Okay, it was moved by council member Austin. Second of my council member, Wilding, all in favor.
Aye. Okay. Welcome, welcome. You were right at the beginning. We're so happy to have
Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District here for their annual presentation. And I'll have
both of you come up. Jacob Young is the general manager, and John Richardson is the trustee
that represents Bluffdale, Draper, and actually, John, will you tell us, is there another city?
just those two includes water pros well so oh it does entities I guess okay great
so Draper Bluff Dylan water pro thank you for representing our cities and thank
you so much Jacob for being here thank you for having us so I have to have you
guys use the microphone so that those online can hear you so you will just
go back and forth with a mic okay I'm gonna kick it off here again John
John Richardson, trustee representing Division 6, includes Bluffdale, Draper, and WaterPro,
and I have Jacob Young here, General Manager at Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District.
And yeah, we're so grateful for this opportunity to see you all and talk about some of these
capital projects.
And just really by quick introduction, I am a longtime resident of Draper.
I grew up in Sandy, Utah.
Actually went to Utah State where I got my Bachelor's of Science in Environmental Engineering
and got my Master's of Science from the University of Utah.
And my wife and family, yeah, we've been in Beck and Draper for about 12 years now.
Before that, we were in Sandy.
And I really want to emphasize to you all my qualifications.
I heard our trustee recently describe the board.
The trustee, there's nine of us, is kind of a fellowship.
You know, to use the Lord of the Rings.
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.
we have a broad skill set and I've got more of a technical background I spent, so since
my master's 28 years focused on planning, design, project management, construction of
large water, wastewater facilities. And local clientele, I've been fortunate to work on
projects across the U.S., but local clientele include Central Utah Water Conservancy District,
cities of West Jordan, South Jordan, Central Utah Water Conservancy, City of
Draper, even a little bit City of Harriman going back a ways. So anyway I've
got a lot of relevant experience just wanted to highlight that if I could.
And jumping into Jordan Valley you can see here we've got a large service area
if you look to the map on the left we got a lot of conveyance facilities
treatment facilities established in 1951 and serves primarily Salt Lake County
wholesale water provider. And main facilities you can see up at the top there are the Jordan
Valley Water Treatment Plant. That's the big one that provides most of the treatment of
the raw water, which again comes from Deer Creek, Jordan Hill, down these aqueducts.
So it's a pretty large service area. A lot of capital investment, a lot of infrastructure
into that. And there you can see the divisions. So there's nine total, like
we talked about, and of course Division 6 is Bluffdale, Draper. So governed by nine trustees.
And we're talking about 100,000 people, all again in Salt Lake County, and 17 member agencies
total. And we always talk in the water business about acre feet. That's kind of odd. If you
think of an acre lot, a foot deep, that's the unit of volume. That's typical. So yeah,
We provide 130,000 acre feet a year of water and treatment capacity again of 250
million gallons a day.
And there you can see some photos of the different
trustees there.
So what do we do? Yeah, wholesale water provider really
want to focus on clean water, managing the demand, developing supply. That's a
a huge challenge right now because we've got a historic drought. We've got that coupled
with a lot of growth in the area still. So that is always a tricky thing, especially now
when we're in a desert as we all know. We just had the whole western U.S., really one
of the worst winners on record. Actually was the worst winner on record if you look
at most states. So I've got to commend the district. Working with a lot of cities
and districts for 28 years now, they're very proactive, they're very fiscally
responsible, and I've seen a lot of cities and clients do a lackluster job,
let's say, and Jordan Valley does a really great job.
And yeah, just a quick
overview. We'll give you an update on capital projects. I want to highlight
what's impacting Bluffdale, as well as the water budget policy, drought
response, water conservation, and if there's any issues you would like
brought before the board. And time for questions. That will turn over to Mr. Jacob Young.
Okay, I'll go through these quickly because I want to focus on what's most interesting
to you. So feel free to guide that with questions here. But quick update on capital projects
that we're doing that have impact on Bluffdale City. And just want to mention it is an
absolute honor to partner with your Public Works group, with Bruce as your city manager,
Michael Fazio, Shane, they to partner with them to provide this just life
sustaining service to the community. We are just grateful for the partnership
that we have and you know we know our role is to bring water from outside the
region here so that it can be used by the community to thrive and grow.
This
demonstrate that. We are currently expanding the Jordan Valley Water
Treatment Plant which sits right on your borders there and was originally built
in the 70s has been expanded a couple of times and we're currently expanding it
and while we're expanding that capacity from 180 million gallons a day to 220
we're also taking advantage of the opportunity to enhance the resiliency
So seismic resiliency and safety of the facility as a whole as well.
Very happy to say because of the forethought that went into the previous design, some innovations,
new technologies that were incorporating into this expansion, we're able to do it all
within the same footprint of that treatment plant.
So, the end result is we're expanding this for the capacity for about additional five
million dollars per million gallons of capacity is what we're getting.
Other entities across the state are spending at least five times that in order to get the
same capacity.
So, about 25 million dollars per million gallons of capacity.
So-
And why is that?
Why do you think?
So those are our new we call them greenfield treatment plants so they're
totally new plants that are being built kind of at other locations really
because of some of the foresight that went in when this this plant was
originally built we're able to capitalize on that and like I mentioned
with the new technologies keep it all within the so we're not really
pouring new concrete and things like that. So, yeah, really excited about. Still, it's
$200 million project, so it's no small project, but the impacts, the value we're getting out
of each of those dollars is really maximized. We're doing that in four phases. That'll
happen over several years that you can see there. Next is our seismic resiliency of
our aqueduct system. So many people don't know, John mentioned, we pipe water all the
way from the Prova River here to that plant there and then treat it and then pipe it all
the way up to 2100 north. That pipes for the most majority of that whole length is
about a six foot diameter pipe and built in stages as old as 1980s I think is
the oldest of that and built to different seismic code obviously so we've
evaluated all of that and identified a few places it's a critical artery to
the valley here where we will be doing some upgrades to make sure it can
and withstand the earthquakes that we're expecting
for this area.
It is, yep.
So yeah, yeah, that's the thing about the work that we do
is that most of it is very unseen.
And yeah, so it runs that whole length.
If you know where to look, you can see where it runs
because there are no houses or structures of any kind over it and things, but great.
And then also we've got several reservoir projects.
I won't spend much time on these.
These are critical for us that if the plant does go down, we're able to backfeed towards
back towards Bluffdale in order to provide water while we address any issues that may
come up at the plant.
And then lastly, as we look to the future, how are we going to continue to meet growth?
The answer is Utah Lake water, believe it or not.
And there are technologies that we've been using for over 15 years now that we now know
we need to expand treatment plants with the technologies to treat that water, to drinking
water.
so we're doing studies right now on how and when to do that. Any questions on
capital projects before I move on to the next? Okay next is that you may have heard
if not we wanted to make you aware of our new water budget policy so in the
face of limitations to Colorado River water so you may not be aware but we
import about almost half well sorry a little over half of our supplies are
coming from the Colorado River Basin. So you've probably heard about some of the
heated negotiations going on there. We're definitely impacted by all of that. So
with the pressures there and then you've also obviously heard of the
projects, supply project that we had been planning on for decades, the Bear River Project, there's
now a certain high level of uncertainty with that.
So we have developed what we refer to as our water budget policy, which essentially is
stepped through that quickly here.
So the history is that Jordan Valley has partnered with our member agencies to meet
water demands by supplementing any of the your own local supplies with this
water that we import to the valley and as we look at what's left of water rights
that we already hold currently that leaves about 1.35 acre feet per acre
of undeveloped land that's within our service area and so we've established
that as the water budget for new development within our service area.
So we will continue to aggressively pursue adding more new sources of water from outside
the region.
So that's our role of bringing that water in from outside the region.
And we will continue to do that, but we've reached a point where there's enough uncertainty
in those things that we feel like as a community we need to acknowledge the
limitations that we have and not over commit our water to development or
over commit the development beyond what we have the water to supply. So then the
question becomes what if we need more than 1.35 acre feet per acre for that
new development and we've established through this water budget policy of how
we can get to yes on those developments that are important to the cities to
happen by partnering with the cities with the developers to make sure that
the water is there for those developments. That's in a quick summary what the
water budget policy is. We've got these five tools I won't bore you with the
details about those but happy to go into any of those. We've gone over that with
your your Public Works staff in detail and they've engaged right away in as we've
started using these tools and we're grateful for that.
And so that's our
water budget policy. Happy to answer any questions you might have on that.
Okay, lastly is a drought response and water conservation.
So John mentioned there are drought.
Our actions are all governed by a drought contingency plan
which we established back in 2021.
And that specifies a few things.
First is how we declare
what level of drought that we're in.
So we monitor that.
And this year, following those criteria with engagement from all of our member agencies,
our board voted that we were at a level two, which is a severe water shortage.
And what that does is it triggers a series of response actions that we take that are
defined in this drought contingency plan.
Those are summarized here.
The primary one that impacts our member agencies is that we called for a 10% reduction in that
water usage from all of our member agencies. And that's over what last year's usage was.
And that comes with...
Some financial incentives or penalties, depending on how you want to look at it, if those savings
aren't achieved. And so basically end up paying 125% of your current water rate if you go over
110% of your contract amount. And then it's more than double that if you go over 120% of
your contract amount and we've also the other big response action is the
advertising campaign that hopefully some of you have seen that is under this life
is better with water and make specific requests of all residents throughout the
our service area to use water more efficiently and effectively happy to
say that that has been very effective. Bluffdale this chart shows where Bluffdale
is projecting in relation to where those penalty fees kick in and you're
projecting to be well under that mark so we appreciate that.
There is still a
little bit more that could be done though because you are projecting to be
over the 10% reduction mark.
So it would be great to see some continued concerted effort
there on that.
Any questions on drought response?
Went through all of that very quickly.
Yeah.
Are you referring to, when you say going over our budgeted
amount, so you're saying that Bluffdell, based
on your historical numbers and what we need, you allocate a certain number of acre feet whatever.
We're trying as a city to not go over that. Is that what we're saying?
Right. There's two things at play there. The way water service from Jordan Valley works is
So Bluffdale has a minimum purchase contract with Jordan Valley.
And so that is a volume of water.
And so for your case,
I think it's 3,600 acre feet, is that right, Michael?
Yeah, okay.
So Bluffdale has a contract, a minimum purchase contract of 3,600 acre feet from Jordan Valley.
And so with the drought to the level to water shortage, you can go up to 110% of that without
any penalty.
If you go above 110% of that amount, then a penalty fee kicks in.
And then if 120%, even higher penalty fee kicks in and that 120% penalty fee is actually
regardless of whether it's a level two or level one, level zero drought, I think.
So that's how that works.
What we've, the other component of this is we've asked for a 10% reduction from last
year's usage from all of our member agencies.
That's what the red dashed line on here indicates is the reduction, 10% reduction
from last year's usage.
And so, that's the ideal number.
We'd love to see all of our member agencies hitting either that or below.
And so, we're working with all of them to try and achieve that.
And that's because of the drought grant.
Right.
Yep.
Thank you.
Great question.
How do you calculate the contract amounts for the different cities?
So those are requested by the city of what the what the city would like and so like your
staff is doing a demand projection for their for your water system and they
actually just provided a memo to me of what those projections are over the
next five years and requesting certain increases for that and so we're in the
process now of working with them to amend your contract to accommodate that growth as
well.
And so this, well, yeah, there's lots of details there.
It's based on population, it's based on businesses, it's based on users, and it's
based on growth.
So with the state's big push for us to develop, develop, develop, and you're saying, no,
we don't have the water, or we're going to find you if you use too much water.
Yeah, so the purpose of the policy is not to say we can't grow because we don't have
the water. It's to integrate that land use and water use planning efforts so that we
can grow within our means. So that's really what we're striving for.
But I definitely want to acknowledge what you've indicated there is as we face that
reality, it definitely gets a little uncomfortable.
But that's why we're here to partner to help figure out the solution to that problem.
So we initially put this policy into place for developments like Olympia for the point.
So far those conversations have gone really well, and we've been able to come to, you're
probably aware those are some pretty high density developments, and we've been able
to come to solutions that work for some very high density development there.
Is Utah Lake still considered a superfund site?
So there's a lot to that one.
That's a great question.
One of the highlights of that whole effort is, so the old Granite Steel site,
the old
And Central Utah Water Conservancy District purchased those water rights at just the right time.
And so with the cleanup of all of that, there's been a water treatment plant that has been built.
And so we're now getting an additional 12,000 acre feet from what were formerly Geneva steel water rights.
So I think there's some real success stories there.
I'm not privy to all the other details of the Superfund and things like that.
What I can tell you though, on concerns of water quality for water in the lake itself,
the treatment process we would be using that I mentioned we've been using for 15
years, we have what's called our Southwest Groundwater Treatment Plant that was actually
built with funds from Rio Tento as a groundwater remediation project to clean
up groundwater about three million acre feet of groundwater that had been
polluted during the floods of 83 from some of their facilities. They've
collaborated, cooperated with Jordan Valley. We treat that polluted
groundwater and the byproduct is drinking water. That's how advanced
these technologies are, and that has been a great kind of pilot for us of where
things are going for us, you know, for the state to do that on a much
larger scale now. So we and the technology we use is the same thing they
use for desalinization of ocean water. So it's called reverse osmosis RO
treatment.
I just want to say thank you to the Conservancy District. They
invited our emergency manager along with other local emergency managers to the
treatment plant to discuss emergency plans and so involving us in multiple
ways we really appreciate that. I just want to make note of a few things we
have been asked to reduce 10% and some of the things that Bluffdale City has
done is we have a program called Neptune and we've asked all of our
residents to sign up for alerts if they go over a certain amount of water usage.
And it actually would have saved me had I actually signed up for it because we
had a main water leak for I'm not gonna say how long. And so I think if we can
encourage all of our residents to make sure to sign up for alerts and be
aware every single week how much water they're using I think that's really
really helpful. Another thing that we're doing as a city I know that we
We are working on making sure to identify any leaks in the system.
Our system is older, and so making sure that we're going through our system to find out
where our water usage, you know, because some of it is due to leakage.
And so we want to find out where that goes, and that's really vital, and that will be
a continuous project that, of course, will need funding.
So we're always doing that, but I appreciate, again, our public works department, our
engineering department for working on those projects.
and then also changing our landscaping requirements because as we know the
majority of water waste is outside and making sure as a council we don't
require we've changed what we've required over the years for
landscaping and so we're continuing to look at that and analyze that in all
areas residential and commercial and even locally for our government-owned
facilities and so that we could do so much better we know but we appreciate
the partnership that we have with Jordan Valley Water Conservancy. We also the
rates just want to remind our residents that it's an enterprise fund in
Bluffdale and so it's separate from property tax, it's separate from it's
an enterprise, it's its own fund. So we just move the cost of water onto the
actual user and so that's another reason to sign up for the Neptune
alerts because you don't want to have to pay if you're using too much. And so all
of those efforts combined and of course we would love other suggestions of what
we can do to decrease our water use so that we have it available for growth.
Yeah, I want to just acknowledge kind of second-year statements there. The city
has taken some very significant steps in water conservation and we're really
excited to see that and I've appreciated the partnership on that side of things.
And it is definitely showing results.
We track per capita usage, so usage per person, water use per person, through all of our member
agencies to help us know where to focus our efforts and Bluffdale is moving their way
down that list.
So, yeah, it's great to see the efforts and the results there.
It's great.
Yes, please.
Council Member Lord.
I have a quick question.
Do you have any oversight of the secondary water coming through our canals, or is that
a different department?
So we don't.
So with the Welby Jacob Canal, we have an arrangement.
It's a water exchange, basically, where we make sure that there's water in the
the Welby Jacob Canal, but that's about the extent of secondary supply that we provide.
So there is a bit of a disconnect there between the secondary water providers in the city and
in the potable side.
All right.
Well, we sure appreciate both of you coming tonight.
This was really helpful for us to get to know you both, first of all.
We'd love for you to come more than once a year, actually.
We'll do that.
Thank you for the time.
Thanks for all that you do.
I really appreciate it.
OK, thank you so much.
All right, we're going to move on to public comment
and open it up to anyone who's here.
If you are here for item number 7.1,
it is the public right of way, 1690 West.
If you're here for that item, will you just wait
and wait till that public hearing?
If you're here for anything else
and you would like to make public comment,
we invite you to come up. Yes, please come up. Yes, yes, yes.
Welcome, Johnny.
I'd like to address the City Council. Yes, just tell it for the record your name.
Johnny Loomis Jr., Springview Farms. Thank you.
I'd like to bring back to your
attention that it was told to me by your engineer that they were going to put up
streetlights on Loomis Parkway or missing at least two streetlights and then
he wanted to attach it to a project and I thought that at the time that it was
going to be attached to 1300 west going over to 146 through 144 because it was a
project at that that state but apparently didn't get matched up with
that so now we're waiting until mr. Karchner can decide what project that
can be attached to they don't the city won't have to purchase any land there's
a right of way between my boys house and my house that I did with the
city and they could put the light on there that would be one location and the
other location is at the north end of my property and there's a right-of-way for
utilities that another light could be posted there with the onslaught of
daylight savings time coming that we children on the sidewalk and early
morning hours and again in the evening if they're going to church for a
project, but I'd like to see the attention of that brought to Mr. Karchner
Wynne.
He's going to be first available to tie that project to that with the funding available for
the lights, not the property. And also, I'd like to address e-bikes and the speeding on
Loomis Parkway. There's still quite a few cars that go over the speed limit of 25 miles
an hour. And with the e-bikes, all of a sudden becoming a situation with our children, I'd
hate for there to be an accident. I'm assuming that we're adopting state policy for e-bikes
in Bluffdale. So, you know, just bring that to the city's attention. And then thirdly,
I'd like to apologize for not attending the sitting meetings or being involved
anymore but for health reasons I can no longer come up very often so I
appreciate that.
Hey anyone else tonight?
All right well I don't see any other
anyone else tonight for public comments so we'll close public comment and bring
it back to our agenda. John I did send an email so you should get a follow
up okay all right so let's move on to our consent agenda do I have a motion we
approve the consent agenda second okay wonderful it was moved by council member
Aston it was seconded by council member Smith all in favor hi great all right we
have an ordinance that we're gonna have a presentation on thank you Grant so much
the ordinance. It's a proposed amendment to chapter 7.5 of the city code and so
we're gonna go to that point.
I
think we could just look at this and then you
can just tell us what the code says. Because that is a lot more enjoyable. Oh
Mexico. Yes, Mexico. Thank you, Mayor and City Council.
Let's see if I can cover this for Fred here. Every year, the legislature changes some laws
and this one, IHB 535 changed the way they directed cities and counties to dispose of
publicly held real property. So a number of technical changes, the definition has
It's not just sales, it can be sales leases, donations, duration over 10 years, joint ventures.
So there's a number of different ways you could, I guess, dispose of some of your ownership.
It doesn't include easements that are less than 50% of fair market value.
We've had a few of those and also really short terms.
It doesn't include sales to schools, other government entities, exchanges for comparable value,
The minimum threshold in the state law is $500,000, but it does allow municipalities to set theirs.
Ours has been set previously at $10,000, and it is not proposed to be changed in this ordinance.
What it does also do is it lengthens the duration of the posting and noticing period
and adds a couple little things like adding a sign and an announcement
In addition to notices that go out, the typical ways that class A notices go to.
And then if it's insignificant, you still have to post a sign, but you don't have a hearing.
Okay, what's it look like in a text?
A bunch of red.
So this ordinances is, what is it, maybe five years old?
And so what Fred did was just bring this up to speed with the state law, new definitions
for dispose, what it doesn't include, what it doesn't include, some other things expanding
what significant could be, some improvements such as the noticing stuff up to speed and
the signage and I really oh it's class a notice and so not reasonable just follow
the law class a is a dot defined a set of noticing criteria in the state law and
we also have class a list in our city code at least in the zoning ordinance we
do and really that's that's the gist of it okay
I any questions on the state
code. Can you go back to the Mexico picture now? Great. All right. Thank you so much for
that presentation and to the work of all who went through that. Do I have a motion?
I'll move that we approve ordinance 2026-14. Second. Okay. It was moved by Council Member
Aston. Seconded by Council Member Austin. Can we have a roll call vote please?
Council Member Austin. Yes. Council Member Astin. Yes. Council Member Wilding. Yes.
Council Member Smith. Yes. Council Member Lorke. Yes. Motion passed. Thank you.
All right Ellen, welcome. Thank you so much. I think this new code actually
affected you. You had to go pound a sign into the ground and so it's already in
effect and this presentation is the I think the place where you pounded
a sign so yes speaking of water conservation it was very dry when I
first tried it I just felt really weak and defeated but the second time
worked after the rain thank goodness okay so thank you Mayor and Council so here
Tonight we have a 1690 West Street vacation as you mentioned the applicant is court and Kimberly Dimmick or Dimeck
Here
to orange you
The map area of the parcel
the properties highlighted in red and then the
sliver subject parcel or subject portion of the property that we're talking about is is
in yellow
Which is
Okay well it's that little sliver there that's zoomed in and the property
oh I see that's the zoomed in the property is on actually on the edge of
the red yes yes I see it now and okay that's our right of way that's why we
have that little zoom in there thank you yeah and then 1690 west as you can
see just there in the center and then Redwood off to the west and then
146 down very bottom of the screen okay
so here tonight the request is to vacate
a portion of 1690 West it's 0.032 acres you can see it
there we go okay sorry
about that okay here is the subject property as well it's 1396.51
square feet or .032 acres.
Following the potential vacation approval there will
be a separate disposition hearing for the vacated right-of-way. It will be
required for left-dill city code 750 if the property exceeds 10,000 in
market value. Engineering also has reviewed this piece.
Following that
disposition and acquisition the applicant will incorporate the property
into their parcel and proceed with their proposed subdivision and the
required right-of-way dedication to the city. So down below here is the
dedication, approximate dedication, that will occur later with a subdivision.
Also
currently 1690 West is a major collector, but with the soon to be updated
transportation plan it will be a minor collector.
So they buy that from the
city and give back to the city? The other the other? Is that correct? There
will be another piece later that will be dedicated on this part of the
subdivision process yeah but they are treated separately as of now there will
also be an appraisal to determine that value at the time of the disposition
because all we are doing today is vacating yes yes yes just the very
first step we're not doing anything else today correct so this is again the
just focus slide of the proposed property we're looking at tonight
Councilmember Smith. Yeah just a question is the long-term plan for that street
I know there's correct me if I'm wrong but there's sidewalk on one side and not
sidewalk on the other am I mixing that up just just curious if this is part of
maybe that overall plan in terms of like walkability and such. That's a good
question.
I'm gonna have Michael tell me if I may
mess this up but the subdivision project will be required to put in
their street improvements but I don't think we have a city project funded to
do the whole side of the street is that correct yeah Michaels agreeing but we
wish because that's been missing sidewalk you know maybe funding finds
itself here sometimes the safest the west side was done on a safe sidewalk
grant I believe and some other sources probably thank you we have a couple
residents on the street who live nearby who had mentioned something. So I was just trying
to learn a little bit more myself. Well we should actually note that and because this
is just vacating the property but we should note it and see what it entails and grant
money for safe walking etc. So that's a great future discussion.
That is all I have.
Okay. Before we go, oh let's have questions actually first and then we'll do our public
hearing.
All right let's open our public hearing and for this and
we didn't
receive any emails.
All right we're gonna close our public hearing and bring it
back to the council for more questions. Uh-huh councilmember Lord. The question
or what?
Road improvements, it could be for infrastructure, utilities.
They just need the easement.
Okay.
I don't know so much that it's a need for an easement as much as it happens to be wider
than the right-of-way we are proposing to be in place.
Mayor, the applicant's engineers here, if you want to ask a specific question.
Yeah, no.
No, we don't need to.
No risk.
I know that.
Yeah.
Hi, my name's Marissa, I'm with Peterson Engineering.
I'm a land surveyor and an engineer as well.
Yeah, as far as the right-away goes,
we're just trying to get those right-away lines straightened
out.
The land was originally UDOT parcel.
And the UDOT plans were pretty wonky on the right-away lines.
And they actually transferred that land to Bluffdale.
And with that, we're just trying
to get those right-away straight and out for the future
improvements along with the development so that we can you know get everything taken care of all at
once with the subdivision. Okay. Any other questions for me? It's great. I'm just wondering. That's
great. No, I'm so glad you were here tonight. Thank you. All right. If we don't have any other
questions. I just have one question. Please. Just so that we can cover our bases. Can you
for see any reason why we wouldn't want to not vacate this partial just this
piece for any future I mean 10 years down the road 50 years down the road no
that's that's what we ran it we ran through engineering and I guess Michael
would be the best one to answer that but he is he and his team have indicated
no and that's why they double-check the legal with the proposed street cross
section for this project and our new designation on the master plan and
that's why we're here so we wouldn't have brought it to you if we weren't sure.
Thank you. All right yes please councilmember Smith. Oh our our public
comment is over but we're gonna be done soon so stay after and we'll be we'll
chat. Oh I didn't see anyone come up. Oh darn it. Okay well I've closed
the public hearing I'm happy to reopen it so come on up.
We can't answer questions
in a public hearing and so you just have to make a comment and so if you have
questions it might be better to say. My name is Lyle Wilde. I live adjacent to
this property. I'm the property to the north. I don't know if you can tell on
there or not. But
I don't know enough about this to answer the questions myself, but I think it's really important
that this process take into account the effect of this on any other properties along 1690.
I don't know directly what effect this will have, but I could see where there may be subsequent
subsequent issues with how we deal with our own property after this has been done.
I'm not suggesting that I disagree with it in any way.
Only that I'd really like to know how it's going to affect the rest of us along there.
And I think that might even play into the question of whether or not there's going
to be further improvements along 1690.
We, you know, you hear all kinds of rumors out there in the community about one-way streets
and curb and gutter and sidewalks and all those other kinds of improvements, and we have
things in our yard that go right up to the, or somewhere in there that might come into
question on this.
So I would at least ask that you all take that into account in dealing with this
send that there's be some opportunity along the way to get those questions
answered. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Alright, I'm going to close the public
hearing and bring it back to the council. Can we just make note as to the
staff that when the project actually does come to the council that the staff
kind of addresses the impact and sidewalk improvement options or not
or costs and just when that because this is just the vacation of this right of
way so that's just a future really great comment I think to see how it's gonna
affect that street so the project all right so with that do I have a motion I
move that we approve ordinance 2026-15 second all right it was moved by
Council Member Austin second my Council Member Wilding roll call vote please
Council Member Astin yes Council Member Wilding yes Council Member Smith yes
Council Member Lord yes Council Member Austin yes motion passed okay great I'm
going to turn it over to the RDA chair for our RDA redevelopment agency
meeting welcome to our RDA board meeting let's have a roll call please
Chair Lord. Yes. Board Member Austin. Yes. Board Member Aston. Yes. Board Member Wilding. Yes.
Board Member Hall. Yeah. Board Member Smith. Yes. All in attendance.
Okay, we have an item
RDA Resolution 2026-42 that staff presenter Stephanie Thayer is going to discuss with us.
Yes. Thank you, RDA Chair and Board members. So there is an existing participation agreement
with Plentiful Way Title Holder, LLC, and this agenda item is to request to assign that
agreement to another entity which is named Independence Apartments Venture, LLC. It would
simply be to assign that to that new entity and term 5.1 of the agreement
does authorize assignment to another entity with RDA consent. There are no
other changes to the underlying agreement. All rights and obligations will
remain under the agreement and the new party would be bound by those same
rights and obligations. Our understanding is that it's mostly the same group with
some key people, but they are forming this new LLC. This is a standard in that
industry where they might bring in some additional investors or party other
parties. They can decide who to bring in as well as they may or may not choose
to have a property management company. However, no matter who owns it, the existing agreement
assigns the same duties and obligations, so they're still bound by all of that. So as
far as from the city standpoint, all of that remains intact. There were no concerns from
the RDA legal council on this and it's recommended the board approve the resolution consenting
to the assignment. And I'm not sure if this is one of the parties here representing, if
there's any questions specific that they could help answer to clarify anything, we could
welcome them up as well. Would you like to come up?
Would you like to come up, please? You look familiar. I think you've been here before
a couple of times.
Yes, I've been here. Yes. Thanks for having me. Thanks for explaining that.
remind us your name my name is Ray Bryson and as companies do we change
names here and there the the name of my company in the management company that
that ran and oversaw the property in the development of the property was was
Dakota Pacific at that time we've since changed our name to Six Ridge
partners, all the same people, all the same players. So it's similar to what we're doing
here is a name change. So Plentiful Way Title Holders was a combination of several key investment
individuals in our funds and portfolios that came together to purchase this property.
equity, and those individuals are rolling their ownership interest into this new entity.
So we've gone out to the market after we got approval the last time and site plan approval
from the Planning Commission.
We proceeded with construction drawings and went out to the market to get equity partnership
funding.
So, Principal, who is a national insurance investor, has agreed to partner with us in
our capital stack to deliver this project to the market.
We are waiting on this vote to confirm that the RDA funds are available for this project
to finalize our partnership agreements and sign the contract and hopefully break ground
Monday of next week.
So this is a great point for us to be in the project lifecycle.
Any questions?
I have a couple of questions just for interest.
I know when you were here before, the goal was to start last fall or early this year.
Was that interest rates, funding, kind of what delayed that?
It's mostly related to the capitalization and equity partnership.
We spread a net pretty far and wide, and we feel extremely fortunate to have found
a partner-like principle. They, you know, as part of their business plan, are
intending to be a long-term owner of this property, which aligns with some
of the goals that we had previously presented to the Council, and they
are continuing to invest not only in our market, but across the country. We
have seen a significant amount of pullback from national developers and
national investors in our market who are not finding opportunities to island or develop
projects.
We are one of a handful of developers who are moving projects forward this year, and
we're seeing the effects of that throughout the market, trickling down to even subcontractors
who,
you know, many of whom are closing doors because there isn't work available for them.
So this is one of many, and it took some significant effort to get to where we are, and that represents
most of the delay in getting to this point today.
Are you still planning on managing the property, your organization?
Yeah, absolutely.
So the partnership is comprised of 20% of our, you know, six rich partners entities and
80% of principal capital.
In that organization, we are the six rich partners entity is identified as the development
manager.
and so we will act as manager for construction, manager for leasing and
operations as the property goes forward. So you've got a builder lined up? Yeah
fortunately it's the same builder that we had back when we spoke before. The
pricing has been pretty flat over the last you know eight to twelve months.
Yeah, that was my question. I was wondering if I could...
Yeah, so costs have remained the same. We've been able to, within $27,000 of the original
contract, hold pretty close to what that original budget was.
Okay.
Those are positives, then.
Yes, yeah. All very positive.
I have a question for staff.
With the RDA money, did we put a timeline on it? They
needed to be started by the con the agreement is a 12 month they have to
start by so November 12th of this year so they have some time they do is is there
any changes to this we could turn we could invoke termination if they don't
start I think we don't have to but right that is one of the triggers
potentially and so if they meet that November we can't invoke termination
for changing ownership or anything like that right is there any changes to this
project whatsoever besides the ownership nope still the 217 units that were
approved facades are the same unit council the same park installs are the
same it's it's the same project and
the other okay is there any public
comment on this I don't think so not with the RDA okay you have any questions
Questions for us?
I don't.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you for coming.
Yeah.
When I say come in, I went, oh, good.
Yeah.
Appreciate you being here.
Thank you.
Of course.
Thank you.
Okay.
Then we will close our discussion on that.
Do I have a motion to approve?
I have a motion to approve.
Oh, good.
No.
I do it plenty of times.
Go ahead.
I have a motion that we approve RDA resolution 226-42.
I'll second.
Okay.
a motion by Council Member Smith, a second by, or not Council Member, Board Member Smith,
and a second by Board Member Hall. Let's have a roll call vote on this, please.
Board Member Wilding. Yes.
Board Member Hall. Yes.
Board Member Smith. Yes.
Board Member, Chair Lard. Yes.
board member Austin yes board member Austin yes motion passed okay do I have
a motion to adjourn the RDA I move we adjourn second all in favor all right we
are adjourned from the RDA we'll turn the time back over to Mayor Hall for
left out city great thank you all right we are to the staff report section
portion of our meeting. I just want to mention before our administrative services director
reports for us today that Old West Week, I think, was so well done and commend all of
our staff and volunteers and sponsors for all of their hard work and really heard great
things about the three nights of fireworks on the west side and the one
night of fireworks on the east side and everybody felt like they had an
opportunity to see fireworks despite the drought and so really appreciate all the
work that went into it and I think we attended every day and thank you so much
So, Old West days.
I'll make a real quick comment on that.
It was almost completely over and I was walking out and talked to a few people and a couple
of people had come from like South Salt Lake and they said we come every year because this
is one of the best ones.
And I just thought.
Council Member Lord, you were playing in those booths talking to the teenagers and
the kids.
Oh, I had.
Absolutely.
Yeah, everyone said who's the fun guy?
Oh.
Yeah.
Council Member Lord.
So we attract them even from without the city.
Wow, thank you.
Yeah, any other thoughts on Old Westays?
Okay, thank you.
Just a few calendaring items.
It is Get to the River this month,
and we are focusing on the Jordan River.
There is a Walk with the Mayor along the Jordan River on September 8th.
It can be Walk with the Council as well,
if anyone would like to join.
and then for our service project this year tomorrow we are there will be a
press conference with the Jordan River Commission we are as mayors
gathering to talk about storm drain systems and how we can better clean our
gutters and our storm drains so that things are not going into our water
system that will be our day of service for Bluffdales to clean our local
storm drain out and our gutters.
And then our constitution reading. I'm sorry, that's September 11th. You can clean all day.
However you want to work that. And the walk is on the 8th. September 8th is the walk.
September 11th is the day of service. And then our last food truck Tuesday is on September 15th.
And we will have our festival, our get to the river festival on the 15th for our day of service.
I mean our get to the river.
Also that day on the 15th is our constitution reading.
So if anybody would like to participate just let me know in that.
And then we'll have our staff reports and then we can talk some more about some other issues I want to bring up.
So, okay, Stephanie, let's have staff reports.
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.
I know we sold more wristbands than we did the year before. So that's awesome.
In the fire department, just wanted to report that we have filled that full-time position of
operations fire chief that was budgeted within the parameters of the budget. Stephen Johnson,
he'll be starting mid-September. He comes with 20 years of experience and a vast knowledge of
Bluff Dell.
Let's see. He will be full time Monday through Friday and I hear there will
be a future pinning ceremony that will be done. And if chief wants me to come up and cover
anything else, or did I do okay? Okay. Thank you for having me. Yes.
Pancake breakfast at the fire station. We're all the public. And we'd like you guys
all to be there if you can. On September 12th we're going to have a pancake breakfast. We'd
like you all to be there. It's going to be at station 92. It's going to be from 8 to 10.
And most people will be there. Some won't. And anyway, it's going to be a fun thing.
It's free. So we're just going to be serving pancakes and milk and juice. So I feel like
that'll be a good opportunity to mingle with the public and they can hang out with
us in the fire trucks. Okay thanks. Thanks chief. Also the parks building
addition is on schedule to be done within the next four weeks. Okay and also
coming up we have the Labor Day holiday that the city offices is closed on
Monday September 7th and then if you have a couple minutes we'd like to show
some footage of the railroad underpass project, some drone footage just so you
can see how that's coming along. So Michael's got a short video here and after
that, that's all we had for staff reports.
Hey there council. Good to see you. I've been a while. I was grateful. We had a good visit a few
few weeks ago a few council members came out came over and you probably noticed it
things things are moving very rapidly and and I don't feel familiar with the
engineering department we have a YouTube site so you can go at your leisure
you know when you when you're at home and you're falling asleep and just
Oh, let me see what those guys are doing.
Our faithful Kevin Thompson, he's an amazing flyer with a drone.
He's been doing an awesome job and so I rely on him and so he covers or has many hats
and just like many other people here at the city. So if you have questions while
while this video goes forward just tell me, stop me. If you notice on the right
side they're basically using the UTA property for for doing a lot of work
for our project. Processing the material, basically they screen the material that
they has been excavated on the east side of the tracks. They take it there, they
process it, clean it, and then put it back on. So it's a savings for the city.
We are getting very close to place Kirbin Gatter on this portion
and also on this side. So once we place curbing gutter, we'll start working on asphalt. We're
thinking that they will work on the intersection of Springview Farm in the next couple of weeks,
replacing asphalt and redoing that intersection. You can see here that we have finally been
in begging and pushing the contractor to place a pipe, a bore pipe, under the railroad tracks.
They finally did it, so that now we have positive drainage from the east side, taking all the
groundwater down to our storm water system finally.
Anyway, so you can see they're placing storm-grain boxes and inlets so that we can continue on
with this work.
Mayor will tell you the thorn in my side right now is Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City owns this canal.
Have been such a wonderful partner.
right now as you can see that the box will come in this direction so basically
we need to remove a portion of this retaining wall and so to remove a portion
of this retaining wall we we are planning to shore up the rest of the wall
right here so the contractor requested permission to enter the canal to do all
this work and they were denied actually what they were told is that the city
needs to build a box culvert all the way to to the end of the other culvert it
just yeah council member asked and yes yeah so I I met with him a couple of
times I said we don't have any money and we don't we just are I'm stressed
about that just that anyway tomorrow we'll have a meeting and we'll let you know next time what
Mayor has been awesome at her leadership has been helping tremendously she connected with
some council members and in Salt Lake City to let them know how terrible this is so
Don't you have any connections with Guido?
Get rid of their legs, right?
Just Guido, yes.
Yeah,
very frustrating.
So you can see also, right, this was filmed today.
And we are preparing also this site for curbing gutters.
So in the next couple of days, we'll start to see curbing gutter
and they want to pave this justice section by no later than mid-October so
that we will be able to put traffic into 2000 West and so there will be much
smoother traffic movement but with that this project is so dynamic it's nuts
because there's so many utilities, unknown utilities every time we dig
somewhere we find something else and then we have to fix it and then and then
contractors are like we're gonna pay more money more money so anyway but we
haven't asked so far with the contractor has been they have worked with the city
very well they we have been able to communicate very well work together as
as a team instead of we have a partnership,
relationship more than anything.
Hopefully that relationship will continue to go on.
You can tell that the amount of work
that has been going on and been done is amazing.
Just on the east side, the road reconstruction,
but not just that.
I mean, if you can see here,
I mean right now they're building these are basically the ramps where they will the boxes will slide
and so Friday night they will complete the poor for this other portion right here
and and then they will start building the actual boxes on top of this this ramp actually they
will put a neoprene layer and then it will be a sleeping mechanism. So they've had so
far two, they've been putting plinths or piles within the railroad. Hopefully I don't want
to take too much time because I want to win that prize.
Shoot. I'm shooting myself on
the foot.
These walls took a long time. You can tell the
rising tower there and it took a long time, but we're there.
And one more minute and we'll be done. And if you have
questions, you can always send me emails and text. This is
the major thrust wall. Basically, everything will push
against these hydraulic presses will press against this thrust block and they'll use the earth
basically to resist the forces that will push the boxes forward. Union Pacific has been so far
cooperating with us and working with us which is amazing but they're interested in this project
and so we have a lot of visitors from UDOT but also national visitors that
they're interested and we'll get more and more attention as the project
will continue to move forward.
The Sintuwe project also, we're starting to plan a
grand opening in October so I hope you bring your your your family we're gonna
have a celebration for because we're gonna have a crossing there and so we're
excited about that so anyway this is it if you again if you have any questions
I'm gonna leave you alone now I need to win this at least one time thank you
Great. Anything else? Okay. Great. And then just if the council could let me know if they're
going to be attending the league conference so we can do registration. Do we have any
other discussion from the council?
I have another. No, I'm just kidding. I motion to
adjourn if that's okay. Second. Okay. It was moved by council member Smith. Second
to my council member. Aston, all in favor, we're adjourned at 7.13. 7, it's 7.15.
Oh,
okay, perfect. Thank you so much, everyone.