City Council - Regular Meeting

Two of them that got up and spoke were, I mean, it was kind of a tearjerker because they were down and out and really just didn't feel like they were worth anything. The staff and the folks and the program that they have over there has just lifted them up and they were cheerful and happy. They all spoke about the fact that all the kids there treat each other as if they're their own siblings and the staff is kind of like their parents, so it sounds like that's... really doing what I think all of us was hoping that we would do. That's my update. Anybody else have any updates on anything that you want to share?

Pub show. Last time ever.

Ever?

Ever. January? No, not January. July. July. Monday night, 7 o'clock.

It's the last one. This coming Monday? Huh? This coming Monday is your last one? There is one more?

No. Heck no and dang yes. There is no other one. That's it. Dave, never say never. I do. I always lied, too. I still say never.

Well, did it go over good? I'm sorry.

Yeah, it went fine. The first one was a lot of fun. It was more fun to see the kids that were doing the puppets. Yeah. They got into it.

They were practicing a lot beforehand.

Yeah, it was fun. But fun's over.

All the fun I can stand. Okay. Anyone else?

I do, but usually Bettina goes. I got some, but it's fine. So I've got two things to report on and actually go with open doors first. The previous board member representing Layton City resigned, is my understanding, and they've elected me as their new board member. Thanks, Julie. Appointed.

Appointed and clarified.

They had a meeting yesterday. They did have a really nice donation of $150,000 that they recently got in. They're working on a bunch of different things. One thing I found interesting that they kind of went over is a board member playbook that they're developing to kind of give guidance to, like myself and these board members, how the board members can help open doors, get their message out. or get their programs, not necessarily come up with donations, but introduce other people in the community to open doors. I found that very interesting. The other thing I have to report on is on Tuesday this week at this Planning Commission meeting, Mayor Petroff attended that one. and showed her appreciation for the work that those commissioners do and handed out the Layton City coin. On behalf of everyone. But she actually educated me and the council members on all the meanings on the coin which I found that very interesting because Some of it I kind of knew, but a few of the other things I found quite interesting. But that's all I have to report right now.

I have one from CTC. I'll announce it tonight as well. But on next Wednesday, July 29th, I believe that's next Wednesday, we will be hosting the Teen Brain Science. It's a parent workshop. that helps to understand the team brain and how things work and why maybe they don't do the things you tell them to do when you tell them to do it and all kinds of other things. Husbands? Yeah, husbands, kids, you know, fill in the blank. But it's a really interesting workshop. It's actually going to be held here, and it'll be in our council chambers at 7 p.m. We have about 20 folks registered already, which is really great. That's really good. registration is still open though so i'll have some flyers up there that i'll announce and hopefully more people can show up we'll have some tool kits for each family and there also is a raffle at the end that will give a free family pass to our circumstance so i'm excited for that and

You ought to open it up to wives for their husbands. That's about as far as a husband gets.

It's open. It's open. Wives, husbands, teens. As long as you can read the list, that's all that matters. Even kids who aren't yet, you know, older. under 12 all the way so anyway it's just a good a good workshop and this is our pilot to see kind of how it goes over and we're hoping that it'll be really good and we'll be able to start offering this anything else reports

All right, let's go on then to item number three on our agenda. And I know Steve Jackson, you're going to be presenting this one on the interlocal agreement in the city of Davis County.

Thanks, Mayor. Council's going to be with you tonight. For consideration is this interlocal cooperation agreement with Davis County to improve Gentile Street. So about a year ago, we started working with the county. They approached us and asked us what we could do about the roadway around Valley View Golf Course. So Gentile Street, as you're aware, East Gentile is... pretty narrow still and it's got a bunch of dirt along the edges and anyway golf course patrons park in the dirt and they have big events and they're parking in the dirt and you've got people using the reservoir parking in the dirt so anyway Anyway, so we had a big discussion with them and a good discussion. We indicated that we had some water line and sewer line improvements that needed to happen as well. And so we worked to accelerate those in our plan because they were not this year but next year. And so we moved ours forward and then they agreed to fund a lot of this roadway project portion for us. And so this project entails 2,800 feet of sidewalk and roadway improvements along East Gentile from this western, if I can get the mouse to work, right about here where the Razorback, called the Razorback is, the road narrows up really quick right here, but from this point all the way up and around to where UDOT finished the improvements when they did the 89 project. So we're planning to put curb gutter on both sides of Gentile Street. There will be a 10-foot sidewalk along the Valley View Golf Course that will connect to the sidewalk where UDOT ended up here. There will be a six-foot budding sidewalk in front of the home that's right there. And then we'll have a 10-foot wide, excuse me, we'll have 12-foot wide travel lanes all the way along Gentile Street with an eight-foot shoulder along the Valley View Golf Course. So people will be able to park along the road without parking in the mud and things like that and then either use the golf course or the reservoir without having to traverse the mud pits and the erosion that's caused the problems along the roadway as well. There is 1,240 feet of storm drain improvements that need to happen. I failed to put that as 15-inch storm drain that needs to go in there. 1,900 feet of 8-inch water line, 3,000 feet of 12-inch water line for one of the master plant projects as we're running that larger 12-inch water line. And then 12-inch sanitary sewer along that stretch of road to accommodate the future growth that's planned for that town center and some of the other developments that have been going in. And then there will be 15 street lights along that 10-foot sidewalk as well that will light that area up. The total authorized roadway expenses are $1,990,000. Davis County is participating with 80% of that at $1,592,000. And so the city's contribution would be just under $400,000 for that 20%. And then we've agreed that all work would be completed on or before December 31st of next year. The other item on the council meeting is actually the bid award for this project with landmark excavating. And so we did receive nine bids for that and the bid for landmark came in at $2,679,430. Dave, you look like you have a question for me.

Not for this. Oh, okay. I just had, when you say Gentile, I never think of this as Gentile. This is East Gentile.

I was going to ask about the bottom of East Gentile.

That road?

It's super rough.

The one down at the bottom, yeah, that's on our list. There's some water line work down there that we're planning as well to get that taken care of.

I was thinking of Oak. O'Kills Drive?

O'Kills and Gentile intersection down there.

No, from where it goes from O'Kills East up to those homes, there's no... There's kind of a little path on the one side, but there's no curb and gutter ever.

No, there's the path on the north side.

On the north side, there's like an asphalt. Will we ever do anything there? Well, that's actually UDOT's road.

It's their state road. Someday, I think long range, it would be widened out, but right now it handles the traffic.

Yeah, I just had a person ask me, and I thought... I said, I don't think we own that, but I'm not sure.

Yeah, UDOT owns it. We actually worked with them to install that trail along the north side. There's one thought.

This part right here is when you have the trees. See how the jet's sitting like that?

Yeah. Those trees right there get in the way of when you're coming south. If someone's not paying attention going north, you don't know. You can't see very well. Okay, we'll take a look at that.

If you just take a look at that, that's... And your red lines?

So the red lines is the storm drain. Go in. yeah there's storm drain that'll catch the water coming off of this and then we've got a couple of places where the storm drain discharges into the reservoir already and then we've got the water lines run and sewer sewer line will run down here to about this point and the water line the larger water line will run all the way down to the end and then the eight inch water line will pick up where the eight inch ended here and replace the six inch that's

that is service life what that's not gonna happen but why wouldn't you complete the sidewalk down to the house On the north side.

This will require a lot of grading and retaining wall work, and so we're working with Joellen to, because it's a 10-foot sidewalk, we're trying to take that all the way west, so that'll be a different phase that we'll work on.

And the 10-foot sidewalk's basically a trail system.

It's part of Joellen's master trail system as well.

How long of a disruption do you think on those homeowners there in front on the south side of the road? It's such a narrow road anyway.

Yeah, we're hoping that it's going to be November before we're finished. So once the golf course might be closed? Well, we're anticipating that they want to start the 3rd of August is when we're planning to have the construction. The contractor is just going to have to work with the homeowners and people to get them in and out, but there will be some traffic disruption. It's nice now that we have the Gordon Interchange. People can come down from the top if this ends under construction and work them up from the bottom as well.

And those homeowners will be notified then of what's going to take place? Yeah, that's part of it.

that's more of what i'm doing yeah we're preparing all those notices and we've been working closely with the golf course they have a big event the weekend of the 31st and the first and so the third is the prime time to start or it's not going to impact that big difference all right any other questions okay thank you okay weston you get to go next it's on our rezone request

before you tonight is a rezone request for a parcel that's just off of Gordon. So it's this small section here. So if you go up there and seen that, you can't see it because it's behind the fence. It is encompassed within this gentleman's, this family's lot. This little piece was a part of the school district's property. And when the city purchased this property through CBDG funds, obviously that little tail came with it. It's small enough, it's insignificant and really can't be used by anybody else. And so they are the applicant, they're requesting the rezone. So that zone matches theirs. So it's currently Ag and they're asking it to go to R110 so it can match their existing property. If this moves forward, they would then go through the process to request to purchase this property from the city and then go through the process to do a plot amendment to incorporate that into their property. They've been really great to work with and have been going through the process and we've explained all of the different steps that they need to take and they've been amenable to take all those steps.

Any questions on this?

Yeah.

What?

You have a little triangle next to it. Yeah. Are we on that? That's owned by them.

What's the line there? It is split up into a separate parcel, and they're going to clean that up too. So there's this triangle here. they own that this and they own this piece and so this is the last little piece they need to bring in and then it's a part of their flat amendment they'll clean all of that up okay and get it aligned correctly so all in green one yeah okay

they worked out an agreement with the neighbor there to the west or is it according to that plot line it's where the white line is not necessarily the other um we haven't this here yeah i know it's not our deal yeah we haven't talked to him about that but it'll likely come up as we're reviewing the plot amendment any other questions okay thank you very simple thank you okay

Let's go on to the fireworks discussion.

Well, Mayor and Council, thank you for having us tonight. Myself and our new fire marshal here, Gavin. He's officially taken over. A couple things we just wanted to talk about. As you know, I've been blowing up your emails a little bit lately with council briefs on some of the events that we've had over the last week, week and a half. And so I just wanted to touch base with a little things and then talk about the upcoming shoot period that's gonna be there. First of all, just to tidy up the 4th of July, PD and fire had 38 complaints of fireworks. Most of them were unfounded. By the time we have the opportunity to get there, most of them are unfounded. But we did issue four different citations at different times. A couple of them were tied to fires. On the night of the 4th of July, one of our brush crews was out checking for a firework that they saw and walked up on a brush fire and found a gentleman shooting out over South Lieber. So anyway, we were pretty busy, right? And we had some really good interactions with folks. We had some not so good interactions with folks. We were called a lot of names. And if you go around and look at some of our signage, they've stickered our signage with some political, I don't know what you want to say. I think they call this fascist and communists and things like that. So anyway, but that's, that's okay. We, we, we made it through. Um, as far as the upcoming, um, upcoming shoot period, um, as you guys know, the, uh, The governor issued an executive order. That executive order won't expire until July 25th. But the executive order itself did not ban fireworks in the state. It eliminated a statute or set aside a statute, right? I keep blowing that word. I don't remember exactly what it's called. it sets aside the statute to allow the state forester to issue a ban of fireworks in municipalities. It basically gives her the authority to do it statewide versus just on state lands. And so that executive order doesn't end until the 25th. So Jamie Barnes, the state forester, her order banned fireworks from July 2nd to July 5th. That time is now passed. We are not in an illegal shoot period. So currently, unless they do something our fireworks map will resort we will resort back to this this is what we've approved for the fireworks in our ordinance right here this is the fairfield road area where we have no aerials the orange and this is east of 89 where we have no fireworks period As you know that this is what we did for the 4th of July. We banned fireworks everywhere east of Fairfield Road and a couple of these other spots you see, those are the county areas. We didn't want someone showing up to J&J or out west thinking because we didn't ban it, they could see it there. So we just incorporated, that's the Lovelane area up there. This is J&J and then a couple of the little small parcels out west. And then we cleaned up the West Davis Corridor. If the governor and the state Forester come out and do something which I don't know when that's going to happen. If it's going to happen, I don't have any contacts that the League League has. I have talked to other fire chiefs in the county and they have been. They've heard whispers that. governor is waiting until after this weekend to see what kind of storms or what wet what water drops whether he's going to do anything or not there's another chief that heard that it might be within the next 48 hours that they're going to issue something either way if they issue something we go back to doing if they if they issue the same thing which i don't know why they wouldn't in my opinion this is my opinion If it was bad enough on the 4th of July, we haven't had any moisture since then. It's only gotten hotter. It was 109 degrees on Sunday. The wind's blowing. It's not getting any wetter. The humidity is good. The RH factors are way down. It's the same thing. If they don't do anything, then we need to do something. My recommendation is that we... based on the fires that we've had, the weather we've had, is that we keep our current, what we did for the 4th of July, and just keep the entire fireworks off east of Fairfield. We already have our signage up, our police officers and our CRR folks. put up 225, 250, 250 flyers and businesses up on the east side and throughout town to try to educate people that this was gonna be our map. I'd hate for us to have to go back and redo all of that. We did have some success. Again, we got called some names, but we did have some success. So this is what I am recommending that we do for the 24th shoot period, whether the governor does anything with it or not. and the only the only um hiccup in our plan is if the governor doesn't do anything we need to work through legal that there's a partner ordinance that states that the fire chief during times of adverse fire and hazardous environmental conditions may review information regarding weather conditions, moisture content, and is it hereby authorized to exercise discretion based thereon in the protection of health, safety, and the welfare of the public to prohibit the ignition or use of all fireworks. So what I'm recommending is that whether the state does it or not, that we do that in our city based on that ordinance right there.

I personally think that's a very good map. And I would like to see us use that even going forward, regardless of what the conditions are next year or the year after, because that's a clear-cut line that's easy to comprehend and people can understand it.

Yes. Our staff has evaluated that, and we're not opposed to doing that.

It's always nice to start something and keep it instead of change it.

Over the years, when we had the other map, It took a few years for people to understand it, but we were getting good compliance, and then we changed it. It might take a few years to get this, but this is an easy clear-cut map. There is no questions. Police officer, the code enforcement officer, one of us drives up up there and we see something, we know that it's not supposed to be being shot.

Do you, Chief, do you feel that, so you've got the ordinance, the

you just talked with jade about but next year uh when you have to submit the map to the state you think this will fly was that that yeah uh yes it will um this this won't have anything to do with the wild end urban interface which is what we had which is when the state might have been questioning it okay had to question us with that um we by The Utah code and 53 whatever I touched earlier today by the Utah code, we have to submit our fireworks map by June 1 of the next year for the next time. We can make this our map and our restrictions for the whole city will just have to change our ordinance to reflect such because in our ordinance, it has what it is now, which is everything east of 89 and all aerials east of Fairfield with that thing. We will have to change that part to reflect this.

And that would have to be put in place when?

Before June 1st. Of 2027. We will have to come back and do this, something we've done similar, and suggest this is where our new fireworks map is going to be and actually put it into ordinance to do that.

If you're going to do that, the sooner the better. I mean, if you wait until June, because that's your due date, the drop date. Oh, yeah. Yeah, get it done early enough so people know

we they don't buy fireworks it's it's yeah well they can they they they can buy fireworks starting right now they can buy fireworks right now oh yeah and then they'll then they'll go back on sale for the new year's and i don't know when chinese new year is but they'll sell them again a few there over there but we usually come to we usually do this in april april or may or something like that that's that's enough time and quite frankly i think that will also give Any potential vendors that want to put up a tent, plenty of time to decide whether they really want to do it or not. Because that has been a consideration that I've thought about. I did go and visit three different tents in our city. One that had sent me three different web feedbacks and then a couple others I just kind of randomly stopped in on. They obviously weren't happy, but they were respectful and understanding. But they would like to know sooner than later.

you would be good i don't know if that's the right word but it would be good to have it done before school's out i don't know how the davis school district because they have been allowing people to sell fireworks on their school property and so if you got to them before school's out if they're still i don't know what they mean and all that stuff That way, if you're going to ban it, you know, in certain areas, you know. I mean, I hate to have somebody selling fireworks in an area that we ban them, you know.

That actually used to be a state law where you couldn't sell fireworks in places that the city did it, but that changed a while ago, so they choose to.

But anyway, that's another way, I mean, another thing to help. the people to not do what they're supposed to.

That is going to be our recommendation, and without any guidance or direction from the state, if it comes out one way or the other, we're planning on announcing that on Monday. Is there any, what's that?

I said or right now because we're live.

Well I guess that's true.

I will say that one thing I like about the updated map that we just used is highlighting those areas that are not city areas but still are areas where people are not supposed to shoot fireworks. Just because I think it just makes it more clear and so they can't look at a map and say oh well this is you know we can do it here but look at all of that you know brown grass or whatnot so i just think anything to make it as clear as possible is is the best way to go and like i said people are going to be mad and we understand that but i don't think that anybody wants to play around with safety so yeah i agree just the section that you mentioned the code um since a municipality may prohibit the discharge of

fireworks we're talking about with hazardous hazardous environmental conditions and then that's what we're talking about and then below it says that if a municipality legislative body or the state forester provides a map to a county identifying an area in which the discharge of fireworks is prohibited due to a historical hazardous environmental condition that talks about having that done before june 1st We're prepared to say, yeah, this area, historical, environmental, what is it, historical hazardous environmental conditions. Yes.

We have historical fires in that area, east of 89, Case Creek Drive, or Case Creek Parkway, and other places. We've had historical fires that once it gets into the scrub boat, we're hustling. Any other questions or concerns? Anything I can follow up with?

Yeah, I have a question. I'm going to bring up my fireworks show. We've done a good job, and I'm curious, would we be looking at entertaining or looking at suppliers, different suppliers or anything like that? The only reason why I question that is because, you know, we should have thought of this ourselves, but certainly knowing that significant of this past Fourth of July, I know that there was a lot of other areas that had some pretty cool fireworks that were related to the America 250. And I know ours was, we had a good show, but I'm just curious.

So one of the things that happened last year, and I'm not sure if I brought it to this group or not when we In 2025, we had a very large shortage of fireworks that we were shorted for our show. They didn't bring any 5-inch shells, and they left out a few 4-inch shells from our show. They just couldn't get them. So they owed us, our fireworks vendor owed us about $25,000 worth of shells. So our $60,000 show that we shot, we got it. for that price. Because it was the American 250, I asked him, instead of giving us our normal shell for this, I asked him if he could just add everything we didn't get for last year. We are space limited on what we can shoot from where we can shoot. We could not add more racks. We can't add bigger shells. And in fact, one of the things that is concerning us a little bit is that the radius needed for five inch shells encroaches a little too much on the high school, which is why they're named in our name. And so we're actually thinking about taking out the five inch shells and just going with a lot more four inch shells so we couldn't have done that this year i actually asked about it and our vendor said you don't have the room okay that's fair you don't have the room to get the fallout zone and the safety areas that we have we've already pushed them back halfway to the soccer field we don't let them in the football stadium over to where we're at at the fire station, that entire practice baseball field, the softball field, and the parking lot, and then we push them over to the park a little bit. So we can't go, we could not have added any more shells into our show. So we're trying to maximize what we have in the space that we have provided.

Is that why Casewell moved their show from Davis High to...

Barnes? I don't know. I didn't know that they had moved it. I don't know that.

Part of the problem was...

The ash coming onto the football field because it's tarred. They cover it.

We help parks cover the big chunk of that football field for that reason because of the fallout zone and stuff like that. So where we shoot, we are very limited with what else we can do.

That's good to know because we could ask these questions and that's why I'm bringing it up.

was asked the same question so have we evaluated other areas within the city to do the firework show I have not I I would not know where we could we could we could pull this off with parking traffic in and out The only spot, and it's not a good one, is, you know where I'm talking?

Yeah, we have too much at risk out there.

We have way too much at risk out there. We also have very limited traffic in and out. I mean, those of you that were at the park and were there until 1130 is trying to get out of there, I don't know of a spot where we could go do this.

That's the area that they recommended, and I'm just thinking, okay, traffic. You've got the train tracks, you've got still agriculture in the area. I'm just going nope, nope.

One of the things that concerned me this year was all the wheat that hadn't been taken off you know and you know better than i do when they when they when they do that july 4th it's still sitting there and so like i i just don't think that's a good idea you don't want to know what it cost me to insure a crop of rooster fireworks it's an extra rider on top of that insurance don't consider it greek consider it chocolate chip cookies and you can ask tyson roberts to explain that to you okay all right well i i we have not evaluated anywhere else um I do know that had the high schools, this happened before I became the chief, had the high schools construction, the new construction? Had it been moved over to the other side and put it in the parking lot over there and they moved parking over here, that would now no longer be a viable option for us. So we're lucky that the high school allows us to do it because if they build any closer, And that will limit us even more. Sounds good. But anyway.

We do appreciate everything you guys did.

Our show was very much a success. Out of 7,000 shells, there was only 30 that didn't fire. That's a huge win in a firework show.

Cool. Didn't even notice.

Neither did I. But he did because he counted every one of them. I want a refund.

anyway any other questions for fire okay we will proceed that way and see what the state does thank you appreciate that okay that's actually the last item on our agenda for the work meeting so do you guys have anything else you want to discuss otherwise you can

i i'd like to make a comment for the fire too i had a lady move back to layton she's been gone 15 years and now she lives in the 50 and older across from late night right on the parade route and she said so she got up went out and watched the parade she couldn't believe the way the parade ran. She says, I've attended parades all over the nation in the years she's been gone. And she says this was the most taken care of parade she's ever seen. she says the police not only do they keep people back but they were kind and she said she says i didn't see the fire department leave because sometimes you guys get calls but she says the parade just ran great of course she mentioned the ice cream never saw that either yeah but but anyway she wanted done she was just saying that she's never seen a parade run as smoothly without all, you know, the kids running all over hill, you know, and stuff like that. Whoever's in charge of that, you need to let them know.

That'd be David.

Well, I think it's a full team effort on behalf of the entire city. Yeah, it's definitely a full team. It really is.

Everybody's taking a valuable part, and you guys all work collectively together. I guess what he's trying to say, and I've heard it too, is that, you know, really Layton City does a good job there. So thank you to everyone.

You guys do your help, too. That was fun. It was your first. That was fun.

Went home and took a nap after that.

I do have two things.

One that I forgot to mention. Not for fire. Thank you. Probably maybe two months ago, and I need to double check on this, but the principal over at Northridge, Tyler Paul, asked me about you know when you go to cities and the high schools most cities just have the one right we've got two well more than two but the city high schools sometimes have little banners kind of like on main street showing like school pride and things like that and so he asked he was like what do you you know what would i have to do to um approached the city about something like that on like one of the main streets you know maybe for Northridge maybe on Hillfield and for Layton High on Wasatch here and he said that he would get with the principal at Layton High but I told I think I told him to send an email I don't remember all the details but I thought I better bring that up because people say stuff all the time and I forget and I didn't want to be negligent but just a way to show school pride in our city with our schools that we have so that's i don't know who he would need to go to but just thought that might be an idea he said that that was something they could work on but wanted to know from the city standpoint that was something that the city would be open to and that'd be on their property So, like, you know how, for example, like, you go to a small town, you've got a main street, and they have, like, a flag or a banner. I think during, I can't remember when I saw them last, it was some special occasion, and I saw them in a city. just like banners flying around. The Davis Arts Council wanted to have banners out. It was just on the light poles. They were just thinking about ways to sign that. But that was just something I wanted to bring up out loud because I forget things. And then The other thing was, and I think we all got this, but we get those emails from Wasatch Park Regional Council, and they have their open house for their transportation improvement program. And the reason I thought to mention it is because it's open to the public, for the public to see what kind of transportation improvement they're proposing. And on next Tuesday from 4.30 to 7 at the Raptors Ballpark in Ogden, they're having an open house for the public to see and talk about you know ask questions they're also having a virtual one that you have to register for but i thought that might be helpful for anybody who may be watching i wanted information those are good have input help

because people are always like when did that happen what is this what's going on we're like oh it happened you know months and months ago but people don't know and sometimes our emails get buried which kind of the follow-up on bettina the work that we're going to do up on this gym top i know you mentioned you're going to reach out to the residents but do you do any um reaching out to the public and just announcing that this project is going to come becoming either in our utility bureau's website any of our account yeah when do you do that after the council approves yeah once the council has officially approved it and we know our schedule then we put that out there we work with madison down in management services to post that to our different social media platforms it'll be on the city's website under capital projects as well to kind of follow up on that do we do like an open open house event yearly that says hey these are the road construction projects and actually that are being proposed or preliminary plans where the public can come if they want have we looked at ever doing anything like that similar to what i'm assuming they're going to do with the ball diamond do we do that not necessarily on something like that i mean they obviously during the budget process we lay out all those things we have a utility meeting that we hold for all the utility companies to know

uh what we're doing and things like that but yeah we've done some houses when we've had additions or major changes yeah when we're doing major changes to planning documents and things like that and then we do send out project notices to individual homes along construction zones so they get not only the name of the contractor but also phone numbers and the people that they can contact if there's any questions or concerns.

The one that I'm kind of thinking of that maybe keep on our radar is the at the all-day budget meeting the one we're going to be going under Hillfield Road and all that that you would do something that I'm There's going to be a lot of equipment there, hopefully at minimal impact to traffic, but people are going to be wondering what are they doing there.

We'll have some notifications and try to get that out there.

That's not of this year, Steve.

It's actually preparing to go to bid probably in the next two weeks, and then we're hearing possibly a six-month wait for the contractors to be able to start pouring and stuff. construction next year sometime well we're hoping construction after the first of the year after the shopping season for christmas with the ball and then they could possibly start out west by the by the good earth area over there as well keep in mind the valentine's days that don't interfere with that holiday number two now what is it i can't remember

Okay. Anything else you guys want to talk about? Otherwise, we can adjourn and...

I make a motion that we adjourn the meeting.

Okay. Oh, excuse me. Okay. Sorry. Just coming on the change question on banners. We don't have any ordinances that would prohibit that. Along Hillfield Road, Northridge, for example, they would probably make a request, but also they wouldn't give permission from UDOT because that's their corridor. But down here, we already have poles and banners, and I think it would just be a matter of coordinating with them, how long they're going to, you know, who's going to put them up and down, how long they're going to be there, and they're going to be maintained. And we're working with the county on some similar types of issues up around the conference center and the mall. We're going to do some science with them. I don't think there's any other schools that are interested in doing that.

if you wait sometimes a year perfect i'll let them know i think um if i remember correctly it might have been around um homecoming and some other things yeah you know times when you know rivalries aren't done

The conference center area. There's a big national BMX bike tour coming through. That's going to be, actually it's going to be out in Syracuse, but luckily they don't have any hotels and we do. So they're wanting to kind of just welcome the teams and fully ourselves.

When's that? I always saw that.

It's in August, I think, 8? Yeah, 6 through the 9th. 6 through the 9th, yeah. Yeah, so that'd be kind of good. So I guess if you guys are around that area, just, you know, help share a friendly face and welcome people here and love them how much we enjoy them. Okay. Okay. Mike made a motion.

I second it.

Dave seconded. So all in favor say aye. Aye.

like to welcome everyone out to our Layton City Council meeting this evening for July 16th. Our start time is 7 p.m. We want to welcome all those that are in the audience and as customary we do like to start our meetings with a ceremony of a prayer and a pledge and this month I'm going to turn the time over to Council Member Bloxham.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. I'll offer the prayer, and then we will go ahead with the pledge. Our Father in Heaven, we're grateful for our many blessings. We're grateful to meet together as a governing body to discuss the needs of the citizens in our city, and we are grateful to live in a community of freedom, and we're grateful for the agency we have to do the things that We want to do and we're grateful for the freedoms that we enjoy. We ask you to please bless our members of our public safety, public works, and all those who work for the city that they can be blessed for their service. We ask of thy spirit as we discuss these issues that we may come to the conclusions that thou have us come to. And we say this in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Amen. FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

OKAY. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. I guess before we get going, actually, I'd like to introduce a special guest we have here on the dais with us, which is a member of our youth council. And so tonight, we have Brody Hegspeth that's with us. And so I'm going to turn some time over to him, let him speak. But I also want to acknowledge the fact that, Brody, I think you're probably our youngest member as well. So congratulations on that. So Brody.

Hello. Sorry. Yeah, if you want to stand up, you can. So my name is Brody Hedgepeth. So I'm a member of Lane City Youth Council. So Lane City Youth Council is just a little group that we have. It's like a community service group almost. So that's what we like to do, and we help the community. We like to see problems and just help people. Recently, we actually just went to a camp named Ryla down at Wasatch Academy, and we learned a lot about leadership and communication skills. So I thought that was a lot of fun. Yeah.

Well, thank you. We appreciate it. And as you mentioned, the youth council really is an extension of the existing council and the governing aspects, so they learn about that. But then at the same time, you notice they quickly picked up on the service part. And I know, Brody, you've been very instrumental in helping out, so thank you. Okay, council, I'll bring the... YOUR ATTENTION TO OUR FIRST ITEM OF BUSINESS, WHICH IS A SET OF MINUTES FROM THE MARCH 17th MEETING. SO DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY CORRECTIONS? IF NOT, I'D ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ACCEPT.

MADAM MAYOR, I MOVE THAT WE ACCEPT THE MINUTES, APPROVE THE MINUTES FOR LAYTON CITY COUNCIL BUDGET MEETING HELD MARCH 17th, 2026. VERY GOOD.

DO I HAVE A SECOND?

SECOND.

SAY IT LOUD.

I'll second that.

Thank you. It's been moved and seconded that we accept the minutes as written. All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Okay, thank you very much. We'll move on to our municipal announcements. So, council, I'll turn the time over to you for any announcements you might have.

Puppet show. Monday night, 7 o'clock in the amphitheater. It's the last one ever. That I'm doing. So, anyway. Come on out and have some fun. It's about the 250th birthday. We got puppets. We got videos. We got all kinds of stuff. So, see you there. Start seven. What is it?

The July 24th festivities.

Oh, I forgot about that. Me, of all people. Riders in the Sky will be there on the 24th. at the amphitheater, starts at 7. And then afterwards, there'll be a light parade, which we always have, that runs up... Wasatch. Wasatch. And that, so you can stay, you can come to the concert, and then when it gets dark, you can watch the festivities. It's a lot of fun. Concerts are riot. The writers have been here for... 20 years, I don't know what it's been, but I mean, I've seen them every time, and they're a hoot. So, thanks. Okay.

And there's a party after. Yeah. Don't forget the party.

That's the party, the light parade.

Disco party. The disco party in the pavilion, the rotunda after. Oh. Dave leaves, apparently. But the rest of us have a fun time. I have one announcement for the latent communities that care. I announced it last time, but on Tuesday, excuse me, Wednesday, July 29th at 7 right here in our council chambers, we will be hosting a... workshop for parents and teens and even preteens and those who are going to be teens called the Teen Brain. And it is a parent cheat code for behavior and healthy brain development. I have some flyers that are here for those of you who are in the audience and those who are online. You can register at tinyurl.com forward slash the teen brains. It's free. It's for everybody really just to understand brain development and teen behavior. We will have refreshments and we also will have a giveaway for a family pass to Surf and Swim. So I hope that everybody can register and come and attend and this is going to be a fun time. That's all I have. Thanks.

That's a good program and it's good to kind of just learn even more than what you already know. Okay, anyone else have any additional announcements they'd like to share? Okay, seeing that there's none, let's go ahead and go down then to our citizens comment portion of our meeting. So anyone who wishes to address this governing body, you're more than welcome to. Once again, step up to the mic, state your name and what city you're from. And I'll also remind you that typically we will not get into a dialogue, but certainly we will hear what you have to say, take notes, and make sure we get back to you on it.

Hi, my name is Irene Hill, and I know most of you. Lane City. I'm not saying I know this is true. I've just heard rumors, and I don't know because I've been looking into it a little bit more, but I'm sure we can discuss it after. With the water bill, if you don't use the 6,000 gallons per month, that the extra goes to other entities. And I don't know how that all works, but I'm trying to figure all that out. And then I've been coming across people in my area that have been having difficulties with the house tax increase from the county. And I know you have no control over that. But then I also know that last meeting it was said the water bill is going up. So my concern is just the people that are like on a fixed income, if they're going to be able to afford it, because some of the people I've talked to are having to choose in between selling their house, paying their taxes and eating. So I just thought I'd bring that up. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Irene.

Okay. Anyone else? Okay, seeing that there's none, we'll go ahead and move on then to our consent items tonight. We have three items that we'll be listening to, and as a reminder that once we hear all three items, then the council can actually act upon all three items in one single motion. So with that, I'm going to turn the time over to Mr. Steve Jackson to speak about an interlocal agreement between Layton City and Davis County.

Thank you, Mayor, Council. It's good to be with you tonight. For your consideration is resolution 26-35, interlocal cooperation agreement between Layton City and Davis County regarding the Gentile Street 2400 East to 2600 East project. City has been working with Davis County to improve Gentile Street. The city has some water lines and sewer lines that need to be installed. The county approached us and asked if there was anything that could be done about the frontage of the Valley View Golf Course along Gentile Street because the roadway is fairly narrow and there's a lot of DIRT AREA THAT PATRONS ARE PARKING IN AND OTHER PEOPLE USING THE RESERVOIR. SO WE WORKED TOGETHER TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL TO THE COUNTY TO SEEK ASSISTANCE FOR SOME OF THE TRANSPORTATION PART OF THE PROJECT. AND SO IT INCLUDES 2800 FEET OF SIDEWALK AND ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS WITH CURBAN GUTTER ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ROADWAY. 10-FOOT SIDEWALK ALONG THE VALLEY VIEW GOLF COURSE THAT CONNECTS TO THE NORTH TO THE TRAIL SYSTEM AT 12-foot travel lanes on Gentile Street with an 8-foot shoulder along the golf course for parking and use by the public to be able to access the reservoir or to patronize the golf course as well. There's 1,240 feet of storm drain improvements that need to be made with this project, 1,910 feet of 8-inch water line, 3,000 feet of 12-inch water line, and 2,000 feet of sanitary sewer, as well as 15 streetlights on the project. So the interlocal cooperation agreement is for the transportation roadway expenses portion of the project, which is $1,990,000, of which the city would contribute $398,000, or 20% of that authorized roadway expense. The agreement also requires the city to complete the work on or before December 31st of 2027, so next year. So with that, staff recommends the council adopt resolution 26-35 and authorize the city manager to execute the interlocal cooperation agreement between Layton City and Davis County. Are there any questions I can answer for the council?

Council, do you have any questions?

Mayor, thank you, Mayor. Go ahead. Just curious, Steve, we have the, we've had projects in the city, 2700 West, over by the junior high with the improvements there that the county is, offered up the third quarter, the COG funds, whatever that's called.

Third quarter transportation.

Yeah. Is this one of those? No.

This is different. This is actually the fourth quarter percent county option sales and use tax. We call it our Prop 1 money. Okay. So it's more of a Prop 1 project funded system that they're using for this one. Just curious. Thank you. Thank you.

ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS?

I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION, BUT I AM JUST GRATEFUL AGAIN BECAUSE FOR A PROJECT OF THIS COST FOR US TO BE ABLE TO GET, YOU KNOW, SIDEWALK AND SOME PARKING FOR 20% of the cost. That's amazing. My family and I, my nieces, my kids, my dad, we were up at Hobbs Creek earlier this week, as my dad is at least once a week. And so I'm excited to be able to have some parking for him and the rest of us. who come along that curve so just appreciate you all for reaching out to the different funding sources to be able to help you know put important infrastructure in you know for the city and for the residents so thanks thank you

Oh, sorry, did you have a comment?

Sure. Agree with everything you said, Bettina. The question I had is, you mentioned it being pretty narrow. On the pictures, there was identifying where the improvements were going in, but there's nothing in terms of any takings or anything. It's all just in the public utility easements that were utilizing all these changes.

THE PORTION IN FRONT OF THE GOLF COURSE IS ALL ON CURRENT CITY RIGHT-OF-WAY. WE DID PURCHASE PROPERTY FROM THE PROPERTY OWNER TO THE NORTH OF THE GOLF COURSE SO THAT WE COULD PUT IN A SIX-FOOT ABUTTING SIDEWALK THROUGH THAT PROPERTY. BUT WE'VE NEGOTIATED ALL OF THAT AND EVERYTHING'S IN PLACE THERE. OKAY. THANK YOU.

I've got to tell you, frequently utilizing that golf course, I'm excited for this because I know how valuable the parking will be along there, but then more importantly than that is knowing that to the north, where this street is going to tie into is right into our town center that will be the future development there so this just really kind of enhances that whole east side so i'm excited about it and i want to say thank you to the county too for stepping up and helping us on this because i know it's a joint venture i know they needed it done and certainly you know we adjusted our schedule to accommodate as well so this is a prime example how two entities can work together for the betterment of the community Do you have a comment?

I've got a question for Steve. Next item talks about the construction bid on this, but the question I have for you is of the 20%, I'm assuming Layton City staff will be the project manager overseeing the construction, inspecting the project. Is any of that 20% recoverable cost for us for our staff's time and wages and benefits.

We didn't ask for that as part of the project. We figured we were going to be designing the project at our own expense with the water lines and everything like that, so I mean, technically we could do that, but the 20% cost is what we felt was very fair for what we're doing to design and project manage it and all that partnership with the county.

So, which is fine. It's kind of weird. The city is kind of in-kind donation. Do you have an estimated cost of what that would be? So what the city's actually putting towards the project besides the 20%. OF THE CONSTRUCTION COST.

SO THE TOTAL BID IS ROUGHLY $2.6 MILLION AND I WOULD ESTIMATE STAFF TIME WE'RE PROBABLY AT $20,000 OR $30,000 WITH ALL THE TIME WE SPENT WHICH IS FAIRLY NORMAL FOR A PROJECT OF THIS SIZE.

OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? Okay, I'm glad you're still there. You get to stay up for the next item, which is the bid award. So go ahead and proceed.

Thank you. So the bid award for the next item is Resolution 26-36, which is the bid award for landmark excavating for the Project Gentile Street 2400 East to 2600 East. This resolution authorizes the execution of the agreement between Layton City and Landmark Excavating, FOR THE PROJECT THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED IN THE OTHER ITEM. IT INCLUDES THE INSTALLATION OF SEWER STORM DRAIN WATER LINES, MANHOLES, ASPHALT, CURB AND GUTTER SIDEWALK, CONDUIT FOR STREET LIGHTS AND STREET LIGHTS AND ASSOCIATED ITEMS. NINE BIDS WERE RECEIVED ON THE PROJECT WITH LANDMARK SUBMITTING THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE RESPONSIBILITY BID IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,679,430. THE ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE WAS $3.5 MILLION. Staff recommends that the council adopt resolution 26-36 and award the bid to landmark and authorize the city manager to execute the agreement for the project. Are there any questions I can answer on this one?

Any questions?

I guess my only question is because the full project is a little bit more than what the county could pay or could provide to us, I guess what I'm saying, the 1.99 in the previous slide is different than the 2.6 in this one. So the city is going to be responsible for that remaining portion, is that correct?

Yeah, so the city budget for this last year included water line and sewer line money that we were going to pay for this project. So that's the difference there is the county money only addresses the transportation side of things, and then the rest of it is coming from the city's funds in the water and sewer accounts that we have.

Awesome.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Okay. Any other questions?

No, I mean, I just think it's nice that we talk about the 20% that we had to pay, and then we see this whole project, and the engineer's estimate was like 50% higher than what we actually pay. So it's not just the 20%, it's that the bids came in in a good clip, and so we get this project for really good funding. So just, it's awesome. So thanks for your work on that.

Very competitive bid this time.

Yeah, that's good.

I believe that's it then. Thank you, Steve. Let's go on to item number C then, and I know Western Apollonia is going to address this, and this is the reappointment of our planning commission.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. Before you tonight is Resolution 2630. This is the reappointment of Trevor Steenblik, Julie Pierce, Wesley Felice, Justin Wentworth, Scott Carter, and Brett Nilsen as regular members of the Planning Commission, and Chase Freebaron as an alternate member of the Planning Commission. We're grateful for the continued service of the planning commissioners. Mayor Petro has recommended the council adopt Resolution 2630, confirming these reappointments. Staff supports this recommendation. Be happy to answer any questions you may have.

ANY QUESTIONS? IT'S NOT A QUESTION. I DON'T MEAN TO KEEP SPEAKING, BUT THESE GENTLEMEN AND GENTLELADY SPENT A LOT OF TIME OF THEIR VOLUNTEER HOURS DOING WORK THAT WE WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE TO DO IN TERMS OF THE COUNCIL. ADDING TO OUR DOCKET. SO I JUST, THEY AREN'T HERE, BUT I HOPE THEY CAN JUST KNOW HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE THEIR WILLINGNESS TO SERVE THEIR COMMUNITY, AND THEY DO SUCH IMPORTANT WORK, AND WE DO, AND I CAN JUST SPEAK FOR MYSELF THAT I TAKE THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS VERY SERIOUSLY, AND I APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT THEY DO IN THE PROCESS TO WORK WITH STAFF AND TO WORK WITH THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY TO ENSURE THAT WE GET THINGS IN PLANNING THE RIGHT WAY, SO I JUST WANTED TO share my thanks to them for the time that they spend that they could be doing with grandkids and going on vacations and spending time in other areas. And doing it in the Planning Commission can be hard work and it can be difficult work, particularly if there's an issue that has a lot of public clamor. And I just appreciate their time. So I just wanted to share that, Mayor.

Thank you. Yeah, we discussed that in the work meeting. So yes, that was well thought of. Well said. Absolutely.

Weston, could you, for the benefit of the public and those who are watching, could you speak to what the planning commission term is and also any rules around that and then how appointments are made?

Yeah, that's a great idea. Thank you. So a planning commissioner term, they can have three terms. Each term is three years, and they're appointed through the mayor and council. Those are applications that are submitted. So frequently we have positions that come out. There's nine positions on the commission. There are seven full-time planning commissioners with two alternates. Oftentimes, what happens is once a full-time commissioner has exceeded their time or they're ready to move on and work on other projects, we move an alternate up. That's usually been the case, but that's not always what happens. And we put applications out for new planning commissioners. We usually put those applications out for a couple months so we get a good pool. and then we interview them. And so usually every other year we'll at least have opportunities for commissioners to come about.

Okay. Anyone else?

Madam Mayor, thank you. I also want to PLANNING COMMISSION IS HARD, THANKLESS. SO I WANT TO PUBLICLY THANK THESE MEMBERS OF OUR COMMUNITY FOR THEIR DEDICATION AND THESE ARE REAPPOINTMENTS, MEANING THEY STILL WANT TO DO THIS. THAT'S IMPORTANT. AND SO I CONGRATULATE EACH ONE OF THEM AND WHOLEHEARTEDLY WANT TO you know vote for their reappointment and also the staff there's a whole other meeting that happens just like this one or similar to this one that that the staff has to staff and get ready for and it's important part of your process as well and so thank you for and jayden and and brad and all the others that help with the planning commission meeting as well it's is needed. As Councilman Bloxham says, we take their recommendations seriously and appreciate their hard work and yours as well. Thank you. Appreciate that.

Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. Council, that concludes our consent items, so I'll bring it back around to you for action.

Madam Mayor, I move that we approve Resolution 26-35, Resolution 26-36, and Resolution 26-30 as presented.

Okay. Do I have a second?

I'll second that.

Okay. It's been moved and seconded that we adopt the consent items as presented. All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Okay. Thank you very much. We'll now move on to our public hearing. And with that, prior to opening up the public hearing, we'll have Mr. Weston Apolloni again inform us of the information regarding the rezone.

Thank you again, Mayor and Council. BEFORE YOU TONIGHT IS A REZONE REQUEST TO REZONE THE PROPERTY FROM A AGRICULTURE TO R110 SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL. THIS IS LOCATED AT 2382 EAST 1200 NORTH. YOU CAN IDENTIFY THE PARCEL HERE ON THE MAP. It's the red area. It looks like it's connected to this property, which in fact it inherently is. If you visit the site, you can see that the fence has already been in place, and this is generally functioning as this person's property. This small piece was owned by the school district for some time. Connected to that larger green piece next to it the city acquired this section of ground this this agricultural section of ground Which came with this small little tell which is about 533 square feet the property owner of this of this residence has requested that this rezone come through their intention is to have the property rezoned to match their homes property which again is r110 and and then if that goes through to then go through the process of a plot amendment to incorporate that piece into their parcel so there's just one piece of ground instead of multiple parcels. As was discussed in the work meeting, there's several different parcels that are cut up through here, so all that would be corrected with that plot amendment if, again, this moves forward. On June 23rd, 2026, the Planning Commission voted unanimously to recommend to the City Council that you approve Ordinance 2622 for the rezone, subject to meeting all staff memorandums. Staff supports the recommendation of the Planning Commission. I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Okay. Council, do you have any questions?

Just one. Thank you mayor. Maybe one clarification. They would wanting to purchase this they would like to purchase it.

That's correct Okay, any other clarifying questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion to open up the public hearing

I MAKE A MOTION WE OPEN PUBLIC HERE.

ALL RIGHT. I'LL ACKNOWLEDGE THAT. AT THIS TIME, IF ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WISH TO ADDRESS THIS BODY REGARDING THIS SINGLE ITEM AS FAR AS A REZONE, YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO. ONCE AGAIN, STEP UP TO EITHER SIDE OF THE PODIUM, STATE YOUR NAME AND WHAT CITY YOU'RE FROM. SIN THAT THERE'S NO COMMENTS, I'LL GO AHEAD AND BRING IT BACK TO THE COUNCIL FOR ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION. SHOULD YOU NOT HAVE ANY DISCUSSION, THEN I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND TAKE ACTION ON THE REZONE REQUEST. HE'S DOING IT ALL TONIGHT.

MADAM MAYOR, I MAKE A MOTION TO CLOSE PUBLIC HEARING AND ADOPT ORDINANCE RESOLUTION OOPS, EXCUSE ME, 26-22. YES. ORDINANCE 26-22. SECOND.

IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECOND. BEING THAT THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING, I NEED TO DO A ROLL CALL VOTE. COUNCILMEMBER MORRIS.

AYE.

COUNCILMEMBER CALENDARANOS.

AYE.

Okay, Council Member Thomas.

Aye.

Council Member Bloxham. Yes. And Council Member Smith-Edmondson. Aye. Okay, there you have it. The vote is unanimous. That concludes our item of business here on our agenda. If Council, if you have no other further business, then I would entertain a motion to adjourn.

So moved.

Ooh, quick draw. I love it. Okay. Second. It's been moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Thank you very much. We appreciate everyone here in the audience, and we love to have our regulars there, especially the young'un out there. Thank you very much. And you guys have a lovely evening.