City Council - Regular Meeting

He was doing the bill of sale today. So the other one, I'm actually working on it. I think we get the most money.

That other one's more important.

Somebody making something. That's all. I took three.

individuals around different people that are interested in investing in people in general.

They want to bring businesses and other properties.

And I took them around, showed them kind of the ropes of what our city is doing, what some of the properties might look like, and land use points. So, but other than that, I don't know if anyone else has been told that.

But there's a lot of interest in bringing this in right now.

Okay, yes. Zoning and planning, Christine will be doing some things there. And zoning and planning tonight, I'll talk about that later because I'm on the agenda. Never mind, we'll go into that later. Public Works needs to hire an employee for the water department. They have the funds and the budget for this year, but they need the approval to move forward. The clarifier down at the treatment plant is offline. The pipe is broken and they're fixing that. The gentleman that come and spoke to us.

It's fixed, too, by the way.

What's that? It's fixed. It's fixed, so it's smellable now?

How about the water leak on Main Street? Which one? The one right down here. On the east end?

Oh, is that what that was when we splashed through that this morning?

I was hoping if somebody had brought something.

I just put in my UDOT permit for it today. I think Thursday we're going to tackle that.

Okay. Okay, clarifiers back online. The gentleman that came in and spoke to us about possible funds.

Was it Doug?

No, it was Gordon.

Gordon. Carl did a reference check on him, and the reference checks come back positive. So maybe we have a workshop maybe Sunday to discuss possible moving with that. The treatment plant desperately needs help, and this will take a lot of money.

um we sent the contract out it is yeah we just sent the contract out today we'll wait to hear back from them you might have the contract hopefully it gets back by the next time to meet you oh you know we'll look at that and we'll bring it back yeah that's awesome i took the guy through the ringer he did he started i'm sure you did but that's good um the state for the upgrades right now that they're trying to do is still in the state it's in a 30-day comment period they're hoping they'll

wrap that up and then send out for bids. They should have bids back within six weeks and hopefully start on that this fall. We really need upgrades on second, third phase, but we'll need a lot of money to start that. And secondary water, I'm gonna let Carl handle that one. Is that okay?

Yeah, it's on the agenda.

I knew it was on the agenda, so yeah.

Okay, we'll talk about it then. Anything else? No. Okay, then let's jump right into We have a discussion on resolution 2650 with Byron. Yay.

And we're running a little short, so it's, yeah. How's everyone doing? Good to see everyone. So really quick, this is pretty simple, straightforward. This resolution is seeking the council approval for the mayor to sign off on accepting Tremont fire department as our ambulance provider for the city in this area so that's that's it according to civil bill 215 so that law has changed and it requires us our own city for animals and all the cities have to do yes every city has to that's why i made a cover copy i apologize if you guys wanted to look at it did you say that elwood has already signed one i believe elwood and I have to double check with Garland. I know Garland has said they accepted it.

With Tremont?

They said, yeah, they sent an email to the mayors in Tremont saying he does accept and wants Tremont to use the service. So they have to send that letter not to us, but to the state. So I'll check in with them and see. What I wondered is if we would end up getting an RFL instead of that ADN.

I'll definitely work that might if it makes more sense it might change the city boundary versus yeah streets yeah I totally agree with you on that thing that might just yeah force that yeah so this is something that's new by state law they send us out a letter says we have to comply and this is the chief's way of complying with what we're going to do do you have any discussion or questions pretty straightforward thanks chief no problem

One other quick question. You guys approved a remodel downstairs. The construction company is seeking to have both the payment from the front. I'm wondering if we're okay with that as well, getting it connected. That's your budget, right? Yeah, we deal with that. I don't know because it's over $10,000, so that's according to the policy. It's about $38,000.

Okay, so the fees in our schedule from a few months ago

charged several thousand dollars, $3,000 for a preliminary class, $7,500 for a final class, something like that, for site plan fees as well. But it just didn't provide any justification for why those fees were set up the way they were. Could have been that they were factoring in staff time, review fees, DRC time, anything like that, but it just didn't lay out any justification for why those fees were

the way they were and they also didn't discriminate versus uh two lots versus 500 bucks and so the fee was the same and that was about the discrepancy like if someone was one duplex he has to pay the same amount of fees as someone bringing in 500 homes so so the council um voted to roll back the fees back to how they were about february of 2026 um and that that resolution happened in june of this year

So getting right to it, the changes are as follows.

And the rollback was to give us time to research and update the fee schedule, and this is what we're bringing back to you guys. Yes.

I'll mainly focus on new fees added. I'll start with first accessory dwelling unit permit. It just was $0 for an internal and $20 for a detached unit. We've now changed it to $75 and $150, double that, respectively. We've added a section for city attorney review. If development agreements are going to come forward and they should be reviewed by the attorney per our code, it probably should be considered first time. Conditional use permit, we've added an amendment fee to try to alleviate having to go through a whole other $500 fee. That fee was also changed. Land use review fee. A land use review is kind of your catch-all permit when nothing else really explains it. Not a conditionally used permit, not a flat, nothing like that. This is a general review that I'm very accustomed to doing. $75 seemed like a fair place to start there. Public noticing hasn't been charged as far as I can tell, at least for many years. So we looked at $30 administrative. I actually talked to Epiphany, who rolled out a lot of their work there. I asked her which fee sounded fair, and she told me $30, so that for an administrative, I didn't go to the PRC. She doesn't have to post nearly as much as she does for a legislative fee, so that's why we have the fees rolled out there at $30 and $100 respectively, administrative and legislative. Her retaining walls, I don't think I've been looked at specifically in a way that I'm accustomed to doing, but her retaining walls are pretty serious. And if they're over 4 feet, require engineering and geotech and other things like that, I would zoning verification letter that is effectively a snapshot of a property from a land use perspective uh real estate agents some attorneys will ask for a letter like that and so we're basically going to be going on a review that doesn't feel a permit um more of again a snapshot of what zoning is on a property what buildings and shelters If there's any code enforcement issues on the property, things like that, those can all make it into an area. Then the main, what was discussed before about subdivision fees, they're restructured. We talked with Jamie, the finance director, and she mentioned more of a tiered approach. That's cool because if you have one to five lots, but then you're like, oh, actually, we could fit in a sixth lot, then it would jump up to the next tier instead of having to readjust fees how it was in February, where per lot, you got to change these every time you change a lot of names. So looking to make it a bit more fair, we reviewed this with, more particularly, Chris Reinholt, city engineer, and city recorder. They did a lot of work to give us good feedback on a new structure. Okay, moving on, there's some fees renamed. It was pretty simple. A few of the fees were increased. We're talking about the detached from $20 to $150. Home occupation fees were adjusted. Signed permit was raised from $50 to $75 to just reflect kind of the general land use style. So the land use fee being $75. And again, that being a general review, hopefully Jack Drinan and Christina has time to look at that. The site permit would generally kind of filter into a general land use type permit. Temporary permits are $50 to $75 to replace the same thing. Berry River Canal Company insurance is way more than $200 in the days and some of the fees, the language in the .

This is just the Bear River Canal, they charge this, and so this is letting them know ahead of time, this is what the transit means. We don't have that, we don't have that in our, that $500 for Bear River Canal, we didn't come up with that, that came, that was given to us by the canal company.

So we charge them and give it to the canal.

The Bear River Canal Company, it just is charged on their, when they, at the very end before they close and get their final plot approved, they have a bunch of fees listed that they have to pay and it's just, it's put on there. And we pay it. Exactly. Yeah. Is that right, Ms. Cynthia? Yeah.

Okay. Moving on to fees removed. Blot splits were the chapter 2.7 from our appeal a couple months ago. So we got rid of that fee. And then construction plans are kind of thrown into, oh wait, hold on. Revised construction fees is eliminated as a standalone line item. That was rolled into the subdivision fees, a new tier, so it's a new section. Any questions?

Oh, can I explain? Yeah, sure. So if you look at the chart right here, you have the preliminary plat. These are actually deposits, and we're going to be doing, it's explained down here, we're doing the pass-through fees, right?

Correct. And one point of note is what's in the staff report, written by, of course, community development staff, was written again, worked with the city recorder, So when a developer comes in, they will be paying, if they have one to four lots, they'll be paying $1,540, but then we will actually keep track of how many review cycles we have, and if it's less than that, then the city will refund, and if it's more than that, they will be charging more.

so we're this is kind of this is a deposit so that we want to be charging them exactly what they are being they are using for staff so that we're not over charging and then we're not under charging and that went through uh finance and our engineer and they all had our attorney they felt like that was a good way of doing it a very justifiable way so you might even have like a small project but it might have a lot of issues with it that you have to do a lot of reviews so if they're going to be charged according to what staff time is being

Do you want to put on there something that just says something like retainer or something like that? It does.

Down here in the notes. There's footnotes if you look down here in the notes. And it says deposits reflect a starting point towards actual review costs, pass-through fees, where staff time will be added to the final cost of the application, and the applicant may be refunded or billed for overages based on the actual cost of the review.

And the justification for the rest of the subdivisions. Can I read that out too? Yeah. Note number one for the whole subdivision. The chart says reflects staff review time development review, committee time, flat signature review, title and form review, escrow review, based on city engineer's hourly rate and combined hourly rate of other DRC department heads. So hopefully that covers the justification of why these things are . Any questions?

I remember when the first chicken ordinance came, we debated for hours on this one.

Just so you know, currently you can have 12 with no rooster. I even got rid of my rooster and got rid of one of the chicks because I had two. I don't want to hear no rooster. It's gone. I put it in your backyard. It'll be gone.

Because I can target practice. We're getting humane to our animals.

So this ordinance seems to be two items at all. It aims to eliminate the permitting requirements. The logic behind that is that it is in Title I of the zoning ordinances is where these chapters come from, sub-chapters come from. And it's calling for a land use permit. That is a bit strange because there's more like an annual license or other type of permits that can handle that sort of thing. A land use permit, we're going to, review what the code's asking for, such as distances from crockery lines and mounts and animal counts and all that stuff. That's kind of a lot of review time, and you'd have to ask for a site plan, which is a pretty serious document to ask for.

And a site plan for chickens, it's just, it's too much for them. So the standards stay the same. Sorry, do you mind if I interrupt you? Absolutely. The standards will stay the same, and so instead of having a permit, because we aren't getting the permits from the pub. Yeah, so the way the code's written is you're supposed to have a permit for chickens or anything, especially the 4-H section too, but we will still keep the standards, and so then if there's a problem, then it becomes a code enforcement issue instead of requiring the permitting, which isn't happening, and then also we still have the ability to enforce the standards in the code. If the permitting option is available, it should be more like a dog licensing and in a different section of our code. Yeah.

Starting now. Starting now.

I need to go get a permit.

I'm sorry. With that, I say, if it's not going to be important, why are we doing it?

We're looking to have the code match the rural character of the town. The second thing it does, we're in the charts and we're looking at pot-bellied pigs, goats, llamas, as being pretty social animals by nature, and the code limits them to one, and the grazing non-irrigated section of RR1 and RR21, it's probably better. We thought about giving them a lay. And this we look at in more detail later.

The Planning Commission said, like, it was – we were going to look at the chart in more detail later, but the Planning Commission was like, this is fine.

We're not going to do this. But that's only – it's only in our – in certain zones, those are – Yeah, just the two zones.

Just the R-120 and the R-120. Increasing – Doug skis to just the peacocks, getting hens and rabbits more than

I don't know, they need more than five.

Well, this is, this is, this is for the, and this is R1 and R120. This chart is just for the agriculture. Can I have 50 now?

Yeah. And then similar change to the chart regulated for each animals, just two for a 6,000 to nine, 10,000 square foot set of parcel, increased from two to six, and then 10,000 to almost 20,000. for square-footed parcels from 4 to 10. Of course, we thought about families with multiple children. They want different animals. So I think they're increasing numbers.

So that... And the forage section's pretty good. It talks about having animals only for a specific time. All those four forage reasons, all those standards still stay in place for what is intended for it, so...

So if I need to push it home, I do love that, and it makes me really proud. Well, it says in there. These changes were discussed at the Planning Commission on August 11. A lot of the history was discussed about how this was implemented with 4-H in mind. We looked at the definition of family food and how eggs, chickens for laying eggs are allowed, but the code language didn't allow for meat from those chickens. And so we're just looking at just simple changes to try to make this a more sensible ordinance.

One thing that the Planning Commission did change is it limited the roosters in certain zones, and they prohibited roosters in all zones, is what the change was. Roosters in all zones. So that's what they . If they already have them, I think they're . um so that yeah okay thank you thanks for your work hey carl

how many i'm just i'm really curious actually um i don't know if you know how many full-time water department employees we have that run our water and secondary well you probably know maybe do you guys know how many would you guess for a city this size Should we have or do we have?

How many do we have?

I'd say about six on the do we have. Okay. Beau? I'd probably say six based on what I saw down there. Four or five. For just the water department, we have three. So that was interesting. Thank you. I rest my case. Take the rest of the day off. Don't laugh. But anyways, well, let me just tell you a little bit. So the secondary system is growing fast. I'm gonna give you a little bit of update in a minute. We just need more help, not just some of that. We have, we go if kids can help us in some environment. it's really quite helpful for simple things, meter change outs and that kind of stuff. You know what I'm talking about? Then you know what I'm talking about. But anyways, so the positive, you know, the money is there this year. The budgets were, I don't know what they are. I understand that creating a new position You know, it's not just a year, one time thing. The water department is one of the harder departments that I oversee. More demanding, potentially demanding because of issues that can come up, breaks and that often has to happen. So we're, I mean, earlier this year we disciplined the the supervisor of the water department he's no longer in the water department he is doing well and he's doing a lot better he's in a he's actually over at the treatment plant he's doing really well helpful over there um i tried to oversee the water department and it was i'm gonna say it was a disaster but i just didn't i couldn't do as good of a job as i hoped i could and i put andrew there to oversee it he's doing you know i mean he doesn't mean all of his stuff but he's really he's really making a concerted effort there and so the three full-time employees that are under him you know one of them's been here since march um the other two have been here about 14 months 14 months you know and those two have worked elsewhere I also have an employee who left early. He left in November. He left to go. He's fulfilled those reasons and now he wants to come back and I'd love for him to come back. So I do have somebody in mind. And then sort of making this plea today because when we go to amend the budget, I think in September I will be gone. So I'm trying to plead my case right now and give you an opportunity to ask any questions if you want to on that part.

So as the city has grown, you haven't added on more and more employees. You're just kind of staying in the same cell?

Yeah, kind of in general, yeah. at some point they went from two to three but we are still also understaffed we do need to have a good permanent supervisor for that department and i would i keep wanting to promote from the beginning because then i can see how these guys are growing and maturing to putting the right people in the right characteristics in those positions that's what i'm really after if i knew of somebody if i had somebody today that was really interested in coming over and i knew like andrew and i have a work history together so when he was interested in coming over here, I was super excited about that. If I knew somebody like that today, that would be the conversation I would be having instead. I don't know of anybody for that right now, and we're okay. We need more up there. And I know there's sort of a, well, to some degree, the secondary water is seasonal. more than just you know what i can hire a high school kid for because it's it's six months it's not three months you know and we're already we're already a bit behind i mean our water quality that we're dealing with in the bare earth is pretty bad you know we're on the low end of the river if any of you I don't know what happens at the Idaho border. But it's nicer up here. It's nicer up here.

And as you go back into Utah where the headwaters are. I can see Utah. I live in Idaho half the time, and they have the Barrow and Narrows. The walls float through there. Oh, that's tremendous. And when you go up there, it's nice. I don't know.

Yeah, it's nice. The city of Evanston. trees they have a treatment plant for their but that's their main source of drinking water yeah just be curious a little bit for you so you lost an employee did sort of transferred one well i lost one i lost one then i replaced him okay and so this is an additional yeah it's a new position okay yep it's hard to bring somebody back i don't know if i was told

First time somebody quits and then comes back, that's great after that. But some employees come back and they're way better. I've worked with people that, like where I used to work, that were gone for five years and they come back and says, you guys gotta quit complaining because I've been so long.

He was a younger kid, he wanted to find a wife and now he's getting married on Saturday.

probably more on the economic development. Like, how do you feel comfort-wise on the trajectory of economic development? Like, is there something... It's time. It's not immediate.

But by next budget, like... Probably two years. Probably two years.

Yeah, it'll be a couple years. I mean, they have to get permitted, they have to get moved in.

And they have to build.

Yeah. I guess my overall question is, do we have the revenues coming in from a variety of places that would supplement that next budget year? At least trajectory-wise, where we could take the .

This will come out of his direct budget on water. And so it's .

like today is it part of it no it will require this is why i'm giving this field today recommend a budget to create a new position in perpetuity so that's that part what just comes is this fyi like an amendment

it will come as an amendment next time we have to notice that we're going to notice the notice no we have to say in a meeting that we're going to notice a budget and then we can actually notice the budget meeting and then we can actually have the budget amendment so i think that's what jamie said is today we need to notice that we are going to notice a public hearing for september 15th for a budget amendment

I guess we noticed that.

I noticed that. I'm good with having another guy.

In some ways it makes me feel good that maybe we're doing the work of more people than we have left. I'm really proud of the guys.

Well, we talked about that before.

We brought on secondary water and didn't bring on any new water.

It's getting bigger and bigger. And speaking of secondary water. Oh, sorry. Was that a good segue or bad segue? It was a great segue. So, you know, we've had conversations in the past. We're really trying to get people to buy into secondary. We really need to. This year's been water quality-wise tough. There's been a lot of complaints and stuff too. But our biggest complainers are the department and Jimmy Stevens and maintaining that and all the stuff that's happened. They're our biggest complainers there. Show them how to clean. They know how. So there's some pre-incarceration that's been removed in the past because people don't know just because whatever but that needs to go back in the filters that we have now we just had a filter rep come and train us on the they were shocked at the large volume so we are going to be implementing more flushing and maintaining of our filters and it will be noticeably better you know we've Thank you for funding $1.1 million for secondary for this fiscal year. That was designed to install secondary in two new subdivisions this year. I don't know if we're going to get to all that or not. And some of that is because we need to throw a little bit more money in some of the water quality filtration stuff first. i don't want to just get sheer numbers and have more numbers of water quality that isn't you know good as good as it needs to be and that's just an issue that we're going to have on galley which is fine but we we've learned some things i've certainly learned some things this year that will make for a better product better experience for people and we really need that as we try and trying to get people off culinary and so um the other another issue is we just built our equalization basin and we're getting some we're getting some ground infiltration from that that's causing neighbors some worries about their basements well they don't have any sorry crawl spaces but they're worried about they've had to put some pumps in and have them before bought over by that one yeah yep the new one till it seals off till it seals off or we might i'm looking at maybe lining it it's going to be expensive though i'm really expensive like 350 here 335 000. so that's a tricky one right now i'm just operating it at a low level The higher the water we put in there, the more pressure.

Could we off to the side put some wells that we did put one and then push it back in?

Well, it's just a monitor well. It's just so I don't have to go in their basement and be like, well, I don't see what you're talking about. We know we can see what's going on there. Okay. Any questions on any of that?

One thing Carl and I talked about that was kind of interesting, on our secondary water, my husband put a spigot on it so that we hook the hose to it. It has made a huge difference in our filter. It stays clean this year. This is the first year it has stayed clean. And it keeps your whole system, your personal system in your house, cleaned out so that you don't have the spring foot problems that we've had in the past. So that's just another. And I just water my flowers when I'm cleaning them.

you might have got it but the company that done the secondary by my house another good job and they kept they kept up in my opinion moving stuff out of the way i mean they were awesome they yeah they kept it they were good so they really did a good job and we talked about that and the people that are hooked in over by me there's a lot of pressure because that's not many people yeah they were tied and they knocked on the doors and yeah they were wonderful really good

Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Carl. Okay, last thing on our, we have 10 minutes, and Chrissy is going to talk.

It will not take 10 minutes.

Talking about our Planning Commission Resolution 2652.

Okay, in this resolution, we are removing Roland. His time was up. It was up almost a year ago. And I had a really good talk with him and he was fine. He's really busy. He's done a good job. But we put Jack Stickney was an alternate. And that's one thing the planning commission says, well, can we possibly move an alternate up if we have a chance? Jack Stickney, council member Jacks and I both interviewed him. And so he has agreed. I talked to him and he's excited to move to the regular planning commission. The only... thing we need to do when we okay this is on the alternate that is still there i didn't put a date because that is to be determined yet and we have another applicant as soon as i hear from him we may put him as a second alternate so what are the alternates a year i hear alternate year and planning commission is and they choose their own chairman we don't i they handle that within in our

between themselves and that's great you may i and so this policy will go through and put people that every three years they will start on january 1st and so it's lined everyone up with the dates that they'll be um their term will be up and then we'll either get get a new person or they can apply to be part of that as well if they want to um extend that's not this resolution correct

as part of this resolution it defines their ending dates and the ending dates are going to end december 31st like city council and mayor does and the new dates will start in january of each year and we're going to try and stick to only moving up two people at a time and just so we have some consistency the logic of the current ones is just based off when they started

Yeah, and not only when they started, but when their dates are coming up. And so these are the ones that they just fell into that order.

But should Karen and Ben have December end dates then?

I'm confused.

Karen, then it should be December of 29 or 28. Oh, did I put January? Oh, sorry.

Yes, January and May.

Thank you.

Thanks, Lindsay. We have Ben on May of 29. Can we move him to January as well?

Yes, and I just made those corrections here.

And I wrote it would be December. They would all be December. It would be December, yes.

And I looked at, when I did this, I put it in.

And they're all, they're in on all that?

Karen Hill is December.

December 27th.

Well, her end date's in January.

Well, her end date was last year, was in 2025. and so she only wanted to stay on for two more years and then she says she's got other things she's doing so so yeah so she will end in december december 28th or december 27th she was going to be of january of 28th so they're all showing december's right so january is okay well you can do and she wants to do three years that's fine she wanted she she just requested to go tell and jack will go on for three years and like i said he's very excited about it so he's been an alternate and he has said on several several council so really we're we're doing a resolution for the

The way we do it, this is just a clear-and-clear. Yeah.

Yeah, and I'll change those.

But we will. I didn't see it here.

Yeah. And adding one for Ashley, then?

That one we're just going to leave to be determined. We haven't determined that one yet, so. And there was no ending date on her nor Jack, so we're working on that one.

I think it's good to have these days the staff clear.

And it's gonna be easier for staff.

Yeah, it's great.

There's an expectation. Any questions for Chrissy or the planning staff on this? Have they all been notified?

Yes, they have. Had a really good conversation with Roland. He was okay, he was good. He's a very, very busy man right now. They will get notified once it is passed and then staff will send out their normal emails that they do and I'll make corrections and get it to Cynthia. And then they'll find that out then.

Okay, thank you. We have a 10-minute break. We went through that pretty quick. Thank you. I wanted to ask you a challenge.

I think in the next meeting, we can set a record.

Don't you dare say we can set a record.

I'm just saying. Last time that happened, we went for an hour and a half.

I mean, we need to talk to you.

So we launched that there.

the council and to discuss the matters of trevon city and its citizens and we pray that you bless us with the spirit to help us to have open minds and consider all the possibilities and angles of each each uh issue that we have and that we'll be able to work together to solve these problems and move forward as a city Would everyone please rise and join me with the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible,

thank you and greg i mean that in the total respect i watched you playing the drums in that concert out there and you're amazing he's good so yeah thank you so much okay um i would entertain a motion to approve our agenda i'll make a motion that we approve the agenda motion by councilman jacks i second and the second was by council person westergaard oh uh lewis sorry want to be like did we have any conflicts of interest no none okay this is our citizen engagement portion this is where well the citizens can come up and share anything that they would like to share tonight we don't have anything on our strategic business so you're open to talk about anything you want we ask you to take three minutes talk with dignity Try not to cuss too much, and we would appreciate that, and the time is yours. Okay, seeing none, we'll go ahead and close the citizen engagement portion of our meeting. We don't have any unfinished business from the work session, so now I would like to go to the consent agenda. This is where we're going to approve the minutes of August 4th, 2026, approve resolution 2650, the EMS resolution, approval of resolution 2651, fees and fines amendments, and resolution 2652, reappointment of planning commission members.

With the changes that were suggested earlier

on the end dates. And with that in mind, just so the public knows, we discussed all of these for an hour before we got into here, and so that's why there's not a lot of discussion on it at this point. I would open it up. Is there any further discussion on any of these items? If not, I'd open a motion.

I make a motion that we approve the consent agenda.

Motion by Councilperson Bokut. and Councilperson Westergaard. All those in favor? No, this is roll call. Councilmember Westergaard? Yes. Councilmember Lueb? Yes, pending those changes. Councilmember Jackson?

Yes. Councilmember Corbett?

Yes. Okay, we do not have any strategic business tonight. Okay, I don't know, it wasn't on mine, so let's do that. We do have a strategic business. Discussion and consideration of docking, who clucked? Okay, yeah, we just got it. Ordinance 2617, amending chapters one, large livestock, keeping chickens and keeping animals for parent FFA. Council, do you have any further discussion on this item? Okay, this is where we open it up to the public. They can come up and for three minutes and discuss this ordinance with us if they would like. We'll open it up for public discussion at this point. Okay, seeing none, we'll go ahead and close the public discussion. And if there's no questions, then I would open this up for a motion.

I'll make a motion to leave the ordinance 26-17.

Motion by Councilperson Lewis.

I'll second that.

And a second by Councilperson Bocca. All those in favor?

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes.

Great.

Mayor, can I take one second before we move on? This is only going to be a two-minute thing, so don't panic, people. I have a gentleman here, Jeremy Matthews, would you please stand up? Jeremy, the mayor, and I interviewed to be on Planning Commission. And he's working through some details at his place of employment so that there's no conflict of interest where he works and with the city. And if that is clear, then I want you to know that Jeremy will be put on his, we'll bring him for a vote and consideration for an ultimate. He works as a surveyor and showed a lot of interest in the growth of Tremont and wanted to help with that. So this is Jeremy Matthews. Thank you for coming, gentlemen. I appreciate that.

Thank you. Okay, city leadership report. Does anyone have anything they need to report?

I was going to say we had a good department head meeting on Thursday. We're going to work on some team building things, because I think that's what we're lacking here, with all of us as new or new to our positions. Yeah, we need to get to know each other better so we can work better together. So Cori's excited. She's going to plan some sort of retreat for department heads. And then I'm hoping to do something here in our office, too, because some of the people that we involve as department heads.

And I guess city leadership report, we can report that the website went live.

It just went down, but it went live. It was on for a few minutes. It was on for most of the day and it was working wonderful.

But anyway, hopefully we'll work through the little bugs.

But I don't know.

I'll find out tomorrow. Because it went down in Eastern time. They went off. They left to go to work. So anyway, it went live. And it's looking really good. And I'm excited. So woohoo. OK. Calendars. The fair. the fair okay we have wednesday is when we have the parade and uh chief you're going to have the um your fire truck your fire truck for us and we're going to all get in that and ride in that and have a good time so i wish i could be here okay i'll bet you would yeah human yeah are you going to ride with us Okay, so we'll have one, two, three, four of us. And what time do we start? All right, I'll text you, okay? I mean, I can get the truck down there. get lined up or here and then we'll once i leave because i think what time you want to meet here and get in the truck like 15 15 or 15 or 15 or 15 here and we'll get in the truck right uh yeah i think i mean there's so you could have two of us on somebody driving somebody sitting and i'm just speaking to drive aren't you driving yeah i thought you were and then we probably

to you can stand up or put two folding chairs in the back okay we'll do it this back's not i think they have some banners somewhere that we can tie on the side where's in charge of who gets to ring the bell that's the captain on the other side

Okay, cool. City offices is closed on September 7th for Labor Day. We have our town hall at 6 PM on September 24th, excited about that. We're gonna have the planning department here. We're gonna be asking some really good open-ended questions and giving some input on some ideas and seeing how the public feel about things. October 2nd, domestic violence walk at Cheney Stevens Park at 5 o'clock. Emotional Wellness Committee meeting September 2nd at 6. And the Farmers Market will be held the first Saturday of each month at Schuman Park from 10 to 2. So one more coming up. And then you can see when the NPI meetings are. Those are going pretty well. Any other calendar items that we need? We do not need a closed meeting and so I would take a motion.

I want it with an apology We have a motion by councilman Jax to adjourn and council person

is second in the race.

Brent, I need my three minutes. You said 7.15. Okay, and all in favor?

We don't need it. All in favor say yes. All say no. Thank you. Have a great