City Council - Regular Meeting

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got that camera going. Okay. All right. Let's get it rolling. All right. We'd like to call to order our Rudell City Council meeting for Tuesday, December 16th, 2025. Uh let the record show all members of the city council are present with the exception of councelor Haw who's excused tonight. We also have members of the city staff with us tonight. Um we have asked councelor Hansen if she would lead us in the pledge of allegiance.

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

Thank you, Councelor Hansen. And I have asked Councelor Arnold if he would offer our invocation. Our father in heaven, as we bow our heads before this this city council meeting, we'd like to express our gratitude for the opportunity to serve uh be able to serve the city of Riverdale as the council and employees. We um acknowledge the plan that thou has put before us. And we ask that as we carry out our duties that our spirit, your spirit will be with us. That um each one of us in our um duties will be safe, happy, and healthy in all that we do. We're ask that that would protect all the city employees in the in the things that they do and especially those that are put their lives on the line each day to protect us and serve us. I'm grateful for the opportunities that we have within Riverdale. the structure, the community, and um hopefully we can make it so that it would be pleasing unto thee. We're grateful for our families that um do without us as we do our duties here and ask that you protect them and touch their hearts that they know of our love for them and that uh they see the importance of what we do and know that we love thee. And I say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Amen. Thank you, Councelor Arnold. Okay. Uh, we don't have any members of the public here. Do any of the employees want to get up during public comment? Yeah, Chief Warren.

Am I there? Okay. Uh, with the holidays just coming up and just passing this Thanksgiving, Christmas, just want to thank the mayor and the council and all the residents that elect you guys for supporting us. Um, not just the police department, but all the employees. Um, I can't tell you how grateful I am to work for Riverdale City. Um, throughout my whole career, I've never felt that the city officials or the public didn't support us. I've felt nothing but love and gratitude from them. I thank Steve. He's a great great man to work for. He supports all of his employees, all the department heads. And so, um, like I said, I just want to thank you guys and not just you guys, but the residents, too, because they really do love and support all the employees. And I want to thank you guys for the things that you do as far as supporting us with the benefits and certain things that we get. Um, it means a lot to all the employees and and it wouldn't happen without you guys. So, I just want to say thanks and wish you a merry Christmas.

Thanks, Chief. What are those sirens? Yeah, sirens. Uh, we appreciate you guys, too. And, uh, you're you're a great advocate for all the employees. I hope they appreciate um all that you say and do because uh you don't just speak for the police department and you you're you are very um very free with expressing gratitude and stuff and all brag that they work here. Well, that's good. That's good. Every employee, no matter what department brags that they work for such a great city. So,

that's how we like it. All right. Uh any other public comment? Okay. Okay. We'll move on to the presentations and reports. For the mayor's report, I just had uh one quick thing. Um and I don't know if this fits here very well, but uh I would like uh Mr. Brooks to bring it up in department heads tomorrow. I was uh having dinner with uh uh one of the the neighboring mayors and uh he he he said, "Hey, I heard you're going to start charging uh a membership fee at your senior center." Did we send that letter out, Steve? Um no, but it's close. Okay. So, he he had just heard through the grape vine. got notified this last week cuz I got hit up at church. So, yeah. Oh, interesting. We noticed that the seniors were notified of it

and they were also told to city administrators. We haven't decided who we're going to do the city administrators administrators explaining kind of what we're doing

and uh he uh was um he was he was um I don't know he he he was he wasn't really upset by it. He said that he was a little bit surprised and uh he said that his residents had already been reaching out to him um because they love coming to Riverdale and he was surprised at how many of his residents do come to Riverdale. So I had to kind of explain it to him and it's just a small difference. It's not a huge difference in the in the resident and non-resident fee. And I said one of the cool things we're going to do is we're going to offer um to to allow the other cities to kind of make up that difference. And uh he was like well we're already set at $4,000 to Roy. and he said, "Our people don't even like to go there." And uh he was kind of he I'll just leave it at that actually, but um he seemed like he would be very open to the idea of of I mean it will be nowhere near $4,000, I don't think. Um

no, no, don't we don't charge that much difference. It's it's not going to be that much. Um and he felt like it would probably be a heck of a deal um to be able to get a residence here. and his wife was asking me why our food is so good and how we how we supply like how do we have such good meals there and stuff. I said well we have a kitchen and cooks that cook the food and uh it's amazing and uh anyway it's going to cause a pretty big deal in the in the whole county I think and so it was kind of exciting like it was exactly what I wanted. But can you tell us what the letter is going to?

Just just putting them on notice that we've we're we've been placed in this position where we're going to have to start charging more because we can't keep carrying these costs as Riverdale residents and and he's actually going to factor in he'll tell them how many are consistently coming from those cities too. So so they'll have an idea and it's kind of say we're more than happy to allow you to just pay the difference so they can get the resident rate, you know.

Yeah. Um, he doesn't say this, but it's kind of like we do with the Roy Complex. And uh, yeah, I think it's a great program and I think it's I think it might work. And uh, anyway, it was just very positive. The whole interaction with him, I was like, "Wow, this is like we haven't even sent the letters. I didn't think we had. And it's already kind of starting. So, who knows? Maybe it will." Are they doing Do you know are they doing the discounted rate in January? Is that what Yes. That's why we wanted to get this letter out because we're going to start it in January. So, Yeah. Anyway, it was kind of exciting. So, uh hopefully that moves forward and uh hopefully it gets the attention of the county and the other cities and it just, you know, it just makes our senior center even that much more successful.

And I can just echo that. I was at the the holiday dinner. Yeah. They they served and they had and everybody seemed very positive about it. I mean, after the initial, oh, what's happening? Um yeah, everybody from the residents and those that used the facility Yeah. seemed I didn't hear any

negative comments. He did tell me one other funny story. He has a little lady that's a little old lady out there and she is just tiny. Not she's under 100 pounds and she was frustrated with our senior center because she wanted to buy two meals cuz the one meal is not big enough and they wouldn't sell her two meals for four bucks you know each like they were like no you can only buy one and but he's like I don't know where she would even put it cuz she's so small but I guess it's one meal not enough food but it was just funny. So, um, okay, we'll move on to city administration report. Mr. Brooks,

thank you. Mayor, I got to get my stuff here. Um, department reports are in your packet. Anybody have any questions on any of those? We've got a couple of them here. And if we don't have any, um, I would draw your attention. Again, I I do this every month, but uh once again, the uh sales tax numbers are still coming in positive, and we haven't gotten Trader Joe's yet. Really, the best ones are going to be what, February, March is the ones we really want to see because that'll show us the Christmas. And we don't know how much impact the 4,400's going to have on us. Plus, we got Trader Joe's will be popping in pretty soon. They're we're still probably a month out from seeing that, aren't we? So, that we haven't have it, but overall, we're still above what we've been for quite a while. So, that's a good sign if it just continues. So, um that's always my first favorite one that I turn to there. Um nothing else on the reports. Then our anniversaries, our fire chief, Mr. Hennessy, showed up tonight. 20 years tonight. So, Matt, congratulations to you. Um I didn't get a certificate.

It's right here. You got it. There we go. I had signed it. I knew I signed it at some point. I knew I'd signed it, but I didn't know what had happened to it after that. So, um, Matt, if you want to come up, we'll have the mayor give you that. And 20 years, long time, my friend.

It is pretty cool. Like I uh I've I've known Chief Hennessy like he wasn't even a captain when I when I knew him. I guess this is one of the guys that I've kind of seen come up all the way through. And so, uh, let's get a picture here, I guess. Beautiful. Okay. Anyway, um but he has he's just risen through the ranks and it's kind of interesting how that happens. Um you know, they do rise. People always kind of rise and it's been cool to see him become the chief and stuff and uh 20 years in and we hope to just keep you around. So anyway, do you want to say say a few words? Uh yeah, we'll like to hear from you.

Thank you. Uh 20 years, it's really it's kind of gone by quick. So, it's amazing how quick that goes. But, um, like the mayor was saying, it's I've kind of went through the ranks at Riverdale. I started my career here. I did have a little stent where I went to work for Ogden City and WaverFire as well, but I've been here at least at a part-time capacity for 20 years. And so it's been quite the adventure watching the growth of the city and the growth of the organizations and and how the challenges and unique challenges that Riverdale brings and and how um each organization whether it be the fire, the public works, the police department, um the business admin side, how they're all adapting to to meet these challenges and kind of be proactive about it. And I think that's one thing that's you know I can really say about the city is just the teamwork and the and the proactive is I mean we're always trying to get ahead of these things and and it's and it just really has a good team atmosphere here and I and I was just talking to Chief Warren about that just a minute ago and I I echo what he what he was relaying and appreciate the support and everything and um we we've got a good thing over at the fire department and we've got a good thing with all the city employees and and appreciate it and and 20 years has has flown by and I still enjoy showing up every day to work and I and I continue to plan on that. So, thank you guys.

Thank you.

I I came up about that same time, just a little bit ahead of of Matt. So, it's been kind of my climb as well. So, it's been fun. I get the chance to meet with these guys a lot of times. Had one with him just this week and it's just nice. It's just refreshing and it's been a good good everything about that's good. Just to tell you a quick story, the day of the bunt opening, the nothing but bunts thing, um they had put it on their calendar, but they scheduled it for 4:30 and it was actually at 4. And so all these fire guys come rushing in at 4:30 and I'm standing there with Commissioner Harvey. His niece is the one who's managing the place and everybody's gone by then. They come busting in. They're looking around like, "What do we do?" Cuz we try to encourage them to come, both police and fire. You guys have all been to grand openings and stuff. And uh I said, "Sorry, it's over." They kind of left and the lady felt so bad. She got one of their great big bunts and said, "Will you take this up to them?" So, they got blessed anyway. So, I'm sure they enjoyed that. It was good. But

it didn't last long. No. No. But, uh we do appreciate them. And and I just didn't check. you know, both uh both departments um respond to community outreach at at the elementary school and and it's, you know, in both are are willing to as long as they're not on call, but you know, this case it's the checker chesters at this. You've done that.

Yeah. Yeah. And they go and participate and it's appreciated. Every one of those grand openings are blown away when they see our people show up in the numbers they do and police and fire and stuff. It's just impressive and it's cool. The Bunt one, there's no room in there. It's a tiny tiny place. I the mayor and I are back by the door. We got muscled out again by the spikers and so uh we don't need to get you going on that one. But uh so we they did give the mayor two seconds to say something, which is what they don't normally do. But um we didn't have room for them is what I'm trying to say. So I'm almost glad they didn't show up cuz there's another four or six guys there. So uh they wouldn't have fit in there anyway. But no, it it does look uh impressive when those guys show up. So thanks Matt. We appreciate that. Uh our staffing authorization. Um again, I reported on this last month. Um and Officer Eert now is on board, right? Starts his FTO here next week, I believe. Um, I saw him earlier this week when he came in and signed all of his paperwork and stuff. He looks nothing. What's that?

R. Eert. He's related to James Eert. And he doesn't he did not get his size from James Eert. He's very big. Like he's a massive guy. And I said, "You didn't get this from your dad." And he just kind of laughed and he said, "Thank goodness." So, um, but he he seems like a good good person. Um, and I think you reported on him and his his progress and stuff last month. Yeah. I mean, it's gonna come up. I'll I'll tell you something kind of cool.

Uh, so I went to his graduation just barely and he pretty much got every award the academy would offer. I think he got all but one. So, I mean that to me is very very impressive as far as accolades he he got in the academy. And uh I mean they liked him so much that the director and the administrative assistant was offering him a job. At least that's what I perceived to come back and teach as an instructor on the day of the graduation. So I was like I thought it was pretty impressive. So he's got a lot to learn still as far as in the real world of policing but he's off to a great start and we're excited to have him. So cool.

Thanks Casey. That'll be nice being fully staffed on that too. So, um, the last thing I had was our community development report, and I will turn some time over to Brandon to update you on a few of those things. Uh, yeah, it's in your packet, the kind of typical cast of characters. There's a new addition at the bottom. It's the back nine. Um, that's a that's a uh indoor golf simulator over by um where Adrenaline Sports used to be on Freeway Park Drive. So, that's uh actually open now. So, we're coordinating um an a ribbon cutting for them. So stay tuned on that. Hopefully in January. Um there's a lot of things going on actually. Um I can't share everything because I don't share until it's actually a a submission to the city where it's public knowledge. Um but we do have a couple of those. We're working on a Taco Bell uh location uh in front of Trader Joe's. Uh we're working on um a potential new bank at Speedway. Uh we've talked about CarMax um at the at the uh old mobile home park. Um there's a number of kind of things in the works otherwise uh on some other location. So there's actually a lot going on. So 2026

Max instead of the apartments. That's right. Sorry. What did you say about the Speedway? Is that the Taco Bell? No, a bank. Oh, a bank. They still do brick and mortar banks apparently. I've never been into one. There's there's another bank the going in the Harmon's parking lot in Roy that's a bank going in there too. Yeah. So so you know all of those things are not fully baked but uh they're public knowledge because we've received a submittal. So I thought I'd share that. That's it. Yeah, I've been busy.

Yeah, next year will be I think next year we'll be pretty good. Is that going to be on both sides of the street of I mean taking just on the one just where the apartments were approved. Well, what's the apartments on on both sides of 4400? The south side.

Yeah, it's on the south side. You're right. That that they're trying it's actually for sale that parcel. So, the developer who has been granted multiple extensions on their platin site plan is now selling the property. Uh, looking for town homes, and I think that's a really good use there. There'll need to be some adjustments made to a few things, but it's an R four or five, I think. So, town homes are allowed there. The site plan would have to be reapproved. Uh, that didn't have a plat associated with it because it's just one parcel. Uh, but I do think town homes across the street there transitioned into the single family homes would be a good buffer to a potential car dealership on the south side.

Where'd you see the golf simulators? Uh, Freeway Park Drive, uh, where the old Adrenaline Sports used to be. They went out of business during Yeah. RC. Was it Adrenaline RC? Yeah. Yeah. Any any questions or comments? That's all I had, Mayor.

All right. I had one on the department reports for uh Chief Warren. And sorry, I don't really understand this that well, but uh it seemed like all the reports of your guys um that they run into these people, they had warrants, like active warrants and and like like so that means they're like supposed to be arrested like or can you explain that to me just a little bit? And do we have a problem with people all over our streets that have warrants for their arrest? Like um so yeah, it's I can explain. So there's a lot of warrants out there. I mean, and sorry, sorry to take just a minute. How do you get to that point? Like you've you've been charged and you didn't show up for something or what?

Yes. So if someone is charged with a crime and they failed to show up, failed to pay a fine, mostly show up, then a warrant will be issued. Uh throughout my career, we used to actually have a stack of warrants. We probably have a stack of them through our courts, actually. Probably hundreds. They're outstanding warrants. They're they're everywhere. Ogden City, you name it. And so, historically, when I was coming up through the ranks, we would actually go out and proactively serve these warrants. Well, we do have a group of uh newer officers that actually proactively go out and serve warrants. And so, you're seeing more warrant arrests recently because we have a couple newer guys that are out proactively looking to serve those arrest warrants. So, um, sometimes it's through our things they find in our justice court. So, they'll go knock on a door and see if they're home and if they are, they'll, you know, either make arrangements for them to take care of it or take them to jail. A lot of times it may be just contacting uh people that are out loading, walking the streets, they'll do a level one contact, get their information, see what they're up to, go back to their car, check them for warrants, and if they have a warrant, then they'll they'll take him into custody. And it felt like most of his reports weren't us proactively doing it. It was like we pulled this guy over or he was acting crazy or he was doing this and we checked and he had warrants. And I just it makes me feel a little bit uneasy. Yeah.

That like I I mean people speed and we pull them over or people break the law and you guys do what you do. Yeah. But these are like active criminals. Like they've already been arrested. they've already broken the law and they're like basically fleeing from the law and we're running into them while we're like knocking on doors or they're you know they're in the wherever you guys run into them and it seems like everybody had a warrant. There's just and there's they can proactively do that through traffic enforcement as well. Yeah.

And so as we're uh patrolling, we're running plates. We may see that the registered owner has a warrant, then they failed a signal or they just license suspended. go ahead and pull them over, address the traffic concerns, and then arrest them on the warrants. But yes, there's there's a lot of warrants that are out there, and we have had an increase in enforcing those through traffic and even proactively, like I was explaining, knocking on doors, and a lot of that is geared towards the policing that is being done. We have a pretty good team. I'd say we have, but right now, we have some that write a lot of tickets. We have some that are focusing on serving warrants. We have a couple that really like to do drug interdiction. And we have a lot too that just like to do community policing where they're out just talking to people, checking on uh the people at the stores and things like that. But yeah, there's you'd be surprised how many people have warrants that are out there. Like if we were to go out and really look and hunt warrants down, we could probably make an arrest or two or three every shift if you're focusing on it. Is it a sign of a bigger problem at the county level or we I mean

why aren't these people in jail or or where I don't know like they've always been problem Yeah. I mean they've always been there. I will say Weaver County traditionally is a more accessible jail. For instance, in Salt Lake County, if we they have a warrant, they it's really hard for them to book people into jail. They there's criminals running like crazy with warrants in Salt Lake County because the jail won't accept them. Our gel is pretty accessible. Um, but a lot of times too when we book people, it's a book and they're out within, you know, eight hours because it's it's just the way, but they no longer have a warrant at that point. Yeah. They they will get a promise to appear again.

To appear again. And then if they fail to appear again, Yeah. then they will. And there's like there's different levels of warrants. your traffic warrants. You have criminal warrants, you know, from drug possession to the more serious warrants. Usually those ones won't get out. Like if it's a no bell warrant that uh you know, they won't be given bell or felony type warrant, they probably won't be able to get out. Uh traffic warrant or Mr. MB theft warrant, they can probably get a bondsman and be out within a couple hours for 10% or whatever the warrants for. But but they don't have a warrant at that point. No, they they don't have a warrant the right way. Yes. Yeah. Until they don't show up again. And then like a lot of these warrants are just rotating. Okay.

Like it's the same case from three years ago and they've been arrested three times because they won't follow through. So, but does that kind of answer It does. And and certainly it's nothing that our guys are doing wrong. It's just the next time the sheriff comes to me and asks for if I'll support something, an expansion, do I need to support an expansion of sales at the jail? Like, do we need more sales down there versus administrative buildings? um sales. We can always use more sales. Honestly, I'm a firm believer in that. And I I say that in the fact of I don't want to lock people and throw them away.

I think being able to book people into jail for a warrant or for drug possession resets the clock in that instead of being on a lot of these people have drug issues. Instead of being on drugs for four or five days straight or a month straight, if we can book them in a jail for a day or two, it will reset that clock. They get sober and then they don't go out and commit these heinous violent crimes because they've been using drugs for two weeks straight and we haven't been able to incarcerate them just temporarily. Yeah.

To reset the clock. And I think that's what you see in some of these larger cities where they maybe don't arrest for thefts, drug periphered law enforcement 10 times, haven't been arrested and now they've been high for 30 days and you can imagine the mental illnesses that develop after that and then that develops into maybe more serious crime. Whereas if we would have just booked them in to jail, gave him a two to three a day rest, maybe they can have a chance of getting some help and they don't go out and commit these major crime. So yes, I'm a I I'm for that. If that ever comes up, more cells would be good. Just just for that so we don't refuse people because sometimes the jail can get to capacity. Yeah.

And then they're in and they're out and they don't really get that time to reset the clock or get the help they need. Okay. So, thanks so much for the information. It just I I have a 16-year-old driver. Oh, it's scary. And yeah, and and I So, you arrest somebody or they're you pull them over because they're driving erratically and then you find out, yeah, they're high and yeah, they've got a warrant for drugs and it's just I'm like, man, these guys are all over the place. How's anybody supposed to survive getting getting from place to place? Councelor Stevens,

thank you. the if I could just if you can verify having a family member with county now county you might get an assignment anywhere in the county and there's a lot of communities which makes Weber County interesting and different than other counties because a lot of municipalities contract with uh county like our neighbor now one of the things if they're going into a new an officer being assigned over here are not really acclimated to that area is they will look at warrants and start um going and especially where you have a lot of rentals there's going to be last known address and they'll go you know knock a doors and different things and so that is I don't want to say it's a time filler it's it really gives you an act a feel of the of the land and where where issues might be accumulate and you can mitigate those issues very quickly in those in those areas. I don't know if that's a correct assessment, but

yeah, I think that's fair. Especially like here the the benefit we have is we know our residents. Uh there's individuals that I've worked with

Sure. over 20 years and we're on a firstname basis and we know right where they're at and we know right when they're uh fallen off the wagon if you will to where we can try to intervene and I think with the county they're sometimes coming to new areas and they have to maybe look at the warrants list who's in their area. Um, we kind of do the same thing here. We have to kind of train the new officers that come in and say, "Look, here's some of the areas that have some issues here. Here's this individual. Right now, they're doing great. If they're not doing great, then we'll have problems." Stuff like that. But, uh, yeah, there's definitely a lot of warrants that are out there. And uh the biggest problem actually I've been working with the county attorney on it kind of goes right down what you were saying with the the drugs and the drunk driving and the gang violence is we're taking a really tough stance on juvenile crime and we're going to work with Weber County Attorney's Office. So we've had some violent crime with with with juveniles here and if we have that we're going after everybody. If you're an adult and you're a gang shot caller and you have ties to these juveniles and you're facilitating them doing these crimes, we're coming after you. If you're a parent and you know that your child's out engaging in this crime and you're facilitating it, we're coming after you. and because it's just kind of getting out of hand. So, they've asked us to kind of work together and put these cases together. So, we can hold the adults responsible that are encouraging these kids that are com kind of committing these violent crimes and driving drunk and high and high-speed chases and things of that nature. And certainly Ogden City has a little bit more of it than we do here, but it spills over into our neck of the woods all the time. So, so we're trying to do what we can proactively try to keep not just Riverdale safe, but all of Weber County.

So, super. Thanks, Chief. Thanks for all you guys do. Like I think all of us read that and we're just like, man, I'm completely naive out in my little neighborhood, you know, that this is going on. So yeah, thank you. We have drawers full of warrants back there. Really?

Yeah. When I first started here, our baift service would they they had their baift team that worked here, but they also had a team that went out and served a lot of those. Those are harder and harder to find. and we can't find people who do that anymore cuz it's it's a tough job, you know, and that's why these guys don't have a lot of time for it. But unless they serve them, um the last contract we signed with our baiff service was just for the court. They wouldn't do the warrants anymore. So, they pretty much sit in that drawer unless they catch them. Now, the state has made an adjustment over the last few years where we can on the failures to pay, we can submit them to the state and they'll take them through taxes and different things. So that's been nice because we recover a lot of those and once we get the money, we don't really care and we'll dismiss them a lot of times. But if it's not a failure to pay, it's going to stay out there until these guys pick them up, which sometimes can be good, too, because like Chief Warren was saying, it gives them a reason to pull them over besides just a little traffic offense or something. So, um, yeah, but it comes down to money. It's it's expensive to pay somebody to go out and do that.

Okay, any questions? All right, thanks you guys. Let's move on to the consent items. Number one, consideration to approve the meeting minutes from the November 18th, 2025 council work session and council meeting. Uh any changes or corrections to those meeting minutes? Seeing none, we would need a motion to approve uh that moved. We have a motion to to uh approve consent item number one. Uh do we have a second? Second. Motion and a second. Any discussion on that motion? All in favor say yes. Yes. Yes. Any opposed? All right. You keeping up with the Shaylee? Yes, sir.

Okay, good. We'll move on to number two. Consideration to approve the 2026 city council meeting schedule. Mr. Brooks, do you have anything on this one? Uh, nothing new other than we're required to do this every year, part of our public notice that we have to give and so it's one we do every December. We will be starting our meetings at 6 PM. Uh, Councelor Hansen, just so you know, um, going forward. And so, uh, any questions? Why are you picking on her? Well, she wasn't here. I'm just kidding. Yeah. Yeah. That'll be good until No, that'll be good for you. No, she didn't hear the first discussion. Um, okay. Uh, any questions or comments on that? Council Richtor, November 3rd, election day.

It wouldn't be next year, is it? Uh, yeah, that's an even year. Maybe we will adjust it, set it back. I know we typically move it. But I'm just wondering if it appropriate we address it now or or if it's okay. I'm I'm okay either way. I just Yeah, let's just take it off this. Oh, it is. I I mean I'd just leave it on there because that's how we've noticed it. If we need to change it, we always can. So, but we give the public notice on this. So, okay. Or we can always cancel it, too. That's another option, too. So, all right. Um, any other questions or comments? Seeing none, we would need a motion to approve consent item number two. Council Arnold move to approve the 2026 city council meeting schedule as stated within the packet. We have a motion. Do we have a second?

Second. Motion and a second. Any discussion on that motion. Uh all in favor say yes. Yes. Any opposed? Okay. That passes unanimously. The third one is consideration to appoint Braden Mitchell to the Central Weber Sewer Improvement Board. Uh this happens every four years. I've enjoyed serving on there and would appreciate being appointed again. Any questions? Councelor Stevens. Okay. You're on a number of boards. Aren't Aren't you on a I'm Yeah, I'm on the CTC um key leader board and wake is wake. Yeah. And do all those require the same?

No, I don't think so. I think just as sewer board does. Does mosquito abatement require us to reappoint you? Yes. And and and that's why if if you want someone else, that's fine. But my appointment is done from from four years ago and you know if you I'm happy to do it or somebody else that's fine and I don't know if you need to be reappointed. This one had to be reappointed. Oh um yeah they gave me a letter said we need you reappointed. Oh okay. Yeah. I they just told me your appointment from from four years ago is expire. Okay. It doesn't expire. It it will expire for me because I was appointed four years ago.

Okay. And so, but I don't recall this happening in the meeting. You just blessed it off. No, I think we did mosquito bait. Yeah, actually, too. Yeah, I think we did. Yeah. Okay. And then I stand corrected. Yeah. So, think about it. Well, this there's not a meeting next month, but so for February. Okay. Also, with them saying that, um, don't we have to wait till next year till you're actually as the mayor in the new term? No. No. In fact, they gave me a letter that has to be appointed this year. Um, yeah. Because it doesn't have Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Couldn't be anybody. Yeah. Okay. Any other questions? Interesting. Okay. All right. We need a motion.

Council Arnold. Move to approve the appointment of Braden Mitchell to the Central Weber Sewer Improvement Board. Okay. We have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. Motion and a second. Any discussion on that motion? All in favor say yes. Yes. Any opposed? All right, that passes unanimously. Thank you. We'll move on to action items number one, consideration of ordinance 988, adoption adopting the Riverdale City data privacy plan policy. Miss Brooks,

thank you, mayor. Um, I won't go into a whole lot more detail than what I did in the previous meeting. Annie knows about this, so this is not anything new to her. Um, this is a mandate from the state. all any state entity whether it's counties, cities, whatever, uh will now be required to implement a data uh privacy policy. Um we didn't have to go to this extent, but I just thought it's kind of stupid if we're jumping through all these hoops. The reason why they're doing this is cuz they were getting a lot of push back from at least cities I know of. A lot of the conferences I was in, I'm sure the counties are the same way. Nobody got it done when they told them to do it the first time. And so, uh, they keep resetting the deadlines and all that kind of stuff, but we had to do something before the end of this year. And so, when Michelle and I sat down and got looking at this and we found a city who had passed one and the state had signed off on it, we thought, well, let's just go the same route. It's going to be the same thing. So, um, we tweaked it to meet our needs. And so, this is it. I I would guess we'll tweak this along the way, but I think it's a good start if nothing else. rather than going through all the little short hoops and stuff, we just cut it all out and this is our ordinance. This is where we were going to get at the end anyway. So, what this does is just obligates the city to protect privacy and you know, we're pretty good at that anyway. Um, but this is just for everybody. There's a lot of cities surprisingly who have nothing in place. And so like when people come in and do those first amendment audits and stuff, those can be a little bit scary when you have no privacy issues or rules in place and whatever it is. I mean, it's it's the right thing to do, especially in the electronic world that we live in. We got to be more careful and mindful of all the things that we do and we have access to a lot of information on people and so we've got to protect that and be careful with it. So that's what this does. Any questions on it? Um, in answering to your question, Mike, that you brought up in a premeating, the number 988 on the

agenda is incorrect. The one that's on the actual ordinance is correct. 998.

Any other questions, council? Yeah, a couple of questions. So, so first, um, I I just would be interested in your assessment of how complete we are in the city as far as designating or or classifying documents, protected, controlled, um, those types of things.

On on most hard records, we're good at that. Our our statute, we've we've tried to stay up on that. It's under the grandma statute, and we basically have just referred back to the state statute. So if the state declares that it should be in this particular category, then we declare it automatically rather than coming in and re rechanging that the whole time. We did that a few years ago. So in that regards, we're pretty solid. And even in our electronic stuff, you know, Cody and and Angel have really been working as hard, especially this last year because they knew this was coming. And so a lot of those things that we had to imple implement, getting it onto our website and all that kind of stuff are already, if they're not in place, are really close. So we're in pretty good shape overall.

Good. That's a good segway because that would be my next question is it seems like there's some added compliance here for for the websites. Yeah, especially on the electronics. That's the biggest thing because it's new to a lot of people and there's things we deal with now that we didn't used to deal with. So, this is all new and we're in good shape to implement those now without any problem. Yeah, we're in pretty good shape. So,

and and I think the last thing I had uh I I am somewhat concerned about section 15 on there which talks about some um the the requirements um especially for council records and things like that where it where it seemed to indicate some additional barriers over and above what what state law would normally require under grandma. In other words, I think it talked about uh city attorney consent and things like that in order to to grant access to that. And that seems like a barrier higher than what grandma would normally require.

I don't I don't think it's a whole lot higher. I think it's really close to the same. I mean, and that's what a lot of people don't understand is is a lot of things are accessible. If if it if you create a record, the state says that record is available to the public unless you state otherwise and you have to give a reason why. And so that's how the whole ordinance is. And so, uh, when I caution you guys, you know, about using your phone and texting people and stuff like that, uh, that caut caution, I mean, we used to talk about it more, ah, that's never going to happen. Now it's happening. And so, be careful when you're using your phones or you're sending texts and stuff like that because it's a record and and you know, the last thing I want to do is go through your phone looking for messages that I got to disclose in a records request. So, um, I don't think it's anything new. It's it's always been there. It's just we're seeing it more and more. And as we use our phones more and our computers and our texts and all that kind of stuff, it's just become way more common.

So, I'm absolutely comfortable with us saying that uh that these records are going to be governed under grandma and the associated statute. Um and that as a council, we would have an obligation to maintain that privacy strictly. Um I but I do have some concerns about saying things like uh uh these detailed records shall not be accessible without documented justification and consensus of the city attorney. That seems over and above. Well, I think it's just because the attorney's got to make that judgment. It's just something that's open or it's not. And some things could be and some and they might not be. If the if the record's properly classified, then it's it's handled appropriately under under grandma. We don't need an additional consensus.

That that's true. It's just the attorney is going to try and keep us out of court if we didn't give it up or did give it up when we shouldn't have the other way. That's the whole reason why we would have the attorney look at it. Okay. I'm I'm still not comfortable with that language. Yeah. So, let's just be a little more um

my suggestion and again it's just a suggestion here would be to simply on on section 15 I' I'd strike section 15 altogether and just say that something more to the effect that uh um these are these are governed by uh government records management act and and that elected official city council is it's incumbent upon them to uh to maintain strict confidentiality in accordance with with state statute something along those lines and not have additional language I don't I don't have a problem with that and we can play with that. What I would suggest is that we just leave that part. If you want that stricken, let's just strike that section of it and then we can still bring that back. Like I said, I just had to do something. So, even if we cut that section out, I'm I'm still fine with that. I don't care. Um, and I'd be comfortable with that. We can we can tweak it a little bit more.

Thank you. Okay. Any other questions or comments? Councilor Richtor, do you want to make do you want to make the motion and you can have them uh strike or remove that section? Let's do that. So, uh I would move to approve ordinance 9 998. Um that's different than what's in the uh in the agenda. So, ordinance 998 uh with the exception of of striking section 15 and move to approve. Okay, have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. Motion and a second. Any discussion on that motion? Shaye, will you please pull the council? Council member Hansen, yes.

Council member Richtor, yes. Council member Stevens, yes. Council member Arnold, yes. All right, great. That passes unanimously and we'll just have uh have you bring that back and Yep, we'll bring it back. Have that little bit of an internal records access on that.

Um okay, moving on to upcoming events. We already discussed these. They're all all there on the agenda for you. Uh, and we'll move down to comments. Any comments from the city city council for this meeting? Seeing none, we'll move on to city staff. Any comments from the city staff? Uh, the only thing I might talk about just briefly, um, and it kind of goes back into the upcoming events, not that you guys are part of this, but uh, a couple years ago here at the city, rather than us exchange gifts, we decided to go a different route and now we kind of consolidate that and try to help out a family and stuff. Um, we got a family came from through the police department with some of their involvement with the family that they gave to us. And um, it's just kind of touching, you know, when these guys talk about the good people that work here. If you go up in our break room right now and take a look at that room, what this family is going to receive tomorrow, you'll be shocked. And we're going to Santa Claus is going to need a couple of trucks, just so you know. So, it'll be it'll be kind of cool. But it's just neat to see how our people here in this building gel together and and with our police department stuff and these little kids are going to be really blessed. So, uh, my hats off to them, too. They they did a good job. So, it's pretty cool. It'll be fun.

Thanks, Council Arnold.

One comment with that. Um, so we've done suppress Santa for a couple. Um, we have a family in our ward that they're the elderly and so all of their kids and all of their kids put together a Christmas and it it's insane and it's it's like we got them to actually dice or kind of cut the pizza a little bit. I don't I don't know what's up there for a family, but you know, it gets like I'm not throwing cold water on anything here, but the it it's like I mean we we took the Christmas over there last year and and it was horrible just I mean it was wonderful for the family, but it was obscene just how much stuff this one family got. and you know it's like what's going on next year, things like that. So, I mean, I would I would put it out there to like think about it, not even as a council. I mean, it's just like when you you go in and Santa dumps all this stuff on him and it's just it's crazy wonderful. And then what about the next year and the next year and the other family next door? And I'm I'm not questioning anybody's judgment or anything like that. So

can I add something? So uh great comment just to kind of expand on what Steve was talking about. So kind of our mission this year is we've really focused on victims of crime for the families we're going to help. And so these guys are going to be helping one of our victims of a homicide that recently happened uh through the city staff. And then you know we've got multiple ranging from sex offense, sex victims, homicides. I mean you it's the worst of the worst of the worst. Some of these families you're familiar with too. We do shop with a cop and different things. And it's our mission and has been with some of these victims of serious crime to try to do something for them for Christmas every year. so they don't feel forgotten that we can keep that bridge with them. Matter of fact, we just delivered to a family just just before we came here. And uh it's part of why I was really humbled to be here because we have a great city. We got great staff and uh they all do amazing things and put the community for themselves. And uh anyways, Shaye, I I'll I'll she organized all the stuff in the police department, so I'll recognize her. She did a lot of good work on getting all this stuff together. And tomorrow is going to be a good special day. We're going to try to get as many of the city employees as we can in police cars and deliver. And and I think this is I hope a tradition we can carry on at least with these families that really need it every year. So at least as long as I'm here.

So there's an S on there when you say families. Yes. Yeah. That's I withdraw. I withdraw. Oh my god. They've got the one. They've got a family and we but we probably got How many families was it? We got four.

We're doing four. And uh we did this through our association. Um some from the police department. They did it from contributions from all the city staff. They they've pulled together and divided and conquered their own funds, which is pretty amazing. Um we did get a really good uh donation. They'll probably kill me if I said their name in here to our association so we can do a little bit more this year, but it's something we want to continue doing and we've done in the past. But hats off to to these guys for they come up with the idea as far as wanting us to give them a name and actually they kind of provide me with the name. I was like that'd be awesome. So we want to continue this on every every year with these families that really need it so they know we haven't forgotten them. So anyways,

councelor Stephen over in the uh community center oh a couple weeks ago there was a up on the the the glass it's like an angel tree stickers where you take an ornament and you know a child 8 to 10 whatever there was. Is is that is that separate to the community center um to to this one or that was really good. This is just our building. So, um, I think Rich has got something separate going on, too. So, Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. I think it's a it's a great thing to see all the different things that not just the employees of Riverdale City, but people do during the holidays to try to help people out. And hats off to all the employees here. And I think we think this way because of the culture of the city. You know, it's the citizens that we represent that love us. I mean, I can't tell you all the stuff that we get from the residents on Christmas and Thanksgiving.

And then when we go to Christmas parties for the city officials and the gratitude we feel from you guys and when you pray for us, it just means a lot. So, we got a good place here, a lot of good hearts. And so, hats off to these guys. It'll be it'll be in it'll be it'll be cool a cool experience. So, thanks. Well, not to I'll I'll toot Casey's horn, too, cuz there's there's somebody that I've been dealing with that he deals with that was involved in a homicide and he's always reached out to her. It's pretty cool. They were with me this weekend. So,

yeah, we do have awesome employees, awesome city. And I we were looking for water upstairs and we saw all those gifts. I was like, "What is all this Shaye?" So, she told me so. And I you guys are eating the or drinking the water that's for the Christmas gifts. No, we didn't find any water. Michelle Maronei took all the water with her, too, when she went. So, um but uh No. And it sounds like you've picked a a very um deserving family. Yeah. And uh and it is going to be awesome. So, anyway, I'll just end with that. And uh we need a motion to adjurnn. So, moved. Motion. Second. And a second. All in favor say yes. Yes. We are adjourned.