City Council - Regular Meeting

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it's a really good place right now but there were some really hard times if you were a corner and how we got through that i mean obviously there were supportive councils and mayors a lot of people took arrows but between wayne and alex i mean there are a lot of board members and there's others we could get points here but from my perspective and what got me back in the utopian was interested because i knew there was good leadership on the city side of things and wayne and alex were key to that I'm glad to still be working with them on that, even though some roles have changed. I don't have a clicker to do it from the front, so I'll just talk. I'll narrate from back here, but up here, and that way I can...

I can get the slides for you.

Well, no, then I can eat the desserts over here, too, while I'm back here. Well, I don't know. I guess we can share that. Do you want to help me with that, too, when we need to advance? Yeah, go ahead and... I don't have a mouse on it. Is this one? The arrow's working. Yeah, that's what it's hitting up. Oh, here we go. I just go down there. I'll do that one. Okay. All right. This is more the historical side of things. Ethiopia was created in 2002. It bonded in 2004, so we're kind of saying that's really the start, started building in Orem, Linden. It wasn't much, though. It was a very frustrating time, but it was an important time. I mean, it got things built. It interconnected the cities. It got things started. But financially, it was a tough time. There was a lot of opposition. There was lawsuits, requests, trying to kill things. There was... There was competitive pressure, lobbying. There was a federal loan that went south, and as a result of lobbying on the other side, there was a lot of problems back then. But demand was there. We knew that people would want the service. There was some really good leadership here that, in difficult times, made the decision to move forward and believe that this could come out of that and be successful. We've seen that. The green years represent years where we did from that time forward have been successful and then we kind of built stuff out and we started having new partnerships you know other cities saw the success we were having they wanted to have what we had you know there was kind of an attitude of well we want to be selfish we want our city to benefit from this and not so much everyone else but we found ways to be mutually beneficial we benefit financially have allowed other cities to partner with us Depending on how you look at it, it may seem unfair to our benefit, but that's okay. We can be a little selfish. These original cities did the hard stuff, so we're in a position to benefit from these partnerships. Next slide. That's kind of the group of cities. Cedar Hills is really kind of in between. They were one of the original cities that created the organization, but they didn't bond originally. But they have since backstopped. Most of these have just come on as partner cities that don't have any board position or vote, but there's a partnership structure where we operate, provide roles for those systems, and obviously get revenues from those. This is obviously a lot of cities to deal with, and part of the reason we got Dwayne on board is to help with all the different conversations and meetings and things to happen. And this is a really big project here, this RCRC project in California. So I really appreciate having him on the team. It's been very helpful, and there's a lot of work to do. This is just cities. the school system, the state, the various agencies of the state, UDOT, the school systems, not just city projects. We're going to go to the next slide. We're going to talk about some of the accomplishments that we've made. We're the largest open access network in the country, so that's the model that we have where it's a public infrastructure, a fiber, that has private companies using it. It's very common in Europe and other places, but in the United States, we've become the largest and most successful one. 265,000 addresses where it's available, 23 citywide projects. We have Fiverr in over 100 cities and customers in over 100 cities, but it's kind of just here and there, and we don't do it as a charity. It's when there's a revenue opportunity for us. We have the fastest speeds. So when we started this, it was like, 100 meg, you know, this is amazing. And we had the other guys saying, oh, no one could ever use 100 megabits. That's ridiculous. And, you know, now we have gig. We have 10 gig. The most popular is gigabit now. And increasingly, we're seeing people signing up for 2.5 gig. 10 gig is still pretty small still, but it's available everywhere in the system. So we've upgraded the system. What you have today is... either the third or fourth generation depending on which part of the network you're looking at. So this isn't something that was built back in 2004 and is getting old and outdated. It is totally modern and upgraded with the very best technology in the country right here for every resident business in the city. It's the most competitive system. So there are other open access systems, but we've got 19 different options out there. So admit that too much, but each one of those has kind of their niche. You know, some of them are gamers and some of them are more, you know, they've got a mobile offering or a video service, but we kind of let them go out there and innovate and compete and get a lot of options and choice there. This is a really cool one. This awardee from the Utah Education Network. So they manage the circuits and services for school system, libraries, Head Starts, a lot of those types of agencies. And every year they do an RFP to find the best option for roughly a fifth of them. And they do that every five years, or they do it every year for a fifth of them on five-year contracts. So every year we pick up some more. And over the last many years, we've won a lot. And this last year, we won, it was about 280 new circuits for schools, which was more than every other provider in the state combined. So we're the go-to solution for schools. And that's not just elementary and small schools. The University of Utah has multiple 400 gigabit connections from us. We are their backbone. So these are some of the biggest connections in the state that are on our system. We provide air quality sensors, do other cool smart city stuff. Sometimes it's the city doing their own smart city stuff, and we're just kind of enabling the connectivity. resource here so the resources in the team and so we're happy to support that with fiber connectivity and so that's something we're proud of we have a really good net promoter score which is basically customer satisfaction metric and you do a survey and you see these questions like how likely are you to recommend this to a friend or colleague that's what determines your promoter score people in a high score kind of promoter people negative it's negative and seven and x are neutral but people really like the service and you can see it if you jump on facebook or whatever it is you know you see that all the time on your facebook groups yeah just move to the city what do you have and overwhelmingly people are recommending utopia we love that people like the service So again, the model is we put in the city-owned open access fiber, and we allow all these different companies on there. The cool thing is these are, for the most part, local companies. So this isn't some shareholder-traded company or owned company or private equity or something like that where profits get shipped off to someone else. These are local companies. Those employees, those profits, those stay here locally in Utah. This is really an amazing incubator and economic development tool that is allowed these companies to not just survive, but actually beat the big companies. Some of the big companies use our network too, but not widespread. There are other fiber networks out there. This slide is just, I won't go into the details, but on our network, everybody has their own connection. And on every other fiber provider out there, it used to be Google Fiber, but now it's G-Fiber. So G-Fiber and then AT&T Fiber are both PON systems, which means you get a shared connection out to the neighborhood and that goes out and it's basically time slots for every customer. you're sharing a 10 gigabit connection across the whole neighborhood. On our system, everybody gets their own connection, whether it's gig or 10 gig. It doesn't matter what your neighbor is doing or your entire neighborhood. You always have that speed to you, 24-7. So it's a superior network than any of the others. Next slide. Okay. I think you went to, oh, sorry. So this was, we were here August last year. So on these next charts, I kind of drew a line here showing where we've come just in this last year. Obviously that's been phenomenal subscriber growth. When we were looking at this period of time, this looked amazing. seen and yet that's accelerated so demand for this is really increased and people demand fiber and wanted to get it and stick with it and even with other options out there they prefer us next slide this one is an important slide because yes of course we're growing in subscribers because of new partnership but it's not only that these are the individual cities and many of these cities that were built and finished are continuing to add customers, and none of them are going down. So it's not that we're growing just because of that expanded territory. We're growing in every one of our cities where the service is available, and that's been a trend that's continued. You guys are one of the best ones. Yeah, you just got beat by Idaho Falls, but that's okay. We like their minds. This is the revenue of Utopia and UIA. So Utopia is the original phase of the project. The way it's kind of structured is it was normally going to be that Utopia would stay stagnant and maybe even decrease in revenues because all the new stuff was at UIA. That's where we're financing installations and growth and all of that. But these partnerships where we're not financing the project are under Utopia. So Utopia now has a new revenue grossing. Those are all Utopia partnerships, so we're starting to see those revenues start to pick up a little bit. That chart would look really good if it weren't so warped by this other chart, which is the UIA growth. And combined, it's up here. So I remember, if you remember Kurt Sudwick's back in the day, I remember him really excited when we crossed a million dollars a month in revenues. So, you know, we've come a long way since there to where we're nearly a hundred and a half million dollars a month in revenues. So things have grown dramatically. This is just the UIA side of things. So UIA is a financing entity that's sister agency to Utopia. Issues bonds. These are stacked just to give you an idea of, you know, that's the total bond obligation at UIA. Obviously, it's really nice to have revenues far more than the bond obligations, and that's what's allowed us to cover increasing operating costs, operating fees, and to increase the amount of money we're paying towards Utopia. If Utopia has more revenues, then it's able to pay more on the bulk applications there. So we'll talk about that a little bit. Next slide. Okay, this is the latent specific. So you see from the last time we met here, we haven't really made the service available to a lot more. There's been some new development, but it hasn't been dramatic. This is really when we finished the build out of the city, so about 2020. So this is availability of the service, but it's available citywide. with a few rare exceptions when somebody won't let us on property so if there's not public utility easements or it's like an apartment building where they've got some bulk thing arranged sometimes we can't get in but anywhere they'll allow us on we're there this is the number of subscribers so obviously when we finished the build it was coming on strong But that's kind of when we're like, okay, it's built and everybody's had a chance to sign up for it. Well, we've still added a lot of customers since then. You'll see here there's a big bump. We did have a, it's a good bump. That was a door-to-door marketing campaign. So hopefully none of you had anybody knock your door because you already had a service. If you didn't have the service, you probably got someone visiting your home and telling you about the system. that's kind of nice because they come in and it's not like i don't want to offend anybody if they're in the best control or security business but you know people don't necessarily love having those people come and try to sell them things but this is more like hey your city has this service and you have all these choices and they're kind of like you know presenting to them these options um and helping them guide them through that and it's also very helpful to some people like well i know i should sign up And I know it's a better price, but it's just a lot of work, and I don't know how to get all my stuff converted. And so they can kind of help them understand what it takes. I know it's going to be this type of installation. This is how long it takes. This is how you cancel your other service. There's some people that really do benefit from that little push of explaining how to do it as opposed to just seeing an ad. So it's been pretty effective to have people go door to door. At the same time, we're really close on complaints. We watch it really closely. We don't want people to feel like it's high pressure. Every complaint we discuss and take those back, and we've pulled some of the reps off if they're getting too many complaints. So if you get any of those, you're like, hey, I'm sick of these people showing up. being pushy, whatever, please let us know. We wanna make sure it's a good experience and not a typical door-to-door sales rep thing that people get annoyed with. Next slide. Okay, so this is the last time we were here, and this is the current version. So you can stare at this and try to find some dots. It's really hard to find some. I found some. I was like, we got some more businesses over here. The blue ones are easier to find. The blue ones are the businesses and the red ones are residential. There are some more businesses up in here that aren't over here. But there's actually 473 more now than there were just a year ago which is a lot i mean think of how much work it takes to install conduit into a house and put a fiber in there splice that install the device in the home that's a lot of people to come on uh you know your time so you can see the density growing in certain areas though where it's pretty dense Yeah, it's definitely filling in some of the areas.

So neighbors kind of let each other know.

Yeah. But, I mean, pretty much everywhere in the city where it's available, there's a lot of people around the system. So it's been great, but there's still plenty that aren't on there. So there's always opportunity. We appreciate you having the banner out in the lobby and when there are opportunities to tell people, hey, we've got utility services, you need to get hooked up as you move in. We also have Utopia as an option. Any opportunity to help is good. It's good for us, but obviously it's good for us, it's good for you because our finances and this are all tied together and you're an owner and you know, leader on this, for the organization. Roger? Yes. What is the residence on the left-force base? What do they use? They have a bold contract, at least they did with CenturyLink, which is now AT&T. They wouldn't allow us on base. Maybe there's an opportunity to do something else, but this sort of stinks. I would love to have Utopia, but those are all done federally, and we don't get into those contracts. Thank you. Close list. Yeah, I'm going. Come on. And you want to go to the next slide. This is just a mention about the future-proofness of the network, that word. The 2.5 gigabit tier is relatively new, and we're seeing a lot of people going towards that, so that's exciting. We've lowered the price for 10 gig, so that's becoming more popular. People are still saying, hey, that's still cheaper than Comcast, and some people are picking that. And that's faster than anything that's available on those other options. I mean, obviously, cheap fiber isn't available here. AT&T fiber is becoming available here increasingly. We have part of the city that has it. We're probably getting complaints of construction out there from them. You know, as much as we'd love to say, you know, can't do it, that would get the city in legal trouble. And through your legal counsel, it would be like, Hey, you can't do that, you can't tell no, but you can definitely hold them to high standards when it comes to construction. We've had some cities hold them up just because the quality of the work hasn't been great, but you can only push back when that's the case. But anyways, it's a better service. Anyway, so we continue to improve different things with different applications, upgrades, and obviously consumer needs continue to increase as people do new things, AI, and all the better and improving remote work and education tools that are out there to take advantage of the greater speeds of the tablet system.

It's a basic skill, too.

Yeah, we still have a 250-minute tier, but it's not the most popular. Even though it's out there, it's like, are people just going with the cheapest? It's like, no, actually people are picking the gigabit tier, and even among the gigabit tier, they're not even picking the lowest-cost provider on the network. The largest provider on the network is actually the higher-priced one. So people are seeking out companies with good reputation and recommendations from others. This is an example of a wildfire detection camera. We do have one of these in Layton, but I think having the camera there prevents the wildfire from happening, so then the camera doesn't get used. This is one that's in Orem and was watching a fire when the fire in Provo happened. It was like here last summer, I think. We were able to capture this. If you click on it, I think... It'll pull the link. No, this is actually a video. Can you try clicking on the picture? Yeah. There you go. So this is kind of a time lapse, but this is a thermal image of it. This is an optical version, and you can actually see quite a bit more with the thermal camera. You get smoke and other things, and this could look like it's out, but you still have hot spots. This is a really helpful tool for wildfire protection. detection and response. Obviously, fire departments have kind of handheld ones, but it can be helpful. These we can actually steer and zoom in on areas and see a wider area. So it's going to be a useful tool. It's just an example of some of the cool things that we can do when we have connectivity. Next slide. Your camera, you can get to it in that way if you want to poke at it. Okay, so this is an important topic for the cities, right? How are we looking on bonds and things? This is the repayment back to cities. So what happens is every year the cities are paying only on the original Utopia bonds. So all the UIA bonds are being paid for by subscriber revenues and the success there. But the Utopia bonds are being paid for by the cities. And then every year we work with the board and our budgets to determine how much we can pay back to the cities as a portion of the payments they made that year. So for Layton, In 2026, we did $841,000 back to the city. Now the payments on those bonds go up by 2% every year. So the last several years, we've increased our payment back to the city, but the city's payment was going up because of that bond structure and basically kept that obligation flat. So each year we were paying the same amount. This year, we're actually upping it by more. It was gonna be a 327,000 increase and we bumped that up 100,000 so that now there's a little bit more so that your payment, your net position relatively for this upcoming fiscal year will actually go down a little bit. And then obviously as we continue to have success, we hope to do more and more of that. But that's basically between Utopia and UIA making a $5.3 million payment towards those original bonds. And that's really kind of a function of the success of UIA more than it is Utopia. So, I mean, as much as, you know, the original bonds at Utopia They didn't have any profit coming off of them, right? So there was really no money. It wasn't even covering operational costs, if you remember back then or those of you that were involved. So it's like all of that ability is because of recent success. So 5.3 million is a lot. We hope that number continues to go up. The total bond payment is about 16, 17 million. It goes up every year. So we're paying about a fourth, a little more than a fourth. And then at the end of the term of the bonds, which is in 2040, we hope that that money, you know, we're talking about six, seven, eight million or more every year, will there be no bond anymore. So then that becomes money available to pay back the cities what has been paid in the past. So we just keep going, which would be a really good position. So anyways, next slide. I wanted to point out a couple of financial and economic development benefits. So we look at this relative to the latent city. There's a study, and we kind of looked at a lot of different data sources, but the study that's pretty defensible looked at other municipal networks across the country and said, how much money do people save on average when there's a municipal fiber system in place? And they came out of the study saying, on average, people are saving $29 a month. And the interesting thing about that is that $29 of savings for everyone in the city, not just the subscribers, because the competitors go to the prices, right? But I'm taking a very conservative approach and saying, what if we just count those who signed up for the service? We have 10,025 residential subscribers. $29 a month is $348 a year. So just right there, compared to not having it, you're saving those people almost $3.5 million a year. So in an environment where everyone feels like costs for everything are going up, I think this is a point the city should be really proud of. This is something you did that's saving money for the households in the city. That's just those who subscribed. If you were saying, hey, this is everybody, it's easily twice that, right? because you need to have a competitive broadband market environment in the city. We've got 673 businesses, very conservatively saying they save $50 a month. It's probably closer to 100. That's saving them $400,000 a year. So coming up close to $4 million a year of benefit, and that's just actual cash savings on their bill. That's not the only benefit, but that's a really easy one to look at and be happy about. There's this study that was done on Chattanooga Fiber where they said, well, what about all the other stuff? What about the business activity and the economic development and the government operations efficiencies and all these other layers of benefit that happen throughout the community as a result of having a system in place? And there's a lot of layers in there, and I encourage you to look at the study. But if we take that project that they did, and this was a study that said this is what happens over a 10-year period of time, They calculated a $2.6 billion project, or economic development project, over a 10-year period. If you size that and took out non-applicable categories because you don't have the power utility, then it would be less than $2 billion. And then size it down to the city, it would be $1.3 billion less. economic benefit for latent compared to what they had, which is enormous. I mean, so it's kind of fun to look at that study and be like, how? And you're like, oh, well, housing values and education, you know, like there's just this enormous economic development benefit of having this connectivity out there that affects so many parts of your community. So anyway, it's just a fun way to look at things. Again, to understand why would a city do this? Lots of reasons. And even with the difficulty financially that it had in early years, the benefits far outweigh the cost. And even though it's a lot of stress, here and city councils and mayors had to make some hard decisions back in the day um i hope you feel like it was worth it and we have a lot of ways to show that it has been by many multiples um and that's probably about it is there i think that's the last thing so anyways uh any questions that's kind of our update another question yeah last last year there was a pushback legislature lobbying going on

about, and I think this was part of the package about the lobbying effort. What do you see coming up? Was that in your own way?

Yeah, I mean, what that one was focused on was there were some cities that said, hey, we want to do this, but we don't want any risk, so we're just going to put it in and make it a mandatory utility for people in cities that were supposed to be there. Providence City had already done it, and that caught the attention of the incumbents, which then caught the attention of the Taxpayers Association. And so then when Harriman was considering doing it, that got a lot of attention because that was a big enough city to raise some red flags for Century Lincoln then. So they lobbied heavily to say cities can't do this on a utility basis. So there was a bill passed that kind of was targeting a lot of city services, saying these are the things you can do and these are the things you can't do with a fee. And broadband was specifically put in there. So there was a time when we considered doing that, but that's off the table now. I don't think it's a good idea anyways. Because it does upset people, right? You're going to have to pay for this whether you want it or not. There are definitely benefits to that. And as you get higher and higher take rate, it actually makes sense. Because you're like, well, look, most people have it anyways. There's definitely a strong defense for doing it. But politically, it's tough. But that's been taken off the table. That was their biggest push. There was quite the fight in Boundful. I forgot that. But that was basically just over the city council decision. So there's a big campaign they were running. The Tax Credit Association was very involved there. But other than that, it's been pretty calm. And I don't think, I really, I think the, this has gotten so popular among cities and even the others, right? Because they're like, hey, this isn't just cities now. This is... universities use this, not just schools in our cities, but schools in 60, 70 cities across the state are using this. This has gotten so big that any sort of harm to us, I don't think it's going to happen. Trying to box this in a little bit, I could see that. Thanks.

Thank you.

Thank you. Again, this is, we only get to do this because of the support of the cities, and we appreciate your support and work, and those especially that serve on our court, you know, Alex, Zach, we don't pay them, obviously, and they spend a lot of time with our meetings, and we appreciate their support and the time they spend with us. Very good. Anything else, Wayne, back here? No.

That was it as far as our record of consented items. The next item, though, is going into a closed-door session. So in order to do that, obviously, I'll need a motion. But if you wouldn't mind, whoever makes that motion, would you be willing to read me the statement that we have on our agenda this morning, which is on our Facebook? Do you want me to do a motion now that we've moved into a closed session to discuss the program and the competency of the individual pending a reasonably imminent litigation, purchase, sale, exchange, or use of property, water rights, or shares under the development of security personnel, devices, or systems as permitted under Article 52.4.205.

You could just add in this room.

Yeah, add in the location. And in the work chambers. Aye. Aye. Aye. Yes.

to our Layton City Council meeting this evening for September 3rd. Our start time is 7.02. I welcome those who are here in the audience as well. As customary, we like to start our meetings with a prayer and a pledge, and we take turns here on the dais, and so tonight I'm going to turn the time over to Council Member Colinda Onnes.

Thank you, Madam Mary. I'd like to introduce Father Mario from the Transfiguration Greek Orthodox Church. He'll lead us in our prayer today.

Almighty God, our help and refuge, fountain of wisdom, tower of strength, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast kindness, who knows that we can do nothing without your guidance and help, open our hearts, our minds, and our lips during these deliberations, that we may be mindful that every gift and talent entrusted to us comes from you, the author of life. Be mindful, O Lord, of all civil authorities of our armed forces and those who willingly sacrifice for our safety, freedom, and welfare. Be mindful of this city in which we dwell, and every city and land protect us from wrath, pestilence, famine, earthquake, flood, fire, and all calamities. Grant us peaceful times that we may lead calm and tranquil lives in all godliness and sanctity. May this undertaking be beneficial to all whom we have been called to serve and to those who will serve under our guidance. To the glory of your holy name, for you're holy to the ages of ages. Amen.

Would you like to stand?

Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for Okay, thank you very much. I appreciate that prayer. It's nice to understand the diversity we have here and the importance of it. What a beautiful prayer. Thank you. Okay, council. We have two sets of minutes that we need to approve tonight. So I would ask for a motion, if you could, to read those if there's no corrections. Or state what meeting it is and the date, please.

Madam Mayor, I move that we approve the minutes of Layton City Council work meeting on May 21st, 2026 and the minutes of Layton City Council meeting August 6th, 2026. Okay.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Okay. It's been moved and second that we approve the minutes as written. All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Aye. Okay, thank you very much. Okay, before we move on to our other agenda items, I do want to acknowledge the fact we do have a special guest sitting here to my right, which is awesome, because if you guys noticed in the past, we like to invite our local youth council to come in and kind of really witness firsthand what takes place here on the dais. So with that, I want to turn the time over to Oliver Paul. And Oliver, if you want to share any insight you have on the council or maybe some of your likes, dislikes, or whatever you'd like. We'd just like to give you a minute here.

I'd just like to wish Dave Thomas a happy birthday. And that's about it. All right. Very good.

Yes, Mr. Thomas.

We have some of the greatest kids that there is.

We do. We have a great youth council that's very supportive of the city and really comes out and helps in a lot of things.

So, thank you, Oliver.

Okay, council, I'll go ahead and come back then to our agenda items as listed, which we have the time now to mention any municipal announcements. So, any of you that sit on different committees, you're more than welcome to take the time right now to update our residents on what's taking place. Birthday boy.

Birthday boy says... Family Recreation Park After Dark free event September 18th, 7.30 to 9.30 at the Layton Commons Park. Join us for s'mores and lawn games for the family. I think they're going to do lawn darts in the dark. You just throw them and catch them. I'm joking. Okay. Surf and Swim will be closed September 13th through the 20th so they can put up the bubble. The museum is having a photography exhibit for September by the Wasatch Camera Club. It's called Photographic Exploration of Travels Through the American West. We have Whispers in the Dark, late and scary storytelling festival. New and inspiring storytellers are invited to join a free workshop series led by the Utah Storytelling Guild. During the three workshops, you'll learn how to craft, perform, chilling tales. Participants who complete the series will have opportunity to perform at Whispers in the Dark. Sign up at the davisartscouncil.org. And the three nights will be the September 11th, the 25th, and the 9th of October.

Thank you.

Yes. All right. Well, I just have a couple of announcements from our latent communities that care. And I want to give a shout out. I think the last time we met, I talked about the teen brain workshop that we had. And we have had such great feedback from that workshop that all of the parents that participated would come again and would invite others. And so we have... Some upcoming workshops, we have three that are open to the public. One will be on September 16th at Central Davis Junior High at 5.30 p.m. The next one will be here in Lilleyton City Hall on September 29th, also at 6 p.m. And then there will also be one at Beans and Brew in Clearfield on October 8th at 6.30 p.m. And these workshops are just to help parents understand what happens with the teen brain and how to communicate better with your young folks. And they've just been really eye-opening and some really good information. The other announcement I have for Layton CTC is that we are hosting our Strengthening Families workshop. And that will begin on Monday, September 28th. It will run through November 16th, and that will be from 6 to 8.30 p.m. I think it's a seven-week session. And to register, you can go to dbhutah.org forward slash prevention. And so those are the two that I have for Latent CTC. And then I just wanted to take a quick second on personal privilege. My sorority is having their regional conference here in Utah. And this has been probably 20 or so years since we've hosted. in Salt Lake City from today through Sunday morning the 6th. There will be women of the far west region of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated. You'll see a lot of red if you go downtown this week. Celebrating our 100th year as a region and our 55th conference. We represent nine states and two countries. So Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, as well as Japan and the Republic of Korea for just this region. There are eight other regions that span the rest of the country. But lots of impact happening this weekend, service, justice, sisterhood, all of the things that are great. So if you're in Salt Lake and you see lots of red, just wave and smile. And remember that your councilwoman up here is a part of that group. Thank you for this time.

Could be from the Utes tonight. That too? Yeah, that's good. Another good, yeah. Okay, anyone else have any announcements? Being that there's none, I just want to also let folks know that they're going to want to mark their calendar for the last day of the month on September 30th. That's our Kendall O'Brien open house that we usually have at the fire department out by Ellison Park. So make sure you put that on your calendar. The start time is 5 p.m. Okay. Okay. Oh, yeah. And then in addition to that, in recognition of 9-11, which happens to be on Friday, so a week from tomorrow, there will be a special program that's going to take place at our Kenley Theater. start at six p m and this is one of those events that i can tell you firsthand you're going to want to come to it's uh... we've got uh... a guest speaker lined up that happened to be at ground zero at the time he actually lives uh... not far from here but uh... you're going to really hear firsthand what it was like on that day and really kind of bring back the purpose of what the celebration of 9-11 is all about. So again, that's another one you're going to want to put on your calendars. And the guest speaker is going to be Mr. Michael Moore. That will start at 6 p.m. on Friday, 9-11. Then on that Saturday, the following Saturday, there is a service project that will be taking place. We'll be doing fire mitigation. So on that one, you're going to want to go to My Hometown Layton, and you'll be able to sign up there. You cannot sign up also through JustServe, but go through the My Hometown Layton project, and that's something that we're going to follow up on. So a lot of announcements tonight. I think that's about it then. But we'll go ahead and move on then to... ONE OF OUR VERBAL PETITIONS AND PRESENTATIONS, AND I'M NOT SURE WE DON'T HAVE ANYBODY HERE FROM THE SUICIDE PREVENTION, DO WE? OKAY. WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS WE WANT TO, ON BEHALF OF LAYTON CITY, WE DO WANT TO PROCLAIM SEPTEMBER AS SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH, AND BEING THE FACT THAT MY VOICE IS SO CRACKY, I'VE ACTUALLY ASKED COUNCIL MEMBER Mike Tlandrianos, don't make me go there, to go ahead and read this proclamation on behalf of Layton.

Thank you, Mayor. Whereas September is known nationally as Suicide Prevention Month, which helps promote resources and awareness about suicide prevention. And whereas recent data trends from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services show an average of about 685 Utahns die each year died by suicide each year, 5,480 Utahns attempt suicide each year. And whereas thoughts of suicide can affect anyone regardless of age, gender, race, orientation, income level, religion, or background, and whereas many people experience mental illness challenges or emotional distress, and no one should feel alone in seeking help or support, supporting someone else. And whereas every life lost or suicide attempt directly affects families, friends, coworkers, neighbors and the community, and whereas everyone in our community has a role to play in promoting hope, reducing Cigna, encouraging help-seeking, fostering meaningful connections, a simple phone call, text, message, conservation, Thank you. Conservation or act of kindness can make meaningful differences. And whereas increased awareness and warning signs promoting evidence-based suicide prevention strategies and encourage... I cannot say that. Say that for me, Mayor. Thank you. Conversation about mental health. Thank you, Claire. mental health and can straighten the well-being of our community. And whereas free and confidential support to accessibly and available by calling or texting 988 to be connected to a skilled trained counselor 24-7. And whereas anyone wishing to learn how to recognize the warning signs of suicide and how to help someone in crisis can access numerous online resources including those provided by live on utah the american foundation of suicide prevention the national alliance on mental illness utah and the utah suicide prevention committee and coalition and whereas latent city values those who work daily to help improve prove the mental resistance and welfare of others through their professional professions in mental health care education emergency service. National Suicide Prevention Month serves as an opportunity to honor those lost to suicide, support survivors of suicide loss, recognize those with life experience and reaffirm our commitment to creating a community where anyone knows that matter and where help is available. Now, therefore, be it resolved that I... Joy Petro. Thank you, Mayor. Along with the Layton City Council, do hereby proclaim September 2026 as National Suicide Prevention Month in Layton City. We encourage all residents to learn the warning side of suicide, reach out to those who may be struggling, support one another with compassion and share available resources and help build a community where hope, connection, and recovery are possible for everyone, and witness whereof I have caused the seal of Layton City, Utah, to be affixed on this the third day of September 2026. Thank you, Mary. Just real quick, I've lost about... Last count, about six co-workers do suicide. Recently, the last one was two years ago. This is a big undertaking to see my whole staff just lose a colleague that worked for us for over 25 years to suicide. And so mental illness really does affect everybody. It really stopped my organization here in Utah from doing anything for a number of weeks to just deal through that loss. So take suicide prevention very critical to us. Thank you.

Thank you very much, which is hence the reason why we have our Community That Cares program, and we're really trying to make awareness on several different topics. But the key takeaway tonight on that proclamation is all of us know to call 911 when we're in danger, so please pass the word and let people be aware that it's 988- And however you need to visually remember that, please do, but that's very critical to dial that 988. Okay, thank you. OK, we'll now go on to our citizens' comment portion of our meeting. So if there's anyone here in the audience that wish to address this governing body, you're more than welcome to step up to the mic, state your name, what city you're from, and then, of course, your concerns. And then, as I've mentioned in the past, we don't get into any dialogue or have any discussion here, because technically it's not an agenda item. But certainly we'll take the information down and make sure we get back to you on it as well.

because I don't think I got anything.

Hi, my name is Trisha Thompson and I live on Wasatch Drive and I have a personal safety problem that you can fix so I am safe walking to school. On May 21st, I was walking with my grown-up to White Sides Elementary with crossing with... Do you remember he crossed the crosswalk? While crossing Wasatch Drive using the crosswalk, a car almost hit me. My grown-up had to yank me out of the way.

There are other kids even smaller than me who walk to Whitesides without a grownup. For our safety, please hire a crossing guard to help us cross the street safely.

Thank you. Thank you very much. As my daughter said, sorry, my name is Ivy Thompson. I live at 687 Wasatch Drive, Layton 84041. And this has now happened twice within the last year, where we were using the crosswalk located on Wasatch Drive and Colonial Avenue. and in both instances a grown-up was with the children we had started crossing the street and a car that had stopped at the stop sign didn't see us even though we were halfway through the crosswalk and they nearly hit us and when I was the grown-up I actually had to like go towards the car waving my hands before they finally stopped and then the instance my daughter described her grown-up actually had to yank her out of the way and she was within inches of being hit So I hadn't realized that the Marin City Council had jurisdiction over where crossing guards are hired in the city. I didn't find that out until the second time when I talked with our school's administration staff and they actually said that we needed to call dispatch file a report and then dispatch recommended I come talk to you folks. But we would love a crossing guard at that crosswalk and There are lots of kids who cross there by themselves, and a lot of them don't have grown-ups with them. They're coming from the apartments, or they're coming from north of Wasatch Drive, and they cross that without help. So we would love a crossing guard, and thank you for the service that you give to our town. Thank you. We appreciate that report.

And thank you, Tricia. Thank you.

Hi, my name is Irene Hill and I'm from Layton. I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU GUYS DO. I JUST NOTICED A PARKING PROBLEM SINCE THE HIGH SCHOOL STARTED WITH TRYING TO COME HERE DURING THE DAY AND TRYING TO ACTUALLY GO TO THE MUSEUM AND HELP THE MUSEUM. THERE'S LIKE NO PARKING, SO I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE CAN DO ABOUT THAT. I KNOW THEY BUILT THAT NEW BUILDING AND IT TOOK UP SOME PARKING PLACES, BUT Just a question to maybe help. And with the suicide prevention, we also have a program at my church on Monday nights at 7 p.m., Faith Baptist Church on Fairfield. If anybody would like to go, it is for PTSD and all kinds of different stuff. So everybody's welcome, and it's all confidential. Nobody will tell anybody that you're there or anything about So if anybody would like to come to that or if you know anybody that needs to go to that, I know you guys have the care thing too, but we also have a program also. So, you know.

Okay. Thank you. We appreciate that. Anyone else? Seeing that there's none, we'll go ahead and move on to our consent items. We do have two items tonight on the agenda. We'll first have the presentation on the first item by Mr. Probert regarding an appointment to our audit committee.

cameras the council good evening i bring to your resolution twenty six dash thirty nine to a point uh... two members to our lane city audit committee mister brent young and mister michael rasband both these gentlemen were recommended by uh... mister belliston who was on our audit committee previously he reached out to a number of his colleagues and recommended these gentlemen and they've accepted the our request to be on the committee both of these gentlemen have I would say over 20 years of experience as chief financial officers controllers accounting directors they have extensive experience in the world of financial reporting compliance and accounting so I think that they'll bring a lot to the committee and to you as a council to help safeguard the finances of the city it's Staff recommends that the council adopt resolution 26-39. Are there any questions related to that?

Any questions, council?

Just one question. What is the term for this position?

In the resolution, we stated that it's a two-year term, so until June of 2028. There is an option, obviously, they could extend if we ask them to and they wanted to, then we could renew that.

Thank you. Yep. And like I've said in the past, this is critical for us. I think it really gives outside view. All right. Next up, we'll go ahead and turn the time over to Mr. Steve Jackson regarding an interlocal agreement.

Thank you, Mayor, Council. It's good to be with you tonight. I guess I'll start off and say this is kind of a redo from back in July. We had an interlocal agreement with Davis County for the Gentile Street project that's under construction. If you recall, the county awarded us a significant amount of money to help improve this project, and as we were going through the process to get everything signed, we realized that there was a... discrepancy in the amount of funding for the street lighting materials. The installation was there, but the materials itself had been inadvertently left off. So we talked to the county and they graciously agreed to allow us to add those to the approved expenditure list. So if I could, I'll just recap. The project is 2,800 feet of sidewalk along Gentile Street around the Valley View Golf Course to help improve that area with 10 feet wide sidewalk, 12 foot travel lanes up through there. We're doing 2,400 feet of storm drain improvements, 1,900 feet of 8-inch water line, 3,000 feet of 12-inch water line, and 2,000 feet of sanitary sewer with 15 streetlights. So the county has allowed us to add $113,000 in additional approved expenses to this project, which they will be covering 80% of. So the total would be the $1.68 million you see on the screen with the city's portion being $420,000. A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN THAT. THE TERM OF THE AGREEMENT STAYS THE SAME, DECEMBER 31, 2027. SO REALISTICALLY, THE AGREEMENT REALLY IS JUST ADJUSTING THIS NUMBER TO INCLUDE THAT. SO IT BRINGS THE CITY'S CONTRIBUTION UP $22,000, AND THEN THE COUNTY IS THROWING IN ANOTHER $90,000 FOR THESE STREET LIGHT MATERIALS. IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS I CAN ANSWER?

ANY QUESTIONS, COUNCIL?

Very good.

Yeah, thank you.

Oh, I apologize. We recommend that you adopt Resolution 2640 and authorize the mayor to execute, or the city manager, excuse me, to execute this interlocal agreement. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay, Council, that's our two items on our consent items. So we'd like to bring it back to you for action. Just for the public's knowledge, we actually can vote on both these items in one single action here tonight. So, Council, I'll turn the time back over to you.

Mayor, I move that we adopt Resolution 26-39, the appointment of Brent Young and Michael Rasband as members of the Layton City Audit Committee, and Resolution 26-40, which is the interlocal cooperation agreement for highways or public transit between Layton City and Davis County.

Do I have a second?

Second.

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

Aye.

Any opposed? Okay, thank you very much. Okay, that's actually the last item listed on our agenda. However, if there's any unfinished business, you're welcome to bring it. Mr. Thomas.

I don't have unfinished business, but I've got something to say. Okay. Which is worse. Okay? It's my day where I can speak. Okay? Anybody got a problem? You can leave. I joke, of course. Yesterday we had a luncheon for the workers of Layton City, and they were served a lunch, all of them, could attend or would or whatever. And it was nice for us to see people we don't see a lot of. We see a lot of the people that are out and about, but sometimes people in offices we don't. So it was nice to see them. And I just wanted to mention a couple things. I don't know of a city that has any harder workers and that are just good people. And they are good people. I can say that. I spent 30 years with some of them, not all of them. But it was a great place to work. They make Layton City the best city to live in in Utah. And arguments are welcome. If you want to see me after, I don't have a problem. But anyway, I'd just like to recognize them tonight because they As most of you may guess, they're not the highest paid position in the world for jobs. And they work here and they work hard. And they just do such a dang good job. And I will say, having been here 30 years, well, more now, but that's because I'm not very bright. Starts at the top, and it works down. And the people at the top will tell you, no, no, no. But that's fine. I'll call them liars. It comes from the top, and the people take it, and they just do such a neat job. And I just wanted to say, hey, you know, cheers, thumbs up, or is it right now? And that's all I have, Mayor. Thank you.

Thank you. And on that topic, I do want to say thank you to the council for their willingness to help serve the lunch to our employees. It was very fun and a rewarding day, so thank you again. I do have one more item that I need to bring up, and it really could have gone under citizens' comment, but it's something that I think we need to look into. There's some folks that are pretty concerned about, again, school crossings. This one happens to be over here at Central Davis Junior High. Primarily, I guess it's kids running across the street on Church and Golden Avenue area. What's happening is you've got... Parents that are bringing kids to school as well, and they're just jumping out of the cars and running across. And so there's a big concern there as far as what can we do to kind of help eliminate the chaos that takes place around there. So if we can kind of look into that, that would be great as well. Okay. If there's nothing else then, I'll look for a motion to adjourn.

I have been alive for many years. Okay, I have a second, right?

Okay, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Okay, thank you everyone for attending tonight and those online as well. And please keep in mind that this is a long holiday weekend. So be safe, have fun, but be cognizant of everyone around you and just be aware that the traffic has increased tremendously. So again, enjoy your long weekend. Thank you.