City Council - Regular Meeting

We appreciate our planning commission, what they do in our city. They're very underappreciated. They do so much good. It was good to all of us, get all of us in a room, talk about, because we've updated our strategic plan and our goals in the last couple of years and really haven't sat down and made sure that they understand where we're coming from on stuff and made sure, you know, some of their processes align with where we're headed and fantastic discussion, quick. More of that's probably coming, I would think.

It's normally not October this early. But it hit that resume. Sorry.

There is a change coming, but we'll get all the details to everybody.

You were there. I was there. How was it? That was amazing. Just, these are the things, I mean, we get excited about the, you know, the restaurants that open the store, you know, but this is a unique, this is on, I guess I refer to South Harriman, I guess. So this is out in our industrial park out by Porter Rockwell between Mountain View corridor and Redwood road. manufacturing, shipping, and they've got a small retail. So it's a high end cosmetics. I guess if you, a lot of people know Dime. So it's really cool. They were in Draper. Now this is their worldwide headquarters. They do have employe

You've got Main Street Meats coming in. I mean, they're announced. Colonial Flag is moving their headquarters out. That's public. We can talk about that. We haven't talked a lot, but they're moving their headquarters out there, several employees. So good stuff is happening out in that area.

Yep. It's fantastic. We appreciate our planning commission, what they do in our city. They're very underappreciated. They get paid very little money, a hundred bucks a meeting. I think they're paid right now. They do so much good, but it was good to get all of us in a room, talk about, because we've updated our strategic plan and our goals in the last couple of years and really haven't sat down and made sure that they understand where we're coming from on stuff and made sure, you know, some of their processes align with where we're headed. And it sounded like we were actually on the same page

Yep. Just gets us all on the same page. The more we're all on the same page working together, we get more done.

On Friday, a week from today. It will be open in seven days. So yes, Friday the 9th at 9 o'clock.

It's weird to see the signs go up. When the signs went up, you drive by. That's, I don't know, it's a community pride thing, you know, to think that, you know, Trader Joe's is investing in our community. And I'm just, I never thought it would happen, right? That was just a joke. If you would have asked me four years ago, if we would have a Trader Joe's, I wouldn't have believed it, honestly. So it's just kind of unreal and surreal and, but so exciting. I cannot wait. Yeah.

just signing letters left and right ready to to open their doors there i wish we could announce more what's coming i hate to tease that i don't like but they're just this week we had quite a few more you know contacts reach out about what's coming so it's there's gonna be some fun announcements coming in they're very unique truly very unique to the area what'll be good

Well, we've talked and we'll get into this. I know we'll get into this in a minute too, but you look at, you know, you're the next two weeks in the city, right? We're going to open Trader Joe's. We're going to open Juniper Crest. How long have we been wanting Juniper Crest open? This community, the city been wanting Juniper Crest open. That's going to open Tuesday, right? We'll talk about that. But just the things that are going to happen in the next couple of weeks are just, it is exciting. There's been challenges getting here and it's not, like you said, the construction is always challengin

Anyway, I'm excited. It's going to be an exciting couple of weeks.

So it was a stripe last night when I drove by, but that was earlier in the day, but.

Oh, it's such a relief. I've been thinking about the words I might say Tuesday. It will be a relief to have this open. I don't think people, there's stress on us, you know, to get this stuff done, right? We know the needs and we know the desires of so many people in our community. And we really do. Like I promise we do. So when stuff like this is finally done, it is just a relief. Like the weight that's going to lift off all of our shoulders on council and staff is, it's going to be big for this one.

But it's fun. And I'll give an example. I know we didn't have this in the plan, right? But Awakened City Church opened their building last Sunday, right? None of us on the council go to that church. We all have different backgrounds, right? But there were four of us that showed up to their opening service, right? And because it's... I mean, we were invited, but we like this council and everybody I've served with. Right. Just we care. Like we wouldn't step into this role if we didn't care and we didn't want to make the city better. Like every time we hear a complaint, like I promise you, I thin

Right. Sometimes I wonder, right? You know, and it's intentional, right? Because we do want to bring the public along in all the processes. So it's very intentional when you only meet twice a month and it's a public process, it's intentional to where you bring people along. And so sometimes that can be frustrating, but it's a good result.

Good. Love it. There you go, neighbors. Those are my neighbors.

We, we are doing a council theme this year. Oh, we've never done that before. I've not heard this. So we are doing a council theme. I'm not going to divulge it. Okay. But it's going to be fun. We're all going to be, and it's not even, okay. We had to buy some parts from Amazon, but it's not even just like we're doing homemade. We're making our own costumes. It's going to be, it'll be a lot of fun. So hats off to my wife for coming up with the idea and we're, we're running with it. So you'll see, but you'll see the four of us will all be in a very similar costume and it'll be very obvious who the council is at that. So yes.

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