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[0:01] Okay. Okay. Recordings on. So, Eric, go ahead and take it away. Thanks. As it, as the chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wheeler Basin Special District, sorry, I have the wrong packet up,
[0:18] do you have yours up? Yeah, as a screen. Okay. As a chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wheeler Basin Local District, I hereby call this regular meeting of the Board to order at 2.17 p.m.
[0:32] on May 4th, 2026 at the Office of the District located at 3925 East Snowbase and Road, Huntsville,
[0:39] Utah, 84317. In compliance with the requirements of Utah's open and public meetings law,
[0:45] notice of this meeting has been duly posted and published and this meeting is being recorded
[0:51] and the minutes of this meeting and its entirety are being kept. In compliance with the Americans,
[0:56] with disabilities act individuals needing special combinations, including auxiliary communicative aids and services during this meeting should notify Reagan Mansfield 8016-0105-3 at least 24 hours prior to meeting.
[1:19] For the record we would like to recognize those present from the Board of Trustees and staff.
[1:24] myself, Eric A. Herndt, Trustee Chair, Trustee Ryan Wolsey, Trustee Davey Ratchford, District
[1:33] Clerk, Reagan, Manceville, legal counsel, Brent Rose, and District Manager, sorry, I forgot
[1:40] your name again.
[1:41] Ed Carlson.
[1:42] Ed Carlson.
[1:44] Anyone else present at the District Office, Reagan?
[1:50] No.
[1:50] now. And is there anyone present on the call? No public
[1:56] president call.
[1:59] Sounds good.
[2:02] Okay. We'll jump in here. Are there new? Are there any
[2:06] new disclosures of potential conflicts of interest pertaining to the agenda items today?
[2:15] I have none. Okay. Hearing none, we will move on to public input. There's no public online
[2:22] or in person. So we will skip that and move to the consent agenda. Two items on the consent agenda.
[2:29] This afternoon, the first are the minutes from the December 1st, 2025 board meeting.
[2:35] The second are the claims totaling $2,749.94.
[2:44] If there are no changes, we would take a motion to approve
[2:48] the minutes.
[2:50] What a motion to approve the minutes.
[2:55] Is there a second? Thank you. All those in favor?
[2:59] All right, motion passes, next are the claims totaling $2,749.94, if there are no questions
[3:12] a motion in a second to approve the claims.
[3:16] I'll make a motion to approve the claims
[3:19] of $2,749.94. All second. Thank you. All those in favor?
[3:32] All right. I do not believe that we have any public hearings scheduled for this afternoon. Brent,
[3:39] any the year whereup? That's correct. Okay. Moving on, we have no administrative matters. So we will
[3:46] jump into the review of the March 31st on audited financial statements.
[3:59] Starting with balance sheet,
[4:00] you can see the district has $7,653.34 in the checking account. Accounts payable has a total
[4:12] of $5,735.12, which leaves you with an available fund balance of $1,918.22 cents.
[4:26] Moving into
[4:27] the general fund. You can see that the district received ten cents in interest income throughout
[4:34] the first quarter. Really just two expenditures, $1,624 for accounting, $457 for district management,
[4:43] total expenditures are sitting at $2,081 against the budget of $30,000. District has received
[4:53] a developer advance just shy of $4,000 against a budget of $30,000. That leaves an ending
[5:01] fund balance of $1,918.22 cents.
[5:08] That's it for the financial statements. Are there any
[5:12] questions.
[5:19] No, I'll make a motion to approve the, um,
[5:27] visit the
[5:31] back that make a motion to approve
[5:36] the March 31st, 2026, uh, and all the financial statements.
[5:45] All second, closing
[5:50] favor. All right.
[5:53] Okay. That brings us to legal matters. Brent, I'll turn it over you.
[5:58] Thank you just to report to you on what the procedure is for changing the name just to remind everybody when these districts were created they were referred to statutorily as local districts.
[6:13] And then a year ago, or maybe it's been two years now, a legislature decided they needed to correct that and I think it's from changing from local district to special districts.
[6:24] There, the reason being, I believe, is that in the bonding world when districts are issuing municipal bonds to finance projects, the bond market is familiar with the term special districts are not familiar with the term local districts.
[6:42] And so the problem is, so they changed it, the problem is there are different, lots of different types of districts in the statute, one of which is a special service district.
[6:52] So everybody gets confused about this because of the names are all so similar.
[6:56] But my thinking was we ought to change the name to a special district rather than the Wheeler rather than a local district.
[7:04] So the proposed name change would be from Wheeler Basin local district to Wheeler Basin special district to comply to be to bring the district in harmony with the statutory change.
[7:15] So the procedure for that is that to the first thing we have to do Nick is schedule for our next meeting of public hearing and that will have to be advertised in advance, I believe, but but the statutes.
[7:31] The statute isn't clear on what that public hearing notice has to be, whether it needs
[7:37] to be something special or just notice it on the agenda.
[7:41] It looks like the latter, but I will get back to you, Nick, on what the public notice
[7:46] has to be for the hearing.
[7:48] Okay.
[7:49] But we've got plenty of time, but I think we'll schedule a public hearing on the agenda
[7:54] for next time and the matter will be changing the name of the district from local to special.
[8:01] assuming no one comes or even if people do come and the board decides they want to change
[8:06] the name, notwithstanding any public input, then I will have a resolution prepared for
[8:11] you to approve that as a resolution of the board changing the name from the local district
[8:18] to special district, I will then need to prepare some documents that are filed with the Lieutenant
[8:23] governor's office on the state of Utah to effectuate that change and then we will receive
[8:30] back these certificate of name change from the town of governor's office, following
[8:35] which that with the resolution will need to be recorded in the county or counties in which
[8:41] the district is in and that's why I ask for I guess so maybe if you could just double check and
[8:48] and make sure that the districts are just in Weber County.
[8:51] Okay, only because if it includes a piece of land
[8:55] in Morgan County, I have to file these,
[8:58] record these things in both counties.
[9:00] And the statute says until they're recorded
[9:01] in both counties, we can't function
[9:04] as a district under the new name.
[9:07] You see, so if you just let me know, Reagan,
[9:10] just double check that, however you can, maybe it.
[9:12] Oh, double check, I'm pretty sure.
[9:16] I'm sure I think they're in both because I remember you
[9:21] Send anything's both in Morgan and in weaver
[9:23] Well double check for you just double check for me so that I know whether I need to record in both county
[9:28] That's that's all I needed
[9:30] And maybe I can check my files, but but
[9:34] I've always reprieved relied on the engineers to tell me that kind of stuff because they can read the leave it's right
[9:39] Okay
[9:40] Okay, so that's the procedure.
[9:43] It's boys, once we have the public hearing
[9:45] and I prepare all the documents,
[9:47] I take care of them over there.
[9:49] We won't involve you except to hold
[9:50] the public hearing in a doctor resolution.
[9:53] We'll do that in June.
[9:57] That's all I have on that matter.
[10:00] And I don't have the other,
[10:01] then the next matter is acknowledge appointments
[10:04] of Davey, Raspberry, Kern to the board.
[10:07] I thought we did that last time, Nick,
[10:09] but if we didn't, then we'd be too.
[10:13] Please lower them in, but I don't think we acknowledge them.
[10:18] Okay. Well, I thought I think swearing in with knowledge.
[10:23] But let's just say that we welcome Eric and Davey to the board.
[10:29] Eric's been re-appointed. Davey is new and they've been sworn in and everything's functioning now.
[10:37] So consider that done.
[10:39] We appreciate you acknowledging us finally.
[10:42] We're feeling hard done by it.
[10:43] We ignored you last time.
[10:45] We love you.
[10:46] We'll never be lonely.
[10:48] It's deep cuts.
[10:50] Yeah, you know, it's hurtful, but you'll get over it.
[10:55] It'll be OK.
[10:57] All right, that's all I have there.
[10:59] OK, and Eric.
[11:04] Sounds good.
[11:05] Then with that, I'll make a motion to adjourn.
[11:08] the meeting at 2.27 p.m.
[11:13] Second that motion.
[11:17] All in favor?
[11:19] Aye.
[11:21] All right.
[11:22] Thanks, everyone.
[11:23] We are adjourned.
[11:26] Okay, we need to wait.
[11:26] three minutes.