City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome everyone to our January 20, 2026 city council meeting. We have u what might be a brief meeting today in comparison to others, but I should not have said that now that I think about it. Uh but we will start as we always do. What is that sound by the way? Are those Those aren't gunshots. So that's good. Is it my microphone? Someone else talk. See if it happens in your testing. Hello. So it might just be me. Hello.

Okay. All right. Well, we'll start as we always do with the pledge of allegiance. If you'll stand. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, Rory, will you see who is here and who is maybe not here? Yes, I'm going to carefully move this. Okay. Okay. Council member Robinson here, Michelash here, Brown here,

Billings here, and Glover here.

Okay, that is all of us. Um, next up we have a proclamation. Uh, yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Um, January 15th was Martin Luther King's birthday. Um, and I believe he would have been 96. I think that might be in the proclamation. But we wanted to take a moment here to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and proclaiming January 19th, 2026 as Martin Luther King Jr. Day here in Midvil. So, I will read this proclamation. I'm getting over a cold, so hopefully my uh voice will uh cooperate for the entirety of the proclamation. Whereas Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made profound and enduring contributions to the social and economic progress of our nation by championing championing the movement towards racial equality and civil rights for all people regardless of race, color, creed or occupation, including efforts to desegregate public and private institutions. Advocate for fair labor practices and promote justice and equality in all aspects of life. And whereas through peaceful protests, non-violent demonstrations, and inspiring oratory, Dr. King became a catalyst for change in the treatment of black Americans and all marginalized communities, reminding us that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. And whereas November 2nd, 1983, the United States Congress passed legislation declaring Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday observed annually on the third Monday of January to honor Dr. King's birthday and his enduring legacy. And whereas Midville City recognizes and honors the extraordinary contributions of Dr. King, reaffirming our commitment to the values he championed, including justice, equality, and universal respect for human dignity and pledges to uphold these principles for all residents in our community. And whereas we commemorate Dr. King's legacy this month, which marks what would have been

his 97th birthday. It is fitting and proper to pay tribute to his tireless advocacy for civil rights, his dream of a more inclusive and equitable society, and his unwavering belief in the power of hope, unity, and nonviolence. Now, therefore, the mayor and city council of Midell City do hereby proclaim Monday, January 19th, 2026 as Martin Luther King Jr. today and call upon community and faith leaders, civil rights advocates, educators, public officials, and all people of Midville City and Salt Lake County to honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., reflect on his vision for a better America, and commit to fostering equality and justice in our community. Adopted this 20th day of January, 2026, signed by myself, the mayor, and all five city council members. So, we would like to just take a moment to recognize the historic contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King. And some of those things that I read seem very fitting today as they did the 60 years ago. So, moving on, uh, we have a unified fire authority report. Uh, Chief K is here to give that. And I recognize in the crowd some UFA folks have joined us to, I guess, listen to Chief K. Chief K,

mayor, council, thanks. Uh, 126B, this is the crew from 126B. So, thank them for for being here. Um, first thing I have is fire school 101 is going to be March 27th. So, if anyone is interested in attending, please let me know and we will get you set up. It's a good time. You get to get dressed in turnouts and do all kinds of fun things. So, I think Bryant wants to volunteer again to do it every year. If you've never done it, you have to do it. And if not, someone from Midville has to go. Yes, we'll welcome welcome someone from Midval. Please come to our fire school 101. So,

oh, I was just going to say, do we get in touch with you if we're interested or how do we Yeah, you can get in touch directly to me um through Matt or the mayor or what was the date again? Sorry.

Uh March 27th. Uh our community risk reduction message for the month of January is be vigilant to stop carbon monoxide exposure. So things to look out for headache and dizziness, nausea and weakness, confusion and shortness of breath. So, if you're experiencing those things or your CO detector is alarming, um, please exit the structure and call 911. And then to go along with that is our, uh, January safety message, which is winter storm safety. So, hopefully this is the rain dance to get a winter storm in the valley. But, uh, some things to be prepared in case of a winter storm. Um, test all your smoke alarms at least once a month. Um, plan with your family two ways to get out of your home quickly. Make sure your house number is easily visible from the street. Be a good neighbor and check on those around you who may need help. Remember, generators should only be used outdoors. Do not run a generator inside a garage. Keep flashlights and blankets on hand in case the power goes out. And if the heat stops working, use extra layers and clothes to keep warm. If you use a portable heaper portable heater, uh keep it at least 3 ft from anything that can burn and turn it off when sleeping. Then following that, we have the quarter 4 um quarterly report. So that's up on the screen here. So total call val total call volume for the quarter was a,000 calls. Um last year for the quarter it was 988. So we're seeing a small increase there. Um busiest station um for Midvail was station 125 just down

the street. Um both the engine and the ambulance. Um and uh you know the the top call types structure fires for our fire calls and six persons for our medical calls. continue to have a great um emergent total time at 6:42 for our 90th percentile time. So, well below UFA average. So, um good news. So, with that, I'll entertain any questions or anything you have. Thank you, Chief. Um the 1,000 even incidents is pleasing to see just for a round number perspective. It's easy on the eyes.

Very much so. But we wish it was less than last year, but 12 more than last year. So, so pretty even. Any questions for Chief K. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you, Chief. And thank you 126B for being here. We appreciate all you do. Uh next up, we have a report uh cruisers for kids report. And this is the annual car show that has happened for um well, they'll tell you how many years. Um it's been a tradition to have in Midvil. Uh this was my first year attending and I was blown away by a the number of cars there and b just the the good uh that was that came of that car show. So if you guys want to introduce yourselves to the council and

Yeah. So the mayor let me know that you guys really didn't know much about us and he told me I should come down introduce ourselves to you let you know what we do. We've been in Midville City. The very first car show was in 1995 on Main Street and I believe it was the Eagles Lodge was part of it. I know that um Steve Weller at Unique Auto Body for years and years was a big supporter, but that was in 1995. Can I have you get close to the microphone because we're recording this and everybody wants to hear your So that was in 1995.

So I was kind of giving you that's the very first year that the car show happened on Main Street in Midville. My name is Karen Jensen. I'm the car show coordinator. I was car was turned over to me in 2003 and um the person was Pat Spackman. She was had health issues and at that time I took over the fundraising event. All of this benefits Shriner's Children's Hospital, it's not a hospital, excuse me, of Salt Lake City with me. I have Dan and um I can let him talk in a minute. He is from Shriner's Children's up at Salt Lake City. He came to join us today.

And to my right, this is Jim Ker. He is one of the people that's there with me at 5 in the morning setting up that park, getting everything blocked off, trying to keep everything clear so all the accesses are good and we don't have an issue. Um, one of the reasons why we're here, if you notice, I gave you a packet. I wanted you to find out what we were about. We um, the funds that we raise by adaptive trikes for the children at Shriners. And this was a program that the year I took over came in up there in Salt Lake City. The adaptive trikes, they can cost anywhere from $600 to $2,700. They're beneficial for these kids. I think everybody in this room will probably remember the first time that they rode a trike. The freedom, the independence it gave you, and the social interaction that these kids don't get the opportunity to do. It's very dear to my heart. This is a very big community function. everything is donated. Um I understand that now statewide, citywide that they have to charge fees for parks. I worked closely with um previous mayors and I Midville City has supported us so much that we they have donated the park and allowed us to have a good place. It's associated with the show. People will look at the location and say that's where Shriners is at. It's not so much Cruisers for Kids. That's where Shriners is at. We would love to stay here unfortunately to have to pay some of these fees. I would what I'm asking is that you can wave them or find a workaround so that we can continue to stay here and continue to have our goal of 100% of everything we raise going to the kids at Shriners. The things that we have that day, the trailer, the toolbox that are opportunities that people make donations and with their donation amounts they get opportunities for these things. It encourages people to donate to Shriners. We have their staff on hand. We have a

website that the funds go there. They can use their QR codes, checks, etc. So with that, if we have to take money out, I was told it' be $1,700 last year. With that, that's less money that what I get to give to the kids. So, I'm hoping that you can work something out, find a workaround, some way that we can work this out because I would like to be able to continue and Kate that same format cuz that's what strikes the community is knowing it's all volunteer. The trailer from Bubbas is donated 100%. The toolbox that's a big item that is donated 100%. These people have been doing these donations since 2006 and continue through all these years. We have gone from raising $10,000 to raising a high of $44,000 in one day. And I think it's a significance difference. It makes a difference in the community and it makes people look at what we're doing. So I'm open to any questions and if Dan wants to step in and say something, he can talk about Shriners more than I can because I'm not a Shriner, but I just do the event.

Thank you. My name is Dan Murray. I'm the associate director of philanthropy with Shriner's Children's Salt Lake City. And we just celebrated our 100th year serving the inner mountain west here. And uh Cruisers for Kids has been a partner for 32 years of that time and they've been doing it mostly in this city and they've been an excellent partner for our services that support children throughout the inner mountain west. Uh we also services ch um children from 22 different countries last year and providing wheelchairs, prosthetics, you know, surgeries for club foot and uh just really providing that service throughout the inner mountain west and they've been an excellent partner and we've been greatly appreciated of them. All the funds raised from the event do go directly to our services that support children throughout the Inter Mountain West and uh we wouldn't be around and we wouldn't be celebrating our 100th year without partners like Cruiser for Kids. Thank you, Dan. Thank you, Karen. Any questions from the council or any other discussion points? I know it's it's something we'll u certainly look into. Um it's a matter of uh what we can legally do and um sometimes waving fees for this organization means that we would have to wave it for the next organization as well. And um I know that's a hot topic in the the municipal legal world right now, but

yeah, I received they and Midville City did send me a letter after last year's show and let me know that this was going to be an issue going it was something they would have to do going forward even though like I said but we had been established for a long time. We'd like to continue being established here.

It's a beautiful park. It has, you know, great opportunities. People can relax. They're comfortable. Not everybody's crowded. That was one of the reasons why we moved off of Main Street. it was crowded. Um, we like to be relaxed, like to be comfortable. You know, we do we, you know, I think there's been a lot of people in the community that have come and participated for years and years. Um, guys on the street all know who we are and have lived in those houses. So, anyway, please do review it if you have any questions. You know, you're I'm more than happy to answer anything. The flyer on the back has my name, my number, and my address. And um there is people that do work the event that are in Midbell. They live in Midbell. Um some people have moved. I do happen to work for Zans's Bank. That is one of your big businesses in Midville. I'll have to throw that out too. So we are associated. It's not just from outside, but I do appreciate your time.

Thank you, Karen. We appreciate all you do and we appreciate all that Shriner's Hospital does as well. So thank you very much. Okay, moving on to public comments. Any person wishing to comment on any item not otherwise scheduled for a public hearing on the agenda may address the city council now. Uh you can step up to the microphone and you'll be given three minutes and just state your name for the record. Hi, my name is Luke Mains. I live in council district 5. Um, and I'm also the secretary for the Midvail Community Council for another uh week and a half because next week or actually a week and a day because next Wednesday, not tomorrow, uh, is our yearly elections where we'll elect a new executive committee. Um, all are welcome to attend. The only uh, current members will be able to vote at that meeting. Um, we'll also potentially be weighing we'll also be weighing some potential amendments to our bylaws. Um, just to hopefully streamline some things and address some concerns we've heard over the past year. Um, it should be a very interesting and and exciting meeting. So, I hope to see all of you there, especially those of you who are also members of the community council. Um, that's the main update uh from community council. Once we elect our new officers, we'll be planning for uh the year to come, but we have a lot of exciting things that we're looking forward to do. So, thank you for your continued support. And that

Can you give me the date and the location again? Yes. Sorry. Sorry. That is uh uh next Wednesday uh January 28th at 6:00 p.m. at uh the Tyler Library inside the big meeting room. And all members of the public are are welcome to attend and observe. and members are welcome to attend and participate. So, thank you. Thanks. Sounds good. Thank you, Luke. Is there anyone else who would like to give public comment? I'm looking at you, so nope. Okay. All right. Moving on to council reports. We'll start in district one with council member Bonnie Billings.

Thank you, mayor. I just wanted to just remind everybody that 2026 general legislative session started today. Um, if you go to le.utah.gov, you can look at all of the bills that have been proposed. There's hundreds and hundreds. Um, but it's really important to kind of be paying attention to what is happening in our state and what decisions that the state is making that's going to affect us here in Midvail. Um, so please keep your eye on the news, go check out the bills for yourself. um and u be involved if you need to. You can contact your representatives and your senators to um oppose support a bill, however you want to do that. But just um for the next 45 days, we will be in session.

Okay. Thank you, council member. Moving on to District 2, Council Member Paul Glover. Nothing this evening. Okay. Thank you. Uh District Three, Council Member Heidi Robinson. I have nothing tonight, Mayor. Okay. Wow. We're moving right along here. Uh, District 4, Council Member Bryant Brown.

Yeah, I I'll take a few minutes. Rare. Um there's just something I kind of wanted to highlight that uh happened in the last 6 weeks and I might misstate the facts but the general idea is a lot of times here um when developers come in and ask for us to vote on you know different prop you know town homes or different properties or projects if it's built into the code and complies with the code we legally have to vote for it right and there's this growing pressure based in sort of this new wave of politics of hey, vote no and let the let the courts figure it out, right? And uh Sandy voted no on a project with like 150 mixed units on their property, quoting their code saying this does not comply with our code. They took him to federal court and lost. So the developer won, right? Um I haven't what what I don't know about the facts are I don't know if Sandy in good faith, maybe someone else knows. um you know sort of reject it or if they kind of cater to some mob rule right but that is hundreds of thousand I don't know how much uh hundreds of thousands it could be millions of dollars if they appeal it right to lose you know and that's just very fiscally irresponsible right um I've always said elected officials are elected to make hard choices and I think people think that means just to vote no on things people don't like and that means sometimes voting yes on things we don't think what we need to do a better job at is instead of just saying hey we have to vote yes on this because it's within the law I think we on these you know topics that get people worked up maybe we can do a better job at explaining the law right hey you know this code maybe this was passed 25 years ago we didn't you know none of us were on here except for Paul who who was always here

close close uh you know and and we didn't foresee what that looked like right or or something along those lines um But I just think it's a very good example of of an elected officials has a hard job, right? Between, you know, catering to, you know, some mob mentality or co and costing the city lots of money or doing the right thing and voting yes. And I'll I'll say that. I'll say I have to vote yes here. I think your project's awful, right? Like I'm I'm open about that, you know, and and um you know, that's just something to think about. It it's permeating through, you know, that's costing a lot of people money and their taxes. The other example is vineyard right now. I don't know if anyone has seen what's going on there where this whole word mandate started the last election. I was mandated to do something. So there I I don't know the insides are out but essentially like the city everyone from like the city manager down essentially is like being fired right from vineyard and replaced under their new regime right and that that sort of situation is really expensive um both on opportunity costs right to get new people up to speed and just generally right and that is just so bad from a municipal standpoint right and I I want I hopefully the staff here knows we do not operate like that you know I could see that reverberating to neighboring communities as a fear. Um hopefully Vineyard loses learns a very hard lesson and and everyone else does. Um but just some things highlighting that happened in the last month since our last meeting that I think on the municipal side should be discussed openly and and um what could happen if things go sideways, you know, on something as simple as a city council. That's all I have.

Thank you, council member. Uh, moving on to district five, Council Member Denise Micholash.

Uh, thank you, Mayor. Um, just wanted to reiterate what, uh, Council Member Billings was saying about the legislative update. Um, we just celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and he stood for inspiring us to continue to fight for justice for our everyday life, right? And I think the best way you could do that is get involved with your legislator. And we also have one of the best websites to track bills based on topics, action, everything like that in the nation. Like it is unbelievable what they've done that. So I encourage you all to stay involved. Um I've heard from residents before the holidays. I'm going to be following up on a few of those things around public safety, um parking, things like that. um have also been taking the uh League of Town and Cities essential training so I can better understand how we work together with our sister cities, our policies in the legislature to support the growth in um Midval as to what uh Councilman um Brown was saying of how do we continue to um be smart in our decision- making. So, thank you.

Thank you, Council Member. Uh for my report, I do have a couple of things. Um, one, even though I just told Matt I wasn't going to mention it, um, we did have, uh, community member Marilyn Stokes, who passed away on January 15th. Uh, Marilyn lived every single day of her 80 years here in Midvil. Um, very, very sad uh, time for her neighborhood. She lived on Fern and I referred to her as the mayor of Fern because she knew everything that happened in that neighborhood and her neighbors were appreciative of her efforts to make her community a better place and I sure will miss her. Uh we didn't always agree on everything, but uh I had just the most amount of respect for her and if there nothing good about uh her passing away except I did find it striking that she died peacefully at home in Midvil and that uh probably exactly the way that she would have wanted to go. Um, sorry that's uh, yeah, I just learned that um, about an hour and a half ago and and that was quite sad for for all of us who knew her. Uh, so we do extend our condolences to her family and friends and neighbors. Um, on a better note, um, we may have struck a, um, deal with glass recycling. That's been a thing we've discussed for quite a while. We were looking for a place on the east side of State Street. Note that I never say East Midvil, but the east side of State Street. Um, we are in negotiations with St. James Episcopal Church to put a glass recycling uh bin there. Um, they seem to be on board. They have some questions. They're talking about it tonight. Um, I keep looking at my phone to see if we have an answer. Um, but we're hopeful that that's going to going to work out.

Even if it's on a trial basis, which they asked and and I said, "Yeah, sure. Let's do if that's if you want to do a trial basis." Uh, we'll see. But, um, hopefully I'll have more information about that in the upcoming uh, February meetings. Uh, speaking on the topic of legislature, I am leaving this meeting to go to an Airbnb near the Capitol because we have local officials day and youth council meetings with the legislature tomorrow that starts at 7:30 a.m. and I am not getting up at 5:00 to go there. So, I'm just going to stay nearby. Um, so that is tomorrow. Um, even if you haven't um registered, we'd be happy to see you. You know, it's a it's a public building. You can show up. um at 7:30 to 9:00 am in the retunda is where we'll be meeting with the youth council and having some meetings with our legislators. So, I'm looking forward to that. Um last Thursday I was elected chair of the unified police department board of directors. Um my exactly one month stint as vice chair I guess was so successful that they uh put me into that role. I know it's a normal cycle of the vice chair becoming the chair in the next year. Um, you know, it's one of the one of the boards that I'm most excited about working on in the next year. There's a lot of great opportunities with UPD next year, not just as it relates to Midvail specifically, uh, but for the organization as a whole. So, I'm going to be honored to be the chair of UPD over the next year. And one last note related to UPD. Um we did have the uh 10th anniversary um lunchon uh to celebrate the life of Doug Barney who was killed in the line of duty. He was a holiday um officer. Um so I was honored to receive that invite from the chief.

It was definitely an an uplifting event as much as that can be. But uh we want to also just recognize the sacrifice that Doug Barney made and um have our condolences to his family as well. Um so some some good, some bad in in my report. Uh sorry it was so long, but um we'll move on to the city manager report. Uh Matt D.

Thank you. Just a couple quick things. Um uh and then um a little bit longer report as as part of this. But uh so the first thing is I should have mentioned this in advance but um they did make some adjustments to the microphones per um requests that were made because there were some folks in the audience who were not able to um hear what was being said. They ran into an issue where right now the microphones are um as loud as they can be out there without us getting feedback on them. Um, but the other thing is is they exemplified to me or showed me um the difference between talking here and talking here, which is pretty big. So, just this is a reminder and is the worst offender of putting the microphone straight up in the air and talking without moving it back in front of my face. Uh, just a reminder to uh eat the mic when you're talking. Um, second thing is, um, I just want to make sure that all of you saw that we sent out an invite for the, uh, budget retreat this year being on, we should just call it for the audience, for the public, uh, we call it a budget retreat, but it is a budget meeting that we do at a building in Midvale. Um, and um,

like without windows a lot of times.

Yeah. Yeah. It's uh, it's um, we should just stop calling it. We should just call it the budget meeting. But um anyway uh it's the sort of the kickoff to the budget season and sort of talk about just ideas and things that are coming up in that. Anyways, we've set that for March 5th. That is a little bit earlier than normal um for a variety of of scheduling reasons. Um and um uh so I just wanted to make sure that if you didn't see the email that you're aware that that's the date that we're targeting. If that ends up being a problem for any of you, let me know as soon as possible. Um the next thing is uh Council Member Brown. Um I Let's find an opportunity to talk a little bit more about how we can do a better job at communicating on those things that um where votes are in controversial votes are in support of our ordinances but may cause a confusion for the public. Um let's talk about how we can better communicate about that in those instances. And I do think in the scenario which we haven't had this in a while but where 400 people come to you know tell us how terrible it is right if it is truly pretty clearly within the law and stuff it might be good to have a little refresher on some cases that lost right um because it does sound a little disingenuous when we're like well we'll go to court and lose right and it's like what does that mean right oh like the Walmart case I think was a pretty good example in Midville where almost had Walmart torn down at one point, right? But that was a land use case related to the road or something, you know. Um, not for everyone, right? But we probably will know when that's coming because it'll first hit the planning and zoning or something, right? Right.

Otherwise, maybe we just think about it. It could be, it's more us, it's, you know, elected officials, right? Because that way they don't think we're just zoned out, you know, reading, you know, yes, no, right? Like it's just for us to be engaged, not necessarily the staff being too worried. But if there's a way that we can support you with information or how we communicate that or provide you with that in advance, I'm happy to have that conversation about how we can better do that to support you. Yeah. Um and I appreciate that. The Sandy thing just really hit. I was like, man, they it's they're they're projecting that they thought it was not within code and they still lost.

Yeah. Um happy to help on that one. Uh and then the next thing is at the last city council meeting there was a request um to get an update on some of the um development that's going on along Main Street, particularly projects that we are providing some sort of support for. And so uh Kate Andrris, the RDA director, uh is here to uh provide some of those updates. And then um if as a part of this, if you have questions, of course, ask those. But if you're looking for something a little bit different in these reports, which we said we would do maybe every other month or so, um just let us know and we'll make adjustments to that. But, uh Kate, uh take it away.

Yes. Uh thank you, Mayor and Council. Um excited to kind of provide some updates on what we know is happening on the street. Um and we'll continue to do so. If you guys have any questions after this and I don't know the answer, I'm happy to find out those details and we can get back with you. But, um, I'll kind of start with Honeysuckle. Um, as you can see, they've started construction. Um, I spoke to the owner and, um, they anticipate opening in late summer. Their buildout is obviously a little bit more extensive.

As you talk about these, and maybe you were going to do this, but as you talk about the businesses and you say their name, will you also just say what they do, what their product is, that kind of stuff? Yeah. So, Honeysuckle Coffee Co., I think is their official name. Um, they are um wanting to open up a coffee shop, bakery, as well as a barbecue restaurant um just across the street from City Hall. Um they're currently building the actual structure and remodeling the garage. Um they anticipate opening hopefully in late summer. Um, unfortunately for our water, it hasn't been great, but we've had warmer temperatures, so they've been able to do a lot more than they had anticipated. Um, West Main Development, which is just down the street here, um, is it is nearing completion. Um, the owner of that is in final negotiations with Blacksmith Ice Cream. Um, and it seems, as far as we know, like it's going to move forward. Um, and assuming that the development stays on its current timeline, um, and speaking with the owner of that building, Blacksmith Ice Cream is anticipating opening in late spring/early summer. Um, and then on that same note, um, Salt Fire, uh, which is wants to open up a tap house on Maid Street, um, and they were approved for a loan, as well as Greek Streak. Um, we are just waiting on a few more details and final documents to schedule their closing. Um, we spoke with them and once they have their funding, they anticipate a three to four month buildout. So, they're also looking at late spring, early summer. So, it's going to be very busy on Main Street during that time. Um, out as as far as businesses, that's kind of all that we know about so far. Um, I'll kind of

quickly move to the construction that's been taking place on Stag Street and then behind um the art house and the market. Uh, Beckru uh construction um they're moving pretty fast on that project. Um, also because of the warmer weather, they've been able to do more than they anticipated. It looks like uh they'll be done around midFebruary. Um I did ask them um what what the um timeline is for Center Street. Um they're hoping it's done sooner rather than later. They've it's been taking a little bit longer due to some testings uh that they got back that were negative and then they also ran into issues with utilities under the road um that the plans didn't identify. But we're hoping that that um they can open up that road fully soon. And then um lastly, I just wanted to mention that uh Cactus and Tropicals is celebrating their first year on Main Street on January 24th. So, seems like that was just yesterday. It's crazy. It's been a year.

Have they said anything cactus and tropicals of how are they happy with it or are they Um they haven't said anything to me. I know that they've altered their hours. I in speaking to um Bambinos, Bambinos is very popular at night and I know that um they were mentioning to me that Cactus and Tropicals is actually extended their hours into the evening just to kind of capitalize on the additional customers that are in the area. Yeah, Bambinos is becoming very well known outside of Midvail. So, yeah, it has. That's what we need for sure. Any any other questions about what's going on on M?

I was actually just wondering if any of these I know it's hard because it's construction and that but I was wondering if any of them are targeting to try to be done by Mural Fest. Sorry. And you just told me to get close to the mic and I'm actually sitting back. Sorry. That's a great question. Um it is where we have that great if we could I know.

Yeah. I so they didn't give me a specific date, but I think that that's a great point to make and I think we'll communicate that we have this festival that's going to bring a lot of people to the street and so it would be advantageous for them to get open or at least have like uh it was a year ago I guess a little over a year ago that Cactus did a soft opening while we did Light Up Main Street just just to get the word out. So, I'll definitely get that communicated to these businesses and if maybe if they're not open, maybe we could find a way to involve them in it as well. So, just just an idea. Yeah. No, I agree. I think that's a great idea. Any other questions for Kate? I really appreciate that.

Yeah. No, of course. I'm happy to provide updates whenever you guys need it. And sometimes I think there we like know of what's going on and we just don't think, oh, we haven't actually fully communicated it um to council and to the public. So, and for us, we we probably have a, you know, not as day-to-day understanding. You we probably have slightly more, but the public, you know, they're even further removed. So, I think it's just good. Yeah, I agree. And are you good if the next one is uh like of a formal one like this is we'll do it in two months then like that? Is that Yeah. Yeah. sufficient?

Yeah. Or or if news comes in or something like that, right? like, oh, hey, these are coming. These are opening or new or, you know, otherwise, yeah, if there's nothing. Yeah. And I I can communicate that with you, Matt. If there's something big that we want to announce, I can talk to you and we can figure out a way to Yeah. Breaking news announcements we'll do as they pop up. And if it's just progress reports, then we'll plan on doing those every couple months. Yeah. Perfect. Okay. Thank you, Kate. Thank you, Kate. Uh, city manager D. Is that That completes my report.

There's your report. Okay. Thank you. Uh moving on to the consent agenda, we have two items to consider. Uh first, consider the minutes of January 6th, 2026. And also to consider resolution 2026R04 appointing Paul Glover as the Midvail City Representative on the board of trustees of the South Salt Lake Valley Mosquito Abatement District. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? All right, motion we approve the consent agenda. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Rory, we call the yays and nays. Yes. Council member Brown, yes. Micholash, yes. Billings, yes. Glover, yes. And Robinson, I.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Moving on, we have three action items for this evening. The first of which is to consider resolution number 2026 R05, acknowledging completion and receipt of annual audit. Here to discuss that is Mariah Hill. And we have our auditor Marcus in Arbuckle in the back. Um, who I think Sorry, I didn't mean to steal your thunder. if you're going to do a an intro, but fine. Go for it.

But I did just realize I forgot to put emotion in my presentation. So, sorry. I'd like to do that. Uh, okay. Just really quick, I just want to go over uh this chunky financial document. Uh, it's about 130 pages. And so, these are the sections that are included in this. There's an introduction section, financial section, basic financial statements. You know, I'm not going to read those because I'm going to go through them one by one here. So, okay. In the introductory section, we have a transmitt letter. This is an audit. It has our audit requirements, an introduction of our auditors profile, midvvel factors affecting our financial condition, long and our long-term financial planning information. It has our certificate of achievement for the previous f fiscal year, which we we did get again this year. Um, and an organizational chart and all of the elected appointed officials. Um and then in the financial section we have the independ independent auditor's reports as well as the management's discussion and analysis. Um this is meant to be really the information that's easily adjust uh digestible and if you were not a finance professional then probably the one thing you should try and read though it still is quite dense. Um and then it it is the information that it should contain is outlined by the GFO. Um the basic financial statements. These are really the the main meat of the of the financial portion. It includes governmentwide financial statements, uh governmental fund financial statements, and proprietary fund financial statements. Um the notes to the financial statements are an in-depth explanation. Um they include our significant accounting policies, the reconciliation of governmentwide statements to fund statements, information on our deposits and investments, capital assets, debt, and our pension plan. There's also then there's required supplementary information which has pension disclosures and our schedules of revenues, expenditures and changes in fund balance uh budget and actuals for the general fund and the redevelopment

agency which are our major governmental funds. Um and our supplementary information even just the titles of this is like what is going on? uh that uh has our statements for our non- major governmental funds and our non non- major proprietary funds which are reported uh in the earlier financial statements as a whole unit. So that's a breakdown of that. Then we have a statistical section which includes uh 10-year information on financial trends, revenue capacity, debt capacity, capacity, demographic and economic information and operating information. This section as well as the supplementary information are not audited um documents. Uh and then we have our internal control and compliance reports from the auditor. Um and that's that's the what is in the report. Now here's just a brief overview of of the financial results from our audit. Um for the general fund, our revenues exceeded our expenditures by $1.9 million. So that's what our fund balance increased by essentially in the governmental funds is how is how we talk about that. There's some interesting things that happened in the general fund this year. We had been accounting for ARPA funds in the capital projects fund, but we needed to do some rearranging to report it correctly. And so that was moved into because actually in fiscal year 2025, you guys budgeted to to use fund balance uh for the public works expansion and things like that. But because of this uh because of the ARPA fund change and then uh a lot of building and plan review fees like three times as much as we were expecting our revenues were were much in excess of our budget. Um and then our expenditures were $1.1 million under budget. This was this is just all the departments being financially conscious. Uh and then we did have 5 million $5.9 million in transfers from the general fund to our debt service fund, internal service funds, and a capital projects

fund. Um for the RDA, there was a budgeted use of fund balance. So our expenditures exceeded our revenues by $5.5 million. This was mainly the planned affordable housing loan for West Main. Um and then also work on the city hall plaza were that the big expenditures that were planned for that. Um in the capital projects fund again expenditures ex exceeded revenue by 2.4 million. Um a lot of this was for projects that we'd been planning but were delayed uh just for whatever reason and um came online in 2025 and then some of also like the unexpected purchase of the park and things like that. We did budget quite a bit of use of fund balance for fiscal year 2026 and we are off by just a little of what we have to what we don't but looking at my budget amendment that will all be uh cleared away in the next month or so. Um and then a quick look at all the proprietary funds which are our enterprise funds just all together all of them except for telecom um which is really just you you guys know Utopia had an increase in net position um which just shows the general financial health of the city. A few things to note is water really has significant investment in capital assets and debt. So does sewer, but it also um includes a $4.9 million investment in South Valley Water Reclamation Facility. Um storm water is sitting in a pretty healthy place um getting ready to move into working on the storm water master plan that you guys uh recently adopted. Um our street light uh fund is also looking pretty healthy, but again we had that bond mature and so that payment fell off. We're working on a street light master plan to figure out how how that fund should look moving forward. Sanitation really reflects a $2.5 million investment in Trans Jordan. And then our our our internal service funds, all the money that's sitting in there is really our replacement funds for vehicles and computers that we pay into each year. Any questions for me? If not, then uh our auditor

Marcus Arbuckle with K&C audit is going to do his part now.

Thank you, Mariah. All right. Well, I'd like to thank the council for the opportunity to audit Midvil City. And as part of an audit, we're required to report several items to governance. We consider you to be governance. And part of your responsibility is to oversee the financial reporting process where management is responsible for the financial statements. And as auditors, we plan and perform an audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and government auditing standards. And then we issue reports and opinions on the audit. The first is the uh opinion on the financial statements. Mariah did a good job going through those, but our opinion, it's on the the basic financial section, which are the financial statements and the footnotes. We've issued an unmodified or a clean opinion on those financial statements. There's other schedules um that are required like the MDNA and the required supplemental schedules that are not part of the opinion, but we do review them and make sure they tie in and agree to those financial statements. Another uh report that we we issue with this audit is our report on internal controls. um we we analyze internal controls of the city that are directly related to the financial reporting process. And so we're looking at your controls related to cash receiving, cash dispersements, payroll, and then the overall financial close process. We we don't have any recommendations on the controls. We feel the city has adequate internal controls and checks and balances. um they have adequate staff that that understand what they're doing and so we feel the city does a good job with those internal controls. Um the the

third the next report is uh called a a single audit. Um anytime a entity spends more than 750,000 in federal funds um you're required to have a single audit. Um most of the money spent this year was was ARPA funds. I think about 3.4 4 million of the federal money was ARPA funds and then there's about 150,000 of um EPA funds. Um but we go through and and make sure that um the city's in compliance with the uh the grant requirements. Um the ARPA funds are there not a whole lot of require you can pretty much spend the ARPA funds on on quite a few different things. So there's no findings or anything. we feel the city was in compliance with with the um with that grant. Um the last report that we issue is a report on state compliance where um the state auditor's office um requires us to look through several areas of compliance. Um, this year we looked at budgetary compliance. We looked at compliance with fund balance with restricted taxes. We looked at compliance with the open and public meetings act, the fraud risk assessment, and then there was some some court requirements that we looked at. Um there's one um finding and it had to do with the with the new it's actually a new thing the the state auditor's office asked us to look at but um there's uh the the bell account is tracked in in the court um chorus system but it should be reconciled to the city's general ledger on a monthly basis. Um the city does more a formal rec reconciliation at year end. Um but just that finding just to get that in the the process to do

that reconciliation every month. I mean the numbers aren't really big but it's just important to get that to to reconcile to the court system. Um we didn't have any you know difficulties performing the audit or disagreements with management. We feel the city has um sound accounting policies. If you look in note one, that's that's where all the management estimates are and and and accounting policies are. Um we feel the city has a reliable accounting system. Uh we take fraud procedures very seriously. We ask questions um to council members. We ask them to management, to employees. We have meetings as auditors. We do journal entry testing. Um, and I'm happy to report we didn't find any instance of fraud or or abuse. Um, but any questions on those reports or opinions or that?

Any questions for Marcus? And just like to thank Mariah and Chris and their whole team. They do a great job. It It's a big job getting ready for an audit and getting through an audit. they do a good job writing that report and it's a lot of work goes into it. So, we thank them. Thank you. And we certainly do appreciate all the work that you do and your staff does, Mariah. And thank you, Marcus, for the report. I'd just like to say also thanks Mariah. Uh we're on the audit committee and uh you've done a well good job I believe and we appreciate what you've done. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other questions or comments from council? Okay, we'll move on to action item B. Consider resolution number 2026R06 adopting the Midvail Wildland urban interface area. Could you adopt the resolution for the audit? Oh, yeah. Well, you didn't have it. I know. I'm sorry. Okay. Uh although she did fail to put the resolution in the packet. Um, is there a motion from council to approve?

May I move we approve resolution 2026-R5 acknowledging completion of the fiscal year 2025 audit and direct that notice be published pursuant to the section 10-6-152 of the Utah code. Second. Okay, we have a motion and multiple seconds. Uh, Rory, will you call the A's and A's? Yes. Council member Molash, yes. Billings, yes. Glover, I. Robinson, I. And Brown,

yes. Okay, that passes unanimously. I'm not going to read action item B again, but I will tell you that in the land of UFA and county emergency management, they refer to wildland urban interface area as the WOOI map and technical. Yeah. So, Matt, what is it with WOOI?

Well, this is the least wooi map that you could imagine. Um so um the legislature in 2025 passed HB48 the wildland urban interface modifications uh required municipalities to adopt the state's wildland urban interface code. Um HB48's primary intent is to reduce the risk of wildfire spreading to and from structures in the wildland urban interface. The bulk of the bill targets individual lot assessments um and the high-risisk WOOI areas that provide homeowner education to reduce risk and set triage levels. Essentially uh the forestry fire and state lands is intended to come up with a system that would evaluate if you are in a high-risisk area or not. And then if you are in one of those areas that is high risk amongst other things, property owners would have to uh pay a fee based on the square footage of their structure. Um the fee amounts would be determined annual annually by um uh forestry, fire and state lands based on the cost of implementing the program and so on and so forth. Um Midvail has already incorporated state adopted um WOOI code by reference in the Midvail municipal code. So we're not adopting the code. However, um the uh section 301 of the WOOI code requires the legislative body to declare where the WOOI areas are. Um and so what we're saying is we're declaring there are none. Midvail coordinated the unified fire department um and used their risk uh explorer in order to look at the wired wildfire risk. The assessment indicates low, little or no exposure to wildfire. Um state law we believe would still um say that we need to adopt a map. Um we've generated this map. All of the areas within the map that are highlighted in red are uh high uh wildland urban interface areas. If you're saying where are those, there are

none. Um so with that uh if you have questions, be happy to answer them. Also, we've been assisted through this process uh by Chief K and other uh members of UFA. If there's a question that is more complicated than I can answer, then I'll have Chief K up and come up and answer it. Um otherwise uh if you're willing to adopt the map with nothing on it, uh here is the motion. This is the most governmenty action item. It feels like that joke at the at work where it's like this meeting could have been an email. H having said that though, that map gives us better homeowners insurance by far. Right. Yeah. So

the opposite end of the spectrum, the cities that have identified areas that are of concern, um there will be an additional fee placed on those properties. So we're lucky to be adopting this map and not the map that's being adopted in Mil Creek, for instance. Interesting. Um any questions for Matt or for Chief K? Seeing none, there is a motion on the board and I believe we have to suspend the rules to uh approve this motion. Yes, please. Thank you,

mayor. I move that we suspend the rules and approve resolution number 2026-R6 adopting the wild the mid midvail wildland urban interface area map. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Um, luckily you didn't have to say wooi. Yeah, I was hosted. U Rory, will you call the A names? Yes. Council member Glover, I. Robinson, hi. Brown, yes. Mich, yes. And Billings, yes.

Okay, that map saying that we don't have a map has been approved. Um, moving on to action item C, consider resolution number 2026, R07, adopting change order work with Noland and Suns Construction Company for the 2025 sewer rehabilitation project. And here to discuss that, Brandon, welcome to the microphone. Sure. Thanks. Did I not have my slides? They were good slides probably. So, you guys haven't seen any of it yet then? Is that what I'm hearing?

I've also never seen this maroon midbell city shirt. I kind of like that. Can we Let's talk about that. Um, is it something you have on your computer you can plug in? I have my computer upstairs. I can go get it. Or can you do it verbally? I can do it verbally. Let's give that a

That didn't seem like it was a vote of confidence, but I'll go. So, on our sewer project that we have, we were working on Wasatch and um found that we fixed one of the problems out there. thought that was the only problem that we had. It wasn't. Um, we looked west of the project. There was another issue. So, we had to add another manhole and another 240 something feet of new pipe. Um, we went and did that while we were there. Um, because one, we were hitting up against weather. two, we didn't want them to mobe off and then try to mow back in and affect residents along there twice in a short period of time. Um, and that allowed us to adjust the angles and the slope of the pipes by doing that to um reduce that. We also had some residents that where their tie-ins were very low in the pipe, which isn't an ideal situation. So, we have to add like flapper valves and back stops to

Sorry. Add what? flapper valves obviously.

Something we've had issues with it backing up into people's houses along there and so that just helped the situation to not have that anymore. And we didn't find that out until we got out in construction. With that being said, um that additional work, while it's work within the scope of they just gave us their unit price and the unit cost, so it's just additional work items and cost to that, it's about $320,000 to do the additional work. And so that's what I'm requesting tonight is to add that change order to the contract price. It's estimated about 320. I don't remember it right off the top of my head what that number is.

I I will say um a lot of times with projects I always always seems like we get complaints post on how they redo the road and this this group did an exceptional job. It's probably one of the best uh you know return to what it was beforehand, right? I swear I get the most complaints after a project because there's bumps and and whatever. So I as far as I don't know hopefully the work underneath is as good as on top but the road is very they did a very good job. Well especially with asphalt when you put it back down if the road underneath it isn't as good you won't see it on the top. It won't reflect up that way. But

yeah we would like to have some of our other contractors pay attention. But that's what we have. Any other um discussion? Do do we need to suspend the rules for this too? Oh yes, we do need to res suspend the rules. Just um checking with Garrett real quick. Um because we don't have the exact dollar amount before us. Is it okay? Is the dollar in the packet? It is in the packet. It is in the packet. Okay. Yes. 3 329 944. Okay. Well, your estimate was was pretty good then.

It was 320 something. That's why I left it at 320ish. Okay. Um, so if there are no other closer to 330ish. If there are no other questions with that, the only thing that was there was we save on one of the manholes by not doing it. So it saved about $10,800. So technically we're adding 330, but net it's 320. There we go. Okay. Okay. So I'll go you I'll go for that. You win us. Both of you are correct. Um, sorry stuff. When I have it in front of me, I can refer to it.

If there are no other questions, we do need to suspend the rules to pass this resolution. Mayor, I move that we suspend the rules and approve approve resolution number 2026-R7 approving uh change order work with Nolan and Sun Construction Company uh Inc for the 2025 sewer rehabilitation project. Second. Okay, there's a motion and a second. Rory, one last time this evening, will you call the yes and nas? Yes. Council member Billings, yes. Robinson, I. Brown, yes. Mich, yes. And Glover, I. Okay, that passes unanimously. We do not have a closed session tonight. Is there a motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjurnn. Second.

All those in favor of adjournment say I. Any opposed? We