County Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome everyone. Thank you for coming out. Today is February 17th, 2026. It is 6:00 p.m. We are located at the county building on the third floor in the council chambers. We appreciate each of you coming here. We'll uh be led by a pledge of allegiance first by one of our council member, Councilman Ty Hoffman. You all please rise. 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, Ty. As far as roll call, we have our county attorney, Scott Broadhead, present. As council, we have Councilman Hoffman, Councilman Thomas, Councilman Stroberg, Councilman Hamner, Councilman Wardle is excused for tonight. We have at County Manager, uh, County Manager's position, uh, Andy Welch, present, assistant county manager, Britney Lopez, and our county clerk, uh, Tracy Shaw, present here. Thank you for being here. Uh, with that we will ask the public is there any public comment by a raise of hand that needs to be made. Nick, Nick, seeing you the only one would you feel free to come up? Would you make sure that light is green to speak into it? Okay. Is everybody hear me? Okay. Yeah. Just state your name.

Hi, my name is Nick Jenkins. I am from Grassville. Um, I say proud Twilla County resident. um member of the board of the board of directors for the TW County Chamber of CH Commerce. Um the Rocky Mountain Power Guy, but I think probably my favorite title is coach. Um I wanted to stand up and just say thank you. Um a conversation that started as gee, wouldn't it be cool if um kind of bounced around some of the council members, they all they pointed us to Britney, Britney pointed us to Corey, and we did something pretty amazing. Um, and if Britney, you got that queued up for me? Yeah.

Um, we just put something together where we wanted to say thank you. So, thank you for a successful season. We had a lot of fun. Heat. Heat. This is my time. I've waited long enough. I'm taking my moment. Don't matter how it was. No regrets. NO MATTER how hard it gets, I'm going for greatness. Going for greatness. Here I go. Here I go. Here I go. Now blast off. About to leave the ground. 5 4 3 2 1 I'm gone. I don't blame you. I miss it.

Um any questions? So just give a quick rundown. We had kids from Stanbury, kids from Desert Peak, kids from Twilla, um Rush Valley, obviously Grantsville. We teamed up with the coaches from both Twilla High School and um Grantsville High School. Um that's where we got the mats. Um we're able to find some sponsors to help cover the space. Uh Cory did a great job of I his communication was awesome. I mean, there was several times the conversation started with, "Oh man, there's a lot of obstacles." And then it came into how can we make this work? Um, working with Corey and his team, Brenda and Bailey over there, they took great care of us. I mean, there were times when there were events and we would roll up our mats and get them out of the way and then we'd roll them back out and way we'd keep going. Um, like I said, it was pretty fun. We had 140 wrestlers. So, that was I want to say 75 of the littles and then 65 of the bigs. Um, and just had a really good time and we couldn't have done without you. Um, is there any questions that we can answer for you guys?

Any questions or comments? just maybe chair recognizes Councilman Thomas. How many girls are in the pro in your program? Uh, you know what? I probably can't give you a number. I mean, a specific number, but if you notice the majority of the people holding trophies is at the end of the year were girls. So, at the at the state competition the last week, we had two first, I mean two seconds, a third, a fourth, and two six. Very good. So, as far as representative state, um, it was probably 45% girls. So, congratulations. It it was a lot of fun, a lot of hard work. When you look at that and you see 83 hours on the mat this last three months is a little crazy, but we had a good time. And thanks to Cory.

Yeah, kudos to Cory and his whole team. They were amazing. Yeah, just chair recognizes Council Stroberg. So, Nick, thanks for coming and showing that. um I know you've put a lot of time in and anyone that is a coach, it is um a thankless job having done as well, especially with youth. So, thank you very much. And I think for anyone that questions what's going on um at the peak, this is just the tip of the iceberg of what we have planned. So, I mean, you showed it. It's a great resource within our community. And whether it's wrestling or whatever else we have going on, I think we're showing that we're doing the right thing for the youth there. So,

hands down when we looked at, you know, we look at the reason we needed to go to the peak is the high schools. Um, by the time you have a full women or full girls practice and a full best full boys wrestling practice, there was there was no time for the kids. No time for the So, that's preK through 8th grade. So, awesome. Thanks. Thanks. Very good. Thank you, Nick. Thank you. Appreciate it. That will uh council that'll bring us down to minutes on February 3rd, 2026. Uh is there any corrections or additions to the minutes? And if not, chair to entertain a motion. So move here. A motion from Councilman Thomas for approval of the minutes on February 3rd, 2026. Is there a second?

Second. Hear a second from Councilman Stroberg. All those in favor say I. I.

I. All those may oppose say nay. Those are adopted. It sounds unanimous. Bring us down to contracts. purchase of a large tractor. Uh Corey, Nick gives us a lot of credit, but he did most of the work. So, I just they they did an excellent job, and we love to provide the venue for them. Councilman, thank you for your uh uh thank you for the opportunity tonight. Uh to County Parks and Recreation is seeking approval to purchase a large tractor and implement. Um we have uh gone out to state contract and solicited to three bids. The lowest bid being a John Deere tractor and we'd like approval to purchase that and um this was approved in the 2026 budget under capital money

underneath there. Is that the attachments that are going coming with the tractor? Is that what that is, Andy? Yeah. So So it's the it's the bids that we got. Okay. Plus the Thank you. What's the purpose of this tractor, Cory? So, the So, the tractor is multi-purpose uh mostly um going to be on a motocross um area, which we've completely redesigned this winter. And we continue to grow motocross wise. And uh additionally for large barrel races and rodeos, it'll be a second tractor we use to to speed those events up quite a bit. Just one more thing along

and it's a replacement. Yeah, that area of the of Desert Peak was kind of where all the water ends up, right? And so you've been trying to work to get it better to where it's not as flooded sometimes, I guess. Is that what you're working towards?

Yeah, we've we've had staff out there all winter long. Thankfully, we haven't Well, not thankfully, but there it's been good weather for us to do that. And uh last year with all the rain that we had at the end of October, we actually flooded flooded our motocross track because all of our storm water drains to our motocross track. So, we've had our staff out there all year long creating ditches, reworking the track so that that will not happen again. So, it still will serve as a retention basin, um, which is what what it's intended for, and we can still run motocross. Wonderful. Chair recognizes Councilman Hoffman. Hey, I I just got a comment. Why the heck are we discussing this when it's already approved?

I love it. Thank you, John. Thank you. Peas in a pod. Okay. Still your thunder. No more discussion on it. Chair to entertain a motion. I have a motion to approve the purchase of the tractor. And a motion from Councilman Sternberg. Is there a second? Second. And a second from Councilman Hoffman. All those in favor say I. I. All those may may oppose say nay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Corey. Uh Jed talking about the road overlay project to talk about it here.

I will. So I'd like because it's our policy. I know and I'm fine with it. Kendall's not

I'd like to start by saying that uh this is the project we discussed in the budgeting process. Um you know it's it's already budgeted kind of. No, this is the first of uh overlay projects that we're going to try to start completing annually. Um this project uh we did budget for in the budgeting process. We we also received really good prices for the uh projects that we've listed. Um it did come in over the budgeted amount though by uh quite a bit. Um and next month I talked to Allison, she's going to come in and propose a um budget adjustment to cover the difference. Um our our thought process when we put it out to bid was that we would push the limit of that budgeting uh area. And we could either um get really good prices and come in below our original budgeted amount based on the engineers estimate. or if it came in over, we could request to cover that difference or we could eliminate a project. After discussion within staff, we decided to ask for the difference. Um, originally it was budgeted at 2,ion40,000 and the low responsible bidder came in at 2,ion362, but there are some areas within the overlay that are estimated and they could go quite a bit

under what we've estimated them. They could come in at where we estimated them, but um at this point we'd like to proceed with the project as we put it out to bid and award it to the low bidder, which would be Kilgore Construction. They've done quite a bit of work here in the county and they do a really good job.

Do you want to list the roads, Jed, so they understand which roads these are? Um so Middle Canyon, North Willow, South Willow, Burmeister, Hardy Road, Center Street, Erda Way, and Stansbury Island, but just to the railroad track. So the area south of the railroad track on Stansbury Island. So in total, there's eight roads total combined, just over 10 miles. Um, and all of the roads are here within the Tilla Valley here. They're not spread out. Um, and we did that for to uh consolidate the bidding process because if you spread them out, it tends to be more expensive that way. So, they're all here in the valley.

You want to clarify on Erdaway because it's not all of Away. It's just

not away. So from Tom's Lane to SR36, Erda's got a grant that's going to rebuild that portion. From Tom's Lane past the airport to Grantsville uh city line. Um that's where this goes to. It's about three and a half miles. Um and then from the Grantsville line to uh Sheep Lane is about another mile. And we did reach out to Grantsfield to see if they wanted to overlay that mile of road as part of this project. They would just have to fund that and they they passed on that opportunity this year. So

if I could just add just a couple more points. So in the past we've typically done just ship seals on roads just maintaining roads. Yes.

There are some that are beyond that capacity. And this as we were looking at our five our five-year budget, we noticed that our fund balance was going up and some of that's due to some extra funding we received from the state a few years ago. And so we knew that we had some fund balance to start to use to to resurface roads that need to be resurfaced. And so we had about $10 million, but we don't want to do $10 million at one time because you do 10 million at once, then 20 years from now, you're replacing all of those roads. And so we decided just each year we'll take a chunk. and we decided on around $2 million, two to$ two and a half million dollars. And so this comes within what we were kind of anticipating. Yes. And so that's why we would recommend you approve this and then we will have to come back for a budget adjustment to add that extra funding, but it will just come from that fund balance that we'd already kind of planned on.

Yeah. Any questions or comments from the council? Good job. We did get nine vendors. Oh, good. intentionally put it out to bid early uh when before everybody had their year lined out for the intention that we wanted uh as many contractors to be trying to fill their calendar with this project and we were very successful in that end. Good. So,

hey Jed, just sorry, one other question for the um Stansbury Island. Where does that get us with what Adobe and does or we're coming up short of where they've been working? Right.

So, from U DOT's rideway to the railroad is what we're doing. It's only a quarter mile of road there. On the north side of the railroad is uh was a gravel road that was improved six years ago by adding uh asphalt millings. And for a hall road, it performs pretty well, but it does get all truck traffic on it. and we've looked at that section of road um from basically blenders pit to the railroad and you're going to be somewhere in the 6 to7 million range to improve that. So that's not part of this. It's just from the railroad over to UD do's uh property. There's some cracking and things happening there that if we put an overlay on it now, it'll save us the expense of having to reconstruct it in a couple of years down the road because of that heavy traffic that's on it.

Okay. Thanks. Is there going to be shoulder work done as well on any of these or is just overlay? Yeah, it's it's a inch and a half to two inch overlay depending on the road. And when they get off, there should be a little bit of a drop off from the asphalt to um the road base. If you match it perfectly, you end up getting road base in the road. Um, but where it gets low lower than it should be, we're definitely going to be fixing the the shoulders in those areas, but not like all of it, just where it's needed.

Okay. Any other questions, comments? If not, chair, entertain a motion. So moved. Hear a motion from Councilman Hoffman. Is there a second? Second. Hear a second from Councilman Strongberg. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those may oppose say nay. Okay. Thank you, Jed. Thank you. Have a good night. We'll do. You don't want to spend your night with us? We got We got Thank you. Uh Mike Jansen, you're going to talk to us about the Interpay service payment agreement.

Good evening, council. Well, uh, this is the Intellipe is the first of two contracts before you tonight. Intellipe is a credit card service company that the county uses in many of the other departments already. The treasur's office is needing to switch to Intel with uh with the second contract we'll look at here in a minute with bill tracks. Uh, but also going with Intel Pay, we'll drop the consumer fees from a straight 2.5% or $2.50 50 that we're using now to anything under $60 will be a dollar and a half and anything above $60 will be two and a half% just like it is now. So some of the small uh charges will actually get a we'll see a small reduction in in fees. Uh also with Intellipe we will be able to accept uh American Express in the uh in the treasur's office now. So that's been long long coming. A lot of people have asked for that. And like I said, it's a this is a two-year term for the Intellipe with renewable contracts every year after 2027 up to four years uh in total. So that's the uh that's the gist of the Intellipay contract. Any questions or comments from council? Okay. Chair to entertain a motion.

So moved. A motion. Councilman Stroberg. Is there a second? Second. Second from Councilman Thomas. All those in favor say I. I. All those may oppose say nay. That is adopted unanimously. And you're up still.

Okay. Now uh now council this uh this next one is with a company called Build Tracks. They are going to they're a back-end company that will will supply us with the actual software the actual face of what the uh the web page will look like. It's very very modern, very very user friendly. It will actually host our tax notices on their website and also if we'd like the uh we'll be able to host the uh disclosure notices that come out of the auditor's office. So, somebody wants to create a an account with in this with build tracks, they'll be able to go right there and get their uh their tax notice each year and then as long as we go with them, they'll keep those out there in the historical basis. There is a small fee with bill tracks. It's only $75 a month. Uh I I believe that can be covered within our our current budget this year. Uh what we've got. So, uh I this is a three-year term with bill tracks. uh they've had a lot of good reviews in the treasures association with other counties that are using them. So it's my recommendation that we uh we sign this contract and and have bill tracks help us out.

Any questions or comments from the council? Mike, with the you you saying the bill to look at their you know notices, is it going to be appear seamless for the most part for residents? I mean they'll go to I assume county sites there'll be a link there. Yeah, create an account. But for the most part, they most people are going to think it's just sitting. Yeah, there'll be a link on our on the treasure web page that they can go to. It'll take it right to the bill tracks page and they can just log into there and and those notices will be right there. Payment options will be right there. So, it'll be really nice. So, it's kind of like banking. You can go paperless. Yeah. And they do offer e e-otices, too. So, we'll be able to start uh hopefully start using e-otices instead of mailing

and payment through that. So they that's where the payment portal is is through bill tracks. Any other questions or comments? Not chair to entertain a motion. So moved. A motion from Councilman Hoffman. Is there a second? Second. Hear a second from Councilman Stroberg. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those may oppose say nay. Okay. Thanks. Adopted. Thank you. That'll bring us down to resolution 2026-03 adopting Twilla County Class D Road. Nathan, my pleasure. Thanks, Curtis.

That's okay. Um, nope. Here we go. So, thank you, council. Good evening. Um the uh resolution 2026-03 uh has been a long time coming. Um per statute, we were required to pass or to adopt a road map that showed all of our class D roads. Uh when this bill was passed, it was 2006, I think, and uh we failed to do so. So now 20 years later, we are finally getting around to adopting this class D roads map. Um, and this is really important because

are you saying the government's pretty efficient at things? Yes. Yes, we we are. We are quite efficient.

Um, Scott wasn't working then, so it's it's none of our fault. Uh, so under Utah code, we needed to adopt this map. And as you know, there are lots of class D roads within Twilla County. Uh, we don't get any money for them. They're usually twotrack dirt paths through very very remote places in the county, but we always have individuals who want to know where they can take their ATVs, where they can drive, where they're allowed to. We've never actually adopted anything that satisfied that. So, this is the first step in doing so. Now, in the last 20 years, it's very possible that Twilla County had vacated some of these class D roads, which are in the recorder's office. And I know Jerry Hton is doing a good job looking those up. And so what we want to be doing is every year we want to be revising this map with any formerly vacated roads that were done through county ordinance. So this will give a great resource to the sheriff's office who has to sometimes go and police class D roads. It will also give any visitors a map of where they can most likely go with a 99% accuracy, I would guess. Um, and we'll have to take those isolated incidences as they come, but uh, that's what happens when you're 20 years late to the game. But this will really be a good resource for the county and allow us to start integrating some of our trails into our class D roads as well. Do you want to mention the state requirements now that state changed their law last year but there are some state some state oversight on some of these roads as well just so for clarity.

Yeah. So so class D roads are uh pretty uh unique. Um the state shares a joint ownership interest in all class D roads with the county. So we as a county can't even vacate a class D road without their permission. If they do grant us that permission, we have to go through quite a lengthy process to to make sure that there are no gates, that nobody, you know, is claiming it as their own personal property and put that on the record before we can vacate. Even if we do vacate, the state still owns that road 100%. Um, and so it is they are unique. The the state wants counties to keep their class D roads. Um, and we have a lot. So, is that what you were looking for, Manager Welch? Excellent. Wonderful. Is there any other questions or comments the council? If not, chair to entertain a motion.

Some move. Second. Hear a motion from Councilman Thomas, a second from Councilman Hoffman. All those in favor say I. I.

I. All those may oppose say nay. That resolution 2026-03 is adopted. That will bring us down to resolution 2026-04. Thank you, chairman. Uh resolution 2026-04 um is pretty exciting. As you know, uh our justice court judge, uh DAO retired in December of 2025. And so we as a county needed to go through the process to find a new justice court judge. And it was a quite an intensive process. I was privileged to be part of the committee that reviewed the initial applications from attorneys who had applied. Um we were able to uh select I believe nine interviewees. Uh we were able to sit down with each of them, talk to them and at the end of the day we as a committee forwarded four names on to uh K the county manager for his interview. and we ended up selecting uh Wayne Jones who's actually present with us. Um I'm sure I don't know what fanf fair we want to have or I don't have any poppers or anything or sparklers form but um

the process I guess after you then. So I had to interview them and that's just the the state code is the county executive executive appoints appoints and then the council has to ratify that person. So

it says you have to so Andy appointed now you have to ratify person. So, you know, do with that what you will. Um, but th this is great. Uh, Wayne is a Twilla County local. Uh, he worked for Twilla City, uh, at the beginning of his career. He worked at Twilla County before the, uh, downturn in 2013, I believe, and has been at the AG's office since then. Um, is very, very judge-esque. Uh he has lots of good judge qualities and I've only met him once. I mean we sat and talked in a room for about an hour. Um and he was by far the best candidate that we had. So uh with that you can ratify this uh this resolution now.

Unless you want to have him come up and introduce himself. Well that and his family Wayne. See if that light's green. Is that it? Is Thank you,

Mr. Chairman, council members. U thank you for this opportunity. Um this is my family. I'm I'm Wayne Jones. Uh I'm currently an assistant attorney general for the state of Utah, but uh shortly we'll be joining you, I hope, after this vote. Um my family's here in the second row. My son Luke, daughter Clarissa, wife Carrie, dad Stan, Mary Gay, stepmom, and my brother Aaron who is an investigator, well, he's assistant chief now, uh, for the investigations division at the Utah Attorney General's Office. Very nice.

Wonderful. And so, uh, Andy actually asked me to come in and and be part of that interview. So, I appreciate that. And we went through and interviewed and had, uh, multiple questions. So, uh, with that, uh, chair to entertain a motion. So, moved. A motion to ratify this, uh, from Councilman Hoffman. Is there a second? Second. Second from Councilman Strumberg. All those in favor say I. I. I. All those may oppose say nay. Welcome. And since you're part of us, I think we want to get a picture right in that. Absolutely. With the council. Yeah,

Scott Broadhead may be able to say a few things as well since he worked for him. So say things about Wayne. Yeah. Well, first of all, um I've known Wayne since 1995.

Wayne was Wayne was green and I was slightly less green. I'd been an attorney for two years. I think it was two I think I'm two years older than Wayne. Um fellow BYU alum and he was just starting out. I was just slightly ahead of him. Um Wayne has worked in so this justice court he's going to be judge of is where Wayne started frankly and uh both the 12 city and with the county attorney's office and um I think Wayne's going to be a great judge. He's first of all he's a great man. That's probably the best thing I can tell you about him. He's a good man and uh I think he'll treat everybody well. Um I don't think you ever get any complaints about Wayne as far as the way he treats somebody. Um, I I couldn't speak higher of him as a human being and I'm sorry I'm getting all emotional, but I just love Wayne. He's a good man and I think he'll do a great job.

Come on up and let's get a picture. Thank you. You guys need to like snuggle but not to where we have to go. next to Only

100 with that done. He doesn't start immediately. He still has to go through some training with the state. So, I understand there's an exam I have to pass. Oh, wow.

We're going to take care of that. I just I just want to thank you again for the for the trust that you've you've placed in me. Uh I I pledge to serve honorably um and to do my very best. Thank you. Thank you. And family, welcome. I hope you feel welcome. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Uh, and Nathan, you're on our next one. Resolution 2026-05.

Thank you, Chairman. So, in order for the county to dispose of real property as surplus property, we need to declare as such uh on the intersection of Sheep Lane and SR112, uh, U DOT would like to put in a light for us. Yay. Um, to help with, uh, that road and that intersection. Uh, one part of that that we need to do though is we need to give them some land. And so this piece of land that is in this resolution is declaring it surplus so we can give it to them so they can improve it and make that intersection much better for the community. Wonderful. Any questions or comments? If not, chair to entertain a motion.

I thought we had to sell away. They're another government agency. We did we did get we did get it appraised and it was worth I think $1,800 or something like that. It was By the way, I was just I know it was Is that what it was? $1,800 is what their fair market appraisal came in at. Um the improvements that they're going to put on it far outweigh that and so they are willing to pay us zero. Um and we want the light. We need the light. Yes. Still waiting to hear a motion. So move. Hear a motion from Councilman Hoffman. Is there a second? Second.

Hear a second. Councilman Stroberg. All those in favor say I.

I. All those may oppose say nay. That is adopted. And then I think we have one on the board. I'll turn some time over. Councilman uh Thomas. uh on the council of aging uh there is uh made up of different volunteers, different members from the community. Grantsville city has an appointment to that, the county has an appointment to that committee and Twilla City has the committee uh reappointment that they're making to uh the council on aging. And so Dave uh Justin Brady is being uh reassigned u to another committee and they're appointing Dave McCall to fill that vacancy. We don't have to appoint it is just strictly an information meeting appointment information from us. So that's all.

Thank you Councilman Thomas. I'll bring us down to any updates. Councilman Hoffman. Um just about the board and committee is I've talked to people about the board trying to work on that. Trying to get somebody from Granville representation talked to a couple people out there. Um one is her name first name Candy Hall outpost. Cindy is Cindy. Is it Cindy? Candy. Maybe it's Candy. Is that better? Good enough. Right. So, she's not interested in doing it, but she's going to talk to her husband about doing it. Rick. Rick, that'd be great.

He's retired. He can do it. That's what she thought, too. So, that was her. And then there's a couple of other people down there that I've spoken with as well. But, um, so we'll see what develops with that. Okay. Wonderful. Thank you, Councilman Hoffman. Councilman Thomas, I'll pass. Councilman Stroberg, and I will also pass other than we had uh uh great meetings up on the hill and legislation is still going if you have interest. Uh you can certainly go to the website and go up there and there's always committee hearings and other things that are going on that will turn some time over to our manager for update. Andy,

I just have one item actually. We discussed the meeting in March during the I think it's the Republican caucus and so so we hadn't decided yet whether or not to move that or cancel that meeting and so we need some direction uh from the council. Can we move to the 24th? That's my opinion. Any comments on that council? Yeah. Do we got enough to have a meeting? Uh we don't know. It's pretty far out there. If we have Don't be afraid to cancel it. Okay. I'll suggest we if we have enough for it then we move to the 24. If not we just cancel it. Okay. We'll move it to 24. Does that work?

Yeah. There are five Tuesdays that month. Typically we don't like to have them back to back but we would have an extra extra uh week. The 31st would be the next day. So they're actually we won't have backtoback meetings. So that's your Yep. We'll move it to the 24th. All right. Thank you. That's all I have. Thank you. So I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. So move here. A motion. Councilman Hoffman. We are adjourned at 6:37 p.m. Recording stopped. We are adjourned at 6:37 p.m.