1 00:00:04,270 --> 00:00:05,450 Recordings started. 2 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:36,320 Okay. Thank you. Welcome, everyone. This is the Monday, August 17, 2026. WPR Utility District Truth and Taxation Public Hearing Meeting has the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the WPR Utility District. I hereby call this Truth and Taxation Public Hearing Meeting of the Board to order. It's 6.05 p.m. on Monday, August 17, 2026. 3 00:00:37,220 --> 00:00:43,100 We're at 417-5 North Morgan Valley Drive in Morgan, Utah 840-50. 4 00:00:43,860 --> 00:00:48,060 Compliance with the requirements of Utah's open and public meetings law. 5 00:00:48,180 --> 00:00:50,820 Notice that this meeting has been duly posted and published. 6 00:00:51,180 --> 00:00:52,560 And this meeting is being recorded. 7 00:00:53,300 --> 00:00:56,320 And minutes of the meeting in its entirety are being kept. 8 00:00:58,510 --> 00:01:00,850 So introducing who we have with us today. 9 00:01:01,170 --> 00:01:03,790 We have Trustee Jenny Robinson. 10 00:01:03,790 --> 00:01:08,150 I'm Gary Durk. I'm also a trustee and chair of the board. 11 00:01:09,270 --> 00:01:13,970 We're hoping Ed Schultz will join us. He's our third trustee, but he's not present at this time. 12 00:01:14,770 --> 00:01:19,530 We also have President for the meeting, Carly Herrick, who's our district clerk. 13 00:01:20,210 --> 00:01:22,670 We have Nate Bell, who's our district manager. 14 00:01:23,830 --> 00:01:26,810 We have Brad Christensen, who's our district council. 15 00:01:27,590 --> 00:01:29,230 and we have Kelly Reed. 16 00:01:30,510 --> 00:01:35,750 And those are counting administrative for the district board. 17 00:01:36,210 --> 00:01:37,570 So thank you all for attending. 18 00:01:40,010 --> 00:01:45,150 Okay, so I think at this point we need to open the public hearing. 19 00:01:45,350 --> 00:01:46,270 Is that correct, Carly? 20 00:01:46,750 --> 00:01:48,470 Anything before we do that? 21 00:01:49,010 --> 00:01:52,910 It's just if you want to go through any of the informational slides. 22 00:01:53,090 --> 00:01:56,050 Gary, you're welcome to just for the record. 23 00:01:56,050 --> 00:01:59,270 or we can proceed straight to opening the public hearing. 24 00:02:00,050 --> 00:02:01,150 Well, let's go through the slides. 25 00:02:01,890 --> 00:02:04,550 I think that would be good for everybody's benefit. 26 00:02:07,330 --> 00:02:08,550 So let's see. 27 00:02:09,830 --> 00:02:11,810 The first slide was a title slide. 28 00:02:12,010 --> 00:02:14,930 This is a little bit about the WPR utility district. 29 00:02:16,090 --> 00:02:17,990 We're formed under Utah law. 30 00:02:18,430 --> 00:02:25,750 We provide the essential infrastructure and utilities for the 31 00:02:25,750 --> 00:02:33,790 on profit. We hold public meetings and we're transparent and we're subject to annual audits 32 00:02:33,790 --> 00:02:42,070 and open financial reporting throughout the year. Our governance, we have an unpaid 33 00:02:42,070 --> 00:02:49,050 volunteer board of trustees, Jenny and I are volunteers, and we follow all state procurement 34 00:02:49,050 --> 00:02:50,890 and compliance regulations. 35 00:02:53,210 --> 00:02:59,930 These are the services we provide, so water services to the community, the water system 36 00:02:59,930 --> 00:03:06,990 is a groundwater-based system, then is then distributed throughout the community for both 37 00:03:06,990 --> 00:03:08,810 non-potable and potable functions. 38 00:03:09,590 --> 00:03:17,870 We have sewer services, those all of our sewer ends up getting flows over to the mountain 39 00:03:17,870 --> 00:03:24,270 green. A sewer plant where it gets processed so we have an agreement with mountain green sewer 40 00:03:24,270 --> 00:03:30,770 improvement district. We provide propane for the, I'll call it the denser areas of Wasatch 41 00:03:30,770 --> 00:03:36,070 Beach Ranch so essentially the village areas where there's really just not enough room for 42 00:03:36,070 --> 00:03:41,990 individual separate underground tanks and then we are responsible for all the infrastructure 43 00:03:41,990 --> 00:03:47,170 maintenance that's utility related and all the compliance with state, federal and local 44 00:03:47,170 --> 00:03:48,030 regulations. 45 00:03:50,330 --> 00:03:58,570 Our mill levy in the original formation for the district and all the way through 46 00:03:58,570 --> 00:04:05,470 has been at 0.8 mills. The actual millage which you'll see in the next slide was slightly lower 47 00:04:05,470 --> 00:04:13,970 last year at about 0.5 mills that was because there were a variety of districts. There was a kind of a 48 00:04:15,030 --> 00:04:28,590 clarification or change in notification methodologies and so we were informed that we needed to that the eight mills had not properly been noticed so we were at 0.5 49 00:04:28,590 --> 00:04:40,810 mills last year but the budgets and all the prior financials and actions of the board and all for the prior years and as is proposed for this year 0.8 50 00:04:40,810 --> 00:04:49,660 mills. So the certified rate is basically when you get your tax notices is 51 00:04:49,660 --> 00:04:56,000 recalculated annually by the state and then the actual rate mill levy you know 52 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:01,220 in this case remains unchanged. In the case of our district we have an 53 00:05:01,220 --> 00:05:06,300 agreement so the master developer of WPR basically subsidizes the district 54 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:11,340 until such time as it will break even. So that gives us comfort level in 55 00:05:11,340 --> 00:05:16,880 operating the district in these early years before we have enough homes tied into the system. 56 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:22,400 This is a trend line of the last five years of financials pretty straightforward. 57 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:28,500 But you can see that the assess valuation is increasing as more homes come online. 58 00:05:29,980 --> 00:05:37,080 And then you can see the revenue which has grown and is projected this next year to reach about 59 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:44,720 2.7 million expenses are growing too, as we have to continue to provide water and sewer and 60 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:54,240 propane to those homes. So we're currently still in a deficit position of about 915,000 61 00:05:54,240 --> 00:06:03,220 projected for the coming year, which is about 2.9 million cumulative deficit in the five years 62 00:06:03,220 --> 00:06:07,780 of operating to date. But again, we have the developer side of you to cover that. 63 00:06:08,420 --> 00:06:17,380 All right. Any questions on that? If not, can I have a motion to open the public hearing please? 64 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:19,920 That motion? 65 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:26,260 Any motion by Jenny? I'm going to second, since Ed hasn't been able to join us yet. So, 66 00:06:26,260 --> 00:06:28,440 motion by Jenny, second by Gary. 67 00:06:30,580 --> 00:06:36,020 But at this point, let's see if we have any members of the 68 00:06:36,020 --> 00:06:42,680 public. So I don't see any members of the public on the team's call. Kelly, is there anyone present at the 69 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:51,100 district offices? There is no one present at the district office. Okay. So with that, we have no public, 70 00:06:51,100 --> 00:07:02,480 So can I have a motion to close the public here make that motion to close any moved. I will seconds that's motion Jenny second Gary all in favor. 71 00:07:05,110 --> 00:07:16,210 I so the public hearing is now closed and so now the board itself will review and consider adoption of the resolution. 72 00:07:18,710 --> 00:07:32,210 of the WPR utility district at a rate exceeding the Certified Tax Rate for Fiscal Year 2026-27, and that would be 0.08 mils. 73 00:07:33,710 --> 00:07:38,290 Jenny, did you have any questions about the resolution, which is in the agenda package? 74 00:07:38,290 --> 00:07:41,990 Well, I make the motion that will approve the resolution. 75 00:07:42,810 --> 00:07:48,050 Okay, and I will second, so that's motion Jenny, second, Gary. All in favor? 76 00:07:48,690 --> 00:07:49,270 Hi. 77 00:07:51,250 --> 00:07:59,190 Okay, so that motion passes and the resolution will be signed by me as soon as district clerk 78 00:07:59,190 --> 00:08:03,370 sends it my way. So any other matters before the board? 79 00:08:07,300 --> 00:08:12,280 We've got a few minutes to our next hearing, anything you want to highlight for the board on the utility. 80 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:16,800 Gary, we actually can't talk about anything other than TNT at this hearing. 81 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,220 So people have to wait till next week. 82 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:22,160 Slap my hands at District Clerk. 83 00:08:22,980 --> 00:08:26,480 No further records that the District Clerk just slapped the chair's hands. 84 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:27,580 It's a good job, Carter. 85 00:08:28,780 --> 00:08:29,620 Nicely done. 86 00:08:29,900 --> 00:08:34,520 Okay, well then we're going to kind of emotion for adjournment, Jay. 87 00:08:34,520 --> 00:08:36,500 Like that motion to adjourn? 88 00:08:37,220 --> 00:08:38,660 Second, all in favor? 89 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:39,700 Hi. 90 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:44,400 We stand adjourned at 6.13 p.m. 91 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,540 with the chairman due to, due to fully scolded. 92 00:08:50,140 --> 00:08:50,540 Okay. 93 00:08:50,540 --> 00:08:51,100 Let's do it!