County Council - Regular Meeting

at the same time. But I know a couple

should have been working with those guys that are being reappointed. Welcome everyone. Thank you for being here. Today is January 6, 2026. It is 7:01. Uh we are located at the county building on the third floor in the council chambers. Thank you all for being here. Uh we're going to be led on the pledge of allegiance by Michelle Kuster. Will you all please rise? Recite the pledge with me.

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, Michelle. Appreciate you. Um, that will bring us down to roll call. We have our county attorney here, Scott Broadhead. We have as far as council, Councilman Hoffman, Council, excuse me, Councilman Thomas, Councilman Stroberg, Councilman Hamner, Councilman Wardle. From the manager's office, we have uh Andy Welch, County Manager, Assistant County Manager, Britney Lopez, and Nikki from the clerk's office. Thank you, and thank each one of you coming this evening. We are down to public comment. Is there anybody in the audience by raise of hand that would like to make a public comment? Seeing none, we will go on to the uh presentation to the community development block grant. Christy and I understand she is online. So, I understand that she's going to say a few things in a wrap form. So, I'm just kidding.

Good evening. Can you all hear me?

We can. Thank you. Thank you and thank you for having me again. I feel like every time I'm supposed to come up there, I'm um such a young child. Um again, the purpose of this public hearing is to provide this information about the development block to allow for discussion of possible applications. programs. Um eligible activities include uh construction of public parks and facilities and fire station property public services such as food banks or homeless shelters and the county has received numerous including forg as well as the children's justice center and to switch point as well as many others. Um the capital by anyone who is interested if anyone is interested let me know otherwise that is all I have

any questions or comments from Christie no thank you for coming and and um talking with us and running through that so that we have that on recording for anyone to look at for the CB B CDBG grant. With that, um the chair would entertain a motion to open up for public hearing. So moved. Second. Hear a motion. Councilman Ward will second from Councilman Hoffman. Open up for public hearing. All those in favor say I. I.

All those may oppose say nay. Public hearing is now open. Is there anyone in the audience by raise of hand that would like to speak specifically to the community development block grant? Seeing none, the chair to entertain a motion to close public hearing. So move. Hear a motion from Councilman Thomas. Second. Second from Councilman Strumberg. All those in favor of closing public hearing say I. I.

All those may oppose say nay. Public hearing is now closed. Is there any uh comments or suggestions on the CBDG? If not, chair to entertain a motion. So Christie, do we just need to So the motion, what are we approving on this tonight or do we just did we just need to have a public hearing? Yep. We just wanted to hear ideas from either US council or the public of any possible project ideas that could be applied for CDC. So, we're not voting on anything tonight. Perfect. Um,

okay. We'll move on then. Thank you, Christie. Thank you for taking some time with us. That brings us down to number six minutes. Uh that is the December 2nd, 2025 uh council meeting minutes and the December 9th, 2025 meeting minutes. Is there any corrections or additions? If not, chair to entertain a motion. Well, I got a comment. The December 9th meeting made me look like the Nate King. So, can they be revised a little bit? Just kidding. I'll make a motion to approve.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Before we before we do that, I make a motion that we officially change Tai's name to Nay King and have that included in the minutes. It dies because there's no second. Not that I'm opposed to stuff. I'm just far more fiscally conservative than you guys. That was very evident, I think, in a December 9th meeting. So, okay. Wait for a motion.

I said Oh time. Is there a second? Okay. Hearing a motion. Councilman Hoffman. A second from Councilman Strungberg. All those in favor of approval of the minutes for December 2nd and December 9th of 2025 say I.

I. All those may oppose say nay. That is adopted. That will bring us down to the check registry. Um once again check registry everything is online. If you'd like to know any checks that are coming from the county to where they're going, you can certainly uh view that. And if there's any questions, you can certainly reach out to the manager's office or appropriate personnel in the finance. Uh with that, chair entertain a motion on the check registry. Motion to approve. Hear a motion from Councilman Strongberg to approve. Is there a second?

Second. We have a second from Councilman Thomas. All those in favor say I. I. All those may oppose say nay. That is adopted. That will bring us down to a discussion item road policy. Michelle and Jed

if I could just take a minute just before they get up here. Um, one of the things that we've been doing in the last few years is updating policies. And just so just uh for your information, so we've completely rewritten the IT policy, our personnel policy, our subdivision ordinance, and the roads policy that we want them to present today. It's not to for adoption today. We want to have discussion on this. And so we've asked Jed and Michelle to do a presentation on the changes we're looking at. We probably been reviewing this for the last three years. And as late as just the last probably month, I think we added at least two more chapters and another section to that as we were kind of comprehensively reviewing that. So I'll have them, they each have parts of this and so I wanted them both to be here to present and so I'm not sure who decided to go first, but Jed, you're up.

Thanks for having me. Um, so as we've gone through this process over the last year, for me, um, I've kind of learned that there's different perspectives on where and what the purpose of this having this policy is. Um, for me, it gives me a kind of a blueprint for the maintenance that we perform. Um, and it it will help with consistency and being able to share that information with the public when they call and request a cattle guard. What's the policy with that? You know, in the past, we've kind of explained that to them and, you know, there can be some flexibility in those kinds of things, but for a consistency purpose, I think it's going to be very helpful for that. The other element that uh we picked up on is that there's title 15 in the um county ordinance and then there's code six and there's different bits and pieces that are kind of spread throughout the excuse me the different ordinances and codes and uh by kind of trying to combine those and get them into one policy, I think will make things a little bit smoother and streamlined for developers and contractors and uh the public as as we move forward with it,

making it more consistent. Absolutely. And the council as people ask you questions, you'll have one place to go look. Yes. Very nice. So, uh for tonight, we're just going to have kind of a open discussion about it. What Michelle and I have put together is kind of the different sections. I don't know if any of you guys have had a chance to read through the policy yet, but we've got kind of a high overlook that we put together. And if you guys have any questions or want us to elaborate on any certain section more, we can certainly do so. I've got some questions because I've read through it. Do you want to ask those questions now or do you want to have them go through it? I don't care. Well, it's up to you, Councilman. Why is it up to me?

Why don't you have the questions? Would it be possible for us to wait? Maybe your questions will get answered. Sure. I thought they were just opening it up to questions. Are you opening it up to questions? I'm doing whatever I'm told. Oh my goodness. It may be good if he presents first. Let's just have a presentation. Then we'll ask questions. I was hoping that was the presentation, not the questions.

Well, I'll be quick about it. How's that? So the purpose uh section one is to formally define the mission, responsibility and limitations of the twill county road department. Um establishing single government framework for how the county uh maintains public roads, interfaces with private property owners and regulates developments related to infrastructure. Uh section 1.2 two power and duties came from title 15 which basically confirms road department has jurisdiction over all county roads um authorizing design of roads accordance to adopt its standards and regulate maintain and restrict and improve public roads. Um, section two goes over private roads, which establishes strict conditions and approvals under which the county may perform work on private roads there. It's more of flooding, state of emergency type stuff. Generally speaking, the county road department only performs work on roads that we claim with UD do. And I think that's just an important one so that we're consistent because we do get requests from on private roads or driveways. Some of them are pretty long driveways for us to get in there and maintain them. And if we start one, we start everywhere. And so we want a clear policy that kind of delineates what we will and won't do.

Exactly. Um there's also liability that comes in with that which legal weighs in on and it's it's a slippery slope. Um section three covers county maintenance. This defines uh service levels for paved roads, gravel, and unpaved roads. Establishes what maintenance activity the county provides and priorities. And it defines prescriptive easement practices and long-term access continuity. Um section five goes over street signs, which is standards and specifications. Um, section seven covers what we how we document uh surplus dirt when we're working on projects if if we're hauling that to a county property or private property. Um, section 8 talks about major construction projects which formalize county responsibility for road rehabilitation, traffic safety improvements, bridges, drainage and sidewalk construction. Um it also aligns capital investment with transportation improvement planning. Um section nine talks about roads, bridges, drainage and rehabilitation which basically establishes the standard construction practices and design specifications for those types of projects. Section 10 we did uh do some work on because we've been working with Michelle and or excuse me Britney and the trust about different liabilities that municipalities and counties have when it comes to sidewalk. So we've added quite a bit of uh stuff in that section, but it's also still a work in progress that we're working through. But we define formal sidewalk inspection schedules. Um establish trip hazard scoring and

prioritizing. Um formalize the ADA compliance standards and define uh repair response protocols and ownership responsibilities. Where that gets kind of weird is sometimes like in the ordinance it talks about uh snow removal on a sidewalk in front of uh uh somebody's house and it gives a time frame and it's tied to the ordinance. So it's an enforcement thing if they don't clear it in a certain time. But at the end of the day when it comes to liability, what we're finding is that we can have some of that liability if it's not followed through on as well. So, it's something we're gonna work on. Um, standards for new streets and storm drain uh governs the design standards which is the APWA, MUTCD and ASHTTO.

You have to explain those. See, see if you know them. See if you know them all. American Public Works Association, which is a a nationally recognized st set set of standards that talks about uh the type of asphalt that can be used, the compaction of that asphalt, the design criteria of the asphalt, the temperature of the air when you place that asphalt. It gets into all those details, but it has that for everything from asphalt signs, dirt, pipe. It's I think it's over a thousand pages thick. And that's one of them. The MUTCD is another one which is the manual of uniform traffic control devices which is a federal standard that uh applies to all street signs um regulatory warning defines colors of signs, placement of signs, how far away from a crosswalk a sign can be. It's it's again a thousand pages long. And then Ashtto is more of a an engineering book that talks about traffic studies and um transportation issues, soils, those kind of things, which is more of the upfront stuff when you're building a road.

So Jet, is that would that be considered the one big beautiful road Bible? That's kind of kind of Yeah, you could call it that if you want. already got that my favorite president. Oh my public records. Yeah.

Wonderful. Section 11 talks about uh standard standards for new streets and storm drain. This is uh like the inspection procedures, uh design standards that developers have to build by. Um acceptance criteria as far as uh when we perform a punch list, when we take acceptance of the infrastructure, things like that. um excavations was taken from title 15 that talks about the required permits, bonding and restoration standards for when utility companies go in and cut a road. Um they have to get a permit through our office. They pay the the fees for that permit based on the fee schedule that's adopted by you all. um and they bond which is a performance bond that ensures that the work that they perform will uh hold up over the warranty period. Section 13 goes over some regula regulated activity which is uh like street trees, irrigation runoff, uh the snow removal from sidewalk and park strip maintenance. uh protects visibility, drainage and pedestrian safety and roadway functions. Um section 14 of the policy was also taken from title 15 which is the adopted truck routes of the county which are established roads that we have uh identified and adopted a few years back um which are the approved truck routes. It protects pavement life and neighborhood safety. keeps trucks from going through subdivisions that they shouldn't be going through. And section 17 talks about traffic calming devices

um which is establishing eligibility and criteria and procedures for speed humps, speed tables, and other calming measures uh in subdivisions. When we have issues with speeding, um we'll do a traffic study. And then there's methods that you can do to try to slow people down. It generally uh if the road is narrowed um whether it be striping or some sort of uh engineering measure, you can get people to slow down and drive a more appropriate speed for the area. Speed bumps and speed tables are an option, but they cause uh issues with snow plowing and uh equipment maintenance because they're hard to see when it's snowing. And with our larger trucks that we use, the 10 wheelers, they tend to get beat up when they hit a snow plow um and sometimes spill their coffee. So, we avoid them. Sounds like you know from experience.

I've lost a feeling or two. Yes.

Um there's also sections that we've taken from the land use ordinance. Most of title 15 is this the county code. Um chapter six of the land use ordinance is all about off- streetet parking which is hard for people to find. You wouldn't think to go look there for drive approach information. So section four is refers to that and explains how far apart drive approaches can be, how wide they can be. If it's commercial or residential, there's different criteria. Requires permitting. Make sure that people are aware if you go do a curb cut, you have to have a permit from the roads department. Spells that out. Section six is traffic engineering. If anybody is to design and construct a road that is dedicated to the county, it is required to be designed by a licensed engineer. So that's what six tells them. These are the standards you have to follow and you do have to have a licensed engineer. And then 15, this was one that helped spur this. This was one the council asked for. It's probably been two, three years ago, hasn't it Andy?

That we put some criteria together for traffic studies. and what is required in a traffic study depending on the size of and type of development. So that's what section 15 does. It has a threshold as to when a traffic study is required and it goes into a more in-depth, more detailed and broader range required in the traffic study based upon the number of anticipated average daily trips. And that's all spelled out in there. There's quite a few pages just on that subject. So, we anticipate we will get some more detailed traffic studies that might help us make some better decisions on what our transportation network needs to look like depending on the um level of development. This was one we really want to talk to the council about. We've done a lot of talk internally and believe that it may be beneficial, I'm saying may, for the county to maintain ownership of certain roads within our transportation network to help maintain the framework according to the Utah code 1750305, 723103, and 723108. We can do that much like UD do. we can just say these roads we identify as class B roads. We're going to take them as county ownership and we're going to maintain them. So that's what section 16 talks about and that's what the map, excuse me, on your screen refers to are the roads that we've sat down and looked at and anticipate are probably the most important roads in facilitating transportation throughout the entire county.

Those are the green roads. They're all different colors. No, green is the U municipal boundaries. So, you have a couple questions on that, Michelle? Sure. So, Michelle, it is customary and I know that when we were with Twilla City that UD do took over a thousand north and we took back Utah Avenue and these are customary things that happen within government quite a bit. Yep. Okay.

And all of these roads cross through multiple municipalities and unincorporated. So, it's not like we're just signaling, you know, saying Lake Point, you don't maintain your roads, so we're going going to take them. They they all have a purpose and that is talked about in this section 16. If that is something that the council is in support of, we will of course talk to the municipalities and get an agreement with them before we go to the state and say, "Hey, these are now class B roads." Um, it does talk about having interlocal agreements with the different jurisdictions if we do choose to do this.

Like what Councilman Wardle said, this is a practice that the state has often done. I mean, we just have one recently, uh, Mid Valley Highway. Yes. For them to do that. They wanted to give up 138, which it became a county road, Pole Canyon. Correct. And we kept that. So, that's a perfect example. That is not within the unincorporated county, but we did keep that because of the level of road it is. Yeah. Yep. Yes. And it it runs through Erda, but if you look at the property ownership of the road, it will show that the property that it sits on is actually owned by Twilla County. Yep.

So, if we look forward, if we're building 33rd Parkway, that starts in Tilla City, then it goes to Erda, then it goes to Grantsville. So, it crosses through all those jurisdictions. And so, that would be one once we constructed that, we would come back and probably add that one too as well to our list as well. just because it crosses too many jurisdictions. We need to make sure one it gets plowed that it gets maintained in a uniform manner kind of going forward because it's part of the the bigger network. That's primarily what we're looking at is the bigger network. Then the other one I guess that's not on here yet that we took off would be Village Boulevard extension when we eventually construct that out to the Mid Valley Highway. That would be another one that would be a continuation of uh Village which is kind of an orange color on the map right there. And that will either be in Eur City or Grantsville City.

So, so with that, because I was going to ask on that extension, does that just happen automatically when we go and ex extend it? We're the ones doing it so it just stays. You want to explain the method, I guess, Jed on, on claiming the roads because we do that each each year with you do. We send them the map. So, if you want to explain, so we'd need an agreement with the jurisdiction that the road lies in to send in with the information Jed's going to tell you about.

Yes. And then before we build that road, we're going to purchase the rideway. The rideway will be dedicated and identified as Tilla County property. Then we will build the road with county funds or grants, however that happens. Once the road's built, then I will add it to my inventory. And then when I submit the mileage report to UD do and update our mileage, which I do generally every year in March, it will be included as part of that mileage of roads that the county claims ownership to that claiming of the road. We receive our gas tax based on that.

But then we'd make sure the cities take that off theirs. If if it were in a city they were claiming it before, they would we would put it on, they would take theirs off. So it yeah equals out. I believe municipalities would love it. I mean to take over those that are we have not approached them yet. So we'll tell we'll tell you. Well I as you talk about that though Kendall this was a big discussion throughout the year in COG

and about how do we help fund some of these administrative costs of maintaining and and dealing with roads and and I hope that they'll receive it. I I think it's a good policy, especially when we're talking about safety and and measures and standards of taking care of those. Not that they're not doing that, but it provides a consistency from outside of that framework.

And we've been working in this direction for several years. Our master transportation plan that was updated in 22. It anticipates and even identifies the roads that they believe the county should keep. We're in the middle of doing a safe streets for all plan countywide and that as well. Uh we'll talk about roads that they believe the county should maintain ownership of. So what we're asking of the council is that you review the policy. If you have any questions, please let us know and then we would ultimately like adoption of the administrative policy and then it would be under the direction of the county manager that the policy is implemented. Just one quick thing on the map just it gets a little confusing. Right where DUet Drew is the blue line that goes to the top there and you see it turn green and then there's two red sections. This this is where it gets a little confusing but that's when we we want to realign um Drew Bay as it comes into Lake Point and to follow the pipeline. And so one of those red lines is having it follow that and that would be what we would take over. And and this this year we're waiting on Congress to decide. We submit an application for 5 million $5.2 million for the first phase of Drew Bay which is from the Twilla city limits to about the railroad tracks. Then we if we're successful we'll be submitting phase two which would be somewhere in the middle maybe to the purple line. I'm not sure out that far. And then we would submit again the third year. But we need to get that rideway taken care of because we can't apply for these federal funds if we don't own the rideway. So we need to work with the owner and we've had discussions with the person already about realigning Drew Bay as it comes into Lake Point to make it a more seamless a better route there. So that's something we're mentioned that to Michelle that's thing something we need to work on this year because we may be applying for grant funding next year on that part and so we need to go ahead and try to get that all sorted out. So that's why you see a couple of those lines

potential routes.

Yeah. Three three potential routes. I think the other side of that Andy that was critical is when UD do came to COG and presented on this that these were essential things that we do to create flow that is non- congestive flow within the valley and that you know it was said today in a meeting that the state of Utah is growing from a small state to a middle state and we're going from a teenager in a county to being an adult in a county and we're not an old adult like Salt take thank goodness but we are going to see that growth and these things you know I don't know if any of us on this council will be able to see some of the projects that will come to fruition but if we're not thinking this way for 20 to 30 years out we will be in serious trouble and and you can see that on the west side of Salt Lake right now primarily uh you see what happened in Utah County when they expanded to the west so quickly that the infrastructure was not built uh Haramman if you if you watch anything that the mayor are saying in Haramman right now they do not have connectivity in that area and it's it's creating a serious problem for those who go to work that it's two hours to get to downtown Salt Lake in some cases if they don't take public transportation so

and UD do told us that they are not no longer in the business of stepping in and taking over roads to for connectivity so they want us to do it this is our first step the other part I guess you mentioned with Haram the other the answer that I think the state gave to that comment was is because the question was on I-15. What are you going to do to I-15? And then they stood up and they said, "Well, Herman has a different problem. We can't dump all of Heramman's traffic on I-15. They have to go down Bangador and all of these other roads." And so this is our part to do all of those other roads that we need to have to to get to the bigger roads. And so this is

what was the year they gave us. If we dump all of the connected connectivity that we have planned for, if we dump it all on to 1,00 North and SR36, we will be at complete gridlock by 36. I think you're right. 2036 on those two roads. That's why we are where we are in terms of lobbying and everything else. So thank you. Now we'll open up it for any questions. Go ahead, Councilman Hoffman.

Um, just on section 2.2, drainage on private property. This has become an issue a couple of times and as I read this, the conditions for approval and criteria for approval that it seems like they're all reactionary. Maybe that's the only way to do this. Is there a way that we we the county manager can make approvals in a proactive situation or do we go out and look for those or not? Do we wait for a disaster to happen? Does that make sense?

So, when a when a subdivision is constructed, we review all of the drainage and make sure everything is constructed per the engineered plans. What this refers to is sometimes homeowners come in and they change that with their landscaping or they fill a swell in because they want to have off-straight parking on the side of the road. Unfortunately, a lot of times those are reactionary because we don't know they're a problem until they flood their neighbor. If we're aware of it, we run into an issue about in Pine Canyon a few years ago and then obviously and then Soldier Soldier Canyon has been with with the flash flooding that goes on there.

Big problem as well. So, what this says is you can't do that. Okay. Um, so if they do do it and we find out about it, even if we can do it before something happens, we can go in with the policy and say, "Look, this is what this says. You can't do that." Um, you have to restore it back. We have code that tells us that, but this just puts it all in one place. Okay. The other thing that I just that popped in my mind is I was reading section 103 and it says ADA ramps will be installed to the latest edition of the APWA standards. Do we are are the old ones grandfathered in? Mhm.

They are. But the ADA requires that um if you have ADA ramps adjacent to a road and you do a overlay or greater improvement to that road, then you also have to include updating the ramps

the ramps to the current standard. The APWA has standard uh drawings that show 15 different kinds of curb ramps that you can have on a corner. Um, surprisingly enough, there are about 15 of them. Um, and they're very controlled as to the slope. Like the running slope is 8.33% and your cross slope is max at 2%. And it just it gets into some serious details. So, whenever we do upgrade um ADA ramps, we we stick to those 15 design. Okay. And it keeps us

from a a wheelchair possibly tipping over and causing a lawsuit or a claim. So, those are my only questions. Okay. Okay. Any other questions or comments? Uh please. Just a couple things. Just one of the reasons that we needed to update this policy is because it's pretty old. Just to tell you how old it is, there's a reference in our current code that refers to the what's the name of it now? I have to pull it up. The State Road Commission of Utah that is UD do changed their name 50 years ago. How old is this? 70s.

Some of it's pretty old. And so there's some things like that that we we just need to update it. One other thing that it allows, our current policy allows is we can have toll roads, toll bridges. We have one bridge and we can have toll fairies apparently in our county. And I'm not sure of a place in this county where we have enough water except for the Great Salt Lake, I guess. Grantsville Reservoir. Grantsville Reservoir. Can we turn that bridge into a toll bridge? It's very expensive to maintain. So there's a reason why we we do need to update this. I there. Okay. Leave it in. Leave the fairy.

No, I just thought that was very interesting. So, if you don't have any questions, we have a I wanted them to and I've talked to Michelle about this. I asked Michelle to give us a quick update on 112 and the light uh at Sheep Lane.

Understand there's been some questions about the 112 sheep lane light. UD do came to us asking for an easement on our property to install some of the equipment. We passed that through our legal department. They made a couple minor changes to the language, sent that back to UDOT, and they're still running that through their legal. Once that's done, we are ready to sign the easement and get it recorded. They are still going through some engineering on the south side of 112 with the signal equipment. So, they're not quite there. Okay.

But we're ready to go with the ema as soon as they're ready. Okay. The next thing I want to just I'm going to put both of them on the spot on this one. So, about a month ago, we had a visit with some state representatives and a representative from UDOT. one of the uh members of the house that works on transportation, he asked, "Why isn't the count, we're talking about the Mid Valley, he says, why isn't the county going after more grants for this?" So, this is where you're on the spot now. I want you to list since they've been council members which road projects we've received grants on and how much. J, you can do estimates is okay.

Three grants 18.6 million. Uh Mormon Trail uh congressional earmark 5.2 COG 1.8 8 million added to Mormon Trail, making it almost $7 million project and $495,000 grant from the Bureau of Reclamation for a whale in Ibapa and B or uh Michelle gets credit for those. So Drew Bay Drew Bay 5 million we hope 5.2 million in a month or so.

Yes. So roughly 30 million on those. Okay, Michelle, see if you can do yours. And we've completed, they were applied for prior to this council, but we've completed 5.5 million worth of projects from grants. We're getting ready to start 33rd Parkway, which is another 1.5 million. But Tom's Lane has been done off of a grant. Burmeister has been done off of a grant. Mormon Trail, you got more money for Mormon Trail? Yeah. So, uh, we've done several million dollars in grants since this council's been,

if I were to guess though, between all of what they've explained, if if you look at a per capita amount that we've received per grants, I'm pretty sure we're one of the highest in the states and grants that we've gone after receives and we've received here recently. So, kudos to this group for going after those. And and it's nice when we get a lot of these grants because we get the grant then it we good or bad we turn it over to UD do and then they're in charge of managing that grant. So yes and our plans we've done three plans off of grants as well to help with our transportation system. So was the representative that asked that question was he surprised? I didn't have all the numbers ready or I would have said that in a heartbeat. You should have

his question was why haven't we we got after grants for for mid valley and and this was an honest discussion we need to have with the state I said we have a transportation plan that you do presented and here's all of these roads that connect the connection that's our job we'll work on that as as a valley with all the cities we'll work on those connections but mid valley is a state responsibility and we shouldn't be doing their job for them and so we'll get the connections to the road we each have part of of of solving this problem. And so we're we have plenty of grants that we have, but it's going to cost a lot more money to to build a lot of these roads as growth continues to come. And so we'll keep going after that. We'll work with other cities. We had that discussion today about working with some of the other cities as some of these grants become available to encourage them to apply for some of these grants as well because there's not enough money for COG to to build these roads. So when you say that there's not enough money for COG for instance sheep lane is the last report was close to 20 million between 18 and $20 million and no grants have been applied for at that point and no bonding had taken place but you know I sometimes building roads with bonding works. I I mean we've done that I I did that as a city council member. Sometimes it doesn't work, but it the the quick solutions that cost a lot of money um if if we search in the right places and chairman, you were really the one that pushed us to hire the grant team have been so helpful in supplementing I mean 30 plus million dollars uh in revenues over the course of the last or or incoming revenues over the course of the last four years is pretty incredible. So, thank you. And we've been able to construct almost $70 million worth of road with that grant money with what we've had to put in for matches and cog that we would not have otherwise been able to do.

So 30 so the money matched has built $70 million worth that would be that would be about what it'll end up being alto together. It's a pretty good return on investment, right? Yeah. So I mean we have and just to their credit I guess we we even work with Nevada on iPap for example that comes from Nevada back into Utah and we have it starting from our the state line going in. That's what we have the grant for but we were reaching out to Nevada saying you guys need to work on your 10 miles or whatever it is to back to I80. Um trying to get them to be part of this solution as well. We can we're doing our part but we can't do the part for everybody else. And so appreciate them.

And I don't know if this will ever be able to be duplicated, but the the way that things worked out with the grants that we were awarded and the timing of those grants, IPAW at the 18.2 million, our match on that 260,000. Yes. And that's 35 miles of road that's going to be reconstructed for that 18.2 with basically 260,000 coming out of my fund balance. So if we could nail all of them like that, we would uh gladly build Mint Valley.

This is not being record. But please, please review the policy that we just presented it today. We'll bring it back. We'll let us know in the next week or two. We may bring it. We'd like to bring it back at the next meeting, but if we need to wait another meeting, we're absolutely fine waiting another meeting if you have extra questions. Okay. So, we we'll take that as a homework assignment. Review that and any questions or comments. We can certainly reach out to you guys before the meeting starts so we can get those resolved. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you, council. Thank you.

Now, bring us down to contracts. Uh Jed, you can't go anywhere. We're talking about roads purchased for the new transportation truck.

Yes. So, this is a transport truck which uh we have two of them. The one we're replacing is 20 something years old. Uh it's wore out. It's undized. We use these trucks to um haul dirt and side dumps. We use it to pull lowboys and transport trailers to move our eight motor graders through out the county. Um we did get three quotes on it. Uh and we are recommending that we go with the Peterbuilt. Um the reason for that is it's got a large horsepower motor which is 605 horsepower. Um, it is on state contract and it came in at $179,5. Um, that price does also include the wet kit and a headache rack, which is a $9,000 value. So, if you take that into consideration, it's the lowest um price that we got. Well, it's it's lower than the Western Star, which was equal to the horsepower. So that's what we're recommending and it uh it is within the budget that you guys approved last month.

Any questions or comments on that? Not then chair to entertain a motion. So moved. Hear a motion. Councilman Hoffman. Is there a second? I'll second. It's Eric. Eric second. And a second from Councilman Strongberg. All those in favor say I. I. All those may oppose say nay. Is adopted. Thank you. And then the other one is a new loader.

Yes, this is a also a replacement equipment. It's a loader. We did get three quotes. One from CAT, one from Volvo, and one from John Deere. The one we are recommending to go with is the John Deere 544P. The price came in at $27,724. It is a state contract vendor and purchase and it is in the budget that was approved um and falls within all of that. When to stay green, huh? Okay.

Well, they these these are yellow, but yeah, it' be nice if it was green. That'd be kind of cool. Any questions or comments? If not, chair to entertain a motion. Make a motion that we buy the new great the new loader. Here a motion. Councilman Ward. Is there a second? Second. Hear a second from Councilman Thomas. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those may oppose say nay. That is adopted. Sounds unanimous. Hey, can I just ask a question about this process? The one that you always one the question that you always

I'll just ask. Hey, we already approved this in the budget. Why do we We already know we give you the money. We talked about it. Why don't Andy just said, "God bless you. Go get that thing. Start moving dirt or whatever our county code says." I don't. So, one of the things that we're looking at is updating our purchasing policy. And this could be one of those areas that we could look at. The threshold we'd have to work on together. If if you want a certain threshold where it has to come back or if it's approved in the budget, that's something we can certainly look at. But I like having a threshold just for transparency. People forget about it. I think it's good for the public to see again.

Well, tell them to pay attention the first time. Go for it. I mean, look how many people are here from the public. I'm just saying I got confidence in the way we got good purchasing policies. They have had for many years and I've lined about it a time. for this. Thank you, Kim. All right. Thanks you guys. I'm done. Thank you. Thanks, J. That'll bring us down to board committees. Uh, and there's some applications here and I will turn some time over to weed. Is that you? I'm weed. My weed. Uh, Councilman Wardle.

Weed. Uh the weed control board wishes to thank Victor War for his years of service on their board. He has served two two consecutive terms. The weeds board recommends the following. That we appoint Jonathan Hogan to replace Victor. He will serve a four-year term expiring December 31st, 2029. And then we appoint Dean Alder to fill the vacancy. He will serve a four-year term expiring December 31st, 2029. And I'm in full support of these. Hearing a motion, Councilman Wardo. Is there a second? Second.

Hear a second from Councilman Hoffman. All those in favor of appointing these two individuals to the weeds uh board say I. I. All those may oppose say nay. That is adopted. That will bring us down to the planning and commission and Councilman Thomas.

Yes. They would like to hope and Brad Barald are both been on the planning and zoning commission for a number of years and they have both served two consecutive consecutive terms and right now we'd like to Richard Mitchell and his lovely wife are here with us today and so thank you for for being involved and being as an alternate on that board tonight we'd like to appoint to a full-time member on CA and that four-year term will be expired in 29. And also Kevin Christensen uh Rich lives out in Rush Valley and Kevin Christensen lives in Stansbury and he's going to be appointed to seat C. His term will also expire in 29. And I told Kevin yesterday when I invited him or told him we was going to do it. Michelle had already notified him. But I said tomorrow night's your first meeting. So 7 o'clock we'll be here and it looks like pretty quick moving agenda. So then one more appointment Cliff Warner who grew up in I think Sansbury if I remember saying that.

Yes. But anyhow he'll be appointed to uh an intern position and that position expires in 27. So, with those three appointments, uh, I'll make that motion to approve those three. I'll second it. Hear a motion from Councilman Thomas and a second, Councilman Wardle. All those in favor say I.

I. All those may oppose say nay. They are adopted and welcome and thank you for the willing to take time out of your work and home to serve on those boards. That will bring us down to and there's other ones. So, anybody um that is looking uh for an opportunity uh please go to the clerk's office and look for those. Oh, and then we have one other board, the the health board. Um I'll turn some time over to Councilman Strumberg. I I apologize.

No, no. Well, hard to miss. Easy mess. Um so, we do have two reappoints for board of health. Um so, Cheryl um has been interim filling in uh the last about six months. So, this would be her first full um term. And then Matthew Jackson. Um this would be his second. And Matthew has actually been the chair of the board of health over the last year. So, um with that, I would u make the motion to approve those two recommendations. Hearing a motion from Councilman Strumberg. Is there a second? I'll second that. Hearing a second from Councilman Hoffman. All those in favor say I. I.

I. All those may oppose say nay. They are adopted. Wonderful. Um and that will bring us down to council updates. Councilman Hoffman. The only thing I have and you guys may have heard last night we had a sheriff deputy involved in the accident and hopefully he's okay. Ty Dobman was turning left on the Highway 36 of Bates Canyon Road and was hit by a car that ran the red light and told our sheriff's truck and I believe he is okay that he thought he had a broken arm at first but I believe he's okay. Is that correct or is there any update on his health or home resting right now?

Okay. So, we wish him well and we're glad he's okay. So, thank you Ty. That's the first I've heard of it and so we we send our uh best wishes to him. Um that bring us over to Councilman Thomas. I'll pass. Councilman Strongberg.

Um so just so I think everyone knows obviously we do have new um elected officials going in in the municipalities. So they are swearing in the new Grantsville mayor and city council members tomorrow. Um, I've already had a number of conversations with them around transportation that really ties right into the conversation for tonight. So, really looking forward to what's going to happen from Grantsville. I think some of the communication and I think we'll see more than one of them at Cog um next week to talk transportation. So,

wonderful. Yeah, that's one of the things I was going to bring up is attended the gr uh twill city and Councilman Thomas, I know you attended Stockton, so we welcome them and congratulate them and give our condolences to but um yeah, that it was fun to see that and I know the uh Wolton was there to uh record that Councilman Wardle. Uh the only update I have is as we get ready to start the year with the council of governments, uh our population is growing in a way that we will have to discuss some issues about uh being a smaller county versus a midsize county over the course of the next year. Uh we plan to have several learning sessions where WFRC and others come in to help us establish uh good data to make good decisions. And so we'll be working through that. Also, um, as we're going through this process, we start the legislative session next week. Uh, we had a chance to meet with a couple of the legislators today and some others that were up on the hill. Um, understanding what our need is for Mid Valley Highway is absolutely uh, the drum that we are are beating the loudest right now. Um, we appreciate what UD do's doing on the 21st South and on I80, but uh the movement and the congestion uh reached a really bad point in December and our citizens we we we've got to get these other places built and built to a place and size that allow for the movement of traffic in a safe way. But there's a second issue that we we really hope and and we appreciate our economic development board on this um with our citizens and 75% are of those who work

are working in Salt Lake. We need to bring that back to a manageable place. I I think that we need to set some metrics, some bold metrics um over the course of the next five years and that is to bring 1% or 2% back a year into this valley um that will help alleviate that kind of traffic and I I know that when the governments have come together and we we did this on the educational corridor where we set a goal for education that we educate K through uh M's degrees and we needed to build buildings to get that done and we were able to get it done and it's my hope that we can do the same with economic development to bring those percentages down to increase our jobs here that are not only livable wages but sustainable wages. So that's my report.

Thank you. Turn some time over to county manager Andy Welch.

I'll just reiterate that same point. The the way that we solve some of our traffic problems is to bring people back here to work. we don't have to spend so much on roads if we can get them working here. So that's that's key economic development is. So two quick things. One, thank you so much helping us as we went through the budget process this year. The the fun part is done. Now the work begins and so we do have a lot of projects that are starting up as you saw projects and equipment are starting to be purchased now. So you'll see a lot of the departments getting working on those projects now. So we're excited to get those things started. The second thing, just as a reminder, so we we've decided, right, that going forward our meetings will be at six o'clock instead of 7 o'clock. So just as a we'll meet a little bit earlier and Yep.

get people out a little bit the better time. So Yep. So moving forward mean we have to go home. We plan longer meetings at that point. Is that what you're saying? Then Britney has one thing she'd like to mention as well. So just an update. Uh Britney chair recognizes Britney Lopez.

Thank you, chairman. Um actually a just a few things quick. Sorry I didn't tell you all this, Andy. So we do have the small business development grants um open right now. Um they are open until February 15th and that's posted on uh the Tula County website. Uh uh tourism grant applications will open January 9th and they'll also be open until February 15th. Um we want to remind the public that we have changed the grant a little bit this year where there is a opportunity for um museums, historical museums to apply for um some funds. Um the funds have to be for improvements that drive tourism to their facility. They can't be uh used for any kind of just regular maintenance fees. Um, and then last today I had uh the state meeting with um America 250 and the states gave us some really good ideas and I just wanted to invite you guys to all come if you can or a couple of you I should actually say uh we have a a community meeting America 250 meeting this week um on Thursday at 1. And why I think that's important is when on the state meeting today, they kind of brought in some things that I don't think we've thought of with the municipalities. Um, and it was really talking about service within the communities and sponsoring some of the service groups. So like the Rotary Club or um clubs like that. And I know that a lot of you belong to some of those. So I was hoping that I think your insight would be great. And um we actually encourage the public or anyone in the county to come and be part of this because I think if we want to really take this America 250 and make it special, we just need a lot more involvement from county employees, county people, council, anyone who wants to come. So that'll be

Yep. Absolutely. Absolutely. So that's all. Thank you. Wonderful. If there's nothing else, uh chair entertain a motion to adjurnn. So move here. A motion to adjurnn. All those in favor say I. I. I. Kendall. Are you a nay? A nay on this one. I know you like to stay late. We are adjourned at 7:59. He's not the nay king. He's not the nay king. It sounds like naughty pip.