Cc - Regular Meeting

All right. And it's six o'clock and so we will get started today, April 2nd, the most serious day of the year. Um, we do have spring break, but we are happy to have the couple of people that are able to attend tonight. We're we're thankful for Bishop Kevin Lane from the Lake View Ward, who will be offering a thought reading or an invocation. And then we've invited Miss Nicole Codddle, our city attorney, to lead us in the pledge. Bishop Lane, if you started. Our father in heaven, we thank for the moisture we receive individuals and individuals that take their time to represent the city. We ask you that would bless them that they fill the need for the breeding and we're thankful for this moisture and we ask you that would bless us with more moisture this Christmas.

Amen. Thank you. And I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. And who had their money on four seasons in one day? All right, we have one uh consent item, which is the approval of the city council meeting for March 19th. We have a motion to approve our consent. Have a motion by council member Hip and a second by council member Jensen. All those in favor?

I.

Thank you. Motion passes. We have a couple of employees to recognize. I should have been ready. I apologize. There they are. that have joined our our city uh city staff. Randy Peterson, a facilities maintenance technician. Casey Cook is our new police evidence technician. Aaron Lon Leonhard Linhardt. Okay, thank you. Aaron Linhardt is our as a power forman. Duncan Steel is a firefighter paramedic. Kathleen Padilla, community center culinary specialist. Annie Matthews also as a community center culinary specialist and Meline Anderson as a crossing guard. We appreciate those folks uh working for Brigham City and and helping out our staff. We uh we'll move on now to public comments if there are any. We'd like to open the floor to uh public comments. These are for Brigham City residents. Brigham City. You own property can run for city c for city government or vote in Brigham City. We'd like to give you the opportunity for up to three minutes. Please come to the podium and make your public comment. We uh if you come up, please state your name and where you live for the public record. And then again, we'd love to hear from you for up to three minutes. Council, it doesn't appear as though we have any public comments. I don't believe we have any online, do we, Christina? Okay, thank you. So, we'll move on to council member comments. If there are any, we'll start with council member Smith and move to his left. Um, I was able to attend the chambers business summit a couple weeks ago. It was really good. Put on a good event. Nice to be there.

I haven't had anything else really come up. I just things going in the newspaper that people understand that we go through the rates pretty seriously. That's something we take very serious. Nothing has been decided as of yet. Take that process by the time and come to a conclusion as like is best for the city future and now. Thank you, Council Member Toxic. I don't have anything.

Thank you. No, thank you. You don't have anything, but thank you for making that addition. Council member Hip, I just piggyback on what Ryan said earlier just a moment ago. And if you do have concerns and you're listening and and you want to address them, please reach out to us. Maybe we can help clarify some things for you rather than give you an lack of information. Anyone is welcome certainly welcome to come here. always welcome to contact us and reach out. We can give you Thanks. Thank you, Council Member Jeffrey. I'm good. Thank you, Council Member Jensen. I'm good as well.

Okay. Uh just one thing I'd mention, we did uh last city council we mentioned and recognized our good Chief Reyes who received chief of the year uh from the Yukopa uh uh Utah Chiefs of of Police Association. Thank you. One thing that we didn't know at the time was they uh the association had decided this year to to uh hand to acknowledge uh uh K-9 officers that have uh lost their lives in line of duty with Purple Hearts. And Chief Reyes actually had K9 partner, Dingo, that was killed in the line of duty years ago when he was working for Haramman. And it was uh it was real nice to see that recognition take place for those uh that uh provide such a vital component to to law enforcement and especially in saving of lives. We want to tell Chief thanks for for being there for that first one as well. Um we have uh one action item which is a consideration of an ordinance amending city code title 5-1-101 and 5-1-109 which is our in our newly minted uh consolidation fee schedule. uh we set the we set the the uh the uh uh goalposts for that or the the formula for it and now we're going to be making the needed adjustments uh in the budget process uh coming up and uh this one deals with parks, recreation and city facilities. We've invited our uh Chris Horsley to present on this, our recreation director.

Good evening. It's uh nice to be here. Um really the changes um that we're proposing for this amendment are pretty simple and fall in kind of three different categories. They're minor changes. Um they're not any increases in any currencies. Um but they kind of fall into a minor language changes for clarity. Um and then um a fee some fees uh that we feel are appropriate um for incurring uh or they're appropriate because we're incurring a cost for providing a level of service. Um and then the other fees are just new fees that we see as um program opportunities in the future. Um, so those are kind of the categories of the changes um that they fit into and why we're bringing those to you guys to amend title 9. Have any specific questions? I can take those. I'll Chris Hel direct any questions or clarifications to Mr. Horseman. If there aren't any, then we'll

Okay. No, no. Thanks. Thanks. on the soccer the the new part of the soccer and football field building. I talked to Derek a little about is football something that we have we're looking forward to doing in the future requests for just wondering why we included that one. Um so uh we have not had a request yet u for that um because it is just a um flag football in general is growing. Um and so in the event that we were to have like a tournament a traveling tournament come and and try and host something here. We want to have the fee in place to be able to uh develop or paint those fields um to be able to charge the event fee an appropriate fee. Did I read that flag football is now getting an Olympic event? It

is. That's correct. Yeah. I think it's awesome with the NFL and and that league, their flag football league, it is booming in a lot of communities. Um on the new one with the soccer and the football field, the initial field setup be it says $3 per field, but is that like per game, per season, per tournament? It said it says $3 per field, 100% field.

Oh. Um yeah. So where where that comes in is um in the event that you have um a facility that isn't high frequently used. So for example the sports complex we're going to be using that for our program um being United for example AYSO there's a lot of leagues that use that there's high frequency of use. Um, so the cost that's going to incur to paint and keep those fields up, um, we just kind of, well, we, um, we get that back through the game piece. But where this fee is intended is, um, for example, like this spring Constitution Park, um, there's a request to have two games there all spring long. It's the only, uh, user group that's, you know, going to have some games there. And so that $30 fee per game doesn't really recoup the level of service that we're going to provide by uh going and painting fields there. So there's a lapse of three weeks of time where we're going to be um painting the lines, keeping them painted for just two games. And what this fee does is it allows us to say, "Hey, we're willing to provide that level of service at these locations where there's not a high volume of games being played. In some instances, it might just be one user um or a venty that wants those uh spaces painted. And so it's uh reasonable for us to say, "Hey, we're going to charge you an initial fee to set up those lines um to recoup that cost uh just because you're the only one that's going to be there and using it." So that's where that uh fee originates from and the reason behind it.

Use that field program those lines kept correct be kept painted the whole time. Yeah. They don't get mowed over. Yeah. It's much more efficient once it's painted. It's much more efficient to keep them painted. Um so you're not coming back and restreaming hours. I had to do that several times when we were coaching lacrosse. That's a pain in the butt. You always end up with a trapezoid for a field. So yeah,

300 straight. would be just for the initial setup. So, yeah. So, if you came in and you were going to do a season, you're the only one that's going to use that space. Um, we would charge you that initial fee to get the fee set up and painted. Then throughout your season, uh, however many games you play there, you'll still be charged that per game fee. So, for example, like this season, we have at Constitution Park, we have a group that's going to be there for two games. we could recoup $50

and then it's for whatever they've reserved for if they reserved it for two games for six months and if it's still that initial $300 correct the way they did or if they did it for a whole year they'll only be like if they come back for summer season and want to do it again are you going to so if if we have to go out and reestablish lines, that's when that fee would incur again. Yes. But if the lines are still being consistently cared for and they're there

enough time, sorry, Chris time lapse lines aren't following. But if another team comes in and says, "Okay, well, we want Wednesday night reserves it for Wednesday night and it's already being maintained." Yeah. So

from an initial fee that team would have to do another $300 initial. You know, our our plan is in the event that um you have one user group come in and pay that initial fee to be there and um and then along the way you have multiple other groups come in and want to use that space. We are willing to uh get some money back to that initial group that paid that fee because now all of a sudden it's becoming a high frequency space and so we're getting additional funds to through the perame fee to cover some of that cost. So we will take that into consideration that in the event that someone comes along pays that initial fee for a space and it becomes a high volume use space and we want to make sure that we're being fair and equitable to um not penalizing that group that came and upfronted it that now multiple groups are benefiting from

um and then difference between manual and autonomous. So, one of the things that we're working on and considering um is looking at an autonomous painter, meaning a robot painter. Uh one of the benefits of that, if we were to acquire one, as you're seeing the fee, is now we can do that same process for $75. Um it makes it a lot more cost effective and efficient that if a group comes along and does want to occupy a space um for even just one game now, it makes a lot more sense to be able to, you know, do that. Um, and if uh if we have our robot, then we're able to do that at a much lower cost as opposed to having three guys out there bringing painting lines for, you know, two and a half hours. We just see the people somewhere else.

Yes.

So, what does this look like? I'm trying to figure out what does this look like for football to

be honest with you up to this point in time since there's been a change from Watkins Park playing football now all of the all of the football league games are happening on the high school field. We've yet to have a football team reserve park space. So it's always been first come first serve for practices. The only way this would apply is if there was some sort of issue potentially at the high school field and we needed to go stripe um another city space for football for a weekend and there would be that $300 setup fee because we don't stripe any of our current park spaces for football. Right now, we don't really even see this is like Chris said, this is more geared at um flag football and and the growing interest in flag football, but the actual tackle football um believe city staff don't see that as something that's going to come up unless for some reason there's an issue on the high school field. We we would not normally stripe any field for a practice. This is really games. We're not playing games on any city facilities.

And then um this is not soccer complex. Uh we would probably not use the sports complex for a football game or soccer team. I mean a soccer game. No, this would not complex only for soccer. No, we have other users that are using sports complex this year as well. Okay. And so that's the fee.

No, that's where I um mentioned about kind of the looking at and evaluating spaces based on high volume. So the soccer complex would it is a soccer complex or sports complex. There all the fields there are soccer fields. Um there's going to be a lot of groups um that want to play there. And frankly, um, as long as there's not a conflict in on a different field or as long as there's not a conflict at, um, the sports complex, that's where we're sending teams to play. Um, but this year there are some conflicts. And so, we've had those requests at Constitution Park. Um, Pioneer Park East is another example where there's um, three games scheduled there over like a three-week span. Um, and so again, that's not high volume. So, we'll um assess that initial setup fee sports complex where we're playing there, other groups are playing there, a lot of games are going on. There's not a need to um recover that cost for the level of service we're providing in addition to um just the game fee that they're going to pay anyway. How long does it How long does it take? I've never done it. DJ, how long does that take you?

You It take you two days in the crying once you stop crying every once in a while. It It took I think it was an hour and a half. Two hours. Yeah. It takes three guys. You have to go out and do that. Okay. We've actually demoed before Chris was here. We demoed one of the robots. They are They're perfect. They never mess up and they're they're just a little bit expensive to pay for, but they can be used for um all our baseball any field something we're looking at. It's just they're a little bit spendy the first time, but they they take a lot of manpower and staff time. It's not just for,

like I said, the soccer field. They can be used for all of our baseball fields are nice. We'd have to go through our capital projects and prioritize that and get them in. They can paint a logo. They can paint a logo. They can take messages. We can sell birthday shout outs on soccer fields. Yep. There may or may not have been something about the mayor on the sports complex field the day we demoed one. So, I'm sure there was. Not by me. It was about me, not by me.

I just had an image in my head. a bottle of this.

I think it's important that people know that the state mandates what city um fees can be. They can't be to make a profit. They're just to cover cost. People don't don't realize that a lot. We're not not in it to make I like how you use the term just to cover cost over and over. That's all it is. It's a cost to the city, but it's what we do as a city. But um and also the the cost to reserve fields. It's just for exclusivity. So no one else can use the field. Anybody can use our fields. Some of these costs think I have to pay to go play in the park. You don't. Just if you don't want anybody else to be on your field like place the public so that you have full use of it, then you

right. That's what the fees are for parks. I think council once exhausted I don't want to say exhausted you're satisfied with your questions or answers we entertain a motion. I make a motion to approve the ordinance amending the city code title 5-1-101 and5- 109. Thank you. We have a motion by council member Jeff and a second by council member Jensen. This will be a roll call vote. We'll start with council member Schnit and move to his left.

Rob I thank you. Motion passes. We now need a motion to uh move into close session to discuss sorry real est purchase of uh real estate purchase exchange or lease of real property. That's the only thing. Yes. Okay. We got a motion by council member Smith. Do we have a second? Second by council member Chox. Do a roll call starting with council member Jeff moving to his right and ending with council member Jensen I

Ryan's I thank you motion passes we are now going to move into close session thank you everybody for coming I was going along with what he wanted I know I heard you say I'm not motioning so that's why I picked