City Council - Regular Meeting

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. And welcome, Bill. It's good to see some people in attendance tonight. I notice out here we have Mr. Craig Nelson, a former member of this body. Welcome, sir. It's good to have you with us tonight. recognize you. We need to start with a roll call. Ms. Harris, will you help us with that?

Sure. Everyone is present, so we do have a quorum.

Thank you. We have an agenda before us, and before we approve that, I would like to add to it if we could amend the agenda to include a low bid discussion motion for some trucks for the police department. So if somebody would like to make a motion to approve the agenda with that amendment. I'll make that motion, Your Honor. Mr. Welling? Is there a second?

I'll second it, Your Honor.

Mr. Perks, seconding. Any discussion on the motion? If there is none, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Are there any opposed? We have an agenda. We have the City Council minutes for May 5th as well as the work session minutes for May 12th. Any... Concerns with those minutes.

I have just a request for a substantive presentation on the audit, urban renewal, water shares, dispatch fees and budget. Will summaries or presenter material be attached to the work session record for public access? Will they? Yes. Can we get that done on the website so we can we get that information that the public needs to review that?

For work session minutes, we don't write anything like that because there's no action taken.

There still should be minutes and the public needs to know what we're doing and they need to be able to have, this is budget season, so what I'm asking isn't extraordinary, it is to allow the interest that is growing in how we are conducting ourselves as a government and how we work our money. And no, I'll take that back. I was wrong saying that. It is not our money. It is theirs. And they deserve every document that we have to go on the record, especially now. If they're attached, then they need to go on for public viewing. That's what I'm asking. It's not... I do that every time. Is it on the website? That's what I'm asking.

There's no place for the work session minutes on the website.

But all of that information is available if somebody wants to stop by and pick up anything they want, they can do that, correct? Anything else regarding the minutes? If not, we'll acknowledge those as they've been prepared and we will go on to the bills. I have a register for you.

What's the Con West? Sorry, what was that?

Is that the... That's the roof of the rec center?

Okay.

I have one question, Your Honor. Please. On rogue services, what is that agreement for?

It's the water plant PLC project.

Gordon has to be excused. Now, maybe they knew that you were going to ask that question. That's why he has to be excused.

I don't know.

Isn't that rope system there? All the computer system. I think it's their operating operating system. Is there a motion to approve the bills?

I'll make that motion, Your Honor.

Mr. Schmidt, make it. Is there a second?

I'll second that one too, Your Honor.

Perks?

Discussion?

I have just some clarification. You know what? It's about money. And it's not going to be, it's going to not be worth my breath. So if anybody in the public needs to know about how their taxpayer money is spent, I will tell you.

I will dig it up for you.

So no, I do not.

Any further discussion? I would refer him to Trudy, how it's spent, is how I would refer the public.

If there's no further discussion, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Are there any opposed? Takes care of the bills. Council comments. Mr. Schmidt, what do you have on your mind tonight, sir?

I just want to remind everybody that school's going to be out here in the next week or week and a half, and remind everybody to please slow down for the children because they're going to be buzzing around. So just watch out for the young ones and be careful. Thank you.

Well said. Mr. Lind.

I had the opportunity to be traveling westbound on our interstate and got to watch the road closure. We really get shafted rolling closure. Drove through Womser, Rock Springs, Green River, the Valley, all of them. And they got parking. They've got semis and all that stuff. And I pull into Evanston, and we've probably got 100 parked on the interstate. which says when you look at the road closure stuff it says do not park on the interstate um i know we got a parking lot coming but i just wanted to if anybody with the state's watching we get real shafted when that rolling closure comes through so we've actually you're you're exactly right we've had we've had several conversations with wide out over the last few years and

I think they're aware and I think this parking lot that they've got under planning, hopefully under construction before very long, that's been a long time coming. Hopefully it'll mitigate part of that. It certainly won't take care of the whole problem.

I really wish we'd get the port involved in that situation and maybe direct traffic before it gets all the way to the gate and turns into a problem. But there was a truck that was parked literally... eastbound on the left lane of the westbound lane pointed at me as i was pulling into evanston could have been a head-on that makes it exciting then yeah and dodging everybody it was yeah it was interesting so that's something i think we need we didn't have too much of that this winter but i think we need to definitely fix that so that's all i got definitely a problem i have nothing tonight your honor mr welling

um just same with uh councilman schmidt i had a kid get hit by a car right in front of my house and it was luckily he was okay but yeah let's watch out for those kids youth center has a dinner friday night recognizing some kids that have struggled and have overcome those struggles if you can make it it's a it's a great event so i invite you to go to it

That's all thank you Dave to add to that. They do have plenty of seats available too. So we need people to show up for that.

So thank you. So I just want to commend everybody who worked on that intersection downtown. It's nice that they took the time and did the black sealant and then painted. I think it looks really, really good. And then last week, looking at the paper and stuff, I see it was police recognition week and I'd just like to take the time and recognize our police officers. I looked through the page and I know the majority and I think the world of them. I'm grateful that our community is so well protected.

Thank you. Ms. Hageman.

I think I'm going to default to what's on my mind and my heart. So please, in these times, keep our servicemen and women in the forefront of your mind. Their families need you. I know I do. I worry every single day, every single minute for my child in the 101st Airborne. And it means so much. I speak broadly, and I often mention that he's in the military or he's 101st, but I often don't talk about how much it means to me personally when people come to me and acknowledge this situation with somebody I can't even speak, that's why I don't talk about it. Just know that every military family member and every veteran and anybody affected Through service and what's going on now globally, it means the world to us. It really does. Every word, even if you don't have it, even just a pat on the back and a smile means everything.

Thank you. I don't think I can add to any of that. I'll just say amen and... We will move on. We do have a public hearing regarding sale of some property. Mr. Harris.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor, this matter involves a public hearing regarding a proposed sale of City of Evanston property to the Wyoming Department of Transportation. pursuant to Wyoming Statute 15-1-112 BIA. The purpose of the matter before the council this evening is to consider public input regarding the proposed sale of property located at the intersections of Front Street and Sixth Street and Front Street and Bear River Drive. YDOT has proposed that it purchase the property with an appraised value of the property of $3,200. Purchase price for the real property with damages is $5,200. which includes the $2,000 for damages for the property sought by YDOT. The property is sought by YDOT as part of the Signal Replacement and ADA program. This hearing is to provide information so the governing body can determine whether to sell the property to YDOT pursuant to Wyoming Statute 151-112 . I will submit for the record the notice of public hearing regarding sale of the property, which was published once a week for three consecutive weeks in the U.N. County Herald, stating the purpose of and date and time of the hearing. Mr. Damon Newsom, the Evanston City Engineer. will present information regarding the proposal. Mr. Newsome will also address questions from the Council regarding the proposed sale. After the presentation, any interested member of the public may provide input to the Council regarding the proposed sale. Once all public input has been taken, the hearing on the matter will be concluded, and at a latter point in the agenda, a resolution will be considered regarding the proposed sale.

Mr. Newsome?

Good evening, Mayor and Council. What this is about is in a future letting with YDOT, they're doing signal upgrades at the intersections of 6th and Front and 9th and Front in an effort to do some of the ADA work to bring the ramps around the signal poles. They are needing to acquire property that is owned by the City of Evanston. Most would not know that that property is owned by the city of Evanston, but formality is that the state of Wyoming is needing that for the ADA ramps.

About how much? I mean, I know we're talking about it. Is there square footage attached just for information purposes?

The total amount of square footage being sought over the two properties is 640 square feet.

Oh, so it's bigger than I thought. I knew kind of what they were talking about, but it's bigger than I... Yeah.

The one at 6th and Front is 358 square feet, and the one at... Front and 9th is 282 square feet. Okay. Excellent. Thank you. And it's for signal? Yeah, they're upgrading the signals at those intersections.

This is for the ramp part of it, right?

Yeah, this would be for the 88 components of the crosswalks.

Have they upgraded them before?

Not these ones.

Mr. Mayor.

Yes, please. And if Councillor Hagelman, if you... Although it's part of the packet for the resolution, if you look in there, you'll see photographs that are part of that appraisal that YDOT did, and they'll show you the actual ramp and then the other part of the... attachment for the resolution shows you those two exhibits show you what they're doing but it's they entitle it signal replacement and ADA compliance thank you it needs to be done you look at some of those I didn't realize that until you look at the picture and realize what they want to do like there's no ramp off of there on some of those right

That is true. Some of the corners are the old school where it just follows the radius around the curve. Some ADA upgrades have been done, but with the whole new signal going in, the signal pole moves accordingly, and the whole ramp needs to be done. I'll say very similar in fashion to what we did at the Exit 5 off-ramp. You know, just a whole new signal. Or even what happened here at 11th and Main.

I guess what I'm saying is it'll be nice to have it done.

Yes. And you have to forgive me, Damon. I always hold the state with severe suspicion. Well, they're good people.

Two very busy intersections that need help.

Any further questions for... I have none. No. Thank you. Is there anyone else present who wishes to provide public comment regarding this proposed sale?

Okay, so you'd put a light on either side of the road?

It's the same signal intersection that's there in yellow-green.

Okay, but on nights and and Harris there is not a signal at all I'm at night ninth in front It's the underpass I was the underpass. Oh, okay. Okay. Sorry.

Okay overpass and the underpass Any further public comment I'm not mr. Gillard

That is such a question. Because if we've been on an issue there every night I come home and I had to go through that light and I can't get through it That's all my question Anyone else

Anyone else wish to provide any comment? There being none, the hearing on this matter will be closed. This matter will be taken up for resolution on the agenda. Excellent. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

We'll move on to our consent agenda. We've got four items there. Are we comfortable addressing those together, or would you like to separate them out?

I'm good with them all together.

We've got a couple of street closures. A parade route for cowboy days, which is a common thing, and a malt beverage permit also for cowboy days is similar to what we've had in the past. So I'll just entertain a motion to approve our consent agenda.

I'll make the motion to approve our consent agenda.

Mr. Sellers with a motion. Is there a second? I'll second it, Your Honor. Mr. Whelan, seconding? Discussion?

I think the only one new on here is the Father's Day party. I don't think I've ever seen that one before.

We've had a couple of different neighborhood parties. I think they're great to see.

I like them, but I think it's the only new one on there. 90th for the Cowboy Days. That's crazy. That's good.

Do you remember the first one, I'm sure?

No. I was not born yet. I don't remember. But thank you and your committee for doing that. I used to be on that committee. It's a lot of work. It's year-round work. So thank you.

If there's no... Go ahead. I'm sorry. You have something?

I was just going to say nothing delights me more and elevates the... The whole mood is when I see these street closures and the permits and the parade routes and the... That's what makes Evanston so much fun. It's such a rare thing. I don't know if people take that for granted that are from here and have lived here their whole life, but it's so unique and special, and it's the coolest thing ever, and I always just can't wait to say yes on these things.

So go for it. Well, if you can't wait, we'll just call for the vote. And all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? That is approved. Thank you all. They're facilitating all these different events. Hope they're all successful. We have no unfinished business. We'll go to new business and we'll start there with Resolution 2616. Mr. Harris, you read that title for us, please.

Thank you, Mayor. Resolution 26-16 is a resolution of the governing body of the City of Evanston, Wyoming, authorizing and approving change order number one for the 2026 Street Maintenance Overlay Project.

Oh, there he is. I was looking for you, Damon. I wasn't seeing you, but there you are.

I knew I'd be back up, so I didn't go far. Basically what this is about is just since what I'd say the bids came in relatively low for the street overlay portion, there was enough left over to comfortably tackle one other road section. So I asked the contractor to provide a price for that. The additional road is the... I'll say the first leg of Prospector that has been there forever before the horse palace added on to it. So that's the intent is just to add more pavement within the allotted budget that we do have. Excellent.

Is there an introduction on this resolution? I'll introduce it with the motion to pass.

I'll second it. Mr. Welling seconding. Discussion? That road needs it. It's got a lot of patches on it.

Yeah, when I put the project together, it was on the radar. I was getting to the point of where quantities were getting uncomfortable, but luckily the bid came in low. Sure.

We're going to have a lot of out-of-staters traveling that road, and we don't want it to be in a bad memory for them, so I'm glad we're doing that.

Yeah, pick them off one at a time as much as we can, I guess.

Bids coming in low doesn't happen all that often, so we ought to take advantage of it while we can. Yeah, no doubt.

So this money is from the previous project that was left over, correct?

Yeah, currently in this fiscal year, I'm going to say we have about 1.4, combined with what we've already, you know, I'll say encumbered with the first original bid. This extra $100,000 puts us about 1.2-ish. And so, yes, it is already there.

I don't think they've been deterred from driving down that road yet. No. Horse Palace has been busy.

It would be nice if we could keep some semis off that road a little bit more. I can't guarantee that. That would help out a whole bunch on that road.

There might be some changes coming.

Further discussion? If there is none, all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? That is approved. Thank you. Resolution 2617. Mr. Harris, please.

Thank you, Mayor. Resolution 2617 is a resolution of the City of Evanston, Wyoming, authorizing the execution of a memorandum of agreement with and conveyance of real property to the Wyoming Department of Transportation. Mr. Mayor, before you... If we go any further, Councilor Hageman did point out I made a tremendous error. In Section 1 of the packet, you'll see that the description of a real property sale is to U.N.A. County School District 1. That is a drafting error. And it should say Department of Transportation. That's a template I use. My fault. I have it corrected on the approval copy here, so I am sorry for that.

Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, I didn't. Okay. We'll just recognize that if we consider this, we're selling it to YDOT and not the school district, and then we'll...

And I'll take ownership of that, too, because he asked me to read it.

So did I.

Read what you want to read. Sometimes you don't go further than that. Anything else you need to know, Mr. Newsom, about this one?

No, the whole story, if you have questions within there, was the appraisal. YDOT folks, AJ, who created the appraisal, is here. Okay. I thought it was fair and realistic.

Is there an introduction on this resolution? I'll introduce with a motion to pass. Mr. Lind with a motion. Is there a second? I'll second.

Mr. Seller is seconding. Discussion. Is this going to be accomplished this summer?

That's a great question. I would say no. When I looked, and not to say it's going to hold there, but the last letting it fell in was in July. Okay. My guess is it's going to either start late fall and definitely creep into 27, but I can't guarantee that it would be done this year. I'm out of that loop at this point.

I don't ask good questions very often, so thank you.

But there are three signal intersections, two of which need the extra property, but it's 9th and Front, 6th and Front, and Bear River and 89 are the three signal intersections that will be upgraded.

Is this going to disrupt traffic that much?

It does. No. You know, it shouldn't be much more than what happened at Exit 5. You know, there'll be work on the side of the road, small impacts, but a complete shutdown, no.

Okay. Not like reroute, detour, any of that kind of stuff?

No, like the overpass. Yeah, thankfully. There's no further discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? That is approved. Thank you. Our next item is a motion to appoint a voting delegate for our WAMS summer convention.

I'd like to nominate Mr. Schmidt as the voting delegate and Mr. Sellers as the alternate. You're going, right? You should have summer convention.

We have a nomination. Mr. Welling is nominating Mr. Schmidt as our voting delegate. Mr. Sellers is our alternate. Is there any other nominations? Can't imagine there being. Thank you.

Is there any discussion on the motion?

Yeah, what do you do?

Just vote. Just vote.

We'll walk you through it.

Just vote. It's all good. Mike's done it. We've all done it. Yeah, we've all done it. We lived.

I can pop my head in there with you.

I think we're all supposed to be in there. Yeah, we'll all be there. He's still not able to vote.

Mr. Mayor, did we get a second on that? We, oh, I don't know. Did we get a second on that? I guess I didn't. Second. Mr. Lynn's seconding it. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thanks for catching me. I was just caught up in the idea that I wasn't going to have to do it. So I wanted to move forward before anybody changed their mind. We have a motion and a second to have Mr. Schmidt be our voting delegate and Mr. Sellers be our alternate. Any discussion on that motion? If there's no discussion, all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? That is approved. Thank you both. Thanks for volunteering for your willingness to do that. Absolutely. Our next item is a motion to award the Evanston Parks and Recreation Facility. Now we need to know rockery. Rockery?

It's a long title. I like to call it a retaining wall on the slope repair project.

Excellent. Rockery.

We're keeping water from going into the rec center directly. Excellent.

Mr. Mayor, I took that verbatim from the engineer's description.

There you go. I don't know why...

It's rockery, it's rockery.

It's rockery. Or retaining wall. Mayor, Council, Kim Larson, Evanston, Parks, and Rec. I would recommend awarding this bid to the lowest bidder, which is Precision Earthwork. And if I may approach... Is there a reason they're so small? Just to fit on one page for you all, we're saving threes. So the highlighted bid from Precision came in at $542,566. The next lowest bid was quite a bit more.

645.

Yeah, 645. So yeah, we would like to award that to Precision Earthwork.

Do you have a pre-construction meeting with them?

We have already done, we did a pre-bid walkthrough meeting, and now that I know that you'll go to those meetings and present your information, because sometimes my words fall on deaf ears, so hopefully these guys are compliant with Wyoming Workforce.

Haven't heard from them yet, so.

Oh, okay. They have been told several times.

If you can give me their information, just email them information. I'll reach out to them and let them know what they have to do to be in compliant with the state.

So Kim, if I remember right, we're going to take down about half the wall, bring it back, and then put another wall?

So if you'll remember, when Burr Box came with the aquatic center, they evaluated the whole building. And our staff parking lot retaining wall needed, they were like, don't park back there. and it was leaning and so we mitigated that by digging out the earth behind it so then we were able to park. And now they're actually going to fix that. They're going to cut it down and um then it will be in stages then there'll be actual rocker rockery rockery behind it like retaining so it will be more of um several levels stable yeah so it won't be white and They're stabilizing the slope. We're moving the electrical transformer, which tends to be under two feet of earth most of the time. So we're moving it out where it doesn't get buried. The drainage will not go directly into our shooting range anymore. It should go around the building. And so getting rid of water problems.

It even says rockery wall.

Because they're just big boulder rocks for the retaining walls. I thought really they were the most cost effective, but they also, I thought, blend in with the environment the best.

Is that the ones that are encased in the wire or is it just rock?

No, they're not encased in wire. They're just rock.

Then it would be wire.

Why are we wire that you're talking about? Yeah, I didn't like the look.

Yeah, no, I like just the rock.

Should there should there be any concern about if I'm looking at this right under the drainage? They're quite a bit lower on the. On the cost of that, I think it says $5,760, and the others are $27,000 and $42,000. So, I mean, they have been through these numbers. I say they're quite solid.

So I don't know what the discrepancy is there. I could ask the engineer project manager about that and get back to you by the discrepancy in that.

But, yeah, I don't know if it's a discrepancy or if, you know, I mean, that's quite a difference. That's the only concern I have.

Could have been the fluff they put in from the other ones, too. Yeah.

If you look, the mobilization fee, that's what companies charge just to show up on a site. They really made up a lot of their difference on that number alone. Oh, yeah. Look at those top lines. They made up a lot of difference. So what they're saying is they're willing to show up for less money.

Yeah, they seem very...

you know anxious and ready to work and we have examples of their work if you have a way to look at what the other jobs have done and to me it looks very nice so it's interesting that two of the bids are above the engineer's estimate and two are below so before i get the question later are we going to use that lot that's next to it to do any staging and setting up stuff

Most of the staging will be also where the roof staging has been in that upper parking lot. If they take any material over there, I believe Brent has already talked to Gordon about that, it won't be there for long.

There's a certain individual I know I'm just going to get questions from if we put stuff on that lot.

Yeah, it shouldn't. Okay. It should be in and out.

Okay. You've got some backup here for... Oh, go ahead.

Yes, they have already asked if they can stage ID where Lewis and Lewis has their VHS. So they'll be in storage activities, strictly just a staging area with storage in the back.

And I don't necessarily have a problem with it. I just know the question's coming.

So I guess I would expect some storage.

Okay. I mean, you've asked them to keep it as tidy as possible, I guess.

Jesse and I keep getting emails from a citizen about that lot being used for what it is.

Got it.

Is there a motion on this bid? I'll make a motion. Mr. Willing? Is there a second? I'll second it. Mr. Schmidt seconding. Any further discussion on the motion? It'd be great. Can't wait to see you get done. Can't wait to see some rockery. Rockery. And we'll use that word in a sentence here within the next week, I know.

Thank you.

If there's no further discussion, all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? That is approved. Our next item is consider a bid for some trucks, Chief Ranish.

Thank you Mr. Mayor, members of the council. This is, we placed out the bid in Uintah County Herald for three new police trucks and 2026 or newer half ton trucks. The low bidder that met all the specifications was the local dealer, Uintah County CDJR here in Evanston. at $47,298 per truck for a total purchase price of three trucks at $141,896. I'm requesting the council consider awarding the bid to UNCDGR here in Evanston.

Excellent. Thank you. It's good to be able to see this bid come in lower for my local

locally uh... many questions for two friends for we move on with this i think this is the second time we've awarded him the bid were you happy with where you got delivered deliverables from the first time all uh... mayor councilmember lynn absolutely it's uh...

It's more convenient when the out-of-town dealers win the bid. They usually drive the trucks to Evanston, so they show up with 500, 600 miles before they even hit the road. The local dealer, they're dropped here, and we get them with just a couple miles on them. Great. Then it's even better.

My only question is we got you guys some trucks a little while ago. What are you guys doing with those things, man?

Well, Mayor, Councilmember Eggman, the vehicles, we do run a vehicle per officer. We probably average about 10,000 miles per year per officer on the vehicle. We got trucks that are currently, I think, in the patrol fleet, 13 years old. I got older vehicles in our other investigations fleet. And our average vehicle mileage right now, I'd have to reconfirm it, but somewhere around 65, 70,000 miles. And the vehicles we're replacing have even more miles than that. And it's a hard use vehicle. service for a vehicle and law enforcement. The engines are ran a lot and left running on calls. A lot of stop and go and just time on the vehicle takes its wear on it.

And we don't want your tranny dropping on the ground when you're racing to go help somebody, so that's a good thing.

Thank you.

Is there, I'm sorry. What's the delivery date? Is that this year, September? Did I write it in here?

Mayor, Council Member Welling, that's the mystery. We don't know. The last vehicles we bidded out, it took probably about six or seven months. Everything is, this is a special order package. It's the SSSB package, special service vehicle. And usually they're the later run for the manufacturers, but it kind of comes down to we get them when we get them.

Okay.

Thank you. Most likely this falls under the next budget would be my guess. Mayor Williams, Council Member Lynn, that's correct. And that's the hard part. I've been trying to accelerate the ordering process because it reflects in the community that we're probably spending twice as much on vehicles as what we really do because we have to carry last year's budget. So our vehicle budget always shows twice what we're actually spending that year.

That's our job to explain that too. So not just yours.

Thank you, Chief. Is there a motion to award this bid for these trucks? I'll make that motion. Mr. Smith making a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Mr. Hageman seconding. Any discussion?

I love, love, love, love, love that it was a Wyoming company. When I saw the parks and recs one, every time I see Utah, my heart drops a little bit. It's glad to see that over this time period, we're getting more and more Wyoming companies coming in and we're spending our money with them because then it's seven times return for the community.

And Mayor, Council Member, it's also a little less guilt when you take it in for warranty work. Excellent.

Any further discussion? If there's none, all in favor say aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? That is approved. Thank you, Chief.

Mayor, Council, thank you.

Comments from departments. Chief Brandes, do you have anything more for us while I've got you standing there?

No, sir. Nothing, aye.

Ms. Lim. Mr. O'Neill. Ms. Larson. Mr. Newsome. Ms. Harris. Mr. Harris. Thank you. Thank you. Public participation. Is there anyone here from the public that would like to address the council for any reason?

Kathy Cook, 912 Maine. I would like to invite everyone who's listening to this to the Historic Preservation Commission open house. I've been to a few of them. They're very interesting. Oh, you have that. Good. Okay. So anyway, it's May 21st, Thursday. It's coming Thursday from 5 to 8. And it's really informative. I have this already.

I'll be in Jackson.

Okay, and then the second one is the next Thursday on the 28th of May. The Alliance for Historic Wyoming is going to give a Humpstone Award to Jim Davis, a Lifetime Achievement in Historic Preservation, and that's going to be at the Historic Train Depot. So May 28th at 5 p.m. So that's pretty cool. Then I just have a question for Mr. Harris. And I would just like to know if you found out anything on the vaping.

I'm sorry, on what?

If you found out anything on rules on vaping. I did.

I shared that information with the council. But basically, I will tell you that the current ordinance or the ban smoking in public places does not apply to vaping. And the council, I think Councillor Welling and Councillor Smith indicated that they may be interested in supporting a sponsoring an ordinance to make that amendment. I don't want to speak for you two, but. They were aware of what I found.

Oh, good. Okay. Thank you. And I'd have to admit, I thought we had made that change, but evidently we had not, so I was mistaken in that. But I know that we've talked about it before, but I thought we had done that. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? Okay.

I'm not a reporter right now. No, you're always a reporter. Yeah. Okay. Kane Pied at 1237, you went to street number nine. Okay. I was just wondering, going by that hotel that burned down again today, isn't there any way you could fine that person for not getting that cleaned up, or at least give them a deadline? It looks terrible, and I think it's a health hazard and a safety hazard, and it gives a really bad introduction to Evanston for people coming from that direction.

It's no question that it is an eyesore. Chief Randish, you're...

I don't see anything being moved out of there ever.

Okay. Thank you. We have been trying to work and be supportive with the property owner, knowing that some of the situations that they've been in and we've tried to be understanding, but it's certainly been an issue. Anyone else?

I actually have a question. I don't feel like walking down there, though. It's actually for Chief Ranish, and I don't know whether this is appropriate. You can stop me if... be handled in a different procedure I was just wanting to know if there was any more progress on the 9-1-1 with the Sheriff's Department since two weeks ago because we're coming down to a deadline on that dispatch fees yeah

They've laid out the email, they've taken out all the equipment costs, and they're using the 9-1-1 funds to supplement the equipment costs, and it's not strictly the labor costs, including health insurance for the 11 dispatchers.

And so we're at just a 37, we're a good 7% of population. That put us at 37.5% buy-in to dispatch.

So after requesting that the budget be amended to permit that quarter payment, it will

And it's how much again? Did you decide on 400? Okay, I think it would be completely negligent if we did not have a contract spending $411,000 of taxpayer money. So I know it wasn't always done that way. And it was kind of a handshake deal, but it never should have been. And I'm not lecturing you. I'm just saying that we really need to get that done. So we have that for the city and and for the Sheriff's Department So it's clear and we don't have any more of that a waste of your time because a waste of your time and a waifus of the deputies time or the Sheriff's time is a waste of taxpayer money So mr. Mayor that we I have drafted MOU for that this Information from the chief just came in last Thursday.

I believe I And so we will insert in the MOU the $411,000. That is actually for fiscal years FY27 and 28. And then we will make the MOU outline structured so that the entities involved, which include Mountain View, Lyman, and the Uintah County Fire Protection Department, District and Joint Powers Board, Fire Protection and Emergency Services Joint Powers Board, which will include that. We will put that amount in there for those two fiscal years and put an agreement that we will work together to try to form a Joint Powers Board that will assume these responsibilities.

Perfect. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you so much, Chief Bennett. Thank you. Appreciate that.

Anyone else? There is no one else. Is there a motion to adjourn? I'll make that motion. We'll end with a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Sellers? All in favor? Aye. We'll adjourn. Thank you, everyone.