[0:00] Okay, you want it to go. Okay, thank you, Diana. Good evening, everybody. The first order of business tonight is to appoint a chair for this meeting. Mayor Sudbury is excused this evening. Our mayor pro-town Terry George is out of town tonight, but he's joining us online. And it is better if the chair is actually on sight in the room. So with that, I will entertain a motion to appoint a chair for this evening's meeting. I will move that you chair Stephen.

[0:28] I was thinking that we have a motion in a second all in favor. Hi. Any opposed?

[0:36] Okay

[0:46] Okay, thank you. I hope they are I'll move it closer

[0:53] Mine is turned mine up

[0:58] Okay. I'll call this meeting to order. Today is the August 11th, 2026 meeting of the Magna

[1:04] City Council. We will determine a quorum. We have Council Member Jensen, the Council

[1:10] Member Olson, myself, and Council Member George Online. And Audrey Pierce is excused, I believe.

[1:19] Okay. We do have a quorum. Will everybody stand and join me in singing the Pledge of Allegiance

[1:25] with our virtual flag.

[1:28] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic

[1:35] for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

[1:47] Thank you.

[1:48] We'll go on to item number five, which is public comment.

[1:51] Please state your name for the record and your address and leave your comments two minutes

[1:55] please.

[1:55] These first public comment will be Melinda Borrell.

[2:31] It's just quiet.

[2:32] I think you may have to just make that it forward.

[2:38] It is very quiet.

[2:41] All right.

[2:42] Melinda Borrell.

[2:44] Low Valley Gateway.

[2:45] I just wanted to bring up that obviously we have a small starting tomorrow for our next

[2:49] school district.

[2:52] We have not seen the improvements as promised on 4.0 or 4.100 so I would ask for an update so we have 4.100 was supposed to be done.

[3:03] We're supposed to start it tomorrow. It's not going to be done. One is our new date. We have some street lights that were supposed to be replaced for better lighting for the crosswalks just along the street in general.

[3:17] that has not been done. I'm sorry, like an update on that. And then, I'm once again going

[3:26] to bring up the sky bridge. I was traveling down 6200, yes, for a day. And there is a sky

[3:33] bridge for every single school that's on the other side of 6200. They each get their own.

[3:39] We don't have one, but we have two schools on the other side of 8400, an elementary and

[3:47] high school so why if other children get to have the safety of the sky bridge are we requiring

[3:56] our students, our children, to cross 8400 at a crosswalk where we have now removed

[4:04] the gravel pit for one-ray, one-ray trucks. So that's my questions and I appreciate your response.

[4:12] Thank you.

[4:13] Thank you.

[4:16] Next will be Doyle Jenkins.

[4:26] Jenkins, 35 South.

[4:28] I got two questions.

[4:31] I wonder if anything has been done about the person who has yard sale on 80th,

[4:36] 80th West.

[4:38] If code enforcement is taking care of that or if they have a business license,

[4:42] we'll have some information back on that being taken care of.

[4:46] And then the park street or the road that was just finished on 3,500 between Wingpoint and about 74

[4:54] 85 West where there's gravel. It was my understanding that they were going to put stamp concrete like from Wingpoint to

[5:03] Magnolia. It was all finished with stamp concrete, but they put I was told like

[5:14] I'm excited to see how many rocks end up in the road or in people's yards.

[5:19] So that's just a question I'd like to capture. Thanks.

[5:23] Thank you. Okay, we will move on. Item number six is our consent agenda.

[5:31] Mr. Chair, I'll move. We approve the consent agenda.

[5:34] I'll second.

[5:37] Motion in second. Any discussion?

[5:39] On favor?

[5:40] Aye.

[5:41] Any opposed?

[5:41] Aye.

[5:43] Motion carries.

[5:46] Just FYI, the quarterly report will be pushed back to the September meeting for all communities.

[5:54] There's no presentation items. There's no public hearings tonight.

[5:59] We'll move on to council business item number nine.

[6:01] 9-A is discussion and potential action regarding 9-11 Magna Remembers, an option for funding Lisa Henry the chair.

[6:15] Thank you everyone.

[6:26] I appreciate the time. I'll be brief. I'm Lisa Henry. I'm the co-chair of the Magna 9-11 Magna Remembers event that

[6:34] Dan Payne I began in 2005 and this is the 25th anniversary for the Magna 9-11 event in

[6:46] the United States and it's our 26th anniversary of doing it for Magna. The event will be held

[6:52] on Friday, September 11th at 7 p.m. at the UFA Station 102 on Magna Main Street, where

[7:02] we have a permanent memorial and we invite the public to come out to that and we're excited

[7:09] for it. I have an understanding that I can move ahead with a new banner since ours is about

[7:16] 26 years old and falling apart and we will be putting together a memorial wreath for that as well.

[7:24] I was wondering and this might be an item that would be answered. It may be next meeting or it might

[7:31] still be up in the air. I know that part of the memorial we were trying to have the water feature

[7:37] working. I don't know if that is still an option and know that there was a water pipe issue with

[7:46] that and I'm not sure if that's something that would be resolved well before the event or if

[7:52] that's something that is going to be tabled for a later time but that was one question that I had

[7:58] about the water feature.

[8:00] And then I would think I would get with SAC with UFA,

[8:05] Chief Procopus, about a list of those who we would want

[8:10] to honor again this year, who have paid the ultimate sacrifice

[8:15] in their firefighting efforts.

[8:17] And I know that there's been a lot of that unfortunate

[8:22] that has happened throughout the west this year.

[8:26] I'll also get with Chief Benadette, excuse me, with EPD to find out who we may want

[8:35] to recognize from our community, and I usually do statewide remembrance as well, and so

[8:42] I will talk to you about that so that we make sure that we honor everyone properly and respectfully.

[8:48] That's fully, I don't know, for the Veterans Park, is out now under the purview of the

[8:55] VFW in order for us to post our banner to let the public know that we'll be having our

[9:04] event at the, who handles the Veterans Park?

[9:09] That is the council here, okay, I have some misinformation, so I will be posting our banner

[9:15] there with your permission and thank you and that's all I had at this juncture do you have any

[9:22] questions for me okay I don't know if the city has access to a PA or a sound system for that

[9:32] night's event and who are we coordinate with that you do okay and I can follow up offline so thank you

[9:41] for your support. I know that Mike was there for the first event that we have at the Veterans Park,

[9:46] so I look forward to seeing you there again, and obviously I invite all of you to be there,

[9:52] and I thank the Mayor for the support for this all these years as well. So thank you.

[9:59] Thank you, Lisa, for all your years of dedication to this project. I will get in touch with Kelly Miller

[10:04] to sign a chief with the UFA. We'll make sure the station knows about that event. It's on their

[10:10] calendar and I will have one of the firefighters take a look at that pump and see

[10:13] you see what it needs if we can have it operation on a month we'd love to have it

[10:17] operation. Even if it's just for that evening it would be a nice compliment to

[10:24] the tribute so thank you very much all of you I appreciate it and I hope to see

[10:28] all of you there. Friday September 11 7 p.m. thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

[10:35] Thank

[10:38] Okay thank you nine B discussion and potential action regarding drainage

[10:46] improvements related to the 80th West Improvement Project Chad Anderson

[10:50] Assistant City Engineer

[10:52] It's

[10:56] a long walk to town

[10:58] Do you have something you want to share up there?

[11:02] It's the same thing that was on the agenda

[11:06] I need you to join the Zoom and then you can share your screen that way.

[11:11] No, because it'll take out the little message.

[11:14] Okay, this is going to take a little bit.

[11:20] Let me see. Is it just the letter?

[11:24] Yeah.

[11:24] Oh, okay, I can put that up. Sorry, I thought there was something else.

[11:26] I thought there was something else.

[11:27] Yep, I will get that up in free.

[11:28] Okay.

[11:30] This is the same thing that was on the last meeting.

[11:33] It's a letter.

[11:34] It's designed by the city or on behalf of the city.

[11:37] two Salt Lake County flood control acknowledging key statement is magnet

[11:43] recognizes that during periods of flow of high flow within the existing

[11:47] clover on 8,000 West some additional local ice ponding may occur temporarily

[11:52] until the flow of the 8,000 West system receives to a level that allows surface

[11:57] turnout to enter the storm ring but that such additional climbing is unlikely

[12:01] that they're in property or public health or safety. So this is an

[12:06] an acknowledgement that flight control wanted this in order to give us approval or permit to

[12:15] actually widen the road. So this is necessary for the road widening project. It's been reviewed by the city attorney.

[12:23] And yeah, do you have any questions regarding this?

[12:28] Thank you. Can you give the thumbs up?

[12:29] Yeah, it includes my evidence. I think yes.

[12:32] The point to keep in mind here from a legal perspective is that every storm grain system, regardless of how perfect it is,

[12:38] ponding is always possible if you get a large enough storm.

[12:42] So that's what this is trying to say.

[12:44] It's okay, ponding is going to occur, but it already is occurring now if you have a large enough storm in there.

[12:50] But engineering is to confirm that it's unlikely to cause any real problem.

[12:55] So anybody who's seeing like, I have a big storm in my house today.

[12:57] a bunch of rain drop down, ponding, and stuff went in.

[13:02] Nothing got hurt.

[13:03] That's the point of this.

[13:04] Yeah, we understand that we may see a little bit more ponding

[13:06] but we're not expecting anybody to get hurt.

[13:09] So this letter includes my answer.

[13:12] Okay.

[13:13] Yeah, it's for the Martha.

[13:15] There's only very specific conditions

[13:17] that this could really occur in a normal storm.

[13:21] This could be the trunk line would have to be used

[13:24] for diversions from the use on solid canal to the river canal.

[13:30] That's kind of sacred, it's the primary function of this storm grain.

[13:35] It's actually the diversion between those two, but it is very unlikely to be used.

[13:42] Not usually used at all, and definitely not used to the flook of acid, because I don't believe it here.

[13:49] Mr. Chair, I'll move that we authorize the city manager to sign the letter and send it to Subway Council.

[13:56] I'll second.

[13:57] I have a motion to second any further discussion. All in favor?

[14:01] Aye.

[14:02] Aye.

[14:03] Any opposed?

[14:04] Motion carries.

[14:05] Thank you.

[14:06] Thank you.

[14:09] Item number 9c, discussion of potential action regarding ordinance 2026-017, adopting the

[14:16] in 2024, International Wildland Urban Interface Code,

[14:20] City Attorney Nathan Racken.

[14:24] Thank you, Mr. Mayor, for attending for this meeting.

[14:29] So as the council may recall,

[14:32] those of you who were on the council last year,

[14:33] the legislature passed legislation last year

[14:36] that required every city to do two things.

[14:39] One was to adopt the Wildland Urban Interface Code.

[14:42] The legislation that was passed in 2025

[14:44] 75 required us to adopt, I believe, an older section's cousin, and so they required us

[14:51] to do that and then they required us to adopt a related map that depicted which parts

[14:55] of the city are subject to that code now.

[15:00] While under the interface code is more, most commonly applied if you have a cabin in the woods, but it also applies to land that a bus areas that are undeveloped. So for instance, the parts of magnitude, but they don't cyber and grasslands come down or are undeveloped to Agland. So, magnitude that last year you adopted the code. It's now part of your city code and then you also adopted a map that depicted those parts of town that are subject to it, to comply with last year's legislation.

[15:28] This year, the legislature passed another bill requiring us to swap out the older section

[15:35] of the international Louis code with the latest addition, which is the 2024 addition.

[15:40] So the code that you see changed now literally just swaps out the old date and puts in 2024

[15:46] international while the end of the interface code doesn't make any changes to the map.

[15:51] It's just updating the international standard code that we would be using for Louis from the

[15:57] the older one to the new 2024 edition to comply with state law, so it's all this

[16:01] already stuff. This is the final step that will bring us into compliance. We're done with

[16:06] wooing. Hopefully, I wouldn't be surprised, and I don't know for sure, but with all the

[16:12] wildfire activity this year, I wouldn't be surprised if we see some more legislation.

[16:17] Because there wasn't clarifying legislation in the past that didn't require us to do anything,

[16:22] But one of the things that the legislature said last year is that certain categories

[16:28] of property that had placed some restrictions on city councils being too onerous, right?

[16:33] And in some city, we're going kind of above and beyond and they were, you know, applying

[16:37] a Louis code to properties that probably didn't need to be subject to it, so they put some

[16:43] strictures on that.

[16:44] But I don't know.

[16:45] With a wildfire, you're like this, I expect we'll see some legislation, but there isn't

[16:50] another version of wooly to adopt. So at least we'll have that.

[16:54] Okay, thank you. Mr. Chair, I'll move that we approve ordinance 2026-017.

[17:03] I'll second. Motion in a second. Any further discussion? All in favor?

[17:09] Hi. Hi. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you Nathan.

[17:14] So while I'm up here, I can report a little bit on item D and then if there are more specific

[17:19] questions, Brian's here to help out. So as you know each year the City adopts an updated fee

[17:24] schedule to keep pace with costs and reflected here in cost to doing business. These fees are

[17:30] developed by the MSD staff because they're the ones that are your administrative staff,

[17:34] particular planning and zoning. So this is a fee schedule that's gone through legal review

[17:38] because some of the fees here have land use components to it. Land use fees are considered

[17:42] land use regulations. So we have also run the Student Planning Commission. They reviewed it as well.

[17:48] I don't think there's too many changes from what you've seen in years past.

[17:52] I do think Ryan Kirkman, there is a more streamlined approach to parking violations, I'm not mistaken.

[17:58] That's right, and there's also a streamlined approach to engineering fees.

[18:05] Previously, they were calculated based on the cost of a bond, so if there wasn't a bond,

[18:11] then the fee might only be a hundred to base fee, a hundred and twenty-five dollars,

[18:15] or in other circumstances where the bond was really high, it could be hundreds of thousands

[18:23] of dollars when we didn't put in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work.

[18:27] So what we've gone to is more of a system that's based on a base fee plus a per watt or per

[18:33] acre fee which will result in something more akin to what it's actually costing the MSD by

[18:40] that service.

[18:42] One of the reasons why we need to make continual adjustments to the fees is that we can't.

[18:46] We're not supposed to be exploiting our citizens and making money off these fees.

[18:50] That the purpose of these fees is to cover our costs.

[18:53] Sometimes we'll impose a fee and that actually legitimately covers our costs.

[18:57] And then things will change or we'll legislate to modify things that we have to do.

[19:01] And those costs can go up or down.

[19:03] And so I think that's an instance of us trying to right size the cost and accurately reflect the cost we're incurring to be fair to our citizens.

[19:10] And so I think the most part is not that different.

[19:13] I mean, these kids are kind of an iterative update,

[19:15] but those are the big ones.

[19:19] Does that not require a public hearing

[19:20] when you're changing fees?

[19:22] Well, we did go to a public hearing with the planning commission.

[19:24] All of they did.

[19:26] But no, this is anything you don't always require

[19:28] if you're hearing, but in this case,

[19:29] we did go to a public hearing process in the lady space.

[19:32] Thank you.

[19:32] Most of the fees are going to have their teeth.

[19:35] Okay.

[19:37] Mr. Chair, I'll move.

[19:37] approve the approved ordinance 2026-019.

[19:44] I'll second.

[19:45] We have motion in second, any further discussion?

[19:48] All in favor?

[19:49] Aye.

[19:51] Any opposed?

[19:53] That motion carries.

[19:56] Item E.

[19:57] Distress?

[19:58] Oh, go ahead.

[19:59] I'm sorry, I got ahead of you there.

[20:01] So, as I think most of you may know,

[20:04] Chief Del Craig, the precinct chief here,

[20:05] magna for UPD has, as I think, stepped down or retired. And so that requires a replacement.

[20:13] This is a UPD process. It is not a mag to process per se, but under the interlocal agreement

[20:19] that magna is a part of with UPD and the other member entities of UPD. The replacement of a

[20:25] precinct chief goes through UPD's internal policies. UPD has an internal policy, I believe.

[20:29] Chief Master of Agriculture from Policy 200 that requires the impaneling of a hiring committee and then the hiring committee will interview candidates, make a recommendation and that recommendation will go to both Magden and the other member of the precinct, which is Cofferton, which I also represent.

[20:48] Now, I wasn't a part of this hiring committee, but I understand that there were three council

[20:52] members from Magna and one council member from Cofferton who interviewed, I think, six

[20:58] candidates.

[20:59] And after interviewing those candidates, the recommendation that they're making both to

[21:03] Magna and then to Cofferton next week is that Lieutenant Chris Benedict is a person that

[21:07] is selected as the next president of the chief.

[21:10] That decision, I believe, will also need to be ratified by the UPD board, if I'm not mistaken.

[21:14] So this is the step in that process,

[21:17] opportunity to do the same thing,

[21:18] and then it'll go back to the UPD forward.

[21:21] So in the past, and this was prior to my time representing you,

[21:25] but in representing other UPD entities,

[21:26] we would typically just have a vote on the record

[21:29] and the minutes will be enough to memorialize

[21:31] that that ratification of the selection committee's recommendation.

[21:34] However, I understand in talking to UPD's legal counsel

[21:38] that they now prefer a written resolution.

[21:40] So I prepared one.

[21:41] That's the purpose of this.

[21:42] the resolution basically gratifies the selection of Chris Benedict as you're

[21:47] increasing chief subject to comfort and also the board proving that selection

[21:52] and then it also expresses thanks for chief craves years of dedicated service

[21:56] to make.

[21:59] Thank you Chair

[22:04] I'll move but we approve resolution 2026-4

[22:15] I have a motion in second. Any further discussion?

[22:21] Hearing none, all in favor? Aye.

[22:24] Aye. Any opposed?

[22:27] Motion carries.

[22:29] Congratulations, Chief Benedict.

[22:36] Item F. Discussion and potential action regarding approval of a cooperative wildfire

[22:42] system agreement with the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lines,

[22:46] Nathan. So items F and G are related. So the first item, what we're talking

[22:51] about now, is there's a program at the state level that's administered by

[22:56] the Division of Forestry and Fire and State Lines. It's called the Cooperative

[22:58] Wild Fire System. And that's essentially, and I'm oversimplifying it in Mayor

[23:03] Pro Tem, I'm sure you could probably provide more details, but it's basically in

[23:07] In some ways, an insurance policy for catastrophic wildfire

[23:10] that cities can benefit from.

[23:13] Historically, we have been able to be a part of this program

[23:17] through our interlocal agreement with UFA,

[23:20] our identified fire authority,

[23:22] which is the city's fire department,

[23:23] which is a special district.

[23:25] In UFA, I'm sorry, UFA is an interlocal entity,

[23:28] and UFA has fulfilled all the responsibilities,

[23:31] and I believe they've actually had the agreements

[23:33] with Forestry Fire State Lands.

[23:35] This year however, Forestry Fire State Lands has determined that the way that the state

[23:39] law has written that these agreements actually need to be with the individual municipalities.

[23:44] And I've had a couple calls with the Forestry Fire State Lands people and I think everyone

[23:50] agrees that the way that the code is written out really doesn't accurately reflect your situation

[23:55] which is that you are getting your fire service through a interlocal entity or a special district

[24:00] which is really quite common throughout the state.

[24:03] But the law, the way that it's written in the state code now,

[24:06] it essentially presumes that every city is

[24:08] going to have its own fire department.

[24:09] And that's kind of forced to fires concern.

[24:12] I think they just want to make sure

[24:13] that if there's wildfires increased,

[24:14] they want to make sure that no one can come at them

[24:17] and produce some legal loopholes.

[24:18] So this year, they have a form agreement

[24:20] that they're asking cities to sign.

[24:22] Now, the related, which is G, the concern

[24:25] that that presents to me is the agreement if you've read it.

[24:28] It requires the city to make several commitments

[24:30] that it really practically can't make.

[24:32] For instance, you don't have fire officials of your own

[24:35] that you can train or mandate.

[24:36] You don't have any fire equipment of your own.

[24:38] New FAA does all of that.

[24:40] And so what first you fire recommended is that we entered into

[24:44] separate interlocal agreements with our fire district

[24:46] or in this case they're firing in a local

[24:48] to assign our responsibilities under the cooperative

[24:51] wildfire system to you FAA.

[24:53] So step one would be to approve the template agreement

[24:56] with the state and that's to take it or leave it agreement.

[24:58] Believe me, I tried.

[24:59] I tried to negotiate that, and it's just, it is what it is, and then the second one is an interlocal agreement that they would be approving with UFA.

[25:09] So the first one just requires a vote on the record that can be even more utilized in the minutes.

[25:13] The second interlocal agreement with UFA, which there are legal councils reviewed, and this incorporates his edits, because it's an interlocal that requires a resolution under the interlocal cooperation act.

[25:24] And so that's why there's a resolution for the second one and not for the first one.

[25:27] So

[25:31] to take it in turn, the first one would be the agreement before

[25:36] Street Fire State Land. It's a template agreement. We really don't have a lot of

[25:39] discretion. Diana, I think that they're all under the same impact if they're

[25:43] all under IDMG if I'm not mistaken. Yes, they're both connected to that resolution but

[25:47] they're both very separate documents.

[25:51] Tell me when you're ready for motions. You're

[25:55] ready. All right, Mr. Chair. I'm going to move that we approve the agreement with

[26:01] You tied the illusion of force, refire, and state lands.

[26:04] That's first one for the cooperative fire system.

[26:08] And then we'll take that one.

[26:13] We have motion?

[26:14] Yep.

[26:14] Well, second.

[26:15] We have motion in a second.

[26:17] Any further discussion on the agreement?

[26:19] All in favor?

[26:20] Aye.

[26:21] Aye.

[26:22] Aye.

[26:22] Any opposed?

[26:24] The agreement passes.

[26:26] Now, Mr. Chair, I'll move that we approve the resolution

[26:30] to 2022, which is deals with interlocal agreement with the UFA for Magnus participation in the cooperative welfare system.

[26:45] All second.

[26:47] Motion to second.

[26:48] Any further discussion? All in favor?

[26:51] Aye.

[26:52] Aye.

[26:52] Any opposed? That too carries.

[26:55] Thank you.

[26:57] Council reports? I'm skipping that. Nothing on there tonight. Any future agenda

[27:04] items we want to make staff aware of from the council?

[27:09] I like springing in on them.

[27:14] Okay, see none. We will move on to item number 12, which is closed session. We do have the need

[27:19] for a closed session tonight to discuss the character professional competency or physical

[27:24] or mental health of an individual, as well as a strategy session to discuss the purchase,

[27:30] exchange or lease of real property.

[27:33] And actually, there's a third one and that's reasonably imminent pending litigation.

[27:37] So my suggestion that you be and see plenty of agenda together first, so we can discuss the

[27:42] acquisition and litigation first.

[27:48] So Mr. Chair, I'll move that we go into a closed session

[27:51] for any reasonably imminent litigation as well as to discuss the real exchange

[28:01] purchase of real estate first and then we would move into a personal discussion.

[28:09] I'll second up.

[28:11] We have a motion in a second.

[28:12] Any further discussion on the closed session?

[28:15] All in favor?

[28:16] Aye.

[28:17] Aye.

[28:17] Any opposed?

[28:20] Okay, thank you. Before I entertain a motion to adjourn, I'll just remind the audience

[28:24] that we will be going into closed session and there will be no decisions made after

[28:29] we come out of closed session. So when we come out of closed session, all we will do

[28:34] is a formal adjournment of the public meeting and any decisions will be forwarded to a future

[28:39] meeting. You're welcome to wait, if you like, but I'm just letting you know there will

[28:44] will be no action after we come out.

[28:46] Thank you.

[28:47] And just for council member George, who's listening,

[28:51] I'm going to shut up this evening right now,

[28:53] and then I'll turn on the other's news for you.

[28:55] So give me just three minutes,

[28:57] and then you should be able to do it that late.

[28:59] Thank you.

[29:00] You're welcome.

[29:01] Motion to adjourn.

[29:03] Uh, we can't until you're home.

[29:05] Do we do some questions?

[29:07] We're in our closed session.

[29:08] We'll come out.

[29:09] And then we adjourn the meeting.

[29:11] And Nathan just wants to say something.

[29:12] and we don't have to record videos since then.

[29:14] So we'll go and take a couple of questions.

[29:16] I can't think about it.

[29:17] And for the next video, great to see you.

Magna City Council Meeting

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