Okay. It's sorry, I apologize to everyone. It's a laughter 7 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 7 o'clock, but we'll call this meeting to order.
But everyone, please rise, join me for a pledge of allegiance, followed by a moment of silence.
It's always a chance, one nation, under our individual with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you.
Okay, we have a full forum tonight. No recognition or announcements to make, so we'll move on to your consent calendar.
Now, if I'll ask anyone from Council, if they want to pull anything from consent calendar
tonight.
If not, I would look for a motion to approve the consent calendar.
So moved.
Motion made by Council Member Ryder, do I have a second?
Seconded by Council Vice President SWET.
It's been moved.
Seconded.
All those in favor of approving the consent calendar has presented, signify by saying aye, aye.
Aye?
Any opposed?
Same sign?
Motion carries.
Okay, next we have our public comment period and this is where we would invite anyone from the public to come forward limiting your time to two minutes and discuss any matters that aren't on our conduct of business.
Do we have any takers tonight?
Mr. Hopkins, please.
Oh, if you came to the podium and just introduced yourself and
Mr. Mayor, Members of Council, thank you.
My name is Luke Hopkins.
I'm just here to express my support for the post-cotey temple.
And to thank everyone publicly, thank everyone who's worked on this project.
It's been a lot. It's been a lot of personal time on folks and a lot of time away from family
figuring things out and going to meetings.
So I just want to express thanks to everyone and to all who will continue to work on it.
I'm sure the temple has been a big subject.
I was talking to someone I don't know from the UK about it today.
They had heard about it.
So, again, just appreciate everyone and appreciate the approval of it from the PNZ board.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Hopkin.
Any other public comment?
Oh, ma'am, he beat it to the punch,
but go ahead and just if you would introduce yourself, please.
Hello, my name is Noma Walton. I live on Skyline Drive in Medellaine.
So I'm in that spot where if someone is going to go to the temple, they're going to drive by my house no matter what.
I've been going to temples for 34 years, and I'm very in favor of this temple and very excited about it.
To me it's one of the most exciting things that have the potential to happen in the 26 years I've lived in Cody.
I know that if I had not been around temples so often, and if I hadn't driven the streets around them and been on the grounds so often,
that I might share some of the concerns that some of the neighbors have, but I've been around
temple so much and all I can do is give you my word as so many others have and promise
you that they are quiet and they are peaceful. One really neat thing about the temple property
is it will have one owner and it will be pristine and it will stay in good repair. We don't have to
wonder if there will be a bunch of owners, homes turning over, if somebody won't take care of
their lawn. In fact, since the Salt Lake temple was dedicated in 1893, there hasn't been an
LDS temple that has fallen into disrepair or where the property hasn't been taken care
of. Another thing I'd like to express is I think one thing we can all agree on here is
this has been quite a summer. And Cody is going to be okay. Cody is a good place. We don't
each other out, we can disagree, and we can still be friends.
I know after the last board meeting,
I was out of the building, one of the last people out of the building, and I saw someone
drive up who was disappointed that they had to meet the building. It had had to miss the meeting,
and their viewpoint was very different from mine on the outcome of the meeting, but we are able to have a
I know the last, I think it was about the third planning and zoning meeting that was here in this room.
There were four people at the door waiting for it to get unlocked.
Who I knew were in opposition to the temple and I'm in favor of it.
And I thought, well, I'm going to go stand by the door.
And I went and stood by people with very different views on it.
And we had a great conversation about how happy we were that summer.
finally came to Cody and one gal asked me if I said dog person or a cat person and we had a good discussion about cats and dogs.
We can still be friends, we can still be neighbors. Cody is going to be okay and I really hope Cody is going to be okay with a beautiful temple.
Thank you.
Thank you, Miss Walton.
Sir?
Hello, Mr. Mayor Council.
My name is Levi Halptama resident here in Cody.
I too just want to express my appreciation to everyone who's been involved in the decisions around
the temple upon Skyland Drive.
We're appreciative of how the board, the tining and zoning board is behaved, it's going
to a good job of trying to ensure that it's a fair and balanced understanding and make
decisions that are according to rules and regulations laws that we have, and I'm appreciative
of that.
I'm appreciative of your consideration for the permitting process that's been going on as
well as the site plan and the cup as well.
I thank you for your time and as well as those that support you from different positions
within the city and the board that's of volunteers. I appreciate that. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Help. Any other public comments?
Yeah, Mr. Jacobson.
And if you would read our news yourself too,
sir.
Mayor and members of the Council, my name is Andy Jacobson. I grew up in Cody.
This has been home for me since I was two and a half years old I believe.
graduated high school here. I'm here in a somewhat official capacity, and I'm the president
of the Cody Wyoming State, so I represent all the members of the church for Cody Burlington,
Otto Powell, Matizzi, about 3,500 members of the church, roughly. I wanted to also express
our gratitude. I recognize this has been a challenging process for our community.
I felt
mad about how challenging that's been. I hope that there's a way forward where we can
mend those fences. My grandparents homesteaded here after World War II. That's how I grew
neighbors, help neighbors. That's what we do. And I hope we can continue that process.
I am excited for a temple to be in Cody. I'm grateful to those who have participated
in that process even though it's been difficult. And I thank you for your time.
Thank you, Mr. Jacobson. Any other comments from the public? Mr. Pony?
Pauli. Pauli, sorry.
My name is Andre Pauli. I'm the fourth generation
Park County native, Cody native. My family's never paid taxes. Most of them
never paid taxes anywhere, but this county for their whole lives since
About 1914,
my concern is of a local governmental nature.
If we, as a majority,
can't dictate what happens in this tiny little town and this tiny
little county in this country,
what, what chance do we have of having any kind of good
representation at the state level or at the national level, it seems like it just gets
harder and harder to be a good American.
My rent rate up 20% last month, which city bills going up, my gas bills going up,
we're
going to be responsible for more stuff.
If we can't control what happens in this little tiny town as a majority and protect
the minority in the process, I don't think we have much chance of keeping it together.
We might as well be divorced as a nation.
Thank you, Mr. Polling.
Any other comments from the public?
Any other one more?
Oh, couple more.
And again, if you could just make sure to introduce yourself and speak to the Council, appreciate it.
My name is Brooke Grant.
Thank you, Mayor and Councilman.
I just want to express my appreciation as well.
I know that it's been really hard for the people that are on the PNZ board, taking time away from their families, researching,
doing all the things that they need to to try to make the best decision.
And so I really appreciate them doing that because I realized that that is a volunteer position.
I am in favor of the temple and I know for me personally I gain a lot of peace from going to the temple.
And the temple also is for our youth and that is the place where they get to go and fill peace and get away from all the distractions that they have from their everyday lives.
And having that temple here in Cody would give them that, it's hard to get to buildings especially when they're busy, you know, athletes and students and clubs and stuff and so just having that here would mean a lot for the youth, which I think they could definitely benefit from as well as from us.
And I like Nomah would like to just give my word that it is a beautiful peaceful place, that it's not disturbing, like it's not loud, it is very beautiful, peaceful, and I feel like everybody could go and enjoy walking around them and enjoying the beautiful view that you can't enjoy otherwise with unless it is a public place.
And so, to me, the temple would be a place of peace and serenity and rejuvenation, and I just
appreciate all the work, and I am so grateful, I've lived here 18 years and I grew up in
level which is majority LDS, and I loved growing up there, but I loved coming here and seeing
all the different denominations. There's so many here. He drive around and there's churches all over
the place, and I have loved being a very active member of the community and getting to know
people of different denominations and becoming great friends with them and trying to help my fellow
neighbor, you know, the best that I can. And so I just have felt so included here in Cody and I
have felt like all of the denominations have always been so good at, you know, pulling together.
I put on a community-wide event and people from all over come together for one good cause and
and it just amazes me every year.
And so I just hope that we can keep that sense of inclusion
and welcome everybody here and just help everyone
to fill that love of our community that I think is so great here.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ms. Grant.
Sir?
My name is Jimmy Edwards and I'm a counselor
of President Jacobson for the church here locally.
We're speaking on not on behalf of the church,
but on behalf of the local people here.
And I can tell you that from before we came in,
one of the things that we enjoyed was,
we know there's people from opposition,
but we were able to converse and talk,
and we spent a good amount of time talking
before the meeting and talking about things.
And I can tell you as a presidency,
when in our conversations, in our meetings,
our question that frequently comes up
is how do we heal our community?
How do we, what can we do to work with our community,
to help heal some of those some of the wounds of the divide that's happened and we are very anxious
now that the planning is owning me and has made their decision we look forward to the signing
of the permits that the temple can get get underway but also so that we can start progressing
on some of the healing relationships that have been damaged and we believe that we can do that
just as today was just a microcosm of what can happen on a greater scale of our community. We look forward
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Edwards. Any other comments from the public.
Hello, my name is Amy
Danzy. Thank you.
Thank you, Mayor, and council. I appreciate. I just wanted to thank everybody for all the time that they put into helping get the temple here. And I, we understand that it's been, it's been tough. And we just, my family, we're just our grateful for the opportunity to have a temple here. And we appreciate everyone's efforts and all the time and energy that they've taken from their families to do that. So thank you.
Thank you, Mrs. Danzi.
My name is Carla Engelhoff.
A lot of you know my name.
You know my face.
I want to say that I'm in favor of the temple,
coming to to Cody.
And all of the hoopla, all of the division,
all of the hard feelings,
could be quashed in one simple choice.
And that is putting this building in a place where it's size
and its scale and its light requirements and its traffic needs are met and that would be near to a high capacity road somewhere in town.
There are lots of open spaces around here. This applicant knows how to choose a good site.
the contrast between the disc core that's been sewn in
Cody and the calm that has prevailed in Casper is all about
choosing a correct sight in a correct location for such a building.
And the Templin Casper fits into its environment.
It's next to a high capacity road.
It has easy access.
And there was no, and it fit the zoning requirements for the location that was chosen.
And Cody, the exact opposite, has been done.
This building could be built without any special anything,
if they had chosen a good, an appropriate zone for it.
And I wish that they would still do that.
I would also like to say that churches I believe and agree with those who said churches
houses of worship along in neighborhoods they do but how they get there and when they get there
is every bit as important as that they get there and it's it's a simple algebra problem
I know people don't like to talk math but that's my language and algebra is about the order of operations
you got to know that you multiplying divide before you add or subtract. That's the order
of operations. The order of operations for a church in a neighborhood is to build in that
commercial or business zone. And then the neighbors will, the houses will eventually grow
up around it. That's the story of many of our churches I would point to the Catholic Church.
physical church, the Baptist church, and most recently, Cody Bible Church was built in a
commercial zone when it was built. It's recently been re-zoned, residential because the
homes built up around it and it fits there. And so why can't we just do that? I wish that that's
what we would do. The neighbors are not against having a temple. I'm not against it. I want
This denomination to have their temple, they can be just as peaceful and just as serene and just as beautiful in an appropriate location.
They don't have to get that beauty by stealing it from the neighbors who live there already.
Thank you.
Thank you Mrs. Agaloff.
Any other comments from the public?
Yeah, the comments from the public.
Okay.
My name is Heat Streeter.
I just want to thank all of those who have worked on this project,
especially the planning and zoning board.
I've served on the planning and zoning board before,
and I know that a lot of those decisions are hard decisions
and this one was much harder than any I've ever had to deal with.
I
was born and raised in Cody.
Graduated from Cody High School, I now live in Powell, getting to Billings to go to the
Temple as a struggle for me. And having this temple close here will be a blessing to me
and my family. I am thankful for that.
Many of the people who are in the opposition have
customers and friends of mine. Many of them I have, well, some of them I have come to consider
good friends of mine. We certainly talk and I appreciate them and I appreciate their position,
but I mostly wanted to thank the planning and zoning board and anybody else who has worked on this
for their time and effort. Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Strader.
You know the comments from the public?
Oh, Chairman.
My name is Josh George. I'm a dentist here in Cody.
I was born in the Cody hospital raised here.
My dental practice is on Stampede Avenue right down the road to the Skyline Drive.
And I have tons of great patients on both sides of the issue.
I think I talk about it every day with a lot of them.
You know, it's my opinion that this temple will be another gem of Cody.
Just like the Buffaloville Historical Center,
just like our good schools, like the rodeo.
There's so many awesome things in Cody that I love.
So reason I wanted to come home.
Raise my family here, it's just such a great opportunity, for not only me, but my family,
for my children.
I have a lot of relatives that are really excited about this and really hopeful.
Another point I would like to make is when they first announced where they were going to build this sample,
I was a little bit shocked, like many of us, but as I thought about it more and more, I think
it's actually the perfect place.
It is a very quiet, great location, really, for example.
If you've gone to other temples, they're just like that.
And really,
I thought and thought, and I thought, you know, that really is the best place.
I can't think of a better spot for it.
Anyways, that's my humble opinion, but I'll leave it with you.
Thank you for all your service, you guys.
Thank you, Dr. George.
Any other public comment?
Grant, come out out.
Good evening, everybody.
Mayor, the council, we appreciate your time tonight.
And everybody, I think two things I want to share
is number one, I'm probably different.
Mr. LeBarbara?
Oh, I'm sorry, Grant LeBarbara.
I live in Cody, forgive me, Mayor Grant LeBarbara, I live here in Cody.
I think what makes me different than everybody else is I've lived all over the country.
I've lived 10, 15 different locations in my life.
So I can't say I was raised here, because I was born here, I was born in Dallas, Texas.
And every location I've lived, where a temple is present, it's in the exact same location.
It's in a residential quiet neighborhood and that is on purpose because of what happens in the temple.
The peace that exists in the temple, the peace that exists around the temple.
And I mean from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, it's next door to a beautiful neighborhood.
And the neighbors have learned and accepted to love it. It's beautiful and it's beautiful around them.
Hartford, Connecticut, Orlando, Florida, Dallas, Texas, Los Angeles, California, they're all in peaceful residential neighborhoods.
And that's because of the great peaceful neighbors that exist and live around it.
I just want to share one quick thing, and I know my time will be up, and it's a quote from a leader within the Church of Jesus Christ,
that is saying, and it says that each temple is symbolic of our faith in God and in evidence
of our faith in life after death.
The temple is the object of every activity, every lesson, every progressive step in the church.
All of our efforts in proclaiming the gospel, perfecting the saints and redeeming the
dead lead to the holy temple.
President Hinkley, who is a leader within the church who has since passed, shared that
These unique and wonderful buildings in the ordinances administered therein represent the ultimate
in our worship.
These ordinances become the most profound expressions of our theology.
Ordnances of the temple are absolutely crucial.
We cannot return to God's glory without them.
When that is our faith, that's what we firmly believe, and we are hopeful and prayerful
that everyone will soften their hearts to what will be a quiet, peaceful, beautiful temple that will
only bless the entire community of Cody. And I know that to be true. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. LeBarbara. Any other comments from the public?
Any other comments from the public?
Yes sir.
I'll be quick so you can move on to other business tonight. My name is David Winters.
business that owns property here in Cody, and I don't think it's ever been publicly said from
from members of the church, probably privately, but I wanted to say thank you not only to all of you
in the P&Z board, but also those who are opposed to the temple for the manner which they talk about it.
We heard tonight, but they're not necessarily opposed to the temple, maybe just the location, and we appreciate that.
There are things that are directed towards our religion, and which don't really have a place in public comment.
But we do appreciate those who oppose the temple and do it in a correct way in a nice way.
So we want to make sure that everyone in the public knows that we appreciate those and no hard feelings towards those who oppose the temple.
I like many others, do agree that it will bring peace, it will bring beauty to this city.
And, and again, thank you for all your time.
Thank you, Mr. Winters.
Any other public comments? Any other comments from the public?
Okay.
I do very much appreciate everyone coming in and participating in our public comment period that is a record for me.
Seeing that many people coming in for public comment, so it is most appreciated.
And also I do appreciate your your candor at the podium and for addressing the council directly. That's also appreciated
So as I move on as Mr. Winters pointed out, we do have an agenda to get back to so I
Have no public hearings tonight, so now we will move on to our regular conduct of business and
Resolution at 2023-15. This is a resolution amending the city of Cody final budget for fiscal year 20
23 through 2024 and our staff reference is financial office fiscal financial officer Leslie
Brownidge Leslie he's walk us through this budget amendment good evening Mayor and council
the resolution before you this evening is for a budget amendment to carry over some
unexpected funds from the FY23 fiscal year and supplemental appropriations for the FY24 fiscal year
The FY23 carryovers amount to $1.147,890 in consists of capital outlay, maintenance and repairs, materials and supplies, non-capital equipment and improvements, operating grants and purchase services.
These carryovers are the result of outstanding incumbent obligations at the end of the fiscal year.
Unexpended capital outlay grant project funds and backquartered purchases.
The supplemental appropriations that are being requested include revenue in the amount of 2,500 and 6,355 dollars.
This includes the remaining balance on the 2022 Department of Justice Ballistic Best Grant in the amount of $612.
$5,743 in newly awarded grant revenue from the Wyoming Arts Council and the Wyoming Cultural Trust Fund for the Concerts in the Park Program.
And 2.5 million in newly awarded grant revenue from the state lands and investment boards for the Tree Streets Water Lane Project.
Supplemental appropriation expenses include $5,261,561,614 comprised of capital outlay of $5,131,665.
This includes the acceptance of the grant package from slip for the true streets waterline project in the amount of $5 million.
and increase cost of bit awards for updating the new bucket truck and the increase cost for the recycling center pick up in the amount.
And of $16,980. The increase costs to complete the purchase of the police department, mobile data terminals, and the amount of $97,585, the original project cost of $801,2001,830 is budgeted out of the American Rescue Plan Fund, and staff recommends that the increase cost be paid for out of the technology replacement fund.
There's also a new contract that will be coming to you within the next couple of months
with point architects for the construction administration phase of the Mintark Park
Restaurant Project in the amount of $17,100.
We have personnel requests of $120,083.
This includes a reclassification of a water operator position from part-time to full-time
a reclassification of a water operator position to a wastewater operator position. These
amount to $40,149. The addition of administrative operation specialist position with an expected
start date in September in the amount of $76,697. A new temporary opiate committee administrator position
requested by the mayor, this position has an hourly rate of $25.
We expect 10 weeks with a maximum of 12 hours per week in the amount of $3,237.
We have materials and supplies for $2,800, which is the computer printer and scanner
for the new administrative operation specialist position.
We have the use of the awarded grant funds for the concerts in the park program in the
amount of $5,743, and purchase services in the amount of $1,323, which is the increase cost
to add the P&Z board members to the city's Google Workspace account.
The impact to the city-wide FY24 budgeted cash and investments balance is a net decrease
of $4,203,149.
The water fund shows the largest decrease due to the tree street's waterline project.
The city's match is 2.5 million on a $5 million project and although the city's full
match amount will not be expended completely in FY24, the project is budgeted in its entirety
for in-comprehence purposes.
As a result, you'll see that the number of months in reserve and the water fund currently
reflects 8.9 months of operating expenses, which is less than the minimum 12 months required.
What we anticipate is that we will have a carryover in multiple years for the completion
of this project.
I would be happy to answer any questions that the Council might have.
Thank you.
Thank you, Leslie.
Kudos for a thorough presentation.
As usual, I'd look for questions or comments from Council on this item.
I'm
sorry about the chair.
Sorry.
All right.
Here are seeing no questions or comments from Council.
I would look for a motion to approve this resolution.
Motion made by Council Member Fritz.
Do I have a second?
Second.
Second by Council.
Council Member Tamblin.
It's been moved in seconded.
All those in favor of approving resolution 2023-15.
Please signify by saying aye.
All right, I'm going to pose the same sign.
Motion carries.
Again, thank you, Leslie.
Thank you.
Next item, resolution 2023-14, a resolution to approve and adopt the Big Horn Avenue Accord
or Study Final Report.
And to walk us through that is our Public Works Director, Philip Bowman.
Good evening, Eric.
Excuse me, in City Council, this resolution is for the approval and adoption of our big
hard avenue corridor study and the final report that was produced.
Over past 12 to 18 months, the Cody Urban Systems and Traffic Committee has served as the
steering committee for this report.
We had multiple meetings between selected traffic consultant on the project, which was
stand-tack, and those meetings included members of the committee from WIDOT, from Park County
Government, from Park County School District Number 6, and General Public Caponeys, as well
as City staff, through the course of public outreach efforts that included an online survey,
In person open houses and web-based open houses, we formulated and finalized this report with a number of recommendations that are highlighted in the executive summary that was included with the agenda packet and this action will formally approve and adopt the report to be used by city staff such as myself and our community development director.
as we review future land development applications along the corridor and apply the recommendations
found in the final report to those land development and site plan applications for improvements
along the corridor. In addition, studies give us a very strong basis to pursue grant funding
and as I've shared with you before we are currently the city has applied
for a tap grant funding from wide out in the amount of $1 million with additional city
match for one of the priority projects that were recommended by a study for a pedestrian
improved pedestrian crossing at the intersection of big corn avenue and freedom street.
And so I think that summarizes and gives an overview of how we've moved forward through
the process.
So, if there are any questions, I'd be open to answer them.
Thank you, Phillip.
Questions, comments from Council on this item?
Okay.
So I would look for a motion to approve this resolution.
So moved.
Motion made by Council of Vice President Sweat.
I'll second.
Seconded by Council Member Tamlin.
It's been moved in second.
All those in favor of approving resolution.
in 2023-14 please signify by saying aye aye aye aye aye any opposed same sign
meeting carries okay thank you Philip onward to ordinance 2023-08 for its third and final
reading as amended city an ordinance amending title for chapter four article one and article three
of the city of Cody municipal code Philip thank you mayor this ordinance does primarily
address our solid waste and recycling utility service fees.
As we developed the 2024 fiscal year budget and conducted our budget work sessions with city staff and the city council in May.
We had proposed staff had proposed a number of utility service rating creases across the different enterprise funds.
This is one of the first ones that we are proposing to an act and take effect on September 1st of this year.
In addition to those rating increases of approximately 3% across all areas of the utility service, the solid waste and recycling utility service.
We've also made a couple staff, has made a couple proposed modifications to ordinance language.
One deals with the disposal of bulk livestock manure within our city provided receptacles, such as stumpsters or rollout containers.
And the second deals with the placement of rollout containers.
we do give some instructions in our code and make that an ordnance-based document so that if there are residents who do not place their
receptacle appropriately, they can be cited for code violation in the most extreme cases.
But those were the additional modifications made to the code in addition to the overall utility rating increase of 3%.
I would note to the Council that in the first and second reading of this ordinance, I had made a
type of graphical area for the areas of the recycling fee and the bulk item removal fee.
I had inadvertently switched those numbers and cited the recycling fee as $1.55 per month on residential accounts.
That amount is actually $1.40 per month, and then the same was true for the bulk item removal
fee.
I had cited the wrong value and that has not been corrected, so those two minor edits were
the last revisions made, and no other revisions were made since the second reading of the
ordinance.
I would also share with the council that I have received one phone call, or since second
meeting, a customer had called and asked about the, both the solid waste and recycling
rate increase and the waste water rate increase.
They received notice on our utility bills that were sent out on their cycle and so I
did answer that.
Residents question and was able to explain some of the basis for the proposed fee increases
and rate increases. So that was the only comment that I personally have received since the second
reading. Would that be open to any questions? Thank you, Philip. No comments on the maneuver
adding to the amount there? No, sir. I have not received any comments related to the interesting
about the area we live in, right? I would like to have council for any questions or comments.
Council Member Shrieve. I'd just like thanks Cindy for putting that stuff on the bill. We had us this in the request. It does right increases. We put on the power bills and thank you for taking care of that.
Any other questions or comments from Council.
Okay.
Okay. So I would look for a motion to approve this ordinance on its third and final reading as amended.
So moved.
Second aid by Council Member Shrieve. Seconded by Council Member Raider and moved in seconded.
All those in favor of approving ordinance 2023-08 for its third and final reading as amended please signify by saying aye.
Aye aye. All those opposed same sign.
Motion carries.
Okay next ordinance 2023-09 for its third and final reading.
An ordinance amending title eight chapter three article one of the city of Cody municipal code.
Hello.
Thank you, Mayor.
Again, this ordinance is primarily being used tonight for setting up the wastewater or sanitary
sewer utility service rates within the city.
The increase is approximately 3% with some minor differences due to rounding, being slightly
higher than 3% in some cases.
In addition, we've made two changes in the ordinance, one is related to some service charges
that were duplicated and referenced in other sections of codes.
So we've removed that item from the code.
There was a wording error that I had made during the first reading that was addressed
with second reading.
I was related to the monthly charge for customers outside of the city limits and the correct charge is now stated in the ordinance and then the final modification was some clarification in the ordinance about the responsibility of sanitary sewer service maintenance ownership and repair it's been the city's policy for a very long time that we do not maintain or serve or repair
sewer services, once they leave the actual sanitary sewer main, the city is responsible for the
maintenance upgrade and repair of the sewer main and the property owner being served as
responsible for the sewer service, the entire length of that sewer service. So we did formalize
that with some additional language and definition in the code. No, there are modifications or changes
have been made since the second reading, and as I explained earlier, I did receive one comment,
one phone call related to our utility rating creases. Without it be open for any questions.
Again, thank you, fellow, many questions or comments from Council. Going once, okay, in that case,
I'd look for a motion to approve this ordinance on third and final reading. Motion made by
council president quick do I have a second second by council vice president sweat
spend moved in second is all those in favor of approving ordinance twenty twenty three
dash zero nine for its third and final reading the signify by saying aye aye aye
any opposed
which carries thank you mayor thank you fill up next ordinance twenty twenty three dash ten for its second reading
This is an ordinance of Mendine. Title 1, Chapter 6 section, 1-6-2 of the City of Cody
Code Awards. There have been no changes on second reading. Nor have I gotten any comments.
Thank you, Cindy. I want to give just a quick little. We have quite a crowd here. It would
be I think worth it to try and like explain a little bit on what basically the difference
right now between our words or anywhere from 5% to 7% different.
In the population with this last census, the county did look at our words and provided us with a suggestion of realigning those words with the realignment that we are looking at.
All the words will be less than 1% different in population. So a little more evenly represented by the different council members in each word.
As it stands right now, Ward 1 has quite a bit more than Ward 2 and 3.
Okay.
Any other questions or comments from Council?
Okay.
I look for a motion to approve this ordinance on its second reading.
So motion made by Council Member Fritz.
Do I have a second?
Second.
Second by Council Member Raider.
It's been moved in second.
All those in favor of approving ordinance 2023-10 for its second reading.
signify by saying aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Nice and carries.
OK.
Final ordinance for tonight, ordinance 2023-11 for its first reading.
An ordinance amending title late chapter one article three of the city of Cody municipal code.
Fill up.
Go ahead.
Thank you, Mayor.
This ordinance focuses exclusively on our electric enterprise fund and our electrical service
rates within the city. As, again, I explained in the previous discussions, this city staff
did develop rate increase proposals during our budget work sessions with Council. This
specific fund was initially recommended for a 4% rate increase in FY24 based on discussions
and input from Council that was revised and approved with the final FY24 budget at a 3%
rate increase and so this ordinance formally puts that 3% rate increase in place.
Some of the items that we are dealing with that have added cost to our operations and maintenance
of the electric enterprise fund do include higher labor costs based on the C's approved budget
with merit and adjustment to scale increases, hire electrical equipment costs, many of our
materials that the electric crew uses have gone up substantially in cost over the last two
to three years, sometimes doubling or tripling. And then in addition, our wholesale energy rates
that we paid to our power provider, our municipal Wyoming municipal power agency, which is a co-op,
are going up slightly, I want but did put in place a new billing structure that began in July of this year.
So we have just processed our first bill based on that billing structure.
It does involve a component, what's called coincidental and non coincidental peak loading.
And that's the amount of load that the city has a whole draws off of the transmission system.
They anticipated cost increase with that new billing structure is between one and two percent for our wholesale electric costs
So that's an added cost that we will likely see throughout this fiscal year
If approved this evening, it is planned to this ordinance is planned to be presented for second reading on September 5th and for third reading on September 19th
and upon final approval and third reading, the new rates will take effect.
October for our proposed to take effect on October 1st of this year.
Again, thank you, Philip, and any questions or comments from Council on this item.
Okay, hearing your seeing none, I'd look for a motion to approve this ordinance on its first reading.
It's so much.
Motion made by Council Member Tamland. Do I have a second?
Second.
Everyone's gotten shy all of a sudden.
I'll go seconded by a council member writer.
It's been moved and seconded.
All those in favor of approving ordinance 2023-11 on its first reading.
Please signify by saying aye.
Aye.
Any opposed?
Mention carries.
Thank you, Phillip.
All right, council, we have one table item.
That's consideration.
Bar and girl license to local hospitality LLC located 1124-133 for the license period
70, 731, 24, contingent upon receipt, a valid food service permit from the Department of Ag.
I would look to see if anyone from council would like to remove said item from the table tonight.
Mayor, I move to remove from the bill.
No, he's...
Sorry.
I've never mind out of me.
I've received my vote.
So, we've asked the gentleman, he's unavailable to get here, and so I think by leaving it on the table that actually will die, and then when the applicant comes back into the community of the town, and wants to re-approach us with this, and we'll be available to do it at said time, but given the fact he's not here, I think we're going to leave it on the table, and we will go away before the next meeting.
So, seeing that there's no appetite to remove this from the table will move on, and this
would be other matters from staff.
Mayor Council, in the budget to amendment tonight, you approved the salary for the administrative
operation specialists.
Staff has completed that job description for the position that we will begin advertising for.
The four main categories of this person will be responsible for will be grant administration.
General administration functions, claims functions, and contract management.
These are areas that need to be consolidated under one person for follow-up and authority.
They're spread out with several different departments right now.
So this will help efficiency operations for grants, claims, and contracts.
So you have any questions?
Please let me know.
But if we have completed that job description, we'll be moving forward with that.
Also, I think I provided to you at the workshop last week.
The updated sheet spreadsheet on the ARPA funding.
Out of the 14 projects that we identified over a year ago,
we only have like four left to finish.
The biggest one being MoBadad terminals for the Police Department right now we're finishing up the ship ceiling in the city of Cody, so we're
We're all ahead of any requirements made by the federal government, so how the 14 projects we only got four left, so we'll be for a very good.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mayor.
Scott?
Cindy.
I just want to remind the public that we're getting down to the last two concerts in the park.
this Thursday and next Thursday, next Thursday the 24th will be having our annual ice cream
social as well. I think we are planning somewhere between 5 and 700 so show up at 530
will be serving for about an hour and hopefully we'll get through all of them but hope to see
everybody there. Thank you Cindy. I'll plan on being there to help serve.
Lieutenant Weed,
Rick, Philip, I don't know what you're going to say, but could you touch
on the outage situation and maybe what we're kind of doing, what's happening with that
substation briefly?
Sure, so we are continuing to work on our Glendale substation with our partner who owns
substation, western area power agency, a federal agency, we do have confirmation that the
existing substation has reached the end of its useful life and through testing and monitoring
will not be re-energized or provide service so WAPA had previously brought in a mobile substation
that's mounted on a semi-trailer, truck trailer,
and is now in place.
And we have two of the three circuits that are normally
fat out of Glendale, loaded and fed off
of that mobile substation.
In addition, we've done a number of distribution
modifications within our electric system
to lessen the load on that mobile substation
on those two circuits, and actually
transferred some load to other substations at the city owns.
So we are working through that.
We do have a meeting scheduled and approximately a week and a half
with WAP staff to continue discussions about what some options
might be for the city to either acquire the existing
Glendale substation or put it under a long-term lease
so that we would then own and control that
we would design and upgrade and replace the components that have reached the end of their service
life and render the current substation unusable. So that's kind of a big picture update.
For most recent power outage, we did have, I believe, a week ago, last Tuesday evening,
that power outage was, unfortunately, on one of those circuits, that out of Glendale,
and has been a circuit that has been an area that's experienced very frequent power outages this year.
That outage was caused by a lightning arrester in our system.
Those are specifically designed and placed to eliminate the potential or minimize potential
for damage to higher price components.
We've had a number of lightning strikes this year.
We believe that that lightning arrester, that particular one was put under stress from a previous lightning strike,
did not fall out or fail at that time of the strike, but then stayed in service and eventually
basically burned out as it continued being service with that stress in place.
So our crew was able to address that outage within a couple hours, but again, it was unfortunately in the area
of town that's been experiencing a lot of outages.
Another thing that we've also come to realize
the areas that are experiencing all these frequent outages
are the same areas and they are the highest elevation areas in the town
so they're most susceptible to high winds
and lightning strikes being at that higher elevation.
So that's a factor in what we've been dealing with
with our inclement weather this year.
So, that maybe wasn't so brief mayor, but I did want to share that with you in the council in his public.
What I did want to also share is that we are finalizing and finishing up our Chipsil project this year.
There was a revised schedule published last Friday on the city's website and posted on Facebook.
So I would please ask everyone to look at that revised schedule. We're generally in the same areas that were scheduled for the early part of this week.
But the rest remainder of this week is primarily going back to areas that could not be done
due to rain in the first couple weeks of projects.
So there is a revision on both the city's website and through a Facebook post if folks want to see exactly when their area will be chip sealed.
But we plan to be wrapped up this Friday and have another successful year of our chip ceiling program.
Thank you for the updates, Phillip.
Okay, other matters from Councilmember Raider?
I'd like to just say thanks to all of you for so much.
That's a strong interest in our community.
I want to thank you all for being here tonight.
Councilmember Fritz.
And I'll echo what Leanne just said.
So thank you all for showing up.
I always appreciate it when you see a lot of people in the audience.
Because we know we've got something good going on.
Thank you all.
I'm just really sorry that I pushed the button the wrong direction and my chair went down
my apologize.
How to problem?
Council member Shrieve.
I do.
I want to thank everybody for coming.
I would appreciate your passions and concerns.
from the comments that I heard.
No, my question whether Cody's going to be okay.
The way my phone has blown up, the emails that I get,
there's a scar in this community right now.
I loved to hear that there's a desire to work to heal the community
and recognize that scar is there.
That makes my heart sing a little bit.
If you truly mean that,
I would recommend to you to reach out to those citizens that might be opposed to your project and talk about the tower height with them.
Do something to heal the community.
Council President Quick?
Okay.
I would like to thank everyone for coming out tonight and appreciate very much your thoughts and your concerns about our community because that's exactly how we feel.
In many cases, we don't want to see this do any more damage, maybe than it already has, and we'd like to do anything we can to help
move it forward.
Many of us have lived here for a very long time.
Surprisingly, when I think about it, lived here for I think 43 years, which is amazing to think about.
I'm only 48, so that seems like I haven't really been to many places in my life, but I do want to share with you that we are very concerned
with what's been happening with this process,
and again, thank you for joining us this evening.
So our next regular work session
will be next week, August 22nd at 5.30 p.m.
And our next regular council meeting
will be September 5th here at 7 p.m.
And with that tonight, ladies and gentlemen, we are adjourned.