City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, it is 4.30. We'll call the order. And with that call to order, we have council members, Audrey Goodrich, Don Busenbark, Cody Alland, and Rowdy Flowers. Not with us tonight is Bo Hancock, and I am Tommy Olson. And also here with us, we have seated Josh Bates, city manager. With that, Cody, will you give us some word of prayer, please?

Our dear Heavenly Father, we're grateful for this chance we have to meet today as members of the city, as council employees. We're so grateful for the wonderful city which we have to live in, and we ask that we can meet today and be able to discuss those things that are pressing and weighing on people's minds. We can make new decisions and just with the best intentions of taxpayers dollars and be able to address the concerns of those in Roosevelt. We're thankful for this community we have to live in and for how involved people are. We're thankful for those who've sacrificed so much to the freedoms that we have. We're grateful for the rain and the water which we received lately. We are in need of them. Say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

WELCOME. AND MOVING DOWN THE AGENDA, HASN'T EVERYONE HAD A CHANCE TO LOOK AT THE PREVIOUS MINUTES? I DID, MAYOR.

DO WE APPROVE?

OKAY. I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE AND A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? ALL RIGHT. ANY OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. AT THIS TIME, WE DO HAVE A 15-MINUTE PERIOD MAX WITH A THREE-MINUTE PER PERSON. We'd like to give a public comment period. This is the time to do it. Each person will have three minutes.

Can I just ask what's in reference to the golf course tonight? I mean, what are we going to cover as far as progress goes?

Sorry, I meant to say, like, stand up and state your name, please.

I knew that. Jared Edwards. I'm curious as to some of the progress of the golf course. where we're going in the future, a couple of projects that appear to be happening, but then there's several things that have been not addressed for an extremely long amount of time. I'm wondering why we're moving forward with new projects before old projects are finished. Just curiosity as much as anything, because I don't know where to go to get the right answers, but I'm always curious as to what's actually going on there at the course. Some real quick examples, the restrooms that are out on the course, I don't even remember the last time that those facilities were fully functional. They're very seldom taken care of as far as being clean. From an outside looking in, I don't see where that big challenge is with those. The new trees that are marked to be removed, I'm curious as to why all of them are being removed. Some of them I can see, some are dead. Obviously, the ones that are related to the power lines, those all make good sense. But several others, I don't understand why they need to be removed off the course. Some of the bunkers that are being filled in, we just spent money last year to bring sand in. I was told to wash that front. I don't know that as a fact, but why put the money into that than following here, turn around, and backfill them with dirt? It doesn't make sense to me. I don't see where it makes the difference on the play on the course. Again, I'm just here to look and get some answers out of it. There are questions I feel like are legitimate and not to be addressed as far as where our money's going. I think we should fix what we already have before we move on to adding to the problems.

Thank you, Jay Rod. Anybody else?

I'm Denise Barra. This is a picture of the bathroom that's been, the toilet in the women's bathroom that's been broken for over a month.

Will you state your name?

Denise Barra. And we have the same concerns as Jared, other than the ladies' tea boxes. Jared, we have the same concerns as Jared. Okay.

Anything else?

They're just basic maintenance questions. I mean, I... I spent a lot of time up there, but most of my time is usually on the weekend or in the evening. I understand that our maintenance guys work daily hours. But at the same time, I see a lot of things that they haven't changed through the summer. T-box concerns, relocation versus continuing to use a T-box. Off from 14, you cleared some dirt, you ran some water lines down there because they were going to try to do some composting, those type of things. I don't see that anything's happened there. But myself personally, I don't know if that's our best money either. Why not buy compost? $50 a yard right now in Ballard, you can buy compost that's ready to go. If you need sod, Stephen Welch and those guys. two to three times a week during the summer, list one to two pallets that like him to see, make a deal with him to maybe pick up on some of those rather than putting the investment in and growing it yourself.

Hi, my name is YN Taylor. I am one of the women's league presidency of the golf course. Also on top of that, bathrooms are a huge concern for us women because when we are out on the course, We don't have the luxury that men do of going. So it was three years ago, me and my friend Michelle, we took care of those bathrooms. We went in every Wednesday, we cleaned them. We did everything so that the women would have somewhere to go. They haven't been touched since then. And you go in there and there's graffiti on five. They have taken and wrote obscene words with a broom handle on those. There's black widows. And if you have to go in there, it is one of those things where you just try to hover. I know that sounds bad. And hopefully there's toilet paper or something else that you can find to use. I know that we spent a lot of money putting in that septic tank on 12 that Mike put in. And one of the bathrooms, the women's side isn't even functional. the other side is but to go in there you just do not want to because it is so bad and so i know that's one of the women's concerns and we are more than happy as a league to donate any money we can to try to get this problem fixed so that women have somewhere to go that is acceptable while we're out on the course thank you thank you anybody else

I'm going to stand up. Chad Roth. I'm a very frequent user of the golf course. My wife and I, we put on a golf tournament up there. The golf course, it's a great asset for this city. It gives back to the community. With our golf tournament, we're able to raise a significant amount of money and donate to a family inside the Uintah Basin. API does the same thing. Brody Fund does the same thing. Strat. All these big tournaments, they come in and they do all this stuff and they're giving back to the community. There are things with the golf course that are going on. Jared brings it up. I mean, if there's a legitimate reason for 80 trees to come down, fantastic. Tell me what it is. I'll back you. If there isn't, why are we cutting 80 trees down off of a golf course? You know, one of the characteristics of Roosevelt golf course, especially on the front line is trees. It makes it tight. It makes it tough. That is the characteristic of that golf course. Um, I'm going to jump on a sidebar here. One of the questions that I have about a year ago, we were told A number of us, I think three of us, were told that we needed to move our sheds because the city was going to come in and put up storage sheds. We haven't seen anything. There's been no progress. Nothing. Were we lied to? To appease a neighbor. I don't know where the neighbor comes from. I do.

I do.

Um, there was 1 particular neighbor up there that when we put our contacts up there. Raise quite a bit of us and continue to raise a lot of us, even after we help them out doing, you know, several things around their house. And, you know, if that's what it is great. But don't come in and tell me that the city is going to build sheds up there. Um, that's kind of my piece on it, but you know, as far as, but as far as the management of the golf course, Matt, awesome. I love being able to go up there on a Saturday and a Sunday and not be seven hours playing around the golf. I can do it in four and a half, five hours. That has been a huge blessing for me.

Yes.

I mean, don't get me wrong. I love being outside. I love when you're seven hours to do it should take you four or five. Yeah. That got a little tough. So there are great things going on up there. I want to see them continue to go on. I just, you know, there are concerns. All right. Thank you.

Something else? The private golf cart removal rumors that we're hearing?

Our rumors?

Our rumors.

I mean, there's always a discussion, but as of right now, they are rumors.

Nice point. Can I get everybody's name and give it a spell?

YN Taylor.

YN Taylor?

Yes.

Denise Barron.

And Jared? Jared Edwards.

Jay Roth. Chad Roth. Is there anybody else? And then just one thing so everybody knows, the reason we're not responding right now is during public comment period we don't respond. If you do not get answers today during the session, please reach out and we can get you those answers. Definitely.

Did you want to speak, Len? I missed you. Okay.

I have one, not golf course related, but swimming pool related. Okay. Say your name. Matt Luce. I come here often. I go to the pool often. I would like to see a report from the pool on incidents that are happening for that deck replacement as far as slips and injuries on that pool. It needs to be fixed. They've addressed it with some mats, but I don't see that as the full solution. I understand they're looking for another contractor, but why isn't the original contractor being held responsible for the work that they did on that pull deck? And I want to know how many slips and falls have happened since that pull deck was replaced. If they're not recording those, they should be. That's a liability on Roosevelt City and the work that that contractor did. I don't think the residents of Roosevelt should be paying additional costs to hire another contractor to fix the job that wasn't done properly the first time.

Thank you, ma'am. So are there any others that would like to comment during the comment period? OK, so coming up, we do in our agenda items, you'll see that the golf course progress update is number three. So if we do have any comments on that, please save the comments. And then if we need to, we can meet afterwards. And we'd be happy to do any other questions and make sure that they're taken down. We'll go from there. Anyway, we'd be happy to do that. Seeing that there are no others, I'm going to move on to committee appointments. And then I believe we have any at this time. And then has everyone had an opportunity to see the expenditures and financial?

Yes, I would move to approve.

Second. OK, I have a motion to approve and a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Thank you. All right, with that, we'll move down to our agenda items with the Inland Port. And resolution to adopt. Were you going to address anything, Drew, on that? Sorry. On the Inland Port? Yeah, it's on the agenda today.

You're up. Oh, you're up.

Sorry.

I was like, wow.

I was fishing somewhere.

Something just stuck on the tee box.

No, of course not.

So Inland Port, I'll pass these around to you all.

so previously you had approved this expansion area for the inland port black gold project area in tandem with the previously approved maverick to maverick this would be more of the industrial area and along highway 40 we did not formally do it by resolution so tonight we're looking for adoption of the resolution to be signed tonight do we have to have a public hearing on

Mr. Baker mentioned that we're doing this in conjunction with Duchene County.

Yeah, so we've been working with them as far as planning this, but it does go through the state. We're in positive contact with the commissioners, with Corey Riles, as far as planning this to make sure that there is enough.

The only concern I had addressed last time was the school district and the impact on them, and I know they brought a paper with some concerns. Were those addressed there? Did you have a chance to say something?

I believe we have. We did with the school board meeting as well. OK. And did you even work to present it to school board meeting? Discussed it.

I was gone for that one. So he asked to say . We need it to be official. It seems like last time I had to actually read something that, is there some official? I think just the number. Just the number? Yes. In the motion. Okay. I would move then that we approve the resolution number 2026-445, supporting the drafting of the amended project area to find that property in the black hole expansion area. You tell them for the authority of the project area.

I DO HAVE A MOTION. I KNOW I'M SUPPOSED TO QUOTE THAT WORD FOR WORD, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. I JUST READ THAT TOP ONE. OKAY. SO WE DO HAVE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE DRAFTING OF AN AMENDED PROJECT AREA PLAN TO ADD PROPERTY INTO THE BLACK GOLD EXPANSION AREA. RESOLUTION NUMBER 2026-445.

was i'm sorry was that a second i do have a second any other discussion on this all in favor all right did we uh they mentioned september was the deadline for proposals that we put in proposals for was that the ubag or was that no no that was inland port i thought there was a separate grant we're doing near the junior high oh we don't certainly rcog Because that was mentioned in that meeting.

Yeah, Corey Wild had presented a little on that, and we are applying for a joint application next week.

Just making sure, because I knew the date was coming up, and don't want to miss that. Yeah, no, we can't.

It's really good to work with doing a joint application.

Perfect, thank you.

All right, moving to agenda item number two, the UNOAC's right-of-way proposal.

Okay, you and Alex, I have Joe Garcia with you and Alex here. If you have any questions, we can forward them to him. Up on the screen behind you, if most of you were involved last year on this approval, in the dotted black-white line was the approved route to UNOAC's SWD well. And we snaked it through the gun range, the proposed gun range. They do want to rescind that easement, and the proposal before you now is the orange, green, and red easement, which would run through our field number one, Kirby. Is that what we're calling that one? Yes. Field number one up on top of the sewer farm and running east of our 1,000-yard gun range. There was some concerns with staff as far as depth. Joe, do you want to speak a little to that and then reclamation?

Yes, sir. So what we're intending and proposing is if the tenants and everyone are willing to work with that, if the field's going into a fallow status, we're proposing depth of cover to be a minimum of 48 inches, which would be well below plow depth. If stipulated, we can go even deeper. We would just have to ensure that constructability knows that. but we would also intend on commencing any kind of project if it's authorized well after the last planting or the last cut happens. Once the tenant's out of there, we'll intend on coming in sometime in the fall. Similar to the same plan going in between the two pivots, but depth of cover is a concern and we will meet whatever the council decides on that.

around and any rocks that are still rocky in the area be removed please. Yes. Will a farmer be compensated for whatever new terra? We can. Because that will be a concern of the farm.

Definitely and we would coordinate with Glendon Lamb on that as well and walk through it because everybody knows once you once you come through you start farming rocks. Absolutely.

for a while to descend i think construction joe is going to be when i guess that's the question we're looking at late fall early winter this year sure brian you have a pta within the next couple of months that's kind of what we're hoping for but we would clear it with council we were hoping to open the range for a soft opening in september because they

You know, depending on the circumstances and everything, if we might be able to muster sooner in that section. If we have farming operations, I don't know, perhaps we even street pipe out, get that first. And if we have to come to a stop at, you know, close to or within the area of the pivot, then we would do that and wait on farming.

Joe, will it be steel line or HDPE?

on that. I think we might have one steel line and then HDPE, but I want to confirm that.

You would have an opening right now, like it's closed right now and probably for the next six weeks or so.

We can definitely take that back and see if we can accelerate anything.

What will be your line pressure? Do you have an idea?

No, I do not. I do not know that, but I will get answers on that.

And then probably another question that I had going through the field, I mean, will you have like any permanent markers in the field or will it mostly for the most part be removed so that they can't find them? A lot of lines will have the markers along the line.

Yes. Typically where you'll see the markers are where there's a turning point for fence lines, property lines, but we would ensure to be outside of that pivot because even if with the best of intentions, you're always going to have that impact between when you're farming. We attempt to not put any kind of markers in the pivots or in the hay fields.

I'm sure you...

being the oil fields many sides you have to replace in the year anyway because people run over them and whatnot the porcelain ones used to be the trophies all the time yeah so are there any other concerns from city employees no i just might mention joe provided us with some numbers as far as what this well is revenue it is

178 dollars to the city the previous month would be the first month it was online just over a thousand dollars the first month so that is revenue coming to the city and then with this in the location um we've got some development to the east that would tie in and potentially increase that as well we won't know until we see results

LOCATIONS WILL BE FITTING THE SWE?

I BELIEVE THREE CURRENTLY, POTENTIALLY FOUR, BUT IT'S KIND OF CREATING A WAY THAT YOU CAN ISOLATE THE SYSTEM AND CONTINUE TO FEED THE PAD OR THAT INJECTION WELL IF THERE WERE ANY WORK GOING ON IN OTHER AREAS. SO THAT'S GOOD.

BRIAN, WOULD YOU HELP US TO PUSH BACK THE SOFT OPENING A LITTLE MORE?

Yeah, we need to get this done.

If they can expedite it, then maybe push back to opening another week.

I think that's a good suggestion. Rather than open it and then close it.

Right, but I would much rather do that. If they can expedite it, I'm much more.

Yeah, I would be worried that if we open it and then close it, and then somebody doesn't know that it's closed.

And if they can expedite it, my recommendation is if I'm not opposed to them doing it.

So I'm taking a quick note on the scheduling to get some answers. Pipeline pressure, no pipeline markers, depth of cover, and the material that the pipe is going to be made out of, whether it's HDPE or steel.

Kirby, do you have a preference on the depth?

Well, he mentioned four feet, correct? Yes, sir.

Yeah, I like that.

Would it be good for a motion now? Should we wait until he gets the information?

I'm not so sure that this information is pertinent to the right-of-way. As far as holding up the right-of-way, and I would suggest that we do. Of course, as far as the council is concerned, I would approve it, but these are just information that we have moving forward.

Do I need the motion on expediting, or Joe's good with trying to do that given our timetable?

YEAH, I'LL FORCE SOME CONVERSATIONS TO START TOMORROW. I'M SORRY.

MAYOR, IF I MAY, PENDING GRANTS REVIEW OF THE CONTRACT OF THE AGREEMENT. WE DON'T HAVE THAT CURRENTLY YET.

I MOVE WE APPROVE THE RIGHT-OF-WAY PENDING COUNCIL REVIEW. OKAY.

LEGAL COUNCIL REVIEW. SO WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE RIGHT-OF-WAY PENDING LEGAL REVIEW. And do I have a second? I do have a second. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye.

Any opposed? And Joe, if you can work with Ryan, but it rings over to Conrad, so if you can actually, I thought that would help. Yeah, we'll stay in contact.

Got it. Another thing that I failed to mention, the black and white line, we are currently working on like a release of right of way to go of record so that in the future there will not be any kind of another operator, another company or anything like that that would say, oh, we have a right of way through here. We'd like to come through. We're kind of nullifying that in this with this action as well.

Thank you, Drew. All right. Last on our agenda items, the health course progress update.

I'll introduce this one. So we have Matt Williams, our golf pro, and Edwin Butterfield, our recreation director here tonight. But just so the public is aware, the purpose of the golf course progress update today was to update on the concerns about the trees and the bunkers. So we know those have been a hot topic. So that is what they are presenting on tonight. A lot of questions have been presented. After he concludes here, we have a public works update for council. Matt, Edwin, and I are happy to go into the hallway, answer any questions. We don't want anybody leaving feeling like you're not getting the information. So we want to make sure we get you guys answers to some of the questions you have. But his presentation tonight is more of an update on the trees and bunkers.

Hey, everybody. So like Josh said, the update. So last week we got a phone call from Moonlake. Here's the update on some of the trees. They called us and said that their 9600 volt main line was running from the tops of some of our trees on the back nine and on the fence line of number one. So Moonlake came up and didn't give us a choice. They had to cut those trees because it is a main line. We couldn't have it lighting trees on fire. We had to cut those trees for one, if that line goes down and runs to the substation on 11, which powers a lot of the city. but two for house safety. If one of those, the tops of those trees came down and was on fire and we were in a dry spell, it would light it all on fire. So those are the updates on those trees. The trees that are marked currently on the golf course.

Matt, can I clarify real quick? When you said we cut down those trees.

No, they cut down those trees. The golf course is not cut down those trees. For the updates, the trees that are marked. Not every single tree that is marked on the golf course is coming down. We, as Gulfport staff, have cut down a few trees this year, and they were dead trees. They had sap oozing out of them, they were dying, we had tree limbs falling down during every single storm, so we have cut down some dead trees. For trees that are marked, the reason they are marked is we are in the process right now of a very big water conservation irrigation project. So it is a best interest to mark trees that will potentially be in the way of that project and working with professional staff and working with city staff we are going through the golf course and looking at trees that may or may not come out so yes all those trees that are marked are potentials but not all of them are going to come down and so that's the update on those trees Once we're working with professionals and we get more guidance from city council and city staff, some of those trees may have to go, but some of them will stay. The golf course has beautiful trees. We don't want to change it. We're not turning this into a league-style golf course. It's still going to have a lot of trees, but in the name of water conservation, some of them will have to come down for that project to continue, but that's the update on that project. As far as bunkers, I know that the ladies in the men's league did donate a lot to those bunkers, specifically the one on 17th. So that bunker did get a lot of damage from tree roots. So we're in the process of filling it in, leveling that ground, and then we're going to remake that bunker for 17. So it is going to come back. And we still do have the sand that those leaks donated. So that didn't just get tossed away either. So that bunker will be fixed and repaired once that ground becomes level and we get those tree roots that are punching through the side of it out of the way. So there's the update on the bunkers. As far as bathrooms, We are working closely with city staff and with Cintas, who provide all of our bathroom product, paper towels and stuff like that, to actively repair the bathrooms on 12 and 5. I was not aware that they were not operating correctly, and now I am, so I'm thankful for that so we can get those fixed. But those are the updates on the trees, the bunkers, and the bathrooms.

And the clubhouse bathrooms.

And the clubhouse bathrooms. We did work with the will now be cleaning those full-time. And that toilet seat in the bathroom, that part has been ordered and will hopefully be delivered this week and repaired. So we did order that. It is being fixed. I'm sorry that it broke.

So I know I was on council when we approved the new storage units for the golf carts. And I know we spent money and stuff. What's the update on that?

I would turn to Josh on that one for... Because that was when Aaron was here and Aaron recommended that.

So that one, the report I'll give at this point, as much as I can say, is pending litigation at that point. So without our attorney here, there has not been progress made. The city is doing everything they can and it is pending litigation at this point. But the money has not been done and The plan is still do it. The product has been ordered and is available. The installers of the sheds are ready to go the second we give them the heads up. There's one of the contractors we're working with that has stalled out, and that is where we're taking appropriate actions to rectify the situation. Thank you.

Question. The two bathrooms on 5 and 13, 12. Yeah, 13.

Will they be under, will staff be cleaning those as well? We are reevaluating that. In fact, we want to take care of that immediately at the clubhouse because that has got to happen. The other ones, yes, we do need to address. We're figuring out the best route to do those. But the other ones was taken care of today. The other ones, there will be an answer within a week, so. If you have concerns in a week, please reach out, and I will have a better answer. I apologize.

And probably another question that I have that I've had addressed to me is women's tee boxes. Are we going to be working on those?

Yes. So this winter we have a huge tee box revival, if you will call it, this year. I will say Mike was very tentative on using boxes because we didn't understand how the golf course were to react to such a harsh, dry winter. So we did use lots of temporary tee boxes this year and yes, they did get beat up, but this year we're going to take a better approach in case we do have another dry winter to making sure coming out of winter, all the built up appropriate tee boxes are taken care of and ready for the start of the season so we can use them all of next season without having to be so worried that grass isn't going to come back through the winter.

Can I ask one question?

Can the teeth... Can you... Actually, can you hold on until...

Yes, yeah. Okay, thank you.

Sorry, I'm not trying to... No, you're good.

No, you're good. Nope, you're good. Just tell me. But if you'll...

Hold on to that thought and then we'll step back and answer that question.

Sorry.

No, you're good. You're good. Any other questions from council on that?

No, that's not what I have.

We'll be able to update council. Just so you're aware, Matt has been phenomenal about working with staff and with Edwin in trying to fix all the problems they can. So if there's any input or any concerns, please make sure you address that with staff so they can address those concerns. I know we've all felt those situations where I've said it a thousand times, nothing's changed. Please say it a thousand and one times. I feel like we're definitely going to be making some great progress. There is a lot of great things happening in the course, and this is one of the great jewels of our city. We want to make sure that it gets the time, attention, and resources that it needs. So please don't feel like I've tried, I'm not going to try again. Please reach out and let us know. all work together to get the course back to what we all know it can be and how wonderful the place it is.

Do we have starters? Yes.

One thing I'd like to add to Matt that I asked Aaron to do, I think it's important, Chad brought it up, but I think it's important when you report next year on the golf course, et cetera, not just the updates, but I think it's important to share with the community how much money is raised through golf tournaments and things, because there are people in the community that don't value the golf course because they don't understand what it brings to a community, and being able to share just an overall, you know, Aaron did it the first couple of years I was on the council, and we haven't really seen it, but just that you raise $50,000, with the tournaments we've run, this is how much money was raised to help benefit our community. And I think that's important for people to know. So, yeah, the golf course loses some money. And all golf courses do. They run by the most part. I know we're trying to work on that. And I know Matt's going to do a great job working on that. But I think it's important to let people know that. So when we report next year, it's good to say this is how much money was raised through golf tournaments, et cetera, that we've hosted.

And actually, Kyle is actively working on that report now. When I came in, I wanted to know what the course was giving back, and so he's been reaching out to every tournament we've hosted this year, and by the end of the year, come January, start of the January, or start of the 2027 golf season, we'll have that report. Perfect.

That's awesome. That's what I want, because I do think it's important for council, for people to see that, and then they can say, oh, that's why it's so important to have a golf course, because here's what it's doing.

Thank you. I just want to say our golf course, we have a lot of gems in the city, our buildings, and we have the parks that are gems, but I really believe that our golf course is our diamond. With that, maybe a question that I'd like to ask you. Where are we at with advertising for the golf committee? This background.

I don't think we have. So I will give it to Sierra. We will get that posted ASAP. The golf committee application period is open. So any member of the public, please apply, speak with our mayor. So we are revitalizing that. We have a couple of council members assigned. So I will give it to Sierra on that one.

OK.

Thank you. I'm sorry.

OK. Department updates. We'll move on. Sorry, Kirby.

I'm trying to step away. Well, Kirby knows how to .. I appreciate it. I don't need that.

Awesome, thank you All right, sorry Kirby. Oh, you're good. So tonight I've got some of my public work staff with me and I'll have the ones that are here and

I'm Brady Nelson, I'm the Secondary Water Manager.

I'm Braxton Nelson and I am under Clyde on the streets.

and uh street street assistant and we'll uh this year be over cracks and this uh jason will be working on the crack selling team to see us out about here shortly again after the vaccine all right so i put together a snippet of each department that i'll read it's

what I'm responsible for and the guys that introduced themselves. We have four of them missing tonight. We have a water leak on the 24-inch ductile line coming down the Neoma Highway. So they're out on it right now. So they couldn't be here tonight or else they would have been here to introduce themselves. So I'll start out. The Public Works Department is responsible for the general supervision of preserving and maintaining water lines, water source, streets, sewers, sewer lagoons, storm drains, secondary water, and the city airport. The department aims to provide quality service to Roosevelt City residents through strong leadership, excellent technical skills, and experienced administration support. Street department. Street department currently maintains 43 miles of roads. The street division goal is to allow for safe vehicle and pedestrian travel by maintaining and improving the city street sidewalks, curbs, and gutters. It is also responsible for the removal of snow and ice from city streets and roads in the winter and the city airport. Culinary water department. Culinary water line department currently maintains 116 miles of water line. The department goal is to maintain and distribute quality water to Willsville City residents. Secondary water department. The secondary water department goal is to provide irrigation water to residents and businesses and to maintain lines in a timely manner. The secondary water system is a critical piece of infrastructure that reduces the strain the culinary water system and source by providing a separate source of water to use for outdoor irrigation. They currently maintain 23 miles of secondary water line we have with approximately 760 secondary connections. Storm drains maintain or drain Wastewater department. The wastewater department currently maintains 58 miles of sewer lines and ensures the proper maintenance of sewer system, including the city lagoon system and pivots. City airport. It's a 6,500-foot paved wide runway. Small and medium-sized aircrafts can land and take off easily. The airport has three instrument approaches, including a new localizer, performance, and a vertical guidance LPV. It also features an automated weather observation system, AWOS, with a de-icing capability. Water source provides safe, clean drinking water by complying with state and federal rules for water quality and distribution. There are approximately 2,874 culinary connections and 760, as I mentioned, secondary connections. The department maintains five running wells and one standby well and maintains and monitors five storage chains. And I'll end by saying this. There will always be competing priorities, but investing in the maintenance of your city's most expensive assets, your roads and infrastructure, has massive long-term financial impacts. I have quite a few attachments here we'll go through, and if there's any questions you guys can ask us, we'll go through them. Otherwise, at the end, feel free to listen. So right there is, first of all, secondary base three. As you see there, the total project cost was 2.18772. We have a grant of 2 million, so the city match was 180,772. 1,600 feet of new secondary water line and 260 new connections were installed. And here's a few pictures of the project that was going on. Go turn on the air conditioner.

Kirby's going to talk to you.

Yeah. Thanks, Don. On the 2025 streets and utilities projects, that was $2.5 million. Total project cost, $2.387.28. There was 3,500 feet of water. of the local streets were totally reconstructed. In the next attachment here, there's a map in green that's probably hard to see. But that water line, sewer lines, and everything was completed on Bonney Drive. And the roads that were rehabbed were 100 south and 100 west to 200 west. I don't know if you guys can see those. They're pretty hard to see in green. That's what that consisted of. And then we have some pictures of those projects here. So moving on to the page bench rehab and water line replacement. This has been going on for quite a while as we all know. So what is completed is the water line, the total project budget was 2.951. Our grant was for 2.841. The tank rehabilitation, which was the top part of the tank, was completed at $115,515. The water line replacement was $1.7 million through the .6569. It's not in progress. It is complete. The remaining budget is $1 million. So what was replaced was 220 feet of transmission line, replaced 3,700 feet of 12-inch water line, main line, and a tank. picture of the tank of the top of it that before it was rehabbed. That's the one that was stinging us.

Yes. And it's now fixed.

It's now fixed and there will be no more points deducted from the city.

And how big is that tank?

One million. Yeah, one million.

So we have the two million up on 3.3. 3.3 plus. And we have a side tape there we're still using, right? That's the 300K.

The 300,000 that's next to it. And the next slide is a picture of the 24-inch HDP that was put in, which we replaced ductile, which is steel-coated cement, which was in bad shape where you won't get electrolysis and stuff with this, and this should last, I mean, as a buddy, you know. some of the project pictures. All right, so this year's project is, so I can give you a little bit of update just currently. So we'll go through and I'll show you the safety sidewalk on 8th East. They'll be starting on that next week, September 8th. The Chips Hill will start also September 8th next week. And the State Street out here, mid-opening will be the 10th. of this one. And Lagoon pre-construct. Yeah, well, the water line we're trying to get in this year, but the completion of it, yes, next year. And Lagoon Street, we have a pre-construction meeting on that this Thursday. So here's a map. The next slide here. This is what we'll be able to get done on the chip ceiling in green, you guys. Kirby, is this why all of the marking on the road? A lot of it is for your engineering and grades and stuff. That's what you're seeing.

Okay. I've had a couple of questions, and I stuttered a little bit.

All right. So approximately here, this is 13.5 miles that will be chip sealed this year. And the next slide, if you're interested, will show you the list of the streets. Will we be posting that somewhere? Yeah, we will. And then we'll have weekly updates on our web page there for any kind of progress, where they're starting, where they're going, so residents can keep up with all these projects and where they may move next. This figure here is for your chip ceiling this year. What it came out to be, this is an to what it is. The next slide there is just showing in red Lagoon Street, what we plan on doing, paving. And that's Lagoon Street from 300 west to 900 west, approximately five and a half blocks. And then State Street from 3rd to 123rd. And your problem cost on Gun Street is $662,275. We've got favorable bids. And as of now, under budget of what I budgeted for to get this completion. But if there's any change orders, that will obviously change. But hopefully not. That was the bid that was within $5,000 or $6,000? It was. Yes, sir. And the next slide, that's your UDOT grant. So we got a grant for $252,797. City's portion on that is $17,114. And that's the one that'll start next week, the 8th, on 8th East. Well, that's where we're going to put the sign books. Yes, this is a proposed solid record.

I remember now that I was thinking about it.

So add those up. Basically, the total project cost is over $10 million. It's not valid. And the next slide is just a pie diagram Jones and Mill put together. You guys, it would be hard to see there. But I'd like to just pass this around if you want to look at that. There's some really interesting numbers there, grant versus what we paid. Next slide is some premium issues. out right there. The last slide I have is some numbers on the airport, which we have redid the lounge at the airport, and it's probably 90% complete. If you guys would like to come out and look, that'd be great. Furniture will be in next week. Big difference. And it ran about Right at $100,000 to get that renovation done. And we got a grant from the FAA for $56,000.

Can we just go out, or do we need to call you?

Yeah, if you would. I would actually like to just let everybody know when it's complete, so then I'd like to have you guys out at that time. Yeah, let us know. I remember what the collect report said. I'm excited to see the update.

the century not too long ago. Yes. And there was some flooding issues. Our storm drains for the most part are adequate other than in those rare circumstances, right? Exactly.

They are, but there is some improvements that need to be done in our master plan that we have that we will need to address. Okay. But that's all listed in our master plan, which we can approach as much as we can. Okay. They're all actually...

I know it was an unusual, not a normal situation.

It was not, yeah. And those kind of things, it's just that they just can't take the amount of water that's being... Well, the worst spots I told you about, the bill that was under two and... That dam's undersized. Yeah, that one is undersized there. And so, you know, the guy... guys behind me and the guys that aren't here deserve a lot of credit they go above and beyond middle of the night people don't see that they deserve a lot of credit and then uh stoplights yes if we think that maybe there needs to be a stoplight like for example the gentleman that lives over here on state street yeah so that Speaking of that, Don, speaking of that crosswalk, that is included in this project. I had them add that crosswalk, the gentleman that was concerned for himself and everybody. So that will be, once that's complete, that will be added. We've addressed that.

I'm just wondering, I'm a little concerned on State Street, people come off Highway 40 going north, and there's nothing really slowing them down until 200, and I'm Do we need to study? Do we need... That's usually what we'll do. Yeah, so I'll get with PD. I just think it might be good to just evaluate State Street because it's getting pretty busy now.

Especially State and Lagoon.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. State and Lagoon more than second. School hours. If there was something to maybe change that traffic pattern a little bit. how many or citations or a lot of speeding in that area which they would know well i thought we'll have a study done to get the count of the traffic that's close just last week i was coming lagoon going south and saw the gentleman that came i can't remember his name right yeah yeah he was on the corner waiting and all these cars kept going i stopped for him i made a point to stop me but all these other cars just kept going he was just standing there and i thought It was like, you know, the speed limit says 25, but, you know.

He does know that the crosswalk is coming, though. I did actually visit with him and let him know.

And then, I don't think it's needed, but someone asked me last week about, you know, school started and that it's fully stopped down by Union. Is that fifth? Sixty. Sixty, yeah. There's been suggested a roundabout.

where they get out.

And I think before we stop, but I know the problem is at certain times they just like can't speak. There's just a couple of times a day it's bad, the rest of the time it's not as bad. And it's hard to justify a change for a person's life.

So just to give you an update Last week I went down to East Elementary and they have been talking or asking about you know last year Or maybe earlier this year

principal taylor came in right yeah and the crosswalk is really weird i've went down there and looked at it but i also went down there and there's no signage saying school zone no lights and that is actually coming down to a survey and kirby i i mentioned it to kirby and with josh and And Kirby actually met with or talked with the superintendent, Jason Young. Yes. Maybe you want to update us with that.

Yes, so speaking with Jason and Ellen, correct me if I'm wrong. So we left that at them guys, they wanted some science change. They wanted to add a crosswalk. But without having a study, it would leave the city. You know what I mean? The litigation, if something was to happen. So we wanted them to have a study done. And I was talking to Jason. He said he's going to look into doing that. I'd give him a probable cost. And who doesn't? And he said that would be the first step we needed to do. And I offered that we'd be willing to install the signs, you know, once this event had happened. So that's where we left off.

I'll check with him on Thursday then to see where we're at. That same day that I met with him, there were a couple of, um, residents that live right across the street on the corner. And they were talking about, um, they're used to it. It's, Hey, it's a school zone. We're used to it. People coming in and out. And I said, well, do you, are there any concerns on your part? Their biggest concern was the parents are coming in and they park right in their driveway and they're trying to get to school in the morning. They have like, um, Some students at Union, they're trying to get out of their driveway while these people park in their driveway or in front of it so they can't get out. So that was a big concern for them. But that was really, they were really good about it. We understand it's a school zone. We understand the school's right across the street. Just the residents coming in and locking them in.

Well, I'm glad you checked. Thank you, Kirby.

Thank you, guys. Thank you for all your work, guys. Get ready because it's going to be a hard winter.

That's right. I hope so. I'm the only one here.

Am I the only one here that's got the faith? I've got enough faith for all of you. Thank you, guys. Thank you. I'll take the blame for that.

You know, some interesting numbers that I wrote down.

Hadn't thought about this until Trudy mentioned it right here. 14 miles of storm drain. Yeah. 116 miles of water line. And 58 miles of sewer line. Yeah, that's crazy. That's incredible. Yeah. That doesn't mean anything.

We do reach out for questions. How'd it go?

Good. So, I recently had your parks. I got a date on that, too.

Right here and there. Say that again? Are you going to sit here? Yes, we are.

So first thing to report, conversation has been going really well out there. It really just comes down to communication, and so I think a lot of it is really good. We've brainstormed different ways to communicate and have that. So I think it's going really phenomenal. When you guys close the door, hopefully you knew it was laughing not. Screams, a little bit of crying, but no, went really well, so I think it'll be good. I'm very excited about the direction the golf course is going. As far as updates on that as well, as you know, the golf course, it always operates at a subsidy. It's a huge subsidy. With Matt's direction, with some of the things that we're doing, not counting the water conservation project we're working on, because that's huge, but that will eventually... we project within 12 to 18 months, we will eliminate the sub-state golf course, which I think is phenomenal. Our perspective and council ultimately gets the decision is though to make the golf course operate, not to make a lot of money. We want to keep it as economical as we can for the residents of the city and still pay for itself. So that is our goal. That's what we're working towards right now. And we're making some phenomenal progress this past few months. We've, found a lot of ways to be more beneficial and economically sound. So that's the update of the golf course. One update I have for you, I'm going to keep this one kind of short. If you've seen on Facebook, there's been some attacks about our animal shelter, some very negative feedback. That individual, I have reached out to him, even though they're still making some of the comments on there. They are coming to meet with us tomorrow. Tommy's going to try to be there. Councilman Woodridge is going to join me. And Lieutenant Tucker. I'm going to go over the budgets. It all comes down to comparing budgets with Vernal's. When I say Vernal's, I'll explain. And Roosevelt's. Why Roosevelt isn't like Vernal's. So I'm going to say on the record right now, the Uinta Animal Control Special Service District, that's owned in Vernal, their budget is just shy of $1.4 million. Our budget is $400,000. Viral and Uinta County pay together zero, not one penny to that special service district. We pay about $300,000 to ours. So it's a $300,000 subsidy. Well, that's our subsidy for ours. So we do a phenomenal job. Our employees at the animal shelter are incredible. I will say the only feedback online, and I do love the comments, is we have people defending our employees up there at Animal Shelter. So it was great. But we are meeting with her tomorrow. We're going to take her for a tour, answer any questions. I'll have the budget. Again, I want to make sure everybody knows we're an open book. Anybody is welcome to come talk with us at any time. We want to get the information out there. It's all available. We're a public entity. So that is happening tomorrow. Next update, the employee appreciation barbecue. I believe everybody saw the change of date on that. The original date was during shutoff week, so we moved it to September 17th. We are going to be similar to last year. So we will have three options that we are planning. How it essentially works, the employees work half a day, and then they have half a day to do an activity together, and then we have a barbecue. We're going to have three options where, one, they can go golfing, Two, they can go to the gun range and do some shooting as a group. And then three, it will either be fishing, mountain biking, or hiking. Everyone is deciding on that one. So I was going to put them on the spot, but we would absolutely love for any council to join us in those activities. The whole purpose of those is to be together. to network, to spend quality time together. So we're giving the employees those options, but we would absolutely love for council to come. That's from 12 to 4. And at 4 o'clock, we will meet up at the golf course at the pavilion, and we're going to have lunch there courtesy of the tap-in. So they're going to cook for us. So council, you do not need to cook or worry about food. Just come and eat. Is that fishing at the nature park? No, Edwin has a place for us to go. Unless you want to go jellyfishing.

I was planning to go whatever, but I've got a class at 5, so I probably won't stay with them. At 4, I'll have to leave because I'll have to go get ready for class.

One thing that Tappan is going to do is we're going to submit our food orders ahead of time because they're going to give us options. Get it to them. Absolutely. I wanted to make sure that We all got to taste their food. If you haven't been there, their food is phenomenal. So, Don, their food will be ready at 4 o'clock. So, as long as you order ahead of time, it will be ready so you can grab and go. So, please come. We'd love to have you there. We will send out an invite with a request at RSVP, but, Council, you're always welcome. Next thing, the Fall Festival is October 2nd through the 4th. They are... pleading, not pleading, asking for volunteers to help with the balloons getting up and down. A lot of the balloon pilots, that was their only concern was not having enough people. I would request if you work with any youth groups, it would be a great activity. Kids can come. It's fun to be around those big baskets to see how big they are when the balloons go up. So get a hold of myself, Edwin or Vanessa, and Vanessa Oaks, and if you're willing or able to help youth that are.

I will be able to. I have my big STEAM Expo. We're probably looking at 800 to 2,000 fifth through eighth graders descending on Roosevelt. We've got probably 45 different exhibits coming. I've got Aquarium coming this year. Next year, I'll be at a local zoo. I've got quite a few groups coming from Logan. It'll be big. I'm hoping for 50 exhibits, and I'm hoping for 2,000 kids.

Keep on your agenda the fifth-grade classes at East and Centennial in Kingspeak. Centennial has already contacted me. When do they want? After the – basically the same schedule after they went to the Capitol.

Okay. Well, just keep me posted. I should be able to be there. So that was a lot of fun last year. Yeah. And especially because it was our first time trying to kind of navigate it. But I thought Mayor did a great job with the kids, and it was fun to kind of go and interact and help them kind of understand about government and how it works and answer questions. Mostly it was, are you related to something? Yeah. That's what I got to. Yeah. We should advertise the fall festival be a lot of stuff at nighttime usually since police fire in the water you can bring something Flyers or something hand out the kids love no now remember some of the kids are from you into as well as you're sharing just We don't mind those guys can know what you're saying. I just want you to be aware of that We have to have you know, I think coming this year the house of Duchesne should have people to you coming. So Perfect.

And I have one final update CIB our Water conservation grant that we're applying for our next council meeting. We have our public hearing. I We did get some interesting feedback right now. They have over 30 projects at their next meeting. They meet tomorrow we're gonna have a viewing party and It can be a positive viewing party or negative viewing party, depending on how it goes tomorrow. But we are actually going to watch, kind of see how it goes. As you know, recreation projects do not typically do well. Ours, we do have data. It's a water conservation because of our water loss at the golf course. Tomorrow will be very telling on how it will go. UBAG is going to run our projects with our formula, which gives us our recommended breakdown of what we should ask for. So we'll have that at the next council meeting as well. But things are progressing. Ryan is heading up this project. He's done a phenomenal job in such a short time of getting the information together. But we're kind of right now looking at all options to see what's the best thing that we can do to make this project happen. So tomorrow will be very telling. I'll try to send out an update tomorrow afternoon, just let everybody know kind of how it went. If there's any red flags that we need to be concerned about.

Is there a link we can watch? Is it online?

Yeah, it'll be online. We'll have to send that out to you.

What time is it tomorrow? I think they start at 9.

Yeah, but I think they said the funding part starts at 9.40.

Okay.

This is a lot of projects, and when we first looked at applying, I was told don't apply to this one because there's a ton due October, which could be great unless they use all their funding right now. So we'll find out and see. We will have all the options. We'll give you information on there. But those are some of my quick reports. Are there any questions? So that did not go as planned. It was not super successful. The tap-in is leaving the full area. Natalie's crew is going to start selling the products there. They're going to do very similar to the tap-in. And that was based in Whole Food Cellars today. Everyone got an update on that. But they're excited to work with Natalie. She's got a really good vision. Tappan is going to focus up at the golf course right now. If they come back in the future year, great, but right now it's stretching too thin. But we will have concessions at the pool on a steady, regular basis. We will have it the whole time, not as full menu. But yeah, but it will be when the pool's open, there will be some refreshments available. Natalie's still trying to figure out what exactly they're going to do. But the Tappan is officially... I want to say out there. Equipment is still there, but they tapped out.

Any other questions? Must not have been important.

Just allow me to chime in here for a second.

I appreciate you letting me join remotely, but I'll be driving up Daniels Canyon here to Midman, so I'm going to. I'm going to drop off, but thanks everybody.

Thank you.

Thanks, Bo. I thought he was going to present something. Thanks, Bo. All right. Committee reports. I think the biggest one is just we'll be advertising for the Gulf Committee. And finalizing the economic development. Economic development will be finalized as well. Which is good. I think those are two big ones. A lot of potential.

Mayor, if you have individuals that are interested in the golf community, please don't think they have to be avid golfers. They can be individuals interested in golf or like golf, but it doesn't have to be a Matt Williams as a golf professional. So if you know somebody that could be that official, please have them get with me.

I know what my question was. Let's get her done. I only got a year and change left before, and I've been on eight gears trying to get that paid care of.

Mayor, if I forgot to mention, we do have London, our new city treasurer, is here tonight.

I hope everybody saw her. Welcome, welcome. And she came back her second day. I had Jason earlier today with Braxton, new hire as well. Yeah. He's part-time. Does that sound right?

Mm-hmm.

Anyone? Yeah, as of right now, yeah. If you let his accent go, I mean, he's... He's like a New York accent. He's trying to get away from it, but he lets it go. It's pretty funny. Do we have a name for a full session tonight?

I don't know. Yeah. Well, I was thinking there was one with the land acquisition.

Yeah, that's one. It's your call. Yeah, I thought that's what we were going to address as well. Land acquisition and is that the one you're talking about? Yeah, that's what I was referencing. Yeah, we do have a need for closed session. Do we have enough to go into closed session, correct? Yeah. Four out of the five.

Although just dropped off. I HAD SOME STUFF I WAS GOING TO REPORT ON. LET'S DO THAT.

AND THEN I CAN UPDATE THE COUNCIL ON THERE.

Okay, I have a second to go into closed session. All in favor? All right. Close session. We'll take a break. You have to roll call. Get out of here. Sorry, that doesn't need a roll call.