[0:10] Okay, we're going to call the late point city council meeting to order.

[0:18] It's Wednesday, July 8,

[0:21] 2026. We're meeting at the late point fire station at 1528 Sunset Road in

[0:27] late point Utah. The time is 6 p.m. and we're gonna begin by a prayer that'll be

[0:35] given by me, Kirk Pearson, and then Kirk Campbell will leave us in the leg of

[0:40] allegiance.

[0:44] Father and him, we're grateful for the opportunity to be able to meet

[0:47] and make plans for our city and we're thankful for this great city that we live in, we're grateful for the

[0:56] camaraderie and the neighborhood and feel and we ask that we'll be able to continue

[1:05] help properties in our citizens well and make good choices for them and keeping liberty and

[1:11] freedoms in mind and we ask that we'll be able to have protection in our city and

[1:20] that we'll also be able to receive moisture and rain to replenish our wells and to

[1:26] question our ground and we ask for these blessings in Jesus' name. Amen.

[1:33] He's joining the blood and religions.

[1:36] Blood and religions to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for

[1:43] which it stands for the nation and the individual liberty and justice for all.

[1:56] Okay, I'm Kirk Pearson. I hope you're presiding today and we'll go ahead and start with

[2:04] the roll call.

[2:08] Kirk Pearson.

[2:10] Here.

[2:12] Laurie.

[2:13] Here.

[2:14] Kirk Kimball.

[2:15] Here.

[2:16] And Jamie.

[2:17] Here.

[2:18] Is on the phone.

[2:20] Anyone on the phone?

[2:21] Yeah, I know.

[2:22] Ryan.

[2:23] Here.

[2:24] there. And, Jackson, Liam. I'm here. I can't hear. I can't hear. I can't hear. Okay.

[2:34] Okay. Khalid. Um, legal training. Do we have any legal training?

[2:40] No, you're not here today. We'll call. Oh, yeah. During our

[2:47] action item. Okay. Do we have anything to report from the staff? Staff report

[2:54] today for your monthly report on building permits we had four building

[2:59] permits we had one new commercial business license six new home based

[3:05] business licenses and one sign permit our waste accounts we had four new accounts

[3:12] and date to new accounts.

[3:18] Still working through, actually, really, really close on all of our renewals for our businesses.

[3:26] Anyone who are good, right?

[3:28] We did a bunch today.

[3:30] We did a bunch.

[3:31] So yeah, we're depressing, and that's been a busy time, so it's been great.

[3:38] Good, thanks.

[3:40] Okay, we'll entertain a motion don't from public comment.

[3:45] I'm not sure.

[3:47] I'm not sure by Lori second.

[3:50] I'm not sure if I'm a triple.

[3:53] The public comment is now open.

[3:58] Okay.

[4:00] Okay, my name's Kevin Nan, I'm the fire chief for Lake Point City.

[4:07] Oh no, sorry.

[4:08] I'm on the first floor of fire district.

[4:10] I'm coming to you because I'm resigning.

[4:14] And so this is it came as a shock to Jamie and Kathleen the other night it might come as a shock to Ryan on the phone and all of you

[4:24] I'm resigned from my position as fire chief. I will be leaving my last day will be next Friday the 17th

[4:33] What happens after that? Don't know

[4:38] Our board of directors is still working through that plan and they don't need day involved

[4:45] me because I'll be going.

[4:50] Deputy Chief and Fire Marshal will still be here.

[4:54] They don't.

[4:55] There's a change in it.

[4:57] But you guys need to know that.

[5:00] I will be moving to Colorado, so what, as part of public comment, that was one thing.

[5:12] Two things was the Firework show the other night. It was fantastic.

[5:19] That was so fun that my first hair to attend it. And you have a blessing with Gina to be able to do that for your community.

[5:29] So, as the city grows, as the city, you know, he is definitely something to treasure.

[5:37] So even if we have to be there to wet down the fields and suppress all the fires and

[5:44] and and where it was great to be there and your community shows that they were all jammed

[5:52] into the park.

[5:53] I thought it was very cool.

[5:54] Second, third and last final comment was two weeks ago, an army of your citizens descended

[6:06] on the Iron Horse backyard area and made a professional fire break with meat eaters and

[6:17] And they were very accommodating to the fact that we couldn't use mowers.

[6:22] No metal blade on rock content because we were having fires.

[6:31] So we told everybody to bring your weed eaters and they showed up in force.

[6:36] That's a 25, 30 foot wide section back there.

[6:40] And so, that is the start for a fire-wise committee, and they are working in their very beginnings, and we will help system as much as we possibly can.

[6:54] And they did a fantastic job, and so I just want to let you guys know that you've done, your community has done something that we can't get Erda, Pine Canyon, or Stan's very park, or to do.

[7:10] So, good on them.

[7:12] And I think when I went up to the pre-meeting, the hope was that you would get a five-foot across all the back fence is done.

[7:20] And when I looked at the pictures, it looked like it was the whole thing.

[7:23] So it looks like they did Gamebusters.

[7:25] They went, I mean, it was 30 people, everybody with a weed eater, and they did a great job.

[7:34] And our mitigate, our wild end fire mitigation specialist that was up there, Reese, you all met him.

[7:43] He's seen professional fire breaks before and he's like, he's like, this was, that's exactly what we need.

[7:50] So he kind of went through the science a little bit behind how fire propagates and everything

[7:56] And you know you've they have taken their flame legs from 8 foot and 10 foot flame legs down to this high

[8:04] So very manageable

[8:06] Awesome and thank you for your time and service. Yeah, I had a great time

[8:12] Jamie and Kathleen and the whole beginnings of the city council and so it's very sad I had a hard decision, it was not easy.

[8:23] What's your best?

[8:24] Any other

[8:30] public comment?

[8:32] Well, what should we close public comment?

[8:34] Second.

[8:36] Second in.

[8:37] All in favor?

[8:38] Okay,

[8:43] we'll move on to number six. Approve minutes from 624-26. We're going to have a chance to look at them.

[8:54] Any changes? I didn't get any changes, but still.

[9:01] Emotionally approve the minutes from 624-26.

[9:04] six. Okay,

[9:08] second that. So it's been motion by

[9:12] Campbell, second by. All in favor. Hi. Hi.

[9:22] Passing unanimously. We're going to move on to our reports from

[9:26] Twilly County Sheriff's Office.

[9:41] Um, so for June 26, we had 94 calls for

[9:45] service in the late points of the area. Um, calls for service.

[9:49] There were eight arrests made.

[9:52] The most significant arrest is from the June 10th fire used to droopy during the investigation

[9:59] was very clear that there were multiple ignition points and that it was a person.

[10:06] Detectors did a great job kind of tracking down leads with cell phone data, a flop camera

[10:12] data and everything and they got our guys.

[10:15] So that was the most significant incident.

[10:18] He's still currently being held in jail on the arson charges, but several other charges as well.

[10:27] There were 43 citations issued in city limits, 51, including SR 36 highway.

[10:37] And the other arrests that were made were three common and normal things that we see.

[10:43] So, any questions or concerns like in contact to Miami?

[10:51] No.

[10:53] Did I just say things?

[10:56] Sorry, can somebody else stop me?

[11:00] What was that kind of thing?

[11:02] Oh, I just wanted to say things for the work of the arson.

[11:05] And you can get captured.

[11:09] Yeah, we're lucky that they were able to solve that quickly

[11:12] before additional fires.

[11:14] I mean, that kind of thing.

[11:15] The way it was going, it's not going to be good.

[11:19] No, it was.

[11:21] Was I?

[11:22] Thank you.

[11:23] I was rather out of stock.

[11:28] Okay, thank you.

[11:30] Now we'll have the fire district report.

[11:36] Jason Brown, deputy chief north to a fire.

[11:40] For your report, we were the last from June 1st to 7 p.t. today.

[11:45] We've had a total of 24 calls for service in the lake point area.

[11:49] last month was 18 calls. We had five fires, 13 medical calls, two hazardous

[11:58] situations, two non-emergencies, and two public service calls. And that's all I

[12:04] have for any questions for me.

[12:10] Okay. I have something with no other. Go ahead,

[12:15] Kathleen. Okay, sorry. You're wondering that. I just wanted to say

[12:19] maybe she's done and also since the kind of issues that we're trying to get going, especially

[12:28] meeting the emergency matter and all my fellow questions, they helped me and said we want

[12:33] the feeling to be able to provide such support for us, actually, but I'm going to send them

[12:45] Okay, before we yield our time back, I'd like to comment on one of the fires that we did have up on online short.

[12:52] It is currently under term and the investigation has been turned over to the sheriff.

[13:03] Thank you.

[13:07] Thank you for those reports.

[13:13] We'll move on to action and business items. Consider resolution

[13:19] to a main link point retention schedule.

[13:22] All right. Your history on this one is I drafted this to address a stick of some history

[13:32] When we initially became a city, we adopted the state's retention schedule, which is nothing

[13:41] custom for us at all.

[13:44] It's state retention schedule is fine, but anytime you want to veer from it, you have

[13:53] to adopt your own code for it.

[13:55] This, this, the way I drafted this was to mostly address duplicate copies of records.

[14:03] My desire is to be able to destroy duplicate records in a physical form when I have a digital copy.

[14:11] This is only, in a, this is only for records that are not permanent records, so resolutions, ordinances, minutes are permanent records.

[14:22] and therefore I would like to know if it was a paper format and a digital, and then anything that once it hits its,

[14:34] well, before it hits its retention schedule, so it would be, it would be destroyed, so be able to be destroyed as an auditor.

[14:43] So we'd still follow the retention schedule, but it could be able to destroy it if it's got a duplicate.

[14:50] So like paper formats like copies of receipts different things like that that I already have

[15:00] The attorney did review most of the edits he actually had were in the previous adoption

[15:08] language, and he actually didn't have any changes to this new section. We can put it up on

[15:16] the screen, so you're able to see his red lines.

[15:23] So you'll see his red lines are again addressing

[15:28] more of the original adoption language, and then section what I had initially called

[15:38] three is now four, is the new section. So I don't know how many of you had a chance

[15:44] to review this before the meeting, but if you have questions or if you'd like me to read

[15:49] it, I can.

[15:55] Jay also requested that I add our fix in language, which I had it after he did

[16:02] Is there

[16:05] any questions or clarifications?

[16:08] And you said fix it when we're just just the

[16:10] observability and our direction to staff

[16:13] to be able to fix any formatting here.

[16:16] Yeah, okay.

[16:17] Sorry.

[16:19] Just clearing what?

[16:20] Clearing up with that man.

[16:23] He didn't want to waste his time on it.

[16:24] He knows I already have all the information

[16:26] so he's just like slap it in there.

[16:29] If you want me to scroll to a specific spot

[16:31] and what more do you mean, Willie?

[16:34] But he's mostly J's fixes on the, we're on the warehouses and the language was just a little bit confusing and so he just clarified.

[16:46] And then wanted to refer to the previously adopted resolution that adopted the retention schedule.

[16:54] Because he felt like it was confusing. That one was listed.

[16:57] So, does it, the electronic format portion of it, does it talk it all about backups?

[17:05] I backup our drive monthly.

[17:08] Okay.

[17:09] Where's it backup to?

[17:10] An external drive.

[17:12] Okay.

[17:13] So, it's not even attached to a cloud or anything.

[17:15] It's already backed up in the cloud, but in the Google Drive.

[17:19] Yes.

[17:19] In that monthly, I...

[17:22] Do you do it as a mayor?

[17:24] Do you do it as backup software?

[17:26] were that it's a new process of the exact copy.

[17:31] Because sometimes if you do it as a compressed version of it,

[17:34] you have to test it every once in a while

[17:35] because sometimes they fail.

[17:37] It's just a exact copy.

[17:41] And that's one of the reasons why I do not.

[17:43] I prefer not to move.

[17:46] So there are cities that move everything completely digital.

[17:51] But you have to be able to have a system

[17:54] some that has multiple backups in case there's failures.

[17:58] You don't want to be losing permanent copies.

[18:01] And you said to your goods,

[18:03] so I'm not comfortable with that

[18:04] because we don't have a system to keep up.

[18:06] So anything that's not permanent,

[18:09] I'm what they were having digitally and then

[18:13] distracting paper.

[18:14] But I don't see the need to have three and four years

[18:18] of receipts and check-in logs and,

[18:24] just a lot of business. It's about like 10 years ago, so yeah, so I've been wanting to do this

[18:32] for a while, but you know, I've had a lot on my plate. Well, especially if we have, if we really

[18:37] have two electronic copies, we have the Google Drive and then the backed up external drive, so

[18:43] the paper copy is really triplicate, not nuclear. It's just taking up space and I think it would make

[18:50] And I would still create logs for those

[18:54] distractions and there's specific code to

[18:57] distractions and they have to be destroyed

[18:59] and all that stuff.

[19:01] So there would still be a log of

[19:03] do you need your story to all the receipts

[19:05] from this year to this year?

[19:06] You know.

[19:08] But we would definitely.

[19:10] Okay.

[19:11] Well, motion that we accept the amended

[19:17] and late-point resolution schedule.

[19:20] It's the retention schedule.

[19:22] Retention schedule, it's a resolution.

[19:25] Correct.

[19:27] Next second, Beth.

[19:30] Okay, same motion by Pearson, seconded by Campbell.

[19:33] Is this a roll call?

[19:34] Yes, this would be a roll call.

[19:38] Trimble.

[19:39] Yay.

[19:39] Lori.

[19:40] Yay.

[19:41] Pearson.

[19:41] Yay.

[19:42] Ryan.

[19:43] Yay.

[19:44] Got me.

[19:45] Sorry,

[19:48] you didn't.

[19:53] Okay, passes unanimously. We'll

[20:02] move on to the Council updates. Do we have any committee updates?

[20:11] Okay, then

[20:13] Councillor Neill Ryan, do you have a committee update?

[20:26] Perfect. Thank you.

[20:31] Okay, I really don't have any updates either. I mean the firework show was

[20:39] fantastic. There was a great turnout and a great show so that was awesome. That's all I have.

[20:50] Laurie? I don't have anything. Kathleen?

[20:56] First, I must have hit a part of that.

[20:58] It's still there. They are. I want our record. I should have mentioned earlier. Thank you so much to all of us for the two bars we had.

[21:07] in town and amazing job that they had did to prevent any serious damage to any

[21:14] structures. That was amazing to go up and see how close everything got, but they

[21:19] were able to stop at the board. Anything major happening.

[21:28] So last time

[21:30] single having still working with it to see if they can identify what's causing

[21:38] not that there's another big hole.

[21:44] The potluck, the America teacher decadent is the potluck on Saturday, or Monday, sorry, and Monday.

[21:53] And it seemed to go well. At least I'm about 320 sloppy joes. But my eye can tell.

[22:01] A lot of people seem to come out and enjoy being together before the fireworks and make another agree the fireworks were amazing.

[22:09] We had some people talk about doing another part, like next year, we'll see on that, but it's a lot of work.

[22:17] The fundraisers, you didn't hear them.

[22:19] It's for veterans and for responders with Americans in 50 donations.

[22:23] The items made by the citizens made over $2,000.

[22:28] I think after last night, I think we're $2,500. Just shy of $2,500.

[22:33] And we're going to donate.

[22:34] I spent today of the Idaho Nuclear Laboratory

[22:42] touring that facility.

[22:43] They do have a remarkable facility and very safe,

[22:47] which was comforting with the talk of the nuclear campus

[22:51] coming possibly near us.

[22:53] They said, now it's going to, right now, not be now until August.

[22:57] They pushed that back, but now it's going to be a little bit.

[22:59] So we're going to DOE on that.

[23:03] But it was a bit short.

[23:05] a lot of stuff that we can look at for towing forward in the county. Well, we can do to make sure that everything's safe as well as help with economic growth around it.

[23:17] A lot of different things.

[23:18] Okay, thank

[23:26] you.

[23:27] Um, correct, Jim?

[23:30] Um, um, again, like everyone else said, the thank you for the fire department for the support both with the fires, but also the firework show I told you before, I think for, for covering that.

[23:44] It's a, you're correct. We do have a pretty special opportunity with you know, to have that level of professional show in a city of our sizes.

[23:56] is pretty unique.

[24:01] That's all I got. Ryan, do you have anything? No, I don't have anything.

[24:08] Thank you. Okay, we'll go back to see if we have any public comment.

[24:25] Motion that we

[24:26] So I would like to take just an element of, to brag for a second, but on this wall right here is a new ladder truck.

[24:37] Oh, awesome.

[24:38] So 18 months ago, we started the process of getting one. We worked with Lake Point City to help us with that.

[24:47] We had a hotel come to Lake Point City and say, hey, we want to build a four-storey building

[24:54] and we were unable to accommodate them at the time and we told them that we would do

[25:00] everything that we needed to do to be prepared for them to start building with that ladder trip

[25:07] or waiting for them now.

[25:10] So I just wanted to just wanted to do our form just a little bit so

[25:19] Well they're public comment

[25:22] Yeah, no, shouldn't we close public comment second on favor. Okay.

[25:32] It's been closed

[25:34] That's all we have on our schedule for today. So we'll adjourn our meeting at

[25:40] at 6.25 PM, that's a record.

[25:47] That's a movie early, so maybe a minute, so I can get out tonight.

[25:50] Drive safe.

[25:52] Thank you.

[25:53] I'm okay.

[25:54] Thanks, Rick.

[26:02] I'm not sure what to do myself this way.

[26:05] Two.

[26:06] We'll go back to our marks and work.

[26:09] This is a good year.

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