City Council - public_hearing

it's just It's. I don't know. Ready, Alicia. Ready to go. Okay.

All right, welcome everybody. We will call this meeting to order. This is a regular meeting and public hearing of the Grantsville City Council. For the record, today's date is June 17th, 2026, and the time is 7 p.m. This meeting is being held at the Grantsville City Council Chambers located at 429 East Main Street, Grantsville, Utah, as well as electronically by Zoom. I am Mayor Heidi Hammond and I will conduct a roll call. Councilmember Thomas. Here. Williams.

Here.

Dalton.

Here.

Skinner. Here. And Councilmember Butler is excused from the first portion of the meeting and he had a work obligation and will join us electronically. when he can and when he has joined us, I will stop the meeting and make mention that he is here and available to vote on our Council. I've asked Les Peterson if he would lead the Pledge of Allegiance today.

Those of you who are veterans, you have the right to either salute or place your hand over your heart. Those of you who are in uniform, please salute.

I will ask you to follow me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Present arms.

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.

To the United States of America.

Thank you.

Thank you, Les. Thanks for taking the time to be here with us. We appreciate it. Thanks. All right, our first item is On our agenda tonight is public comment. And the floor is open to the public to bring their concerns to the council. I would like to note that items 9 and 10 and 12 are also public hearing items. So if you have a comment regarding 9, 10, or 12, If you will please hold your comment until that point, you will have an opportunity then to express your concerns when we get to those items after they have been presented, we will give you an opportunity to speak to those items. But if you have any other items you would like to bring to the attention of the Council, the time is yours to come to the microphone or if you're on Zoom, if you could raise your hand, we would love to hear your comments.

Hi, I'm Sheldon Birch. I am not here to complain about anything.

Good. We'd love that.

As you know, I probably know I'm on the URDA City Council. And as I look at your agenda, I'm glad to know that URDA is not the only one with difficult things on their agenda. And I also assume you know that I'm running for House District 29, and I am here and listening and trying to pay attention, doing my best. So thank you.

Thank you. Thanks for your concern for our community. Appreciate it. And thanks for not complaining. Any other comments? You can even complain. We won't hold it against you. Anybody online, Alicia? All right. We're going to close the public comment portion of our agenda tonight. The next item of business is the summary action items. The approval of minutes from the June 3rd, 2026 city council regular meeting. Do any of the council members have any corrections to the minutes? And if not, can I get a motion?

Mayor, I make a motion. We move to approve minutes of June 3rd, 2026 city council regular meeting.

We have a motion by council member Thomas. Is there a second? A second by council member Skinner. All in favor? Aye. And item B, approval of the bills. Does anybody have any concerns with the bills as they've been presented? And if not, can I get a motion?

Mayor, I make a motion that we approve the bills as presented.

We have a motion by Councilmember Williams for the approval of the bills. Can I get a second?

I second.

Second by Councilmember Thomas. All in favor? Aye. Thank you. The next item tonight is exciting. It's the recognition of the rodeo committee. We would like to take a moment to recognize the many individuals who helped make the return of the Grantsville Rodeo possible. As many of you know, this year's rodeo marked the return of a community tradition that has been absent for several years. As a child, I remember the rodeo vividly. I remember working in the concession stand. It was just a great time of year. It was exciting. and it has been missed from our community for several years. While residents and visitors enjoyed the rodeo events and festivities, what often goes unseen are the countless hours of planning, preparation, coordination, and physical labor required behind the scenes to make an event of this size successful. The success of this year's rodeo was truly a community effort. We are grateful for the members of the rodeo committee, the city staff from multiple departments, sponsors, volunteers, and community members who generously gave their time, talents, and resources to support this event. I would like to especially recognize the extraordinary efforts of our parks department and roads department. These employees dedicated countless hours preparing the grounds, Maintaining facilities, coordinating logistics, setting up and taking down equipment, and ensuring the event was ready for participants and spectators. Their hard work was instrumental to the success of the rodeo and often took place behind the scenes without recognition. I would also like to recognize the members of the Rodeo Committee whose vision, leadership, and commitment helped bring the Grantsville Rodeo back to our community after years of absence. Their willingness to invest their time and energy into reviving this cherished tradition made this event possible. And I would like to just add one of the greatest things for me for the rodeo was I feel like I just have new friends. I got to know some of the people on the rodeo committee that I didn't know prior. And they are amazing people with a great work ethic. And it was just fantastic. So what I gained from the rodeo was friends. So thank you. I appreciate it. It was just a pleasure to work side by side with you. in the many hours and time and several of the council members as well. On behalf of Grantsville City Council, city staff and the residents of Grantsville, we extend our sincere appreciation to everyone who contributed to the successful return of the Grantsville Rodeo. Tonight, we are honored to present the Mayor's Award of Appreciation to the Grantsville Rodeo Committee, the Public Works Parks Department and the Public Works Road Department in recognition of their exceptional service and dedication. And I would like to read the names of those departments and those individuals from the committee to be recognized. And if they would please come forward. Yeah, Shelby's right there. She wants to, but maybe she can probably use some help. Yeah. And if these individuals are here, if they would please stand, and we will probably not sort the certificates out as quickly as we'd like to, but if you would just stand, we would love to recognize you. Shane Johnson. Christine Parker. Larry Peterson. Aaron Stevinit. Aspen Clegg. Michelle Barney. Oh, Mitchell. I'm sorry.

I read that wrong.

Mitchell Barney. Shelby Moore. Trent Riddle. Anthony Butler. Ryan Durfee. Steve Barney. Ben Henderson. Colton Newsome. Canyon Williams. Race Wheeler, Andrew Mascaro, I hope I pronounced that right, Hunter Haymore, Bryce Eakins, Kevin England, Ali Baird, Audrey Critchlow, and Canyon Timmons. And also thank you to our public works director for allowing them the time to escape other projects. So thank you, Christy. I'm sure she was. Stand on up, Christy. All right. So to these individuals, we sincerely offer our gratitude. I know how many hours you all spent, and I appreciate it. And because of that, it was a fabulous success. And I can't wait for next year. Thank you all very much. And then we have these little cowboys also to give to each of the different groups that made this a success. And I think that Shelby Moore deserves a huge round of applause all along the road. Thank you, Shelby. It was phenomenal. You did a great job. Okay. And now she is going... Item number four is a discussion and council direction on the Battle of the Bronx during the Honey Harvest Festival presented by Shelby Moore. But I think... Are you presenting something from the rodeo first?

It was just for the rodeo. Okay. I think it would be great just to kind of go through this and look at the wonderful pictures that were taken. So you can see... You know, our sponsors were tremendous. These pictures were taken by Lauren, Shane's daughter. She donated her time and the pictures to the city. But if you just go through those. So you can see it was a fantastic rodeo and it was emotional Saturday, especially when we had the flag fly in. And so as you can see, this is Friday and the huge crowd. And so it was great. Just some pictures of the rodeo committee hanging out, helping with the sheep and other livestock. The bottom picture is kind of my favorite. If you just want to keep going. This is just a little video, kind of what the grounds look like before and after. So, you know, Ben and Colton and their team did a phenomenal job. And then if you want to go to the next slide. Just hit escape and then the next slide.

Oh, you just keep going? No, hit escape.

Anyways, it was fantastic. I do have a video that I would like to play for the bronc writing. It's called Battle of the Bronx. And it's a... event that I think would be fantastic to run in lieu with the Honey Harvest Festival. Make sure we have good audio this time. Last time it didn't go well. So I think it'd be fun to have that event. I have reached out to sponsors and I have had almost $30,000 worth of sponsorship guaranteed and interested in sponsoring not only the Battle of the Bronx, but the next year's Memorial Day Rodeo. And so I think this would be a great opportunity to bring our community together again. So yeah, we're just looking for direction from council to see if that's something we want to do.

I'd say yes. I was like, I was amazed at the rodeo. I just, I went both nights and I thought it was so many people who said such positive things. It was great. It was good to see, I mean, meet people like you said. And so I think this is something, I mean, I've been to the Honey Harvest Festival too, obviously, but the, I think this, so this would go on at the rodeo grounds the same weekend we're doing the Honey Harvest Festival.

Yep. October 10th. So that's a Saturday. The Honey Harvest Festival gets over about 536th. That's why we're wanting to bring the crowd over to the rodeo, you know, so they can go get their honey and we can get some of those vendors to, you know, transition over and bring that crowd. Yeah.

I think it's a good idea. I missed the rodeo, unfortunately. I was on a vacation that was booked well in advance. Sorry, I couldn't cancel, but I'd love to go to something else and I don't have any vacations planned for October 10th. Perfect. We'll put you to work there.

Good to know your schedule's open.

now we got more than a month to plan so we're ready we'll just hang out until september yeah well we got all the hard work so we're good i think it's great honey harvest festival brings in a ton of people and i think it'd be nice segue into that long day for some people but it'd be fun yeah it's a good complimentary activity i think with the honey harvest festival so jeff or jake do you have any input

No, I feel the same. I think we talk about traditions that we have and some of these, it's sad that they've kind of gone by the wayside and we're able to rejuvenate it and And I'm hoping that, yeah, that it continues to be something that, you know, memories can be made. And, you know, Mayor mentioned some memories that she has and be able to have that happen for future generations in Grantsville. We have some really awesome traditions that, you know, the 4th of July, we got that coming up here. It's a week long, awesome week. And we grow as a city during that time from wherever everyone comes to visit. And so having some of these things that, can help benefit our community and bring us together. I think are very beneficial. I fully support it. So. Great. Let's do it.

Let's do it. There's the word. Let's do it. All right. Rodeo committee, get back to work. Any longer head back out there. All right. Thank you very much. Thank you to Shelby. Thank you to the road department, the park department and the, and the rodeo committee, especially. Thank you so much for all your work. So thank you. Moving on to agenda item number five, a presentation from the Division of Water Resources regarding a water-wise landscape incentive program and council direction. And also to all those who are here with the Rodeo Committee, this is fascinating stuff. You're welcome to sit around and listen. If you do not want to, please feel free to be excused. You do not need to feel obligated to sit here all night.

Yeah, thanks.

I might have to... Thank you. That's all right.

Okay, so your name is Heidi as well as mine? Okay, we have two Heidis.

Can you hear this? There we go. Okay, yes, two Heidis. It's not very often I get to meet another Heidi.

Yeah, this is great. The Conservation Coordinator with the Utah Department of Natural Resources Division of Water Resources. Yes, that's a very long... That's a very long title. It is very long.

Usually we just do it with water resources and people can remember that.

Heidi King, King from Water Resources. Yes. Yes.

Um, I'm here to speak on the statewide landscape incentive program, and I greatly appreciate the council's time to be able to present on this and answer any questions that you may have. So I will briefly discuss what the landscape program is and who is eligible, why we incentivize lawn removal and what we do not incentivize, as well as those conservation benefits associated with it, additional resources that are available to participants, and then I'll take any questions at the end. So the Landscape Incentive Program began in 2023. It is a statewide program and it is available to residents and any properties that are residing in municipalities that have adopted water efficient landscape ordinances for new construction. This rebate is delivered by the Division of Water Resources in partnership with the largest water districts in the state. So the large water districts They cover the population centers, so along the Wasatch Front and Washington County. And then water resources, we deliver the program to the more rural areas of the state, including Tooele County. And we promote switching from the traditional Kentucky bluegrass to water-wise landscaping. And this is some good before and after photos. The most common projects that we see are in the park strip because that's where the biggest water savings can happen. It's water... Sprinklers really struggle the technology of it to water anything that's less than eight feet wide efficiently. So anything that's smaller than that eight feet wide is going to experience overspray and dry spots, which is why park strips tend to struggle the most. And then people see dry spots, so then they water it even more. And that's why park strips are very popular for this conversion because it's so much easier to take care of as well as reduce that water use. Go ahead to the next one. So this is what we do rebate. There's a photo behind, and you can't see it, and I apologize for that, but that's okay. The photo behind has grass in it. We do incentivize the removal of grass, but we don't incentivize removing everything. So it's okay if you can't see. We'll be okay. So the photo on the right is not something that we incentivize. We don't incentivize full hardscaping because it has grass. some ecological detriments to it and we don't want to incentivize that. That's not something that we encourage either. The photos on the left are what we do incentivize. So you can remove all of your grass and replace it with waterwise plants. We do require that at least 50% of the project area have plants and waterwise plants are really anything that is longer lived than one year typically. So perennial shrubs, trees, bulbs, anything except for the grass and the annuals. And you can keep grass. We often see people remove grass in the hardest areas to maintain that's not really being used. So typically against the fence or structures, buildings and whatnot, that takes a lot of equipment to maintain and reduce the amount of grass that they have. So it's just a usable area. It's bigger than eight feet wide. So it's easy to maintain as well as using less water. Go ahead to the next one. So this is just a quick snapshot of the cities that are eligible for this program. We did just get Layton City is on there now. So we have 73 eligible cities or municipalities. And it's continually growing, especially in the more rural areas. Go ahead to the next one. I mentioned our partnerships. This is just a brief visual map of what that looks like. So the blue areas are covered by water districts and then the rest of the state is what we deliver this program to. So how do people become eligible for this? So the incentive is $2 per square foot of lawn that's removed and waterwise plantings are replaced with that. So that is the plants, drip irrigation, and a mulch. That's the program. And a city has to adopt a water efficient landscaping standards for new development only. This is not a retroactive program. It does not apply to properties that already exist. It is for new developments only. And I'll go over what those standards are in just a moment. So eligible projects are really any property type. So it's not just homeowners, but commercial properties and businesses, as well as government properties, such as government buildings, libraries, public works buildings. The only exceptions would be golf courses, agricultural property, sod farms, and parks. And then application is pretty simple. It's through Utah Water Savers right now. We're transitioning to slowtheflow.org. So either one of those websites will get you to the incentive program. So these are the ordinance requirements. This is only for new development. It does not apply to existing properties. And it's as simple as this. And I will preface this with we work with all of the cities to adopt these ordinances because we recognize that it's not a one size fits all. And there's a lot of flexibility with it. And one of my colleagues is the person who works closely with the cities to help them figure out what ordinances exactly how to word it will fit for the municipality. So these are the bare minimum is no lawn in park strips. And I noticed Grantsville doesn't have a ton of park strips, so that shouldn't be too difficult. No lawn in areas less than eight feet wide and then lawn limitations for the front yard. So half of the front yard and side yard landscaped areas are can't be more than half of it being grass. And then there's some exceptions for those really small lots, especially for multifamily housing. And then some lawn limitations for the commercial, industrial, and institutional properties that have large properties. We don't want it all grass. That takes a lot of water. We want to be intentional about how we're landscaping because It uses usually up to like 75, 70% more water than the water-wise landscaping. Go ahead to the next. And this is what it looks like in practice. A lot of people get really nervous about these ordinances and what it will look like. And they don't want all rock. They don't want all desert looking stuff. They want grass to be able to play on. And again, this only applies to the front yard. So you'll see on the left hand side, there's still grass. There's just not grass going up to the fence or the house that's landscaped with waterwise landscaping. And then the park strip is just plants. And we see a lot of waterwise plants as well as trees in the landscape.

The ordinances is the first step to letting residents become eligible for this program.

So you adopt those ordinances, and you send that to us for review. And we work with you. It doesn't cost the city anything to do this. And then we add you to our eligibility list. The role that you have is just upholding those ordinances. And how you enforce those is up to you. And let's see. And program promotion, you don't have to do that, but you're welcome to if you want to promote the program to your residents. We appreciate it. We think it's great. It's a great water conservation tool. And then we are the ones that are running this program. You don't have to do anything. If people ask you questions, you can direct them to us. But really, we're the ones that answer the phone calls. We schedule appointments. We process the applications. And we run this entire program. And there's no cost associated to the city itself.

Thank you.

These are some of our resources that we have available for the participants. You don't have to participate in the program to be able to access these. These are readily available on our website. However, we do send customized emails to participants, especially along the way while they're doing their project, to really support them throughout this project, as well as aftercare and the maintenance of it, because we don't want people to go through the program and then get frustrated when they are not sure what to do once everything's installed. So We do have a landscape guide as well as a monthly webinar series. All of these are free. We do include a landscape incentive program checklist of what they need to do. And we do have a statewide water-wise plant list available. We are a Localscapes partner. Localscapes is a partner education program that provides, it's the education component to the landscape incentive program. Provides education for Waterwise, landscaping, and those classes can be found either online or we will even work with you to provide it to your community. So we'll come to you and teach a class completely free and it's tailored to your region. So it's not Wasatch Front, it's for Grantsville specifically. And then we are a WaterSense EPA, WaterSense partner, and they do have a fantastic certified irrigators list for qualified water-efficient landscapers available. This is all of our contact information. If you have questions, specific questions, we're happy to answer them. Candace is the colleague I mentioned that helps review these ordinances and works side by side with the cities to be able to get those in place. Madison is our program coordinator over the Landscape Incentive Program. I help coordinate and teach our localscape classes and develop those landscape resources. And then our two technicians help deliver the program and process those applications. And our contact information can be found there. Are there any questions that I can answer?

I have one little question. You mentioned no annuals. So if somebody has mostly perennials, but they include some annuals, they're out, like you're out?

No. So we just encourage that annuals be planted either in their own bed or in pots, not mixed in with the perennials, but that won't disqualify them from the program. Okay. Good question.

And does the ordinance just allow us to participate in this if people want to? It just says the ordinance would be structured to say if a citizen wanted to, then our city would qualify. It wouldn't be mandatory for anybody to do this.

No, the landscape incentive program is the incentive piece. It's meant to incentivize properties that already exist, that already have those landscapes. They are not required to do this. It is not a mandatory program by any means.

So the ordinance won't just be allowing us then to participate?

Yeah. So the ordinances are for the new construction only. We're trying not to waste tax dollars as well as it's kind of like chasing our tail. We're trying to fix a problem, but not preventing the problem from happening anymore. And so we're trying to reduce that inefficiency. So we're not creating new problems. Those landscapes look great. They're efficient. And then incentivizing the existing landscapes to be more efficient.

So the incentive is, just for clarification, the incentive is just for existing landscapes, correct?

Yes, it is only for existing landscapes. It is not for new construction. Okay. Yeah, great question. Any other questions or concerns that I can address?

No, Heidi, thank you for being here. we've had some residents express interest in this and because we're not on a lit on that, you know, we don't qualify in that incentive. They don't have the option to be able to do this. And so the, I mean, obviously it ought to be the division of limited water quality and limited water because we live in the fifth driest state in the nation. So, uh, but it, um, finding ways, uh, to allow our residents to convert some of those areas into and take an opportunity for this program was the reason why we wanted to see if the council would have interest in doing that. What that means is ensuring that we align with those other four items that were listed there, if there was any concerns on those.

So Jake brought this up, and her counselor almost brought this up. And so we thought it would be a good idea before Alexis got all the way through that process to even see if my interest was what council wanted to do and think that around.

That's a good idea. I think I like the education portion, too. I'm not a gardener at all. So when you say water-wise, I don't even know what that means. So having somebody to go like, what would be good here? What qualifies? I think that's super helpful for people. And yeah, I mean, water is a big issue.

It sure is. Do you go out to different cities and do classes or all webinars?

We do an annual webinar, but we do individual classes as needed. So if you would like one. I'm more than happy to coordinate with you on one. For example, we're teaching one in Tooele on Monday. You're welcome to come if you'd like, see what it's about. And we're focusing on, they wanted to focus on native plants for Tooele County specifically. So that's what we're doing. So we're happy to curate or specialize the class to fit whatever your residents and your community needs are. We want to make sure that it's, impactful and a good use of everyone's time. Yes. The parks cannot, golf courses cannot, but like this building here, you could easily participate in this program. Yes.

And there's other incentive programs as well. Like for, I think there, I think I did one that was for electronic, like a Smart.

Yeah, the smart controllers. Those are available to anyone, anytime. You don't have to live in a specific city to be able to do those. But yes, we do offer a rebate of up to $125 for a smart irrigation controller. So if you want a new irrigation controller for your home, I highly recommend it.

That sounds like Councilwoman could see a draft and go forward on it. So I'll have Alexis continue with that application, that change.

Thank you. Sounds great.

Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you. And thanks, Jake, for reaching out to the Division of Water Resources and getting this information for us. All right. Item number six is a council appeal decision, consideration of Resolution 2026-38, approving a driveway deviation for the property located at 48 McMichael Avenue.

Um, so this is a secondary access, um, property. So McMichael is just kind of, um, it's East of Sinclair. For those of you that don't know exactly where that's at. Um, we received a application in March 20th after the staff, um, reviewed it and we became aware of what the original driveway used to look like. And it was expanded, um, without, um, city authorization, um, Then we began to work with the applicant. There was a violation for the meter box. The applicant did a cut after we brought that to their attention. They did cut the driveway. The 2 feet around 2 or 3 feet around the meter that is required. So they have done that we're just here for city council to determine if they're going to allow the driveway to stay built how it is or if they are going to require to be brought to city standards so few issues that we need to address and if you'll scroll down to the pictures as there is a I that runs underneath the driveway because the driveway actually comes out. further than what the gutter is. And so it is sized on the smaller side of things, and that was a concern of the engineer. And then there is a concern how the driveway comes out past the curb and gutter, and it actually comes out into the roadway maybe a few inches.

Sorry, it's glitching. You're fine. I did the same thing yesterday. Yeah.

So keep going. That's a good picture to kind of show the overall view and the frontage and then just kind of how wide the driveway is. People keep scrolling right there in those pictures. So you can see that's initially what the water meter looked like. Again, the applicant did cut that and address that situation and scroll down just to that bottom picture. Yep. So you can see how it comes past the curb pan or the gutter pan. I don't know, four to six inches. And then you can see slightly here, there's a lot of muddle blocking it, but here is the pipe. So you can see what we're losing as far as the capacity of that. And so you can see what the driveway originally looked like. And then it's expanded from the walkway over to the property line to the north.

So just making sure I have it straight. They sent in an application to the city for this project, but we didn't realize that it was going to be this large or didn't say on the application.

No, so there was a violation with the water meter, and then we've asked to correct the water meter. Then there was the driveway issue, and then the applicant has been working with staff with an application, but the issues are that the driveway is expanding past the gutter pan. It has the smaller diameter pipe, and then it extends all the way to the north along the property line. So if you scroll up in the staff report, we actually give the timeline. Keep going. No, that's the violation. Keep going. Keep going. One more, I believe. Nope, keep going. Pass the picture. That one. Nope, keep going. Sorry. Keep going. Right here. August 25th 2025 initial violation, November 13th, the second violation January 23rd, a certified letter March 3rd, a site visit was conducted with the code enforcement officer. And the property owner and attempt to contact the property owner then scroll down. March 13th, the code enforcement officer made contact with the property owner March 20th, the meter box was corrected and the applicant submitted for the secondary driveway. April 26th, the application was reviewed by the department heads and May 5th, the applicant was notified that the driveway secondary access did not meet the requirements of the land use ordinance and needed to seek a deviation through city council.

So Shadley, on this timeline, McMichael is such an old road. How long has it been like this? When was the cement or the addition?

The applicants here might be able to answer that. I could look at Google Earth and kind of give you a timeline.

Yeah, I've noticed these on that street. There's actually more than one that have this. And Tooele has areas, older parts of Tooele has this, where they have a really aggressive gutter system near some residential homes. And so they create a bridge essentially over that gutter system. The gutter system on McMichael is not that deep. So I'm not sure what the purpose of those would be. And there are some concerns when you place them in in that setting. I want to get totally off topic here, but um if if the water is not allowed to pass there and it gets clogged up and it ends up building in that area and then pushes on to the roadway and it will it will ruin the asphalt in those areas um because the water is not you know guttering as it should be but is this this is an old it this is an old tree so um one of the John Potter, Maybe the initial curve and gutters and then we went away from it and then we've gotten back to it, which was you know I don't know why we ever went away from it it's it's it's the best way to go, if you can do it so, but this isn't the only home that has that issue in that street so. John Potter, I guess what we're looking at specifically tonight is. John Potter, Is just the secondary access correct.

Um, you're not looking at that deviation. You're looking at he's expanded or they have expanded the driveway wider than what is allowed per our code. So you're looking at that, seeing if you're going to allow that deviation, they are right up against the property line. And so they have, um, expanded, expanded that, which is against the code. Then the pipe sizing wasn't, um, you know, engineered or looked at to determine if that was the correct pipe size. And so it just doesn't meet city standards.

I mean, if you look at the original photo, it has the bridge out to the road, too, and it doesn't even look like there's anything underneath it.

Yeah, it looks better in the ground, too, than it does in the original.

The problem is that that'll divert the water into the road, and when the water goes into the road, it'll start getting to the asphalt, and it'll cause more repair damage to that.

Yeah. I mean, I get that, but I'm looking at like the original and it looks like it's built. Yeah. You can see that on that photo.

To me, it probably, I mean, I think it was done this way, not because of the depth of the gutter. It was probably done this way. Cause it was like, I've got a curb there and rather than just cut the curb, rather than just cut the curbs on these, it's like we built a ramp over the curb, which, um,

Yeah, which should be done. And I mean, elevations and you know, it may have been too steep. It's a pretty steep driveway. You know, elevations may have been difficult to kind of get that transition.

So when they remodeled this permit should have been pulled.

Correct.

So what's that permit process? Is there a concept presented to you guys? How does that work? Because I see this is coming to us more often, and Planning Commission too, these second driveways. I don't know if it's just because we have the Code Enforcement Officer now, but we're seeing more and more of these. So kind of tell me what that process is, and then two, what can we do to prevent these to keep from coming to us every week?

Yeah, no, absolutely. So, um, if someone wants to widen their driveway or expanded or have a secondary access, they can either call in, um, or they can apply online and they'll submit, it can be a hand-drawn, um, site plan. Typically Nicole or I will jump on, um, you know, Google or screenshot it and put it into Bluebeam so that we can, um, draw out the site plan and measure it and scale it. After we've done that and payment has been received, we review this every Thursday. So right away permits, secondary accesses, things like that every Thursday. We'll review it. We'll determine if it meets code. If changes need to be made, we'll send those comments back to the applicant and then they determine, okay, we will adjust that portion of the driveway or we want to come to council to ask for a deviation. And a lot of times, um, they would like to just come to council and ask for the deviation. So we do have driveway standards, um, you know, with chapter six, I did revise them. So they were a little easier to read and understand, and it spelled it out of what we need and, um, the approval process. We are working on getting Community and Development a Facebook so that we can post consistently of, hey, you know, if you want to expand your driveway or you want a secondary access, you need to follow these steps. Here's the link. Or, you know, hey, this is a code enforcement for weeds. Looks like that.

You got a comment?

The applicant. Okay.

Hi.

Hi. State your name, please.

I'm Antonio Vargas. Thank you. I'm the resident from 48 Mid-Michael. Actually, before I did the driveway, I asked his name, Perkins.

Lyle.

Lyle Perkins. I said, did I need a permit to put up my driveway? He said, no, I don't think you need a permit. Just do it. I asked if I need a permit before I do it. And now I don't see what is wrong with the driveway. She said there was a bottle clogged in the line. I put a big four-inch pipe. You can see all the neighbors to the south. There's all garbage in the gutters. Of course it's going to clog the pipe if they don't clean it. Walk to the neighborhood and watch how dirty they are. I'm not going to throw the blame on people, but what's wrong with the driveway? I asked the neighbor if I can put the fence over the driveway. I didn't do it just because I want to do it. I said, you're going to have to fix your property, my property. And I didn't ask him for money or anything. I asked for permission to pack and do it. If you will see why your house was built, it was built in 1954. You bring the coal from that time to this time. Apply the coal. Back in that day, they didn't have the coal.

I think the concern, the issue is obviously when you lengthen the driveway, when you lengthen that driveway, you're creating less distance between drive to drive. And it creates a safety issue. This is a through road.

But I see people that have water meters in their driveways. And then are you guys going to make everybody do that? Yeah, they're not allowed in the garage. See? It's the same team. They sent me letters. They didn't send it to me. They sent it to the previous owner. They didn't connect one of the offices when they knocked my door. It was kind of mean, like, why you not answer my request that I send it to you? I said, when you send it? I went to the post office. They didn't receive any letters from me. I'm not doing anything illegal. I try to do everything legal. No, I think when this happens, it... What is it? You know, I improve in the house. I only think I do anything. I don't do anything wrong with the house. I try to do the best I can with my house. They're looking good, the way I want it to look. I don't want to have a trash home. I want a clean house. Go drive around the neighborhood, check the neighbors. I can show you a picture. I have a neighbor behind me. Had to be pesticide all the time because rats, everything comes to my property. Are you guys going to do that? Check the neighborhood and see how that looks like. I don't want to put fingers on anybody. The only thing I do to have a nice driveway, I can park my car because I want to park on the street. How wide is the drive?

How wide is the width of the drive that we're looking at?

I believe it was 41 feet. There's a picture of measurements.

Even I ask a lot if I can pull a little, come over to the side. So that's a little ramp with the small cars that probably hit in the front.

You can go down to the second picture. Approximately 41 feet has expanded.

Did you say the pipe wasn't the appropriate size?

As a proper size. I say pipe is smaller. My pipe is a four inch pipe.

No, but I'm saying per city code. Is it big enough? It would need to be engineered to determine

How big any size and the other the other one said along the road. I see the other ones a little part and then the funny part every time the rains, I had to be clean and all the debris that comes from the other neighbors because the clocks the lines.

Yeah. Yeah. And then scroll down to the back of that.

Is that last piece is this section here. Yeah.

really sticks out for the potential to catch that.

Well, you can see what it's doing to the asphalt, right? I mean, that's exactly what this is explaining. It's that that area you can see the original deal the session on the other side.

They used to be that over there. They was already that way. So the only thing I did is I didn't today to it. It was already there. The other side. You can see that that partial power over there and the other side. So the reason I put it that way because it was the rocks. You step on the rocks, you twist your ankles. Just look at pictures before and after. I asked the neighbor if I can put in my driveway. along the property line, and I can put a fence on top because I had to put, you know, get cars in the back. You will see at the other session, it will be the same thing, but it's on this side. They have the same size pipe, have a four-inch pipe. The only thing that the teen is like all this stuff right there because it comes when it rains. There comes this way and everything all that I have to go in and start cleaning all the debris because you can see which is all over along the side, yes, for my property to the South check every neighbor and see who they are how those weeds growing in the in the gutter. Because all the rocks and everything from the neighbors comes in and clouds the lines.

Shelby, what would need to be done to make it to code? Like what would have to rip it out completely or what would be a remedy?

No, I mean, a remedy would be to, you know, to make it to meet code. Yeah, he would have to rip out six feet. Yeah, for about like six feet here, just on this panel. to meet the code, so it's six feet away, and then just to fix it. You'd probably have to, in order to...

They have a bigger driveway over where they have the dog take care over there in the corner. What's the difference?

You'd have to probably pull out this panel and then shorten it to get the angle to meet this.

Probably what you'd have to do instead of just cutting this and patching this, but that

I can put something over there if they want it. There's nothing wrong to do it. But you will see more sessions than this. So the other side, the same thing is the pipes are smaller than my pipe. It's not the point that the water doesn't have any way to go. All the debris that comes from the neighbors, they start coming this way and then clog the lines. It's not because it doesn't have all the leaves and everything that clogs because they don't pick the leaves. I've been cleaning all the time. Oak Wash right now, I tried every week to clean it. If I clean it while the others don't clean it, what's it going to do?

It is a very narrow gutter system on that street anyway, that's for sure. And having the extra driveway, I realize it's six feet too long, but I travel this road often and all the cars on the road are very... It's hard to navigate down McMichael when there's cars parked on both sides of the street. So having an extra place for vehicles to be off the street is very advantageous on that narrow road.

I don't want to park on the street because, you know, they have the snow plow trucks and mail on the street. I don't want to be, you know, mail guy getting pissed off because they blocking the mailbox.

Could you scroll down to page 18? Opposite view, you can see the pipe in there. It looks bigger on this end than it does that other end, but.

As soon as it comes out. I'm sorry. Sorry.

Yeah.

It still looks comfortable. I mean, it definitely built in.

Thank you. We have illegal driveways all over town.

Yeah, well, the house above that one has the same issue. So that's the frustrating part. It's almost like this street just decided to kind of just roll however we wanted to roll. And I know they're much older homes, but the home above also has their drive, and then they have a spot where they park a truck that's

Correct. Also, yeah, no, you, you are correct. And that's the hard part is, so is in 2015, that was already established versus in 2004, 2005 ish. When this was, when that driveway was expanded, that's when our code was into effect. So yeah, you're going to see driveways that are, legal non-conforming versus driveways, newer driveways that now we're catching going, hey, we need to follow the process. And it is hard.

I didn't go to the driveway just to do it. I asked live if I need a permit. He said, you don't need a permit. I was so happy. I said, okay, I can throw it in and no problem. It's not because I don't want to pay for the permit.

You know, I'm more willing to pay for the permit, but, you know, afterwards, they can't say, no, you can't have the inspector saying that, you know, meaning, oh, yeah, no, like, you know, dispatcher, you know, if it's placed how it should be placed, you know, in a new build, they don't need a permit except to follow the format that format that it needs to be built within. And this is communication work can take place. The issue is, and I guess the question I have for you, Antonio, is more we need to, you know, obviously it looks like you're using all of those spaces and coming straight out. How that should have been designed or developed is narrowed and then opening that up to allow you to pull in. And I can tell you've tried to make it better and

I don't, what you say wrong with the trail is, you know, I don't have no drawer anymore, no racks, no weeds, nothing, you know?

Yeah, the concern, though, and I kind of mentioned at the start, the concern that I have is that when we do that, like, it just, it creates areas, there's designations for where, you know, if you have someone driving down that street, they're having to constantly, you know, You could have multiple vehicles pulling out in the same area, and that's why there's, you know, that's why planning designates those driveways and their separations and separation factors in those driveways. It's for, it's a safety.

Yeah, the thing is like when you have a separation of the driveways with a heavy vehicle, it's possible that the concrete can crack and falls down because the water can go underneath. So that one over there, the water don't go to the neighbor. It comes all the way to the street. I have like a little curb right there. So the water comes all the way to the street. It doesn't go to the neighbor. I put in that purpose. I don't want to throw water to the neighbors coming to my property. Every time the rain, it comes all the way down to the street. It doesn't go to the neighbor. It's not affecting anything to the neighbor. I know people like to do that to the neighbors, throw the water to the neighbor, but I try to prevent from having issues with the neighbor. So it's pretty strong. It's a lot of money invested in the driveway. It's not one penny. And then you can see it's occupied. It's not empty.

Do you have something you'd like to say, Ben?

Ben Henderson, Gadsville Street Department Supervisor. I see a lot of potential for, number one, when we're doing pushback with snowplows, that's gonna chip. That driveway is not gonna stay in that condition. Our plows are gonna get damaged when we do push back into the curb. And if there's three feet of snow and you don't see that, you're gonna need a windshield, I promise you. And if you've ever been plowing and you hit something that hard and that abrupt, it lodges you from your seat and it will chip the driveway. So in a sense, on the legal side, which I don't, I'm not an attorney, but he's accepting the right to any liability in our right-of-way by doing, extending his driveway into our right-of-way. That's my...

Thank you.

This may be a really dumb question, but is there some type of code, ordinance, law, something that says they're grandfathered in? Like... So, yes. That protects a

It's property owner legal non conforming you. So if that driveway was in existence in the 1950s, for example, like I think that's what was mentioned. That use or that that non conforming building style the the engineering of that curve that was allowed in the 50s could remain The only condition there, though, is that you cannot expand that use. You can maintain it, but to expand that use would remove the grandfathered status, as it were. So it would no longer be a legal nonconformity, it would just be nonconformity.

And I understand it's difficult to try and have to remove something after you've already done it.

It was an assisted session already like that, you know. So we had an issue with the snow plow. It should have been issued a long time ago, not recently.

And it's more neighbor to have the same thing. I'm sorry. Is it a six-inch high back curb? It's not taller. It's not an atypical curb, is it? No. i don't see any reason to to cut to carry over the gutter i like there's other areas in which it's happened on that street and i'm not sure why because it's it's a typical curb you could just cut the curb down and pour your drive approach into the back of the curb like you would typically do. And I appreciate Ben bringing up that point specifically. You'll have a snowplow catch the edge of that, and that guy will be in his front yard. So, you know, there's a reason why drives end at the back of the curb and not carry into the street.

So I kind of want to hear it when this they have cars parked on the street. If somebody has a park on the street, that cars will be in the middle of the street.

Because that's a different issue.

But we're not, I might be off on this, but we're not saying that we can make it redo the whole frontage. It's only the new part. So there's still going to be a bridge there. So we're going to hit it with the plow six feet later.

Correct?

Yeah.

I haven't seen why you want the snow plow.

Yeah, we haven't used those.

We don't want to use those anymore.

I just think my concern is having precedent. If everybody is just like, we're going to do a deviation, you know, they do something and then we're granting deviations. It's precedent for, and I know that it's hard when somebody already does it to say, no, fix it.

I think the biggest point is the education. Like we need to have a way to educate people to understand the process and the reasons for the regulations, but I- I asked for the permit.

I know you did. If they will say, don't do it this way, I will not do it.

Yeah.

Honestly, but they told me- They told you no. You don't need it. So it's not like I did something that breaking the law or anything.

No, we understand that. We understand that.

my thought is i i'm going to recommend the possible table of this because i think we have a more complicated issue on that roadway i think it probably leads to maybe i would like to investigate it a little bit more i noticed this actually for the first time this year but not not when it was brought up on this issue specifically when i drove up the street and i was like that is weird that we have if concrete coming into our roadways. And I noticed, and I actually didn't notice yours, but I noticed the home up where it does have smaller pipes. They're like one inch maybe diameter, inch and a quarter diameter. They looked that, they may have been bigger, I don't know, but.

Yeah, well, they sent me like three letters to cut like two feet diameter around my meter box. And I see like three or four down the road in the same situation. But you don't see any new homes with that same product. They do, but they have to pull metal. Correct. Or they have to remove them. I'm doing Tom Homes over in Tuala. The meter's right at the right way. but they put a metal collar in it. So make a strong, so that'll expand.

But I do think we need a solution for the whole street. I think this one's a little more. Yeah, this is not just one house. I remember it was probably gone, but I need to, there used to be one. That was a big speed jump.

Yeah. There is one that's metal. There's a great, there's one that's a, cast aluminum or a cast, you know, that's a metal ramp. But I, yeah, I mean, that's where I feel. I feel like there's more to this one that probably needs additional discussion, but that's my thought.

You want to make a motion for that, Chase?

Yeah, Mayor, I make a motion. We move to table. Resolution 202638, approving driveway deviation for the property located on 48 McMichael Avenue until council has an opportunity to thoroughly review that street.

We have a motion to table. Item number six, is there a second?

I'll second.

A second by council member Dalton. All in favor? Aye.

Do you have any direction for staff as far as what you're wanting us to investigate? Are you wanting to do your own investigations?

And I was going to ask you, I mean, I'm sure you guys have talked about the whole street. I mean, is it only... Never mind, I'll shut up. What are your visions for the whole street?

Yeah, I mean, it needs to be built out. You can see that we're missing the sidewalk on that side and things like that. So, I mean, we can go back. We can hopefully find the construction plans from this older development and see what we can find and why... a lot of them have these overhead driveways and yeah.

So I just wanted to say for the record, we don't typically require building permits for flat work on property. So if this had been compliant with the rest of the curb cut requirements and other things, there would have been no problem. You can pave your entire Lot, if you want to. And no permit is required. The problem is the stuff between the top back of curb and the road and how he's cut into the road. And that's where we get into a problem. The flat work and Lyle, if you approach Lyle and said, do I need a permit for a driveway? The answer is no, but it's flat work. We don't require a permit for that. But where we do is the curb cut and the work in our right of way. So I just wanted to clarify that.

Yeah. And that's where the confusion came in. It sounds like.

Yeah.

I asked Lyle, I said, did I need a pool pipe for the water to go through? He said, yes, put one big pipe to go through. It's not like I didn't put anything. I asked him if I put a pipe in it. He said, yes, I put a pipe. I put a big pipe in it. He said, my pipe is bigger than all the pipes they have. The only thing, it's going to clog if it's all the debris that comes in that's not clean, the gutters.

No, I mean, the reason for the gutter is not to have a pipe so it doesn't clog at all. That's the reason for the gutter.

But there's all kinds of problems. Running water systems.

Yes, on McMichael. There are. So, yeah, I think, okay, thank you.

So we will take a look at that situation on your street and see the best way to address it, and then we'll move forward. Thank you. Okay, item number seven is a consideration of resolution 2026-39, approving a proposed amendment to the Kenneth Fawson subdivision and approving the commercial final plot application for Holiday Oil, located at approximately 794 East Main Street in the CG Zoning District.

Hey, how are you guys?

Great.

This one is exciting. So we're doing two things here. We're amending the Kenneth Fawcett subdivision and we're approving the commercial platform holiday oil. If you'll scroll... We can kind of go here. So this is in the CG zoning for Holiday Oil. It's right there on the corner adjacent to Maverick on 794 East Main Street. If you want to scroll down. So we're taking this from, if I recall, three or four parcels and we are turning it into two parcels. So three parcels here. And then if you scroll down one more, maybe go up one. into two parcels.

So they will have access. There will be an easement access here and an access here as well. So you'll see these easements in favor of Lot 1 and 2 and then easement in favor of Lot 1 and 2 as well.

And then if you want to scroll down, One more, please. So you can see, oh, go up one. You can see they've done the truck route to show how traffic would flow. You have holiday oil.

You have the underground fuel tanks.

You have holiday, the fuel pumps. You have a RV dump, the store with the drive-through. And then you have an car wash here. And then here's the two accesses. So this is just kind of a cleaner overall landscape picture. So we got trees. It is zero skate. And then we have asked the applicant to dedicate their half width of Highway 112 and 138. UDOT has asked for 117 foot right of way. So they've dedicated their half, which was significant, and caused them to have to redo a big portion of their plans. But that's why you'll see these park strips are so wide.

It will be ready to widen.

I just want a big stick. Someone get me a big stick. You do need a big stick.

I'm going to get you a laser pointer.

Please. This one might work. Yeah, it don't work. But yeah, any questions?

The drive-through that you mentioned, is that just something that you can purchase things from the gas station there? Or is it a separate business that will have like another restaurant that you would pull through there?

No, so it's, you know, if you want a drink or a snack or whatnot. And then we do have Brent here as well.

Okay.

You're welcome to come up.

I was looking for him and then I text him. I'm like, are you here? And he's like, I'm right here.

My name is Brent Neal with Holiday Oil. Yeah, thank you. So touching on the drive-thru. So if you go to our Lake Point location, that's the same kind of concept we're going to be doing here. So it's more of a sweet shop. So you can't get, you can't buy like gas through it, tobacco, beer, anything like that. It's specialty drinks, the dirty sodas, cookies, stuff like that. So it's more of a sweet shop.

I'm hungry right now, so let's not talk about that.

I was wondering why you pointed at me when you were talking. No, you provide a good product. Excited to see it take place on this corner. And Shelby, I appreciate you hitting on how we envision this area. I know last night at P&Z, this area further to the north of this was discussed and the extension of or possible extension to 112 and that going further to the north. I guess that the question I had is, I mean, all of this obviously has gone through UDOT as far as the entrance locations. So we will have an entrance off of Main Street and an entrance off of 112, correct?

And they are right in right out.

Okay. 112 should be a full motion.

is the left, right, right end, right out. And we did ask them to put a six foot fence along the west side.

The west side. Against the next piece. Yeah.

Okay. I see the turn lane on 112 going in. Are we going to do anything with Main Street to get the right end?

Yeah, they'll have to.

It's kind of hard to see. At the entrance up to the, is that the west? Yeah.

But it's patched here. You can see these patches. So we'll have to do a merge lane and get that in there. So with UDOM, we'll do 138 and 112.

Similar to what's been done on Matthew's lane, where a lane has been created for a right turn in. Okay.

So this will eventually allow us to continue the two lanes first.

I was maybe just going to ask the question regarding PNZ. Like, is there any feedback that came through that we need to?

I mean, they're concerned, you know, with the turning and the wall, but we look pretty excited.

Straightforward. Okay.

I want to say Derek was there for that.

Back in the day.

I can't remember.

You're there for all of us.

I was there at the beginning when we changed the, what we did with zoning, I think, or something. I remember passing with zoning. I don't know if I have any other questions.

Not to get into the weeds, but like the trees and the landscaping along 112 and I mean, this will be a new addition to our main, and as we have new additions to the main, obviously trying to coordinate, you have different components. I don't know, do we get into what types of trees, how those, okay. So we are looking into the future there.

What about lighting?

Thank you.

So we do have area lights. There is a photometric plan. That show. Oh, not in this one.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. No. Okay.

Yeah, so we'll continue to coordinate with you. As far as if they do require any kind of signal or a streetlights. We do have area lights around the property. And that's what we the photometric plan will show that we keep the candle with our property and it's not just clearing all over the field and everything to the east of us as well. What is your anticipated timeframe. So we're hoping to open December. um depending we still have to go respond to the city with some staff approval and also with udot so we're hoping to push dirt and start moving dirt in mid-july so about a month out is what we're pushing for yeah

Is that also your property to the south where it's kind of cut out or is that a separate property?

No, we own that as well. So that's not part of this project. We are currently under contract with a potential user there, but we're actively trying to sell it. That last step back acre piece.

Is that piece on 112? 112. That's further south. Okay. Okay.

And that's where the plat shows across access as well. So we can, UDOT made us put our access 500 feet down. So that's why it's further down on highway 112 to allow us to get back onto our property or the gas station property. Okay.

All right, just need a motion then.

Thank you. Appreciate it. I'll make a motion. We approve Resolution 2026-39, approving the proposed amendment to the Kenneth Fossum subdivision and approving the commercial final plan application for holiday oil located at approximately 794 East Main Street in the CG Zoning District.

All right. We have a motion by council member Dalton. Is there a second?

I'll second it.

Second by council member Williams and the third by council members. All in favor? Aye. All right. Thank you and welcome to Grantsville. We're excited to have you.

I'm coming for my cookies.

That's right. All right. Item number eight. is a consideration of Resolution 2026-44, approving the Master Development Agreement for the Willowfield Subdivision, located approximately at Old Lincoln Highway and Champion Drive.

This one was interviewed.

And we are keeping Shelby busy tonight. Yes.

So this is an amendment and a reinstatement of the development agreement. This project is in the rural residential one. It has a PUD overlay on it. So the applicant stayed with the one acre lots with two of the lots facing Old Lincoln Highway. The half acre lot, the two lots are half acre, just because it would have been kind of a... odd shaped one acre lot. It consisted of approximately 29 acres. It was approved in 2022 through resolution 2022-40 and 2022-41 and 2022-81 with the prior development agreement. We are, the applicant is wanting to build one additional lot for I believe his nephew and that's what we're calling phase two. And then the remainder will stay open. We have, and I did correct that Tyson, we did update it in the development agreement. I believe it's 2035 that he has until he can build out anything past 2035 reverts to the RR1 zoning, which they were following. Only deviations that they had asked for and were vested with in the prior PUD was just the road cross section. Um, on that. So, um, we are asking for fee and Lou, the, um, making sure that we have the easements for the sewer line construction, um, as well as the dedication of the road in front of this one additional lot. So if you want to, Oh, you'll probably scroll for a while. Yeah, probably towards the end of the NDA. There's a, that layout 23. go down two more.

So that's what it currently looks like. They actually stopped building approximately here and then there is adding one additional spot.

So they were already approved for this? Yes.

You hit on the questions I had regarding sewer easement access. I knew I was psychic. Oh, thank you, Jake. Yeah, thanks for digging into it.

Thanks for setting up a 3035 that you were going to give them to have everything done by. Good thing, Tyson.

3035? Yeah. Forever. Infinity years. That's sometimes how my projects seem like.

I think it looks good. I mean, we're saying they can do it. We've already said they could, right? That's what it sounds like.

Pretty much.

I mean, according to what they had for the beauty. Yeah.

Mayor, I'll make a motion. We approve Resolution 2026-44, approving the Master Development Agreement for the Willowfield Subdivision located at approximately Old Lincoln Highway in Champion Drive.

We have a motion by Councilmember Dalton. Is there a second?

Second.

Second by Councilmember Thomas. All in favor? Aye. Okay, item number nine is a public hearing item. It is the consideration of resolution 2026-45, approving the fiscal year 2026 year-end budget amendments and adopting the fiscal year 2026 year-end budget. This will be presented by Aspen Clegg, our finance director, and after her presentation, if there's any members from the community who have additional questions, concerns or comments that they would like to bring to the council. We will invite you to speak on that at that time. But right now, we'll let Aspen speak and present on this item.

Okay, council, this is the year-end budget amendments for fiscal year 2026. And so fiscal year 2026 ends June 30th of this upcoming month, and then fiscal year 27 begins on July 1. So After this meeting, we can no longer make budget changes to fiscal year 2026 because you guys will no longer be operating in it and you guys can't vote on it. And so this is just the last changes to the fiscal year 2026. Um, you'll note that a lot of like, and some of them are substantial. So if you have like specific questions about some of them, we can talk about them, but, um, It's I do feel like it's a little misleading because we are adjusting expenses, but we don't adjust like I don't come before you and say, hey, can you approve us to receive more grant money or like the revenues that are reflected aren't necessarily in here because the we are worried about overspending in our expenditure accounts, but we don't get approval to like bring in more revenues. And so some of these line items are specifically in relation to receiving more grant funding, but we need to increase the budget in their grant expense line. So that way they are actually approved to have spent that grant money. So like that 106,000, for instance, in community development that you see there at 1752-64, that is in relation with the grant. And so it's kind of misleading that it seems like a huge additional expense, but we do have the revenue that offsets it. You just don't see it in these amendments. So if you have any specific questions, I'm happy to address them. Otherwise, that's pretty much what it is.

Okay. Anybody have any questions? Or should we move to the public hearing at this point?

Okay.

Thanks, Aspen. Yeah. If there's any members of the public who would like to comment on this item, number nine, this is your time to do so. If you're online, you could please raise your hand. We will let you speak there as well. Is there anybody here in the audience that would like to speak on this item? Anyone online? All right, we will close the public hearing for item number nine. And we will now move to a discussion with the council regarding item number nine and look for a motion.

Is this just making it more in line with what we're actually spending to the end of the year? Is that what we're like?

Yeah. So like by state statute, departments can't go over budget, like overspending from what was approved. And so this would just bring into, it would make sense so that everything that was spent is within that department's approved budget.

And it's not because they overspend, it's because they receive more revenue. Sometimes. Yeah. Okay.

I mean, legal, we did have a large increase in legal expenses, but we had a lot of legal expenses this year that weren't, I mean, there was a legal budget presented and was approved by council back when fiscal year 26 budget was approved, but just, we had a lot more legal fees than were anticipated this last year. So like that line is, I mean, we don't have a grant for legal fees. We just have to pay them. So, Like, that one is just true expense, just because we have had a lot of legal fees.

It's a large transfer. Am I right about that? Yeah. Transfer from different expense accounts into legal. Traditionally, those legal expenses had not been put into the legal fund. So we're capturing legal expenses that were attributed to different departments, now placing them all into the legal fund.

Yeah.

But yeah, you know, we're like elections, we spent 75 more dollars than was originally budgeted for that. So we have to increase that elections budget for $75. So that way that because that budget is just so small, it's just the one line, there's not another line item to cover that expense. And so we just have to show it.

So there's other lines, but we're not showing that. Truing up with a budget later, what did August say?

No, well, I mean, we can do line item adjustments at any time. So like if there's a line item that had excess budget in it, we could transfer it to that line item to help cover that. And that I did address already. They've been sent to Marie to do in journal entries. So that's kind of separate. But yeah, then as a second part of this item is just the approval of, the year end budget, which has like those adjustments in it, in the actual fiscal year 26 budget, which is like all of this, but.

Anybody like to make a motion on this item?

Are we expanding the budget or is this increasing the budget?

Yeah. So all of those amendments would be increasing the fiscal year 2026 budget. Unfortunately, at this point, all of those expenses have already been incurred. I mean, we can discuss them and look into them as much as you'd like, but ultimately we're going to have to have an approval of it because they've already been expensed. So there's not a lot to do there, unfortunately. I came in partway through this fiscal year. So going forward in fiscal year 27, I would like to come more often with budget amendments as they arise with different things that want to be expensed. But yeah, unfortunately I just wasn't here. So a lot of this just got, we've, we're just running on what was done before. So, but.

But moving forward for 2027, have we looked at this and said, okay, then, you know, for going forward. Yeah. Yeah.

And we're actually in the process of changing our accounts payable right now. We're piloting it currently with the police department and hopefully it'll be ready to go at the beginning of fiscal year 27, but it will require departments to get approval prior to purchases being made rather than they kind of do a process right now, but it's once they have an invoice, which is again, it's too late. Like they've already ordered it and received the product by the time that they've received an invoice. And so there'll be a learning curve and some growing pains for sure. But I think ultimately in the long run, it'll end up proving to be beneficial for Grantsville city to have it required to get approval prior to purchases being made. And then that will keep them within their budgetary restrictions because they won't be able to request a PO that would exceed the budget within that line. So.

Yeah, I think that will definitely help. I mean, we increased our budget 2.8 million from the original approved budget last year to today. So I don't like the buy and ask for permission after the fact. I think that's where we get an extra 2.8. I know things come up that's unexpected, but you know.

But some of those funds of the 2.8 were because grants were received. So it was spent, but yet it wasn't because we went over necessarily. It was just how it has to look on paper.

Yeah, and so like, I mean, we're Yeah, there are grants to offset some of these expenses for sure. But that's just not shown because we don't increase the revenue line with a budget amendment. The state is worried about budget amendments for expenditures, not so much getting approval to receive more revenue. So that's why it comes before you like this. But there are like specifically. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So like we did receive a million dollars for the grants included in that number, but you won't see that.

That's like, you'll see the expenditure of that shows that we inflated our budget. And then like, this is the true enough, but so that she said, it's not a fair representation.

Yeah. Ultimately you'll see like the revenues versus expenditures after they do like our fiscal year 26 audit. But again, that's not done until like December of this year. And so. But this is the last time we have the opportunity to make the amendments for the expenditures.

Mayor, I make a motion that we approve Resolution 2026 S-46, approving and adopting the fiscal year, sorry, 2026 year-end budget amendments and adopting the fiscal year 2026 year-end budget.

Would you restate the resolution number?

Sorry, I realized it was on the wrong one. 2026-45.

Thank you. We have a motion by Councilmember Skinner. Is there a second? I second. A second by Councilmember Thomas. All in favor?

Aye.

All right.

All right, this is me again.

Hold on just a second. Sorry. Agenda item. You're fine. Agenda item number 10, also a public hearing item. It's a consideration of a resolution 2026-46, approving and adopting the fiscal year 2027 compensation schedule for Grantsville City Department heads and elected officials. It'll be presented by Aspen Clegg, the finance director. And after her presentation, members of the public are welcome to make comments comments on this agenda item.

Thank you. So for fiscal year 2027, it does include a 3% COLA increase for all staff that does include department heads, as well as elected officials. And so per state statute, we're required to disclose what the department heads will be receiving at that point in time. So this is just a disclosure of the salary rates for the department heads and elected officials for Grantsville City that would go into effect in fiscal year 2027 for that budget year. So that's what that is. I'll let the public hearing happen and then I'll be back.

Thank you. Are there any public comments on this item? Anyone online?

No.

No? Right. We're seeing no comments. So we will continue back to the discussion with the council for item number 10.

We've already approved this, right? This is just numbers. This is just showing what the actual numbers are.

Correct.

And this is cost of living. This is not. This is what we approved. It wasn't a merit increase. This is just a cost of living. Correct.

Yes.

This is just the 3%. Because I know some people were saying, yeah, it's just cost of living.

I do understand the difference between the two. Yeah, there's been a lot of semantics. It is an increase. It is an increase. But there's also been inflation from last year, this year as well. So I deal with this in my current company that I work with. And we separate the two. And yeah, it's an impact in one form or fashion. So anyway, yeah, I don't need to say any more on that.

Like I said last meeting, I'm fine with it. I kind of got some of the stuff I wanted, but I just have to say that I don't think that the elected officials should receive anything. I think we just keep ours as is. But that's my two cents on it.

And to be sure, not, I mean, this is like the approved rate, but even not all of the elected officials receive that. Some have opted to like forego or forfeit, I guess. Yeah, theirs. And so they don't actually receive it.

So I did the math. It's just the 3% COLA. So all this is showing correct.

So the first number you'll see is like the current compensation. So these are the rates that they're currently paid at. And then the second column would be what their new rate would be with that 3% COLA, which is again, cost of living adjustment only, which is the 3% that's been approved for citywide staff to receive. So

I've spent the last couple weeks having conversations with most of the individuals on this list. I know we, I just want to say I appreciate our staff and especially those that direct direct the city. And the dealings that we deal with, a lot of these individuals, you know, have a holiday, supposed to be on a holiday, and on a holiday, they are at their desk. So I... Or out in the field. Or out in the field. And so I... Anyway, I... I think this, at a minimum, is an appreciation factor. We're dealing with costs of livings and other things that come into play. This is appreciation. I feel like this is something we needed to do just to, even in that setting, to show that. So anyway, that's all I have to say on it. appreciate all the extra effort too in going through the budgets to try to figure out how we can where we can make the cuts yep so sorry now i'm finished jeff so is the public comment done we just need a motion

So, Mayor, I make a motion that we approve Resolution 26-46, approving and adopting the fiscal year 2027 compensation schedule for the Grantsville City Department heads and elected officials.

We have a motion by Councilmember Williams. Is there a second?

I'll second the motion.

A second by Councilmember Skinner. All in favor? Aye. All opposed?

Nay.

Roll call. Council Member Williams?

In favor.

Skinner?

In favor.

Dalton? Nay. Thomas? In favor. Okay, item number 11, a presentation of property tax impact schedule.

All right, so... It's our favorite little property tax impact schedule document you guys have seen. So Grantsville City is considering an increase to its property tax rate from 0.001417 to 0.001488, which exceeds the estimated certified tax rate and is estimated to generate an additional $110,598, sorry, and 32 cents in property tax revenue. So it just kind of goes through what our current property tax rate is at the certified tax rate, how much property tax revenue that would generate, which is $2.2 million. The proposed revenue with the tax change would be $2.3 million, which is that increase of $110,000. So it's a 5% property tax increase rate, and it equates to approximately $1.83 per month for residential for the average home. And that, again, would be going to fund a Parks and Recreation employee to accommodate for scenic slopes coming online.

And Desert Edge.

And Desert Edge, yes. And the Veterans Park.

And the Veterans Park.

So anyway, so we just have to read that and disclose it and announce it and present it. So nothing really to do with that one.

Just a presentation.

Yep.

Okay. All right. Item number 12. is also a public hearing item. It is the consideration of resolution 2026-49, approving the 2026, I got two papers and I have a different item, sorry. Item number 12, consideration of resolution 2026-48, approving and adopting the fiscal year 2027 interim budget and acknowledging the fiscal year 2027 property tax impact schedule.

So this would be the interim budget for fiscal year 2027 for us to operate on beginning July 1. The truth in taxation will go through. Citizens will receive the notice of it when they get their tax valuation notice in July from Tooele County. And then we'll do our truth in taxation hearing in August. And then at that point, depending on your guys' decision to adopt a new property tax rate of the 5% or lower, at that point we would adjust. So This interim budget does have the property tax, the additional revenue proposed with the rate, as well as the expenses separated out into separate line items so that that way it does not perceived in our operating budget that that funding is available yet. So depending on what happens in August and your decision at that point, we would either do a line item adjustment to move that budget into a usable line or it would just sit there untouched until the year end, being as though we didn't receive any additional revenue if you guys opted for no increase in August. So this one just has it explicitly separated out, so that way it is not confused for any staff that they think that that budget is available for use.

Is that the difference on what we were voting? Because we voted to approve it last time, the interim budget, right?

So that the tentative.

Yeah. So does it feel like this is like Groundhog Day?

Yeah, so the interim budget and this is new this year as well from the state of Utah from the tax commission and so We, in years past, they have adopted, if they go through a truth in taxation, they would adopt a tentative budget. But there's been a lot of changes for transparency and truth in taxation processes that have gone into effect this year. And so we have to be very clear and use the new terminology that it's an interim budget, not a tentative. So this is the interim budget that we will be operating on until we would adopt a final budget in August after the truth in taxation. Right, yeah.

But nothing in this budget has changed other than we're calling it the word interim.

Yes, it's the word interim. And then it does have the potential additional revenue and that corresponding expense in separate line items.

Separated based on whatever decisions you made. Correct.

And so like I went into our chart of accounts, created a new general ledger accounts and solve. It's like official now. And it does have it separated out in this budget. But that's the only change that has occurred since the last one you saw.

Unless there's some increase you want to put on there.

Or we can do an amendment after July.

Okay. Thank you, Aspen. We'll go to the public comment section of item number 12. So if you have any comments and you would like to bring those to the council's attention, please come forward at this time. Or if you're online, please raise your hand. Anything online, Alicia? Okay. All right. We'll close the public comment for item number 12 and continue with a discussion with the council on this resolution.

I don't have a question. That was not my question.

All right.

I don't either.

Okay. All right. We just need a motion.

Mayor, I make a motion we move to approve resolution 2026-48, adopting... approving and adopting the fiscal year 2027 interim budget and acknowledging the fiscal year 2027 property tax impact schedule.

All right. We have a motion by Councilmember Thomas. Is there a second? Second by Councilmember Skinner. All in favor?

Aye.

All right. Item number 13, a consideration of Resolution 2026-49, approving the 2026 update to the Grantsville City Transportation Master Plan. And I'm not even sure who's presenting this. That would be Bill.

We were meant to have someone online. Is there someone from Jones and DeMille?

What would their name be? I can show you.

McLean, probably.

Matthew Winford?

Yeah. Yeah, Matthew, maybe. Hey, can you hear me? Yes. Okay. That would be Matthew. Hey, Matthew, how's it going?

Good. How are you doing?

I'm fabulous. You're on now with the council. We can all hear you. So, um, I just want to give a quick little introduction. Um, the planning commission heard this last month and, um, voted to recommend approval by the city council. So that's in your staff report. One of the nice things about having this done now is that this helps to inform questions about and decisions made for and by our general plan update, which is imminent. So this would be an element of that general plan update. And the coincidence of these two things is actually very, very fortuitous. So We're grateful for their efforts, and I hope you'll enjoy their presentation. If you have questions for me, I'm here, and then otherwise, we'll turn that over to you, Matthew.

Okay, perfect. Thank you. Thanks for letting me join remotely. I was unable to make it to Grantsville this evening, so thank you for this opportunity. Am I able... Oh, it looks like I am able to share my screen. Perfect. Okay, can everyone see my screen?

Yes, hold on one sec. Let's see. We can see it. It's just kind of a funny view.

Okay. Am I good to start presenting? Okay. So we've been working with the mostly city staff for about a year now to get this updated. As was mentioned, this will be a part of the general plan. So this website here will be put on the city's website. And this has all of the data from the plan. So it has a report. It has all of the maps that we created with the plan, as well as some other information. I believe McLean has already presented to the council. I believe that was in April or May. And so I'll keep this fairly brief unless there are questions. But if you go to this website, you can click on this button to get to the master plan report. This is the actual document that's being adopted as part of the general plan. Currently on the website, it is in a draft format just because it hasn't been adopted. Once it gets adopted, we will finalize that. It'll have all of the same information, all the same wording. It'll just be finalized rather than in a draft format. And then on this website as well, there's these different tabs at the top. I'll just briefly go through them. This tab just gives some information about Grantsville and some information about why the study was done, why this amendment and update to the Transportation Master Plan was completed. This tab has socioeconomic information on grants. So from the census, this is information that we used to determine future growth rates and future planning. So you can have that for reference there. And then I'm going to skip the maps for a second. If you go to this documents tab, it has links to the city code, city land use ordinances, the general plan for the city, and then also the master plan report. And then this master plan appendix button that will have PDF copies of all of the maps in this online website. And then this last tab is just a definitions page that gives some definitions for words that are used throughout the plan. Okay, any questions before I hop into the maps? Okay, perfect. A lot of these maps are looking at the existing road network, and then a lot of the other maps are looking at the future build-out road network. If you look on the left side of the screen, this is UDOT's classification of roadways in Grantsville. I'll zoom in. It's classified by arterial, collector, and local roads. arterial being the highest priority, so the UDOT roads mostly right now, and then collector roads are medium priority roads, and then local roads are lower priority roads, meaning they have lower volumes, they have lower speeds. They're more for slower local traffic. On the right, you can see the future functional classification network. So this is all of the... proposed locations of future collector and arterial roads. This was a critical aspect of the plan in determining where those collector roads are gonna be to ensure that in the future we have good movement of traffic, there's not a lot of congestion, the roads stay safe, and that development occurs in a plan as the city would like development to occur. Any questions on this map? Okay. And the different roads.

I have a quick question. The extension of 112 to the Burmester exit.

Yes.

It's a big swoop in that. Is that because of flood wetlands?

Yeah.

So we can see that better now that it's zoomed in. Thank you.

Yeah. We initially had that connecting straight, but felt that it would be better to go around that. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. This next map is the, this is a map of all of the roads maintained by Grantsville City. So it doesn't have any UDOT roads or any county roads. It's just the roads maintained by the city. And this map is used by UDOT to determine the class B and C road funds that the city gets allocated each year. So we updated this map as part of the plan. So now you dot is funding the city based off of an accurate road mileage and we would recommend continuing to update this map every every year. This next map is traffic counts that we performed. So you can see the roads that we performed the traffic counts on. We use this to determine where those critical future corridors are going to be. You can click on these blue squares and it'll show you the average daily traffic on the road. So here on Mormon Trail Road or West Street, you can see the average daily traffic is just over 2000 vehicles. You can also see the speeds that we collected as well. Right here, the average speeds and then heavy truck traffic percentages as well.

I just want to point out to Chief Sager that we're one mile below the speed limit as the average, so we're all following the law here.

And that is one note I will make on the speed data. If the count was taken closer to a block... or an intersection, the speed data might be a little lower than if it were taken kind of in the open. That one was taken pretty in the open, though, so that is good.

That's surprising.

Okay. This next map is crash history map. You can see in the table the crashes per year in Grantsville by crashes without injuries, crashes with injuries and fatalities. Then there's a heat map that shows those hot spots where more crashes have occurred. You can see it's on the UDOT highway. That makes sense because that's where you have your higher speeds. That's where you have most of your traffic. But you can also use it to see, okay, there may be another intersection where there's some higher crashes that might need to be looked at. We didn't do an intense safety analysis as part of this plan update, but that is something that could be looked at in the future, and this data would be helpful for that. This active transportation plan, this just shows existing multi-use bike and pedestrian trails and planned future multi-use trails. This map shows where the city would like trucks to be routed. So it shows some existing and some future roads. Like this road down here does not exist yet. But once it's built, that will be built as a truck route. As part of the plan, we did a an assessment of the existing pavement condition for every road in the city. So you can see here there's a grade on a scale of zero to 100. It's kind of like school if you're The higher you are, the better your grade is. And so the greener the road, the better condition it is. The redder it is, the worse condition it is. And so we have each road, we completed that assessment. You can click on the specific road and see the specific detailed grade. And then we use that information to create this next map, which... created a phasing plan for providing treatment to each road in the city. And you can look at each specific phase and see which projects are included in that phase, which type of project, the estimated cost of the project, and the estimated scope of the project. Any questions on this roadway treatment plan? Hey, it's a really good tool for transparency to help inform the public of that to make them know that the city is aware of certain concerns with existing pavement condition and that there is a plan in place. Okay, this last. Well, so this is the Transportation Improvement Plan. So this just shows the critical corridors to be built in the future. So we did a traffic model that went out to 2050. And we determined which roads are critical to be built by 2050. And you can see we've divided it into three phases. And so by phase three, all of these roads you see, we determined these are critical corridors that need to be built in order to have a free-flowing traffic network without a lot of congestion that's safe and reliable. And you can click on each road here in the map to see how many lanes we anticipate it will need to have, and then who would be responsible for building that road when it comes down to it. Then these last maps are level of service maps. So this just shows with the traffic modeling how well the roads are functioning. So this is the existing map. 2025, you can see there's, just like with the pavement condition, red is worse, green is better. You can see the highways are a little congested on the east side of the city. And so with those planned corridors, if you go to 2050, If you look at this left side, you can see we've been able to improve a lot of that just by adding in more corridors, widening certain roads. Like the highway, we recommend that that should be widened. And then you can see on the left, this is if it's improved. And on the right, if it's not improved, what it will look like. So this just creates a tool for the city moving forward to know what are the critical corridors. So for development, you can ensure that when developers come in and develop that those critical corridors are maintained so that you have a healthy traffic network in the future. So that's the bulk of the plan. Those are the maps that we created as a result of all of the data. If you look in the report, that mostly just has all of the raw data from the plan. It's about, I don't know, 70 pages, I think. Oh, it's only 50 pages. Nice. But if you want to read through the raw data of the report, you can look at that as well. Any questions for me?

Any questions? Thank you for your presentation.

Yeah, thanks for the opportunity to work on this project. It's been a good project.

Anybody have any concerns with the transportation master plan?

You can spend a lot of time getting all It ended out on roads in there. I thought they did a great job showing. There's some interesting things as you look at this, specifically I-80, how it maintains yellow and red even with the build-out. As we look within our district and really as we look within interconnectivity to the other valley, there's going to need to be either a major expansion of I-80 or high rail or other factors coming into this valley to make it, you know, functional for us. Yeah, all of the above. So anyway, yeah, I thought they did a good job. And this syncs in with the data from UDOT because we got separate data from them too. Did those two studies connect? Maybe that's a question.

There was a bit of overlap. We had for all of our coordination meetings with the city, there were representatives of UDOT there to ensure that for the UDOT corridors, those were planned out in the right location and that we were consistent with their planning.

Perfect. Matthew, two things I've noticed. on this map the level of service the one well going north need to be readjusted to the right location like you had on the original the first oh and then probably in the uh

Okay. Yeah, that's something. Those are some updates we can make.

Mayor, I'll make a motion. We approve Resolution 2026-49, approving the 2026 update to the Grantsville City Transportation Master Plan with the updates that our city manager just suggested.

Okay, we have a motion by Councilmember Dalton. Is there a second?

I second.

A second by Councilmember Williams. All in favor?

Aye.

All right. Item number 14, a consideration of resolution 2026-50, approving the pickup of member contributions for tier two public safety and firefighter contributory retirement system and authorizing the related employer election form.

It should be online.

Are you there, Heidi? Good evening, Mayor.

I am. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Can you guys hear me okay?

We can, yes.

Perfect. So historically, the city has picked up the public safety tier two contribution, employee contribution. It's been at 4.73%. It is increasing to 5.98%. The city can opt to continue picking that up for our officers or pass that on to the officers. I would recommend, obviously, to pick that up, to continue what we've done historically. This will allow our officers to keep more of their take-home pay, keeps us competitive with other agencies as well.

Can you go over the cost thing later, Heidi?

Yeah, of course. So if we do opt to pick up the additional cost, it would cost the city approximately $13,395 annually. That is if we keep the same exact number of officers we have that are in the tier two system. I did look at what other cities are doing. There was 82 different responses that were in there. 30 said that they were picking that up. 12 said they were not picking it up. And eight of them were pending pickup to be determined. Some were unknown. And then there was some no responses in there as well. And just so you guys are aware, this isn't an additional benefit or a new benefit. It is something that the city has been doing since, well, 2020 was when I went back to, we were at 2.27%.

A question, Heidi. So you're saying if we don't pick this up, the office would be mandatory required then to they would have to contribute then to URS.

Yes, that is correct. And they cannot opt out.

Yes. Okay. Other states do this where they force the officers to contribute to the URS system and it's mandatory. They don't have a choice. It takes it out of their pay.

That is correct.

This would be a pay cut for our officers if we didn't pick this up. I mean... Because it would be going to their retirement, but it would be mandatory. They wouldn't have the option to not contribute to that.

That is correct. This isn't an optional benefit for them. It's something that they have to pay into, and it's part of their pension. So the money doesn't go directly into their pocket. It goes into their pension. So once they retire, that's part of the pension benefit.

So I assume we don't have this increase in our new budget that we've worked on, correct? Because we didn't, did we know it was going to 5.98%?

Sorry, Heidi can talk in a second, but no, so it's not in the current interim budget that you guys approved earlier. I mean, we have budget for police officers for their benefits and stuff. So we'll be able to pick it up immediately, but I actually haven't, email drafted to Heidi right now to just get together with her to get, if it's approved to get the official amount. And then I would come to you at our first meeting in July with that budget amendment. So it'd be like the July 15th meeting, but.

And Heidi said it'd be around $13,000.

Yeah.

Yeah. She said, if we don't pick up any more officers, but we haven't approved any more officers this year.

Correct. So we would, we would only be budgeting for the current staffed officers at this time because there wasn't any, approved increases for additional staffing.

Is this a typical increase year to year type thing? Give us a little retirement history on that program. Yeah, of course.

Yeah. So in 2020,

2021, it was 2.7%. 2022 was 2.59. 2023 was also 2.59. 2024, it jumped to 4.73. 2025, 4.73. And then it jumped up again to 5.98. So we're looking at like a 1.2. 1.2, 1.25. Percent increase. Percent increase, yeah. Yes, sir.

So another dumb question. Do we have the option to say we'll pay the 4.73% we budgeted and make them pay the 1.98% that we haven't considered? Absolutely.

Yes. Yes, you can.

But again, that's going to put it because they have to do it like mandatory.

So that'll just come out of their portion of the agent.

They're taking off.

This is something that's straight across the board, whether it be to public safety or tier two or public employees, tier two as well. They have an increase also that the employees are picking up. The only difference is the city's not allowed to pick up the public employee, but they can pick up public safety.

Is there not an increase for tier one?

No, there is not.

But we do pick up tier one.

There is not a... Tier one and tier two are a different entity. they work a little bit different. And no, they don't have an employee portion.

Oh, because they have the benefit of already. Correct. Yeah, their benefits are a little bit different.

Okay.

I think it's probably a good thing. I think the timing's crappy because we've spent three months hashing out a budget and then the night of approval. So that's just my feelings.

Well, and I mean, everybody knows mine is transparency. Obviously my husband's in law enforcement, so I mean, he's grant for public safety. So, um, but I know these guys work hard and I can, I, I always support fire and law enforcement. Um, and, This would be a huge change for them. This is not something that, and they wouldn't see it in there. If we said we're going to pick this up, they don't see any difference in their paychecks. We're not giving them a raise. We're doing what we have to do to match what URS is giving them so they can keep that pension and not have it come out of their pocket. But that's always, most of the cities I've seen have done that, most departments, I guess. I shouldn't say all because obviously Heidi said there's some that have it, but it's a benefit in Utah. I know Arizona doesn't. And that was a pay cut for us when we moved to Arizona because the state does require you to do that. And it's hard for some of these younger guys who, you know, of course, they're probably not thinking about retirement. They should. But if you're suddenly saying now you must contribute and it's $13,000. And it's unfortunate that they increase this and we don't have a say in that. But that's my thoughts.

I mean, if you look at the numbers, what other people are doing, you've got 30 that are saying, yes, we're picking it up. And you have eight who are pending and 12 who say, no, we're not picking that additional up.

So for the 12, are you saying they're just keeping the 4.73 and they're making the officers pay the difference?

Correct. But they also, if I was to look at those cities, they could be paying more than a 3% COLA, they could also be paying a merit as well. So it's hard to compare kind of apples to apples on this.

Jake, did you have something you wanted to say?

No, I was going to say I'm kind of in line with Jeff's thoughts. So, you know, timing, timing, but I don't like to put the pressure back on her. I'm just torn.

I mean, they do great. They're all amazing, but just the timing is what it is.

Timing, but I also don't feel it should be put on your shoulders, in my opinion, so. I think we find a way to do it.

There, I hope that we approve Resolution 126, 50, approving the pickup of member contributions for tier two poet safety and firefighter contributory retirement system and authorizing the related employer election employer election form.

We have a motion by Councilmember Skinner. Is there a second?

I second.

We have a second by Councilmember Thomas. All in favor?

Aye. Aye.

Aye.

All opposed?

Nay.

Okay. We'll do a roll call. Councilmember Thomas? Aye. Dalton?

Aye.

Skinner? Aye. Williams? Nay. All right. Moving on to...

I'm only saying nay because I would agree to the 4.73 that we budgeted. It's just the additional. So, just wanted to state that. Okay. Thank you.

Item number 15. Consideration of an authorization to execute a memorandum of understanding with the Tooele Technical College.

I'll speak a little bit. We have Jess with the Technical College here.

Thanks, Jess, for sticking with us this time.

We do appreciate that. With the budget cuts, we did cut the technical college for the small business amounts. We were contributing $20,000 to that small business alliance. We cut that down to $5,000. And so this is the updated memorandum. to clarify that and put it as a yearly review is what we've agreed to. And they've agreed to make that change. And so they're going to come now yearly to us and kind of, again, depending on how much growth we see as a city from residential to our retail type thing and industrial. Maybe we can up that number in the future because we do want to recognize that the contribution that they have to the small businesses and what they bring to Grantsville is huge. And we want to keep that program going unless the council directs otherwise. But staff feel that that's a very important program for our small businesses and their contribution to that. So we didn't want to exclude that entirely. And so if you have any questions about the Small Business Alliance, Jess is here to answer those. Otherwise, the memorandum is just going to be changing it and reducing it from the 20,000 to the 5,000 and then to a yearly basis.

And I would also like to echo Michael statement that we, we do recognize and appreciate the contributions of the technical college and all that they do for our county in our city. Council. You sure may. Yes.

Want to thank The manager for his his handling of this and I just want to take a minute. and thank Grantsville City for the support that you give to small businesses. It makes a lot possible. At the SBDC and Tooele Technical College, we're not unsympathetic to the challenges that your city's facing right now. We know and we get it and we wanna be there with you on it. So, uh, we understand this and, and, and, and I just want to say that, that we're nothing but grateful, uh, for your willingness to continue to support those small businesses. Um, I don't know if they were able to get the report that I shared with you. Okay. I brought copies. I'll leave them with, uh, uh, with the manager. Um, to give you an idea of what the impact has been since we started in 2018 in Grantsville City specifically, so you can see that. I don't share that with you as any kind of leverage or anything, but I come every year in the fall to report on our impact, and I'm looking forward to doing that again this year. But I just want to say thank you. And I'll leave this information with you that might be helpful to you and wish you well. We want to be a part of the solution in any way that we can for the challenges that you're facing. And we're fully confident that those are going to be resolved and look forward to future partnerships. So thank you again.

Thanks, Justin.

We need a motion. Is this just an authorization to execute? Yes.

I make a motion that we authorize the execution of a Memorandum of Understanding with Tooele Technical College.

Okay, we have a motion. Is there a second? A motion by Councilmember Williams. Is there a second?

I'll second.

A second by Councilmember Dalton. All in favor?

Aye.

All right. Item number 16, a consideration of Resolution 2026-43, approving the Utah Wildfire Resources Memorandum of Understanding between the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands and the Grantsville Volunteer Fire Department.

Hello, Chief. Hello, Ms. Mayor, Councilmembers. Jason Remme, Fire Chief, Grantsville Fire. So this resolution seeks support of approval for Morant MOU between the Grantsville Volunteer Fire Department, Grantsville City, and the Utah Division of Forestry Fire and State Lands. The purpose of this MOU is to formalize how wildfire resources are coordinated and utilized between our city and the state. So this should have come in with the cooperation agreement that we approved Month ago? Yeah. Month ago? They should have been with that. So it's just in addition to that. So we work with the state, and when we go out on the wild empires, they pay us.

That's what I was curious. I was like, I think we got how we nailed this one. Yeah, they didn't send this extra document.

Yeah. Okay. So we're just seeking approval for the mayor or city manager to sign it and send it back to the state. We do this every year, right? Yeah.

Any discussion?

Mayor, make a motion. We move to approve Resolution 202643, approving the Utah Wildfire Resources Memorandum of Understanding between the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands and our fabulous Grantsville Volunteer Fire Department.

We have a motion by Councilmember Thomas. Is there a second? Second. Second by Council Member Skinner. All in favor?

Aye.

All right. Agenda item number 17 is Council Reports. We'll start with Jake.

I'll go quick. Update on obviously The Memorial Park is moving forward in anticipation of trying to get that closer to being finished by the 4th of July. I don't know if we'll reach that or not, but the name walls have been poured, the flint foundation has been poured, and then they were in the process of laying out the Purple Heart. And so progress moving along well in that, it's looking great. I had something that I was going to address specifically on that, but now I can't remember what it was. But yeah, that first phase is moving there. We're going to have some challenges after we achieve that first phase and kind of where we go next. But getting those primary components in is moving forward. I know that is exciting for many who have a lot of time in. Uh, we've seen some preliminary, uh, they're going to have a miniature version of the statue. Um, and I believe they'll have that for the 4th of July. So you can, you can see that, uh, there was the, we started the clay process and he brought that to, uh, one of the meetings specifically. It's, it's going to fit in Grantsville. It looks Grantsville. So, um, um, so you'll get to see, I know they've got rendering, but it, It's amazing the amount of detail that goes into creating a statue right down to measuring the firearm, the length of the firearm, how, you know, and this is all modeled after individuals. And so really, really gonna be a neat feature. You'll get to see what the statue will look like for the 4th of July, they'll have that. in the booth. So I encourage people to take a look at that. We've had several discussions regarding the use of the park and to report that is moving forward. More information to come on that probably following another report after some internal meetings. We started, we had our first economic development. I mean, thanks to all those that were involved in that and pushing that further forward and growing that to try to ensure we're supporting, we're doing a better, we're looking for a better opportunity to hopefully lower the tax burden uh, taxes that are issued to individuals and try to help more, uh, businesses come in and help carry some of that burden for, for our residents. So, uh, that's encouraging and moving forward. So lots of good stuff.

All right. Thanks. Jake dark.

I'm much, um, I did just kind of have a question. Um, Was it scenic slopes? And it looks great, by the way. It's amazing. But it's still an active construction zone. And so my question was, I saw about 10, 15 kids using that pump track. And I didn't know if we were trying to get them off, avoid it, or what are we on now? I just feel like there might be a liability.

You think? Yeah. It's real popular already. And it has been discussed. multiple times in the scenic slopes park review meetings. It's there. Yes.

Put an entire fence around it right now. The liability is on the contractor because we have instructions Or you do enforcement, but then I do enforcement 24-7. I mean, it's great.

It's being used, but I saw it and I was just like, oh, man.

I've been there twice. The two times I've been there, 20 individuals, and I say, guys, you're not supposed to be out here. You know, and it's, there's just, I mean. Don't go home and look at your tablets, right? You're out here using something that we're building. I appreciate you brought it up because I had the same concern. I can look into it more and see if we get the contract. Let me just reiterate it again and get it on the record that we have a concern there.

I mean, it's encouraging to see all those kids there. It's going to get used. It would be nice if we could just get that area finished.

It is looking good, though. It is looking good. It's amazing.

Not much on mine. We did a total county board of health event last month in Wendover, which was fun. We all drove out there. Well, Eric's drama flew out there. So it was fun. It was fun to go out to Wendover. And the Tolerant County Board has, from what I've learned, they have a lot of resources. They have a dentist office there that I didn't know. So I know citizens of Grantsville know you can go get low-cost. I don't know all what they have, but they actually have a dentist office at the Board of Health. So that was interesting. They just talked a little bit about the measles, how they're containing that, and things like that. They're getting ready to do their big assessment. The Board of Health is now doing their data gathering. We also joined the Utah Well-Being Project. They were kind of pushing us to do that, which Sounds like Grantsville did great. I haven't got the data back on that yet, but we put that out very quickly because they were wanting us to do that, but it sounds like overall it was positive and we got a good response from the citizens. I think we'll meet again next month and get an update.

Great. Jeff?

I did, I mean the mosquito abatement board is such a small thing, but they did spray for a rodeo I think and for that they, I don't know if you guys know, but they do spray our parks prior to our fourth activities. So that is, they know our dates that we begin and they will spray accordingly the parks a week before that.

The football team thanks you, by the way. Yeah.

They're pretty much do what we... I didn't say that right. They're very... If we ask them to spray an area, they'll spray an area. So if anyone just texts me, call me if there's a mosquito or some kind of problem. The gnats are gone, obviously. But they do take care of us and they know our dates, so... It is a kind of a small benefit to Grantsville City. The irrigation, we need to be there on the water. I'm aware of a few outstanding problems we have there, but we'll address them as we have a resolution. So I'm happy to be a part of that too. So they're a humble group of guys. Ready for it to rain. So it's good.

All right. Brett didn't ever join, correct? Okay.

Not that I could tell. I mean, unless he's on an iPhone.

Okay.

That's okay. I guess the biggest council report is gearing up for the 4th of July. We will send out sign-up sheets in the next, hopefully tomorrow. When we do that tomorrow, we should send out some sign-ups for hot dog cooking. So get ready to eat hot dogs for nine straight days.

I did verify, just so you guys are aware, I did verify it is one person has to have their food health permit per station. Per group. Yeah, per group. So, Jake?

That's how I got out of it last year, but this year, you know, I might as well know what the cool food at what temperature and how to ice bath stuff. It was great.

So it sounds like it's really enjoyable if you haven't done your food handler's permit. If you could get that done, that would be wonderful.

Will you remind us where we go to do that?

The food handler's permit? I can resend the link to you. Well, yeah, thanks. Sorry. That's okay.

The morning version is... I don't know if there's a live version, but I can't imagine being any better than the online version.

It sounds exciting.

Yes, the activities that we have will be lots of fun, lots of people. I appreciate all the people that are willing to make those things happen, especially our public works department in moving all the equipment back and forth all week long. It's a big job, and we appreciate that. I had some other things, but I'll just address those with you later because it's getting late. Thank you, everyone, for your participation. Thank you for being here tonight. And just a reminder that there will not be a council meeting on July 1st because the council will be cooking hot dogs. So we will meet again on the third Wednesday of July. And I think that's everything. Michael, do you have anything you need to add tonight?

No, thank you. That was mostly stuff I had. Okay.

Tyson, Alicia, anybody else on the city staff? Bill, Aspen, Christy? Anything else that needs to be addressed? Police. Thank you.

I'll just say thank you on behalf of the Tier 2 employees for that contribution.

I think we have 11 officers, and Tier 2 is July 1st, 2021. After that date is when they are certified, and they also... have to worry 25 years instead of 20 and less retirement. And some cities are like picking up a little bit more 401k and stuff to offset it. So it is like apples to apples. It's hard to compare, but they will appreciate it. And I do as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you for all you guys do.

All right. We just need a motion to adjourn.

I hear I make a motion. We adjourn. I second the motion.

All in favor.