County Council - workshop

Second.

Welcome, everyone. Thank you for coming. This is the council work meeting. Today is September 15th, 2026. It is 5 p.m. We are located at the county building on the third floor in the council chambers. As far as roll call, we have our county attorney, Scott Broadhead here. As Councilman, we have Councilman Hoffman, Councilman Thomas, Councilman Stromberg, Councilman Hamner, Councilman Wardle. For our Manager's Office, we have our County Manager, Assistant County Manager, Andy Welch and Brittany Lopez. We have Megan here, making sure that our electronics are functioning. Thank you, Megan. And Tracy from the county clerk's office. Thank you, Tracy, for being here. Our presentations, we have departments that are doing our presentations. Airport, roads and weeds, health department, sheriffs. They're all departments, but offices, parks and rec. Recorders and Surveyor Extension, Public Defender, CJC, and Community Development, GIS. We will start with the airport. Will you make sure that that light is green? Push that button there and just state your name.

TENOR MOORE. So as you can see, I'm not Lisa Willis. I'm taking over for her, Tanner Moore. Appreciate the opportunity.

As you see, Lisa's in the back of the room.

Hi, Lisa. We appreciate you allowing him the opportunity. Lisa's not going to be with us very much longer. So we will miss Lisa, but we're glad that she's here. And thank you, Tanner.

Thank you.

I'm here in case he messes it up.

I know, I know, I know.

I told her to stay closer.

Yeah, you can sit right behind him if you'd like.

Sorry, Tanner. This is great for your first presentation. Perfect.

So again, Tanner Moore, thank you again for the opportunity, appointed me director. For 2026, finalizing an agreement to store commercial aircraft and renovating hangar four and the squadron building, those are both still in process. We had no military trainings due to the Iran war. We had three scheduled, but have all canceled. We completed construction with our new snow removal equipment building and new concrete pad out there. We're still waiting for the power with wells or electric to be installed in the building, but everything else structurally is done at this point. for 2027 uh we're projecting a one million dollar loss uh before depreciation uh this includes uh four four hundred and sixty six thousand dollars in cip projects for fuel cells uh they could vary greatly depending on the price you know as as time goes on whether military training events um we budgeted very little for military training next year due to the iran war that happened this year and Uh, like I said, there's three, three events, three separate events that got canceled this year because of it. Um, we added commercial aircraft storage revenue. We, uh, we're requesting a change in structure, uh, to have one airport director, uh, replacing the airport supervisor position, which was my position with the new operations specialist. Um, Lisa and I, we both feel. comfortable with this change so long as I remain director because of the extensive experience and knowledge I have at the airport. And it would be the first time in 20 years that we had a local run the airport. So it would be nice to have somebody local there. No new requests for equipment. We're requesting $250,000 to replace windows in Hangar 1. They've become a safety hazard as they're falling pains falling from the doors and windows. We have tenants and employees walking the hangar all the time. We're also requesting $106,000 to update our runways and taxiway lighting to LED out there. This was a last minute ad with FAA grant funding. They called and wanted to To give the airport the opportunity, the total project is estimated to be $2.2 million. So our portion of that is 5%, estimated about $106,000. And then we have a water line project to update the water line system, hopefully funded by county grants. And the airport study, as requested, is scheduled for next year. Any questions?

Yeah, thank you for being here. We're going to hold our questions to a minimum as everybody presents, and then write them down and get back with you. But is there any comments?

You had a comment, Andy? Just a quick comment. That last piece that he added, that grant, I mentioned that a couple of weeks ago that we could apply for that grant. We did receive it, so we do need to match that, which is a significant project upgrade for us. And so that's something that we'll have to discuss how we come up with that funding to match that grant. Federal grants on FAA grants. It's a 5% match It's a great deal for us if we can if we can come up with a match So thank you for putting in for that both of you Thank you and then Council if you have questions on that as you see that please email so that we can get our questions answered on that Thank you.

Thank you so much Roads and weeds

Good evening, council. Jed Bell, road department, week department director. I'll start with highlights from 2026. We're nearing the completion of Ibupa Road. It's all paved. We're just doing some of the finished items right now as far as guard rail and signs. It's an $18.2 million project, and we are on time and under budget, which has been good. We also completed a county-wide overlay project that was $2.3 million that came in again on time and under budget. We were able to add some roads because it did come in under budget. We completed all of our in-house chip seal projects that we had planned. We also finished a municipal pavement assessment project that we did for Twilla Grantsville where we were, we employed a agency to come through and do a pavement assessment on all of their infrastructure for them and then combine that infrastructure assessment with ours. So now we have a complete map countywide of all of the road infrastructure. We're still working on a Bureau of Reclamation grant project in Ibepaul, which that will be completed in about four weeks, hopefully. And we also completed all of our 2026 routine maintenance projects as far as the AP4 and the microsurface projects. So it's been a busy year. For this significant budget changes for 2027, the proposed budget is 8.4 million. The budget for 2026 was 7.4 million. So there is a million dollar increase in this year's budget. And that's primarily, most of that comes from the equipment that we're proposing to replace this year. I will say that the, 1 million is more than last year, but last year was 1 million more than our projected revenues. So our projected revenues annually is about 6.4 million. But as you recall, we do have a fairly healthy fund balance that we're trying to step that down over three to four year period and the two million over projection this year is because of that. As far as personnel requests, we are requesting two road operations specialist positions and one lead worker. The primary driving factor behind why we're requesting those is Over the last 10 years, the infrastructure as far as road mileage has gone up 39 miles in the last 10 years and we haven't requested any additional maintenance staff in that time period. Most of that 40 miles of road is, you know, a lot of it is in residential areas, which you have the curb and gutter, sidewalk, pavement, signs. There is a little more maintenance involved, storm drain systems. The primary function for the two Maintenance workers will be sidewalk maintenance and storm drain maintenance, be it culverts, cleaning out storm drain boxes, those kind of things. um with the additional fires and the flooding and all those things our our approach in the past has been more reactive and proactive and it's it's our hope that by adding this additional staff we can be more proactive on maintaining those items and hopefully reduce claims and risks that we we face because of that As far as equipment requests this year, all of the equipment that we are requesting is either a replacement. We do have a couple adds, and I'll bring those up. But the replacements are within the replacement policy or the matrix that we follow, which is basically based off of the APWA fleet management program. If you keep your fleet newer, then you don't have to add mechanics to make sure that your fleet is operational and you can provide the maintenance activity with your fleet. But this year we are requesting replacing one dump truck. I do have two one-ton trucks that I'm requesting, but those are primarily to function with the storm drain and sidewalk additional maintenance that we'll be adding with the staff members. Forklift, an asphalt roller, and one John Deere grater. The broom is an addition that we aren't replacing, we're adding and it's an attachment that will go on the front of one of our bobtails and it will help us with efficiency when cleaning up floods and when flood water overtakes roadway. It's a larger broom that will get those roads open and cleared up faster. There's also a new vac trailer that we're wanting to add here. We'll use that for cleaning culverts, storm drain boxes, and in addition to that, we'll also be able to use that to clean out cattle guards as they fill up and get flooded. Lowboy trailer is a replacement. And then for the weed department, we have a Honda Pioneer ATV and a small utility trailer. Those are both replacements for the weed department. And that sums up the equipment. As far as projects are concerned, all of our maintenance projects with overlays, microsurface, AP4, chip seal, crack seal, all those combined come up to $3.4 million of the total budget. Some of them are in the in-house line item. Some are contracted. And some are in the thick overlay line item, which is patch repairs we make before we do chip seals and microsurfaces, things like that. That pretty much sums it up.

Any questions or comments from the council?

Jed, and if you know, great, if not, if you can just get us on the equipment, can you just separate the, if I counted right, nine are replacements, what is those costs versus the broom and the vac trailer, the new?

Yes, so I do have, so the broom is 20,000, the vac trailer's 215,000, and...

on replacement, that's good enough for what I need, thanks.

Just one second. Okay, Ty.

In one of our recent meetings, we just discussed the back trailer. Is it the same back trailer? Absolutely. Or is it a different one? Same one.

It's the same one that Adam came up and presented when we were going over the capital improvement for the CIP, five-year CIP plan.

Chair recognizes Councilman Wharton.

The question's been asked.

Okay.

That's what I was going to. Okay. Thank you, Jed. Appreciate you.

Can you put that slide back up for just one second, please? Thank you.

Grant. Are you done?

I'm good. OK. Oh, I see. Hello. Grant Sonata, health officer and director of the health department. Really excited to share. what our plans are for across our four divisions that have specific budgets. For starters, for aging services, been excited to have One Kind Act a Day recognition, and you can see Meals on Wheels, we're already at 94% of last year's meals delivered at 324 adults as of last month. In terms of significant budget changes, you can see that Switchpoint, which provides our meals, has needed to increase their contracted meal cost. So that's for Meals on Wheels as well as the congregate meals. It is still a really good deal considering what we're getting, quality meals for our older adults. You can see the total request there, an increase of 60,000. The number items I have not bolded there are asks from the general fund. The others are covered by grants or say the health fund. Moving down under aging services, under projects, we covered some of this before under capital improvement, but you can see again, to a senior center roof and floor, which we've talked about, that flooding that happened and damaged the stage floor, causing a safety concern, not able to use that floor, and also wanting to figure out where the actual leak is and solve that. Also, senior center bathrooms in both Grantsville and Tooele Here centers are in need of updates so that they're ADA accessible and just updated overall. And then security cameras, mostly outside, but also some inside of both centers. So that's a $370,000 ask there. So that's aging services. I can pause or keep moving on.

Can we pause on that? Yes. One question I have, Andy, is last year we had talked about doing a study of the Willis Senior Center to see about replacement. Have we put that out to bid?

For the facility?

For the facility. Initially, we were looking at the air conditioning. We put some money in to replace if we needed to replace the air conditioning. I think we put in $100,000.

So that is a good update.

But we backed off of that because I think we added in just what they needed there.

yeah we were able to find some more what's the right term for the economical smaller smaller air conditioning units rather than putting a whole new unit on the roof because you had put in architectural assessment that was that budget yeah so it wasn't necessarily for the whole center but specific to a large hvac system on the roof wanted to make sure the roof could sustain it but we ended up realizing that smaller ac units could be put in uh sections of the center and the seniors have been uh actually noted like oh it's a little cold now so so there still is some money there from that that we didn't spend that we could do that if that's what your question is because we're looking the building struggling what's the age of the building do you know oh i don't know that okay i i just look at that as if we're going to look at you know significant capital investments we need to look at

If we're going to do much like we did with this building. Yes. Replacement versus rehabilitation and what the cost structure would be and what it would need to look like. I would hope we could do that within this budget year so it better informs us going into next year, 2027 calendar year, not budget year. Because I don't want to replace the roof and I don't want to replace these other things if we're going to. I know.

rehab the entire building or if we need to replace the roof and we can rehab the building we need to put a capital plan together to do that i'm happy to go back and look at that and then come back yeah well i agree with councilman wardle what you're putting money in roofs and air conditions if you're going to have need to replace the building we're not sure so maybe you do look at that some of the challenge with things like the floor there it is an immediate need as far as wanting to use the stage for activities, but we're in that spot where it is challenging.

And just quickly, one of the things we did, the facility study, so those are some of the things that we are fixing now is just some of those minor repairs because the larger one is a much different issue. If it's a complete remodel, then we do have to look at whether it's worth it or not, but those are some of the things we're just fixing, the minor things to make sure it continues to be operational for now.

I think our position quite simply is we want a study done. instead of looking at the capital plan as piecemeal, is the capital plan sufficient to get us through, or do we need to look at something bigger?

I know we've brainstormed on the side, anticipating some funds potentially coming, but ideally this could be a shared space so that there's intergenerational connections, but all the things that we can look into. Thank you for that. Next, a quick mention of prevention, which does not have any monetary asks. Just a quick highlight that the Tooele City Community Care Coalition has been renewed. I appreciate the varied support there, as well as 959 people have gone through our suicide prevention trainings already this year. Moving on to transportation, we've had continued use of, so 2026, 202 rides with volunteer medical. We have seen some increasing interest in the volunteers as well as interest in the rides because of the news coverage we had. One ask we have is related to personnel. And as a reclassification, the administrative assistant we've assessed actually functions as a microtransit planner. So that aligns with the the certifications that are required based on the Contracts that we have safety requirements that are required that are there as well as basic responsibilities So that brings that in line with the actual function of that position. So that's eleven thousand four hundred dollar increase for that classification and then transportation the garage doors and NEED UPDATING. THAT'S A $40,000 ADDITION, BUT I SHOULD NOTE, AGAIN, THOSE ARE IN BOLD. THOSE ARE COVERED BY THE CONTRACTED FUNDS THROUGH UTA AND UTAH DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.

OKAY.

PAUSE AGAIN.

JARED, I HAVE A QUESTION.

CHAIR RECOGNIZES COUNCILOR WARD.

ANDY, THIS MIGHT BE HELPFUL FOR US JUST GENERALLY. AS RECLASSIFICATIONS ARE COMING IN, I KNOW THAT WE ARE WRAPPING UP WITH WHAT WE'VE DONE WITH VICTORIA. ARE THESE WRAPPED INTO THAT?

THEY SHOULD BE. VICTORIA PROVIDED ANOTHER DRAFT TODAY, ACTUALLY. WE'LL HAVE HER COME AND PRESENT, WE BELIEVE EARLY OCTOBER IS THE PLAN RIGHT NOW. FOR HER TO NOT COME, SHE'S GOING TO PRESENT ONLINE HER FINDINGS. WE'RE CLOSE TO THE FINAL REPORT NOW. SHE SENT IT AGAIN. WE'RE JUST REVIEWING THAT RIGHT NOW.

MY UNDERSTANDING IS THIS IS AN UPDATE, SOMETHING WE'VE ASSESSED MORE RECENTLY SINCE HER STUDY. GOOD QUESTION THERE.

If I can just make a comment on Scott's areas. As we talk about the increase in reclassification, that's going to apply to the discussion through the whole evening. Good comment. So a lot of those will be addressed later too, same way.

Glad we could bring it up early for you. Also recognize that we're having, appreciate Andy and Brittany joining us with CISI having discussions, because there have been consistent questions about the transportation tax and how we can actually expand services to all those who are paying the tax. So that's a topic for another day, but I just want to mention that. So next is the health fund. And so one big topic there is that with our growth we've seen in the county, we've seen an increase in food venues. So increase in fees collected by 57% since 2022. Our subdivision fees have increased by over six times since 2002. We have are inspections that are needed that are increased beyond what we had before in 2021 it's additional about 100 per year so jumping to personnel requests there under health new environmental health specialist one full-time one fte there and so this would add another to our four environmental health specialists so basically our health inspectors covering a wide range from air air, water, as well as our different facilities that need health inspections. So representative of our growth, but also recognize that this is showing in our revenue being increased there through the fees, for example. Other activities, just want to mention, we're really proud of the team, how we managed the measles outbreak that was across the state, as you know. We had a total of 19 documented cases in the county, and we're really grateful we're able to curb that at that point. Another topic here, moving to significant budget changes. We have some one-time projects that we have been saving for in our health fund. One is our community health assessment. We're required in state code to do a community health assessment every five years. So next calendar year it's time. And so that is meant to be a chance to prioritize, look at existing data, and also ask the public what are the health priorities we should focus on. Another is engineering study for the front of our building. We've had concerns about our front door. We've had continual repairs on that front door. It's been difficult to open. The handicapped access button hasn't worked many times. Difficult to lock it. And that's just one of a number of concerns. We just need that assessed to see what the front of the building needs. And then another that overlaps with community health assessment is a septic density study. This was conducted about 15 years ago, showed in Tooele Valley increased level of nitrates in our groundwater in a number of areas, and which led to a policy where, or ordinance where we limited to five acre lots for a septic system, for a traditional one. And so with the growth, there's a need to assess that to see is that, Is it, does it need updating in any way? And so we've been able to find grants that would help cover a portion of that. And then another portion would be covered again by our health fund. Another topic there is under equipment requests, surplus our oldest vehicle. It's 2011 vehicle. need to age that out and purchase a replacement suitable for our whole county travel and that would help with our new environmental health specialist be able to do their duties and then lastly the projects that I mentioned that were mentioned before under capital improvement are three bathrooms in our main building do need updating those are And then also stucco replacement, which has been noted as a need. It's actually top priority on the exterior. So it's not a superficial thing. It's actually due to water and things coming in. So let's see. And that last one is 259. And each of those... under the health fund we have discussed that with the board and we have built up enough where we're comfortable with the one-time expenses there and then also the environmental scientists being ongoing as a full-time employee thank you what questions any comments or questions on that

Seeing none, thank you, Grant.

Thank you all.

Sheriff? Good evening, Counsel. It's always a joy to come before you. Anyway, highlights of... Well, I guess department highlights. We're in the midst of a staffing study as well as a training building study as we speak. What makes that relative to the budget is up there we have two additional patrol deputies on there, but I don't want to get too presumptuous. I want to kind of I think we need to wait for the data from the staffing study to really determine what that's going to look like. But we anticipate that study being completed before the end of the year. And so I just kind of want to reserve the right to come back and let's have a conversation about what that looks like, what the data says, and how to move forward with whatever it is they come back with and suggest or recommend. We're looking to update some weapon systems on our SWAT team, our SWAT team members, and that's gonna be to transition them to a more usable short barrel rifle with suppressors, as well as transition from a... We currently use a... Verizon MiFi for connectivity for our mobile data units and the vehicles. They're self-service restricted, as in out on the salt flats, up in Ophir Canyon, many areas of the county, you have no service. And so we're looking to transition to Starlink. We believe that not only would that give us connectivity for our computers, it would also give us connectivity for our radios, because they are now Wi-Fi capable. And so we think we would be able to open up the communication in the area of Vernon, Ophir, Salt Flats, any number of areas. And so we'd be looking to do that. The weakness of it is if you're under something like heavy tree cover or even under a carport and canopy, you can have challenges with connectivity. But we think For patrol deputies and those that are out in the field, it's worth it because they typically aren't parking under anything, and we'd be looking to do that. We think the biggest expense there is the equipment for the car. It's about $350 per vehicle, but the monthly service for each deputy is just a tad more than what we're paying for Verizon already. And then one other employee request is we're looking to bring on a victim advocate. It's been a glaring weakness in the sheriff's office for some time, and it's just not something that allows me to sleep well at night. We have numerous resources through the state, through the feds, even locally, that support victims. What we don't have is that liaison between the victim and all these resources to connect them to it, whether it's filling out a protective order, whether it's help getting them to court, whether it's help getting them into a women's shelter, whether it's help filling out victims reparations paperwork to help fund some of the counseling to deal with the trauma they've experienced. So we'd be looking to hire a full-time victim advocate We highly suspect we can get the grant funding to do that. However, the grant funding is not available until April-ish. And so we want to go work with LSI and get them grants. There's a VAWA grant, which is a Violence Against Women Act, and then there's a VOCA grant, which is a Victims of Crime Act funding that's often available. We think we can get a good portion of that funded through a grant process. And then in our building, and I didn't know whether to put this under the sheriff's office in general or under the jail, our kitchen slash break room is falling in a bit of disrepair. We are in conversations with Jason and comparisons to other remodels of break rooms that have been done in the county. He's confident that we could do it for $50,000, if not less. You walk into it right now, and the transition plate, when you go into the room, is held down by tape. And it's probably time for an update in flooring. Definitely paint. And then we just need to remodel some of the layout to make it more usable. Our tables. We've got three of one kind, one of another, two of the four wobble. So we're looking to make that a little more presentable place for the staff. And understand that a lot of the employees that work in that building, they're a captive audience. They're a captive group. They don't really get to come and go. And so that break room is pretty important to them. Let's see. I think let's go to the next slide. Pardon? Thank you, Megan. Megan's much better at it than I am. Trust me. This screen's dark, so I have no idea. This is IT for me in general. Things are blank. In our building, in our training room, we sit on inmate classroom chairs. And we would like to upgrade to a little more comfortable chairs, but good chairs are a lot of money. You take, for example, these chairs in this room. I don't know what you paid for them, but my guess is they're a $283,000 chair, and maybe more. But we'd be looking to get something a little more reasonable for our classroom and our training room, just when we have all day training, the elementary school kid type chairs are pretty challenging at times. And again, the two additional corrections officers, just to recognize that we need to have further conversation when it comes to the results of the staffing study. About $40,000, we want to replace a bit of equipment in our jail kitchen where we prepare the food for the inmates. We find ourselves with our food slicer broke down as much as it's working, and so we've dumped money into it. Sometimes Jason's guys are able to nurse it along or patch it together and get it to work again, but it's probably time for it and our tilt skillet and a couple other items like the hot serving counter and a mobile heated cabinet for delivering our meals to the different units in a cabinet that keeps them warm. And proof of cabinet, I'd love to tell you what that is, I have no idea. But I'm told we need one, and it needs to be replaced. So that's kind of the lion's share of requests there. Just a couple points that I wanted to make. From 2024 to current, our revenue in that jail for our contract beds has increased by roughly a million dollars. We're working with the legislature to up our resolution with the state legislature to see if we can't take on 25 more, and that has the potential to be in the neighborhood of another $650,000 a year that we would... generate we just have to have a resolution drafted by one of our legislators and i've had a conversation with one of them and we'll have a backup one in the event uh they i have no reason to believe that uh it won't carry on or be carried through and approved so we'd be looking to increase that as we do have space in the jail i'd like to fill it with uh

So, Paul, on that resolution, who are you asking that resolution of? Is it of us or from you?

No, it's from a state legislator, so either a senator or a legislator that has to propose that resolution and get it approved. And they just have to work with the writers of the resolutions and get something drafted up. It's a relatively common thing. But we've maxed out at the 100 that we're allowed of state inmates. And we'd like to bump it up to 125. Will we always have 125? Not necessarily. But when we have the space, we want to be able to take advantage of what space we do have. All right. Megan, do you mind? Thank you.

Can we go back? I do have a question. Based on what you just said, are the two additional corrections officers to help meet that state contract if we go up to 125, or is that what we're needing right now?

A little bit of both, but it is... I guess what I'd say is the two would... it really is just kind of a placeholder for the time being so we have the conversation once the study's back in but with the state inmates additional state inmates naturally that just creates more workload for everyone at the facility anytime you're moving inmates understand it takes somebody and so the more inmates you have the more movement you have and the more personnel it requires so i can't assign the two specifically to uh, solely for the increase in inmates. But it, uh, it, in all reality, the fuller we are, the more challenging it comes to when it comes to taking care of them. So it's moving them from medical to back and forth.

It would be helpful if you could like, as you're looking at this, what the additional inmate cost or revenue will be with the cost when it comes to figuring in the FTE food and everything else. That might be helpful for us in decision making.

OK. I'll see what I can put together for you and get over to you. Dispatch center, not a lot of changes there. I failed to put in any staffing pending the outcome of a staffing study. We'll cross that bridge once it's there. $7,800 to update three of the computers. We're kind of on a rotation right now to do three computers, three of their ten a year. And that should keep us on a healthy rotation to where hopefully we don't have any catastrophic failures. Let's see. Search and rescue, it's pretty status quo. The most significant thing I want you to know is we can no longer use Homeland Security money for search and rescue stuff and operations. So we're moving that back into the Sheriff's budget. And so you'll see that decrease in search and rescue, but it's going to be picked up over in the Sheriff's budget. But the revenue line item remains the same as the Homeland Security grant. It's pretty much status quo Obviously this year we added the shirt to their capabilities and if you Look at the goals and stuff up to this point. We've doubled our call outs for search and rescue this year I can't credit that with anything other than more people coming into our County and taking up our resources and needing some help and so they they used to complain that they don't go don't get called out enough but this year they were pretty happy and on one day they got called out three times so they were running lean I think that's the ones I've got. I mean, animal control is the same, same. I didn't put a slide in. Nothing's changing with animal control. And I didn't want to spend too much time on it with the other items we have and the limited time. Any questions for me?

Any comments, questions, counsel?

One other one. In just looking at the personnel on deputies, we've got the salary cost down. What will be the... the additional cost if we hire two with equipment, vehicles, things like that. If we could get that wrapped in, that would be great.

Okay, yeah.

Can we make a no real quick?

I don't think we need no now. I just think that would be very helpful

Chair recognizes Councilman Hoffman. He had a question.

You mentioned earlier the victim's advocate. And as you were doing that, Grant over here was shaking his head like in agreement that we need it. So I was sitting here thinking about that. Is that something that would be more housed in the Sheriff's Office or the Health Department? Or do they kind of work together on this with Grant?

So there's a couple appropriate places for a victim advocate to function out of. The health department is very appropriate. Even human services would be an appropriate place to house it out of. The reason it's usually law enforcement that brings it to the attention is we're the ones that see it firsthand and identify the weakness. Now, whether it was budgeted in... the health department or human services or the sheriff's office, I'm indifferent to. What we need is the capability for in the middle of the night when this young lady or this victim of any crime has endured a horrible event, we have someone that can sit with them other than a deputy and help them identify some resources and make a plan moving forward as they JUST EXPERIENCED A HORRIBLE EVENT.

SO AS A VICTIM ADVOCATE WAS HOUSED IN OUR DEPARTMENT BEFORE THE COUNTY 2013. SINCE THEN, WE PARTNERED WITH TULA CITY. to use their victim advocate, which also works for their police department. So where you house the person, this victim advocate crosses lots of boundaries. That's what I'm thinking.

Children's Justice Center, the health department, sheriffs.

Yeah, you can choose the right place. Sheriff's office is fine. It doesn't really matter. but it crosses many different departments. So I'm not advocating that it's in my department. I don't need anybody else to supervise. But they're vital. And it would sure make things a lot better for those that are going through the criminal, there are victims in the criminal justice system that have more contacts. I know, I mean, Valen with Twill City is fantastic, but I know she needs help.

Yeah, well, Twill City has one. Grantsville has two, I believe. And it's just been a glaring hole in the sheriff's office for a while. Sometime. Really, ever since D.B. Saba went away. Because D.B. Saba used to take care of that for us, and they're not anymore. Because we have a lot of resources, the Resource Center, Pathways, Rape Crisis Team, and what have you. But connecting victims to all them resources is the biggest challenge we have as a sheriff's office, as a county. And you thought we could get grants for that, correct? Relatively confident.

Is that just a one-time grant, or how long do those words last?

They're usually reoccurring. Okay. And so, yeah, that's, yeah, it's usually reoccurring grants. What I don't know is does it fund it in 100%, or is it a partial? I don't know that yet.

Okay. Okay. And Councilman? Councilman.

Yes, Grant would like to propose.

Just because this is so important, I've seen the data. You may have seen it too. The sexual violence rate is shockingly high here. So just to be honest, and so just to support this, and again, wherever it works best is.

Yeah, I just want someone with a phone 24-7 that a victim can get a hold of when they need them.

Thank you.

Sheriff, more questions? Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Council, Corey and I had a conversation today about the budget that he's presenting. We are working on a few maybe contract services that we could implement within the Parks and Recs division. But what Corey is going to present to you today is different than what we might come back to you after we receive some bits that Daniel's looking at. We're looking at some contract services that we think could make some efficiencies and help Corey achieve his overall service goals at the peak and in other parks areas. But today what he's going to be presenting are requests as if we did took over the softball fields and so the staff and the purchases that would need to go along with that as well. So I just wanted to start off with that.

Thank you. I do want to start off with some successes we've had in 2026. Of course, we opened the Energy Solutions Aquatic Center earlier this year. You were very generous in giving away a free pass. I think we gave away just over 2,100 of those throughout the county. So if everyone brought 10 people, that's 21,000 people that enjoyed the Aquatic Center. Excited to do that. We also have some movement on some trails. We're looking to connect Skyline Ridge to Middle Canyon. That's out to bid currently. And we're looking to make a loop out of Skyline Ridge with a small trail called Jaguar Trail. So those were some of the successes we had this year. We've also started phase four of the master plan. This budget is based on two things. Phase four of the master plan, which we're calling new acreage, and taking over soccer fields and softball fields, softball, baseball fields that we already have at the peak. We're calling that newly managed acreage. It is based on the level of service. We've seen some studies with the National Recreation and Parks Association, with Utah State University, the Sports Turf Management Association, and they basically have five levels of service. They have a municipal is the lowest level, all the way up to the professional level. This budget is based on the high school level, which is the second level of service. So the increase that we're asking for in our budget is to maintain that level of service at a high school level, okay? And that includes such things as if we take over the softball fields and the soccer fields, we gotta buy paint, we gotta buy chalk, we gotta buy dirt, additional fertilizer aeration, different things like that. And that's what the level of service Those things vary as the level of service go up and down. And the hours you spend per field varies with the level of service as well. getting and the newly maintained acreage that that we're looking to take over is is about 61 and a half acres in comparison stansbury park has 70 acres and so we're basically increasing the acreage that we maintain by equivalent to what stansbury park already has so that's just a frame of reference so you can understand how significant this uh this is to be able to help with that um And you can see the changes we have in the budget. We're asking for three new maintenance staff and one reclassification of an event supervisor to full time. This is based on the level of service that we talked about. We're getting 61.5 new acres, and those three people would be there to maintain and take care of those acres throughout. Our equipment requests are, and we have it in our department justifications, but we have 12 different pieces of equipment that we're looking to either buy new or replace. And then we have 17 plus projects that we're looking at doing. Now that 17 looks like a big number, but we do it based on our CIP. For example, we have five projects at the Benson Grist Mill. They're all the same thing, and that is repair paint and replace different historical buildings there so if you take those five out you're down to 12. we have significant hvac issues so some of our buildings have swamp coolers some have hvac that would be two different projects at one building so so those things uh add up we have um We've consulted with Jed, our roads department director, and we have three parking lots that need to be crack-sealed and slurry-sealed. Again, that's three projects. It looks like a lot, but we break them down by component when it comes to that. Phase four of the master plan should be done in July, but we anticipate taking over the newly managed acreage, which are the softball fields and soccer fields, starting in January. And to do that, we currently don't have... equipment to be able to maintain softball fields and baseball fields. So that's part of the request that's here as well.

Any questions or comments, council, manager's office?

No? Yes. It would be helpful, Brittany, you or Andy, you guys. If we do take over the softball fields, I know we pay someone to take care of that right now. Could you just send us an email indicating what that cost is? I don't know if there's ever a cost savings in government, but what the shift, the financial shift will be from that contract back to us so we can look at what's the net increase. That would be great. Thank you. I'll do that with the soccer fields as well. Thank you.

Councilman Thomas.

So the new softball fields were taken over. We're going to maintain them at a level of a high school?

That's my proposal.

So is high school sports going to play on those?

Not currently, no. But that's just the classification of the level. They classify them by the different, like it goes municipal, high school, junior college, college, and professional. That's what the Sports Field Management Association has named the different levels.

well that's why I asked the questions if we're going to maintain them at a high and I love the way the school district takes care of theirs at good levels but if they're not going to be a high school competition team Why are we going to play to make them any better than another lower level? I mean, that comes with additional cost. I mean, I want the best, but.

Council, throughout all of this discussion, level of service is going to come up quite a bit. And so Corey is actually the first person to put a name to level of service. So what he's saying is you'll have different ways that you can fund this. And this will go across all departments. you as the council will have to decide at what level you want services provided by Tooele County across all departments, not just in, not just at Deseret Peak or Benson Grist Mill or whatever. In all departments, what you're doing in the budget process is deciding what level of service you want to provide to the citizens of Tula County. So what Corey is saying is right now, the level of service that you would provide at those football fields is equivalent to what a high school field looks like. A lower level would be probably pretty close to maybe what it looks like right now. I'm not sure. is what a professional one looks like. But each one of those levels has different costs, and that's the same in different departments. So level of service is going to come up a lot in these discussions.

And to answer your question, so Deseret Peak High School is not coming to the peak to play, but high school players are. because they play in leagues and they play in travel teams. We have junior college teams and college teams that come and play on our softball fields. So no, we will not be the home facility for any high school team. But with competition soccer, competition softball and baseball that we have, we will have higher level players that will play on our fields. So we've chosen high school as where to be. fiscally responsible as well as to be able to provide a field that will attract large tournaments in which these very competitive AAU teams and different things play, and they're looking for junior college, college-level fields.

Thank you for the discussion and the answer, Allison. This is probably a one-off discussion because we don't really have time to go. through that deeper discussion tonight on this, but thank you for raising the level of a standard what we want. The question is, what can we afford? This meeting here tonight probably doesn't allow us that time for that discussion.

So it might be helpful for you to provide to us just data-wise, when we look at tournaments coming in, what level of field are they looking for? Because we do proposals, they send us proposals. That might be helpful because this was part of the economic development plan that we had coming out of the peak, was the tournament side of the house.

Well, I'd also like to see the difference in the cost between the different levels, too, for school, college, all those. Because maybe we need to upgrade it. Maybe we're OK downgrading it. I don't know.

So in the information I provided, and I can send it to you again, but the levels are in the labor standard document. The levels are in there, and it takes it and breaks it down by how much aeration, how much fertilization, and how many hours. per week. So for example, municipal level's five to 10 hours. A high school level's 10 to 15. Well, a pro is 40. You got many people, and then you just take that by what our hourly rate is, and that's the cost.

If you look at all five of us here, we've all played at a pro level of sports. Go big or go home with us.

You'll understand what goes into it. And the safety concerns. Thank you.

Thank you. Jerry?

Good evening, Council. I'm going to keep the recorder and the survey request separate because they both have different statutory responsibilities, workloads, and solutions. First, for the recorder's office, the recorder request is fundamentally about maintaining accurate, timely, parcel information while the county's growth and complexity of how to pace the current staffing model. We have made real progress. The regular mapping backlog has been reduced from more than six months to about eight weeks now. But that improvement has depended on overtime, senior staff carrying production work, and staff setting aside other needed work. It is not spare capacity that we've utilized. The office is receiving about 69 new regular mapping items each week. At the same time, we currently have 46 subdivisions in review containing 1,119 lots, plus 33 that have been reviewed but not recorded, and 13 others that have been approved with conditions. Each subdivision typically requires multiple review cycles, then the parcels must be created, migrated, and quality checked for recording. The workload is also broader than routine recording. Taxing districts have grown from 46 just over two years ago to over 120 right now. We have approximately 7,500 parcels that have never been mapped, which the state gave a mandate that all parcels would be mapped now, whether the roads, BLF, Forest Service, SITLA, exempt properties. They found out that nobody was mapping them in any county. And so that's a backlog that we have to get a hold of. Plus, we were just notified this year that the State Tax Commission is going to be handing us 1,258 patented mining claims that we will be assessing, and they won't be. And those have to be mapped in. Pro-West remap that I have on the chart is important, but is not a substitute for county staff. The contractor supplies the base remap work. Our employees still research discrepancies, resolve ownership and legal description, and make the final mapping decisions. In fact, that support is already utilizing much of the available time of two experienced employees. The request for three geospatial cadastral mapping specialists is therefore capacity, not a wish list. The position upgrades recognize employees who are already performing specialized mapping work. They do not buy themselves at production capacity. The recorder budget also brings in substantial fee revenue. For FY2027 on the slides, it shows 1.556 million in expenses and 850,000 in recorder fees. leaving a net funding request of $705,985. The $300,000 Pro West Phase III request, which I've been asked to get a RFP to see if we can get a better quote, is a defined project remap of just one township. That township includes Toulouse City. That one we have right now just over 39,000 parcels that we've tracked. That remap is for 14,968 parcels. That's the biggest part of the county and that's why it's so much. We got a full one for the full county and it was over 650,000. and we got it three years ago and we are trying to do it in stages but it's just not feasible to keep doing it that with the demands and the growth that we have uh next on the surveyor office The survey request is different. It is about dependable field capacity, licensed technical oversight, and protecting the county's land survey infrastructure. Today the operation relies on one senior field surveyor and a part-time surveyor working 10 hours per week. This is a thin bench for a county as large as and geographically varied as Tooele. A full-time survey crew chief creates dependable two-person field capacity for monument work, boundary research, construction, and county support assignments. It also allows the licensed field surveyor to focus on complex boundary decisions professional review, quality control, and project management rather than routine crew coordination. The senior field surveyor midpoint adjustment is retention and alignment request. This is a licensed grade Q position with complex boundary, PLSS, quality control, project management, bathymetric responsibilities, the request places the position at the projected counting midpoint, not above it. The remaining surveyor requests are practical field tools, secure truck storage for instruments and safety equipment, reliable field connectivity, and the Tremble BlueStakes and AutoCAD tools and software needed to do the work accurately. Prior requests in the McGrath study in FYI 2026 requested staffing and classification upgrades that were not funded. I understand the council's need for discipline and consistency, and I support completing the McGrath review for the 2027 process. But the study should inform the final classification and compensation decisions. It should not erase or postpone the operational facts in front of us, which current mapping is sustained through overtime specialized work. It's being performed outside its classification. The field survey operation lacks resilient capacity and statutory public record of survey responsibilities will continue whether positions are funded or not. My request is that the council evaluate each office on its own merits, preserve the FY27 request, while HR Finance and McGrath validate the vital classification of costs. This is a measured investment in accurate public records, reliable parcel data, safe field work, and the county's ability to keep up with growth rather than simply chase it.

Okay, any questions or comments from Councilor Manger's office?

Yeah, last year we had a pretty robust debate that I enjoyed about the tax. I'm sorry. Last year we had a pretty robust debate, and this is a question for the Taxation Committee. Please email me an answer. We talked about raising the tax that would fund some of these positions and that we needed a recommendation. I don't know if we didn't get that. I don't know where we're at on that. But could we get your recommendation on that tax so that we know what to do, just from the taxation committee. We talked about that last November, requested it be to us by March, and with the recommendation that you all have voted on. So if we could just get that, that would be great.

I can rerun the numbers for that last year. Six and a half percent tax increase just on assessing and collecting would have just met $150,000, which is about two positions.

I appreciate that. But we look for a proposal so we can balance some of the cost of this. That was the discussion last year. So if we could get that, that would be great. OK.

Thank you. Any other questions or comments?

Just one other thing, and this is probably more for Andy. I mean, I see we have Starlink here. The sheriff has asked for Starlink. I guess part of my question is, is this something we need to look at for the county versus having multiple contracts? So anyway, if we have an answer, but just.

Just for Starlink for us, if we're here in the valley, there's the turn system, which is operated by UGRC. But when you get out in the private areas where you are the remote areas like Gold Hill, even out by Stansbury Island and stuff, you don't get that same level of service so the accuracy goes down.

And I understand why I just... just want to make sure we're looking at this from a county as a whole for making this move for every department that not the sheriff is off working on something you're working on something you know so that that's just really and looks yeah and we've been discussing this with it so if you want to just mention that scott we've been discussing this the last couple of months actually yeah so we have been assessing it um so we look at um

the ability for service across the county. Right now we're running on these MiFi devices. The price on those compared to our monthly is a wash between that and Starlink. So your initial cost is a little bit more, but the lifespan, the security, which is becoming a bigger thing for us as far as cybersecurity goes, the reach that the Starlink has is unlimited. overall it's a better product we are looking at a centrally managed starlink so it'll be managed in one place um so we'll have our full security suite that we have throughout the county will be based on starlink we have a harder time doing that with the my files yeah and and i'm all for i guess that's what i wanted to see is like we're looking at it as a county as a whole i i'm in support of the move i understand the move it's just like hey if we need to do this

Maybe we just need to do it countywide and get rid of the MIFA, you know. That was really kind of my question there.

Okay. I'll just say this about Starlink. I use Starlink at home and I love it. We've had no issues with it ever. Personally. It's great.

Okay. Thank you. Okay. Oh, thank you.

You're welcome.

Hi, everybody. Lyndon Greenalch, USU Extension. Good to be here. I listed a few highlights there. But the real highlight at Extension is our 4-H program. And I've been here for 21 years, and it's never been better. It's going great. And especially our 4-H teen council with it, which is our older 4-H youth. It's a service and leadership program, and the numbers are growing every year, and we're actually going to take a group of those kids to Washington, D.C. this coming year, so we're working on that, and we're really looking forward to that, and we would invite any council members who would love to come with us, and we visit the Congress members there, have appointments with them, and it's a really great It's a really great opportunity, so if any of you are interested, just contact me. It's a five-day conference there for the kids, but you wouldn't have to stay the full five days unless you wanted to, and we'd love to have you. And we'd love to invite you to all of our programs. We hosted a group of youth from across the country, and they wanted to come out and see the wild horses, so they called me and we took them out, and I think that was my best day ever in Extension. In the 21 years I've been here, those kids were, a bunch of them were from New York and some from Florida, all over the country, and they were just blown away by the, I think just the West and the desert and the horses, The horses were right there. I had them queued up. They were right in the middle of the road, and we come up on them. We just got out and walked out among them. Anyway, that was a real highlight for us.

But did anybody ride them? No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

So our significant budget changes for 27 are a $27,000 increase to get a three-quarter employee to full-time so that we can continue this growth that we have in extension in Tooele County and to really serve the youth, not just the youth, but everyone in Tooele County. And then we're just asking for $10,000 for some IT updates, computers and monitors, that kind of stuff. That's really.

Any comments or questions?

My comment is thank you for the detail on the salary position with the benefits. It's very helpful for us to see the breadth of what we're looking at the total dollar value. And I think that would be helpful as we go through presentations over the next couple of weeks for each department, not just the salary side of whatever the number is, but what the additional benefit cost will be also. Just laying that out there. You're welcome. Thank you.

My only question is that, can you go back, Allison, just on that one? What's the last word on the second bullet point?

What is the what?

The last word. How do you say that?

On the second bullet point. The bottom. Congress of... Oh, Orthopterology. Orthoptera is grasshoppers and crickets. So yeah, I went to that Congress in March, and that was just amazing. I bet it was a party. It was a party.

I bet that meeting was hopping. That's my new word for the day.

Our next grasshopper infestation will be in 2031 based on the statistical model that I have from Tooele County. We'll hold you to that. No, don't hold me to it. It's just a prediction. Yeah, whenever you think you have Mother Nature figured out, you don't, and she'll get you for it.

Thank you. Okay. Corey, thank you. I like dad jokes. Oh, good. I'm here all day.

Well, thank you for the opportunity to be here. I'm getting a little bit more used to it. It's a pleasure to be able to present and be part of the county. You guys were very generous last year. We appreciate that. We're putting it to good use. We're just asking to keep kind of inching up. We're asking for a COLA, that 3.5%, just to match what the other county employees would be getting. I just don't want to see us fall behind. As generous as you were last year, we're still kind of in second to last place for county funding of public defense. We have some work to do, but I'm okay with incremental increases. I think we have a really good team, and they have responded and improved work and improved commitment to what we do in response to that. They've all been very grateful for it. So, for example, the IDC is usually funding scholarship opportunities for continuing education nobody wants to go to that no one wants to go to a four-day conference that goes into a saturday but they're willing and i have attorneys that are going to those and kind of sharing what they're learning so they are giving back with their time and energy and i do always kind of like to put this plug in public defense is kind of a or just criminal defense in general sometimes it's sometimes hard to see the value in it until you start seeing kind of ahead to that and what we're seeing. So we, if we have good defenders, we improve recidivism, we decrease costs at the jail. We try to decrease that recidivism, right? We're decreasing people recommitting crimes and trying to get them the help that they need. If, Defendants can get a hold of their attorney and they can get a good outcome. It really does improve them getting on a better track, getting the treatment that they need so that they're not a cost to the county. The prosecutors are going to be able to do better work when they have a defense attorney that they can work with. that they're competent, that there's a good communication there. We just get better results that way. It's good to take cases to trial sometimes. Sometimes that has to happen. For the most part, we're able to resolve things, and that's great. We don't risk appeals. We're not spending money on trials. We're not spending money that we don't need to on experts. And so we are saving a lot of money by having a competent team on both sides. That includes the defense side. Just because we do defense, we're certainly not pro-crime. We're trying to help our defendants get out of the system and not be stuck in it. So I don't have a huge ask. I did want to just sort of plant a seed of something that will be coming down the pipeline. I just learned of it today, so it's brand new for everybody. But the IDC is applying for grant money through the state for a forensic social worker. This is somebody who would work with our higher level offenders, so like our first degree felonies, second degree felonies, a lot of the sex offense cases. They would come in and sort of help us as a defense team have better communication with these defendants because there are mental health issues that it's sometimes hard for us to connect with them. you know we have cases where a client should take a plea deal and i can't get that message across to them having a forensic social worker can help me bridge that gap in communication they help bring the correct resources there they bring treatment there if they need medication they help coordinate some of that so that i can have a conversation with the client that's like look you should take this plea deal it's better for you that ends up being better for the county we don't have those appeals we don't have an effective assistance of council issues And the defendant gets better treatment. So the sex offense stuff came up today and some other presentations. We do have a problem with sex offense in the county. We have high levels of it. And quite frankly, the treatment for it is pretty limited and it's a little bit generic. Having a forensic social worker, and I'm not asking for money for this yet. I just, I anticipate I will be one day. So I think it's important to start having an awareness of it. But the social worker can come in, right? They're highly trained on these high-level offenses, and they can help with diagnoses, they can help with treatment strategies, and they can give that case plan to these treatment providers. They can give it to Odyssey House, right? So that they have sort of a platform to start off with. It reduces the time someone needs to spend in jail if we can get them to appropriate treatment. But the other side of it, quite frankly, is if a client is going to be a high risk of reoffending, they're going to go to prison. That's what the ultimate outcome is going to be anyway. And quite frankly, there's no benefit for anybody for us to keep them in the county jail because we can't get our client to take the plea deal that ends in prison. We have these people help us with this communication and with this treatment and say, look, this is going to end in prison. but we can put together a packet for you that goes to the prison with you that helps you get better treatment resources when they're there because they aren't starting from scratch with an offender. They have some idea of what to do with that. So, um, my eventual ask for that, if, if the state, if the IDC is able to get state funding for it with grant money, it's, it kind of ends up being a 50 50 match. It's a little bit more nuanced than that, but we'd be asking for like a $20,000 a year to fund that. So I'm not saying that's a small amount of money, but for what we would get, I think it's a huge benefit. They've done pilot programs in other counties where they are seeing that it's reducing, for a dollar that they spend on that, they're seeing an almost $2 reduction in cost by decreased jail time. I mean, it's not unheard of for me to have a client sit in jail for three, four, five, six years before we finally send them to prison. And that's a lot of county money that if we can get through to these people faster, we're getting to that ultimate outcome. And it's good for everybody, including the defendant. They just have that closure. They also help with, help meet with victims. And sometimes a victim just needs to hear that a defendant has this issue, right? That they had this life and that's why this crime was commit. And it makes it easier for victims, to agree with the plea deal. They don't have to agree with it, right? But it's easier for a prosecution to run it past them when they can kind of see this mitigation of where a defendant has been through and maybe, you know, not an excuse for a crime, but certainly didn't make it easier for them to have a life that sometimes those of us that don't have a criminal history have. So anyway, that was a long preview to what's coming later, but I think it's helpful information. Any questions for me?

GO AHEAD.

I GET TO BE ON THE CJCC WITH CORY AND THE REST OF THAT GROUP. THIS IS A WONDERFUL DISCUSSION. AND CORY, THANKS FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND INVOLVEMENT ON THAT WITH DALLEN WHO LEADS THE CHAIRS THAT FOR US. THANK YOU. GOOD JOB.

YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR A LOT MORE ABOUT IT AT THE NEXT CJCC MEETING. OKAY.

CAN'T WAIT TO BE THERE.

ONE QUESTION.

CORY, YOU SAID SOMETHING THAT ALARMED ME AND I APPRECIATED THE DATA. that we're the second lowest paid in public defenders, could you email us what the increase would need to be above the 3.5% COLA to get us out of the bottom 25%?

Yes, yes. That would be very helpful. Yes. Yes, I will work on that, and I'll figure out data, and the IDC kind of helps me put that together because I need that data from the other counties, so I will get that to you. Thank you for that request.

Thank you. Thank you. All right, appreciate it.

While she's looking that up, I do agree with a lot of things that people have said today. But to go along with the CJC, sheriffs need a victim advocate, and Corey needs this psychologist or social worker when she has that opportunity. It would help our process a lot. So totally just got to give my kudos to that. Mine doesn't have much to say. My budget is pretty much the same. Just wanted to go over a few goals. We have primary children's that does medicals in the CJC. We set a goal of 20% of the interviews to have medicals done. We don't get that choice fully. Obviously, that's the parents and the child's Choice first, but then it's a team decision. So 20% of our Interviews were able to have medicals by primary children's We also open 249 cases and we serve 758 people. So just kind of some Statistics of what we've been doing the only DIFFERENCE IN MY BUDGET, REALLY, AND IT'S QUITE SMALL, IS I WOULD LIKE FOR CARRIE AND RONNIE, MY TWO EMPLOYEES, TO HAVE THE CELL PHONE REIMBURSEMENT, THE HIGHER CELL PHONE REIMBURSEMENT, BECAUSE WE ARE ALL THREE, 24-7, HAVE TO HAVE OUR CELL PHONES. THEY GET IT BY TEXT AND BY PHONE CALLS MOSTLY, NOT BY EMAIL. EVERYBODY HAS THEIR NUMBERS, BUT THEY ARE TALKING TO PEOPLE ON THEIR TIME OFF. is really the biggest difference in my budget you guys have any questions any questions or comments thank you thanks

Thank you, Council. I do have a couple of employee requests. Rochelle Custer with Community Development and GIS. We'll go over Community Development first. Our workload has stayed about the same. We have increased our inspections of subdivisions. We did 22 subdivisions this year. Last year we did 11. A lot of that is because we've contracted with Erta City to do their public works inspections of their subdivisions, and we are charging the appropriate fees to be reimbursed for that work. We are seeing an increase in people doing what they want with their property without coming in for permits or land use permission or business licenses. I think a lot of that is because we have not had full-time code enforcement for the past three years, and we are seeing a big increase in those problems. So we are requesting some funding for a new position so that we can do some realignment and focus more on code enforcement and economic development with the potential NLIC coming into town. We are seeing some increased requests for economic development sites. That's the total budget you see on there that's being requested.

Could you go back to that slide, please? Thank you. I'm just looking.

It's just over $200,000 more than what we had in 26. And that does include salary and benefit.

Thank you.

For personnel. You're welcome. In GIS, we have... We've processed 436 requests within our internal departments. Of the 436, we still have 130 that have some work that need to be done with them. We are requesting another full-time GIS analyst. That should hopefully get us to full staff capacity so that we can use our Esri products to our full abilities and provide the best service we can for our internal departments. We're really trying to get everybody on board with Esri. It has some great benefits that can be used by everybody. One of the significant requests we are asking for GIS is that we join the Esri Advantage program. It's about $125,000 per year. It works across GIS and IT to ensure that we have the most efficient setup of our software and that things are being used the way they are intended to be used. In the past, we've come and asked for more server space, What this program does is it looks at IT and ESRI setup and makes sure that if we need more server space that we do it properly and the most efficiently. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

Any questions or comments? Council.

Yeah, on the new inspections with IRTA, when you say that we're charging appropriate fees, is that part of our contract with IRTA City? Yes. So the 10% and everything else?

So we charge 4% of the engineer's cost estimate for our internal inspections. We charge three. For them, we charge four to cover the administrative.

I would like to look into a contract with them in the sense of what we've done with public safety and with roads. We charge a 10% administrative fee. on top of everything else because that helps us recoup some of those other costs that we entail with them. So if the management team could just look into that, that would be great.

I think we're probably at a wash, but we'll look into it.

you have some comments i just say that concludes it this is who will be up next week so uh i do have one thing and i can email this out but rochelle you talked about increased inspections could you get us the volume over the last three years by year and i think with the recorder's office the same thing where they presented this year's data the last three years of data would be very helpful so we can see trends

Council, I will just remind you that a lot of the departments have put all their budget justification in the teams folder. And I did send out a training video on how to get access to the teams folder so that you can see the budget document and all the justification that the departments put in there as well.

Thank you for the training. OK, I would look for a motion to adjourn the work meeting.

I'll make a motion to adjourn and return in 10 minutes or 6.40 if you're okay with that.

Hearing a motion to adjourn the work meeting. Is there a second?

Second.

Hearing a second. A motion for Councilman Hoffman. Second from Councilman Strongberg. All those in favor of adjourning the work meeting, say aye. Aye. All those that may oppose, say nay. We're adjourned, and we will come back at 6.40 PM to start the council meeting.