City Council - Regular Meeting

The City Council, it's August 18th. I'd like to join us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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. Good to see you all here. We need to Start with a roll call. Ms. Harris, will you help us with that? Thank you. We have an agenda before us. We've had a suggestion to move the executive session up to just right prior to the new business. So we'll anticipate that we would take care of the unfinished business, and then we would go to executive session. And then when we come back from that, then we will tackle our new business. So I'd like to, I guess, entertain a motion to approve the agenda with that change.

I'd like a motion to approve the agenda with a second. Second. Session changed.

Okay. Mr. Sellers, is there a second?

So second.

Seconding. Any discussion on the motion? There is none. All in favor say aye.

Aye. Aye. Opposed?

We have the city council minutes for August 4th and the work session minutes for August 11th. Any concerns with those minutes? If not, we'll acknowledge those as they've been written and we'll go to the bills. You have a warrant registered with today's date on it? Questions, comments?

a motion to approve the bills. I'll make that motion, Your Honor. Perks?

I'll second it. Mr. Welling, seconding. Any discussion? If there is none, all in favor say aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? That's approved. The revenue and expenditure report for June. Once again, comments, concerns?

I have a Just a clerical error to point out. Okay. The expenditure, the wastewater fund, the interest earnings variance and percentage figures don't match the underlying actual budget numbers printed in the same row. They instead match the grants line below. which also throws off the section total by roughly 200,892. So if we can mark that for the record and just correct that so it doesn't proceed forward. OK. It looks like somebody just put it in the wrong slot, but it did affect the totals. And for accuracy going forward, it should be correct.

I guess do we need to consider that change? Or Trudy, what would you suggest there? Do we hold off approving this or approve?

I have it all printed out, Trudy, if you want to come grab it. I need the rest of my notes, but this will make your life easier. I didn't make an extra copy.

There you go.

We'll do that? Okay. That would probably be best rather than approve that tonight. We'll wait for that. Do we need to table that or just move on? We'll consider an approval on that in the next meeting. Does that work for everybody?

Yeah, that works for me.

Okay. Okay. Council comments. Ms. Hageman, we'll start with your end tonight. What's on your mind?

I just have a question for everybody in the audience. First of all, welcome. Did everybody go vote? Everybody voted? Otherwise, get your butts out and go vote. You have until 7. most important thing we do as citizens of this country and this county and this city. It is a privilege every time I go to stand behind a machine and vote. And a reminder that Wyoming was the first state to allow my gender to vote and it is a thing to celebrate because every people bled died and were beaten for the right so go be badass women go vote i just want to wish all the candidates that are running the very best and remember

if you get elected, who you're representing. And the people and their voices are the most important thing. Good morning.

I have nothing to add to that. Yeah, good luck to all the candidates. I still appreciate them sticking their neck out on the line. Being in the public office sometimes is not the easiest thing to do because you're going to make a portion of the public unhappy at all times. But I congratulate all those that have been running, and good luck to everybody that's thrown their name in the hat. Mr. Linden. Thank you.

Go vote.

only thing i can say is good luck to everyone i hope hope for the best and thanks for running thank you i'll just i'll echo that i think it takes a certain level of

It probably takes a certain level of courage and it takes a certain level of maybe even arrogance at times to run for elected office. I know that full well myself. It's not the easiest thing in the world. And I also commend all those who have put their name out there and taken that chance and been willing to endure some campaigning issues and some time spent out of a comfort zone perhaps to go about that but I applaud and appreciate all those who have put their name out there and been willing to help make some decisions and directions on behalf of our community and our county and our state. I think that's to be commended. So I echo what has been said. We have no public hearings or special orders. We do have one consent agenda item from the task force for a fundraiser at the youth club on the 22nd of August. Is there anything we need to know about that activity before we move forward with it?

I wish I could be there, but yeah, get out and go to that event. That's supposed to be a good one.

Do we have a motion to approve our consent agenda?

I'll make that motion, Your Honor.

Mr. Schmidt with a motion. I'll second it. Mr. Welling seconding. Any discussion? There's no discussion. All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye. Are there any opposed? That's approved. Hope it's a great success. We will now go to unfinished business, and we will then discuss Ordinance 2605. Mr. Harris, please.

Thank you, Mayor. Ordinance 2605. an ordinance of the City of Evanston Wyoming relating to the regulation of smoking and vaping in public places amending and adopting provisions of Chapter 10 of the Code of the City of Evanston Wyoming relating to definitions to include electronic smoking devices and vaping. This is before the council on third and final reading. There have been no changes.

Excellent. Thank you sir. Any discussion on this ordinance before we move forward with it.

Just a big thank you to Kathy Cook for bringing this all to our attention. I would not have known and it was needed to get done and it was It shows the absolute importance of engagement from the citizens to bring things like this to our attention because we often don't know. And so thank you for standing up there and saying it because I think it will benefit the city as a whole.

I guess before we move on, I'll just ask, is there anyone from the public that would like to have any comment at all on this ordinance before we move forward with it? If not, I'll entertain a motion to approve Ordinance 2605 on third and final reading. I'll make that motion, Your Honor. Mr. Welling with a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Mr. Hageman seconding. Any discussion? Discussion? If there is none, all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? That is approved. Now I guess we have an... Do we need a motion to go into, so I'll entertain a motion to go into executive session. I'll make that motion.

I'll second it, Your Honor.

Seconding? Mayor? Yes, sir.

If I can, just so we're clear, that is a request pursuant to Wyoming Statute 16-4-405A, Romanette 3, to discuss litigation. Okay.

Thank you. Appreciate that.

And if I may explain to the people in the audience what an executive session is, it is where we go behind closed doors. It is still on the record, but we have to be able to speak in private because there's sensitive names and things that could be compromised. So that's why we go into executive session for those who don't know.

We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion on the motion? If there is none, all in favor say aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? We will be back in a bit. one uh i'll entertain a motion to reconvene our city council meeting i'll make the motion your honor i'll suck it with your seller seconding any discussion no discussion on favor say aye aye aye are there any opposed We are back in our regular meeting, and I guess we can just move on with our new business, and we will start there with Resolution 2636. Mr. Harris, read that title for us, please.

Thank you, Mayor. Resolution 26-36, a resolution of the governing body of the City of Evanston, Wyoming, approving and authorizing the execution of the lease termination agreement between the City of Evanston and Shades of Pale, Inc.,

Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, Rocco O'Neill, City of Evanston Community Development Department. This is an item that we discussed a little bit at work session last week. Nothing has changed. All the information was shared. I guess at this point I would just entertain any questions that the Council has and ask Mr. Harris to assist me.

Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Harris or Mr. O'Neill? I guess the big elephant in the room, I think, in my mind for Shades is, quite honestly, the long and short of it is it didn't work out the way that we wanted it to. It didn't work out the way they wanted it to. And that's an unfortunate thing, I guess, for both of us. We hope that, or I hope, that Shades can move on and be successful. And sadly, that will not be here. But I'm confident that things will work out. for the city and i hope that things will work out for shades from my perspective so uh with that i'll entertain an introduction on resolution 2636. i'll introduce with a motion to pass mr second motion i'll second it mr welling seconding mr welling seconding discussion

i think the real elephant in the room is probably the money the city has spent on that roundhouse to get it ready for shades but to at least in my opinion is to reassure the people of the city that the improvements that were done to that building are still going to turn around and benefit this city that that money was not wasted that was that was to improve the grace grace shale of that building so to reassure the general public The money that was spent on that building was well spent, and it is going to, I mean, we have another thing on our agenda here that's going to show you that that is going to benefit us still.

100% correct, Councilor Lind. All of that money spent was on improvements that are publicly owned. will be publicly owned hopefully until I'm out of this job and then it's the next guy's problem I suppose but that money was invested into the community so that it will benefit the community and it will benefit residents for a long time and we'll use it to to recruit a tenant hopefully in the near future. Any further discussion?

That's exactly what I was going to say, Jess. It's important to let the community know that what happened was unfortunate. It was the best educated decision going into it with shades for an economic development. And when that fell south, we're rapidly moving to replace that income for the city.

Anything further? There's no other discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? That is approved. Thank you, Ronco. Our next item here is a motion to approve a letter of intent with G-A-Y-O-L-L-C, Alpine Distilling, for that same section.

Yes, Mayor, members of the council. Again, this was on the agenda at last week's work session. We talked a little bit about it. You heard from Sarah Sargent, principal of Alpine Distilling. The letter of intent essentially outlines what an agreement between the city and Alpine might look like in principle, but it's not a binding agreement. It just gives the parties a little bit of room to do some due diligence. Excellent.

Is there a, for discussion purposes, is there a motion to approve this letter of intent?

I'll make that motion.

Mr. Sellers, is there a second?

I'll second it, Your Honor.

Mr. Schmidt seconding. Discussion? I'm going to make a field trip.

Anybody want to go in?

load the bus up yeah i'm gonna make a field trip your golf cart isn't gonna get us very far i'm gonna go i think everybody should go you know it's gonna be a city thing um alpine distillery they're located in silver creek and on main street in park city and it's going to be occupying part of your house your roundhouse so um I think not only all of us should do some vetting, but don't worry, I'll drink your share. But the city, any constituent that wants to go down as well. I think that's a great idea, Jess.

I think they've invited us to do exactly that. And again, this is just a way to move forward with some investigative issues. Like you said, Rocco, this is not a binding agreement at this point. We're going to look into it. They're going to look into it. And hopefully we can come to a mutually beneficial agreement down the road in the not too distant future, we hope. Any further discussion? If there is none, all in favor say aye. Aye.

Aye.

Are there any opposed? That is approved as well. Resolution 2637. Mr. Harris, you read that title for us, please.

Yes, Mr. Mayor. Resolution 2637 is a resolution of the City of Evanston, Wyoming, authorizing the execution of a contract for services with Uintas Senior Citizens, Inc., a Wyoming nonprofit corporation for senior citizen services in Evanston, Wyoming. Thank you, sir. Ms. Lynn.

These are similar to the contracts we did a couple weeks ago. They were approved in the budget. This is for the senior center, the $100,000 that we give them. And for young musicians, we give them $10,000, $5,000 for each of their events, the mat camp, and the Celtic Festival. That's the next resolution.

They're both similar, so that's valid information for both of them.

I need to recuse myself from the young musicians.

You're not young. Okay. Well, when we get there, that's okay. Appreciate that. Senior center first. We have given the senior center... And it's just been the last couple of years.

This is the second year.

This is the second year. I didn't remember if it was the second or third.

And they have been good about providing their financials every quarter.

They have, and I think I'd just like to mention, I think that was a very, I appreciate them coming a couple of years back and coming to visit with us. I think that that's been a valuable partnership, hopefully for, I know it is for them, but I think it's been a good thing for the city to partner in as well.

Yes.

Is there an introduction on this resolution? We'll do them separately. 2637. Is there an introduction on 2637?

I'll introduce the motion to pass. I'll second it, Your Honor. Mr. Perks, seconding?

Any discussion?

This resolution is part of the $100,000 that we talked about for their food program and so on, correct?

Yes, sir. And that's a good question specifically for the food program.

I think she came in and said how many meals it was. It was a lot.

A lot. I don't remember.

Is there any further discussion? If there's none, all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? That is approved. Resolution 2638, Mr. Harris, please.

Thank you, Mayor. Resolution 26-38 is a resolution of the City of Evanston, Wyoming, authorizing the execution of an agreement with Young Musicians, Inc. to provide music education and cultural activities and opportunities for the youth and promote the Celtic Festival. And Mr. Sellers indicates he is recusing and abstaining on this matter. Okay, thank you. Ms. Lim.

And again, this was approved with the budget to support young musicians.

This partnership has been going on a lot longer than two years. I have no idea how many years. Well over 10, 12 I've been aware of.

At least 10.

At least 20.

Maybe, yeah.

Is there an introduction on this resolution?

I'll introduce it with a motion to pass. Mr.

Perks, a motion. Is there a second? I'll second it, Your Honor. Mr. Schmidt, seconding. Discussion?

These are two great programs, especially the Celtics Festival. All you have to do is go down to the roundhouse and there's cars parked all the way to Union Tank. It's been very popular.

I learned a lot this past year about the Celtic Festival and the youth programs, Youth Young Musicians program. It is a great program.

Did you learn how to play bagpipe?

Maybe if I go down to the brewery or whatever it is in Park City, I might be able to do a lot of things.

You wear a skirt?

I'd loosen you up a little bit.

I'd sound better, too. You never know.

If there's no further discussion, I'll say aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? That is approved as well. Thank you. Resolution 2639. Mr. Harris, read that title for us, please.

Mr. Mayor, members of the council, Resolution 2639 is a resolution approving and authorizing the final plat for the TNT addition, a subdivision within the city of Evanston, Wyoming, as more particularly described here.

Thank you, sir. Mr. Jacobson.

Yes, Mayor and Council. The T&T addition is located at 161 and 163 Comanche Court, as highlighted on the map. It proposes to subdivide lots 7 and 8 of the UNM Meadows fourth subdivision into a one-lot subdivision. The purpose of the subdivision, the applicant would like to combine the lot so that he can build a garage or a shop on the undeveloped lot shown just north of the house that's highlighted in that area. Property is zoned, low density residential established. There is a minimum lot size requirement, 6,000 square feet. Combining the lots is going to far exceed that minimum requirement, just over a half an acre for the proposed lot. There are existing utility easements. They will carry over from the UNMNO's fourth subdivision to this new subdivision. There are no changes with existing easements. There are no proposed new easements with this subdivision. There is a section of sidewalk located along the north portion of I believe it's lot 8 of the U.N. of Meadows fourth subdivision that has not been improved or constructed yet. So that section of sidewalk will need to be completed with the approval of the subdivision. Water and sewer services to lot 8 will need to be capped per the direction of the City Pilot Works Department. and the City Subdivision Review Committee. We have reviewed the subdivision request and there are no issues with this request. I do have conditions of approval that the water and sewer service lines to Lot 8 shall be capped per the direction of the City Public Works Department. And number two, the applicant shall install the four foot wide sidewalk on the frontage of lot eight to complete the pedestrian sidewalk connection at the end of the cul-de-sac. We anticipate, we would propose that the sidewalk be installed after the building, accessory building is constructed so that heavy equipment's not busting up the sidewalk. So we'll take care of that as part of the building permit application.

So, in essence, what we're doing here is just taking two lots and making one out of them?

That's correct. That's the crux of it, correct? Yep. Okay.

Is there an introduction on Resolution 2639?

All introduced with a motion to pass, Your Honor.

Mr. Willing with a motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Mr. Seller, seconding. Discussion?

I don't see anything wrong with it. Just to build a shop on that other portion.

This is a pretty simple request.

I think it's a good thing when somebody owns two lots and they're building a garage. Because we dealt with some of the problems when they used to build a garage and you had a garage on a lot. So I like to make it one for future selling use. So I think it's a good idea.

There's no further discussion. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Are there any opposed? Thank you. Thank you. Departments. Mr. Newsome back there. Do you have anything for us tonight, sir?

I do not, sir.

Thank you. Thank you. Ms. Lim? I do not, sir. Mr. Robinson? No, sir. Mr. O'Neill? Nothing, Your Honor. Chief?

Nothing, sir.

I actually do have some. I wanted to just give a shout out to the city employees today that drove the golf carts for the people that went voting. So that's an extra thing and a lot of them stay later than they normally work to drive and some come in earlier.

Good reminder.

Yeah, they're always really good at volunteering. So thank you.

Thank you. Thank you for remembering that. Thank you for those that drove the carts. That's excellent. Thank you. Mr. Harris, do you have anything for us tonight, sir?

I do have a couple, Mr. Mayor. Today, in the county commission meeting, the county commissioners approved a lease of the 194 acres of the 1,000, more or less, for Target Hospitality. So that will be in lined up, stage of signature and details in that. You remember on July 28th, Target came and presented the work session to the council regarding a request for extension of utility services specifically and only water and wastewater at the direction of the mayor. Your staff has been working on of that document we have gone through diligently since then and i think we are now on our fourth version that will be with the approval of the lease will be sent to target for their review and comment and then at some point time come back before the council for any approval for that. During that same meeting, this has come up before, particularly from Councillor Hagen, the question on the want to say it right detention agreement with the winning county sheriff and the uh the detention fee agreement and oh the dispatch uh the uh mr newsom was with me at the commissioner meeting uh the county attorney informed me that she had completed her reviews And what she told me was is that they were working on using our agreements for the basis of similar agreements with Mountain View and Lyman. And so she used those. She told me that they had, she had signed off on them. And so we will get those finalized and put those on. Excellent.

Thank you. Appreciate that. Public participation. Is there anyone here from the public that would like to address the council for any reason?

Kathy Cook, 912 Maine. I just want to thank the council for approving no vaping in our city. I think it's made an improvement for the lives of people who live here. And so I just want to thank you. Thank you. Anyone else?

If there is not, do we have a motion to adjourn? I'll make that motion. Mr. Lynn making the motion. Do I hear a second over here? Mr. Sellers, second? Mr. Sellers. All in favor?

Aye. Opposed? We are adjourned.