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[0:04] I'd like to call the order of the August 19th, 2026, Huntington City Council meeting. We have Tom Kaye. Be some Miller, Devon Wilson, Judd Bigley, Gloria Wilson, myself, Mayor Norton, Ronnie Tory, Brandy Wagner, members of our audience and citizens. Sheriff Huntington, our planning and zoning administrator. At this time, we'll have opening remarks by Judd Bigley, after which Devon Wilson will lead us in the pledge allegiance.
[0:44] We ask that they'll be with us as we make these decisions and we can make the right decisions for our community and for our citizens.
[0:52] We ask a blessing upon our firefighters at this time throughout the state that they'll watch over them.
[0:58] And we will receive the moisture necessary to squash out these fires and to provide us
[1:05] with the badly needed water that we need.
[1:09] We ask these things in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
[1:11] Amen.
[1:12] Please join us in pledge allegiance.
[1:16] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which
[1:24] which is stands on nation under God in the visible with liberty and justice for all.
[1:34] Thank you, Joe.
[1:35] Thank you, Devin.
[1:37] At this time, we're looking at a motion on a consented agenda, the approval of our July 15,
[1:43] 2020, six city minutes and the city claims and reviews of our financials.
[1:48] I'll make the motion.
[1:50] I have motion by Tom.
[1:51] Second.
[1:52] Second by Lisa Gloria.
[1:54] Yes.
[1:54] Yes. Yes, Evan? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. This time we have a number of business
[2:03] licenses to go through.
[2:10] Oh, five.
[2:14] We have five business licenses. Okay, so we're going
[2:19] to start with Desert Contracting on MJ Justice.
[2:31] I'm just here to renew my watches
[2:34] Let's see. Everything's been done. Stay. Everything is neat is done.
[2:43] Okay. Any questions? Mr. Justice?
[2:47] Nope. I have a question for myself. I didn't ask if you had any. Does anybody have
[2:56] missed any questions for Mr. Justice?
[3:02] Okay. Chair will entertain a motion. We'll make the
[3:06] motion to accept desert contracting have a motion by Lisa second second
[3:13] fight Tom all in favor yes okay motion passes okay business license number
[3:20] two my self I have a cleaning slash landscaping business that my voice
[3:30] help us with the landscaping site and then I clean some business offices so I am applying for a
[3:37] home business there's no traffic that comes to my house no additional parking. Okay any questions for
[3:46] Mrs. Lee at you at this time is you too make a motion except the license for
[3:59] Jessica Lee have a motion by Judd second by Lisa on favor yes okay motion
[4:08] Okay number three. Okay, so we have T-C West.
[4:21] I'm Philip Kempel. I formerly worked
[4:25] at T-C West for the last 20 years. The previous owner passed away and that
[4:32] company was essentially dissolved. The original founder of the company asked me if I
[4:37] would take it over and we started to keep going. So that's what I'm here for. The
[4:42] business license is the last thing that I need to have everything we will have
[4:47] although I will see state licenses that are webbing. And as I look around this
[4:52] room, including back here, the half of you are wearing things that were done by
[4:58] my name.
[5:01] Okay,
[5:04] any questions for Mr. Campbell?
[5:11] Chair,
[5:11] I have a motion by Tom. Second. Second by Lisa, all in favor? Yes. Yes. Okay, motion passes. Thank you.
[5:17] Thank you. You bet.
[5:20] This one is solarized to Utah 9 LLC. This is what?
[5:26] Formally hard.
[5:28] And the...
[5:30] Surrounder job.
[5:32] Yeah.
[5:37] Hi, I'm Josh.
[5:38] So, we were having problems with thinking that the ground itself was sold.
[5:47] The ground for hearts wasn't sold it was just loaned out the the store itself was
[5:53] loaned out so it's still under the same parent company though we still
[5:59] haven't been approved for our health inspection okay
[6:33] I'm going to make the motion that we accept the business license for sole rise have a motion by Gloria
[6:39] Yeah, seconded. Seconded by Tom on February. Yes.
[6:43] Okay, more for the passenger.
[6:47] Last one is Comfort Beauty Academy. This is not a technically
[6:52] new license, but it does have to be separate because it created a new entity number. She's
[6:57] just adding an academy to the salon business. But it has to be separate because the state
[7:04] does. Just a little history. Christy is putting in a new building down there and it will have
[7:10] a beauty school in it is why she's going to have to have this other license in it.
[7:15] So this was already approved through email for this bringing the air to my first adventure
[7:19] and stuff.
[7:21] Yep.
[7:22] Any questions on that one?
[7:23] No.
[7:24] Okay.
[7:24] Trilling to entertain a motion.
[7:27] I like the motion.
[7:28] I have a motion by Tom.
[7:30] Second.
[7:30] Second by Judd.
[7:31] All in favor?
[7:32] Yes.
[7:33] Okay.
[7:33] Motion passes.
[7:34] Any.
[7:36] All right.
[7:37] that's business licenses have this time we'll move on to suicide prevention
[7:44] month I know somebody's here for that to do that.
[7:52] I'm going to say hello to my favorite city council. Good evening I'm Amanda
[7:57] Macintosh I'm the suicide prevention liaison with four corners community
[8:00] behavioral health I also serve on the board for the American Foundation for
[8:04] suicide prevention Utah chapter and I'm a sitting member on the Utah suicide
[8:09] prevention coalition committee under the department of humanities and human services.
[8:14] That's a magical plan. So I come over to you tonight to request that you proclaim September
[8:20] of 2026 suicide prevention and awareness month. I can't remember if we read it last year or not.
[8:27] So I will leave that under your discernment. But it's important to bring this proclamation to
[8:33] the city of Huntington so that people in our community who have lost somebody to suicide who are
[8:39] currently struggling with the mental health crisis or who have survived the mental health crisis
[8:43] knows that we have a community within a community to help navigate the grief and the shame and the
[8:50] guilt that comes with those types of mental health problems in our rural areas. It is still so
[8:55] stigmatized to talk about our mental health and you will know as well as I do that our mental health
[9:00] is just as important if not more important than our physical health and that they go hand in hand.
[9:05] when you don't feel good physically, you don't feel good mentally, when you don't feel
[9:09] good mentally, you don't feel good physically. And so with this small token of acknowledgement
[9:15] for suicide prevention and awareness month, you are sending the message to the City of Huntington
[9:21] that you support mental health services, you support the resources that are here and encourage
[9:27] the usage of those. And we are not in short supply. Unfortunately, people are just unaware of
[9:34] the resources that we do have at our fingertips
[9:37] until we're in the middle of a crisis.
[9:39] And so this proclamation talks about some of the resources
[9:42] that are here locally, statewide, animation-wide,
[9:45] and just calls the attention to how important suicide
[9:49] prevention is and what part we can play
[9:52] in preventing the next tragedy.
[9:57] Are you good, Raider?
[9:58] I'll read it if you, it's long.
[10:01] I mean, you know me, like words are my life.
[10:04] So, a proclamation by the Mayor and City Council of Huntington City, Utah proclaiming September
[10:12] 2026 to be suicide prevention and awareness month. Whereas the state of Utah has consistently
[10:18] been in the top states for suicide deaths since 2012, currently 11th in the nation versus 2025
[10:24] reporting of 7th. And whereas carbon and marine grang counties often lead the state of Utah in
[10:29] suicide deaths per capita and whereas people who lose their loved one to suicide are at
[10:33] a 30% higher risk of ending their lives by suicide as you learned coping mechanism and
[10:38] learned behavior and whereas the risk of suicide can be reduced through awareness, proper
[10:43] evidence-based training including safe messaging, educational resources and treatment and whereas
[10:49] according to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention Statistics, suicide is the first
[10:54] leading cause of death amongst Utahans ages 15 to 24, 2nd and 25, the 2nd leading cause of death amongst ages 25 to 34, no change, 2nd for ages 35 to 44, no change, 4th for ages 45 to 54, no change, 6th for ages 55 to 64, which has the highest rate of suicide, 4th and 20 to 25, and 17th for ages 65 and older, 18th and 20 to 25.
[11:22] And whereas suicide has a ripple effect and affects everyone,
[11:26] suicide is everyone's business.
[11:28] Talking about suicide does not plant the idea of self-harm,
[11:31] and suicide is one of the most preventable deaths that can be eradicated
[11:35] by one, learning the warning signs of depression and suicidal ideation,
[11:39] two, knowing how and when to ask about one suicidal thoughts.
[11:43] Three, being aware of life-saving measures such as safe storage of fire,
[11:47] arms and medications and for familiarizing ourselves with the resources available locally
[11:53] such as for corners community behavioral health statewide such as live on Utah and nationwide
[11:58] such as calling or texting 90 day the suicide and crisis lifeline. Now therefore,
[12:04] Huntington Mayor Leonard Norton on this 19th day of August 2026 proclaim September 2026 to be
[12:11] suicide prevention and awareness month in the city of Huntington and encourage all residents of
[12:16] Connington City to recognize how serious suicide is and the steps each of us can take to
[12:21] protect those around us from this preventable tragedy, one with devastating generational
[12:26] and community-wide effects.
[12:31] Okay.
[12:32] The only other thing that I will offer to the council this evening before you take a motion
[12:39] on it is that we do have a number of activities coming up in our communities over the next few
[12:45] weeks. Tomorrow, the Carbon County Business Chamber is hosting a luncheon at the
[12:50] Carbon Country Club and I will be doing a condensed evidence-based suicide
[12:56] prevention training called Talk Saves Lives. You've attended one of my
[13:00] trainings in the past, QPR, that has they have changed it so it's a much longer
[13:05] training and this one is more condensed but just as important and that again
[13:10] and you can reach out to the carbon country,
[13:13] carbon, county, business chain,
[13:16] I can't remember the name off the top of my head, sorry.
[13:19] So that's tomorrow.
[13:20] And then we recognize, national, no, excuse me, worldwide.
[13:28] Into,
[13:30] I'm usually much more articulate
[13:32] than this, it's been a long day.
[13:36] National World Suicide Prevention Day,
[13:38] I know it was gonna get there.
[13:39] Perry, Madam Paws, it's a thing.
[13:40] you guys are so lucky.
[13:42] Thank you.
[13:43] Oh, boy.
[13:44] That is every year on September 10th.
[13:47] So this year we are proud to host a candlelight vigil in all three of our communities.
[13:52] In Huntington, thanks to your guys's city park, you will be hosting it at Huntington City Park.
[13:58] Nikki already will be the host of that one.
[14:02] And it starts at 7 o'clock.
[14:04] We pass out battery-operated candles and allow a space for our community who has lost
[14:09] possibly to suicide to come and talk about their person and how they lived and the impact
[14:14] that they made on the lives around them.
[14:16] So oftentimes we are almost hushed through the shame and the guilt about talking about
[14:21] our loved ones.
[14:23] And so this is an opportunity to really talk about how they live.
[14:26] And even though they are not here walking beside us every day, their light still shines on
[14:30] and we commemorate that by inviting a candle at 8 o'clock PM.
[14:33] That in every time zone, respectively at 8 o'clock PM on World Suicide Prevention Day, we
[14:39] light a candle. And then we are hosting our 13th Annual Hope Walk that is taking place
[14:44] on Saturday, September 12th. And that will be at the Price Peace Gardens beginning at
[14:48] 9 o'clock, both of these preceding, both of these events are free to the community. And
[14:54] again, it's just an opportunity for the community to rally and support one another and listen
[14:59] into it.
[15:00] Inspirational messages of hope and know that they're not alone, that they are loved and we are so, so glad that they are still here with us. Now I'm done. Okay. Any question. I did post these on our Huntington Happening's page. Thank you. So appreciate that. Thank you. Okay. This time we're looking for a motion on declaring September 2026 as suicide prevention month. All in favor? Yes. You want the motion? Oh, I'm looking for a motion.
[15:29] I'm sorry. He wanted to buy. He wants the right now. Yeah, he's
[15:34] impressive. All right. I'll make the motion week set this
[15:36] proclamation. Have a motion by Judd. Second. Second by glory
[15:40] all in favor? Yes. Okay. Motion passes. Thank you. You're welcome.
[15:45] All right. This time, like turn some time over to Sheriff
[15:47] Huntington, update on our fire conditions.
[16:11] Don't encourage her.
[16:16] Okay Mayor Norton City Council thank you for granting me a little time to spend
[16:21] with you tonight.
[16:22] I'm not quite the butt kisser Amanda is, but I'm sorry you're gone.
[16:29] Yeah, obviously you're her favorite.
[16:33] You're my top peak.
[16:37] I just want to make that.
[16:39] I also have pretty many thoughts.
[16:43] as you all know we've been dealing with the fire here in the county and it's easy for
[16:49] me to stand up here and talk about how great my staff has been through this whole scenario
[16:55] but one thing I've learned as sheriff is it's great for other people to tell me how great
[17:01] my staff is so turn the tables so today I'm here to do that with the Huntington City Council
[17:12] You put people in positions because you want them to do the job and you think they're
[17:16] the people for the job and then you're kind of scared because you're just hoping that
[17:21] it works out.
[17:22] Well, I just want to tell you the day that it has and then talk to you a little bit about
[17:26] it.
[17:26] What I'm going to talk about real quick, this fire is not the fire that we're dealing with
[17:30] on Black Canyon.
[17:32] It's a little different one.
[17:34] Friday afternoon, this last Friday afternoon about one-ish, there was a lightning strike
[17:39] up Huntington Canyon near a little bit of campground and it started to fire. I was home in Cleveland
[17:48] going through emails when the call came out. I stood up, walked through my truck,
[17:57] told Emily goodbye and drove to the fire. So from the time it took for me to get from Cleveland to
[18:03] the 10 and 31 junction. That fire truck was in front of me. So I wasn't, I wasn't flying,
[18:11] but I wasn't doing Mayor Norton's feet. So I was probably 75 or so. But these guys,
[18:19] I don't know where they were. Apparently, they were at the station or somewhere because
[18:23] they were quickly, quickly to respond. I was able to pass them, just pass the JN Auto and
[18:31] And I think the only reason I was is because they were driving safe with a ton more weight
[18:35] than I was, but we got out there.
[18:37] So we get out there, I pull down off the off of 31 in park, and this fella comes in
[18:43] right behind me, and the people that are there working are the ones that called it in.
[18:48] And then you've got some firefighters there, didn't things ready.
[18:53] This is our first thing.
[18:56] So that young fella there, what's his name?
[18:58] Ty can't weigh 60 pounds soaking wet and he is on the end of that hose and he's waiting
[19:07] for water from that truck in the previous picture and I'm standing behind him and the
[19:12] whole time I'm waiting for water myself but in my mind remember those like looney tunes
[19:16] and that big thing of water came and the little skinny guys on the hose is doing this like
[19:22] That's what I was waiting for, because he's just a skinny guy.
[19:26] Well, water came, and they started working on it.
[19:30] So he's there at high, he's there at the plane
[19:32] in that fire.
[19:34] Some more people showed up.
[19:38] And there's a lot more to wildland fire
[19:41] than just putting water on the flames.
[19:45] It climbed up that tree.
[19:47] It was spread around in the ground cover,
[19:51] just forward of those guys the ground cover was like two feet thick like if you
[19:57] stood on it and it and it supported you weight that'd be one thing but if I stood
[20:01] on it I went past my knee just through brush and leaves and whatever else
[20:09] there and all that was on fire so they stayed there to do that and it's been a lot
[20:14] time. It kind of shows a little bit going up the tree there. Then in these
[20:20] pictures these guys are literally in the smoke with hand tools trying to get
[20:25] through that brush so the water can get through there. Structure fire and
[20:30] wild land fire completely different. That water, I think that's water is there to
[20:34] help but the real tools is the hard work and the hand tools of those guys put in
[20:39] and deal with. They're literally eating the smoke. There's always some
[20:43] animosity between cocks and firefighters. The smoke eater is like a really great
[20:48] afternoon or a smart word when I'm trying to think of that we call them. But in
[20:54] this case, it's real. They were there rubbing that stuff out of there. Just kind
[20:59] of a neat picture of your fire engine there with the stormy background. But this
[21:04] is my favorite picture. So the picture on the left is the start of this fire.
[21:08] picture on the right is the end of this fire. Every firefighter signs up because
[21:14] they want to do the picture on the left. They want to be out there with the water
[21:18] and the smoke and the fire and taking care of business. Picture on the right
[21:22] nobody wants to pay for it. But your chief who probably is the most trained is doing
[21:35] It's important for guys to see their leader doing the job that we want.
[21:42] It's important for guys to see their leader sleep on the floor during the missions that kind of thing.
[21:50] So any of those guys would have done it.
[21:52] She could have said, hey, Ty, you don't know where you're going to get this information out.
[21:56] You work out, but she did it.
[21:59] So, I just want to let you know, a grateful I am, to have a fire department in our county
[22:06] that I, that I can depend on as a non-fire fighter, but I still get rough looking at this stuff.
[22:15] It came out, we took care of business, that fire was out really quick,
[22:19] and the location it was in could have caused a lot of problem.
[22:22] And there was county property there, there was private property there, this was on and it did a tough job.
[22:30] It got right into it.
[22:32] The chief is actually getting a state truck using their equipment to get that out with state liaison just right next to me, right there with them.
[22:41] So wonderful relationship with the state, wonderful relationship with County Sheriff.
[22:47] And it's nice to just see him get out and I'm excused by language, but I feel like there's
[22:53] a lot of us.
[22:56] And it was great to see that.
[22:57] I don't want to take anything to say for providing their firefighters with the things
[23:01] that they need and helping them be prepared.
[23:03] I also want to say thanks for your involvement in our LAPC.
[23:07] Tom's at every meeting.
[23:09] I think it's for lunch, but I think he also can write it for lunch.
[23:14] But it's just grateful to have you guys here.
[23:17] You're our biggest city, you have the most citizens.
[23:20] It's always hard to police people what we do our best.
[23:24] We appreciate your support, and we've
[23:26] gotten it from all of you.
[23:27] So just know this from me, how grateful I am for your
[23:31] department and your relationship that I have personally
[23:34] with the city and also about department.
[23:38] So thank you.
[23:40] Thank you, Sheriff.
[23:41] We appreciate the support you guys do.
[23:46] We also like to thank our Fire Department for everything they've done.
[23:50] They do for us and help out on the county level also.
[23:55] Alright, at this time we are looking for a motion on orbit in zero-20.
[24:02] Oh, oh, dash 2026-8.
[24:06] Outside bond boundary water, culinary water connections.
[24:09] all this is is we're changing it from water rights to water shares it's just
[24:14] language change is all this ordinance is any questions on that I guess back
[24:23] in the day they used to call them water rights and we've been told no
[24:27] their water shares now I'll make a motion we accept changes to ordinance O 20
[24:34] 2026-8. I am a motion by Judd. Second by Tom. Gloria. Yes. Yes, then. Yes, Lisa. Yes, okay. Motion passes.
[24:48] At this time we put a new, we're going to put a new alternate planning and zoning
[24:59] person on. We had one application come in. It was for Theron Chatley. Put an
[25:08] application in. We looked at it, talked to him, asked him. He wants to be part of
[25:13] it. So we are going to put him on to fill the alternate positions on finding
[25:19] him zoning. Any questions on that?
[25:25] We're looking for a motion on that. To put
[25:27] tonn for their non-planning zoning?
[25:30] I make the most of them that we put very gently on planning and zoning as an alternative.
[25:36] I am motion by Alisa. Second. Second, my glory on favor? Yes.
[25:40] Okay, our next one is our concrete bids for the cemetery.
[25:49] We had two bids come in.
[25:52] One was from the Behantson construction and one was from a Vietit, Hector of Yis.
[26:00] They're two different. They're the the bid is broke up in two different sections depending on
[26:10] finances and you hate to tell glory this, but show me has about 50,000 dollars
[26:16] You might have to trim a little more off of it this year
[26:19] We have 75 already looked into this
[26:25] When did you change it?
[26:28] That's what was given to me when we did the budget
[26:32] Well, we only have 50,000 because we're taking some from
[26:36] We have two beds one is D Hansen which is microly construction one is Hector V this microlyze is for 70,000
[26:46] 8190 and
[26:47] If you this construction is 74,400 the
[26:54] project just won't want to be done by the end of October and
[26:59] I do not know
[27:00] What their schedules are if they will be able to fulfill that or not
[27:04] Nobody can give me a good answer so have you list told me he could okay and I
[27:12] think did you call Riley you will they both said they could okay well I'd like
[27:23] make a motion we accept that there's bed where he's a local we keep the
[27:30] business in our city. I have a motion by Tom. Second. Second by Lisa.
[27:41] Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. I guess we will ward the bid to Hector Vita for
[27:49] in the amount of $74,400. It was in but it's in within our purchasing agreement that it's
[27:57] within 7% that we can go with a little higher bid as long as they're in in the city.
[28:06] You can look at taking them so there you go, we let Hector know because
[28:15] you're right
[28:16] there and she's over there.
[28:18] One of you too we let Hector know, okay.
[28:22] Next on our list is the tunnel at the Williams Park, we brought to our attention that the
[28:29] Tunnel was broken. We reached out to the playground manufacturer and they do have it.
[28:36] They did find us a tunnel. Didn't they not? Yeah.
[28:40] Well, it was a 15. Go ahead, Jeff.
[28:44] 1,552 dollars and 70 cents. It included all of the flanges and the bolts and everything.
[28:51] Because we have no idea if we can get these bolts off the original.
[28:56] But so it was everything and when I called them like they had to do a bunch of work on
[29:03] We had to try to estimate when the project was and they tried to find the exact project so we could match it all up
[29:10] And they were able to find it with photographs, so
[29:14] anyway
[29:17] We've already submitted to get it coming because this is a safety hazard bark our citizens
[29:23] And so it's under the number that we need to have council approval.
[29:29] So we went ahead and got it ordered.
[29:31] I just want to bring it before the city council as well again.
[29:42] Okay, next one on a missed is a march just a mower for the tractor.
[29:48] Our old mower that goes on the back of the tractor
[29:51] was basically falling apart, hard to get some parts for it, and we priced what parts
[29:58] to what we'd have to do to get the...
[30:00] Parts and fix it, compared to a new one. A new one came to about 21, 120, 21, 49. 21, 49. We went ahead and ordered that and got it coming. They went and picked it up. So we do now. Now I have a new more for the tractor. It's still within their purchase agreement. What we need to have approval. So we didn't need to have approval on that one. We just have to get it ordered.
[30:29] So we do have a new tractor more so we can get some weeds cut down.
[30:38] Alright, our next one is our pickable quartz.
[30:40] I'll turn the time over to Joe down that one.
[30:42] He's been a spearhead in this one for our park.
[30:47] Okay, so this is what we've been trying to make happen is install two new pickable.
[30:55] they join each other at Lions Park. If you go to the end of the parking lot, there's just a pilot dirt there.
[31:04] And so this would take up that dirt area and clean that up and it would kind of finish our whole park.
[31:12] Um, uh, a side note, though, that the basketball court that's there is all busted up, that the tracks have lifted.
[31:19] Really not that safe for anybody who play on it.
[31:24] And so I, what I did is when I asked for bids for the pickable court, I asked them to also throw in what it would look like for them to, uh, upgrade that basketball court as well.
[31:35] Well, there's a lot of numbers here.
[31:38] What I got back was three professional pickable court companies, premium surface solutions
[31:44] the first one, first column on the left, precision pro courts and grit courts.
[31:50] Premium surface solution actually sent some guys out.
[31:54] They met with me just to see if this was the best place to do the court and make sure that
[32:00] everything looked good on their end.
[32:02] And they from what I can tell, they're a higher end company, they're warranties exceed
[32:13] the other warranties of the other places.
[32:15] So their numbers are a little bit higher.
[32:19] Great courts really came in with the best numbers, that's the third column.
[32:26] So I asked Lossavila to throw a number in there since we needed something local to see what it looked like to have them do it.
[32:35] He could not do a post-tension slab. So the top number is what it would cost to do the concrete for the post-tension slab for just the 60 by 60 pickable cord.
[32:48] but he could give us a price for a rebar 60 by 60 slab and you can see he's right
[32:58] there that we've got precision pro courts was 1200 less and grit courts was
[33:05] 1,000 less actually 2,200 less for that.
[33:12] What you think you got to realize is if you look at him, well, to be this doesn't
[33:18] They have all the netting, servicing, fencing around it,
[33:22] where the others do.
[33:24] You got it in the consideration.
[33:26] He didn't even want to try to get a bid for the servicing.
[33:30] Because what these other companies offer is they come in
[33:34] and they actually prep the concrete.
[33:36] They etch it with acid so that this particular paint will
[33:43] adhere to it better.
[33:45] They also guarantee that the runoff,
[33:47] if you will not have any puddling, which will maintain a better court and it will keep
[33:53] the pain on there for a lot longer.
[33:55] The reason that people do the post tension is you can, as the concrete cures, they'll
[34:04] compress the concrete, so it's just a floating slab that will never crack.
[34:08] It does still get small little cracks, but it will not lift or move away from the cracks,
[34:13] where as rebar you have to cut you know every eight by eight square you've got to cut a joint
[34:21] where it will crack and then you get cracking so and if you go over to Orangeville they just
[34:27] put eight pickable courts in you can already start to see where the the crackings happening from where
[34:32] they filled the cracks with some epoxy to make it flat but you can still see those cracks coming
[34:39] through. Anyway, it's a lot more expensive to go the post-tension, but we can't. I mean
[34:48] for us to really afford to do this project, the numbers are coming out that we probably
[34:54] couldn't go that route.
[34:57] So, if you look down Pickleball post-tension
[35:01] total, just for the Pickleball courts, the two pickball courts, the first number was 120,000.
[35:09] The next number is 110,000, and then the next number is 96,5 from Grit Courts.
[35:18] That's with post-tension.
[35:21] If we did not post-tension and just did the rebar, the first company premium is right there at 96,5.
[35:30] Precision Pro Courts is 85, and Grit Courts is there at 78,5.
[35:36] That
[35:40] includes the pickwall courts, this flatwork around them to clean up all the way to the asphalt and clean up everything so there's walk, walk around surface around the pickwall courts.
[35:53] The surfacing took two pickball net systems and then the fencing that goes all the way around everything or
[36:02] those numbers.
[36:03] everything else underneath that really, so I asked them to throw a price out there for lighting, for light poles, and that's what's underneath those two total numbers, which would probably have to be something,
[36:19] I don't know, if we're going to go with the project, I'd like to at least do the underground work and get the post, the concrete in for the post, and then maybe later we can afford it.
[36:31] but
[36:34] the basketball, I don't know, that have to be a whole other project, another year.
[36:45] Okay, so if you go to the very bottom of the page, you'll slide down a little bit.
[36:49] I've got three different totals there. The first one's pickable post-tension slab,
[36:55] surfaced, advanced, nets, basketball rebar slab with flatwork and hoop and hoops.
[37:03] and those totals are all three of them are right there are above 150,000, well
[37:12] grids at 146 but okay
[37:19] so what is your recommendation so
[37:27] last year when we
[37:31] talked about this we agreed to go with a post-tension and the numbers I was
[37:36] given you last year where 120 I think is 123,000 for the whole project.
[37:46] This year
[37:46] the numbers are less but I don't have the money I
[37:54] thought I had the money but
[37:55] I don't have the money. We
[38:03] had
[38:12] allocated 40,000 for last year and we had voted
[38:15] Yes, upon receiving 80,000 worth of grants, I was not able to get the grants.
[38:22] So we had the 40,000 there that we didn't use for pickwall courts, but we did end up
[38:27] using that at the rodeo grounds for other stuff, so now for money back.
[38:33] So now I'm asking Lisa for 40,000 to add to my 75,000, so we put 75,000 on our budget because
[38:44] with the $40,000 plus the $75,000, we would have been able to do the project.
[38:53] It's what I had for my budget, and I didn't have it, so I was told I had for my budget.
[39:04] So we have $75,000, so looking at this, we can do a pick-a-ball rebar court at $78,500.
[39:15] do we want to do that? Really? Do we want to do that?
[39:23] After all you're
[39:24] investigating after all you're talking to everybody. Do we really want to do
[39:29] that? Talking to Orangeville's mayor he said if he was going to put any more
[39:34] courts and he'd go post-tension.
[39:37] He just did post- he helped do post-tension
[39:40] court.
[39:44] I'm a firm believer you get what you pay for and I think the better
[39:49] warranty. We go with the post tension.
[39:57] We're going to do it on doing it to go with the
[40:00] best. So I
[40:06] hate to stop. Okay.
[40:10] Here's an idea if we fix the basketball court with rebar
[40:15] this year. We're under that 75,000 and then we budget for next year and I get a lot more
[40:24] help and try to get those grants because what I've been able to bring the table to get grants
[40:30] I'm not getting they're not coming my way so but we do need to replace that basketball court
[40:37] and that would be better to get it done anyway we uh can we table this until next month and
[40:45] yeah a little bit more I would make make a motion that we table it at this time until we can
[40:51] Let's do a little more investigating and we'll readdress it next month I'll make that motion. Are you okay with that, Joe?
[40:59] I'm gonna have to tell all all these I mean I'd have to reap it everything after
[41:05] Well look it went down from the last time you had it rebid so maybe the next time it'll yeah
[41:10] This is the first time I've asked two of these companies give me a bid
[41:13] But just at this time for this kind of money. We're gonna have to look into this little sit more serious
[41:24] I thought Lisa was just going to have me money.
[41:27] I don't have any money.
[41:30] We have a motion to table it.
[41:32] You make the motion?
[41:34] I have a second.
[41:35] I have a second by Lisa on paper.
[41:37] Yes.
[41:38] Any opposed?
[41:40] Table table is still next month.
[41:41] I'm doing some investigating.
[41:43] Next thing on our agenda, the David Siebrings Industrial Subdivision.
[41:47] Years ago, they made that a subdivision down there.
[41:52] Do you have that?
[41:54] He, we had discussion with him because he wants to put a house down there and we talked
[42:00] to him about it.
[42:01] Roadway, he's built, done some construction that blocked the roadway.
[42:06] So at this time he's abandoning the subdivision.
[42:09] It is no longer a subdivision, it's just an industrial properties.
[42:14] If he does decide to subdivide it again, you'll have to reapply and draw up a new map to
[42:22] make a copacetic. So that is no longer a subdivision down there. Okay.
[42:32] That okay with you, Jessica?
[42:35] Huh? Okay.
[42:40] Our next one is utility deposit account.
[42:46] Okay, so talking to other treasurers most cities required deposit on their utility accounts.
[42:56] So when you open a utility account, they require the deposit.
[43:00] Some of your bigger cities are up to $500.
[43:03] But they try to say we want at least two, two and a half months worth of money in case
[43:09] they bill.
[43:12] So I've been trying to remember to talk to you guys about this.
[43:16] So this is what I wanted to ask you guys to think about.
[43:21] if it is something that you want to start doing we come up with a figure and
[43:27] then anybody who is a new utility customer will have to put a deposit and then
[43:33] we have to make change our ordinance that says we require a deposit and then do
[43:39] a resolution for the amount. So just basically whatever you guys are thinking.
[43:45] Did you say change the ordinance?
[43:49] Well we just have to add, we have to add that we require security.
[43:55] And then the deposit is set by resolution.
[43:59] So that's...
[44:00] I said that for somebody.
[44:01] Yeah, I know.
[44:01] Yeah, I know.
[44:03] I know.
[44:04] When I mentioned it, I got this look that laser...
[44:08] Okay, and that's something we'll take into advisement or consideration and we'll discuss it.
[44:12] So because it might be a good idea, especially since we're giving a lot of new people in.
[44:20] Okay.
[44:22] Alright, at this time, I'll go into my report.
[44:27] Water-wise, so far, we have used, up to this date, we've used 400 acre feet of our secondary water.
[44:35] We have about 340 acre feet left.
[44:39] If we go by a current usage, that will give us about 100 days of water usage.
[44:47] I don't say we have that much water up there.
[44:50] I don't know how much we have.
[44:51] We don't know what this irrigation company's plan is.
[44:55] It's how long they're going to let water come down.
[44:58] But I want to...
[45:00] I thank the citizens of Hemington for conserving, using our water wisely. Some of the cities are
[45:10] going to be shutting their water off within the next week to two weeks. I think we, depending
[45:16] on the irrigation company, we have at least another month, so I commend everybody for
[45:21] their help and consideration in that taking care of our city this year.
[45:31] Other
[45:31] net has kind of been slow. I just want to thank Robert and the guys for cleaning
[45:36] up everything, getting everything looking good, getting ready for fall. We do what?
[45:43] What?
[45:45] I said for Paul.
[45:47] Paul.
[45:51] Probably within the next month we'll start our cleanup and burn season by the end of
[45:56] the way.
[45:57] I said timber.
[45:59] It'll be on the newsletter, but we'll start Paul cleanup, so we'll get ready for that
[46:06] if you know people that need some help.
[46:07] We appreciate it to help them out.
[46:10] Our planning and zoning have been going around trying to get some clean up done.
[46:16] I appreciate her, what she's done, she's put in a lot of time.
[46:20] We are making a little bit of progress, but it's a slow, tedious project, but thank you
[46:28] Jessica for everything you're doing there.
[46:31] Thank you Council for all the hard work they've done this summer and this year.
[46:36] Appreciate everything.
[46:37] They're done.
[46:37] to my office staff. Brandy, we've got some more ordinances to take care of.
[46:45] Eventually you'll be done, and I'll tell you about it.
[46:52] This is one of them conditioning. This is one of them things that is an ongoing project
[46:59] that changes all the time. Other than school has started today, please. Oh, a couple of things.
[47:09] No, that I think about it. Please be careful of our kids out on school going to
[47:14] buttoon from school. It's that time of the year. The other thing I have is
[47:21] motorcycles.
[47:25] We do have rules on riding motorcycles in this city. I've talked to
[47:30] the sheriff and if you ride them respectable and be decent we will maybe work with
[47:37] but if you're not, we're going to crack down.
[47:41] Racing, popping wheelies down main street,
[47:44] revving up your motorcycle, running scopsines
[47:47] is not running to be respectable.
[47:50] Also, electric motorcycles, they are not
[47:55] to be on the sidewalk.
[47:57] The reason I brought this up, I was outside
[48:00] of my house yesterday doing some work
[48:01] and all of a sudden I hear this whine
[48:03] and then it comes in an electric motorcycle.
[48:05] down the sidewalk and about hit me. You want to see a pissed-off mirror? You
[48:10] would have seen him if I could have chased the kid down I would have but he was
[48:13] gone before I could look at it. But if I find him things aren't going to be good.
[48:19] That's you. I tried to get you.
[48:23] I'm surprised you missed him. Just remember pay
[48:27] back suddenly. So please if you're going to ride your e-bikes your electric
[48:32] motor cycles and motorcycles do it respectfully, do it the law states and
[48:36] wear helmets because if it keeps up we're gonna crack down and we're gonna
[48:41] crack down hard and if I have to I'll get a DNR guy and help me
[48:45] involved.
[48:49] I'll go over to his head to the top if I have to.
[48:56] I can't help much about that. I've tried on everybody but nobody's taken a little
[49:02] take up on that one, sorry.
[49:06] That's all I have at this time we'll go to our
[49:08] department reports and we'll start with our fire chief. Before he gets carried away
[49:14] I want to thank him and his fire department for helping with the black
[49:17] canyon fire. The time they put up there and helping take care of the readers of
[49:23] David and thank you Chase and relay that message to your guys.
[49:27] Absolutely, thank you. So, Chase Majors, Huntington City Fire Chief. I want to say thank you to
[49:34] every kind of sheriff's office, Sheriff Huntington for coming in and talking on our behalf. He
[49:39] lapsed so I had a really good joke lined up about cops and firefighters, but he's not here for
[49:43] the land, so we'll save that one for next time. I will give a black hand in a big because that's what
[49:48] you guys were expecting, and then I'll go into our part of black hand in as far as Huntington Fire
[49:54] department. So currently as it stands, the Black Canyon is at 3,263 acres with 51%
[50:01] containment. There's a lot of misconceptions on what containment is and why it
[50:08] takes along to get it. I'm not sure if any of you are familiar with the Black
[50:11] Canyon territory, but it is very rough country. When you get containment on the map
[50:17] and it's sent back to the citizens in the public, that means you actually have
[50:22] fire barrier all the way around the perimeter of that fire.
[50:26] We can't put fire barrier or we can't put boots on the ground.
[50:29] So we can do air attack and knock down the fire, but until we have boots on the ground
[50:33] or equipment there, you're not going to get that black line on the map that says this has
[50:37] fire containment.
[50:39] So that's why it's taking so long to get these updated numbers, and then it'll sit around
[50:44] that higher percentage of containment before they say 100% contained because fire is in
[50:49] our control until it's lit. That's the best way to put that. They do have the, I'm would
[50:58] assume that most people are aware that they have the fire camp moved to the Rec Center
[51:02] in Casabell. They brought in Nevada type 2 team to take over from the previous initial
[51:09] attack team. They brought in federal resources, a different instant commander, a different
[51:14] team to be able to move this incident up. Thankfully, it's not showing a lot of
[51:19] forward progression. We did have an entire structure group in the Reader
[51:23] Subdivision. We've laid miles of hose and pumpkins and pumps to where if it hits
[51:30] one of our fail safes that we have set up, we kick on pumps and we go to
[51:34] structure protection. Actually, I have a picture I was going to send you because I
[51:38] was straining a hose through your property. They did evacuate the entire Reader
[51:43] subdivision. Firefighters from Emory County, San Pete County and all around the country came in
[51:50] provided structure protection for this area. We currently have some Australian firefighters,
[51:55] I don't know if you've seen that in the news. There's an Australian hang crew fighting fire with us
[51:59] up there and they're up on top of Reader Ridge building those hand lines that I was telling
[52:04] you about that need to make the containment. So with that they've allowed people come back
[52:11] a reader subdivision on a set status so earlier they were on go they had to evacuate but now the
[52:17] public is allowed to come back in to their properties be in the area with still the understanding
[52:23] that there's active wildfire several miles away and they need to leave when they're told.
[52:30] The national preparedness level so this is through the US Forest Service,
[52:35] This is Mantala Sound National Forest.
[52:37] We're at a PL5, which is the highest.
[52:40] We have, it's used all of our resources through the nation.
[52:45] They're fighting fires all over the country, Canada, we've got firefighters in Australia
[52:49] from America, fighting fires.
[52:51] We're hard up nationwide.
[52:54] Everything's burning.
[52:55] So we are at a high, high level of preparedness and awareness.
[52:59] Anytime we get a fire, we've got to use whatever resources we have.
[53:04] They pulled emery county resources. We had three different engines from emery county. We had a huntington fire department engine
[53:12] Fair and fire department and cast it on fire department on our structure engines
[53:17] So when you send a structure engine to structure protection you have to have at least three firefighters in that engine and
[53:24] That engine has to stay there for 14 days
[53:27] We're asking volunteers to take 14 days and go do this
[53:32] I don't have that kind of time and I don't have that kind of heads up about seven hours
[53:37] to figure this out to make it work to go up there and do this.
[53:41] So Huntington's Fire Engine had me on it, a firefighter out of Elmo on it and a firefighter
[53:47] out of Emory on it.
[53:48] The Emory firefighter was able to staff our engine for 14 days straight.
[53:52] I switched out over a couple of days and one of our other Huntington firefighters filled
[53:57] in for me, and then ELMO switched out and a Cleveland firefighter
[54:01] built in for them. We can't switch out the engines, we just have to make the crew
[54:04] work the engine stays. So with that, they have to be red card certified. That's
[54:09] something the Huntington Fire Department pushes for hard. Our numbers are just
[54:14] low. We don't have a big pool to draw from to get firefighters red carded. It's
[54:19] one of our requirements as far as our physical tests to pass the physical part of
[54:24] it, but the certification isn't currently one of our department requirements, it will
[54:30] be shortly.
[54:34] Each firefighter got paid personally from the fire, so we fight fire as volunteers
[54:40] for free. We don't receive anything from insurance companies, we don't have a tax base.
[54:46] We provide our service for free when we go out and provide wild land structure protection
[54:51] or wildland suppression to our MOU with forestry fire and state lands, we do get reimbursed.
[54:57] So each firefighter got paid based on their qualifications.
[55:01] Our engine also got paid for the fact that it was fully staffed and it got a day rate.
[55:06] And then we also will receive a mileage reimbursement to help cover with fuel and death.
[55:12] Any other minor wear and tear, but then the rest of that truck payment will come in to
[55:17] to pay for supplies for the station,
[55:20] wildland approved things.
[55:25] Let's see, I've got notes, I'm trying.
[55:29] So with us pushing for wildland firefighters,
[55:34] it gives them the opportunity to receive payment
[55:36] to be a wildland firefighter,
[55:38] but then it's also a career path.
[55:39] I'm currently employed through the state of Utah
[55:42] and doing volunteer firefighting,
[55:44] and then I get my chance to go out and make money on it.
[55:47] there are so many career opportunities that you can go through once you get your
[55:53] wildland certification through a volunteer department and then you can move
[55:56] on to these hand crews or structure protection groups and travel around and
[56:00] fight fire. There's career paths that can be opened up through a volunteer service.
[56:07] So it's not only just people that are already set in town that want to fight
[56:11] fire forever, we can bring in the youth to train them up and give them a career
[56:16] opportunity. So if you know nieces, nephews, sons, daughters, friends, acquaintances, send them down
[56:23] because it's also a really good career path. We're constantly looking for firefighters to not
[56:29] only help us locally, but then countywide and statewide and they have an opportunity to move up.
[56:36] I was actually offered a job on this fire to move up, but I told them that I'm pretty well set
[56:41] where I'm at and I'm going to stay in Huntington. My wife would kill me if I left the state
[56:45] again for work. Going back to the Black Canyon Fire, if any of you or the public wants
[56:52] to get more information on the Black Canyon Fire, check the Mantile of South National Forest
[56:59] Facebook page. They're the ones that they're getting their information from our briefings
[57:05] in the mornings and then they're putting it out to where you can see the after briefing
[57:10] that will give you all the information of the fire and any updates as it goes.
[57:15] Another really good resource is an app called WatchDuty, you can download on your phone
[57:22] and that is the information from there is supplied from firefighters and organizations
[57:26] to give you that information.
[57:28] The fire that was posted with Tyson or Sheriff Huntington is actually posted on the WatchDuty
[57:35] app as the little bear fire.
[57:36] single tree lighting strike that we were able to to go out and provide IA which
[57:42] is initial attack full suppression on it. With me being deployed on this fire
[57:48] for last 14 days off and on I was able to get ink in my task book so as you
[57:53] venture further into your wildland career or wildland certifications you have to
[57:59] be checked off on certain things. The picture that Tyson showed was me giving a
[58:03] radio report of an initial report of a fire, that's one of the skills you have to pass
[58:08] off to be able to communicate that to our MOAB interagency fire center to be able to
[58:14] where I can become an engine boss, and then we can take one of our smaller brush trucks,
[58:20] a type 6 engine, and then I can take a hand crew with me to where we can do not only structure
[58:25] protection, but we can go out and do initial attack, create lines, but I need to get my certifications
[58:31] a little bit higher, and that's something I was able to do during this fire.
[58:36] So with that I want to thank Tom Huntington City for the support.
[58:42] Helping me build a better wildland program, I want to thank Hunter and Chloe.
[58:48] Hunter lynches my assistant fire chief, Chloe McArthur is one of our newest firefighters
[58:53] and she's been just doing amazing.
[58:56] Hunter held down the floor for the last two weeks while I was on the mountain.
[58:58] I didn't have to worry about down here because I was busy up there.
[59:04] So thank you to them for keeping everything going while I was out of town.
[59:07] I didn't have to worry that Huntington wasn't protected because we built a crew
[59:12] that no matter who's there, we're going to have good people on the scene.
[59:16] Do you have any questions for me?
[59:19] What is the age restriction held?
[59:22] So to be an active firefighter's 18, we do have a juniors program.
[59:27] So 14 with parent, they can attend our trainings, we'll train them just the same as we train
[59:32] our other firefighters.
[59:33] From 16 up with a signature from their parent, they can be at the station and do the trainings
[59:38] with us, they can't go on the fire.
[59:42] But we will train them just the same, they will gain all the same knowledge, and if they start
[59:46] at 16 by the time they're 18, they'll be ready to start getting their qualifications that year.
[59:52] Yeah.
[59:57] Winter fire?
[59:58] Yes.
[1:00:01] January. Yeah, that'll be the last weekend in January.
[1:00:08] Oh, as far as who's going to attend. Okay. Yep. We will get to that. Also, talking about you for the fire trainings. We have a, it's called the EADS trailer, the electronic driving simulator. It's going to be hosted in Theron or not Theron Green River through the Utah Fire Rescue Academy. We will be sending a couple of our firefighters down there to attend it. It is a training they have to pass off to drive.
[1:00:33] have our apparatuses. So they'll do the electronic simulator and then there's also a hands-on
[1:00:37] road course. They have to drive the apparatuses. They'll be responding in through this cone
[1:00:43] course. So they'll receive the classroom portion and the hands-on portion and that's
[1:00:48] one of our requirements, the honeycomb fire, to pass off our firefighters, to be able to
[1:00:52] operate our trucks. It's kind of one day or two day course. It's a one day. So they'll do
[1:00:58] Heads in the morning, co-course in the afternoon, or vice versa, because they're going to run four deployments right now.
[1:01:04] Yeah, so they'll do one group doing the electronic version while another group is doing the physical,
[1:01:11] they're in the trucks and then they'll swap those two after lunch.
[1:01:15] So it'll be a one-day course, eight-hour training, plus drive time.
[1:01:19] Are they going to teach backing?
[1:01:25] He had to.
[1:01:29] I can't even say what the name of that doll is.
[1:01:33] Competent spotters, competent drivers.
[1:01:35] There is a whole section in backing though.
[1:01:39] Thank you, Chase.
[1:01:39] Thank you, Chase.
[1:01:40] Thank you.
[1:01:41] Thank you, Chase.
[1:01:41] Thanks for having me.
[1:01:43] Thanks for having me.
[1:01:45] I need to talk to you and Hunter.
[1:01:47] Thank you.
[1:01:49] Maynors Department.
[1:01:52] Scott.
[1:01:59] What were you sitting around on your e-bike?
[1:02:19] We've got our new mower hooked up, haven't used it yet but it's hooked up ready to roll.
[1:02:26] We've had a handful of funerals, we've had the dig, and there was a dead tree in the cemetery.
[1:02:32] We've got that cut down.
[1:02:35] And just all the other stained old stuff, take care of sprinklers.
[1:02:40] We've had a few breaks, we've had to repair.
[1:02:43] Clean a bunch of sprinklers, but, you know, been seeing it.
[1:02:48] Okay, get ready, fall cleanups coming.
[1:02:51] we've already seen a few piles out there ready to get picked up so okay thanks
[1:03:01] Gunny you bet I'm a youth kit city council report we do that with your
[1:03:06] council okay come we'll start with you this time all right thank you
[1:03:12] planning zoning they had to elect chair and co-chair and they elected Patrick
[1:03:20] Felberg at the chairman and Stacey Michael Pran has the co-chairman and then
[1:03:26] Theron Lee like is the alternate like we both eat them on here or so and that
[1:03:33] he's welcomed and that they during meeting they discussed the short-term
[1:03:40] Reynolds Vacation, short-term vacation rentals. Next month, they'll be having a public
[1:03:47] caring on that. Then Hector come, wanted to apply for a car
[1:03:58] dealership, but they're
[1:04:02] going to follow through on that next month. They extended that to next month. And that's
[1:04:13] on on a planning and zoning. I went to LEPC meeting and we had the meteorologists from
[1:04:22] all of them from Salt Lake, Utah, just in that. They talked about the Doppler Radar area here
[1:04:30] it's pretty hard to get the weather here so they're going to they're saying they're the private
[1:04:36] company will be coming in probably about two years putting off the radar up on
[1:04:41] six-seater mountain. That's going to help. That's all I got.
[1:04:47] Thank you. Lisa. On August 1st, the District 6 adult writing club meet was held
[1:04:55] at R Arena. It was well attended. We only had one accident. On August, the last
[1:05:02] Saturday in August there is a four wheeler biking group that will use the
[1:05:06] pavilion as a rest stop. They did that last year. They appreciated us letting
[1:05:11] them come in.
[1:05:14] The young little bull riders have been practicing at the arena
[1:05:18] and we have one local eight-year-old that has qualified for the IMBA World
[1:05:23] Finals in Ogden which will be held September 8 through the level.
[1:05:28] Okay.
[1:05:33] It happens to be Brent and Miller,
[1:05:38] aka Betty Lou.
[1:05:41] That's another story.
[1:05:44] Okay.
[1:05:48] That's it.
[1:05:49] Okay.
[1:05:50] Devon.
[1:05:52] Streets and sidewalks have been really quiet for me too.
[1:05:54] So I'll thank the guys and maintenance for keeping them quiet and trying to stand top of those weeds as much as I'm sure they're going as fast as you're spraying them.
[1:06:02] Other than that, I've got a couple projects going out for bid here pretty soon, but that's
[1:06:07] all I've got tonight too.
[1:06:09] Good.
[1:06:10] Good.
[1:06:12] On the fourth, we had our EEMSSD meeting, that special service visit for our emergency response
[1:06:20] teams, and we were able to acquire an agreement with the county so that we could,
[1:06:30] raise the pay for the on call, which is not, we've not been able to do that for 25 years.
[1:06:39] And so that was a huge breakthrough for us.
[1:06:42] And hopefully that'll help us to retain EMTs and staff, or five garages at 100% is
[1:06:49] what we're attempting to do.
[1:06:52] Honeyton is the only garage that is able to do that staff at 100%.
[1:06:57] And so we've been trying different things to try to get all the other four garages staffed
[1:07:04] more around the clock. So that was a big breakthrough for us on that district.
[1:07:11] The REC board district, we've got our new director in and he's been a ball fire. He's doing a lot
[1:07:20] of work and our assistant director and him are really doing a lot of work there so we're
[1:07:27] excited to move forward with some things with the wreck district.
[1:07:35] Just a lot of footwork
[1:07:37] on these pickleball courts and it's frustrating to see these prices and just see how much it
[1:07:42] costs to do this kind of stuff. I'd love to figure out a way to get some help with grants
[1:07:48] on that one so that we don't have to take a brown of it. So hopefully that
[1:07:53] can happen.
[1:07:57] So yeah street cleanup September 15th through November 15th and
[1:08:02] that'll we start in that soon so thanks guys for helping there. Jennifer did go
[1:08:08] out and check our flowers because it seemed like something was maybe some we
[1:08:12] people or some kind of bug was hitting them, but it's just that time of year taught.
[1:08:20] They're still holding on for a little bit though.
[1:08:24] And I just want to thank all the city workers for all the hard work they do with their parks
[1:08:28] and our city.
[1:08:30] It's a beautiful city to live in and you're a major part of reason for that.
[1:08:35] That's all of that.
[1:08:36] Very good.
[1:08:37] All right.
[1:08:39] Okay.
[1:08:39] Hey, Cemetery, there were five plots sold and we did have four funerals.
[1:08:47] I think all of us would really like to thank Elisa Pierce for her dedication and service
[1:08:54] for all of the years that she has spent as our Huntington City's crosswalk worker.
[1:08:59] She's no longer with us and we replaced her with Renee.
[1:09:03] Renee. Renee is going to help the Estelle and Amy for this school year. I also met with
[1:09:12] the crosswalk workers to go over safety procedures before school started. So we got that done.
[1:09:19] Did his coat come in? Okay, thank you. The U.C. Council kids are resting. Okay.
[1:09:26] on a rest. Okay. Before school started, so let them have some fun. Okay. And I would
[1:09:38] also like to thank the workers, the cemetery, Jennifer, and it's pretty up there. It is
[1:09:44] pretty up there. She's done a great job and so has Tim. And I think the workers for taking
[1:09:49] that dead tree out. That's all I got. Okay. All right. Plenty and zoning administrator.
[1:09:58] You have
[1:09:59] anything for us.
[1:10:04] Okay I had a couple zone clearances with both new homes
[1:10:09] going to be put in and that there was a boat trailer and some jet skis on a
[1:10:16] trailer both were unlicensed that Gloria brought to my attention those have been
[1:10:20] removed. Thank you. You're welcome. On
[1:10:27] the first one on my resident interactions
[1:10:31] somebody called and said that there was some RV living. I spoke with this resident and she said that the person that was living in the RV just decided to move inside the house.
[1:10:43] So it's still there, but he's using it in the store all of his stuff and now instead of sleeping. So I let it go at that.
[1:10:51] The next one down, this has been in the works. We'll continue to be in the works for the foreseeable future.
[1:10:59] the next one worked with planning and zoning. We did come up with another solution for him that we
[1:11:10] feel will be a better avenue. He's going to move it to the other side of town. I'm planning and zoning in myself
[1:11:17] thought that that might be a better place to have a car lot than in our residential areas. I think we
[1:11:25] reach some common ground there. We had some interest in the market
[1:11:30] Catholic Justice subdivision. They're wanting to revive that and start some new
[1:11:35] building in that. So I talked to them. I had a couple of questions on zoning
[1:11:41] clearances.
[1:11:44] A bunch of trash, lately a bunch of weeds. So I hit those as much as I
[1:11:50] could couple certified letters sent out.
[1:11:55] There is an RV that's parked on the
[1:11:58] street on 400 North on the east side of Main Street that's not current on its
[1:12:04] license. I tagged that it has not been moved so I'm going to revisit that and
[1:12:10] then we had our five business licenses that we already discussed. Any questions?
[1:12:18] that's the solar panels. There was somebody that called talk to Brandy about what
[1:12:25] our zoning clearances and regulations on solar panels were and I called back and
[1:12:30] talked to them and they ended up needing to go through the county. So I think they
[1:12:34] were a little confused on maybe our city boundaries because he said he got
[1:12:38] everything squared away through the county. Thank
[1:12:45] you for all your hard work.
[1:12:50] Wait time you put in. I appreciate it. At this time we like to turn some time over to City Council member Wilson Devon.
[1:13:01] Okay guys, I've got something to read here that some people may not be happy. Some people may be happy to hear this.
[1:13:07] But to the mayor and members of Huntington City Council and community members, I Devon Wilson asked you to accept this letter as my formal resignation from my position on the Huntington City Council.
[1:13:19] effective August 19th, 2026. I am
[1:13:23] sincerely grateful for the opportunity to serve our community and to work alongside
[1:13:26] of each of you. I appreciate the support, encouragement and experiences I have received
[1:13:31] during my time on the City Council. It has been an honor to contribute to a community that
[1:13:38] That means so much to me.
[1:13:39] Thank you.
[1:13:41] Everybody.
[1:13:42] Honestly.
[1:13:43] But that's it.
[1:13:45] I don't
[1:13:50] know.
[1:13:50] I may accept it.
[1:13:52] I said please.
[1:13:53] I said please.
[1:13:56] Oh, night.
[1:13:59] Oh, we don't have to approve it.
[1:14:01] David, I want to thank you for all your hard work.
[1:14:03] You have done stepping up and helping us for them when you did.
[1:14:07] I understand it's stressful at times.
[1:14:09] in and for reuning why I understand but thank you for all you and what you've done for us and hopefully
[1:14:19] again you'll maybe rethink that didn't want to run again. I just want to read on to the record
[1:14:26] that we received a Depends Resignation Letter as of August 19, 2016. Okay all right at this time we're
[1:14:35] for one more motion. I'll make the motion we adjourn. I have a motion to adjourn. Second by Tom all in
[1:14:44] favorite? Yes. Yes. Any opposed?