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[3:14] thank you uh just want to make an
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article
[3:25] April what the don't want to forget that
25th
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[3:32] ass you sound good John we're on the
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[4:30] on
YouTube and uh this
[4:34] is the one of the um ramifications of
that one of the technical glitches
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[5:47] no okay Don would you come up here and
just state your name
[5:52] yeah donon E from City so just first of
all I'd like to commend the council uh
[6:00] we're starting with prayer a lot of
cities don't have that anymore and and
[6:05] I'm grateful that I live in a small town
where that's still means something and
[6:09] uh try to touch my work anyway I'm here
to kind of help resolve a problem I
[6:14] guess that I saw that I
created uh I don't know if all the
[6:18] council is familiar with with the well
water that was overflowing that you when
[6:23] you read drilled Rex Nelson's
uh well all
[6:30] overflow was just subbing out the corner
and into my well the property that I Le
[6:35] from Carrie goer and it was killing the
grass and stuff and so Lloyd and Mayor
[6:40] Scott come down and they decided to we
first of all was going to maybe do a
[6:44] ditch along the inside of car's property
which he gave us permission to do but
[6:47] then they figured out that there wasn't
enough
[6:50] flow uh to put it in the ditch and so
they decided to hi it they put a nice
[6:56] job junction box there and they did a
fantastic job and I told yeah you know
[7:01] thanks for all the work that the city
did and what he did but now uh I think
[7:07] everybody feels that they're entitled to
that free water and I can't even get up
[7:10] for six hours because somebody keeps
going and changing the junction box out
[7:16] I've closed mine off and lifters up and
I go back next morning and open it up
[7:20] it's closed off that night so anyway I
just here requesting the council figure
[7:26] out a way that we can all be fair and
utilize that water and just take turns
[7:33] you know whether you put stipulations
that you have to be a taxpayer and res
[7:38] well just probably a taxpayer maybe you
don't have to be resident but a taxpayer
[7:41] would be from City to be able to use
that water and then
[7:46] uh uh split it up into like maybe fourth
and then sell those fourth of the shares
[7:51] and so you have the whole stream for so
long the other guy has it for so long
[7:56] I'm I'm willing to help out any way I
can but it's starting to get spring and
[8:01] that water's it's going to turn into a
fight on who's going to use that water
[8:06] and so I just think it's something we
need to try to get addressed as soon as
[8:10] we can whether we get Jeff involved and
a council member just try to figure out
[8:16] to way it to make it feasible to use for
everybody to take turns a question for
[8:22] you how many people that the water goes
Downstream to could it possibly affect
[8:28] to have a little water that are that are
taxpayers of Ephraim uhuh I wouldn't
[8:34] know you've got a city employee that
works on the public uh works department
[8:38] that has land down there Craig
Goldberg's at the very bottom of it Carl
[8:43] Nielson has a little piece uh there's a
kid that bought that that one great big
[8:48] piece but he lives down there so he's
not paying any taxes or has any
[8:53] connection with eph from City and then
Steve fisnik I don't know if Steve
[8:57] fisnik sold his prop property or not so
there's only like maybe five or six
[9:04] along there and some of them might not
be willing to pay any money for it they
[9:08] might not want to pay to use the water
so so I don't know we'd have to go to
[9:12] the land owners that's where I guess
Brian him in he could probably pull up
[9:17] the out find out all the the property
owners there uh right now the majority
[9:23] of the water is coming into the flood
Channel and then instead of going
[9:28] straight down the flood Channel it's
going clear back North probably another
[9:32] half mile that somebody's using and so
it's just a off the battle and I I just
[9:40] I just want to be fair I just want
everybody else to be fair too and be
[9:44] able to use that water and as Ephraim
City grows and the more you pump there
[9:48] won't be any water come out of that you
know as we grow and that's useful
[9:53] tonight and it depends on the a prer you
know a dry year there might not be any
[9:58] overflow so anyway but nevertheless it
needs to be addressed so there's not
[10:02] somebody get
shot um Katie would you put this on our
[10:07] study agenda for next time and would you
come back next time because in two weeks
[10:14] yeah okay we're going to put it on the
study agenda so that we can talk about
[10:18] it and talk about a solution we'll have
Jeff here Jeff needs to be here for that
[10:23] and uh we'll try to get this Sol well
two weeks P you in the middle of March
[10:28] and the time to get something done it's
going to be the 1 of April and I'd hope
[10:32] that we could get a committee formed
that we
[10:35] could yeah come back proposal in two
weeks we may be able to solve it in two
[10:41] weeks
um and let's see if we can do that okay
[10:47] I mean the water isn't turned in till
the 15th of April and so that's see from
[10:52] City it's running now right I understand
yeah I so so I'm not going to be able to
[10:57] use it for two weeks so people unless
unless I go down there and sleep all
[11:01] night or drive my tractor over
[11:06] the
so like you've you've turned the water
[11:11] onto your property if I go down there in
the morning and turn into my property
[11:16] the next morning or even that night shut
off somebody else was in
[11:22] February some really nice days there
yeah yeah yeah and you know that's
[11:26] another stipulation that you say like
December 1st to February 1st or 25th of
[11:33] February it goes straight to the flood
CH you know because the ground's frozen
[11:38] it don't do much good anyway unless
somebody's using it to water
[11:42] livestock we've had this problem another
yeah places
[11:47] so so anyway I just like to use my
pasture at least once tce not going to
[11:53] be a lot of water this year well no but
the only water that pasture or that
[11:58] place I least gets is well it does when
the flood channel is high and and going
[12:03] it seeps up and and gets water
underground that way but but you know
[12:09] since you drilled the wh I mean that's
been a pretty good source of of water
[12:13] and I appreciated using water but it was
just starting to drown me out what will
[12:19] happen is in the next two weeks before
that study it gets put on the study
[12:24] agenda let's Lloyd and I Brian and Jeff
and you uh get together just call me
[12:32] anytime I'm available at any time is
that all right I'm available at any time
[12:36] and we can just put some proposals
together and then yeah where Lloyd and I
[12:40] have been involved in this for the last
year yeah um we probably are a little
[12:46] more aware of what's happening so okay
appreciate it thank you
[12:56] thanks moving on to presentation
S one a Snow College report events of
[13:03] technical education and Workforce
Development
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team are you doing
[13:11] this
okay presentation up so just want to
[13:16] refer you to the exuse me folder we
passed out it's got a lot of information
[13:20] in there uh the new book the spiralbound
book is really targeting our techn
[13:26] ucation programs once you get past the
first three pages so the thir page in is
[13:31] a list of allal programs and
certificates we offer a few those on
[13:35] Richfield campus but it qualifies in The
Matrix for the rubrics where the those
[13:42] locations are so it really is just here
and thank you as a community partner and
[13:47] a city for watching you to support sow
college and let you know what's
[13:50] happening on your sister city Richfield
who pretty much has the tech education
[13:55] side of the college so it really is we
look at for technal education and
[14:00] Workforce Development happy with those
skills for students that just want a
[14:05] skill of some kind so I'm not going to
referred all that material in in the
[14:09] packet for you in that folder you can
just look at that as you have time and
[14:14] feel free to ask questions we go through
we just have a few slides
[14:22] so do it from reme all right well
[14:31] technical it just comes right
yeah so this sheet is in this folder for
[14:36] you but it highlights the successes
we've had on both campuses combined as a
[14:41] college with a numbers of rural students
that are receiving concurrent enrollment
[14:46] you need to know that so colle just
furnish concurrent enrollment through
[14:49] rural Shing throughout Utah so there's
40 of those different schools or
[14:54] communities outside of most of the urban
area but most of the rural that are
[14:58] served by some called C uh other
percentages in those little round
[15:03] circles where you just to look at get a
feel for what the campus looks like and
[15:08] then
27% a new data point that President mck
[15:12] likes to highlight that indicates that
20% of the students that come to soke
[15:17] college and complete when they transfer
to a transfer uh institution on our
[15:23] regional colleges they graduate at a 27%
higher rate than those students that
[15:28] start
their academic path at that Regional
[15:32] University indicating that the
personalized experience the students get
[15:36] here at Snow College really gives them
the skills the confidence and the
[15:40] successes they can build on as they move
into that Junior Senior Year for their
[15:47] academic goals you have
so okay then we get to Richfield campus
[15:53] I need to talk about this one so uh if
you've been to Richfield lately we've
[15:58] just got a lot of exciting
um initiatives in place one that you see
[16:04] here we've grown with four athletic
teams so if you you haven't heard we
[16:09] have h two wrestling team men and women
and also cross country last year one of
[16:14] our ladies took National Title so they
kicked off with a really good start this
[16:19] week they just left today for their
Nationals so we have 20 uh young ladies
[16:24] that are wrestling this weekend for
Nationals and we have nine men which um
[16:29] for n qualify it is a big deal so that
we're our teams are doing well they're
[16:34] progressing right now our cross country
season's over but we've gone into track
[16:38] so they're still active and running all
over town uh that team will probably
[16:43] double by next year and so it's been
super exciting as part of that um some
[16:48] of the things that have held back the
Richfield campus for for everybody has
[16:52] been our lack of Housing and we've been
really working really hard on this and
[16:56] with some of the changes happened with
Co we just struggle with that but we
[17:00] were able to take two buildings um right
there next to campus which were part of
[17:04] the Willow Creek development and get 12
beds out of that so a lot of our
[17:09] athletes are out of town students are
able to have that we're super excited
[17:12] for that but it's still a top priority
for us to look towards um building on
[17:17] campus housing at our campus um
something really exciting a picture that
[17:21] you'll see there it's hard to see when
it's the small but we're looking at a
[17:24] new face uh to the southern front of the
wasburn building which has been that
[17:29] main education building at our Richfield
campus and so looking to elevate and
[17:34] have that be um a main entrance into
campus and build hopefully that housing
[17:39] across the street from that if you're
familiar down by those baseball fields
[17:43] so this is something exciting in the
works we've already been through most of
[17:46] our preliminary steps for getting that
approved we already have the money in
[17:51] place for that just these last
legislative um final day to get through
[17:56] and we'll be able to move forward
without we in July so that's super
[18:00] exciting for rich campas
thank so yeah that building is really
[18:05] kind of exciting thing for look forward
again it looks nice will you be able to
[18:09] get that front view from the freeway or
the see the freeway to the west of that
[18:15] that's part of our purpose that
impression to show that Richfield campus
[18:18] if you're there right now you can't even
tell you're at Snow College other than
[18:22] the sever Valley Center that new sign we
added when you come into that South
[18:26] there pretty busy it's just another
building
[18:29] uh in Tech education specifically we
have 21 programs uh we've seen a
[18:34] 14.8% increase just in student numbers
on our
[18:38] educ is some growth that's happening
there and and
[18:42] 39% increased enrollment in our technal
education so getting out to reach those
[18:47] students that really are looking for the
skills that will get them into a career
[18:53] path and that 39% increase also includes
some industry upgrades and trainings and
[18:58] partnership with industry for their
current employees that are looking for
[19:02] further skills so that's kind of a fun
thing we've got presence in jeap County
[19:07] with the Nei Learning Center a building
that's in partnership with the Central
[19:11] Valley Medical Center and then a Delta
Training Site a modular unit that the
[19:17] Villard school districts allowed us to
put in at their CTE Center uh to house
[19:21] some programs so we have presence in
these Outreach areas and then uh as we
[19:27] go on to other opport opportunities that
really blossomed out in the Nephi area
[19:31] we are planning to expand but in Nephi
we started this last fall in addition
[19:37] EMT and nurse assistant medical
assisting electrical
[19:41] apprentiship there on Nei out of the Nei
Learning Center this past ball along
[19:46] with with Delta an electrical
apprenticeship so people that are on
[19:50] that apprenticeship path come in after
their work day in the 10 class and
[19:55] they're prepared then by the time they
get all their hours accumulated and four
[19:58] years of education to test for their
Journey WIS and get that electrical
[20:03] certification also CDL was started in
our Delta site in Partnership really
[20:10] because of IND industry demand and the
Millard County Economic Development team
[20:15] agreed to scholarship any of their
Millard County residents would go into
[20:19] any of the programs so a full
scholarship of tuition and fees which
[20:23] really put us put the opportunity out
there for Baro way to look at CD so we
[20:29] just looked at numbers this morning we
uh by Friday this week we will have
[20:34] completed uh almost 12 students through
that CDL program and you can't do a
[20:39] whole classroom because they have spend
so much time
[20:42] driving is that a full class
there we take about four or five at a
[20:47] time and then they have to schedule time
to go in and do the driving right so but
[20:52] it rotates to so we anticipate if we can
do eight to nine a semester in two
[20:56] different blocks four or five per block
that's going to work about right there's
[21:01] a great need for that yeah so we're
hoping to expand that out even here to e
[21:06] on Richfield campus electrical
apprenticeship will be a pretty easy
[21:10] lift to expand here to Ephraim and even
to Richfield because we have space on
[21:13] our West Campus uh and the facilities
there to do that so we're anticipating
[21:19] rolling that out with electric ship year
one starting this fall here NE from and
[21:25] we'll start marketing that uh here
towards the end of the school year
[21:29] so fun
things and then apprenticeships uh
[21:35] really think about apprenticeships from
what we have learned with h kind of the
[21:39] Swedish model where high school students
actually get involved in doing an
[21:42] apprenticeship so we're rolling this out
with our Gunnison and Manti high schools
[21:49] in partnership with our composite
Industries in
[21:52] Gunnison so a junior this year will that
has interest will apply for a
[21:57] apprentiship position
they'll parents will go through an
[22:01] orientation they will tour the the ACT
Aerospace and they will submit an
[22:07] application be selected and they will
start in their senior year and on an AB
[22:11] day whatever day they don't have classes
they will go to work full time and
[22:15] they'll get their High
[22:19] School on that other day and by the time
they finish their senior year they will
[22:24] have earned a certificate in composits
and they'll be paid throughout the time
[22:28] about $15 an hours where they start as a
high school student when they complete
[22:31] their certificate it'll bump up from
there if they decide to go further and
[22:35] get their associate of science it's
another jump up and and our industry
[22:38] Partners have agreed to that tiered uh
incentive on the salary side to to do
[22:43] this apprentiship so we're excited about
that particularly here for our our South
[22:48] s school district or Manti high school
students to be involved in that and
[22:52] we're just starting out with the ACT
Aerospace but we talked to prodor uh uh
[22:58] the uh Christianson Arms ferce firearms
out of uh Salena so that whole group is
[23:05] is anxious to get involved but we just
starting with one is is coming all to
[23:10] work out the kyss and make sure it's
going to work for us and you look at
[23:14] that
Aerospace
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yeah one that's only
[23:23] one no this is a conversation that KY
and I had this morning about proposal oh
[23:30] than and just so you know the connection
we have high school students last year
[23:34] we recognized
133 High School pathway completers in a
[23:39] career techn education pathway from
their high school education with a $500
[23:45] scholarship into a technal education
program uh 527 students from our local
[23:51] high schools 13 really in our six County
area participated in some kind of a
[23:56] technal education day on campus got
their
[23:58] Hands-On welding equipment a little bit
of oil and grease in the auto but they
[24:04] went in did things and learned what
those kinds of careers would be in those
[24:08] certificate profram that was Richfield
campus right Richfield campus now here
[24:12] on from campus construction man
construction technology is here so same
[24:16] thing with construction technology down
down here on West Campus so and then
[24:21] many of our courses in our
SE tead programs are compy based we've
[24:26] moved over our full Advanced man
manufacturing or medical assisting Dey
[24:31] based which means that students do not
have to come sit in a class Monday
[24:34] Wednesday Friday for a certain number of
hours to get the credit they learn
[24:39] things online and they scheduled time to
come into the lab to pass off the skills
[24:44] the assessment it's based on confidency
not seat time and a year ago our
[24:49] valorian for the whole campus came off a
Richfield he completed three
[24:54] certificates because it was compy based
he could go through at his own pace and
[24:57] he was de dedicated he completed three
certificates welding Machining composits
[25:03] graduated for as in pre-engineering and
head the suu this this school year uh so
[25:10] we've had students that just had that
kind of Drive where this compy based
[25:13] education is allowed them just be really
efficient with their time it also gives
[25:17] preference to students that may come in
from an industry background they don't
[25:22] have to sit through and do and listen to
what they've already learned coming from
[25:27] previous experience so so that's that's
an exciting component to new or technal
[25:32] education question what's the general
feel as you go to the different schools
[25:37] within the six County areas I think
that's what was on the map what kind of
[25:42] feedback did you get as you sit with the
students on a one-on-one basis in their
[25:48] high schools and have a chance to talk
to tell me what what what you're
[25:53] seeing go ahead what well what we're
noticing and what our feedback is when
[25:58] we meet with our superintendents from
the school districts of the area um
[26:02] superintendent Douglas from seir had
shared we're missing 70% of their
[26:06] students that they don't feel their
College Bound they they don't know what
[26:11] they're doing they don't have plans
after their senior year that's a
[26:14] disturbing number to all of us um but
they're they're not to that step to even
[26:19] consider that or think that's their
future so that's where we've been
[26:23] working very hard these last three years
to come up with programming like these
[26:27] events to specifically pick out those
types of students to help them
[26:32] understand I think we still struggle in
our six County area helping our students
[26:37] even know what the potential is for
these teched programs and Industry and
[26:42] that's why a lot of these uh things
you'll see us advertise it will be with
[26:47] industry partners and and Jay will talk
about this more as we get into um some
[26:51] of the programming it's all about the
industry Partners so the parents the
[26:55] child can see this is a future this is a
career that can be in the future in our
[27:00] six County
area yeah for two two semesters maybe 30
[27:06] credits to come out with your peaceful
technology and and have job
[27:11] opportunities starting out in 50
60,000 a year and that's that's for two
[27:18] semesters 30 credits uh about I don't
remember the numbers in in that table
[27:22] about 23 $2,400 cost in tuition wow so
giving a $500 scholarship we're doing a
[27:30] $500 scholarship this year it's going to
be a
[27:32] th000 and so the students are actually
being identified for $1,200 a student
[27:38] can get a full-time job paying
$60,000 which again many of our students
[27:44] qualify for financial aid on top of
[27:48] that security right there no now I just
picked one out but that's the salary
[27:53] range in our six County area for Network
cyber security
[27:59] and that's the pr credit program about
$2,400 and so you'll see that in all of
[28:05] our program sheets in there and you'll
notice the the industry partner logos
[28:10] that are part of each of those pages
that just represents some of them we can
[28:14] put all them on there just because of
space
[28:19] thank all right and then the
snowmobile this is our snap on two truck
[28:26] that was been stripped and cleaned up
and put a wrap on and it's making visits
[28:29] to high schools to promote STEM Science
technology engineering and math
[28:35] entrepreneurship in rural areas and all
of our technical programs a lot of
[28:40] recruiting a lot of introduction even
down in the amount elementary schools
[28:43] about what these careers are they have
handson experiences so those students
[28:47] aren't just coming to and looking
they're doing something and in some of
[28:51] our smaller towns and communities with
Cony based education the plan is is to
[28:56] put a piece of equipment on this and
that can go into PUK County or over into
[28:59] Wayne County or into Eureka in tintic
and those students that are doing the
[29:04] compy based will have a chance to come
in when it's scheduled to be there to do
[29:07] their skill pass off on the piece of
equipment they're doing uh you know in
[29:11] automation technology and thematics or
Hydraulics so they don't always have to
[29:16] just drive to Richfield or here to epim
to do those skill assessments that's
[29:21] coming to them and our idea with all of
this is to meet people where they at in
[29:25] their life because not everybody can
work a schedule around a typical
[29:31] educational day of Monday Wednesday
Friday Tuesday Thursday for a certain
[29:34] number of
[29:37] hours and Industry Partnerships I can
skip right to the next one and it's slow
[29:44] okay this is the next initiative that's
been really exciting for us is Tech
[29:47] connect Tech connect is an opportunity
for any student that has received
[29:51] technical credits anytime in their life
to transfer those to Snow College and
[29:55] they will be converted into academic
credits towards the academic degree so
[30:00] you get a 30 credit certificate in
welding turn all those credits into your
[30:04] elective credits come get your general
education and just a few more classes
[30:07] that you may need as a prerequisite if
you're going into engineering and you
[30:11] don't have to wait and go through and
repeat all those elective classes best
[30:15] example we have is a young lady out of
Dixie Tech graduated last spring trying
[30:21] to transfer all of our technical credits
and digital design down to Utah Tech
[30:25] they said well we'll only take these few
classes you won't take any other she
[30:28] transferred to Snow College brought nine
credits in current enrollment with her
[30:32] stayed through got enrolled through the
summer stayed through the fall graduated
[30:36] in December and theoretically go back in
January and did go back UT and say I'm a
[30:40] junior not a freshman because of tech
connect because she had those technical
[30:45] credits that are academic credits so
that's what tech connect is so anybody
[30:50] in your communities that have interest
in pursuing something but don't have
[30:53] those academic credits it's a technical
skill and we can even give credit for
[30:58] prior learning assessments maybe come
out of the military with some train and
[31:02] experience so we just see still colleges
being right in the middle between the
[31:06] tech colleges on the left the academic
institutions on the right to be a
[31:10] pathway to help people whatever their
academic goals are in education whether
[31:15] it's te education into academic or just
get a skill and go to
[31:21] work okay Contin education and other
initiative we have going Kenley St runs
[31:26] this program and lots of custom cized
training throughout our communities for
[31:30] industry specific training uh Community
interests that we can provide through a
[31:34] continued education kind of a program
and all this information again is in
[31:38] your packet so you'll have reference to
it with QR codes to scan and then go to
[31:43] those pages or a phone number to make a
call with that thank you and any
[31:49] questions thank you I think this is one
are other schools on this same path or
[31:57] are you
point of the
[31:59] spear on te conect we kind of point of
the
[32:03] spear are are you ahead of the game on
giving to these students and and helping
[32:09] them we're in the pack we hope we can be
in front of it but again the challenge
[32:14] is for a high school student to
understand really what the opportunities
[32:18] are and to change the conversation that
comes from counselors and revisers about
[32:23] what tle education is that college
education isn't always an academic set
[32:27] of classes isn't a path but it can be
skills that can get you a good paying
[32:32] job even local good paying job with just
as little as a year of of school or
[32:38] maybe even a semester in in some of the
programs I know that um I've had
[32:45] conversations with IH representatives
and they're very interested in
[32:49] partnering with snow on the nursing
program an expansion so nursing and we
[32:55] are starting respiratory ther say think
you're doing that yeah I wish you could
[32:59] do the X-ray tech too yeah which is an
applied degree Margie will
[33:08] volunteer as a subject
[33:13] forray agree that get put hospital and
there'll be a teaching component with
[33:18] the equipment so surge Tech those kinds
of things which is very expensive again
[33:21] to be given equipment but they will
provide
[33:24] that yeah I think they that is
their
[33:30] Vision confirmed that with him several
times now and I know that president mck
[33:35] has had conversations with
them Carson also have but we have new
[33:43] Carson timy is his name timy
[33:51] timy well thank you thank thank you so
much
[34:02] all right uh thank you so much snow
college and appreciate J heid coming
[34:09] presenting to us item 1B Finance
presentation
[34:23] John just found $2 million is that what
you're going to say
[34:30] nice Al this is just finance
[34:34] office who we are and what we do I know
we know people in the office but maybe a
[34:39] little bit more about what we do so I've
got me and finance director manages the
[34:44] finance office we got three full-time
employees and we've got a third party
[34:49] consultant that we use and we also
actually have a snow college intern with
[34:54] usow college intern this this semester
so that's been good so we got auy she's
[35:01] our Treasurer she manages PTI transfers
depit investment report
[35:08] semiannually she reviews and signs DP
and payroll checks not not payroll
[35:14] checks but payroll transmittal
checks should work on PE card approvals
[35:19] so that's City credit cards that
employees
[35:23] have collections so any
utility collection that go out she's
[35:28] working on
those she assists with utilities monthly
[35:32] close out of utilities da
procedures and then we're g to get her
[35:37] purchasing as well so that's kind of
highlight of what she does have esal
[35:43] she's a utility clerk so she does all
things utilities if you have questions
[35:47] about utilities or you make a payment as
marala is going to be the one to help
[35:52] you with that she does all the billing
the just everything with utilities
[35:59] so um she's also the Utility Board
secretary so she's helping with that and
[36:06] a lot of times she helps with Spanish so
utility questions with a lot of the
[36:11] residents or even help with police or or
just other general questions that come
[36:16] in with any other Hispanic Community she
can help them so we're grateful that she
[36:20] is able to do
that and then we have Randy she's an
[36:24] accounting specialist she does accounts
payable
[36:28] payroll a lot of the online accounts
that the city has Amazon UPS or city
[36:34] fuel cards she manages a lot of Staff
she doesn't claim property so there's an
[36:39] AP check that has not been cashed and is
outstanding she's trying to find those
[36:44] people and we isue those checks we get
those cleared and not have to send those
[36:48] to the state it's kind of a pain
but uh it's better to take care of it
[36:53] now than have to send that to the state
so I part of the accounts payable with
[36:59] her that I just wanted to mention
briefly is warrant register and go
[37:02] through that process a little bit so you
know a little bit more of what we've
[37:06] done so in the past as you know we've
just done checks every time we have
[37:09] Council we changed that to doing our AP
checks weekly which has actually been
[37:15] very nice not have to worry
about late fees on any deadlines or
[37:21] anything or sending out special checks
it's been it's been good just do that
[37:24] Weekly but so throughout the week she'll
enter in invoices on Friday she'll close
[37:29] that out print the checks print off the
warrant register get that email to all
[37:34] of you so that you can review it over
the weekend and then we wait uh until
[37:39] Monday if there's no questions we'll get
those checks sent out in mail if you do
[37:45] have any questions about anything in
there please don't hesitate to call or
[37:49] stop in or anything we've got all the
invoices and any questions we don't want
[37:54] you guys feeling uncomfortable with
anything that we're sending out that you
[37:58] understand what we're
doing so and then we're good with that
[38:02] checks she'll take the check and compare
it to the invoice one last time just to
[38:07] make sure everything's good the amount
and address and everything and then
[38:11] we'll mail those out so I don't know if
you have any questions about warrant
[38:15] register I know it's been a couple
months that we've been doing it this way
[38:19] just sure everyone's good with
that any questions council
[38:25] members I think it's been moreing
okay we have council members who have
[38:30] called and asked questions it's work
really
[38:34] well okay and then we have Dave
Sanderson he's our third party CPA we
[38:39] have him to help with separation of
Duties in any areas that we need it he
[38:44] does a monthly close and monthly review
of financial statements he is also helps
[38:52] with the annual financial statement
preparation and then just Consulting him
[38:56] with any questions that I have so if
there's any questions that we have as a
[39:00] city that maybe I don't understand we
can get him on the line I've done
[39:05] several times I talk to him quite
frequently
[39:07] so we ever need him for anything I we
can talk to him and then our intern with
[39:13] the snow with Snow College her name's
Morgan we're having her help with Public
[39:18] Surplus type stuff a lot of it is
cleaning out this white shed back here
[39:21] we got several years of accumulation of
junk back in there you this hardly walk
[39:26] around
but she's gone through that we've thrown
[39:29] out a bunch of garbage we're getting
some stuff ready to do a public sale
[39:35] there's office furniture and bikes and
tools and all kinds of random stuff that
[39:40] we're looking to clear out and then
we'll start helping with public works
[39:43] and Power in their areas as well so
she's been doing a really good job with
[39:48] that um having her help with some Asset
Management doing some reconciliation on
[39:55] vehicles and all the other things just
make sure that we're getting everything
[39:58] taken care of and then for me I'm doing
the the daily and monthly bank
[40:04] reconciliation with bank activity so
every morning I'm checking bank activity
[40:09] for the prior day just to check and make
sure that everything's looking good no
[40:14] no weird checks or weird transactions or
anything trying to go through there I
[40:18] manage the city we use Cassel as our
enterprise resource software program I
[40:24] manage and maintain that
and budget there's several reports that
[40:30] I work on W2s 1099s the year end annual
Financial audit payroll C receiv Ro as
[40:40] well as I this other multiple things
that we do so so that's who we are and
[40:48] that's what we do know it's was pretty
quick if you have any questions for me
[40:52] on what we do or anything I'd be happy
TOS now or any
[40:58] John when you were coming up here I was
joking with you a little bit down $2
[41:02] million yeah your answer should have
been no but a million and a
[41:07] half because Brian just got a that's
true a
[41:11] grant for a million and a half dollars
last week so it's good
[41:18] yeah all
[41:22] right I just was talking to Candace
before the meeting but on the warrant
[41:26] Reg M when it comes to me it comes on my
phone or my tablet I don't have it on
[41:31] the computer but it's
facing the other way so I got it every
[41:36] time I turn it it turns I was wondering
if there was a way you could make it so
[41:41] go straight way um I don't know if
anybody else has in that trouble but you
[41:48] don't get the little thing that lets you
to no curve it on your on your tablet no
[41:53] I've tried to look for it maybe I can
bring it in we can look at it so the W
[41:59] register we have changed the format of
that probably two years ago it was
[42:03] portrait so like this
yeah I mean on my it's on my tablet and
[42:09] my phone every time you turn so it's
wide like
[42:16] this and when he turns his phone it goes
as well might be something on your
[42:22] device that we can fix too you want to
we look at your device all right as far
[42:26] as changing the for if I print it this
way then it's going to be skinny this
[42:30] way well I'll just bring it
in look at screen rotation or something
[42:37] but I'd look for that I can't find it
but that doesn't mean it's not there so
[42:41] okay all right thank you
y thank you moving on to item three
[42:46] consent items uh A and B uh looking for
motion to approve our consent
[42:52] items I'll make a motion that we approve
the consent items which are
[43:00] the city count well let's see that's all
you
[43:04] have items I'm so used to the minutes
and the Warr register motion by council
[43:11] member Anderson second by council member
nor all in favor thank you moving on to
[43:16] item three study agenda governing
documents for the public infrastructure
[43:20] District or PID and Mike Ballard is here
to do that presentation
[43:33] the priv to be here um we've had a
public hearing on this before we
[43:38] addressed a lot of good questions we had
the bo here as well as well as your
[43:43] representative ja from uh Z's Public
Finance we have on the phone today uh
[43:52] our attorneys uh who have submitted the
doc mentation your attorneys have
[43:58] reviewed it they're here to address any
questions your you or your C your
[44:04] Council may have um but we're we're
proposing to do this public
[44:10] infrastructure District to help with uh
building major arteries through our
[44:17] community and have council members do
you have any
[44:25] questions I have a a few questions
um and I think we've uh I think Brian
[44:33] Katie have mentioned this to you that we
would like to see and I know that isn't
[44:39] in these documents but we want to see uh
the buildout the complete buildout of
[44:44] 750 South as a priority in the final
documents that we'll approve hopefully
[44:51] maybe next time
um yeah yeah you know know I think what
[44:58] we had discussed is that's going to have
to be a development agreement that we do
[45:04] separately yeah yeah I understand that I
just want to bring it up that that's
[45:09] something that's important to us we can
show you kind of our priority list real
[45:13] fast
no but in in general terms
[45:21] uh if from being a small community we
can do we can't do everything we hope
[45:27] for when we kind of we showed you a map
last time of all the different roads
[45:31] that we can improve right and even from
Crossing
[45:34] so that Diagonal Road that goes east
west through our development when it
[45:39] crosses uh Highway 89 it's
750 but it kind of goes up and becomes
[45:46] 600 right and so we have in our plan
that's our number one priority is to uh
[45:54] do that in um
not to do that just past 400
[46:02] West you know just to complete that all
the way to 800 West would use kind of
[46:08] the entirety of the money that we get I
think we're I think we're talking about
[46:11] to 400 West yeah I think that was the
the the view that we have so uh in our
[46:19] discussions with in Mountain Health in
the last week as well as with your
[46:24] Council uh as you're aware
uh you do you've received you know we've
[46:30] received funding you've received funding
to do basically half of the road from
[46:36] Highway 89 to 400 West uh our plan is to
do uh a significant portion of that part
[46:45] of the way but
not not to do it all the way because we
[46:51] have other priorities like 400 West
going from 400 South to uh E from
[46:59] Crossing Parkway and and then also to do
a few other roads so our plan was it'll
[47:06] be a it'll fully functioning Road East
West past 400 West um with a lane each
[47:15] way in a center turn lane so three lanes
out 400 West is our plan yeah and five
[47:21] Lanes to do five Lanes from the
highway past the retail portion and the
[47:27] first
hotel uh that we have under contract to
[47:32] sell land to a hotel developer um so to
do at five Lanes pass there and then it
[47:39] Narrows to three and goes into the ud
infrastructure until we pass 400 we just
[47:45] want that to be a priority it's going to
be paved all the way past 400 West is
[47:51] our plan right now thank you and then we
also plan to do 400 West 200 West 100
[47:56] West West SE part of 700
South um in our plan as well on item
[48:04] five um item
five9 it says limited tax debt issuance
[48:12] limitation the district shall not issue
limited tax debt in excess of an
[48:17] aggregate amount of $25 million and then
it has in parentheses 15 million uh I
[48:23] think that's probably a typo it should
be 15 million uh throughout is that is
[48:29] that your understanding supposed to be
25 million through half
[48:33] 15
um based on the potential I have
[48:37] somebody who wants to speak to that uh
Mr Dy Yep this is Adam Dy with Gilmore
[48:44] Bell we're we're representing the
potential District here through the
[48:47] creation process and uh based on our
discussion with this city that limit
[48:51] should read $15 million that's correct
the uh we'll we'll update the wording so
[48:56] that it matches is the number there okay
so you'll also need to update it on
[49:01] B um
11b because in both of those both in the
[49:07] parentheses and in the written out it's
25 million and so it should be$ 15 milon
[49:13] on both on both items yeah there so
there's a separate reference to the $25
[49:19] million which uh refers to the engineers
estimated cost of improvements that's
[49:25] separate from our debt limitation I
don't know if that might is that what
[49:29] you're referring to
yes yeah so so the the preliminary
[49:35] engineering survey that's just that's an
estimate um from an engineer that the
[49:41] total costs of improvements to be
financed and acquired uh within the
[49:45] district is approximately $25 million
that would not allow the district to
[49:51] issue limited tax debt in an amount of
$25 million so so that figure is correct
[49:58] um but in the in the pr prior section
under limited tax debt that should read
[50:03] 15 million so we'll we'll update that on
our
[50:06] [Music]
end okay item number eight financial
[50:12] plan
8
[50:15] C D under minimum debt Levy
D it says that uh in addition unless
[50:24] otherwise read to in writing by the city
the authority of a district to impose
[50:28] the maximum debt male Levy shall expire
if such District does not issue debt
[50:34] within 8 years we would like to see that
at three
[50:37] years um we
we we don't want the project on the
[50:43] books for eight years is a long
time and so we we would like to see it
[50:50] as three
years um under e Adam do you have any
[50:58] comment related to
that this is Aaron Wade also with Gil
[51:02] Morell I can jump in on that um I think
we want to certainly be responsive to
[51:07] the feedback um that that we're getting
here I just wonder if three years is
[51:12] maybe a bit of a a short term I think
the the one piece I'd want to remind is
[51:17] that there is a request for two
districts here and and that request is
[51:22] to you know if if needed bifurcate the
bonds if we found that it was prudent to
[51:28] issue a portion this year and another
portion once you know the project is a
[51:33] little further along and so you know I I
I can understand the concern of the city
[51:39] but I would just ask that maybe a little
bit more you know that that more than
[51:43] three years be permitted just to give
some flexibility um you know on on the
[51:49] project just because I some you know
sometimes you see some there's a
[51:52] downturn or or something changes and
that can easily tack a you know attack a
[51:56] year onto a project the the other piece
that you know remains a bit to be seen
[52:02] is um this will be I think the you know
to date one of the more rural uh
[52:08] projects and so I think you know it it
remains to be seen um you know if
[52:14] investors want to see it a little
further along or some some of those
[52:17] kinds of things where they would buy the
bond so that's why I would ask for for a
[52:20] you know maybe doesn't have to be eight
years but you know a longer period of
[52:24] time than three years just to give some
more flexib ability to the districts to
[52:28] issue the debt in the the time frame
that you know makes sense both from a
[52:32] you know risk perspective for their
potential investors as well as makes
[52:37] sense from the the Project's perspective
and you know lines up with the
[52:41] construction
timeline we we would we don't want eight
[52:45] years that's that's just not acceptable
right but but we would consider one
[52:52] more not more than two more years after
that so one of the things as we've
[52:58] talked to the Ender writer the group the
organization that sells the bonds
[53:02] because this is one of the more rural
ones they've asked us to chop it into
[53:08] two right so our expectation is we're
going to do one do the roads to take
[53:13] care of the infrastructure needed in the
shortest amount of time you know
[53:17] anything that can start in the next two
or three years but when we received our
[53:20] Market study it basically said it'll
take till by the time we have finished
[53:27] deploying all the real estate and
different developers have purchased
[53:31] different Lots the town can only absorb
certain amount and we don't want it to
[53:36] built too fast and so they suggested
potentially do one offering and our goal
[53:42] is to try to get an offering done and
sold between now and June right so we're
[53:47] kind of in a hurry for this and then do
those initial roads and then go back as
[53:53] development occurs you know on near 800
West West and you know all the way up
[53:58] 400 South down to Keel Lane do another
potential infrastructure Bond there for
[54:04] 600 West and 800 West and those typ of
things so then that second one might
[54:09] occur in the fourth or fifth year based
on the absorption of what occurs so the
[54:14] idea is we're not necessarily going to
again our motivation for spending the
[54:19] time and the money now is to to try and
get the first set of bonds
[54:23] sold between now and June right that's
our that's our Target plan and but
[54:30] theyve told us right to do the to do the
infrastructure the way that many other
[54:36] communities do it when we did our
Engineers opinion of cost it was over
[54:40] $15 million to do the major
arterials and but the end writer says
[54:46] there's no way you're selling that you
know it's probably closer to $ four and
[54:50] half to $6 million is all we can do so
the idea is to do it in phases is and
[54:57] that's why we wanted the extra few years
so our commitment is to try and sell
[55:02] Bonds in the first you know easily
within the first three years would but
[55:06] would appreciate extra length to do that
secondary Bond did I explain that
[55:12] properly
[55:14] Aon yeah yeah that aligns with with my
understanding and and kind of market
[55:19] conditions yep yeah and this is Nate
Kenova with
[55:23] dorsy I was engaged to represent the
city in reviewing this I think I think 5
[55:28] years is
reasonable mayor um we could go to Five
[55:34] they would still have three years after
the five year right after you issue
[55:38] bonds you still have three years to
spend the money so that's just to issue
[55:41] the
debt so that would get them their
[55:45] eight-year timeline if we give them five
years to issue and then three years on
[55:49] top of that to spend eight years would
be we we feel good about five years but
[55:56] anything beyond that we we don't feel
good is that all
[56:02] right um on item e number
a um under which it's page 21 on yours
[56:13] it's Roman numeral I think we're still
in
[56:16] eight yeah
[56:22] eight the district May impose a mill ly
on taxable property within its
[56:27] boundaries up to a maximum Mill ly as a
primary source of revenue for repayment
[56:32] of debt Services the districts may also
rely upon various other Revenue sources
[56:38] authorized by law um at the T at The
District's discretion these may include
[56:43] the levy of adum property taxes the use
of property tax differential the power
[56:49] to assess assessments and the power to
impose fees penalties and charges
[56:53] including as provided in section 17d -4
d304 Utah code AS amended from time to
[57:00] time except as described in section
[57:06] 8ca The Debt Service Mill Levy in the
district shall not exceed the maximum
[57:10] debt Levy Mill Levy or the maximum debt
Mill Levy imposition term except for
[57:15] repayment of General obligation debt um
I would want to have something included
[57:21] in that
that if you're going to raise taxes in
[57:27] that District that that has to be
approved by the Ephraim city
[57:32] council um if it's not approved by an
elected body then it we we get back to
[57:39] taxation without
representation and so I I that that's
[57:44] just something I don't think we can live
with that
[57:49] unilaterally a district this District
this pit District could raise taxes for
[57:55] residents
businesses
[57:58] um unilaterally from the from what the
city council can do does that does that
[58:03] make sense it
does yeah I'm happy to speak to that so
[58:09] you know I certainly appreciate the the
concern there as well I know that
[58:13] property taxes is a you know sensitive
area the the one piece that I would say
[58:19] um you know on that on that front is
that the statute does allow the property
[58:24] owners you you know at together with any
registered voters you know my
[58:29] understanding is right now there's not
any registered voters it's you know it's
[58:32] it's fields and and vacant land um but
that the the property owners can perform
[58:39] that election that allows under the
state constitution the issuance of the
[58:43] tax bonds and you know I recognize the
the the future resident isn't at the
[58:47] table there um but because there's you
know robust disclosure um both recorded
[58:53] against the property as well as you know
requ ired to be included in you know
[58:58] sellers disclosures and the standard
Utah Real Estate purchase um or sellers
[59:04] disclosure includes information about a
you know limited tax bond from a public
[59:09] infrastructure District I I would say
that those folks are kind of voting with
[59:13] their feet in the sense of they're aware
of the tax and they can make a decision
[59:18] if the the tax you know make sense for
them or if they'd rather live in an area
[59:23] without the tax so they have some
flexibility you know the the the folks
[59:26] paying the taxes today are the ones that
make that decision the rest vote with
[59:31] their feet but I you know I think we do
have the language in there that they
[59:34] would only be able to Levy the tax if
the um you know if the tax
[59:40] differential was uh was not available
for the bonds kind of as a you know
[59:44] secondary source I think you know
there's been some discussions on that in
[59:48] the past so that's the way we have it
set up we do have it currently set up
[59:52] that it would be a a board finding a pit
board finding to trick trigger that um
[59:57] you know Mike I I'd be interested in in
your thoughts on the city being the you
[1:00:01] know the trigger for that I think our
thought was to you know in some ways
[1:00:06] insulate the city from looking like
they're blessing this Bond or blessing
[1:00:11] the the tax um but you know Mike open to
to your thoughts as well as the the
[1:00:17] thoughts of the mayor and Council again
this is the first time we've ever done
[1:00:22] one of these we're not that familiar so
we're relying on our attorneys so
[1:00:26] once we sold the property we can't after
the fact add a tax is that
[1:00:33] correct if if you were to do that you
would have to take actions and and you
[1:00:38] know put some disclosures in place to
notify um folks that there there would
[1:00:43] be the tax in the future uh but uh you
know that's that's kind of some new
[1:00:48] legislation that's just been pass the
session to preserve that ability um but
[1:00:54] generally speaking you're not going to
get the consent once folks have moved in
[1:00:58] if you're not uh preserving it up front
yeah the other thing I think the reason
[1:01:03] we had this in was primarily because
uipa is in litig the Utah Inland Port
[1:01:10] Authority is in
litigation and there was some question
[1:01:14] whether we could do that so this was
basically a backup to the tax increment
[1:01:18] financing is that
correct that yeah that was the the
[1:01:22] purpose here was just to to give a a
path forward while there was some
[1:01:26] uncertainty there was there anything you
wanted no understand this I I think
[1:01:33] that's exact point is that um there's a
release valve you know if somebody's
[1:01:37] going to buy a bond want to be
comfortable that they're going to get
[1:01:40] paid and if there's litigation with yipa
and that tax availability isn't there
[1:01:47] then why are you going to buy the bond
right so our Underwriters are telling us
[1:01:51] that kind of a release valve or a box of
kind of a backup
[1:01:56] kind a plan if that's not available this
is how it happen it's kind of necessary
[1:02:00] to be there and
then again and again it's not our plan
[1:02:05] to do this but the underwriter and the
attorneys have strongly said this is the
[1:02:11] language that are be there but again
because of the disclosures right if we
[1:02:15] end up having to do that then that
automatically makes Steve's land more
[1:02:20] valuable because he doesn't have it and
we do and therefore ours will be more
[1:02:26] expensive for that type of thing and
except since you mentioned my name you'd
[1:02:30] be able to sell your properties for Less
because you got the improvements run to
[1:02:34] them without having to incorporate those
into the cost of your additional
[1:02:40] subdivisions that tie to it and every
pit I know of every one of them that I
[1:02:45] know of does charge at least one and a
half Bill to the home owners and those
[1:02:50] that live in them because especially in
a rural community you're not going to be
[1:02:55] able to get funded quick enough without
that money from those people that live
[1:03:00] there and increased property taxes it
will be something you'll have to do I
[1:03:06] don't think it's just going to be a
maybe that's why these Bond investors
[1:03:11] want that in there because they know
they'll need that to pay it all it's my
[1:03:14] opinion from what everything I've
[1:03:19] read if it's going to be a wi I think
the bottom line here is that somehow
[1:03:25] there needs to be a
mechanism that it that the board comes
[1:03:31] before the city council before an
increase is is
[1:03:38] done um that may not be
fun the board but we the city council or
[1:03:45] the city council but again I get back to
a very fundamental principle which is
[1:03:53] taxation without representation
and you you can have people and I
[1:03:59] Envision people moving into homes and
cursar looking at that in the purchase
[1:04:05] contract and not thinking much about it
but then the the the feedback to us is
[1:04:11] going to be absolutely enormous when
they begin to have their taxes raised
[1:04:18] without an approval of the city council
even though it was in their purchase
[1:04:24] agreement there still they're they're
people are just not going to think that
[1:04:29] way uh they're going to purchase it
without without a consideration of that
[1:04:34] I mean people are not coming to the uh
the closing with a lawyer and um I I
[1:04:39] just I I I'm very
concerned uh about something being in
[1:04:45] the contract that that we have no sort
of oversight
[1:04:53] with make sense yeah if Mike you know
I'm assuming that that sounds reasonable
[1:04:59] to you I mean we can we can you know
make that adjustment to change it from a
[1:05:05] a board finding to a you know an
approval by the city council um and that
[1:05:12] that being the trigger I think we would
like to keep at least kind of the
[1:05:15] framework of the tax throughout the
document so that it wouldn't be a
[1:05:18] full-blown you know Amendment at that
point but it would just be a you know
[1:05:23] yes or no and if it's a yes then they
can you know trigger that appropriate
[1:05:26] mill rate and if it's a no then it you
know of course never goes into effect
[1:05:30] but yeah we we can we can adjust the
document um in that
[1:05:35] regard the the the one piece on a oh
sorry go ahead I don't want to
[1:05:42] see I I want it to succeed in the worst
way but we need to to just have some
[1:05:48] oversight and like you say he can work
it in the document all the
[1:05:53] better and I think that would really
keep everyone
[1:05:57] happy how is the pit board going to be
uh
[1:06:01] organized uh it's just the three members
of our Development
[1:06:05] Group and which is typically what I've
been told is the standard again I've not
[1:06:12] done this but Aon is that that's what
you've seen in all the other ones you've
[1:06:16] done is that correct so yeah and that's
dictated by state law so under state law
[1:06:21] it has to be property owners and their
agents so you know there have been
[1:06:26] cities or Counties have say hey is there
you know a way to put a council member
[1:06:30] on there and there's really not because
they they aren't a property owner and so
[1:06:34] uh that's how these districts are set up
but you'll see in the governing document
[1:06:38] there is um transition language from an
appointed to an elected board for a for
[1:06:44] a residential district um and so in
those cases there you know there would
[1:06:48] be a transition point where after a
certain number of years and Milestones
[1:06:52] would be hit for a residential district
then they would those seats would begin
[1:06:56] to be filled by um by the residences so
so there is a path and this is all
[1:07:02] pursuant to state law there is a path
for it to transition so that ultimately
[1:07:06] those decisions would be made by folks
selected uh within the boundaries of the
[1:07:11] district Dennis you had a question yes
so this it's Roman numeral six the Board
[1:07:16] of Trustees that's what we're talking
about right letter a board composition
[1:07:22] that's that's
correct page 18 on
[1:07:28] our three trustees who shall be
appointed by the city
[1:07:32] council pursuant to the pit act so they
still it's it's the city council that
[1:07:38] appoints them but they have to
be property owners and right now you
[1:07:43] guys are the all the property owners is
that that's that that yeah that's that's
[1:07:48] correct and and if there was the need
for a reappointment before a transition
[1:07:53] so let's say that the Milestones hadn't
been met
[1:07:56] then it would still be the city council
that would continue to appoint from the
[1:08:00] property owners and you know registered
voters if as applicable um until that
[1:08:06] you know until the election is
[1:08:10] held
[Music]
[1:08:15] okay because I I think the the last time
you presented we we asked this question
[1:08:21] and I I thought maybe I heard wrong that
board members could be um City Council
[1:08:29] Members
residents but
[1:08:34] but be saying that yeah it it it is a it
is a state law provision of the pit act
[1:08:41] that they have to be a resident or
property owner within the district's
[1:08:45] boundaries so an out you know an outside
property owner would not be unless they
[1:08:50] also owned you know owned property
within the
[1:08:53] district and I I also think you know one
of the purposes of a of a
[1:08:58] p um is to have a separate entity and a
separate issuer you know the Ephraim
[1:09:04] City may be familiar you know if you
have like an RDA or a a building
[1:09:09] authority or you know something like
that if that was to issue bonds it goes
[1:09:12] on your audit um you're you know
responsible for the the reporting and
[1:09:16] the financial statements and and all of
that versus here you're creating a
[1:09:21] separate and distinct entity um and that
Shields one Shields the city from from
[1:09:26] liability the pit Act is really clear
that the debts and obligations of the of
[1:09:32] the district are not obligations of the
city and the city has no liability for
[1:09:36] them but also it keeps it off of your
financial reporting it keeps it away
[1:09:41] from your credit rating and so so that's
all by Design and similarly if the city
[1:09:45] council had control of the pitboard then
it could be viewed as a rollup entity
[1:09:50] because it's controlled by the city so
so those are the reasons why the pids
[1:09:54] were designed the way they were was to
keep the the creating entity here
[1:09:58] Ephraim City from having any liability
for the for the actions or the debt of
[1:10:02] the district thank you any other
questions council
[1:10:09] members so what do we do what's the next
process this is just a study agenda for
[1:10:14] tonight it it'll appear on the agenda in
two weeks um for approval or
[1:10:22] disapproval so
this is just to get the Wiggles out
[1:10:28] thank you very much for your time yeah
thank
[1:10:33] you moving on to uh Item B city manager
ordinance
[1:11:01] so um Le has been operating with a city
manager system for a while
[1:11:08] um somehow through the transition an
actual ordinance uh has not been
[1:11:14] qualified so the since 1971 it hasn't
been cified yeah so we're going to take
[1:11:20] care of that you know and so what you
have in front of
[1:11:25] is uh a city manager
ordinance and it talks about the powers
[1:11:33] and duties of the city manager um number
one basically of is to appoint
[1:11:41] department heads number two they're in
charge of the budget number three
[1:11:46] procurement Number Four Financial
updates five uh pay schedule six
[1:11:53] Personnel policies seven Seven health
safety and
[1:11:58] Welfare measures for the city um eight
um basically the structure of how the
[1:12:06] the city organization is uh operated
under nine um city manager will attend
[1:12:13] all meetings of the governing body 10 uh
make sure that all Municipal laws and
[1:12:20] ordinances are duly
enforced um 11 notify the governing body
[1:12:26] of any emergency existing in any
Department um 12 uh keep or caused to be
[1:12:35] kept a current inventory of the property
of the city um 13 devote sufficient time
[1:12:44] to the discharge of these duties and
adhere to the city management code of
[1:12:51] ethics which I have included for you
which looks like
[1:12:55] this right um term of office is uh they
city managers are appointed by the city
[1:13:03] council and they serve at the pleasure
of the city council um they can be uh
[1:13:09] hired or fired uh at will so
uh uh position of Mayor not delegated to
[1:13:18] manager so there are certain duties city
manager does not touch so the
[1:13:24] legislative and judicial powers of the
mayor and mayoral position as the
[1:13:30] chairman of the governing body those are
his duties or hers and the city manager
[1:13:36] will not touch those um conversely the
governing body will not give orders to
[1:13:44] City staff you have to work through the
city manager to
[1:13:49] um uh make your wishes known that does
not mean I want to emphasize that does
[1:13:55] not mean you are not allowed to talk to
department heads or staff absolutely you
[1:14:00] can ask them questions but what you
can't do is order the uh Public Works
[1:14:06] direct director to go do something
that's not how this works all right but
[1:14:12] you
absolutely are allowed to talk to staff
[1:14:17] and department heads and
questions just like me asking Candace
[1:14:23] some questions about the phone or me ask
me coldly I'm not I'm not tell to do
[1:14:30] anything that's encouraged highly
encouraged is that all okay all great it
[1:14:36] it is very healthy for the elected
officials to be uh in contact in
[1:14:42] communication and uh build good
relationships with City staff what you
[1:14:48] cannot do is give them orders fix my LA
or shovel shovel my driveway or yeah not
[1:14:58] okay my
dog exactly okay um the city manager
[1:15:06] shall furnish a shity bond to be
approved by the governing body said bond
[1:15:11] to be conditioned on the faithful
performance of his her duties I'm not
[1:15:17] clear on this one yet that is a bond
that is automatic you know canace
[1:15:22] correct me that's a bond that we
automatically pay for as a city um with
[1:15:29] the it the trust right with the trust
all
[1:15:33] right um compensation um the city
council shall uh address the city
[1:15:41] manager's compensation from time to time
if for any reason um the office of city
[1:15:50] manager is vacated then it is the duty
of the mayor and city council to appoint
[1:15:55] somebody else um and the city council
May remove the city manager at any time
[1:16:02] with or without cause by a majority vote
of its members so that
[1:16:07] is
the the uh ordinance can I answer any
[1:16:15] questions this pretty much a standard
City man standard the only the question
[1:16:22] I have is it's here it's the last bit of
of the term of office 1.
[1:16:29] 28.3 no mayor or council person shall
receive such appointment to city manager
[1:16:36] right during the term for which he or
she shall have been
[1:16:40] elected nor within one year after the
expiration of his or her term oh do we
[1:16:46] need to have that in
Ephraim it's up to you as as uh council
[1:16:53] member Stevens pointed out this is
pretty typical boiler plate uh but it's
[1:17:00] up to you if you feel that you would
like to keep that excise that out you
[1:17:05] may I think I can understand why we
don't want to have somebody on the city
[1:17:10] council also be the city manager but
once they're not the city on the city
[1:17:16] council or or the mayor anymore and we
have a vacate vacated city
[1:17:22] manager what would be the concern
Candace has something to say just just
[1:17:27] so you know our ethics policy does not
allow any City employee to serve on city
[1:17:33] council as well but it has no
restriction on the one year I guess
[1:17:39] maybe you could have an idea as you're
sitting on this board make some changes
[1:17:45] to the the appointed office of city
manager and then with the idea that you
[1:17:51] to then try to become the city manager
and then you've helped yourself out I
[1:17:57] guess that would be the only thing that
I could think
[1:18:01] of I think this
probably um if
[1:18:07] it's if you don't like it you can
absolutely we can recommend it that we
[1:18:12] take it out or whatever I actually like
it and the reason is is that we have had
[1:18:17] a case of that
yeah and uh
[1:18:23] [Music]
and it makes it uncomfortable it makes
[1:18:27] it really uncomfortable and it
left um the situation was finally
[1:18:32] resolved with a lot of hard
[1:18:36] feelings so this is just in study
session
[1:18:40] so um something to be thinking about it
will be on action agenda for next week
[1:18:47] um so we meet next week oh sorry
next can you do all of that stuff that
[1:18:54] it says
yes I can haven't you seen her the last
[1:18:59] I know she's like a speeding bull Speedy
Gonzales Al though I will say when I was
[1:19:05] first reading through this I was
like it doesn't change the scope of
[1:19:11] anything that you're already doing yeah
all right so that's that all right okay
[1:19:18] any other thoughts council
members I would is it okay Dennis if we
[1:19:23] just leave it in yeah yeah it's fine I
just I just wanted to and as I even as I
[1:19:29] talked through it I could see a possible
abuse okay moving on to item number four
[1:19:37] action agenda ECR
25-3 a resolution dissolving the Manti a
[1:19:44] resolution dissolving and this needs to
be corrected no this is correct
[1:19:48] resolving the mantie from airport
board all right so as we discussed in
[1:19:55] our previous council meeting um we are
um making some changes on the
[1:20:03] administration at the airport one of the
if you recall at the Joint um uh meeting
[1:20:10] between Manti city council and E from
city council one of the things that the
[1:20:16] airport board um was suggesting is that
the board uh it was kind of cumbersome
[1:20:25] and it the system was cumbersome and so
um acting on kind of their suggestion of
[1:20:32] having uh a a board that was able to
come back with uh more um timely
[1:20:41] Direction um we've started a uh a
executive
[1:20:48] board in the past three months that
consists of the mayor Mayor Scott uh
[1:20:56] mayor Bigalow um city manager Kent
Barton and myself um and so
[1:21:04] with we get advice from um those who
have um interest at the airport when
[1:21:11] that is necessary we're in a transition
phase right now but we did feel that it
[1:21:17] was necessary to dissolve the airport
board as it was currently constituted
[1:21:23] with a great deal of thanks to those who
have spent decades serving on that board
[1:21:30] and appreciate um the time and efforts
that they have put into that but based
[1:21:35] on their recommendation um we are going
to transition into a different format so
[1:21:42] that we can meet the needs of the
airport in a more timely fashion so that
[1:21:47] is what is uh under the the resolution
can I answer any questions for you
[1:21:57] okay looking for a motion I'll make a
motion that uh we approve resolution
[1:22:05] 25-3 dissolving the Manti eim airport
Advisory
[1:22:11] Board motion made by council member
Anderson need to add resolution 25-3 I
[1:22:17] did she I did that first all second
second by council member Perry all in
[1:22:22] favor yes yes is unanimously passed I
might add that the board members have
[1:22:28] already been contacted and they are um
they understand that this is happening
[1:22:34] they've been thanked uh for their
service and uh so and we continue to
[1:22:42] grow in the understanding of what this
board will be all about and um the exec
[1:22:51] right the executive board and um it will
continue to develop moving on to Item B
[1:22:58] under action agenda Butterfield General
plan Amendment
[1:23:11] mayor so this is kind of a two in one
because we can't do one without the
[1:23:16] other Katie could you
bring show Mr Butterfield's property
[1:23:30] okay that's perfect so U Mr Butterfield
owns uh four
[1:23:35] Parcels um see Butterfield properties
it's just to there's Walmart um there's
[1:23:43] the believe it's the
[1:23:52] Enbridge the west of that
um this our future future General Clan
[1:23:58] shows this property potentially being
zoned
[1:24:02] commercial um Mr Butterfield would like
to change it to R2 it is currently R the
[1:24:09] reason he seeks the R2 zone is because
he would like to make um smaller lot
[1:24:17] sizes um so about 8,000 square ft and he
would like to build smaller than the ra
[1:24:25] a third of an acre right right yes so
these would be smaller lot sizes um
[1:24:31] and homes that are about 200 or sorry
1,200 square feet not
[1:24:38] 200 very tiny
hes when your wife gets mad at you then
[1:24:50] that's I second her
[1:24:55] um he plans to just make some lots that
are smaller uh focus more on some
[1:25:02] starter homes for small families or um
people that want to retire that don't
[1:25:07] want to take care of a big lot um we
Brian recommended the R2 Zone um he
[1:25:15] could get the same lot size in the R1
but we thought it would be a better step
[1:25:21] down from the commercial where Walmart
is um and if you scroll back up just a
[1:25:27] little bit you'll see in that far right
corner um that section right there is
[1:25:35] also um R2 so it's compatible with what
is already there I don't know if you can
[1:25:42] bottom right corner yeah bottom right
sorry right here um and there aren't
[1:25:48] duplexes there that I'm aware of they
just again did it for the smaller lot
[1:25:52] size um Mr Butterfield is has committed
um to several others that he does not
[1:26:01] duplexes there um just those smaller lot
sizes for a little bit more attainable
[1:26:07] housing um and it's something that we
need as the city of Ephraim so General
[1:26:13] plan Amendment would be to from ra to R2
and then the reone requests from ra to
[1:26:22] R2 so any questions or
concerns Megan there one other aspect on
[1:26:30] an R to to put duplexes on a R2 you need
10,000 square foot Lots right and all
[1:26:39] the Lots will be less than that so they
legally could not have a duplex
[1:26:44] on they would have to buy two lots to
get one duplex if they did that to the
[1:26:50] east there there is a road right there
where a roadway is there there that' be
[1:26:53] 200 West okay that is 200 West and so
it's do you happen to know just out of
[1:26:59] curiosity what the width of that is it's
pretty wide I know Chad on some
[1:27:03] properties the other side of it yes it's
it I it's long story but that on we want
[1:27:13] the short version the short
[1:27:18] version on 200 West that road that's
where the house in the E from housing
[1:27:24] yeah was built the homes there on the
corners she just posted out it h been
[1:27:30] and Bri the shart thing it's all went
through the city and that road will go
[1:27:35] straight down the other it'll line up
with the existing road is that 66t road
[1:27:42] Brian all grid streets are 66 feet so
all the way around that will be a grid
[1:27:47] Street North 200 West 400 West 700 North
all of those will be good streets they
[1:27:53] plan six rways and Mr Butterfield will
be improving his frontages it will be a
[1:27:58] phased project but it will be all the
way around well on on the 700 North and
[1:28:04] the 200 West is that what I'm hearing
yeah the all four roads will be mapped
[1:28:10] out in the
subdivision because you got 700 North
[1:28:15] you on the south edge of it and it would
be 800 North on the North edge of it
[1:28:21] okay 400 W on the West Edge and 200 West
on East Edge okay that's a lot of
[1:28:29] development yeah we'll do it it'll
probably get about between 60 and 70
[1:28:34] lots and there depend on the water drain
requirements and so forth okay we got
[1:28:39] some probably some sewer issues as well
on the back north end of it that we have
[1:28:44] to phase that out at the end and if
there's future sewage ponds we can go
[1:28:50] that way if not we'll have to do pump
stations
[1:28:54] on the back end of it will they will
they have basements on them yes the plat
[1:29:00] is unless
the if it's a problem with the sewer
[1:29:05] then then maybe that North End would
just be slab on gra and I just bring it
[1:29:10] up because there used to be a water
problem with subwat I think a lot
[1:29:18] of fi had severe water problems at one
time
[1:29:24] a lot of that was from the flood
irrigation right water table I just
[1:29:29] wanted to bring it up so everybody's
aware of it yes there are homes that are
[1:29:34] further north of that property and also
further west with they have basements
[1:29:40] down but that would happen
me we put the the I'm getting off crack
[1:29:47] we put the sewer in on 200 West there in
front of them homes and we had to hold
[1:29:52] the pipe down with did you with the
bucket that's been a few years
[1:29:56] ago we haven't had that there's a lot
like you say the irrigation ditches a
[1:30:02] lot of things have been solved but at
that time there was a problem there was
[1:30:06] a problem with the ceter too and those
are things that we'll look out with the
[1:30:21] appliation thank you thank you heard
[1:30:27] him was this a split VT with
the yes so one of them did vote n okay
[1:30:36] did he have one of them was concerned
about the
[1:30:39] R2 about what they R2 wanted just to be
R1 yeah the possibility of duplexes and
[1:30:51] that's s but I I think it would be a
lengthy because he will be doing a
[1:30:58] Subdivision plat um they will already
be the Lots will be decided um to amend
[1:31:08] a subdivision is not an easy task once
it's done um so it would be a lot of leg
[1:31:16] work to make those lots bigger and you
would have to buy three just to get two
[1:31:21] duplexes so it's
really yeah it's I don't I I think the
[1:31:28] scenario is highly unlikely not
impossible but I think it is unlikely
[1:31:33] that that would happen once um Steve
records his spot I'm totally fine with
[1:31:39] an
R1 but just so they didn't have spot
[1:31:42] zoning they recommended the
R2 R2 already there and we would we
[1:31:48] would have to Ren notice all the
surrounding property owners that instead
[1:31:53] of R2 it would be R1 so where the
scenario was pretty
[1:31:58] unlikely we felt the rest of the
commission felt comfortable recommending
[1:32:05] approval any other questions council
members I make a motion that we approve
[1:32:11] the Butterfield General plan Amendment
uh on the uh 21.6 Acres from ra to
[1:32:19] R2 second motion made by council member
Steven second by council member nerfi
[1:32:23] all faor yes yes thank you uh we're done
with now meeting okay
[1:32:31] need a little joke it's a little inside
joke
[1:32:37] Megan you see why it was an
inside move on to item number c
[1:32:44] Butterfield
rezone uh zoning map amendment to reone
[1:32:48] 21.6
acres uh from ra to R2 this is this is
[1:32:54] the
companion the companion uh
[1:32:58] Amendment any further questions council
[1:33:02] members make motion we approve the B
reone zoning ma amendment to reone 21.6
[1:33:10] acres from R to
R2 second motion made by council member
[1:33:15] Steven second by council member North in
favor yes it is approved now moving on
[1:33:21] to item five uh Council reports we'll
start with council member
[1:33:28] Perry got a few
[1:33:32] minutes um okay thank
[1:33:38] you um a couple of couple of things um
we didn't none of my nobody met this
[1:33:46] time there was conflicts with a lot of
things going on this time of year um I
[1:33:51] did talk to Corey has a couple of guys
he's St George now with a couple of guys
[1:33:57] doing their electrical classes but I was
going to ask him and I
[1:34:03] forgot um on our spring Utah cities
leagues and towns there is a I got a
[1:34:10] message on a uamps that's down there at
the same time my question was is it tied
[1:34:15] up with the Utah city and leagues in
town or is it a
[1:34:19] separate sep meeting as I recall it was
either the day before or just the
[1:34:24] morning of I think it's the morning I
think so too I've been to it a couple of
[1:34:29] times I was just wondering if you know
I'd be kind of interested in going into
[1:34:33] some of the classes but if it's a big
deal just as long as it's the same day
[1:34:40] that we check in we don't want to pay
for any other hotels or or any really
[1:34:45] any
registration right and so I don't know
[1:34:48] what
the let's let's talk about it I just was
[1:34:52] I was going to ask Cory I forgot about
it so I was just going to bring it up
[1:34:56] before I forget again and get down there
it just seemed like I thought it might
[1:35:00] be tied in in the same thing crazy to
have them at the same time but some of
[1:35:06] the stuff look looked kind of
interesting but I'm not
[1:35:10] sure um I did talk to Jeff or no I
didn't talk to Jeff I talked to some of
[1:35:16] his guys about their training that they
just got
[1:35:21] back so I'll talk to him a bit more
about it but sounded like they really
[1:35:27] had a had a good conference down there I
know we used to really bring it up or
[1:35:32] really bring a lot back from it from
down there lot of new stuff coming in um
[1:35:39] yeah another thing I was going to say is
uh on the on Don
[1:35:44] Olson's um I talked to you a little bit
when you get to that point if you have
[1:35:48] any questions we had exact same thing
happen at our at our other well and it
[1:35:55] was it was a big big deal I don't have
any problems with it but I I would
[1:35:59] really like to see somebody pay so we
could cover the cost of that
[1:36:04] pipe but um it was really a tough
situation did we have an artisian well
[1:36:11] with the other we did on our our well
that's well number one down there it
[1:36:16] Artisan really well for a long time um I
don't know if it has as much as we've
[1:36:21] started to use it just the same the
other well but that water went down on
[1:36:26] Ted Thompson and and Craig obber and
some other people and they really wanted
[1:36:32] the water certain times in the year and
then they didn't want it and it went
[1:36:36] back and got ugly and so we finally says
okay we'll run the pipe like we did down
[1:36:40] there and it went in the ditch had the
exact same thing come back well we want
[1:36:44] water we said we're sorry we don't we
can't it was either we talked to you
[1:36:49] told you you said didn't want the water
so we had to run the separate part find
[1:36:54] out another one and and I don't have a
pro I would wish somebody could pay for
[1:36:59] it but he has there is some some other
people that I you know possibly are
[1:37:04] taking the water that are in the city
limits too but I would really like to
[1:37:09] see them at least cover the cost of the
pipe or like but then there's some
[1:37:14] questions there on on water like the
Overflow of a water tank it goes down
[1:37:20] through private property there's been
some questions about that
[1:37:24] with the property owner so I think we do
also need to it's just me talking need
[1:37:30] to look make sure I'm legal with water
rights and everything it's legal that we
[1:37:34] can we can do it see that that water
tank water I've been to that fund right
[1:37:41] and talked with the land
owner and I mean we we push
[1:37:47] out about a million gallons a day in the
winter we don't have the summer but we
[1:37:55] do in the winter and I you know there
there was a lot of discussion on we
[1:37:58] should pipe to the ditch we should pipe
it for not a lot of different things but
[1:38:03] I know there is some questions there and
I know the property owner brought up
[1:38:07] some legal stuff um so I think we need
to make sure what we're doing but
[1:38:13] Council needs to understand that the
property owner on this one really was
[1:38:19] upset about all the water and that's
fine I understand you but we did f fix
[1:38:23] it and spent a lot of money to fix it
and now he's he want wants this now I
[1:38:28] don't have a problem with the water
going to him but I just wish we could
[1:38:32] get some money to pay for it and I just
thought I'd give you that input thank
[1:38:36] you um just let me see
[1:38:42] here I've heard Brian say several times
whisky for drinking waters for
[1:38:49] fight it is it's true you know guys I
had a a person and Carl L employee I've
[1:38:57] had him get chased with the back hole
with a farmer with the
[1:39:02] shovel so I I can tell you that it's
very very them fighting words are it is
[1:39:10] and I just don't take me wrong I would
like to see the
[1:39:14] pipe I'd like to see some money come
back in to pay for that whether it's
[1:39:19] whoever it is but I think there is some
legal I want to make sure that we can do
[1:39:24] that so that's all thank
you can you cover it in 45 minutes Marie
[1:39:31] did you no I'm not going for 4 well I
sure have listened to hours of it but
[1:39:39] and sometimes it m mushes your brain but
I'll do my
[1:39:44] best
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[1:39:46] um so one thing I think Missy from is
planning on the N the 17th of May
[1:39:53] if that's all right um that's
College
[1:40:01] anyway we I know there was some
discussion about this
[1:40:06] um about the whole situation and and I
can talk about that another time but
[1:40:12] currently that's when it's scheduled and
um so some of uh Mount Pleasant Manti
[1:40:20] they're letting girls come in their
sophomore year and some of them might
[1:40:24] not be 16 yet which means they can't go
to miss sampi but they could go to the
[1:40:28] Miss sampi team because we've always
required that of the person who wins so
[1:40:34] if it's the little girl that wins she
goes to the
[1:40:37] team but we can talk about the details
of Missy from later on okay one of the
[1:40:43] big bills that concerns the league is
Senate Bill
[1:40:48] 337 and um it was interesting because
it's talk talking about um they said
[1:40:56] this is like Inland Port
2.0 which kind of scares me was called
[1:41:02] The Beehive agency or something um but
um there's a lot of things that the
[1:41:09] league didn't like uh in relation to uh
taking they didn't want things that were
[1:41:16] kind of an a front to City to local
government they want to be collaborative
[1:41:21] but they don't want another group to
take over you know what you're going to
[1:41:25] do in your area in fact Cameron deal
told
[1:41:30] somebody oh he went to the con the
meeting the committee meeting and this
[1:41:35] was yesterday the third no two days ago
I guess he said our members are heck no
[1:41:42] on this base Bill and I'm pretty sure he
did not use the word heck but that was
[1:41:47] his
feeling he said sub two is in the works
[1:41:51] and he said I don't know what it is
but it's coming down that this is a big
[1:41:59] generational project you know like
happens once in a generation almost that
[1:42:05] they're looking to doing a Fortune 500
company or something I don't know a
[1:42:11] Space Project got to be a tech yeah it's
got to be an IT project yeah they said
[1:42:15] uh somebody else said like Tech they
have the Texas instrument somewhere up
[1:42:21] north you know where it is is Katie no
but anyway it's in leeh is it in Lehigh
[1:42:28] okay so anyway so the e that's kind of
what the Rumblings are that they're
[1:42:34] wanting to pass this
for um it needs to be more explicit on
[1:42:41] consent from the city and consequences
if they don't do there wouldn't be any
[1:42:46] gravel projects that is such a big fight
this year too was gravel projects big
[1:42:52] fight
um they want local government to have
[1:42:57] input sooner not rather than later you
know when they're doing this and what is
[1:43:02] local consent so there are just some
things that really concern them I looked
[1:43:07] and today I know it got talked about
once in one of the H one of the houses
[1:43:12] but I don't think it's passed yet so I
don't know what's going to happen to it
[1:43:17] this year still got two
more sub two was in the works 3
[1:43:26] yes
so and that beehive something Brian have
[1:43:32] you heard about that in any of your
meetings
[1:43:38] anyway and there's a lot on elections
that people want beehive beehive
[1:43:44] development agency that's what it call
calls there's
[1:43:49] a I think Brian and I talked about that
[1:43:55] um about H Bill 550 Pro prohibiting they
want kind of want to have their own
[1:44:03] inspector and they're not always
familiar with everything and I don't
[1:44:07] know where it went and what place it is
right now which
[1:44:12] house um did it pass the the house I did
it go out of
[1:44:17] committee you know I I don't know for
sure I don't remember listening to the
[1:44:23] discussion on this uh so it may not even
be out of committee yet but um it's been
[1:44:31] talked about in other committee meetings
earlier in the session and and the
[1:44:36] problem is you know bringing your own
inspector they're trying to save
[1:44:40] turnover but they may not all know all
the municipal codes for each
[1:44:46] municipality
um and let's see
[1:44:55] one before disclosing post
okay there were a whole bunch of bills
[1:45:00] that were kind of after the judges the
state courts and the
[1:45:05] judges and uh anyway I
think that those a lot of those got
[1:45:13] voted down and so and I'm glad I don't
think judicial to me is a separate arm
[1:45:22] of the government
so I don't think the legislature but
[1:45:25] that's just a personal opinion should be
saying what goes on there that's a
[1:45:31] separate arm of the government that's
just my
[1:45:34] opinion um so they talked about
um a pro these project entities and I'm
[1:45:43] trying to see where where it is anyway
like IPA and it's anyway that this new
[1:45:50] Council for energy is going to be called
the Utah energy Council it's an
[1:45:56] interlocal they're talking about
transferring the two coal units to this
[1:46:01] Utah energy Council the two coal units
that are over in the
[1:46:06] Delta um there's some a little bit of
not being happy because who gets put on
[1:46:14] this Utah energy Council I don't want
too many people
[1:46:18] and anyway I
think there are some people that are
[1:46:24] being left out to be a part of that Utah
energy Council but that's where the
[1:46:30] organization of IPA will kind of be part
of that now so they'll have control of
[1:46:36] Ip
[Music]
[1:46:40] um there's a there was something
[1:46:49] on the oh there um there was second sub
House Bill 249 the nuclear power
[1:46:56] amendments that was uh had to have been
sponsored by alre because it's a house
[1:47:01] bill and Milner's the Senate
sponsor
[1:47:06] and it's going to be an agreement too I
think it's going to be an agreement with
[1:47:11] Rocky Mountain Power which makes me just
a you know a little uncomfortable I
[1:47:18] don't know where uamp comes in the
circle of things here but
[1:47:24] I listened to Senator Milner talk about
it she says we've got to begin looking
[1:47:28] at
uh nuclear projects and you have to
[1:47:32] start already because the permitting is
just you know really hard to get to
[1:47:38] years in advance 10 years sometimes and
a part they said partner state with
[1:47:42] Wyoming but we need to start exploring
this
[1:47:46] 20% uh of the power east of the
Mississippi
[1:47:50] is nuclear a little bit aircraft carrier
submarines they've used nuclear for 50
[1:47:56] years
[1:47:59] um the he doesn't the governor doesn't
want legislators on this committee but I
[1:48:06] don't know we'll see what happens
they're talking they get a lot of
[1:48:10] feedback a lot of push back saying we we
don't we should be
[1:48:15] pursuing wind and solar and
uh and they're saying that the thing
[1:48:23] that vicker said was he said it's
um you only get
[1:48:29] about
11% and come from wind and 2% from solar
[1:48:34] for as much as we got of all of
that and he said it doesn't give you any
[1:48:40] base load power and so he said if we
don't find you know we're going to use
[1:48:46] coal and other things as a bridge right
now while you look at other things but
[1:48:51] he said it just doesn't address the Bas
load and the it's a problem with the
[1:48:56] landscape the way it looks when you go
past Richville there's a lot of of that
[1:49:00] I noticed a lot of the
black and he said when you increase the
[1:49:05] cost of energy to only use certain
powers you reduce
[1:49:11] um the effectiveness of
[1:49:15] it they want
to creat positive i' got lots of notes
[1:49:20] and best and yeah and there's quite a
few energy bills up there I don't know
[1:49:26] how many of them have made it through or
some have dropped off like I said
[1:49:29] they've only got two more
days
[1:49:35] um he oh Milner said none of
this would happen in the city would all
[1:49:43] be like Delta Carbon County emry
County
[1:49:48] and he so anyway
and Colmore was concerned that you're
[1:49:54] going to preclude counties from getting
new
[1:49:57] development and you would only get the
nuclear but uh it's interesting to me
[1:50:03] that now they're all thinking nuclear is
[1:50:09] fine but why wasn't our little nuclear
project fine and I know it wasn't our
[1:50:14] fault but it went above our 85 Cent per
yeah kilowatt hour and we couldn't just
[1:50:21] couldn't 85 Cent was the cut off yeah um
and it didn't pencil out when it went
[1:50:27] above
right
[1:50:31] so but I'll bet you this is not going to
be any cheaper and I just don't know
[1:50:36] that's why I kind of wanted Cory to be
here
[1:50:40] if
they they talked about
[1:50:44] um amp's briefly someone said well
something about ums 's been involved in
[1:50:52] this and
I think it I can't remember who it was
[1:50:55] that was talking and they just kind of
went right past that so I'm a little
[1:50:59] worried about youson what's the one that
man a part
[1:51:05] of is that where Barfield is too is that
their their anyway I'm concerned about
[1:51:12] some of those um there was an award
given to Carl alre
[1:51:18] today few years ago bred Cox used to be
representative up there and he paid
[1:51:26] attention I bet he read every Bill three
times and he paid atten to accuracy and
[1:51:33] detail and and uh this year
representative alreet got that award
[1:51:38] because he's been correcting them on
spelling and stuff so anyway that was
[1:51:43] kind of lighthearted and they needed
some lighthearted today
[1:51:47] uh let's see I
think um
[1:51:53] the labor union thing in Utah is
still still an issue that got that got
[1:51:59] voted in and
fast there's also by the government yes
[1:52:04] fast and U the man that and teachers
were very very unhappy still are I don't
[1:52:13] think we'll see the last of it you know
they did have a little bill for SC
[1:52:18] cancer screening for firefighters they
say they have a heavy toll on on cancer
[1:52:24] that if you've been fir fighting I don't
know if our volunteers turnouts yeah
[1:52:28] that's why their turnouts have to be
replaced every every three to five years
[1:52:34] but I think they were going to be able
to they were that was funded so that
[1:52:38] they could screen them so there's lots
they're still
[1:52:43] tracking um and that's only a portion of
what I listened to today and then my
[1:52:49] brain start to scramble so I have to get
up and do something else but
[1:52:53] in particular that part with nuclear
power being you know we do need to start
[1:52:59] looking to that because if you don't
you're going to be buying our power
[1:53:03] outside of the state and that's what we
don't want to do is buy our power
[1:53:07] outside of the state so we'll use I
think we're going to have the
[1:53:10] opportunity to use fossil fuels and so
on now a little bit more than we've had
[1:53:16] and that'll be good and
um just as a bridge to get to where we
[1:53:22] can start doing the nuclear stuff so
yeah well Margie deserves a
[1:53:29] metal you know she says she has to get
up and do something I'm aware of what
[1:53:34] she does she goes out into her garage
and she has a pillar there she grabs a
[1:53:39] hold of the pillar and she
goes goes out for about three or four
[1:53:44] minutes and then she goes back in no no
not not quite that but I bake cookies
[1:53:49] today when I couldn't stand sit there
anymore so and where are they uh well I
[1:53:54] took them to my neighbors today next
time I'll bring some to you guys is that
[1:53:59] it that's it thank you council member
council member Stevens yes your smiling
[1:54:05] face fire department met last night we
had our Wildland fire red card
[1:54:12] recertification all the members that
were eligible for red cards except one
[1:54:17] went there and passed cool and Sterling
was there and so was man there was about
[1:54:23] 45 firefighters at the meeting and
they've worked through the south in the
[1:54:28] county and they're going north so I
think by and large the whole count is
[1:54:33] going to be in really good shape for red
carded firefighters which I hope we
[1:54:38] don't
[1:54:40] need let's hope we get a lot of water
this weekend yes that's it thank you
[1:54:47] counc uh Scandinavian days met again
they've decided on a pin
[1:54:54] design and they're going to do stickers
and magnets as well who designed it I
[1:55:00] don't know I don't did they have a
contest I don't know who the winning
[1:55:05] person was or the
designer I'll send it to you
[1:55:10] guys we've got some flyers that you can
post that uh I'll send as
[1:55:17] well um they're working with a lot of
the Fai B
[1:55:24] uh organizations to get a flats for the
parade and and to have a
[1:55:30] contest and some prizes still looking
for some judges to be float judges if
[1:55:37] you don't want to be
in you're making your own prod something
[1:55:42] yeah
yeah all right well good that would be
[1:55:47] excited um that's
it thank you um the upstairs is being
[1:55:56] ited uh so that we can move our people
up there we are not sure of the calendar
[1:56:04] when that a great event will happen but
it will hopefully I'm sure it's got to
[1:56:10] be during the month of
[1:56:14] March it's just a whole it Network that
needs to be installed up
[1:56:20] there so that we can run operations from
a secure
[1:56:25] standpoint uh March 20th uh we were
going to have a dinner with uh the
[1:56:30] County Commissioners and that also
happens to be the night of the County
[1:56:36] Convention to replace commissioner Scott
Collard um and so we will reschedule
[1:56:44] March 20th are you a county
delegate the May are I um
[1:56:53] we met with the Ferguson group
today and
[1:56:58] uh you know I've kind of talked to you
guys about
[1:57:03] this um I'm not going to tell you who
this is from because I was asked not
[1:57:11] to um but I made an inquiry
[1:57:16] of people who we work with about our uh
Federal GR rting
[1:57:24] process and um their response my inquiry
because the portal should be
[1:57:30] opening so that we can do Grant applic
well you know Congressional directed
[1:57:37] spending
applications and their response was well
[1:57:43] mayor I'm just not confident enough
about the cpf program
[1:57:49] continuing cpf congressionally
[1:57:55] uh priorize funding whatever it is um
I'm hopeful but to say if they will
[1:58:01] release the applications again I don't
know and so we've kind of talked about
[1:58:07] this that maybe the era of
congressionally directed funding is over
[1:58:14] I don't know I don't know we'll we'll
know in the next couple of weeks but
[1:58:20] we've benefited
almost $223 million in the last six
[1:58:25] years through this program and
others um and so it but in talking with
[1:58:33] the Ferguson group it's like they said
you know we'll we'll concentrate on um
[1:58:40] on different sources of
funding and so it's not like it we're
[1:58:46] done with that aspect but we and we
don't know where this stands
[1:58:53] it's it's a developing
thing
[1:58:57] [Music]
um representative
[1:59:01] Shelly is going to invite the house and
the Senate to our
[1:59:08] 50th anniversary of the
Scandinavian um Festival he's going to
[1:59:14] send that text out to
everyone
[1:59:18] Friday and uh so we're excited we've
already inv invited Congressman Owens
[1:59:25] Burgess Owens we've invited the governor
we've invited Senator
[1:59:31] Curtis
um and I I haven't reached out to
[1:59:36] Senator Lee's office yet but I but I
will we've also invited our
[1:59:41] commissioners and this is going to be a
big deal this 50th Anniversary it's
[1:59:46] going to be just a
wonderful just a wonderful thing and
[1:59:51] that's all I have
let I just mention one other thing to
[1:59:55] the first house bill 462 World schools
sports facility Grant and it's sponsored
[2:00:02] by the state and I think if the school
district would apply for that of course
[2:00:07] it would be up to them what they use it
for but it could benefit because we use
[2:00:12] their facilities for our Sports if there
was some way that could be expanded for
[2:00:17] them that would benefit see too
[2:00:22] and it was just for Rural schools really
because the L the G said you know I had
[2:00:28] some rural friends up and they were
looking at a new high school and they
[2:00:31] said wish we could have something like
this and she said I don't think we
[2:00:36] realize you know because up here we've
got this R facility this this this and
[2:00:42] this but in some of the rural areas they
use those schools for everything for
[2:00:48] City stuff for Community stuff and we do
look where their playing soccer and
[2:00:56] basketball that's
it um I think the most important thing
[2:01:02] that I can tell you is that bids are
going out for the
[2:01:06] um uh Public Works building next week
and what's the turnaround time uh we're
[2:01:13] they'll three weeks we'll leave it out
there it'll be built in three weeks
[2:01:18] it'll be
built I like to get things done that's
[2:01:23] all yeah so so that's happy news there
and um I think the mayor covered
[2:01:31] everything that I wanted to make sure is
that we canceled that dinner so that's
[2:01:37] it hey looking for motion to uh end our
city counc we end this council meeting
[2:01:44] motion made by council member
Stevens second second by council member
[2:01:48] Anderson all in favor that was a fast