City Council - Regular Meeting

Um, so it was all of the Davis County CTC's, Leighton, South Davis, Central 5, as well as North Davis. Um, just because there are people in new positions, you know. Um, so I went just, you know, to get a refresher, but yeah, I was on that list and then I had to deal with a another issue that we were dealing with.

That's fine. Um but yeah, no it was just it was a good time um just coordinating with the CTC's and making sure we understand the roles that we have in leadership and um there were some other other um CTC's there who were I don't want to say envious because that's not the right word but they were very interested in um how our CTC works with the city

um very well and I guess that does not happen across across the county, probably in the state either. Um, but we're looked at as a model um a way that cities and the coalition can work together. So, I was able to share some of the insights there. um our training was put on by um a woman who works for the state and does this across the state and she touted that the Davis County coalitions have some really great things happening and so she's always able to share um the collaboration that we have and the programs that we offer um to the state to let Davis County kind of be um a forerunner in a lot of the things that we're doing. So, that was some good kudos that I thought I would share with our group. Um, and then there are a number of things happening at the capital. Um, as far as cities go, I do have one update that I'll share. There was a house bill that was looking at small lots and starter home amendments. Um, Representative Ward was putting out. It was House Bill 184. It was a big deal. um we were not on board with it and that failed to pass out of committee by six to three vote. So um good work on behalf of all of the cities and municipalities. Um there's a number of other things I won't take all the time because both the Clints are also participants in that and I'll give them some time to share as well. That's all I have. Okay. um UIA uh some updates on uh both financials uh they have their kind of 2025 fiscal year highlights. So um average just as a 30,000 foot view here average monthly recurring revenue increased by 17%. We had subscribers have increased by 10% yearon year and operating revenue increased by 17%. This

is overall not this late.

Yeah, this is all the whole system. Yeah. So, anything the system does that grows that helps the city obviously uh for citywide uh our take rate continues to to go up every single month. Uh which is good when we've already had a complete buildout if that just means that more people are adding it and it and fewer people are canceling it. So, it's just adding to the sub current sub existing subscriber base. So, which is good because it's one thing if your rate increases, your subscriber increases because you get a whole new block of the city that's available. But we're already built out. So, anything that you get in addition is just people satisfied with with what utopia is coming up with. So, uh pretty healthy. Uh nothing else really to report other than just things are are looking good. Um in terms of financially in a good spot. Anybody else? Before we

finding permission, um there was one item that was discussed. Um it was the park that the the dog park. No, [laughter] not a dog park. Fortunately, not a dog park. Um it was um Preparatory. Thank you. You're going to have to help.

It's okay. That's in my neighborhood. I've heard all that. Um there's a lot of uh the public attended residents nearby most I I think um at the end of the meeting the engineer for the developer for for the school actually answered some of their concerns and was going to evaluate it was more their responsibility than the city but um there was what Brad was there um um there was a question that Brad was going to get with the engineering to clarify that he wasn't able to that night. But then one thing that came out of that meeting, there was a lot of um I'm going to say residents frustration with parking during the school. Um one question I asked and I apologize I forget the assistant Jake.

Yeah, her and and Brad was they were going to talk to engineering, but were they going to brief other departments or do they brief other departments? And it was kind of iffy in this case. I I Um I guess there's not a formal way to brief other departments, but there there seem to be a lot of potential traffic um issues that should be made aware to the chief is how I perspective looked at it. But

so we do hold a a weekly meeting with the legal planning and engineering. Sometimes parks will also attend and sometimes police just depending on or or fire depending on the issues. But for sure those three departments we meet every week and then when we have things that involve the other departments we invite them. [clears throat] Good. That's it. Yeah. I love it. Is there anything more from the league that we probably need to it

there's there's a lot of wrangling going on. the the bill that that uh Latina just mentioned was um it went through that same committee twice. So they said, "Hey, we want some changes." They made some changes, came back, they're like, "We still don't still not going to do it." But what they they were they wanted to put the cities on notice. In fact, three of them, I think, said, "We're putting the cities on notice, but you got to do something about housing." And um so President Bradshaw gave a list of in fact she went over time giving a list of all the things that the cities have done have agreed to compromise to just just all down this list and I don't know it's it's interesting what uh

well and we already have an ordinance on ADUs and five blocks [clears throat] that we're willing to work with.

Yeah. And this one, so the other part of this bill that was that obviously didn't didn't go anywhere, but was to allow people to come in and say, "Hey, I just want to put a small house on a little lot." And the in whatever zone, it didn't matter. The zone didn't matter. And and then the city would have 30 days to say okay or not okay. And if the city didn't do anything in the 30 days, then it would be automatically approved. And it's just a way once again to this the zoning authority of the municipality to just get in the way of that just little by little. And so they recognized that the committee did, but they're still I don't know maybe that was for Representative Ward's benefit because he's worked really really hard on trying to do this over the years. Hasn't got very far with it because of what he's trying to accomplish. Um but yeah, more of that kind of stuff. And then there's a the water bill. Have you been following the

I know we have limited time tonight, but I think we need to take two seconds or a minute and update us on this. HB 501. Yeah. Where's it? Where's it at now? Um so everybody knows [laughter] this is so confusing.

The latest update. Um yeah, you're right. It's a It's a very concerning bill, but the latest update that Betatina and I were in the meeting on Monday, um the update that we got was that um [clears throat and cough] there's no longer a mandatory participation by the cities, which is is good. Um and also that any money that is collected, one of our big concerns was is that we would that Leighton city taxpayers would put all this money in or fee payers I should say

should put money in and um and then it goes to projects throughout the state that don't have anything to do with our citizens. So um that has been changed to say that the any of those fees stay with the local jurisdiction. So with that, that took away a lot of the concern, but it's still being very closely monitored. The question that I still have is is the lot the infrastructure fund that they're talking about being able to apply for funds from where's that money coming from? Because the way that the bill says is that you can't access any of those funds unless

you are charging the the 1.5 for water, 1.5 for sewer. But my question then is, well, where's that? Before it was a fee. It would go into the big pot and you'd be able to access that. So, where's that money now coming from? That's the question that I don't have an answer to.

Well, and interesting on the on the issue of the fee to that that the bill does exempt the state from the rational basis test of it. Fees need to be reasonably related to what the services being provided. And of course, that's the rule that we follow as a municipality as does every other municipality. So they the state did exempt um themselves from that. But um with regard to the the the money, it's interesting because if you don't collect the money, then you can't ask for any funding.

But then based on Steve's analysis and he could give you more detail. Um Steve did an analysis of this and if if we did do what the the stat or what the bill is proposing, we wouldn't need to ask for any money because it would pay for it. So Yep. Yep. It's Yeah. Oh, can I say one more thing? I know we have not a lot of time. Um, but there are also a lot of um property tax bills. I think we talked about that um when we had our meeting with the Senate leadership,

but one thing that I did mention in the meeting the other day, I was a little heated. Um, but I just there were some bills that were being discussed, one in particular, um, and the sponsor was trying to figure out a way to respond to what they called pressure from the public regarding property taxes and how that was related to cities. And just to be on record, we already know um that cities only account for about 13% of that property tax. And so whatever this narrative is that they are trying to respond to from the public, I basically just said instead of creating a bill to require us to do more of X, Y, or Z, why don't you just tell the truth about what is in the property tax, what it goes toward, and if you're trying to raise it, what you're trying to raise it for. Um, and so I think that is the pressure that we as elected officials and also residents can give to the legislature is that tell the truth about what is in the taxes and what is in these fees that are also taxes um instead of trying to create more bills to tax again the cities which further tax residents even more. So, that was something that I just think um as a league um it's something that I'm trying to ask for them to give us more information so that as a local electeds we can tell the residents what's really going on and they can pressure their own legisl legislators in that same way.

Good. Thank you for doing that. You have a full ramp commission there. Oh, sure. They're all set up and reviewing everything and full steam ahead, right? Yep. Good. That's another good one with the full staff. Yep. That even works better. Or full commission, excuse me. Okay, let's go ahead and move on then. Uh on our agenda here, we have item number three. We uh we've got Preston Lee with us from Wasach Integrated that is going to give us an update and uh just overall um acknowledgement that you're now the new director. Thank you.

Yes. Thank you. I just want to say thank you to the mayor and thank you to the the council person, city council. Uh I want to say thanks to Alex. Uh we met back in July. Uh, so I'm trying to do things a little bit different. Um, I want to reach out to all of the city managers and and be a little bit more transparent as to what's happening. Um, up there at Los Integrated, I do have a presentation, but it's only eight and it it goes over the same things that you guys already know that we do. Um I know that uh [clears throat] council member Kindranos is uh pretty familiar with who we are and what we do. Uh maybe not for the latest stuff. So I do have some updates on like the Swiffer grant that we were awarded. We were awarded a EPA's grant uh it's called solid waste infrastructure um

recycling.

Yeah. Or recycling grant. And so it's it it really uh is about organics uh recycling. And so there's uh five components that we're going to be working on. Expansion of our compost pad, uh expansion of curbside organics into cities, and then expansion or and then we're going to put some AI cameras on some collection trucks. So yeah. So really what [clears throat] I wanted to do is just start fresh. I want to I want to open up the communication. I want to hear what you guys uh you know would like me to know and so that you know we can we can start a new uh process going forward. There's going to be a lot of interaction between Wasach and Leighton. We've got uh you know eventually that landfill closes and we have a lot of infrastructure that we need to put in place roads mostly uh and and that has to be a collaboration between us. we've already presented a plan, but we're talking, you know, 15 or 20 years down the road uh when this uh uh process is going to be taking place. And so, you know, I just I need uh you know, we need to continue this uh great collaboration that we've had over the years. And uh that's why I'm here today. That's what we're here to do is to just be, you know, the partners that we've always been. introduce the other two.

Yeah. So, Jesse Simson is our landfill manager. He's I should call him committee member. Yeah. And a my hometown committee member. Yeah. Hometown committee manager. Uh Colette West is our sustainability specialist. So, that's good. So, I am I am here uh to listen if you guys have things for me to say if are here. And if not, um I can uh just address any of the concerns that you have. Uh the one thing I want to add especially on the compost facility if you go back to 1995 when I was employed by by then I don't remember what we called ourselves back then

who wants to change the system to where it is even today and now what is the dollar amount on this grant?

So it's $3.4 million. Uh the biggest chunk of that is expansion of that airrated static pile. So, we have a a compost facility that that has a concrete pad and we inject air up into that compost. It does a couple of things. One, it speeds up the process. So, usually it's about 90 days to get it all worked if you don't have air shoved in there. So, you add air by turning it with a big turner. The process that we use, it processes that uh compost in 40 days. It's off the pad and into curing piles. And depending on what that demand is for that compost, that's how long that curing p uh it sits in that curing pile. We're really trying to bring the temperature down. I mean, we're talking temperatures as high as 170 degrees. So, they're really hot uh with and that's all the microbes uh producing all that heat.

So, one thing I want to just kind of add to Preston's comment where they were 40 has it been 40 years? Yep. four years um to where they it's night and day. It was a farmer operation when they first started it basically to call it something really simple and where they've taken it to where it is today and now with this additional funds and the whole theory about it is to get that waste out of the out of the landfill so it's not taking up that valuable space in that land. Yeah. and producing some of the emission.

We moved that facility over the over the years. We had it permitted at one location and then residents encroached on that uh area. So, we moved it because we was getting a little bit complaints and that's when we we also upgraded it to the ASP system primarily to fight odors. I mean, our the compatibility of a landfill inside a a residential community is not very good. So, we need to be uh even more aggressive to make sure that we're not impacting the citizens. There's three ways that we impact them. Odor, of course, uh and then litter that gets blown around. And then the third one is noise. So every time those front end loaders back up, there's that beep beep beep. You can imagine if you're sitting there on sun, Saturday morning trying to sleep and they got those backup or those loaders running. So we actually uh use a a white noise backup alarm goes doesn't carry it doesn't impact your citizens or residents. Uh so we're very proud. We we uh do a lot of effort. We put a lot of money into making sure that we are good neighbors. Most of your most of the neighbors that that uh reside around our ninefill have contact have my cell phone number and can talk to me so that I can address their concerns.

You got one living right there on your staff too. [laughter]

Yeah. One question I had for you um on the methane holder. Are you still shipping methane over to Hill Air Force Base for electrical generation? So, that contract was a 20-year contract and it came due in January. And so, we are in the process of of moving on to another project. It's an RNG, uh, another acronym, um, renewable [clears throat] natural gas where they take our GA, our landfill gas, and landfill gas is about 50% methane and 50% other gases, primarily CO2. They strip all those other gases and then we inject into oh Embridge left Embridge pipeline and that is uh located very closely to our facility. Uh so we're looking to that uh that should come online 2027.

So you're permitting it now? Yeah, we just flare it. Yeah, we did have a project where we allowed bitcoin miners to come in and use [clears throat] our methane to to to mine bitcoins and that was that was quite interesting but they left on that topic then do you guys have any other questions because it's going to say you might want to stay around and listen to the next presentation. Oh yeah. Yeah.

Excellent. Um, but you know, uh, Alex had had asked me about, uh, to maybe talk a little bit about, you know, [clears throat] rolling out a a recycling green waste curbside recycling program. First off, I am not here to push it any program. We are happy with where uh, Leighton is. We're not trying to expand. We I just want to make sure that if I offer something to one member city that I should be offering that to every member city. And so one of the things that is really uh has caught on is this curbside organics or or green waste. It would be a really heavy lift to bring Leighton City on right now because of the uh amount of residents that you have and the amount of material that we would receive. So um the program is pretty simple. It is a it is really accepted well if I can uh with residents because it is an opt out a true opt out system. You if uh if you don't want the program at any time you you should be able to get out and and uh so it really makes it well received. Uh I do know just talking to a couple of residents there is the need to to have uh green waste curbside but um so right now with the grant I'm not able to probably do an expansion capable of handling latent because EPA does not want me to add any funding to the projects that they currently have under this Swiffer grant. So it really ties my hands. I have to get through this process and then we can look at maybe expanding and accommodating. So I'm thinking maybe 2028 would be the earliest that we could maybe roll that

program out. But I'm uh you know I'm open to conversations and to hear if you guys are interested or or where that's at. So question for you. So if if we have individual residents that want to Yeah. sign up. They can or cannot. Well, or doesn't need to be everybody.

Yeah, unfortunately, it's not like your the the current recycling program is a volunteer uh uh program and and uh that's it's good. Uh it works. Uh, but this kind of program, you'd have to work with Waste Management to offer that type of uh uh and I I don't know if they're going to really want to come in and drive around and pick up 30% of the houses. So, we hear a lot we've heard lots of different uh numbers on the landfills life expectancy.

Yes, that is the question. Okay. So right now uh we are we are shooting for 15 years. Um however we made a substantial change to our rates in 2025. In July 1st of 2025 we put a search charge on out of district waste and that pretty much eliminated that waste from coming to our facility. So we doubled we put a 100% search charge. So if it was 25 bucks for an out of district residential single vehicle to come in, then we now charge $50. And if it's a commercial truck, we now charge $96 a ton. So it really did what we wanted and it stopped it. So but that means that I lost 44,000 tons. I expect to out of this out of this upcoming fiscal year. We brought in about 40,000 tons in 2024 and 2025 in the half of that year we brought in 17,000. Now the first half of that year you got Jan January and February. So those are really low months. So the second half is expected to be higher. So my point is [clears throat] we we have not we're going to do a model uh uh recreate a a financial model that's going to pinpoint exactly where that falls now and we're going to be uh uh presenting that to the to the board at a retreat. So I'm expecting that we've already gained five years. So it'll be 20 years now. And you want facilities in place. So when I'm saying facilities, it's transfer facility. Am I have I gone over?

No. Well, you're it's close here, but I was going to say, but that's predicated on the fact that you continue to do this deterrent. Yeah. On pricing. So if another if somebody else, you know, it's price comp neutral with us and they're going to come back. So at that point, you're going to have to raise it again to continue to deter it. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I I would be hardressed if somebody went to $96 a ton, though.

That's pretty steep. But anyway, I digress. Um, so you want facilities in place, and our facility that we're going to be putting in place is a transfer station. So, there are been a couple of new transfer stations built in Utah. Gorgeous, gorgeous facilities. $60 million is what they spent down in uh the south end of Utah Valley uh to handle all of their waste for the next 20 years. Another facility was built in Sandy. It's built on a 5 acre parcel and that one was $34 million and it's a tiny facility that handles about 300,000 tons. Our landfill last year took in 200,000 tons. So, we've already got one transfer station that transfers most of your residential recycling out of the district. That the the new transfer station would just handle that commercial load. And it's kind of funny funny.

We're starting to see commercial tra commercial waste leaving the district on its own. Uh there's a new transfer station owned by ACE on the south end and a new transfer station owned on the north end by Robinson Waste. And so we're already starting to see a little bit of pressure on that. Sorry, it isn't recycling waste. Is it just regular household? Is it household waste? It's recycling. It's recycling it from Weaver County recycling. So Ogden now that we're transferring. Oh yeah, we're not transferring recycling. We just process recycling at Armor. But but we're transferring pretty much your household waste. Yep. The household waste, not the commercial waste. Okay. All right. Okay, Alex, is there anything else you want me to address?

No, no, thank you. I really appreciate uh conversations and and helping me get here today. So, thank you. When When did it change? Because when I was there, we we actually had a we weren't accepting out of district. When did that change?

Yeah, it changed about 2007 is when we No. was when we lost um uh flow control and so that really changed how that that really flowed. But you we saw a high increase in what 2022 or 2023 you started to see this spike in out of district waste and it's really come in a lot of dump trailers uh come into our facility because that's so hard to get into uh Weaver Transfer facility. Okay. Anyway, thank you so much for this opportunity and again anytime that you guys want to hear it. One more and then we're done.

One question um and and you may have to come back and talk about this but um there are always questions about recycling and where it actually goes. Yes. So if you have like a two minute two minutes on what that looks like. Yep. We have lots of residents who does who think that they just was in the same.

Yeah. So, here's the issue. If if I was a resident and I followed my recycling garbage can or recycling truck, it would go to the same place that my garbage is going to. And so, they see that and they're like, "Hey, why is this?" So, we're really trying to educate the the your residents and our residents that even though they get dropped at the same facility, the floor is split. one side is recycling and it gets processed through our MURF and we bail these commodities and then we sell them to the highest bidder every month. We're asking for new quotes. So these guys are are are paying top dollar for these recycl recyclables. We're talking um $1,800 uh for aluminum. I mean, outrageous. 800 and this is per ton and and so anyway, nobody's going to pay that type of money and then go and and throw it away. It just it it's just hard. So, one of the issues that we have is that we deal with brokers and we ask these brokers where does that material go and they are reluctant to tell us because they don't want us to go around them and just sell it directly to that uh recycling facility. So uh we can't they they do say that majority of it stays uh domestic. The one exception is cardboard. Cardboard is very lucrative to to sell across uh to the to Asian markets. Uh and so you do see that we are getting a few cardboard recycling uh coming back online uh up into the uh uh northwest up into Washington. But right [clears throat] now it is is rock bottom. We are not getting

pretty much sold Pacific Northwest the past year. Paper and cardboard. Yeah, I was going to say that's where a lot of paper mills are. But 50% of them I I get it. I hear the same things and we're trying to, you know, assure people that if you put it in that recycling bin, [snorts] especially in our district, 95% of it is not going to go into a a landfill. with some of our offtake partners that we have, we're making darn sure that we are far above industry standards and making sure that that does not get into a landfill. I don't know if that helps, but that's a good explanation. [clears throat]

We might need more later. Absolutely. Yeah. Thank you so much. I really appreciate this opportunity. Yeah. Thank you guys. Okay, let's jump into a very interesting and dynamic topic that I think all of us need to be educated on. So, Chief Swanson, tell us about cryptocurrency.

Thank you, Mayor. City Council, appreciate you guys giving us some of your time tonight. Let me just quickly introduce some of my team over. Got Lieutenant Riley Richens. He's over investigations. Sergeant Clark, he's one of the supervisors and investigations. And then Detective Hansen and Detective Bowman who will be presenting with you tonight. there are experts on cryptocurrency which is what we're going to talk about tonight. So over the last four years or so it's become quite a big problem for our community and we have lots of victims which they'll go into but the reason for this presentation is twofold. So we want to educate you on the types of crypto crimes that we are dealing with if you don't already know but also at the end of this presentation we're going to be asking for basically your thumbs up. This is not an approval of the end result, but your thumbs up to move forward with working with our legal team here on a new ordinance that we'll talk a little bit about tonight and bring back to you hopefully with an actual ordinance in a future meeting. So, also want to publicly recognize Detective Pence and they have worked tirelessly on this and put together a really good presentation for you and come up with some pretty good ideas. So, with that, I'll turn over the book to them. Thanks you. Council Mayor Alex Clint, thank you for having us. We're going to pull up this presentation. We'll get going on just like Chief just introduced. Um I'm Cody Bowman, detective with our fraud and this is my partner Nick Hansen. And we will get into it. Yeah. So we do basically financial crimes, fraud, forgery. Those are the cases that we work. We saw a huge uptick in cryptocurrency cases and it got our attention because they're difficult cases to work and we're trying to find a solution, right, to help our the citizens of Clayton. So I won't get into it. Um kind of what we're going to talk about kind of real quickly today is kind of just a quick basic of understanding cryptocurrency u cryptocurrency BTMs um some fraud statistics banning the BTMs a little bit into the cryptocurrency seizure which is uh kind of police legal

orient and then the Senate bill 173. So we're going to start with a video if the volume's too low. I don't know. Just it's just a quick little video just to show you guys an example of kind of what what we're dealing with. This is the moment police in Florida found 80-year-old man depositing tens of thousands of his life savings into what's called a Bitcoin ATM machine. Do you have any idea how much money you have today? 30 40,000. Why? A cryptocurrency scam caught in real time. The man telling officers he thought he was on the phone with his bank and was told to protect his money by putting it into this machine. And all that money is put into this machine.

This machine. The unidentified scammers relentless until police grabbed the phone. Who are you? I'm the police. All right. All right. Just don't put any more money in this machine. No bank will ever ever ever have you do this, sir. They stole your money. Whoever these people are, they stole your money. An investigation by ABC News in October found dozens of Americans with similar stories convinced by scammers to send money through a Bitcoin ATM, including 86-year-old Fran Bates, seen here. Hey, ma'am. Yeah. Can I talk to you for a second, please? I have the bank on the phone. Okay. Let Let me talk to who you're talking to on the bank. I'm in danger of this. Okay. No, you're not, ma'am. Okay. Stop putting money in there.

Bait's loading thousands of dollars into the machine until police confront the alleged scammer. No, you're not. She was one click away from losing it all. No, don't click. I'm done. Do not click anything. They look pretty much like a regular ATM. The difference is you don't really get money out of them. You put money in and buy cryptocurrency.

Data from the FBI shows Americans collectively lost nearly $250 million to these types of scams in 2024, more than double from the previous year. Adam Zerinski, a crypto forensics expert, has encountered hundreds of these scams. Do you think these companies know that in large part their ATMs are being used for scam? Yes, they either know or they're turning a blind eye to it. Bitcoin ATM vendors say their kiosks include fraud warnings and that they should not be held responsible for the actions of scammers who misused their machines. But for this victim in Florida, while police intervened quickly,

it wasn't [clears throat] fast enough. He had already reportedly deposited more than $50,000. Now, experts tell us these scammers thrive on frightening people, making them act quickly before thinking. The best advice here, slow down. Ask yourself, is this person trying to get me to move money somewhere that I normally wouldn't? And if you're concerned, hang up and call your bank's official number to verify the call, guys. Okay. So, pretty impactful video and that's what we're here to talk about. Try to protect our citizens from becoming victims further. So, let's get into understanding what cryptocurrency is and what BTMs are.

So, these are just some common terms. I'm not sure if any of you guys are involved in any crypto stuff, so this may be, you know, not news to you, but cryptocurrency basically is is digital money. It's basically just computer code that is basically people put a value to it. Um, a BTM is just like an automated teller machine, but it's a bitcoin. Um, it can do all types of cryptocurrencies, not just Bitcoin. Uh, they put Bitcoin because that was the main first cryptocurrency that kind of came out, so it kind of stuck. Um, an exchange is basically kind of like an a bank. It's a digital platform that lets people trade and sell cryptocurrency that's not controlled by by an actual bank. Um, a crypto wallet is basically just a it's a secure wallet that's just on your smartphone that just shows basically how much cryptocurrency that you have in there. Um, blockchain is basically kind of a database. It's kind of like an account statement, but it's different because it's it's all public. Everything that is cryptocurrency related is all public ledgers. um we could go online right now and look at all of what people are trading right now. So um and then we'll go over the free stuff a little bit later on. So So what's cryptocurrency? This is the definition of it. I'll read it out loud so everyone can hear it. Cryptocurrency is a digital money that uses strong coding to be secure. Cryptocurrency operates on a shared online record system called the blockchain. Instead of a centralized bank, it's decentralized, meaning no single government or institution controls it, which allows people to send payments directly to each other like a peer-to-peer. The transactions are verified by a network of computers and not banks. Basically, what that means is basically the mining machines that you were kind of discussing, people want to use that and that's what verifies all these transactions. That's why people like having these mining machines because it just verifies a transaction. So, banks usually do that. With cryptocurrency, it's just basically anyone that owns a mining machines verifying that transaction.

What's a BTM? We kind of discussed it. Think of it as an ATM, but instead of an ATM where you can go withdraw cash from BTMs, the Bitcoin teller machine, you cannot you can only put money in and then you can't get that cash back. Um, there's also services called crypto counter services where you can actually go to a gas station. We'll talk about that in a second, but like at a 7-Eleven, you can go talk to the person behind the counter and do your crypto transactions that way. So, these are all the different uh Bitcoin ATMs that we have in Leighton right now. Um, we have 18. The top two that we have that we have the most problems with are the Bitcoin depot and the Coin Flip. And that aligns with some other states as well. Um, but you can see the locations. They're typically in, you know, they're in the the Godam smoke shop, Chevrons, gas stations, the mall, the laundry mat, Walgreens. I don't know if you guys are investors in stocks or anything like that, but I'm not going to be going to the smoke shop to be investing any of my money into any of this

or the mall. Yeah. So, in the middle of the food court. So,

and and one of the biggest things that that that video kind of hit is these businesses, they're turning a blind eye to it or they're fully aware of what's going on. These businesses charge 16% upwards of 30% just for a single transaction. So, when we have victims that put in 10 $10,000 into into that machine, they're getting anywhere from that $1,600 to $3,000 off of that transaction. Once again, if you're going to legitimately invest in anything, you're not going to want to jeopardize upwards of 30% of your of what you're going to be investing into. So, um, so why why are these business why do these businesses even have these BTMs in their in their stores? The business themselves get a get 200 bucks roughly. We talked to a couple businesses, the mall, we talked to High and Mike's Pawn Shop. They have disclosed they make about 200 bucks a month from the companies that own the machines just to house it. They don't get a cut of the transactions. They just have to house it in their gas stations, the mall, etc. Um, it increases foot traffic because today's generation, they like these Bitcoin, this Bitcoin cryptocurrency thing is very, very big right now. So, it increases their foot traffic in their businesses and then it modernizes it again brings in a lot of different people to businesses like high-end mics that maybe don't usually go to pawn shops. Um, the mall is a big place for foot traffic. It attracts those people to come in and do those. Um, while we were speaking with those the high mics owner and the owners of the mall, um, they said that they are under contract with these companies and for example, high mics can't get out of the contract. They don't know how to get out of it because it's a contract. But if there was a law or a city ordinance put in place that would assist them with getting rid of the machines and that's what and they're they're looking for that help as well.

And they they'll both those businesses business businesses have discussed when they see people come and being victimized they try to say hey stop putting in money machine and they'll basically tell them to leave me alone get away. And so like hey well I've tried to help you and these these people get victimized so so deeply by the suspects. So they they've tried to help out when they can. So it's not the businesses it's just they just kind of got sold into hosting these BTMs. So,

so why are we doing this? Why' this even come up? We have empathy for our victims. We are Leighton City Police Department investigators. We handle these types of crimes. We've seen the amount of effect, the amount of dollar loss from all these all these victims. So, we have these empathy, these people that are taking loans out that are taking their retirement out to send money to strangers that I don't even know. So, what did we do? This flyer on the right was created and we went down to uh we went to every single BTM in the city and we we posted it near the machine or on the machine. We noticed we felt like there was maybe a little bit of a drop in cases and we'll go over statistics momentarily. We we felt like there was a drop, but we also determined that wasn't enough.

Yeah. So, this is just added we did get consent by business owners to post these. Yeah. So, the business owners were okay with it. We put some they're just right near the machines as you can see on this one right here. So, this is a victim that fell victim to or fell to a kind of a jury warrant uh scam. Basically, he got contacted saying that, you know, hey, you're you're going to be on arrest. You missed jury duty. You need to give me 10 $15,000 into this Bitcoin machine. And so, he did. Um, and it's just this is an interesting one because this is straight from the Bitcoin machine. Whenever you deposit money, it takes a photograph of your face, any transaction. Um you can see our flyer is in the corner of this machine here. How did you get that picture?

So this is from a case I worked that I subpoenaed the Bitcoin um company. So I requested that legally got that information um to try to identify who you know my suspect was in this case and then I get back this information. So um it killed me when I saw this and you know trying to talk with him because we we we feel for these people you know.

But the point is even with this sign without warning people are either not reading it or ignoring it and still doing it. Yeah, this gentleman's out $15,000, so he'll he'll never be able to get back. So, um, another reason that we're doing this is we we did a little bit of research around around the nation, Detective Bone did, and we learned it's possible to remove BTMs, but we wanted to be able to support that with some data from some of the cases that we've worked over the years. So, with that, we'll get into kind of our statistics. I might be a little bit dry, but all these numbers are pretty quite quite interesting once they're compiled into, you know, bigger data. So, so we took a we took a wide range dating from January 2021 to December of 2025. That's what all these numbers with the exception of one slide which we'll show. But these this is an audit that we did. Um this involves scams which is in the bottom there the different scam types such as email compromise investment jury duty or warrant romance scams extortion scams tech help other and then some unknowns. Um when we get into that?

Yeah. So basically we're looking from January 21 to December 2025 um was when we pulled our cases. Um real quick email compromise happens a lot to where basically there's just a slight slight little change in the email address um behaving like a company like that example right there that says John Doe and that says that doesn't say Microsoft, it says RN um Microsoft. Um we see a lot of cases like this to where they're just changing little words. Um investment scams. Uh basically criminals will lure you with, you know, a promise. Um invest low, you'll receive high, and they'll be able to imitate that on whatever platform they're using um to get them to invest higher amounts of money.

The jury duty, you get contacted by someone claiming to be a police officer working for maybe your local police department or the sheriff's office saying, "You missed jury duty. You have a warrant for your arrest. You need to go take money out of the bank, go to this machine located at whatever location, need to deposit, and send it." And it's via Bitcoin. They can't get that money back. and and and people that don't have any, you know, criminal history or anything like that, that that freaks them out. That terrifies them, right? So, you have your romance scam, they get contacted, they develop some sort of an online relationship, which is very very common in today's today's world. They gain the trust of that person and they convince them to send money.

The extortion cases are are pretty common, especially in kind of young adults, basically where they'll convince someone to send, you know, intimate images of himself to them and then say, "Send me money or I'm going to disperse this to family and friends." Um and and it happens all the time where they they panic and they'll send money um usually through cryptocurrency. Um tech help a lot of this is kind of is geek squad kind of stuff I think like that. Um think pops up on their computer. Hey you have a virus click here you click here and then it kind of goes and does its thing. Um the other yeah the other category compiles a lot of different types but consumer fraud schemes local classifies on your KSL Facebook marketplace just healthc care fraud some money mules and the in the common sweep stakes or lottery scam. Hey you won how much money but in order to get they get to pay the taxes so send the money via the Bitcoin machine but nothing ever happens. in the unknown category was victims that called us for help but didn't want to disclose anything of what scam they were a part of or how much money they sent but it was still a case taken so we have a bad stat

and a lot of these cases come across because they're embarrassed of what happened so I said we really feel for these people so so this is all latent so we'll get into nonBTM cryptocurrency cases basically means that there that a BTM the Bitcoin transaction was not involved in these cases but cryptocurrency was um we had 88 total cases averages was 48 and total loss was $7.3 million. Romance scan was number one with a $4.3 million loss followed by extortion cases.

So this is dedicated for the Bitcoin machine cases. We had 74 cases. Average age are 56 and older. We do have a lot of elderly that fall victim to this. Um total loss $1.8 million. So um interesting on this is some of these cases especially the ones that don't involve the BTMs. We've had cases upwards of people losing $280,000 in a single in a single scam. So it's a big deal. So So the summary of our fraud cases, cryptocurrencies on the left that involves BTMs and anything cryptocurrency related. On the right is all the other fraud cases involved with those scams. So on the left total cases 161 cases with a $9.1 million loss. non-crypto-reated. We had 355 cases with $3.3 million loss. Significant of lower amount of cases with a very very high amount of dollar loss and vice versa. On the bottom there, you'll see the average loss per case that we had is 56.5,000 and that's average and on the right 9.3. So, does that kind of make sense the differences in those those cases? So, cryptocurrencies it's it's a big deal. result. Um, just for comparison, we had Davis County audit their cases. Basically, all Davis County besides Leighton. All total cases that they had cryptocurrency had 88 cases. Um, so we had, like I said, we we had basically twice as many cases as u the total of Davis County combined.

We are the biggest city. We have a lot of traffic through our our city. Hence probably why the sign significant amount of cases. So, and we also have the most kiosks. We do a little bit to talk to you about. So, yeah, I'd be curious what the total is. 18. Yeah. So, we've got 18. This This is just in the news just the other day. This is a pretty impactful article that was on KSL. Um, this woman lost $850,000 um to a cryptocurrency fraud. Um, you know, she's living the American dream. Retired, worked, you know, did everything she needed to do and fell victim to a scam.

The quotes we found very powerful are on the right, and I'll read them out loud. It's hard to explain to somebody who hasn't been through it, but what I call it is brainjacking. Uh she told KSL the grooming behavior she experienced. She said it just floods you with feel-good feelings and you don't want it to stop because they're paying attention to you. And hey, nobody's paid attention to me in 20 years. Towards the end of the article, she said, "There's no cavalry coming to save me. Unless I win the lottery, I'm probably going to live the rest of my life in poverty." Detective Hansen and I have spoken with people just like this who have said those exact words. And it's hard to hear that coming from someone who's worked till retirement and they're just supposed to enjoy life, but they can't now. They've taken second loans out, second mortgages, and they maxed out credit cards just to do this. So, like I said, these suspects are good at what they do, and they know that the cryptocurrency and the BTMs is an easy target to get money to them that's very difficult to trace. So, um here's just a few other articles I just wanted to hit in the middle there. says that um basically Bitcoin BTMs have been increasingly entangled in organized crime, fraud, and exploitation, most specifically elder elderly. Um they get hit a lot, but like I said, organized crime is something that is very hard to combat. So, um that's kind of another reason why we want to get these BTMs out of the city. And just go back one,

the bottom one that says people who view crypto as an investment asset are far less likely to interact with BTM. We all have cell phones. There's lots of applications that you can do cryptocurrency on that and your legit investors who are into that will use cell phones and apps, not BTMs. Um, so we did a bunch of research on this. The I Iowa Attorney General's office, they did a big investigation in their state in regards to this. And what they found auditing basically all the Bitcoin machines in their uh state, it was 98% of their transactions from the BTMs were illegitimate, basically frauds. um to where like I said only 2% was legitimate. So um that they were able to find I I that that is just an astronomical number. So they know what's going on these businesses do and there's they're making a killing off of it. So, as of right now, we we don't have any way to we we we nobody no city in the state of Utah has any documented of having BTMs banned from their cities, which if we through this process are able to do that, we would be the first. So, and we've had a lot of interest in when we've discussed with other detectives that work cryptocurrency cases as well kind of what what's going on. So, um but like I said, we're we're it is it is possible. Plenty of people have done it. um Ipsswich, Spokane, um all these other places have done it as well. So, and we've

ger and pe she called she called me out. She say and it's and it's a PB Massachusetts, right? We were going over articulation. So, I know this is kind of small, but this is a example of a municipal code for Spokane, Washington. It is Spokane, right? We did a bunch of research.

We did some research on that. [laughter] Um, so again, this is just a municipal code. On the left here, highlighted in the yellow. I'm going to read out loud because I know it's really small. Um, just part of this the scope and purpose. Virtual currency kiosks, BTMs, are frequently used by criminals to manipulate, intimidate, and threaten victims into using these those kiosks to to send cash. Without stronger federal, state, or local regulations, there's no way to stop criminals from using uh virtual currency kiosks to victimize the members of the community. I don't want that to continue happening here later.

And this is what has driven Detective Hansen and I to want to get rid of these machin and and a lot of the drive for us was that these cases we work them to the end that we possibly can. They end up in in you know China, Africa, British Virgin Islands. Like we're not going to get warrants issued or be able to, you know, go arrest those people. Like that that's just that's impossible especially to the level that that we're at. So we were really trying to think of what else we can do to to to help our victims. So, um, real quick, we'll go over just the cryptocurrency seizure just because we don't want to solely rely on just the BTMs being removed. We want to take another approach to it as well. Um, kind of a two-prong approach. Um, one of them was the cryptocurrency seizure. Um, the whole purpose of the seizure is to at least make the victims as financially whole as possible. Um, and we can do that by seizing the funds. If we're able to locate them, we can freeze them and seize them back and get them back to the victims. Um it is it is a huge process and we're actually going to go to a training here just to make that possible. So we're we're really trying to make make that work. Um they get trained on doing that. Just a quick procedure. We make uh basically a cryptocurrency wallet. That'd be a government wallet. Um many businesses do that and support law enforcement in their work towards cryptocurrency.

This part is not really for public consumption. So close your ears. [laughter] Um that that this is a technique. Yeah. But yeah. So [clears throat] then we can draft and and uh implement the seizure policy which we already have have an approved policy from the attorney general's office. Um and then basically have trace capabilities which we're getting ready to to to get on that. So um for the seizure it's it's this is as easy as it could be. Basically we can trace and locate wherever that cryptocurrency went. Um in the best case scenario uh we'll freeze it basically at that exchange at that bank. Um we'll seize it transfer to our wallet and then back into the victim's wallet. So, um I don't want another case to to happen like this, but I do cuz I want to get that money back. I want to I want to we really want to get that

the mindset that it used to be was once you send crypto, you can never get it back. With help with other agency like the attorney general's office has been really we work with them very very close. We've learned how to trace, but we need to get those certifica uh certifications to do so so we can make our victims whole as possible. It is possible and we are going to do that and that's something that we can do for our victims. That's huge for us. So, uh, this is just a really quick example. This is what a typical kind of exchange would look like. On the left, your victim puts cash into the BTM and it sends it to to a bank. Once it's located at that bank, that at that point will try to seize that money, but still there. They see that asset. So, um, if you see there, it's a little bit in depth, but usually they'll send it to multiple different wallets. That's why it takes a long time to trace these and try to figure out where those funds went. There's a very good process that we're trained on how to do that. Now we're working on the seizure part.

And just so as of note, this was a trace done by Detective Hansen when we went to a training that was put on by the attorney general's office. This was what he determined and he was able to locate and we got good information back, but it was it was out out of the country. So those cases are very hard. Feds won't really be able to help us with that. Um so we won't be able to be capable of doing that as and we weren't able to freeze the funds. So, um, real quick, there's a new bill, the Senate Bill 173. Um,

and this is in the works right now. It requires virtual kiosk operators to obtain money transmitter licenses. Um, it's going to limit the virtual currency transactions for certain situations. There's going to be caps uh on amounts of how much somebody can or how much sorry that a virtual currency kiosk operator may charge. So not that 16% it's going to be significantly lower. And then it requires virtual currency kiosks operate operation to provide certain uh fraud warnings. Now think about it. How many times have we gone through something that we have to click, oh I accept this, I accept this, I accept this just because you want to download the app, you want to do this, you want to do that. People aren't going to read that. People aren't going to see the signs that we put up that's right by their face. We're quick to go through those. We're human. But if we can just take those machines out, we don't have to worry about that.

Why aren't we taking the machines? Well, that's that's what we're here. That's what we're here for. That's that's the purpose of this meeting is we we want your thumbs up so that we can work with people, Dave. We're looking for your blessing. We want we want to do it because these signs, you're not going farther. Well, we put this Senate bill up there just because like the BTMs, they're now at a state level. It's a big deal across almost the nation, right? everywhere else. We put this up there just so we, you know, hey, it's a big deal everywhere. They're trying to put restrictions, but they're not trying to get rid of them. We want to just get rid of them entire 98% of the uses for fraud. Yeah. So, we just want to get rid of all 18 of them. Just similar to what we did with the the gambling devices. I don't know if you remember that we had

problems with we got rid of them because we couldn't create a city ordinance. We want to do the same thing. We just want to get them out of our city. And we think when we do that and become the first city to do that, other cities will follow suit. Yeah, I agree. Very good. Totally agree. We want to be very impressive what you guys have. We want to be the spearhead. We want to create that snowball effect. Yeah, that's good. This was the time frame. Well, we we've got some drafts that we've stolen from other cities. So, as quickly as we can get legal to put their legal touches on it, we're going to try and streamline this. Did you use the word stolen? I heard borrowed. Borrowed. [laughter] I heard they were inspired by Inspire. Inspired. Yes. Inspired.

What uh what kind of questions do you all have? You have any questions? Well, you know, it's obvious to me anyway and I'm sure to the rest. Yeah. That the sooner the better. We we agree. You know, I mean, to be able to get rid of them in Leon, I believe that that would start a movement that would other cities would do the same. Yes, sir. Yeah, thank you for being proactive about it. Well, it's too bad. I guess we can't do Oh, we lost another one. It's to come up with a I've only been back there for a year and that was bothering me cuz I go from the street, chase guys, bad guys, get them get them, and then we go back to frog quarter. I'm like, I I got to do something. We we we need to do something.

This has been such a developing thing. It's new, right? Yeah. A lot of I would just also mention that a lot of this stuff is under reportported uh for the reasons you mentioned. I I had lots of my clients when I was in practice who were subjected to financial exploitation and they didn't tell the authorities at all about it. So the numbers are shocking but they're actually a lot worse. Yes. Uh, and so I appreciate you helping us helping us be the tip of the spear as you said because it's something that we certainly I I I go to the Chevron on um on Gentile and they have one in there and I noticed it and I did notice all the signs on it by chance. I have to check.

There's one So there's one sign above it that's interesting and it says um it's for the employees and it says you will never be asked to deposit cash into this machine and that's for the employees. That's not for citizens. It it's just a problem everywhere. I can't I I don't think they're reporting it that's ever happened there. Ninstar Chevron uh the gas station attendants there have tried to stop multiple people. It's where that photograph that we showed you was from. He has tried to stop multiple people and these people get very aggressive with him to the point where he's just stopped trying to help these people. You've even had businesses unplug them. Yes. Unplug him when no one's around. Y people get duped. It's just these suspects. We got to help them help themselves. So

one quick question. Go ahead. You had mentioned [clears throat] um legally transmitted through an app or a website and stuff. Is there a potential? What's the potential for fraud doing using a website or an app? So I personally do cryptocurrency and I just use an application on my phone um that's basically just an exchange. Like I said, I pay minimal minimal fees just for them to host my wallet and it's nothing compared. I would never even think to go get cash out of my bank to put into these crypto machines for my own investment. So low low risk and

Oh yeah. Yeah. Very controlled. And a lot of these these exchanges, the businesses, they're very law enforment friendly. They want to cooperate as much as they can. I'll explain why. It's easy to stay on the phone with somebody. And a lot of these pictures that we get from these BTMs, their victims are like this on the phone because they're these criminals are walking them through step by step. Now these machines are very user friendly. big touchscreen that the guys on the other line, they know exactly what's going on. Okay, now push this. Okay, you're gonna need to create this and they're just listening. On a phone, when you have an 80-year-old gal who barely has a new smartphone and she doesn't even know how to do that, which has happened here,

it's easier to talk her through a BTM machine than it is a phone. So, that's why these are a lot they're targeted. They're easier. They're a lot more user friendly. Yeah, the phone has checks and balances um in that as well in the Bitcoin ATMs. Basically, you just put in a number and then put the cash in and it goes to that person. Very, very easy. Very, very easy. So, what's the what would be the problem or what would be the cost? I can't think of how I want to say this. If I went and painted it black, I'm not going to look, Dave. Well, no, no, no. I just want to know. So, I I said steel and now he's talking about vandalism. [laughter] I got I got to talk to you after the meeting. [laughter]

Why don't we go straight to the thumbs up, right? Just so you don't think he's up in the night, the only reason he created his own crypto account was so he could learn how I I did I I don't I don't care about cryptocurrency, but if I'm going to investigate it, I need to understand it. So, I've messed around just with my my own money just to figure out I need to understand this so I know what's going on. So, well, I don't think it's legit. And I've never used a machine, but it Thank you. Excuse me for saying this, but it upsets me. I'll say it nicely that somebody something that would be this obvious is still up. You know, that's what upsets me. Yeah.

You know, if it was like 10%, okay, that's different. But to be 90 something%, come on. Yeah. You're almost 100%. Yeah. I mean, that's just And and the owners are getting the 60%. But the rest of it's going to the bad guy. So, Exactly. The motive for having this kiosk is because we're getting 16 up to 30%. It It's wild of that. So it's just a criminal enterprise period. So you can you come in tonight and ask if you can do something. You mean shoot. I thought you was going to ask him to do ghost [laughter] me. I was trying to be proactive. We have to pass.

There's different proactive approaches. This was a good one. I got an email on my work email just last week with one of you saying we've hacked all of your accounts, your work accounts and all that and with a Bitcoin link. Yeah. On a work address. So, it's everywhere. It's everywhere. Well, my hats off to you guys and you need to understand these two gentlemen you can trust any day, any time of day. I tried to get out of them hey beforehand. She did and they would not tell me. What you talking about mayor? That's exactly what I'm saying. I trust him. That's why you all are spending $3,000 for me to send them to Iowa to get certified so we can start seasoning this. I'll give you two thumbs up. [laughter] I really will cuz I know it's worth it.

Well, if that be the case then tomorrow. [laughter] It's coming up soon. Thanks for your time. Okay. Thank you. That was very good presentation. Excellent. Thank you, Clint. Before we go any further on the next item on the agenda, I'm an employee in Davis and Liver Canal Company. Do I need to excuse myself from this? Only if you feel like it would be a conflict for you to participate. I'm not going to make any money out of it. It doesn't affect anything

in a work meeting. We're not doing any decisions. No, but but if it but at per the training I gave before if if you're going to recuse in the in the in the meeting where actually where the action happens then you should recuse all along. But basically if you can fair if you can make a a fair and impartial decision if if you can say that then yeah then there's no need to ref. I believe I can make a fair and impartial decision. Okay. Training in action. Okay Steve you're on.

Thank you mayor council. It's good to be with you again. Um I think we talked in November about this agreement that we've been working on for for quite a while with Davis Countyy's Canal. Um wanted to bring back to you the final agreement. Uh Rick Smith, the general manager of Davis Weber's here as well if if there's any questions for for him after we're done. So um just to recap of the history and in 2017 we updated our water master plan and and in that we wanted to optimize pressurized secondary water use in order to take some of the demands off of our culinary system and and as part of that uh consolidated operations and maintenance of the pressurized secondary water throughout Leighton City so that we could um right now a lot of people don't understand where their water comes from which is fine but but it makes it a lot easier when they call the city and then we don't say well you have to call so and so or whatever. So, um, third party operations have have worked well, but but we feel like this is a great way to go as far as the city. So, in 2018, we entered an operating agreement with Leighton and Weber Basin Water Conservancy District to operate their water system in in the the city. We didn't take over ownership of their system because a lot of their system is still owned by the Bureau of Reclamation. Um, they're working on a transfer of that, but that still literally will take an act of Congress. So they they've got to keep going with that, but

they really will take an active. Yeah, they do have to get approved by Congress. So

um but they are working on it. So we'll see how that goes in in the future. But in in January of 2022, we we finalized a transfer agreement with Case Creek Irrigation Company and began operating their water system um our water system now in the city. And then uh February 2026, we now have the the Davis and Weber Counties Canal Company agreement that we we've got for you tonight to consider. So um just a real quick recap here. Areas in blue are the the Weaver Basin areas. The areas in red are the Case Creek areas. The areas in yellow are the Davis Canal areas that we're talking about. in this area kind of in the purple is the the future expansion of the secondary system in Leighton to be able to to kind of offset some of the the culinary demands that we have. So um again from the 2017 master plan here you can see the pipeline systems there um these these pipes in gray this is the the main trunk line out of the Davis we canal into their system there and then there's some connection points from the Cville system that that connect into these two areas but this area in gray is the existing water system that Leighton City operates. This is the pipeline that we've been talking about a long time about going under um I-15 whatnot. We'll have more conversations about that later. Um so let's talk about the terms of the agreement. Basically um well basically it's been a lot of work with Rick and their group, [laughter] but I'm going to try and I'm going to try and make it as basic as possible. Um Davis and Weaver County's Canal Company will convey the pressurized irrigation system in Leighton. It's approximately 1350 connections and 23 miles of pipes and Davis Weaver retains the canal reservoirs and transmission lines not associated with the system in Leighton. So they do have a large reservoir up off Church Street that that will remain theirs that that services the the system

that they operate into Cisville. Um the line that runs down Fairfield Road will remain with them as well. Um the hybrid users we're we're calling them they're the users that are on the pressurized system but still flood irrigate. they would remain Davis Weieber shareholders and then all of the current um flood irrigators on the west ditch will also remain with Davis Weber County's Canal Company. So we felt like that was a really good um compromise that we have the the city we're we're pretty good at operating the pressurized systems but we don't have a lot of interest in the in the flood irrigation and and we feel like David Weaver is better at that and they agreed that that will work well for them. So part of that is there's a bilateral contract that was signed in 2002 between Leighton and Davis and Weber. Um amended a couple times since that will be terminated with the transfer agreement because it it was the contract that stipulated the services of the pressurized water to the customers in Leighton. So that will go away. Um there's a trilateral contract between the city Davis Weaver and Weaver Basin. um that one will be assigned the the rights obligations and liabilities from Davis Weaver or on that contract for Davis Weaver. Those will be assigned to the city. So it will become basically a bilateral contract with Weaver Basin in the city. And then there's 13 Davis Weaver contracts that are with Weber Basin that will be assigned to Lakeland City that we will take over in order to continue service of the pressurized system. Um, so let's talk about what we're we're accepting and taking over with this transfer. The the South Leighton system, we'll call it. There's some areas. Flint Street is over here and then Leighton Parkway runs through the middle and then we got Philip Street and the city border is here in the the dash line. So, we've got basically two points of or two little areas of of the city that we will disconnect from the

Cisville portion of Davis Weaver canals at these three points and then we'll make a couple connections on Leighton Parkway to that existing line that I showed you on the other map. And that will um basically remove their these two areas from the Davis Weber pressurized system that is is fed from the Cisville site and then it will put it on to Leighton City's um water there and and so we've even mentioned up here excludes the Church Street reservoirs and all the stuff that that stays with Davidson um on the other side near um 2200 West. So, this line runs from Ellison Park and the fire station here all the way up 2200 west and then under I-15. This is a railroad right here, but then it continues in this little drop box here and um all the way up to I-15. There's a a screen and a and a takeoff from the canal. We will own that screen and the diversion structure there all the way down 2200 west and then all of the area in the blue pipes will become cities. Um these pink properties are the hybrid users that have been identified in one of the exhibits. And so any of those hybrid users would maintain their sharehold rights and everything with Davis and Weaver and and the city would agree to or has in this agreement um will provide water to those hybrid users through the system at no charge to Davis Weaver or their users. So Davis Weaver will manage all of those fees and everything that they need to charge to do that. And then um also Leighton City will will pass the water through this system down into the West Leighton ditch area that is south of here. There's there's a lot of different ditch lines that we aren't showing on these maps, but um those will continue to be um operated by Davis Weaver County's Canal. We will um work with them as development occurs. a lot of those systems kind of transfer and change as as partials develop, but all of the flood irrigation will be maintained until the flood

irrigation isn't needed anymore. And and so we will continue to to coordinate with each other. So um so anyway, I think I've covered a lot of these already. We'll disconnect from the South Leighton secondary um or excuse me, we'll disconnect from Davis Weavers in the South Clayton area. Um, we'll deliver water through the system to the pressurized users for the and Davis Weaver for the Westl Ditch. U, we'll pay our regular shareholder assessments. We do own shares of of Davis Weaver. We are a shareholder and so we'll continue to pay those. Um, we uh will also continue metering of the transferred connections. So, if you recall, we we had a second grant from the state. Um, they they got it. It was a a big deal I think for both Davis Weber and us because Davis Weber wasn't um necessarily going to be able to get to that portion of the city and if we were working towards this transfer, they didn't want to put in meters that were going to not work in our system and vice versa. And so, um made a lot of sense for us to go receive this extra grant money and then um continue putting those in. We do have a deadline of October. Uh the contractor is doing a great job getting those installed and so uh we're on track to get that done. Um again we would own, operate, maintain the transferred system. We would bill for the customers on the pressurized system. I know right now we're pretty large group that that Davis Weaver bills for. A lot of other cities do their billing for them. So this would take a substantial workload from Davis Weaver where we just we're going to start billing from these 1300 customers and be able to bill monthly instead of annually for them. A lot of them I think would prefer that monthly bill versus the annual bills. So a win-win for both of us there. And then again coordinating future development modifications to West Leaden Ditch and with Davis Weaver. um in there for Davis Weaver's undertakings, they would provide the system documentation. We've received a lot of that and and already

in preparation for this. So, if it goes through, we'll be able to to hit the ground running. Um get mapping and billing information, they they've transferred to us so that we can go through those. We're working right now to set this up. If the council decides to to move forward with this, we'll be able to to start billing with the water season that's coming up. um there's some assistance that'll help identify and understand the transfer system in this first season so that any assistance we need there we'll be able to have and so hopefully the the residents won't even see a a change in how the that system's operated. We we don't want to just come in and flip everything on its head if they've done a great job operating it. We'll try and continue doing that as well. Um part of it they'll assign the rights of ways and easements that they have for the system to the city so that we have the same rights that they did. Um, and then they'll continue to to be the the managers, I guess I'll call it, of the hybrid users or shareholders that are on their system as well. And then again, they would in the agreement agree to to coordinate with us on the future development and modifications to the system so we can keep the West Lenon ditch operational until it finally phases out. So, um, real quick, the next steps would be if this is approved, uh, we got to make the disconnections to that stoplight system prior April 15th, 2026. So, it's coming up pretty quick. Uh, we need to get notifications out to the to the customers of the transfer of the system so that they know what's going on here shortly as we put the system out. So, we've been working on some of those drafts to make sure we're ready to go if this gets all approved. Um and then again coordinate the delivery of that water to the hybrid and Westl people uh so that there isn't any hiccups with that as as we get moving on that and then we'll have to start the monthly billing for the water year and then continue with that installation of meters throughout the the system so we're complete by October of this year. So um that's all I've got. Yeah, it's it's going to be a busy couple months

for us for sure and then the rest of the summer as we get through some of these these areas with meters. So, um is there any questions I can answer for anybody? Just curious where's the water come from that's up in the Church Street Reservoir? The the Church Street Reservoir. It comes out of their canal. I mean, are you asking where it comes all the way? Yeah. like what where does it obviously have I'm just curious the sky okay it snows and then no so we have storage both in echo and east canyon resource then down the river then we divert from the river all the way down that 17 m mile canal which ends that church street okay okay you just have this is ours

it's big it's part of that water before we took yeah we're senior water ride holder so we actually get our water before we basically get that water okay thanks But our our connection right now will only be the one at the top of 2200 West the west side. So like a typical turnout. Yeah, just a typical turnout. So you're not going to go down 2200? That's a personal question for anybody else. In other words, no deliver service. There is plans to expand. If you look at our other map here, there is plans to come up 2200 and connect some of those areas. Dave. So, okay. Get rid of the pain.

We're We're working on it. Let me say that. [laughter] Any other questions I can answer? Thank you. Appreciate your time. Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay, Mr. Drake. Nine minutes. I won't need that unless unless you all Okay, we'll give you five.

So, [laughter] I'll take follow up. This is um for our 3200 West um West Hill Field project. Um I'm just we, as you know, for most of our uh uh real estate transactions, we use the same form. And so I'm not going to go over the the agreement in detail because it's it's basically the same form with the exception of there's a couple of places that always are different, right? The price and then any special conditions. So, this one's a little bit more complex because um we came up it was actually um Stan Leighton's idea and it it it turned out to be a a a great idea. Uh by the way, he he is um not going to be here tonight. He's helping his daughter with some moving and I told him he didn't need to be here anyway, but uh he uh he told me that uh he wouldn't be here and to to let you all know that um he's satisfied with with this agreement. and he did say that he might give some of you a call that maybe had talked to him about it before. So, if he had I'm not sure if he had a chance to or not, but um we had great meetings. I was able to meet with him a couple times in the last couple of weeks and and uh it it was um really really good. So, in a nutshell, this is u the property that we need um there that you can see in the gray and the black. And so he's going to uh dedic or deed to us those parcels which will allow us to expand the the right of way include curb gutter and sidewalk which will also help um you know our our primary driver there is we want our school kids and families to be safe as they're they're walking on the sidewalks. Um rather than just paying outright for that um we actually own a piece of property just to the east. So, if you were just to um follow this piece of property up just a a couple of blocks, there's this parcel right here that is owned by the city. Um Stan uh Leighton owns this surrounding property and so it was

actually his um suggestion that we just transfer or trade these properties. So, he owns we own this property, he owns this property. They're about the same, but not quite. um his is a little bit more. So, what we did is we just traded uh the agreement is to trade the properties square foot per square foot. Um that is a is actually a really nice thing for him because it squares off the property and allows him to use it a little bit differently and hopefully in a little bit more beneficial way. I think that is both for farming and for development into the future. I think it's it's beneficial both ways. Um, and then because the property that we are taking is is um a little bit more than that property, then we just took the the appraised value of the property and and paid for that. So that's about $54,000 that we will pay in addition to uh the swap. Um, and then one last uh thing just as far as special conditions go, there's a gated pipe that runs around uh right in this area that is used to irrigate the property. Um, we provided some some money uh for him to uh replace or relocate that gated pipe. Um, and he's going to go ahead and do that. Him and his leie have talked about it. We met with them on the property. They're they're going to u move it or replace it themselves. That's part of the condition of the agreement that they'll be responsible to do that. Um, they thought that was favorable to them because they can do it under the conditions that they would like to do it at the time that they'd like to do it rather than as part of a phased construction project. Um, and then just so so we we paid there's the property swap, the $54,000, and then about $25,000 of additional money to go for uh the gated pipe and related impacts of of the purchase. So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Otherwise, um, that's it in a nutshell.

I have one question. Yeah. Um, so thanks for that, by the way. It was very thorough. Um, but my one question was I thought that there was a time constraint on them replacing something something had to be done by

Yeah, there is. it's before the watering season starts and they're aware of that and um when I met last met I last met with Stan on Friday and he said that him and the lei were out there just the day or two before kind of working through that and like I said he he had indicated that he really liked the idea of them moving it because they can do it on their timeline when the field's not muddy when they have the the ability to do it and so they're aware of it. They know it's they know it's a priority for us. We know that water's obviously a priority for them. Um but this will allow them to do it in their own time frame. So their time frame but before

it has to be done before April 15th. Our contractor is going to modify the irrigation structure that is in the right of way and then they will connect their pipe onto that. So that's the time frame we have to get done before the water system starts being used and then they can put their pipe if they need to. Okay. Yeah. I just wanted that clarification because it's their own time frame but still [laughter] has to be can be determined. Yeah. On on their timeline, but it has to be before the water. Right. Right. Yeah. Which is obviously their priority anyway. Correct. And wouldn't it be before it affects our contractor doing the work if if he needs to impact that?

Yeah. I don't I don't think our contractor will be doing anything before the watering season starts. Anything that would impact that? Yeah, they want they want to move the irrigation and then there's plenty of other places that So, as long as long as it's out of the way, I don't want to slow down the contractor. Yeah. And they're aware of that. Yeah. And I I got the impression from Stan that their plan is to to do it as soon as at the next dry opportunity. Good. Very good. That's good news. Okay. You guys good with everything? If so, I'd entertain a motion to adjourn and we'll be reconvened. I think so. Thank you. Okay. All favor. I'll acknowledge

go ahead and get our Leighton City Council meeting underway this evening. I appreciate everyone that's here. It looks like we've got quite a few folks in the audience, including some scouts, which is awesome. We don't see all the time, so thank you for being here. Um, as customary, we'd like to start all of our meetings with a prayer and a pledge, and we take turns. So, at this point, I'm going to go ahead and turn the time over to Council Member Colonialis to uh conduct that portion of our meeting. Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to introduce Grant MeT. He is a US National Championship. And I'm going to get this right. UCI World Youth Games and he represented the United States of America in Poland in 2022. If you don't know what this is, it's a jumping off large objects without a seat. Um, so the only US citizen to ever represent the USA in the National Games. Grant, it's all yours. Thank you. Our dear heavenly father, we're grateful to come here together as community members and people and we pray that this meeting can be productive and unify the community. We pray for this country and the leaders of it uh both for the nation and for this community. Pray that they can know how they can best lead these people. And we're grateful for the rain that we have received and snow and we pray for more of it. We're grateful for all the members of this community and pray that we can support one another and in all the things that we do and um learn from one another. We're grateful for this evening and all that you have blessed us with. And we say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Amen. Will you all please rise and receive the pledge of America? I aliance 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.

All right. Very interesting. Thank you. Thank you for the introduction as well. That's good to know some of the unique things that take place within our city. Okay, before I get going, I do want to acknowledge one other guest that we have here with us. To my right, I have Lyra. I wanted to make sure I said that. Gutierrez, who is part of our youth council, and she is the current mayor promp. So, I'm going to ask you if you wouldn't mind. I know some of the others have explained what youth council's about. Why don't you explain or share maybe one of your favorite experiences?

One of my favorite experiences I've had with Leighton City Youth Council is that every year we get to help with the Fourth of July parade and we get to go around and hand out popsicles and see all the people and it's really awesome. Love it. Well, thank you because it does take an army to get all those uh popsicles out to everyone and we appreciate the the donations that we receive for that. Okay, council. Um, we have uh three sets of minutes that we need to approve. If there's no corrections to it, then I'd look for a motion. And if you could just go ahead and state the meeting and the date.

Thank you, mayor. I move that we accept the minutes of Leighton City Council meeting November 20th, 2025. the Leighton City Council meeting minutes from December 4th, 2025 and the meeting minutes from the Leighton City Council strategic planning work meeting December 11th, 2025. Second. Okay, it's been moved and second that we adopt the meeting the minutes as written. All in favor, please say I. Any oppose? Okay, thank you very much. We'll now go on to our municipal announcements. So, any of the council members that have any announcements they'd like to share with everyone,

uh, please go ahead. Well, I've got here that uh there's a free family entertainment. Free family entertainment. Doesn't happen too often. Uh that you explore America's 250. Now, we all know that this is America's 250th birthday, and so we'll be celebrating it all year long. This is at the library and you'll learn the history of our country. So, you can take your kids and they'll have classes. And is there anybody here from the library? There better be cake and ice cream. I only go to birthdays when there's cake and ice cream. So, but if there's not, I apologize in advance. So, go to the library. Oh, and it'll be on where we have us. We got to have a date on this, Dave.

17th. Okay. It'll be the 17th of March. Okay. St. Patrick's Day. Evidently. So, evidently. But you can dress in green as well. Red, white, and blue, and green. Yeah, we're green. I apologize. It's the 20th of March this year. Okay, that makes more sense. Oh, it's in March. 20th. So, it's March 20th, not the 17th. Okay. Did I hear something wrong or did I say it wrong? No. Okay. It's on March 20th. I lied. We're blue.

Thank you. Does anyone else have anything? No. Okay. Let's go ahead then and uh just a minute. you can make a comment under citizens comment if you don't mind. Um, okay. So, that takes care of our municipal announcements. We do not have any verbal petition. So, now I'll go on to our citizens comment portion of our meeting. So, anyone who wishes to address us, you're more than welcome to come up to the mic, state your name, what city you're from, and then please keep in mind that um any discussion or anything you bring before us that this governing body will not take any action. it's due to a state code, but certainly we will take action and uh your concerns and follow up with you. So, go ahead.

Um, my name is Irene Hill and I'm from Leighton City and I just was letting everybody know we're having the museum 250th anniversary exhibit kickoff, grand opening next Thursday from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. That's all. Perfect. Hey, wait, wait, before you go, give us a little dribble on what all was that people can see there.

Oh, okay. So, we've pretty much um gotten all kinds of different things from the last 250 years, including toys. And it's all at the museum. And there's going to be a craft there and mini cupcakes for everybody. So, there's your cupcakes. I love it. Thank you, Irene. We appreciate that. Okay. Anyone else? My name is Nancy George. I live in Leighton. I am serving right now as the board chair for the Davis Arts Council and I we wanted to take a couple of minutes and introduce our new executive director, Lisa Zamora. Lisa comes to us most recently from the Eckles Theater where she served as the community activation and event manager for Salt Lake County Arts and Culture. She has a long and storied background with Ballet West. She has a bachelor's and a master of fine arts in ballet. She is a resident of Davis County in BA in Bountiful. And we are so delighted to have her serve as our executive director. And I'm going to let her share a couple of things with you. Lisa Hoy from Bountiful. It is a pleasure to inter to be introduced to you this evening. As I look to leading the next era of the Davis Arts Council, I'm driven by the organization's rich history of access to the arts for all members of our community. I look forward to strengthening DAX programming that has been celebrated for many years. I'd like to this to take this moment to thank Leon City and you as its key members of its leadership for your unprecedented commitment to the arts. It's inspiring and appreciated. As your resident arts partner, Davis Arts Council looks not only to be a

leader in bringing quality arts experiences to all Leighton City residents, but also to support and lift up the artistic endeavors of our community members. We're excited about our upcoming Summer Nights with the Stars season, which we're announcing one concert at a time over the next few weeks. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram and join our newsletter to stay in the know. Season tickets become available on March 16th and single ticket sales open on April 21st. Thank you.

Wait, you can't leave. You guys need to say what you've announced already. What shows have you booked? All right, we already have the Marshall Tucker Band. Um, Edward, oh my goodness, Edwin. Uh, what's his last name? Five. Yeah, Edwin with five for fighting as well. We also have the Dooop project. And we announced today that we have a Yachtly crew. Sorry, we have a lot of names flowing in our minds, but yeah, lot yachtly crew was announced today at noon, so check us out.

Thank you. Thank you so much. Any other questions? Yeah, that's not MLY crew. They are a yacht rock band. Okay, we'll take that. Yeah. Anything over 30 years old, we'll take. Thank you very much. Okay. Thank you. Anyone else?

Mayor, council, thanks for the opportunity to address you tonight. I feel a little awkward. I work for a municipality and so this is kind of weird to sit on this side of this the podium, but uh uh I just wanted to kind of bring a couple things to your attention. My name is Bryce King. Um yesterday uh we had a water leak on my street. I live in 3340 2175 East. I just wanted to give a huge shout out to the four guys that were there from 10:00 in the morning till I went to bed at 10:00. So, my wife said 11:30. So, huge shout out to them for starting it and finishing it. Um, but the only thing that I would like to maybe give a couple suggestions is there wasn't any uh communication that went out to any of us as as residents. Uh, there wasn't an email or a text or anything like that. Um, and so I don't know if there's it was just something that was forgotten. Uh, people in my neighborhood were texting me because I have a certain church calling and so people are asking me what's going on in the neighborhood. Um, luckily I have some good contacts in Leighton City. Dave Price helped me out a little bit and so um, I think in the future if we could have some sort of mechanism whether it's an email through the utility billing system or a text message out to people that would be super helpful. I know in in the municipality that I work for right now, we're working with a a company that would potentially be able to um basically take all of our utility billing people and put them into a software and I would literally be able to click on any house that would be affected and send them a text and an email um to communicate to the residents. Um so that's something that could be potentially done. maybe an alert bar on the top of the website just saying, "Hey, look, there's a water break on X Street just be prepared or uh my neighbors had to call dispatch the police to kind of understand what was going on." And so um those are just some ideas, maybe an icon on the main page

that says communications of maybe kind of some of those updates. I I personally run communications in my city and I hate social media for these types of things because not everybody in the city needs to know about a water break that's happening on my street. Um so that would be like my last choice. Um maybe next door is something you could look into is potentially leveraging. Um trying to think what else I had on my list. Um, when I searched communications in the website, it took me to management services and it just took me to a paragraph that said communications and explained to me what it was. So maybe in that link it could just have another sublink that went directly to whatever contact information like non-emergency number for public works or you know whatever may be. So um those are just some suggestions. Uh maybe just another suggestion as far as like um the management of the scene. The the row close sign just said workers ahead at the bottom of the road and the way that road goes, it goes up and then it kind of comes down and so maybe having like more of a road closed ahead because once you get to that certain point, there's nowhere else to go other than turning back around. Also to protect your guys, I mean I really appreciated them plowing snow all day and then coming and fixing my water leaks. So just shoot huge shout out to public works. So thank you.

Okay. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. There is a just for the record anybody listening there is an opt-in program that you can do through our um utilities department. So that is available. Um any other comments? Jennifer Bazano. I am here in Leighton. Got to be looking a little bit familiar by now. But I do want to make it clear, I voted for the ramp tax because I'm a huge advocate for parks and wreck in all the arts that it brings because my children are both artists by trade, dancers. I don't why they picked that. I don't know because, as you know, there's no money there. Anyway, I I'm a huge advocate for the arts. I voted for who I voted for this year in the election for one big reason. Dog parks. I'm back again for dog parks. The fact that the biggest city in the county doesn't have anywhere for dogs to be off leash unless you want to take them up on the trail where they get stuck in an animal trap, which is now I know illegal in late city bounds. Not other cities though. the fact that there's nowhere for us to take our dogs to socialize. Not only the dogs, give them a safe place to be off leash to socialize as dog owners. A lot of us don't have children. I don't have children here. I built new construction. So, I paid a big chunk of money to parks and wreck. I don't use any parks. I don't play pickle ball. I don't have little kids. The only thing I would use in the city is a dog park. But you're not filling that little portion. little meaning between 35 and 40% of Leighton City citizens have dogs. That's a huge amount of people that are going unnoticed and set aside. And the

latest thing I heard was that the kickback on a dog park was because other citizens without dogs would be uncomfortable going there. Great. They have 35 other parks where dogs aren't allowed to be. go somewhere else. And the place they're looking at putting a dog park, Eastridge, is that correct? Talking about, nobody's going to want to go there and hang out anyway. It's solely for dogs. I just don't understand what the kickback is, why it's taking so long. I did read through all the minutes. The agenda for this meeting was really hard to find online. I actually was never able to find it. I looked through all the ramp meetings and Clint, hope you don't mind me using your first name, but I don't have my glasses on. I did see that they you suggested or said that somebody was going to get a study together to ask for some rampant money to possibly help support putting in a dog park. So, I hope that will come to fruition. Like I said, there's a really large portion of Leighton citizens that are not being served fairly. No kids. I don't play pickle ball. I don't use parks. I would use this one little tiny 10acre, whatever it is. And a lot of us would.

Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Anyone else?

Okay. Seeing that there's no more uh citizens comment, we'll go ahead and move on to our consent items tonight. Um, just so you know, our consent items will be presented and then this governing body will be able to act upon them in one single motion. So, with that, I'm going to go ahead and have Weston Appaloney come up and uh he's going to talk about the MADS at uh three farm annexation. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Good to be with you this evening. Before you tonight is a uh petition um for an annexation. Um this is the first step of a three-part process. We're going to currently work on the acceptance of the petition of the annexation. If this is accepted through the council and passed, um the next planning or the next city council will bring forth the certification of that petition and then after that staff will work with the applicant. Um and we'll eventually bring forward the uh reszone request for the property as well as the annexation, the approval of the annexation. So tonight we're just looking at the acceptance of the petition for the annexation. Uh the petitioner is Greg Timothy uh with Ivory Development representing the property owners for Ivory uh corporate uh excuse me, Ivory Land Corporation and MA Family Farms. This is 62.723 acres and this is identified in the uh the map you see above you. Um the proposed area for the annexation is south of Gentile Street, west of 2700 West and north of the State Road 177 which is the West Davis uh highway. This is the area. It's broken into two parcels. You can see and you can see back on this map here you can see it divided into the white line. Um, again, this is this is merely just the

acceptance, so we're not uh approving the annexation tonight. Um, following the adoption of the resolution, staff will initiate the necessary annexation procedures as outlined in state law. The request for the general plan, amendment, and the reszone will be brought back to the council for review under a separate action. Staff recommends the council adopt resolution 2610, accepting the petition for annexation and directing staff to initiate Excuse me. Initiate the necessary annexation procedures. Any questions? Okay. Any questions? Council. I have one question. Weston, did you say that this is two parcels or is it three? It is two parcels. Okay. I'm just

as a part of the reason there will be more parcels, but as far as what's being annexed, there's two parcels. Okay. I just see that extra line up top with the You're talking about this here. Yeah.

Um I can answer that is a third parcel. Yes. I apologize. There is three parcels there. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Did you Thank you. Yeah. Get that confirmed. Yeah. [laughter] Yeah. Thank you. Looks like three. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. Good. We'll go ahead and move on. Um, we'll go on to item number B, which uh, Miss Joel and Grandy's going to present the bid award uh, for the West Davis Corridor Landscape Project.

Well, good afternoon. It's a pleasure to be here this evening, Madame Mayor and Council members. Excuse [clears throat] me. I'm here to to uh bring before you resolution 2607 which will be to authorize the execution of an agreement between Leighton City and Maril Sheriff Construction for the construction of the West Davis corridor landscape projects um project 251. I have some slides that I want to share with you that illustrates what the project encompasses and so I'll take some time to walk you through each of those sections. This is a context map to help you to understand where we'll be discussing today. I'm going to start up in the top I guess your leftand corner the 2700 West Park strip area and this is a slide that will bring you into that zoomed in section. Uh we're looking to add some park strip tree plantings in this area. It's pretty important. It's our 2700 west exit off of the the new corridor and will be the gateway into the business district in this area that we have planned. And so we're looking to dress it up, make it look nice, add some street trees and underplantings. And then from there, I hopefully I hope you've been able to go over to the trail head that's also off at that exit that you can take. And um it's a great access to jump onto the new corridor trail and to be able to ride along that beautiful scenic ride. Uh we are looking to make a number of improvements in this area just to make it more accommodating for our trail head users and those who will be riding on the trail. Some of the amenities that we will be adding um will be an extension of the stamped concrete here to be able to delineate better the

area that's in that's that's for bike riders versus automobile traffic. Um we'll also be adding an auto rail along here. It's a little steep, so we want to just make sure it's safe for those who may be taking that turn in. And then we're also adding a raised concrete barrier to make it more prominent where bikers are to go versus where the automobiles are to be located. And then moving over, you get into the main section where you park. Um, very excited for this section that we'll be updating and bringing in some amenities. Uh first of all, we'll be adding a concrete pad here with a bike repair station and then a bicycle rack area. And then over here, we'll be extending concrete path pad here where there'll be some benches and then a small kiosk. And I'm very excited about the information that'll be provided on this kiosk. There'll be three different panels. Um, one we'll just talk about the trail system that we have here in Leighton so you can understand where you are and what trails you can go on from there. One of the panels we're hoping to do will talk about the cultural history. Um, [clears throat] this was part of the Gold Rush Trail, Gold Rush uh back in the 1800s. And so uh there'll be a part that talks about that. And then we also want to talk about the geography and the the animals that are in that area. We're so lucky to be able to have the nature conserve Torland's preserve right across from there and to be able to talk about the birds and the purpose of that site and to encourage people to go over and and learn more at that location. So those are what those three panels are to be talking about. We'll also be adding a two rail wood fence along here to be able to delineate better where bikers are to go, where their entrances are into the trail head

parking lot area. So, those are some of those amenities that we'll be adding. This location is down at Weaver Lane at the end of the culdesac where our Case Creek estate future park site is located and we're looking to just create a better delineation of the boulders that are placed there just to make it very clear this is where bikers get on and to be able to make it uh more controlled at that location. And then we did have a bid alt that was provided in our um project package. And this is located here's Leighton Parkway up here. Here's 2200 West. And then it curves around and then it it goes and changes into 1700 West. Just south of there is the Shoreline Leighton Junior High. Just to help you get some context of where we are. Um these parcels right here uh will be dedicated to Leighton City. And so we're looking to beautify that a little bit. We'll be adding native grass. Um we're looking to be water wise consc conscientious, but we do want to add a couple clusterings of trees to be able to um beautify that area. And then this takes us to the results of our bid opening. We had, let's see here, we advertised the bid on November 19th of 2025, and we had five contractors that were qualified to be able to put in for the bid. On January 21st of 2026, we received three bids and Mel Sheriff Construction was identified as the apparent low bidder at that time. Um and that was also after we reviewed all the numbers and costs that were provided they were also identified as the most lowest responsive responsible bidder and they came in at 36982

with 77. Now um before I move forward with the recommendations I do want to just provide an update for you. We did receive UD do funds for this project to be able to help us with this amenities and beautifification for our city. Um to date we have if if it's approved tonight and we're able to move forward with Mel Sheriff Construction we'll have spent $392,893 which will leave us with an amount of $107 and $17. And so we're looking ahead about how what else could we do and just quickly I wanted to share with you our our next phases that we would like to recommend at this time. Um, we'd like to look at the Case Creek Estates Park site that we have. This a future project and with some of those funds is to be able to add a tree buffer along this space. [clears throat] So, as so those trees will have a little bit of a jump start and before we actually develop that park. And then uh the other area that we'd like to focus on takes us back to the 2700 West entrance. And like I [clears throat] mentioned, this is the gateway to our city in off of the West AIS corridor. And we would like to somewhere along this buffer line here on the let's see east side of 2700 West is to add another welcome to Leighton City sign like those that we have off of I-15. And so, um, those are two spaces that we're looking into to be able to use, um, all of the funds that we've been given to be able to help beautify this space. So, anyway, that's just some context there. But bringing it back to our purpose here tonight is is to make a recommendation uh that we adopt resolution 2607 authorizing the city manager to conduct negotiations and execute the agreement between Leighton City and Maros Sheriff

Construction for the construction of the West Davis corridor landscape projects projects 251. Are there any questions? Any questions? Go ahead, Joelen. Can you describe the panels that you were going to put at 2700, the the the historical signs one more time for me?

Oh, sure. Um, one of them will be about the trail system that we have in the city. And a a great place that you can go where we have one of these already. Well, a couple of these where we have built. There's the Adams Canyon trail head. That's a good one you can go look at. And then there's also one just off of Vance Drive near the DNRG rail trail and Case Creek trail cross. So um same kind of concept but one of them will be about the trail systems, one of them will be about cultural history. Um for example the gold rush and then the third one will be about the Shorelands Nature Preserve.

What about the indigenous community that was here? Uh have you looked at uh addressing that in any of these sites? Yes, I would be part of the cultural history. Yep. And and we're working closely with the museum which is a great resource and the Shosonyi tribe. Yes. Very good. Okay. Any

I just had one question. Um I appreciate the for foresight of looking at the uh remaining funds and seeing where they could go. Um, I do remember that maybe it was over a year ago that there was the community that was just um west of 2700 West that was inquiring about some of those UD do landscaping funds to add more trees to the area over there because of a sound buffer, which I know was not necessarily a part of this, but they did mention that there was UD do funding to beautify the area and whatnot. Just wondering, I mean, I know you mentioned putting some of those trees near the Case Creek for the future, if there was any thought put into maybe going back to that area since that community had brought that up. So, just wondering if there was any any thought um around using some of those funds to add trees over in that area.

Well, that's a great question. Um our focus first of all was trying to make sure the trail and those amenities were number one and then any properties that are late in city. We want to make sure that we take care of those and then definitely focusing on those next two phases that we talked about the Case Creek Estate Park buffer area and then the gateway signage and then we can definitely look into seeing if there's extra funds there um and look at that. I do know that most of those areas back when the project was being developed and we were very much a part of the UD do um engagement process and we heard all of the many things that came through and I do know that um just the birming was a big deal too and making sure that that was there. I think a challenge might be is just getting water there um but we'll look into it. Very good. Anything else? Okay. Thank you, Joelyn.

Thank you. Okay. Let's go ahead and move on then to item number C, which Mr. Jackson will be presenting this item regarding pressurized irrigation system.

Mayor, council, it's good to be with you tonight. um for your consideration is resolution 2609 which is the pressurized irrigation system transfer agreement between Leighton City and Davis and Weber County's Canal Company. Uh we've been working on this this agreement for quite some time with Davis and Weber County's Canal. And um just to give a little bit of history as to why this agreement has come to you tonight. Um, back in 2017 when Leighton City adopted our water master plan, um, part of that uh, master plan was to optimize the pressurized secondary irrigation water use throughout the city in order to take some demands off of our culinary water system and and just optimize the water resources that we have throughout the the the city available to us. and and part of that uh optimization was also to consolidate operations and maintenance of the pressurized secondary systems in Leighton so that uh residents basically just had u you know to call the city and and work with the city on these things and we felt like that was a better way to manage the water in this area. So uh we started out with a operating agreement with Weaver Basin Water Conservancy District to operate their secondary water system here in Leighton back in 2018. Uh then we uh signed an agreement with Case Creek Irrigation Company to transfer their pressurized irrigation system to the city in January of 2022. And now we're uh four years later, February 2026 here with this agreement with Davis and Weber County, Davis and Weber County's Canal Company. Um so in this map from the the master plan, you can see the area in blue is the Weber Basin area that we uh have been operating since 2018. The red is the Case Creek area since 2022. And then we're talking about the yellow areas that will be um the Davis Weber areas transferred to Leighton City uh with this agreement. Um as we we look at the master plan for for planned projects, you can see there's quite a a few uh improvements that we're planning to make

and are in underway as we we move forward. And so this is an integral part of that master plan in order to um to optimize the secondary water use throughout the city. Um, so the terms of the agreement, uh, if I could quickly go through those is that Davis and Weaver County's Canal Company will, uh, convey the pressurized irrigation system in Leighton City to Leighton. Um, approximately 1350 connections with 23 miles of pipes and a pertinances that that we would take over and maintain. Davis Weber would retain the canal, reservoirs, transmission lines that are not associated with the the transferred system. um the hybrid users. There's a few system users that flood irrigate off of the pressurized system currently. They would remain Davis Weaver shareholders and and have all of their interactions with Davis Weber as well. And then the Westl ditch that is connected to this system um would remain with Davis Weber Canal until such time as the the development or or things change that they would become pressurized. So there is a bilateral contract between Davis Weaver and Leighton City that was signed in 2002 that addressed the the pressurized system and delivery here in Leighton. Um that will be terminated with this agreement. Um the trilateral contract between the city Davis Weber and Weber Basin Water Conservancy District that will uh become a bilateral contract where all of the rights, obligations, and liabilities of Davis Weaver will transfer to the city. Um and then there are 13 uh water purchase contracts with Weaver Basin that are currently in the name of Davis Weaver that will be transferred to Leighton City as well. Um so the portions of this the area that we're we're taking over or transferring to the city here um on the south end there west of Flint Street and and kind of around south of Leighton Parkway to the city border. There's three disconnects that will be made to we'll take that system off of the the system in Cisville that Davis Weaver operates and then we'll make some connections on Leighton Parkway to to bring that system

into the water that Leighton City delivers through our pipeline in Leighton Parkway. Um on the the the West Leighton system west of 2200 West from essentially Ellison Park to the north. Um that system will transfer to us. There's a pipeline that runs all the way from I-15 down 2200 West um through Clearfield and then into Leighton. Um that will become Leighton City's obligation to own and maintain um all the areas that are shown in pink there are the hybrid users that have been identified that will remain Davis Weber shareholders but but receive water off of the system. And then to the to the bottom of this image, the the south here is where the West Leighton ditch um system, the flood irrigation continues. And and so there's a connection to that that is a turnout basically that that will be operated. Water will be delivered through this system to those those users on the Westlon ditch to Davis Weber to to be able to continue their flood irrigation practices until such time as the the development changes that system. So um again the city will disconnect the South Leighton system and and put it on to the Leighton Parkway. Um we'll deliver that water and continue to deliver that water to Davis Weber and the hybrid users. Um, we'll continue to pay our shareholder assessments on the shares that we own with the city. Um, we are in the process of of metering the transferred connections. We received a a grant from the state to to use with the the funding for secondary metering and and so we're using that to to pay for 65% of metering costs and then the city is is um covering those other costs to make sure the system will operate with our current meters that we have. Um, again, we would own and operate the system. we would build for the customers on the pressurized system and then we would coordinate any future development modifications to that West Leon ditch system with Davis Weber Canal. Uh Davis Weber uh their undertakings in this agreement is they would provide the documentation for the system. So the city has the information it needs to um

operate the system and and the mapping that they have. They would assist us with identifying and understanding how the transferred system works through this first season. um they would assign any rights of ways easements for the transfer system to the city. So we have the options and and the the I guess the rights to continue to operate the system as it has been used. Um they continue to have the hybrid system or hybrid users and the other shareholders with Davis Weaver um as their their customers or or their shareholders until such time as as the transfers would happen to become pressurized and then they would coordinate with the city on future development modifications. So, um, if the council chooses to approve this, um, tonight, the, uh, next steps the city would take as we would, uh, start the the process to disconnect those, um, those three points from the the South Leighton system prior to the April 15th water season. Uh, we need to send notices to all of the customers on the transferred system prior to the season, letting them know that the the city is is going to be operating that in the future and and moving forward. Um, we'll coordinate that delivery of the water for the the upcoming flood irrigators so that we we make sure that that isn't interrupted in any way. Uh, begin billing monthly for the system just like all of our other pressurized secondary water users. And then we'll continue that installation of the meters throughout the system until the end of of October when we need to have that finished up to meet the obligations of the grants that we received. So, um, with that, staff recommends the council adopt resolution 2607 authorizing the mayor or city manager to execute the pressurized irrigation system transfer agreement between Leighton City and Davis and Weber counties canal company for the transfer of the pressurized system from Weber and Davis counties canal to Leighton. Are there any questions that I can answer?

Any questions, council? I know we went over it in depth in the work meeting. Um maybe just for clarification in case anybody's listening. Yes. Please state the fact that the there will be no disruption in their service. Yes. We we anticipate that that the the shareholders on the system, hybrid flood users will will not see any difference in the way the system operates or or is is managed in that regard. And the customers that are currently on the pressurized system, we anticipate won't see any difference in how it's operated either. The pressures won't change, things like that. So, um hopefully it's a very very seamless transition between um the operations and and then we'll move forward. So,

Steve, can can you address um I I if you can notice to customers um to what you plan on doing that if if you can u I don't want to see um I don't want to have residents calling the city or calling the uh the canal company. uh this this system's been in for 25 years. So

yeah. So so the plan uh similar to what we did when Case Creek transferred over to Leighton City, we have a notice that we anticipate sending out that that basically just says, "Hey, this is the the transfer of the system has occurred. Um Leighton City is now the operator of the system. If you have any questions, here's the contact information for people to call with Leighton City. if you're a a hybrid or a shareholder or something, then continue to call Davis Weber and and work with them. And so we'll we anticipate working with with Rick Smith and and his team at at Davis Weber to to make sure that it's a very seamless um transition with the notice taking care of both systems at once. So we don't need to send two out that say, "Hey, we're doing this and they're doing that." It should be one one notice for them. And and we hope to get it out here fairly quickly if this gets approved. Okay, any other questions? Okay, seeing that there's none, uh, go ahead and stay up there and you can go on to item number D.

Perfect. Um, resolution 2612, uh, for your consideration tonight, mayor and council is amending is an approving an agreement amending an existing ride ofway and easement agreements between Leighton City and Questar Gas Company, who is now doing business as Enbridge Gas, Utah. Um along the um Bamburger Trail here in Leighton, there's a a large gas line that that runs from um well runs a long way, but I'm just going to talk about the part from Gentile Street up to about 400 um west there. Um Enbridge Gas has come to the city, worked with the engineering group to um uh talk about a project that they need to do. They have a 20-in gas line that needs to be upsized and and 20-in line is being retired and the 24 is being installed. So, um, with that, we have some agreements for easements that are dated, um, excuse me, here, April of 1957 and January of 1958, respectively. So, things have changed a little bit since then. And and so this agreement is uh amending those right-of-way uh easements and agreements to allow Enbridge to um not only upsize the pipe from the 20 to the 24, but um establish the the the width of the easement. It wasn't really defined as as well as it could be today. So So it's a 30-foot easement that's being established. And then um I didn't show the whole project extents. It's a it's a huge project and and um they've done a great job to to try and mitigate any impacts that are going on. But the the small area here you see in the shaded area um at Church Street with the new bridge, the the gas line needs to run outside of the existing easement that that is currently there. And so this is an added area that would be included in this new agreement and easement to allow

that pipeline to go in. So, um, we anticipate it to be a great project and and a a really necessary project with the growth that we're seeing throughout the area. And, um, so with that, staff recommends that council adopt resolution 2612 and approve the amendment to the right ofway and easement agreements between Lake City and Questar Gas Company and doing businesses and bridge Gas, Utah, and authorize the mayor to sign the necessary documents. Any questions I can answer? Okay, questions. just one. You know, in 57 they put in a 20 inch. Mhm. So now they want to put in 24. Is that big enough? Um

we've grown a lot since 57. Yeah. I we're we're confident that Enbridge has done the the homework they need to and they've sized the pipe appropriately. Yeah. I think they they they've also had other pipelines that have gone in around the area. So yeah, we're we're confident that they they do that. We do have some some people here from Embridge if you want to ask them more questions. Um but but yeah, the the pipe I think pipes the right 24 sounds big. It just seems if 20 was big in 57, we're a little bit bigger. I think they had a lot of capacity in in 57 that let them get to 2026 before they needed to. Okay. Yeah. Council member,

thank you. I have a question. Um, you said that this is a large project. Do you and do you know how long um it would take to complete this like what the timeline would be? Um, if I could defer to Joe, would you or one of you guys, would you mind? You can come up to the mic. Jump up to the mic here for me. And actually Darren is actually our uh project manager right here. This one? Yeah, that one over. Yeah. Uh Darren Crumb is our project manager over the project and so he can answer the question on the schedule. Yeah.

I was the design engineer on the project and 24 in is perfect for us. This is a long pipeline established uh over the years and and like Steve was saying we have a lot of other you know tap lines and gate stations we've been since installed since 1957. So this is plenty good for the capacity of what we need for future. Uh but go ahead. you can answer on on the schedule.

Yeah, so on the on the construction schedule, we're anticipating between two to three years depending on how the progress goes. Uh this won't be continuous with the heating season. We'll probably have to shut the work down uh during the winter months and then pick it back up in the spring. But somewhere between the two two to three year mark is how long we think it'll take just for this section or for the whole thing? For for the whole thing? For this section. This should only take a couple of months. Do you have an intention of starting this section first or or just as it goes along? You have to build it as you go. Just just as we go along. Yeah.

Correct. Any other questions? It's a big undertaking. It is. It's [laughter] been great and and the city's been great working with and we came ahead to kind of talk about this because of the uh how old this thing thing is and how much we've been approached upon and um anyway trying to find we look to reroute to avoid this area but this was the best best route for the city and for everybody. So um so anyway thank thank you to Steve and and Brian that we work with. Okay, we have one more question.

Just just cur Thank you mayor. Just curious the where it's beginning and where it's ending. You say 2 to three years geog geographically. Correct. Yeah. So beginning of the project would be at Gentile Street and then it would be going all the way north past uh Fort Lane up to SR 193 up in Clearfield.

Fort Okay. All right. Any other We're good. Yeah. Okay. All right. Let's uh we've got one last item that we need to cover tonight in our consent items and I'm going to turn the time over to uh our attorney Clint Drake.

Thank you, Mayor. Uh we went over this uh in detail in the work meeting. So, I'll just um hit hit the basics and the important points. This is for 3200 West for the public's reference. This is 3200 West and West Hillfield Road right by Legacy Junior High. Um some much needed improvements. Road widening needs needs to happen there. So um we needed to acquire the property that's shown there in gray and black. Uh that property there will allow us to widen the street and also uh put in um curb gutter and sidewalk which will be better for the families and the kids that are going back and forth to school each day. Uh the property owner is actually the same property owner that's to the immediately to the east which is there on the right of that uh photo. If you advance to the next slide, uh there's some property there that's shown that is owned by the city. Um the property that we need to acquire is just over an acre. This property here that the city owns is just under an acre. Uh we've come to an agreement with the property owner that we would uh exchange those properties at a square foot for per square foot value. Um and then the city would purchase the remaining property as there's still a little bit more that we need to acquire than than what we have there. So, we'll swap the properties if approved and then um we will purchase the rest of the properties which at the appraised value will equal about $54,000. Then there's some impacts to the property mainly a gated pipe that's used to irrigate the property that will need to be uh either replaced or relocated. So, we've um agreed to uh provide some funds for that would be in the amount of $25,000. So total amount would be uh uh the 54,000 plus the the 25,000 and then the property swap. I'm happy to answer any questions if you have any.

Okay. Any additional qu questions, council? Go ahead. Yeah. Um the property that's currently owned by this city that we are conveying. Is Mr. Leighton using that already as his own as if it was his own property? Yes. And there was no compensation to the city at all? No. Okay. He maintained the weeds. [laughter] Okay. Any other questions?

I don't have a question, mayor. Just a comment. Um, one, this is near my area and so we're just grateful that this project gets to move forward um because of the sidewalk and the safety concerns for the families and the and the kids in that area. Um, but also happy that we were able to come to this type of an agreement with the land owner. um and being able to have an amenable swap, you know, at all whatever at all stands for, but just grateful that we can come to this type of an agreement um to help with something that's much needed for our residents.

Very good. Okay. Any other comments? Okay. If not, then council, uh that was our last item presented under our consent item. So, I'll bring it back around for you to take action on all of the items presented. If you could in your motion, could would you mind stating the resolution and a briefing of what um it pertains to? Thank you.

Madame Mayor, I move that we accept annexation request MA Three Farms annexation acceptance of the petition resolution 26-10, the bid award with Mel Sheriff Construction, Inc. for West Davis corridor landscape projects projects 25501 resolution 2607 the pressurized irrigation system transfer agreement between Leighton City and Davis and Weber counties canal company for the transfer of the pressurized system from Weber and Davis counties can county canal company to Leighton City resolution 26-09 the approving we approve the agreement uh amending the existing ride ofway and easement agreements between Leighton City and Questar Gas Company doing business as Endbridge Gas Utah resolution 26-12 and approve the land sale and exchange agreement between Leighton City and the Stanford J. Leighton Family Trust Resolution 26-13.

Very good. It's been moved and second that we u accept the consent items. All in favor, please say I. I. I. Any oppose? Okay. Thank you very much. Okay, that uh pretty much concludes our our meeting this evening. So, if there's any unfinished business or additional uh discussions we'd like to discuss there, we certainly can do that or a motion to adjurnn. Really?

So, if Yes. So, if we'd like to go back into discussion, then in your motion to close this meeting, we can go back into a work session. Okay, I'd like to close the session, but also go back into a work session. Okay, closes me. Is there a second? Okay, thank you. All in favor say I. Okay, thank you very much. We appreciate everyone attending today.