City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome everybody. I'm going to call the Moab City Council meeting to order on April 14, 2026 at 5:32 p.m. And Caitlyn, would you lead us in the pledge? I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you.

Um I will um I'm going to ask uh that we have a motion right off the bat to amend the agenda. We are going to move item 6.2 which is the public hearing and consideration of adopting a tenative budget for 2627 till after item 6.8 and 6.9. Those three items are public hearings that are part of the tenative budget. So we thought it'd probably be better to approve the tenative budget after we approve those two those three items. So if I could have a motion to move item 6.2 2 and 6.3 uh to be considered after 6.8 and 6.9.

A motion to move items 6.2 and 6.3 for consideration after 6.8 and 6.9. Thanks, Miles. And do I have a second? Second by Colin. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes 50. Thank you. All right. And our first item is the completion of our budget workshop. And tonight we are going to review the parks and recreation budget and uh the community contrib. Sorry. Sorry. All right. Who did that? It's my computer. Did I like call the meeting to order too soon? Oh, okay. Sorry.

Me, too. You're good. Okay. Um so anyway, budget workshop is first uh review of the parks and w community contributions and vehicle budgets and then we feel there's probably going to be a bigger discussion on the uh capital improvement plan. So we're going to do that last. So Michael, starting up with you. Okay. So we'll ask Pat and Danny to come up and we'll start with recreation. Then we'll do community contributions right after that. vehicles and CIP, right? Everyone, I'm going to share my screen really quickly here.

This one's more fun. You're gonna want to be a little guy. Yep. Get the widget out of there. I think you know how to use a computer until you have to do it in front of other people. Always right there.

All righty. Thank you. Um okay. Yeah. Thank you, Council Mayor Michael. Um it's a PRT budget for fiscal year 2627. Um pretty straightforward. Should be pretty short and sweet, but I'll, you know, I'm obviously here for questions at the end. So, here's some historicals. Um, the reason for the 2025 um increase there is that that budget still had the parks ML under it. Um, so you can see a slight increase requested, 7% overall from last year. Danny,

so this is just a reminder sheet for salaries and benefits. What our expectations were 7% for salaries, 10 for benefits. That includes the 28% cola. Yes, that's what we're proposing. Proposing. Yeah, what we're proposing. Um, so just keep that in mind as we go through these next couple slides that have the percentages in them.

So salaries went up 6.45%. So right is in line as expected. Um, as far as that salaries did go up quite a bit and that was due to some turnover and changes in employee benefit status. Just to give a little bit more on this one, when we have in in this specific instance, just you guys can kind of see how big it can get really quick, we had someone who leave that was on single insurance and when we replaced that position, the position that was coming in came in as a family. So, there's a big gap between single and family when it comes to cost for benefits. So, when you see big changes like that, that's usually the case. And that's in a two two full-time position department. So that seems that's even more inflated that number.

Okay. So some notable changes for sports this year. We we moved the utility cost um back to parks that was couched under Center Street Gym. So that 14,000 is moving out of that budget. And then we are requesting 30,000 for some necessary upkeep and maintenance, some deferred maintenance of that building. That was obviously built in 1965. That's um that's long overdue. Um, and so you can kind of see the numbers there. And that's that's one of the large that 30,000 would cover painting um on the interior of the building and resurfacing. Good. So with the arts here, we're at 10.76. So it's definitely above the expected 7%. We did have a couple offcycle salary adjustments during the year for this department. And then benefits again are slightly above and it's tied to those salary adjustments. Okay. In the arts department, that's pretty much status quo. We did have a few new things. Um the subscription line, looking at getting some grant tracking software, reporting software to help them with um some of the wrap tax stuff. Um as well as some of the other grants that they manage there and that division. Um and then with just some housekeeping items, we move the wrap tax community contribution from this into the wrap tax fund. So small change there. And then the aquatic center is basically right on track with what we expected. Slightly below in salaries and slightly above and benefits due to some benefit status changes. So they're right where they need to be.

Okay. And then in aquatics um you know this past year we we brought the Wibbit Wednesdays back which were really popular attraction. um we have an interest in increasing that um offering by purchasing some new modules and expanding that. Um so just wanted to highlight something that's really visible and and um popular within the community there and kind of an opportunity. So is aquatics something else to mention in aquatics that we know we're excited about the job that everybody's done you know internally the management um we have been able to handle a lot of kind of larger deferred maintenance projects in house this this past six months or so and that's been a really positive change um you know from a budget standpoint. Um but we still have a lot of big ticket items coming down the pipeline. Um, so overall the 23 funds shown a slight overall increase over 2026. A lot of that, um, like Danny had touched on is due to some changes in status for for some of those full-time employees. Um, other than that, a lot of the bigger projects are going to be CIP type stuff and wrap. So, any questions? Um yeah, I was going to ask if the the maintenance for the um center street gym are those things that could be paid out of the wrap tax. They potentially could. I think we've got we we actually have a budget of $250,000 for HVAC for the Center Street Gym. We are using wrap tax at this point to pay for the design of the center street ballpark and for the $450,000 for the um um replacement of the water feature at the pool.

Okay. So, I think those those are probably things that people will look at more that they'll see and experience more than the HVAC potentially or painting the floor at the gym. But definitely we could use it. I don't think there's a necessity at this point. Okay, that's I guess that was my next question. If there's a necessity to fund it from that source, if there's not, it's great. Okay. Yeah, I guess my related clarifying question is whether this that maintenance is coming out of your budget or out of CIP. I think I think initially we were looking at from from operations budget, but that's that's

the 30,000 for the floor is maintenance. So, it's coming from CIP the I mean um operations the 250,000 for the HBAC is an upgrade. So, that'll be CIP. Okay. I guess maybe I missed that. Where where is that in in parks budget near your floor paint? Yeah. Oh, it should be in the center street gym professional and technical. Okay, that is the Okay, that was that's that 30 Yeah, because that's a contracted job.

Okay. Yeah, that was going to be one of my questions was the 30,000 contactable. I guess I'm wondering if that's the right classification for it. Um, does that make sense? And then also just noticing um it looks like but wanting to clarify all of the like smaller programs like soccer, summer camp, all of those have been combined into one.

Yeah. So we had an interest in so as as the program grew over the years, we kept adding programs and activities and they got their own budget. They got their own GL account and now we're sort of consolidating. So for instance, spring soccer or youth soccer had three different GL's, one for spring, one for fall, one for winter essentially, indoor soccer. And so we wanted to just get that all under one just just for housekeeping purposes and to streamline things because it is all truly youth soccer. But I think there's just an interest in now consolidating so it's clearer and easier to to manage those gs.

The other thing we're looking at doing also is instead of hiring for each season, what we'd like to do is hire just officials. Right now we'll hire for like an umpire that then will go to a referee, you know, and kind of bounce around. And so we're going to try to do just like officials that can work multiple different season and keep them on as part time throughout the year. And so that made a lot more sense having it all in one line item also. Then we're looking at, you know, recre two positions essentially, recreation officials and then recreation support staff instead of transitioning from one job code to the next from season to season because we do have a lot of crossover and people who essentially work year round but then are having to transition to a different to being paid for a different year.

Any other questions? So Pat, I'm seeing uh pretty somewhat significant increases in revenues and it looks like it's coming from fees, but I'm not seeing changes in the the master fee schedule. What what's informing that? Or is that are we looking at an increase in visitation? Are we looking at uh I mean what are the other So fees increase? Visitation did increase. Um our fees have not at the aquatic center um memberships and and daily

entrance fees. Um but visitation did we pulled those numbers um by I think 40,000. Don't quote me on that. I'll have to pull those. I have that report in front of me. But um but also just uh enrollment in our programs is steadily sort of increasing in the youth programs as well. So that I think it's just that that accounts for for probably what you're seeing just steady across the board increases most likely. And we also expect the pool to be very popular this year. Yeah. One point. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's going to be hot and dry. And when when is that new the new water feature? There's no Ken's Lake either. That's true. That that that won't be seen this summer. Well,

that's correct. Yeah. So, actually our maintenance crews have been working really hard to refurbish the fiberglass rock. Okay. And if you have a chance to go by, it's looking really good. So, we're able to in-house get that fixed up for one more year. Um, so they did an excellent job there. And then we're looking at as soon as we close in October, um starting to get the process rolling with with Michael said that 450,000 to reline the outdoor leisure pool and put in the new water feature. That's more sustainable and uh isn't it became a bigger project because of the liner. We have to redo the entire liner for that outdoor pool. Got it. Thank you.

Do you expect any disruption in use of the outdoor pool? No, we we're we're scheduling it so that we limit or eliminate interruptions in service. So, we're looking at October once we actually close the outdoor pool. Got it. Mobilizing crews as quickly as we can so that the work will be done um and not cause an interruption and reopening for the next season. Oh, great. Good. Any other questions? Excuse me. All right. I think that's it. Thanks, Patrick and Danny. Appreciate it. All right. And I think Michael, you're gonna do the rest. I am.

Okay. All right. So, I'll do community contributions first. This was missed in the general fund. It's just a couple of items that should go really quick and then we'll jump into CIP. And uh I've highlighted I split everything up into sections in CIP um and highlighted one project from each section, but we can talk about any anything on there and I'd be happy to answer any questions on those. Okay, so this is the community contributions. This this budget doesn't have any personnel and basically it's exactly the same as it was last year. So just uh looking at keeping those contributions exactly the same as they were the previous year. I do want to note that uh we have established contracts with all of these service providers and they are all providing services that are in line with city council goals and policies. On the bottom, you might notice the Grand County contribution 74, that's July 4th, and that's the uh that's contribution for fireworks. And the five above that, those are our our typical community contributions. And just for the public, those groups provide services that the city of Moab um believes in, city council believes in, and wants to see continue within the community, but we do not provide them ourselves. So, every one of those provides a good good service uh to our community and we're supporting them.

Any questions on that? Have we have we heard from the county like like as far as like a July 4th like is there whether it's going to be a drone show or a fire? Well, just like what they're like, I guess still have the parade and the event out at the OA. Yeah. Okay. I mean, I think that's like a feature now. the impression I'm getting so popular. Okay. Yeah. I guess um my questions on this obviously contracts being established is great. Um I I think we we've talked a couple times about creating a policy on this. Yeah.

Um so I think contracts is was a piece of that. I think also I've I've long wondered why it is these amounts for different organizations. Um and so I think one of my questions is coming back again to the policy of deciding how we're allocating these and why. Um I think either between this or within the housing budget which we can talk about later when gets tensive budget but would also like to advocate for um council providing $10,000 to the um housing task force as well which I think is a conversation that would come with that presentation. But since we're talking about the budget we're maybe going to present today or this week um is something else I'd like to advocate for. Um, we definitely want to continue supporting these. So, continuing the same, but that is something that I'll bring up again is figuring out policy for that.

Yeah, I think it'd be a good idea to to actually publish the list of policies, get those in front of council, and have you prioritize those because we've got a lot, right? and uh and it would it would actually help book the flow, help me know which ones to get after first and everything. So, I'm glad you brought it up. Yeah, this is one that we've kind of asked for since we started doing this. So, I would say this is priority just for clarifications for others that want to feel like they need to ask for example the housing contribution. We need to make clear exactly what the purpose of this sure contribution is. Oh,

okay. Any other questions? All right, moving right along. Um, I just want to give an overview of the CIB CIP, sorry. Uh, CIP budget and what it looks like. We have the general CIP, which is Did you do vehicles?

I'm going to do that in here. Yes. Um, so we have general CIP, which is all of the U projects that are roads, things like that. And then we also we'll we'll put different projects into there that might be water and sewer as well, but they're they actually are first and foremost a road project or something like that. So there's money that goes from water, sewer, storm water into the general a lot of times for those projects. They have water, sewer, storm water. The vehicle is included in here. It's not technically a capital budget, but it is capital. They are capital expenses. Cars are and vehicles are considered capital expenses. And I'm not going to basically the budget is going down this year. The the vehicle budget is last year was up a little bit. I think we're going to spend right up to that $450,000. I'm talking about this year, sorry, because it's the first year that it it existed. Um the actual is at 290 right now. Um the most of the money from in this budget goes to pay leases. So those are those are paid yearly and they're due different times, things like that. And then some of the money from the vehicle budget is for upfitting. So last year or this year that we're in now, we had several new uh police cars that were upfitted and there was quite a quite a big expense for that. And next year we we're not going to see quite as big of an expense, but we are still going to have all of the lease payments that we have this year and we will be switching out a few vehicles as well. One of the resources that comes into the vehicle fund is um is money from the vehicles that we sell as well. Now, there's also another factor here that's a resource that I'm not really ready to talk about yet, but there there um there is some other resources that could be coming to the city that could affect the the

vehicle budget as well. And so, I'll be bringing those up at the at the next meeting and and seeing how those shake out. Uh debt service is the other one I grouped into this. Debt service is where we pay for all the bonds. Um, there are other areas. This isn't the total amount of bonds that we pay, but uh I think water and sewer are paying some out of their own funds. Is that right? Oh, it's okay. Water and sewer are paying some out of their own funds for their bonds. Um, debt service. This is these are things like Cane Creek, uh, stuff like that. And then the housing fund, I believe, was in here as well, which is the Walnut Lane. And that's why you see a decrease in the amount that we're budgeting in the debt service because we paid off Walnut Lane. So, I just wanted to quickly show just an overview of what all the budgets were and then get down into a discussion on each one of these. And I split these up, how they're split up in the budget. So, first we'll talk about streets. uh streets is under the general CIP and we'll continue to do the sidewalk project that it's already been budgeted for. So, a lot of this is a rollover going forward, but we've also added, I believe, a $200,000 amount to continue sidewalks uh smaller portions of sidewalks throughout the city. And Levi's been working with engineering on getting some different contracting options out there. So, we have some smaller contractors who can do smaller jobs, which means smaller bonds and and maybe get a few smaller projects done here and there quicker. So, that'll continue. 100 West is a design only. That would be one of our projects that we're trying to move forward for shovel ready. Uh that would be a a larger project. When it comes down to construction, the design will

include all subsurface utilities as well. So, we will be looking at that, which means uh water and sewer and storm water are also paying into this. The one that I wanted to focus on for a second is the bridge improvements. Now, that it's at $10 million right now. I think we've jumped from 10 to 12 million as far as the budget for this goes. A lot of this budget is contingent upon money coming in from um resources from the federal government and potential other grant sources that could come from state and things like that. Uh technically at this moment or physically at this moment we do not have the resources to cover that entire bridge by itself. um even splitting it up from storm water streets and and the general fund, there's not enough to cover the entire bridge right now. So, the design will continue on that and we are still um working with our uh consultants and with Senator Curtis's office and uh Congressman Kennedy's office trying to uh get resources to come in to help pay for this bridge. So, we'll keep it in the CIP. That's my proposal anyways. keep it in the CIP if it comes in or at least to show if congressmen or the senator want to see our budget and see that we're serious about this project, they'll at least see that it's in here. Um and then uh moving on, uh 100 North is a micro seal. That's just finishing the the work that we had been doing with uh downtown dispersed parking and then filling in sidewalks that are not filled in on 100 North. That's something that could be done in the coming fiscal year. 400 East as a design project, another large project that would be hopefully get ready for shovel ready so we can look for resources for that or at least put the money together to to get that project done in a in a future year. And

then the asphalt overlay project is similar to what we did with uh Mil Creek and uh we had done a lot of work underground on Mil Creek and it was we were going to do actually I think actually never mind we did do a um chip seal and then we went back and did a a mill and fill and this is that's something that this money could be used for. I'm not proposing today what street that is. That's something that we would um be looking at with uh public works and utilities because we wherever we do one of these projects, we want to make sure that it's in a place where we're not going to have to dig up the road again for water and sewer right away. So, uh I put some money in there as kind of an earmark so we can do some major maintenance on a street. It just hasn't been identified which street yet. Any questions on this section?

Um I had a question. I know that and might be a question for Levi or what not, but seems like there's a lot of places in in town where they did like water work, you know, or something where there's um, you know, like 4 foot by 4 foot chunks of asphalt that just have dirt in them and stuff. Would that be a CIP project to go in and put asphalt in those or would that just be kind of a general coming out of maintenance to do that? because it's something that I know that like Mountain View people are kind of talked about that and I know there's some around town that need to be done that I'm wondering if that's Yeah. So,

so I'll just preface this with there is one situation I know of in town where it's a developer's responsibility to fix a problem and uh we are actually withholding CFO on that until they do fix that problem because it is a it is a street uh cut where it wasn't matched appropriately, right? Um, so, so that's one of them, but the other ones I asked Levi to come up because my question is some of those we can do in house. Is that right? So, can you re reiterate your question, please?

Yeah. I don't know if you like I just I've noticed and like people in Mountain View have kind of commented there's a few sections where there's like 4 foot by 4 foot section of asphalt that's missing where like it looks like maybe like a a water valve was replaced or or some under underground was taken care of or sew or whatever. and some of them have been around for a while and I'm just wondering if there's um a plan to fix those and if the plan needs to be part of the CIP to go in and um and patch those over. But I guess if if a lot of those are um property owners responsibility, you know, um then maybe that's not the case that it's not our responsibility to fix.

Yeah, thanks for the clarification. There's a couple of them that are in the responsibility of developers that have made made improvements to to property around town. Um there is a handful that are from uh numerous repairs whether it's it's a utility outside of our our uh responsibility or it's water and sewer and uh we have a plan to get to those um soon actually. We we went through some growing pains in that department and uh we're getting personnel trained up on it and it the smaller ones 10 by 12 uh 15 by 15 those we they're easily done in house

so don't they don't need budgeted okay that that was my question they would be in the the roads fund yeah okay yep it'll come out of the m come out of the maintenance class even now some of those are paid for by utilities as well No. No. Okay. No, that hasn't that traditionally hasn't been done that way first of all. So, roads pays for the patches after utility um repairs. Yes. Okay. It's all the city. So, so this 672 special project contract sidewalks, that's part of our sidewalk plan. That is that's just active transportation.

That's just a specific for our sidewalk. Um and and what you're talking about is just part of your normal work, the small maintenance and repairs. Yeah. And we do have a larger intersection or a larger patch at an intersection Dogwood and Mountain View. Yeah.

It was destroyed in the storm uh last year and uh one of the storms. Um we're waiting for a quote for that. We had one last year, but it's it it doesn't qualify anymore. Um so we're waiting for an updated quote. um and it surpasses what we budgeted for. So um it's going to be something either we'll do in housing patches or smaller amounts or um we'll revise the budget. But to get to get to the the bottom of this though is we should have the resources to do those fixes. Okay. Yeah. Yes. And just to clarify that's a hot patch that we can do in house or that's a cold patch?

Cold patch. We don't have the equipment to do a hot patch. We do we do pay um Lrand Johnson to do some of our larger ones even though they're small. We did one on Walker recently. Yep. And um and turned out well just because cold patches don't fully seal and are generally a shorter lifespan than a hot patch. They should be Yep. Yeah. It also sounds like some of the the uh well folks the contractors able to do hot patches are protective of that resource in town. Yeah, don't want to share that that ability with the city.

That is Yeah, that is correct. We can um we're able to get cold asphalt in small quantities. Um we're not able to get large quantities in resale, but we also don't have the layown lay down equipment to to do hot touch. Yep. Just clarify. Yeah. Anything else on the CIP? Yeah. So on on 672 like you brought up I thought you said that like um we budgeted 200,000 for sidewalks for next year more. Let me let me take a look at 200 more from from Okay. So okay that that makes sense. That's

so we're rolling over a big portion of the project that you approved this year because they won't finish the entire project this year. We we know that. So, we're rolling over 300,000 or so and and the rest of it is is new sidewalks, but of that 300,000 it's already allocated. It's allocated into a project. Yeah. Okay. Perfect. Anything else? Right.

Okay. Next. We got quite a few to go through here. So, um I won't I'll I'll kind of stick to just the the high level one and then if you have questions, I'd be happy to answer any questions on any of the other ones. But, Senator St. gym. Um, I brought that up a little bit earlier. That's the HVAC. That's $250,000. This is something that, as far as from what I understand, they've been waiting on for a long time. There's been a lot of band-aid fixes, and this just needs to get get fixed. So, that's budgeted. And in this one, um, the one above it, municipal general uh, improvements. There's a lot of things that go into that one. There's the the elevator. There's some some remodeling uh within city hall. There's replacing these chairs in here and things like that. There's quite a few there. I think there's six categories. And um but uh that's that's what that is. And any any questions on these? What's bike structure?

Bike structure is uh is a project from this year. It might actually not need to go into next year. I think it's just the electric vehicle. Yeah, the so for next year it's just the electric vehicle charging. Um so the vehicle is running on like it's plugging into the wall right now. So we're going to get it a better charger um and install here which requires electrical upgrade. So we have an electric vehicle for parks and what she's saying is it plugs into the wall right now in the building. This would actually provide a a electric vehicle service area for that and it can be expanded eventually. it would be available,

right? It'll be available to other vehicles as well. The uh bike structure is actually inhouse and will be installed soon and that's going to be uh where did that's on the side of the building here. It would be in the gallery and they're installing it at the end of this month. Yeah. Okay. Would have been good today actually. So, um, because this is an established line item, GL, it still says bike structure, but it it's actually just the EVSSE at this point. And what's the dark sky rollover?

Uh, I believe that that is just um so it would be like any lights that are left on any of the city buildings that are not at this point. I don't expect it to be that high, but it would cover anything

putting getting us into compliance. So, I I was about to say I think that is exactly what Alexi is going to say that is. So, um any other questions on that? The ball field is I think pretty self-explanatory. We council just approved that recently and it's a little bit more than the contract amount and that that's because um there is a $25,000 amount in there for things that just have to be improved like the drinking fountain and a couple of other things. And by the way, the drinking fountain does work and it has only ever been down for about a week, I think. But it if you've ever seen it, it's just a pipe sticking out of the ground. So, um there's some work that needs to be done on that. And then the the rest of it is just in case um any other fixes need to be done that just have to be done before the construction gets done in order to keep the field open fields open. Okay. All right. Next, we have parks. Um the the big one in here is not simply just a parks project, but it has to fit somewhere. Um the Main Street to 500 West corridor on Mil Creek is an area that is being redesigned right now to address storm water, active transportation, and parks. So it fits in all of those categories. The uh the design has been looking at kind of concepts to this point. And we do have some concepts that we are going to be sharing with the public soon at a at an open house and we've been talking to the land owners down in the area about. But the next step in that process will be designing the construction that needs to take place down there. And again, it's not just um a park, it's a storm water facility and it's also an active transportation facility with trails and

things like that. So that uh that money that you see there would be for the design again trying to get a shovel ready project ready so that we can um be ready to uh look for the resources to to do a lot of these projects in the coming years. Um you have Lions Park River Access. Has that grant been awarded already? It has. Uh in fact we've had this grant for a couple years. three years I think.

But this is a group. This is a this is not just the city's project. This is several partners are involved in this. This is a grant that they're trying to get away with it. Yeah. It's hard to pick up. Yeah.

Yeah, that makes sense. Um, it's a So, it's a $200,000 grant that we have with the Division of Outdoor Recreation. Um, and it is sort of a offshoot of the planning that went into the the boat ramp that's there now in the county. Um, and so it's just a scoping study to look at non-motorized access through the side of Lions Park that's managed by the city currently, but it will involve a lot of partners because it's touching the river, right? Um, one thing that we talked about this winter was increasing um the power or running power over to the bridge. Is that it could be part of

anything? Yeah, we we haven't even started it yet. So, that could be something that we could include in the information that we would like them to gather as part of the planning. Okay. Yeah, because I think like we had talked about that. I think Levi, I think we part of that discussion. Yeah. And stuff of trying to we bud for that in in the parks budget. Oh, so we have more. Perfect. Okay. Cool. Yeah. Late Christmas. Yeah. Why are you trying to get rid of the generator? Yeah. Yeah. Full time jocking that thing. Bull. That's really expensive. Yeah, I know. Anything else on the parks?

Um, I guess I'm wondering for art in public places if that is CIP or if that should be community contributions or if that should be in art. Rap. It could be in RAP. Um, it could still be in here as well. Well, RAP has its own fund now, so it could actually be transferred into RAP because it's not specifically I think it does qualify CIP, but it could also be under like professional and technical or something like that in the RAP tax. So, that's that's just a a if that's a preference, we can make that change if the council wants to do that. Is Swanie Park the bathroom?

No. No, that that um I believe that is looking at that portion right there is actually looking at a master plan for the park so that we can get the entire thing planned out and some minor improvements to the to the park, but most of it is for planning. We put in an application to CDBG for the bathrooms and we didn't get that grant because there's so many applicants that and we've gotten a lot of grants from CDBG that I think we were just lower on the list this time doesn't mean we can't go back to them but so that's no longer

and in order of operations I I would I would love to see the the master plan the design come out before the we invest in the bathrooms in case we need to tweak that a little bit to put a massive skate park. Exactly. That's what I was going to say. Where's where's the skatepark line for J skate park? That's actually the big thing is storm water skate park. Um bathrooms are super expensive. Most likely it's not going to move, but you know, it's good to do the research before we invest too much in there.

Um yeah, so that's what it's for. There there there are improvements that do need to be made that are might be more minor uh that aren't just the two big $250,000 improvement, but can improve things drastically down there for say $5,000. And part of this money could go to things like that. In terms of the arts and public place and the w um I think we want to I mean the wrap we've got some big recreational projects coming up and if there's a other place where we could stick that I think we should try to build up our wrap. Okay. Or that's my opinion. You guys make the file call but

and in that case it would just stay here the way that it is now. That's what I would suggest. Okay. I just want to be clear that I I do think it should be w um and I I guess I'm I I asked the question because I think once you establish the the locations at this point we're just changing out we're bringing in new art so it's kind of maintenance of existing like it is kind of capital but it's not quite capital in that we're creating like a totally new thing um which is why I um so I'm not I'm not gonna on that one, but I'm not either. Whatever. You decide, Michael.

Uh, we could also put it in parks. It doesn't need to come out of RAP. Um, it could it could come out of parks and still be operations. Yeah. So, we'll we'll take a closer look at that. Uh, because if it is just maintenance and and uh paying for loaning the putting the art in and it's on loan, then then it might actually be operations, not cap. So, it's a program though that I think is great for the town. But yeah, we remember today we're just approving the tenative. It gives Michael the opportunity to uh finalize the budget. When we approve that, I believe in June. So, we have some time to negotiate where things go. It'll be in May. But yeah.

Well, yeah. Yeah. But it's okay. We'll get to that later. Yeah. Like like Hans said, I just want to publicly say that we're working towards a skate park for all the suckers out there. You know, I did it right. I got a call about it today. You did? Hey, what about that skate park? So, the for the Southern Utah concrete athletes, we're working towards getting them a skate park.

Now, there is another um I just changed the screen because there's another thing that could be related to Swany in here, and that's the one below, the one I highlighted, which is ADA upgrades to park and recck facilities. Um they're And this is the tough one because of the master plan. We've talked about this. Pat and I have talked about this and and um I've talked to several people about this. There is no ADA access to the bathrooms

and and yes, we do want to do a master plan and everything, but um you know the the actual implementation of the master plan could be many years away. So it this isn't specific to Swany, but there is money in here to improve ADA within any of the parks and all of the parks need it. So the um the one that I highlighted though is the general building improvements at MROC MRACH. And again, this is a this is a one project, but it's not just MRACK. And I do think we will change the title of this one because it does carry over into some of the other buildings like the wastewater treatment plant in this building as well. And uh some of the things that it will go this is Mckinstry doing the evaluation of the MRAC and they looked at the structural they looked at the mechanical and all the different things we need to do including more work at this building with the um geothermal uh wells and things like that. and then controls for a lot of the uh the equipment that we use HVAC the different things like that at the different buildings. So alto together it's a one point it's about 1.2 with a little bit of contingency in there. Um we do believe that well most of this will be at the MRACH. We do believe that this is an important project because it will make drastic changes at the MRAC that I think will be um that are necessary but will also be very much appreciated and will add to the longevity of the MRAC. Uh

and it's also energy efficient. Yes. Yes. So it'll save us money in the long run. That's right. It is. That's is their stickick. So that it definitely is has to do with energy efficiency as well. And before this project is awarded, I think we'll be bringing this back. I don't think we brought council yet. No.

Okay. So, this will come to council. So, you'll be able to see the entire scope of the project. Okay. And then there's the outdoor water uh feature replacement. And remember, that's not just the feature, it's also the lining because that big rock sits sits right on top of the liner and the whole thing has to be replaced. So is that tenatively planned for like winter 27 28 I believe. So this is the last season that we would have the rock in. So it'd be after after this season. So it'd be winter 26 27th.

Yeah. Because you had said they were going to start it in October. Okay. Yeah.

Okay. So next we have just miscellaneous and this will end the general CIP. So, the Pat Creek foot bridge, uh, that is also a grant. We're trying to get that one done. That has been taking a while. Uh, property acquisition. This is my recommendation is that we keep a fund for property acquisition in case trails um or some property comes up where we have a trail connection where we can get or there's something that we need to act on quickly. We just need council's approval. It's already budgeted. We don't have to amend the budget. So, it's just a a practice, but it's $200,000. It's not a lot. Most of the time, that's going to be purchasing easements, not actual property. Uh golf course capital improvement, that is uh part of that would be the um that would be the uh uh the work that we're planning on doing with the golf course with the master planning that they'd like to do. And then this is also the money according to the new lease, which isn't signed yet, but is supposed to be signed imminently, that would allow them to uh do tenant improvements at the golf course and pay the city back over time. And then the one that I highlighted is it other equipment. I believe that is server replacement. And then the transfer to flee fund is the uh the amount that goes to vehicles. And like I said, between now and the and the final budget, I do believe that is going to change. Several factors to consider there that have just come to light. So that is the total of the general CIP. And then I wanted to talk about where the money comes from. So this is this these are all of the places where we're getting money from. We're getting several different transfers in from other department from other funds. Uh, we've got the grant proceeds and I'm I'm

mixing grants with federal allocations which technically aren't grants but they are money that's coming for to us to as a grant to do a project. PTIF in interest is just interest on the money that we have in our accounts. That actually could be quite a bit more depending on how much how many projects we actually do in a year and how much money is sitting in the accounts. Um, and then you can see the transfers from the other funds and how much those are. The uh we'll talk about the storm water water road and no the water sewer and storm water fund in just a second. I'll get into a little bit more detail about those dollar amounts. And then the capital projects fund balance carry forward. That's just the amount of money that's in the fund right now that's not going to be spent this year. That'll be rolled over to next year. So, this is just a pie chart that shows you where where the money's coming from. And you can't read it too well, I can see, but the big blue is transfers from other funds. That's generally transfers from water, sewer, and storm water and and the roads fund. Um, but mainly water uh those those three, water, sewer, and storm water. And then property tax is about 20% of the revenue that comes into uh CIP. And as you know uh 100% of the revenue from property tax gets transferred into the CIP and then we have fund rollover grants and then the interest is is almost non measurable unmeasurable. So that is it for the general CIP. Any questions?

Yeah. Do you want to talk about the um bonding? Yes, I do. Thank you. You all remember at our strategic plan, we talked about doing a $20 million bond and identify projects that we could fold into that to kind of make sure that the property tax is spent the way that we envisioned it to be. And we're we we've got a little more work to do before we can do that.

Yeah. So, all of these shovel ready projects I'm talking about where I want to get these these plans done so that we can start looking for the funds to do the projects, that's what I'm talking about. It's not specific just to a bond, but it could be grants and other things as well. But in order to to bond, we're really going to need a good understanding of how much money we need. And the banks are going to want to see the projects, what the projects are, how far they are along in design, and what the engineers estimates of what the costs are going to be. So, I think we're still about a year away from a bond. Um, but I do think in order to accomplish the projects that we're looking at up here, uh, we we definitely are looking at a general bond, uh, or a a bond, um, that would come out of our general fund, uh, in the next year's, year or two, in order to finish those projects.

I do have a question going back to your presentation before we get away from CIP. Um, on one of your slides, I just want to clarify what was accurate or not, but you had sewer being 8.95 million. Was that typo? Let me I'm going to get sewer right now actually if that's Yes. I don't think it is actually, but let me bring it back up. Right. I wasn't sure. I was waiting. I just don't want to lose it.

Definitely don't want to lose it. Uh, okay. So, let's get back into this unless there's any other questions on the general CIP. And we'll we'll go over this in the tenative budget presentation too. Just very short presentation though. Okay. So let's go to sewer first since that was asked. Okay. So sewer um yes 8.95 million the the majority of that is because of the outfall project. So that's $7 million. That's a project that's been on the books for a long time. It's it's something that needs to get done. There were other resources that were potentially going to pay for that. And there was a different cost to this at one time as well, but we were going through someone else's property to get to the river with the alpha line. And they they get to dictate some things and and some of those things uh have to do with construction processes. And so this is the amount that we think is appropriate to to um to budget for this. This will uh reduce the amount of money in the fund balance for sewer by about half. So there will be about $8 million left after this project. This project is not ready to go out for construction or anything like that yet. But we have been working for a while on doing due diligence, things like that. And uh we do need to have this in there because we do need to move this forward. Um but that's the majority of that 8.95 million. Uh the rest uh the Cane Creek sewer lift station, that's an if uh Blue Bison develops and they're going to put a lift station there, we're going to pay to have it upgraded so it can handle more. And uh so it'd be above and beyond what their requirements are. SCADA's already approved. Uh the master plan is

something that has to happen uh going forward. Uh we'd be looking at project development for future bonds and a rate study for for um fees. The outfall was was that originally did we get a yes grant from the NRC for that? We got it from the Bureau of Reclamation, but then it's gone away. It went away this year. It's so it's off the books of this year. Okay. Yep. And that was a much bigger project. That was like 28 26 28 Yeah. million and it was to uh new wastewater treatment plant so we could flood this the Yeah. And this doesn't this is just the outfall line.

Um okay. So any other questions on sewer? We just have two more to go through. So we'll do water next. Okay. So on water, uh I'll just jump to the Spanish Valley water tank. We do have a bond or a grant uh from governor's office of economic opportunity which I think was renamed actually uh recently but that nevertheless was $1.7 million. That leaves about $3.9 million that needs to be paid for for the Spanish Valley water tank. We have been um saying for years that this is a high priority tank that needs to be done. Uh the we did have an option for some some other funding that didn't come through, but this project still needs to be done. So we are looking at postponing some other water projects and moving this project to the top if the council agrees. And that would uh take $3.9 million out of the uh fund balance for the water um enterprise fund and would reduce it down to about three to three and a half million dollars in that fund balance.

We've also asked Senator Curtis's office for an appropriation um for 3 million and hopefully that'll come through, but we probably won't see that till next year.

We did confirm that can be a reimbursement. So if we move forward and pay for this, we can get reimbursed for that if they if it comes through. Um some of the other things are pretty similar to the sewer SCADA uh master plan transfers to CIP for design tank maintenance painting. That's some painting that needs to be done. We found out recently that it's a little bit more involved than what we had originally thought. Uh, so we we did have to bump the budget for that tank maintenance up quite a bit. Uh, but it is necessary maintenance that needs to be done. Not really. Oh, it really cost $400,000 to a water tank.

Not just a water tank. We You want to come up and talk about this? You got to remember our water's in that tank. So, we want it to be so uh for the tank painting and uh some upgrades that are needed for some safety stuff. We also we uh we found lead on lead paint. Uh so that full containment it could do. We think it's going to cost 400 possibly. We don't know. We're we're having it evaluated right now.

So, just to be clear, we don't have any concerns about the inside of the tank. The lead was found on the outside and we are doing research. There is no lead in our water. I just just to be clear when we when we test the water, we haven't had any indications that there is a issue with lead on the inside that is getting into our water. We've never had a posit we've never had a lead test over the allowable limit.

Okay, that's a better way to say it. We've never had a lead test over the allowable limit. So, we do test the water. It's not just a guessing game. The water does get tested. So that's what it's for. Yep. So unfortunately it just became a bigger project and we have to look at all of the water tanks. Well, anything else? Thanks, Obie. Thanks, Obie.

Okay, one more here. Uh, storm water CIP. Uh we have another big one here, but it would only come out if the uh 300 South Bridge went forward. We do not think we are going to get $12 million for the bridge. Uh there's going to have to be some money that needs to come in to make up for the difference. Most of it is uh slated to come from storm water uh because that's what we're managing with the bridge and that's why the bridge needs to be replaced. It's So, it's right down to storm water. So, that's the big amount in this one. Uh would only be spent if the uh the project went forward or when the project goes forward and there is enough resources in this fund to cover that. Um but um so it'll just be earmarked for that. And then we have a few other projects that uh we need to get finished. Uh a lot of it has to do with uh storm water mitigation. the the uh detention project uh flood mitigation is general and then the Johnson White and Tusher those are all uh detention basins as well that manage our flood waters as they come out of the the canyons and that unless there's any questions

any questions on the CIP list I'll talk a little bit more about um strategic plan when we get to the tenative budget have much shorter presentation but I will touch on what we are touching with the strategic plan with this budget I'm proposing. So CP All right. So does that conclude our budget workshop? I think it does. Any questions before we move on?

I guess I have one final note. I when I first started a couple years ago um when I was using as reference going through this um I think it's always helpful to have our CIP longstanding list to be able to compare how we're prioritizing versus what we're funding each year. Is that what you said is today? No, it isn't. Um I showed you I think two years last year and uh we are we are still working on expanding to five years but before the tenative before the final I can present the two-year um plan that's not a problem. I think it's helpful as it is to have that comparison. Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you. Thanks. Any other questions? All right. We'll move on to our general business portion of the meeting and we'll start with public comments. May

and McKay if you wouldn't mind when you're done. Nice to meet you. If you wouldn't mind filling out one of those forms when you're done and you can just give it to Michael, that'd be great. Okay. Thank you.

Um my name is McKay Edwards. Um like Michael, I'm an AICP planner. I also just happen to be um manager of one of the uh uh resorts here in Moab. I'm here today more as a planner than as a as a developer. Um Mike Michael and I talked about this last week. Um I'm here to discuss the Steen up zone. Um in my work as a planner, I've done largecale master plans in Washington County, Summit County, Wasuch County, Tilla County, Utah County. Uh it's kind of the thing what I do. I do largecale master plans in difficult terrain. have done one in British Columbia. I have never in my life seen a project as potentially impactful as the steam up zone. This is like the Death Star for this valley and there's been zero public discussion of this. There was a hearing a week ago tonight. 20 of us showed up. 20 of us spoke against it. Not one person spoke for it at the at the uh county commission. But this thing's going to happen and I'm here to challenge Moab City to stand up and and say something and be express yourselves. This is 1,200 units. Could not be in the more in a more impactful location for this valley. Visual impact, environmental impact. We're just talking about sewer and water here. It's going to make the numbers you guys are talking about here today quaint. I mean this is 1,200 units. Lion's Back is what two 300 units four times the size of Lion's Back and it's visible. If you can see the G, you will see the homes that would go unn happened at the county. The current

owners of 235 acres um which is a legacy land holding that runs one mile from my my project, Moab Springs Ranch. It runs east and the what because this valley is on a 45 degree angle that takes it across a bench for a mile. There's a mile of width on this thing that will be visible. So if you can see the G, you would see the development that will happen from this thing. So it's going to break any all the things we talk about in master planning and do no harm and the edge. There's no edge left in this valley. There will be development all over that hillside all the way up over the rim and into the Slick Rock Trail. So, it'll change the Slick Rock Trail. It will change Sand Flats. It'll change life in this valley. I mean, I've been told this that we have something like 2,000 water connections in Moab City. We're talking about 1,200 additional. So, adding another 50% to this city. It's in the annexation declaration zone. And yet they haven't, you know, talked to the city about this at all. If you look at their application, it basically says, "Yeah, we we're in the annexation declaration zone, but we don't care. This will be a county project." Well, of course, it will be a city project. Who are they going to come to for water and sewer?

I now in the projects I've done, it's been a stretch sometimes to get to one unit per acre gross density if you have some terrain and some challenges. And then you cluster your development in the areas that aren't flat. This is 235 acres of which probably 90 acres is flat enough to put a building on. They're getting five units per acre for every single acre on this ground. 1,200 units. Again, twice the density of Echo Canyon. Um, and everyone says, "Well, don't worry because it'll cost too much to build this." That is no defense. That is not going to prevent this from happening. You know, I challenge you to go look at Almond Gary Resort in King County and say, you know, billionaires and private equity love stuff like this. This the day this is entitled, there will be the ratchet effect will set in. There will be no going back. The city and the county can't come back later and say, you know what, this was a mistake. We didn't understand what was happening. That won't matter. The same attorneys that came out of the woodwork to defend a a 30-year-old zoning mistake down the river here, those same attorneys will come out of the woodwork on this because we're talking about billionaires here. This will be this will swamp us. It's like being outside on a sunny day and a cloud comes over your head and you go shady and you look up and it's not a cloud, it's a death star. I mean, this will hang over this this valley and just because we didn't know it was happening doesn't mean it's not real. I mean, this is no joke. It a week from tonight, this is going to be approved at the county, the the same four commissioners that that you know, we know who we're talking about. It'll be a four to three vote and it will happen. I'm sorry about, you know, um the time being up here, but this is a it's a very serious matter.

And just because it's inconvenient doesn't mean it's not real. it it you know we're going to be stuck with this entitlement a week from tonight and it might take 10 years to develop it might take five it might take 30 I know a project in Wasach County that was approved in the 1960s everyone said it would never happen well go look at what's called East Deer Valley Village today and it's a New York billionaire that came across a you know an ancient approval but it was there and in Utah in in Utah under precedent and law, you just can't you can never go back. I've never seen a project obtain five units per acre. And you know how they got it? They came in asking for a food truck. They wanted a food truck at the zipline. And the this, you know, I don't want to cast dispersions, but but the county planning department said, "Oh, you mean by food truck, you must mean a Vegas scale mega resort development, right? I mean, that's how I can picture it because that's all they want. They want a food truck and some portaotties and a a climbing wall." and they're saying, "Oh, it's too much trouble for us to keep coming back and expanding our special use permit on our range and grazing zoning. So, let's just zone the whole thing

resort commercial." And I know my time's up, but I'm sorry, mayor. This is had zero discussion at any level in this county, and it's about to happen. And I I would challenge the city to stand up, contact the county, and say, "We need some time on this. I'm the most affected land owner." You know how when I heard about this the Friday before the first hearing, I heard on April 3rd, 2026 that this was happening, it was up for a hearing um on the 7th, a week ago tonight. No notice to neighbors, nothing. This was kept under the radar. Um how a county planner could say this conformed with the general plan and the land use code is is outrageous and how a planning commission could vote 5 to2 for this is outrageous. Now the two people who objected who voted against it um include Mary Hoffine who objected on on policy grounds. they're completely in left field as to where they are with they need to finish their land use code. This thing slipped in. Um, and I would just close by saying I think this is the week we celebrated uh spending a billion dollars cleaning up a mess left by a certain family in this valley. That's the family that's applied for uh this zone change. So, I'm just here to tell you if somebody from the city doesn't stand up and and and talk to the county, if we could even get a delay so that the public and the community could understand what's happening here, this will hang over this valley like a storm cloud and it's permanent. Thank you.

Thanks, McKay. And I uh I think we are talking about a response. Yes. So, we will stand up. Please make it public because Michael told me you were going to send a letter before the hearing last week there. The public is not aware that Moab City has taken any position on this and no position is the same as consent. Right. Right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Anybody else from the public? Okay.

Moving on to um our department head update. Lexi and Val are going to give us an update on our water conservation plan that we will be considering at our next meeting for I believe voluntary restrictions. I know I'm not supposed to say that, but that I like that word better.

All right. won't be surprising that water is concerning this year. Uh we are in a drought and um essentially what we we know right now is that upstream of us the NRCS has reported that snow water equivalent in Colorado is the lowest on record that we hit the median peak a month early and downstream of us there's not a lot of water in the reservoirs. So all of this indicates that we might be up for a tough water year. Uh the good thing is that we have been actively working on water conservation up to this point. Uh I'm this is just starts.

Sorry I didn't. Oh there you go. Thank you.

Thank that we've been working on water conservation. This timeline starts in 2021 when our last water conservation plan was updated. Uh since then we have started doing a lot of other things that were in that plan and even as far back as that plan from the baseline of 2015 the city was down 16.5% from that baseline. So we have been reducing water and then uh we've studied some of the water utility options since then. We passed ordinances to conserve water and landscapes and in new constructions on the inside with water sense fixtures. Uh we have updated park irrigation in Swany Park and they've also been doing more this year looking for leak dete like implementing leak detection uh altering times of the watering in the parks things like that to try to be more cognizant of water conservation um in a difficult year. Uh we've also in the past couple years organized some workshops around irrigation and around some of the state incentive programs and uh how to do water- wise landscaping. And in this past year, we adopted the water shortage response plan which is especially relevant in a year where we can foresee that water is in a short supply. uh the plan was oriented towards a trigger for activation of the plan. Uh so when we started looking at that uh OB sent some numbers for this year which are on this table pulled from the plan in blue. So we're in the range in the vicinity of the kind of water use that we've seen in past years. is a little up in March which could indicate that people are irrigating more as we've had

warmer temperatures and we've also seen increased use in the golf course which could also indicate the same thing. Uh however we are still well within the amount of supply that we have available. So we're not necessarily triggering uh the activation of the water shortage response plan. But at the same time, we have a whole summer ahead and in order to avoid strict mandatory measures, it makes sense for us to do some things now. So, uh, the nice thing is our plan puts us in a really good place to do some voluntary water conservation. It identified a lot of different actions that people can do. Those are detailed more in the plan here. I also included some of the like example tips that the state provides through the slow the flow program. they have a lot of other outreach uh resources and incentives that are available. So, those are all things that we can draw on uh to encourage people to voluntarily save water right now um in order to save water uh all summer long. Lisa has been working on a voluntary water conservation outreach uh starting now and running throughout the summer. We also have a budget for this and initially the the message is we're concerned uh about where water is uh that our drinking water is not currently endangered but we should work proactively now so it isn't and in order to be able to avoid more stringent measures later and then going through some of the tips similar to what was on the last page but focusing on watering trees and shrubs right now we don't have to water grass yet it's pretty resilient is and the state also puts out a weekly watering guide. So, using some of those resources uh to help people uh figure out ways that they can save water uh

currently and then keeping that up to date throughout the summer. We also have some things that we are going to continue to work on throughout the summer. So, I'm going to let Val talk some about these. Yeah, we're really excited about the public communications campaign we're about to be launching, but this is just the beginning um of the work that we're about to be doing on this. We want to make sure we're taking long-term planning for water seriously, and this year we'll be updating our water conservation plan. Uh this is a statemandated process. Every five years, the state requires us to submit a plan updating our progress on water conservation goals they set for us in 2015 to receive state funding and loans. But we're just definitely making sure we're going to be taking this process seriously. Um, as you can see on this map, they determined a 20% reduction from 2015 numbers by 2030. So, off the top of my head and actually reading off this, 2015 years was 333. Uh, the goal was going to be 267. When we made the plan in 2021, uh, we had gotten that down to 278 and we're shooting for 250. So, we're feeling confident that we'll be able to come up with some strong water conservation recommendations that can kind of um continue along that linear water savings to um go above and beyond for what the state recommended. Um yeah, we're just kind of we're considering that 2015 uh projection to be more of a baseline instead of something we're really extending ourselves for or grasping for. And um yeah, we're just going to be looking at best management practices over the course of the next five years. Uh we'll we'll be putting this in front of experts like the Moab area water partnership uh and other water focus groups for review and we're going to work with Lisa on a community level outreach plan. Um just as far as scheduling and timeline for that a draft is due to the state on July 15th um

which will be public followed by a public hearing. Um so that's mandated by the state process and then we will submit our final submission on December 15th. uh we'd like to kind of put something together prior to that draft submission for you all. So, we're going to have a water conservation workshop planned out with council for June 23rd just to have that on your calendar. Um I'm really looking forward to working on it and I'm excited to field any other questions you may have about it. Um I don't know if you want to talk about the water rate stuff, Elsie.

Sure. A few other things that are going to be coming up. Uh in the next fiscal year, we'll also be doing an update uh onto our water rates impact fees, a study on that and that does have opportunities for us to evaluate if there are things that we can do there that would uh discourage overuse of water. Uh and then we'll continue collaborating with area water providers and investigating options. Happy to answer questions. And we did, did you mention that we did budget some resources for this? Okay, good. I had to step out for just a second. questions.

I've got a comment. Um, I'm I'm really excited about exploring uh graywater systems locally. And you know, in my my current situation, I uh you know, being excited about that, I it where I'm at in my home, it would be thousands and thousands of dollars to retrofit a graywater system. And so I would really like to start exploring the option of whether through requirement or some sort of incentiveizing program. Um just the the simple act of you know during the construction process we're talking about a couple hundred dollars that then after the construction process is over becomes $10,000 or more. Um, and so some way to just incentivize people to to just the simple valve and stub out that would allow that future that homeowner or any future homeowner in that spot to to easily transition to a graywater system.

Okay. Yeah, we can include that in things that we'll look into, see what the options are for us. Okay. Thank you. Anything else? When is the outreach plan going to go in effect? because I think it needs to start like yesterday.

Yeah. Uh the idea is to start this month. So I think the first day Lisa had on there was the 15th of April tomorrow uh to start doing some more outreach on this. It is also on our list uh for reals or other types of like social media outreach. Uh so some of that will be as soon as this month. One of the things that somebody a constituent approached me on was are we going to be working like with restaurants. I mean this is kind of a challenge in our hotels. You know I know a lot of hotels that I go to they tell you and this may already be occurring to you know if you don't want your sheets changed today you know put this on your pillow and so that we're not washing laundry every single day. And in restaurants if you don't want a glass of water you don't get a glass of water. And I know water is kind of an issue here because we encouraged people to drink water so they don't get dehydrated, but that was something that this person was really concerned about because she went to lunch and four glasses of water came and four glasses of water went down drain. And so I don't know how we I think that's something we need to include in our outreach when we're, you know, talking to our local restaurants and hotels.

Okay. Anything else? Are we going to see that plan, that outreach plan, or you know, what's our next step here for the council? Right. Uh, if you want to see it, we can share it with you. Right now, we have an outline, you know, kind of like first steps, types of messaging, and the types of actions that we're going to take. We could do another update on the 24th. Yeah, we like this. The 28th, I think it is. Oh, 28th.

28th. Okay. I think that would be great. and because um and we're also going to be talking about this on Friday with the county. So that we're kind of sending that message both bodies, the city and the county. You guys need to be paying attention to water this year. So I think that'd be great, Alexi, if we could do get an update on what the plan is and the dates and what's going to be a part of that at our 28th meeting. See you later this month then. Yeah. Okay. Very good. Thanks. Thanks. And one other qu I don't know you can answer this. Have we checked our water table at all? moderate positive. There are no triggers right now. That's not okay.

Yeah, there's there's nothing. We're on ground water. We're not surface water. A lot of those indications that you guys talking about are surface water indications and there's not really any indication right now for that peril that are okay. So, just so everybody knows, um Obie just said that there's no indication right now that our water situation is in peril. I do know that I had a tree that died in my yard and I'm down by the slooh and I'm thinking, "Wow, how could that tree I've had it in my yard for six years and it just died this year." So anyway, that's why I asked the question. Thanks everyone. All right,

you agenda is our next item. We have three items on the consent agenda. the consideration of a lever support for essential air service that was uh recommending Sky West and Delta to um serve our community at the airport. And we have the minutes from the regular meeting on March 24th, 2026 in the approval of the bills against the city of Moab in the amount of $746,27459. Could I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? Second move to approve the consent agenda. Motion by Tony. I'll second it. Second by Jason. Any discussion? All those in favor say I.

I. Any opposed? Motion passes 5-0. All right. We um next item is the discussion and approval of the wrap tax grant funding uh recommendations from the TAC the technical advisory committee. My understanding that the process went really well. Patrick is gonna start us off and then Colin if you could kind of give us a briefing on the meetings that you attended that would be great. Sure.

Yeah thanks. I just wanted to to introduce this and give a little background information and Colin obviously can speak to it as well. Um the wrap tac the technical advisory committee had um four out of the five members were new this year. Um like the mayor said had some really great discussions on this. Um we had 25 applications um this year which was up I believe three from last year um with a total ask amount of 231 plus thousand dollar um with the 8020 split for the wrap tax we had 85,000 to allocate um majority of the applicants who um qualified there were a few that didn't received um at least partial funding um and let's see the TAC met on March 19th to discuss um applications are due Friday, January 23rd and um the following recommendations that were included in your packet are what they came up with based on the criteria. Um and let's see and that is all I have.

Colin.

Yeah, Colin. Um well again and I I said this uh we had a phenomenal committee this year. A really really great thoughtful um you know the the work that goes into this uh you know I I spent five hours reviewing these and and other members spent far more time than that. I mean just being so thorough. uh and I think the discussion was was very very well informed and uh you know it's it's an impossible task when you're looking at uh allocating $84,000 $85,000 um when the ask is three times that. Uh and these all of these projects, you know, had incredible value to the community. Um and so the process was was first to eliminate any that that didn't fit the the RAP tech requirement tax requirements. Um and then to just slowly uh you know through through really lively discussion um just sort of whittle down all these asks to where we could actually um you know hopefully uh spend this $85,000 in in a way that that uh you know has the greatest community benefit. So great process and and Pat did an incredible job of facilitating the meeting and this this discussion. So thanks Pat.

Y thank you. Any questions for Colin or Patrick? Yeah I do I guess I'm I'm you know it's always interesting giving a given a final rubric and looking at things allocated and at at what amounts. Um so I guess I'm wondering can you remind us what the qualifications are like? Do they have to be a nonprofit? Um why why 501c3 or under the umbrella right another organization. That's right. And yeah and in addition to that that projects or events have to take place within city limits. Okay.

Um and there's certain exemptions like schools who are funded more than 50% of their operations through the state um are are exempt. Um and a few other guidelines and stipulations kind of you know in that same vein. Um but those are the two main ones. is the 501c3.

And Caitlyn, I I'm curious as you're looking at that, another couple of the requirements that really came into play this year is is these projects had to be public. They had to be public spaces and and you know, open to the public for five years or for 10 years. Um, and that definitely that disqualified a couple of really great projects. Another thing that really came into play this year is that uh the funding couldn't go to a project that was a fundraiser for another project or entity. And that that disqualified at least one great candidate this year. That was a hard one. Um and I think I think that's probably uh covers what what you may have seen as some great projects that didn't get any allocation.

Thanks. So, is it is it safe to assume that the projects that are not funded were not funded because they were not qualified or were there some that you didn't fund?

I think any that got that didn't get funded weren't qualified. we tried to spread out the money. the the big conversation is and and as we move forward, we're going to really uh try to um you know establish this is you know when you when you partially fund one of these projects, does it is it you know like how do you determine as a committee whether you know a partial funding is going to allow this project to still carry forward um or or by you know giving them 25% of their ask is this project going to fail? Um and we of course don't want any of these projects to fail. Uh you know and um we wouldn't be out as if they did not fail the money would come back to us. And then another big one was um you know a big part of our discussion was you know we've had the a lot of the same projects coming back year after year and they're wonderful projects but we also you know and this is a very uh subjective decision on on our part and and a very individual decision but is it better to start pulling some of that away from these very wellestablished and these these organizations that sort of have the resources to go out for the other sources of funding and really um you know focus on the you know the startup projects or the projects that that maybe don't have you know the the resources or the the staff to to be super fun. And so it's a really complicated discussion and and uh you know every every single committee member brings a very different perspective in all those cities to the discussions. You know, it's a great point and like just to piggyback what Colin said, like we look at the resiliency of the organization and other funding sources and that's actually part of the application. And so like you know, is this still going to proceed? You know, if the committee finds us to be a valuable community program or event, will it still proceed with or without

RAP funding? You know, what kind of impact will this money have? And so that was that's a big part of it as well. Yeah. And ultimately it comes down to the end of the process is we're just going down and whittling away at at what we're able to fund each project with until we can can reach that $85,000. Anything else? Almost there. Other questions motion. Uh would love to make that if I can. Is there a recommended motion in Yeah, there should be.

Here it is.

Thank you. Uh I move to approve the wrap tax recommended recommended projects and funding amounts for the 2026 cycle totaling $85,000. Thanks. Motion by Colin. Should I have a second? I'll second. Second by Kaitlin. Any discussion? Colin, Kaitlyn,

um I appreciate your explanation. I think going back to some comments about community contributions. Like I asked these questions because I know I had people asking me about, well, why doesn't the city put more money towards RAP tag? We got $200,000 in requests. And um I think even just trying to understand I appreciate the explanations and I I respect the committee toiling away. I didn't watch as much of this year's meeting. Definitely know it was contentious last year. Um and I think yeah the more we can kind of create systems for how we um contribute is going to be great. But um really appreciate your work on this. I think this amazing thing that the city does to alke raptac and I think it has created some really amazing events. I think also tying in public art the more we can distribute raptack to all kinds of public art um I think the more diverse and beautiful our community will be. So just thank you for your work and yeah

thanks. Anybody else? All those in favor say I. I oppose. Motion passes 5. All right, we'll move on to our budgetary items. We have four public hearings. The first public hearing uh is we we amended the agenda. So, we moved items 6.2 and 6.3 to after these other public hearings. The first one is a public hearing for ordinance 2026-04, an ordinance adopting the city of Moab pay plan schedules for fiscal year 2627. And I'm gonna open that public hearing at 7:03 p.m. And Danny,

hi. Hi.

I'm really here to answer questions on this one. Um, if you have any questions for me, I'm happy to answer them. Couple things to point out. It is that we did estimate 2.8% cola. So, when you're looking at these page charts, you probably notice these page charts are considerably smaller than they were last year when we presented these. That is because I did pull out all of our salary exempt employees and put them into a different chart. That is to accommodate the highly compensated employee freeze that's going to happen. So, with that being said, not every position that is in that chart is going to be frozen at this time. However, they do have the potential to get there over the next two years. And so, it just made sense to pull all of our salaried exempt employees into that. Um, we don't anticipate any hourly employees hitting that raise. So that's kind of why there's that extra one in there. Um,

this is a state requirement, right? This is just the pay plans, the state requirements. The next one, the next one. Okay. Do we have any Go ahead. The only question I had was on the Which one is it? C, attachment C. Uhhuh. Um, is that where people currently are? That number on the right. So Oh, sorry. I should have put what that was. No, that is the that is actually their grade. So they fall somewhere in a step on that grade line. So okay, so on the thing it has you have one one through 12 going across the top and then you have 18 through five on the left side. Right. What what is the left side?

So the left side is your grade. So that's going to line up with Yeah. So there's this sheet that's in there. Yeah. That's going to line up with these numbers. That's going to tell you what grade they are. The one through 12 are the 12 steps that we have within that grade. Okay? So, each one of these positions is assigned a grade based on a scoring system. And so, that's where those come in. And then depending on how long they've been here, what their experience is will depend on where they fall within that 1 through 12 step. Okay? And that's how you that's how you determine a merit is they move up a step. Correct. Okay. That helps me out a lot. Okay. Thank you.

Anybody else? Caitlyn. So, do we have any positions that are currently frozen that aren't in that kind of executive or salary category? Okay, thanks. Anybody else? Okay, we'll open it up to the public. Do we have any comments from the public on the pay plan schedule for the city of Moab 2627? Seeing none, I'm going to close the public hearing at 70:05 and move on to consideration of ordinance 20 2604 adopting the city of Moab daily plan schedule for fiscal year 2627.

I'll make a recommendation. I'm to approve the ordinance 2026-04, an ordinance adopting the city of Moab pay plan schedules for fiscal year 20 2026 2027. Motion by Jason, second by Col. Discussion Jason. No, I was gonna say thank I I liked how you did it this year. Um and maybe you did it last year too, but how each department, you know, that that first couple slides was showing, you know, how everything was going and that I thought that was really clear and concise and I appreciate that, Colin. Thanks, Tann. Thank you. Anybody else? Thanks. This this was a good process, I think, looking through it. All those in favor say I. I.

I. Do I have to do a roll call for the schedule or just the budget? I think it couldn't hurt. Mrs. Nathan. Okay. So, let's just go ahead and do a roll call. Miles, that's a lawyer response. Yeah. Caitlyn, I Jason. Motion passes 5. All right. Danny, don't go away. I'm not. Our next item is a public hearing for ordinance 2026-05, an ordinance adopting the city of Moab salary schedules for elected and executive officials for fiscal year 2026 27. And I'm going to open this public hearing at 707. Danny,

so this is the state required ordinance that we have to put in place each year. So we always have to list out the mayor council members and the planning commission. So our elected and appointed officials and then it is a little different this year because there are two sections. So the first section is going to be executive positions. Exe executive positions are classified by the state. So that's why you'll see some of these on here that might seem a little odd to be in this section, but they are supervisors of any kind. And then section three is going to be the ones that have been pulled out into that other chart that will not be receiving cola or merit increases this year. So I just wanted to break those ones out. I do want to clarify again that all the positions in section three have the potential to be frozen. Not all the positions in section three are frozen.

Questions for Danny. All right. I'm gonna open this up to the public for comment. Anybody from the comment? I mean the public want to comment on the executive and elective salaries for 2627 for the city of Moab. All right. Seeing none, I'm going to close the public hearing at 709 and um ask for a motion to consider ordinance 2026-05.

I can move to approve ordinance 2026-05, an ordinance adopting the city of Moab salary schedules for elected and executive officials for fiscal year 2026 2027. Motion by Ton. Second. Second that. Second by Colin. Discussion. Connie. No. Colin. No. Anybody else? Roll call. Miles. Hi. Caitlyn. Hi. Colin. Hi. Connie. Hi. Jason. Hi.

Motion passes. 5 Z. All right. Thanks, Danny. Marcy, you're up. Okay, Marcy, we are going to open your public hearing for ordinance 26-06. This is an ordinance amending title 3 of the Moab municipal code to update chapter 3.50, the masterpiece schedule, and modifying certain fees and rate charge rates charged by the city of Moab. We're going to open up this public hearing at 710. Hi everyone. Hello. Hello.

Okay, so this one we do every single year right before budget. It's our standard process. Please do be advised that the masterpiece schedule is a living breathing document. It can be updated at any time. We just utilize our budget time to do a mass update if there are things that we find that we need to increase throughout the year for various reasons. There are fees that actually did not make it on here unfortunately because of the new regulations corrective going to planning commission. So there are planning fees that will come to you guys at a later date. Um we're going to talk about it tomorrow. So I don't know when that will be but just be advised that this is only partial of the masterpiece schedule unfortunately. And I did not do a presentation. Um if you go to the ordinance it does break down what we added, updated, removed, etc. So, I will leave it to you guys if you have any questions.

Any questions for Marcy on the fee schedule? Pretty straightforward. I love it. Yeah, pretty sure. I guess I'm wondering um based on your comments, Colin, earlier. I noticed a few of them are parks and wreck. Um, so just kind of reiterating if obvious I'm assuming that those are just assessed to offset like equipment and jerseys cost more and so we're just passing that along to users that might be more

that's that's correct. Um, and I believe I put that information in the actual red line with the comments to break down why each of the fees were in there. Um, for the recreation and mark and wreck when it says Mark or Moab Arts and Recreation Center, it's really broke down to Moab Arts um, in those particular sections that you're seeing the increases or the additional fees. And it's just to capture what they missed with the last update when we were trying to make sure we collaborated all fees that we have to have on here. Thanks. Any other questions? Yeah. Go ahead, Jason. Can I really rent a button maker? I'm sorry. Or a sewing machine. I already have it. Really?

Yeah. That was news to me, too. And both of us were like, "Wow, when we were reviewing these campaign of a re-election campaign, no, but I can make one with you should go there, Jason." Is that what we're And you can purchase the too. Really? Yeah. Okay, that's on here, too. That was added. Instead of 50 for $10, and they offer two sizes. I might be there next week. I think it's great. Will you let know, too? Great. Seriously, Jason, what questions do you have? Can I make a Can I really make buttons? That was my question. That was it. Yeah. All right. I've been waiting all day to ask that.

Don't make the buttons. You're sewing the buttons onto things. Oh, it's sewing the buttons. It's not button making. Oh, it's like Oh, it's both. Oh my gosh. Oh my god. I learned something new today. You got to go to the Red Rock Arts Fest because they always have a button making booth. Yeah, they do. Oh, really? Yeah. Be there. Well, for the public to know, if anybody needs a button, you can rent our button maker. I bet people don't know that. At the lot of rentals. At the sewing machine. What else rentals did you Yes. Sewing machines? No, that was that was it. That was it. No, thank you. Anybody else questions on the fee schedule?

All right. I am going to open this up to the public. see if there's any comments from the public on the Moab city's master fee schedule and modifications in rates charged by the city to the public. Seeing none, I'm going to close the public hearing at 7:13 p.m. and move on to consideration of ordinance 2026-6. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve ordinance 2026-06 um without modifications. All right. Motion by Jason. I'll second. Second by Miles. Discussion. Jason. No. Miles.

No. Anybody else? All right. Roll call. Miles. I. Caitlyn. Hi. Colin. Hi. Connie. Hi. Jason. Hi. Motion passes. 5 Z. Thanks Marcy. Nice job. Good work. Appreciate all your hard work.

Okay, now we move on to uh section general business 6.2 which is a public hearing for resolution 03-2026 adopting the tenative budget for fiscal year 2627. Now remember this is tentative opportunity to ask really detailed questions you need if you need to from Michael in the interim before we actually approve the final budget. So going to open up the public hearing at 7:15 and Danny and Michael Yeah. So just a quick overview really quick. We'll have Danny do the uh personnel. We already talked about some of the personnel. I need to get out of this. You have a presentation going?

I do, but Oh, let me let me get up. No, no, no. I jumped the gun. Um, but this uh this, like the mayor said, this is a tenative budget. This is a state requirement that we do this and a final budget. I think the state just wants to know that every everybody is getting their budgets ready on time. So, um, we're pretty comfortable with this as a as a budget presentation, but there is still time to look at and make amendments before the final and turn it over to Danny. Okay. And then I'll I'll go after.

Okay. So, when we went through all the departments, I talked to you guys about individual department percentages as far as salary and wages and benefits went. This is more of a summary per um fund. So, kind of give you a city overview and then what the what the funds are looking like. Um, just to start out again, this is just a reminder, we've talked about this lots of times. The salary increase were anticipated about 7% includes a 2.8% cola benefit increases about 10%. Those are the numbers that we use kind of for our benchmarking moving forwards. So, this is our going to be our overall expected versus actual growth citywide, which is actually really great. Our salaries are lower than than expected. Um the majority of that is due to the highly compensated employee freeze um where benefits are slightly higher and again this is citywide so this is all funds um than what we had expected and the majority of that is going to you're going to see your employee status changes and then a couple of the offcycle increases that we did talk about when we went through specific departments. So we'll start with the actual general fund. General fund is our biggest fund. It also has the majority of our highly compensated employees in it. So that's why you're going to see salaries at 5.52% versus the 7% expected. And then also benefits are lower than expected. Again, that comes off of the highly compensated employee freeze. When salaries go down, benefits go down. Um so that is our biggest savings there. Um our 23 funds, our arts, arts and recreation. I know it's recreation fun. I just feel arts kind of gets left out sometimes, so I I threw that in there. Um, salaries are a little bit higher than expected. This is another thing that we talked about as far as there were a couple uh step adjustments and an offcycle increase. Benefits are higher expected. Most of this is due to turnover and employee status changes. Again, we talked about it with Pat how when you have somebody that leaves a single that comes in as a family, you see kind of that bigger overall increase. And again, since this includes

aquatic um arts and sports, it's lower than what just we went over with with Pat when it came to sports. So 51. So now in our enterprise fund, salaries are higher than expected. Um this is due mainly to a salary correction. We did talk about when OB was up here that we found in 2526 that we needed to correct for this year. So this is a one-time correction. This isn't something that we expect moving forwards. Um and benefits the same thing we had before employee status changes and then partially due to that correction from 2526 was the correction because we went to step and grade. The correction is because we had an employee that just actually budgeted at the wrong level. Okay.

Yeah.

And then on our 52 fund um for sewer salaries are slightly higher. That had to do with an offcycle salary increase. Um, one of the things to talk about here is the the setup for all of our public works and public utilities positions is we have a worker one, two, and three. We did not have that at the WRF. For some reason, we've only ever had a worker two. Um, so this last year we did implement the three steps that, you know, required different qualifications which did lead to a offcycle um, increased promotion. And then benefits are down. And this is kind of the opposite of what we saw in recreation where we had turnover that went the other direction where we had a family leave was replaced by a single. So that's why the benefits are lower than expected. And that's me. That's it. What questions you guys have? Questions on the salaries and benefits. Okay, we'll move on to Michael. the rest of the budget. Okay.

You want me to stay up here? Uh, yes, please.

Sorry. Okay. So, I'm going to go over the rest of the budget. I'll touch on a couple of things really quickly that um Danny's already touched on, but just because it it just fits into the whole budget. But uh sorry, you know, techn technologies work this whole time, Michael.

Yeah, I know. So, like I mentioned earlier, this is state law requirement that we do a tenative budget. Uh we are a little bit ahead of schedule, but that's better than being behind schedule. It gives us time if we need it. Uh the the goal today is to present a balanced budget and have the council approve that. This is tenative budget. The budget total for all funds is up 4.71%. Uh the cap that includes all salaries, benefits, and all operations and maintenance over all funds. Uh the capital improvement plan is significantly up and you saw that a little bit earlier today, but I'll show you a more zoomed out picture here in a minute. And that's mainly due to those several uh large-scale projects that you saw. But we have tried through this budget to maintain the standard that we set last year and we're trying to um reflect an organization that is inclusive. I think all of the department heads uh felt included in this process. You saw that they reported this year. I hope that that was something that you appreciated and was helpful for you. I thought it was really good and helps them to to really have some um facetime with the council and understand the budget concerns that or budget um challenges that there might be and that helps them everybody uh maintain and manage a budget. So we are still looking at keeping the same service levels as we had last year. This budget reflects that, but we are looking at slowing and reducing expend expenditures. And that's one of the things that you can see with the pay plan changes. In the first year that I was city manager working with Danny, we changed the step to the step and grade program. That was an effort to slow um pay down or expenses down a little bit. And then this year we have u we have several employees who are now on

that freeze. These are the highest compensated employees within the city. And over a two-year period, they'll be on a freeze. And that should save the city about $374,000. And as I explained previously, this is a this will keep building and building and building over five years, it will be close to a million dollars. And uh just like a salary when you have a salary increase every year it builds and builds and builds a salary freeze will save and it'll keep saving on down the line. Uh we already mentioned COLA that 2.8% that is consistent with social security administration and that is our recommendation is that we just stay in line with with social security administration this year. Uh, a couple of things to go over. I want to show you tax revenues because I think that's it's the one thing that gets brought up the most and it's kind of the litmus test of of how things are going with tourism and a lot of other things as well. So, I wanted to uh just go over all of our taxes really quick. And as you can see, uh, we're about a 3.5% increase that we're projecting. It's important to realize though that the our tourism related taxes, we're seeing them grow and we're seeing them them come back month after month in this fiscal year higher than they did in the previous fiscal year. However, we're not using our projections for how we think we're going to end this year to budget next year. We're budgeting a 3.5% increase off of what I would consider a very um lean budget that we we uh recommended and had approved last year for revenue. I do think that our revenues will end higher this year than what was budgeted, but

that still remains to be seen since the year is not over yet. So as you can see here uh 3.5% increase and again it's not it's count it's a 3.5% from last year's budget not from the projected uh revenues. Next we have the expenditures. Like I said earlier the expenditures are 4.71% over all departments and all funds. And you can see those listed on the left there. Those are all of our funds that have um operation costs and uh we have a 4.71% increase. If you look back to 2025 fiscal year and compare that to 2027, you can see that it's actually a decrease um overall of the funds. Now, that's that's not generally how we look at things because you may have one big expense year in in parks and wreck or in sewer or so on. Um, but I do think that we're in line with the increase that we're proposing which does include all salaries and benefits that that Danny just talked about. And this does this does show a budget that has keeps the same service level and has all of our departments pretty much full as far as employees go. So we are able to continue to provide those services with all of those employees. The capital improvement plan, as I as I talked about earlier, this um the total plan is about $39 million over all of the budgets. and it's because of those very large projects that we had talked about. This is more of a zoomed out view of it. But we've got the uh Spanish Valley water tank going forward, but us looking at uh different ways of funding it than we had originally anticipated.

We got design for 100 West and 400 East, getting ready for shovel ready projects so that we can get funding for those projects. the Amrak major maintenance and upgrades um is going forward if that the CIP budget is approved and then we have the water feature at the uh pool and the ball field redesign and sidewalks and and things like that within parks. I don't believe that we will get we will spend all of this money, but like I was saying, the $17 million that in this budget anyways is for the 300 South Bridge and the um the outfall project are two projects that we do need to show on our capital improvement plan so we can show that we're serious about moving those projects forward as we're applying for funding for those things. our recommendation and I'll just preface this with um we I'm not going to go into detail in all the departments because this is that's why we held the workshops. I'm happy to answer any questions about departments and to go over any any uh concerns or or challenges that you see in the budget. Danny's still up here and we can we can go over this together. Uh but we are recommending approval of this tentative budget uh because we do think it represents the budget that we need to continue to provide the level of service that we're providing today. Uh we don't have a lot of increases in employees. Um in fact, we've moved employees around instead of adding employees. Uh I wasn't going to go over this completely, but I'll just go over a couple of high points really quick. Um in uh community development department, we have two employees who move to the admin department. The planning division within the community development department has a lot of new requirements that are being imposed by the state through legislation to move applications through and do a

lot and do work a lot quicker uh than previously. So we had moved someone from facilities a not a person but an FTE an open position from facilities to planning. Um, so these are ways that we're trying to address the needs that we have within our divisions and our departments without uh increasing the number of employees or FTEEs over over the city. We've also had a couple of other things that did increase that we were uh we were not planning on. One of those was our insurance and this is our liability insurance. Uh because of a lot of the flooding that is well because of the flooding that has happened and a lot of the damage that has happened, our insurance company has infor informed us that our um premium went from about 400,000 to $650,000 a year and they've also increased our uh deductible from 25

from a,000 to 25,000 from a,000 to 25,000. That's a big increase. Yeah. And just to clarify, these these deductibles are per incident. So it's not a cumulative deductible like we do with micro health insurance. This is per incident. Um yeah, it was a pretty big hit between liability and property insurance,

right? So that is added into this budget. Um we also have a couple of things that could potentially change u between the tenative and the and the final budget. We have an IT RFP that has gone out and uh we're hoping to get some indication of what that cost might be going forward and that's that's what we budgeted for that was $360,000. We're hoping it'll come in a little bit less. Um I've also added into here a a new grant that hasn't been considered before. That's tentative, of course, because the council will be talking about this new grant on the 24th. um if it's if it's approved then obviously we would go forward with that grant. If it's not we would we would take that back out and then that also comes with some vehicle um considerations as well. So, we'll be talking about that going forward, which will affect the vehicle budget, but we feel very confident in the tentative budget that we're proposing. We feel like we're really close to a final budget, but we don't want to say this is final because we want that opportunity to tweak and to make changes, especially after hearing what you have to say today and any conversations we might have going forward uh between now and the final budget. And that is our presentation.

Questions? before I open it up to the public. Go ahead, K.

Yeah. Um, thank you and thank thank everyone on staff for being here and continuing to come to these budget workshops. I I really appreciate that we brought these back. So, thank you. Um, I think it's been helpful for me to actually go through each of them. I think going from tentative to final. Um I guess if you if you have a little bit of response on but for me hearing expenditures going up slightly higher than tax revenues. Um if you have any supplemental information about offsetting other operations but for me that I'd like to advocate for looking at some haircuts. Um I I think that it uh we deserve that to our our taxpayers especially because a lot of our projects come in. We know I I've experienced enough that we anticipate that we are going to spend more on a lot of things through the next year. um line of duty um with all due respect will be something that I would like to continue to talk to you guys about um but by the time we get a final but um I do really appreciate all the time and effort that staff put into this um and the way that you have put forward your budgets and really have tried to work on that. I think that that's something over the next month that you know just little haircuts here and there. So, just if I can respond to one thing really quick, the um I I only show the tax revenue at at 3.5% because it's a lot it's what people look at a lot, but our entire revenues went up 5.5%. The same amount that our expenses have gone up and a lot of that has to do with grants and then increases in planning fees because we're seeing planning fees come in a lot higher because there's so much um planning and building going on right now. And then there's other a few other areas where we have seen some

increases in revenues. Um they're all included in the packet. Um and I apologize it's just so long I didn't show them all, but I think most people generally want to see what we're looking at. uh that we're not looking at raising uh that we're not anticipating taxes going up more than they they probably will, but I just wanted to say that the revenues uh have increased the exact same amount that the expenses have increased at 5.5%. And we I'm happy to talk more about that with anybody who's would like to.

So, anything else, Caitlyn? Because what what I'd like to suggest is between now and May 12th that you guys set up meetings with Michael to kind of put out the you know put out what your issues and concerns are or suggestions that you have and then you know we can all talk about it when when we meet and then um at our May 12th we any changes that are made to this tenative we'll put that out to the public and go from there. Does that sound like a plan? Okay. So, in the meantime, we need a motion. Oh, I need to hear from the public. Okay. Anybody from the public would like to speak on Moab City's budget for 2627?

Think I see it. No.

All right. All right. Um, seeing none, I'm going to close the public hearing at 7:34 p.m. and ask for a motion to approve resolution 0326, a resolution adopting the tenative budget for fiscal year 2627. I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve resolution 03-2026, a resolution adopting the tenative bud budget for fiscal year 2026 2027.

Motion by Miles. And do I have a second? Second. Second by Colin. Discussion. Miles. No, I think this is well put together. I am curious to speak to Michael about a couple points as we go forward, but I mean I I think it's all in there and I really do want to uh kind of mirror Caitlyn's comment about I really appreciate these budget workshops. Like as someone coming in new to this, this has been incredibly helpful to help me delve through everything and actually have a strong understanding of what I'm improving. So I really just appreciate everybody's time and effort. Thanks, Miles. Colin, no comment. Anybody else? All right, roll call vote. Miles, hi. Caitlyn, hi. Colin, hi. Connie, hi. Jason,

hi. Motion passes. 5 Z. More to come, you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Um, okay. So, our last item of business, um, we do have a close session this evening. Um, but our last item on business before we move to city manager updates and council reports is a consideration of ordinance 2607, an ordinance amending the text of the MOA municipal code section 17.08.060 to update the process by which the city grants exceptions to its requirements governing the construction of sidewalks, curbs, and gutter. Johanna and Corey is on the line on Zoom if we need them. Okay. Hello everybody. Um this is the current code. Um so when construction happens on a lot um developers have two options. They can either build the sidewalk curb and gutters um or they can come to the city council for an exception given that they meet the criteria and then if granted the exception they can pay the fee in loo instead of constructing the proposed amendment adds a new tier of exception. This would be a total exception without a fee in loan. Um it also changes the approval body to the city manager uh rather than coming to the city council for both of these exceptions. Um this amendment uh was forwarded by planning commission positively at our last meeting uh with a very minor amendment.

So here is the language of the proposal. Um we can see in A and C those are changing out the approval bodies and then F is the criteria for the new total exception and then I'll note um in four in F3 the A in parentheses is our uh the minor amendment that was proposed by uh planning commission to have that sentence read a little easier.

Is that it? Can you explain them? Yes. Sorry. Um right now in the uh draft ordinance it reads the street where the lot or property is located is not subject to project the city has approved to pave or otherwise improve the street. They proposed adding an A to that sentence. Got it. Any questions for Hannah? Can I ask why um we would be changing this to city manager authority?

I think for a couple reasons. I think in government it's always appreciated when things can get approved at the lowest level possible because people especially developers and and people building are trying to get through processes as quickly as possible. Um I think this is an administrative action personally. I think if if there is criteria and you can only approve it by the criteria and there's no um there's no other considerations besides the criteria, I think staff can do a fine job making a recommendation to the city manager and the city manager can determine whether or not those conditions have been met, those criteria have been met. So, and I think we saw this we see this from time to time where it's just it's it's pretty straightforward where somebody doesn't have a sidewalk on either side of them, but there's sidewalk a block away or something. So, there's going to be sidewalk eventually and um but it doesn't make sense to do a sidewalk right in the middle of those two stretches with no sidewalk. So, it's very simple to say, well, yeah, you meet the criteria. Why don't we do a fee in lie of improvement on this and we'll we'll install the sidewalk at the time when we finish the rest of the sidewalk. And then the new addition here would say that um instead of uh in a let's see where is it the it shall not require a fee in loo if you live on a street that isn't even paved. So, you live on a street where nobody has paid towards the the improvement of the street because there's no sidewalk, there's no curb and gutter, there's no storm drain. Um there presumably is water and sewer. If there's not, it's being gained another way. And there certainly is no road in the terms of a paved road. It's a dirt or gravel road.

um the city, our position as staff is that we don't feel comfortable requiring a uh one person who comes in now to pay for a sidewalk on a street that doesn't even have a curb and gutter on it or asphalt on the street. So, we feel like it's appropriate in that situation to to not require a uh a fee in loo or the construction of the sidewalk itself because it seems like the entire nobody on the street has paid into it either. Nathan,

there's another reason for this and and the big land use bill this year, SB284, made some some changes. And one of those, and I admit this doesn't necessarily squarely fit within it, but it's kind of the spirit of the law. The legislature really doesn't want city councils approving land use applications anymore. And so one of the things you'll be seeing when we get to to amending and implementing this bill is that land use authorities can't be city councils anymore. And so this is a little bit of a different thing because it's an exception, but it is still part of the land use approval process, which I I think the legislaturator's been pretty clear they don't want city councils and legislative bodies approving. So there's there's a legal reason for having it be done at the staff level as well.

Any other questions?

Thank you, Nathan. I I guess in response to that, I I would express a little bit of hesitancy. I think it for I I definitely hear that and I'm watching that trend. I'm I'm would feel potentially more comfortable. I think the planning commissioner reviews a lot of exceptions. Um, and I think between this and the impact fee having like changing that to city manager authority like I, you know, I think that you're doing a great job as city manager. And I think we also have to think about just generally like the the levels of authority granted to that position within code, not Michael Black having that authority, making the right call. Um, so I think that this is pretty clear, but I also am just going to throw it out. I I think I would feel more comfortable with the planning commission having both of these. I think I think especially where this condition F is applicable is going to be fairly small. However, I think it it is worthwhile for an like a planning zone like an advisory body to review this in the context of larger planning initiatives. Um, and so I I I think it it is I I see the purpose of it and I I know that there are a couple projects that this um potentially will um impact and hopefully help as they're moving forward, but um this just thinking about levels of authority. I I'm wanted to at least raise the question of having planning commission be the body that reviews exceptions like this. So, I'll just speak to this because I listened to it and the discussion that occurred in planning commission. Um, and I think like it was really well thought out as planning commission went through

it and there was kind of just the understanding that we are limiting liability by moving this into a much more administrative position and that essentially because of how we're developing and specifically because of how it's worded in such a way that you like the fianl and essentially the fianl and the actually build the sidewalk process has been working very well. And so this introduction of the full exemption is in such a specific and minor way in the way that our city is being developed that it it just it's not in a position to be uh taken advantage of. And so like to speak to what Caitlin had to say, you know, planning commission did not discuss whether or not a like the city manager was the appropriate staff person to make the approval, but they felt very comfortable with this becoming a staff decision and not a planning commission or a city council decision. Um, so I think if we were to talk about like who we wanted to make that approval, we could talk about, you know, some other staff member that um has land use authority decisions. Uh, but I definitely think it makes most sense to keep it as a staff decision. I mean, I guess if I if I if I may bring back the council went against staff's recommendation and we did grant a variance for fe in December to the applicant. Um, if if this had been administr if if we had followed code for this, that would have been denied on both fronts. Um,

and they still have an administrative appeal process where they could they could still admin um, appeal it and get in front of somebody who um, there's no there's no decisions where it's just final. I mean, there you can appeal things and go to court and all kinds of stuff. But in this case, even any decision that staff makes, there is an appealable process. So, and as far as who makes the decision, you know, it's not it's not um it it's really just conso most decisions like this are consolidated with the city manager just because the city manager is the CEO and generally signs for the city with the approval of the city council. And there's probably always going to be a city manager. There's times when there's a community development director, not a planning director, and things like that. the the whole thing is is really up to you if you want the planning commission to review it. I think the problem with that, the only problem with that is just the time frame, the time that it takes where there's really no subjective part of this where it's just if you meet these criteria, it should be approved. Um, I think that it it fits the criteria of having a lower level approval because there is no subjectiveness to it. But and I think the planning commission made this recommendation. Miles made a really good point. And you will be consulting with the planning department. It's not like this is going to come to you and you're just going to say yes or no. You will be consulting with Johanna and Corey and they'll tell you what their recommendations. Absolutely. And if they say, "Yeah, we we believe this meets that criteria," you could say, "Well, I don't." But my guess is you're going to go along with your staff.

Most likely. Yes. And basically I know staff and planning commission to uh be very detailed and deliberate and this was a fairly lengthy discussion and I think that they really parsed through it and that positive recommendation coming from them like came from a wellthoughtout perspective of it makes a lot of sense to make this a staff decision because it is so absolutely straightforward and it is not subjective.

Any anything else? No, I I kind of agree with what you're saying there. You know, it's like it's there's a checklist, you know, it's like check check, you know, if it doesn't meet any of those, then it it gets kicked out, you know. So, I feel like there's um there's some checks in there where you can't, like you said, make it subjective, you know, either. So, um I'm fine with the way it reads. I think it um it does take it does fast track or it makes things a little bit quicker for people you know in these situations which I think people want you know and if there's not a need for it then um then it helps the whole process.

Anybody else? I'll ask for a motion.

This Moab City Council approved city ordinance 2026-07, an ordinance amending the text of the Moab Municipal Code section 17.08.060 to update the process by which the city grants exceptions to its requirements governing construction of sidewalk, curbs, and gutters. Motion by Tommy. Second. I'll second that. Second by Miles. Tonnie, any discussion from you? No. Miles? Nope. I'd like to thank planning commission for a well thoughtout discussion. It made it much easier for me to understand the whole issue and bring it to you guys. It's nice to have you as our liaison. That's really helpful for us also.

Yeah. Anybody else? All right. All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed? N. Ro call. Hi Caitlyn. Nay. Colin. Hi. Connie. Hi. Jason. Hi. Motion passes four to one with Caitlyn in opposition. Thanks Johanna and Corey. You guys can go now. I think. Does Corey need to stay on for closing? Uh he I told him I would cover it for close. So bye Corey. All right. So, now we ended our general business for this evening and we will go to city manager updates and then mayor and council reports.

Okay. I I just got a quick update for you. Um I won't steal anybody's thunder, but I will say that I did go to the umpture celebration and it was really great. Uh we had a well I'll end it there. It was really great because I know other people are going to talk about it. Thank you, Mayor. And uh the budget finalization has gone the budget this time has gone very smooth. I do want to get a um pseudo finance director. Um as I've told you before, uh we've had great uh conversations and have been able to put this budget together with our team and Summer and Danny and Marcy have all played a huge role in this, but all the department heads as well. And I think your department heads know their budgets really well, which I think is very key to to managing a budget. And I think so I think that's really great. Uh moving forward, uh we we'll look forward to talking to everybody and having conversations and you know, uh tweaking is part of the budget process. So we'll we'll look at what comes out of that. I did want to mention that we are I mentioned earlier that um we're looking at a project well we've been looking at a Mil Creek storm water project for a while from Main Street to 500 West and really it's probably a little past 500 West because the city owns the property on Mil Creek past 500 West. Um but uh we have received a concept on that and we are looking at doing a uh public open house soon and we encourage anybody people to look forward to that. We'll send out a lot of information on it when we have the date and we'd like love for a lot of people to show up because we do think that this is a regionally significant project. regionally significant because it touches a lot of different aspects like the active

transportation aspect, parks aspect, um storm drainage and and several other things as well. And so we're really looking forward to talking to people about that. We have been um focusing on the immediate stakeholders in the area right now and been talking to land owners down there who live right on the creek or even own part of the creek down there and therefore part of the storm drainage runoff and looking forward to continuing those discussions and getting that in front of the council after we do have a public open house. I think I'm going to leave it there.

Thanks, Michael. Um moving on to city um Mayor and council reports. We'll start with you, Jason.

Um, so a few things come up. Um, on April 6, I attended the um the family support center openhouse. Um, and it was great. Um, also that day I had an airport board meeting um where they talked about um working on doing some refinishing out of the airport, you know, some recoding and stuff and um some big projects still going on at the airport. Um they said that the um the EAS contract which we had a letter of support for today um that the decision was would be between 30 and 60 days and they thought that um the DOT was probably on the six more on the 60-day end of it than the 30 days. So, so we're probably I think they said June 1st or something like that would probably be about when we'd have um a decision on that. Um I attended the celebration um with um all of you which was very well attended which was great. Um had a great time. Um, it was also great, um, being able to spend time with the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and, um, talking with them about water issues and how much they helped, you know, get the pile, which was which was great. And I'm sure you guys will have more to talk about with that as well, so I won't talk too much about it, but um, it was a good couple days with them. And then today, I had a travel council meeting um, where um, they did get a new director. Uh Mick Solletta um is the new director which is awesome. He's great. He's been there for a while. He's he knows what's going on. It's great to have him um have him there. And then they are also working on the next round of grants for events, you know, which um are due, I think June 1st, and then they'll um start, you know, going through those and awarding

them. I think last cycle they awarded about um about $80,000 worth of grants for to bring activity here. stuff which is great. And then um last week we had um Jeep Safari which was absolutely amazing. Um town was popping. You know, it seemed it was town seemed really busy but it seemed pretty low-key, you know. And um and um now that I said low-key, I feel like I have to say there's a lot of cool whips, you know. Um and drips. You proud of me? That you all right? You know, um but it was a um

that just went over my head. Yeah. Um yeah, a lot of sweet whips. Yeah. So many whips, you know. Um and um I thought town was great. It was there was a good vibe to it and it seemed like that um it wasn't out of control, you know. I don't know about like law enforcement end of it, but it was just a great week and it really um was positive and stuff. So, um and that's all I have. So, thanks Jason Tony.

Okay. Um on the 26th of March was the museum of the MOA museum's gayla. Um it was it was really well attended. They sold out. Um, I have not heard final figures about how much money they made, but they had some some really unique and interesting items up for auction. Um, dinner was good, good company. Um, it was overall success and I too attended the events for the removal. Um and it it was a good couple of days and it was interesting to talk to people but um had the same goals in mind but from a little bit different point of view and I also attended a Canyon Lands Healthcare Special Service District on the 9th and I was so tired I really don't remember. We

approved the RFP for the maps project. We did. We'll be talking about that on Friday. That's it. Is that it Tony? Yeah, Colin. Okay. I attended the Gayla also with Tonnie. Um, great event.

Uh, the thought I thought your picture approved that we we had just talked Jacques Cadler into spending way too much money on one of the uh, excursions and we're celebrating his victory in the uh, really fun event. Um on April 8th I I and April 9th all of the events leading up to the the 16 million ton celebration uh really fascinating and again the Metropolitan Water District I mean just to you know the just the scale of that operation and two billion dollar budget I mean just it's unbelievably impressive and to to have them sharing our our you know our our concerns over the Colorado River and and just that to have them in our corner is really really impressive. Yeah, great work, Joette. You know, the years and years that you've you put into that project and what a what an unbelievable success story in this community. So, thank you.

Um on the 11th this last weekend, we had the fourth annual spring spruce up. Um it was a a wonderful success. There were a lot of uh staff there. Alexi, thanks for making it out. Um, Lizzy, sorry you didn't make it out after you told me you were.

Um, sorry, shouldn't have done that. Um, but we did have about 90 volunteers uh spread out through about eight really great projects. Two within the city, one uh in Rotary Park, and then one in Anonymous Park. The the project in Rotary Park had like 25 volunteers uh planting trees and all sorts of shrubs. Um, so it'll be really neat to see that uh grow grow into maturity. Um, a lot of great work and then a lot of great weeding done at Anonymous Park. Uh, but I just can't stress enough. I mean, what an amazing partnership uh the city and THRIX have with this project and and we're just going to grow it and grow it and grow it. Um, because the the model is there and um, people were so enthusiastic afterwards and excited about the the great work they they did with this project. So, super proud of that. Um, I had trail mix today where we talked a lot about the wayfinding project where we'll uh I think we have meeting in a couple days or tomorrow. Um and then we also uh James and Lex, we talked a lot today in TRMIX about parkway safety and um you know I think at this point you know the trail mix committee which that these meetings have about 30 people and I think about every one of those 30 people now has a story of uh you know almost being run down on the parkway or not feeling safe on the parkway or avoiding the parkway at certain times. um just with the you know the explosion with all the electric devices and stuff and I know you know I I've been reassuring people that that our police department is is on it and and we'll see more enforcement out there and just more presence and uh but I just can't stress it uh you know this electrification that was supposed to save us from ourselves is is you know exploding so fast and evolving so fast and uh you know it's an an impossibly moving target but it is absolutely effective. um you know the feeling of safety as people are moving around this community

and so thank you for all the work you're doing and the work you will do. Colin, if I could just interject, it's not just on the park everywhere. I mean, I've seen these bikes come zooming around the corner right into the middle of the lane. I mean, somebody's going to get hurt and I've even seen little kids, you know, little kids on these electric bikes going across Main Street right across the middle of the road. And anyway, it is a concern that I'm starting to notice myself and I'm not on the Parkway that much.

So, my personal story, I I participated in uh a bike bus on the 10th on last Friday that'll be on every Friday. And I uh you know, I was riding a bike uh against my doctor's orders to just participate in this. And I I did it so safely. Um you know, it moved really slowly and it was actually easier to ride a bike than it was to walk. I was patting myself on the back as I was riding back to my home. Um, and I just crossed under Northeast and was riding right by Miles's house if some out there. Um, and I was coming along on the right side and somebody coming again uh in the bo opposing direction, probably going close to 30 miles an hour on the Parkway. Uh, didn't see me until the last minute. You know, after this great success, I veered out into the fence to avoid hitting them. So, rammed into the the fence on the side of the parkway. He went into the dirt. Um, you know, was able to correct and get back on the Parkway and then I just saw him shoot onto Northeast without ever stopping and head towards 191. And so, you know, here I am like smashed up against the fence with a broken leg trying to hold my bike up. and this guy

on your bike against doctor's orders. Don't forget. Yes. And so I, you know, it it it's real and it's uh and I have such an appreciation for how hard it is for you to to capture these these singular events, you know, but it uh you know, I would I would love to just see and I know now that we have the officers officers who have just been checked out on on the you know, on their new bikes, but I can't stress enough how important it is for for public safety to have you out there in the parkway. That's it for me. Okay. Caitlyn.

Um, on the second we had I went to housing task force meeting. Um, we walked through Melissa Jeff County has put together uh housing data dashboard which is piloted on the county's website. We're told it was pretty easy to find. I still haven't been able to figure out how to route directly to this page on there, but um but in large part of the work that Corey and Johanna put in to create the structure and how to pull information off of I works, Melissa has taken that and kind of created software to create a real pipeline um to show what what could happen all the way down to what is actually happening and how that aligns with housing goals and um projections in the housing plan. Um so I think still we're we're still workshopping that, figuring out the bugs, figuring out what information is needed, figuring out how city and county will continue to contribute to that over time to make sure it's updated. But I think it's going to be a really amazing, really easy to read tool for us um as elected bodies. Um and I'm really excited for you guys to see it. um which will come potentially. Well, it seems like task force is no longer presenting at joint meeting. So, okay.

But I I've seen it. It is good. Yeah. So, I think it's very cool. I think it's all our information. Yeah. It's mostly city information on like county websites or we're, you know, we're trying to get it a community resource, but you know how to access it, right? Did I hear you? I because I can forward Mel sent me something I can forward to you that links you directly to the dashboard. Yeah, I have I have it directly in order to communicate to the public. I can't tell you. Go to grandountutah.gov and Okay. Okay.

So, um we're not quite there yet. I do have it, but um so that'll be presented when task force presents to council um which be exciting. Um there's also a deed restriction committee with the task force that is starting to look at what other communities are doing and see how we can start bringing resources in. Um there's a a website committee that did a lot of work on mobhousing.com. So, if you go there, um, we've added some of the new projects like Lost Springs and, um, Desert Soul Villas and like all of these deed restricted or potentially deed restricted projects that are coming online are starting to be put on there and it's in a table form instead of like a really long scrolling process. So, if you have friends that are looking for housing resources, um, tell them to go to mobousing.com. There's a link for what's for rent Wednesday and also a much easier, um, page to go through a lot of the rentals in town. Um, so it feels very exciting. Um, events wise, also sharing from that, um, CR had their open house in San County on the 26th. They are actually having their restore event on the 18th and then the land trust or crossing is having a neighborhoodwide yard sale this weekend. Um so that's task force. On the 6th, I went on COD Talk on Kymu with Johanna um from the city and Brian Martinez from the county talking about um kind of what what city and county have going on, talking about this dashboard, talking about some of the city's housing goals and what what's happening here with the

city and where we want to go with some of our strategic housing goals. Um Brian actually taught me a new word, a new phrase. um which is Alice um asset limited, income constrained, employed as like a new category of like kind of the like workforce or like middle class. Um so that's

interesting. Just going to start using that. Um, and then on the 7th I met with I'm sure many of us received emails from Lost Springs. I did meet with them. Um, we'll see where that goes and talk about that. Um, but interesting to talk with them about some of their challenges and try and direct them to mobhousing.com and local marketing sources. Um, just trying to get the word out. Um on the 8th I attended a local homeless council meeting. Um was out so it was a quick meeting. Um I'd say one of the bigger things from that um pit counts were down the point in time count was down statewide. And as a response, um, the Utah State Homeless Services Board decided that they will not be allocating winter overflow funds going into this next year. Um, which I think is pretty devastating um, statewide. I know that that's been a really important resource here um for emergency shelter during the winter, especially for places like us that have no place otherwise for people to go except for emergency shelter. Um so it's interesting and then kind of today also attended a quarterly balance of state meeting. They talked a little bit about that and some of the transitions for housing to move to Goa or I guess go back back to god

go back to go um in July. So big change is coming. Um and then yeah filing ditto ditto kudos kudos kudos. Um, yeah. I mean, I think for me it's one of those moments of like, wow, I'm I feel so lucky to like be representing the city at this milestone and excited for us to transition into the next phase. So, thank you for your decades of work. Um, and that's it for me. Thanks, Kaitlyn Miles.

Um, so I will uh echo the UMPra thing. I went to those events as well. again, congratulations. And like it was really cool to see a project of that magnitude hit such an important milestone. It's been a fixture in our town for as long as I can remember. Um, and it's it's pretty amazing to see that all come together and to see how we made that project work. Um, really nice to meet the guys from the Met. um nice to know that they're interested in the headarters of the Rio Grand and what they can do to support us. Uh so I want to thank them from for coming down here and taking the time. Um otherwise I'm going to be short because uh most of my committees did not meet in the meantime but we did have the PNZ meeting. I think I spoke to uh the discussion of the sidewalk cur curb and gutter exemption. Um, but there was also a very lengthy discussion on some text change amendments to or potential text change amendments to C2 zoning um that I think are worth some significant consideration. Um, I'm not sure if the applicant is going to bring that to us or how that's going to go. Um, but basically the applicant was requesting a couple of amendments to how we do parking. Specifically, we've been granting a lot of parking exemption requests to people who are to businesses that are adjacent to our downtown projects that allow for extra parking. And so it solidified some of that and basically also allowed when there was a change in use, the parking calculation would essentially if you had one use and you had this many spaces, those same spaces would apply to the next use regardless of that use. So if that use required more, you'd still have

to come up with more. But if you had nine spaces in the previous office building use, when it became a retail store, you would be credited those nine spaces because if they existed for the office building, they exist for the retail store. Um that was all planning commission was on board with that. Um they were so C2 has a 25 foot setback and landscaping strip required on C2 uh on C2 zoning. um which is pretty considerable especially for small lot sizes. It leaves lot certain lots just completely unusable or damn near unusable. Um so I think there was a lot there was a very lengthy conversation about exactly how to approach that. The applicant was asking for commercial setbacks or zero setback. um planning commission felt that that was not completely appropriate particularly where C2 bordered residential um because C2 by by letter and language is meant to be a buffer between true C3 commercial and residential zoning. Um so there was a lot of discussion in regards to what we could do to or you know what's coming in the code rewrite and what we can do to uh make C2 more usable without leaving the intent of C2 behind and without unduly burdening the residential properties that border C2. So, I'm curious to talk to you guys more about that, but uh just kind of wanted to fill you in on that process. Um I think that's pretty much it for me.

Great. Looking forward to that discussion so we can talk about that in our small groups and then I'm sure it'll be coming before us at some point. Yeah, it feels Yeah. All right. Thanks, Miles. You're welcome.

Um for me, had a meeting with Certa um long meeting met with a gal named Laura Hefner. She was here, I think it was last year or two years ago, and she brought in some senior companions and we gave them, you know, some reward for all the great work that they do and and the senior companion program is now moved to the grant center. It used to be under the hospital, but it now it's at the grand center. Excited about that switch. It seems like they can build on that program a lot more. We're going to have a bigger discussion on Friday at our joint meeting about senior services in general and then update you guys on where we're at with the MAPS campus. um met with former mayor Emily Knee House and Michael and the chief to talk about the speed limit considerations that you guys will be have on your agenda at our next meeting. Um and I think that was very productive meeting with her and I know the chiefs followed up with her as well. uh met with commissioner chair Mel McCandless to kind of talk about the upcoming joint meeting this Friday and a lot of other issues uh that are occurring with the county that could impact us and how we can work together. Uh the UMPRA um deal was a big deal. I appreciate all your comments that pretty proud of that project uh to see it finally come to an close and it was great to have the metropolitan uh folks here from Southern California. It's a whole different crew although the chairman was back here in 2000 in 2004. So he understood the project from the very beginning when we pulled into the overlook that Jason was with me and and Michael and the whole group. They were just shocked to see 90 feet of dirt gone in the view of the city and the river. So, it was pretty cool experience for me to host them and particularly uh former Congresswoman Grace Npalitaniano. She was really the you know the person

that helped keep both sides together on this and you know truly was a bipartisan project uh project and we don't see that much anymore. So hopefully it'll come back someday where we can all work together. But that is a testament about how our community came together and got something done that was pretty much how are we going to get this done and we did it and we did it because we worked together. So we've got to continue that. Um I had a meeting yesterday with the Arches Shuttle Workshop group. They invited me to attend and I went. It was a very productive meeting. Um, and then following that meeting, uh, Brian Martinez and I met with Brian Cambria, who is the C Bryce Canyon shuttle operators in Bryce Canyon. So, that was very, uh, he would happen to be in town. And so, it was nicely um, coordinated for him to be here right after that workshop so we could get some feedback from him. And the bottom line is money. This is all going to come down to funding. I think none of us in this room think that having a shuttle at Arches is a bad idea. But the problem is, and it always has been, is how do we pay for it? And I made it very clear in the workshop that our position as as the city is to maintain our Matt transit program. And if there is a way that we could include a shuttle service from downtown to the Arches Visitor Center that's completely 100% sub subsidized and that could help offset some of the costs that we're going to be seeing here in a couple years with the Matt um that we we'd be interested in having that conversation. But before we even have that conversation, there needs to be a shuttle system within the park because there's no bring bringing people to the visitor center if they can't get into the park. But I just wanted to make it clear that that's the aspect that we're interested in however they want to get get the impart shuttle system going is really you know we want that to happen but we're not going to be able to

participate in that in any capacity including financially. So um there's another meeting coming up in a couple weeks and we'll see where that goes. And also as a reminder if anybody's interested in the Leo City and Towns uh spring workshop it's next week the 22nd through the 24th in St. George, I'm going.

Caitlyn's going. I'm going. Michael's going. If anybody else is go wants to go, follow up with Sasha so that you can um get signed up to go. So, um that's it for me and we will now go into close session. We have three items. If I could have a motion to go into close session to discuss reasonably imminent or pending litigation to discuss sale of real property and discuss the purchase, exchange or lease of real property. A motion to go into close session or or the discussion of sale and real property exchange of real property purchase and exchange of real property imminent or pending litigation

and imminent or pending litigation. Thank you. I closed my computer too soon. Motion by Miles, second by Colin.