City Council - Regular Meeting

17th. Welcome to all of you. If you'd like to join us in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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 it was fun to hear those young voices in that. That was pretty cool. So, I'm glad that uh glad that you're here. We need to start with a roll call. Miss Harris, will you help us with that? Sure. Council member Hegamman is absent, but we do have a quorum.

Excellent. Thank you. We have an agenda before us. Is there any changes to that agenda that we need to consider before we move on? If not, I will entertain a motion to approve the agenda. I'll make that motion. Mr. Schmidt motion. I'll second it, your honor. Welling seconding. Any discussion? No discussion. All in favor say I. I. I.

Any opposed? We have an agenda. We have the city council minutes for March 3rd and the work session minutes for March 10. Any concerns there? If not, we will acknowledge those as they've been presented and we will go on to the bills. We have a warrant register with today's date on it. Any questions on any of the bills? It looks a little lighter than usual.

About as light as I've ever seen. Is it Is that correct? Can't be right, can it? You got people screaming to get paid. The lights are still on, so I guess we're that that makes a difference. Is there a motion to approve the bills? I'll make that motion. Mr. Lind with the motion. Mr. Seller seconding. Any discussion? Like I said, that looks a little lighter than normal, so I'm going to just take it as it is. Absolutely.

We're not paying for snow removal. Well, that was way down this year. Part of it, too. Yeah. We might have to pay to import water later on this year, but we're not paying for water or snow removal. Now, there's no further discussion. All in favor say I. I. All right. That takes care of the bills. Thank you. Council comments. Mr. Schmidt, what's on your mind tonight, sir? Uh, I hope everybody had a great uh St. Patrick's Day and or evening, whatever you're going to do. And I I believe that the Celtic Festival and everything went off. I want to thank everybody that participated in that.

Nice. Mr. End, happy St. Patty's Day. That's all I got. Mr. Perks,

I have nothing. Mr. I'd just like to welcome all these great school kids here. Um, I was lucky enough to be on the committee to help select these and it was tough. We had a it didn't go come to fist cuffs, but it there was some lively discussion on who should win and the winners definitely worth worth the pick. So, we hope we're glad you're here and anybody can cite the Declaration of Independence. I'll buy him an extra fizz drink or something. So, but no, welcome. We appreciate you you participating in that and the schools for allowing us to do that. Um, and it's great to have have you here. Thank you,

Mr. Sers. I just like to echo Councilman Smith's um comments about Celtic Festival. There's been a lot of work put into it. I get to watch it from the sidelines and everything that happens with that. Savannah Lowry's event manager for that and she has just gone above and beyond and if you got the flyer and look through it there's a lot lot of more activities and a lot of things for the kids and the whole family. So I hope everybody goes out and enjoys the music and enjoys the activities and fun.

Thank you. Well, I'll just say amen to that. And I also will just quickly mention we've had a little brief conversation uh prior to the meeting. We visited last uh work session with Mr. Slater about some plans that he has for um for the airport and with the upcoming Olympics that's coming to Utah in the next little while. um for those on the council that if you if you've if you're looking for some help obviously from this council, if you have some interest in being on that committee, I'd appreciate knowing that and then when the next few days we'll try to accomplish that uh appointment or select who uh needs to be or wants to be on that committee, let me know and then we'll we'll be moving on that u here before very long if that works for everybody. Other than that, I'll just welcome everybody to the to the if that works. It sounds good. Uh, and again, I think this is great to see some of these young folks here uh, in our meeting today. We don't, uh, get to see young folks all that often. So, that's really, really cool. Good to hear your voices um, out here. So, glad that you're here and, uh, and welcome. Um, and with that, we'll go on. We do have the reason you're many of you are here is our awards for our UNA County 250th celebration coloring contest, K through 12. Now, Mika, you you're kind of the ramrod. Uh, come up here and kind of help us through this. We got some young people to uh recognize. Mr. Willing was on that committee. So, we'll invite him to come down here with with Should I just read the names off and then sprint them?

So, we had about 150 entries uh to contest and we have four winners um from each school and it was through third grade. So I g I guess as I read these four, these are in no particular order. I'm understand, right? These are just our four winners. Stand next to their pictures. They did a great job. Okay. The first one I in my pile here is Vanessa Cat Benson. Which is your picture?

Yes. Stand by your picture. Which one's yours? This one. Excellent. Carson. Which one's yours?

This one right there. See that? We're just getting right. Can we be in the right? How's that? That's perfect. And Selena MADE This is excellent, guys. This is really, really cool. How do you want to do this? We got to get these kids in here.

Maybe you better get this picture, too. And everybody will take a picture for you. And she's she's really good with the camera. You're fine. You're fine. We actually have Buffalo still here.

So you go out there. Okay. Excellent. But I won't be out there. Thank you guys. Thank you.

Pretty fun. Excellent. A lot of talent there. So, excellent. Anything else with that, Ma? Or do you want to anything more to say? You want to come out to the hallway? We'll take your picture. Okay. Buffalo. Okay. Yeah. If you want to sneak out there and take a And then if you want to, you can come back in if you want or not. Whatever you'd like to do. This is this is your meeting. So, whatever you guys come back in if you'd like or whatever. That's the best part of the meeting. The rest of it's not that great. Absolutely. Yeah, it's downhill from here. Yeah, that's for dang sure. You're right. That was excellent.

Well, we have no consent agenda. Oh, no, we don't have but we do have some unfinished business and we need to start there with ordinance 2602. Mr. Harris, please. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Before that, I need to register a point of order objection that they didn't name the bison Josh. Oh, well, he was third. Otis was number two. There were some wild names out there. I don't know where Otis came from. That was number two. And Bridger, I think, cuz more people from Bridger Valley voted than Evston people. So, and Josh was number three, by the way. Close. It's close.

All right, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. Ordinance 2602 is an ordinance granting a franchise to Visionary Communications LLC on behalf of itself and its affiliates to operate and maintain a telecommunication system in the city of Evston, Wyoming. This ordinance is before the council on third and final reading. And Mr. Mayor, members of the council and public, if you look at the uh screen, you will see that we are joined online uh virtually by Kyle Farley of Visionary Communications LLC. And just joining us uh also his picture you can see that is Mr. Robert Duchan of River Oaks Communications. Um, just as background, mayor and council, this ordinance comes before you in the same manner and form it was introduced. Um, and Mr. Farley and Mr. Duchian and I are ready and able to answer any questions the council may have.

Excellent. I think I'm I've read the agreement. I think I'm Any questions or comments before we proceed with this issue? Go ahead, Mr. Smith. Go ahead. I I reviewed the information that was sent to me um by Mr. Harris on the statutes and so on, and I also read uh reread the uh the proposal. Um I don't see any I don't see any further discussion that I have on it. Okay. I'm Thank you, sir. Pretty well happy with what it says. Mr. Lynn, did you have have something you

um I mean beyond the lawyer speak, that's what we have a couple of these for. Um everything looks good to me so far. Anybody else? No, I my questions were answered last week and feel comfortable moving on with this, getting it done. gentlemen on the on the Zoom here. Uh we don't want to we don't want to not cover our bases. Is there something you'd like to add? Something you'd like us to know before we act on this. Oops. Oh, I want to say there. There you go. Can you hear me? This is This is Kyle. Can you hear me?

I believe so. Yes. Okay. I I don't want to have much head conversation. Just wanted to uh thank the council, thank Mark for the work done on the organization excited to move forward with this partnership and to continue to be a partner with you with the city. Anything we can do to help and assist in in getting this project uh to the residents, we're happy to do know you got contacted me. Um we're happy we're going to be in that community. We appreciate everything. So, I just wanted to to throw that out there. Thank you guys. Thank you, sir. Anything else? Did Bob, I think you're muted.

I We I'm not a very good lip reader. Yeah, still muted. Yeah, we're we're still not able to we're still not able to hear you, sir. Sounds like he's We'll take that wave as a I think he's saying thank you. Sounds good. We're We're Okay, we'll take that as a as a positive. Uh and we will I'll entertain a a motion to approve ordinance 2602 on third reading. I'll make that motion, your honor. Mr. Welling with a motion. Is there a second? I'll second your

Mr. Perk seconding. Any discussion from the council? I appreciate Visionar's investment in the community and uh y appreciate all the work that's been done on this. So hopefully it works out well. Absolutely. Any further discussion? I also appreciate the time that we've put into this and thank Mr. Harris for forwarding that information to me for my review. Yes. Excellent. There's no further discussion. All in favor say I. I.

I. Are there any opposed? That is approved on third and final reading. Thank you, Mr. Her. And we will go on to new business. And our first item there is a discussion and a motion regard approving or regarding digit ticket change order for the Lyman Police Department. Seemed like we did this about a year ago or something. I remember discussing this not too long ago.

Your honor, members of council, that's absolutely correct. U Mr. Mayor, the uh we we had purchased since no agency had been on digit ticket in Una County, we had purchased the uh first initial license and uh which allowed us to get on. Since then, the sheriff's office in Mount View PD has attached themselves to our license. The cost uh just like to remind the members of the council, the cost you see within this are not our cost. These are the costs for the city of Lyman. Uh it does not save us any money nor does it cost us more for them for them to get under our umbrella. It saves taxpayers and Lyman money and it's a favor to a to a brotherh agency. The uh plus we've already filled the uh system with with information for citations on state statutes. So it streamlines it for them.

Excellent. So it's all working well then it sounds like. Yes, sir. Sounds good. Makes our traffic stop a lot shorter, right? I guess it depends which end of the citation you're on how well it is working. So it's it's more readable for the courts. I'm assuming Mr. Mayor, Councilman Welling. Absolutely. That's good. Is there I'll entertain a motion to approve this change order for Lyman Police Department. I'll make that motion, your honor. Mr. Schmidt making a motion. Is there a second? I'll second it. Mr. Welling seconding. Any discussion? If there's no discussion, all in favor say I. I. I. Are there any opposed? That's approved. Thank you. Thank you, sir.

Thank you. Now, we need to consider a bid on a loader. Mr. Robinson. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um, it's time to buy a new loader. Um, just to add to the fleet for snow removal services and various other things. Uh we completed the bid package and bids and thought we were good. But after a flurry of phone calls today, the attachments are wrong on all three. Oh. So tonight, I would ask that we deny the bid so we can start over.

Well, that's easy. I guess that's Wow. Okay. Well, that's I didn't we thought thought we were good and that's why it's on there, but after phone calls with all three vendors today, the snowplow attachments and wings were not right. Not as we requested. Yeah. So, we need to start over. Well, if this is a lower price, I want to take this price. Well, that's the issue with this is the the mistakes that were made will affect their prices so much that their bids aren't good. And we can't we can't hold them to this price for what we need. That's what I'd like to do. Yeah. Okay. Thanks for your diligence. I appreciate I'm glad we know that, you know, at least at this gentle that shows up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And mayor, that would be a motion to reject the All right. Well, with that information, Mr. Robinson, I'll entertain a motion to reject. I'll introduce them with a motion to reject. Mr. Sers of the motion to reject this uh bid. Is there a second to that motion? I'll second. Mr. Lyn seconding. Any discussion? There's no discussion. All in favor say I. I. I. There. Any opposed? Those are effectively rejected. Thank you, sir. Resolution 2609. Mr. Harris should read that title for us, please.

Thank you, mayor. Resolution 2609 is a resolution of the governing body of the city of Evston, Wyoming, setting green fees and other related fees for the Purple Sage Municipal Golf Course for the 2026 golf season. Thank you,

Mayor. Council members, Kim Larson, Parks and Recre. um is kind of easy because three of you were on the golf advisory committee or the board and we had a great discussion about golf fees and um there is going to be a slight increase across the board. However, the um thing to note that's different this year is there will be um a higher fee for those who are non-residents and non-residents will be defined as those not living in Uenta County. Okay. So,

so this won't hurt the valley folks. They want to come on. They want hurt the valley folks. They are good camera customers. Okay. has their own golf course. They do. They sure do. The valley does it. So, is there introduction on this resolution? I'll introduce with a motion to pass. Second it. Mr. Welling seconding. Any discussion? I would like to say that the I've been on the advisory board prior to that meeting and a lot of those I don't mean to be mean, but they were pointless

the meetings. But this meeting we had uh was probably the most productive advisory board meeting that I've ever been a part of. It was the really good conversation from all aspects. City, parks and wreck, golf club. Everybody got to have some input. So I think we need to keep keep that going as far as I agree. It was good group and it was a true advisory board. Yeah. I mean all aspects I I think what we came up with really made a lot of sense and there was a lot of different look at different things of what was we were going to give the out of area to and not and why and I think what we came out with just made a lot of sense.

Yeah. Good conversation, good compromises. Nice. So, thank you for running that meeting. You're welcome. We'll have another one here soon. I need to get the invite out. If there's no further discussion, all in favor say I. I. I. Are there any opposed? That is approved. Thank you. Resolution 2610, Mr. Harris, please. Thank you, mayor, members of the council. Resolution 2610 is a resolution of the city of Evston, Wyoming, authorizing the sale of real property and the execution and delivery of a quick plane deed to Gary Ellingford or his designate for the property described herein. Mr. Mayor. Yes, sir.

This property is the property uh that we solicited uh notice of bids for um that's located on West Cheyenne Drive in what we call the Burnt Hill area. You remember last fall we approached council about selling an approximate total of 2 acres of of property. Uh we had the property identified through a title report. uh and found out that our title uh went back to the late night late 1800s.

Um and we think uh and in talking with with uh um Mike Davis that this may have been around the site of two settling pond reservoirs that served as a city's original water supply. I heard you say that

that ditch, the Evston city ditch now came around and went through what is now Meadows and and dropped in there and fed that water supply. So we suspect that that's where the property came from. In addition to that, there was a halfacre piece of property that uh JG Brothers conveyed to the city as part of the Burnt Hill development across the street. You might remember that industrial commercial development. Um, so we put them together. We advertised the bid. The advertisements uh were completed. We asked for sealed uh bids. We received one bid from JG Brothers LLC in the amount of $110,500. The minimum bid amount was $12,200. We received on Friday at uh by the designated time the bid and the um it was a cashier's check uh for the full amount of the bid. Uh we recommend passage of the res I recommend passage of the resolution and we have a quick lane deed that u the mayor and the clerk can execute. Uh we've already received the money and I think it's been deposited. for us. So, we better act on this now. Then, I think it's great if this helps Mr. Elling for and with his what he wants to do and his plans. I think it's a it's a win for him and a win for the city as well. So, I think it's I think it's

he was here earlier, but he he left. I I talked to Mr. Illingsford. He was hoping he'd be at the first of the because he had other plans tonight. So, he come and asked me if he had to be here and I told him no. we had his money and so we kind of joked about that and so that's why he's not here tonight. He he had to leave for other engagements. Excellent. I did not see him. I would have spoken to him had I saw uh saw him. So anyway, I'll uh Is there an introduction on this resolution 2610? I'll introduce with a motion to pass. Mr. Motion is there seconding. Any discussion?

Just have one quick question. Um I'm I'm assuming this we it's within the appraised value. Correct. Was that the the minimum was the appraised value? Mr. Mayor, Councelor Schmidt, that is correct. The appraised value was 100,000. The 102, the 2,000 was for the cost of uh advertising, sale, the appraisal, and the title work. Thank you. Any further discussion? If there is none, all in favor say I. I. I. I. Any opposed? That is approved as well.

Thank you. Mr. Robinson back there. Do you have anything for more tonight for Mr. O'Neal? Just wanted to say congratulations to our jumpart businesses. We have six business to present. jump starting the judges fund those businesses. One is a software development company. The other is an IT cyber security consulting company and the last one is hero changed ownership last year and blowing and going. So thank you jumpes and participating. Excellent. Sounds good. Excellent. Thank you Miss Lim. Nothing.

Chief Ranish. No, sir. Mr. Newsome. No, sir. Miss Larson. Miss Harris. Nothing tonight. Mr. Harris. Nothing for me, your honor. Thank you. Public participation. Is there anyone here from the public that would like to address the council for any reason, please?

Kathy Cook, 912 Maine. Um, so the city has quite a few committees that uh do various important jobs and things. Um, but we never hear a report on these projects that they're doing. Um, I I think it would be nice if they could come up once in a while and talk about their progress. Um, like urban renewal, is that Roco's job? So, I'd like to hear from Rocco tonight and maybe he can update and tell people around here what they're doing.

Well, go ahead, Rocco. But quite honestly, if you've got some questions about what the urban renewal agency would was doing, it would be good to go to their meetings or contact one of their but go ahead Roco. Taylor chair report next month. Okay. And that's all I had. Thank you. Thank you. Anyone else?

There's no one else. Is there a motion to adjurnn? I'll make that motion. There a motion to adjurnn. Is there a second? I'll second. Mr. Seller seconding. All in favor? I I We are ajourned. Thank you everyone.