City Council - Regular Meeting

actually sent out a professional video team and had done a lot of photography work on that as well. And so they created a video and it's on LinkedIn. So if anybody would like to see that, that's where it's at. Um, but I thought that was, you know, kudos to Whitaker and what's going on, but obviously the project isn't done yet, but it's it's nearing nearing the completion. Um, other than that, the other thing I wanted to mention is my hometown. I mean, all of us are part of my hometown and you know, we've got that the resource center that's started up again. But what I want to do is try is create a um a board that represents different denominations as well as businesses that I think would help this program. So when we get into maybe some of the service projects, we've got some experts there and also some additional hands that could, you know, really kind of make this program a program and work for us because I mean you all know our intent really is to kind of just make this a um you know a great place to be and for neighbors to help one another. So, um, I'm going to have a meeting next week on the 21st, 6 p.m. So, um, you guys are welcome to come have it here, the city. I'm not sure exactly where yet if it's going to be in the chambers or downstairs, but, um, anyway, that's my updates. So, does anybody else have any updates?

Um, I have a couple. Okay. Surprised. Um, so CTC, we have some new leadership for the for the incoming year. Um, which we're excited about. Um, we have Jess Brewer. She, um, is a part of our CTC because she lives in Leighton, but she also works for the school district and does a lot with the North Davis CTC, so we get kind of a breath of experience and wealth of knowledge there. Um and then um Melissa Coats who also lives here in Latin and has been working with RCTC for the past three years. She's going to be the vice chair. Um I'm still on the executive team um advisory, but those are the new um leadership roles and so yeah, we're excited about how things are going. Got some news coming up later, so we'll talk about that. Um and then I went to LPC on last Monday. Well, this Monday, I guess it was, um Drake and other Clint, we were on they were on the call. I went in person. There are quite a few things that we need to um just do some research on and be aware of. Um everything is taxes related, which I think we've already talked about that a little bit,

but there are a lot of um a lot of bills coming out about taxes. And so, um, we do have some calls to action. I left my notes at home on that, but I'll send some emails out, um, to our finance folks, and I can CC you, Alex, on them, that they want us to kind of check on things and how they might affect the city if any of these bills make it outside of their committee. And so, um, yeah, Clint's going to hear more about it next week when they have their board meeting. So if there are any updates, they'll give us those later. But lots of interesting things to be excited about such which starts on the 20th I think it is. That reminds me too, we've got our youth day on

day. Yeah. So we need to let Angela know if you haven't already who's going so we can make sure we plan accordingly. I can tell you that we've got 16 youth going. Yeah, we've got they were Oh, sorry. I told No, I was just going to tell say that that they they've got 15 15 now. One had a problem. Um,

but I told them they could when u Mr. Adams approaches them, they can call him Stewie Dave. And if he has a problem, you [laughter] just tell him they [clears throat] fine. But uh yeah, they're pretty excited. One thing, another thing that they all have, um jobs in one's the mayor, one's proim, you know, that kind of thing. And I said, ' Have you ever met with the mayor or you know the prom? No. I said, 'Well, that's kind of the idea of why you're doing what you're doing, even though you're doing things. So, there will I'm trying to set up a time,

okay? And I'll I'll I'll I'll let them set it up, right? But I'll just kind of push them that way. The you know, the city manager can, you know, they they know what you do. Okay. And so that's good. Anyway, so that's coming. Do you need more um do they need more adult help um for the morning session since there's that many? No, they they were fine. I asked him uh you know, do you need? And they says no, we're fine. So I don't know what that meant. They she she's new, so she may find out she doesn't. But, uh,

she seemed pretty confident when I talked to her. Well, she's more than pretty confident. I tell you, she has been down there. Best choice we've ever done. And, uh, so no, I think it'll be fun. Are they going to have a tour as well? Who's doing that? was Stewie was he just Yeah. That's why, you know, I told him that [snorts] you don't very often get somebody like Steuart to you and I said, "So, you you'll really want to make sure you're there for that." And I said, "You don't have to call him Stewart." That goes back a long ways. I kind of want to go and see if anybody does.

Oh, no. You You'd be more than welcome to. They would love any of the council at 9:00 meet at top of stairs 9:00 a.m. and you know and that would Yeah. They love it. Right. Pass. [laughter] Not yet. Not yet. Do you have anything, Clint?

The ramp commission met this week. They've got the grant applications for the ramp year. Um about basically the same amount of applications, but we are I think there's $2.7 million worth of worth of applications and $2.2 million worth of funds. So Oh, that's that's close. They're going to they're going to have a good time the next couple of months vetting. And uh included in that is is already that we decided as a council the was 1.1 million for the pool. Yeah. For

for the new bubble. So that's already and that's in there. It's part of that. So Okay. Yeah. And and we're we're hoping we're working on a couple of new commissioners.

Correct. Yeah. Yeah. And that's we've got we got the the applications and just so you guys know we we actually went through and did one round of interviews just to kind of see but honestly we need to do um this is where now I need everybody's buy in or have you guys weigh in on what you want to do here um because I mean there's what was it two three openings on ramp on ramp and two on parks

parks and wreck one uh one that's an alternate. So, um good applicants. And this is where I I might as well ask you guys. I know you you mentioned earlier, you know, you kind of wanted to kind of review everything. So, um, I'll ask you is that on the if we do, let's we're still in that that mindset then I'd like to kind of tackle that right away so we can because I can help with the selection process as well. So, but the key thing is availability [laughter] to discuss that. So, is that are you guys wanting to sit down and go through the bylaws and the go, you know, just because it's been 10 years, but even though they've been updating them and kind of adjusting as we go, do you, that was a question I know you've done earlier.

I think we should. So, the mayor had a listening session. Okay. Not not obvious not this last meeting, but the meeting before was held downstairs. There were how many? 10 alone. No, there was uh I counted there was 27. Oh, the different groups. Yeah. Yeah, we had a bunch. Yeah, there was good representation of all the groups. Chatted for a couple hours. There were some good ideas. Mayor took lots of notes as did the staff of questions and and their suggestions and such. So yeah, you got we might have to have a

special that's why I'm that's why I'm bringing it up because realistically you guys But that's not for right now though cuz it's right but soon. But yeah, the sooner the better because like I said if you know not that it would but it could play into how we want to select or who you know they need those commissioners quick. They do. Yeah.

It's high time. So I guess let me let knowing that let me ask this question because oh and I should acknowledge please put it in the notes that Zach did um Zach is here he's remote so I didn't want to not acknowledge him but um do you guys do you want me to just should we do you want me to share you the share the um applicants at this point and then you guys weigh in on I mean I can tell you what my opinion is but you know for the commission for the commission now and then we set our meeting or otherwise if not then I'm saying we need to meet by prompto next week and let's sit down and kind of go through things and then get our selection done within the following week or two.

So you've already evaluated I've done the first round. Yes. Yeah. And we had we actually had, you know, some other folks in there, but not not council representation. And that's what I'm saying. We really do need council representation. [clears throat] But you are asking for two separate things, though. Yeah, I'm asking two different things here. So that's why I'm kind of bringing that up.

Is is there bearing? Do you think that there needs to be bearing on how the process changes? Is that going to make a difference in who who would be selected to be on the commission? based upon the feedback we got? Not necessarily, but I know that you've had some conversations. So, that's why I'm like going, okay, I want to be respectful of that, too. And do you feel like that needs to change or not?

I mean, and would that be a part of this year's round? I mean, that's the thing. I if it's not going to necessarily affect what we're doing right now, then I don't think that those two have to be done together. And if we need commissioners now, I would say let's get the commissioners now and then we can review the just make sure that all of the bylaws and all the things are tightened up the way the way that we feel they should be. Okay. But I wouldn't hold off on moving forward on commissioners for that necessarily.

Well, like I said, there was, you know, there was good candidates that would be good on either commission quite honestly. And um I you know I feel pretty confident after talking to several of them and um interesting enough you know I mean what they put on paper and then obviously their their vast knowledge is two different things right so that I was kind of looking at that and I think some of um I know Mr. prices in there as well and Kimberly and you know so everybody so we kind of was looking at the whole picture of all of that just to make sure but um the thing that we I that is critical too is the fact that whoever applies for that they need to be a lat resident. So we did have some applications that were not lat residents. So that was so unfortunately you know that does really

you eliminated those. Yeah. Yeah. So, is that been changed? What's that mean? So, are the people on the commission now late residents? They always have. Yeah. The ordinance says that the atlarge members will be chosen from among the residents of late at large. Yeah. The five members that are not subject matter experts like particular organization. Yeah. Yeah. Because I I I thought there was one lady that was on there that wasn't.

Yeah. She was one of the she was one of the experts matters council. Oh, she Okay. Yeah. Okay. Lure rest. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. [clears throat] Okay. Well, if you guys are good, then you know I'll you know go ahead and proceed. Yeah. Let's get going. I Okay, they need them and and waiting isn't going to help them. Okay. Yeah.

All right. And then I'll send out some dates on when we should probably get together and kind of go through bylaws as well so that we can make sure we're staying on task on that so that you know, I mean, we're one, we're very familiar with it ourselves, but then also if there's any tweaking based upon feedback from that. Okay.

All right. Well, that's a good report there to a lot of the time, but that's all right. That's what we're here for. Um, anybody else have anything? Okay. If not, let's go ahead and go on then to item number three, which is the Davis County Health Department presentation. So, we have with us Isa Perry, who's um give us a I guess a educational moment, right?

Yeah. Thank you, Mayor Petro. Thanks for the opportunity to be here. Um, yeah, I'm Isa Perry, Davis County Health Department, and um, just wanted to share with you and some information about Davis links. Um, we've been working Oh, we're going to just kind of go over the one pager because it's it's the quickest way to um, give you the Let's see. Can I Oh, there we go. Thank you. Zach, sorry. Does everybody have one?

Yes. Yeah. Okay. So, uh, Davis Links is connects everyone in Davis County to essential resources and services, helping close the gap between needs and available support. So, this is a source for all of our trusted resources [clears throat] in Davis County. There's over 2,000 programs and services in the directory on the platform. Many of those are free and low cost and they're for all stages of life. Um, this is a platform that's very broad in scope. So, it's for basic needs. um mental health, family support, outdoor opportunities, but it's also um providers. So, not everything has to be free or low cost. If it's a resource that supports well-being, it can be in there, should be in there. Um it's free to use. There's no account required. It's private um searches and is available in more than 130 languages. And this Davis links is part of it's a resource directory, but it's really a network of how we connect all of the systems and how we just have one brand and one name to get everybody to where they need to go. So, it's really easy to search. Um, you search by keyword, zip code. I'll maybe demo that for you in just a quick second. Um, you can filter. There's so many filters for people's individual characteristics or the services they're looking for. Um, so our vision is a community where everyone is connected, supported, and empowered to achieve well-being through a trusted network of care. If you guys want to, you can scan that QR code and go to the site. I'd love to have you do it on your phone. Um, so you can kind of see what I'm talking about. Let's see. Oops. So, I wanted to give you just a teeny bit of background. So we the health department are the administrating this at this time but it's because our community partners have asked us to be in this role and do this for them. There's not been a meeting in 12 years that I have not

heard how can we get resources in one place. How do we know what's available? Um like we need to know where to go. So this has been a 10-year process to get to this point. Um the Davis County Human Services cabinet is serving as our advisory board and Davis for Health is the community health and collab or community health improve sorry improvement collaborative that I lead and this is the community strategic plan. This is what they want and in our community health improvement plan our strategic plan for the county based on resident input and all of our stakeholder input. They want improved access to resources and services. So Davis Links is the brand. It's our community connector network. It's our resource connection brand for Davis County. And you can see these different components. It's a resource directory. Um the directory is powered by FindHelp. That's a national social care platform. And it's free. If you went to findhelp.org, you'd see it. And there's lots of free or lowcost programs there. But Davis Links is our white label. It's our local brand and it allows us to put whatever we want in it, not just the narrow scope that most of these directories include. You can see all the service categories that are there. Sorry, that's a little small. Basic needs, health and wellness, financial stability, education and youth, family and relationships, justice and legal, community and enrichment, and crisis and emergency. I mean, those are just kind of high summaries of all the resources that are in there. So, this is kind this is an example of one of our TV monitor images that we're putting up wherever people have TV monitor images for the public. Um, it's your go-to source for trusted resources. It's a place to find, connect, and get that support. So, um, davislinks.org. I'm going to, um, yes, we're going to go out and we're going to look at this website. Is this the right one?

Okay. So, just wanted to show you if you guys are on your phone, have you tested it? Did you search or what did you search for, Joy? Financial. Financial. And what came up? Uh 2,000 different opportunities. Did you see a specific program that was local that Yes. Okay. What was local? Did you see anything? Yeah, there was a AP. Speaking for all of our seniors here. Awesome. Nice. Not in this room. But you know, in general,

anybody else? Did anybody else try something? Um, you can do food. Uh you can do family, you can search, you can actually use Leighton as your keyword and then see what comes up that has the name Leighton in it. And so that's a way um you know we want to know if this isn't working. We want to know if people aren't finding resources, but we are hearing amazing stories about people finding what they need. Um uh we have some of our police departments who are saying I have yet to not find what someone needed when I visited. So um Betina has a good success story she can maybe share with you. Do you want to share it, Betina?

Sure. I was just looking for it so I could be very specific. Well, she's looking I will say what attracted me to the finance is there's a lot of free help for your taxes

and that's what I was thinking. Okay, everybody's in thinking about taxes right now. So that'd be a good place to go. Yeah. And along while you're talking about finances and budget, I'm just going to point out this other feature. So, we have a community announcements um link here on the page. You can get to it from your phone, too. This takes you to a shared folder. Oh, this is I would say we want to look at it by uh don't switch by picture, but this is all of the current classes, um opportunities, events coming up. And look right here. Personal finance being taught at the library right here. budget mastermind workshops being taught at USU like these are literally coming up immediately and there's some tax help too like where people can go to the VA sites if it's not here yet it will be added so that's just something where you know these are the things that change these are the things that have certain dates that you can enroll in but it's just one of those resources as part of the platform that we like to get our um community members to all of those things. So, the other things that you can see here are um how to become a provider. Providers can have accounts. They can track the people they're helping. They can make referrals. They can manage their accounts, update their hours, do all that kind of thing. We also have a promotion toolkit. And then another part of Davis Links that we've actually had for over 10 years now is monthly resource form. So, all of our providers come chat with each other, get skills, um network, learn about new things. And so this is more than just this online directory. I want to emphasize it is a whole network. It is an umbrella for all human service providers and all resources to support well-being. Patina, you want to tell your success story?

Sure. So um on January 3rd, um somebody one of my friends text me that she was in a a Facebook group and there was a woman an older woman who put a ch put a message in that group. um she was widowed um and was lonely, couldn't drive, and didn't have a car. And so they were wondering about services in the city or the county that she could connect her with. And I said, "Well, you know, I didn't have anything specific, but I did tell her that Davis County had a really um robust aging department." And I sent her the the website. And I just said, "Oh, you can check out davislinks.org. There's, you know, quite a few things there." And I sent her a couple of other links. And so just like an hour later, she sent me a message um thanking me for connecting her to this information for her friend and also that the woman didn't know that Davis County had bereavement services and that was something that was really valuable to her as she was looking for all of these other things. She happened upon that and then she was able to connect to that resource and that was I mean January 3rd was a Saturday. So, I mean, this is a big deal for a lot of people in her area for any types of programs. So,

yeah. So, what's awesome about what Vetina did is she knows we have tons of aging resources and supports for that population, but she didn't have to say go to David County Health Department, go to AP, go to D. She said go to Davis Links and then Davis Links got her to everything and grief and loss resources. And we have a whole slew of resources for grief and loss. It's another been another huge initiative um that we've been um part of and they're all in here now. So I if grief or loss has impacted you, I would say search for grief and put the zip code in and you'll find a lot of support in our community. Um I did mention the provider site. So this is just um the specific website where our um like health and humans human service providers, our businesses, those type of even the city um like we want cities to be involved. We've added, I think, your parks and wreck, um, the victim's advocate, the library is in there, some other things, but we really want to find that point person in the city who wants to get it right for your city and make sure everything you guys have laton, surf, and swim, all the things are in there, accurate, and um, done well. So, let me know if there's a point person for that because that's how we've been working with health care systems, um, food pantries, you name it. We're working with all of those groups to get their listings just how they want them. Um, I actually have just updated this today since I sent this, but in 2025, we had over 18,000 searches in Davis Links, and it actually didn't even launch for the public till August. Um, but we spent a whole year working with providers so that we knew there would be thousands of resources and that they would be accurate before we set the public loose on going to the site. So, between providers and the community, we're up to 18,000 services or 18,000 searches. Um,

I did just check Leighton's analytics as well and you guys had over 7,000 searches for your zip codes already. Yeah. Um, so we have really, really strong analytics on the back end of this and if you're a have an account as a provider, um, you can see how your programs are being accessed and shared and all of that, but we can get that data. Um, we'd love to, um, you know, keep you updated on how that's going for your city. So, I'm going to send around these uh, business cards as well. Pass one of those around. So, these are just our quick business card. Also have the QR code. Just wanted to show the backside is in Spanish. Um, we have a direct URL to the Spanish site and all of our primary materials have been translated into Spanish as well. So hopefully that's available um for the groups that need them. We are tracking every QR code scan so we know which um promotional materials are working the best. We can see who's scanning what and how many. Um we have, like I said, promotional images for TV monitors. If you guys have any in the city, keep that in mind. We can add them. We have social media. We're doing every Tuesday we're doing Davis Links posts. So, we've shared some of this with your city reps for newsletters and social media. Some cities have shared um but every Tuesday we're spotlighting another type of resource, another way Davis Links is supporting the community. You can add a simple search, a search widget to your website if you'd like to. I know North Salt Lake has added um Vegas links to their website. We can do staff trainings. Um we just realize water's not to the end of the row. It's going to take a long time. Um but we'd love to um work with any of you, all of you, in whatever ways you think we can get the word out. We're going to community events, putting these things up at coffee shops, and just getting out there. Um I kind of alluded to this. Um Mayor Petro said, "Hey, let's put these

in our new welcome kits." Awesome. We got those um going out already. And like I said, we've got some city sharing on social media, doing newsletter articles, adding to their website or like in the county lobbies. Um it's on the TV monitor there where a lot of public come in and out. So, we'd be happy to work with you on any of those ways. And this is a team. Um there's a team of four of us. This is our email, Davislinks daviscountah.gov. You can email that and we will respond immediately. We are on this. we want it to be successful and so um we're just helping people um with whatever support they need to use the platform to spread the word to ask questions so I think that's suggested but do you guys have any questions about it have any questions

I just have funding question is this [laughter] this a one time or or is it ongoing yeah money for yeah for for you all and all that. This is a lot. It is. This is a lot.

It's such a good question and um it costs about [laughter] $160,000 for to do this for a year. Um as we've been doing this the last two years, ramping it up, doing all the research, working with all the partners, we've had that magic co, you know, um one-time funding. It's long gone. And so we are at the cliff of not having funding. So, you know, you asked, we're looking for sustainability. Um, we're looking at sustainability routes. We've applied for grants from every healthcare system and you will likely see me back asking about CDBG funding as well because this is supporting every single social service organization in our county and it feels like it's something that we can find a way to have our county help support. So, yes, you asked a question, you know, to the future. You'll see me on February 5th. [laughter] That's what Morgan said. Anyways, yeah. Any other questions? But we're going to carry some of that load, too. As the health department, a defined health subscription is like 32,000 a year. We're we can commit to pay that annual amount, but we need to continue to like spread the word, market a little bit. We need a staff person. So, you got all the things of like it does require some funds to keep it going, but we want to prove that it's working.

Yeah. Yeah. I was just going to say, could you um confirm on the provider piece? So you all and staff have worked with providers for the last year or so inputting information in here, but there are some there's some information in here where providers have not yet uh claimed what their information is. I guess kind of like Google, right? Like yeah, they want somebody to validate the information. And so when you mentioned the city for example and wanting somebody from the city to say this is our chef, this is correct. But the same can be for any other resources that are in here, right?

Yeah. Um, can I show them that really quick? If I'll just since you asked, I think it's a great question and we can do it quickly. Will you type Leighton and then 84040 and search and I'll give you a good example of what Betina is talking about. They do have this quick verify that it's a human. Okay, so we search Leighton See, there's Let's see. I thought this would be really quick. Let's see. Where is it? Maybe it's going to be a wreck. There's a lot of things in Leighton. Leighton City Trails. Okay. So, if this were claimed, there would be a check box right here. So, see that check box? That means AVA Counseling in Leighton has claimed their program. They're managing it. It tells you when they updated it last. It tells you all their details. it tags it with all the appropriate things, see more information. There's lots of ways to share this. Um, there's many, many amazing features of this platform. And so, the idea is is that the ones in here that are run by Leighton City and whoever your point person is, we want them to claim it, get it right, and then that checkbox is there. And that's a goal of ours is to have this really strongly supported system where these aren't just programs that are floating out there, but they're owned by somebody. Someone is responsible for them and so we know that they're up toate and accurate and we help everybody get through that process. It's not very hard, but we also want to just make it super simple by just helping through it.

Y So if you clicked on more information, it would be blank now or there. There's just a little bit. Let's see where it's it's taking a Facebook page. And I don't actually know if we added this or if somebody else did because um the public can suggest a program. There's so many ways to do this. Like the public can suggest it, the provider can add it. And so there's lots of ways things get in here, but they're really good about vetting um and proving that you are the actual owner before they let you claim it. Oh, see their city's parks and wreck. We want that check right there.

So, have the guy in the [laughter] hot. Okay, that's for legend cities. I think um we would want to see and you don't have to show us this obviously. We can do it ourselves, but we would want to see all of the all of the services that are attached to us because there may not be like one person that we would want to be responsible for everything, right? Like you have parks and wreck on here. We've got Dave and his crew, but victim's advocate services that would not be Dave and his crew. You know what I mean? So, I think that we'd have to see what what is in there and be able to identify who would be what department would be wanting to to look at that and verify it.

Yeah. I mean, we have over a hundred programs as the health department. I mean, when you have a large organization, Davis Behavioral Health has over 60. It takes some internal coordination to figure out who's going to do what and we're happy to work through that, talk through that. Health care systems run into the same thing. Um, but yeah, that's a big organization and and you can do it well because you have experts in all those areas. I'm glad you asked the question.

Okay. Well, I think we spent enough time there. So, thank you. We appreciate it. Right. Um, let's go ahead and go on to the next item here, which is our Davis Arts Council. So, Madam Chair, hello with whoever.

Thank you. We're going to sit if that's okay.

Absolutely. Um, I am Nancy George. I am serving as the board chair for Davis Arts Council. This is Ross Marshall. He is the vice chair and we're just tickled to be here. Um, glad you had us come and share what last year was like for Davis Arts Council in 2025. You can see a gorgeous view of our amphitheater with a lot of patrons enjoying an event having an experience. Our mission is to enrich and strengthen our community through the power of the arts. We take that serious in in our programming and how the board functions and what we want to offer um to our community. Our vision is to be Davis County's premier multidisciplinary arts organization which is accessible to the entire community. That's very important to us. And just a little snapshot, Davis Arts Council was founded in 1979 under the direction of that mayor and city council. They asked a group of

student or group of individuals to create an arts organization and work with Leighton City and provide programming and different events for Leighton that has grown in the 45 years. Uh we have right now an 11 member board of trustees and yes our city liaison is Dave Thomas and we're so happy that he supports us and and um gives counsel and is a great advocate. We have a robust board of trustees. We have four full-time and two part-time staff members who are dedicated and talented and we have a great u band of volunteers. I would like to highlight also that we focus on affordable and accessible programming and we try very hard to make our events, the majority of them free or lowcost so that members of our community can participate and come and we really do want to distinguish ourselves as this cultural hub and a centerpiece in partnership with Clayton City. Again, just a a brief timeline. And I want to highlight a couple of things of 45 years has gone by pretty fast and look at what's been accomplished. We have gained we we got 501c3 status. We opened the Kenley Amphitheater. Leighton City did. Our summer nights started and last year we celebrated 30 years with the Kennley Amphitheater. All again creating experiences for our community. Um 45 years is a long time to provide all of this for our community and and it's been compared to we're on the front porch of Leighton City. Come and enjoy and it doesn't matter your background, your ability, whatever where you've come from, you come and enjoy together. And

that's the purpose of Davis Arts Council and the impact to our community. very quickly. Last year, 85% of our events were free to attend. 40,000 patrons participated in and and it maybe came to 10 events, but we touched 40,000 people throughout our community. You can't do that without volunteers participating and helping to put on these activities. So, over 5,000 volunteer hours is a lot. Um, we had 300 different artists come. We employ them. We're able to pay them. And these are maybe artists starting out and wanting a break or to some seasoned um I'll touch on in a few minutes, but to have Casey and the Sunshine Band come. Mr. Casey, we wanted to we've had run the gamut on who comes and we're grateful for the opportunity. our reach. This heat uh map shows the m where the majority of our focus and patrons come from. But the community outreach um they come from a lot of places. They want to enjoy an event at usually at the Kennley but at other outreaching areas of Davis Arts Council and they come to Leighton City and they come and spend their dollars here which is a great thing for us to have. Here's our flagship program, Summer Nights with the Stars. We had g put on 14 or excuse me 15 concerts last year and as I alluded Casey and the Sunshine Band, Sawyer Brown and Lover Boy. We had a great time um putting on these shows. This is a list of our free programming that Leighton Ramp helps fund and

provides that opportunity for us to put on these different programs. And I'm going to highlight some of them. our free program programming that we offer late uh the free Sunday night concert series is the longest running free outdoor concert series in the state. Um June through August we have artists again maybe [clears throat] those looking for a break a little more tenure artists that come and perform again that experience and we find that a lot of patrons we have our Sunday night concert patrons we have our free Friday night film patrons and and while they they spill over into other areas we know who's coming and and why they're coming to enjoy Joy. And a couple years ago, we switched the model for our film series and private previously we were doing uh hitting maybe what a teenager would like, what would an older adult like? And and really the family focused films are what brings people out. And so they focused on those the last couple of years. Our big LED screen allows us to start earlier. So, if you've had a small family, waiting for 8 or 9:00 at night to go to the movies doesn't work. We can start at 7 o'clock and then the younger kids get to come and participate. You'll also see that increase almost a 30% more patrons came this year in 2025 and 2024. So, that model must be working because they're coming. Our small stage steer series currently takes place at the Abington Senior Living in Leighton. This is available for non residents and residents of the Abington. Um at some point we would love to have our own small stage space, but

right now this is a perfect place where small groups and and performing groups come and and put on a program. Although it's not a part of last year, this year we've added storytelling that happens on the second Friday of each month and um excuse me, the third Friday of the month. And we're excited at the response and next year we'll come and tell you just how it went. But storytelling is very big right now and we're excited about having it. Our active pages, a storytelling event through Leighton Park. These run in October and December. Uh we offer accessible non-walking performances as well as an ASL interpretation session of active pages. Again, ensuring accessibility to all of our community. These are wellreceived and attendees receive a free book. another focus on what do our what does our community need and what we want to provide. This year for our youth student art exhibit, we had a record number 115 students participate and then submit an entry. Um, ages 9 or excuse me, grades 9th through 12th grade participate and submit. The the cute gentleman on the right was our grand prize winner. And it is so fun to see see these artists come and these students. Anyone who submits an art exhibit has it displayed for a period of time at Davis Conference Center. This is great opportunity for students to bring their parents point to a picture on the wall and say this is mine. I did this. And so we also have cash prizes um and we recognize our winners, but everyone gets to participate and have it presented. Uh we

also rotate local artists quarterly at the Inter Mountain Leighton Hospital and at the Snowhorse Art Gallery. We were a first for Davis County this year. We invited Thriller from Odyssey Dance Theater to come for two nights at the end of September. First time Thriller's been in Davis County. and we tapped in in a whole new audience. I I told our programming director after the first night, I didn't know anybody sitting next to me like I do at summer nights because it was a whole new group. We had families, we had dance groups, we had individuals who told [clears throat] me, "I go to this every year, but I go in often or I go in Salt Lake, I get to come to Leighton to it this year." And so it was great to have it here. Um, and we look forward to hopefully having that again. We are so happy to collaborate with Leighton City in the city's events, which are also very important. Our staff and our huge volunteer core, they support the city events that are so important to the community. Pioneer Day, Independence Day, the Voices of Liberty. We love co-presenting programs with Parks and Wreck. Um, our Whispers in the Dark Scary Storytelling Festival is gaining momentum and and a lot more attendees coming. We're looking forward in this new year. We have a community art mural and opportunity coming up and we're excited to co-present with Parks and Wreck on an America 250 event. We love coordinating with the Heritage Museum. They look at what we're doing and then add an exhibit or an experience at the museum that that coordinates with uh the story scary storytelling or a movie that's happening on a Friday night

or active pages. Again, a way to collaborate with Leighton City. Davis Arts Council helped promote the Yes campaign. We were heavily involved. We had a vested interest in its passage. We took the opportunity at every Davis Arts Council event to educate and to remind and to invite Leighton City residents to please vote for RAMP and we were thrilled with its passage and grateful for its support. Our free programming frankly can't happen without RAMP and we're very appreciative for it. um the opportunity to submit our applications and and receive funding. In short, Leighton City is our valued and founding partner. We we're incredibly grateful for your support for all those years ago. A great idea came together. Um and we're seeing the fruits of it now and opportunity for greater success. Um, we look forward to continued collaboration opportunities and again it's about those experiences. We want patrons to walk away and feel like they've been a part of something great. Whether that's a Friday film, it's my children got a free book, my son. Look at that's his artwork there. There are so many ways that Davis Arts Council is is touching the community and providing opportunities and we're grateful to

[clears throat] um have it be here in Leighton City, have it at the Kenley Amphitheater, at the park, at different areas, but we're very grateful for the opportunity and we thank you for your support. Do you have any questions for us? Any questions? I have one. Sure. Um, you mentioned that you were interested in having like a more permanent space to do the small stage series. Um, and I'm just wondering if and when you find that, would you still use the Abington just cuz I think that's a really awesome thing to do for those residents who don't get to

That's a great question. I I don't think we would rule that out. It's been a really successful I'm actually pleased with how many non-residents go there. You mean non-residents of the non-res excuse me. Yes. Non-residentidents of the Abington. I I couldn't give you the number of what the ratio is, but there's a lot of of individuals who go to those events there. It's easy to find. It's it's a decent parking and it it's so I I wouldn't rule that out because it has been it's a win-win. Yeah. Well, and years ago you guys used to do travel around to all those different centers.

Yes. And that was [clears throat] that was impactful, too. Yeah. And and the chamber series which used to be but some of the last Friday or two Fridays ago the first activ or event in January was more along the lines of a chamber event at Abington. So they're bringing in a variety but as I've gone I see plenty walking in with me which I agree is great. Cool. Any other questions? No. Thank you very much. Thanks for running it the way you have and bringing in as many programming and touching so many people. Thank you very much. We'll make this available. It looked better on my laptop. Yeah, it always does. So, apologize,

but thank you so much. We appreciate it. Okay. Well, we only have one more item on here, but um I'm going to take a quick break here. So, before anybody leaves in the room, you might want to stay for a second. We actually have a birthday celebration. So, uh it's it was Clint's birthday on the 3rd. [clears throat] Is that correct? And so, um what we like to do traditionally here is uh whoseever's birthday it is, we want to acknowledge it and then that person gets to decide what uh what's their preference of a treat or item to share tonight. So, Clint has chosen the famous

the famous Yes. peanut butter bar from Davis County School District. I mean, yeah, these are I'm gonna hand those to you so that you can share and then we'll send the other ones around cuz um that way uh we can acknowledge and say thank you and happy birthday. Well, you're very kind. Thank you. Wait, wait, wait. Yeah, I always forget about those. [clears throat] [laughter] [cough] I'm just joking. Just Thank you.

I was going to say they they need some napkins back there. Thank you. I'm not taking one cup of this one. Yeah, that'd be terrible if you could eat them. [laughter] He's got a whole plate. Yeah, we've got more back here. The health department says no. [laughter] She's going to shut you down. Okay. Thank you you guys. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you very much. So good. Get one. Um I I wasn't Nobody was willing to take it. You You got to have honors first.

Did you get one? and have all the rest. All the rest.

Thanks for being born. Yeah. Yeah. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Everybody else, did you guys grab one here then? If you want to talk after, I can talk about a AARP too. Okay. [laughter] You can go to davislings.org. Yeah. Was it a milestone? Oh, I don't. Every Thursday is a milestone.

Okay. I was listening. I'm not I'm not I'm not sticking my foot in my mouth this time. [laughter] I'll have yours, Zach. Yeah. Listen, Zack. Sounds good. Okay, let's go ahead and go on to item number five. Um, which is the relocation of the water facilities or grandpasement. So, Department of Transportation.

Perfect. Thank you for letting me be here, mayor council. Um, tonight on the the agenda for the regular meeting is the resolution 2601. Um this stems from a long time ago I guess now five years plus we were working on UD do a US89 project and signed some agreements that as the utilities were relocated along that corridor that the the reclamation lines would have easements established. So UD do is still I know the road has been open for years now but UD do is still cleaning up all the the property and all the other things that are going on. So this is kind of a remnant of that. But there's three um easements that we need to grant approve and grant to UD do which in turn they will transfer to the United States of America for the Bureau of Reclamation. Um, so there's there's a small easement that crosses the road here at Marvel's Way Dreams End and then it continues to the north along this ride of way here. And and so that's the the associated address that's on each one of those um easements there. Again, it's a secondary water line. We baser that water line, but it's owned by the Bureau of Reclamation. And then this 1985 Value Drive is on the east side. There is a little asphalt pathway walkway there that um I don't know that it gets much use anymore now that the the highway is is built, but but we have some utilities along that corridor as well, but there is a secondary water line in there. Um so that that is in a nutshell what these easements are. That's the the background behind them is that we've agreed to grant these easements uh previously in documents and this is just the the formal action by the council to to grant these easements now the project is finished and and they're wrapping up all the loose ends five years later. So

any any questions I can answer? Yeah, I got just my experience work working with you do and their contractors. I'm assuming our teams looked at it. They're satisfied with what they've done. Everything's [clears throat] complete to our satisfaction. Yeah. Yeah. The engineering division reviewed all the easements, all the legal descriptions. Um Clint's team reviewed all of the documents for the legal part of that. And so, yeah, everything is is right, the way we would typically accept them. And so, that's the process that we follow. Is that like the earthquake stuff that they did cross in '89?

No, these are these are much smaller much smaller water lines. They're actually kind of the service lines for the the area where they they serve secondary water. So, believe it or not, we actually operate those. They're Bureau of Reclamation lines, but we operate the system that delivers the water to our residents. zone. Um, typically some some utilities don't require an easement when they're in our rights of way, but but the Bure of Reclamation does because they're the United States government. Sure. All right. Sounds good to me. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you very much.

Good information, lengthy information. Okay. Um, we have one more item on our agenda. which is a closed door session. So, we'll need to uh entertain a motion to go into our closed door session and excuse anyone who's

everyone out to our Leighton City Council meeting this evening. Um it's January 15th and we'll be starting. I want to acknowledge the fact that we do have a full quorum here. We've got everyone here up on the dis. However, we do have Miss uh council member Zach Bloxom that is online as well. [snorts]

And tonight we especially want to welcome our newest member of our Leighton City Council council, Mr. Mike Lendrianis. Um he's here to my left, your right. So anyway, welcome Mike. We're glad to have you part of the team here. Um in addition to that, I have uh Ian Scatty with me who is from our youth council. So, um, Ian, in a minute, I'm going to have you report to us as well. But, um, before we do that, I want everyone to know that, uh, typically what, well, typically and every time, and I'm very honored to say that we like to start all of our meetings here with a prayer and a pledge, and we take turns in conducting that on a monthly basis. So, tonight, I'm going to turn the time over to Council Member Clint Morris for those ceremonial Uh,

thank you, Madam Mayor. I will offer an invocation then afterwards if I invite everyone to join me in the stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. Our father in heaven, we are grateful this evening to be gathered as city officials and residents, elected officials of of this great city of Leighton. We are grateful for the blessings that thou has provided to each one of us and to this great community. We ask that thou would please bless us this evening with wisdom as we deliberate and and talk about the and make decisions for the government for of of this great city. We ask also a special blessing upon our first responders and fire and police and our dispatchers and our public works employees who work around the clock to ensure our safety here in our in our home. Again, we're grateful for this opportunity and we say these things and do do so in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. If you'd all please stand.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. Yeah, it's been closed back there, so I'm not sure. Maybe you can turn it down. Okay. Thank you very much. And thank you, Council Member Morris, for that beautiful prayer and and leading us in the pledge of allegiance, which is something that all of us need to really make sure we take to heart and recognize the importance of it. Okay, with that, um I know we got a lot of uh folks in the audience, so welcome everyone. We're glad you're here tonight with us. And as I mentioned earlier, um I have Ian with me who's a rep who is actually a council member of our youth council. So Ian, would you mind just taking a quick moment and explaining or giving us your highlights as far as being on that?

You're going to need to speak tonight. I'll do my best. You can even stand up if you'd like. Stand up. Um so I'm the youth mayor. Uh, one of the things I love most about Leighton City Youth Council is that it just is like gives me more opportunities to serve this serve our city. Like I'm about to graduate high school and without this I wouldn't have known anything about like how our city works, how the council works and so being on the youth council gave me the opportunity to do that. So I'm super grateful for it. So yeah. Okay. Thank you, mayor. I misspoke there. I apologize. [laughter]

Okay. Um, so yeah, we're glad to have you up here. And what we'll try to do is we'll take turns with all the members of who's on our youth council to be able to come up and join us um at our our meeting so they truly experience what it's like. Um, I'd now like to go ahead and um go on to any municipal announcements. So any of the council members who have any of those announcements, you're welcome to speak at this time. Anybody have one? Yes. Go ahead, please.

Thanks, Mayor. Um, so I just want to remind everyone that we have a Leighton Communities that Care coalition. Um, it's the beginning of the year, so if you're looking for volunteer opportunities, we have um opportunities on the coalition. We have board opportunities. And the coalition is something that we use to help in suicide and drug prevent drug and alcohol prevention in our youth here in the city. And so if you are interested, you can go to the Davis Behavioral Health website or you can look for Leighton Communities that care on Facebook. We have lots of programs um that we take that we take place in during the year and there are lots of classes and other opportunities. And then the last thing I want to highlight, during our work session, we had a member from the Davis County Health Department come to talk to us about a resource um a network of resources for any resident of Davis County called Davislinks.org. That's d- a vis nks.org. And you can use this live resource now. It's kind of like 211, but it's online and it has access to any and everything that you could want, whether it was job, job services or food, finances, um, bereiement, grief, loss, any of those types of services and more. So, this is a new resource and it's free and it's for everyone in our county. So, just wanted to share that with you all today.

Thank you very much uh for reporting on that. And in addition to that, you guys uh we also have our own myelm town initiative which um every Thursday evening at the chapel that's behind the fresh markets, they have uh programming going on there which uh again they have a website. It's my hometown my hometown [music] do um hang on I can't remember it now. my hometown, Leighton, and um you can go there and kind of look at the resources there that they have as well, which again ties beautifully into what council member Smith Edmonson said as far as on the Davis link site. So, thank you. Anyone else have any announcements here tonight? Mr. Thomas?

Yeah, Ed, what's going on? Yeah. Yeah, just live with it. Is that what you're telling me? Yeah. Okay. So, again, as I mentioned, we have council members uh Bloxom that is online. And so, if you are hearing that reverb or that bounce back, that's what it's from. But in respect to having a full quorum, we're going to uh go ahead and and keep it on because that's what we need to do.

Yep. How you doing, noisy? Just want to say on the 6th, not the 13th, is a Valentine's dance. It's usually the the Saturday before, but this year, for some reason, they moved it to the 6th. So, there's a free Valentine's dance at Central Davis Junior High. Uh, it's for the whole family. Bring your kids, your grandkids. It's a lot of fun. The music may not be up your alley because it's all 60s music and some of you guys weren't around then. Some of you were, but anyway, so that's what's happening.

Okay, thank you, Mr. Thomas. Okay, anyone else? Okay, with that then let's go ahead and move on to um actually we're going to do our verbal petitions before we get to citizens comment. And these verbal petitions are are extremely important to us and and a highlight for all of us here on the council because we're acknowledging a lot of folks within this city and the amount of service they give to us each year. So with that, I'm going to turn the time over to our city manager, uh Alex Jensen.

Thank you, Madame Mayor. We apologize for the feedback on the microphone system. Um it's always a privilege to have the opportunity to recognize the individuals that really make this city work, which are the employees of the city. And um we we want to do that publicly. The mayor and council want to do that publicly. And uh so our program, most of you are aware of this, but for some of the citizens that may be here, what we do is at five-year increments, we recognize employees for their years of service. And uh if an employes been with the city for 20 years or less than 20 years, then we we ask them to come uh and be recognized in their own department staff meetings. But if a employees been with the city for 20 years or more, then we ask them to come to a city council meeting is totally voluntarily and be recognized um publicly and um and in it gives an opportunity for the mayor and the council as well to thank them for their for their service. So, what's what's remarkable to me, and tonight is no exception, is that every time this list comes out, uh it's just filled with amazing employees and amazing people. And that happens time after time after time after time. Uh they just it just never ends. I'm obviously biased, but it's it's uh really um a blessing to have so many qualified and capable and good people who work for the city and provide services every day to the residents of this community. So, this evening we have several we'd like to to recognize. There are three individuals who who qualified that weren't able to be here tonight because of other commitments. I'd like to acknowledge them as well, even though I won't ask them to to come forward. Uh what we'll do tonight is present you with a plaque that just memorializes or recognizes that years of service. So I'd like to mention the three first. The first is Lisa Murdoch. Uh Lisa works for the police department and is a dispatch

supervisor. Very critical obviously component to our public safety system. Second is uh Miss Christy Neil. Christy is currently serving as the city's treasurer um in the finance department. And Christiey's been with the city for 20 years as well. And then last but not least is Declan Hogan. Uh he's retired firefighter. Um uh has retired I believe between the time that we last gave out these recognitions or awards, but he served this the city for 20 20 years and did a fantastic job. So we'd like to recognize them and and we'll make sure that they get the their their plaques and recognition through their departments. those that we hope are here or anticipated were here tonight. I would like to go through those. The first is Mr. Paul Pittz. Paul has been with the city for um 25 years and Paul is a uh like a Swiss Army knife, anything technological. He uh is our network administrator and is heavily involved in in um phone systems, radio systems, all kinds of communication systems. uh and is a tremendous resource across the county. He's continually asked by other entities to help solve their some of their technology issues in their in their department. So, uh Paul would like to recognize you and maybe we can have you just come up here and then we'll I'll do all of you and then we can come around and let the mayor and council shake your hand if that's okay.

Yeah, just on that side. I think he's going to have it all in once. Yeah. He changed he changed.

So I I teach Paul all all along. I don't like want to make it too personal, but other thing you wouldn't you wouldn't know about Paul is when his younger days he was a professional uh desert racer. Uh and very very good one. Uh anybody that can go 100 miles an hour across the desert on a motorcycle is is pretty brave. So Paul is a has a lot of skill sets. Um, so thank you Paul. [applause] The the second individual I'd like to recognize tonight is Mr. Doug Bittton. Doug has been with the city for 20 years and is has been serving as the fire marshal for uh for Leighton City and and that is a very important position that interacts with the community and make sure that the the fire uh rules and regulations and and uh ordinances are met um in businesses and homes and so forth. And Doug has been a great a great blessing to the city as uh as well. The next

[applause]

The next is Mr. Ben Dong, been with the city for 20 years. [clears throat] And uh up until yesterday, I would have I would have indicated that uh that Ben was a captain paramedic, but just as of today, I believe he was promoted to a battalion chief. So, congratulations, guys. [applause]

is also from the uh fire department. Mr. Chris Miller has been with the city for 25 years. Chris, are you here? There we go. [applause] And Chris is a captain at station 54 and he'll be acting I assume because of the promotion acting as the uh the uh acting battalion chief in the meantime. So thank you Chris. Next is Mr. Jeremy Stell also 25 years from the fire department. [applause] [applause]

Jeremy was uh recently promoted through a position of deputy fire chief of operations. We've we've had a little bit of a adjustment in the structure uh and moved some positions around or and reclassified some positions and hopefully make the department more efficient and uh Jeremy was the benefactor of that and so congratulations Jeremy. And then the last is Mr. Lance Beachch also of the fire department. This is fire department night [applause] [applause] and Lance is a battalion chief u in the department as well and does a fantastic job. One of the things again as I said I don't want to say too much editorial comments. I'm obviously biased, but um I love all the employees of the city, and we are blessed with with an exceptional balance of experienced, tenured, long-term employees who work very hard and set a tremendous example for new employees that come into the city. There's a a culture of expectation in the city that isn't that's promoted by the mayor and the council and myself, but most effectively promoted by their peers in the departments who have seniority and have been involved with Leightton City for years and years. And and so I want to express appreciation to all these gentlemen as well as all the employees. There's many here tonight that carry on that culture and create the expectation of what it means to work for Leighton City, how you're expected to conduct yourself with honor and integrity and and and uh um you know, just do the right thing uh every every opportunity that you have. And so um anyway, thank you gentlemen. Well, not quite yet. But I also want to just say these individuals couldn't be successful in what they do without the important people in their lives, whether their family members and their teammates, uh, their peers in the department. And so

for any of you that are family members of of these, as well as family members of other employees who are here tonight, I want to thank you as well. We understand that success in a career is is a family affair. It's not an individual affair, whatever that family looks like. And we recognize the sacrifice particularly in all of these positions. This this is a 247 365 operation that these gentlemen are involved in. When a call comes, they go. Uh there are other positions in the city that that they don't have to. It's a it's a regular schedule and you usually don't get called out in the middle of the night to go help somebody in a tough situation. So anyway, I want to thank we want to thank I think collectively all the families and spouses and children and other important people that that uh allow this to happen. Um as I said the the greatest blessing this city has is uh the organization of the city is good employees. They're excellent. They're very competent, but they're even better people than they are employees, if that makes sense. And it's it's a it's a privilege to rub shoulders uh with them. So, mayor and council, I would commend these gentlemen and all the employees that they represent uh to you and and uh certainly be happy to hear any comments that you you guys may have or congratulations and ask them to come around and shake the hand of the mayor and counsel.

Come around. Is that okay?

Yeah. Okay. I feel like I was going to say come on up you guys this way. Hey, don't slow down the line. constantly constantly on sir. Congratulations. Thank you.

Jeremy, I don't gone. Um, yeah, [clears throat and cough] it's okay. We just want to thank everyone for being here and and echo what uh Mr. Jensen said on behalf of the council, myself. I mean, we couldn't this city wouldn't run without without all these folks. We appreciate their numerous years of service here, what they do for our city. So, thank you everyone. [applause]

That's okay. Next, I think next time we'll do the one ons. Those were that would have been good. So, anyway, okay. Um, as you can see, that's kind of a that's a highlight of of the city and obviously for all of us here to be able to acknowledge these folks and what they do for us. So again, um we appreciate that and it's fun to do these verbal um presentations of years of service here. So I will now move on with our regular scheduled uh council meeting at this time, which brings it to the citizens comment portion of our meeting. So anyone here who wish to address this governing body, you're more than welcome to. We ask you to stand up to either one of the podiums. Make sure you state your name and what city you're from. and then um go ahead and uh state your purpose for being here, but please understand that there will not be a a dialogue back and forth. You can certainly ask your questions and you know, we'll do our best to have the staff answer them for us or we will look into whatever it is that you need us to take care of. So, with that, I'll now turn it over to you. The time is yours.

I guess I can just leave you there. You can hear me.

Pull it down. I uh just wanted to come and introduce myself. I am one of the newest businesses here in Leighton City. We opened on October 15th where Nuttles Bernina used to be. Um our store is called Treasured Again, Vintage, Antique, and Unique. And we are so excited to be back in Leighton. We started out in Leighton four years ago and outgrew our spot. We were inside MPS and the mayor came and did a mayor spotlight. I hope we can do that again. Um, so we outgrew that in a year. We had two locations there and where the Red Hangers dry cleaners used to be and um, we consolidated those two. And I've been in Cisville for three years, but we've always been looking for a spot to come open that we could return to Leighton. I'm from Leighton. We've lived here for 30 years. So, we found that spot. Um, it opened up in August and we jumped on it and opened October 15th. Um, we're open seven days a week, Monday through Saturday from 10 to 6 and on Sunday from 11 to 4. So, we just wanted you to know that we were really excited to be back in Leighton City and um, happy to be back in my hometown um, and just letting you know. But, Betina, I wanted to thank you. I lost my daughter in November to suicide and that volunteer opportunity is very good to know about. So, thank you for sharing that information.

Okay. Michelle, would you mind state your name for the record? Oh, I'm so sorry. Michelle Smith. And do you need my home address or just that I'm from Leighton? Okay. Yep. Just from Leighton. Michelle with one L. Smith. Okay. Welcome home. Thank you. Okay. Is there anyone else here? Al Bingham, uh, here with Leighton. I talked to Dave about this beforehand and I appreciate this. Um, we we have our house there at Woodward Park. Excuse me. Oh, my apologies. Name, please. Albingham.

Oh, sorry. Okay. I didn't catch that. Sorry. Okay. Go ahead. So, uh, we we moved out there by Legacy Junior High, but we kept our house there by Woodward Park. And someone, this kind of a sad do it's I think we can come up with some solutions, but someone shot at our house in the middle of the night right before Christmas and uh it went in the house and it landed uh underneath the uh kitchen room, kitchen table from the park. So we're the third house that's been hit with gunfire. So this isn't this isn't the first time. And

um I don't know about the third one. The second one was two houses just north of us and that bullet went up through to the top floor where they're sleeping in our house. I mean it it I mean if the bullet was about 4 ft higher it would it would have hit someone. It's that's that's a concern there. So I was talking to Dave and I said maybe we need to look at some cameras out there. When that park was built we lived there and we always tried to protect it. We always you know when some something was going on with police we'd call them out. But uh you know and I told the renters, our renters are great and they said you know if something happens just let you know this park is really good and I just I feel bad for this family because they have small kids and have someone shoot at them you know when they're there. It's just I mean think about someone shoot at your house when you're there is not a good feeling. And so, you know, talking to Dave, I I think, [clears throat] you know, maybe if more police presence during the night, you know, something like that, maybe some um you know, and we talked about cameras or something like that. I think if you have cameras there, it would definitely help there. I know there was drugs there about 12 10 12 years ago, but I know that, you know, that you guys have come in, you know, really helped out and cleaned that out, you know, with the restrooms and things like that. But this is what's going on. So, I just want to give you a heads up what's happened there. I appreciate Dave. We've gone back a long ways and just see what we can do there. So, thank you.

Sorry to hear this, but thank you for bringing it forward. Okay. Is there anyone else?

Hi. It's nice to meet you. My name is Megan Kufall. Can you hear me? Okay. Kufall. I'll let you spell that out. [laughter]

You don't know? Um, so I'm resident of Leighton. I've been here for about three years, so relatively new to a lot of folks just learned about. Um, so I'm just here to voice my uh interest in an off leash dog area. I know you've heard from some other residents. Um, I live in East Leighton over by the East Ridge development that's going in. I've heard there's some talk about potential over there and um, my property lines up against like one of the areas that's proposed. Um, so I just wanted to voice my support of that. Um, I know I currently drive all the way down to Tanner Park, if anyone's familiar. It's like a trail system that you are allowed to have your dogs off leash on. Um, it's a really great experience for the dogs. They get to socialize. As a human, you get to meet other people and interact. Um, so as a newer resident of Leighton, I would love an opportunity like that. Um, I foster dogs a lot, so there's another avenue for me that would be great for for getting exposure. Um, meeting maybe meeting people in the community, of course. Um, and you know, since I know I'm not the only one that drives that far to get to such a park. So, I think it could be really good for Leighton to bring in some business, right? So, more folks would come here. I know from Davis County in general, right? Um, our closest dog parks pretty far and those that are generally pretty like just fenced in areas. Um, and like I think the trail system is really just an amazing thing because it um is a lot less intense on the dogs. You can continue to walk of course and um so I've seen a lot fewer like altercations. I know that can be something that folks are concerned about. Um I think the other thing that has been on my mind is seeing all the development happening in Leighton. I would love to see some more green space protected, right? like we're losing some of that space where you could enjoy um just some nature. And so I think it would be great to have some more protection there for for us

citizens. Um and then again, I just really want to touch on the the community piece. I think that would be um such a great place for residents to meet their neighbors, right? Um it's kind of challenging to do that today. So um thank you for your consideration. Yeah, thank you. We appreciate your comments there. Oh, yeah. Okay. Is there anyone else who wishes to comment here?

Okay. Seeing that there is none, I'll go ahead and move off our citizens comment portion of our meeting and go ahead and go on to our consent items. I will say item tonight. We have one item on the agenda and Mr. Steve Jackson is going to present this information for us. Mayor, council, it's good to be with you tonight. Um for your consideration is resolution 2601 uh which is to approve and grant perpetual easements to the Utah Department of Transportation for the relocation of water facilities as part of the US89 project. Um, back in uh the early 2020s when the US89 project was being constructed and designed, um, there was a lot of utility relocations that had to happen along that corridor. A lot of the the time and we commented it was a utility relocation project disguised as a freeway. Um but as part of that we agreed as a city with UD do that as the relocations occurred that there would be some easements with the Bureau of Reclamation um that needed to be established after the project was finished. This is the kind of culmination of that with the um the project rightway group is finishing up the loose ends here. So there are three easements that contain um secondary water lines for the um Bureau of Reclamation. Um, so 31 or 2130 north, 2900 east, and then also Marvin's Way, Dreams End, and then on the other side, the east side of the highway there is uh 1985 Valley View Drive. All of those easements are um housing a relocated secondary water line. And and so as part of the the completion of the project, um UD do has requested that the city grant those easements to them so they can in

turn then transfer those to the United States of America for the Bureau of Reclamation's use. Um staff has uh city staff, engineering staff has reviewed all of the easements to make sure that the legal descriptions are correct and that everything is in order. Um and and so staff is recommending that the council adopt resolution 2601 and approve and grant perpetual easements to the Utah Department of Transportation for the relocation of water facilities as part of the construction project identified as US89 Farmington to I84 in Davis and Weaver counties um and authorize the mayor to sign the necessary documents. Are there any questions that I can answer for anybody? Council, go ahead.

Thank you. Um I do have one question. I didn't really think about in the work meeting. So, you mentioned back then um that the city uses these pipes already that we're already kind of managing the water that goes through these pipes. Is that correct? So, we we operate the secondary water system for Weaver Basin. Um and Weaver Basin is the I guess oversees all of the pipes that the Bureau of Reclamation owns in this area. So yes, we essentially are operating the the system that the pipes are delivering the water through, but Weaver Basin and the Bureau are the owners of the pipe.

And so the transfer of this easement to UD do so that they can transfer it to the United States of America, Bureau of Reclamation or whatever, but we would still be operating the water through. So no real change is taking place in the services that we currently provide. This is just a paper. Yeah, it just establishes an easement over these pipes to make sure they're protected in the future and that the the United States of America has the same easement rights that they had prior to the project. Okay. Thanks. Y any other questions? Thank you.

Okay. Thank you very much. We appreciate the presentation. Um council, as I mentioned, we only had the one item tonight for on our consent item. So, I'll bring it back to you for action. Uh, Madame Mayor, I move that we approve resolution 26-01 as presented. Second. It's been moved and second that we uh adopt the Utah Department of Transportation uh relocation of the water facilities. So, all in favor, please say I. I. Any opposed? And did we get a vote from Zach?

Okay. All right. That's fine. We have enough uh unanimous. It's it passed. Okay. So, there you have it. Um that uh concludes our consent item tonight and uh we have no public hearing meetings. Does anyone have any unfinished business? If not, I will enterain a motion to adjurnn. Hi guys. I make a motion we adjourn. Okay, I'll second that. Okay, all in favor say I. I. Okay, thank you very much. We appreciate everyone that was here and uh have a good evening.