs are the

[56:09] same it's it's the same project and

[56:15] the other okay is there any public

[56:21] comment on this I don't think so not with the RDA okay you have any questions

[56:27] Questions for us?

[56:28] I don't.

[56:28] Thank you for your time.

[56:30] Thank you for coming.

[56:30] Yeah.

[56:31] When I say come in, I went, oh, good.

[56:32] Yeah.

[56:34] Appreciate you being here.

[56:35] Thank you.

[56:35] Of course.

[56:35] Thank you.

[56:38] Okay.

[56:39] Then we will close our discussion on that.

[56:42] Do I have a motion to approve?

[56:44] I have a motion to approve.

[56:45] Oh, good.

[56:46] No.

[56:46] I do it plenty of times.

[56:47] Go ahead.

[56:48] I have a motion that we approve RDA resolution 226-42.

[56:52] I'll second.

[56:55] Okay.

[56:55] a motion by Council Member Smith, a second by, or not Council Member, Board Member Smith,

[57:08] and a second by Board Member Hall. Let's have a roll call vote on this, please.

[57:14] Board Member Wilding. Yes.

[57:17] Board Member Hall. Yes.

[57:18] Board Member Smith. Yes.

[57:19] Board Member, Chair Lard. Yes.

[57:21] board member Austin yes board member Austin yes motion passed okay do I have

[57:29] a motion to adjourn the RDA I move we adjourn second all in favor all right we

[57:38] are adjourned from the RDA we'll turn the time back over to Mayor Hall for

[57:42] left out city great thank you all right we are to the staff report section

[57:48] portion of our meeting. I just want to mention before our administrative services director

[57:56] reports for us today that Old West Week, I think, was so well done and commend all of

[58:06] our staff and volunteers and sponsors for all of their hard work and really heard great

[58:13] things about the three nights of fireworks on the west side and the one

[58:20] night of fireworks on the east side and everybody felt like they had an

[58:25] opportunity to see fireworks despite the drought and so really appreciate all the

[58:32] work that went into it and I think we attended every day and thank you so much

[58:40] So, Old West days.

[58:41] I'll make a real quick comment on that.

[58:43] It was almost completely over and I was walking out and talked to a few people and a couple

[58:50] of people had come from like South Salt Lake and they said we come every year because this

[58:55] is one of the best ones.

[58:57] And I just thought.

[58:58] Council Member Lord, you were playing in those booths talking to the teenagers and

[59:02] the kids.

[59:03] Oh, I had.

[59:03] Absolutely.

[59:03] Yeah, everyone said who's the fun guy?

[59:05] Oh.

[59:06] Yeah.

[59:06] Council Member Lord.

[59:07] So we attract them even from without the city.

[59:11] Wow, thank you.

[59:13] Yeah, any other thoughts on Old Westays?

[59:15] Okay, thank you.

[59:17] Just a few calendaring items.

[59:19] It is Get to the River this month,

[59:22] and we are focusing on the Jordan River.

[59:26] There is a Walk with the Mayor along the Jordan River on September 8th.

[59:30] It can be Walk with the Council as well,

[59:32] if anyone would like to join.

[59:34] and then for our service project this year tomorrow we are there will be a

[59:38] press conference with the Jordan River Commission we are as mayors

[59:43] gathering to talk about storm drain systems and how we can better clean our

[59:50] gutters and our storm drains so that things are not going into our water

[59:54] system that will be our day of service for Bluffdales to clean our local

[59:57] storm drain out and our gutters.

[1:00:00] And then our constitution reading. I'm sorry, that's September 11th. You can clean all day.

[1:00:08] However you want to work that. And the walk is on the 8th. September 8th is the walk.

[1:00:15] September 11th is the day of service. And then our last food truck Tuesday is on September 15th.

[1:00:25] And we will have our festival, our get to the river festival on the 15th for our day of service.

[1:00:34] I mean our get to the river.

[1:00:37] Also that day on the 15th is our constitution reading.

[1:00:41] So if anybody would like to participate just let me know in that.

[1:00:45] And then we'll have our staff reports and then we can talk some more about some other issues I want to bring up.

[1:00:51] So, okay, Stephanie, let's have staff reports.

[1:00:56] Yeah, so I'm sure Bruce would just like me to echo the thank you and recognition to Paula and all the city staff and volunteers that supported that big event.

[1:01:06] I know we sold more wristbands than we did the year before. So that's awesome.

[1:01:11] In the fire department, just wanted to report that we have filled that full-time position of

[1:01:18] operations fire chief that was budgeted within the parameters of the budget. Stephen Johnson,

[1:01:28] he'll be starting mid-September. He comes with 20 years of experience and a vast knowledge of

[1:01:34] Bluff Dell.

[1:01:37] Let's see. He will be full time Monday through Friday and I hear there will

[1:01:42] be a future pinning ceremony that will be done. And if chief wants me to come up and cover

[1:01:48] anything else, or did I do okay? Okay. Thank you for having me. Yes.

[1:02:00] Pancake breakfast at the fire station. We're all the public. And we'd like you guys

[1:02:06] all to be there if you can. On September 12th we're going to have a pancake breakfast. We'd

[1:02:11] like you all to be there. It's going to be at station 92. It's going to be from 8 to 10.

[1:02:17] And most people will be there. Some won't. And anyway, it's going to be a fun thing.

[1:02:23] It's free. So we're just going to be serving pancakes and milk and juice. So I feel like

[1:02:30] that'll be a good opportunity to mingle with the public and they can hang out with

[1:02:34] us in the fire trucks. Okay thanks. Thanks chief. Also the parks building

[1:02:42] addition is on schedule to be done within the next four weeks. Okay and also

[1:02:49] coming up we have the Labor Day holiday that the city offices is closed on

[1:02:54] Monday September 7th and then if you have a couple minutes we'd like to show

[1:02:59] some footage of the railroad underpass project, some drone footage just so you

[1:03:08] can see how that's coming along. So Michael's got a short video here and after

[1:03:14] that, that's all we had for staff reports.

[1:03:18] Hey there council. Good to see you. I've been a while. I was grateful. We had a good visit a few

[1:03:27] few weeks ago a few council members came out came over and you probably noticed it

[1:03:33] things things are moving very rapidly and and I don't feel familiar with the

[1:03:42] engineering department we have a YouTube site so you can go at your leisure

[1:03:52] you know when you when you're at home and you're falling asleep and just

[1:03:56] Oh, let me see what those guys are doing.

[1:04:02] Our faithful Kevin Thompson, he's an amazing flyer with a drone.

[1:04:11] He's been doing an awesome job and so I rely on him and so he covers or has many hats

[1:04:22] and just like many other people here at the city. So if you have questions while

[1:04:29] while this video goes forward just tell me, stop me. If you notice on the right

[1:04:40] side they're basically using the UTA property for for doing a lot of work

[1:04:51] for our project. Processing the material, basically they screen the material that

[1:04:58] they has been excavated on the east side of the tracks. They take it there, they

[1:05:03] process it, clean it, and then put it back on. So it's a savings for the city.

[1:05:13] We are getting very close to place Kirbin Gatter on this portion

[1:05:20] and also on this side. So once we place curbing gutter, we'll start working on asphalt. We're

[1:05:28] thinking that they will work on the intersection of Springview Farm in the next couple of weeks,

[1:05:40] replacing asphalt and redoing that intersection. You can see here that we have finally been

[1:05:48] in begging and pushing the contractor to place a pipe, a bore pipe, under the railroad tracks.

[1:05:59] They finally did it, so that now we have positive drainage from the east side, taking all the

[1:06:06] groundwater down to our storm water system finally.

[1:06:11] Anyway, so you can see they're placing storm-grain boxes and inlets so that we can continue on

[1:06:22] with this work.

[1:06:26] Mayor will tell you the thorn in my side right now is Salt Lake City.

[1:06:30] Salt Lake City owns this canal.

[1:06:35] Have been such a wonderful partner.

[1:06:39] right now as you can see that the box will come in this direction so basically

[1:06:45] we need to remove a portion of this retaining wall and so to remove a portion

[1:06:51] of this retaining wall we we are planning to shore up the rest of the wall

[1:06:56] right here so the contractor requested permission to enter the canal to do all

[1:07:05] this work and they were denied actually what they were told is that the city

[1:07:10] needs to build a box culvert all the way to to the end of the other culvert it

[1:07:17] just yeah council member asked and yes yeah so I I met with him a couple of

[1:07:26] times I said we don't have any money and we don't we just are I'm stressed

[1:07:33] about that just that anyway tomorrow we'll have a meeting and we'll let you know next time what

[1:07:41] Mayor has been awesome at her leadership has been helping tremendously she connected with

[1:07:49] some council members and in Salt Lake City to let them know how terrible this is so

[1:08:00] Don't you have any connections with Guido?

[1:08:05] Get rid of their legs, right?

[1:08:08] Just Guido, yes.

[1:08:10] Yeah,

[1:08:15] very frustrating.

[1:08:17] So you can see also, right, this was filmed today.

[1:08:22] And we are preparing also this site for curbing gutters.

[1:08:27] So in the next couple of days, we'll start to see curbing gutter

[1:08:31] and they want to pave this justice section by no later than mid-October so

[1:08:39] that we will be able to put traffic into 2000 West and so there will be much

[1:08:48] smoother traffic movement but with that this project is so dynamic it's nuts

[1:08:54] because there's so many utilities, unknown utilities every time we dig

[1:08:59] somewhere we find something else and then we have to fix it and then and then

[1:09:04] contractors are like we're gonna pay more money more money so anyway but we

[1:09:12] haven't asked so far with the contractor has been they have worked with the city

[1:09:19] very well they we have been able to communicate very well work together as

[1:09:23] as a team instead of we have a partnership,

[1:09:28] relationship more than anything.

[1:09:30] Hopefully that relationship will continue to go on.

[1:09:35] You can tell that the amount of work

[1:09:38] that has been going on and been done is amazing.

[1:09:44] Just on the east side, the road reconstruction,

[1:09:49] but not just that.

[1:09:51] I mean, if you can see here,

[1:09:52] I mean right now they're building these are basically the ramps where they will the boxes will slide

[1:10:02] and so Friday night they will complete the poor for this other portion right here

[1:10:09] and and then they will start building the actual boxes on top of this this ramp actually they

[1:10:16] will put a neoprene layer and then it will be a sleeping mechanism. So they've had so

[1:10:25] far two, they've been putting plinths or piles within the railroad. Hopefully I don't want

[1:10:34] to take too much time because I want to win that prize.

[1:10:41] Shoot. I'm shooting myself on

[1:10:44] the foot.

[1:10:49] These walls took a long time. You can tell the

[1:10:52] rising tower there and it took a long time, but we're there.

[1:10:58] And one more minute and we'll be done. And if you have

[1:11:04] questions, you can always send me emails and text. This is

[1:11:09] the major thrust wall. Basically, everything will push

[1:11:13] against these hydraulic presses will press against this thrust block and they'll use the earth

[1:11:22] basically to resist the forces that will push the boxes forward. Union Pacific has been so far

[1:11:31] cooperating with us and working with us which is amazing but they're interested in this project

[1:11:39] and so we have a lot of visitors from UDOT but also national visitors that

[1:11:50] they're interested and we'll get more and more attention as the project

[1:11:55] will continue to move forward.

[1:12:03] The Sintuwe project also, we're starting to plan a

[1:12:07] grand opening in October so I hope you bring your your your family we're gonna

[1:12:15] have a celebration for because we're gonna have a crossing there and so we're

[1:12:20] excited about that so anyway this is it if you again if you have any questions

[1:12:28] I'm gonna leave you alone now I need to win this at least one time thank you

[1:12:39] Great. Anything else? Okay. Great. And then just if the council could let me know if they're

[1:12:46] going to be attending the league conference so we can do registration. Do we have any

[1:12:51] other discussion from the council?

[1:12:56] I have another. No, I'm just kidding. I motion to

[1:12:58] adjourn if that's okay. Second. Okay. It was moved by council member Smith. Second

[1:13:03] to my council member. Aston, all in favor, we're adjourned at 7.13. 7, it's 7.15.

[1:13:16] Oh,

[1:13:17] okay, perfect. Thank you so much, everyone.

City Council Meeting 8-26-2026

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