Cc - Regular Meeting

Thank you. Thank you.

All right. Looks like it's about time for us to go ahead and begin. So we'll get started. I want to start off by first excusing the mayor who will be out. He's not available today. But we will press on. We will begin with a reading and invocation or thought given by Bishop Bert Larson from the 12th Ward. Following that, we'll then have an opportunity to have Derek Euler. go ahead and lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. So, Bishop?

Our Heavenly Father, we're thankful for the opportunity that was given us this day to gather together at a City Council meeting and pray that Thou might bless us, that we might be able to, that the Council might be able to make good decisions, and that they might be able to have our best interest in mind. And we're thankful for the freedom that was given us at this time, and we pray for these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Thank you, Bishop Larson.

Thank you, Derek.

Well, our first item is an item of consent. Approval of the August 13, 2006 Truth in Taxation meeting minutes and the August 20, 2026 City Council meeting minutes.

I move we approve the consent items.

OK. We have a motion. Second. And a second. All in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Now we have an opportunity to hear from Monica, who's going to share some thoughts with us. And before you start, Monica, thank you for all you do. Every time we see you, it's a good thing. And that's not always the case with everyone we see. So thank you. Thank you.

There is a gift in the mayor's office for each of you for Peach Days. If we have the wrong size of t-shirts in there, please come and exchange them at the office. before next week when we sell all of them. So just double check those and then there's just some other little peach goodies. Obviously no peaches because that's a problem this year. But we are still having peach days. Taggies will be here with peach items and peach parfaits and stuff. They'll just not be Utah peaches. But we're really excited. Everything's set. We've already been on Channel 2 news, Channel 4 news. Next week, we will be on Channel 13 News twice, one during their afternoon show on Thursday, and then they'll be up here live on Friday morning doing their morning show. So we did go and see the governor. That's been in the paper as well as on social media, so we've done that as well. All the plans are ready. Car show, we already have 800 registered cars, and usually we get quite a few after Labor Day. vendors are all taken care of. The biggest notice is obviously Peach Days headquarters has moved to 75 South Main Street. We will still be selling our t-shirts and hats as soon as Ryan gets them to me. Here in front of the old chamber office, we'll have our booth out there, but we will not be in that building for other things. So lost children, any other questions about Peach Days, please come to the old Christiansen building because that's where we're at. And we just want to thank all the city, the police department, the public works department, everybody. It's a team effort. Every single person at Brigham City staff has a hand at Peach Days. And they're always great to work with and helping and answering questions and stuff. So just really appreciate all of your support. If you have any questions for me.

How many people do you expect, Monica?

Well, if it's anything like the fair, a lot. It's like I went out to the fair every day. It was crazy. So our normal is $50,000 to $60,000 at Peach Days and another $10,000 to $15,000 at the car show. So, yeah, quite a few.

Thank you. Is there anything else? Any comments?

So the wristbands are on sale.

Wristbands are on sale right now, but they are at the Christensen building. So 9 to 5, but we are closed Labor Day. I'm working Labor Day. Just no one's in the office. And they're $35 this year and $40 if you wait until the carnival. And then we have sheets of tickets, too.

What's the big entertainment this year?

Maddie Wilson. She is a singer-songwriter from southern Utah. She was second in the nation for some senior writing competition. She was here for Art on Main, which was kind of fun. So people in Brigham City have heard her, and we have her back. And then on Friday night, we have three bands that will take turns Salters, A Boy in Blue, and The Last Wild Buffalo. That's supposedly the most popular. Salters is from Tremonton. They're great. He's the one who helps me put them all together.

Thanks.

No problem.

Appreciate it.

Hey, we're excited. One more week.

We'll see you then. All right. Thank you. Do we need to do a motion to move into the public comment? Yes. Okay, so if someone would like to make a motion to open up public comment. So moved. Pat Jensen's made a motion. Is there a second? Second. Second. Dave Jeffries has seconded that motion. We'll move into public comment. As a reminder, public comment is for people who live in, own property, or otherwise can vote in our city. We would open that up for anyone who has anything they wanted to share. A reminder. that we don't really dialogue back and forth, but certainly you can share your thoughts or concerns. At this point, seeing no one is... Oh, okay. Right.

Making decisions, but you never said you can't answer questions. Anyway, I'm Wendy Cano, live in Brigham. Is that all you need to know?

That's good enough.

Okay. Well, I was just wondering, when I was looking at the budget, I was just wondering, what is your justification? Sometimes there is justification for a 5% raise for the executive members, and I was wondering, did the normal employees get a COLA of what percent, if so?

So, we really don't go back and forth, but I'm going to take a little liberty and say yes. But if you had specific questions on that, we could have you talk to one of the members. We don't go back and forth as far as questions or in the public comment.

Oh, you don't answer questions?

Kind of did, but I shouldn't.

Yes, well, yes. Yes.

But happy to.

Yes, what? Yes to the employee. Yes, they did.

Oh, okay.

Okay. Yeah, I'd like to just know what your justification is. Because as a school teacher, there were years that went by that we got zero COLA. Right. So I was just wondering.

Thank you. Others? Seeing no others are approaching, I would entertain a motion to close the public comment. Move.

Second.

All right. Moved by Councilmember Smith and Councilmember Troxell with a second. So we will close the public comment. Now open up the time to council members. if you had any comments you'd like to make and we'll go ahead and begin with uh matt to my left and then down the line i just want to thank the chamber for as much work as they put in for peach days and i think the whole town enjoys enjoys the celebration quite the festival they put on so thanks that's all i have um

One comment that kind of goes into the action that's going to be coming up is I did happen to, by happenstance, to go to the signing of the memorandum for the Utah State High Tech program. I would ask one question that was invited to the council. I just happened to be invited by Speaker Schultz. And that's what I found out about just an hour before that. I don't know if that was a miss for the council, but I think it would have been nice if the council was invited to show support since we have so many state dignitaries there from up and down the state of Utah. So I'm not sure if the council even knew about that was going on, but just a comment. But it was a good day. I was glad I was there. I was kind of seeing how that's coming together. But that's all I got. Thanks.

Robin, do you want to take it from there?

Yeah, September in Brigham City is an exciting month always. I'm excited for Peach State to come up and appreciate the chamber and all that they do when working with the city. School has started. A reminder of our community before and after school to watch for the kids that are trying to figure out their new routes on the way home and back. I encourage the city to continue working with the different PTAs and our safe routes committees to make safe routes for our kids that are walking to and from school throughout the city. And ball sports have started. So anytime you want to go down to Pioneer Park or anything you can participate in all of our youth sports activities and the hard work that has been put into that through our program there.

I don't have anything. Monica took everything I was going to say. She did a better job than me.

I just close again with one quick comment. There's been some discussion I've seen that there are some that assume that because maybe the council didn't vote the way the people thought the mayor expected us to, that there was some adversarial relationship. I want to clarify that that's not the case. that we live in a representative environment as legislators, and that's what we are. And I want to say that I believe everyone in this room, the people in our community, all the staff within Brigham City, the elected officials, all have a common desire to do what is right for the community and for the citizens. The road by which we get to that oftentimes is different. So we have different opinions about how we may get there. But I think the consensus is People want to do what is right. And that's just a reminder in a world where we tend to be pointing fingers and polarizing that the assumptions we make oftentimes become negative rather than positive. And dialogue is the key. So to the point that was made earlier, questioning back and forth, having discussion, getting clarity is the way we remove that. Now we work from facts rather than negative assumptions. So I just encourage you to continue to try and strive towards better dialogue with each other and the community so that we can continue to be a well represented and a happy community here in Brigham City. Action items. We have an action item to propose. So we're looking for a motion for consideration of a resolution authorizing the mayor to execute a memorandum of understanding with Utah State University and high tech for the purpose of collaborating on a training certification and research and development campus. And I think Derek is going to share some thoughts on that.

Yes, thank you, Mayor ProTamso. Like Councilmember Jeffries talked about, there was a signing and obviously our mayor did not sign on behalf of Brigham City until after the council votes tonight. So the MOU is So let me talk just quickly about High Tech Solutions. So High Tech Solutions is a company that is based out of eastern Washington. They train a nuclear workforce there. So they fuel and refuel nuclear power plants all across the world, actually. And they are looking about the potential to creating a new training campus. and expanding their business to here in northern Utah and Brigham City. So the MOU and the location of that is, as you can see in your packets, is surrounding some of the property that is vacant currently along the USU Brigham City campus here in Brigham City. So the MOU is essentially for Brigham City itself. doesn't do a whole lot more than say brigham city is going to be the city and do what the city does um so there's a you know there's no you know financial obligation in this it doesn't have a budget appropriation um this is saying that brigham city will be the city and look at any zoning changes or utility infrastructure anything like that that needs to take place for this type of development to happen we're obviously extremely excited um you know, about this proposition. The ground around Utah State University has been sitting vacant for many years, and it's a prime opportunity to have Utah State and the private sector come together and create some more educational opportunity for the people in northern Boxhiller County, specifically here in Brigham City. And, you know, as we continue to move forward with this MOU and and the design elements of what all that looks like. There'll be many public meetings kind of going through the details of that and what it's going to look like specifically. But we're really hoping for some commercial development in the area too, not just all education. So we have an opportunity to look at some retail and commercial development along that area too and hopefully see some really nice development in that area. We're excited about this. But like I said, with this MOU, it essentially is saying Brigham City is going to be a city and do what we do. So any questions for me? And I apologize. The mayor would have done a lot better than me telling what this is. And he's out of town this week looking at some projects. So, yeah, we're excited about this. It's been awesome. And we've been working on this for a couple years now, frankly. So. Questions?

The MOU, just so everyone understands, doesn't bind us to anything. Essentially, it's saying, hey, we're ready to chat. Let's do this. These are what our zonings are. This is what this has to happen. And that's what we'll do as far as the project goes.

Yep. Yeah, so any development that happens, if there's zone changes, any utility infrastructure that needs to take place, any of those things will come back to this body. And I say this body. If there's any tax deals or anything in the area that are part of it, the USU campus actually lies within the USU CDA. So some of the approvals and some of the back and forth in the actual contracts, you'll be acting as a redevelopment agency when you see those. But this one specifically is, you know, Brigham City is going to be the city with zoning and utility infrastructure and everything associated with that. Yeah, there is nothing binding in this contract other than we're going to do what we're here to do.

Thank you, Jack. Is there any further discussion or questions? Can we entertain a motion?

I move that we approve the authorizing of the mayor to execute a memorandum of understanding to act for the purpose of collaborating on a technical training, certification, research, and development campaign.

Thank you. We have a second. Second. Jeffries? All in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? All right. Motion passes. Now we'd like to move into a closed session for consideration to enter into our closed session to discuss purchases, exchange, lease, or real property pending.

That's it. That's the only reason. OK.

So we'd need a motion to do that.

So moved. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Got a roll call it.

Oh, yeah.

OK. All right. We'll start with Matt. Matt's an aye. Chair Frazier's an aye. Dave's an aye.

Robin's an aye. Ryan's an aye.