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Okay, it was moved by council member Austin. Second of my council member, Wilding, all in favor.

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Aye. Okay. Welcome, welcome. You were right at the beginning. We're so happy to have

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Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District here for their annual presentation. And I'll have

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both of you come up. Jacob Young is the general manager, and John Richardson is the trustee

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that represents Bluffdale, Draper, and actually, John, will you tell us, is there another city?

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just those two includes water pros well so oh it does entities I guess okay great

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so Draper Bluff Dylan water pro thank you for representing our cities and thank

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you so much Jacob for being here thank you for having us so I have to have you

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guys use the microphone so that those online can hear you so you will just

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go back and forth with a mic okay I'm gonna kick it off here again John

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John Richardson, trustee representing Division 6, includes Bluffdale, Draper, and WaterPro,

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and I have Jacob Young here, General Manager at Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District.

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

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capital projects.

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And just really by quick introduction, I am a longtime resident of Draper.

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I grew up in Sandy, Utah.

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Actually went to Utah State where I got my Bachelor's of Science in Environmental Engineering

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and got my Master's of Science from the University of Utah.

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

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Before that, we were in Sandy.

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And I really want to emphasize to you all my qualifications.

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I heard our trustee recently describe the board.

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The trustee, there's nine of us, is kind of a fellowship.

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You know, to use the Lord of the Rings.

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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.

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we have a broad skill set and I've got more of a technical background I spent, so since

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my master's 28 years focused on planning, design, project management, construction of

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large water, wastewater facilities. And local clientele, I've been fortunate to work on

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projects across the U.S., but local clientele include Central Utah Water Conservancy District,

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cities of West Jordan, South Jordan, Central Utah Water Conservancy, City of

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Draper, even a little bit City of Harriman going back a ways. So anyway I've

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got a lot of relevant experience just wanted to highlight that if I could.

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And jumping into Jordan Valley you can see here we've got a large service area

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if you look to the map on the left we got a lot of conveyance facilities

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treatment facilities established in 1951 and serves primarily Salt Lake County

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wholesale water provider. And main facilities you can see up at the top there are the Jordan

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Valley Water Treatment Plant. That's the big one that provides most of the treatment of

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the raw water, which again comes from Deer Creek, Jordan Hill, down these aqueducts.

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So it's a pretty large service area. A lot of capital investment, a lot of infrastructure

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into that. And there you can see the divisions. So there's nine total, like

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we talked about, and of course Division 6 is Bluffdale, Draper. So governed by nine trustees.

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

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

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

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We provide 130,000 acre feet a year of water and treatment capacity again of 250

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million gallons a day.

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And there you can see some photos of the different

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trustees there.

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So what do we do? Yeah, wholesale water provider really

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want to focus on clean water, managing the demand, developing supply. That's a

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a huge challenge right now because we've got a historic drought. We've got that coupled

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with a lot of growth in the area still. So that is always a tricky thing, especially now

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

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of the worst winners on record. Actually was the worst winner on record if you look

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at most states. So I've got to commend the district. Working with a lot of cities

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and districts for 28 years now, they're very proactive, they're very fiscally

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responsible, and I've seen a lot of cities and clients do a lackluster job,

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let's say, and Jordan Valley does a really great job.

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And yeah, just a quick

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overview. We'll give you an update on capital projects. I want to highlight

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what's impacting Bluffdale, as well as the water budget policy, drought

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response, water conservation, and if there's any issues you would like

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brought before the board. And time for questions. That will turn over to Mr. Jacob Young.

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Okay, I'll go through these quickly because I want to focus on what's most interesting

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to you. So feel free to guide that with questions here. But quick update on capital projects

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that we're doing that have impact on Bluffdale City. And just want to mention it is an

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absolute honor to partner with your Public Works group, with Bruce as your city manager,

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Michael Fazio, Shane, they to partner with them to provide this just life

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sustaining service to the community. We are just grateful for the partnership

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that we have and you know we know our role is to bring water from outside the

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region here so that it can be used by the community to thrive and grow.

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demonstrate that. We are currently expanding the Jordan Valley Water

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Treatment Plant which sits right on your borders there and was originally built

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in the 70s has been expanded a couple of times and we're currently expanding it

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and while we're expanding that capacity from 180 million gallons a day to 220

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we're also taking advantage of the opportunity to enhance the resiliency

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So seismic resiliency and safety of the facility as a whole as well.

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Very happy to say because of the forethought that went into the previous design, some innovations,

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new technologies that were incorporating into this expansion, we're able to do it all

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within the same footprint of that treatment plant.

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So, the end result is we're expanding this for the capacity for about additional five

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million dollars per million gallons of capacity is what we're getting.

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Other entities across the state are spending at least five times that in order to get the

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same capacity.

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So, about 25 million dollars per million gallons of capacity.

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Why do you think?

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So those are our new we call them greenfield treatment plants so they're

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totally new plants that are being built kind of at other locations really

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because of some of the foresight that went in when this this plant was

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originally built we're able to capitalize on that and like I mentioned

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with the new technologies keep it all within the so we're not really

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pouring new concrete and things like that. So, yeah, really excited about. Still, it's

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$200 million project, so it's no small project, but the impacts, the value we're getting out

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of each of those dollars is really maximized. We're doing that in four phases. That'll

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happen over several years that you can see there. Next is our seismic resiliency of

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our aqueduct system. So many people don't know, John mentioned, we pipe water all the

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way from the Prova River here to that plant there and then treat it and then pipe it all

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the way up to 2100 north. That pipes for the most majority of that whole length is

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about a six foot diameter pipe and built in stages as old as 1980s I think is

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the oldest of that and built to different seismic code obviously so we've

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evaluated all of that and identified a few places it's a critical artery to

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the valley here where we will be doing some upgrades to make sure it can

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and withstand the earthquakes that we're expecting

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for this area.

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It is, yep.

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So yeah, yeah, that's the thing about the work that we do

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is that most of it is very unseen.

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If you know where to look, you can see where it runs

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because there are no houses or structures of any kind over it and things, but great.

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I won't spend much time on these.

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

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back towards Bluffdale in order to provide water while we address any issues that may

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come up at the plant.

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And then lastly, as we look to the future, how are we going to continue to meet growth?

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The answer is Utah Lake water, believe it or not.

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And there are technologies that we've been using for over 15 years now that we now know

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we need to expand treatment plants with the technologies to treat that water, to drinking

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water.

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so we're doing studies right now on how and when to do that. Any questions on

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capital projects before I move on to the next? Okay next is that you may have heard

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if not we wanted to make you aware of our new water budget policy so in the

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face of limitations to Colorado River water so you may not be aware but we

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import about almost half well sorry a little over half of our supplies are

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coming from the Colorado River Basin. So you've probably heard about some of the

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heated negotiations going on there. We're definitely impacted by all of that. So

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with the pressures there and then you've also obviously heard of the

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projects, supply project that we had been planning on for decades, the Bear River Project, there's

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now a certain high level of uncertainty with that.

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So we have developed what we refer to as our water budget policy, which essentially is

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stepped through that quickly here.

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So the history is that Jordan Valley has partnered with our member agencies to meet

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water demands by supplementing any of the your own local supplies with this

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water that we import to the valley and as we look at what's left of water rights

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that we already hold currently that leaves about 1.35 acre feet per acre

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of undeveloped land that's within our service area and so we've established

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that as the water budget for new development within our service area.

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So we will continue to aggressively pursue adding more new sources of water from outside

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the region.

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So that's our role of bringing that water in from outside the region.

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And we will continue to do that, but we've reached a point where there's enough uncertainty

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in those things that we feel like as a community we need to acknowledge the

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limitations that we have and not over commit our water to development or

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over commit the development beyond what we have the water to supply. So then the

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question becomes what if we need more than 1.35 acre feet per acre for that

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new development and we've established through this water budget policy of how

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we can get to yes on those developments that are important to the cities to

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happen by partnering with the cities with the developers to make sure that

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the water is there for those developments. That's in a quick summary what the

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water budget policy is. We've got these five tools I won't bore you with the

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details about those but happy to go into any of those. We've gone over that with

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your your Public Works staff in detail and they've engaged right away in as we've

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started using these tools and we're grateful for that.

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water budget policy. Happy to answer any questions you might have on that.

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Okay, lastly is a drought response and water conservation.

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So John mentioned there are drought.

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Our actions are all governed by a drought contingency plan

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which we established back in 2021.

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And that specifies a few things.

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what level of drought that we're in.

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So we monitor that.

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And this year, following those criteria with engagement from all of our member agencies,

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our board voted that we were at a level two, which is a severe water shortage.

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And what that does is it triggers a series of response actions that we take that are

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defined in this drought contingency plan.

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Those are summarized here.

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The primary one that impacts our member agencies is that we called for a 10% reduction in that

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water usage from all of our member agencies. And that's over what last year's usage was.

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And that comes with...

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Some financial incentives or penalties, depending on how you want to look at it, if those savings

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

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

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your contract amount and we've also the other big response action is the

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advertising campaign that hopefully some of you have seen that is under this life

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is better with water and make specific requests of all residents throughout the

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our service area to use water more efficiently and effectively happy to

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say that that has been very effective. Bluffdale this chart shows where Bluffdale

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is projecting in relation to where those penalty fees kick in and you're

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projecting to be well under that mark so we appreciate that.

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little bit more that could be done though because you are projecting to be

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over the 10% reduction mark.

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So it would be great to see some continued concerted effort

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there on that.

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Any questions on drought response?

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Went through all of that very quickly.

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Are you referring to, when you say going over our budgeted

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amount, so you're saying that Bluffdell, based

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on your historical numbers and what we need, you allocate a certain number of acre feet whatever.

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We're trying as a city to not go over that. Is that what we're saying?

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Right. There's two things at play there. The way water service from Jordan Valley works is

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So Bluffdale has a minimum purchase contract with Jordan Valley.

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And so that is a volume of water.

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And so for your case,

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I think it's 3,600 acre feet, is that right, Michael?

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Yeah, okay.

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So Bluffdale has a contract, a minimum purchase contract of 3,600 acre feet from Jordan Valley.

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And so with the drought to the level to water shortage, you can go up to 110% of that without

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any penalty.

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If you go above 110% of that amount, then a penalty fee kicks in.

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And then if 120%, even higher penalty fee kicks in and that 120% penalty fee is actually

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regardless of whether it's a level two or level one, level zero drought, I think.

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So that's how that works.

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What we've, the other component of this is we've asked for a 10% reduction from last

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year's usage from all of our member agencies.

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That's what the red dashed line on here indicates is the reduction, 10% reduction

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from last year's usage.

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And so, that's the ideal number.

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We'd love to see all of our member agencies hitting either that or below.

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And so, we're working with all of them to try and achieve that.

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And that's because of the drought grant.

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Right.

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Great question.

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How do you calculate the contract amounts for the different cities?

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So those are requested by the city of what the what the city would like and so like your

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staff is doing a demand projection for their for your water system and they

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actually just provided a memo to me of what those projections are over the

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next five years and requesting certain increases for that and so we're in the

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process now of working with them to amend your contract to accommodate that growth as

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well.

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And so this, well, yeah, there's lots of details there.

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It's based on population, it's based on businesses, it's based on users, and it's

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based on growth.

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So with the state's big push for us to develop, develop, develop, and you're saying, no,

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we don't have the water, or we're going to find you if you use too much water.

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Yeah, so the purpose of the policy is not to say we can't grow because we don't have

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the water. It's to integrate that land use and water use planning efforts so that we

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can grow within our means. So that's really what we're striving for.

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But I definitely want to acknowledge what you've indicated there is as we face that

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reality, it definitely gets a little uncomfortable.

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But that's why we're here to partner to help figure out the solution to that problem.

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So we initially put this policy into place for developments like Olympia for the point.

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So far those conversations have gone really well, and we've been able to come to, you're

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probably aware those are some pretty high density developments, and we've been able

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to come to solutions that work for some very high density development there.

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Is Utah Lake still considered a superfund site?

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So there's a lot to that one.

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That's a great question.

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One of the highlights of that whole effort is, so the old Granite Steel site,

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the old

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And Central Utah Water Conservancy District purchased those water rights at just the right time.

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

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

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So I think there's some real success stories there.

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I'm not privy to all the other details of the Superfund and things like that.

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What I can tell you though, on concerns of water quality for water in the lake itself,

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the treatment process we would be using that I mentioned we've been using for 15

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years, we have what's called our Southwest Groundwater Treatment Plant that was actually

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built with funds from Rio Tento as a groundwater remediation project to clean

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up groundwater about three million acre feet of groundwater that had been

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polluted during the floods of 83 from some of their facilities. They've

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collaborated, cooperated with Jordan Valley. We treat that polluted

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groundwater and the byproduct is drinking water. That's how advanced

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these technologies are, and that has been a great kind of pilot for us of where

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things are going for us, you know, for the state to do that on a much

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larger scale now. So we and the technology we use is the same thing they

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use for desalinization of ocean water. So it's called reverse osmosis RO

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treatment.

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I just want to say thank you to the Conservancy District. They

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invited our emergency manager along with other local emergency managers to the

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treatment plant to discuss emergency plans and so involving us in multiple

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ways we really appreciate that. I just want to make note of a few things we

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have been asked to reduce 10% and some of the things that Bluffdale City has

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done is we have a program called Neptune and we've asked all of our

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residents to sign up for alerts if they go over a certain amount of water usage.

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And it actually would have saved me had I actually signed up for it because we

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

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encourage all of our residents to make sure to sign up for alerts and be

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aware every single week how much water they're using I think that's really

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really helpful. Another thing that we're doing as a city I know that we

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We are working on making sure to identify any leaks in the system.

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Our system is older, and so making sure that we're going through our system to find out

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where our water usage, you know, because some of it is due to leakage.

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And so we want to find out where that goes, and that's really vital, and that will be

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a continuous project that, of course, will need funding.

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So we're always doing that, but I appreciate, again, our public works department, our

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engineering department for working on those projects.

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and then also changing our landscaping requirements because as we know the

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majority of water waste is outside and making sure as a council we don't

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require we've changed what we've required over the years for

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landscaping and so we're continuing to look at that and analyze that in all

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areas residential and commercial and even locally for our government-owned

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facilities and so that we could do so much better we know but we appreciate

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the partnership that we have with Jordan Valley Water Conservancy. We also the

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rates just want to remind our residents that it's an enterprise fund in

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Bluffdale and so it's separate from property tax, it's separate from it's

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an enterprise, it's its own fund. So we just move the cost of water onto the

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actual user and so that's another reason to sign up for the Neptune

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alerts because you don't want to have to pay if you're using too much. And so all

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of those efforts combined and of course we would love other suggestions of what

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we can do to decrease our water use so that we have it available for growth.

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Yeah, I want to just acknowledge kind of second-year statements there. The city

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has taken some very significant steps in water conservation and we're really

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excited to see that and I've appreciated the partnership on that side of things.

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And it is definitely showing results.

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We track per capita usage, so usage per person, water use per person, through all of our member

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agencies to help us know where to focus our efforts and Bluffdale is moving their way

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down that list.

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So, yeah, it's great to see the efforts and the results there.

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It's great.

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Yes, please.

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Council Member Lord.

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I have a quick question.

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Do you have any oversight of the secondary water coming through our canals, or is that

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a different department?

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So we don't.

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So with the Welby Jacob Canal, we have an arrangement.

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It's a water exchange, basically, where we make sure that there's water in the

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the Welby Jacob Canal, but that's about the extent of secondary supply that we provide.

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So there is a bit of a disconnect there between the secondary water providers in the city and

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in the potable side.

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All right.

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Well, we sure appreciate both of you coming tonight.

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This was really helpful for us to get to know you both, first of all.

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We'd love for you to come more than once a year, actually.

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We'll do that.

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Thank you for the time.

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Thanks for all that you do.

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I really appreciate it.

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OK, thank you so much.

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All right, we're going to move on to public comment

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and open it up to anyone who's here.

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If you are here for item number 7.1,

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it is the public right of way, 1690 West.

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If you're here for that item, will you just wait

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and wait till that public hearing?

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If you're here for anything else

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and you would like to make public comment,

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we invite you to come up. Yes, please come up. Yes, yes, yes.

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Welcome, Johnny.

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I'd like to address the City Council. Yes, just tell it for the record your name.

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Johnny Loomis Jr., Springview Farms. Thank you.

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I'd like to bring back to your

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attention that it was told to me by your engineer that they were going to put up

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streetlights on Loomis Parkway or missing at least two streetlights and then

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he wanted to attach it to a project and I thought that at the time that it was

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going to be attached to 1300 west going over to 146 through 144 because it was a

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project at that that state but apparently didn't get matched up with

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that so now we're waiting until mr. Karchner can decide what project that

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can be attached to they don't the city won't have to purchase any land there's

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a right of way between my boys house and my house that I did with the

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city and they could put the light on there that would be one location and the

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other location is at the north end of my property and there's a right-of-way for

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utilities that another light could be posted there with the onslaught of

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daylight savings time coming that we children on the sidewalk and early

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morning hours and again in the evening if they're going to church for a

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project, but I'd like to see the attention of that brought to Mr. Karchner

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Wynne.

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He's going to be first available to tie that project to that with the funding available for

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

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

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

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

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in Bluffdale. So, you know, just bring that to the city's attention. And then thirdly,

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I'd like to apologize for not attending the sitting meetings or being involved

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anymore but for health reasons I can no longer come up very often so I

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appreciate that.

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Hey anyone else tonight?

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All right well I don't see any other

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anyone else tonight for public comments so we'll close public comment and bring

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it back to our agenda. John I did send an email so you should get a follow

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

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approve the consent agenda second okay wonderful it was moved by council member

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Aston it was seconded by council member Smith all in favor hi great all right we

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have an ordinance that we're gonna have a presentation on thank you Grant so much

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the ordinance. It's a proposed amendment to chapter 7.5 of the city code and so

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we're gonna go to that point.

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I

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think we could just look at this and then you

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can just tell us what the code says. Because that is a lot more enjoyable. Oh

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Mexico. Yes, Mexico. Thank you, Mayor and City Council.

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

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and this one, IHB 535 changed the way they directed cities and counties to dispose of

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publicly held real property. So a number of technical changes, the definition has

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It's not just sales, it can be sales leases, donations, duration over 10 years, joint ventures.

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So there's a number of different ways you could, I guess, dispose of some of your ownership.

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It doesn't include easements that are less than 50% of fair market value.

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We've had a few of those and also really short terms.

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It doesn't include sales to schools, other government entities, exchanges for comparable value,

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

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

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What it does also do is it lengthens the duration of the posting and noticing period

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and adds a couple little things like adding a sign and an announcement

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In addition to notices that go out, the typical ways that class A notices go to.

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

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Okay, what's it look like in a text?

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A bunch of red.

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So this ordinances is, what is it, maybe five years old?

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And so what Fred did was just bring this up to speed with the state law, new definitions

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for dispose, what it doesn't include, what it doesn't include, some other things expanding

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what significant could be, some improvements such as the noticing stuff up to speed and

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the signage and I really oh it's class a notice and so not reasonable just follow

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the law class a is a dot defined a set of noticing criteria in the state law and

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we also have class a list in our city code at least in the zoning ordinance we

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do and really that's that's the gist of it okay

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I any questions on the state

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code. Can you go back to the Mexico picture now? Great. All right. Thank you so much for

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that presentation and to the work of all who went through that. Do I have a motion?

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

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Aston. Seconded by Council Member Austin. Can we have a roll call vote please?

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Council Member Austin. Yes. Council Member Astin. Yes. Council Member Wilding. Yes.

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Council Member Smith. Yes. Council Member Lorke. Yes. Motion passed. Thank you.

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All right Ellen, welcome. Thank you so much. I think this new code actually

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

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effect and this presentation is the I think the place where you pounded

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a sign so yes speaking of water conservation it was very dry when I

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first tried it I just felt really weak and defeated but the second time

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worked after the rain thank goodness okay so thank you Mayor and Council so here

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

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Here

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to orange you

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The map area of the parcel

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the properties highlighted in red and then the

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sliver subject parcel or subject portion of the property that we're talking about is is

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in yellow

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Which is

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Okay well it's that little sliver there that's zoomed in and the property

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oh I see that's the zoomed in the property is on actually on the edge of

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the red yes yes I see it now and okay that's our right of way that's why we

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have that little zoom in there thank you yeah and then 1690 west as you can

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see just there in the center and then Redwood off to the west and then

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146 down very bottom of the screen okay

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so here tonight the request is to vacate

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a portion of 1690 West it's 0.032 acres you can see it

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there we go okay sorry

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about that okay here is the subject property as well it's 1396.51

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square feet or .032 acres.

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Following the potential vacation approval there will

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be a separate disposition hearing for the vacated right-of-way. It will be

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required for left-dill city code 750 if the property exceeds 10,000 in

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market value. Engineering also has reviewed this piece.

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Following that

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disposition and acquisition the applicant will incorporate the property

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into their parcel and proceed with their proposed subdivision and the

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required right-of-way dedication to the city. So down below here is the

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dedication, approximate dedication, that will occur later with a subdivision.

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Also

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currently 1690 West is a major collector, but with the soon to be updated

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transportation plan it will be a minor collector.

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So they buy that from the

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city and give back to the city? The other the other? Is that correct? There

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will be another piece later that will be dedicated on this part of the

452
00:39:21,950 --> 00:39:26,990
subdivision process yeah but they are treated separately as of now there will

453
00:39:26,990 --> 00:39:32,790
also be an appraisal to determine that value at the time of the disposition

454
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:42,740
because all we are doing today is vacating yes yes yes just the very

455
00:39:42,740 --> 00:39:48,040
first step we're not doing anything else today correct so this is again the

456
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:52,160
just focus slide of the proposed property we're looking at tonight

457
00:39:57,710 --> 00:40:01,970
Councilmember Smith. Yeah just a question is the long-term plan for that street

458
00:40:01,970 --> 00:40:06,210
I know there's correct me if I'm wrong but there's sidewalk on one side and not

459
00:40:06,210 --> 00:40:11,830
sidewalk on the other am I mixing that up just just curious if this is part of

460
00:40:11,830 --> 00:40:17,830
maybe that overall plan in terms of like walkability and such. That's a good

461
00:40:17,830 --> 00:40:18,290
question.

462
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,700
I'm gonna have Michael tell me if I may

463
00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:27,240
mess this up but the subdivision project will be required to put in

464
00:40:27,240 --> 00:40:31,980
their street improvements but I don't think we have a city project funded to

465
00:40:31,980 --> 00:40:37,680
do the whole side of the street is that correct yeah Michaels agreeing but we

466
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:42,400
wish because that's been missing sidewalk you know maybe funding finds

467
00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:47,460
itself here sometimes the safest the west side was done on a safe sidewalk

468
00:40:47,460 --> 00:40:54,760
grant I believe and some other sources probably thank you we have a couple

469
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:59,820
residents on the street who live nearby who had mentioned something. So I was just trying

470
00:40:59,820 --> 00:41:03,700
to learn a little bit more myself. Well we should actually note that and because this

471
00:41:03,700 --> 00:41:09,260
is just vacating the property but we should note it and see what it entails and grant

472
00:41:09,260 --> 00:41:13,080
money for safe walking etc. So that's a great future discussion.

473
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:16,620
That is all I have.

474
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:24,340
Okay. Before we go, oh let's have questions actually first and then we'll do our public

475
00:41:24,340 --> 00:41:24,660
hearing.

476
00:41:29,930 --> 00:41:35,810
All right let's open our public hearing and for this and

477
00:41:44,190 --> 00:41:44,510
we didn't

478
00:41:44,510 --> 00:41:45,450
receive any emails.

479
00:41:49,090 --> 00:41:53,610
All right we're gonna close our public hearing and bring it

480
00:41:53,610 --> 00:42:10,210
back to the council for more questions. Uh-huh councilmember Lord. The question

481
00:42:11,150 --> 00:42:11,830
or what?

482
00:42:11,950 --> 00:42:16,970
Road improvements, it could be for infrastructure, utilities.

483
00:42:17,350 --> 00:42:18,370
They just need the easement.

484
00:42:18,810 --> 00:42:19,110
Okay.

485
00:42:19,470 --> 00:42:24,490
I don't know so much that it's a need for an easement as much as it happens to be wider

486
00:42:24,490 --> 00:42:27,710
than the right-of-way we are proposing to be in place.

487
00:42:28,870 --> 00:42:33,570
Mayor, the applicant's engineers here, if you want to ask a specific question.

488
00:42:33,710 --> 00:42:34,330
Yeah, no.

489
00:42:34,590 --> 00:42:36,110
No, we don't need to.

490
00:42:36,150 --> 00:42:36,610
No risk.

491
00:42:36,650 --> 00:42:37,110
I know that.

492
00:42:37,470 --> 00:42:37,670
Yeah.

493
00:42:37,670 --> 00:42:39,730
Hi, my name's Marissa, I'm with Peterson Engineering.

494
00:42:39,910 --> 00:42:42,930
I'm a land surveyor and an engineer as well.

495
00:42:43,870 --> 00:42:46,350
Yeah, as far as the right-away goes,

496
00:42:46,510 --> 00:42:48,530
we're just trying to get those right-away lines straightened

497
00:42:48,530 --> 00:42:48,710
out.

498
00:42:48,870 --> 00:42:52,730
The land was originally UDOT parcel.

499
00:42:53,590 --> 00:42:56,950
And the UDOT plans were pretty wonky on the right-away lines.

500
00:42:57,870 --> 00:43:00,110
And they actually transferred that land to Bluffdale.

501
00:43:01,410 --> 00:43:03,090
And with that, we're just trying

502
00:43:03,090 --> 00:43:05,770
to get those right-away straight and out for the future

503
00:43:05,770 --> 00:43:11,230
improvements along with the development so that we can you know get everything taken care of all at

504
00:43:11,230 --> 00:43:19,110
once with the subdivision. Okay. Any other questions for me? It's great. I'm just wondering. That's

505
00:43:19,110 --> 00:43:24,170
great. No, I'm so glad you were here tonight. Thank you. All right. If we don't have any other

506
00:43:24,170 --> 00:43:28,790
questions. I just have one question. Please. Just so that we can cover our bases. Can you

507
00:43:28,790 --> 00:43:35,370
for see any reason why we wouldn't want to not vacate this partial just this

508
00:43:35,370 --> 00:43:41,470
piece for any future I mean 10 years down the road 50 years down the road no

509
00:43:41,470 --> 00:43:46,210
that's that's what we ran it we ran through engineering and I guess Michael

510
00:43:46,210 --> 00:43:50,030
would be the best one to answer that but he is he and his team have indicated

511
00:43:50,030 --> 00:43:56,270
no and that's why they double-check the legal with the proposed street cross

512
00:43:56,270 --> 00:43:59,890
section for this project and our new designation on the master plan and

513
00:43:59,890 --> 00:44:04,410
that's why we're here so we wouldn't have brought it to you if we weren't sure.

514
00:44:05,910 --> 00:44:15,850
Thank you. All right yes please councilmember Smith. Oh our our public

515
00:44:15,850 --> 00:44:20,210
comment is over but we're gonna be done soon so stay after and we'll be we'll

516
00:44:20,210 --> 00:44:27,890
chat. Oh I didn't see anyone come up. Oh darn it. Okay well I've closed

517
00:44:27,890 --> 00:44:33,250
the public hearing I'm happy to reopen it so come on up.

518
00:44:40,590 --> 00:44:41,890
We can't answer questions

519
00:44:41,890 --> 00:44:46,810
in a public hearing and so you just have to make a comment and so if you have

520
00:44:46,810 --> 00:44:51,790
questions it might be better to say. My name is Lyle Wilde. I live adjacent to

521
00:44:51,790 --> 00:44:57,030
this property. I'm the property to the north. I don't know if you can tell on

522
00:44:57,030 --> 00:44:59,330
there or not. But

523
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:05,700
I don't know enough about this to answer the questions myself, but I think it's really important

524
00:45:05,700 --> 00:45:13,560
that this process take into account the effect of this on any other properties along 1690.

525
00:45:14,220 --> 00:45:21,620
I don't know directly what effect this will have, but I could see where there may be subsequent

526
00:45:21,620 --> 00:45:31,120
subsequent issues with how we deal with our own property after this has been done.

527
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:35,000
I'm not suggesting that I disagree with it in any way.

528
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:40,240
Only that I'd really like to know how it's going to affect the rest of us along there.

529
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,480
And I think that might even play into the question of whether or not there's going

530
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:49,240
to be further improvements along 1690.

531
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:55,100
We, you know, you hear all kinds of rumors out there in the community about one-way streets

532
00:45:55,100 --> 00:46:00,420
and curb and gutter and sidewalks and all those other kinds of improvements, and we have

533
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:07,820
things in our yard that go right up to the, or somewhere in there that might come into

534
00:46:07,820 --> 00:46:08,960
question on this.

535
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:14,140
So I would at least ask that you all take that into account in dealing with this

536
00:46:14,140 --> 00:46:18,820
send that there's be some opportunity along the way to get those questions

537
00:46:18,820 --> 00:46:23,440
answered. Thank you. Thanks for being here. Alright, I'm going to close the public

538
00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:28,460
hearing and bring it back to the council. Can we just make note as to the

539
00:46:28,460 --> 00:46:33,240
staff that when the project actually does come to the council that the staff

540
00:46:33,240 --> 00:46:40,540
kind of addresses the impact and sidewalk improvement options or not

541
00:46:40,540 --> 00:46:46,320
or costs and just when that because this is just the vacation of this right of

542
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:52,140
way so that's just a future really great comment I think to see how it's gonna

543
00:46:52,140 --> 00:47:01,500
affect that street so the project all right so with that do I have a motion I

544
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:08,240
move that we approve ordinance 2026-15 second all right it was moved by

545
00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:12,920
Council Member Austin second my Council Member Wilding roll call vote please

546
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:19,840
Council Member Astin yes Council Member Wilding yes Council Member Smith yes

547
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:24,860
Council Member Lord yes Council Member Austin yes motion passed okay great I'm

548
00:47:24,860 --> 00:47:29,380
going to turn it over to the RDA chair for our RDA redevelopment agency

549
00:47:29,380 --> 00:47:38,420
meeting welcome to our RDA board meeting let's have a roll call please

550
00:47:38,420 --> 00:47:47,080
Chair Lord. Yes. Board Member Austin. Yes. Board Member Aston. Yes. Board Member Wilding. Yes.

551
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:52,440
Board Member Hall. Yeah. Board Member Smith. Yes. All in attendance.

552
00:47:54,640 --> 00:47:56,900
Okay, we have an item

553
00:47:58,180 --> 00:48:06,680
RDA Resolution 2026-42 that staff presenter Stephanie Thayer is going to discuss with us.

554
00:48:06,680 --> 00:48:14,160
Yes. Thank you, RDA Chair and Board members. So there is an existing participation agreement

555
00:48:14,160 --> 00:48:23,620
with Plentiful Way Title Holder, LLC, and this agenda item is to request to assign that

556
00:48:23,620 --> 00:48:30,740
agreement to another entity which is named Independence Apartments Venture, LLC. It would

557
00:48:30,740 --> 00:48:37,920
simply be to assign that to that new entity and term 5.1 of the agreement

558
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:44,300
does authorize assignment to another entity with RDA consent. There are no

559
00:48:44,300 --> 00:48:48,820
other changes to the underlying agreement. All rights and obligations will

560
00:48:48,820 --> 00:48:53,320
remain under the agreement and the new party would be bound by those same

561
00:48:53,320 --> 00:49:01,500
rights and obligations. Our understanding is that it's mostly the same group with

562
00:49:01,500 --> 00:49:08,680
some key people, but they are forming this new LLC. This is a standard in that

563
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:13,460
industry where they might bring in some additional investors or party other

564
00:49:13,460 --> 00:49:18,700
parties. They can decide who to bring in as well as they may or may not choose

565
00:49:18,700 --> 00:49:25,860
to have a property management company. However, no matter who owns it, the existing agreement

566
00:49:25,860 --> 00:49:32,000
assigns the same duties and obligations, so they're still bound by all of that. So as

567
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:39,040
far as from the city standpoint, all of that remains intact. There were no concerns from

568
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:46,240
the RDA legal council on this and it's recommended the board approve the resolution consenting

569
00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:52,100
to the assignment. And I'm not sure if this is one of the parties here representing, if

570
00:49:52,100 --> 00:49:57,740
there's any questions specific that they could help answer to clarify anything, we could

571
00:49:57,740 --> 00:50:01,620
welcome them up as well. Would you like to come up?

572
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:07,480
Would you like to come up, please? You look familiar. I think you've been here before

573
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:07,840
a couple of times.

574
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:13,800
Yes, I've been here. Yes. Thanks for having me. Thanks for explaining that.

575
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:22,780
remind us your name my name is Ray Bryson and as companies do we change

576
00:50:22,780 --> 00:50:29,620
names here and there the the name of my company in the management company that

577
00:50:29,620 --> 00:50:33,720
that ran and oversaw the property in the development of the property was was

578
00:50:33,720 --> 00:50:38,500
Dakota Pacific at that time we've since changed our name to Six Ridge

579
00:50:38,500 --> 00:50:45,240
partners, all the same people, all the same players. So it's similar to what we're doing

580
00:50:45,240 --> 00:50:55,460
here is a name change. So Plentiful Way Title Holders was a combination of several key investment

581
00:50:55,460 --> 00:51:02,200
individuals in our funds and portfolios that came together to purchase this property.

582
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:09,260
equity, and those individuals are rolling their ownership interest into this new entity.

583
00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:16,460
So we've gone out to the market after we got approval the last time and site plan approval

584
00:51:16,460 --> 00:51:18,200
from the Planning Commission.

585
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:25,100
We proceeded with construction drawings and went out to the market to get equity partnership

586
00:51:25,100 --> 00:51:26,320
funding.

587
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:38,980
So, Principal, who is a national insurance investor, has agreed to partner with us in

588
00:51:38,980 --> 00:51:42,060
our capital stack to deliver this project to the market.

589
00:51:43,340 --> 00:51:51,380
We are waiting on this vote to confirm that the RDA funds are available for this project

590
00:51:51,380 --> 00:52:00,780
to finalize our partnership agreements and sign the contract and hopefully break ground

591
00:52:00,780 --> 00:52:02,220
Monday of next week.

592
00:52:02,820 --> 00:52:10,470
So this is a great point for us to be in the project lifecycle.

593
00:52:11,470 --> 00:52:12,370
Any questions?

594
00:52:13,570 --> 00:52:19,450
I have a couple of questions just for interest.

595
00:52:19,450 --> 00:52:26,690
I know when you were here before, the goal was to start last fall or early this year.

596
00:52:27,530 --> 00:52:31,550
Was that interest rates, funding, kind of what delayed that?

597
00:52:32,660 --> 00:52:37,470
It's mostly related to the capitalization and equity partnership.

598
00:52:38,330 --> 00:52:46,070
We spread a net pretty far and wide, and we feel extremely fortunate to have found

599
00:52:46,070 --> 00:52:53,470
a partner-like principle. They, you know, as part of their business plan, are

600
00:52:53,470 --> 00:52:58,990
intending to be a long-term owner of this property, which aligns with some

601
00:52:58,990 --> 00:53:04,730
of the goals that we had previously presented to the Council, and they

602
00:53:04,730 --> 00:53:10,270
are continuing to invest not only in our market, but across the country. We

603
00:53:10,270 --> 00:53:15,770
have seen a significant amount of pullback from national developers and

604
00:53:15,770 --> 00:53:23,850
national investors in our market who are not finding opportunities to island or develop

605
00:53:23,850 --> 00:53:24,610
projects.

606
00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:34,510
We are one of a handful of developers who are moving projects forward this year, and

607
00:53:34,510 --> 00:53:41,630
we're seeing the effects of that throughout the market, trickling down to even subcontractors

608
00:53:41,630 --> 00:53:41,970
who,

609
00:53:44,550 --> 00:53:51,250
you know, many of whom are closing doors because there isn't work available for them.

610
00:53:51,510 --> 00:53:58,310
So this is one of many, and it took some significant effort to get to where we are, and that represents

611
00:53:59,090 --> 00:54:02,270
most of the delay in getting to this point today.

612
00:54:03,210 --> 00:54:07,570
Are you still planning on managing the property, your organization?

613
00:54:08,070 --> 00:54:08,630
Yeah, absolutely.

614
00:54:08,630 --> 00:54:18,450
So the partnership is comprised of 20% of our, you know, six rich partners entities and

615
00:54:18,450 --> 00:54:21,630
80% of principal capital.

616
00:54:22,310 --> 00:54:30,190
In that organization, we are the six rich partners entity is identified as the development

617
00:54:30,190 --> 00:54:30,910
manager.

618
00:54:30,910 --> 00:54:38,870
and so we will act as manager for construction, manager for leasing and

619
00:54:38,870 --> 00:54:46,250
operations as the property goes forward. So you've got a builder lined up? Yeah

620
00:54:46,250 --> 00:54:51,890
fortunately it's the same builder that we had back when we spoke before. The

621
00:54:51,890 --> 00:54:59,150
pricing has been pretty flat over the last you know eight to twelve months.

622
00:54:59,150 --> 00:55:02,110
Yeah, that was my question. I was wondering if I could...

623
00:55:02,110 --> 00:55:08,950
Yeah, so costs have remained the same. We've been able to, within $27,000 of the original

624
00:55:08,950 --> 00:55:12,670
contract, hold pretty close to what that original budget was.

625
00:55:12,950 --> 00:55:13,110
Okay.

626
00:55:15,230 --> 00:55:16,270
Those are positives, then.

627
00:55:16,590 --> 00:55:18,110
Yes, yeah. All very positive.

628
00:55:18,330 --> 00:55:19,890
I have a question for staff.

629
00:55:22,730 --> 00:55:25,650
With the RDA money, did we put a timeline on it? They

630
00:55:25,650 --> 00:55:33,410
needed to be started by the con the agreement is a 12 month they have to

631
00:55:33,410 --> 00:55:38,830
start by so November 12th of this year so they have some time they do is is there

632
00:55:38,830 --> 00:55:44,650
any changes to this we could turn we could invoke termination if they don't

633
00:55:44,650 --> 00:55:48,230
start I think we don't have to but right that is one of the triggers

634
00:55:48,230 --> 00:55:53,910
potentially and so if they meet that November we can't invoke termination

635
00:55:53,910 --> 00:56:01,170
for changing ownership or anything like that right is there any changes to this

636
00:56:01,170 --> 00:56:06,010
project whatsoever besides the ownership nope still the 217 units that were

637
00:56:06,010 --> 00:56:09,850
approved facades are the same unit council the same park installs are the

638
00:56:09,850 --> 00:56:13,230
same it's it's the same project and

639
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:21,140
the other okay is there any public

640
00:56:21,140 --> 00:56:27,300
comment on this I don't think so not with the RDA okay you have any questions

641
00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:27,780
Questions for us?

642
00:56:28,060 --> 00:56:28,440
I don't.

643
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:29,980
Thank you for your time.

644
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:30,300
Thank you for coming.

645
00:56:30,780 --> 00:56:30,880
Yeah.

646
00:56:31,080 --> 00:56:32,520
When I say come in, I went, oh, good.

647
00:56:32,880 --> 00:56:32,960
Yeah.

648
00:56:34,140 --> 00:56:35,040
Appreciate you being here.

649
00:56:35,300 --> 00:56:35,540
Thank you.

650
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:35,700
Of course.

651
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:36,200
Thank you.

652
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:39,200
Okay.

653
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:42,820
Then we will close our discussion on that.

654
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:44,120
Do I have a motion to approve?

655
00:56:44,880 --> 00:56:45,800
I have a motion to approve.

656
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:46,160
Oh, good.

657
00:56:46,340 --> 00:56:46,540
No.

658
00:56:46,800 --> 00:56:47,680
I do it plenty of times.

659
00:56:47,860 --> 00:56:48,100
Go ahead.

660
00:56:48,180 --> 00:56:52,280
I have a motion that we approve RDA resolution 226-42.

661
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:53,500
I'll second.

662
00:56:55,300 --> 00:56:55,660
Okay.

663
00:56:55,660 --> 00:57:07,700
a motion by Council Member Smith, a second by, or not Council Member, Board Member Smith,

664
00:57:08,100 --> 00:57:14,080
and a second by Board Member Hall. Let's have a roll call vote on this, please.

665
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:16,780
Board Member Wilding. Yes.

666
00:57:17,060 --> 00:57:18,200
Board Member Hall. Yes.

667
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:19,540
Board Member Smith. Yes.

668
00:57:19,740 --> 00:57:21,580
Board Member, Chair Lard. Yes.

669
00:57:21,580 --> 00:57:29,300
board member Austin yes board member Austin yes motion passed okay do I have

670
00:57:29,300 --> 00:57:38,020
a motion to adjourn the RDA I move we adjourn second all in favor all right we

671
00:57:38,020 --> 00:57:42,400
are adjourned from the RDA we'll turn the time back over to Mayor Hall for

672
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:48,740
left out city great thank you all right we are to the staff report section

673
00:57:48,740 --> 00:57:56,660
portion of our meeting. I just want to mention before our administrative services director

674
00:57:56,660 --> 00:58:06,400
reports for us today that Old West Week, I think, was so well done and commend all of

675
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:13,720
our staff and volunteers and sponsors for all of their hard work and really heard great

676
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:20,760
things about the three nights of fireworks on the west side and the one

677
00:58:20,760 --> 00:58:25,180
night of fireworks on the east side and everybody felt like they had an

678
00:58:25,180 --> 00:58:32,780
opportunity to see fireworks despite the drought and so really appreciate all the

679
00:58:32,780 --> 00:58:40,300
work that went into it and I think we attended every day and thank you so much

680
00:58:40,300 --> 00:58:41,580
So, Old West days.

681
00:58:41,980 --> 00:58:43,460
I'll make a real quick comment on that.

682
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:50,380
It was almost completely over and I was walking out and talked to a few people and a couple

683
00:58:50,380 --> 00:58:55,340
of people had come from like South Salt Lake and they said we come every year because this

684
00:58:55,340 --> 00:58:56,460
is one of the best ones.

685
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:58,420
And I just thought.

686
00:58:58,620 --> 00:59:02,340
Council Member Lord, you were playing in those booths talking to the teenagers and

687
00:59:02,340 --> 00:59:02,740
the kids.

688
00:59:03,060 --> 00:59:03,080
Oh, I had.

689
00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:03,420
Absolutely.

690
00:59:03,580 --> 00:59:05,520
Yeah, everyone said who's the fun guy?

691
00:59:05,860 --> 00:59:06,040
Oh.

692
00:59:06,360 --> 00:59:06,520
Yeah.

693
00:59:06,860 --> 00:59:07,840
Council Member Lord.

694
00:59:07,840 --> 00:59:11,480
So we attract them even from without the city.

695
00:59:11,780 --> 00:59:12,840
Wow, thank you.

696
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:14,800
Yeah, any other thoughts on Old Westays?

697
00:59:15,780 --> 00:59:17,040
Okay, thank you.

698
00:59:17,420 --> 00:59:19,020
Just a few calendaring items.

699
00:59:19,820 --> 00:59:22,160
It is Get to the River this month,

700
00:59:22,380 --> 00:59:25,740
and we are focusing on the Jordan River.

701
00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:30,860
There is a Walk with the Mayor along the Jordan River on September 8th.

702
00:59:30,860 --> 00:59:32,740
It can be Walk with the Council as well,

703
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:34,160
if anyone would like to join.

704
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:38,820
and then for our service project this year tomorrow we are there will be a

705
00:59:38,820 --> 00:59:43,440
press conference with the Jordan River Commission we are as mayors

706
00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:50,280
gathering to talk about storm drain systems and how we can better clean our

707
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:54,160
gutters and our storm drains so that things are not going into our water

708
00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:57,960
system that will be our day of service for Bluffdales to clean our local

709
00:59:57,960 --> 00:59:59,760
storm drain out and our gutters.

710
01:00:00,530 --> 01:00:07,130
And then our constitution reading. I'm sorry, that's September 11th. You can clean all day.

711
01:00:08,510 --> 01:00:15,190
However you want to work that. And the walk is on the 8th. September 8th is the walk.

712
01:00:15,890 --> 01:00:25,750
September 11th is the day of service. And then our last food truck Tuesday is on September 15th.

713
01:00:25,750 --> 01:00:33,650
And we will have our festival, our get to the river festival on the 15th for our day of service.

714
01:00:34,870 --> 01:00:37,190
I mean our get to the river.

715
01:00:37,890 --> 01:00:40,990
Also that day on the 15th is our constitution reading.

716
01:00:41,450 --> 01:00:45,570
So if anybody would like to participate just let me know in that.

717
01:00:45,910 --> 01:00:51,690
And then we'll have our staff reports and then we can talk some more about some other issues I want to bring up.

718
01:00:51,690 --> 01:00:55,090
So, okay, Stephanie, let's have staff reports.

719
01:00:56,150 --> 01:01:06,310
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.

720
01:01:06,450 --> 01:01:10,790
I know we sold more wristbands than we did the year before. So that's awesome.

721
01:01:11,590 --> 01:01:18,370
In the fire department, just wanted to report that we have filled that full-time position of

722
01:01:18,370 --> 01:01:27,770
operations fire chief that was budgeted within the parameters of the budget. Stephen Johnson,

723
01:01:28,210 --> 01:01:34,570
he'll be starting mid-September. He comes with 20 years of experience and a vast knowledge of

724
01:01:34,570 --> 01:01:34,990
Bluff Dell.

725
01:01:37,250 --> 01:01:42,570
Let's see. He will be full time Monday through Friday and I hear there will

726
01:01:42,570 --> 01:01:48,930
be a future pinning ceremony that will be done. And if chief wants me to come up and cover

727
01:01:48,930 --> 01:01:52,870
anything else, or did I do okay? Okay. Thank you for having me. Yes.

728
01:02:00,600 --> 01:02:06,120
Pancake breakfast at the fire station. We're all the public. And we'd like you guys

729
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:11,760
all to be there if you can. On September 12th we're going to have a pancake breakfast. We'd

730
01:02:11,760 --> 01:02:16,520
like you all to be there. It's going to be at station 92. It's going to be from 8 to 10.

731
01:02:17,160 --> 01:02:23,580
And most people will be there. Some won't. And anyway, it's going to be a fun thing.

732
01:02:23,700 --> 01:02:30,320
It's free. So we're just going to be serving pancakes and milk and juice. So I feel like

733
01:02:30,320 --> 01:02:34,380
that'll be a good opportunity to mingle with the public and they can hang out with

734
01:02:34,380 --> 01:02:42,060
us in the fire trucks. Okay thanks. Thanks chief. Also the parks building

735
01:02:42,060 --> 01:02:49,920
addition is on schedule to be done within the next four weeks. Okay and also

736
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:54,200
coming up we have the Labor Day holiday that the city offices is closed on

737
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:59,400
Monday September 7th and then if you have a couple minutes we'd like to show

738
01:02:59,400 --> 01:03:08,300
some footage of the railroad underpass project, some drone footage just so you

739
01:03:08,300 --> 01:03:14,100
can see how that's coming along. So Michael's got a short video here and after

740
01:03:14,100 --> 01:03:16,840
that, that's all we had for staff reports.

741
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:27,100
Hey there council. Good to see you. I've been a while. I was grateful. We had a good visit a few

742
01:03:27,100 --> 01:03:33,520
few weeks ago a few council members came out came over and you probably noticed it

743
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:42,160
things things are moving very rapidly and and I don't feel familiar with the

744
01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:52,240
engineering department we have a YouTube site so you can go at your leisure

745
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:56,220
you know when you when you're at home and you're falling asleep and just

746
01:03:56,220 --> 01:04:00,200
Oh, let me see what those guys are doing.

747
01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:11,160
Our faithful Kevin Thompson, he's an amazing flyer with a drone.

748
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:22,420
He's been doing an awesome job and so I rely on him and so he covers or has many hats

749
01:04:22,420 --> 01:04:29,000
and just like many other people here at the city. So if you have questions while

750
01:04:29,000 --> 01:04:40,080
while this video goes forward just tell me, stop me. If you notice on the right

751
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:51,420
side they're basically using the UTA property for for doing a lot of work

752
01:04:51,420 --> 01:04:58,400
for our project. Processing the material, basically they screen the material that

753
01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:03,380
they has been excavated on the east side of the tracks. They take it there, they

754
01:05:03,380 --> 01:05:09,780
process it, clean it, and then put it back on. So it's a savings for the city.

755
01:05:13,190 --> 01:05:20,350
We are getting very close to place Kirbin Gatter on this portion

756
01:05:20,350 --> 01:05:28,810
and also on this side. So once we place curbing gutter, we'll start working on asphalt. We're

757
01:05:28,810 --> 01:05:40,200
thinking that they will work on the intersection of Springview Farm in the next couple of weeks,

758
01:05:40,420 --> 01:05:48,540
replacing asphalt and redoing that intersection. You can see here that we have finally been

759
01:05:48,540 --> 01:05:59,160
in begging and pushing the contractor to place a pipe, a bore pipe, under the railroad tracks.

760
01:05:59,860 --> 01:06:06,900
They finally did it, so that now we have positive drainage from the east side, taking all the

761
01:06:06,900 --> 01:06:11,000
groundwater down to our storm water system finally.

762
01:06:11,820 --> 01:06:22,410
Anyway, so you can see they're placing storm-grain boxes and inlets so that we can continue on

763
01:06:22,410 --> 01:06:23,310
with this work.

764
01:06:26,190 --> 01:06:30,590
Mayor will tell you the thorn in my side right now is Salt Lake City.

765
01:06:30,850 --> 01:06:33,090
Salt Lake City owns this canal.

766
01:06:35,170 --> 01:06:39,270
Have been such a wonderful partner.

767
01:06:39,270 --> 01:06:45,430
right now as you can see that the box will come in this direction so basically

768
01:06:45,430 --> 01:06:51,030
we need to remove a portion of this retaining wall and so to remove a portion

769
01:06:51,030 --> 01:06:56,930
of this retaining wall we we are planning to shore up the rest of the wall

770
01:06:56,930 --> 01:07:05,130
right here so the contractor requested permission to enter the canal to do all

771
01:07:05,130 --> 01:07:10,510
this work and they were denied actually what they were told is that the city

772
01:07:10,510 --> 01:07:17,310
needs to build a box culvert all the way to to the end of the other culvert it

773
01:07:17,310 --> 01:07:26,450
just yeah council member asked and yes yeah so I I met with him a couple of

774
01:07:26,450 --> 01:07:33,870
times I said we don't have any money and we don't we just are I'm stressed

775
01:07:33,870 --> 01:07:40,190
about that just that anyway tomorrow we'll have a meeting and we'll let you know next time what

776
01:07:41,090 --> 01:07:49,510
Mayor has been awesome at her leadership has been helping tremendously she connected with

777
01:07:49,510 --> 01:08:00,890
some council members and in Salt Lake City to let them know how terrible this is so

778
01:08:00,890 --> 01:08:03,070
Don't you have any connections with Guido?

779
01:08:05,330 --> 01:08:07,770
Get rid of their legs, right?

780
01:08:08,690 --> 01:08:10,090
Just Guido, yes.

781
01:08:10,850 --> 01:08:11,110
Yeah,

782
01:08:15,700 --> 01:08:16,360
very frustrating.

783
01:08:17,100 --> 01:08:21,120
So you can see also, right, this was filmed today.

784
01:08:22,520 --> 01:08:27,300
And we are preparing also this site for curbing gutters.

785
01:08:27,560 --> 01:08:31,380
So in the next couple of days, we'll start to see curbing gutter

786
01:08:31,380 --> 01:08:39,660
and they want to pave this justice section by no later than mid-October so

787
01:08:39,660 --> 01:08:48,620
that we will be able to put traffic into 2000 West and so there will be much

788
01:08:48,620 --> 01:08:54,980
smoother traffic movement but with that this project is so dynamic it's nuts

789
01:08:54,980 --> 01:08:59,100
because there's so many utilities, unknown utilities every time we dig

790
01:08:59,100 --> 01:09:04,060
somewhere we find something else and then we have to fix it and then and then

791
01:09:04,060 --> 01:09:12,860
contractors are like we're gonna pay more money more money so anyway but we

792
01:09:12,860 --> 01:09:19,020
haven't asked so far with the contractor has been they have worked with the city

793
01:09:19,020 --> 01:09:23,900
very well they we have been able to communicate very well work together as

794
01:09:23,900 --> 01:09:28,540
as a team instead of we have a partnership,

795
01:09:28,880 --> 01:09:30,120
relationship more than anything.

796
01:09:30,440 --> 01:09:33,700
Hopefully that relationship will continue to go on.

797
01:09:35,080 --> 01:09:38,660
You can tell that the amount of work

798
01:09:38,660 --> 01:09:42,840
that has been going on and been done is amazing.

799
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:49,100
Just on the east side, the road reconstruction,

800
01:09:49,580 --> 01:09:50,660
but not just that.

801
01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:52,480
I mean, if you can see here,

802
01:09:52,480 --> 01:10:02,140
I mean right now they're building these are basically the ramps where they will the boxes will slide

803
01:10:02,800 --> 01:10:08,800
and so Friday night they will complete the poor for this other portion right here

804
01:10:09,820 --> 01:10:16,100
and and then they will start building the actual boxes on top of this this ramp actually they

805
01:10:16,100 --> 01:10:25,900
will put a neoprene layer and then it will be a sleeping mechanism. So they've had so

806
01:10:25,900 --> 01:10:34,180
far two, they've been putting plinths or piles within the railroad. Hopefully I don't want

807
01:10:34,180 --> 01:10:36,440
to take too much time because I want to win that prize.

808
01:10:41,900 --> 01:10:44,480
Shoot. I'm shooting myself on

809
01:10:44,480 --> 01:10:44,880
the foot.

810
01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:52,440
These walls took a long time. You can tell the

811
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:58,180
rising tower there and it took a long time, but we're there.

812
01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:04,140
And one more minute and we'll be done. And if you have

813
01:11:04,140 --> 01:11:09,920
questions, you can always send me emails and text. This is

814
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:13,560
the major thrust wall. Basically, everything will push

815
01:11:13,560 --> 01:11:22,760
against these hydraulic presses will press against this thrust block and they'll use the earth

816
01:11:22,760 --> 01:11:31,860
basically to resist the forces that will push the boxes forward. Union Pacific has been so far

817
01:11:31,860 --> 01:11:39,900
cooperating with us and working with us which is amazing but they're interested in this project

818
01:11:39,900 --> 01:11:50,200
and so we have a lot of visitors from UDOT but also national visitors that

819
01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:55,880
they're interested and we'll get more and more attention as the project

820
01:11:55,880 --> 01:12:00,820
will continue to move forward.

821
01:12:03,300 --> 01:12:07,880
The Sintuwe project also, we're starting to plan a

822
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:15,220
grand opening in October so I hope you bring your your your family we're gonna

823
01:12:15,220 --> 01:12:20,820
have a celebration for because we're gonna have a crossing there and so we're

824
01:12:20,820 --> 01:12:28,640
excited about that so anyway this is it if you again if you have any questions

825
01:12:28,640 --> 01:12:34,340
I'm gonna leave you alone now I need to win this at least one time thank you

826
01:12:39,410 --> 01:12:46,410
Great. Anything else? Okay. Great. And then just if the council could let me know if they're

827
01:12:46,410 --> 01:12:51,910
going to be attending the league conference so we can do registration. Do we have any

828
01:12:51,910 --> 01:12:53,270
other discussion from the council?

829
01:12:56,300 --> 01:12:58,680
I have another. No, I'm just kidding. I motion to

830
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:03,200
adjourn if that's okay. Second. Okay. It was moved by council member Smith. Second

831
01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:12,840
to my council member. Aston, all in favor, we're adjourned at 7.13. 7, it's 7.15.

832
01:13:16,470 --> 01:13:16,850
Oh,

833
01:13:17,210 --> 01:13:20,610
okay, perfect. Thank you so much, everyone.