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[0:02] Okay. Welcome, everyone. This is the Monday, August 17, 2026. Truth in taxation, public hearing
[0:13] meeting for the WPR road and fire district. As the chair of the Board of Trustees of the
[0:19] WPR road and fire district, I hereby call this Truth in taxation, public hearing meeting
[0:25] of the board to order at 6.15 p.m. on Monday, August 17th, 2026 at 4175 North Morgan Valley Drive,
[0:34] Morgan, Utah 84050. In compliance with the requirements of Utah's open and public meetings
[0:41] law, notice of this meeting has been too reposted and published. And this meeting is being recorded
[0:46] in minutes of the meeting in its entirety or being kept. Quick introductions to who we have present.
[0:53] I'm Gary Durk, I'm the chair of the WPR Road and Fire District Board.
[0:58] With us, we also have Trustee Jenny Robinson.
[1:02] Thank you, Jenny.
[1:04] We're still hopeful that Trustee Ed Schultz will be found somewhere
[1:07] and either dial in or show up, but we do have quorum, so that's good.
[1:13] And then we have with us, Carly Herrick, who's our district clerk,
[1:17] Nate Bell, who's our district manager, Brad Christensen,
[1:21] who's our district council and Kelly Reed who basically runs the show.
[1:29] So let's see, I think at this point, we're going to, I'm going to ask for a motion to
[1:35] open the Truth and Taxation Public Hearing.
[1:38] Can I?
[1:39] Karen, do you want to go over the PowerPoint?
[1:41] Oh, yeah, that's right.
[1:42] Thank you.
[1:42] Can anybody watch us the recording?
[1:44] Yeah.
[1:44] That's a good idea.
[1:45] So let's go through the PowerPoint.
[1:47] So we have it.
[1:47] So, this is the road and fire district.
[1:52] Road and fire district is formed under Utah law,
[1:56] provides essential road-related infrastructure
[2:00] and fire protection to the Wasatch Peak Branch community.
[2:04] We operate as a nonprofit government entity
[2:07] or prohibited from generating profit.
[2:10] We're subject to all the, you know,
[2:13] district to state district financial rules.
[2:15] so annual audits, open financial reporting, holding public hearings, our trustees are volunteers,
[2:24] and we follow all state procurement and compliance regulations.
[2:29] We basically provide road maintenance, snow removal, and when we say roads, it really also
[2:37] involves the drainage, signage, lighting, everything that's related to the road corridor.
[2:45] We also provide fire protection. We have a cooperative agreement with Morgan County Fire Department
[2:51] and so we have our own fire station. Morgan County Station 141 right at the entrance to the community
[2:59] and so the road and fire district is the owner of that facility and AC leases it to the fire district
[3:07] and then has a subsidy agreement to help the fire district with their costs and then we you know for
[3:15] For the roads, we inspect the roads, the bridges, the drainage channels, we inspect and maintain
[3:21] the fire facilities and maintain reserves for all of that.
[3:27] And then we're also, we do the compliance administration.
[3:30] So contracts, legal insurance, meeting all state, federal, and local regulations.
[3:36] So our tax rate has been stable, historically fixed at 0.8
[3:44] mills.
[3:45] It cannot exceed 0.8 mills under Utah law.
[3:50] The the way this works is there's a kind of a certified rate that comes out on the tax notices.
[3:56] And then that's recalculated annually by the state based on the prior budget and current assessed property values.
[4:04] 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.
[4:22] So otherwise it's been 0.8 mills from the beginning and is also proposed to be 0.8 mills going forward.
[4:29] So, the developer, we have an agreement with the master developer of Wasatch Peaks branch
[4:36] that funds subsidy levels.
[4:40] The subsidy level is about 1.25 million in the current year.
[4:48] And, you know, it's much larger than that on a cumulative basis.
[4:52] That's set up to kind of fund the district until we have enough residents in the community
[4:58] to basically break even.
[5:01] So, and here's the financial history of the district
[5:05] so you can see we started out, you know,
[5:10] the property assessed valuation was about 31.5 million.
[5:15] It's now all the way up to 868 million
[5:18] as houses have been built and the amenities have been created
[5:22] 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.
[5:36] Thank you.
[5:38] 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.
[5:48] Okay, so I think at this time we want to open the public hearing. Can I have a motion?
[5:54] I like the most and open the public hearing motion by Jenny second by Gary. All in favor?
[6:04] That passes. We're now in the public hearing. Do we have any members of the public? I don't see
[6:09] any on the team's call. Do we have any present at the district offices in Morgan?
[6:24] There is no
[6:24] motion to close the public hearing since we have no public.
[6:30] All right, did you hear any motion?
[6:32] I'll make a motion to close it.
[6:33] I do, Jenny.
[6:34] Thank you.
[6:35] And I will second.
[6:36] So motion, Jenny, second.
[6:38] Gary, all in favor?
[6:39] Hi.
[6:40] Hi.
[6:41] So the public hearing is now closed.
[6:44] All right, so now we have a resolution for consideration
[6:50] of adoption, loving the adbelorum property tax
[6:54] of the district at a rate that exceeds the certified tax rate as I explained earlier,
[7:00] but basically sets it at the 0.8 mils that it's been from the beginning of the existence of
[7:07] the district. So, any questions on the resolution, Jenny? No, no questions here and I'll move
[7:15] that we adopt the resolution. Okay, I will set you that. Carly, thanks for
[7:20] asking that all in favor. I pay resolution task is unanimously and I will sign that as
[7:29] soon as the clerk sends it my way. Having been duly scolded earlier, I'm not allowed
[7:36] to talk about anything else except emotion for it. Senator Jenny likes to see me scolded
[7:44] So she has moved for a German. I will second all in favor.
[7:50] I
[7:52] Okay, we stand adjourned and that is at 624
[7:58] 623 sorry PM
[8:00] Thank you everybody for giving us a little bit of your evening. We appreciate it Brad. Thanks for standing in much appreciate it
[8:06] Have a good evening