[0:02] Public notice is given that the
Smithfield City Council will meet in a
[0:07] regularly scheduled meeting at 96 South
Maine, Smithfield, Utah on Wednesday,
[0:12] September 9th, 2026. Meeting will begin
at 6 PM. Like to welcome everybody here
[0:18] tonight and uh uh let you know that the
mayor is not able to be with us tonight.
[0:24] So I will be conducting the meeting and
uh I will also be uh starting off with
[0:31] the pledge of allegiance and with a
prayer. So if you would all please stand
[0:38] and
follow with the pledge of allegiance.
[0:42] I pledge algiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[0:49] republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[0:56] justice for all.
[1:05] » Our dear father in heaven, we are
grateful for the opportunity we have to
[1:09] meet together tonight as a community, as
a city council. We're grateful for this
[1:15] beautiful country that we live in. We're
grateful for this beautiful state that
[1:18] we live in. And we're grateful for this
beautiful city that we live in. We're
[1:23] grateful for the blessings that we have
here, for the moisture that we have been
[1:26] able to receive. And we're grateful for
all of the blessings which we enjoy on a
[1:32] daily basis here. And we pray that that
will bless us this night. That we may be
[1:36] able to discuss the affairs of the city.
That we may be able to make conscious
[1:41] and wise decisions. That we may be able
to have uh good discourse one with
[1:47] another. that we may be able to be
productive and that we may be able to be
[1:50] positive and that we may be blessed with
a continuation of of peace and freedom
[1:58] here in Utah and in the United States
that we may have thy continuing watchful
[2:04] eye over us. And we ask and say these
things in the name of thy son Jesus
[2:08] Christ. Amen.
>> Amen.
[2:13] » Well, thank you. Okay. Um, we'll go
ahead and move to the first order of
[2:17] business today, which is the approval of
the city council meeting minutes from
[2:21] August 12th, 2026.
I would entertain a motion.
[2:26] » I'll make a motion to approve council
meeting minutes from August 12th, 2026.
[2:30] » Okay. Motion has been made. I'll second
it. Seconded by Chris. Uh, how do we
[2:38] vote? Jay,
>> yes.
[2:40] » John,
>> yes.
[2:42] » Chris,
>> yes. Jim.
[2:44] » Yes.
>> And I vote yes. Also
[2:47] is unanimous.
This time would like to open the meeting
[2:52] for public comment on items that are not
included on tonight's agenda.
[2:58] Time is now yours. If you would uh if
you wish to comment, come up to the
[3:02] microphone. Please state your name, use
the microphone, and uh we'll proceed.
[3:15] Hi, I'm Tom Hilton of Smithfield
residence live near Chris. Um, I just
[3:23] wanted to say thanks to the city
council. Now, I'm going to thank you for
[3:26] something. I'm not entirely sure how
much you had to do with it, but I want
[3:30] to thank you anyway because I did talk
to Chris about it and he and I had some
[3:34] back and forth. Um, I was really really
worried about the pedestrian traffic uh
[3:41] crossing Highway 91 to go to the Summit
Elementary School and then come home
[3:46] from it every day. And I went as far as
to suggest to Chris that we might want
[3:50] to pursue at the state the construction
of an underpass, a pedestrian underpass
[3:54] there. You know, he was like, "Well, I
don't know. That's kind of a hard
[3:57] thing." But but one way or another, a
really, really good thing happened. And
[4:02] I kind of think I ought to give at least
you, if not everybody, credit for it.
[4:08] Um, the the the school attendance
boundaries have been realigned so that
[4:12] kids don't have to cross Highway 91 to
go to Summon Elementary School. And I
[4:17] can't tell you how relieved I am and I
really, really appreciate it. So, thanks
[4:21] to you, thanks to whoever else was
involved. Now, I'm going to add, you
[4:26] know, I didn't just come to say thank
you, right? I'm gonna add that the
[4:30] problem hasn't gone away.
Um, we've still we've got the the
[4:34] Central Park on the west side of Highway
91. We've got Forester Acres Park. We
[4:40] got Smithfield Temple coming on. And who
knows what else will come out. You know,
[4:44] development is proceeding a pace over
there. Um, so I think uh we really
[4:49] really need to look at some way to get
pedestrians back and forth across
[4:53] Highway 91 safely. Um, that idea of of
of you know the crosswalk of the traffic
[4:59] light, that all helps. But if you've
been there and watched how cars go
[5:03] through there, you know that's not safe.
Somebody's going to get killed there.
[5:07] And I would really rather solve the
problem before a fatality occurs.
[5:13] So there you go. You want to put that on
the next agenda?
[5:18] » Thank you very much, Tom.
>> Thanks. Thanks, Tom.
[5:21] » I should have stated that we open public
comment at 603. So,
[5:35] Caroli Stokes. Um, I have a request.
City Council seems to fall under the
[5:42] week of homecoming week at Sky View and
Wednesday's always their parade.
[5:49] And I was wondering in the future
because I think it's kind of sad that
[5:54] this is being held the same time the
parade is and if in the future if if the
[6:01] council is, you know, the same week as
the home the homecoming week, could they
[6:07] change it to another week in the month?
And I just wanted to make that
[6:13] suggestion request that um I just think
it's sad that that if people want to
[6:19] come here and then want to go to that
that it makes it hard that in the future
[6:24] you just you know ch change it to
another Wednesday
[6:29] anyway or tell Sky View to change I
don't know
[6:33] tell Sky View to change it to another
Wednesday but that was my that was my
[6:38] request. Thanks. Thank you Caroline.
>> Thanks.
[6:52] Any other desired public comment?
Okay. If not, we will close public
[6:58] comment at 6:07 p.m. Move on to agenda
item number three. presentation and
[7:06] discussion with representatives from the
Utah Coalition of Cities and Councils
[7:11] UC3. I understand we have Sarah
Davenport Smith here with us. So,
[7:17] » we allotted for a 10 to 15 minute window
there. So, thank you very much, Sarah.
[7:22] » Time is yours.
>> Right. Thank you so much for allowing me
[7:26] to come up and speak to you tonight
about the Utah Coalition of Cities and
[7:30] Counties or UC3 as we affectionately
like to call it. Um, should I tell you,
[7:35] Justin, to Okay, there we go.
All right. Um, today during our
[7:42] legislative sessions, it's not just
about the bills that are being passed.
[7:46] It's about what these bills are doing
collectively to each one of our local
[7:51] governments authority. As you guys have
probably noticed that over the past
[7:57] several years, however long you have
been city council members, you've
[8:00] probably seen bills pass and
requirements come down, unfunded
[8:05] mandates, all that fun stuff. And many
times you're seeing, oh well, I guess we
[8:11] don't get to make this decision exactly
the way that we used to anymore. So
[8:18] that's one of the reasons why U3 UC3
exists.
[8:22] and we just help to help you guys
recognize those shifts that are coming
[8:27] early instead of after the fact. That's
one of the main things that we that we
[8:32] offer.
Go ahead. Next. So, our team um of
[8:39] course I am I'm the founder managing
director and just so you know I have
[8:44] eight years of city council experience
under my belt and um very very proud of
[8:50] that. So, I know exactly what you guys
go through here on the daily and I thank
[8:56] you for each one of your service. It's a
lot to do and yet it's a it's a
[9:00] wonderful job. I'm so glad I was able to
do it as I'm sure you guys are too.
[9:07] Oops, sorry. Didn't want to do that.
Bernardet Brockman is um Oh, sorry. Uh
[9:12] could you go back one? Thanks. Uh
Bernardet Brockman, she is our our head
[9:17] trainer. Uh she is uh mostly Utah
native, but she has served our Utah
[9:22] National Guard for about 30 years. And
so she has ample leadership experience
[9:28] and also policy development experience,
too. And her her presentation and
[9:33] training skills are just amazing. Uh
Bill Lee um he is our head board adviser
[9:40] and um he has a lot of different
experience business. Um some of you
[9:44] might know him from uh the Utah County
Council. um he was a commissioner there
[9:50] for a few years and so he he brings that
perspective to help make sure that we
[9:55] are um encompassing all the things that
counties will deal with as well. Uh and
[10:00] then Heather Eder who uh has probably
interfaced with uh your staff. I know
[10:05] she did with Justin a little bit. And
she is um a a coach actually by trade,
[10:11] but she loves people and her
communication skills are beyond uh
[10:17] beyond what I can say. And so she just
helps make sure everybody is well taken
[10:21] care of. Okay. Next.
So what do we do?
[10:26] Local authority and governance analysis.
That is a different one. So everybody
[10:33] has
lobbyists. Most people have lobbyists.
[10:36] Most people belong to associations.
The Utah League of Cities and Towns,
[10:41] fabulous associations. So is the Utah
Association of Counties.
[10:46] We are different in the fact that we
bring something additional to the table,
[10:50] an added tool that they don't have. And
it's something that we really do feel
[10:56] that you need. And I know as a former
city council person, it was very helpful
[11:02] um realizing this tool and creating it
for cities and counties here in Utah.
[11:08] But again, we analyze not just what the
bill is going to to do structurally, but
[11:15] what it does to your authority, to your
finances, to your operations, to legal
[11:20] positions.
[11:24] Again, lobbyists can go ahead and
advocate for positions, but first of
[11:27] all, our local leaders need to know
which position they should have. And
[11:33] especially according to that
constitutional analysis side, it's very
[11:37] important because that is the one oath
that we all swear to uphold our Utah
[11:43] constitution and our federal
constitutions. And actually, they are
[11:47] fabulous tools for analyzing policy. And
if you want to keep local authority,
[11:53] your constitution is one of the best
tools to help you do that. And it's a
[11:58] very strong foundation to legally
speaking.
[12:02] Okay. Next.
So, let's get into the details of what
[12:08] each of those um areas do, what those
services are.
[12:13] The local authority and governance
analysis. Again, this is where where I
[12:18] talked about those authority shifts,
recognizing where those authority shifts
[12:21] are going to happen.
We examine due process, property rights,
[12:27] delegation, other safeguards, identify
the costs that are coming up, unfunded
[12:32] mandates, revenue implications. How many
know that when we utilize tools like tax
[12:38] increment financing that shifts the
revenue streams a bit?
[12:43] And so we also help to make sure what
new duties you're going to have um or
[12:49] maybe what you won't have, but also the
procedures, the deadlines that are going
[12:54] to be proposed. Um and then just try to
help you come up with a um like a
[13:00] checklist or even just a a navigation
sheet of of how you can go ahead and
[13:06] implement these things within the city.
Next,
[13:13] of course, the the advocacy side.
Again, we were able to do this um around
[13:22] also individual communities priorities
um because we can run those special
[13:30] analyses for you um on certain bills
because there are many times where we
[13:35] have a bill that is passed statewide and
it may
[13:40] benefit Salt Lake City but maybe not so
much Smithfield or maybe not so much
[13:45] Saratoga Springs where I'm from. So when
when that happens, because it does and
[13:52] it will continue to happen, when that
happens, we can help you see, okay,
[13:57] here's actually what it's going to do
for Smithfield and here's the positions
[14:02] that we recommend you guys take on this
action. So again, just trying to help
[14:07] you get out in front of that. And also
if there are recommended changes, we are
[14:13] ready and able to make those recommended
changes and amendments to those bills.
[14:19] Okay.
Next. Yep. Implementation decision
[14:24] support. Again, it's not just about what
the new legislation is going to make you
[14:28] do, but we're going to help you be
prepared ahead of time because even when
[14:34] those decisions are made at the state
level, they come down to the city and
[14:39] the county and the town level and then
your citizens are saying, "Why are you
[14:43] making us do this or why did this
change?" And you get to say a lot,
[14:48] "Well, this was actually a bill that was
passed and we're simply responding to
[14:52] it." Well, being able to again have this
understanding ahead of time, you guys
[14:58] can prepare already what you're going to
get people prepared for within your
[15:04] city.
And then of course we also help you
[15:09] identify where those local options and
discretion still exist because there are
[15:14] several times where a lot of cities have
given up certain decision-making
[15:21] authority when they didn't have to. It
was just an assumption that was made.
[15:27] And so again, this is one of the things
that we help you guys do. Okay. Next,
[15:34] education and training.
We've done uh several webinars and um
[15:41] I'll I'll have you guys look at the
packets in a little bit, but um we
[15:44] create a lot of different materials that
uh are very helpful for people um like
[15:51] this one in particular. Um
navigating regional authority districts,
[15:57] executive frameworks, and local
government authority. a practical con a
[16:01] practical constitutional playbook for
Utah local leaders. So, this is
[16:05] something we put out right after the
session. Really took in what um Senate
[16:10] Bill 284 did, which was that the big
land use bill that changed quite a lot.
[16:15] Um now a lot of our land use decisions
are going to be dependent upon water,
[16:20] which you know that's guess makes sense.
We're in a desert.
[16:25] All right. So, we do a lot of different
uh trainings. Um, but mainly what we
[16:30] want to do is to equip you guys to be
able to ask better questions when things
[16:35] come down the pike. Be able to ask those
questions that really help to defend
[16:41] that local authority position for
yourselves and your citizens.
[16:47] Okay. Next.
[16:51] So, you you have two basic models of
representation. And there is your very
[16:55] traditional path which um we all are
very very used to. You simply um go down
[17:03] the the traditional advocacy route. You
have the bill the summary position and
[17:07] you do your thing at the capital and
then you deal with compliance.
[17:12] Our path uh we look at bills and of
course a lot of the bills that are
[17:16] coming up. So there's the interim
session happening right now. some bills
[17:21] are being created and talked about and
um so we look at the bill the
[17:26] constitutions we bring in case law which
a lot of people have asked there's a lot
[17:31] of different views about the
constitution what is your view on it
[17:34] well we use the case law to determine
what that particular view is on our
[17:39] constitutions and then we look at the
authority shift and that cumulative
[17:45] impact
and when I say cumulative impact
[17:50] It's not just when you look at one
single bill because most of the time
[17:54] when you have um like a report come from
the League of Cities and Towns, you'll
[17:59] see a list of the bills they support,
those they don't, ones that they're
[18:03] neutral on, and then afterwards you'll
kind of get a report. This is what it
[18:07] is, this is what it's going to do. But
what we have done instead is say okay if
[18:13] we have this group of bills that are
being passed and a lot of them have to
[18:17] do with for example housing housing
policy which includes transportation and
[18:22] water right and so you bring those all
together and say what is happening
[18:28] cumulatively with all of these what is
what is going to happen at the local
[18:33] level that's where we found this
authority shift taking place and a lot
[18:39] more decision-making authority is being
shifted to the state and away from our
[18:44] local governments. And so that's one of
the things that we're helping everybody
[18:49] to become aware of and you know you can
do something about it.
[18:56] Okay. Next,
for those of you who are visual, this is
[19:02] visual. This is our methodology. Again,
um we start with our constitutions and
[19:09] case law and then we start bringing in
the the local government authority test.
[19:15] You know, what is this what is this
proposed policy going to do to
[19:20] decision-making authority? Is it getting
closer to the people or is it getting
[19:26] further away from the people? Simple
question, good principle, and it's a
[19:30] great way to analyze what a policy
actually does. And then of course
[19:34] there's the practical application. You
know what what is this actually going to
[19:39] take to implement uh fiscally what
changes are going to happen? Um again we
[19:47] think that having this methodology in
your toolbox results in clearer
[19:51] decisions, stronger communities and
better governance for you guys.
[19:57] Next.
Okay. So, two ways to engage with UC3.
[20:04] We offer a citizen membership and it's
totally free. We do our public
[20:08] newsletters, which there is an example
of the newsletter in your guys's packets
[20:12] that I left for you. Um, there are some
select public webinars that we just
[20:17] offer to everybody, and then any
discounted training rates, and it's, you
[20:21] know, that's for anybody, citizens or
leaders who are just interested in
[20:24] following this kind of constitutional
governance
[20:29] um idea. at the municipal membership
level. Again, there's more of that that
[20:35] full advocacy uh package that we do
offer, but more importantly, it's that
[20:41] detailed analysis. It's helping you to
come up with a game plan of okay, this
[20:46] is what it's going to look like when
this passes or now that it's passed, now
[20:50] this is what we have to do. Um
we also have um attorney access uh as
[20:59] well. We contract uh with a particular
firm who is very familiar with um local
[21:06] governments and again more exclusive
trainings, webinars, conferences that we
[21:12] offer. So um you know one membership
will keep you informed and the other one
[21:18] gives you a seat at the table.
[21:23] Next.
So again, at the end of the day, it's
[21:28] not just a it's not just a service
decision. It's more of a question of
[21:33] what kind of guidance are you looking
for? Is is this a kind of tool u that
[21:39] you're needing to add to your toolbox?
If you want help understanding not only
[21:44] what legislation is going to require you
to do, but also how your authority is
[21:50] going to change, then that's where we
come in.
[21:54] Okay. Next,
[21:58] the 2025 and 2026 sessions really showed
us something important. Um, it's not
[22:04] just about the policies that are being
passed, but it's about who are going to
[22:08] be making the decisions behind those
policies. Now,
[22:13] of course, we can do what traditional
advocacy firms do, but it's more about
[22:18] what UC3 adds to this picture. It's
different. And again, we exist to help
[22:25] keep decision-making authority as close
to local governments as possible.
[22:32] And that's it. And if you want to take
out your your packets, I've given you
[22:37] guys um several pieces of information.
Didn't want to overwhelm you, but I
[22:42] wanted to show you a little bit about
what we what we do offer. Um there's a
[22:50] let's see on the left side
you'll see um this first one it's a
[22:56] really nice breakdown of why why us what
do we add what's different um there's
[23:03] some other basic information on uh the
left side about who we are and what we
[23:09] do and then on the right side I've made
sure that you guys have one of our um
[23:16] more recent newsletters that was from
earlier um in the spring. I think we did
[23:21] it in May and that was in response to
the AI data center issue which still
[23:27] seems to be a pretty hot topic around
here and elsewhere. And um and then also
[23:33] our legislative wrap-up report from the
session. And so you'll see I go into a
[23:37] little bit more detail about what the
cumulative effect is and all that good
[23:41] stuff. So um do you have any questions?
I know we're out of time.
[23:50] » I just like the fact that you guys are
taking the Constitution
[23:54] um you know as as a part of the the lens
through how we're looking at this.
[24:00] » Um I think that's something that's easy
to forget or get lost especially when
[24:05] there's so many bills that that come
through.
[24:08] » Yeah, it is. And like I said, it's a
really practical tool. Um, I've been
[24:15] super super super excited about using it
and I think a lot of people especially
[24:20] our legislators are recognizing and they
really appreciate the fact that we bring
[24:25] this up like saying well we actually did
a constitutional analysis and it is
[24:29] something they used to do at the capital
on all the bills um but they've they've
[24:34] chosen not to do that. So anyways again
it's uh it's another service that we
[24:38] also provide for them as well. we make
sure they get a a weekly um
[24:45] impact report essentially on the key
bills that we're following and um how
[24:50] those bills are stacking up and the even
the amendments that we recommend in
[24:54] order to bring those back into
compliance. So,
[24:59] » so having said that, what is your
perception over the last few years of
[25:04] how these in general these bills look?
Do they do they tend to follow the
[25:10] constitution or are they wildly in
different directions because people want
[25:16] them to go those directions?
>> Well, actually you would be happy to
[25:21] know that there have been over the past
few sessions there have been only only a
[25:26] handful that have been like absolutely
red line no we cannot do this. Most of
[25:32] them are yellow and I like to use
stoplight colors. So, you know, green
[25:37] is, you know, thumbs up. Yellow is
caution, which always means amendment.
[25:40] Most of the bills reside in that yellow
area where some of it's okay, but
[25:47] there's some of it that needs to be
changed. And and you know what? That's
[25:52] fine because that's what the session is
all about. Unfortunately, we only have
[25:55] 45 days to do it. So, it's really fast.
[26:02] Are your thoughts and concerns taken
into consideration during the session
[26:05] when you approach them with your
recommendations? Do they consider
[26:09] » some of them doations? Yes. Yes.
Actually, there have been I've been very
[26:14] happy to note that there have been
several that um even one of the bills
[26:18] that just got stopped because I said
this is not going to work and I showed
[26:22] you why. And um that was that was very
good to note. Um some of the things that
[26:30] have been a little uh more challenging
have been a lot of the housing bills um
[26:35] that we have been commenting on and
analyzing
[26:39] because uh there's such a a big push to
have a certain um amount of housing go
[26:45] in statewide as quickly as possible. And
we also have the Olympics coming up too.
[26:51] And so there's a lot of push to get
certain things especially transit
[26:54] oriented development in. And so when you
when you have that coming up, you you
[27:00] get a a little bit of a a push back when
it comes to trying to keep, you know,
[27:06] more of the decisions like that local.
But we stand very firmly on our article
[27:12] 11 of our constitution where our cities
are granted. Even though you're still a
[27:18] general government city, you're still
granted special authority when it comes
[27:22] to your communities, when it comes to
planning for communities and such. So,
[27:26] it's different than counties.
>> Great.
[27:31] » One other quick question. Have you seen
any um yellow u in regards to special
[27:39] authority districts, things like that?
>> Yes.
[27:44] » Yes. Um in fact well we weren't here
when um some of the authority districts
[27:51] quite a few of them went in but as more
have gone in um we have we've done a lot
[27:58] of analysis on it and made a lot of
suggestions um for some roll backs with
[28:05] that and I I do think you know I mean AI
data centers whatever you think about
[28:10] them the good news is is it's brought
that idea actually to the top the idea
[28:16] of what are these authority districts?
What's behind them? Is it right that
[28:21] they should have this kind of authority
and um you know and there are now
[28:26] lawsuits that are happening right now
just because of that. So it is good that
[28:30] the question is being asked because um
it's according to our analysis it's very
[28:36] clear in the constitution these should
not have happened uh the way they
[28:40] happened in the first place. And in
fact, if you want to read about that, it
[28:44] is in that newsletter. So there's more
information.
[28:49] » Kind of interested in your funding model
or your organization. Uh where your
[28:54] revenue comes from? Oh yeah. Where your
expenses are going? Are you taxpayer
[28:58] funded in any way or is this strictly
through dues with cities or uh are any
[29:03] of your expenses? Certainly there's
personnel expenses. Uh are are you
[29:09] supporting any candidates financially?
Um in any ways. I'm just curious about
[29:13] kind of your approach to funding and
running your organization.
[29:18] » Sure. Um so in your packets there is a
nice flyer uh that has the information
[29:24] about how um how the due structure
works. So that is the primary method of
[29:30] how we're funded is from dues from
clients uh from members. And uh no, we
[29:37] don't have a we don't have a pack. Um so
we're we're not uh invested in elections
[29:43] or anything like that. And we're not
publicly funded either. So this is this
[29:48] is private, but um yeah, it well
membership dues I guess those those are
[29:55] public. So, so yes, uh there is that,
but um it's it's more of just a a
[30:01] membership association to so you guys
know that this is your funds and so you
[30:08] have the biggest say of what happens in
this association. We wanted to keep it
[30:13] clean that way.
>> Very good. Thank you.
[30:18] » Any other questions,
>> Sarah? Thank you so much for for coming.
[30:24] wonderful presentation and appreciate
the packets and
[30:27] » yeah,
>> thank you so much.
[30:28] » Yes,
>> we definitely appreciate your pro your
[30:31] approach to this. It's
>> I shouldn't say that it's unique, but it
[30:35] is. I mean, that should be something
that we should be doing already in my
[30:39] opinion, but yeah.
>> Yeah. Well, I'm happy to help you guys.
[30:43] Feel free to reach out anytime.
>> Thank you. Keep up the good work.
[30:50] Okay, we'll proceed on to item number
four, discussion and possible vote on
[30:56] ordinance 2026-13,
an ordinance amending the Smithfield
[31:00] City Municipal Code Title 17, zoning
regulations, chapter 17.92, Accessory
[31:07] Dwelling Unit, section 1792.101,
purpose and chapter 17.92.2
[31:15] conditions 17.92.30 30 application
procedures and chapter 17.120
[31:23] use matrix table section 17121.010
10 using
[31:30] excuse me use all allowance matrix and
with that we'll turn the time over to
[31:36] Brian.
Thanks. So we're doing two major things
[31:41] here. One changing the code and one is
altering the use allowance matrix.
[31:51] So last year's session, the state
session made some minor changes. I'd say
[31:59] minor based on what we were doing, but
major compared to what other cities and
[32:03] states or cities were doing for detached
uh dwelling units. So there are a few
[32:11] things that we made some changes to and
I'll go through those right now. So the
[32:15] first thing is they now allow
certificate of occupancy for any new
[32:22] detached dwelling unit.
We put the text in there. In all
[32:28] technicality, the county takes care of
our building inspections and they
[32:33] already issue a CFO for any new dwelling
unit.
[32:40] Uh the next two changes are basically
new links to the state code. What
[32:47] happened is
they used to have the entire portion of
[32:52] LDMA or the land use portion of the
state code in 109.
[33:00] They've revamped the whole thing
completely and moved it to 1021. And so
[33:06] we've had to just update the links we
already had and therefore internal and
[33:12] detached just to make it match the state
code where the big move took place.
[33:21] Okay.
[33:25] All right. We did add in that same
section, we added a sentence
[33:30] that said that we wanted to specify that
internal
[33:35] um accessory dwelling units were allowed
in the MPC. We know that the MPC has a
[33:42] large array of sizes of lots
and in even in most of those they tend
[33:51] to be smaller, some bigger than others,
but detached
[33:57] dwelling units are very very difficult.
So they're not not allowed.
[34:04] However, we wanted to make sure that the
verbiage was clear that internal
[34:09] accessory units were definitely allowed
in those homes because they can build it
[34:15] in their house. And we just wanted to
clarify that for people that had been
[34:20] asking
[34:23] 1792030.
[34:27] We actually altered the words and we
added the words accessory dwelling unit
[34:33] and removed the words conditional use
permit. We did that because the new
[34:39] state code says that no city is allowed
to use a conditional use permit for any
[34:48] type of a dwelling unit.
They can use business licenses. They can
[34:54] use applications.
they cannot use conditional use permits
[34:59] that can add conditions to that dwelling
mix.
[35:04] The second change was just some minor
word changes that allows
[35:12] the the sentence to be more clear on how
and when.
[35:18] And lastly,
when we took a t took a look at the
[35:23] allowance matrix, we actually had
two lines that were essentially the same
[35:30] thing that discussed accessory dwelling
units and then one line that called it a
[35:36] residential unit.
So,
[35:40] what we did,
since we haven't fixed this in a long,
[35:44] long time, we just decided to fix it
while we were here. Essentially, we're
[35:49] getting rid of the line that says
accessory residential unit
[35:54] because it's redundant multiple times.
And we made sure that we have and then
[36:00] we took the other two that were
basically a different wording of the
[36:05] same thing and we combined them into
one.
[36:08] showing where the dwelling unit is
allowed,
[36:13] if that makes sense.
So, you've got detached and internal.
[36:20] It's all one word there or one term on
the allowance matrix line.
[36:27] So, those are the changes we made. Any
questions?
[36:31] Did it was approved by the planning
commission. I always forget that.
[36:36] Always. I just had one question and I
think it's just a matter of
[36:40] clarification on 92.02
uh B.
[36:45] You've got all of that highlighted
there. It's regarding the maybe uh let's
[36:50] see right scroll down or scroll up a
little more.
[36:56] Oh, sorry. Wrong direction. Scroll the
other up. There you go.
[37:00] » Oh,
>> my bad. Keep going. Right there. uh that
[37:03] be
um the any detached over 650 is that
[37:08] new?
Okay. The one part is new and and I'm
[37:12] glad you're asking this is I wasn't sure
if it was new or great clarification
[37:16] » adding the
>> before the state said you can't have
[37:22] more than one
additional stall requested or required
[37:27] for any unit.
In the new legislation, they came out
[37:34] and said, in fact, I believe they're the
ones that came up with the 650 foot
[37:39] rule, and they allow cities to request
two stalls
[37:46] for a larger detached unit.
And so, it really
[37:53] it really only goes towards detached
units that are larger.
[37:59] In any other case, whether it's smaller,
internal, detached, if it's smaller than
[38:04] 650, we still have the requirement to
add one
[38:09] one additional stall. So, we just did
change it for two stalls if it's above
[38:15] 650. That's almost something we pulled
word for word from that state code.
[38:22] It makes sense to where you have more
people. If it's a larger detached unit
[38:29] there, there's a greater possibility for
more vehicular use. So, we're mandating
[38:34] two on the larger.
>> Okay,
[38:37] great.
Okay. uh at this time open it up for is
[38:42] there first of all is there any public
discussion on oh sorry
[38:48] not necessary but is there any other
discussion within the
[38:52] » I had a couple questions um
>> that I'm just kind of trying to learn
[38:56] here I noticed absolutely
>> uh so we've got um
[39:02] » when I was kind of looking through this
and I I did go look at the state code
[39:05] and they and they talk about internal
like what you were mentioning and then
[39:10] detached. But I noticed that in a lot of
our verbiage we say attached instead of
[39:16] internal.
Is there a reason for that? And could
[39:20] that be construed slightly different
than internal? For example, if someone
[39:26] decided they were going to create an
addition onto their house and it's
[39:32] attached to their house.
>> Is that why we're using attached?
[39:36] Because we want to allow that. That's
why we're using it.
[39:39] » Okay.
>> The state does require us to allow it.
[39:43] » Okay.
>> So, they require any type of
[39:48] the way that they use it is internal for
a home. In all technicality, if you
[39:54] build an addition to a home and make
that an accessory part and you meet all
[39:59] of the requirements for the building
code, it's still considered internal.
[40:07] And we found it better to use the word
attached.
[40:13] And then the internal is actually in
different parts of the code and the
[40:17] building code really specifies that out.
So when they inspect it, regardless
[40:23] whether it's an attachment, uh,
detached, an apartment, that building
[40:29] code really differentiates. And so,
>> yeah,
[40:33] » that was one thing we just
>> That's great. Yeah. And I'm completely
[40:36] okay with that. I just was kind of
trying to clarify if, you know, if there
[40:39] was a specific reason for that. The
other question is, um, what's the
[40:44] difference between an accessory
apartment and an accessory dwelling
[40:48] unit? Is there something specifically
different about that or is that
[40:52] » Nope.
>> Just an older verbiage? Do we want
[40:56] » Do we want to update our code to be
consistent?
[40:59] » Be consistent.
>> So that's what we're that's what we're
[41:01] doing.
>> Okay. So because we still have it like
[41:03] in C right there. It's still all over.
>> So
[41:09] » twice in there.
>> I put I I It's not in this ordinance.
[41:15] However, I made an image that made it a
little easier to see. and I showed it at
[41:19] the commission.
What you're seeing here is accessory
[41:24] apartment and accessory
residential unit
[41:29] » and
I believe that there is an accessory
[41:34] building. There's three. Okay. In all
technicality, we need two. We need one
[41:40] that's an accessory dwelling unit and
one that's an accessory building.
[41:46] » Okay. A long time ago, they just called
them residential units, but for about
[41:52] the last decade, both state and a lot of
cities have started referring to them as
[41:59] ADUs or accessory dwelling units.
>> Yeah,
[42:04] » we're just following the basic
nomenclature that everybody's using. I
[42:10] guess in 20 years if they start calling
them residential units, we could change
[42:14] it back.
>> Yeah. So it doesn't matter that much,
[42:17] but we wanted to be consistent. So
that's why we're trimming it down,
[42:23] changing the name to a proper name that
everybody uses so that they understand
[42:27] because if they read this and they go
read some article
[42:32] » from the newspaper about state code,
then they have more questions and it
[42:39] makes it more confusing.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So, I guess getting back to
[42:43] my question, I noticed um in
uh 17.92.030
[42:51] um C and it talks about accessory
apartments. Do we want to change that
[42:57] verbiage?
>> Yeah, we can.
[42:59] » Okay,
>> that's great. And then and then maybe
[43:02] remove And then if you have that
completely removed, you could remove the
[43:07] the um use matrix down below as well,
right? And remove the accessory
[43:14] apartment from that.
>> Yeah. Well, so that's what we're doing
[43:18] in the proposed. We're removing the word
apartment, but that that's that is a
[43:23] good idea. We can
>> we can say accessory dwelling
[43:29] » unit rather than apartment.
>> Okay.
[43:32] » And and it just it's great. It just
keeps
[43:35] » good for consistency
>> the consistency of the words. So yeah.
[43:40] » Yep. Yep.
>> Cool.
[43:42] » One thing that I noticed under
[43:48] » the conditions
>> I just keep thinking.
[43:53] Sorry, it's uh 17920
[43:58] where it says um you can have a
temporary absence of three years for
[44:03] this the particular things it says
temporary job assignment, sbatical and
[44:06] voluntary service. Does military fall
into any of those or is that something
[44:10] that we feel like we should add?
>> I believe
[44:14] the purpose was there. I don't remember.
[44:21] » I think it's vague enough that
>> I think it I think it just I think the
[44:25] way we word it just covers that.
>> I don't ever and to be honest, there's
[44:31] only one time in six years that someone
asked. They went on a church mission
[44:38] » and that's the only time they've ever
asked. And it really wasn't a hard no
[44:43] because their son took over the main
unit they were living in.
[44:47] » So technically was occupied.
>> Yeah.
[44:54] » Yep. Yeah.
>> That's what I figured, but I don't know
[44:56] if we needed to be more specific or not.
>> And then I did have one other just
[45:02] question and this would just be kind of,
you know, have we thought about this? Um
[45:08] but uh Utah permits m municipalities to
prohibit rentals under 30 days and adus
[45:17] under 90 days.
>> Um that the Utah code basically says
[45:22] that we can
>> is that something that we want to detail
[45:26] in here? Is that something we care
about? What that would that would
[45:30] eliminate was and I don't care one way
or another but if we're thinking about
[45:34] it maybe we need to make a decision uh
whether they could use that as an Airbnb
[45:39] or a VBO you know
>> we have thought about that
[45:43] » okay
>> and I'll tell you and I'll give you the
[45:45] explanation so
in the past
[45:50] there are some cities especially larger
ones and cities that utilize tourism a
[45:56] lot
that require specific
[46:01] applications,
payments,
[46:05] andor business licenses for Airbnbs.
Um,
[46:11] the past three councils, we've
definitely had this discussion quite a
[46:16] few times. In essence, and I don't I'll
just explain a little bit so that it
[46:22] makes sense.
When you create a shortterm rental,
[46:28] in order to be able to use it or utilize
it or even make money, you have to
[46:34] attach yourself to one of the companies
that put your apartment out there and
[46:42] they do the marketing for you. And these
companies are very strict in what they
[46:47] require, what they allow. They they
actually allow people to um it's like
[46:55] Google where you can put your level of
service that you feel like you received
[47:00] and everyone can do that. So after a lot
of years of discussing this, we didn't
[47:08] feel a need to have any kind of a
requirement
[47:12] whether they're in a detached uh uh
internal or the the whole home because
[47:20] and and it's held up so far because
those companies require so much that if
[47:28] they don't keep that up, they don't make
any money and they have to use it as a
[47:32] normal residents anyway. So that's why
we haven't really implored more use for
[47:40] short-term rental.
There are some smaller cities that have
[47:46] and talking to the planners, it just
seems more of an inconvenience
[47:52] because they always the short-term
rental properties, they keep it up
[47:56] better than even normal renters,
long-term renters. So
[48:01] » yeah. us. Great. I just wasn't sure, you
know, if we were specifically thinking
[48:06] about it or not. I'm cool either way.
Yeah. So, yeah. Okay. Thank you.
[48:14] » Any other discussion on this?
>> If not, I'll entertain a motion.
[48:25] I'll make a motion that we adopt these
changes to ordinance 2026-13 with the
[48:33] addition of
changing
[48:37] accessory apartment to accessory
dwelling unit in that one spot.
[48:40] » 1792.
>> Thank you.
[48:46] Uh I I make a motion that we adopt this
as
[48:50] presented as amended.
>> I will second. Okay. Have a motion. It's
[48:55] been seconded. How do we vote? Jay,
>> yes.
[48:59] » John,
>> yes.
[49:00] » Chris,
>> yes.
[49:02] » Jen,
>> yes.
[49:04] » I vote yes. Also passes.
[49:08] Great. Moving on to agenda item number
five. Uh, discussion and update on the
[49:14] Smithfield City Historic Museum
renovation project. Uh, take just a m
[49:19] just real quick. Were we supposed to
open it up for public comment on that? I
[49:24] don't know if we needed to or not.
>> Okay.
[49:30] » Oh, yeah. That's right. Yep. Sorry. I'm
used to being at the planning
[49:33] commission, so that's why I was thinking
of that. So, thank you.
[49:37] » Okay. Have a discussion and update on
Smithfield City Historic Museum
[49:42] renovation project. Uh we'll hear from
Jeff Gitens and uh may also have some
[49:48] additional details come from Justin. So
Jeff,
[49:53] welcome.
[49:58] » Thank you. Good evening, everyone.
Glad to be here and grateful for your
[50:04] listening here. I've just been asked to
come and basically answer any questions
[50:08] you have about where we're at.
Yes, I can do that. I can eat it if you
[50:14] want.
So, I've just basically been asked to be
[50:18] here to answer any questions you have
about where we're at and what we're
[50:22] doing. But what we're trying to do is
get the upstairs done. We need the
[50:27] display room desperately.
And uh I think we made some really good
[50:33] progress in recent months and uh we've
had a lot of pleased people come. The
[50:40] thing we are most pleased for
is how engaged the people are that come
[50:46] to see it. They're involved. They come
with purpose and reason. And most of
[50:51] them,
excuse me, most of them come with
[50:56] pictures, relics, family histories, and
things in their hands saying, "I'm the
[51:02] end of the line or it's my
responsibility. I want this to be seen.
[51:07] I don't want it thrown away by my
children or my grandchildren. And uh
[51:11] it's good people have that perspective.
It really is. We've received some
[51:15] marvelous things, some interesting
things. Uh just real quickly, let me
[51:20] tell you a couple things that's happened
regarding the upstairs.
[51:26] We did receive a CLG grant, as most of
you know, for 20,000. That is the
[51:32] maximum that's allowed. And quite
frankly, I'm a little surprised. But the
[51:37] way that happened is we had Jansen
Bennett. um he is the state architect
[51:45] and he came up and has looked at it with
Justin I just recently yesterday
[51:51] and u
he and Chris Hansen
[51:56] who was with the
Shipo State History Preservation Office
[52:01] and they asked us questions about it
after they looked at it and they seemed
[52:07] pretty satisfied with the answers we
gave
[52:10] But um yeah, we need that done before we
can do really anything else because we
[52:16] required to where it's a public building
to be able to get everyone to that area.
[52:25] And uh we've decided to put it in the
east opening upstairs. Those of you
[52:30] who've been up there, the east opening
that will require us to cut through that
[52:36] twoft wall. The east wall is 2 feet
thick. The other three walls are three
[52:41] feet thick. And so, uh, they'll have to
cut it basically from both sides. We had
[52:47] Cash Valley Concrete cutting come and
they were happy to do it. They said they
[52:52] would give us about a $500 reduction
where it's here in the community as
[52:58] their gift. It's going to cost us around
$4,500 to $5,000.
[53:03] Uh but the good news is that the door
frame that's there is actually high
[53:08] enough for the lift to to raise it right
to that that level is where it would
[53:13] need to be to
for the lift to raise high enough for
[53:19] people to get out. We will need to cut a
foot to 18 inches off the down to the
[53:26] floor so it's floor level. It will be a
freestanding structure. It will we'll
[53:31] have the cutter also. We've talked to
them. They'll cut for us when they do do
[53:35] this. They'll cut
for the actual tower itself, four places
[53:42] in the concrete where we can anchor it
down very sturdy. So, it's a
[53:46] freestanding structure
and uh
[53:51] it we will enter it from the east. So,
any ramp that would be needed would be
[53:55] very minimal, just enough to get up to
the floor of the lift. probably I'm
[54:00] guessing about two to four inches so we
wouldn't have to go out and uh
[54:08] so we had Jansen and Chris come and they
were great help they're very very
[54:13] professional these are the CLG grant as
you know might know are
[54:21] national park funds administered by the
state
[54:25] and so they told us the procedure what
we would have have to go through to
[54:30] access that money. It's fairly simple.
They would drop a contract saying we
[54:34] will do this, this, and this before we
receive to money. We will sign it, get
[54:39] it back to them, and it's fairly simple
procedure.
[54:43] So,
that's been done. Um, we're happy with
[54:48] that.
Uh, we also got the wraps tax for
[54:52] 40,000. So, we have 60,000
towards the the lift. Now, the tough
[54:58] news is it's going to cost around 69,000
plus.
[55:04] We're going to have to come up with a
little money on our own.
[55:08] I feel that we can raise some money in
the future and my pledge to you is I
[55:13] will continue to do the very best I can.
I pledge that to you as council to raise
[55:21] the funds, as many of the funds as we
can.
[55:26] What I have found is if we get people in
the museum
[55:32] that have an interest in it,
they volunteer money, believe it or not.
[55:38] And we had such a case.
Two people came up from Earl Harper's
[55:44] family.
She was a great niece and she brought
[55:49] pictures
antique oval framed colorized pictures
[55:55] and uh they brought Earl Harper's camera
that he took on his mission. At one
[56:00] point I didn't know he went on a mission
to England before he went to World War
[56:05] I.
They brought stories
[56:09] and Lyn and I were able to interview her
one night.
[56:14] It was very interesting. her husband got
out his checkbook and wrote out a check
[56:19] for $1,000 while he was there.
Just like that. And we received another
[56:25] little donation yesterday of $500. I
don't tell people what they should
[56:30] donate because they have to want to do
it. And uh everything is I tell them
[56:37] everything is appreciated. But we just
have some wonderful people
[56:42] uh and wonderful gifts that have come
our way. Uh we have a facial recognition
[56:49] system subs subscription
that Eric Bean Bingham knew the people
[56:55] who do this and they've given us a a
free subscription for facial
[57:01] recognition. that required us to get a
new email because they the facial
[57:07] recognition people are very conscious of
personal data
[57:11] » and so they won't send it to a personal
email so it will be sent to Justin
[57:16] helped me set up an a separate email
with the city so that we can accommodate
[57:22] that and Eric is excited to get started
on that. The benefit of that is all of
[57:28] the school pictures, all the public
pictures where we have names and we can
[57:34] document it, but there's always question
marks. We don't know some people always
[57:39] in especially the older the picture. But
with this facial recognition program, we
[57:45] create a data data file and that will
link that and be able to identify people
[57:52] that we can't identify.
And for sure, but they can and it it's
[57:59] really fascinating.
But that's come our way free gratus
[58:03] thanks to Eric Bingham and he's excited
to get started on it.
[58:09] Um we're looking at creating new uh
interactive
[58:16] displays especially to involve our
youth. That's one of the most rewarding
[58:20] things I have is to watch the youth get
involved and that's really fun. I mean,
[58:25] they're the youth are really excited
about it. And uh
[58:30] so
Linda is working on
[58:35] some Smithfield Main Street building
[58:40] interactive displays.
and Whitney Love Day is working on uh
[58:47] some televised something that we can
televise a video screen that we can put
[58:52] a CD in or other information and let
people watch things and we have quite a
[58:58] bit believe it or not to watch. There
have been interviews done of a lot of
[59:04] the older members of the community from
way back and I think people will
[59:09] appreciate that. I I will spearhead a
new display on the south wall as you
[59:14] walk through the ADA entrance about the
original settlers that came to
[59:21] Smithfield, why they came here, where
they came from, what country they came
[59:25] from, what brought them here. And it's
uh
[59:30] it's fascinating to learn these things
where they came from what you know and
[59:37] it's anyway I think that will be fun for
people of course we it'll help people
[59:43] identify their their um ancestors or
family members that came here
[59:51] and uh we've had a lot of success with
the the display on the report. Uh Linda
[59:58] created something so that people could
sign if they're related to any of these
[1:00:02] people. We had a lady come last night
from Texas, her and her husband. They
[1:00:07] made prayer arrangements, but they came
and they are related, directly related,
[1:00:12] descendants of four of the original
pioneer families. And so she brought
[1:00:17] pictures with her and they were just a
delight to have. And they stayed until
[1:00:22] we had to close. So that that was great.
Um those are some of the things we're
[1:00:29] trying to do. We have we have a
breakdown. Justin can run you through
[1:00:34] whatever he wants. I'll be glad to to
answer any questions. But uh we had
[1:00:40] Bennett's glass come up and uh look at
what kind of door we needed to come in
[1:00:47] the from the elevator into the building.
And it will be key lock only. So the
[1:00:53] person attending
somebody with um that needs help will
[1:00:59] have a key. In other words, people from
upstairs will not be able to open the
[1:01:04] door
and we will not have a closing cylinder
[1:01:09] on it which is fairly pricey. That
actually saves money because the door is
[1:01:14] supposed to open freely to the inside
the building and it's supposed to just
[1:01:18] stay open, you know. So, um that's good.
But anyway, Bennett's Glass gave us a a
[1:01:25] bid that's good for like uh I can't
remember just is it 60 days 30 to 60
[1:01:32] days.
>> Okay. It was We can go over those prices
[1:01:35] in a minute. We've got some uh numbers
council of how to finish the rest of
[1:01:38] that building or from some of the other
rooms and stuff that Jeff and Linda have
[1:01:41] been working hard on. We can talk about
that. But very much uh appreciate
[1:01:47] » that was $10,440.
We got Steve Licky up there from Rocky
[1:01:53] Mountain Power and he really actually
got him to come up and go through the
[1:01:58] building. He really enjoyed it and he
was
[1:02:02] he seemed very impressed and he has
family was here at one time and so but
[1:02:08] nonetheless he suggested that uh
most grants with Rocky Mountain Power
[1:02:15] Foundation are they ask you not to apply
for more than generally not more than
[1:02:20] 5,000 but he suggested what they really
go by he says you can put Jeff you can
[1:02:26] put any amount in you want Because what
they go by is, how did he put it?
[1:02:33] What will ever make the
gauge click?
[1:02:39] I might have to get my phone on.
Whatever will make
[1:02:44] the um
gauge click that will move the project
[1:02:49] forward.
So he says, "I'm not telling you what to
[1:02:53] do, but I I'd put $10,000 and tell you
tell them why we need to get this done.
[1:02:58] We're getting closer to having it
finished up." So we did. We applied for
[1:03:03] the full $10,000
knowing now what they look at closely.
[1:03:08] Um that really helped. So Okay.
>> Thank you.
[1:03:13] » Yeah, I think Justin has a little bit of
additional
[1:03:16] » color that he can put on a couple of
items here. So
[1:03:19] » yeah, just uh Jeff's been hard. Jeff and
Linda are always very hard at work over
[1:03:22] there. If you notice, they're over there
two days a week plus uh when it's open
[1:03:26] uh when it's not open and in between. Uh
when Jeff's not on a tractor, Jeff's at
[1:03:31] the museum. We very much appreciate him
and the time spent getting all those
[1:03:34] bids. Uh as we talk about that building,
uh we've been working on a um some
[1:03:39] changes per the building inspection
department. We've got to tweak the one
[1:03:42] of the bathrooms a little bit. Uh
there's some uh uh railing that we've
[1:03:47] got to change uh to be into some ADA
compliance. Uh we'll get that done. Some
[1:03:51] uh grab bars, I believe they call them.
Uh put in some signage. Uh we can get in
[1:03:55] compliance there. As far as on the main
floor, uh basically the only thing uh
[1:03:59] left on the main floor outside of fixing
that bathroom is the conference room. Uh
[1:04:03] the conference room needs the electrical
finished. Uh the flooring probably uh
[1:04:08] flooring is problematic at best. Uh we
have some pricing there, sheetrock,
[1:04:12] paint, and then the bottom could
actually be done. Uh we found out on the
[1:04:15] stairs going up with the lift and stuff,
the stairs uh actually will hit code
[1:04:20] from as far as the stairs perspective
themselves, but we would we do have to
[1:04:23] install a railing on both sides. Um so
that will be mandatory and that is from
[1:04:28] the very bottom to uh to the top even
where it makes the 90 and goes up onto
[1:04:32] the floor. So uh we would need some
railing there. As Jeff mentioned, 40,000
[1:04:37] in wraps tax, 20,000 in a CLG. those are
approved. Uh we've applied for the
[1:04:42] through the Rocky Mountain Power
Foundation. Hope to get some funding
[1:04:44] there. Um the lift is going to require
some concrete work. We're going to have
[1:04:48] to cut out some of the concrete out. I
believe it's going to have to be on
[1:04:52] about a 4ft base if I recall. Um with
the concrete, so there's going to be
[1:04:57] some costs with that. We're going to
have to move the air conditioning unit
[1:05:00] that's on the east side of the building.
It's going to have to be relocated to
[1:05:03] the south side of the building. And then
as you look at the upstairs uh council,
[1:05:07] um some of the electrical needs to be
finished once the roughin electrical is
[1:05:11] done. Uh it would require an inspection
and then you could start looking at
[1:05:14] sheetrock. It's already insulated. You
could look at sheetrock. Uh there's some
[1:05:18] flooring challenges. Uh you know, some
flooring needs to be done up there.
[1:05:22] Probably the biggest thing on the
upstairs before really a whole lot can
[1:05:25] proceed is cutting through that wall um
on the east side to uh because you can't
[1:05:30] come in is is if you go in now uh with
the existing wall, you would have like a
[1:05:34] two foot 18 to 24 inch fall off to the
main floor. You can't have that with a
[1:05:38] wheelchair obviously. So there's some
challenges attaching to the building,
[1:05:42] cutting a hole through that wall. Um you
know it's an older building obviously so
[1:05:47] when you're cutting holes through walls
there can be some challenges there.
[1:05:50] Jeff's went out and got some flooring
bids, some sheetrock bids. Um, you know,
[1:05:56] they're still even on top of the lift
council, they're still, you know, you
[1:06:00] start adding things up. Uh, and these
are combined for the upstairs and the
[1:06:04] and the downstairs, but flooring, you're
still at 18,000. Sheetrock, paint, trim,
[1:06:08] and framing, 19,000. Uh, we haven't got
a bid yet on the handrail. Um, HVAC,
[1:06:14] there's still some work to be done
there. Rock repair, estimating 2500. uh
[1:06:19] the you know some electrical to finish
up. Um we are uh excited about what uh
[1:06:25] what Jeff was able to do with a local
contractor and a donor on the sophet and
[1:06:29] fascia. That project can be finished.
The building department signed off on
[1:06:32] that. Um there was a a donation and then
some inind there. So that project will
[1:06:37] get finished on the outside. Jeff's
talked to that contractor about moving
[1:06:40] forward with it. Uh hopefully we can get
that done before the winter, but that
[1:06:43] will be uh up to the contractor there.
So we're looking at some grant options.
[1:06:48] council uh because without grand options
it would take it's going to take still a
[1:06:52] significant amount of funding to finish
that upstairs uh as well as that main
[1:06:57] floor. So uh the lift like I say the
challenge is attaching it to the
[1:07:00] building. It's cutting through the east
wall. Um and so we'll keep working on
[1:07:04] that. As Jeff said uh there's not very
often Jeff comes over that he doesn't
[1:07:08] have a donation of some type. Kudos to
Jeff for all the donations him and the
[1:07:12] entire group have collected, but Jeff's
been instrumental in that as we all
[1:07:16] know. So, we're looking at some some
grants, but bottom line, without any
[1:07:20] additional grant funding or donations,
uh that project's pretty much going to
[1:07:24] stall in reality, um because there's
just simply no funding for it. Um you
[1:07:28] know, there's some partial funding, as
Jeff mentioned, for the lift. Uh but
[1:07:32] it's going to take some additional
funding to get that done. Obviously, we
[1:07:35] don't want to lose out on the CLG grant
or the wraps tax. Uh there are some
[1:07:39] deadlines and stuff there. Uh so, we'll
be looking at a proposal there, council,
[1:07:43] of how we fund. Uh, so we s certainly
don't want to lose out on $60,000 in
[1:07:48] funding, right?
>> So So we talking about what 50 60,000 to
[1:07:51] finish the project?
>> I think you're closer to 100 than
[1:07:54] 50,000.
>> Uh, just because there's some unknowns
[1:07:58] like cutting through that wall, um,
moving the AC, um, the electrical. Um, I
[1:08:05] mean, you start going 18, 19 is 37, you
know, and then, you know, it just adds
[1:08:10] in a hurry. um you know so probably 50
to 100 is reasonable um but there's just
[1:08:16] some unknowns on that east side and how
that connects some electrical um so but
[1:08:21] I still think you know there's
definitely some significant funding
[1:08:25] challenges left to finish that building
council as I think we all know
[1:08:29] » I've been kind of plugging along with it
all the way all the way so maybe it's
[1:08:31] just it's the name of that building
>> so and it wouldn't bottom line when you
[1:08:36] look at what it is now it's possible
because of grants uh grants and
[1:08:40] donations ations and council approved
funding. So that's how we've got to get
[1:08:44] that building open. Um I believe it was
Jeff, correct me if I'm wrong. I think
[1:08:48] we officially took ownership in 2019 if
I recall. Um and so look at what's been
[1:08:54] done from 19 through now. Uh but like
you say that upstairs is a challenge. I
[1:08:58] mean it is it is not usable as it sits.
It is not safe. Uh it's blocked off and
[1:09:04] not accessible. Um so it would be up to
the council how they want to proceed.
[1:09:08] Um, but we the next thing we're going to
be looking at is actually how we can get
[1:09:14] that lift attached to the building and
what's involved. Um, once you start
[1:09:19] cutting that wall, there's no going
back. Like, let's be honest, like that's
[1:09:23] that that's a big deal. Uh, when that
when that cut in that wall for that lift
[1:09:28] comes, so
>> there's no absolute unknown or there's
[1:09:30] no absolute known there.
>> Yeah. And I mean, we're just not going
[1:09:34] back. So, we've got to we got to play
with that some about we know when that
[1:09:39] door comes off or that and that however
they cut that is it's a go like there's
[1:09:45] no going back
>> like we have to finish that to get that
[1:09:48] thing sealed back off. So, um we have
some challenges there for sure. Jay,
[1:09:52] » I was just going to say I would assume
that so it's already open and
[1:09:56] everything. We want to get the what's
downstairs finished first so it's all
[1:10:00] co- compliant and everything. use that.
>> So, we'll work on the the bathroom will
[1:10:03] get fixed now. We'll work on getting it
done. So, um that there's no issues
[1:10:07] there. Very overall pretty pretty simple
fixes there. We'll just get the person
[1:10:12] in there and then it's up. I mean, the
the conference room I mean obviously is
[1:10:18] the building's open without it. Would it
certainly be nice if it was done? Uh
[1:10:21] absolutely. Uh of course. So, but yeah,
we do have some challenges finishing
[1:10:25] that upstairs.
>> So, on on the cutting through the wall,
[1:10:28] we do have
close estimate on that. It's going to be
[1:10:32] between 45 and $5,000.
And
[1:10:38] I have to take a little different stand,
Justin, pardon me, but I believe that we
[1:10:45] I really believe we can get it done at
around $100,000. We can get it all
[1:10:49] finished up. We had Lance Walker come
up, very experienced brickmason.
[1:10:55] He's offered to do a lot of the work
that would be involved with with cutting
[1:11:00] through the wall, you know, the the
extra. And we've got the brick, the old
[1:11:05] brick to match. And he said, "I owe you
one." He told me about why he owed me
[1:11:12] something. And he he promised do a job
for me. Forgot about it. But that's all
[1:11:18] right. He's a good man and very very
experienced. We actually had him come
[1:11:22] before we had the concrete cutters come
and he guided us said this is what you
[1:11:27] need to ask. These are the questions you
need to ask and this is what we need to
[1:11:31] do. And uh but he'll come in and
bring the level up on where we're going
[1:11:37] to put the window on the north opening
east side north opening.
[1:11:43] And uh but he'll he'll do that stuff for
us. He's offered to do it. So those kind
[1:11:50] of things are helpful, but I think real
honestly, I'm pretty sure we can get it
[1:11:57] finished up at $100,000.
>> Justin, there's no short-term occupancy
[1:12:03] issues with the fixes that need to be
made for the bathrooms.
[1:12:06] » No, we're full.
>> Okay, good.
[1:12:08] » And in that in that conference room, um
the flooring has been done for the most
[1:12:15] part, the rough flooring. There's one
more piece of
[1:12:20] thin wood that needs to be put on and
then we'll need to put some leveling
[1:12:23] base on it
before they try to put the
[1:12:29] regular flooring in.
So, we'll even it up real nice for Dan
[1:12:35] Stone to put the flooring in.
>> So, is there enough funding to put the
[1:12:39] lift in or is that is that unknown
because of the wall? Is that what you're
[1:12:43] saying?
>> That that's the cost that's a little
[1:12:47] unknown. I mean, we we have a pretty
good idea. Like I said, $4,500 to
[1:12:52] $5,000.
>> Has the lift been purchased already?
[1:12:55] » No, we haven't signed any contract yet.
We'll want what we'll want to do is
[1:12:59] we'll want to get um Mike Gardner, he's
with the the lift company. We want to
[1:13:07] get him up here with his engineers and
that and show us exactly what needs to
[1:13:13] be done. That's what
>> Justin talked about. We got to have that
[1:13:18] done
>> before we do anything
[1:13:20] » before we sign any kind of contract and
we want the contract to specify exactly
[1:13:24] what we need. When they did the original
drawings, conceptual drawings and so on.
[1:13:31] Uh it showed the the lift coming in from
inside or out outside the building but
[1:13:38] from a different direction
but it will it would come in from the
[1:13:43] east. And so the tower doesn't need to
be near as wide because it'll just come
[1:13:46] straight in.
And uh so it won't be near as wide.
[1:13:52] Whereas if it came from the south, you'd
have to come in, put them in undercover
[1:13:58] and so on. They also put in the original
conceptional drawings that were done by
[1:14:04] Steve Cornell from state history
preservation office. He did quite
[1:14:10] detailed and he envisioned a glass tower
and we we don't really want a glass
[1:14:17] tower. Uh we prefer to have something
like the hardy board, sturdy board and
[1:14:23] and maybe just a
a sight glass or something on the pod so
[1:14:31] they can see it a little bit as they go
up. But, uh, there's things we can do to
[1:14:37] keep the the price down and still do a
good job. We are dedicated to doing it
[1:14:42] once and doing it right.
And so, anyway,
[1:14:46] » so you're at the point now where you
need to have it engineered to find out
[1:14:50] exactly what you need to do before you
can proceed forward. Is that what I'm
[1:14:53] hearing?
>> On the lift? Yes.
[1:14:54] » Yes. On the lift. So, that's where
that's where you're at with that.
[1:14:57] » Oh, yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. We're
not going to sign a contract till
[1:15:00] everybody's knows exactly what we're
paying and what we're getting into.
[1:15:04] » Yeah.
>> Yeah, for sure. And it'll come before
[1:15:07] you guys, I'm sure.
>> Well, thank you so much.
[1:15:11] » Thank you, Jeff and and Linda, for all
of your dedication, everything you've
[1:15:16] done. You guys are amazing.
>> Well, we thank you guys, especially
[1:15:21] Justin. He's been a a real savior to us
and keeping track of things and helping
[1:15:26] he's been helping us write grants and
has relieved us of some time that Lind
[1:15:31] and I have spent in the past. But
>> the value that this has to the community
[1:15:35] is extraordinary. It really is. And this
goes down to your effort and your uh
[1:15:41] team's effort, all the volunteer labor
that's gone into this.
[1:15:45] » There's a lot of good volunteers.
>> We're also facing some real decisions we
[1:15:49] need to make here.
>> Sure. Because I understand.
[1:15:51] » Uh, nobody's questioning the value of
this, but we're facing some real costs
[1:15:56] that are unaccounted for and not not
budgeted for currently.
[1:16:00] » Yes.
>> And what the more you can do to kind of
[1:16:03] lock in those numbers and help us figure
out what that is and I appreciate all
[1:16:07] you do to get donations and the seat
grants. That's absolutely valuable for
[1:16:11] sure.
>> Just a few weeks ago, we had the Doug 55
[1:16:14] members of the Douglas family. Mr. Doug
built the store originally, but 55
[1:16:19] members came to the store and um we
basically had to turn out the lights and
[1:16:25] throw the last ones out.
But they
[1:16:31] one of the descendants named David could
understand what was needed and it's
[1:16:35] money because the rest of the work is by
professionals, right? like the lift. And
[1:16:43] so he's taken it upon himself the
Douglases are he's committed that the
[1:16:47] Douglas is going to raise a little
money. It might, you know, it might be
[1:16:50] $1,500. That's what I think they paid
before. But hey, that helps. Every
[1:16:55] little bit helps.
>> And uh
[1:16:57] » but but we really need to lock all this
down and make sure we've got bids and
[1:17:02] specifics about what's going to be done,
what's not going to be done.
[1:17:05] » One thing you need to understand
>> where the funding is coming from. So we
[1:17:08] appreciate that. What one thing though
that you need to understand is you can't
[1:17:11] get bids for a long term. Most
businesses like Trend Interiors and
[1:17:17] Bennett's Glass will give you a bid for
so many days and that's it. And they
[1:17:24] won't give an estimate. They'll only
give a bid, but it's good for so many
[1:17:27] days.
>> It's a good guideline to work on though.
[1:17:30] Again, it's a good estimate. So, it
gives us an idea of what it could cost
[1:17:34] because if it goes up, it's not going to
be drastic. So, at least gives us an
[1:17:37] idea. Yeah. And I I've got the estimates
estimates from some, but actual bids on
[1:17:43] others because they won't give out an
estimate. They'll give a bid. This is
[1:17:47] what it's going to cost you. This is
what you're going to get.
[1:17:49] » Well, and in terms of fundraising, we we
work off the high numbers. And then if
[1:17:53] we come in under bids or we come in low
lower than right the estimates, then
[1:17:58] » right,
>> that money can be spent elsewhere and
[1:17:59] there's always places to spend the
money. I'd be happy to answer any of
[1:18:03] your specific questions or if any of you
want to see what we're looking at and
[1:18:08] get a feel for it yourself. Todd, I know
you'd like to be there and like to have
[1:18:12] you. So, just get a hold of me. I'll
come up anytime, day or night, and we
[1:18:18] can go through it.
>> You know, where that building's come
[1:18:21] from since 2019 to where it is now. It's
just phenomenal. And congratulations for
[1:18:26] your guys' dedication. We do appreciate
it. But I I agree with John. We got a
[1:18:31] little bit. We got to push it over the
hill.
[1:18:32] » Yep. I'll pass that on to the other
volunteers. Thank you all of you.
[1:18:36] » Thank you, Jeff. Appreciate it, sir.
[1:18:42] » Okay, moving on. We'll move to agenda
item number six, city manager report.
[1:18:47] Turn the time over to Justin.
>> Hi, just a few things tonight. Um, I'll
[1:18:52] let uh John talk about it in a minute,
but we had uh we met with a
[1:18:56] representative of the cash water
district uh today on a project that we
[1:19:00] can potentially do here at the city
office. We're super excited. Uh John is
[1:19:04] going to fill you guys in on what we
talked about on stuff, but I think it's
[1:19:07] going to be a really good project for
the city. It's going to be at this
[1:19:10] building. Uh John will fill in on that.
As far as the spring line up the canyon,
[1:19:14] knock on wood, we are that contractor is
doing really well. uh they are on target
[1:19:19] to finish their part of the project or
phase one in October uh with the
[1:19:24] exception of there is one culvert uh
that Clay is working on with the
[1:19:28] contractor with the county. We had one
really really bad con culvert up the
[1:19:32] canyon. We've had to get some specialty
pipe. Uh it won't be here till sometime
[1:19:36] in October. Uh but the contractor is
cruising along on phase one and then
[1:19:40] they'll finish up that culvert and phase
one that spring line replacement uh will
[1:19:45] be done this year. So, appreciate Clay
overseeing that. The new 3 million
[1:19:49] gallon tank, basically floors done,
walls are there, and they're going to
[1:19:54] the roof. Uh, that is a very big uh you
feel very small when you're around that
[1:19:59] tank now. Uh, that tank's very big.
Appreciate Clay uh overseeing both of
[1:20:04] those as well as the the storm water
project. Uh, we're actually working, he
[1:20:08] was meeting with them. We're working on
phase two. Hope to have it out to bid
[1:20:11] sooner than later as we go on that. Uh
the audit started in August and we'll
[1:20:16] work on on it through October. Uh you
know some of those big things that you
[1:20:21] look at or that are really uh uh
reviewed like impact fees uh to the
[1:20:27] penny. Um uh they are very much
scrutinized where they're at, where
[1:20:31] they're going. Um, you actually, if you
didn't know, if we have unspent impact
[1:20:37] fees, we actually have to set aside
interest uh on those to give back to the
[1:20:42] developer if they weren't spent within
the time uh period uh that's allowed
[1:20:46] that six years. So, they're heavily
scrutinized. All grants are scrutinized.
[1:20:50] Rats tax, we have a ton of grants. Uh
we're we're totally happy to see those
[1:20:54] scrutinized because it means we did
really well um in bringing those in,
[1:20:58] especially like with the library. uh the
fraud risk assessment something we do
[1:21:02] every year uh per state interesting on
there all the boxes we can check a
[1:21:07] couple of the boxes we can't check uh
right now for example or we don't have a
[1:21:11] CPA on staff find it very interesting
that's one of the questions um one of
[1:21:16] the other questions it says are
employees and elected officials required
[1:21:19] to annually commit in writing to abide
by a statement of ethical behavior uh
[1:21:23] what I find interesting in that is we
would have to have I believe there's 161
[1:21:28] employees right now plus or minus. I
would have to have 161 forms whether
[1:21:33] they're seasonal, part-time, council,
mayor. Simply can't get them. Uh that's
[1:21:37] just a box. We can't check. We're just I
I can't I'm not going to be able to
[1:21:41] acquire those. Uh I don't think a
seasonal or a part-timer that's here for
[1:21:45] a month would even know what that means.
Uh if they read it, the council
[1:21:49] certainly does. The mayor certainly
does. Um but there's a couple of boxes
[1:21:53] on there. We just don't uh we couldn't
check this year uh because of things
[1:21:58] like that, but we've checked a lot of
those boxes. So, we'll keep working on
[1:22:01] the audit. They'll come in most likely
probably in December as we finish that
[1:22:05] up. Uh because there's a little uh in
November there's a scheduling change if
[1:22:10] you went the second Wednesday uh is
Veterans Day. We noted earlier this year
[1:22:14] we're not holding council on Veterans
Day. So, uh the 1111 meeting is actually
[1:22:18] on 114. Uh just as a reminder as you
plan our October meeting uh is just its
[1:22:24] normal second uh second Wednesday. Um
but outside of that I don't have
[1:22:29] anything else tonight Todd unless you
have questions.
[1:22:33] Any questions?
>> Okay. Thank you Justin. Appreciate that.
[1:22:38] And seems like I always wind up going
first when we wind up doing our
[1:22:42] councilman report. So I'm going to go
the other direction. We'll let start at
[1:22:45] Jay and come the other direction.
>> Cool.
[1:22:49] um mosquito. Let's start off with the
mosquitoes.
[1:22:52] Okay. Um some interesting things with
that I found out in the last meeting.
[1:22:56] First of all, two weeks ago, all but
three communities in the valley now have
[1:23:00] tested West Nile virus. So, it's West
Nile here. And uh there's been last two
[1:23:05] weeks ago, there was actually uh two or
three people now that's been
[1:23:09] hospitalized with it. So, it's here in
the community. Now what's what that does
[1:23:13] too is that when before if you didn't
want your neighborhood sprayed um you
[1:23:18] could opt out of it but once your
community test is positive for that they
[1:23:22] just it goes to emergency mode and
everything gets sprayed
[1:23:25] » so you can't opt out of it. Um some
couple interesting things about that.
[1:23:29] It's only the female mosquito that bites
you that carries it and they only bite
[1:23:34] between dusk and dawn. So those
mosquitoes that bite you during the day
[1:23:38] is a different breed. It's not the ones
that get you. Um, also the mosquitoes.
[1:23:42] Another interesting fact, the only way
this goes away is when the cold frost
[1:23:46] comes and kills the mosquitoes. And so
until October, we're going to be, you
[1:23:50] know, it's going to be interesting to
see what happens. The big thing is the
[1:23:53] people who own horses. It's very
detrimental to them. They've had now
[1:23:56] about six or seven horses in the valley
that have caught West Nile and died of
[1:24:00] it. And I guess it's a really painful
way to go. So for the horse, so kind of
[1:24:05] keep that in mind. They were all about
that. Um, but there Oh, there was
[1:24:08] another concern too. They said that
there's people who's been sick that
[1:24:11] probably had the west now, but they
didn't go to the hospital or anything.
[1:24:14] So, they didn't know they really had it.
So, there's probably more cases just
[1:24:16] they're mild cases, but it's here in the
valley and so um it's kind of
[1:24:20] interesting. So, now when you go out
there, you know, so you get a little
[1:24:24] nervous. So, they said make sure you
protect yourself, wear long pants, long
[1:24:27] coats and stuff like that. Anyway,
that's that one. Um talk about the fire
[1:24:31] service a little bit. Um the board of
trustees, they now have their board
[1:24:34] members all put together. Um is made up
of mayors in the valley. Our mayor is
[1:24:38] the chairperson of the board of trustees
for the fire the fire district. It's not
[1:24:42] called the county fire district. It's
called the cash fire district fire
[1:24:46] protection district I think it's called
or something like that. Um and then they
[1:24:49] have also um established where they have
a technical committees um from the north
[1:24:54] and the south that's made up of the fire
chiefs and some other citizens at large
[1:24:59] um to help make that up. And then we
also still have the advisory committee
[1:25:03] in the north end of the valley and the
south end of the valley. We were
[1:25:05] supposed to have a meeting uh tomorrow
night because they had an emergency
[1:25:08] meeting last week with the mayors. Um
the Jeff Young who's the mayor from
[1:25:12] Richmond who's the chair of it. He uh
basically said let's postpone it until
[1:25:16] after next Wednesday meeting of the fire
of the trustees. So what they're working
[1:25:20] on right now is probably seen in the
paper. They're working on the funding
[1:25:23] and that sort of thing. Some things that
are going through. So it's it's working
[1:25:26] its way. It's starting to maybe working
some things down and everything. So it's
[1:25:30] going to be interesting to see where
that goes and I'm sure we'll have more
[1:25:33] discussion on that future.
Um, and I just want to real quick on my
[1:25:36] ending here, I want to shout out and
tell the uh publicly tell the school
[1:25:41] district thanks for the sidewalk they
put on six south. I was really surprised
[1:25:46] at what that made a difference for that
street. It really cleaned that up and
[1:25:50] they did a fantastic job. And I just,
you know, in our meeting here, I'd like
[1:25:54] to say, "Hey, thank you. You did you
made a big difference over in that
[1:25:56] community." The only thing that's kind
of a little weird is when you get up
[1:25:59] there, there's a wowee in the sidewalk
where it goes around that valve. So, if
[1:26:04] you're coming down there on a skateboard
or whatever,
[1:26:07] » you better be careful.
>> They'll only do it once.
[1:26:10] » So,
that is true. And, you know, and and
[1:26:13] when we get our bridge done, I think
that'll be a f fantastic addition to six
[1:26:17] south. But it it really they did a
fantastic job with it and it really
[1:26:21] cleaned up that block. And so, anybody
see the school district, thank you.
[1:26:26] Thank you very much from from our from
my standpoint anyway. Thank you.
[1:26:31] » Thank you, Jay John.
>> Yeah, agreed on the sidewalk project.
[1:26:36] That's been fantastic.
>> It's over in your neighborhood.
[1:26:38] » Yeah, it's
>> it's my neighborhood now. Uh Justin, I
[1:26:44] met today with Autumn from the Cash
Water District. uh they received a grant
[1:26:48] last year, earlier this year for some
money to distribute to cities to
[1:26:55] rellandscape using water wise
landscaping and they reached out to the
[1:26:59] cities to see what interest we had uh as
we visited. Uh Justin immediately knew
[1:27:04] that we could use that funding to help
rellandscape here uh around the city
[1:27:10] campus where we have so many kind of
narrow strips of grass and turf that is
[1:27:16] kind of not usable really as turf but
takes all the work of maintaining
[1:27:20] watering mowing uh as turf. And so, uh,
our our thinking right now is that we're
[1:27:26] going to convert much of this
landscaping around the city offices and
[1:27:31] along the park strip here on First South
to some water wise landscaping. We
[1:27:37] Justin's identified about 4,000 square
feet that we can convert. and the cash
[1:27:42] district is essentially verbally
committed to about $10,000 worth of
[1:27:47] funding to help pay for that and suggest
we might even get some additional
[1:27:51] funding from slow the flow who
compensates
[1:27:56] communities when they remove turf. And
so we might be able to come up with 10
[1:28:01] or 15 almost $20,000 worth of funding
for that. And of course, our public's
[1:28:07] works folks can do a lot of the labor as
a inind contribution to that project.
[1:28:12] So, we're very excited about uh that and
tightening up our water usage and the
[1:28:19] labor that needs to be done to maintain
the land landscape around the city
[1:28:23] offices here. So, that'll probably
happen here in the fall. We need to have
[1:28:29] spent that money by spring, but we're
probably going to try to do it here in
[1:28:32] the fall, uh is what Justin suggests. So
that's exciting. Library is busy busy.
[1:28:39] Even though the summer programs are
done, now we're kind of starting into
[1:28:42] fall programs and schools uh and
children and community members in the
[1:28:48] library. So continue to be very busy at
the library.
[1:28:51] Uh in terms of our uh community
development programs,
[1:28:56] uh we'll be kind of launching our USU
partnership in two weeks here uh at the
[1:29:03] council meeting. in uh we'll have the
leadership from USU here to talk with us
[1:29:09] and
we have been working on setting some
[1:29:14] community priorities on kind of some of
the ideas we want them to focus on. We
[1:29:19] expect that USU will also as they review
the community, they'll have some
[1:29:23] suggestions on what to work on also. So,
it's kind of a two-part
[1:29:29] uh priority setting and so that will
happen over the over the coming months.
[1:29:33] We're excited to get that going. Uh we
kind of had an exciting month in terms
[1:29:38] of trails.
Uh
[1:29:41] and so here here's what I'll say for
now. The access that we that the
[1:29:46] community has been uh enjoying access
from the end of Summit Drive down into
[1:29:51] Birch Canyon that has been closed by the
property owners and we hope that
[1:29:57] citizens will respect that closure.
We also expect that that closure will
[1:30:02] not be permanent. Uh and that
negotiations are ongoing with land
[1:30:07] owners, not only for access from the end
of Summit Drive into Birch Canyon, but
[1:30:12] connecting all of that to the Bonville
Shoreline Trail. And so over the next
[1:30:17] six months to a year, maybe hopefully
those negotiations will bear fruit and
[1:30:22] we'll identify routes and we'll make
agreements with land owners to kind of
[1:30:27] uh open that up once and for all and and
uh and and develop those trails in
[1:30:33] really usable kinds of ways. In the
meantime, we hope that citizens and
[1:30:37] residents, as much as we all love to get
on those trails, uh we hope that they'll
[1:30:42] respect the property owners rights to do
what they need to with their property
[1:30:47] for now.
Uh, also kind of related to that, the
[1:30:53] Crow Mountain Neighborhood Group has
been uh surveying local residents about
[1:31:00] what amenities
might be part of the new park, the
[1:31:05] future park up on what we call the
Tuison property up on Crow Mountain, the
[1:31:10] 11acre
uh city property up there. and they have
[1:31:14] in the last few months collected 172
responses from residents. And so they
[1:31:20] are now in the process of starting to
collate and process that data that
[1:31:24] they've gathered. And we've invited them
to come present to the council uh the
[1:31:29] first week of November about what they
found and what they gathered on their
[1:31:33] survey.
And so we'll be able to share that
[1:31:36] survey data with USU as they kind of
consider uh designs for that park. So
[1:31:43] that's been super helpful and that that
group is just fantastic. That's that's
[1:31:48] not a small lift to gather that kind of
information. So we're super pleased with
[1:31:52] their their work. And finally, the
chamber is kind of back on track after
[1:31:59] kind of a hiatus during the summer. The
community trickor treat will be held on
[1:32:06] October 16th. Can you believe we're
already talking about Halloween? October
[1:32:10] 16th from 4:30 to 8 at the rec center.
So that's coming up. And the night of
[1:32:15] giving is also already on the calendar
for December 5th and tables are now
[1:32:20] available for purchase. The theme this
year for the night of giving is share
[1:32:25] the joy and it's the 20th year of the
night of giving. So that's quite a
[1:32:30] milestone for the chamber and that uh
annual effort. So, lots going on, lots
[1:32:37] of good things going on. We're really
excited.
[1:32:42] » Thanks, John. Um, I don't know if you
guys knew, but we've got a new mayor in
[1:32:46] town.
Got heads turned.
[1:32:50] Um, this is just our youth mayor. No
one's replacing um Mayor Aaron Rudy. We
[1:32:56] love what he's doing. But uh basically
we've got Lily King who is our new um
[1:33:03] youth mayor and this year's been uh
awesome. Um basically they've got uh
[1:33:09] nine youth council executive members and
they've got a total of 51
[1:33:16] um youth council. So that's more than
we've ever had in the history of
[1:33:21] Smithfield. And u they're a great group.
um last Wednesday uh the mayor um
[1:33:31] did the swearing in for for all of those
youth council and uh so we're excited
[1:33:37] for them. Um as Caroli mentioned uh
there's Sky View had their homecoming uh
[1:33:43] parade kind of during our meeting and so
normally we would have um someone from
[1:33:49] the youth council here to kind of tell
what's going on. Uh but since they
[1:33:53] weren't able to be here, um I'll just
read you some information that uh Lily
[1:33:59] King wrote up. She said, "Uh we started
off our year with an executive training
[1:34:04] in the summer where we planned events
and did some team building activities.
[1:34:09] We also had our opening social with
everyone in the council which was a
[1:34:13] success with great attendance.
Last Wednesday, we had our swearing in
[1:34:18] ceremony by Mayor Erin Rudy and were
able to review our upcoming activities
[1:34:23] and events happening. In a few weeks, we
will have our teddy bear picnic taking
[1:34:28] place on the 26th of September. And in
October, we will be helping at the
[1:34:33] Trickor Treat Street event.
And these youth get involved in in
[1:34:38] helping some of these uh different
events um throughout the year. They do a
[1:34:43] great job. Um, we're excited for for
them. Um, and then, uh,
[1:34:50] in addition to the youth, we have the
other young seniors, um, that I got a
[1:34:55] chance to go visit, uh, Tuesday. They're
back to their they're back to their uh,
[1:35:00] weekly meetings um, in the summer. They
usually take a little bit of a break and
[1:35:04] only meet twice a month, but now they're
back to meeting um, each Tuesday for
[1:35:09] lunch and for entertainment. So, last
Tuesday, we had some awesome
[1:35:14] entertainment. Um, we had the one and
only Mr. Justin Lewis
[1:35:20] come and answer questions. And, uh, he
had them all rolling on the floor. They
[1:35:25] were all happy and excited and and he
answered all their questions for as much
[1:35:29] time as we had. I think they probably
still had some questions we didn't get
[1:35:33] time to answer, but anyways, appreciated
Justin keeping them entertained. But uh
[1:35:40] and I'm I'm very appreciative of these
of these young seniors that um
[1:35:45] volunteer. It's pretty cool that they
they they spend a lot of time. You can
[1:35:50] tell that they're committed. There's a
lot of them that volunteer and help out
[1:35:53] in different aspects of that. And it is
just so amazing to see how well it's
[1:35:58] run. Um nobody's getting paid to do
anything there. And yet they they come
[1:36:03] up with these great meals and uh great
entertainment. Um I'm not sure how much
[1:36:08] they paid Justin to be there, but you
know, expensive entertainment, right?
[1:36:13] Anyways, um and then um just wanted to
mention uh as kind of was mentioned a
[1:36:20] little earlier, we had our community
planning engagement committee yesterday
[1:36:24] meeting and uh working with uh obviously
getting ready for USU coming up on the
[1:36:30] 23rd. Um we're excited about that. And
and in addition to that, um thanks Jeff
[1:36:37] and Linda for all that you're doing um
with that rock building. That's part of
[1:36:42] our envisioning of our Main Street Utah,
which you know, now we're the tier one
[1:36:49] uh Main Street Utah um city uh here in
Smithfield. We're we're a part of that
[1:36:55] program. And uh one of the things that
we're doing or we've committed to do as
[1:37:00] a part of that is to create four
different committees. that follow the
[1:37:04] the different areas um organization
promotion design and uh design and
[1:37:11] economic vitality. So, we're going to be
reaching out to uh different residents
[1:37:16] uh and also people who already serve on
some committees here on the city uh that
[1:37:22] that may have some expertise and and
have some uh some knowledge that would
[1:37:27] be able to help us on these committees.
So, we're we're excited for that and and
[1:37:32] getting involved with that. And then
we'll also have uh the director of Main
[1:37:35] Street Utah there on the 23rd. So, we're
hoping with with those with that with
[1:37:40] USU helping us kind of get a vision of
Smithfield that we're going to do some
[1:37:45] great things uh for for making
Smithfield
[1:37:49] uh keeping it the small town feel that
we want to have and um helping uh plan
[1:37:55] for the future. I mean, that's kind of a
big big thing to accomplish, but
[1:38:00] anyways, that's all I've got. Thank you.
>> Thanks, Chris. Jen,
[1:38:06] » I don't have a whole lot of updates
since the royalty is done. And then we
[1:38:09] have a arts council meeting next Monday.
So, there might be updates after that,
[1:38:13] but as of right now, I really don't have
a whole lot to update. The arts council
[1:38:16] is just planning the historic book
festival right now. Got all their
[1:38:20] subcommittees going and they're excited.
>> It's pretty awesome.
[1:38:24] » Yeah, it's going to be good. got bigger
every year. So
[1:38:28] » that's all I have.
>> Thank you. Uh from my side, I just I
[1:38:33] want to uh thirdly comment on the
sidewalk and how good that's looking
[1:38:38] down there with Sky View and uh stopped
the other day and talked with Clay
[1:38:43] working on that co on the bridge which
is I think significantly ahead of what
[1:38:48] we're original. So I'm excited about
that. They're going to be able to have
[1:38:52] that in you know hopefully before the
snow flies. We We don't want that early
[1:38:56] of snow. We want snow this year, but not
that early. So, grateful to that. That's
[1:39:02] that's just really looking great down
there. Um, as far as uh getting back to
[1:39:08] the historic society to want to just
thank Jeff for all the efforts that he's
[1:39:13] been putting into there. So excited
about the opportunity we had to get that
[1:39:18] 20,000 um CLG grant because that that's
just really really going to help us out
[1:39:24] on that. And that goes to a lot of his
efforts in being able to get that. Um,
[1:39:29] as far as the tree committee, we've kind
of had a summer off. Um, and uh, with
[1:39:35] few people recovering from travel and a
few other things, we our next meeting is
[1:39:39] not now scheduled until the 6th of uh,
of October. But that doesn't mean that
[1:39:45] things haven't been happening there. Um,
Chris has actually been heavily involved
[1:39:49] in helping to um, go through and make a
uh, much more editable tree inventory
[1:39:57] list of the city, which I think will be
great for the tree committee to be able
[1:40:01] to have and have that on there. Not only
thanks to him, but also to Jack, to
[1:40:05] Mayor Murray. They've done great work in
really organizing and being able to do
[1:40:11] that. And in addition to that, the
opportunity that we had to apply for the
[1:40:16] Utah Community Forest um partnership
grant um which is another uh $20,000
[1:40:24] grant that uh that we have applied for.
Do you know when we hear anything on
[1:40:30] that, Justin? Do you have the time frame
on that? Okay. I know there's a lot of
[1:40:34] effort putting things together, figuring
out where our inind match could be for
[1:40:40] that and you know obviously we've well
exceeded what that match would have to
[1:40:45] be contemplating on that. So we really
are caring about the trees. I know trees
[1:40:51] have been a concern in the city. Um, and
there's certainly a lot of effort going
[1:40:58] into making sure that we live up to
everything that we need to be able to
[1:41:03] live up to being a uh a Tree City USA
and the Tree Committee is committed to
[1:41:09] that. I did want to mention that uh we
just had a a resignation out of the tree
[1:41:15] committee. Uh Nick Reel would uh like to
um recognize him even though he was only
[1:41:22] in for a short amount of time. He's had
some other commitments that have come up
[1:41:26] that require him to be able to step down
from that. And so we will be looking at
[1:41:31] uh replacing his position on the tree
committee at that time. So
[1:41:38] that's all I've got uh to report as
well. So, and we don't have a mayor's
[1:41:45] report tonight. So, if there's uh
nothing else from the group up here, I'd
[1:41:52] take a motion for adjournment. So moved.