City Council - Regular Meeting

the general canvas in consideration of certifying the results of the Syracuse city general election held November 4th, 2025. Um, there was a email sent out with Syracuse City general election. Excuse me. Back. That was exciting. That was yourself. Yeah, I know. That was rude of me. It was just feedback. Sorry. Terribly rude. All right. So, um, you received an email that had all that information in it. Uh, so does anybody have any questions or I will take a motion to certify the general canvas?

I move that we make a or I make a motion that we certify the results of the Syracuse City primary election. Second. Not primary election. That the Oh, sorry. General certify the results of Syracuse City general election. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I I.

Any opposed? That passes unanimously. Uh now we'll start with our public comment. This is a chance for our citizens to share anything that they're concerned about. It could be a future agenda item. It could be a comment on one of the items tonight that is not a public hearing. Is there anyone who would like to come forward and share a comment with us? Seeing none, I will move us past public comment and we will move right into mayor mayoral and council announcements. Uh there are a few. We'll start with the one that is listed on the agenda. Uh Brett, would you cover the uh mosquito abatement proposed tax increase?

Sure. I would just uh refer everyone to the packet the uh that there's an intent to increase uh taxes in relation to the mosquito abatement district. Uh it's as outlined. There is a public hearing that's set for December 11th, 2025 at 7 p.m. Uh that can be participated in virtually. Uh, I don't know what the thoughts are of the council in relation to that, but I'm interested to hear and hear anything from the public as well. Pull your mic up. That's all I have. Did you have any other items to cover? No.

Were is there any feedback as council uh Craig's calling for feedback on the uh mosquito abatement item? Seeing none, I will move on. And Julie, I have nothing tonight. Paul, I don't have any updates. Jordan,

sure. I'll give you an update on I I serve on the um Washington Greater Waste Board. Uh this week or I guess last week um Farmington City was approved to actually start contributing to the green waste program. So they will start um collecting green waste. I believe it's an opt out program for them. And so there will be additional uh for all of you that use that there will be additional supply once it all it's all composted up there. So that actually takes us to almost the capacity of the existing pad. So that will be expanded in future years to handle the additional green waste. Um, also, uh, there was we went and did a survey of recyclable content that was coming in because I know, uh, when we initiated the recycling program, a lot of people were saying, well, people are going to just throw whatever they want in there. So, I'm happy to report there is only an 8% contamination in recycled goods, which means 92% of it is um, able to be taken through, recycled, and processed. So, pretty happy about that. Thank you guys all for looking at the labels and putting stuff in the right cans in the right places. Yeah, fantastic. Um, other than that, just a reminder that the landfill is now on the winter hours, meaning it's 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Other than that, um, that's probably it for now. I think I discussed most of the recycling details uh, last meeting. So yeah,

me Jennifer. Um, the museum has hit over 6,000 visitors this year, and that's way above what it has ever been. Big time. Huge above what it's ever been. Uh, the way I yell at the people in my house not to throw away used pizza boxes into the recycler, I feel good about that. 8%. Pizza boxes don't go in the recycling bin. They do not. Um, and that's all I got.

Okay. I have two significant announcements that I need to share with council. Number one is um we already approved the project for the interchange on I93 and 2500 and we received funding for that. Last night I received a gift of the ride of way on the east side. So now we have gifted to us both rides and that project is going forward. Since that's already approved, uh council has advised me we don't need to take any action on this. just wanted everybody to know that we we did receive those without any cost which is wonderful. The second thing that I want to talk about is uh something that's been going on for quite some time but it is just concluded and that is I serve on the North Davis Sewer District and um we have had a situation where we have been taking the solid bioolids that are waste product and applying them to fields in uh Weber County. um because that's uh the EPA requires it to be mixed with earth before that it's uh human consumption for fertilizer. uh that property has been uh we've been advised that in the future that's going away. And so over the past couple of years, we've been trying to figure out how we will deal with this. And uh the sewer district has just purchased a farm in Snowville that will be able to take all of the solids as well as a couple of other sewer districts which will be co-nters from our What are Solids?

Where where is Snowville? Snowville is north of Oregon City. Okay. Um it's the last

but it's a little bit further in the time that we still have where we don't have to truck things as far. We will be working on programs to try and see if we can increase the dewatering of these because water weighs a lot and the weight is part of the big thing. But I'm very proud of the district for self-solving this problem because uh if we didn't have a place to get rid of these uh bioolids, we would have a big problem uh for our city. So just want to make everybody aware that that is uh the sewer district now owns a farm. Um uh now we have the next item on our agenda is approval of minutes. I have minutes for October 14th and October 28th. Uh there are any changes that need to be made to that? If not, I'll take a motion.

I motion that we approve the minutes from October 14th and October 28th. Second. Motion and seconded. All in favor? I.

Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. The next item is our item of consent agenda. These are items that have been through uh meetings in the past and so I just want to go over them quickly and we can uh take them in one motion. Consent agenda tonight includes item A, authorize Mayormon to execute youth court agreement extension that we talked about in our last uh work session. Item B is proposed ordinance 25-38 repealing and reenacting the Syracuse Municipal Code SMC section 2.10 10.190 pertaining to the establishment and governance of the youth court. The next is item C, proposed ordinance 25-39 amending Syracuse Municipal Code section 4.25.10 allowing public works director to extend the secondary water season for up to two weeks under certain circumstances. And item D is proposed ordinance 25-40 amending the Syracuse City Code section 4.15 to allow for uh reduction in water bills in the event that there is identified leak of that is fixed by the property owner. And item E is proposed uh resolution 40 or R25-42 amending the Syracuse city personnel policies and procedures manual. Is there any of those items that anybody would like to pull off the consent agenda for further discussion? Seeing none, I'll take a motion.

I move that we approve all five items on the consent agenda. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I. Any opposed? That or passes unanimously. Item number seven is proposed ordinance 25-41 amending the Syracuse Municipal Code section 5.35.60 60 prohibiting mobile businesses from locating in public rights of way. We discussed this in our last meeting. Uh I don't think there are any updates on this. Uh we're mostly concerned about uh traffic hazards. So is there any discussion or should we just take a motion? We'll take a motion.

Make a motion. Uh Mr. Mayor, I move that we uh amend ordinance 2541 with the codes with the verbiage as outlined in the packet. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor? I.

Any opposed? That motion also passes unanimously. Item number eight is to authorize the administration to execute a real real estate purchase contract uh with Gaye trustees for 2.454 454 acres of land at 9 uh 63 South 2000 West. This is a property that we've discussed in uh close session because when we do real estate purchases, we don't discuss our terms in front of the public, but uh the terms have been uh proposed and agreed upon. So, and they're now published in the packet. Is there any further discussion on the purchase of this property or are we ready to authorize this agreement to go forward?

Seeing none. Sorry, I just had a question of of funding where the where we're pulling funds from to purchase this. Okay. So, because this is primarily doing uh dealing with the fire station, we can pull this from impact fees. Okay. Because it would be future impact for future station. And then the house that's currently on it, it does need to be demolished or is it viable that could it be rented out or

uh the the thought right now is to demolish it um due to the age and and maybe some cost of upkeep and things that the city would have to invest in. Um and the city's not really built to be a landlord. Um, we felt it would be more economical to to do demolition. Yep. Any other questions? Seeing none, I'll take a motion. I move that we authorize administration to execute real estate purchase contract with Gay Trustees for 2.454 acres. Second. Moved and seconded. All in favor?

I.

Any opposed? That motion passes unanimously. We now come to the second public comment section. If anyone would like to make a comment, same rules apply. Uh this would be if you had a discussion of any of the items that we've covered. Seeing none, I will motion or I will move us past that and we will uh since we can't exit there, we will now move ourselves into a work session. Normally we do our work sessions separately but in this uh with the uh election and veterans day and Thanksgiving we are combining our meetings this month. So I will call to order the work session and item number B is of our planning items. Item number one is recommendation from the planning commission proposed general plan uh map amendment to a property located at approximately 741 west and 3750 south from commercial to low density. Uh are there any updates from the packet discussion? Seeing none, I'll go ahead and is there any discussion from the council on this proposed adjustment? We just did something like this for another property and yeah, this is just the splitting the property for the houses. It's the same. Yeah, those are cute little houses, too.

And in the future, there'd be nothing prohibiting us from moving it if there was interest in correct in moving it back. So, yeah. All right. So, I'm getting a general sense that everyone's okay with this. So, we'll move forward to item number two. Recommendation from the planning commission proposed zoning map amendment for property located approximately 741 west and 37 uh 3700 south from A1 to residential R2 and and this just covers the basics of the the footage and Yep. So So this is kind of housekeeping.

Does anybody have an issue with that? This just kind of goes with the next Okay. So I will put those on the next meeting which will be December 9th for a vote uh from the council. Item C is proposed amendment to the city code including the adoption of the Utah wildlands urban interface code as required by house bill 48. Chief Bington tell us about this wonderful amendment that we need to address. Well uh put everything in the packet there. I guess what I would ask is if you had any questions. Yeah, that's good enough. So, does anybody have a question? Why don't I just got a like a paper? Um,

this is just for the border, correct? Like the the House Bill 48 requires us to adopt language in the city municipal code. This is really just a text amendment following the law. Okay. Well, it looks like we're going to be able to move forward with that on the next meeting in the in the December meeting. Uh we'll look at having something in there. It'll be a change to title 9, chapter 15 in the building. Thank you. Okay. All right. Item D is a request from Councilman Savage to discuss possible amendments to the city code allowing statues on personal burial plots in the Syracuse city cemeter. She's already saying no. I I guess and I support her. So now

I I I honestly uh didn't think this was actually going to be a thing. I I brought it up in one of the discussions we'd had, but um I guess my question is since it's already on here, we might as well discuss it. I mean, what are people's thought? And I would love your opinion, Ca. I should have asked you this in advance. Uh is there a reason we don't allow statues in the cemetery? I mean, picture a statue of Jordan in the cemetery. That's number reason number one. Cuz if we put this in, he's putting a statue. He's going to buy a plot, which you can't yet. So, we would not be a statue of me. Yeah, it would be. Anyways,

as as you guys know, we did a lot of research when we did the ordinances and um we don't allow anything higher than 36 in. And the reason why we do that, if you know the first part of the cemetery A and B, there are big large monuments out there. Have you seen how they like sink and tilt? That's one of the reasons, but the biggest reason is irrigation. It's very hard when you have something higher than the 36 in to be able to cover that. We already get so many complaints where it's not the irrigation isn't reaching certain areas of the grass that that would just be another problem and issue. Yes, we already allowed them up to 36.

No, we used to. So, in the very like years ago, like 1800s. Yeah, we don't anymore. And actually, most cemeteries don't there. A lot of the cemeteries are going to flat monuments because there's liability issues when you have to move these big monuments. Um, you have to move them to get to other plots to do open and close graves. So, you have to have those moves, which you have to call in the monument company to do that. You also even in your monuments you have to be careful. We do have you know seasonals and things on the mowers and they do at times hit you know the monuments and so that could become a liability issue and also for us to replace those will be more expensive. But our biggest thing is is the irrigation portion of it. I I'm okay with this. Okay.

Uh it makes me sad though. I've been back east and I've seen some of those cemeteries back there and they are incredible. And you should have talked to their directors. See how they feel about it. They're all very I don't think there's actually a lot going on in those 17. So if I'm hearing correctly, you are willing to forego going forward with this? Yes. Okay. Be just fine. All right. I will now adjourn us from this meeting and re and we will rejoin our city business meeting so that we can take a motion to adjourn this evening. So move. Second. All in favor? I. Any opposed? We are now adjourned one to go

and uh there is a public hearing at the library for those interested thought that's why we would move quickly