City Council - Regular Meeting

the guidance and kind of help vet some of the projects we want to do going forward. So, we'll I'll let you know when we get that rolling, but that's the intent there. Um, anything else? I think anything else.

We didn't have a a board meeting for utopia, but they did send out some some subscriber information. Just things look good. Uh Leighton continues to increase month on month with the take rate. So um we're over 10,000 total subscribers now. So it's looking good. I'll get some more information at the next board meeting which is the first I think the first week of December. Anyone else?

Um we're not having a community board meeting for CTC in December. Um, instead we're going to have an end of year celebration and that'll be on December 8th at 5:30 at DBH. Um, you all should get on the email inviting you to that. You can bring a spouse if you'd like to come. Just RS to Tiffany by December 1st, please. I should have mentioned um with my hometown they're actually doing a dinner and we're invited but it happens to be on the next council night. So well let's go.

So I don't know if we'll be able to do that one either. So anyway, okay. Any you have anything to report? You got a call. Go ahead. No. Um, ramp commission met. Congratulations. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, we were excited. Yeah. Uh, we are going to have a listening session for the mayor's request uh for the next meeting. So, it's December 15th. Believe it'll be here in the council chambers for all who have opinions about ramp as far as the uh whether we amend the ordinance, what we talked about

moving forward. So, the first step in is to have that listening session. So, all Kimberly's going to invite all anybody who's ever uh what received send or even those who haven't got them. Anybody who's ever tried to get applied for a for a grant, she's she's going to she's inviting all of those to everyone to come. So, that's the first step. It's not going to be for this. I asked the question like, "Well, we better hurry because we're already got grant applications in." I'm like, "Well, it's not for this year. It's going to be for the following for if we make any changes." We've talked about that. So, so it'll be the first year of the next 10 years.

Yeah. So, we'll finish up this year for the first 10 years as is and then see what we need to do to change or modify which as a governing body we can. Is that a July? What's the the ramp year? They start. Yeah. Yeah. Fiscal year. Yeah. Fiscal. Yep. And then the the league. We had the LPC meeting. I think we did. We Yeah, we talked about that. We met between there.

Yeah. Like Oh, okay. Yeah. Deja vu. Uh LPC meeting. The items we talked about were the the water that were we've we're all aware of the of that. That was actually I sent a note that it was that fee study the final fee study that we saw was delivered to the the legislature during the interim meeting this week.

They're all just happy to get that and I was thinking what's going on here. Uh it was presented that in the meeting that or in the hearing that the how this is going to work is that the cities have to raise their rates to as the first bucket before you move along to so that's the first bucket. The cities raise their rates to the 4.5% whatever the EPA says we should do. And after that, there's the future water use fee that everybody in the state pays to fill this gap of 1.2 billion dollars a year that the state needs for the water infrastructure. So, I'm going to go,

but the fee study's been delivered. What happens if we don't do anything? We just don't know. No thanks. Did they say that? Did they say anything about a followup after they delivered it to the life surgery? It was just it was just their just like we did what was here. Here's the study. Yeah. But no. So there's still they're supposed to put a plan together into 2026 and then it's not implemented until sometime in 2027. So there's still time. Yeah. So they have a committee then or special? It was the natural resources committee where it was that's

who's the chair too uh Stratton and Albert the two it was the the entire both Senate and the House. So anyway and there was talk about property tax what's going to happen with property tax. There's some ideas out there of as in what cities and what they can do and what they can't do and caps and but it doesn't apply to county or state county I should say. Anyway, interesting times we're in. That's just more news. Don't have answers. Feel like I'm being

Yeah. Yeah. It's a puppet. Definitely puppets. be told what to say. And I wasn't there for the housing part because they're they talked about housing after that as another they did talk about housing. I took notes though, but Clinton was there in person. I was there. Do you remember talking about how they're going to restructure the state level the housing jobs going away and yeah there was some talk about right now cities have the first right of refusal if a if a public school

gets close closes down. Cities have the first right of refusal to purchase that. They're looking at changing that. That's what Sunset just went through and can afford it. That's all I have. Thanks. That's good. All right. Am I good to move on? Um, okay. I'm I'm going to move on then. Let's go ahead and go to item number three then, which is our general plan amendment. Water use and reservation elements. Brad's gonna present to us tonight.

All right, Mayor and Council, good to be with you again uh this evening. Uh we've talked about this a few weeks ago, so I will just I will not spabor it uh too much. I'll just really talk about uh the recommendation from the planning commission and how that went. Um and so they they heard it a few weeks ago. Uh they had a recommendation to uh approve the water element um with some uh changes. One of the the concerns that they had um was some of the examples that we included in the water element. They felt that that was they didn't didn't want some of those things included in there such as um the amount of uh area that could be used for turf grass. Um didn't like referencing a percentage um giving any idea uh to that. Also some of the examples on pool sizes and the amount of u uh limitations that those that could be there. So I did some more research into state code and these are some of the shells uh that we needed that they needed to recommend on and some of the things and why we included that information in the water element. And so it wasn't that you know staff is trying to provide a specific direction but also that we need to be mindful that in the water element that we are seriously considering some of those things uh that the state is kind of requiring us to do. So, as you can see, some of those shallows is that we shall consider principles of sustain sustainable landscaping, including the reduction or limitation on the use of tur lawn or turf, right? And so, um, I think a lot of our new residences, a lot of our new developments are doing a really good job at this with our water efficient landscape ordinance, but like like we talked about before and some of the considerations that are included in the water element, there's some things that we could consider again in the future. not um but the the planning commission was weary about it coming across as a mandate and and you know being too uh specific on this is the direction that we need to do as a city and I you know tried to help them

understand that these were just examples and that they weren't anything that we needed to go with. Um and so with that wanted to kind of go over some of these things that were in state code that just said you know what we need to to consider and really gives us the backing of why we included some of that information in there. So the shalls are in the bottom, right? The Well, the language does say shall and then consider. So I just um in state code. So and then it does also say shall include. Yeah. So those are the two sections of state code that said shall do those. Shall consider don't typically go, right? Yeah. It said shall consider, but it was like it shall and then it had another bullet point underneath. Okay. Um

so yeah, either way, uh Zach, you could say I probably screwed up one way or the other. shall or you know shall consider but yeah so are you recommending from the staff level we're recommending that we don't take out that language at all because the the state has encouraged us to include that type of language to to give us at least some sort of direction to go towards the planning commission felt they were really one one commissioner was specifically uncomfortable saying that like well if if it's in the general plan then that's exactly what we're going to do and we said that's not how the general plan functions It's it's a a guiding document and it it might give us a starting point, but it doesn't mean that we have to adopt this and even if we do

in the future, it'll still come back as a zoning text amendment, you know, so we'll still review it at that time. It so approving this does not say that we're improving approving those standards at all. So other than that, uh planning commission was very supportive of the the considerations that are in the water element and uh happy to answer any questions that you guys have before we present it in the meeting tonight. So, you have anything you want to bring up now? Busy looking, so I'm a little hesitant to move on to make sure you haven't made some notes on your packet. All right. Well,

let's go ahead and move on to number four then which Steve Jackson is going to present on that sewer impact plan. It's crazy.

Yeah.

Thanks for letting me be here again tonight. Again, this item we discussed a couple weeks ago, sewer impact fee facilities planet, sewer impact fee analysis. Um, I won't go through uh the same presentation in here. We'll do the full presentation out there. However, I just wanted to to make sure we all understand what what the proposal is here, and that is that uh Leighton City implement the sewer impact fee for the the four projects that are are listed in our impact fee facilities plan. Uh roughly $1.8 million worth of um projects that would be able to be funded out of that that sewer impact fee. There is a an impact fee that is collected by North Davis Sewer District for their lines and their facilities. They are substantially larger than ours and so their fee is is different obviously but but again this allows us to capture some of those impacts that growth and density are having on the city throughout the system. So, uh, again, there there's, uh, some proposed, uh, schedules in the impact fee analysis that we would recommend that the council adopt. Um, and then the I guess the the big one here is that with this, uh, adoption after the public comment, if the council chooses to to go that route, we would ask that they propose an implementation of February 23rd, 2026. That's um 90 it's the first Monday after the 90 days from tonight. So um are there any questions I can answer or

I just have one on the implementation fee so or the implementation period. So that's people who have already got their stuff in the works they're not affected any new applications

have new applications post. Okay I I assume that was the case. So again, the single family eru would be the 38681 to start and then it would just incrementally increase over those 10 years. when we do um when we have these types of impact fee increases um do we ever get feedback from the development community like I know we do have some other things that we look at is this something that we have done that

occasionally we do on on this one we haven't received anything but um I know a few years back on the water one there was a pretty substantial change to impact fee laws and so it it changed quite a bit and we did receive will be back. But on this one, we haven't.

Anything else? You guys record in here. Okay. Well, see, go ahead. Go on to the Okay. the we now secondary water.

Yeah. So, so I'd like to recognize uh Rick Smith. He's general manager for Davis and Weber County's Canal Company. And then actually Mike is the the ditch master that services the West Laden ditch. So, um both of them have extensive knowledge of of this system and and the conversations that we're having. Um so, similar to what we've done in the past, in 2017, we um adopted a master plan that that recommended that we optimize pressurized secondary use throughout the city. and and part of that was to consolidate the operations and maintenance of the pressurized secondary water systems in Leighton. Um so in January of 2018, we actually entered an operating agreement with Weaver Bas and Water to operate their system. Theirs is a little nuanced because the Bureau of Reclamation owns a lot of their lines. So we didn't actually take over the ownership of their system, but we do operate it. They pay us a percentage of the the rates that come in for their usage. and then we we operate the system from beginning to end and and manage all of that for them. So, um four years later, January 2022, we entered into a transfer and shareholder agreement with Case Creek Irrigation. You all know about that one as well. Um roughly 3,100 customers on that system that now we we own, operate, and and manage as well. So, um I guess now four years later, roughly we're we're talking with Davis Weaver County's Canal Company. Um So you could see the the different service areas. The blue is Weaver Base and the red was the former Case Creek area and the areas we want to talk about tonight are roughly these yellow areas. They're a little bit different now than they were back in 2017, but but pretty close. So um and then this purple area is our future expanded secondary area that we wanted to optimize as as Westlon grew. So, um, again, we came up with a master plan, showed the improvements, um, throughout the city in in that area, in that portion, and then, um, moving forward,

we we've had discussions with Davis and Weber County's Canal Company, um, to convey or transfer their secondary pressurized system to Leighton City. Approximately, 1350 connections with 23 roughly 23 miles of pipes and andes that go with that. Um, part of the agreement is that Davis Weaver Countyy's Canal Company retains their canal, the reservoirs, and any transmission lines not associated with the the system in Leighton. So, there's there's a line that comes out of their reservoir that runs down Fairfield Road in Cageville that would not be part of this um transfer agreement. Uh, we have a unique situation out in the West Leighton area. We have what we're we're terming hybrid users. So, there's some some users on Gordon Avenue and then kind of that general area that use flood irrigation, but they come off of the pressurized system. Um, those are are shareholders of Davis Weaver Canal and they will remain shareholders and customers of Davis Weaver Canal until such time as they choose to convert to pressurized users and and most likely anticipate that'll be with some kind of form of development into the future. Um just south of of Hillfield Road area, there's the Westlen Ditch system. Um that will remain with Davis Weaver Canal Company as well. Um so they will basically maintain and keep all of the flood systems going. Um part of that is there is an agreement with Davis Weaver and Leighton City. Uh we call it the bilateral contract back in 2002 and then it was amended a couple times later. Um that contract basically is the contract that they service the these systems with Lane City or in Lane City. That that agreement will terminate with this transfer agreement. Um we have a trilateral contract uh with Davis Weaver and Weaver Basin. Um the proposal for

that is to assign all of the Davis Weaver rights, obligations, and liabilities to Leighton City. And so that would basically become a bilateral agreement between Leighton City and Weaver Basin. And then as part of that, there's some purchase contracts with Weaver Basin, approximately 13 of them that Davis Weaver has that would be assigned to the city that would service these various subdivisions throughout Leighton. Um so couple of maps to kind of tell you what we're talking about here. This is the South Leighton system. Um this dashed gray line is is the city boundary currently and these blue lines would be the the water system pipes in the secondary system that would transfer to Leighton City. Um one of the agreements that we have is that we would disconnect these lines. These lines actually go into Kisville. We're not showing those on the map, but but these three red dots are locations where we would disconnect from that system and then we would connect onto um the system. We have a pipeline in in Leighton Parkway that we would make a couple connections with and and so we'd be able to service those off of the city's system that we currently have.

How big is that line? The line we have in the the one in the park, it's 18 inch. It's an 18 inch line. So, um and then the West Leighton system is the the portion that has the hybrid users on it. Um the the canal connection point is all the way up near I15. if you go 20 to 200 west and just keep going north until you hit I-15. So, Leighton would take over ownership and maintenance of the line from that connection point of the canal and then all the way down 2200 west. Um these all the way through 2200. Yeah. All the way down to basically Ellison Park. That would become our Yeah. To Ellison Park is where the

So, not your road. Not your Well, no. Yeah, that's true. Not quite to your house, but

Yeah. but almost to your house. Yeah. Um and and so these blue lines obviously represent the the pressurized lines in the system. The pink um colored squares or properties that we've identified. We're still finalizing those with uh Rick and his team to to make sure we've got everybody who's identified as a hybrid user, but those are are people who would remain. Um again, Davis Weaver shareholders that would be able to to receive water through the system. Um and then we just continue until at some point they develop and they become pressurized users. The the Westl ditch, majority of the Westl ditch is south of this line here. They're not shown on this map, but those would also remain there. So the feeds there's there's a feed right here at the um south end of that that pipeline. Rick, can I ask are there other connections to the Westl or is that the main one that

That's the main one. There was one on 3200 that really isn't used anymore. Okay.

Yeah. So, so the main main feed to the Westlon ditch would be through this this system right here. So, so what does that mean for us? There's there's some city undertakings. We we in the proposed agreement is that we would disconnect um from that Kazville secondary water system and connect into the Leighton City system. Um we would agree to deliver water through this pressurized system to the hybrid users and to Davis Weaver for their obligations to the West Lon shareholders. Um There is no fee that we would charge for that. It would just be basically water that would pass through our system into into theirs and until such time as they become customers of Leighton City. At some point in the future, uh we continue to pay the annual shareholder assessments to Davis Weaver on the city shares that we hold. Um we would be metering all of these transferred connections, the 1350 connections. And if you recall, um, the council already approved, uh, accepting the grant money we received from the state for 65% of the costs of that. So, it's about $3.5 million and the state has given us um 65% of that to get that taken care of. Um, that does have a deadline of next year. So, we are planning uh to get that started here as soon as we can. uh Clinton and our our group is working with Rick's group to to get anou established to be able to say let's move forward with this with the understanding that this agreement is going to be finalized here in the very near future. Uh so we want to make sure we can get our contractor in here to get these meters installed before the deadline so we don't lose that funding. Um and then obviously we would take over ownership, operations and maintenance of that transferred system and then build for any of the customers on the pressurized system at that point.

Um the question

um have you I've heard of some folks when things have been shifting that their water pressure has gone down. Is that something that's anticipated with this move? like for people who may be using the water from the um DWCC as it moves over to our system. Um I don't anticipate that the reservoir that services the Gazville system is is roughly at the the same elevations that our system is on the east side that we'll be connecting into. Um so so we don't anticipate that there's going to be a loss of pressure there. um in the Westlenon system that literally will be the exact same operations that we have now. Um we'll we'll work with Rick and his group to make sure that we're making the proper adjustments on our side to make sure that the the ditch users have their water and our pressurized users have their water and and just find that balance. So

So those lines that are that currently come up from Kville, those just get capped off on both sides then. So, yeah. So, there's there's city boundary. Yeah. City boundary boundary. It will be capped. Yeah. We'll we'll disconnect them there. There's some drains on their side. We'll probably have to put some drains in on our side and just to make sure it all operates, but we're working through all that. But we don't anticipate that people will really notice any difference in the water system and and with the goal being that it starts before the new system is even or before we even charge the system. If we can make all those changes, then

um people really notice anything other than like the city is going to be sending them the bill and then then operating the system. So, and putting installing meters in the meters. There's no meters, right? Yeah. Okay.

Um, so then on on Davis Weaver's side, basically we've asked them to provide us all the documentation for the systems, the contracts, operating procedures, system specs, things like that. just normal uh information that they have and and then um they would assist us with whatever help we needed for the first year of the of the water season. We anticipate it'll be fairly minimal as we um kind of have a decent idea of how their system works. We just don't operate it every day. So, we just want to make sure we can get that help if we need it. Um they would assign all of the rights to easements that are related to this transfer system to the city. So we have the same rights to operate and maintain that and then they would obviously service and have the the shareholders that are the hybrid users and any other shareholders that stay with them until such time as the development occurs. So they want to become a customer by by meeting. Have I missed anything Rick? Any big items? I think that kind of is a nutshell. We're we're close, I think, on the agreement. The the legal teams are both kind of final reviews. We got some um kind of red lines we we're going to send back to to Rick and his team shortly, but I think it'll be a fairly hopefully a fairly quick turnaround on that. But, uh we just wanted to to bring this forward and let you know that that's kind of the plan. This was in the master plan. And so, any other questions I can answer? I believe that's my last slide there.

I have a question on the state funding. So I know that you know everybody has an opportunity to apply for that funding. Yeah. Are they trying to spread it so that it reaches more entities versus a chneled entity? And I I only say that because I mean you know they're an entity, we're an entity. Are they going to look at it like lat you've already gotten some of the funding? Are you talking about new the new funding or the existing metering? I'm talking for the metering. So So all of that money money has already been allocated and and Rick and and the city Davis Weaver and the city actually worked together to convince the state to actually give us some more money because the first that's what I was

we we actually used up all of what we could be allocated with the Case Creek system and then Rick was already allocated all that he could get under the rules. That's what I is what we've gotten. Yeah. I was going to say I vaguely remember there being something. So then we we went back to the state and we said, "Hey, we've got this unique situation where Davis Weieber is probably not going to be able to meter the system because they've already got tons of other connections to do and and they maxed out their funding and we if we took this on could get more funding and so so they did they gave us another $2.8 million." So that's secured then is what it might

Yeah. Well, it's it's secured and it has to be spent and build back to them by November of this next year. So, that's why we want to to move forward with the metering and um sign the April 15th when the water turns on. Yeah. We didn't want to have to put in a whole bunch of meters that would get usually obsolete when you have different system. Yeah. Okay.

So, so it makes a lot of sense if we we knew we were headed down this road. let's get these meters in and if they're going to be late cities meters then let's make them the city standard that looked on our network and then um I think it helps both of us out to say yeah the state gave additional funds to do this and and it was an area that probably wouldn't have got metered by either system with the fa the grant money until and we would have just paid that extra 65% at some point. Okay, that's awesome. Yeah, but we are like, like I say, we are on a deadline to get that funding spent and our contractor is ready to roll as soon as we get that paperwork taken care of. So So what are you needing from us?

Well, nothing at this Clinton and his team are working on the do the documents for us. I think those are imminent. Um we're just once we get the documents done, we're going to bring the full agreement back to you. Okay. And then uh a formal presentation of what's the full document. This was just high level to let you know what what we've been working on. It is consistent with what our master plan says we should be doing. So that's where we're headed. That's good. You guys have any questions? That's great. Yeah. Yeah. Hope there's a lot to this point. Yeah. I was going to say I know how long behind the scenes there's a lot more going on. Yeah.

And I know how long you've been working it too, Rick. So we appreciate your patience and working with the city honestly on this and Mike. Okay. Um that's it on our agenda items, but um we do have some um additional business we need to take care of by going into a closed door meeting. So um I would entertain a motion to go into that meeting at this time.

uh take the time and and welcome everyone out to our Leighton City Council meeting this evening. Um the day is November 20th and our start time is on time at 7 o'clock. Um, I appreciate uh those in attendance, but as you know, we like to always start our meetings with a prayer and a pledge when we take terms uh each month. So, I'm going to turn the time over to Council Member Thomas to conduct to conduct.

Okay, I'll give the prayer then we'll get up and have the pledge if you please. Our father in heaven, we're indeed grateful to be gathered tonight to talk about Leighton City. We ask that thy spirit might attend us that as we do talk about Leighton City, that we will be mindful of what we're saying, be kind in how we say it, but be truthful in what we're trying to say. We're thankful for this great land that allows us opportunity to do the things which we're doing tonight. We're thankful for the people that look into the things that go on within this city and voice their opinions so that we might be able to make decisions with the best knowledge. This I say in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Amen.

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, Mr. Thomas. We appreciate that. Um, I'd like to make a a special or acknowledgement that uh, Councilman uh, Roberts is not with us. He asked for to be excused. However, I do notice our incoming council member on the front row there that will be taking the oath of office in January. So, Mike Clendran, welcome. Glad you're here with us tonight. Okay. Um, council, we do have one set of minutes that we need to uh approve. Hopefully, you've had an opportunity to look at them, see if you have any changes. If not, I'll entertain a motion.

Mayor, I move that we approve the minutes of Legent City Council work meeting October 2nd, 2025. Second. It's been moved and second. All in favor, please say I. I.

Any opposed? Okay. Thank you very much. Okay, we'll go down to our municipal announcements at this time. Uh, I know that Tyson usually u reads off what the parks and recck department has going on. And we really didn't assign anyone, so I'll just go ahead and mention them for him. Um, first off, this Saturday is the Turkey Bowl, which is always a a fun event to participate in. I know that uh the lanes are um pretty well t already called for. However, there may be there's this breaking news. It's just now hitting the news desk at this moment. So, the parks and recck team gets to deal with a uh two lanes that could become available on the four o'clock hour. So, if you want to do a lottery draw or however you guys want to handle that, um we'll be happy to turn those over. Initially the myself and the council we usually challenge another city and unfortunately the other city backed out on us and then we had a second city and they backed out and our third city backed out. So we're we're saying it's time to let the citizens have it this year but we'll be back for a challenge next year on the Turkey Bowl. Um then on Monday we have our holiday lighting ceremony out here in the new pavilion and the start time on that is 6 pm and uh so we'd encourage everyone to come out and show your support. We have Chris View Elementary School that will be participating as well as the day

the Leighton Community Band. And this year is we're going to do something a little different. We're actually going to have a dual lighting ceremony. So, we'll have one for the nativity scene and then one for the for the uh park lights. So, again, I encourage everyone to come out at that at 6:00 p.m. Um, if you haven't already and would like to participate in the nutcracker display, our Leighton Museum here this year is going to have a nutcracker display. And from what I understand, they've got a lot of them already. Is that correct, Marie? And yet they they would still take a few more. If anybody would like to bring in their favorite nutcracker that they own or might have a small collection that they want to be on display, we'd love to do that so that all of our residents can kind of see the variety of of um the showcase that they'll be putting together. And that exhibit will run from the 27th of November through December 23rd. And of course, as we've na announced in the past with America 250, our celebration, uh our Leighton Museum was uh the first one recipient of the traveling display for the state that is currently on the wall at the museum for you to come see. And it's called the pen is Mightier, the writing of the revolution. So, it's a great educational tool. And keep in mind, this is just a small portion of the actual display that is on display in Salt Lake, but this is part of the traveling one. And like I said, Leighton was the first museum to receive that. So, that's kind of cool. Um, other than that, I'll turn the time over to anybody else that would if they have any other announcements they'd like to make. None. Okay. Well, then I hope everyone will enjoy the lights and get out of your car, walk around and really uh embrace

it. Uh there will be hot chocolate and churros again uh that will be distributed through the Leighton Rotary and the train will be running as well. The train will be primarily Tuesday through Sunday, excuse me, Tuesday through Saturday. and the um Leighton City will have their uh free family hay rides on December 3rd. So, it will not be running that night. And if you want to come and enjoy the hay rides, then again, it's here at the Commons Park. And is the staging where where you going to have your staging?

For no, for your hay rides. Same place.

Same place as a train. Okay, great. That that makes it easy. So, the hay rides are going to be from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on December 3rd. One thing I want to make sure that everyone realizes this year we have changed the staging area for the train. It is going to be in the east parking lot by the seminary. So, that will be the staging area as well as the cocoa will be sold there. So, that on those cold nights if you want to kind of go into the pavilion, it might take the chill off. So, all right, that's enough rattling on. I'll go ahead and get going with our regular scheduled meeting here this evening. And um we actually have a fairly light agenda. So I'm just going to go ahead and jump into our citizens comment at this time. So anyone who's here that would like to address this governing body, you're more than welcome to. You can step up to the podium on either side. Please state your name, what city you're from, and then your purpose. Good evening, mayor, ladies and gentlemen. Uh, it's my second time coming. Uh, John Atkin from West Point. I just wanted to come up and introduce myself to everyone. I am running for Davis County Sheriff um this coming year. Just wanted to share about three minutes a little bit about myself. Worked the sheriff's office currently. Been doing internal affairs for the office past three years. Uh, came from military background as well. I am a veteran. Spent 14 years so far in the military. are still in the reserve service. Nine of which with the uh the police, military police on the Army and Air Force side, and currently a intelligence officer with the Air Force. Uh do work part-time as a firefighter paramedic. Have done that for the past three years North Davis Fire. Love Davis County. Spent most of my life here. I've left gone overseas, lived over there, lived out of the state. Um but I do love living here. I believe in good efficient government. I believe in accountability and I believe in working with other individuals like yourselves so we can

serve the people the best we can. Um I do have a few cards if anyone's interested. I'll leave them at the door on the way out. But thank you for your time this evening. Okay. Thank you. Is there anyone else?

Um I'm Megan Smok. I live in Syracuse but I am a pet sitter and dog walker that covers Leighton. So, I am well aware of all the dog owners and the dogs and the yards and the houses. Um, so I just want I'm just here about the dog park. Um, we are excited that there is a potential location being looked into. Um, we're really hopeful about that. Um, because Leighton needs a dog park. Um, there's way too many homeowners, dog owners without yards, without a place to take their dogs to run, to play, to socialize, to build community, and we just really want that to be an option for Leighton citizens. Thanks.

Thank you. Hi, I'm Tammy Ellis and I'm also here about the dog park. I have a border collie. I cannot exercise him anywhere because walking a border collie isn't realistic. I need a dog park. We all need a dog park. Um, and I think it's a little strange that we don't have one already, honestly, because it seems like every other city I know has one. Um, I have to drive to South Weber if I want to go take my dog to the dog park. So, that's all. Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else at this time? Okay. Being that there's none, I'm going to go ahead and go on to our consent items. Uh, Mr. Dr. Dave Price is going to uh present uh this one item that we have as our consent item this evening regarding the reenactment of our recreation arts museum and parks uh sales tax.

Thank you, mayor, and members of the city council. This evening, I have the pleasure of introducing ordinance 2525. If adopted, this ordinance will enact a recreation, arts, museum, and parks or ramp sales tax of onetenth to 1% on appropriate taxable sales within Leighton City beginning April 1st, 2026. In 2015, Leighton City voters approved a local sales tax, sales and use tax to support ramp initiative. For the last 10 years, this ramp tax has provided support for recreation, arts, museum, and parks within Leighton City. On November 4th of 2025, the voters of Leighton City authorize the city council to impose a ramp tax by an overwhelming margin of 75%. The city council may adopt ordinance 2525 to enact the ramp tax and send notice to the Utah State Tax Commission informing them of the vote of the people and the passage of this ordinance enacting the ramp tax. This ordinance will impose a sales tax of onetenth to 1% on all appropriate taxable sales beginning the 1st of April and run for 10 years with the potential to be renewed by voters in the city on in 2035. The staff recommends the council adopt ordinance 2525 reenacting the ramp sales tax and on appropriate taxable sales within Leaden and authorize the mayor to sign the necessary documents. This evening, if I could, I'd like to also recognize a few people that have helped us in this effort. Um, the first

would be our mayor Joy Petrol for her work with the committee. I'd also like to recognize our wonderful staff, including Kimberly and Joel and who worked tirelessly on this. But most importantly this evening, I'd like to recognize the community-minded, hard-working group of residents who together created a political information committee to advocate for the successful election of this tax. This group of residents incorporated with the state of Utah, successfully raised funds for the campaign, created a yes for Leighton ramp website, produced campaign signs, and campaigned in person. all to educate the Leighton residents about what RAMP is. I would also like to recognize and thank Daniela Harding and Bruce Finch for their work leading the political information committee as co-chairs. If you guys could join us up here, join me. and also thank Brandon Staer and Jake Bole, who's not here this evening, uh, for serving on the steering committee and who quite simply got the work done. If we could would like to have all the members of the political information committee stand up that are here this evening so that we can recognize them for their hard work and thank them for the successful passing of the ramp tax and then if it's appropriate mayor would like to give Daniela a chance to talk a little about the campaign that she and

her friends went through. Absolutely. Go ahead,

Mayor Council. First and foremost, thank you to the incredible people who made this effort possible. To all the members of the Leighton Ramp pick committee, we did it. My heartfelt thanks for your dedication, your hours of work, your belief and efforts in getting this renewed was inspiring. Our entire Leighton ramp pick committee. Would like to give a very special thank you to Leighton Mayor Joy Pro. Mayor Pro was absolutely tenacious in getting us the resources we needed. She was generous with her time, unwavering in her support, and constantly motivating us to keep this effort moving forward. Mayor Petro, we are deeply grateful. Thank you. You want to extend a heartfelt thanks to my co-chair, Bruce Finch. Bruce, your leadership, your consistency, and your commitment kept us on track, and we could not have done this without you. And to the members of our steering committee, Brandon Stoofer of OPA over there and Jake Bole who's not here tonight. Thank you for your willingness to step in wherever you were needed. Finally, a massive thank you goes out to Leighton Parks and Wreck, especially to Dave Bryce and Kimberly Zagette over there. Truly, we could not have done this without your help. You were the bridge between our committee and the citizens of Leighton. your expertise, your coordination, and your belief in ramp powered so much of this effort. And to the entire ramp commission and chair Cameron Cross, we thank you for your leadership and for stewarding this program with such care. Your work laid the foundation that allowed this renewal effort to

succeed. Now, let me say one last thing. Um I think some of the residents may be wondering who we are and the answer is very simple. We are just a group of citizens who simply believe in Leighton. We believe in our recreation and our arts, our museums and our parks. We believe in strong public spaces and opportunities for our Leighton families and in making Leighton the best place to live, work, and play. So, we want to thank the voters of Leighton for voting to renew RAMP for another 10 years. Your support means that residents will have continued access to quality programming and they will continue to thrive. Just today, someone stopped me to tell me how much they loved RAMP and specifically they loved the free concerts on Sunday nights. And this is what this is what this is all about. It's Leighton residents enjoying our community. And so we are so proud to have been part of something that will continue to enhance and beautify our community. We're so grateful that this has been renewed and cannot wait to see the good it brings over the next 10 years. Thank you.

Thank you. Um I just uh want to speak to the support of the citizens 75% uh that's just overwhelming support and thank thank you to the citizens and to this body here and the ramp commission. It has been 10 years uh that this has been going on and because of your quality stewardship of the monies that it remains very popular and I hope we do that going forward that we're mindful of this is the citizens money and we're going to do what's right for our citizens and and thank you for having done that in the past and hopefully we can go forward and do that in the future. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you. And thank you, mayor and councel. Do you have any questions about the ordinance this evening? Uh council, do you have any uh questions or if you'd like to make any comments because I know it's an opportunity to actually thank the folks as well. So yeah, I'll start out

before we take any action. Thank you, Madam Mayor, and thank you to Danielle and Bruce for chairing this and Brandon as well. I I just the fact that that we can get 75% of people to believe or agree on anything is pretty amazing, right? If you put some some just rudimentary questions on the ballot, I don't know if you get 75% of people believing on one side or the other. Uh so I just thank you for your time and efforts and energies. Um, we do treat these funds to your point, Bruce, very uh we have stewardship over them and we want to make sure that that people can see what they're getting for their money because when it we have a representative government here where we get elected, you know, for four-year terms and we come up here and make a lot of decisions, then we come back and we get reapproved or we don't, right? But when we put a ballot initiative or we put some some question on the ballot, uh, how do you want to do it citizens? It's really like true democracy, right? All right. And so the ability to say, well, we all five of us, including the mayor, all six of us would have would love to have ramp continue, but it's a an additional affirmation to know that the residents at such large percentages are wanting to do the same thing. So, we do take these this money seriously, and I think it's just such a great program where it's not just the residents who pay it when they go to to Target. it's people from other cities who come in and and use our our hotels and use our our shops that they can help fund some projects for here in the city. So, thank you again is I'm glad that you guys were here that we could tell you that face to face for all the work that you did. So, thank you.

Very good. Anyone else?

20 years ago, I think. I can't I'm not young enough to remember a lot of things. We decided to do ramp. I think we called it something else. I can't remember. Anyway, it's one of the few times in my life that I was glad I failed. It got voted down. No one wanted it. It was going to be countywide. Blah blah blah blah. And we put a lot of time and effort. probably not probably not as much as you guys did, but we put a lot of time and effort in it and they voted against it and I was pretty upset. And then I don't know how much longer, I don't think it was 10 years, but maybe eight years later, we put it in as a city initiative and it passed. And at that time I realized I was glad we failed before because then we'd have to share all our money with the county. Now we're sharing all the money with Leighton City. And the things that RAMP has done is just phenomenal. I mean things have grown, things have happened that wouldn't have happened without it. And I see in the next 10 years it's just going to get better, you know, and and I know they're having a

listening session. A listening session when I'll let Clinton talk to that. December 15th.

December 15th. And that's for anybody that wants to come and talk about ramp. People that have received money, people that didn't receive money that applied, whatever. and so that maybe they can critique it and like a good friend of mine, Mr. Disney, not Mr. Disney, but I call him Mr. Disney. He calls it plusing. You don't change things, you just make them better. And I think that's what this thing will do will make it better. So, good job. I'm glad it's still going. I just want to thank the excuse me, the committee. Um, and those of you who are present and of course the citizens who voted for it. Um, there were so many questions. Um, when you hear attacks, that's a big ugly word that none of us like, right? Um, but there was so much collaboration and so much effort on behalf of residents to help their other fellow residents understand what it really was and what it meant. Um, and so I just want to give kudos to all of you who were here, um, because you were volunteering your time. And I don't know if the residents who you were talking to knew that. I mean, they they knew you were, you know, helping because either you were a citizen, a resident, or you participated in some way, but all of the hours that you guys put in was phenomenal as well. So, I want to thank you for putting in that time and that effort to make something um or to bring this back to our city and help residents understand the benefit. I mean, 17 million, that's a lot. And people didn't really understand that if we don't have this tax, then either services and programs are cut or that money goes from somewhere. And so, thank you for the

time that you all put in to help Leighton continue to provide the services that we provide for all of us.

Thanks, Mayor. I want to add my uh congratulations and and thanks to the PIT committee, Daniellea and Bruce and Brandon, and your hard work getting us all excited about uh getting this reauthorized and getting the word out, the signs and all of that. Um I like to I like to say that cities exist probably heard this thousand times. Um two main reasons. One is to deliver essential services. Think EMS and and your water and police and sewer. All all the things you don't even think about that happen on a daily basis. And that happens with with the good good employees of Leighton City on our behalf. And the second reason is to to create a place, a hometown, place you want to be from, a place you want to come home to, a place you want to recreate, place you want to play, place you want to tell people to come and enjoy. That's what this helps to enhance in Leighton City and the and the citizens of Leighton understand that I 75% I I guess the question was asked in the ramp commission meeting uh this last Monday about the percentage back in 2015 and and Mr. price mentioned it was in the high 60s I think

68 it 65 65

so 65% now 75% with 10 years more voters um and so overwhelming support for this doesn't also doesn't happen without the the work of the of the commissioners on the ramp commission where this is in other places other municipalities or counties sometimes they don't have commissions to do this to vet the the grants. It's just the city council or the county commission that decides what to do with it. And I but I like the way we do it. We have citizens here helping to vet helping to uh with the applications balance all the interests and it's it's served us it's served us well. That's a great help to us as as as the city council. And so, um, couple more things Dave mentioned. We're going to have a a listening session. As we move forward, things change over 10 years, the ordinance that was created 10 years ago to authorize this. We're going to re we're going to relook at it. Should we tweak it? Should we add? Should we? We don't know. But we want to listen to to all of you and as we discuss that moving forward, whether we change or how we change or the ordinance. So, on December 15th, which would be the next regularly scheduled ramp meeting from 5 to 7:00, and I believe it's going to be here in the council chambers, correct? Yeah, Kimberly says yes. U we'll be able to hear from from you, from the public on uh your feelings about that. So, if you're interested, please be here for that. And then finally, back to the commission. We have some spots available on the ramp commission if any and all want to come and talk with Mayor Pro. Uh I believe if you go on the on the the website under parks and wreck, there's the application

process to for both parks and wreck and the ramp commission. So if you're interested, you can go there and get more information. They would love to have you come serve with them. It's I'll say it's some work uh but it's worth it. And you can you can see that how appreciative the citizens of Leighton are by overwhelming support of RAMP. So that that work that you do is worth it. So once again, thanks for all your efforts and thanks mayor.

Okay. Thank you. And that is quite a process to go through for the commission. But um I'm not one to repeat so I'm not going to repeat, but I certainly embrace everything that's been set up here tonight. And I do sincerely want to extend my appreciation to the entire ramp commission or pick committee as well. And I'll just make one comment. I was fortunate enough to be involved with the first time we ran this and how hard it was and we started out with a pretty large group and in the end we ended up with maybe five total. Three to five people is all in the end. By the time we got to the election process and the day of the election, my hats off to this committee, pretty much everybody stayed involved and they ran this and they worked their high knees off and they put in tons of hours. So, I want to acknowledge that and say thank you again because it did take a full team effort to pull this off and to get that type of a win. So, I will just close by saying thank you for a wonderful birthday gift because that's exactly what I wanted was ramp to pass and you guys delivered. So, thank you very much. Okay, with that council, I'll go ahead and bring it back then for uh action regarding ordinance 25-25 regarding the uh ramp sales tax.

Yeah, you need to do this. Thanks, Mayor. Uh, Madame Mayor, I move that we approve ordinance 2525, the reenacting of recreation, arts, museum, and parks ramp sales tax on onetenth of 1% of taxable sales within Leighton City. Okay, it's been moved and second that we adopt the ordinance. All in favor, please say I. I.

Any oppose? Okay, thank you very much. That's a unanimous vote that I am glad to hear. Um just for point of clarification and then I'll move on. We are as as mentioned earlier we'll we'll we're open to the ideas, suggestions and enhancements. However, I want you to know that that will not go into effect on this cycle right now that currently they're accepting applications, but it will start with the next cycle, which would be in 2026, which is the new cycle of the 10-year process. So, I just want you guys to be aware of that. Okay, let's go ahead and move on then to our public hearing portion of our meeting. Um, Mr. Steve Jackson is going to present uh our first item here, which is an adoption of the sewer impact u facility plan. Mayor, council, it's good to be with you tonight. Um for your consideration is ordinance 2552, which is the adoption of the sewer impact fee facilities plan and sewer impact fee analysis. Um the purpose of the sewer impact fee facilities plan and sewer impact fee analysis is that as the um city has created the wastewater master plan was updated in June of 2024. Uh we worked with Bowen and Collins and associates to um map out the the future infrastructure needs of the city and and identify areas of improvement that that need to be um taken care of, but also uh recommend uh any areas where where future growth would would need to be addressed. Um, part of that recommendation from the wastewater master plan was to evaluate potential sewer impact fees to assist in funding improvements related to growth. Um, as you know, we have impact fees for our water system and our transportation

system and our storm drain system, but we have not had a a impact fee for our sewer system because most of the projects and most of the the funding or or most of the the infrastructure has been built by development as as a very minimal size pipe. Um, North Davis Sewer District is is one of our partners that we we send our our wastewater to. they do have impact fees that they they use to build the larger transmission lines and conveyance systems that they have. Um what we're seeing is throughout the city as as growth and densities are increasing that there are some impacts that need to be addressed uh in the future. Um our existing system is 218 miles of pipe anywhere from 8 to 18 in in diameter. Um, as you can see, this is a slide that shows the existing growth or excuse me, the existing baseline density that we have based on our current land uses. Um and as Bona Collins evaluates that and then projects the growth into the future, um this chart shows that that currently we have what our uh we we call them erus or equivalent residential units, which is the the calculation of um the wastewater production from each one of the um the homes and and businesses in the in the community. So we're we're roughly 32,000 erus currently. um projected to be almost 60,000 500 erus in60. So uh we will see a growth of of wastewater usage over that term and so we need to plan for that. So uh this slide is for the uh future buildout density that is anticipated through uh the models and and so we want to be able to address that effectively and efficiently provide the level of service uh that we all expect and that we've established here for Leighton City. Um so as part of that wastewater master plan they identified different

projects. They're shown in the the kind of purplish pink color on the map. And and with that um the costs of those um over the the the the timeline of this uh master plan is roughly $18 million. Um the the first 10-year window um is a little bit smaller projects. There's only four of them in there. Um totaling an estimated $5.16 million as we as we look into the future. Um so what we did was we we went through this uh sewer impact fee facilities plan and in there um Bow and Collins and Associates helps to identify sewer improvements needed to only uh or sewer improvements needed to accommodate anticipated development. We all know development's coming. uh we just want to be able to plan appropriately for that. And so existing deficiencies are not included in this plan. They have to be addressed through the regular user fees that are charged to the the people on the system. But growth related um this plan complies with Utah code for the impact fee act um based on these growth projections in the the wastewater master plan uh over the next 10 years. So it doesn't include those operation and maintenance projects and then it maintains our level of service which is the flow ratio of 75 for the pipeline capacities. Um so as you can see on this slide we anticipate a growth of about 10,700 erus as we move forward. Um the existing capacity of our system the collection system is about 60.65% that has been used. uh we anticipate 16.5% of that will be used up over the next 10 years and then 22.77 is what's remaining as that capacity. Um so as we look at that with our our impact fee facilities plan um we we basically say

which projects need to be done in order to accommodate that growth. Um four projects were identified. Um as you can see in the chart on the bottom there um 5.74 million is the cost with 1.88 88 million being impact fee eligible. Um some of the projects there you can see like project four it says that 98% of that needs to be paid for by the existing users. Um but then project five there says that 3.92 needs to be paid for by the existing users and the rest could be covered in the growth um over that time. So um that's how they calculate that out to come up with the $1.88 million that uh is eligible for impact fee collection. Um this slide highlights the four projects on the list. Um basically Gordon Avenue um up on East Gentile and then Sugar Street are the four area or three areas, excuse me, with four separate projects that would be eligible for these fees to be used. Um just to make sure that that we're clear, there is a separate impact fee North Davis Sewer District charges for any of the systems that are connecting to them. And you can see those fees there. Again, they break them into single family, residential, town home, multi-unit and and transit oriented development types, and then non-residentials per thousand gallons cost. Um, so the second component to this study or I guess it's the third component, the wastewater master plan and then the impact fee facilities plan is the impact fee analysis and that was uh prepared under the the direction of of the city with Bow and Collins and Zion public finance to to help with this. So again, it calculates what the fee should be for the um how do we how do we actually come up with the fee that we need to charge to be able to um proportionately share the growth costs with the the system. Again, it complies with the impact fee act and it's based on this impact fee facilities plan. U the fees are based on an eru basis. So so each unit would be uh calculated to be an eru and then

calculated out on that. Um again, the fees have to be spent or encumbered within six years after the fee is paid um per the the state laws and then they they can be implemented 90 days following adoption by the city council. Um so the the fee the gross fee peru is $429.96 again based on that 10,724 erus by 2034. Below you can see the breakdown of how that fee is calculated. um people who are buying into the existing capacity that's in the system would pay the 247.53 and then um and then the new construction costs are 175.40 and then we can also uh allow for the consultant cost to prepare these plans in there. So that's a 7.03 charge for that total of $429.96. Um so then also on that we need to take into account that there are some existing capacities that we need to address as existing by the existing users. And so we've we've credited back on those fees um 2.39 million over 10 years. So you can see on the the right side of the screen the the fee schedule that we were recommending uh starts out at $386.81 81 cents um for that first year and then gradually increases over time to to reach the 425.19. Um so what does that mean as you're looking at it from a single family home perspective? Um this first uh column there single family is one eru that's basis for everything. So that chart is the same as the the max fees per year on this side. town homes uh use a little bit less than a single family home and so they're 0.9 of that. Uh multif family is 76 and then the the TOD residential 61. So uh we're recommending the adoption of these fee schedules so that we can apply those appropriately as

each different development type comes throughout the city. Um and then for any non-residentials, it's based on the meter size, the water meter size. There's a a meter ratio there. Uh so for example a 5/8 inch meter would be one um eru essentially and so that's how that comes out to the 386.81 uh 2 inch meter would be 8 as the meter ratio goes and and so on. So, um, with that, uh, staff is recommending that, uh, council and, uh, open the the discussion to public comment, take public comment. Um, and then I'm happy to answer any questions before that happens and then we'll bring it back for discussion, I guess. So,

okay. If if you'd like. Do you have any questions before we open it up? I have a question. Sure. It's okay. Maybe a comment first and a question. This you said 218 miles of pipe under the ground. Yes. We don't even see it. And it takes care of I was just talking about essential services. This is one of the most essential. Uh yeah. No, nobody likes it when this one doesn't work.

Exactly. You just you just assume it's always going to work. What I appreciate here, two things. one is that the growth is is you're paying for the growth where it's happening. Uh that's I I I like that. Um and then second this the idea of looking into the future and planning just kudos to the to the team to to you and your team forward thinking u as we move as we move I it's just it goes I I think it goes unsaid but thank you and my question you mentioned the I know impact fees it's it's stated in there they have to be paid within six years or or encumbered. How long is that incumbrance time frame before you?

I I'm not to be honest, I'm not really sure. We don't keep them that long. We don't make years because we need the money to fund these projects and so I was just curious. Yeah, it needs to be a reasonable time frame. I think if we were to to ask Mr. Drake there, he would tell us that we need to spend them and get them moving. So, yeah, I think it's basically within the next fiscal year like you encumber it for that year or the coming year and that's it. Thanks. Yep. Okay. Any other questions?

Yeah, maybe just just one. So, I mean, when we um adopt our fee schedule as part of our budget, um that will just be one of the line items on here moving forward. I I guess I'm talking about the last slide that had all of the list of costs throughout time. And I I'm assuming that we we would have the ability of circumstances dictated to to raise those or to to manage those not just based on a schedule. Yes. You you would be able to review those. What this what this schedule would say is this is the maximum you can charge for that given year.

Okay. So if there was something that was like something in the industry caused you not to be able to get certain something right that but this is the maximum of what we could c what we could charge based on based on this plan we would have to revise not only the the impact fee facilities plan but the impact fee analysis in order to increase them any more than what's on these. Yes. Okay. Thank you.

But you can do that. It's just that process. Um, thanks Steve. I just want to kind of piggyback on the question I asked in the work meeting and just probably for the benefit of the public and those watching and whoever doesn't understand um the impact fees um because we talk about fees and taxes and things of that nature and so when we are presenting this and we see all of these numbers and all of these fees can you just give a quick um explanation about the impact fees and who those fees are charged to, who pays them, where they come from? Yeah. So the the impact fees are only allowed to be charged for growth related projects. Um and that's what this entire analysis is is to say what is the um impact of a new growth development coming in. So so the fees are charged to any new um development that occurs. So every new building permit for a home would be charged this fee for a single family. Um a town home would would obviously be charged the town home fee. Things like that. So any new development that comes in, it doesn't go back on anybody existing in the city. It's just for new development, for new growth. And then those fees specifically have to be used on those four projects. Right now, our list for other impact fees are a lot longer, but for this one, only those four projects can the fees be spent on and only in those percentages. So we cannot um use them for anything we want. They have to be specific to those projects. So thank you.

Okay. There's no other comments or questions, then I'd look for action to open up our public hearing at this time. Madame Mayor, I move that we open the public hearing.

Okay. Thank you very much. Um, anyone who w wishes to comment on uh this particular item, please come up to the podium, state your name and what city you're from, and then your comments. You can you can ask a question for this item here. Yes. Hi, my name is Irene Hill and I just had a question for the gentleman that was talking. Um what exactly are the um four places that this is going to affect? You said the new developments, right?

So, where are those at? Do you know? Can you repeat that? Sorry. any recording.

So, the four project areas is um Gordon Avenue is where the the project it's west Gordon over by um Hillfield Road and then there's one at East Gentile which is up near Highway 89 and then Sugar Street between Hillfield Road and Gentile are the four projects that are eligible for these fees. So it'll only impact So from my understanding it'll only impact the um residents in that area that the new developments, right?

So it'll it'll impact developments across the city. Every new development will pay these impact fees to help fund these four growth related projects. Yeah. But it's new development, not existing. Correct. That's where I was making sure. Okay. All right. Any other questions? Yeah.

Okay. Seeing that there's no other comments, I'll go ahead and bring it back to the council to close our public hearing and take action. If if I could real quick, mayor, we would recommend that the council adopt resolution 2552 and um with an implementation date of February 23rd, 2026 on the fees to to meet the 90-day requirement. Okay.

Is one of you guys going to make a a motion here? Sure, I'll do it. Madame Mayor, I move that uh we close the public hearing um and adopt resolution 25-52 with an implementation date of February 23rd, 2026. Okay. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. It's been moved and second that we adopt resolution 25-52. Um I need to take a roll call vote on this. So, Council Member Thomas. Hi, Council Member Smith Edmonson. Hi, Council Member Morris. Yes. And Council Member Bom. Yes.

Okay, there you have it. That's unanimous on that particular item. Okay, we'll now move on to item number B of our uh public hearing, which is a general plan amendment. And um McIntyre, excuse me, Brad, I remembered your last McInnrath. I remembered your last one. We'll be presenting this item.

Not a problem, mayor. Um, thank you. Uh, happy to present this item uh to the mayor and council tonight. Um, as stated uh previously, the the water use and preservation element. It was a requirement of it's a requirement of Utah State code, which the code recently changed uh within the last month. Um, it's now 10-20-404. It was previously 10-9A 403. Um, all the language is still there. it's just reorganized um in different spots. Um this was something that was required um by the Utah State Legislature a few years ago um and incorporated into state code in that section. Um and each city has to adopt a water use and preservation element by December 31st of this year. Um there are specific objectives that are outlined in state code that we need to address. And then we also need to coordinate with the DEI department of natural resources, public works, um whoever our water purveyor is, which for us luckily it's our public works staff um as well as Weber Basin. These are this is just an overview of the uh objectives. Um just to summarize these, it what it really hits at is the impacts of um existing development on our water infrastructure and water demand as well as um the impacts of future development um on our water resources. um and identifying methods that we can be more water efficient in our use and also identifying um opportunities uh that the city can modify our practices or operations to reduce or eliminate waste water uh wasteful water practices. And then the last one is to consider the impact of the city's water use on the Great Salt Lake. Um as one of the cities that is within the Great Salt Lake wershed, uh we are identified as one of those that has to do that. Um, some cities don't need to because they're not in the watershed, but uh, we uh, have the opportunity to do that. Um, some of the language here I I've included. I won't go through it in detail, but this is just some of the language that's in

state code that of things that we need to address through this water element. um wanted to uh bring this up as I mentioned in the work session based upon some of the recommendations and the and the conversation that we had with the planning commission when they recommended the approval um of this was to make sure that um some of the language and the and the details that we have in here are really hitting at these different things. Uh you know bullet point number four on that first one is the elimination or regulation of ponds, pools and other features that promote unnecessary water evaporation. Um so a lot of detail in the plan does talk about um some examples that are out there of of use of pools and size of pools and addressing evaporation and um you know we have that detail there as we've discussed before. This is just an overview of the different sections of the element. Uh we talk about the existing uh efforts that the city has has made. We've made a lot of really good strides in water conservation. So we wanted to highlight that um in this element um as well as our community and water profile. Um a lot of the information and the data that we gathered from public works and understanding where our water comes from, where are our resources um the different um um you got Wever Basin, our city water infrastructure, our wells, where is it all coming from and where is it um and where is it all being sent? And then water use considerations. I'll go through those just briefly. Um and then also water qual quality considerations that's really related to storm water um and how uh when we have storm water and how it gets to uh Great Salt Lake as well as our our rivers and streams. Um and then city operations that one I'll be really brief just overview on that is that our city operations and when we did an analysis of it we are doing a really good job. Um, again, just as uh uh our public works staff got a lot of kudos for the work that they did on our um uh wastewater system, the work that they're doing um in making sure that our water infrastructure is being efficient, that we're reducing the amount of loss that

we have within our system and upgrading it, it's just continual efforts uh for continual improvement. And so, they're doing a lot of great work there. And then finally, the considerations of Great Salt Lake. So these are just some water use considerations that are included in the plan. Uh first one is to uh continue to promote diversity of housing options and new development. As that happens um you could see that we we were able to gather through the research and in creating this uh these considerations is that where there are um diversity of housing options you see greater water efficiency. doesn't mean that there's not uh a use greater use in some and others, but there's water uh greater water efficiency overall. Um and then water intensive amenities in new residential development. If you're familiar with this, this is out in Syracuse. Um what's really funny is if you were to take an opposite image of this, you'd see these artificial ski lakes and then a lake that's drying up. Um you know, and so you see there's a lot of um water intensive amenities. the these are this is one of them. But some amenities in in new resident residential development include water features, different things like that that maybe aren't necessary uh for our specific climate. Turf grass restrictions and water-wise landscaping in all single family development. This just kind of outlines that and and uh the opportunity to reconsider that in the future. Water-wise landscaping for existing development. A lot of this really hits at providing education materials to our existing homeowners and property owners as well as uh continuing to analyze our process and how we um treat commercial properties and when they need to convert and change over to water-wise landscaping versus sticking with a plan that has been uh fairly water intensive for many years. Uh pool cover requirements as well as the the size of pools. A lot of uh research went into this. Um, uh, great research by our, uh, one of our planners, uh, Jeff Monagu. U, a lot of credit goes to him in looking

at this. And then the graph there, you could see it shows the number of pool permits that we've issued as a city between 2024 and 2025. At least 2025 was to about September. But, uh, you can see that in our RSZONE properties, that's where the majority of those permits have been issued. And really, those are usually on larger lots. So, you've got a large lot that's already using a lot of water to landscape their land their property as well as, you know, a pool that's taking up a lot of uh water as well. Um, one consideration is that as we move to the future and we encourage uh new development and uh uh with our Eastgate as well as the West Leighton uh business center that the uses that come in that we make sure that we um look at things like data centers or other other water intensive uses and make sure that we uh might have regulations to um regulate that. There are water efficient data centers out there, but the the bulk of them use a lot of water and and a lot of the water uh loss happens with evaporation because of how hot the uh the servers are and things like that and and lost through the pipes. Uh water quality considerations really just parking lot pollution abatement. Um just the way that we can identif that we can simply just modify our ordinance to change some of the landscaping standards around our parking lots to as the water drains out of them that we can use the landscaping to help filter out the water and make it more clean. Uh water quality uh and our riparian corridors. We've got a you know a handful of streams uh in our city that that converge and come together um you know as they wake their way make their way through the city. Um but I identifying ways that we can make sure that when there's development next to those uh rivers and streams that you know it's it's being done so and that there's some buffers that are provided so that way any pollution doesn't uh make its way there. Uh this one I'll just skip over this quickly but again our our city staff is doing a great job at improving our operations. So um with

that I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have about the water element. Council questions. Just an odd one. Yeah. It said it in order to have turf, it has to be larger than 8 feet wide. Yes. And it would seem that you'd have it the other way.

Yeah. And so uh that's a great question. So some research that's been done by Weaver Basin and some others is that uh they've identified that any areas that have turf grass in them that are less than 8 ft are water inefficient. So, when we have park strips, for example, that are only four and a half feet wide, you can go to the a a plumbing store or a sprinkler store and get a a sprinkler head that says it's only going to shoot three feet, but it still usually shoots greater than that. And so, there's water that gets uh, you know, over considered turf. Oh, so turf, what we're saying is turf grass like real grown grass, not artificial turf. Oh, not artificial. Yep. Okay. No. And that's that's a great that makes difference because to me turf is artificial.

No, that that's a great clarifying question because in the instate statute as well as in our water this element, we talk about turf grass. Um but that even at the planning commission meeting, there was one member in the public that was confused and understood turf as artificial turf and not turf grass. But now, okay, artificial turf, if I can put that on one foot strips, there must be some percentage of the area or something. Yeah. So, yeah, with you can't do your whole yard,

right? Yeah. You can't do your whole yard that way. Our our water efficient or Yeah. Our water efficient landscape ordinance still requires that you have plantings, right? Um, and so if you were to do artificial turf, it would be similar to if you were to just do a rock bed. So you do have to incorporate planting somewhere, but you it doesn't prohibit anyone from doing that. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. If there's no more questions, then council, I'll look for action to open the public hearing. I move we close the public hearing. No, open. We need to open it on this one. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, that's okay. Okay. Hey, why don't we open it? Okay. Okay.

Let's open the public hearing.

Okay. Thank you. Okay. If there's anyone in the audience that wish to uh speak on this particular topic, then you're more than welcome to once again stand up to the mic and state your name and their city. Go ahead. Um Mike Sllayton um how are you going to address uh water quality in storm water in this new in the plan? Have you can you identify a little bit of what you're going to do? Um most of you know that Case Creek is an impaired waterway which u a lot of the storm water actually flows into Case Creek. So how how are you going to do that?

It's a great question. So I'll just go back to the slide here. So one of the things that we identified in the water element um and those considerations is that with the riparian corridors recognizing that the land uses that are there that we might need to have additional setbacks. There's actually quite a few neighborhoods within the city where the lots go right to the the center line of the the the stream for example. So then you get decks and homes that are getting up really close to that. And then you also have um you know hard surfaces that are there. So then you any any materials. So if somebody's working on a boat or an RV or something and something spills and it might make its way there. So one of the things that was recommended by the resources that we looked at was having greater um having this you can see right um actually yeah it's just in the image you can see the stream and then it says a riparian zone on either side. So really making sure that whatever natural vegetation is there that that is preserved and we don't build into those areas. So then that natural vegetation um can filter out you know some of those things. And then with you know parking lot areas um incorporating elements that we don't currently require in our code um such as bio swells where the water has to go through the plants and um and the different materials that are placed there before it even makes it to the storm drain and then further down into the system. So those are some of the considerations that are included in there. Um let's see and then let's see when it comes to the riparian corridors additional setbacks and identifying specifically the other thing was the types of uses that we would allow you know next to uh some of these areas maybe you know there's there's certain land uses that aren't like a residential land use is going to be more appropriate than maybe an industrial land use. So then where those land uses

are there, can we identify ways to better mitigate the the impacts? Hopefully that addresses the question. Okay.

Yep. Happy to. Okay. Are there any other comments? Okay. If there's no more comments, then I'll bring it back to the council to close the public hearing and um take action on ordinance 25-24. Madame Mayor, I move that we close the public hearing and we did and adopt ordinance 25-24 to addend the general plan to add the water use and preservation element.

Okay, it's been moved and second. Once again, this public hearing, so we'll do a roll call vote. We'll start down here with Council Member Bloxom. Um, I vote yes. Okay. Did you explain something? Go ahead. Um, you're fine.

I actually I actually thought that the planning commission idea of of um not allowing those phrases in there to be treated as policy uh adopted by the council. So, as long I'm voting yes with the understanding that that was forformational purposes. Uh, council member Smith Edmonson and I had this discussion in the work meeting. Um, I appreciate all the work that's been done. Just want to make sure that those are not policy disc determinations that have been made by the council. Okay. Thank you, Council Member Morris. I agree. And keep the general plan general. Uh, my votes I.

Okay. Thank you, Council Member Smith Edmonson. I council member Thomas. Yes. Okay. There you have it. It's unanimous. Okay, that's uh was the last item of business that we have on our agenda tonight. Does anybody have any unfinished business at this time? If not, I want to acknowledge uh and I should have done this earlier and I apologize, but Zach, thank you for uh have sharing your birthday cookies with us. His birthday is next week. So, with that, I also want to uh

Yeah. Yeah. You still have a ways to go. Uh we all want to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving and enjoy the time with your families and and friends this beginning of the holiday season. And don't forget Monday night for our lighting ceremony. With that, I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you everyone for being here.