Cc - Regular Meeting

Um, all right. We would like to welcome everybody. Boy, it's fun having the kids here today. We're excited to have you. This is our first round of citizenship awards from the elementary schools. And this is awfully exciting. And plus, it's Christmas time, right? So, we uh but we want to get started tonight uh with a thought, reading, or an invocation by Pastor Sigman. Is he here? There he is. Okay. Following uh uh his choice of those three things, my guess is going to be an invocation. Uh Council Member Troxel will lead us in the pledge of allegiance. Pastor,

thank you. Um, just like to do a quick reading from one passage in the Bible from 1 Timothy 2 that pertains to this. Says, "First of all, then I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone for kings and all those who are in authority so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good and it pleases God our savior. He wants everyone to be safe and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, a testimony at the proper time. Therefore, I want the men in every place to pray, lifting up holy hands without anger or argument. So, I'd like to just follow this and lead us in prayer now for our city leaders. Let's pray. Lord God, we rejoice to come into your presence this evening. We praise you that you are a God of holiness and a God of peace. We know that you have chiefly shown us that by providing a way of salvation for us through your son Jesus Christ. We come to you in his holy and worthy name. We thank you for another way that you've shown us that you are a God of peace by allowing us to live in a land that is full of your blessings where we experience them every day. Safety and prosperity and peace in our land and we we praise you for that. These are good gifts from you. Help us not to take them for granted. And Lord, as you instruct us in your word, we pray now for those who are in authority over us. We pray for our city leaders and for those involved in this meeting tonight. We ask that things would go smoothly, that your hand would be over every detail of the situations here and the meetings, the

things discussed, that your name would be glorified as it says in what I read, that you would lead us to live in a a life of godliness and tranquility and peace, experiencing your blessing for your honor where we live. Thank you that you have made these things available to us. Please give us grace and give us wisdom to pursue these things. In Jesus name we ask it. Amen.

Thank you 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.

I love it having the kids here saying the pledge with us. That's one of my favorite things. Uh these are students from Lake Elementary. We appreciate uh Mr. Story and and the parents of those students for being here tonight and and for encouraging them to have good citizenship uh even as the certificate says, outstanding citizenship. So, we've got uh we've got students that have been nominated by their teachers to receive this student citizenship award from Lakeville Elementary. And uh what I'll do is I'm going to come out to the front here and then I'm going to present these. We'll have the kids come up and and then we'll we'll just line up. Okay guys, we'll just line up right here. And then parents, you can take whatever pictures you want. Get up, move around, whatever angle you want. Okay? quiet. I'm sorry. Okay.

Okay. There he is. Bye-bye. How do you get? Okay. How are you? Jefferson,

right? Is that right? Hopefully it Right. Guys, come over here. Oh, there you go. Everybody, thanks for coming. Okay.

All right, thanks again everybody and have a merry Christmas. All right, we have a big consent list here and we would love to have a motion to approve consent. As you look down there,

thank you. We have a motion to approve. Motion to approve consent items. Okay, we have a motion by council member Troxel. Do we have a second? Second by council member Hip. Are there any questions to the consent items before we go to a vote? All those in favor?

Any opposed? Thank you. I neglected to excuse Mr. uh Jeff who isn't with us tonight and uh we appreciate his uh his uh being on on council and and wish him a merry Christmas where he's not going to be here. Um, we'll now have our public comments. We'd love to invite anybody that is a Brigham City citizen, owns property in Brigham City, can run for election in Brigham City and vote in Brigham City to comment. We if you'll come to the podium and uh uh state your name and where you live and then we'd love to hear from you from up to three minutes. And so the time is now open for public comment on anything you'd like. This what public comments about as opposed to a public hearing is specific to that. Kennedy, Brigham City, I just wanted to again thank the uh city of Brigham City for their support with the Christmas village for their partnership and making that beautiful. I appreciate the restoration going forward and uh know that it could not have it without you. So I think it plays a pivotal role in the community. It adds a lot to it. It may not feel maybe the most important thing that we do, but it is obviously a history that I think uh to maintain. So thank you for that partnership and for that help. Right.

Thank you, Mr. Kennedy.

This is the look where we can come up and say whatever we want.

Yes, ma'am. For up to three minutes is what we'd love to hear. It might take a little over three minutes, but not too much. My name is Lesie Shley. I'm a citizen of Brigham City. I'm representing 83 citizens who have signed a petition asking the Brigham City Council to not approve any permits to build a nuclear power plant in Brian City or the surrounding area. Um, I have a masters in geological science from BYU. I studied hydrarology, which is the movement of water through the environment. And I currently work as an associate financial representative managing stock market investments. So I'll repeat to you our largest concern about a nuclear power plant along the Wasatch front. While there are inherent risks with a nuclear power plant in the community, our greatest concern is risk is how there's no plan to dispose of radioactive waste from spent nuclear fuel currently in the US. Quoting the US government accountability office for nuclear waste disposal, they say quote the nation has over 90,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants. The Department of Energy is responsible for disposing of this high level waste in a permanent geologic repository, but they have yet to build such a facility. As a result, the amount of spent nuclear fuel stored at nuclear power plants across the country continues to grow by 2,000 metric tons a year. Um, the federal government has paid billions of dollars in damages to utilities for failing to dispose of this waste and has may have to pay tens of billions of dollars more in coming decades." unquote. The lifespan of high level nuclear waste is a thousand plus years. Until the US has a concrete plan of how to dispose of nuclear waste, we don't have any right to build more nuclear power plant. It's putting the cart before the horse and it's creating a mess that someone else will have to clean up. Looking at the current plan, all spent nuclear waste will be held on site of the nuclear power plant. Within 40 years, the containers holding the waste will begin

to rust and corrode. This is evident now at other nuclear facilities in the US. This leads to nuclear radiation contamination in the soil which is picked up in groundwater and carried to the lowest point on the west touch front which is the Great Salt Lake. As the Great Salt Lake continues to dry up, especially the northern portion that doesn't receive any freshwater input. The radiation is left in the soil. The wind picks it up as dust and it's blown into our communities into our mountains and across the Southwest. Um, not trying to sound dramatic, but I like to consider the citizens of Iron County, Utah in 1951, who were unknowingly downwind citizens to nuclear bomb testing. They believed the government had their best interests at heart, too, but later were community plagued by cancer and birth defects because of that. This nuclear facility will be controlled by $750 million of private investment. and when it comes to preserving the best interest of the community or their stock market profits, I don't know if they'll be making the right decisions there. Um, speaking to you as the elected leaders of Brigham City, I hope that you can consider the long-term impact of these decisions and recognize that nuclear power is not the solution for today. So, thank you for your time. There's much more I'd love to say on this, but that's my time. So, thank you. Juliana Washington City, Utah. I see that we are looking at the Mway, possibly State Park. My question is or thought for you people who are going to make the decisions and I hope there are multiple more hearings that people will have a chance to express their opinions. But as I look at what we're spending

money on now and how fast we're spending money and where it's going, do we have enough revenue that we can build this? And then when it is built, it becomes the responsibility of our community to maintain and to take care of and to do all those things with. And when we talk about parks in the community, a lot of times we're talking about how do we maintain them? Where does the money come from? Do we have enough? Do we have too many parks? Can we have more parks? If we start talking about a state park, then that becomes one that they have to pay for. as I understand the way it works to do things like walk around and not only just the the voting revenue that they currently get for using the facility, but the other things that get involved in that. I mean, how can the community pay for some of these things when they've been able to just go and walk around and and do things and and participate and do things that they enjoy. if we're going to saddle them with maintaining that as well as paying the use for it, are we going to be servicing our community the best way we know how? So, just be thoughtful of where we're our money is going because I see a lot of it going out income and outgo and it's just not quite balanced, I don't think. But thank you.

Thank you. Council, there appears not be more public comment. We'll close public comment. Go to council comment and we'll start with council member H and move to his right.

Well, let me just say uh appreciate the fact that people are coming forward. I wish we had more comment. If you, as you know, there's not a lot of back and forth, but you can certainly check in with us and please do get kind of responses offsite and call us, miss a text, an email, what have you, help clarify maybe some confusion on some things, but I I applaud your willingness to come forward and it's not always easy to stand up and point out your your point of view, but I appreciate you doing that. All I have to say. Thank you, Council Member Jensen.

Hey, Chris. Um, also thanks to Daniel. He's he's telling us thanks. But he puts in a ton of work on the Christmas village and I think most of the people enjoy it service the town. So thanks Daniel. Thank you Mr. Smith.

Yeah. Um, Mr. Christmas should I re just Yeah. reiterate some of those things. Um, merry Christmas. I hope everybody is uh having a a great Christmas season and and has a wonderful Christmas next week. Great new year. A couple things I'm grateful for people. We have a long ways to go far as the nuclear power plant goes information. Same with the the Manway State Park as we kind of just about that and go forward be able to take those things into account and consider those uh the negatives and the positives for each each one of those things before we have things go as far as the the path we're just getting on it. Um looking forward to those things as well. My point of view a lot of great things that are coming to our community possibly possibly coming to and the the chamber chamber of commerce has a new building to that ribbon cutting today. It's a great looking building. If you have an opportunity, go and check that out. It's got a lot of great usage for people in in that building. But yeah, other than that, I don't have anything administrator like you to stand up and show everybody what your suit looks like on the record. Council member Choco,

I just want to wish everybody in the community a merry Christmas and that their holiday season is um that was that they love and cherish. Um yes, Daniel, that Christmas village just gets me every year. I love it. I like to go there. Even as my grandkids are getting older, I still like to go and wander and look at the little things. and and I I know that you work with a lot of people in the community throughout the whole year um building those and maintaining those and and um it it's a staple. That's why we are perfect picture for Walmart movies because of our great main street and our Christmas village. Um, I was thinking back about this past year and I just wanted to thank the all the residents throughout this past year that have um been able to come to me and ask questions and um it seems like it picked up a lot this year. I was able to communicate with a lot of um community members um whenever I go out or around and the the opportunity that it gave me to to know what citizens would like answers to. And then I was able to go and ask the questions to different staff members and um get back with them. And it it really set up a great communication system and finding out like who what departments are available to give our community members different um information on how things work. And so I've just been really grateful for that this whole past year. And I hope that we can continue that type of open dialogue. community members this next upcoming year. That's it.

Thank you. You know, if Daniel's so good, there'd be snow on that village out there.

No. Uh hey, I am looking to 2026 is going to be amazing. We're going to come to an end on on at least two major projects. Our our pentock replacement project up the canyon, bringing our our water from the our sources in the Manowway Valley down to Bringham City. that's going to be completed by this spring and then by this summer the end of summer just for peace days we anticipate the completion of our overpass that will uh connect the two sides of our city and uh it's going to be amazing. Those are those are two generational projects. Those pentock lines were first built about 60 65 years ago and we intend we anticipate that they'll be around for well over 60 more years in the future. That's fantastic. And the bridge is going to just mean so much to our to our community and the growth that inevitably is going to happen. We've got uh we're just excited 2026 and beyond. We've got a lot of generational things that are in the works. They're going to take a couple years, but they get started now with the planning and the talking and the hearings and and the education and and uh it's just it's just exciting what is in front of Brigham City and and how it's going to improve our city and bless our citizens going forward. Um and that's all I've got. I prognosticated last council meeting quite a bit, so I'm going to be done. Uh the city administrator asked to skip his update because he didn't have anything. And so we'll move on to our action items. And our first action item is a consideration of a resolution supporting I don't know if you guys knew this or not, but this year uh 2026 celebrate the 250th anniversary of the founding of our country. And I am pumped about that as well. 2026 is going to be amazing. But Paul Larson is going to talk to us about America 250 recognizing and approving Bigham City as a Utah 250 community part of the committee.

Thank you. Um yeah, as the mayor said, um it is kind of a big deal. Um state has established a under the program to uh provide communities with resources group to do a celebration and do something that's sort of branded statewide. um the where I don't know that I need to put the resolution up on the screen or not. Okay.

It's pretty dry me. Um essentially, it's a resolution that would express the city council's support for Brigham City participating in this project. The the activity that that we've identified is one that that actually the museum was planning already. It would be a month-long exhibit about the Constitution and Utah's involvement in in the history of all of that. Uh and also a event that would have some uh lecture format, that kind of thing. Um Alana has communicated with the director of the program at the state. Um they're aware of it, have said yes, this would be a great event. And so, um, by approving a resolution, you would also be approving the mayor, uh, to sign a memorandum of understanding with Utah's America 250 program and a logo usage agreement, which would then give us the ability to use Utah's America 250 logo in our collateral associated with this event. So, Hopefully I've explained that well enough.

Oh, I think you did. I'm I'm excited about it. I know at staff meeting for the last little while uh we've been talking about, you know, is there something we could do? I don't know anyone here was in Brigham City in in 1976, but my first experience, I mentioned this before, was every fire hydrant was painted like a little patriot. I don't know if anyone remembers that. Um but yeah, we're talking about we're we're we're fleshing out some things. Uh I know there's a couple things that we do yearly seasonally that uh I think the mantra that I'm trying to espouse is go big or go home this year 250. So you be ready for let's say the fourth of July be pretty I think pretty amazing the mother of all bonds

mother of all celebrations at least 300 year anniversary. Yeah. I graduated from high school in 1976. That's maybe dating myself a bit. my class ring on the side of it had the the drum and those three guys marching along. Yeah, it's pretty special. I think this would be a great year for celebrations.

Council, you got any questions for Paul? So, so we've established we we've chosen what our captivity to use this logo. We could probably do that with our fireworks celebration year-long events that we could utilize this. The funding that that this is tied to would go to the event at the museum to offset the expenses of the exhibit and the activities down there.

Okay. If we've exhausted our questions for Paul, we'll entertain a motion which would be to approve or support the resolution or approve the resolution supporting American 250 Utah and recognizing approving of the Brigham City Utah 250 community that so we have a motion by council member Smith. We have a second by council member Jensen. Uh all those in favor I I be any opposed motion passes. Thank you. Thank you.

We'll invite Mr. Carter to come up to uh present a uh an action item for an approval of an interlocal agreement with the Utah Inland Port Authority regarding sales tax distributions.

Yeah, thank you. So all this is is so we've entered into the agreement with buipea for different project areas specifically with the golden spike project area uh we found that through state code the state tax commission is required to remit sales tax to UEIPA for areas inside their project area. So this is just cleaning up that for any sales tax that is remitted to the port, they will then remit back to us. That was never the intent of the agreement that we signed with them. Uh but this is just change in state code that required this local agreement. So any questions for me or clarification?

It would be the sales tax for any project that's within the municipality. No, no, it's for any entity any businesses inside the project area uh of that UEFA project area the Golden Spike project area. So example being Brigham Implement Brigham Implement is inside the boundaries. So they collect sales tax. Um so that sales tax per state code has to go to UEIPA. We will then take that money and just send it right back to us. The intent of our agreement was just property tax uh to work through the tax increment financing. the change of state code. So this is businesses within city within project

the sales tax. Yeah. Yep. Much of that time does that add to that? Pretty quick. Yeah. Get to them get to us. Yeah. Nothing like six months later. Very similar to kind of what we're experiencing already with Perry and Walmart. Perry receives all of that and they send us our allocation. Okay. Yeah. It's it's within a few weeks the entity receiving that money. We entertain a motion.

Motion to approve the interlocal agreement with BYIPA regarding sales tax distribution as presented by Tom. Right. We have a motion by council member Choxel. Do we have a second? Second. Second by council member Hip. Uh interrupt agreement. Is this a roll call? All right, this will be a roll call vote. We'll start with Council Member Truffle. Move to her left. Robin, deny.

Brian, I thank you. Motion passes. Action item. I've been waiting for 12 years for this action item. I Nobody ever repeals anything. We just amend stuff. But today, we're going to repeal something and I'm so excited. But there's a followup there with a passing, too. So, it's back to back. But this is our action item number three. Mrs. Codle is going to present. But the consideration of an ordinance repealing, reumbering, and enacting the Brigham City Code title and general pro provisions. Hey, I'm excited too about this night. And uh like we talked about, as you know, we had a we've had a study session on this or discussion session. What do we work session?

Work session. Thank you. One of those three of them. um on this topic and we were going to get to title one and title two tonight, but we decided just to do title one. We had a few additional items to add in the police section of title two. So that will be right to you right after the first of the year and then we'll proceed right on through. So as the mayor mentioned, this is a repealing of the applicable sections that uh we're going to reenact. And so we'll run through those. And way I've done this is and and also note that in this title one we have not recommended to you any policy changes. So these are just this is just a cleanup make the language um really nice and and parallel and solid. Make the numbering work the appropriate way and combine everything in a logical way. So as you can see here the first step that we'll run through is just the red line. That's the full repeal of the sections that we're talking about. And then we get to where we're reenacting. And I would I would like to first thank Council Member Jensen. He made a really smart comment at the work session that I took to heart and that was that we really should not be using Roman numerals. So we are going to do title one, title two as in the letter that or the number two, not the letter two, the number two. So, I think that's really really smart and a lot cleaner and we were almost to full clean, but remember Jensen got us there all the way. So, I wanted to point that out. Um, so as you can see, we've just taken those sections that are that are repealed and then renumbered them and move them in the place that made sense. So, title one is all about setting the foundation for the city. When the city was incorporated, what kind what's the classification of the city? What form of government is the city about the city seal? um how we're going to call this code section the rules of construction meaning if you're

looking at our code and you want to know what um the how we calculate days in a certain um number that we have to count the rules of construction talk about that and then the general penalty for violation of ordinances. So again, just a just a taking the things that were already there, moving those around and replacing them in this section and and we can scroll through that. I could answer more questions. You'll also see um Council Member Troxel asked last time as well about how would you know where the prior section was if you wanted to look at it. So if you look at these new code sections, you'll see where we've called out the prior code. And in fact, now we're in many cases calling out the two prior codes. So you can get way back Um, and then we'll oftentimes have an ordinance that goes along with that if that's applicable. So that's the that's the state of it right now. As you get down to the matrix, you can see um I've provided for you this is just a cheat sheet. So that last little page, this won't go into the code section. This is just a cheat sheet for the council. So as we get more into the more complicated titles, this will look much more complicated. But as you can see here, just notes for you to be aware of. this is what the old co code number is and how it translates to the new code and then um the the codes that we're dealing with. So we'll have a matrix that looks just like that as we move through the rest of the titles. So that's my presentation and what there are questions.

Oh thank you. You know, in this process, I I learned quite a bit in council members's question that uh uh Miss Codle pointed out that prior code importance of that of why to have that prior code because it tells us so much of us asked sometimes uh why do we even have this rule? Why do we have this ordinance? Why do we have this law? as you do that genealogy that's going to be available in the code, you can go back to two prior codes whereases gives you the reasons why that was even uh put into ordinance or put into code and I I didn't even know that. So, it was fun learning that and learning that genealogy. So, thank you for that question. Thank you for the education.

Oh, I'm sorry. No, go ahead.

Well, the one last thing I was going to add is what what will happen if the if the council chooses to pass this tonight? What will happen is this will this will go into this will be enacted. We will send it to our code publisher who takes care of making this into a websitebased publishable code and it will go up on the code by in the meantime while they're preparing that for full publishing. It will also still be on our our code uh under pen uh pending codification. You'll find all these new code sections right in the same place you'd find our city code. You just click on that button. It will be right there until it's fully codified.

Any further questions? Council had a work session. So that's why I mentioned a couple things. We had a work session last week that uh probably uh went unnoticed by the public, but that's where we went in depth for an hour on uh the the previous codes and why they're included. where council member Jensen mentioned, you know, that maybe not Roman numerals are the best thing anymore. And I'm good with Roman numerals, but most people aren't.

No, you know, it's and I mentioned it this week with staff, but when I was in in college, I was going to be an architectural draftsman. The best advice that one of my professors gave was you need to draw a house as if monkeys were going to be building it. Like they didn't know anything. That way, there wasn't going to be any misinterpretations. And that's what I like about what uh Nicole and your your suggestion is is write the code as if monkeys and no offense, I'm not meaning we're monkeys, but as if monkeys were the ones who were going to be reading it. So that it it's easy, it's logical, and it just makes sense. And this was the standard uh template that's used more now. I mean, you see the change in the the old code there, two digits and or two two spaces and then so this is this is more contemporary and it matches other cities. Yes, sir. And in fact matches the state code as well. So when you're when you're quoting the state law, it does uh title chapter section just in the same format. So it's familiar format, easy to um site when you're site when you're using a citation. It's do that and easy to um repeat out loud. When I'm saying, oh per pursuant to title one section two, it's a little bit more of a mouthful to do the 11.060.031. 031.7. A little easier that way, too.

Well, I thought I was weird getting excited for the audit, but you two you two are way better than me. I'm just excited we're appealing something and then enacting something that's even better. So, if we've exhausted our our questions does allow half numbers on streets, the rolling dual numbers. That's right. If we've exhausted our our queries, then we would entertain a motion to uh to approve the ordinance that repeals, renumerates, and enacts the Brigham City Code Title One general provisions. So moved. We have a motion by council member. Do we have a second? Second. Second by council member Jensen. Is there any further questions that have just popped in your mind? All right. This will be a roll call and we'll start with council member Smith and move to his left and end with council member

Troxel I that's an I Robinson I thank you motion passes we have two discussion items for tonight uh the first one is what council member Jensen is so excited about it's our 202425 audit presentation with Mr. Carter and The what? Not on mine. No, not remind me who the mayor is.

Let me get the mayor. Okay. You want Does the council want to do state park first?

All right. That's what I want to do is the audit. Matt's excited about the audit. Care less about state parks. Just kidding. Mr. Clott and Marcus, yes, with our auditing Edington and Christensen. Sorry, I was anticipating a manly discussion, so I wasn't signed in quite yet. All right. Again, this is the fun time of the year. Um, I think Matt's the only one that's excited for this meeting. I'm super excited for this. It's a lot of work and I really appreciate all that my staff does make this possible. We're a we're a smaller administrative office and during this last year, we've had new funding. We've had a few retirements uh downstairs and new people learning new role roles. Um, but it's been a learning experience as we've gone through this year preparing for the audit and getting the financial information ready, but they have been awesome. Uh, I couldn't ask for a better staff, co-workers downstairs in the administrative office office. And then also to plug Marcus and his crew Christensen is is a great asset for the city, a great partner. Marcus is always available to answer questions that I have regardless of the I want to say stupidity of the question,

but as we navigate changes and different things that are taking place, Marcus and Ben have been awesome to work with and I really appreciate their their knowledge and what they bring to the city as a as a partner with us. So, really quick, um, so the financial statements, they just provide a quick overview. It's not quick, they provide a very detailed, thorough overview of its financial health and activities in Brigham City. We separate government funded activities like services supported by taxes from our business-like activities. So those are the utility funds. Anything that's supported by customer funded by customer fees. Uh examples of business-like activities include utilities, storm drain, and internal services like vehicle and building maintenance. When you look at this sheet and you look down there, net position is kind of like the city's net worth. It shows the difference between everything the city owns as assets and everything it owes. The liabilities. Think of it like this. So assets is what the city owns. Buildings, land, cash, equipment. The liabilities are what the city owes. Loans, bonds, unpaid bills. When you subtract the liabilities from the assets, you get net position. It's a way to measure the city's financial health. There are three main components in net position. Uh net investment and capital asset. Um I you probably mentioned this and I didn't hear it but I just want to point out to the public that's those numbers if you look up in parenthesis those those numbers represent in thousands.

Yeah that's important. So there's there's zeros just so that the fits on the paper that aren't that aren't represented there but they're there. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Y I just didn't want anybody to think that Bringing City only has $139,000 worth of assets.

Pretty close. Um so as you go through all this stuff, the net position in the city is growing. Um as you look over there on the far right column, you can see last year we had 139.5 million and that position this year is $163 million. Uh key factors that are driving this include the grants that we have received and continue to work towards have been lucky. Lucky is not the right word. We have great department heads, great directors who go out and get these grants and other funding opportunities. They work hard to get this money to the city. uh the mayor's office with the work that they have done with our other partners with forget his name the government Dave Dave Stewart issue two again and the work he did to go get the money to help build the bridge those are amazing things and they don't just happen by luck by very I didn't want to use the word luck it's hard work they go and get these things and and track down the people that can go and offer the help Um so usually if net position is growing it means the city's financially strong and managing its resources well this kind of we just talk about hey this is what's happening inside the general fund. Um where's our money being spent? As you can see public safety continues to be a lion share of what is taking place inside the general fund. Public works the reason it's so high this year is because of the work that's taking place on the bridge. and other things there. But so again, public safety is the main focus, main expenditure that exists inside the general fund. As you look over on see where the revenues where we're coming from, uh you can see we have a very good

mix of different things. When truth and taxation happen, you may remember when I talked about property tax. The reason we like property tax is it's more of a stock variable and it's kind of very consistent. you know what you're going to get. It doesn't drive off of people going to the store and doing those different things. Um, so,

uh, Bri, it has to do with the the UD do UTA. The pass through had to be reported on here and now it's but we caught it and just passed through that back to the

Yeah. So, B accounting, we have to report on our books, but then it's passed on to you. Um but anyway, so again this just shows a little bit of what's taking place. Um and then you look at these so the part I want I want to talk about is when you look down at the different fund balances uh you can see that we have different kind of buckets of money. There's restricted, committed, assigned. When you look at restricted, that is money that can only be used for specific purposes as required by law, contracts, or other external rule they're being implemented on us. Um, then committed is money that's set aside for certain purposes by a formal decision like an ordinance or resolution that's made by you guys. That money then becomes committed. Unassigned is like extra money a city organization has saved up. It hasn't earmarked or anything specific. Imagine you have a personal budget. You set aside money for rent, groceries, and savings. But at the end of the month, you have 200 left that isn't already committed to bills for future expenses. That's your unassigned money. You can use it for anything unexpected or special. For cities, the unassigned fund balance works the same way. It's money left after covering all planned expenses and savings for and saving for specific purposes. It helps the city handle emergencies, unexpected costs, take advantages of opportunities without needing new taxes or loans. Um, so as we just go through, you can look and see the different things where our fund balances are sitting inside our different funds. All of them continue to be be healthy, doing well. And really, as we look forward, what is what's going to be happening? As you are very aware as we've gone through budget discussions and different things um

when Brigham City evaluates projects that come through the budget process um it has looked at okay how's this going to affect our cash long ago doesn't feel like it's that long ago but my f business finance professor he drilled in over and over cash is king is really what dictates a healthy organization And then we also have to look at the health of the fund. Okay, if we go do this, how is the fund behaving? Are there revenues coming? Will we be able to maintain and do different things with those projects? And each year we look very carefully at the revenues uh that are going to be coming into the fund, make sure we're not just completing it and there's no plan. And then on a different note, we this past year we were awarded the 39th consecutive year for the government finance officers association financial reporting certificate. So today with my staff we were talking about well who's been the finance director. This was started by Dennis Sheffield many many years 39 years ago. You can see it our city administrator may have been like one years old when one year old when they started. So, it's a pretty cool thing that the city's been able to do and keep up with. Really, that's what I had and I was going to turn the rest of the time over to Marcus for him to talk to you guys about the audit and anything else that our buckle would like to share with you. Yeah, there is.

All right. Well, I'm Marcus Arbuckle with Kington and Christensen. Like to thank the council for the opportunity to audit Brian City. And as part of an audit, we're required to report several items to governance. We consider the council to be governance. And part of your responsibility is to oversee the financial reporting process where management is responsible for the financial statements. And an audit does not relieve governance or management of those responsibilities. And so as auditors, we plan and perform an audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards. And and then we issue several reports and opinions um that go along with that audit. So the first um report that we issue is the the smaller one that you just received, the independent auditors report. and and this is our opinion on the financial statement. So, we've given a clean or unmodified opinion. Um, and that that is on the the basic financial section which includes the the footnotes. There's other supplemental schedules that we make sure are in line with the financial statements like the MDNA and there's some supplemental pension schedules and some combining schedules at the back. We we make sure that that all matches up. But the opinions on that that basic financial section. Um the next report that we we issue is is in the other packet, the compliance section. Um but there's on page two, if you just turn that, there's uh a report on on internal controls. And this is part of the government auditing standards. Um, with with this type of audit, we don't issue opinions on the internal controls, but we do analyze internal controls that are directly related to the financial reporting process. And so, we're looking at the city's internal controls related to cash receiving, cash dispersements, payroll,

and then the overall financial close process. We're looking through all the reconciliations that they do on all the balance sheet accounts and um making sure there's good processes in place. We're also looking for separation of duties um to make sure one person can't take a transaction from start to finish. That we're making sure that there's different people um that are doing doing different parts of the transactions and then that there's somebody else reconciling and making sure that there's proper controls and mitigating controls to make sure that um the city has has good internal controls. and we we do not have any recommendations for the internal controls. We feel the city controls are adequate. They do a good job um with with those. The next report opinion that we issue is on the next page, but it's uh it's called a single audit. So, anytime an entity spends more than $750,000 in federal funds, um you have to have what's called a single audit. Next year, it goes up to a million dollars. Um but what what that is, it's a lot of compliance testing on on all the major programs. This year, uh there's couple pages down there's a schedule of federal awards, but but there were three major programs this year. There's a Department of Agriculture. There's a $2 million loan that was a pass through to a business within the city. There's another two million um spent from the Department of Treasury and there's about 8 million on the from the Department of Homeland Security. So, there's quite a bit of federal programs, federal loans. And so, we there's a lot of compliance testing that we do to make sure that that money was spent properly. And it it

it was we didn't have any findings with with how how those federal funds were handled. And we feel the city's in compliance with with all those um with with all those uh grants. Now the the fourth report or last report that we issue with this audit is a report on the state compliance um down on page 10. But so every year the state auditor's office comes out with a state compliance guide and um this year we tested budgetary compliance, fund balance. We tested restricted taxes. We looked at the fraud risk assessment, government fees, cash management, the Utah retirement system, and then the public treasurer's bond. Um and we didn't find any um instance of non-compliance. We we felt the city complied with with all those areas of state code. Um that that's great. It's not very often that I don't have at least one or two things to talk about when when I do this. So the city's done a great job with with their compliance um with their controls with with just getting ready for for the audit. Um any questions on any of those reports before I move on? Council, you got anything for Marcus? All right. Okay. So, we didn't have any uh significant difficulties performing the audit. There's no uncorrected misstatements. Uh we feel the city has a reliable accounting system and sound accounting policies and in note one of the financial statements. That's where all the accounting policies are. We take fraud procedures very seriously. We um ask questions to uh governance to management to employees. Uh we do

journal entry testing. We have meetings as auditors and we did not find any instance of of fraud during the audit. Um but overall I mean things went great. Just want to thank Tom and his whole staff. I mean there's a lot of work getting ready for for an audit. I mean Brigham City has a lot of stuff going on. there there's it's it's a lot to keep track of. Um they did a great job with that and they answered all our questions. Did a good job. So just thank thank him and his staff and but but thank you. Thanks Marcus. I know they enjoy having you and your staff up here as well for those weeks that you're here. They they really do. They speak highly of you.

That's good to hear because that's not the cap. Just for the public, I just want to make sure everyone understands that Kensington Christian, right? Kington, Kennington Christensen are not employees of Brigant City. This is an independent firm that has been contracted that was procured through through uh Brrig City's procurement policies in order to uh sign a contract to do these audits. I just wanted to make sure that was understood by the public.

Thank you. Thank you. Great. TJ, if I could just Yes, please real quick give Tom kudos and his staff that there's a ton of work starts about the first week of August and doesn't end gets over right before Christmas. Actually, he's got two or three things to do before uh January 1 still. So, I just want to publicly tell Tom how good he has done this year and thank his staff, thank him, all the work that goes into that. It's a lot of work. He's probably grateful that that's the only thing we have him do for those three or four months, right? You're not doing anything else, right?

Yeah, he's he's juggling quite a bit. He's a big big cog in this machine that's makes us all all better and and and really works for Brigham City. So, yes, thank you, Tom, and your staff. I know they all play a pretty big part down there in supporting you as well. We've got some real professionals down there in the finance department. So, um can I ask just a quick question? Um tell how much of of the report is um published publicly? All of it. All of it. Y and so yeah it will all be we upload it to the we are required to upload to the state auditor's website. So it'll be there and we'll link to it from the city's website.

Just wanted to make sure everybody knew that they had access to it all. Wanted to pages plus. Yeah. Yep. Thank you. Yes. Yes. 50% of transparent leap dust. All right. We will uh now have a discussion uh our last discussion item which is the potential for a Manway reservoir being designated as a Utah state park. Invite Mr. Cooper and or Carter, not Cooper Carter and our public works director, Tyler Pugsley to tag team this. I'm sure there'll be a couple other people sounded off in this.

Well, we appreciate the opportunity to come before our residents and also the city. Sorry, Tyler. I should mention that uh this is not staff driven. This has been a an idea of the mayors and uh uh the executive our our business administ or our city administrator for quite a few years. Just wondering if it should be done, if it could be done, if it be the benefit for our community. So, it's not the decision has not at all been made, but it is not not at all been generated by city staff. It was brought up by the mayor and uh I guess one city staff, but yeah, in in talks of of how we can help our community.

Go ahead, Tyler. Sorry. Thank you. Well, we do appreciate the opportunity to stand before the council and our residents tonight to talk about some very preliminary conversations and between Brigham City staff and Utah State Parks about the possibilities of making Manoway Reservoir a state park. Um, first slide that you can see up here before you tonight is why Moway Reservoir matters to Brigham City. Um, as everyone is well aware of the history of of Manoway Reservoir and how Brigham City um over the years has created a vast water infrastructure that provides safe, dependable drinking water supply for our residents as well as irrigation water for our community as well as power generation to help offset peaking in our community. And last but not least, besides all these other bullet points up here, emergency management and flood control for downstream residents of Brigham City. There is so much time and manpower and staffing that goes into this and will continue to go on this regardless on where this falls if it becomes a state park or not to make sure that we are protecting this valuable resource and also making sure that we are keeping our residents safe and we can manage flooding concerns and other things that can go on in our community. So, um, I just want to assure everybody that if we don't, if Brigham City does not maintain certain controls and staff doesn't feel good about this in any way, shape, or form, we're not going to just come and say, "Oh, it's we want the state park to take care of this because it's easier." That's not the case. We

want it because it's the best decision for not only us, but for all the users and everyone else up in that area. Next slide, please.

One of the very very interesting things, we have some budget stuff up here that Tom can chime in on, but one of the interesting things up in Manoway, um, we're basically already operating it as a state park, but our municipality, Brigam City, is bearing the burden of doing so. Our taxpayers monies are what are being used to take care of all of the improvements, all the maintenance, all the staffing, all the infrastructure in place up in Manow. And Tom's done a bunch of work and research. Um, we only are going to we are only expecting to get about um $6,500 in revenue off of boat lodging fees this next year, but we have expenditures that exceed $164,000 up in Mana for this next budget year as we're getting ready to start that budget process. And in addition to that staffing, um we were doing a lot of calculating and discussing back and forth. But the time that we spend up in Manowway taking care of our water resources, which will continue to take place, even if it did become a state park, but with all the maintenance and all the other needs up there, is more than one full-time staff person up in Manowway taking care of these things that um our taxpayers, our residents are bearing the burden for. Um so right now it functions as a state park. You can see the graph or the on the site it says right now um what Brigham City is taking care of the Algaba Beach Bo do B ramps Bowery the day-to-day operation and management and maintenance and everything else up there recreation management restrooms

um the trail networks which we also have great volunteers that have made that come to fruition and made that a great resource up there, the trash refuge collection, water operations and water rights. And as you look at the last two, the water operations and water rights, regardless of this stays Brigham City maintained or becomes a state park, those will absolutely stay with Brigham City because we're not going to give up our any of our valuable resources. We want to have the ability to make conscious, wise decisions that are going to benefit our residents now and in years to come. So that would be part if an agreement was met and agreed to between parties that's something that would absolutely stay in Brigham City. Next slide please. As you can see, there's a map up here that that's that's on the page. And the blue outlines, Vanoway Reservoir and properties that are currently owned by Brigham City with the exception of the yellow, the red line, the yellow in there. That's another property owner owns that. everything else up there over 1,400 acres of property when you include the reservoir is um owned by Brigham City. So if there was an agreement in place as these con as these that comes to place that's brought back before the city council as these conversations continue this would be the area in which the state park would that'd be the the whole area all of that property right there. Um, that being said, Brighgam City staff will still be involved up there on a very very on a daily basis because of our infrastructure, water resources, and

making sure that everything is in tip-top operating condition, and that there's no concerns there. Um, the reason why this is we're talking about this tonight is because most people saw on the news media the governor had included $2 million in his budget for potential planning and everything else and to look at the possibilities of making this area a state park based on the initial conversations and very preliminary conversations that had taken place between Brigham City staff and the state of on top. Um, next slide. This is just an illustration that to show that this is not anything new. Um what the state does is state has extensive experience with agreements with other um with other water conservancy districts with other communities with other whatever you have other BLM or other other people that maintain these areas that uh control the water different things. And these are just a few of those examples where these agreements and partnerships are in place right now. And uh Manowway is uh just another one that could be a potential possibility is as we move forward with these conversations and bring back to both our residents and the city council for further clarification and discussion. What am I missing, Tom?

Oh, I think uh Mr. Puny did a great job. Just clarification quickly on the expense slide. I 100% my fault I forgot to brief Tyler because we had talked about so the 164 that does include a fully benefited employee just one but there's obvious there are more uh staffing time that's taking place up there uh from the mayor's office down there's time that is spent up there on dealing with the manway property. So the expense number there you see there does include a fully burdened employee plus the maintenance budget for manaway property. So you can see the trend over the last few years. But again the big issue there is we're spending 160 $170,000 and getting 6,500 bucks through the launching fee. So that was only clarification and that was 100% I didn't communicate that to Tyler. No, he probably did.

Full transparency. He probably did. Yeah. So, there's no action on this council. As we know, this is discussion item. This is for questioning from the council. I got a couple things too I'd add if I could.

No, please. But when we get to after Derek's comments, uh, please feel free to to address Tom and Tyler and Derek and myself on on any questions. So obviously the the governor's artic or the relates to the governor's budget that was uh in our on KSL and and kind of got the conversation about this happening in a public light. I think tonight is Brigham City's opportunity for the Brigham City staff and Brigham City Council frankly to tell the residents of Brigham City specifically why we are talking about this with the state. you know, just real quick on the way city government works. Um, if this were to happen, this would be a lease of real property. And so there would be no ownership change. If we enter into an agreement with the state of Utah, it would be a lease to the state of Utah. Leasing real property is one of the um stipulations under Utah State Code that allows us as city council and staff to talk about those things behind closed doors, frankly. So, conversations have been had with the state of Utah, but it's been in close session because we're legally allowed to through the state code. Why would we be looking at something like this? I think obviously, you know, we've went through some slides of why um but I think there's a few more too from the mayor and I that we've been talking about we'd really like to publicly talk about. I think first of all just recreating opportunity. So, you know, our wonderful staff essentially in our mind is already running a state park outside the corporate limits of our city which is kind of an oddity if you look at what cities do. um running a recreation type thing outside of its corporate limits. It's a little bit off, frankly. And you know, are there more

opportunities not only for our residents, but other residents in this county, you know, outside of this county to continue to grow that recreational opportunity, maybe not on the co at the cost of the taxpayer of Brigham City Corporation. And if you boil it down in my mind, why have we started this conversation is is there a way that we can continue to provide an increase of potential for recreation of which right now 100% of that is being paid for by a resident of Brigham City Corporation through his taxes and fees. So that's really the the methodology that we went down the road to look realizing that absolutely nothing we do as a city whether we enter into this lease agreement or not is going to jeopardize the right to use our water and the water in the reservoir will is controlled by Brigham City and will continue to be controlled by Brigham City uh no matter whether there's a lease or not. Um obviously state parts come at a cost. there's a cost associated with buying a pass to enter into a state park. And I think it's really easy to look at the max that we put on the board today and say, "Okay, um what is a resident of Brigham City paying per person as compared to say a $100 a year year round access fee into a state park?" So, you know, is Brigham City Corporation going to spend less money maintaining Manowway Reservoir if it's a state park? Yes, we will. Are we going to have an immediate change to something we're doing tax-wise, feewise? Council will make that at a future date decision at a future date. Obviously, we're not going to have that conversation today. The reason we're not going to have that conversation today is simply that we have not inked a deal.

There are still some things that we are working out with the state. That will become a public matter once we are closer to a deal, but right now we don't have a deal linked with the state and we're in about every twoe conversation negotiation of what that's going to look like with the point in time something um where Brigham City would agree to we will make that a complete public matter and what that lease looks like. So any questions for me, Tyler, Tom from the council? So like the trail system that we have currently up there, if something were to become Manowway State Park, you're talking that would all be maintained by the state. So So you may have more trails built, you may have better maintenance of those trails from

more amenities and everything else. Now that the state would then maintain all the liabilities far as injury, personal injury, self-insured, we would be that completely correct. Yeah. Maybe just real quick on that. We um I'm not throwing stones at all, but there's bank confusion about uh law enforcement and essentially fire protection for the 15 years that I've worked here. And you know obviously we own and operate reservoir but it it is private property in another jurisdiction's corporate limits. So legally by the way the law is written. It is not our jurisdiction for law enforcement or fire protection EMS rescue any of those things in the reservoir. That's manaways. There's been a lot of conversations over the years with those things. And honestly, if this becomes a state park, those some of those conversations um specifically with law enforcement will probably get a lot easier and different than what we've seen in the past. Um because obviously it's Brigham City has no legal right or the obligation um to enforce laws up there because it's not our property and our corporate limits. So now part of this is hoping to um the state would want to like put in the money to make sure the facilities and the trail system recreation is going to make an impact on residents of Manaway and access to that. Um, are is Manaway going to be able to uh also enter some of these agreements agreements in any sort of way for

access or the roads, you know, how to get

Yeah. So, I mean that's that's a really good question. So, so the private the people that h need access for private property that specifically is landlocked by bringing city property or potential state park property. There would need to be access agreements in place, which there already are for them to access their property. So, those would have to be adhered to adhered to by the state park as part of this agreement that Brigham City would be entered into. As far as other access to that area, no other property owners has access in any way, shape, or form through backyard access is not permitted. There are some that do put um some ladders and different things over, but that approved it'll be approved control access at different points on the reservoir. Tyler, if we um lease out the reservoir to them, do we have any say in changes that they might make as far we we can do if we write the agreement that we want it's our property that we want to have some decision making capabilities, but as far as the reservoir changes to the reservoir that affect the body of water, we will absolutely be involved in any decision at all with that. And I think vice versa too, Council Member Jensen. So obviously British City last year uh developed a spring um that is currently in the location um there on to the east side of the reservoir and we have future plans to continue develop pulinary water with our existing rights that Breen City already owns. So that ability to continue to do that would not be prohibited um if this became a state park or not. we will retain the right to be able to develop and control our current and future water resources. What about improvements that the state wants

to Yeah, I really good question. Um, we've sent them a up to this point in time through the negotiation, we sent them a list of kind of things that Brigg City had thought were in our 25-year plan. Um, details and specifics on that conversation have not been had. So, the residents of Brigham City are paying 160,000 right now. Um, we would still have an employee up there, maybe a little bit less, but we'd still have somebody working up there. So, we would save some of that cost though. Yet, just point of clarification, we have a lot more than one employee up there right now. So, I think what finance is trying to say is we essentially would be able to reduce the cost of one of our current full-time employees. It's obviously in our water department maintaining that. That is a very broad statement that is not specific and always true. Things happen. And for instance, a year like last year, we had zero runoff. two years, three years ago. Three years ago, we had runoff for 120 days and we use every single one of those employees rotating 24-hour shifts for almost 120 days. So, you know, on average, on average, would we be able to potentially reduce an employee? Maybe, but we have a high runoff here again or we have, you know, lots of work happening with our diversion, our feeder canal, everything that's associated with all of our operations in Manowake. It's not a blanket statement. I just want to make sure that's clear. that and that's one of the things that I had actually wrote down here too that I that I skipped over is um one of the things that is a little bit if it makes sense exciting for our

water division staff is the one that basically bears the burden up there. One of the things that we really really like is it's going to give us the ability to focus more on our existing transmission, distribution, and sources, not only up in Manoway, but here in our community to be able to take care of some of those improvements that need to happen in house and not have to contract some of them out. So I mean regard we feel like there's going to be a savings even through that aspect. Um so on a state park usually people have to pay an entry fee. Besides that what would change for the average citizen that's using the park? Now people go up and walk around the the trail. Um, they have to pay now to go around the trail and technically they're already paying their taxes.

Everybody else that walks around there are paying nothing because it's being subsidized that walking the ability to access that by the Bron City citizen.

Yeah. I mean, council member Jensen, there's no question that our residents are paying for that in Manowway. shift. We have never financially we've never tracked it that way. And honestly, we probably haven't been real transparent about what's been being spent to maintain a state a quasi state park outside of our corporate limits in Manowway. One of the things that's opened my eyes too through all of this regardless of if it becomes a state park or Brigham City continues to main and operate that it's we're going to be creative as staff coming back to the city council with ideas and stuff to try to generate revenue and stuff so our taxpayers do not have to bear that burden in the future. So regardless of if it stays with us or state park, we're going to be continuing to have some other conversations for some revenue generating ideas up in Manowway to help us be able to maintain and expand this infrastructure and recreation opportunities. So u next question is if the state if everything is going to run the same and this is not really a question for you guys but why does the state want it

obviously for increasability for recreational opportunity? Um that's why the state of Utah owns any state park but it's already available. They they have ideas to make improvements and increase recreational opportunities in this area that I'm not going to publicly talk about. That's their deal. And it's hard to say what their purpose is. Do we know how many people are using it now? And we only have 6,800 that's on the water. That's just the water. Yeah. We don't know how many are tracking on the trail.

Well, we have we have a fall bike race that's amazing. Thanks to Mr. Levit who's with us tonight. Trails up there that we have several probably se couple several hundred mountain bike riders that that go up there from our high schools that enjoy those trails and on those trails. Yeah, it's it's hard to quantify too hard because you've got not only Brigham residents, Manaway residents, people other residents of Boxelder County,

residents of Weber County, Cash County, and it it's a it's a big draw. And where we first started noticing the increase was when Willard Bay had shut down for some maintenance and improvements over one year. That's actually where this state parks was directing people. Well, you still have Manoway Reservoir that is open for the public. And when that took place, we saw quite a influx of people that are not only Brigham City and Manoway residents, but outsiders using the reservoir. It's not a not a kept secret anymore. I mean, there's a minimum of four maybe five points of access, too. So like Brigham City's ability to track the numbers, I mean it's almost impossible because there's you there's five I need a minimum of five places for the public to access um that property and they really the entire front of the reservoir is pretty much just unlimited access on the west side.

So what would you say is the average state park cost? I think it's $125 just for regular normal state park pass and the senior portion that's only $65 a year. That gets you all the state park as much as any Well, it has a vehicle limit. It's a vehicle limit. Yeah. So, I think you can get whatever like five people your vehicle at a time.

125. Yeah. So, $125 a year. Yeah. Um or if you go one time, you just go to us. Yeah. Like a single day pass like an animal by Yeah. It's kind of this speculation, but if we were the lake has had algae issues and it has had some dredge potential that we have limitations, there's high cost for us to do that. I would assume that there's a potential for the state to make significant improvements into quality of the the lake itself, the recreational quality of that lake.

Yes, absolutely. the um as far as far as the algo plumes go and everything else, we've had some conversations and they've actually expressed in some correspondence back to us that that would be one of the items that they would talk about and look for different options. As far as dredging goes, I think it' be more of a partnership with something like that because number one, it affects us because it's our water resource and gives us some additional capabilities, but it also could greatly improve the recreation side of things, too. So, they may have more pots of money or they do have more pots of money that they obviously can pull from and partnerships than we do. So I think the possibilities of those activities taking place are in my opinion are much greater with the partnership with the state parks and just Brigham City trying to do it on our own cost.

We've been as a council kind of limits additional expenses. Yeah. don't have a return clearly that does not and the cost sharing the cost sharing and equalization from the communities around us that uh enjoy the amenities of Brigham City as well.

Yeah, I mean it's an interesting question. Was was the reservoir built in was started in the early 60s was primary purpose recreation and the answer is no. when Brigham City has never viewed, maintained or operated it as such. You know, obviously we've seen this new algum, I shouldn't call it new, it's been what, 10, 12 years, Tyler, that's been going there's some cool technology out there to treat it and take care of that. But, you know, in a reservoir that was built by a city that to use for non-recreational things, could we bring Brian City Corporation be spending $50 to $100,000 a year on algabloom when the purpose for us is irrigation and and power generation? So, there's some oddities in there and I think those oddities you're kind of talking about is why we as staff started trying to think a little bit outside the box. this makes sense to try to do a partnership with somebody that is more centered on recreation than than just bringing city public water. So in speculation the hatchery the fish hatchery is closed. Correct.

State fish hatchery. Yep. Fishing opportunity. It's not closed. It's still open. No, it's open. It's close. It's too Yeah, it's not closed. It's closed. It's really good fishing after midnight if you think

then that's when we started doing um some of the analysis data analysis on why we're seeing algablooms and higher levels phosphorus and the other word uh it creates algabooms phosphorus it's bloating it's low it's nitro nitrogen nitrate phosphorus a lot of that does come from fish hatchery type operation erations. The fish hatcheries made some significant improvements over the years to try to lower those levels of what's coming out of that hitting the maple creek that actually ends up in the reservoir. Um they they spent a lot of money up there trying to improve their process which is you know lowers the opportunity for alga balloons but obviously we're still seeing it for so yeah long story short this is not a done deal. We are still talking to the state of Utah. I understand there was a meeting tonight where the state of Utah was meeting with Manowway Town. Um I don't know 100% whether that took place or not, but um obviously we as as Brick City felt like um because of that article, we needed to tell our residents and our public um why we are even thinking about this and realizing that this is the first steps of many to come as we continue to talk and negotiate and and there'll come a point in time where that all happens in a public meeting. We're just not there yet. We don't even know if it's the best for Brigham City. That's why we're doing the investigation. But the the me the governor wanted to get it needed to get it on his budget. That's why it was announced. And frankly, we were surprised as well when we heard it. We knew we'd been talking about it, but we didn't know that it was going to be in the 2026 budget discussion. What about the effect on Manaway? I mean, is they plan on that having more pro? I mean, you put a you put a fee on there, there could be less people using it. Um, and it's fair traffic and road

leaks. We It's kind of exciting. I mean, if I was uh in city government up there, I'd look at this as probably a potential for some commercial development up there for some stores that would help help with the uh the property taxes for their roads because they don't have any. I think simple answer for me, Matt, for your question is is is obviously once Brigham City and the state of Utah can come to potentially close terms. Obviously, Manaway is going to get involved and be involved in the conversation. We are not at a point right now where we are ready to sign a deal between Brigham City and the state of Utah. And you know, things happen. This this got out in the public and it did, you know, and and we're dealing with that by having a public meeting about it tonight. But we are not um at 100% terms of with the state of Utah on this at this point. But once we get close in those conversations with Manowale start, this is not an overnight conversation. This is not going to happen tomorrow. There's going to be a lot of public meetings and a lot of back and forth. But long story short, when we're talking about leasing our property, we have to be comfortable with that as the city at that at before we're ready and we're not at this point in time. So we'll continue to work on that. One of the things too that has been expressed in my conversations with some of the representatives from the state parks is they are very good partners. They're very good stewards. They're neighborly. if there's if they they are active and willing and able to address and help with those issues. If traffic's a concern, roadway improvements and stuff like that, they they have resources and are good partners for other communities. And you don't have to look far. You can talk to on the last slide that listed all of those those things up there. They are partners. They

take they take care of they take pride in and they work with their neighbors. Yeah. The analytics is going to be interesting, right? Because I think most of these were created as a state park. So the asset was created by the state. Going to be interesting the analytics of this where that reservoir has has been in existence since 1960s. I think all of these that Tom's showing you are leased. These are the exact same as what man would be. They're Yeah. They're leased properties that are owned by somebody else that have been turned into a state park. That's why is Hyram not in that category?

Yep. That's why it wasn't listed. Yes. It' be interesting to with the discussion on these to see if just because state park if there was an increase in that. Obviously, it'll be on uh marketing list with the state and and available, but it's going to be an interesting conversation in my mind because we didn't have it fenced off, no access to anybody. Anybody could do it. So, it's going to be interesting to see if it is an increase or if they've seen an increase in these types of situations. Any more questions? Council

the entire road the end of the the road on the south side that the dyke road that is uh that is a Brigham city roadway. We maintain it. We do all the work for it. Thus control everything. We control off the sides too, don't we? We have Yeah, we have property off the sides of that road. for public safety wise it would be through the state park.

Yeah, th those conversations are still ongoing um vetted out. Yeah. and still need to be vetted and obviously and the inclusion of manoway in those but we're we're really early in the process and we've had a real preliminary conversation about that but no nothing in detail historically I will say that historically state parks are run law enforcement by state employees Anything else? I think it's important as we move forward with these details that um we still have to flush out that when that we do have um as much transparency before we start designing things or making the decisions based upon what just we specifically had to give the public um opportunity to um have as much public input as possible. um and opinions on it or um and I think that helps a lot so that we don't get unendated by people you know worrying about something and then finding out later that it was already talked about. Oh, I think we do need to have a lot more public input and work session.

That is that is the absolute plan. I couldn't agree with you more 100%. State Park couldn't agree with you more that that's absolutely what they want and what they desire and what they have discussed with us.

Yeah. And I just add to that those things once Brigham City is ready to and is comfortable with an agreement those public meetings will start. Obviously, until we are comfortable with an agreement as a city and the city council, we're not going to start those public conversations and do that until you folks have agreed this looks okay for us as is. And then obviously things could potentially change. But right now, we're not a hey, this is a done deal. This, you know, we both got issues on both sides that we need to work through before Brigham City is comfortable with us. So, and obviously you have that right as the city council members that own and own and operate 100% of the property that's there today.

Okay. Anything else? Right. We uh thank you Eric. We uh have we need a motion to move into a close session to consider to enter or I'm sorry to consider the purchase, exchange or lease of real property. I think that's the only one, isn't it? Due and due pending litigation. And pending litigation moved. Have a motion by council member Jensen. Second, second by council member Smith. A roll call going in. We'll start with council member Hip and go to his right. Jason I. Ryan's I. Robin's eye. Thank you. We'll now be moving into close session. Thanks so much for joining us tonight, everybody.