Robin, are you able to hear me? Oh, I'm sorry.
Sorry, am I able to hear the s**t out of you this evening?
Yeah, I can hear you. I can hear you. Oh my god, you scared the crap out of me.
Let me shut some doors here for a second.
I
didn't realize the camera was on, so I didn't know that you could see me.
And that was, yeah, I'm having,
you know, the way Lauren Stuke sets it up.
I don't know what to do but there's always a, it doesn't want to default to her
Webex and it throws me,
doesn't like my camera, doesn't like my microphone, wants
me to put in a separate password. That and I'm glad you're telling me that
because you know our board members complain about that. Oh they do. And I've
I don't know how to address that to resolve that issue and it's, it's frustrating. I concur. I don't, I don't want to say more than I should say, but.
No, I understand what you're saying. Yeah, it doesn't want to find the correct camera. Let me mute. I'll be back here in five, six minutes.
No, no rush.
How did it go yesterday? Really good. Did it? Yeah, it was great. That place is awesome. I'm going back there. Yeah, I'm going to take our youth.
Hello,
everyone. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.
And
I apologize not able to get the camera to link up.
Okay.
All the technology challenges that we face.
So it is the WebEx was set up for us and it's already recording.
I just wanted everybody to be aware.
Is
that better? Are we still echoing?
You sound fine on our end.
All right. Thank you.
So, we have Karen and Watson.
I was just waiting for my cuckoo clock to stop cuckooing.
Oh, there you go.
But yeah, I think we need eight voting board members.
And I count one, two, three, four, five, six.
Well we have Tyson, so I have Tyson, Chris, James, Mayor Gettle, Mayor Broker,
Masha, and Karen. I have seven. Okay, one more. One more. Oh and James beside you.
Yeah, but he's part of the ones I counted. Oh, he's okay. Hi James. How are you buddy?
Good.
How are you?
Good.
Five, six.
Yep.
Seven.
So we have seven board members present, so we need one more in order to vote.
And the voting is regarding the minutes, so we, which is at the top of the agenda,
but we can rearrange the agenda if people are in a hurry to just.
Okay.
Okay. Let's do this first. I'll welcome everyone to the hopefully cross fingers last meeting of the Recreation Bond Advisory Board.
We have some minutes to approve. Hopefully we'll get at least one more board member here so we can formally do that.
But if there's no objection from the board, why don't we go ahead and skip
forward to our discussion item, which is just an update on the status and the
next steps of the Bond Project and Funding Recommendations, and then we'll
hopefully get another board member to trickle in.
We have another board member.
We do. Oh, join in.
And we're receiving some texts from people that are saying that they need a password to get in, and so Bobby's trying to help some members get in.
So we will be at a point.
The panel's password is Friday.
Friday.
In numericles.
And no numericles?
I'm sorry, can we say that again?
The password is Friday in numericles.
So it would be...
I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean by that.
It's 374329.
374329.
Yes.
Okay.
So I was able to log in with Friday capital F, but I am logging in from a laptop.
If you are logging in from a phone or a video system, it is 374395.
All right.
We're at form, Mayor Gettles.
Okay.
Well, if we're at form, let's just stick to the script here.
So we'll skip down to number three, public comment.
Is there anyone there in the room who wishes to give public comment?
If so, now would be time to do that.
not seeing any is there anyone online who would like to give public comment we
don't yeah nobody we see online okay we'll skip them to approval of minutes
we have three different board meeting minutes to approve I wanted to get
direction should we do these individually as individual votes or can we do
them in a block I
would defer to the lawyers online the either way would be
Can I make a motion to approve the minutes for the 4.1 through 4.3?
Second.
Okay, there you go.
Okay, we have a motion and a second just to clarify that will be the minutes of June 26, 2026, July 10, 2026 and July 17, 2026.
All of those in favor of approving the minutes from those three board meetings, say aye.
Aye.
Are there any opposed?
Okay.
I am an aye as well.
So those four minutes are approved unanimously.
Mayor Jackson's here.
Let's go down then to discussion items.
We just have one item to discuss today,
and that's an update on the status and the next steps for the board's project
and funding recommendations. Robin or staff there, do you guys want to take this? I think it'd be
easier for you to share the spreadsheets and such.
Thank you, Mayor Gettle. So I want to just to
provide an update on what's happened since our last board meeting. You all made recommendations
to move forward the projects. They were a little over our buckets and so you directed Parks
and RAC to review the capital maintenance and to finish what we started, to refine those
lists so that they would finish the requirements of the council for those allocations of funding,
which they did.
And we submitted those lists to the council, to the mayor's office, and then subsequently
to the council for their review.
Zach put together this great overview table breakdown of not only the three buckets of
target allocations for the three buckets, also across the planning areas, so we can demonstrate
our geographical diversity, how we spread it out across the whole region.
And as you see here, as we talk about the rolled up numbers in capital maintenance,
We had a 40% allocation of the $90 million, and Parks and Rec were able to bring it in at 29.82%.
For finish what we started, we were allocated $27 million in that bucket.
They utilized $23.4%.
The reason that's lower is in order to cover the cost of the new projects that we had on our list
that was supposed to be at 30%, but we have a 36.6%.
I do believe that we do have that flexibility.
The council did not show any objections to this distribution.
They have not given us any, they haven't made any modifications
to date for this list.
They haven't posed any real serious questions
about what you guys have put forward.
If anything, they've shown great appreciation for the time and effort that the Board has put into this process, recognizing the challenges of trying to meet all of these requirements that were placed on you in order to get these projects distributed and evaluated.
We've met with some of the council members to discuss the project list and receive those compliments.
We are meeting with the Democratic caucus on Monday to also review and I anticipate we'll get, again, appreciation from them in regards to the work that you've done.
Lauren sent out not only this table for you, but she also sent out a couple other lists.
For instance, this one has like all the blue.
this top section is a list of all the projects that are within the capital
maintenance. The green represents all of the items that are in the finish what we
start and the yellow down here would be our new project. So you have different
ways that you can look at how we broke you can break up the list. So you
receive the list based on planning area based on the buckets and then
the table that's an overall view of the breakdown which I already showed
you. And so I just wanted you to have an awareness of what the final list looked
like and that these are the list that will you know these are the projects
that we would put forward in the bond for the public's consideration on the
ballot in November. But before we get to that we have our next hurdle that
we're going to face and and that is going to formally have a formal approval
of this list and the resolution to go to bond will take place this Tuesday at the
council meeting. Currently we have a time certain of 2.30 for the resolution and
the resolution is that where they declared their intent to go to bond
and it's a time certain of 2.30. Right prior to that I will do a
presentation to the council on this list. So I want to extend an invitation to you
all that you can be there in person, you can listen online, but this would be the
public announcement, if you will, of all these projects and our intent to go to
bond. And, you know, we obviously would want to extend a public moment of
gratitude for all of your participation and involvement in this
process to date. It shouldn't be a very long presentation, but it's a
significant one and a significant milestone for us to continue to move
forward to get this on the bond. Once we get it, if we get all the approvals on
Tuesday, then we will be starting to submit all the documentation to the
clerk. The clerk will then be preparing the ballots and we will then
have communication plan that will implement to notify the public and
provide them information about these projects that will include a website,
mailing of pamphlets and different things like that. There'll be open houses
scheduled probably in October for the public to come in and provide feedback
and ask questions and then ultimately it'll be on the ballot that first week
of November. So that's what's ahead of us and I would hope I welcome all of
you to attend either virtually or in person on Tuesday, so you can see them make this
decision to move forward the bond and move forward your list of projects.
One update that I'd like to give you a heads up on, we partner with Science Bank and the
Bond Council in order to issue the bond and there was what we call a debt review meeting
on Wednesday, this week, where they discussed
Whether or not the county should go out to a bond, right? They're discussing the impact of this debt on the county.
And so these are, this includes like the treasurers and the district attorney's office and mayor's finance and, of course, our lenders from Zions Bank.
And at that meeting, they discussed what's our primary objective here is to maintain the current tax that we have from the previous bond.
So, we're just rolling into a new bond, but not increasing any kind of tax for our residents.
Based on the interest rates, you know, they want to evaluate where's that bond threshold.
And when we started this process, they gave us the kind of a target.
We looked at a target date of 90 million, and that's where we set our projects.
The bond that they are proposing to issue is a hundred million, and the reason it's
going to be a hundred million is it we're able to do that without increasing the tax,
but it gives the county and our ability to do these projects with a little bit of a buffer
so that we can cover increased costs associated with these projects.
So it's not that we have an extra 10 million to just go out and identify new projects
to add to the list.
It's a buffer that allows us to account for the fact that we have, this is a 10-year bond.
We're going to take the money out in tranches, and as we, in order to accomplish what we
want to do, and as we go through that process, some of these projects will increase in cost
or have different costs, because these are all cost estimates that you approved.
And so I was grateful that they gave us, so we thought we would get a few million
of a cushion, but to get that $10 million, which doesn't impact tax, was a great thing
for us.
It allows us to feel confident sometimes with bonds like this.
We end up dropping projects because the costs increase, and so this is a good thing, but
I just don't want it to mean misconstrued that there was more money to distribute
because it wasn't intended to be extra money that you could give to projects.
So I wanted to make sure we're all on the same page on that.
Karen, you had a question.
I apologize.
I didn't see your hand till just now.
That's okay.
No problem, Robin.
Could you just say again what time your presentation starts on Tuesday?
So the time certain for the Bond Council representative is 2.30,
and that's specific to the resolution.
And I'm scheduled to go right before that.
what I don't what I they didn't give me a time certain and there's always
variability right with presentation with the council scheduling with the how the
meeting goes forward but I would estimate that I'd be on around 2 15 or a
little after 2 I don't have a very big presentation but the time certain was
determined for the phone council at 2 30 so if you want to see my
presentation it would be before that. Got it. Thanks.
We will send out the
count the agenda has not been for the council meeting has not been finalized
and published yet it will get published this afternoon and so we'll send out
email to all of you this afternoon after that is finalized and they'll have the
various better they'll communicate to you better what the specific times are
And it will have the WebEx link on it if you want to join virtually.
Thank you, Robin. Any questions from the board?
I do plan to attend the meeting, so I'll be there. I'll probably get there 1.30 or so just to not miss anything.
So hopefully I'll see someone be there as well, but it should be a fun meeting.
If there's no other questions, Robin or staff, do you have any other updates or any other
business for the committee?
Hold one second.
I'm getting a text from a board member.
Oh, we're good.
No, I don't.
I mean, I'm here to answer any questions or about the list or Chris could answer those
questions as well.
Any questions from the board?
You know, I just think, I like the real-life
continuity.
I think that's a smart thing that's really good.
Yeah.
I do too.
That ensures that we can really tackle these projects.
And we're not going back and trying to find more money.
Right.
Because the cost will go up.
Unfortunately.
Yes, indeed.
Anytime you can find a $10 million buffer, that's a good thing.
So, congrats.
I'm personally looking for a $10 million buffer.
Wouldn't that be great?
Yes, that would be wonderful.
All right, well, if there's no other business for the committee,
again, this is our last meeting as the rec bond board.
So thank you everyone for service to this board.
to know there were a lot of community members who have never experienced a board like this,
so hopefully it wasn't too traumatic and hopefully that's had a fun time doing it.
So hope to see some of you, all of you hopefully, but at least some of you
at the County Council meeting on Tuesday. If there are no other comments or no other business,
I'll look for a motion to adjourn.
Motion to adjourn. Second. Okay, we have a motion and
second. All those in favor of adjournment say aye.
Aye. Aye. Any opposed?
I'm an aye as well. We are adjourned. Have a good weekend, everyone.
Thank you, everyone. Thanks, everyone. See you, poosec.
Yeah. Bye.
Very good.
Thank you for coming all the way in.