City Council - Regular Meeting

Holy smokes. Bonnie is there and I just totally missed.

Was Bonnie in there, Charlie? Was council member Billings in there? He was sitting right next to me. Oh. Oh, you were in there. I just I was sleeping. Oh, good feeling today. It's ridiculous. So tired of like all my days all I do is I just I'm been listening to a lot of movies giving me nightmares, you know, for my work. I mean, of course there's terrible and they're going to pass. So I'm like, okay. But

can't remember. Generally for us is that what I do in

I think there's actually

Oh yeah, we're I am watching presentation. Yeah, I just like I'm listening to every revenue and taxation. Yeah. But I didn't watch it. Uh, wait. Because of the the referendum one. No, just no. Were you going to watch because of the education? Our chairs are messed up again.

Hey, I could barely talk to you guys the other night at the meeting. So, I was like, I got to go get my manual. Well, I can act. I told your husband we're having lunch again. Calms down. Yes.

You know what I mean? Sorry, I just remembered that session. Yeah, I was definitely talking about it. The only ones that I would have to give like something Thank you. energy issues threat.

Okay. With Rory being the Rory being the risk manicunication. Okay. before it goes to here. Just depends on the depth. Let's let's scrap it and talk about get a plan for the next council.

Let's wrap it up. Yeah, he was saying that

right. Welcome everyone to our February 3rd, 2026 Midbell City Council meeting. We are returning from just over there where we had a workshop, a very robust discussion uh about some things uh coming to the Jordan Bluffs development area. So stay tuned uh for developments in that sphere. Uh we will start as we always do with a pledge of allegiance. So, if you'll stand and repeat after me.

I pledge algiance 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. Uh do not adjust your sets at home. Uh Rory is not here, but filling in for her tonight is the more than capable Charlie. Charlie, will you call the role to see who's here? Yes. Council member Robinson here. Nicholash here. Brown here. Billings here. And Glover here.

Okay, that is all of us. Um we are moving on now. We have a proclamation. February is uh Black History Month. Uh, so I will read through our annual Midbell City proclamation proclaiming February 2026 as Black History Month. Whereas President Gerald Ford officially recognized Black History Month in 1976, calling upon the public to seize the opportunity to honor the two often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history. And whereas the United States designates the month of February as Black History Month, providing an opportunity for all citizens to reflect on and commemorate the rich heritage, achievements, and contributions of black Americans to our nation. And whereas the national theme for Black History Month 2026, a century of Black History commemorations honors the 100-year milestone since the establishment of the first organized observance of black history in 1926 and recognizes the enduring impact of these commemorations, that's a tough word, in shaping national understanding and appreciation of black history. And whereas throughout history, black Americans have played pivotal roles in shaping the cultural, social, economic, and political fabric of the United States, contributing to the advancement of our society in a myriad of fields such as science, education, arts, music, literature, sports, and civil rights. And whereas this occasion provides an opportunity to reflect on the experiences, contributions, and resilience of the black community. And whereas as a community, we must continue to work to collectively to eradicate discrimination and prejudice, striving for a future where every individual, regardless of race, enjoys equal opportunities, justice, and dignity. And whereas Midville City recognizes

February as a time to celebrate and honor the rich tapestry of black history while reaffirming our collective commitment to fostering a more just, inclusive, and equitable society. Now therefore, let it be resolved that Mayor Dustin Gtle and the City Council of Midell City do hereby proclaim February 1st through February 28th, 2026 as Black History Month in Midell City, adopted this third day of February 26th, signed by me and all members of the city council. Okay, moving on. Uh we have a unified police department report and to do that is our very own Chief April Morris. Welcome Chief.

Thank you. Good evening council mayor. Um so for the month of January with Unified Police Department for the city of Midbell, we responded on 2100 calls roughly. Um about the same number of calls that we responded on this time last year. Total cases that generated 667. We had 21 booking arrests and 181 citations were issued. Uh the total active cases right now for our violent crimes unit is 143 with nine additional in January. Total active cases for our special victims unit 70 with eight added in January and those are Midville specific cases. Um some of those cases in the last 30 days we had two significant auto pedestrian vehicle collisions. um January 6th at approximately 1,800 hours at 7200 South High-Tech Drive, a 35-year-old female was struck by what we believe there's evidence to believe an impaired driver. She was in the crosswalk. Initially, her status was given as a Delta condition or unlikely to survive the the crash. Um she was immediately rushed to the hospital and at the hospital her condition improved, upgraded. Uh we are in communication with her family. She is making an incredible recovery and we are super happy about that. Um, we've connected them to resources and will stay in contact with them. And the driver was arrested on about a half a dozen uh charges and we are continuing to that relationship through this process as they navigate the criminal justice system with the criminal case. So the next one, February 1st at approximately 6:30 in the morning, 7200 South Third West, an adult male. There were actually two men that were crossing. Um, one was from Florida, one was from California. A Midwell driver not paying attention

struck the male from Florida. So, we do not believe or there's uh it's likely that he will not survive. Um, our major accident team responded on that one and they are in the middle of the investigation. So, our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of both of these pedestrians and if anything, please slow down and watch out for pedestrians. A lot of people walk now, ride bikes. There's people all over. Just go slow. So, uh, Hillrest High School last week participated in a walk out, uh, protesting ICE and and, uh, events surrounding that. We were not part of the protest or any part of that. However, we were present to make sure that they were safe as they exercised their right to protest. Um, we made sure that as they walked through the city of Midville, there was at least a presence that folks weren't, you know, getting too close to them with their vehicles. Um, there were incidents up in Cottonwood Heights where people that uh, the kids walked past came out and engaged in confrontation. So, we made sure we were there to make sure that those kids were safe as as they participated in that. And the high school organizer, I have to give them kudos. They did a great job supporting us, making sure it was peaceful. So, uh, some of you have seen a a photograph. Uh, UPD has a new canine that has joined the force. His name is Gyro right now. Pup is 12 months old, a Belgian Malininoa, German Shepherd mix. So, we're super excited to welcome him to the UPD family. And then, uh, we're very proud to announce that our crime victim advocate has been selected by the Utah Victim Services Commission to receive the Melvin C. Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award. So, it's an incredible honor. Uh, she's amazing. The resources available just at Midville Precinct are phenomenal and she will be honored at their conference in April. So, we're excited to send her some of her family and go up and and watch her get that achievement. It's it's an incredible honor and we're super proud

of Carmen. And last but not least, tomorrow we'll be interviewing for a part-time social worker. Uh, UPD received a Department of Justice grant where we redesigned some mental health curriculum on responding to crisis calls and as part of that grant we were able to obtain part-time social workers and one will be dedicated to Midville. So, we're excited to get that resource out into the field, see what they can do to help us with our crisis response as well as some of our folks that need that assistance. So, it was a busy month, but things are going very well and uh I that was the end of my report unless you guys have some questions.

Any questions for Chief? I just want to thank you for supporting those kids and helping them feel safe so you know they could exercise their rights. I have a sixth and eighth grader that are feeling, you know, a lot of the pressures, you know, related to a lot of students in in their area. Um they're really concerned, right? They would have joined if they if the junior high did it and uh or middle school or whatever we call our schools here. So, you know, I'm glad that you you know were supportive and you know, allowed those kids to exercise their rights. So, thank you. Thank you, Chief. I know we got word earlier today that a similar protest was planned for um another school. I don't know if we're allowed to or should uh necessarily say which one, but will you be providing the

same safety services for that school as well? Yes, sir. We have a plan in place for that. So, we were organizing that this afternoon. So, we will make sure those kids are taken care of. So, okay. I was I was going to parlay into that because I think I know where school it is and Yeah. So, you're familiar with the school and we will be there. Okay. Thank you. Yep. Any other questions for Chief? Thank you, Chief. Busy month. We appreciate all you do.

Moving on to our uh annual uh arts council report. And here to do that, the illustrious Wade Walker, chairman, president. It says here, uh yeah, chairman of the board and and president. by our bylaws, we have titles and positions. Um, and I'll just give an introduction and I'll turn the time over to Lauren to give the bulk of our of our report, but um, yeah, I'm the chairman of the Arts Council. I'm happy to be here um, with several of our other board members and our executive director, Lauren Richards, to report on our activities this past year. Um, first of all, we appreciate the city's support of the arts. Um, and we hope that we're contri contributing to the quality of life here in Midvo with the activities that we put on. We appreciate Council Member Brown's uh involvement on our board and appreciate Nate Rockwood's um attendance at our meetings and helping us stay informed of city issues. Um for those that may not know, the history of the arts council was started 1985 as a volunteer organization and it was under the city at that time. It was all budgeted under the city. All the activities were more or less controlled by the city. Uh but um in 2012 we became a separate 501c3 nonprofit organization and at the same time the city council adopted a resolution recognizing the Midville Arts Council as the official arts organization Midville city and we're happy to with that partnership and again to continue to provide quality uh activities here in the city. Um if you go to the next slide, we uh we've doubled our board since last year um which is exciting for us. And so I wanted to introduce um some of our new board members. Um we've got Joe Darnell. Um you can stand up, Joe. He's uh he's uh

Oh, I I have to use the clicker. All right. Uh so, uh he's one of our new board members, but he will be serving as vice president, uh vice chair of our of our arts council this year. Um he is uh his kids have been involved in theater productions in Midvil um and he's wanted to help support us and he works in corporate development. We're happy to have him on board. Uh we've got Ryan Tiner. Um he's a Midvil resident, a classical musician, teacher. He plays in local music groups. Um and he's our treasure uh taking over for Stephanie Johnson in that role. Um we've got Brian Ael. Uh I don't think he's here. He is a Midvil resident. You might recognize his name. He's one of the artists at the Midell Main Art House. Um and so we're excited to have him on the board as well. And Rachel Gllightly, um she's a Midvil resident as well, photographer, graphic designer. She's already developed some marketing plans for us. And so, uh we're excited to have uh these four new members on the board with us. And then of course Bob Bador is continuing member, Bryant, myself, and um Stephanie Johnson for the for the time being. These four new board members have have added a ton to to our board. Brought a lot of great ideas and um and it's great, but um but every silver lining has a cloud. Um I don't think that's the way it's typically said, but um Stephanie Johnson has turned in uh her resignation from the board effective June of 2026. And um I just I wish she were here. She had another conflict but was going to try to make it. Um, but you can tell her all the nice things they said about her if she if she shows up. But I really can't say enough um about the work that Stephanie has done over the past 25 years um with the arts council. She um she's kept us financially sound. She's created uh quite an incredible culture with the arts uh here in Midville and she's been

the face of the arts council with the city for for several years. And so um we just really appreciate it. And in typical Stephanie fashion, she's not leaving us high and dry. She's staying on through June to train our new treasurer and to continue to mentor Lauren in uh her role as executive director. So, speaking of Lauren, 2025 was her first full year uh working for the Midwell Arts Council and she's been incredible. And so, I'm going to turn the rest of the presentation over to her to talk about our activities from this past year and our planned activities for this year. Thank you, Wade.

Hello, Mr. Mayor. uh board council, sorry. Thanks for giving us the opportunity to come and talk to you about what we have done this past year. Um thank you Stephanie, of course, always forever. Um so we typically do three theater productions a year. Uh this year we had 26 performances total, 124 cast and crew members and 2,692 attendees at those shows, which in our small space, a 100 people in there is pretty pretty good on average for each show. So we're we're pleased with that. Um that was kind of our stats and these are the fun these are the fun slides uh with the pictures from our shows. We did The Little Mermaid last year and I just wanted to highlight a couple things about each production that we did that I think show a little bit of what we what we focus on at the Midville Arts Council, what we're proud of, what what we're trying to build. Um, with this one, the director that we used always double casts. Um, it's a lot more work for the production team, for costumeuming, for rehearsing two casts, but it gives twice as many opportunities to performers. Um, and so that's something that we really appreciate appreciate about working with that director. Um, and this one, the nature of the show, we had entire families performing together, which was really fun. little kids as fish and and the under the sea number and it was just it was a lot of fun. That was a big success that show in the summer we did Peter and the Star Catcher um which is a lot lesser known show. Um something I wanted to highlight about this one was just the community that it built. It was our smallest cast, but they they are still

posting on Facebook all the time that they're getting together going to support each other in each other's shows. And this show also, I think, highlights the importance of storytelling, the power of um imagination. You can see this was a very low tech production. Um we've got people holding flashlights to act as starlight. And up in the right hand corner, um, that's our crocodile from the Peter and the pants Peter Pan story. Um, very low tech, so you had to bring your imagination and it really worked in our in our intimate space. Our junior show this past year was Beetlejuice Jr. This was a lot of fun. Um, and a couple things to highlight from this show. Number one is just the culture that especially Steph has created around our productions. Um, one of the parents reached out to me just organically to tell me they've done productions all over the valley and she will always come back to Midvail um because of the culture that Steph has in place put in place there and that we hope to continue uh to have. And also with this um for every single one of our productions, we always do a pay as you may night. Um our prices are already about the lowest in the valley in terms of our theater productions and at least one performance will be pay whatever pay whatever you can pay whatever you want. and a member of the CA uh cast has an extended family member who their blended family altogether there's 11 people and the mom came up to me and said thank you so much they never get to go to shows as an entire family they have to pick and choose who goes to what show because with 11 people that you're buying tickets for that just gets unmanageable

um and so that's something that we're committed to continuing and just making sure the arts are as accessible to everyone as possible. Uh we had seven concerts in the park this summer with uh just over 1500 attendees in total and 77 performers featured. They were a lot of fun if you managed to make it over there. We had some of our favorites return. James Romero, Channel Z, uh the 23rd Army Band. We're currently um accepting applications for this summer's concert series. We're excited about that. And I just had a couple clips of people dancing at the shows. Um just always my favorite part, our visual and literary arts show um held at the end of July in conjunction with harvest days. This year we had 33 artists presenting 67 different artworks. 48% of the artists were um Midvail residents. Um which I think is pretty great. Ages three to I thought it impolite to ask. Um but we had all ages uh represented at our visual arts show. We've also been doing a literary arts flash fiction flash poetry contest. Um we improved our participation over um from the year before by about 30%. Uh hoping to grow that even more this coming year. We had 18 writers uh who submitted 25 poems and stories uh everywhere from Midvail to Switzerland. We had a participant from Switzerland who I think she won first place for her story. So and we had an 11-year-old best inshow winner. She wrote an incredibly cute story and that was really fun to have

it. It should be noted it was very good. Not just like oh this an 11-year-old story like Stephanie read it and it was an incredible like a Midvail resident. Right. Yeah. Right. Like very very talented young lady. So it should be noted that it I just want to make sure when you say you like oh it might be this wasn't us trying to be cute. Yeah. Very good. It was very very good.

It was a good it was a good story. Uh we just have a few pictures of some of the art from the show. Um just really talented people in our community and it's so fun to see that highlighted and have everybody come together and appreciate that. Um this year you can't hear the sound uh but we had a string quartet accompanying the art show this year which I think really added elevated it. On that same night, we celebrated Suzanne Walker, added her to our hall of honors. Of course, the Midville Arts Council would not exist without her and Wade. Um, and so wanted to honor her contributions. Sister Marionette even showed up, little nurse, uh, nun puppet.

And we participated in the events on Main Street as well. Last year, we held a chalk art contest as part of the mural festival and just incredible pieces of art that people created in four four or five hours. Um, some really cool things. Uh, and we hope to expand that this coming year as well. And we participated in the trick-or- treat on Main Street that was happening at the same time as our Beetlejuice show. So, we had the cast do a little number song and dance um throughout the throughout the event and we had a big painting cube for kids to come and paint Beetlejuice and get excited about the show. So, as always, we are so grateful for the use of the beautiful Midville Performing Arts Center. We try to be good good residents there, good stewards. Thank you so much. Um, thank you so much to facilities for always responding to our requests, keeping the building up. Um, and yeah, we are excited about what's coming up in 2026, our 2026 theater season. We just started rehearsing for 9 to5 the musical, which is going to be a lot of fun. Um, if you don't know that, it's Dolly Parton. She wrote all the songs. Um, it's going to be great. And our junior show will be the Lion King Jr. If you know any kids age five to 18 that belong on the stage, send them our way. We're gonna have a lot of fun. And for the first time ever, we're going to do a senior show this year. We're doing Guys and Dolls Senior where all cast members must be 55 and up. Um it's going to be a lot of fun. We're also doing a classical music festival in May. This will be the first time we're doing that. Um,

you can watch for more information about that. It's going to be three nights of classical music at the Midville Performing Arts Center and it's going to be awesome. We've got nine concerts in the park, expanding the chalk art with the mural festival, our annual Hall of Honors visual arts show, and we're hoping to expand that as well with an art crawl um, and our literary arts contest. So, thank you so much to Midvil for the sponsorship. Uh, we also thank Salt Lake County Zoo Arts and Parks and the Utah Division of Arts and Museums. Thank you.

Thank you for all that you guys do. Um, I did want to say I was on the Zoo Arts and Parks Tier 2 committee this year and when your application came up, they promptly kicked me out of the room. But I believe you did get what you requested. We did. We did. They were very complimentary of of what you guys have done and and how accessible you make it for our community.

Can I go back to one slide? I got to tell you a story about one of these little videos. I don't know if we can restart that. Um go to the where they're dancing in the park. Um so we've had a gentleman that has come to our concert for years, Lester. Um he's in he's in the blue shirt, the third from the left and red hat dancing and he and his wife came for for years and his wife passed away two or three years ago and he but he still comes. He tells us every time that how much he misses her and he wishes she could be there and he got up at this concert and just kind of started dancing. People were dancing. He was dancing by himself and these two ladies went over and just started dancing with him because they could see he was dancing by himself and they just went over and danced with him and that made his made his year probably but he was so excited to to have had that and that's I think that shows what Midbell is and I just think it's just really cool too that um that kind of experience that we have that the arts provides. So I just wanted to highlight that because that was a neat that was a neat moment for us. Any questions for us?

I have something to piggyback as like the world's okay board member on this committee. Um, we've had a lot of iterations of Lauren as position over time and some have not gone well as uh some of you probably remember actually I don't know if most people were here for some of the more challenging situations or people that burned out or moved and she has is phenomenal. So, as great as the art council, we couldn't do it without her. So, she's she's integral to it. So, thank you. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Wade. Thank you, Lauren. Appreciate it.

Okay. Moving along to public comments. Any person wishing to comment on any item not otherwise scheduled for a public hearing, which we have two on the agenda tonight, may address the city council at this point. Just come up to the microphone, state your name for the record, and you'll be given the fastest three minutes of the evening.

Sue Armatage. I'm here um on behalf of the community council asking if anyone knows who I could talk to about reviving the Cinco deayo festival. I didn't live in Midvale while it was going. I don't know who organized it. I understand the guy who did has passed away. I don't know if there's maybe a Hispanic business association here who might have information or any longtime residents or neighbors. Um, I'm going to ask on the Midvale Residents Facebook page and the Midvail neighbors Facebook pages to see if anybody has information, but it's something we would really like to do earlier in the year to kind of balance the harvest festival toward the end of the summer and also to represent the Hispanic community and have them participate in something cultural for them. Um, so just um I think there's a few council members who have my contact information. So reach out to them if uh if you have any information for me or can point me in a direction. I would really appreciate it. Thank you. Sue, just to answer your question, um, and not to, um, divulge any information that hasn't been shared yet, but the new chair of the Midvil Community Council, Spencer Mirs, reached out to me and asked for the names of the folks who used to do the Cinco deio festival. I gave that their contact information to him earlier today. Um, that's a place to start anyway. Not to say that they're interested in in doing it again. Um, but you know, I did pass that info along to Spencer and I think the the elected

officials up here, we've often said that we see a great benefit in revitalizing the Cinco deio festival here. Outstanding. Spencer also asked me to ask the city council. He just pass didn't pass along to me that he'd gotten some. Yeah. To be fair, it was late breaking today. Yes. And I do wanna I do want to note Stephanie Johnson has entered the building. STEPHANIE, apologies for missing it. I hear it was a great reward.

Well, Wade uh said and Lauren said such great things about you and we appreciate your years of service to the council and if you want to come up and say something, now is your time. You could sing it. You could sing a tune. would be okay with that. I probably won't. Okay. Well, the offer was there and just state your name for the record.

You bet. I'm Stephanie Johnson, um, former treasurer of the Midvil Arts Council. It has been an honor and a privilege to work with Midell City for so long, to work with the arts council. You um have an arts council who loves the arts and they're in good hands. and thank you for the support over the many many years and I can only imagine it will continue. So, thank you.

Thank you, Stephanie. Our arts council is so great. One of the board members, Bob Adore, is a West Jordan City Council member. And even though West Jordan has its own arts council, he chooses to be on ours. So, that's a good endorsement. Um, is there anyone else who'd like to give public comment? Seeing none, we'll move on to council reports and we'll start with district one council member Bonnie Billings. Nothing today, Mayor. Okay. Thank you. District 2 council member Paul Glover.

I would like to personally thank the arts council. They've done I was here when they started the thing. So, but uh I appreciate all that you do and all the hard work you do. It helps Midville City. Thank you. That's all. And Paul, I think you're going to try out for Guys and Dolls Senior or You've never heard me say yet? Yes. All right, moving on to District Three. Council member Heidi Robinson.

Sorry, Council Member Glover is just down here telling jokes. Um, I do wanted to thank the Arts Council and just Stephanie particularly, I'm gonna call you out in the moment. Just thank you so much for everything you've done. These are not successful, I don't want to say operations, but endeavors without people such as yourself. And I think it needs to be said, it needs to be appreciated. And whatever you have, if you could sprinkle it more, it would be fantastic.

Yeah. Thank you. Um, and then I also too just wanted to thank you PD again for making sure that the kids that decided to exercise their right to protest were safe and everything went well. And I also want to tell the kids um, good job. way to exercise your rights and peacefully protest things. I I think uh maybe more people should take notes, but um that's all I have tonight, Mayor. Okay. Thank you, Council Member. And moving on to District 4, Council Member Bryant Brown.

Yeah, I just have two things. Uh I think one thing, and I I find it unfair because I love Midvail, but we are always battling a perception issue, right? Like, oh, it's Midvale, you know, Sandy's nicer or Murray's nicer. I think um we had this lesson a few years ago about the hygiene factor and something I noticed this week that maybe we should look into long term is related to specifically at this moment is our street signs. So we have quite a few that are are kind of unreadable like Princeton Monroe or Along Center. We have a lot that are readable but like our Midvail logo is worn off totally right. So, it's not necessarily that this the sign doesn't say Adam Street or whatever. Um, it just like right by our house on Garden View, the Midvail logo's gone, right? And the reason why I bring this up is what we Midvale people call Wasatch and Sandy people call 80th. If you drive, which this is such a Midvail thing that we have that and I love it. If you you of state, our signs say Wasatch and the number. If you drive east of state, we have two that say Wasatch and the number. a different font than the west side. Then a bunch of ours just say 80th, right? So we have these really inconsistent ones and a bunch of them are like the logos worn off. As soon as you hit Sandy, they are all these beautiful perfect signs, right? There is the logo's perfect. There's not one that's faded at all. Right. And obviously we don't have unlimited funds. I have noticed some cities recently like West Valley, they've switched to a white sign with black lettering. a bunch of cities are switching to like blue, which no one likes the color blue, so I don't know why anyone would do that. Um, but yeah, right. See, so um I I don't know what I'm getting at is I know we're on it normally. Maybe the vendor we use that does like the logo isn't great or something.

No. So, we've been working on a plan. Uh we've we've set a grid system within the city to have 10 different grids. life cycle of a sign is about 10 years. Okay, we've got we've just received quotes to do the first segment. It's a little bit more than our signed budget. So, we will probably be asking for an increase come budget time. Uh but yeah, that plan is in place and it will be uh the city is fully replaced over a 10 10 year period. Cool. Yeah, it just cuz it's I want to be like we're cooler than Sandy and then like if you're driving down Wasatch we're like man we look how however the consistency note I wrote down so that we can make sure that if it says 80th or Wasatch we're consistent one way or the other. So

okay appreciate that. Um and man I don't want to get emotional up here but I I'm afraid it's just going to be the year. Um the year the the second point I want to make I want to piggyback on Heidi's point. Um, and I kind of mentioned I'm uh, you know, my two daughters are very aware of a lot of situations that parents have never had to talk to their kids about. And, uh, what we've seen in Minnesota the last two weeks is just a crime against humanity. And I feel like I have to stand on my little soap box every week until it's fixed. I don't think it changes much, but I firmly believe morally and ethically that the only path forward is ICE needs to be abolished. That's all I have.

Okay. Thank you, council member. We appreciate your passion as always. Uh moving on to C uh council district 5, Denise Molash.

Well, uh Bryant always tease it off for me real well. Um no, I I thank you, Pety, for all supporting the protesting, the peaceful protesting, but everyone in our city. I know how devoted you guys are to the city, making sure it's safe. I agree. I'm so proud when I heard about the students um and that we still continue to have that right to do it and we're using it and um it needs to continue because there is inhumity that's happening here. Um but what I did want to say is over the past week or so been working with the gardener group on the development of Jordan Bluffs. Lots of good excitement happening there. That is like the one major big spot in Midbell that hasn't been developed. So, part of that that we're talking about is home ownership, which is huge. Um, very much needed. And on that note, I want to remind everyone that we've got two housing programs. So, you probably saw it on social, other places, but please, please take advantage of it because home ownership is so important. Um, with that, and other than that, I want to say thank you to the Midbell City Arts Council, too. Um, attended several of those events and had a lot of fun and can't wait for next year. So, thank you for all your hard work.

Okay. Thank you, council member. Uh for my report, I will also thank the arts council yet again uh for all that you do. Um especially the uh Beetlejuice was especially entertaining and what they did. Such a tiein to the uh Halloween Main Street event, too. So, thank you and and thank thank all of the cast members as well. Um, and to piggyback on both council member uh Robinson and Brown, um, I do want to thank UPD again for um, supporting those students. I also think it's it's worth uh, shouting out the school district itself and allowing uh, those students to exercise their right to protest. and I stand with those students and stand with any students who do a similar protest uh tomorrow or in the coming days. Um other than that, I want to some quick hits here. Um one good one good piece of news to come from the Unified Police Department. Um of which there are many. Uh but earlier uh last week we found out that um and I kind of mentioned it and said I couldn't tell you guys about it because it was a closed session type thing, but now that it's out in the open um UPD is looking to expand services into some of the local inner mountain hospitals and inner mountain healthc care facilities and providing security police services in those um places and and they will pay into the shared services. And so it will be in my opinion and and in the opinion of uh Maz and and Chief Morse uh definitely one of those things that's going to be a a net positive for UPD. It is going to be a trial six-month or so period uh just to make sure everything is working out for

them, working out for us. But the possibilities of expanding into inter mountain facilities doesn't just stop in Salt Lake County. their inter mountain facilities all the way to St. George. U so it could be quite the ability for us to expand in a way that also almost creates its own um precinct and which would be just for those Inter Mountain facilities and then if Inner Mountains happy with the services which they will be because why wouldn't they be um we could also have that discussion with other um healthc care providers in the state. So definitely good news on that front and we'll have some more information. I think those the jobs have been put out that there's going to start with two officers who that's going to be their primary focus and we'll see where it goes from there. But the fact that they are going to pay into the shared services I think is quite the boon uh to the organization. Looking forward to seeing how that goes. Second thing I wanted to mention um related to UPD and and the report that chief gave there's been a quite the um number of pedestrian accidents not just in Midville. I mean we've had two over the past u month and a half or so but we've had there we've seen fatal pedestrian auto pedestrian accidents in South Salt Lake, Salt Lake City, Sandy. Um, so it definitely in in my opinion as someone who walks quite a bit. I always say walking is my preferred mode of transportation, but um, you know, I used to have the mindset as a pedestrian. Well, I'm a pedestrian. This is my crosswalk. You know, I'm just going to go without, um, I shouldn't say that out loud, but you know, sometimes you just get that mindset, I'm the pedestrian here. This is my crosswalk. So, you know, cars be damned. Um but we have to definitely in Utah there's still quite

the learning curve for I think a lot of um motorists who aren't used to seeing so many pedestrians in so many different areas across every city in this valley. So um obviously if you're in a car you definitely have the advantage versus a pedestrian. So you should be much more aware of your surroundings driving a car. Uh but also we as pedestrians need to make sure that the insurance policy is making sure that when you're in a crosswalk that you're not just assuming that everything is safe because you're in a crosswalk. There are often cars who um are distracted as has been the case in some of these um instances that we've seen over the past few months. Um, speeding is a concern as well, but as a pedestrian, you just have to be very, very aware of your surroundings, even in familiar territory where you think that you're safe. Um, so I just wanted to put that out there to those in the room, those who may be watching, that just because you're the pedestrian and yes, you have the right of way, that means nothing when the car turns into you and hits you. Um, you need to be a little bit more vigilant about your surroundings as well. and I need to do a better job of that myself. Um, so I commit to you that I will do a better job of it and hopefully those of us who um choose to walk or bike or any sort of outdoor recreation are more aware of the cars around us. Um, that is it for my report. Uh, we'll move on to city manager report. City manager Matt D.

Excuse me. I have nothing that hasn't already been discussed tonight. That's I'll write that down as a first. Matt does not have anything to add. Thank you. um public. Wow, quite the quite the laughter here. Okay, I've got more. He should have just started repeating what you said. That would have been

uh moving on, we have two public hearings tonight. The first of which is to receive public comment regarding a code text amendment that modifies the Midvil Municipal Code section 17-7-17.3 to zone to provide design flexibility for the commercial mixeduse requirement and here to discuss that already at the podium is Vendalin Gen. So this um amendment has really four goals and um the goals are first of all to change um the basis for that we are using to determine the mixed use requirements. Um the background is the following. Um currently it the requirement is based on the building footprint area. Um over time we found out that it makes it really hard to actually meet the requirement for a project because most project um have podium parking which means a lot of the first floor within the building is used for parking. So if we say but we want 50% of this floor area as uh retail or or commercial use um the economics don't work. And so we started thinking um within the department and and came to the conclusion what as a city what we really want is the building facads to be taken up by these you know retail or commercial users because that's what really activates the street

and um so that's that's really the the main thrust of this change. um everything else sort of flows from that. Um the second um part here is that with this change um one one could have a concern that maybe um some applicants are so interested uh in a you know multi-story building that has a lots of residential units that they sort of neglect the commercial space. So we we try to put a safeguard in there and the safeguard is that this commercial space needs to be at least 25 ft deep. Um the next item is that we built in some flexibility into into this requirement um clustering. So what that means is if you imagine you have a corner lot um and one portion is on a major street. the other portion of the property fronts onto a side street. Um that the developer has the ability to put um more than the minimum requirement on one of the building ends. So, but it doesn't affect how much they have to provide overall. It's just it gives them the ability to to move things onto the street that's a higher level street. And um I will show you a little more background on this. Um and then the last item um that this amendment adds is that Center Street is added um to the

locations where we do request that the development does not have office space on the main floor. While office is great, um it doesn't activate the street and we have seen that in downtown here. Um and you know we made a similar change a while ago in the form based code area. Um because you said well so I think there are probably existing first story office use on center. I'm guessing they would just be grandfathered in right if there's a change.

Um yes. So when whenever an ordinance changes then existing users are grandfathered in. Now and and you have to remember this is just for the to do zone. So we really don't have uh on center street right now um we have the tod zone but there isn't really anything in the to okay

so um this map here um just as a reminder within this part of the code we basically have two categories if a property is shown on on these maps in the sort of burgundy color. Um, then there's a requirement to provide the commercial space on the main floor. If there's a property that's zone to do, but it's not shown on these maps, then there isn't necessarily a requirement, but there's an incentive mechanism in the ordinance. And this year I added that um to sort of help you get a visual um where in the city the main roads are on to which one could cluster one's requirement. So it's basically everything that has a more intense color only the sort of the fainter green color those um roads don't um apply to that. And then here is is the language in and it of itself. It's it's a little complex. So I try to maybe make that a little more decipherable. So on the left hand the left column is the current language which reads that a minim minimum of 50% of the building footprint um is as provided as office, retail or restaurant use. Then our new language is that a minimum of 65% of the of the street facing building facade is provided as office, retail or restaurant users.

And then the next item here is um the idea that we want a minimum depth um which is 25 ft. And then the next chunk here in the language is all about the clustering. And then on the bottom here, that's where we are also adding center street to the areas where there shouldn't be office on the main floor. And then this gets carried on to um to the next paragraph. This is paragraph G. In paragraph H, we have the same um the only difference is that paragraph H is that's the paragraph that gives you the incentive in case the property is not located in one of the areas where the mixed use is required. And so that's really everything there is to this amendment. Do do you have any questions? I think it's great. I get the intent. I would like to know the So, if there's no in theory, if there was no pedestal parking and the building was a 100 square feet, the old zone would be 50 square feet would have to be retail right now. So, I I would prefer if the code sort of read like, you know, kind of understanding that there's pedestal parking. So, in that same scenario, they essentially have to do um 100% if it's under 50, right? If they only have 40 square feet available, then all 40 have to be retail because we want 50% to be there, right? Now, they won't hit the 50%, because it's 40 square ft, but

because I don't want them to math it down to all of a sudden there's this big building and only there's a tiny little ice cream shop because they purposely well we're going to put as much parking underneath as possible and I get that there's this 25 foot depth. Um, but I feel like our intent was we wanted half there. Understood that that that's not practical. Well, if they don't hit that number, pretty much all of that on the street facing should be retail up to that number, right? So, if the in that same hypothetical 60 ft is is um available plus the parking, then that the 10 ft they can do whatever they want with, but we our initial intent was to get that much. This feels like they could math it down to something really little. Or I'm kind of misunderstood. I'm like a big running joke is um people good with math that get good grades become doctors and those aren't become attorneys. So I fit into that very well. So I could be wrong with kind of understanding the math but I just want to make sure we don't get that scenario and then we go crap. Here's this big building and the only thing we get is this little thing.

Yeah. I do want me to add to respond to that. Um I I think what we are trying to do is um to change the approach so that we get hopefully actually more of what we really prioritize the most. Right. Um uh versus not having any projects because that's that's what's be very blunt.

Yeah. because that's what has happened when whenever we've had um concepts that came to us. It's always come to this impass where we said well 50%. And the applicant said we just simply can't even and even though we are incentivizing these things um through very very high densities. I think the planning commission discussion on this um what they liked about it and what I agree is that the goal was to have you know businesses that are engaging right which is to your point but also making it attainable for businesses to be able to get in there because the 50% was just too much.

So this was a nice because they're like we could have made it even smaller and it would have just been a display front and they're like we don't want that right. So, I I think there was good discussion on this. And here's my thought is why not test this out, see what the interest is and we could always change it, right? If we find we're not getting what we need. Yeah. I guess yeah, the first project and if they do put the equivalent of a of a display. I mean, it stinks because if it's a big spot that they won't ever change it again. I mean, that would that would be unfortunate, but I just want to make sure that's 65. It could that could be it could be 70 or 60. like I I I just want to know the genesis of that number and what we think that looks like.

Yeah. Um so we did some research. I mean we talked with people and I mean in the end honestly is is there a precise scientific way to pack down that number? Unfortunately not. Um but uh the feeling on on the staff side was that it it controls um for the concern that you have that overall we may get less but we get less but we get more um where it matters for the streetscape. Okay. And of course there's always, you know, market forces. If it's a good business idea, then we may get a lot more,

right? So, any other questions for Vendalin? Okay. Seeing none, this is a public hearing, so I will entertain a motion from council to open this to public comment. Mary, we I I can't think. Mayor, would like to open a public hearing? Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Is that a roll call? No. No roll call. All those in favor of opening to public comment, say I. I. Yes. Are there any opposed?

Okay, this is open to public comment. If anyone would like to comment on this item, please step up to the microphone now and you'll be given three minutes. And just state your name for the record, Luke.

Hi, my name is Luke Mains. I'm a resident of district 5. I just want to um speak in support of the mixeduse housing initiatives that the city has. I appreciate that um you have those and I appreciate that you're working to make them uh get used. I know that that it can be tricky with the different things here. I don't know necessarily uh um if this this specific amendment or not will actually help uh to to get real mixed use things into thing. But I I think it's a good uh I I really appreciate that the city is trying and willing to adjust their approach and continue to to experiment with this to find what actually results in what we want, which is or what I want, which is real mixed use in the real world that we can see and that can act as a model for hopefully future developments. uh because I I do believe that this is the um actually the best way to build communities that people want to live in. And so I hope I'm hopeful that if we can get something that is a real example of this and I I I really appreciate you Bryant for Council Member Brown for uh for fighting to make sure that this isn't going to be just dismissed by by developers and and minimized to the point where it doesn't actually do that. But I think if we can get something that actually does provide that in a a real world scenario, uh it could lead to some lasting change. So thank you for your consideration and I trust whatever the council does here uh will be the the best decision going forward.

Thanks Luke. Thank you Luke. And I will say as Mendolan mentioned, this has been, you know, a pressure point with some developers who want to develop this type of um mixed use and this will probably hopefully um and we can adjust if not um help uh in those uh projects. So, is there anyone else who'd like to address the council? Okay, seeing none, I'll entertain a motion to close public comment. Motion to close public comment. Second. Okay, a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. Yes.

Any opposed? Okay. Public comment is over for this item. Uh there is a recommended motion on the board for council to consider. Mayor, I move that we approve ordinance number 2026-03, which adopts a code text amendment that modifies Midell Municipal Code section 17-7-17.3 to zone to provide design flexibility for the commercial mixeduse requirement. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Charlie, will you call the yays and naz? Council member Glover, I. Robinson, I. Brown, yes. Nicolash, yes. And Billings, yes.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Vendalyn, you can go sign some of those development deals. Thank you for your time and efforts, Vendalin. Moving on to our second public hearing tonight. received public comment regarding a zoning map amendment to the transit transit oriented development TOD zone to the state street SSC zone of approximately 2.17 acres located at 7634 South 7636 South 7638 South and 7640 to 7642 South State Street. And here to discuss this is Jonathan. Welcome, Jonathan. Thanks, Mayor. I always seem to have the ones that are a mouthful for you to say.

Yeah. Thanks. Um, so like I said, this is for a zoning map amendment or reszone um for four properties on State Street. I've got them highlighted here. Um, just so you can kind of see what it is. It's just existing commercial buildings. It's in the blue there. Here is it again in the zoning map. Uh, the TOD zone is the light purple and the state street zone to the north of those is the State Street zone. Um, and then as well as just where for our general plan, the 2016 general plan, this is roughly where it falls in that it's in the Midstate Street area. Um, which I kind of touched on in my staff report. Um, I wanted to go into this a little bit. Um, so the main difference between the TOD and State Street Zone is the State Street Zone allows for a greater variety of commercial uses. Um, I've got them highlighted here on a couple of slides for which ones would be additional that would be allowed on this property if it were to be reszoned. Um, so like an assembly use, car wash, cafe deli, etc. A number of itenerate merchants, um, master plan development, oddly enough, funeral homes, nurseries, etc. Um and the the applicant who is here tonight as well, if you have questions for him, um they are seeking this reszone because they wish to operate a vehicle sales business out of one of the buildings on um I'll click back to the properties and I can show you which one out of the back building here. Um they wish to operate a vehicle sales business. Um which is the purpose of this reszone as the TOD zone does not permit that. Um we've discussed this at length as staff. Um we believe that this can meet the requirements of the reszone criteria that we have. Um, specifically, it promotes the objectives of the general plan of the Midstate Street area

to to provide for a commercial um, kind of opportunity zone for businesses as well as promote, you know, keep the tax base in intact with um, you know, as sales taxes slowly dropping with uh, the way trends are going. Um, but this should just could help potentially aid that in the meantime until, you know, further development comes along. Um, I did have I'll click back a slide. A number of people reach out with comments. There was one, um, I know Rory sent it to me. I don't know if she, um, sent it all to you guys. Um, somebody expressed some concern about lighting. Um, let me pull it up here. Um, of the potential business. I mean, these are existing buildings. Um, so whatever lighting is there, if they're not compliant to the zone, obviously we would um correct that with our code enforcement officer. And a couple I exchanged a few emails with a resident. Um, they had some questions about just obviously these are existing commercial properties. There's businesses that run out of them. Um, there was a question about the State Street plan. plan. So, the state street study that was done a couple years ago, I believe it was 2022. Um, that used the council adopted some changes to the ordinance um in 2024, you know, to promote better use of the State Street. Um, if this were to be reszoned and potentially redeveloped anytime in the future, they would be subject to those being in the State Street zone rather than to um so just a couple things to think about um from public comment that I received as well. So, any questions for me? So like a a used car sales lot. Is that

correct? I mean y very uh typical for State Street right in that area. We have a number of them. Yes. So I have mixed feelings on that because we didn't have you know when that code was passed to exclude that you know to you know I think people want to see something besides used car total in an area. So there was an intentional probably exclusion for the TOD zone. Yes, exactly.

So I I personally don't see I I mean it's an interesting thing to to sort of retrade where you know there's vision, right? But that's my personal belief, right? Like I you know I don't I'm not always of the opinion that we have to put something in right away, right? Totally our as a group I can't remember which one what iteration of staff, right? like we I think there was talks about you know kind of limiting you know that because especially in that area there's a lot and they come in and out and um not always the most attractive and and and generate a lot of um use but and just the wide expansive more concrete. Yeah,

that's just concrete y that I don't I don't see any road activation by just another car lot. Yeah, that unfortunately Yeah. question is, is that area there's a big area there, but it's all mostly for parking at this time? Yes. Yeah, it's all pretty much asphalt and buildings. Where are they going to put the cars?

Um, there's a number, this is a pretty recent area, but there is a number of of parking stalls. And then obviously they're at this building. Um, they're limited as to how many they can use. Um I don't know if they have shared agreements or whatnot. Um obviously we haven't gotten to that point because they don't have a business license to operate there at all. Um as it's not an allowed use. So it would be something that would be um determined upon then if they can as if they can meet those. Well, it makes a difference to me if it's out on State Street where they're putting all the cars or if the cars are back Yeah. by the buildings. That that's a big difference is how it's going to look. Right. But

I think this aerial just proves my point. Yeah, there's a lot of concrete in that area. And I don't think I mean it was intentionally left out. Carl lots were intentionally left out because of this. Any other questions for Jonathan or staff? This is also a public hearing. Um, so if there are no other questions, uh, entertain a motion to open this to public comment. Motion to move to open public comment. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Okay, we are in public comment. If there's anyone from the public who would like to comment, that's the point of public comment.

Just step up to the microphone and you'll be given three minutes. I'm still Sue Armitage. Can you pull the mic down, Sue? There you go. Sure. Thank you.

I have similar concerns to Councilman Robin. Councilwoman Robertson about the concrete fronting State Street and another car lot. Seems like between South Salt Lake and Sandy, there are just a plethora of small used car lots. And personally, I I just don't like the aesthetic. They might might be allowed. Um you can do what you want, but I'm not in favor of another used car lot. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Still, Sue, um come on up and just state your name for the record.

Uh Paul Jones. I'm the applicant and so I just wanted to give you an opportunity to uh ask me any questions, but I do want to just state uh it's not a it's not a car lot. Uh it's a not it's a little bit of a non-traditional uh use of they they basically sell on the internet uh meet the consumer at the at the location. Um and so the cars are are basically purchased listed online. the consumer comes to the lot, purchases. It's not a uh there's many different businesses. So, it's it's basically just an office space where vehicles will be sold through that method, but it's not a uh it's not actually a car lot. So, just vehicle sales will be conducted there. So, any other I'm happy to address any questions. Yeah, I know it's public, so probably aren't even allowed.

Um if you don't mind, thank you Paul. We appreciate that. We'll bring you back up if there are questions from the council, but let's stick to public comment for now. Any other public comment? No. Okay. Well, the applicant is here. There are any questions from council. Come on up. Come on up. Do we have a closed public comment? Uh, yes. If if if there are no other public comments, um, entertain a motion to close public comment. Move to close public comment. Second. Okay. All those in favor say I. Any opposed? Public comment is closed. Uh, this is the developer, Paul Jones. Um, any questions for Paul?

So, the big asphalt for parking, whatever they're using it for, what kind of agreement do you have with them to use that or not use it or what? Um the there's a Chinese restaurant that's there and so there's a there's a lease uh with the with the Chinese restaurant um to accommodate a few parking. Again, it's not a

it just isn't a car lot. It's uh again, it's an it's an online method of selling cars. And so it's just there are enough spaces to accommodate um bringing the vehicle to meet a customer there to pick up the car basically inspect it take it for a test drive whatever they need to do and then uh it's not it's not really a a car lot. So the Utah tanning and that back in there are they moving or have they moved? Uh I I don't know. Yeah. I I don't represent the uh uh that that lease, so I don't I don't know their their plans. So, yeah. Thank you.

So, if it's not a car lot, how many cars are going to be on the lot to do business if you're if is it just one like shows up? Uh no, it it'd probably be a a rotating amount of about about four would park there simultaneously. So, are those for employees? Are those for the cars that are for sale? Uh, those would be the cars that are for sale, but it's not a car lot. I would not describe it as a car. There are there are there are several So, again, there are the space that uh the primary use uh you know the

Do do you connect to people? Is that more what it is? Are you like a broker if if I want to sell my car and then you help find a person or is that your I mean I I don't do it. I'm I'm a I'm an attorney who couldn't go to medical school. So um so I'm represent you know I'm just trying to understand the use case. So what he does is he yeah he has a website that's got inventory on it and so I I would not call him a broker, right? Because a broker would be an individual would come and say find me a Suburban and they would find a Suburban, right? But

he he's going out obtaining a car that he thinks he'll make a profit on, right? listing it and then he that's the place where the p, you know, where the public can come to look at the car that he's got. Uh, and then he has more inventory that's not parked there. That's that's how I would describe it. So,

when when they applied for a business license application, this was, I believe, your client's um what he wrote on his business license application. Uh he so directly quoting him, "We do car wholesale. We are a super small car dealership. We sell cars under 30 grand. We store about 10 cars on our lot and try to sell them by the end of the month. We are owned by the 21-year-old Marshall Quinton who loves that the loves the automotive space. We also sell cars retail to our customers at an unbeatable price." So that's a direct quote from the business license application.

How long's he been in business? Oh, I mean he's So he was out in um um Sandy, I believe, at another location and um you know was moving to this this location. So he's been I mean in b business for a few years. So thank you. Any other questions for Paul? Thank you. We appreciate it. Thank you. Uh this is a public hearing. There is a motion in the packet. Um but if there's more discussion from council.

So I just wanted to mention um uh when the when I started there was a to zone. There's a lot of emotion around it and and we made a lot of adjustments and changes. We also created a too overlay, right? And and a lot of things along those lines. It caused, you know, there's we still hate the town homes behind us, right? Sometimes those get built and they're fine. Some of them we like the orange ones. We still hate. Um it would seem kind of disingenuous to quickly give up. The the idea is we need the area in that to be something else, right? Uh mixed use is something I always talk about like but it's this kind of walkable use to tracks and this in my opinion would feel like quickly giving up on that and why did we do even allow it you know right by people to begin with? Well, it just looks like well there was an applicant that asked and we said yes opposed to we have this bigger master plan, right? Um, so that's just some background on the TOD zone. Um, I think that was maybe the biggest we've ever seen um, people come in, right? We had like 30 or 40 people. Um, so I was kind of against it at first and now I feel like I committed to it and I would actually want to see it work. So it would be a little disheartening to all of a sudden be like, well actually it's just so funible. But that's, you know, how I view it. But I agree with you on that. Like I think we also need to give this time. We were trying to encourage a very specific type of development and also add a certain level of um walkability and vitalization to this area. And especially where this is an online business, this isn't even going to provide any of that. There's no

there's not going to be people walking around or anything like that. So, I think, you know, to Council Member Brown's point, like for me, I think we need to give this more time and stand behind it. Can I see the map that shows the which one? This one. So, anything in that purple zone would this ordinance would affect? Um, so the TOD zone is the light purple. Yes. um moving it out of to right. Isn't that what Yes. Yeah. That's what it would be for is is basically turning those four properties

and instead of being zoned in the to it'd be the State Street zone. Um Yeah. And to your point, was it the TOD or to zone that you were talking about? Well, we went through iterations. Yeah. Right over here. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yeah. That that's what you were circling is the one that people have a hard time with still. Yep. So, I don't think this business would would be o okay just because I don't think it's going to change anything visually. But the problem is if we change it then you could put a car lot in there

and what would stopping the the lot right south of it asking for the same thing then I feel like we would have to say yes that's but I like to that consistency right and then we're at a weird spot I wasn't here for any of that but but I agree I think the intent is to change the direction of this and this plan is there for a purpose and that until the plan general plan changes that we should uh continue to see what happens there. Jonathan, what was the recommendation from the planning commission on this?

Um the planning commission recommended approval. Um I mean it's obviously up to you guys to take that under advice, but if you want to recommend denial, so be it. Yeah, I was just curious. But yeah, that's what they recommended was Yeah. Okay. Any other questions from council? Uh there is a motion that is in the packet. Um or if you have a different motion, now's the time. I'll pull up the criteria, too. If you want to make a difference, we can read the motion and we can vote one or the other. So, I do think the person that makes the motion has to vote yes. Rory told us that last time. Is that really true?

Because Steve Brown, I was here once with him and he did it and voted no and Lisa and and um uh whatever said, "Hey, the person that makes the motion, that's why you have to make the motion to deny." That correct?

So, I want to make sure. So, if we're moving to approve and then everyone votes no, I think it would be probably better if we're moving to deny if that's the direction the council wants to go. And then the reminder would be the findings wouldn't support the motion because if you're moving to deny, you're not following the findings that are found in the staff report. Um, the other thing to keep in mind as well is an affirmative vote means that you're voting no. A no vote means that you would be voting yes. But it just makes things clear for um

crystal clear, especially the no yes and yes to no. What are we supposed to Oh, well, thank you, Garrett. The recommendation is if you are in favor of denying this to make the motion instead of um where it says authorizing than to say denying. But if you would like to authorize it, then read as is. Yes.

Well, I I have I I'll go and then people can vote against me, I guess. Um, I move that we deny ordinance number 2026-05 authorizing not or I said deny so I can keep reading right. Yep. authorizing a zoning act amendment from the transit oriented development TOD zone to the state street SSC zone for approximately 2.17 acres located at 7634 south 7636 South 7638 South and 7640 through 42 South Stage Street with the with um due to it u not being consistent with the city master plan.

Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. And just for clarification then, an I vote will be to deny. A no vote will be um to approve. To approve. So, uh Charlie, will you call the role? Council member Robinson, yes. Brown, yes. Mich, yes. Billings, yes. Glover, I Okay. um that has been denied and it was a unanimous vote of the council. Uh moving on to the consent agenda, we have one item tonight to consider the minutes of January 20th, 2026. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?

Mayor, I motion we approve the consent agenda. Second. Motion and a second. Charlie, will you call the yays and naz? Council member Brown, yes. Mich, yes. Billings, yes. Glover, I. Robinson. Hi. Okay, that passes unanimously as it so often does. Moving on, we have a couple of action items tonight. The first of which is to consider resolution number 2026R08 adopting the Fashion Place West Station area plan. Here to discuss that is Adam. And before you ask the question, Fashion Place, wait, that's in Midvail. We wish, but tell us about it, Adam.

Well, we can do a boundary adjustment. approved. Right. That's what my motion is at the end of this. Actually, it's just hidden. Okay. So, I'll just give you a little background. Um, you've seen these station area plans before. This map shows all of the ones. Um, this is the best thing I know

that kind of lie either Holy or touch Midvail. Um, so you have approved station area plans for the Center Street station, the Fort Union station, the Bingham Junction Station, which was also done in conjunction with the Gardener Station because the east side of that wraps into Jordan Bluffs. Uh, you might be asking why Fashion Place West. Uh, if you look at the map, uh, the light green lies fully within Murray and then the yellow portion lies within Midville and therefore we have to, um, approve a station area plan. So what we did is we worked we partnered with Murray. Uh we received a grant through WFRC, the Wasatch Front Regional Council. Um and this one was great. Um we did not there was no um city cost at all. It was it was fully covered. Um largely because our area was so small. Um I wanted to just kind of zoom in just to kind of show you like the extent of um where this covers in Midville. So each slide gets a little closer and you can see that as we get closer the area almost gets smaller. Uh so this is one zoom in. This is the next one. So you can see that this really just encompasses some properties along Cottonwood Street uh and 400 West. It might encompass one or two full properties but largely just portions of other ones. And then to the west is all either I-15 rightway or FrontrRunner and tracks area. So that is kind of out of the plan. Now that said, um and then you can see on the very southern end it overlaps a little bit with the Fort Union, the very edge of the Fort Union station. Uh that said, um the land use designation that the plan gives for this area and then to the area to the north in Murray along Cottonwood, basically almost all the way up to Winchester is what they're calling a jobs and housing mixed use, which this goes right along with what we'd like to see here in the in the future is uh as this area

redevelops, we'd really like to see higher densities and mixed use. Um because this area is adjacent fairly adjacent to the track station to the north and then to the south is the Fort Union track station. Uh the natural kind of redevelopment cycle would be towards mixed use higher density. This is an area at least in the Fort Union station area plan that you the council were supportive of higher densities and mixed use and so we're working towards that. Uh one of the options that the plan lays out uh to work with Murray with is an HTRZ. We have had discussions with them. We've told them we're interested in doing an HTRZ. We'd love to partner if they would like to do an HTRZ to the north and have those kind of combined there at the where they slightly overlap. So Murray's open to the idea. We'll see where it goes. Um but this uh station area plan again while largely covering Murray does have a little portion of Midvail and it does propose a housing and mixeduse uh future development pattern there. Uh the planning commission looked at this uh at their December 10th meeting. They forwarded a recommendation of approval and so um here's a potential motion for you to consider tonight.

Thank you, Adam. Any questions from council? And I do want to note I think he's here for this item. Uh Byron from WFRC, one of the planners, correct? Thank you for joining us. Um, one thing I'd like to say just real quick before this, um, you know, I was in a WFRC meeting two weeks ago and there are some communities much larger than Midvail talking about how they have a station area plan, one station area plan that they're considering, and that's great. Uh, we love that for them. But Midville, six square miles, has three station area plans and uh we are working with uh West Jordan um kind of in this similar vein as we're doing in Murray. Um so we have three of our own and we have two that we are working with um neighboring municipalities on uh collaboration. So very proud of our staff for I mean there are cities like Draper um who are you know have a a great stationary plan. Um but uh they have uh quite a bit more staff than we do. So we are in a great deal of debt to Vendelyn and Adam and the team for all they're doing for these stationary plans in Midville. And I'm proud to say that I don't think there's another city, not even Salt Lake City in Salt Lake County, who has as many of these stationary plans as little six square mile midbill. So, thank you for all that you guys do. Uh, the motion is on the board, unless there's any other comments.

Mayor, I move that we approve resolution number 2026-R8 adopting the Fashion Place West Station area plan. Second. Okay. Motion and a second. Charlie, we call the A's and A's. Council member Mlash, yes. Billings, yes. Glover, hi. Robinson, hi. Brown, yes. Okay, that passes unanimously. And I think that means we own Fashion Place Mall now, right? No. Okay. Okay. Only the tax rep.

Okay. Moving on. Um, one of the more interesting things on our agenda uh for tonight, consider ordinance number 20264, repealing Midvil Municipal Code, chapter 5.24, liquidation and fire or damaged good sales. Garrett, what the heck is this about?

Thank you, mayor. Um, so tonight we come with you with an ordinance that we're going to be asking you if you're so inclined to suspend the rules and adopt tonight. Uh it's not very often that we're coming to you to just outright repeal an entire chapter of our code, but based on some recent events, we feel that this is appropriate. Um Councilman Brown had a local business reach out to him um recently and uh they became aware of this chapter of this code. of the liquidation and fire damage goods sales chapter which in order to have a liquidation sale, a going out of business sale, a fire damage goods sale, you're required to come and get a special business license. In order to do that, uh you have to provide a list of the entire inventory you plan on selling and then it uh you receive a license for 30 days. And then at the end of that time, the city double checks to make sure you've not co-mingled any new inventory in order to uh to do this sale. um for a variety of reasons, we just don't think that it's necessary or appropriate for the city to be involved in this space anymore. Um in 1973, um Utah adopted the Utah Consumer Sales Practices Act and one of the things that specifically prohibited is engaging in false types of uh these types of sales. Um, all I can tell you without having to take Charlie or Rory down to the basement and dust off our old historical codes is that from what we can see on our existing code, this this ordinance, this chapter has existed before 1992.

Um, in the last time we were doing legislative research to see when something existed prior to our current online version of the code was when we did the winter parking. We were able to trace that back until the 1970s. And with Utah having passed the Consumer Protection Act in 1973, it would be my educated guess that this law probably predated that as well. Um, this is to my knowledge the first time anyone's ever inquired of the city about getting one of these licenses. Um, and again, just with the logistics of doing this um, and the fact that the state already prohibits it and has um, an agency that does this type of enforcement, we feel like it would be appropriate to help. Uh not that we want to see any businesses leaving Midville and having to do liquidation sales or anything along those lines. Um but to not uh I guess for lack of better words kick them while they're down. Um it we believe that it would be appropriate to repeal this chapter um and allow them to hold liquidation sales and to do so under uh under the the Utah State Code regulations that already exist.

Thanks Garrett. Uh just some background. Uh this gentleman, older gentleman, I as I called him back and told him, you know, we're working on this. I'm like, "How did you find this?" And of course, the answer was chatbt, you know, uh it's like this weird code. But so what happened was he he found it through chatbt. He came in to the city or called, but I think he actually physically came in and and someone in permitting or whatever was like, "I have no idea what you're asking me. You know, you're like the first one that's ever done it." And he had this whole list. And she's like, "This is this is phenomenal. Like you're you're probably the most prepared person ever. Um and and he was I didn't the 30-day thing was I think really what sort of set him up or worried him and he must have left and looked at a map or something. She's like well you could you know call a city council member to see if they can you know change the ordinance or something and um so he's really grateful. Um you know uh it's an unfortunate loss to Midvail but when he called me I'm like there's no way this is a code. You must have like found some other Midvail. We we have businesses come and go all the time and I doubt you know they're they're formally applying to to exit. The only thing we would worry about maybe is if your business license lapsed or something like that and you're still trying to sell for three or six months, right? And he's like, "No, it's definitely there." And then he gave it to me and I then I felt stupid. I was like, "Oh, yeah, definitely there." So, I think if it's something we don't ever use, and we've all seen plenty of businesses um come and go, I you know, why have it on the books?

And and I can confirm in the 12 years that I've been doing legal work in some capacity with the city, Councilman Brown is the first person I've ever had here at the city ask me about this chapter. I I really like to keep things interesting.

I think um just real quickly um there are benefits to having these types of consumer protection um ordinances in place, but if there's a state law that supersedes, I would think or or at least addresses this. Um because there are businesses who you see they they're going out of business every month for years and you know sometimes it's just a marketing ploy to get more uh folks in there and and there should could be some benefit to regulating that but I personally don't see it here especially if we haven't been doing it in you know a half century and

and to your point uh mayor um a number of our local other municipalities around us Uh, in looking at their code, I could only find one that matched or was similar in how stringent their code was, and that was Cottonwood Heights. Most of the others have most of the other cities have either repealed it entirely. So, it's not it doesn't exist at all within their their code or they've cut it so far back that it's under very very specific situations under which you would have to get um a type of permit or code. So your point is well taken, mayor, that I imagine that many of these cities have taken those steps because the state has stepped in to regulate that space. Makes sense. Any other questions from council? Uh this would require a suspension of the rules if you're inclined to pass this ordinance repealing the code.

Mayor, I move that we suspend the rules. Um, I'm just reading from this u considering of ordinance number 2026- o-04 repealing midvail municipal code chapter 5.24 liquidation and fire or damage good sales. Second goods sales. Okay, motion and a second. And just to clarify, which I don't think we've ever done now, we've done it twice in the same meeting. A vote for yes will repeal the code. A vote of no would favor re the code remaining. Two so far. Charlie, will you call the A's and A's? Council member Billings, yes. Glover, I. Robinson, I. Brown, yes.

Mich, yes. Okay, that passes unanimously. Um, so we will move along to our third action item of the night and the most patient man in the room. Uh Brian Buckelt will do a consider resolution number 2026 R09 adopting the amended city of Midvil jurisdictional annex to the Salt Lake County hazard mitigation plan. Thank you for remaining so patient, Brian.

Thank you. I can see it on my screen, but I can't see it on this. See, that's weird. Probably display if I just keep doing that. I could see it on mine. Apologize for this. This problem before just explain it. We we'll visualize it. I could actually easily do that for this one to be honest. So, if it's an issue, so as as Thank you. Thank you, Juan. Awesome.

Okay, so thank you. As you guys know, my name is Brian Bucket. I'm your guys's emergency management municipal planner. Um, uh, we've already gone through and just for the record, uh, I'm I'm going to be very brief on this for for tonight because we have already addressed the multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan for 2025. Uh however, FEMA under its third revision made some slight changes and for a sense of formality, I've come back to you just to quickly present those changes just for the sake of uh transparency that if we make even the smallest changes to a plan that uh we would would come back and readress. So just for a quick overview what hazard mitigation is, uh it's it's a sustained action to reduce or eliminate long-term risk to human life and properties from hazards. Uh this multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan will detail out as a roadmap to identify vulnerabilities and generate strategies to reduce risk. It also provides just an organized well doumented evaluation for specific hazards and it also evaluates those hazards and capabilities and set goals for each jurisdiction of the county. And as you know, Midvail has its own annex that outlines this specifically. Uh it also outlines mitigation actions and identifies funding opportunities to help complete hazard reduction projects. And the primary purpose of mitigation planning is to systematically identify policies, actions, tools before a disaster strikes. Uh so again, the purpose of this information is to support the community uh planners uh emergency managers, elected officials uh and the general public just to make informed decisions about land use, public infrastructure, emergency preparedness and resolution allocations. Again, I know we already did a workshop on this in a presentation, so let's just go right into the changes. Uh, for the summary of the quick ch the change of the an annex is that FEMA recommended that some of the heavy rain mitigation actions were deemed way too vague and often written as multi-hazard objectives rather than achie achievable mitigations. Uh, these actions uh were then updated and and

more specifically detailed on how they might mitigate heavy rain impacts. So just to give you an example of what that would be, instead of just talking to the public about flood awareness or knowing your flood zones and all that, they also say, well, we added a specific action such as subp pumps, incorporating possibly the awareness of subp pumps into the community and all that. So that's just an example of just getting a little bit more in detail that they wanted us to add and we added it in. Uh the plan was required to clearly identify single lead agencies. Uh I think originally we had several lead agencies that could have taken the the the helm if uh uh given the circumstance they said no we want one lead agency which makes sense and in in unified command that we would have one lead agency and then support agencies. So we adjusted those those um uh th those in the cell sheet as well. Uh and then also the status of prior mitigation actions were updated to explain why certain actions are no longer relevant uh to complete entries and were uh previously left blank. Um I know this was one of the examples was the bricks the building resiliency infrastructure and communities program that has ceased to exist under FEMA. So things like that were were written out. Um that's it very small minor items. Um but again for the sense of formality I had to um bring that back up to you. Sorry I had a just pretty much I was asking uh just for moving moving towards if you do move towards adoption this will be the final final final uh FEMA had three different reviews on it and I assure you that moving forward anytime I work with FEMA or the state I will double down and make sure that is complete before they ask us to go propose which they did. Um, and this will serve us till 2030. The end.

Okay, we're gonna hold you to that one. Thank you. I mean, great work. Really appreciate it. Also really great that it's the maybe last one. Thank you, Brian. We appreciate all you do. Um, this has not been discussed before, so this would require suspension as well. I mean, we have discussed a previous. That's up to Garrett. Is this just a regular suspend to be safe? Okay, sounds good. Um motion is in the packet. I move that we suspend the rules and formally adopt and implement the updated 2025 midvail hazard mitigation plan incorporating the minor revisions requested by FEMA. Second.

It's a motion and a second. Uh I almost said Rory, sorry, Charlie, will you call this? You need to say the resolution. Yeah. Can we resol? I recognize the resolution's not in the motion, but can we incorporate? So, okay. I move that we suspend the rules and formally adopt and implement the updated 2025 midvil hazard mitigation plan resolution number 2026-R09 incorporating the minor revisions requested by FEMA. Second. Okay. Motion and a second. Charlie, will you call the A's and A's? Council member Glover. I. Robinson. I. Brown. Yes. Mich, yes. Billings, yes.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Thank you, Brian. Um, enjoy the rest of your evening. Unless you're going to stick stay with us. Have a good one. All right, discussion item. We have one discussion item tonight and that is to discuss propos proposed amendments to the fiscal year 2026 general fund budget and other funds as necessary. And already at the podium is Mariah Hill. All right, you're going to have to bear with me because we just finished the 25 audit. I'm doing 26 budget amendments and I've started budget 27. So if I flub the year, uh, just please bear with me. I tweeted a double date and I was like fiscical year 26, we're doing 27. No, I'm doing okay.

I just want to start off with this because people freaked out with the taxes, you know, on transparency and stuff and no one's here to see it that was here, but we're already starting to talk about this. We are already starting it. I just want you to know you're supported. I think there's a lot of transparency. Unfortunately, the public doesn't always see it. This isn't fiscal year 27, but I am already. Yes, we are talking about we're always hearing from you on anything budget. Yes. More than just the week before talk about that.

Yes. Yes. Uh okay. For the general fund. So, I'm just going to talk about the changes. You guys have the detail in your packet that shows what the full budget is. Uh so, we're increasing the general fund budget by just about $2.8 million. this for the revenue side of this um includes property taxes because we triggered the Main Street RDA. Now we get some funds from that back to the city. It's the only RDA that distributes their property tax back to the city. So that just wasn't accounted for in the original budget. Um we're increasing our building permit and plan review uh budgets by about $76,000. We are uh adjusting those um this and our class C road funds. Those are restricted funds. So, we're upping them to meet our uh expenditures, but we are already meeting and expending that. Plus, they both have restricted fund balance we could use uh if they don't meet uh but they're going to. And then our use of fund balance is uh 2.779 million or Yeah. And that's really because of some accounting voodoo, we in our 2025 audit moved those into the general fund and now we're moving them back to the capital projects fund. um for the expenditures. Um another note that when I am building our budget, I am at any given time working in four to seven massive spreadsheets and I miss things. So our our merit increases were not actually included in our uh final budget. Um but I've gone through and included all of that and then made updates to actuals for the employees we have on board through this fiscal year and uh benefit actuals across departments. So when we did all that, it actually decreased the overall general fund budget by $17,000. Uh we are including the coalition intern um which is a a temporary position for 20,000. The coalition also had some administration funds that weren't originally budgeted for 20,000. Uh we're we're budgeting for our legislative consult consulting services increasing

that budget by 15,000 to the actual cost. Our codification changes. I think maybe the planning department needs to calm down. That budget now is about $20,000 every time you change a code. We have to put that on our website. Um there's one time GFO training for me for $3,000. We're overlapping a public works director position for six weeks because of that guy over there um retiring. And then uh our electricity and water and sewer utilities both in the general fund and the water fund are just coming back significantly more expensive than we projected. Uh so there's an increase of $50,000 for that in the general fund. Um again, I'm a million moving parts. I kind of missed part of a parks employee in a rearrangement that we were doing with public works. Getting that back in here for about $77,000. Uh doing some overtime adjustments across multiple departments for an increase of 8.8. 8,0008,800 um a transfer to the public safety fund for the LVT trailer. Uh that we'll have more discussion of that in the 27 budget for $24,000 and then the transfer to the capital projects budget. We also had decreases. Our audit costs were $8,000 less than I were projected because we did our financial statements in house. We had some recruitment money to move out and then our natural gas is less while the electricity is higher. Um, in the public safety and capital projects funds, public safety fund is increasing by 24,000 for the LVT trailer. Our capital projects fund is actually decreasing by $470,000. Our revenues, uh, we are now accounting for a TRCC grant that we're actually collecting this year. Um, we'll have the transfer from the general fund and a decreased use of fund balance because of that. Um, and then some carryovers for our parks master plan and impact fees, city entryway signs. Those are projects that had pre previously been budgeted in uh in previous years. And then we're decreasing the UD do canal construct uh

budget because we don't have construction plans at this point. Um in the water fund uh the merit and updates to actuals for salaries and benefits impacted that that was across the organization but had a negative net impact on the water fund. Uh we increased our meters and related supplies just because of development. We need more uh meters. to increase that by 30,000. Our electricity uh is increasing by $55,000 and then we need a source pro protection plan. That's a a typo. Uh so we've uh added $40,000 into our professional services there. And then have carryovers for our water master plan projects um that I am assured are actually going forward this year and I'm not going to have to carry forward those funds again since they're from 2023. Um, in the sewer fund, same merit uh and updates to actuals and salaries and benefits had a net decrease. Um, and then our sewer master plan carryover as well. You guys just approved that. Um, and some change orders with Brandon recently. Um, in our street light fund, we have had some repairs that were needed due to accidents that are kind of blowing our equipment supplies and maintenance budget. So, we're increasing that by 40,000 and then including a street light master plan as kind of a carryover. And we've kind of increased not kind of and increased that budget so that hopefully that can move forward for $150,000. Um the both fleet and it I saw that and I didn't fix it does not inter anyways uh both had merit and updates to actuals with a net decrease um overtime increased in the fleet fund and also had accidentally removed uh $20,000 of outside repairs. So, putting that back in and then carrying over vehicle purchases um from 2025. And then in the IT fund, we uh hired a part-time temporary intern in there. Any questions?

Any questions for Mariah? Okay. Thank you. Appreciate all you do. Uh we do not have Wait, no, that's the other agenda. Never mind. We don't have a closed session tonight. Is there a motion to adjourn city council and enter the RDA? Motion to adjurnn. Second. Motion and second. All those in favor of adjourning city council meeting say I. Yes. Any opposed? Okay, we are adjourned from city council. Does anyone need a break before going into RDA or should we just go straight in?

Okay, going straight into the redevelopment agency in Midvail City. Welcome everyone. Um we're still here. Uh, it's February 3rd, 2026. Um, Charlie, will you call the role to see who is still here? Board member Michelash here. Billings here. Brown here. Robinson here. And Glover here.

Okay, that is still all of us. Um, public comments. If there's anyone in the public, Luke, um, who wants to address the council at this time, step up to the microphone. You'll be given three minutes. Not seeing any. Okay, we'll move on to the consent agenda. We have one item tonight and that is to consider the minutes of January 6, 2026. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? Motion to approve consent agenda. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Charlie, will you call the yes and board member Brown? Yes. Mich, yes. Glover, I. Billings, yes. And Robinson, I.

Okay, that passes unanimously. We have two discussion items. First discussion regarding proposed Midvil Main Street activation grant program. Here to discuss that is Moira Gray, the second most famous Moira. RIP Katherine O'Hara. Absolutely. How did you do that?

Um, hello. Thank you for letting me present today. Um, I forgot this was a thing. Which button do I press again? There we go. Uh, okay. So, this activation grant program came from meetings with the Midvail Main Street Business Alliance where they were talking about different types of events that they wanted to put on and how the city could support them. And so in speaking with staff and speaking with the Midvail Business uh Midvail Main Street Business Alliance, we decided that to create this program to kind of empower businesses to put together though their own events so they can bring their own people to the street that'll increase the foot traffic that can increase the momentum between our cityrun events without putting an extra burden on staff. Um yeah, and just increase the frequency of bringing people to the street and increasing our notoriety with the broader community. Oh, I pressed the wrong button. Oh, darn it. Um, perfect. So, uh, the terms of this agreement, so this would all be reimbursement based. We would be paying them after the fact. They would have to provide all of their receipts and everything like that. We would do a maximum award of $1,000. Uh, but that cannot be more than 50% of the total event cost. So, in their application, they would have to put together their budget and everything like that, and we wouldn't do more than 50%. Um the people who would be eligible to get these funds would be people, business owners and property owners within the Midville Main Street community development area. Um and we wanted to do that just to make sure that there were people with a lot of buyin on the street and people who truly understood the street and the mission of the street um to be eligible. They also have to be current on their property taxes if they're the property owners and business license. They have to be in good financial standing with the city and with past vendors. We added that because if someone has done, for example, a public market in the past and they did not pay the vendors that came if they were supposed to, uh, we don't want to get a reputation for the street not, you know, doing its due diligence

with everything. Um, and then they must have obtained all the correct licenses and permits for all of the previous events that they've done. Uh, if someone is not putting on a good event or someone is not getting their proper insurance or permits, we don't want to reward that behavior with a grant. Um so eligible activities um so the eligible people who can get this must be located within the community development area but the event itself must take place on Main Street. Uh the community development area is broad and we wanted to make sure that we gave the opportunity to people who may be located a little off the street but we really want Main Street the main thoroughfare to be the focus of this. Um, and then the activity must be primarily focused on programming that supports the RDA's goals. And um, that's included in the program overview that's in your packet, but um, it's stuff like bring arts, education, technology, opportunities to the community, create neighborhood and community unity, support the wellness of Midvail City residents, stuff like that. Um, and then these events must be open to the public. A quick note on that, open to the public does not mean that it won't be ticketed. Um, they could do a ticketed event if they so chose. It could be you had to pay for tickets, but it has to be those tickets will be available to everyone. Uh they can't just limit it to certain people. Um and then ineligible activities will be private events not open to the publiclix. And then events uh that have a history of sustained complaints from previous years from residents, event vendors, city staff, stuff like that. Again, just not wanting to reward poor behavior in the past. Um eligible uses of funds um in the application that they will be doing. We actually are requiring them to tell us what their marketing budget is going to be and what their marketing plan is because all of this is about increasing uh how well known Midvail Main Street is in the broader community. So we really want marketing to be a large part of that. Um materials and supplies of course art and decorations stipens for artists, performers and stuff like that.

And then ineligible uses of funds, staffing or operating uh expenses, they can't be paying themselves for the time they're putting for this event. uh profit margin. They can't be rewarding themselves for their great event by just pocketing that money. And then fundraisers that directly benefit the applicant. Again, that money can't just be going to benefit them. And then another thing that we've added on there is alcohol and any alcohol paraphernalia that would go along with that. That doesn't necessarily mean that we would ban alcohol. We're just not paying for it. Um selection criteria. So, uh there will be a committee selected that will go through all of the applications and look at these specific criteria, but it's level of private investment uh that they are putting into the project. So, if someone is wanting to do a really big event and they're putting in more than uh the $1,000 match, so more than $2,000, then that would definitely be something we'd be more interested in. Uh the potential impact the project would have on the Midville Main Street CDA. uh whether the applicant has been awarded activation grants in the recent past. That would count against them a little bit because we don't want it to be going to the same person multiple times a year. And then uh whether the applicant can demonstrate financial need and then the selection process uh they will they will submit their application with their project outline. Um, there will be the Midvil Main Street Activation Advisory Board, which will consist of an RDA representative, the event coordinator, a Midvail City Community Development Representative, uh, a Midvail City Council member, and a Midvail City senior management representative. Um, the advisory board will of course make a recommendation. This would go then go before you as the RDA board, and then they would enter into an agreement with the RDA.

Any questions, feedback? Any questions for Moira? Uh, I have some thoughts. Yes. Um, I'm assuming we'll have all sorts of indemnifications and whatnot in the agreement, right? Okay. Thank you. Yes, absolutely. Um, my second thought is since we're not running it, we're, you know, giving financial support and maybe it's thought of or I could be talked out of it, but I I would like it to very clearly say in the agreement that we're not endorsing the events. Okay. Right. like like we are helping or supporting, but I wouldn't want them them to go to Facebook and stuff saying like this is a Midvail City endorsed event and then they don't pay their vendors and they cause a bunch of

uh issues. You know, hopefully none of that happens. But um you know for context like you know when I was um receiving funds for my campaign like some people would say you know we'll gladly give to you but we won't endorse you and some said we'll just endorse you we won't you know give you funds or whatever.

I I I like that first approach where you know we can be involved or whatever but I I would like them to not come out and say you know this is endorsed by the city um and then the ones that we do are right. Quick follow-up question on that. In our current agreement, we have that um they would be using Midvail logos and stuff like that. Is that a no no because it's not an endorsed event in your view? I don't I don't know. I I kind of open for discussion, right? Like um partially because I want us to hold on to that when we do ours because ours are great, right? Um

you know, some co-arketing or co-branding. I'm sure that'll be in the agreement that, you know, you can only use it for these can't be in an offensive way, blah blah blah. Um, I just have seen that in other things I help with in my real job where people take support, turn into endorsement, and then that causes a lot of a lot of issues. Um, right? And then let's say an event ends up not being what we think it is and then it's on, you know, Facebook that, you know, this city endorsement did did or said bad things and and and we're we're in charge of it. We can control that a little bit more. That's my only that's my only thought. Okay.

Just want to interrupt for a second. Um those of you in the room may notice it smells a bit like natural gas right now. So I believe we're having a discussion with the city manager and public works director and the chief of police in the outside. Um so became very strong. I'm wondering um if there are no questions no further questions for Moira. Um if we might we do have one other item but I do think it might be smart to evacuate when we can. Not that there's anything to indicate an emergency, but um or should we just motion

table to table and then adjourn? Yeah, there's cuz I was like mid-sentence and kind of was we thought you were talking and didn't realize it. No, I was like this is really weird, but I'm like in the middle of talking. What What do you guys think? I I was I'd rather suspend. Do we need these tomorrow? No, we could do them in two weeks. Uh yes. I my I should be fine. I I These are both discussion items. Are you good in two weeks? Okay. I I motion that we table um discussion item A and B for two weeks and adjourn. Second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor of adjournment say I. Any opposed?