City Council - Regular Meeting

my home page. I just have city council meetings. Oh, it goes right to that place on the website. Well, it goes to this page. [clears throat] Okay. Then you go to the date [laughter] either. I have to update because that was my problem. That makes it a lot easier. Yeah. Every time you said, "Hey, update redownload." You're like, "I don't need to." I'll look into it. Thank you.

All right. We'd like to welcome everyone and call to order the study meeting of the West Valley City Council this February 24th, 2026. We're beginning our meeting at 4:31 p.m. in the multi-purpose room of West Valley City Hall. We have all members of the council present. We have Councilman Hume online. We have council member Northelt, council member Wood, Council Member Wedstone, he is online, council member Kerman, Council Member Christensen, myself. We also joined at the table with our [snorts] city manager, Mr. Peely, and our city recorder, Miss Kamik. We have our minutes of February 10th, 2026. Turn those to the council for motion or discussion. Motion to approve the minutes of February 10th.

Thank you. I have a motion, a second. All in favor, please say I. I. And those stand. I didn't hear anything on there, but we'll just assume nothing is yes. Assume everything's good. Okay. Uh, so those stand approved. We'll [snorts] go to review of our regular meeting this evening. Was there any adjustments or changes? No, ma'am.

Okay. All right. Are there any questions from the council? [snorts] Okay. Seeing none, we'll turn the time over to Miss Kamik for awards, ceremonies, and proclamations. You may remember last year we recognized a student who received the National Merit Scholar from American Preparatory Academy. Um, another student from American Preparatory Academy has received that recognition as well. Um, the city's only National Merit Scholar this year, uh, meaning that they scored in the top 1% of high school seniors on the SAT. um only approximately 15,000 students receive that which is less than 1% of all the students in the country and also uh Jimmy actually received a perfect score of 36 on his ACT as well. So my kids picking his knowledge. Yeah. And that is extremely rare and fewer than 4% of all ACT takers receive that. So

pretty awesome awesome. So we'll just be recognizing him. Yeah, he'll be here next week. March 10th. Yeah. Is there someone that would want to read his his write up? Yeah. Perfect. Yeah. She his teacher sent me a nice write up. Where did he go? American Prep. Yep. The perfect score is crazy. That is real crazy.

Cool. Thank you. Okay. All right. We'll go to our public hearings and we'll begin with application Z10 2025. We'll turn the time over to Mr. Pastrick. So we have this first item is a zone change here just barely shy of a little home built on the property here on the west side built in 2019. You can see

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on the west, north, and east sides. It's all the same. And then to the south, we have condos infrastruct. So the zone on this one currently is the property that [snorts] requires And where this is just barely short. So the intent here is you can see where the defense line is in order to do that. Here's just a map showing the zoning the vicinity. So [snorts] you've got all eight and some south and then the a zoning that surrounds this on these three sides that project is actually PUB. So those lots are more in the 11 to 13,000 square foot range. So um if this gets split then two lots that would be the result would actually be larger than what's immediately around

Steve. So sugar plum is a PUD. It's still zone A but it's correct for the smaller. That's right.

Okay. Here's just a plat shows the dimensions. Sorry I know that's really small. [clears throat] Just some pictures. So um this is looking at the portion that's not developed. So right now there's just a fence around the the east portion of the lot. Here's the home that's on the west portion here. This is looking more toward the northwest. You see the homes just to the west development. This is looking east south. The condos are there on the right hand side. This is looking west. So again, condos now on the left side and homes on the right side. And then finally, one of the things that was addressed in the develer of the property did construct some detached structures in the back of the existing home without permit. And so one of the provisions we could agree is that these structures would be permitted before we issue per. So it's not that these structures couldn't be there. It's just they didn't get so structures. So um again there is a with this a development agreement where the applicant has proposed some standards for the new home 2500 square car garage and some other features but that pretty well summarizes this application.

Okay. Any questions for Mr. Pastrick? So back to that it shows the the undeveloped lot of the fence. Yes. It looks like there's a structure um [snorts] on it. The one right there. What's that? That was a lot behind. [snorts] Wow. That's a big structure. And the same with that small black roof there. And this overhead picture has a a car and something else. But

yeah, but if you look kind of to the east and north a little bit that has a big structure behind it, one of those houses. [snorts] So I think that's what you're seeing. Okay. Yes. There. Thank you. And are they thinking the house is going to be similar to theirs or they don't really have a plan for the front of the house at this point? They don't have specific [clears throat] plans for distract.

Okay. So, they committed to some some standards but don't have a specific Well, I've driven past that house a lot. It is a gorgeous house. really. I've always liked it. Okay, I don't see any other questions. Are there any online? No, ma'am. Okay. All right. Thank you. [snorts] And then we'll go to

Oh, yeah. Is the applicant here? Okay. So application CP GPZ12026 [clears throat] by Chris Los Capital and position and this involves 26 just over 26 acres of property at uh 5035 West Lake Park Boulevard and then also 2736 South Park Drive. So the request here is first to amend the general plan for medium density residential to high density residential change. [snorts] So we jump right in here. So this area in red outlines the the property in question. [clears throat] So just to again orient you have boulevard here running east and west drive which transitions to 4800 west. You have your Montel Academy here, Neil Arm Armstrong Academy that's here to the west and then you have the Lake Park purple, the Verizon building here. Just kind of again for reference and an existing [clears throat] single family neighborhood here in the hybrid development. So that is south and west. And again, just zoomed in here, the property is entirely vacant. Uh this just shows zoning. So again the yellow is the R18 zone. We have agriculture zoning to the north and portion the south. The blue uh in Lake Park is the business research park zoning. So we provided this map here just as a reference and just to kind of give you an idea I think

most are familiar with what uses exist. So this on the right hand side you have Banganger Highway on the left hand side you have 5600 West. So the green is the golf course, the blue would be office buildings which uh as you know many of those are now transitioned to more uh research and development for medical type uses. Uh then you have the yellow single family. The orange would be the darker orange would be apartment buildings you have here to the west and then kind of the lighter orange would be town home developments. The red is commercial where you have for example Target is down in here. There's also a few hotel uses kind of this darker red color here and here also in Lake Park. The purple being industrial to the north. So just you can see the bigger picture between Hyra which generally considered west of Lake Park [snorts] is here and then the lake here is [clears throat] a variety of uses between those two projects. And again, just for context, [clears throat] this area right here is the 26 acres we're we're talking about is right here. So, um there's a bit of history on this and so this is a little longer intro than than most. So to clear back in '08 when this property was first zoned R18, there was a proposal by Ivory Development at the time and Ivory's proposal included not just this property but the the subdivision that did get built to the south was so

and wasn't the property to the north as well. That was not it was not parted in that back to this. It was what I ended up developing was there's this town home development this one all the the single family homes and the development agreement included this but they never executed that.

Okay. So at the time that this proposal here included was 89 what they call parkside homes which are these was meant to be kind of small lot single family detachment um garages in the rear sort of alley alley access and then you had 69 towns again that never got built but that's what was approved in how many units total there were [clears throat] a total of 158

at that Then we had an application in 2023 by [snorts] Wasatch for a mix of [clears throat] town homes apartments and certain times but ultimately the planning commission recommended denial. The applicant at the time did not pursue going to council just essentially with the applications that never made it to council. And in 2024 this proposal was shown. So you have in this concept you have here north and east condo here. This was the surf. But in this proposal, it was more of a members only. It wasn't like open to the public. More apartments rental town homes and for once again went to planning commission. Planning commission recommended denial of this and they were through never went to city council. So um now to this concept which um this one was reviewed by planning commission and did at least majority of the planning commission ultimately recommend approving this with some changes and I'll talk about that here in a minute. So to um explain what we're looking for then you have one fivetory building here. Really the main difference between this building here is that you have like

the lease and office and the amenities on the ground floor of that one. Otherwise, it looks very similar to the other buildings. Um, you also have four rent town homes here in red, four cell town homes here, and then single family homes. It would be along Red Bridge and Sandwell here. One thing that the planning commission recommended and have been read to is that in this proposal, so numbering wise, you have 16 single family homes along the south side. Originally were 36 for sale homes here and 84 rentals and then total 236 apartments. In the planning commission's motion, they asked that at least half of the full homes be transitioned to for sale. So that's in the development 76 towns and 44 towns. So the end the end result is the the concept plan would change in that the the mix of four cell and four rent homes would be different what's shown in this bas also highlight here is that you do have a clubhouse a small rule [clears throat] large here. One of the things that the agreed to and even feedback from the residents was the concern about the pickle ball course maybe being too close to the neighborhood. So agre the agreement mentioned shipping those more central to the project and

just in terms of noise and away from the homes. Um there's also agreement about these town homes being set back at least 35 ft from these homes here and there's many many provisions in the development track some of the ones that that were discussed by planning commission. Another thing, originally there's the idea of having a walkway here between Sandville and the [clears throat] county and the concern we raised staff is we already know that the charter schools [clears throat] pick up the drop is not exactly

ideal. That's wild. So the worry is that if you put in a walkway, we've seen this in people to avoid the traffic on drive, they would drive down. So we basically said we don't want that. So that was one of the things that came as well and we can come back to this. Those are some of the some of the discussion [clears throat] points that came up commission. Uh these images help show [clears throat] just again the bird's eye perspectives. So you have this is Lake Park Boulevard here corporate park drive the fourstory apartments here on the perimeter the fivetory building the pool the rental town homes for town homes and then this green area here represents the single family homes along the south side. Just if I go back for a minute, I wanted to point out a couple more things for context. So, we're talking [clears throat] about this 26 acres here. Um, Mosatch also owns this roughly 13 acres here. They actually have submitted an application to set by this [clears throat] 8,000 foot lot. So, originally their proposal back in 24 was to do a PB on this [clears throat] small lot. They've since decided to just move ahead with just just 8,000 square foot lots which is currently zoned for that and so they're they're pursuing that. Also they're working on [clears throat] this piece to the south as being commission. [snorts] So we anticipate this property that wraps around the charter school be coming into council for reasons.

So just again for for context a lot of moving parts. Yes. Steve, can you go back to that? So those parcels are all gray but maybe they would be better off if they were yellow to show R18 or RE. Yeah. So sorry that I should clarify. So this is showing current land use. So gray mean vacant. Yeah. But yeah, zoning wise, um, this one's R18. This one's actually zoned agricultural currently, but they're requesting the RA zone to do single family on on this piece. Okay. Thank you.

Here's another one just again to orient everyone. So, you have Lake Park Boulevard here and the corporate park drives out in the distance. the apartments along the east and north sides full rent for sale town homes here full rent here and then the row of homes along the south side I mentioned earlier so this is 13 acres to the um to the west so this um again they're just doing uh R18 subdivision public streets just straight up subdivision and that that has uh [laughter] gone to planning commission. Steve, yes,

apologies if you wouldn't mind just speaking a little bit more into the mic. Some of the online folks are having a bit of a hard time. Sorry. [laughter]

Um the So now looking at the the actual specific product, so the fourtory units, these are renderings of the fourstory buildings on the north and east sides of the property. So these would have elevators and just a few other use of those. This would be the fivetory building. So I mentioned you'll notice the ground floor has lots of windows. So that's where you would have like the the fitness room, the leasing office, the amenity, the indoor amenities would be on the ground floor of this building and the uh the town. So there's several slides here that shows four five six unit configuration max. So for the single family homes they also have some standards in terms of size three car garage. The pictures here give some basically some concepts of what those homes could look like. Again, these would be for the homes south edge [clears throat] neighborhood. [snorts] So now some pictures this looking and you can tell these were taken taken not recently.

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So this is looking south of Lake Park. We have an existing access point. Uh this is uh looking north from Lake Park. So out in the distance you can see the industrial buildings there. So this is more on the west end of the property where you have the waterway along the western boundary and then there's existing trails that another waterway there bridge to the norththeast. This is on red bridge. So looking southeast as your the property question would be on the left here. [clears throat] Another one looking east. So here on the left existing neighbor on the right looking west on the left. [clears throat] So in your your packet there is a development kind of proposal and in that there's um got a few standards. I'm just going to go to that. So there's a section that deals with the development overall. So there's a cap on the number of units. There's language about parking. Um there's also language about the overall what I'll [snorts] call placement. So we at this stage we don't have engineering. It's a different concept. But the idea is that you would have your row of single [clears throat] problem. So the idea is sort of this layering idea. So you move the density further 2016. So that's addressed. Um that you would basically just be residential use and earlier proposals the planning commission saw included

some commercial use. This would just be residential. Uh, another thing that's addressed is the planning commission was concerned that and I think the neighbor as well, they didn't want to have um traffic from the apartments cutting like going south through the neighborhood. So, they wanted to direct all that traffic to Lake Park and Purple Park Drive. So basically the only thing that would access Redidge would be for sand [snorts] would be the new columns the new single family for town homes. Everything else would be essentially blocked for whether that's new landscaping buildings. You wouldn't be able to cut through that was another sticking point I think for planning commission in the neighborhood. gives you a section on single family homes in terms of the number, the size, some of the design features, materials. Same for the town homes. Um kind of again the mix of rental versus for sale, unit sizes, design, features, materials. Um same for the apartments, unit sizes, materials, design, amenities. There's a a section about the amount of open space, the a long list of amenities that would be provided. I can get more into more detail if desired, the language about the pickle ball courts being separated from the existing neighborhood. One thing I didn't mention I should go back to here is go back to the concept. Sorry, [snorts] a little bit [clears throat] buried.

[snorts] So as I mentioned earlier, drop off and pick off is uh what was always difficult or challenging not ideal

not ideal [clears throat] academy. [snorts] One of the things that's um they're proposing here that would require further coordination with the school and public works is to extend to extend the driveway in front of the school onto their property. Uh and the idea was to simply increase the the parking and the stacking area. So with the hope of maybe taking some of that traffic off the street. Um there's not been at this point a final approval from either the school or public works. And so while this is addressed in the development agreement, it um is worded such that if for whatever reason this doesn't work out either for the school or for the city, then that will just be landscaping, meaning that this area will just be landscape. So it's it's put in as a option if it can be if that can be worked out, but if not, then it would just revert to landscape. Steve, when I drive by there in the afternoons, the car [clears throat] stacking goes from Monaceel. It would cover the east entrance and [snorts] go all the way around and cover the north [clears throat] entrance. So both their entrances currently would be covered,

right? And so with with the accesses, of course, they wouldn't that would be a parking enforcement thing, right? We have to we haven't chosen to do that now. So, and they did put a crosswalk so parents could park across the street to the east of the school, but people really aren't using it a lot. And then Verizon blocked off their entrances, so parents can't go in there and pick up their kids either. So, it really does stack almost 90% of the time all the way back to that roundabout by Neil Armstrong. [clears throat] really

we did uh we had residents that expressed I mean traffic and stacking again largely from the school. Yeah. Yep. I mean there's really only one functional lane when it's drop off and pickup. And so for that much traffic to be on there I don't see it working. [laughter] Are all the roads private roads then in this development?

Glad you asked that. So um so these two streets here are existing public streets. So those would stay and they would access those. Um for the uh four cell town homes they are hoping to do and this is in the development do private streets because they'd like this to be gated. Uh and really there's not a way to do a a gated public. It has to be open. Now that said, I think it's it would be possible if if that was a sticking point, [snorts] it would be possible to redesign this at least for the four cell town homes that have a public street. Now, for rental products, we don't consider those private streets. It's just essentially all one parcel, right? So, there's no there's no association. It's just all driveway that's all maintained property. So I have I have several questions. First off, um what is the reasoning between by having the for rent town homes behind the single family homes and the for sale out on the road? Did they have a reason for doing that?

So I can let my understanding accessing the existing neighborhoods, right? So these are the homes here. So the full rent terms of flow the full rent would be accessing corporate park drive and lake park. But then the way it's drafted right now the four cell town homes would be the only thing that accesses the this existing street. That makes sense. Yeah. I I mean I don't like that. I don't like the for rent behind the single family homes. I don't know. I don't like that. And what's the how many stories in those for rent?

Are they four story? They're three. Three story. Looking you down into the single family home. The one thing I would [snorts] point out here too, and it's it's a little bit hard to see from pictures, is that this site, so from Samuel Drive, which is here, as you move north, the site falls about 8 feet. And um and so basically you're you're almost a whole level lower at this kind of in this area than you are the street. So at least I think in some ways that helps somewhat but and then um all the apartments around the perimeter are fourstory and the one in the middle is fivetory.

Correct. Yeah, I like that [laughter] if I want to be blunt there. Um, and then the single family homes. I like that. I like that it's tying into Hibberry. Did you have a lot of Hibberry people come in and comment during planning commission? We did. So, we had quite a few folks that that showed up. And again, it's the the commentary wide variety of things. There's a lot of comments about traffic, um, about the height of buildings, uh, desire for more single family homes. [snorts] again and in your packet there's attributions numbers from folks that have included those as well.

Yeah, it it was somewhat mixed. We had um at least one letter where a representative from the HOA mentioned that they felt like this sort of hit at some of their their concerns while others still had concerns. It was mixed. Yeah. And then that larger pool. Is it really a swimming pool? Yes.

Interesting. And then of course the traffic is just horrendous down there anyway. And adding this many people down there just going to make it more horrendous. Those are my thoughts. Ready for mine? So when this was first designed, um there were the out be right behind Kohl's town homes. Um and then you had the apartments in there. Yeah. And truly the whole concept was these smaller homes would be a good fit with the town homes and then across the street north. And this is when it was owned not by Ivory, but this was the concept that was given to the council to approve the whole development. And so then they were the large residential estates across the street to the north. So you had a better flow. Well, Ivory kind of did us dirty and did all the small condo type things. A few of these houses here and then they stopped. They didn't continue and do this part here and across the estate houses. And so with this as the bait, the estate h homes and then we got smaller, it was kind of disappointing to not see them finish it off. So the design and everything for Lake Park and Hibberry was for the 158 homes to go in here, not however many with the apartments and everything that's existing. So for the roads to handle it, then the charter school came in after and caused even more of a problem [snorts] with the stacking that drop off and

pickup that is really takes it down to one lane. It is very hard to get through there when school's getting in and out. So, I wouldn't want to go anything on this property more than like the 160 units period. I think this is just way overbuilt. Um, so much rental is another problem. The apartments, the housing, we need home ownership and these smaller homes on smaller lots would take care of that affordable housing in this area. And so I think limiting it to like 160 like this is what it's zoned for right now makes more sense to have home ownership, smaller, less expensive homes. And so seeing what was presented at the very beginning and then not having it completed like it was, it's feels to me like a bait and switch. And I know it's not the same property owners, but

Steve, does that um ivy concept does that show Monosel there? Monosel there. Um, so this is the school here and going way back. The idea was they would have expansion the school that never happened because that could take the stacking if we went back to that plan and take the stacking maybe off of Lake [snorts] Park and put it in that subdivision. Yeah. where it has the [snorts] that connecting road.

Yeah. And the homes to the south there, that's the sides of them, not the fronts. So, if they did stack in there, but I wouldn't want that with the current layout. That would be far too many people. But I know you said this, but how many how many units total the departments count on? And we show you the total on this is 368 including all of the apartments. Correct. That's that's everything.

Yeah. So I just the proposal [clears throat] and this go ahead.

How does the parking ratio compared to this case. count parking count. [snorts]

Look at you look at all the product that the apartments and the towns excluding the single family homes. The reason we exclude the single things they'll have their own parking charging. Um the code would require 951 stalls total. That's like town homes, driveways, all that. and there's 145. So they're they have quite a bit of cushion between the partners and the showing the concept. The other thing I point out, one of the challenges we have at Pinnacle had to do with them charging for parking. So in fact that Pinnacle is what caused us to change our code.

Yes. Because um essentially what happened is you you drive through the development and see open parking but people would use it because they were being charged extra living in the space. So we now have in the code you can't charge for parking outside of the rent basement when you pay rent you're paying. And do the apartments have is it all open parking? Do they have any underground parking? It's all surface park. Okay. All surface. Will has a question.

Will I apologize if you mention this but on the HOA are they creating a separate one or the existing HOA? My understanding is that the the town home development, the four town homes will have what would be their own HOA and then the existing single family homes and I don't know if there's need for one there because they're they will be accessing the existing public street. So likely wouldn't be needed there, but they if they wanted to make them part of the association, they could, but it's not necessarily require Hibbury itself, that subdivision has its own HOA. And then there's the all-encompassed HOA for the whole development [clears throat] as well.

Correct. One thing I'll I'll point out here too, this is another point that was discussed with commission. So this concept does show a public park here, small kind of pocket park and the idea from Apple was that could be a benefit not only for these existing in talking with parks they went out and just taking ownership of something this small and so it doesn't it doesn't comfortable accessible and internally how much grass area is it? Is it just the pool that's recreation?

So requires that so so taking this percentage excludes the city, right? If you look at everything else, uh they would have at least 50% of the site would be what's called landscaping recreation space and that includes things like firehouse landscaping those kinds of things. But they're not counting the landscaping in the parking. Correct. In in sorry in the parking they're not counting that. Well, the the land so any any landscaping does count towards that that 50%. Yeah. Although that I would say the landscaping.

Yeah. I [clears throat] guess I'm asking what functional green spaces there. Yeah. So it would be got the pickle ball courts clubhouse pool. All all this here is kind of the central area here. Then you notice these this is a small plan. This is actually pretty large west side and then some [clears throat] large. Okay.

And I think being gray makes them just look like parking instead of green space. [clears throat] Okay, I don't see anything from Tom or Will having any more questions. Any more questions from the council? [clears throat] Yeah. Oh, okay. Thanks, Tom. Yeah. I don't have any questions for Thank you.

[laughter] Okay, thank you so much. Yeah, so I didn't know if the applicant wanted to come up and clarify anything or does the council have any questions for the applicant? So, no count no questions from the council. If the applicant has anything that Mr. Patrick may have misrepresented or need to clarify take a couple minutes and do that. Council only thing [clears throat] I'd add you did a great job. Um only thing I'd add is the road traffic and [snorts]

um we didn't get a new one but the one that was conducted uh would be sufficient. Okay. And can you give us your name and Yes. My name is Chris Toronto address. No, just the what business you're with. I'm with Wasatch Group or Acquisition Capital. Okay. Thank you. Questions? Any questions? Okay. Thank you.

Okay. [clears throat] Seeing nothing else, we'll continue with the past show and go to application ZT6 2025 Jordan River overlay. ask you. Is there anything that I could provide for your meeting next week to help clarify any other concerns? I think you're good.

So, this is a proposal by city staff to make a change to our Z. So we have uh or we have had the Georgia since 98 and fast forward to 2017. [clears throat] We did a lot of clean up at the time. The idea was there were sections of the code that were so we tried to go through as part of that clean up in 2017 and just do a clean At the time we did that clean up in 2017, [clears throat] the city was in involved in litigation on property that's within the network. [snorts] So because of that, we didn't want to wire and change. So we just left it as it was. Now after many many years and years a pleasure, we are now done with [laughter] that application. And so we really are just this is really a cleanup item to address this particular section code to get rid of redundancy and get rid of language that leaves either subjective or in some cases just it's you know we would like you to do this or you know maybe you can do that sort of thing. So um this just as a reminder this slide shows the extents of visuals that that won't change. It really is just um just doing cleanup. So the intent to change the standards but more have the standards be [clears throat] aligned with everything else that's in the code. So let me give you an example. You know, we have standards and thereabouts um landscaping and parking and design requirements that now are addressed in other sections of the code.

Since this was put in place back in the late 90s, we've had many other changes to the code that now address [clears throat] the [snorts] code. It has a section on appeals. Now we have a section that deals with appeals just across the board. [clears throat] So, it really is just the fact that this was not updated back in 2017 then because of the limits. So, again, I'm happy to get into more of the weeds if you'd like, but it really is more to clean up. [clears throat] Any questions from the council? So, is this the original boundaries? Because I noticed the is the veterans hall or veterans memorial not in this overlay zone.

Yeah. So this is and I I have to go back and do some research. I think the original one didn't extend all the way to Redwood, but down in this area I think at some point we had an expansion out this direction. So it had naturally carved out the memorial anyway. Okay. So I don't see any concerns. I don't see any online. Okay. Thank you. All right. We'll go to our resolutions and we'll turn the time over to Chief Evans for resolution [clears throat] 26- 24, execution of a cooperative agreement.

This agreement comes about every year. It's with the fire forestry state lands. Um what this is uh by saying this we do some mitigation work. Uh when I say we uh probably 90% is [clears throat] public works and dam uh some mitigation efforts along the river and other places with us doing that. We sign this agreement if we have a wildland fire. This agreement says that the Forest Service will come in and say no charge. Uh for instance, I'll tell you a helicopter drop with the bucket is about $25,000. So by us doing this, that's free. They don't send us. So it's a cooperative. I think we signed it for the last probably five years.

Is the part of the maintenance the fragway being take down? Yeah. Okay. Thanks, guys. So, the investment in that piece of equipment is saving us will save us money if there's a fire. Yeah. Will save us a lot of money if there's a fire. Okay. Any questions from the council?

Thank you. All right. We'll now turn the time over to Mr. Johnson for web design and support services contract. Hello, Mayor and Council. Um, we talked, we mentioned this last week, but we are in the process of going through a potentially a new website for West Valley City. This um, we have had 58 RFPs return to us of wanting to take on the work. And as I mentioned, one of them was for $15 million to do our website. Um, in the best interest [clears throat] of the city, I recommend we tax [snorts] it. [laughter] They include a new city hall included on

which is true.

This is kind of a little review of how our website has changed over the past two decades. It [clears throat] was an in-house design back in 2007 before 2007 and then we switched to Civic Plus. Civic Plus is a large government website provider. Um they are very good in security. They have a very um fairly pleasing look to their websites, but you know it when you see it with Civic Plus. Uh we kept with them for a while and we've hit a point where we think it's time to move on from Civic Plus for a variety of reasons. One of them is that their price kept going up. We've been battling for a few years on fighting the price. We've seen that change now, especially with their latest proposal. So out of those 58, we went through a variety of things. Everything from ability to meet ADA compliance, which is now a federal law that's happening this spring that makes it easy for people that have whether it's it's eye issues, hearing issues, all of that. We have to be ADA compliant this spring. And so we have worked very hard on that. Other cities are scrambling right now. One of the things that was a big issue for us is this new website has to has to do that. And uh the ones that we looked at would so the other things that we did we had part of the proposal they need to come up with a schedule that we were able to judge if they were able to do it in time the quality of their portfolio an AI powered search and cost competitiveness and value. These were the three companies that we settled on based on those criteria. uh revise they are they do government websites but they have a variety of designs which we have not seen from other government companies. They were able to do the accessibility and their price was on the

lower end of everybody that we looked at by a fairly decent margin. Planetaria was interesting. They have a lot of experience in all of it, but their designs were more uh were more static and did not have a variety. It felt more like a government website. Tandev had very little government experience, but they had beautiful websites and we appreciated their designs. They didn't provide really any ongoing information on how much the website would continue and cost [snorts] to operate moving forward. Um, so [clears throat] I am coming to you. Here are some of the different designs. The planetary one, as you see, is is a static design similar to what we have, which is a nice look, but we're trying to take it kind of to that next level of of government websites. The TAND was beautiful. Uh we just had a lot of concerns about well first off what was going to cost moving forward which they did not provide but also uh could they handle the security issues that we need met for a government website. Reise met um and the design we felt was one that uh was fun interactive but also kept a lot of the structure that our current website has for people to be able to find things. We would just want to make it easier. So there will be AI involved in this to help people find their pages. The search features should be much better than what we currently have as well. The cost, so as we looked at staying with Civic Plus, the cost was going to go up on annual maintenance up to, if I remember right, up to 30,000 and beyond. The revised company has locked us in at about 21,000 a year for the next four years, which is a pretty fantastic number based on everything that we've seen moving forward. So that is our recommendation. Uh we had a

[clears throat] website redevelopment team that went through it and then we presented it to EO and to John and our recommendation is to go with revising. This website will be ready October 1st as long as we uh as we go through the approval process and everything that is the plan. [snorts and clears throat]

Um Councilman Wstone has a question. I think you may curious that the the AI search technology would include searches on um so any more code from enforcement or somebody had a question on whether or not something was allowed they could easily type in non zoning language and be able to identify that uh regulations. That is a great idea. I do not know the answer, but I will follow up for you council member.

Thank you for that. And um I'm sorry, did you have another question?

No, thank you. Thank you for that suggestion. Council member, thank you for your idea on I do not have that for you. I will get that for you within the next week of the top viewed pages of our website. Thank you. [snorts] As I mentioned, [clears throat] for those that did not hear, our website in the past, the top views have been or the top searches uh are often our police and fire pages, which they have their own pages within our website, but pools and uh pets are very common searches. So, are they asking how many pets they can have or just in general questions about pets?

I think it's a lot of adoptions. Okay. And sense and employment I know is always good. Okay. Any other questions? Okay. Thank you. [clears throat] Okay. Um, with these [snorts] two resolutions, would you like to move any or all to the consent agenda for the March 10th [snorts] meeting, regular meeting? I think it'd be okay to to take these separately. Yeah. Yeah. Because we don't have anything else on consent. Yeah.

All right. We'll now go to our communications. We have our fraud risk assessment. So, I'll turn the time over to Council Member Norfeld as the chair of the audit committee.

Thank you. Yes. Um, our audit committee met this month to receive the report from our uh our external auditors. And uh I have uh have the report here. It's part of our annual comprehensive financial report. I'll leave this in in my mailbox if anyone wants to to to borrow it for some good reading or a door stop. [laughter] You can also access this online and and and [snorts] read about it. Um but uh they our CPAs at KNC, they worked very hard for months going through our books and and reviewing our processes and uh and kudos to our team here. They didn't find any any um there were no findings that that that gave them concern. and um our our team has some wonderful policies in place and they're being followed [clears throat] and uh and it was it was a clean audit again this year. So, good job to to Jim and and the whole staff actually. So, uh, Jim's going to go through the fraud risk assessment form that we have to do every year for the state auditors, but nice work, Jim.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Um, [snorts] you know, it's interesting. Our audit committee. It's relatively new in the operations of the city and and there was some debate as to whether we should set one up, the benefit that would be be involved with it. But uh I think it's been very beneficial. It's nice to have the elected officials and the others that volunteer to serve on the committee to help us make sure that we have some objective eyes and and the opportunity to sit down and go over the audit in detail. Um we do take this very seriously as Mr. Norfeld mentioned. Um the uh handling of public funds is very sensitive and it's very important and the tone of auditing control and um and watching after the assets of the city is something that we do take very seriously and that the public takes seriously. So the fraud risk assessment was actually uh composed by the state auditor's office and they used a couple of resources for putting this together. One is the KOSO or the committee for sponsoring organizations of the Treadway Commission and they put together standards and guidelines for detecting fraud, abuse and waste. And then they also drew together what's called the green book and that's by the um government accounting office. and they uh put that [clears throat] information they put together this list of items that we do each year to review and make sure that uh at least we have the basics of control. So, the first item, and I think, yep, I'm over the top of that. You move. There we go. The first item has to do with internal controls, and is there a separation of internal controls? Most fraud that occurs in public organizations and all organizations for that matter has to do with lack of separation controls. So on the score

that they give for this survey, they award 200 points for uh each of the items that are included in that um in internal control. Now internal control refers to the uh separation of duties. So making sure that the person that receives the cash is not the same person that does the accounting entries. Uh they also make sure that they the person that's receiving the cash or making the accounting entries can't write off funds to or make adjustments to customers accounts. They also make sure that if you're reconciling the bank, you're not bank accounts, you're not the same person that's receiving the cash. So [clears throat] it all has to do with separation of responsibilities. In all of these items, we do have controls. We have procedures in place to make sure that we have adequate separation of duties. In some instances, um, we may have people that for, for example, receive cash at the fitness center or at some of our other entities out there. We try and provide them with training. We'll provide them with support and then we also require reports from them that come to our treasur's office where all the who's responsible for receiving all funds that come into the city uh can review those transactions. if there's any kind of discrepancy [snorts] between the bank accounts and the deposits that comes in and the reports they send us, [clears throat] they're immediately notified and we ask for a response. And so they're very good about that. Uh if there's continuing issues where we see problems with uh where the statements don't reconcile, we will ask for corrective corrective plan and they provide that to us. So as far as basic separation of duties, we feel like we do pretty well there. Let's see the the other items have to do with uh things like for example our governing body. Do we have conflicts of interest? And Eric just went over ethics

training. I think it just a couple weeks ago and he talked about disclosure [clears throat] areas where we might have a conflict of interest. Um our procure procurement processes. Um are we able to track all of the purchases that we make? Um we have a statement of ethical behavior. We [snorts] train our employees to not only be ethical in their own transactions but also look for ethical uh behavior according to their own with their with their peers. So it's about creating that over that sense of overview that culture of trustworthiness and also looking in a critical eye the way that we handle things so we minimize that risk. We have policy set up for each one of these items. Um we have a way to report fraud and abuse and that's down there on um uh number seven. [clears throat] Having a fraud [snorts] hotline is very important. Uh according to the state auditor's office, 40% of the fraud that is detected is done through hotlines. So it's that important with us. Um we do have a hotline that shows up on our front page. You go to our website, you can report anonymously. Uh that hotline has an immediate uh response by an email that comes to both the city attorney and myself. We review those and we investigate those with the appropriate agency in the city and then we report those if we have them come up with our audit [cough and clears throat] meetings. In the last year, we did not have any instances that were reported that need be reported to the audit committee. [clears throat and cough] See, [snorts] um I'm sort of pleased to say, and I say sort of because I I want to make sure that nothing's happening out there that would be untoward with public funds, but uh we haven't really had anything come up in our our hotline. The items that have come in and been

reported have typically been complaints with um human resource issues or somebody is dissatisfied with the way another employee was treated. Those are still also investigated and looked at especially with the city attorney's office [clears throat] and they have not come to level where we felt like they needed to be addressed with with further action or we're or reporting the committee. So thank you very much. Um on the score we we feel like we do comply with all of the items that are on here and I'm must say that this is expected to be a baseline or a basis for internal control. So it's not expected to be the end all be all. So just because we get everything here doesn't mean that we're doing everything possible that we can to detect from it [clears throat] from happening. We want to preserve employ employees jobs. We want to preserve the integrity of the city and the elected officials. That's why this exists and we go above and beyond these controls. Um we didn't score a perfect score. Perfect score would be 395 points and we scored a 375 and that's because we do not have a formal employee as an internal auditor. We do have mitigating controls that uh we actually have um in our accounting accounting department we do perform the internal audit function where we go out we regularly audit cash we audit the procedures that u all the transactions that occur. We just felt like in the discussions with our city manager and with our committee that um given the procedures and the mitigating controls we have, we really couldn't justify hiring somebody to come and do that. So with that, we present the fraud risk assessment to you. Um after this presentation and this review, uh the city manager and myself will sign an acknowledgement that we reviewed it and this is accurate to the best of our knowledge. We'll turn that into the

state auditor's office. Any questions for Mr. Welch? You guys do a great job every year. So, thank you. We sure try. Thank you so much. Okay, we'll turn the time over to Miss Young for the parks master plan update.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. Um, I would like to u turn the time over and introduce you to Lisa Benson. She is our project manager from Landmark Design. Uh, she's been uh our our uh champion for getting this master plan, parks and recreation master plan completed and has been keeping us on task and and following up on things and [clears throat] has performed a lot of surveys. So, she's going to go through kind of where what we've done already, where we're at, uh, kind of what their what their preliminary recommendations are, and then in the next probably 30 days or so, we'll have an opportunity to review the total plan as as staff, and then we'll bring it to you once we we kind of have the final plan reviewed. But for right now, I'll turn the time over to Lisa and then uh we will be available for questions at the end if you have questions throughout the presentation, but at the end as well.

Okay, coming up. you just scroll through the the plan of your materials there.

Um, thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight. We're really excited to give you a briefing on where we're at with the parks and recreation master plan and I'll fly through some of these slides so we can spend a few time on a little more time on some of the ones that are a little more detailed. Um, as Jamie mentioned, we're in the plan development stage and we plan to have that to staff by the end of March and we'll go through and get that out um [clears throat] to leadership to review and give you a more detailed briefing. So, the plan will begin with an introduction where we look at demographics, all that background information. Um, we have some key core elements, you know, parks and wreck, um, RS, trails, those sorts of elements. We are doing a high level look at the parks and wreck operations and then we have an implementation chapter at the end that will pull it all together with costs and actions. Um the the community engagement processes for this planning effort was a community survey. It was a statistically valid survey conducted by Y2 analytics. There were 600 survey responses. You can see the distribution of responses throughout the community on the colored map there by council district. And we had a 4% margin of error. I'll just go through a couple of key results from that survey. Um, so right now the community generally somewhat or strongly agrees that the city provides um adequate parks and recreation opportunities and facilities. You can see there at 56% um somewhat or strongly agreeing with jobs right [clears throat] now. Um and it's really important for residents to have parks within walking distance of home. You can see here that you know 74% of residents prefer to have a park close to home that they can get to easily. Um we had a hypothetical budget question where we asked residents to allocate $100 to their top priorities and you can see the results here. Um safety measures increasing safety [clears throat] measures in parks and recreation spaces and then also providing new facilities,

amenities, um children spaces. But right under that um is also increasing the maintenance and making improvements to your existing facilities. So those are kind of really strong priorities that stood out from community members. When we asked about specific facilities here you can see probably not a surprise splash pad. Um additional parks [clears throat] and dog parks and additional restrooms are of interest to the community kind of in that top tier. And then we also touched on connectivity. Um, and the bulk of residents feel a little connected and they're definitely interested in feeling more connected to the city and then also to their neighborhood. And we did have some additional follow-up questions to that. Um, and some of the items that teased out of that for those that don't feel connected. People want to have more events and they also want to have more connectivity, walking and biking. And so that spills over a lot into parks and recreation in general. Um you can see there citywide there's a concern about um traffic being issued for poor connectivity in the community and this ties back into the results of the POV survey that was conducted um in 2025 as well. Again you know safety maintenance those are you top concerns for residents but then also wanting to see additional amenities and some connectivity issues uh throughout the community. and then looking at kind of top priorities of residents again beautifification and cleanliness. Um but city parks and open spaces fell within that top tier within that survey as well. So it is it is [snorts] important and it's um helpful to see some consistency from the community through those results. Um, as I mentioned, demographics, we take a look at this usually to see where you're at and where you're projected to go and because you're almost built out um [snorts] population projections are a little bit tamer than we see in a lot of

communities along the Wasatch front. Um, so you can see by 2050 you should be around 159,000 residents. You are aging and you can see the graph there on your your median age and then also the percentage of youth in community is declining over time. So that just tells us that we need to balance resources within the parks and recreation system in a variety of looking at the parks and open space system. Um we got into a lot of mapping and analysis with your existing park system and going out and inventorying all of your parks and the individual amenities within those. And then as part of that we conducted a park conditions assessment. So we went out to each park and assessed the site furnishings, playgrounds, um you know even landscaping and and looking at conditions on site, what recommendations are. So we scored everything and out of that we've come up with a list of tier one and tier 2 projects and some time frames associated with those to help address some of the deferred maintenance issues within your existing park system. Um there are two key analyses that we typically do for parks and recreation. Um, one of those is looking at level of service and that's a ratio of park acres per thousand residents. [clears throat] We typically only include your traditional parks, um, regional, community, neighborhood, and local parks as part of that and also parks that the city owns and controls. U, we have some linear parks within the city that don't necessarily meet traditional recreation needs. And then the county parks also help supplement needs definitely, but since the city doesn't control those, we don't necessarily look at that as part of the [clears throat] city level of service. So when we calculate out your existing park level of service, your current population and your park acreage, you're sitting at 1.6 acres per thousand residents. And the first question that usually follows that is where do we sit in relationship to other communities? And you can see in the chart on the left

um that you're bottom of [clears throat] this particular list, but um it's not too surprising because you are so built out and it's really common as communities continue to build out and develop that level of service tends to drop because you have so many competing resources that you're trying to direct to a lot of different areas. Um but that said, it is definitely pretty low. Um and so moving forward, we settled on a future park service ratio of 2.4 acres per thousand residents. So we're trying to bump it up a little bit but not go extreme. Some communities kind of make preparation their their main focal point and so they'll really bump it up like St. George for example. But um using two 2.4 4 acres per thousand people into the future. If [clears throat] we look out to 2035 and take your existing acres um out of that total need, you would need 142.3 additional park acres to bring the city up to that 2.4 standard. But um as shown in the chart on the bottom of this slide, you already have 95.9 acres of land marks. So this is land that the city already owns. So that's a big save cost savings. Um dedicate that money to de develop those out. But beyond the 95.9, the city still does need an additional 46.4 acres to help meet that level of service by 2035. And I should mention to you that this is just aspirational. It's not, you know, this plan doesn't hold you to meeting that. This is just something to target. And this plan is hopefully expressing that vision of of where the community wants to go. So meeting needs between 2035 and 2050, you would need another 12.5 acres of parkland by that time. Um this was an interesting assessment of the city. We broke it down by district

[clears throat] by council district. And so we looked at the number of parks, park acres, residents per park acre. So that first column in orange, you can see park district or council district number two has, you know, nearly 4,000 residents um per and that's significantly different from the other council districts and that's all the park level of service. So that's that loss ratio of you know parkers per thousand residents. You can see again how significantly lower that um number is for district two. Um you can see that districts one and four are also fairly low. They're both at one. And then in that final column, you see how the county parks kind of bump into that because we recognize that there are a lot of county parks that do supplement the need. that just kind of brings that into play and tells us helps paint the picture of how that supplements those parks and recreation needs and district 3 is doing very well. [snorts] Um we also look at distriution. So again that's that bringing in that factor of having parks close to home. People like to have parks that they can walk or quick drive if they need to. [clears throat] Um so this looks at the park distribution and this is by so local parks have a quarter mile radius, neighbor parks have a half mile, community parks have one mile and then reg. Anything [snorts] that's shown in dark gray here is a residential area that doesn't have access within one of those service um radi. So you can see again district two has some significant gaps and some pretty big needs and that's followed by district one and then district four beyond that. So when we factor in those currently planned parks that's on that chart I was telling you the 95.9 acres when we develop all of those out you can see the difference between those two

maps how that really helps fill in the gap. So, it's really critical to get those parks constructed, but you can still see the gaps um within district 2 and district one in particular. Um so, we are proposing some additional um community parks and neighborhood parks to help supplement that need. And this also looks at some of the barriers, you know, because you are divided by three major north south, you know, freeway, highway. So, that's part of it, too. We're trying to make sure that people have parks within walkable distance of their homes. Um, so the plan dives into park standards as well. So this kind of sets an aspirational minimum for the different park types. It's not saying every park should look the same or have the same amenities. This is just trying to give you a baseline. This is also really important when you have private developers coming in and wanting to provide a park to the city. So this gives you some guidelines you can base some of those conversations on. [snorts] And then we also looked at community [clears throat] level of service, you know, how many per basketball court or how many residents per pickle ball court and what those needs are out to 2035 and we didn't want to go out beyond that because we know that recreational interests change rapidly. So going going 10 years out is enough at this point. Um, another consideration we're looking at is amenity distribution. You know, not just how many amenities citywide, but where are they located and how are accessed in some of these. We're doing the same for recreation facilities, looking at where those amenities are and making sure that everybody can be served. Recreation, [clears throat] we're also taking a look at some of your programming and how that's trending, what the capacities are. And in the survey is really helpful for this aspect to hear about what people want to see in the future for additional programs, community events um and arts and cultural amenities and facilities as well. So we're looking at distribution of those facilities and

again what the community interest is some of those um trails. We [clears throat] have a proposed trail network here. So this documents your existing and proposed trails and what we've done is create a network of regional trails and those are shown in those the darker [snorts] red. This is kind of the spine of your network. And then the pink trails show connections to neighborhoods and to parks within your neighborhood. So that gives that fine grain, you know, local trail network. And it's not always going to be a separated trail. Sometimes it's just going to be a sidewalk or to help people understand, you know, where the parks are, [clears throat] where they're at, and just give a little more welind to the community so they know about your resources. Um, so you can see right now the city has 35 miles of existing trails, and this plan is proposing an additional 49.2 um for a total of over 84 miles of build out, but again, some of those might not be full-blown trails. Um, and then implementation. So, so [clears throat] kind of big picture takeaways that we're looking at. Um, you know, addressing those safety and maintenance concerns by residents um balancing upgrades to parks with the development of new parks and amenities. So, people want to see some love giving to what you have, but also balance that continuing to make those future needs. Make sure you're balancing that with the future demands. Um, and that goes along with filling gaps and then connection. So, these these are just a few um costs extracted from what we're developing for the implementation chapter. Um looking at filling gaps. Um [clears throat] we have developing planned parks in uh district 2, acquiring and developing the proposed parks in district 2 and district one. again, kind of some of those high needs areas, facilitating connections,

um, addressing safety and maintenance issues that can come through addressing the lighting upgrades that we're recommending for your park system from and those come out of that conditions assessment that we conducted. Some of those parks have needs to upgrade what you have and some [clears throat] additional [snorts] lighting. Then we also are recommending some lighting and safety improvements along trails and those are typically recommended along your regional trails, those more major trails. Um, and as part of this project, we also brought on an architect to conduct a facilities assessment. And so Spironomi architects went and visited I think six facilities total. So fitness center, the cultural center, the pools, the the golf courses. And so they have specific tiers of improvements that came out of their study as well. So implementing their their level one improvements, you can see the general cost for that. And then um upgrades for new parks and amenities. You can see meeting park standards and um some of those key so there is some continuity between what we're recommending for park standards um what came out of the amenity level service and then also what people are requesting in the survey. So you can see splash pads, dog parks, and you know, restrooms. Those kind of standard and meat amenities level service, and they're also of high interest to the community. Um, and the tier one projects that came out of our park conditions assessment. Those are ones that we're recommending to be dealt with maybe as soon as possible if you can. Um, and then there's another tier that we're recommending that you try to tackle within the next five years. Um and just a little more detail on the playground out of that conditions assessment just looking at playgrounds for example these are some of the the ones that were up top concern and when it comes to the tier one projects for

the park conditions assessment um I think for significant deferments in some of those parks so there are a lot of balancing needs and concerns we understand that but we're hoping to kind of give you a big picture um understanding of everything in the system and maybe a way to start tackling some of that. So, and we'll have all this wrapped into a Thank you. And if you have any additional questions. Thank you. [clears throat] Okay. [snorts] Any questions from the council?

Um it doesn't look like this is including um the three buildings we just purchased, church buildings that could be park use. Also, um I think we did include the the acreage at the lighthouse church, the park acreage. We did not include them as recreation facilities because that's not necessarily their primary purpose, but we did include the park acorage at the at the um lighthouse CRC, not a church anymore. It's a community resource center. Need to change that in my head.

There are a lot more costs beyond this. This is just a few of the key ones to start. And we added the playground specifically because that was a topic of conversation at the retreat uh uh over the weekend. And so I wanted to make sure that we talked about some of the specific uh playgrounds that we that we would uh certainly take on as as as top priorities to get the level the level of maintenance up to where where we want it to be in the in the parks. These are geographically spread through the city as well. Can you remind me what what what district has the lowest level of service? [laughter] That's yours, sir. Oh, man.

That's all I'm going to say. Great. I think this is great. A lot of good information. I'm looking forward to seeing what you recommend for priority. Um, I mean, we all know that it needs attention,

you know, and as we went through this, uh, when we first started the process, we had a lot of conversations with Craig about his department and the cultural center because it really definitely ties in. I mean, they're not part of our department, but what he does and what we do are so closely tied and the facility that he has as a another public facility. So, we did include that with the art and the uh the programming that happens at the cultural center, but that's also a park. Uh so so it really is is a little bit more than perks administration but but we thought that that was an important piece to add. It was uh it's certainly part of what we do and so much of of our interaction with residents want to cross over with uh neighborhood services and uh the CRC's and what we do as well.

So in the final report will we have all of our vacant land that are planned for parks and what is recommended at each one? Um, as far as amenities, we not necessarily specifically at each park, but kind of a general uh these are amenities that we probably need more of, and then we'll determine where the best places based based on the regional uh distribution of those amenities. So, if we need seven more basketball courts, we're not going to necessarily put them all on property. We'll we'll spread them through through the the other development so we can meet that level of service, but have it spread throughout the the council districts. And then um did we look at programming the green space at the cultural center?

Um we have over the years a little bit it's it's a uh the grass is not necessarily a sports surface. We have other opportunities for programming there but but sports is hard on the grass that the water table's so high it's also very squishy. Oh too squishy.

Yeah. So the the cultural center grounds is not a great place for recreation. Um but but as we as we develop some of the other park uh park space that we currently have there there will be a lot of opportunity for that. And then out by Diamond Summit I saw that Diamond Summit is the dark gray but we have load stone stone right next to it. So I was wondering why the county park would not backfill that if because I don't see a need for a city park next to a huge county park. So why that was all dark.

Yeah. And we actually do have more maps that factor in the county parks and kind of layer that in. So yeah, we're trying not to duplicate that. And if we kind of have any overlap, we'll make sure that to avoid those areas. Okay. So in the final have more comprehensive Yeah, there's a lot showing that that's really not a a dark space. Okay.

Yeah, there were two distribution maps. One that included the city or the county. So the the previous one did not and then the other one uh included the county parks but including stone. Yeah. So that one did include the county parks as well. This did not include anything with the schools that we've had conversations about because of course that's not something that that's a done deal. But that that would help in some of these areas as well. Some of the districts that are underserved like Mr. Harmon.

Well, but you know district two I [laughter] I hung out at um Academy Park. you know, we we played at the school properties and whether we're supposed to or not. So, it's not like we're we're feeling bad for ourselves and sitting in our, you know, chased off, but we have a we have a great space in your district that we want to get developed. Brock feels it'll be great to to develop and neighbors would love that. They they keep asking when it's going to be developed and so I I keep saying I hope before other parks but we'll see.

Well, based on this it shows that you have a an area of need certainly. So one of the parks I'm trying to remember was like acquired in 1999. Is it going to have a priority over the ones that were acquired? That's the Maple Meadows. Maple Meadows. It's a tiny little maybe quarter acre. Okay. Is that Yeah, [clears throat] like 26. Is that a half? It's bigger than so much. Okay. Double a quarter. [laughter]

Way bigger. But but I [clears throat] don't know. It looks It's kind of in a a weird place and small. Those halfacre parks are are quite expensive, you know, on the per acre cost to develop. But having this now, we we definitely will develop it in conjunction with the broad property. Okay. because I just think, you know, the ones that have been waiting a lot longer than the new acquisitions just because the others the new acquisitions are louder. I don't think they should just be done first. I think they need to be done kind of in an order that the subdivisions were finished, but that's just my that's why we're having independent person give our priorities.

I think we'll take all that into consideration when we acquired it, but also the the areas of the city with the biggest need that are that have fewer fewer amenities in them. Certainly acquisition of the property is a is an element of of what we would choose to move forward with first. And the plan will recommend some policies like um establishing a minimum park size. We typically recommend three acres minimum so that it's a lot easier for maintenance. Um making it more efficient to go around to those properties. Um and then also recommending acquisition as soon as possible. Even if you know some of these parts you have to sit on for a few years, you're always saving yourself a lot of money in the long run to be done. Okay, thank you. Thank you.

I don't see anybody else raising their hands. So,

okay, time over to Mr. Johnson for a legislative update. While he's walking up, Sam's been doing a really good job being up in the capital, meeting with the league quite often. So, thank you for all your hard work. I appreciate that. Thank you. I appreciate you when you uh come up and are always available by texts and phone calls. Um we have eight days to go in the session. The final day is next Friday, [clears throat] which is March 6th. We currently have 598 House bills and 326 Senate bills. That is a lot. I have read through every single one of these. [laughter] I wanted to go over just a few of them. I know we don't have a ton of time, so I'll go through a few. Um, feel free to jump in and ask any questions. One that does affect us is House Bill 366. It's a courts um, bill. What the courts have done over the past six months is they changed how they handle all of the appeals and handle class A misdemeanors. And that's the one that affects West Valley City. So all of these misdemeanors that are coming out, there are a lot. We have basically double what all the other cities combined have who deal primarily in class B and C. The courts have made it so that in the past we've been able to do all of our cases, have all of our cases heard at a specific courthouse with two or three judges. We're able to go through all of those. It's easy to plan. It works out well. has changed to be where we now have 30 judges that are hearing our cases all over at two different courouses. We would end up having to hire a couple more prosecutors to be able to handle this. We sought the support and uh Representative

Tusher came out with a bill that would fix this problem. All of the other cities were trying to work out a deal potentially with the courts so that this bill would not be needed for them, but for us it would still be needed because the courts made it very clear this had nothing to do with class A misdemeanors. So they cut us out of it completely. Uh as it came out, other cities started getting charged. Things started happening. city started supporting West Valley City and our efforts. And now that bill passed through the House, which was great news. It's now in the Senate with a very strong Senate supporter of us and of this bill. This bill would fix those problems. Right now, we're just waiting for it to go through Senate. So, things turned around really well for us on that. That's a good one. Um, another one was House Bill 79, which was government immunity for first responders. This is one that was taken away. That immunity was taken away about a year or two ago. It's now, which is a great effect for our first responders who could get sued and have a lot of issues with that. This bill fixed that and it did um pass, which is great for our first responders. So, couple other ones just to go through. Um, Senate Bill 262 was a bill to prohibit the use of unmarked police cars for traffic violations. As you can tell, police did not appreciate this bill. It did fail. So, I know that police and highway patrol are very happy about that. House Bill 241. Um, there's so many bills. I'd have to let me look at that one. I'll come back to that. Some of the truth and taxation type bills. Okay, this is a question for all of you scholars. How many representative Petersons are there in the house? There are 75 representatives. How many have the last name Peterson?

[clears throat] 15.

That would be amazing. I would love that so much. It's four. And their truth and taxation. There are two representative Petersons that are working to try to figure out the truth in taxation. So the idea behind this bill is the representatives and our legislators are very concerned that our public is not aware of everything that's happening with councils and with truth and taxation. Their concern is that it happens so late in the process. The decision has been made. So having people come out in August, the decisions made, it doesn't matter anymore. They're fighting to change that date so that we have two of those, one in August, but one earlier. One of the bills wants to do it as early as April 1. There are many problems with having an April 1 first truth and taxation um that it just may not be ready to be able to be looked at and be able to be discussed. They're pushing it back to it's looking like sometime in late May and then have the one in August. that one they're trying to work out their concerns both of them that both representatives it'll probably come out in a combined bill whether or not it'll be passed that's a different question but I think it probably will go through a consumption so you you might have two truth and taxation uh meetings one of the ideas too is that this would be the only meeting planned for the day it could not be combined with other publication

so Sam yes will they be able to get us the certified tax rate by the 1 of May. So, we could do that. I I I do not believe that's going to happen. Yeah. I don't think the assessor wants to even try to do that. So, that that is, as the mayor points out, that is a big challenge and it's driving them crazy, the legislators, and they're trying to figure out what to do. So, who knows how that will end up faster. They try to push it back to June 1st, but then have another one in August. And there's there's issues.

They still don't usually have it till the end of June. I mean, Yeah, be fun to watch the pivot happens. So, those are all great points. [snorts] So, thank you. Um, Senate Bill 211 um is a tricky, brutal bill for the city. This is a torch bill. The idea behind this is if you end up having an accident and the person that is involved in the accident wants to sue the city for the accident, the hospital bills. So when we get build as just regular people, we get an initial bill that's often wild. It can be $200,000. What this bill says is that is how that is allowed and that is what is the focus on it. Not the bill that actually becomes reality. So after negotiation all that, that bill could come down to $50,000. But what this bill says is you're using the $200,000 bill as being what the city is on the hook for. The city cannot bring into any kind of evidence that the negotiated payment is only 50 that it's $200,000. This has huge ramifications for every city that we are going to have to pay out the cost of litigation of this being sued based on the initial hospital bill, not the negotiated value of that bill. And we can't even bring evidence that that bill has changed. So, um, a lot of concerns to make everyone feel a little better. It did it was moving along. It's now circled in the in the Senate. And what that means is a lot of the legislators are now, [snorts] I don't want to say wisely enough, that's not fair to them, are now seeing the problems with it and have concerns. So, they are keeping it as a bill, but it's

circled unless they get the support to bring bring it up. Some legislators are not really believing the bill because they think it will hurt um people that are undocumented and that it will hurt other people that maybe don't have the means and other challenges. I don't really think that's a thing in this, but that is [snorts] that is why there's a lot of um they want this bill to go through and uh that's one of the challenges. So, Mayor D. Jimmy, I know that you're kind of aware of this bill. Any thoughts? I'm too frustrated by this one. I might get myself in trouble if I speak honestly. Let's talk after then.

Yeah. Um, the last one that I kind of want to go over is a big homeless bill has finally come out. We're still reviewing it. It is 171 lines long, which if you try to print it out, it's 51 pages. It is a huge bill. Um it does affect us. There will be ramifications for West Valley City. I am happy to discuss this after. Um you can see in the bill we would become a permanent homeless shelter city. There are some financial benefits to this that we're not currently getting, but we would become a we would become a permanent shelter um right now. And just so that everyone understands why this is happening, there is a campus model that was brought about by uh Wayne Neerhouser before he left. That campus shelter is very expensive. We have a new homeless that's coming on. I think it's Clancy.

Yeah, Clancy.

Clancy is coming on, but he's not finished till the session. He's not starting till the session's over. So the legislature has a problem where they're like, "We need to do something in the interimm basis, [snorts] but we don't know if we're going to do the campus shelter or continue on with the scattered shelter." Clansancy will come in make his recommendations over the next six months to a year. Next year will be a bigger deal. So what they're looking at with this homeless bill, which they have called, or at least self called the homeless bill to end all homeless bills, um, right? [laughter] Um what they're looking to do potentially is to bridge it for the next year or two while the bigger issue is now worked out by the new homeless ZAR. Um a [snorts] lot of concerns about this bill. It's a messy bill. It really is messy and they've got eight days to come up with answers. We're currently in discussions with the league, South Salt Lake, and Salt Lake City to figure out what this means for us and how we can potentially get [clears throat] the funding needed to be able to handle this homeless shelter at the rate that we're doing. And we're doing a great job, but we are underfunded by the mitigation part. So, we're working out ways. Those two are focused on with us because we're becoming a permanent shelter which we're not getting all the funds that we needed. Those two will have to flex out their shelters to a much bigger rate than they are currently. So, we're all in discussions. Hopefully, we'll get some more um ways to be able to fund this more effectively. So, um,

because being classified as a temporary, we were paying into the mitigation fund and if you're permanent, you don't pay into the mitigation fund. You get the funds from the mitigation. That's very So, we're paying up to $300,000 a year for the [snorts] uh wonderful chance to host a homeless shelter. So, it is crazy and have another one right across our board. Correct. Yes. That bleeds into ours all the time. Wish they rewrote all the rules. so that we could do that.

One of the mayors when she heard that just about fell off her chair. West Valley City has been so [snorts] it is a definite concern for us. I do think there are some positives that can come from it but there's a lot of work over the next eight days. So that is all I have. Exciting final eight days. Any questions or anything that you're wondering that I may be able to answer? Any questions for Mr. Johnson? Okay, good job [clears throat] up there. All right, need to make sure I'm not missing anything. Nope. Okay, so council calendar, were there any concerns or questions on the calendar? [snorts] Seeing none, potential future agenda items. Any Nicole has one.

Mayor, we actually have Mr. Springmemmer has a quick Oh, okay. Oh, that's right. Should be quick. Okay, I'll make room for Mr. Springer. It will be quick. Cut off the presses.

Yeah. In order to comply with our development meetings act, I'm here to tell you about a future development agreement that will likely [snorts] be coming to this council which will um well at 4:00 this afternoon, I was asked to present to the Salt Lake County Council in support of the uh new county library and and Ballet West Academy facility at the current site of our existing library and I'm happy to announce that that passed unanimously both the funding and the agreement with Ballet West. So, they are moving forward and stay tuned. We're we we made a huge step today in in moving forward and getting new library and getting Valley West on that site. It's going to be fantastic [snorts] for our city. So,

and where is the site? The existing side of the library right over here on [clears throat] Yeah. And it'll be three stories but look like four. Oh, just two. Okay. And that was new to me today. Library is going to be about 25,000 square ft and the ballet will [clears throat] be about 15 or so thousand square feet, but their their height will be significantly taller in jumping and leaping space. [snorts] So that's it. Perfect. Thank you. Thank you.

All right. Any other potential future agenda items? Yeah. I don't see any any council reports done.

Uh [clears throat] since last meeting, I did attend the winter fest. Uh I politely declined all the invitations to get out on skates on the ice. told him I'd given it up for my 80th birthday. [laughter] Uh I couldn't get my grandkids to get there because they were at hockey practice already, but uh they had a good crowd there. Uh a lot of good activity going on, a lot of interaction between people were there and those who were had displays and things like that. Also, uh yesterday I attended the kids academy drilling cutting. Uh it's the third part of their uh company and grandma started the company when she needed a daycare for her grandkids. and now her daughters all have one and uh good programs making great use of the bank that used to be on that building

and [snorts] uh was a a good griven cut little late but that wasn't our fault chamber forgot their scissors last week somewhere else they were somewhere Oh, okay. Anyone else? Um, I've got to hear Evil speak twice. The leadership seminar put on by the city was wonderful. It was great. And then tonight, I went to the Chamber West meeting where Evil spoke again. So, you're changing [clears throat] up a little bit every time. I like it. No, it was great. [snorts]

Good. Okay. Seeing no other reports, we have no need for a close session. So, we just have one more action item. Okay. All in favor say I. I. And we stand adjourned. Thank you. We'll see you in the other room.