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Okay. Welcome, everyone. This is the Monday, August 17, 2026. Truth in taxation, public hearing

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meeting for the WPR road and fire district. As the chair of the Board of Trustees of the

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WPR road and fire district, I hereby call this Truth in taxation, public hearing meeting

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of the board to order at 6.15 p.m. on Monday, August 17th, 2026 at 4175 North Morgan Valley Drive,

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Morgan, Utah 84050. In compliance with the requirements of Utah's open and public meetings

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law, notice of this meeting has been too reposted and published. And this meeting is being recorded

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in minutes of the meeting in its entirety or being kept. Quick introductions to who we have present.

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I'm Gary Durk, I'm the chair of the WPR Road and Fire District Board.

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With us, we also have Trustee Jenny Robinson.

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Thank you, Jenny.

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We're still hopeful that Trustee Ed Schultz will be found somewhere

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and either dial in or show up, but we do have quorum, so that's good.

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And then we have with us, Carly Herrick, who's our district clerk,

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Nate Bell, who's our district manager, Brad Christensen,

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who's our district council and Kelly Reed who basically runs the show.

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So let's see, I think at this point, we're going to, I'm going to ask for a motion to

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open the Truth and Taxation Public Hearing.

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Can I?

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Karen, do you want to go over the PowerPoint?

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Oh, yeah, that's right.

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Thank you.

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Can anybody watch us the recording?

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Yeah.

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That's a good idea.

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So let's go through the PowerPoint.

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So we have it.

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So, this is the road and fire district.

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Road and fire district is formed under Utah law,

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provides essential road-related infrastructure

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and fire protection to the Wasatch Peak Branch community.

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We operate as a nonprofit government entity

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or prohibited from generating profit.

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We're subject to all the, you know,

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district to state district financial rules.

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so annual audits, open financial reporting, holding public hearings, our trustees are volunteers,

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and we follow all state procurement and compliance regulations.

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We basically provide road maintenance, snow removal, and when we say roads, it really also

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involves the drainage, signage, lighting, everything that's related to the road corridor.

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We also provide fire protection. We have a cooperative agreement with Morgan County Fire Department

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and so we have our own fire station. Morgan County Station 141 right at the entrance to the community

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and so the road and fire district is the owner of that facility and AC leases it to the fire district

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and then has a subsidy agreement to help the fire district with their costs and then we you know for

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For the roads, we inspect the roads, the bridges, the drainage channels, we inspect and maintain

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the fire facilities and maintain reserves for all of that.

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And then we're also, we do the compliance administration.

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So contracts, legal insurance, meeting all state, federal, and local regulations.

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So our tax rate has been stable, historically fixed at 0.8

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mills.

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It cannot exceed 0.8 mills under Utah law.

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The the way this works is there's a kind of a certified rate that comes out on the tax notices.

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And then that's recalculated annually by the state based on the prior budget and current assessed property values.

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and our actual mill levy is remaining unchanged at 0.8, which is what it's been over the last five years, except for last year there was a notification anomaly where the rate was slightly lower until we were able to kind of correct that process.

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So otherwise it's been 0.8 mills from the beginning and is also proposed to be 0.8 mills going forward.

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So, the developer, we have an agreement with the master developer of Wasatch Peaks branch

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that funds subsidy levels.

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The subsidy level is about 1.25 million in the current year.

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And, you know, it's much larger than that on a cumulative basis.

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That's set up to kind of fund the district until we have enough residents in the community

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to basically break even.

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So, and here's the financial history of the district

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so you can see we started out, you know,

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the property assessed valuation was about 31.5 million.

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It's now all the way up to 868 million

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as houses have been built and the amenities have been created

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and the community has grown, and you can see the net operating loss each year, as well as the cumulative loss at the bottom of the table.

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Thank you.

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If anyone has any questions on any of that, if you're viewing this remotely later, you can always reach out to myself and any number of the district staff.

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Okay, so I think at this time we want to open the public hearing. Can I have a motion?

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I like the most and open the public hearing motion by Jenny second by Gary. All in favor?

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That passes. We're now in the public hearing. Do we have any members of the public? I don't see

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any on the team's call. Do we have any present at the district offices in Morgan?

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There is no

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motion to close the public hearing since we have no public.

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All right, did you hear any motion?

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I'll make a motion to close it.

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I do, Jenny.

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Thank you.

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And I will second.

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So motion, Jenny, second.

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Gary, all in favor?

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Hi.

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Hi.

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So the public hearing is now closed.

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All right, so now we have a resolution for consideration

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of adoption, loving the adbelorum property tax

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of the district at a rate that exceeds the certified tax rate as I explained earlier,

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but basically sets it at the 0.8 mils that it's been from the beginning of the existence of

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the district. So, any questions on the resolution, Jenny? No, no questions here and I'll move

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that we adopt the resolution. Okay, I will set you that. Carly, thanks for

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asking that all in favor. I pay resolution task is unanimously and I will sign that as

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soon as the clerk sends it my way. Having been duly scolded earlier, I'm not allowed

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to talk about anything else except emotion for it. Senator Jenny likes to see me scolded

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So she has moved for a German. I will second all in favor.

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Okay, we stand adjourned and that is at 624

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623 sorry PM

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Thank you everybody for giving us a little bit of your evening. We appreciate it Brad. Thanks for standing in much appreciate it

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Have a good evening