City Council - Regular Meeting

Sorry. Can everyone hear me? Oh, okay. We're good. Welcome everyone to our May 5th, 2026 Midbell City Council meeting. Uh we are joining you from uh we just got through with the workshop where we discussed uh recreation uh bond and recreation center and how we want to proceed with that. It was a lively discussion and I think Matt you have enough to go on. Okay, good to go. Uh we will start this meeting as we always do with a pledge of allegiance. If you wouldn't mind standing and repeating 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. Thank you everyone. Uh Rory, will you see who is here and who might not be here? Yes. Council member Miklash here, Brown here, Billies here, and Glover here. Council member uh Heidi Robinson is excused.

Okay. Thank you. And we look forward to Heidi being back at our next meeting. I'm sorry, Council Member Robinson at our next meeting. Uh first up we have a unified police department report and here to give that as always Chief Morris. Chief, thank you.

Good evening council mayor. Um so for the month of April uh UPD was pretty busy. We responded on 2,122 calls for service which resulted in 691 active cases. Uh the folks were out there really doing a lot of traffic enforcement with 519 citations issued. April 15th, our part-time social worker, which we were able to obtain through a grant from the Department of Justice. She began working in the precinct and as of May 1st, she's already assigned to nine active cases. Now, the social worker is a co-responding model. She goes out in the field with an officer and she will maintain the relationship with that person which will decrease the utilization and do case management services for that person which will reduce the amount of time that the person calls 911 or we have to send resources out. So already nine active cases in two weeks time. So we're really excited about the potential and what she can do to help us. In April we had our awards banquet. 30 Midvil officers were recognized and I just want to touch on a couple of them. Officer Mark Utley who is our school resource officer from Midville Middle School. He's the only SRO in the history of Canyon School District to res receive the red shoes living award by and it's chosen by the students. So, we're really proud of Mark. Uh he was also recognized at the UPD banquet. We have a volunteer victim advocate, Janet Moore, who has served Midville precinct 25 years as a volunteer. So, she received the volunteer of the year for 2025 for UPD. And then our directed enforcement unit, they were awarded the distinguished unit for the year of 2025. Okay, this is one sergeant and four detectives. Very small unit. For 2025, the unit made 251 arrests. They authored

and served 210 search warrants. They seized 55 firearms from restricted persons. $53,000 in drug proceeds were forfeited. 124 lbs of meth, 14.5 lbs of cocaine, 34,350 fentanyl pills, 4 lb of marijuana, 1.55 lbs of heroin is what they were responsible in taking off the streets. Just the fiveman units. So, we're very proud of them. And then, as a reminder, in the month of April, it was the Utah Victim Services Commission conference, their 38th annual conference. and Carmen Contreres, our uh full-time victim advocate, received the Melvin C. Wilson Lifetime Achievement Award. So, the month of April, our folks were recognized for the outstanding work that they do. So, there was a lot of celebrating the efforts that they put forth every day. So, uh the last thing I do want to mention is our hearts go out to Salt Lake City Police Department. We just want to keep them in our prayers. They lost an officer yesterday way too soon. So, uh we just wanted to let them know we're thinking of them. But uh that's all I have unless you all have any questions for me.

Okay. Thank you, Chief. Appreciate all you do.

Okay. We have a proclamation tonight. Uh May is frontline workers month. Um and this had me thinking. Um we often hear the the term frontline worker, but what the heck is a frontline worker? And I asked for some definitions of a frontline worker because we all have a kind we have a concept in our head of what we think a frontline worker is. And um found a good definition online. Um there are the people who have to show up in person, rain or shine, to keep the rest of us fed, healthy, safe, and moving. This could be the nurse that takes your blood pressure, uh cashier ringing up your groceries, bus driver, train driver getting you to work, warehouse workers packing your orders, or the police officer, EMT, firefighter who shows up when something goes wrong. Basically, remember back to 2020 during COVID. And if anyone who kept the world spinning in a way that was somewhat familiar to what we were used to, that's a frontline worker. So, uh, I will read this. The proclamation proclaiming May 2026 is frontline worker appreciation month. Whereas frontline workers form the foundation of our community, demonstrating dedication, compassion, courage, and adaptability while delivering essential services that pro protect the safety, health, education, and overall well-being of our residents. And whereas the United States health care workforce includes approximately 18 million workers with millions serving on the front lines in hospitals, clinics, and long-term care facilities, often placing themselves at risk to provide critical and life-saving care. And whereas in recent years, firefighters nationwide have responded to more than 40 million emergency incidents, approximately 750,000 sworn law enforcement officers serve across federal, state, and local agencies to

uphold the law and safeguard communities. And emergency medical services personnel answer more than 36 million 911 calls annually to provide urgent medical assistance. And whereas educators play a vital role in shaping future generations with roughly 4 million teachers across public and private schools in the United States, dedicating their careers to educating and inspiring our nation's youth. And whereas just over 23 million government employees at the local, state, and federal levels maintain public infrastructure. Thank you, Glenn, and your team. provide judicial administrative services and carry out the day-to-day operations of government that directly serve and support communities. And whereas frontline workers exemplify the spirit of builders, resourceful problem solvers, and flexible thinkers who respect the dignity of all people and work tirelessly to meet challenges and strengthen communities. And whereas the Midvil City community is home to dedicated health care providers, first responders, educators, and government workers, and is served by committed city staff, all of whom serve as frontline workers and demonstrate resilience, professionalism, and an unwavering commitment to the community. Now, therefore, be it resolved that Mayor Dustin Gtle and the city council of Midell City do hereby proclaim May 2026 as frontline worker appreciation month in Midell City. and we encourage all residents to recognize and honor the invaluable contributions frontline workers make to our community and beyond. Adopted this fifth day of May, 2026, signed by me, the mayor, and four city council members who are here today. And I do not think council member Robinson will have a problem signing this when she gets back. So, thank you frontline workers for all you do. That's basically everyone here in this room. So, thank you so much. Uh we'll move on unless there are any comments from

council. We'll move on to public comments. Anyone wishing to comment on any item not otherwise scheduled for a public hearing on the agenda tonight may address the city council at this point by stepping up to the microphone. Uh you'll be given three minutes and we are a friendly group and state your name for the record. Hello mayor and council. My name is Luke Mains. Uh I am the vice chair of the Midvil Community Council and the chair of the active transport committee of that council. And that's what I wanted to talk about. The active transport committee is hosting a Midvil wheels and walks event this Saturday. I've heard that the mayor may have purchased a bicycle specifically for this event. Um but yeah, anyone is welcome, any member of the community or any surrounding community is welcome to attend. It'll be at 9:30 at Jordan Bluffs Park, which is right by Zans's Bank. Um uh we'll have about a half an hour where uh we will have people with bike pumps. If your tires are low, we can pump them up. And then we're going to take about a half an hour walking or riding uh down the Jordan River Trail. We'll go down the little switch back to the trail and go and then we'll just come back and there'll be Otter Pops kindly provided by our active transport community secretary Rebecca Pipkin who did a lot of the planning for this event. So, we'd love to see as many people as possible there. Uh there'll be members of the community council. There'll also be members of uh at least Mayor GTH potentially some city council people. So, uh love to have as many community members as possible. Thanks.

Thank you, Luke. Uh, not only did I buy a bike, but I also bought a very obnoxious bell to ring and some other flare for my bike. Um, should be fun. And thank you for putting all that together. I know the active transportation committee has done a really good job planning that event. So, looking forward to it. Anyone else like to give public comment? Step right up. Not seeing any, we will move on then to council reports. And we'll start as we always do in district 1. Council member Bonnie Billings. She's not. Oh, she's not. Oh, when did that happen? Okay. All right. Well, we will go then to District 2, Council Member Paul Glover.

Thank you, Mayor. I'd just like to thank all the staff and everybody that helps keep Midville running. Uh it's a pleasure to work with you and be able to know that when we ask you to do something, it's done. Appreciate that a lot. That's all I have this evening. Okay. Thank you, Council Member Glover. Um, moving on, we'll skip over District three. Um, because she's not here, not because we're just skipping her. Uh, District 4, Council Member Bryant Brown.

Yeah. The only thing I wanted to kind of mention is, uh, last meeting we talked about water a lot and and, you know, obviously for good reason. A lot of people had a lot of opinions. You know, I I still think we're we are obviously trying to do the right thing as a city. The only thing that I do think is hard for residents to to handle is the week that we sort of talked about, hey, please don't water till May 15th. It rained that week.

While it was raining, the Zans Bank slope was being watered with high pressure sprinklers, right? So, optically it looks really bad when we tell a resident, you know, don't water your your little tiny flowers or grass that you will use. But but this giant slope that no one will will use is being watered while it's raining, right? And um obviously we can't stop residents from watering now or or businesses from watering now if they want, right? But I do think when we make those pleas um it should be twice as much towards businesses because again like the Zans Bank's a perfect example. that's an unusable uh ground, right? Like you know, people have dogs and kids and stuff that, you know, nicer grass is is more pleasant. They're sac if we're going to ask them to sacrifice then, you know, the businesses where at best uh a landscaper steps on. Um so just as a thought, right? Like we should we should frankly that property so new it should have sensors on those sprinklers. It's a little disappointing they don't, right? They have uh solar and all sorts of great stuff. Not having sort of those rain sprint. I have them on mine and and I think it's a great addition. Saves me a lot of money. So that's just my thought. Let's again I I think we did the right thing, but we do need to realize, you know, people on fixed incomes that want to water their flowers, they're stressed about it and they see Zans's Bank doing it and they get real, you know, real opinionated about it and I don't blame them. That's all.

Okay. Thank you, Council Member Brown and District 5, Council Member Denise Micholash.

Um, just a couple things. Uh, I did a tour of our precinct, I think it was in December, and got to meet a lot of the folks that were recognized. Um, I was impressed by them then, the volunteering, the time they had been there. So, I think the recognition that they got was welld deserved and just reinforced their commitment and support to the community. So, thank you for letting us know about that. Um, the other thing is I had the opportunity to tour Boulder City with the Wasatch Front Regional Council to learn more about how they're adding active transportation to their community, uh, safety around their intersections, connecting their open space with their development. Lots of learnings there. They were great host. Um, I also want to say thank you to Nate for taking the time to walk me through like where our opportunities are to continue to improve where we can bring some of those learnings to u Midville and I think connectivity is such an important part of the city especially where we sit right in the center but not only with the trail and all of the great places we had to visit but with our sister cities. So um was excited to take those learnings and incorporate it into our general plan as we move forward. Um, and on that note, uh, Luke, I plan on being there as part of the active transportation event on Saturday and hope to see everyone else there. So, thank you.

Okay. Thank you, council member. I know a lot of us up here are jealous that you got to go on the tour, but we're happy you did and and happy to look at some of those places where it would make sense for Midville as well. So, I bought a bike, so I need some some active transportation to go along with it. So, thanks. Thank you. uh for my report real quick. Uh three things. Um city manager Dah and I attended St. George conference two weeks ago. Um a lot of workshops that are very beneficial to uh city government. Um but the real important thing is networking with folks down there. It's kind of like municipal government prom. Um everyone's down there and you know we we have a good time. Uh but also you really get to learn. Um it's great meeting council members from all over Salt Lake County, mayors from Salt Lake County. Uh but that's where the real the real reason to send people down there is like what happens in between the workshops. So that's where we did you want to jump in?

You called it the St. George conference. It's the cities and towns

Utah leagues of cities and towns conference in St. George. Thank you. Thank you for that. Um but yeah, and I would recommend if any council member wants to go, um there's the one in October that's in Salt Lake City, but the one in St. George is the one that's for some reason more attended, I think. Um so, put that on your calendars for next year if anyone can go down. It'd be nice to have uh contingency down there. There were some cities who brought all of their council members and mayor, and I thought that was maybe a little too much, but if we could do something kind of in between, um I think you'll find it very valuable as well. Uh second thing, we I attended the uh fallen officer uh ceremony today, part of the uh mutual aid. Um and that was uh always a very somber ceremony. Um we recognized again the one UPD officer who has um died in the line of service um officer Barney from Holiday. Um the event was in holiday this morning. Um again, annual thing. So if if you guys uh want to put that on your calendars for next year. Is it always in May?

Yeah. So just keep keep an eye out for that next year. It's definitely a worthwhile event to go to. So thank you chief for being there and um we thank all of the officers for what they do. Uh finally, and I mentioned this in our workshop to our council members regarding water rates. Um we are going to bring this issue back to the council on the 19th. Um based on a lot of feedback that we received from the community um we did discuss the potential of removing that search charge for the average household um water user. So that would be anyone in the tier one uh which is Mariah correct me because I know you'll jump in if I say this wrong. So, anyone who uses less than 12,000 gallons of water per month should see if if the council is amanable to to the new language should see no uh increase in their water bill except if they use more water than previous months. Uh where we would start the search charge are for the tier 2 uh water users and that's like anyone at 12,000 and one gallons per per month. I'm still looking over there and making sure her head's going up and down. So, that's perfect. Um, so that is something based on feedback from the public. You know, it did kind of make sense. We want to encourage people at every level to conserve water. We live in a desert. We're in a level two severe drought. Um, however, the the bill for the person who has 5,000 gallons of water and there's really nothing that person can do to conserve. They don't do any outdoor watering. We don't think it's fair, well, in this staff discussion that we had today, don't necessarily think it's fair to penalize those people um when it's the outdoor watering that we're really targeting to have that. Um that's

the big impact that we can make and penalizing um low to moderate water users is is probably not the best way to do that. Um so, we are going to bring that back to the council on May 19th for a new discussion and uh we'll see how that goes. But I wanted to let everyone here know uh that that's going to be happening on May 19th and for the thousands watching at home on YouTube and by that I mean few. But anyway, we are going to re-examine that on the 19th and we look forward to that discussion. That's it for me. We'll move on to city manager report. City manager Matt D. I have nothing to report this evening.

Okay. Yes. Um council member Bonnie Billings has returned. Do you have anything for the group? Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.

Uh so we will move on then. We have a public hearing on the schedule. Uh do we have to wait until 7 for the public hearing? Is that when it was noticed? No. Okay. Awesome. We can proceed with that then. Uh public hearing received public comment regarding a zoning code text amendment to table 17-7-12.10 10 of the regional commercial zone to increase the allowed percentage of for changeable copy signs. And here to discuss that is Jonathan Anderson. Jonathan just making sure I'm good.

I know we had trouble with that microphone last meeting. Has that been fixed? We had to bring out the mobile one. I'll just talk into it. Sounds like it's working. All right.

All right. Thanks, Mayor Council. Um, so this is a zoning code text amendment um to the regional commercial zone. Um, the sign table for changeable copy sign percentage. And here is the amendment as proposed. No. Um so it would change currently the language is 25% of a sign and this is already in the ordinance specific to wall or monument signs um as changeable copy. The proposal is to increase that uh 60% up to 85% of a sign. Um as you well know these are our four criteria for text amendments. Um, as staff, we believe that the ordinance that we currently have in the zone um is sufficient for um you know, signage needs in the commercial zone specifically um meets the general plan, state code, all that. We think it's all sufficient to what we currently have.

The 25% correct? Yeah. Yeah. The 25% is is we believe is currently sufficient. Um so our recommended finding is that it does not comply with um the requirements for approving a text amendment um which is our recommended motion as well. The planning commission two weeks ago they also um they recommended recommended denial of this um also on the same basis that I presented before you. Um there was some discussion there. Um but yeah they they didn't want to see this happen in one of our larger commercial zones. Any questions for me? Any questions from council?

Why, how do we get to 25% and what do other cities do? Um, I don't know the history of why we have the 25%. It's been there for a long time. Um, neighboring cities, I know for like Sandy, for example, I believe they have up to 50% of signs that they permit as this. Um, but that was the only one that I've really researched. um super far into because to me 85 seems kind of 25 to 85 seems like a pretty big jump. Sure.

Um but you know technology changes and stuff as things get built. Um LED signs are looking better and better. Like I wouldn't mind considering matching what neighbor cities do. That doesn't necessarily mean 25 to 85, but 25 just seems kind of like a weird sign. So 75% of the sign has to be like painted or something, right? Yeah. I mean like in the instance it's only permitted right now for monument signs. So if you think of gas stations, the ones that would be on the corner that have the you know LED scrolling of the prices.

Um that's currently right now that's limited to 25% and for any other sort of sign that does electronic means of changing stuff. So, so why are we considering this? Um, the city, we as staff did not propose this that it was an applicant that proposed this change and he is here tonight if you want to um discuss questions with him too. So, yeah, this is not staff initiated.

Um, it is a public hearing. Um, if there are any other questions from council first, the applicant did request to be able to speak tonight. Um, which is probably appropriate to know like how the heck did this come come to us? Um, but you have the recommended motion up here. I will just add that you know we can obviously uh table this uh proposal and uh but let's if you want to hear from the applicant I think that's probably best next unless anyone else has questions for Jonathan first. we want to have him as part of the public hearing or

so typically with this the applicant has additional time to be able to speak but because this is their application and then we would open the public hearing for others to comment. Thank you. Good. Okay. If we want uh to have the applicant come up Dean and please uh state your name for the record.

Hi, my name is Dean Cardell. I am uh the owner of Worldwide Trekking and the founder of the Human Outreach Project um on 7404 Union Park Avenue here in Midvil. And I um started my business 20 years ago. I was lifelong ski patrolman, 32 years at Snowbird, director of the ski patrol up there. And uh I started my business and I like to think that I'm living the American dream. I started in my dorm room at Snowbird for four years, had a home office and and then leased an office space in Cottonwood Heights and in 2018 I reszoned the property there in Midville and and uh have great business. And one thing that we struggle with is that uh people drive by the building and they don't know what we do, what we offer. And I think in 2026, we see new communications and and new ways of uh getting our message out, not just on social media. And uh I had come in to uh see about a sign and uh went through the process of having the sign done. Um not my strong point, the code and all of the things or being here tonight. I'm more nervous right now than when I climb Mount Everest, I'll tell you that. But uh um I I you know I wanted to get a sign up to communicate with the public and uh we put that sign together. You asked about the code in Sandy and Draper and I have looked it is 50%. Had I known that when I put in for this text amendment I would have put in 50%. As I did my research to see the signs adjacent to my building across the street just south of me to the north of me. The way they build their signs are with a big banner across the top that says the company name, a big monument base on it that also adds a lot of uh

space. And uh when I designed my sign, I made a very clean sign that has pretty much the whole sign is is the changeable copy. So that's why I wanted more. Um what we put up there is simple messaging like this. I can show you they're just a picture of a destination with sorry um just a picture of a destination with the so the public can see that we had the um sign originally approved. They did not know it was an LED sign. I did not know that that made a difference and um put up the LED sign. had the engineers redesign things and and everything else and it was up there for four months. I had more people stop in my office in four months than since 2019. We have been in the building since then. And uh you know we we we just want to run a good business. We just want to do things right. I'm not here to be an annoyance. I'm here because I want to be an ambassador to Midvail City. I want to run a good business here and and do good things. We we have a nonprofit that does great things all over the world. We have an orphanage in Tanzania, Africa. We fed over 2,000 kids lunch today. I know that in Tanzania we have schools in Peru and Nepal. And all summer long, we bring kids from atrisisk communities of Salt Lake City to Snowbird and Brighton and Solitude in partnerships with those areas hiking and getting outside and having a picnic lunch provided by Utah food services. and I want to partner with Midville City. I want to do whatever I can do to be a great advocate to your city. So, um I know I'm going on on my time and I'm the kind of guy that I'm a guide. I could talk for a very long time. So, I appreciate the time you give me and I I'd like to answer

questions and I'd like to try to see how we can work together. Any questions for Dean? Paul, you look like you're about to ask a question. Well, my my my concern is I'm a businessman, so I I' like these, but my concern is is if we get every business competing with another business and we have these big signs everywhere, flashing, and it distracts everything. So, I don't know how we what point does 85% work. I probably a little big

85. I I think like I said, I continued to do my research since I had submitted this packet. It shows a lot of other signs in the area that are just south me of course into Sandy um where they provide 50% coverage. My sign would be able to provide 50% coverage if I put the name above and the big base on the bottom. Um, I think seeing the the billboard just north of me, which is in Cottonwood Heights because it's across the street. Um, we see these signs regularly throughout the community right here in Midvil. It's the same sign that's in front of the building here. That's a double-sided sign, the same exact LED style sign, you know. So I think that uh communicationwise um I can respect the fact that uh you would wouldn't want flashing signs. I think there are some guidelines that we could put in place that would give um brightness, would give transition times, which would reduce scrolling images or video from being shown, static images, things that would regulate and control um the environment. I'm a natural guy that that spends a lot of times outdoors. By by by no means do I want to impact our our community. I I don't water my lawn in front of the uh building. We have low impact um you know drip on on local plants that are native to Utah, you know, and and uh I think it's it is about putting guidelines in place that hold everybody to a standard that is uh sufficient for the time that we're living in and and uh also um benefits the community.

Thank you. I have a question maybe um our staff might have an answer to. Uh do we know when this um or the existing ordinance when did that come to be? Is this the 25% is it some is it a product of the 2000s or is it a product of the 1900s? Okay. While you say that we were all born in the 19 say I'm a product of the 1900s. We all are. um not as far back as me,

but I do and I want to thank you. Um you know, full disclosure, I met with Dean um this weekend and and talked about some of these issues. So, if I sound like I know more about it, that's why. Um but I do appreciate the fact that you're not here just saying 85% or nothing. um you're amanable to us reviewing our own ordinance and revising it for a modern age. You know, I I think what they're going to find if they find the answer to this quickly is that it's probably a remnant of an earlier time where these signs were less used and maybe LED signs weren't even used that much at the time. Um we certainly don't want to create the Las Vegas strip. Um, but I do think there's some value to examining what other cities are doing because we don't want to disadvantage our business owners. Uh, because you can't have a sign that appropriately advertises what you do. Whereas, like you said in Cottonwood Heights or Sandy, we're they're not burdening their business owners with a smaller sign face. So,

in this in this exact location, I drove by it. It's like a nine iron to three different cities, right? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know that that and that I don't know from my personal opinion is I don't want to be the city that's you know an outlier for something like that but I don't ne either direction right like uh I like to be kind of a good partner with that area right um because it looks funny if across the street looks one way versus us that's my personal opinion on that well your nine iron must be different than mine because it's well I said three cities because for yours it only go a couple feet and stay in Midville.

It's a it's a driver for me, you know, to hit any of the cities. Um, any other questions from council? I I would like to propose that we do table and maybe do a little more research into this. As you said, what other cities are doing the difference between 50 I agree. I think 85 is a little excessive. Um, but the 50% if that would work for you and it and see what the other cities are doing like I think it's worth taking the time to do that.

I agree with that too. I think you know this is one of those things where we want to make sure we are being good stewards of our business owners and of our residents. Um, and I just think it just requires a little bit more careful thought about it. And I don't want to deny it at all. Um, or just outright. I want to make sure that we do the right thing. So, yeah. And we want to think unintended consequences. Sometimes we oh this makes perfect sense and then and then so I agree. I like the idea of tableabling and and research. G's going to tell us why you can't.

No. So my question is going to be this. Uh I've heard three people say table. Are you wanting to still have the public hearing tonight, which we have not done, or are we tableabling the public hearing to another night or are we holding the public hearing tonight and tableabling a decision until a later date? Does that make sense? I would recommend that so people can because what if they come and say it's actually 70% or 40% or something and we think it's 50%. Appreciate your research. I did research it. Um, but I would like the public to weigh in on what we think is what we're gonna land on. I don't know. What do you guys think? I agree.

So, redo the public hearing whenever we have the additional information from staff. Is that what you're Yeah. Right. Yeah. Okay. But I'm waiting for Matt to He's doing his thing.

No. Uh I just um want to make sure though that uh if we do that that we are giving staff guidance on the things that sort of we're comfortable with perhaps I mean as far as like the things I'm hearing is we would like it to be something similar to neighboring communities. um we are amanable to it through that but also that we think that it can be bigger than 25% but we are concerned about um the negative impacts the sign like this could have so looking at um best practices as far as videos

he had he had great comments right so if other cities have similar you know no you know no movies or videos and static and and changing you know probably time you can't change them every 4 seconds. Um, but that that could be in see what goes with that research, but what are other cities doing so we can match it? We don't have to match it, but it's a good baseline. Yeah. Start from but at least that also is pointing just making sure that Yeah. We're clear that there is this um interest in updating. Yes. Yes. Yes. Do you guys have any other Sorry. Staff staff over here does. Staff over there does.

Thank you. Uh, council and mayor, I just wanted just to make you aware um with any revisions that are brought forward, it's not just specific to this one site. Um, it will this will change the corridors Union Park, 7200 South, State Street, um, and any other potential areas. So, it's again, this will be a citywide effect, if you will. Thank you.

And I guess when it comes back, it would be good to see it on the map. Yeah, that's what so when we when the staff brings it back, we'll show this is where it's going to change all this because I think you need to understand the impacts that this might have on all of those different corridors. It could could be significant, but you just need to understand what what you're agree. That's why tableabling is a good idea to help. So, I think I've written down some things here. Um, so obviously we want to have direction on what other cities are doing as far as the percentage. Um, and you said that you're immunable to 50% if that was that would work with the side.

Yeah, I'm you know I I think guidelines should be put in place and and when when I was given the notice uh on a Monday morning, I was actually guiding out of the country. My office told me and I told them go unplug the sign immediately and we did that. And from that point I pretty much have been researching uh everything that was and the other three things were brightness of the sign that can obviously make a huge difference. Yeah, I think brightness um

not to interrupt you but so brightness of the sign the the times uh brightness can change after uh evening hours when when brightness doesn't matter scrolling images um transitions which are you know just static transi transitions as opposed to fading and things like that that can be distracting um and then they talk about animations and things like that. Okay. All right. Well, we appreciate you being here and again, I also want to thank you. Sometimes when we have

code enforcement go out and give a notice of violation, the person continues to have that violation happening during the process of appealing it to a higher authority. And we certainly appreciate the fact that when you got that notice, you unplugged the sign and and you know, some other some other folks have not done that in the past. So I think it shows that you're a reasonable person and and working meanable to work to a reasonable solution. So appreciate that from you. Any other questions from the council while he's up here otherwise I think um we'll need to table it. Um but you'll we'll have to make sure that you specify that we're tableabling the public hearing as well.

Do do I have anything that I should be doing? uh you know moving forward. Yeah. And I think um we would my recommendation would be you know let's see what happens here with the tableabling vote. Um but uh then the next part of the process would be you know working with you and staff to come up with I I think our staff will do the research that they need to do to figure out what other cities are doing. Um, but I would love for staff to keep you in the loop of of what we're finding out if that's not a huge burden. Ben, who would be the contact on this one going forward? Is it is it Johnny

in our office?

Yeah. And definitely big thanks to staff as well because I I know it sounds like when you guys get up here, it sounds like you personally don't want this to happen. you're recommending the denial, but we know that you look at our ordinance and make your recommendations based on the plain language before you. And so want to make sure that it's known that you guys aren't out here like trying to make sure to sync his business. Uh it's just you read the text and make a recommendation based on that. So, thank you as well and thank you Dean for, you know, being reasonable to understanding like government doesn't move as quickly as as some might like it to, but um we definitely would love to work with business owners like you all the time. Um so we certainly appreciate all of that. Is there a motion from the council? Mayor, I move that we table the public hearing consider that's considering ordinance number 2026-13 amending table 17-7-12.10 of the regional commercial zone to increase the allowed percentage for changeable copy signs.

Second looking for Garrett for a thumbs up sufficient motion. Can you put a condition on when it's um would you guys be ready by next meeting? Probably not by May 19th. June 2nd. June 2nd. June 16th. June. How about we just do June the second meeting in June at the And honor before? Yeah. Honor before. Okay. Should I do it over again then? No, I think you just had it.

Yeah. with the condition of of rehearing the public hearing for this on or before June 16th. Yep. Second. Okay. Motion and a second to table. Um freewheeling. My favorite. That was good. Good job. That was a tough one. Uh so we have a motion and a second. Rory, will you call the A's and on this? Yes. Council member Glover. I. And Brown. Yes. Micholash. Yes. And Billings. Yes.

Okay. That is tabled um until or before June 16th, 2026. Uh we'll bring that back for a more robust discussion and an actual public hearing next time where the public can weigh in. So, thank you, Dean. Thank you, staff. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, moving on uh to the consent agenda. We have one item for today, and that is to consider minutes of April 21st, 2026. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? May I motion we approve the consent agenda? Second. Okay, we have a motion. Multiple seconds. Rory, will you call the andas on this? Yes. Council member Brown, yes. Mush, yes. Billings, yes. And Glover, I.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Two discussion items. And you'll wonder why discussion is above action. That's because the discussion items have everything to do with the action items. So, we're going to do those first. And it is the most governmenty thing ever. Um we are first discussion item budget officer intent to state that the tentative budget includes a proposed property tax rate increase. This is something new from the legislature uh that just ended in March uh that they require this intent to state. Uh so Matt, will you give us your intent to state?

Oh, I will state and then give you my intent before I state. Um, so, uh, thank you, mayor. The the budget process takes up half of every year, and in years where we increase the property tax, it actually goes from basically January until August. Um, the legislature has, uh, in the past has spelled out a very specific process they refer to as truth and taxation. Um as part of that process in the past um in addition to all the preparatory things that Mariah does for well really all year but starting in January um our budget retreats those things lead up to the tenative budget. Tenative budget has to be presented at the first meeting in May. Um, after that, we still have a lot of numbers that we're pulling in from different sources on revenues and costs and all of that kind of stuff so that we can get to the approval of a final budget um at the end of June. Um if a city in the past uh has in uh been interested in raising property taxes, we have to go through truth and taxation which requires a whole host of communication notices and other things that go from when the budget is approved in or the interimm budget is approved in June Jan June uh until the truth and taxation meeting in August. Um, last year there were over 30 taxing entities that were uh did not were not able to follow all of the steps in the truth and taxation process and their property tax was denied. I only bring this up in that it was already a very complex process that requires a lot of different ways for us to communicate.

Um the legislature felt that the complexity that taxing entities faced was insufficient and felt it would be important to make it more complex because redundancy equals transparency. Um the um so in this last year's legislative session, they passed a a new uh law that increases uh the amount of um notifications and things that we need to provide. So as the mayor indicated, when you look at this agenda, you will say there are a lot of things here that seem redundant. That is because there are a lot of things on the agenda that are redundant. Um the um the the legislature has spelled out the things in the law that they want us to do. In addition to that, uh Mariah and I and others have been in a variety of different meetings with people who have been working with the tax commission and other entities to try to get a feeling of not only what does the law say, but what do they really want us to do? So through tonight in this discussion, Mariah's discussion, there will be things that we absolutely have to do. And then there are going to be things that we're going to say that we think would be important to do in order to um both hopefully achieve what the taxing commission wants, but also to help provide clarity um to the community. In addition to that, I also want to say in the past even with all of that notification and things that are required uh when a property tax uh um uh is being proposed, we uh have always gone above and beyond what is required in the amount of notifications that we provide. Uh just as one example, it does not require us to put a notice um in our utility bills, but we did do that. Um and there are other things because the

work that um our staff does is uh intended to truly actually provide transparency around this process. Uh one last thing um so tonight we'll have several items where we will say that we are proposing a property tax increase. They are uh those items also require us to provide a certain amount of information about uh how big that property tax is going to be. um what things we would cut if that property tax doesn't go forward. And the challenge of this is we still don't have all of the information we need to complete the budget. And so this is based off of the best information that we have. Mariah will cover a little bit of this, but one of the best or biggest examples of this is we don't know how much we're going to receive from the mitigation funding that we receive from the state. Right now, we're estimating that we're going to uh lose another $500,000, but that is um an estim a guess because the formula is relatively opaque in determining how much money we get and we won't know until we actually start the process and they say here's how much money you're going to get. the the uh housing trust or no, sorry, the state housing board, it's got some other official name, met today and um and it was unclear from everyone if they actually did approve the application process or not, which means that we're still a little ways away from knowing how much money we're actually going to receive from that. That's just one example of some funding that may end up being better, may end up being worse, and we're not going to know that. So the things that we're talking about today are truly meant to be part of a tent tentative budget one where this is the beginning of the process. Things are going to change and uh we'll continue to work with you as we go out. I only bring

that up again because now I'll go into these things that are required by law. Um so with that um I am giving you uh my statement that um I uh sorry I it is my intent to state to you that in the tentative budget we have included an increase in the public safety property tax that is intended to cover an increase in the public safety costs for Midvail. Um, that is my intent. Do I need to say anything else on that? All right. Um, that concludes my discussion on my intent to make a statement. Best intentions. Um, so does that satisfy discussion item A?

That does. Okay. Because it also says Mariah Hill was to do the So you're doing B. I will also do B. Okay. Well, moving on then. If everything good to go. Yep. Nice little test case here. We'll see. Um, now to give his statement that the tentative budget includes a property tax rate increase. Here is city manager Matt Dah.

Previously, I had in indicated to you that I had an intent to increase the property tax uh propose a property tax increase. I am now making the statement that included in the tenative budget is a proposed property tax increase for the public safety property tax. That increase is intended to cover increased costs in public safety. I feel like you've been practicing that like in front of a mirror somewhere because that was no notes. Impressive. Thank you. Is that all we need for B? Yeah. Excellent.

Yep. Uh the the details of the proposed tenative budget will be covered by Mariah in following items as well as a impact schedule that will go into the details of the proposed property tax.

Okay. Well, thank you Matt for your intent to state and then the statement itself. We appreciate that use of time. Thank you. Uh moving on to several action items related to the statement that was just given. Uh consider resolution number 2026R24 adopting the fiscal year 2027 Midbell city tentative operating and capital budgets beginning July 1st 2026 and ending June 30th 2027 and establishing a public hearing. Here to discuss this is Mariah Hill. Mariah,

good evening. Mayor and council. I will tell you I don't think that that was the legislaturator's intention that there needed to be a statement of intent and then a statement, but that is the way it is written and so we are not going to be denied our property tax for that. We're going to just do what they say. Um okay, so just an overview of the tentative budget for fiscal year 2027. Um this presentation provides a highle budget overview. Detailed line item information is available um in the budget book that was included in the meeting packet and is a will be available on our website tomorrow morning. Um the tentative budget represents the city's initial estimates of revenues and expenditures for each fund from July 1st, 2026 through June 30th, 2027 and all departments within within the city are organized within these funds. Um the tentative budget is a working document and will be refined throughout the budget process. Um it was been prepared by the finance department and city manager and is formerly presented by the city city's budget officer who is uh Matt Dah which is why he was making those statements earlier. Um the budget reflects an effort to maintain current service levels while addressing rising costs and identifying reductions where feasible in an uncertain economic environment. Um adoption of the tenative budget by the city council is required by law in the first meeting in May and marks the official beginning of the budget process. Um and the the tentative budget also includes a proposed public safety property tax increase as Matt said. And then just one note is that because we made some structural and accounting changes um in in some of the funds and things today um or if in this budget, the year-to-year comparisons that I've showed you in the past don't necessarily make sense. So I've kind of removed some of those because because of those structural and accounting changes. Um just a a budget timeline for you all is that we held a budget and strategy workshop on April 3rd with the the council and staff. Um today you will adopt the tentative budget. We'll hold

the tentative budget public hearing on June 2nd. Um and then at the June 16th meeting we will adopt an interim budget which I'll explain later or this is what staff is proposing. We'll adopt a certified tax rate for the Midell City um property tax and then you guys will adopt a proposed public safety property tax rate that will has an increase built into it and then we will hold our truth and taxation public hearing and adopt the final budget on August 11th. Um for the general fund uh just to review our revenues here, we the total general fund revenues are just below $24 million. This is a 19.1% decrease from fiscal year 2026. again because of some changes I'll go through. That's not really how much less revenue that we're getting, but that's one of those structural changes I talked about earlier. For uh our total taxes, we have about 18.4 million. Our licenses and permits uh just under 900,000. Intergovernmental revenues are 1.4 million. Charges for services, 2.3 million. Fines and forfeitures 660,000. Our miscellaneous revenue is 188,000. And then we have a use of fund balance for onetime costs of of 74,000. Um, so this is different. I don't normally show the pieces of the budget book in here, but like I said, I think that this is a better representation because of the structural changes. So our property tax in the general fund um is increasing by about 59,000. This is equal to the 2025 actuals. That represents we've Main Street uh RDA came online and so we're getting a small distribution back from them. That's all that that increase represents. It's not an increase to taxes. Uh it's just us getting a piece back from the Main Street RDA. Um no change to what we're projecting for our delinquent property taxes. Our sales tax, uh I'll talk through in a minute, so we'll pause on that one. Uh our franchise, uh tax, we're seeing a a decline in that month over month. So projecting about a 3% or a 10% decline in that, excuse me. Um our

telecommunications and transit room tax are are moving just a little bit. Um, and then a decrease in our motor vehicle in lie of that is tied to property tax rates. Uh, it's a bit of a complicated formula, but looking at our our data, that's what I'm projecting. Um, here's a a makeup of the the taxes that the city gets. You can see that our sales tax is the is the dominant part of that. And we'll go into that a little bit more here. So, uh, I show this to you guys every year. I think it's a good representative representation of the sales tax that you pay when you purchase something is split into all those categories. in that pie chart, the local piece of that is only 1%. So, of every dollar that you spend, one penny is going to the local sales and use tax. And of that penny, if you spend it in Midvil, um that's going to be split in half. And half of it uh is going to come back to Midvil because that of the point of sale, the other half goes into a statewide pool that's distributed based on population across the state. Um some other So, we're projecting our sales tax to be about 11.2 million. Actually, I think 11.6. I don't think I updated that number. Yep, it's in the uh graph. 11.6. So, what we're projecting is that we're going to be equal to fix fiscal year 2025 actuals. Just looking at the data in every way that I could. That seems the most reasonable right now. I think that could change just today. Um the new population factors are coming out and so I think we are going to see a decrease in our population factor. there was an overall growth uh in the state of like 1.3% but our population has a dec decline of 70 people and so because the state grew but we didn't then our population factor decreases that will come into effect in June and I will have a couple months of data with that hopefully to to see where we should land with that the 2026 um budget we uh budgeted a decline of 1% and then the way that I think that that was maybe slightly overly conservative which is

why I'm comfortable bringing it back up to fiscal year 2025 actuals. Some other notes on the on sales tax is that it's distributed to the city monthly by the Utah State Tax Commission. It's on a two-month delay in distribution. So when we get our distribution in May, that will be from sales that happened in March. Is definitely our most sus sus susceptible tax to economic trends. Um and really statewide sales tax is still showing a one to two% overall increase. Ours doesn't match that exactly, but it's again a reason why I feel a little bit comfortable bringing that up to 2025 actuals. Um, and but still the economy is showing continued signs of slowing and declines in consumer spending and confidence. I attend just about every economic update I'm offered through through different entities and that's just kind of true across the board. So, we're we're just still sitting with uncertainty in sales tax, which is 63% of our tax revenue. Um, just to go through so you can kind of see that we I never show you guys this in this presentation, but all the different kinds of revenues that come um into the general fund and that they're fluctuating all over the place, but in a lot of decline. So, our business licenses projecting a 19% decline, a little bit up in our building permits, though that's uh restricted revenue. So, it goes just specifically against our building department. Um we have we are our EPA grant that has funded um our engineering position that monitors the super fund sites uh is ending. So that position is being uh moved to being funded out of the RDAs. Um our BNC road funds again a restricted um source of funding that that has to be used for specific purposes. Um our liquor funds allocation is the same. And then the state homeless mitigation funding that Matt was talking about, I'm removing that from the general fund. That's one of those structural differences that that made a big difference and it's going to be receded straight into the public safety fund because that's where those funds are utilized. Um, and then we have our coalition coordinator great

grant that's uh staying mo mostly the same and our uh charges for services. You can see we've got some increases coming in for zoning and development fees and plan check fees and then the admin fees that we pay to the enterprise or charge to the enterprise funds for the services that the administration provides uh to those funds have all decreased. So that is an impact to the general fund revenues. Um similarly with fines and forfeitures we uh have are projecting a decrease in $163,000. Those are our our citations and and court fees. Um and that's a pretty big impact. And then we don't the use of fund balance is down from last year. So again, why we can't there's not they're not apples and apples to compare. Um but that's an update on kind of all of the general fund revenues. Um and then you you guys have the line items in the budget book, but I'm going to just talk about the overarching themes for expenditures in the general fund. So one of always the major one is personnel for the general fund. Um the overall increase for personnel salaries and benefits is about $24,000. This um includes and is affected by that we went through every position and made sure that they are being funded by the department and fund in which their time and work is being spent. So um you can see that we made changes throughout the organization. This is just the general fund here in this table but that affected uh things a little bit. Um we also includes a 3% cola and a 1% merit across the organization. We have market and midpoint adjustments as well. And then for benefits, we have a 5% medical increase, 4.6% dental increase, and then actually URS had a decrease in rates. So, this is all kind of a everything goes up and down in all the different ways. Uh, and I try and explain it the best that I can. We also removed a part-time finance clerk. Um, we felt that we are able to cover the workload with just two instead of two and a half. Um and then we are reclassifying uh the position of policy and project manager

to economic development manager to hopefully help with um some of our sales tax related things, build bring businesses in and that sort of thing. Um some of the to be determined pieces of our personnel is that we'll have open enrollment selections. We do budget personnel based on actuals. So if anyone changes their selection from single to family, that's going to have an impact and change things a little bit. Um, and then also we've kind of committed to the cola matching the May CPI. So I don't know that we'll be able to go above 3% if that's true, but if it's lower when we may bring down the cola to the May CPI. Um, for other expenditures outside of personnel, one of the other structural things that we did is we have just been charging every department operate uh IT equipment which kind of included operations and equipment replacement fee funds. I've split those out this year. Um, and so last year the total of that was about $250,000. The operations side of that is $175. And by operations I mean like everybody's 360 office 365 account and the cost of the internet. We're split split splitting that across to all departments. Um, but have decided because of where we're standing to pause the equipment charges. The um IT fund has a pretty healthy fund balance. I feel confident that uh this is not this is a a sound financial decision um that we can pause them for this year, spend down maybe some of the extra money we've put into that fund. And so that had a net savings for the general fund of $72,000. Um and then as every year, I sat down with every department head and said, "Where do you have $100 to give up?" And they did. uh for a total of $31,65 across departments in the general fund. There's 25 different line items cut and those range from a hundred to $5,000. So this is I mean I think every year there can't be any more to cut and then every

year our department heads understand and and work to find where they can. Um some larger decreases for the general fund is that we had a $30,000 decrease in legal professional services. though I have assured Garrett, are we to be sued? We'll find the money for him to have that help. Uh we had we don't have a lexing cost this year, so that decreased $37,000. Our IT software cost in the general fund decreased $11,000. Um we had a one-time signal upgrade for $23,000 in the streets department we were able to remove. And then because of our in-house building department, we decreased our building inspection out outside building inspection needs by $50,000. And then uh besides personnel, the only increases um in the budget in the general fund um is that the communication software uh that we utilize has increased 6 $6,600. Um we have a one-time cost for an interlocal radio tower construction of $50,000. I can't answer too much too many. He has the answers to that if you have questions about that, but that is a onetime cost.

Going to say I have many questions about that. Right. Uh my quick understanding is that we bought radios last year um with anticipating being able to use some some set of infrastructure and then that infrastructure is no longer available to us. So we're entering interlocally to do that with other communities and the county so that we will be bought into one a new one that is being constructed. How's that? Pretty close.

All right. Uh I tried to understand where all the money is going. Uh we have a onetime cost for the Utah renewable energy program. You guys will be um hearing about that and making decision in the future, but it is in the tentative budget. Um we have an increase in our sign replacement plan. They have a 10-year sign replacement plan that they put into place. Uh that is used as the BNC restricted funds and then the planning commission needed $1,500 more dollars. We've put all of their costs in one place and we're working to balance that out. So, um that that is the really if you went through and looked at every budget in the budget book that all the changes fall into one of those categories. Um and so then just as an overall picture here is a summary of the general fund. Um administration is decreasing 3.4%, administrative services 4.2%. Public works technically is going down some because their decrease is uh $1,500, but against $3.3 million that doesn't show up as a reasonable percentage and community development is decreasing 11.8%. Um our debt service, do do you guys have any questions about general fund before I move to other funds?

How much um fund balance are we using? Um $74,000. $74,300 right now. Those are the the onetime costs that we have to use for that. And that includes the one time that's the radio renewable community. Okay. Yep.

Yep. Um for the debt service fund, this one really changes about $5,000 every year. It really is just housing all the debt service that isn't in an enterprise fund. Um, so we it gets most of its money from as a transfer from the general fund and uh then we get some money from a developer for a pass through loan and the RDA as well for for a loan they have and then it's just making uh principal and interest payments on on some of our debt for capital projects. Um we have sales tax that's specific to pavement management and sidewalk curb gutter replacement. So that that is always funded every year for uh a use of fund balance from the capital projects fund. have been uh our uh fund balance in the general fund has uh been reaching over 35% and so we need to move that money to the capital projects fund for reasons like this which is the Midville City Park restrooms need to be replaced. So we have that in there for $400,000 with the use of fund balance from the capital projects fund on interest earned on that fund balance. We're able to fund our facility maintenance maintenance for $42,000. And then we do receive $500,000 annually for money from the legislature from about 5 years ago. That is for previously budgeted project projects, specifically stag streets uh upgrades. Um here's a uh just an overview of our enterprise funds. Um we are not raising rate well I am going to say that in the next slide. Uh you can see here that the water, sewer, sanitation, and street lighting are all going to make contributions to their fund balance. Um though that will help with ongoing capital projects in all of those funds. And then we do have some debt payments coming on in the coming years that that will that will utilize that excess funding um moving forward. And then the storm water fund uh has a use of fund balance which I'll detail detail. Our telecommunications uh enterprise fund is for our Utopia and that is really just a debt payment to Utopia. Um, and so it is always a balanced budget. Um, so for some notable

changes in the enterprise funds, all enterprise funds have those same citywide personnel changes that I referred to earlier. New allocations, 3% COLA, 1% merit, market, midpoint, and career ladder adjustments, and the same the benefit increases. Um, there's various operation cost updates that that are minimal and rearranging between line items. Um, and then we are not proposing any rate increases on any of our enterprise funds this year. Um, and so here's some of the things we're able to absorb even without rate increases. We did get an 11.5% increase uh on the purchase of our water from Jordy Valley Water Conservancy District. That equals to an increase of about $25,000. Um, and then we have also an uh addition of funds to update the water master plan. It's about 5 years old and five or six and is uh we've had a lot of changes. It's due for an update. Um, we have a 3.5% increase from South Valley Water Reclamation Facility, about $46,000 of an increase, and then the addition of operation and maintenance costs for the vaccination that's coming online. Is it It's in Jordan Bluffs. Yes, from Jordan Bluffs of about $15,000. Um the storm water department had a master plan completed um this year and though we can we don't have plans for funding most of that I do think that we can get them the addition of a camera truck which is in the master plan as well as additional ongoing capital outlay of $100,000. So the the use of fund balance in storm water will really be for the purchase of that camera truck. We have a camera truck um in the sewer department but they're using it all the time. It's not something that they can share. So, uh, it's really would be beneficial for the storm water department. Um, and then in street lighting, we have additional funds for equipment maintenance and supplies in antic anticipation of that master plan, which increases that by $59,000. Um, but again, all of that besides the storm water, all of it is without rate increases and then just using fund balance only in storm water. Um, for our

internal service funds, uh, the fleet fund has about $2.1 million budget. Um they have both their operations and capital replacements funded still. So we are still uh funding fleet replacements as well. Their operation they have the same citywide personnel changes. Um and then they'll be replacing those seven vehicles and then the addition of the cap camera truck in that budget. The IT fund is just under400,000. Um I mentioned before that we split operations and capital for this budget. We've paused the capital replacements. They still this still does include citywide personnel changes. And then it we still are purchasing the annual replacements that are scheduled to be p the computers that are meant to be replaced. Uh we're just doing it from from fund balance. And then there was a big chunk of money in there. $200,000 for onetime CD software funding that's been replaced. And we do not have any current server or switch replacement needs. Okay. So I'm going to do a little property tax 101 before we talk about the the last fund that's left is the public safety fund. Um, so some quick property tax 101 is property tax rates in Utah are revenue driven, not rate driven. So we provide to the prop to the tax commission the amount of revenue that we need or we tell them we just need the same amount as we have last year and then that determines our rate. We don't tell them a rate and then that determines our revenue. Um, increases in property values do not automatically result in higher taxes. So, if you see the table on the right that if uh you have your base property tax budget, the revenue that you want to get, say for us $3.5 million, if the value the values of the properties in Midvil increase, then our rate will actually decrease, but it will hold our property tax revenues equal. If the values in Midvil decrease, the rate will increase, but it will hold our revenues equal. Um the reason we would go into truth in taxation is because we need to change that baseline property tax budget. Um other thing to

note is that changes in property values uh typically result in a shift in the tax bur burden among property owners. I would really love if we could just tell people that the amount you pay in taxes shouldn't change if even when your value changes because the rate should hold that steady. But what happens is if your property changes rate at a rate different than your neighbors, then that might change the amount you pay because while we're holding the city revenue equal, those changes in value don't go up the same all the time. And those shifts can can shift the tax burden. Uh I almost added like three more slides on that, but decided against. So um uh property taxes do not include an automatic inflation adjustment in in Utah. So, uh, if you if if any entity who charges property taxes wants to inflate them, they have to go through the truth and taxation process. Primary residences in Utah um receive a 45 exemption on taxable value. And that is true for any residence that is anybody's primary um residence. So, even if a rental even if it's a rental property, if it's somebody's primary residence, it gets the 45% exemption. Um and then new growth or a truth and taxation process is required to generate additional property tax revenue. We have gotten very minimal new growth in the last few years. Um but you could see that a a faster growing community, they may never they may not feel like they need to raise property taxes because their their tax base is growing. Um, so Matt talked a little bit about this, but I wanted to just go through uh what the truth and taxation process will look like this year with the new legislative um actions. So in May um at this meeting, you're required to adopt a tenant budget. That is as it has always been. And then you also have to adopt a property tax impact schedule, which you'll do after this item. And I'll I'll

show you that at that point. But that is not as strict as the notice that we have to send out. Like the wording with the notice is like very like we plug and play. The property tax impact schedule is a little bit more of a chance for us to tell the story of how that impacts our operations. Um then we have to have the budget officer's statement of increase of property taxes and the statement of intent which Matt did. Um and then we have to also have notified Salt Lake County and the tax commission of a proposed increase by June 1st. that I've already completed that. Um, and then also between May 1st and June 13th, there has to be this council statement of intent to increase property taxes. It's different than you guys adopting the proposed tax rate. Um, we're doing that tonight as well. And that's where there are a few more numbers as well compared to what's Matt's statement was. And then we need to notice the public hearing on the tentative budget. Um, in June is when we'll actually receive the 2026 tax information. So every number I have related to the property tax increase right now and what it might look like is based on 2025 tax valuation and numbers. So that they're the numbers are going to change because I I don't have the updated numbers yet. Um and then also our certified tax rate. So for the city's tax taxes because we're not changing those, we will adopt the certified tax rate. We will not with the prop public safety property tax. Then in June, we'll conduct our public hearing on uh the tentative budget and adopt uh the proposed tax rate that includes the increase. And then this is another weird change from this is that we need to adopt an inter interim budget that restricts revenue generated by the property tax increase. So haven't exactly I don't think anyone has exactly settled on what this is looks like but probably in the budget we'll just have like a contra restricted account against the property taxes in the public safety property tax. It basically they want to know we're not going to spend that money

which we never have when we've raised property taxes for wages and things like that. We wait to to give those to employees until the property tax has been adopted. Um though I don't think that's been the practice of all entities. So, um, the interim budget will be what we operate off of as of July 1st and it will have the property tax increase revenue restricted. That's so just so you know, we've always operated off the tentative budget before we adopt the final, but we'll adopt off the interim budget. Um, in July and August, we just have a lot of noticing requirements, including the valuation notices that will go out by Salt Lake County. Um, we'll have public hearing notices for the August truth and taxation hearing. We have some we have to list the countywide increases on the main page of our website and then plus all the number of days that things have to be on the public notice website. They have removed the requirement that we be in the newspaper. But if you want something posted on the public notice website, then you have to post it in the newspaper. So, it'll be in the newspaper, too, and on the notice. And I'll tell you, the tax commission's checklist for this process is now 11 pages long, but I'm on it. Okay, I'm I'm watching out. We're going to Okay, in August, we have to conduct the truth and taxation hearing and we have to allow for virtual participation. We did that last year, but uh that was one a lot of entities got caught on and we cannot have any other business that night. We um of any sort uh besides that and adopting a final budget. Another thing people got caught up on is they thought they could close that meeting and open another one. We can't do that. Uh so just those things. Um and then within seven days I have to provide evidence of compliance of everything on the check checklist to the Utah State Tax Commission. I'm already working on that file keeping it up to date. Um and then also need to file the budget with the state auditor. Um just one other note because uh we've talked about repetition and how this will feel through this process is that the property tax impact

statement will need to be included as a separate item on all agendas where the budget is discussed. So likely you will see that on every agenda at least through the end of June um and maybe into August if we have to discuss things or July and August I guess. So here is the we showed the budget process. This is the truth and taxation process that we're we're looking at. So tonight you'll adopt the tenative budget, adopt the property tax impact schedule, and then we had the public statements of intents to raise property taxes. Um on May 19th, we're having UPD come and talk about their budget in the workshop, but because there's budget on the agenda, we're going to have the property tax impact statement as well. Um on June 2nd, we are intending Did you talk about the town halls? Okay. I was like, I think so. We've talked about how we want to kind of go above and beyond and do not just what's required, but what's best practice to engage with the community on this. So, we're intending to hold town halls on the property tax increase both uh in the workshop time from 5 or 6:00 to 7:00 on June 2nd and June 16th. So, we'll have a a town hall that night and then have the tentative budget public hearing and also the property tax impact statement will be on the agenda. And then on June 16th, we'll have another town hall. will adopt the interim budget and adopt the proposed public safety property tax increase. And then uh August 11th, we'll have the truth and taxation public hearing and adopt the final budget. Any questions on that process? Clear as mud, right? That's how I feel. Um all right. So for the public safety special revenue fund, uh this was created in fiscal year 2026 to house all our public safety related expenses and revenues. So for our revenues, we have the public safety property tax. Um the tentative budget includes a proposed increase for that but we did have been collecting it for the last year and then we're moving from the general fund the state homeless mitigation funding. Um one note is as Matt said we have in fiscal year 26 projected to collect $2.9 million. We are decreasing that by $500,000. So that

is a decrease in the revenue that has been funding our public safety fund. Um and then we do get some interest revenue because we get delinquent taxes whenever you uh have property taxes. Some people don't pay it and you get that later on. So that's new as a revenue source in this fund as a fiscal year 27. We also have motor vehicle in lie of taxes coming into here because that's related to a property tax rate and this has its own. We've put that into this fund to help again offset whatever we can. And then a really big transfer from the general fund that you'll see on the next page basically is all of our sales tax as well. Um, our expenditures are our animal control contract with Salt Lake County that had a 4.7% increase this year. Our emergency manager contract with Unified Fire Authority preliminary has a 5% increase. And then uh the Unified Police Department preliminarily also has a 3.1% increase. They have not adapted their tentative budget yet. So that's like a working number. So here here are the numbers with that. The overall budget for the fund is just over $15 million. Any questions on that? Okay. Um, the proposed public safety property property tax increase is, like I said before, based on 20 uh tax year 2025 information. That's all I have right now. So, all of this is test tentative and estimated. Um, we are proposing that the new property tax revenue that will be generated is $848,964. Our current tax rate for the public safety property tax is 0.249. The new rate would be 0.00474 on the average residential property value of 2025 of 492,000. The taxable value of that is 270,000. This estimated increase to the average residential property would be $5.7 per month and for the commercial property $9.22 per month.

All right. Thank you. Okay. So, uh this is the I have a sample motion for all of these. Uh this is to adopt the tentative budget. So, you just covered items A. No, I just Well, yeah, I just covered A. Technically, B, C, and D will be much quicker. Yes. Yes. But they all have their separate resolutions.

Any questions for Mariah? Thank you, by the way. That was incredibly well done, which is what we've come to expect of you. Um, and I know you work hard every day of the year, but this is the season where you work 10 times uh harder, and we appreciate all your efforts. One question I did have real quick. Can you tell me what is the financial benefit or not benefit but impact of reducing that finance clerk from two and a half to two? Well, it oh like the total impact um something in between 40 and $50,000 when you look at benefits and well they weren't it wasn't a benefit but we had to pay that wise and salary.

And is it you said that we determined that we can do it with two. Yep. Now I know you could probably make that argument for any kind of positions. Is that going to create any huge burden on

No. So that's in my department and I think that my staff over the f last 5 years has come to realize if somebody leaves that we're going to take that opportunity to to like look at the department and say are is this the way it should be or is now an opportunity to see if we can do something better. So, we uh had an employee leave and we um said to the two that were remaining, hey, can she was, you know, part-time. Um and so we said, are you okay taking on these responsibilities that she was in charge of and let's just like as a test case see uh and so it's actually been that way for uh five months now. Um and so we didn't just say we're cutting this. We had a trial run for it and then have gone back again and said, "Okay, we're thinking of getting this out of the budget. it's not something you're probably get back easily. Um, how do you guys feel? And and they've been on board with that. So,

that was going to be my point. Once we remove it, then adding it back is difficult because then like, well, you did it with two and there hasn't been any huge growth to make a half of a person. Yeah. Necessary. So, just wanted to make sure that we weren't getting like, you know, longer lines at the window, no phone calls that go unanswered. I knew the answer to that, but I wanted to make sure that everyone knew that we're not overly burdening our finance folks. Nope.

So, thank you. Um, any other questions from council? There is a motion on the board to consider. I move that we adopt resolution 2026-R24 adopting the fiscal year 2027 Midvail city tenative operating and capital budgets beginning July 1st 2026 and ending June 30th 2027 and establishing a public hearing. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Rory, will you call the y and yes council member Billings? Yes. Glover I. Brown, yes. And Nicholash,

yes. Okay, that passes unanimously as I referred to it earlier today is the movie trailer of our budget. Um, lots of movie to come. Uh, moving on to the second action item. Consider resolution number 2026R27 adopting the fiscal year 2027 Midville City property tax impact schedule. Mariah,

uh, so this is a new requirement with the truth and taxation changes. Um and again it's a a little bit uh more there's a little bit more freedom on what we can add in here but there is very some very specific requirements what we have to have. So some of those numbers again these numbers are tentative and actually I think every time you see this it may be different because I will update it as I get information. Um and if we're going to show this the most I want to make sure it is the most up-to-date information that we have. Um it is based on 2025 taxable values right now. Um, and then the other thing that requires one, will you scroll down? So, beyond just the overall changes, can you show just like the bottom half of this page? Yeah. And then the next what's on the next page? So, it requires that addition in addition to like the overarching amounts of money, it shows the affected departments um and funds. Some of this language is interesting because it seems like they think that public that property taxes only exist in general funds, which I think is mostly general generally true, but it's not true for us. This isn't our our public safety fund. Um, and and then it wants the impact. And as they talked about this in the legislative se session, I was in a lot of the meetings, they wanted to know like what you were getting. They wanted you to write down, oh well, we're getting two new police officers with this, or we're uh adding someone new to our parks department, and they never really could answer, well, what if we're just trying to maintain our service level? How do you show that? Um, and so I did the best that I could here, but what that means is as the impact of the tax increase, it means if we don't get it, then we will actually have a reduction um in service. And so that's kind of outlined here. Uh we've talked through it with UPD and UFA as they are both impacted in what we say would be the reduction. Um uh and it's a little scary. It's five

officers overall. So uh but yeah that that so that's what is here and if that changes uh if UBD came and said oh actually we would do this instead of that then that this portion of that will change as well. Um, but three of the officers are funded by the homeless mitigation funding with that $500,000 decrease. And then the other 348 are two officers in our precinct. So you could go back to the PowerPoint unless does anyone have questions on this. Okay. Do you have a question? We discuss how we'll have to see that anytime we talk about the budget. I did discuss that, but yes, you did. Yes.

Okay. During this Sorry, I missed that. I apologize. Oh, in case anybody else heard, anytime we discuss anything related with the budget, that has to be an agenda item. Uh, okay. Here is the resolution to adopt the property tax impact schedule. Any questions for Mariah? My only question is, can we get this camera screen thing to work again in the future? Yeah, because I'm feeling really old right now. Read that. Why do you think I look up here? I could look over here, too. I'm like, can I read this one?

Uh, sure. Ready for resolution? Yes. Yeah. Okay. I move that we adopt resolution 2026-R27 adopting the fiscal year 2027 Midvail City Property Tax Impact Schedule. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Rory, we call the yays and naz. Yes. Council member Glover. I. Brown. Yes. Mich, yes. And Billings, yes. Okay, that passes unanimously. Moving on, action item C. Consider resolution number 2026R25 acknowledging compliance with truth and taxation notice and disclosure requirements related to the fiscal year 2026 2027 tentative budget. And here again, Mariah.

So this is again one of those redundant things where basically we needed to tell you we were going to tell you we needed to tell you and then we needed you to tell us that we told you. So this is just the third piece saying that we made those statements of int of intent and the statement from the budget officer and also so I think there are some like I don't know if it will be like this every year in the future but right now we're just crossing our tees and dotting our eyes so we're doing it. It's better to overdisclose. You did a great job. We appreciate that you're making sure we can get this not all of a sudden get that notice that said you didn't comply and then we're in August and we're Yep. So th this is just acknowledging that we've been compliant up to this point essentially.

Okay. Thank you again. Any questions from council? If not, motions on the board. I move that we adopt resolution number 2026-R25 acknowledging compliance with the truth in taxation notice and disclosure requirements related to the fiscal year 2026-2027 tenative budget. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Rory, we call the nas on this one. Yes. Council member Brown, yes. Michelash, yes. Billings, yes. And Glover, I.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Moving on, our final action item of the evening, consider resolution number 2026 R26, stating that the city council's intent to consider a tax rate that exceeds the cert certified tax rate for the public safety property tax and establishing a truth in taxation public hearing. Mariah. So, as I stated in my presentation, in addition to the budget officer making that statement, we also kind of need to say the city council, this one also includes like the I think the revenue amount and the percent in the resolution though. This is the space where that is required for the first time. Though again, those numbers are tentative and estimated and will be changing just a part of the the new requirements.

Okay. Thank you, Mariah. We couldn't have Matt be the only person to intent to state something. So, it's now time for the council to intent to state something. And one other thing I should state, none of this is you adopting a tax rate or any of that. That is later in in June. So, this is not you adopting a tax rate, saying you're considering increasing taxes.

Okay. Thank you. Any questions for Mariah? If not, if anyone can read the resolution, it's up there. I move that we adopt resolution number 2026-R26 stating the city council's intent to consider a tax rate that exceeds the certified tax rate for the public safety property tax and establishing a truth in taxation public hearing. Second. Okay. Motion and a second. Rory, we call the A's and yes. Council member Vanalash. Yes. Billings. Yes. Glover. Hi. And Brown. Yes.

Okay. That passes unanimously. Thank you, Mariah, for all of that. That was great. Um, we do not have a public a close session tonight. Uh, so I'll look for a motion to adjourn the city council meeting. Motion to adjurnn. Second. Motion a second. All those in favor of adjournment, say I. I. Any opposed?

Okay, we are adjourned from our city council meeting. Uh, we will magically reappear now as the redevelopment agency of Midell City. Um, people here are the same. Our titles are different in this meeting. Does anyone need a break before we move in? Seeing none. Okay, we'll move in. Good to go. Juan, right. Okay. Uh, welcome everyone, captive audience, to our redevelopment agency of Midville City meeting May 5th, 2026. Rory, will you call the role? Yes. We're in RDA, correct? Yes. Okay. Board member Glover here. Uh, Billings here, Miklash here, and Brown

present. Board member Robinson is excused. When he says present, it's like a knife to my heart for some reason, but we appreciate that everyone is here except council member Robinson who's excused. Um, moving on to public comments. Is there anyone here wishing to get public comment in front of the redevelopment agency who doesn't work for the redevelopment agency? In the back, Vendelene. Chiefs. No. Moving on then. No public comment. We have one item for the consent agenda and that is to consider to the minutes of April 7th, 2026. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? Mayor a motion to approve the consent agenda. Second.

Okay. Motion and a second. Rory, will you call the yeses and nos? Yes. Board member Brown? Yes. Mush? Yes. Glover? Hi. And Billings? Yes.

Okay, that passes unanimously. We have a couple of action items tonight. Uh the first of which being an exciting one. I think a lot of us have been uh wondering when we were going to get this and it looks like we might have an answer to that. Consider resolution number 20267 RDA authorizing the RDA chief administrative officer to enter into an agreement between Angie Jerez and the redevelopment agency of Midville City for the design, installation, and maintenance of a mural located on the art house east facing wall 7697 South Main Street and approval of mural artist recommendation. Here to discuss this and the next item as well is Aubrey. Aubrey, welcome.

Hello, board and chair. Um, okay. So, earlier this year, um, we went through the annual call for artists for muralists. Um, this year was all within the United States, not international. Um and we went through the process where we have the selection committee go through um we had about 160 applications this year. Um everybody was ranked and um we went through and paired them with the walls that were available and um this is the first year of the mural festival where we can um cover up old murals and put a new artist to highlight on there. um it's part of that living gallery um that we're trying to create outside um on Main Street and get you know a new type of art coming um you know new new type of artist with a different style every year kind of mixing things up a little bit. Um so on the art house we currently have two murals on this east facing side. This was um painted during the inaugur inaugural year in 2021. Um, and it is up for painting over. Um, because our agreements only state that we have to maintain that mural for 3 years. Um, so the artists knows that they only have to be up 3 years and then it is able to be um, repainted. Um, I think that it is something important to show too that we're involved in this sort of rotating mural program that we're proposing to everybody. I think it helps business owners and everybody to kind of see like, yeah, we have murals and we're initiating that to to get the replacement going and um get something

new on the wall. Um so the first artist that we're proposing is Angie Herz and this style, we feel like this is something that we don't really have um right now and it's a it's a good size wall um coming from Atlanta, Georgia. So, it's very exciting. Um, these are just some sample pieces. We haven't gotten a final proposal yet. Um, both artists that are painting on the art house hopefully are getting their proposals to us by end of this week, beginning of next week. Um, so we'll make sure to send that over to um the board to make sure you guys see that and approve it before it goes on. Um, but we just want to make sure the agreement can go through when we can get everything processed um with their travel stipens and whatnot. Um, so if you have any questions on that, the agreement was in the packet. Um, it's our standard that we use every year. We didn't make any changes and the stipend is based off of um cost per square foot that we do based off the largest mural wall. Will we see the um the final approved mural?

Yes. Yeah. I'll make sure that we send that out as soon as we get it and the RDA has said that it follows all of the city um public art guidelines and that it's appropriate to go on the wall and we'll we'll get that right out to you so that you guys see that before um anything is touched on the wall. Yeah. Just for if there's any like recommendations we might have not like, hey, put the stop on this and get that out of here, right? Yeah. No, we'll make sure we get that out and then if you guys have any any feedback that we can pass that on to the artist as well. I know mural time Matt's blood pressure skyrockets based on waiting for some of the final proposals to come in. But hopefully keep him on his toes, you know.

All right. If any questions for Aubrey on this or RDA staff? If not, motion is on the board. I move that we pass resolution number 2026-07 RDA authorizing the chief administrative officer to enter into an applicant wall agreement between Angie Perez and the redevelopment agency of Midville City for the design, installation and maintenance of a mural located on the art house south facing wall 7697 South Main Street in approval of mural artist recommendation. Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Rory, will you call the A's and A's? Yes,

the South one's the next one. Yeah, so that is right. Oh, yeah. Just a just say um just amending that it's the east facing wall, not the south facing wall. Got Yes. Okay. Motion and a second. Rory, will you call the role? Okay. Yes. Board member Brown. I was doing this. Yes. Nick Lush. Oh, it's a typo there. Oh, okay. Nick Lush. Oh, yes. Clever. Hi. And Billings. Yes. Okay, that passes unanimously. Moving on. Uh, very similar. This might be the other um walling. Yeah, the south facing wall. So, they're really like

double south. Consider resolution number 2026 08 RDA authorizing the RDA chief administrative officer to enter into an agreement with Nigel Susman and the redevelopment agency in Midell City for the design, installation, and maintenance of a mural located on the art house southacing wall 7697 South Main Street and approval of the mural artist recommendation. Aubrey,

hello again. Okay. Um, so this is our other wall and this one is the south facing. I guess I really like south, not east. So, um here you'll see there is an existing mural. One thing that's a little bit different about this um the picture doesn't show it and now thinking about it, but um if you see to the left side of that mural that there's another mural on that business right next to the art house, that's Craig Wall design. um he is also getting his mural painted over and has requested that since that piece of our wall is so small that the mural um from Nigel Susman is actually on Craig Wall's wall and then goes onto our wall. So it'll be one large continuation um instead of all three separate murals kind of being right there. Um, and we thought that, you know, with the style that the artist has, it's very unique. It could look really cool going in between. And we don't have windows or anything on our side. So, um, yes, this will be more of like a wrap piece when we send you the um the proposal for this one. If it looks odd, it's like a little L shape kind of. Um, same deal. This was from the inaugural year. And so we're ready to paint over, but he does this sort of fun um style. Again, we don't really have and Craig Wall, we worked with him. This was kind of his favorite style. And this was one of the top artists that we had selected um from the committee. And so we think we can get something really fun out of here. Maybe have some fun Midvil highlights or something pop out in this. So yes, any questions? Can you go back to that for a second? Yes. It's very interesting. I was

There's a lot to look at, right? Take all of it in. Yeah. And these things would be Midvil related obviously. Yes. He generally takes from the area that he's at um and kind of uses that for the inspiration. So, um yeah, we should see more of of our sort of stuff. Whereas you can see there's, you know, little kind of we call them like Easter eggs, you know, from different places. So yeah, looks looks fun. Looks very probably like Top Golf or something in ours. I don't know. Any questions for Aubrey on this one? I think this one's correct. So

this one is correct on the board and in the packet. I move that we pass resolution number 2026-08 RDA authorizing the chief administrative officer to enter into an applicant wall agreement between Nigel Cesman and the redevelopment agency of Midvail City for the design installation and maintenance of a mural located on the art house southacing wall 7697 South Main Street and approval of mural artist recommendation. Second. All right, motion and a second. Rory, will you call the yeses and nos? Yes. Board member Billings, yes. Brown, yes. Mich, yes. And Glover, I.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Thank you, Aubrey. We're looking forward to those two new murals. Uh, moving on, our final action item of the night. Consider resolution number 20269 RDA adopting the fiscal year 2027 tentative budget of the redevelopment agency in Midville City beginning July 1st 2026 and ending June 30th 2027. Mariah I thought you were done but Oh, I'm definitely not I have a lot but I'm just going to back up Kate the other one too. She's she's my helper.

Uh yes. Uh thank you chair and board. Um, I'm here to pres present the tentative budget. I'm trying not to look at Juan because he's requested that we don't do that. Now we all look at you. Oh. Oh, yeah. That's right. I will look at you then so that you can tell me to do that. See, you would have been looking.

Yes. So, I'm bringing before the board um the fiscal year 2027 tentative budget. Um I just wanted to briefly go over the vision and the mission for the RDA. So, the vision is to enhance Midville City's unique culture, identity, and community spirit. And the mission is to improve Midville City through strengthening housing, shaping economic growth, and implementing Midville City's general plan. Um, and so with that, uh, we'll dive right into the tentative budget. And I'm going to let Mariah take this one because she does all the calculations.

This is a lot of the stuff that was in the city tentative budget. So the salaries and benefits have the same citywide impact. We had uh had um they were part of the reallocations of employees as well as the cola merit benefit increases. And they also this also reflects the IT operations and equipment situation we discussed. and then the decrease in the administrative fee um to the departments that was reflected in the general fund. So,

thank you. Um okay, so next we have the Bingham Junction area tentative budget. Um a lot of the things as far as revenue uh remain the same. Um, one thing that I wanted to point out is that um, we are allocating 80,000 under the professional services and that'll be for the design of the Tuscanany View Rail Crossing um, which we're hoping to do this next fiscal year. Um, and then under developer reimbursements, um, you'll see that there's a reduction in that projection and that's just because we only have two TIAS left that we're paying off. um one um they get an allocation of a h 100,000 each year and then the other one um we're about we're about a payment and a half away from uh reaching their payment cap. So um we have projected that that that there's a pretty steep uh reduction in that. Um and then um under transfer to citywide housing. So, citywide housing, 20% of the revenue that the agency collects for that year needs to go towards citywide housing. Um, but for uh the years 20 2010 through 2015, there wasn't any allocation from the Bingham Junction area to uh the citywide housing fund. And so, in order to kind of catch up on that back pay, um I've allocated an additional million dollars this year to go to that citywide housing Um and then for the Main Street project area, in order to help fund uh four new loans for this year, we'll be transferring um the 218,000 from the big injection area to the Main Street project area. Um Jordan Bluffs, uh not a lot of change in this one. Um uh we were hoping to do

a public art program this past year in Jordan Bluffs. However, we just didn't have the time and couldn't find a partner or a area to put it in. Um, I'm hopeful that we can do it this next year as we have more development taking place in that project area as well as hopefully some new park area. So, um, hopeful to get some public art in that area. Um, and then let's see. Again, uh we're transferring 343,000 from the Jordan Bluffs area to the Main Street area to help subsidize that revol the revolving loan programs.

K, could I make a recommendation um in the Jordan Bluffs area where we haven't used any of the 50,000 that was budgeted for fiscal year 2026? Would this be a possibility? We've talked often about lighting the mural on Zion's um east facing parking garage wall. Is that something we could consider using those funds for since they're in the budget and and haven't been used and that's a a use or lose? They've been very interested every time I've mentioned it too. It's not a use or lose because it will just go to the fund balance. Uh but but what I'm saying it's there for this.

Yeah. I mean we could talk to them about how much that would cost. I I I haven't been a part of any discussion with them, but if they seem open to it, I would be I would love to talk to them and see if there's like a way that we can help get that going and how much that would cost. I don't know if they already have electricity to that area or Yeah. or what, but it's worth exploring for sure. I think they do. But yeah, I know Council Member Brown and Molash have been very eager to do that as well. Was it you too? I know. Okay. Council member Brown has been very adamant about it in the past and and I think if the money's there and they're willing to do it, let's see if we can. Okay. Yeah.

I just wanted to make notes. She's not grazing over the transfers. Those are accounting things that are when the budgets are set then I do those to make sure that everything balances the way that it needs to. So yes um and then excuse me the main street um you'll see that um the rent and concessions um that number has gone down. Um just as an update we have one artist right now in the art house. Um we're looking at different ways at act of activating that space. One of which might be uh working with different organizations to put on workshops uh regularly there. Um but for now and to just be conservative, we're just counting on the the one rental income from the one artist that's currently in the art house. Um the revolving loan program revenue has gone up. That's because um this next fiscal year we'll have nine loans in repayment. Um and then let's see the the you can see that the transfers from the two project areas are accounted for under the contributions from or from the transfer from other RDA areas. Um under expenditures we have 100,000 for project area improvements. Um we had goos which are it's a fancy technical term for big projections that will project images onto the street. Um after installing it, um it became very apparent that it needed to be a lot higher for it to actually project the image out where we wanted it to. And so we've been working with the contractor to put uh to get a cost estimate for putting in new poles and then installing the goobo so that it's actually doing what it's supposed to.

So you can get lenses for lights that will go up to 50 degrees, right? So you can do a you don't have to have a really high pole, right? A gobo is just the metal fixture that'll put the shape inside the light. I just would hate to pay for more poles if we didn't exhaust all options with the lighting, you know, to make a lot of tests with the ones that we have and they just we're going to raise them just to the minimum that we need to get the spread, but we've yeah, we we've looked at all the different lenses. They project okay. It's just right now you focus them and they're really tight and they're only about four feet where they could be 20 30 feet.

Are they are the go permanently in the light or do you have to go or or can we change them out? You can change the different lenses. So we can patterns and stuff but that's why I was worried about the height like Yeah, they're everywhere everywhere that we've seen them and everything that we've looked at they're actually even a lot higher than we're going to put them. But the way that we'll put them, we'll put more goos on one pole. So, we're only going to do two poles. Okay. We'll have all of the goos on those two poles and we'll get a nice pattern that spreads. So, Glenn's team can change out anytime we need him to, right? With the big Glenn personally is going to for free over the next 20 years. That's his retiring. The lens we have right now is a winter lens, but yeah, it's just a snowflake.

Won't be snowflakes in the summer. Yeah. Perfect.

Um, for professional services, we're allocating 70,000. We're hoping to get the design of the raised intersection in the Midbach PO Plaza this year, um, with the hopes of going out for, uh, potential grants that we know come each year, but usually require that you have a a pretty well-developed construction plan. Um, so that's what the 70,000 is for. um the revolving loan program. Um I keep saying Main Street's about to take off and I think we're hitting that point because we're actually getting to the point where a lot of really successful businesses, local businesses are now coming to us asking um what we know is available and what programs we have. Um and so I anticipate that we'll have a lot of interest in that. um the facade improvement grant. Um we've put enough money in there for two grants and then um we still have some funds that we'll need to dispense um to the Pearl once they finish their improvements. And then um the public art um and the events in promotion, those are kind of all-encompassing. Um some of the murals, the payments that we pay to the artists for the murals come out of the public art as well as um funds for the Letter West Conference and the mural workshop. Um the events and promotion that a lot of that goes towards the trick-or- treat on Main Street, also uh Mural Fest. Um and then we have uh Light Up Main Street. And then um we've added an additional 6,000 for the activation grant. Um this past fiscal year we had 3,000 and um it's going very quickly. So um I anticip and it seems like we've gotten a lot of success not just from the businesses that are using the grant but um this past event with Cactus and Tropicals, Rebel Paw came to us and said it was like one of their best days. So

it's definitely having a spillover effect on a lot of the stores on the street. So, we're excited about that. Um, and then we have $250,000 allocated for the design of a parking structure. Um, and then, uh, yeah, we have the the typical calculated, uh, transfer to RDA admin and then the RDA citywide housing. And then the citywide housing. So, we'll continue to get uh, payments from Applewood and Sunset Gardens. Um we have already been approved for the CDBG grant for the home repair loan um for $100,000. And then um under expenditures, everything really kind of stays the same. Um we have the home repair loan and the DPA have been really really successful this past fiscal year. Um we have yet to hit the cap, but it seems like this year we will hit the cap. So, um, that's great news to hear that the money is getting used and people are able to to utilize it. So, any questions or comments? On your last point, are you able to share uh with us any of those like the home improvement loans, like what's been used, where? Um I would love to see like before and I I know of one the lady who um had her sewer line replaced

but if there are any other stories I mean I like to share her story in a lot of different meetings that I go to and people are like hey is that even working for you guys. So if if there are more people using that I think all of us up here would probably love to

see that. Um yeah so we I can definitely come back with a more detailed update. Um I did get some data from Moira yesterday. Um so so far during this past fiscal year 2026, we've served uh for the home repair loan eight households for a total of 13 adults and seven children. Um and their average AMI has been 50% or below. Um and then the DPA, so far we've served seven um households with the down payment assistant uh for a total of 11 adults and three children. Um, and they had an average AMI of 70%. So, that's amazing. Love hearing that. Any questions for Kate?

Okay, this is an action item. The uh resolution is there in even tinier print, I believe, or my eyes are just becoming more tired tonight. It's also in the packet for consideration. I move that we adopt resolution number 2026-09 RDA adopting the fiscal year 2027 tenative budget of the redevelopment agency of Midbell city beginning July 1st 2026 and ending June 30th 2027 second. Okay we have a motion and a second. Rory, will you call the yays and get on it? Yes. Board member Michelash. Yes. Glover. Hi.

Billings, yes. And Brown, yes. Okay, that passes unanimously. Thank you, Kate, and thank you, Mariah, for your backup there. Uh, moving on, we have one discussion item in the RDA today, and that is to discuss a discussion regarding proposed amendments and renewal of the Main Street Upper Floor Housing Initiative. Kate, take it away.

I wanted to make a joke and stare at Juan again, but he's not paying attention over here. Okay. Um yeah, so uh the upper floor housing initiative um was approved by the RDA board in June of 2021. Um it was established to promote and incentivize the development of moderate income housing through the activation of upper floors in both existing and new mixeduse buildings. Um that initiative did have a an initial 5-year term um which requires uh a renewal if we were to choose to have the program to continue. Um and we would need to do that by the end of June before the next fiscal year. Um since its inception, we've had two incentive agreements. Um that's resulted in a little over $8 million of affordable housing funds invested into Main Street. Um this has allowed for the creation of 66 new affordable housing units. Um and all of those units are restricted to households earning 60% AMI or below. Um those two projects include the Canary which um had all the units in the Canary are um considered uh affordable h housing uh with two studio units and 14 one-bedroom units. and then West Main. Um the entire development has uh 50

62 uh apartments, but uh 50 of the one-bedroom units are incomerestricted. And then um as we were going through the approval process, agency staff has identified several updates that are needed uh to make the initiative a little bit more streamlined. Um so if the board were to choose to renew the program, um these are the updates that we would recommend. Um the first would be to specify that the AMI levels are for Salt Lake County. Um my understanding is that prior to this it had just referred to the HUD levels. Um but we just wanted to make that more specific. Um it would also require or prior to this it recommended participation in the good landlord program. We are making that a requirement. Um throughout the entire initiative, we replace terms such as forgivable loan or financial aid with a term of incentive. It really is we are providing you money unless you are to um fail to meet the terms of the agreement in which case you would need to return all the funding. Um it removes the maximum assistance for the addition of an upper floor to a property. Um, prior to this, it had it maxed out at $100,000. Um, and we obviously have given more than that. Um, it would remove any sort of per unit limit. Really, this program is based on um, levers. So, we look at how long the deed restriction is, what the AMI levels are, um what amenities you're providing, and then um how many units you're providing uh to as restricted income. Um we updated the affordability term length from a period of 15 years to a period of at least 20 years or another agreed upon time frame. Um, so that kind

of goes into that lever. If they want uh a shorter deed restriction, um, then that would limit how much money we would potentially provide to that development. Um, it also updated the initiative to align with the formbbased code rather than the main street CDA. So, um, when it was approved, um, it had areas all within the main street CDA is potentially eligible. Um, however, the upper floor mixeduse component that we're looking for with this program really applies to the form-based code. So, just tailoring it to that. And then, um, we updated the funding procedures um, and it used to be that it was um, funded at like a percentage uh, ratio and it was every quarter. Um we have updated that so that the um development needs to provide us with um uh monthly draws proving that they've made those payments and that they have uh they have a release from that contractor at which point we will release the funds on a monthly basis to them. Um let's see. So yeah, um I guess this is just a time for me to kind of hear what uh the RDA board thinks about the program. Um they're interested in renewing said program and if there's any other changes that the board feels would make the program um function better for for the pro project area. I think it's clear that the 66 affordable units we have on Main Street would not be there without this program in place. So that's the first kudos to

RDA staff um in implementing that. And so if we can utilize this to create even more affordable units, I don't see why we wouldn't extend it. And those amendments seem pretty reasonable to me. I mean, you guys are the experts. I don't know what um I forget the term now, but the uh the the draw you were talking about. I don't necessarily understand that terminology, but

Oh, um it's like a request. So, they have a lump sum that we were saying that we'll pay towards the development and so they can draw down on that lump sum. So they'll submit a draw like I want to if my cap's 6 million I'm showing that I've spent 1 million this month on eligible things I therefore want to draw down and have you reimburse the the 1 million. I see I yeah that terminology might be familiar to others but I never seen it and couldn't even figure out what No, I'm glad you asked so that if anybody else

do we have um I think it's great. I I I love it. My daughter in fact said to me yesterday driving, she's like, she said, "Me and Dustin," because we started together. She said, "I'm so glad you and Dustin are on city council. I feel like I can walk down Main Street now." You know, she's 14, right? Yeah. So, it's really cute because the change from when we started to now is sub even with with you with everyone else, right? Absolutely. Yeah. That definitely is one of the goals of the program, which is like enhance safety by having additional eyes and activity on the street. So,

do we have do we do we have any thoughts? You know, Beck doesn't own every property there, right? Some of the other kind of one-story whatevers like are those landlords interested in doing these threetory mixeduse looks? Have they I mean, I'm not like holding your feet to the fire. I just mean is there is it generating other people besides Beck? Did well we have so yeah there's the the property just to the south of where corner and six which is um I want to say it's for William Buto's property is

those houses if you notice right now are fenced off because those are going to be a similar building to the quarter and six building they're a different development group entirely and they're talking to us that will taking advantage of the affordable housing program. That'll be the same thing where it's residential on top and mixed use on the bottom. Okay. And so that's happening. Um the some interesting ones, not sure if this will have traction, but but like the the the architects that are in the Pearl

have talked about continuing to have the Pearl as the theater, but maybe their offices on the top aren't their best use. And so they've considered maybe putting residential in there and they're they've come up with some designs there. So that would be uh and then like where nowhere tattoos and stuff like that? No, not there. But I think there is some there's some possibility with um there's three on on the very south part of Maine. There's three different places where there's currently a second story. Yeah,

those ones are very poor conditions right now. And so the way that the program is set up, um, if those owners came to us and wanted to renovate those and and we could put money into renovating those and then making those affordable the same as we could, that would be a huge win. They could add to that possibly if the structure supported it, but even just getting those renovated into a nicer space, um, I think would be a pretty huge win for the street. So those are all things.

Have we pushed on those, landlords? Um, two of them are difficult right now, but we'll continue to push on them. And one of them does sometimes work with us. Um, the other one is the one where they're currently renovating the bottom spaces. So, I think once they renovate the bottom space, I think we'll be in a good position to talk about, hey, let's renovate the top and have this whole building um, be very usable in a good in a good position. So, there is other people taking advantage of it. I was going to say he has shown interest in some of the other programs that we have like the facade grant and and the loans. So I think once we are able to sit down with him, discuss those programs, we'll definitely make sure to mention this program as well. And the other one that we're working on, and I'm not going to promise anything on this, but the only reason why we've even had some traction is because of the program, but the the mobile home park that's back behind West Main, we've talked with the owner of that several times. The only way they could even make it work is with this program. They don't have as much capital to even invest in the part that they would have to invest in. But that ownership group is is changing and the owners are changing. We hope maybe one of the other developers on the street can partner with that owner and maybe we can get something there. I mean, so so we're always working on those different things. It's just we've got to um it's got to make sense for them and um some of them have more capital to invest right now than others do. So yeah, we're pushing. But it's it's a really

I just wonder, you know, once you see a couple cuz I think especially with this the third one that went in, it's really so like and whole street could look awesome like this or if it was just the one, you could be like, well, whatever. So I'm hoping the other landlords see it. And I think I do think it's like a delicate balance because we have had people come in that are interested in just tearing down existing buildings and then using the funding. And that's not really what the program's there for. Um it's to enhance the existing buildings, but really to but not to like tear down historic buildings, just to do a new build with with affordable housing. So yeah, and a good example of that is the bank that's on the corner of uh is it first or is it second? That's for sale right now.

Yeah, it's for sale where we've had some develop that that building has a lot of issues with it. um where some developers have come and come and said, "Oh, well, we're going to add on to the back. That becomes really expensive." And then some have just said, "Well, it might be better just to tear that down and rebuild." That's a place where we can come back, of course, to the board, but right now we've kind of just said,

"Hey, that's not really what we want to use this program to is destroy all the character on the main street." So, we've kind of said we as staff would go back to the board and recommend not using the program to de demolish a building like that, but instead we would try to look for ways to partner with the developer just like the Vincent building. You know, it was more cost effective to tear that whole thing down and rebuild it. But that would have lost so much character on the street. And so there's certain buildings where like with the houses uh north of the corner and six, those really don't contribute to the character of Main Street. So having a new building in there with ground floor retail is really going to work there. That's a 100% partnership that we would recommend to the board. Whereas losing something like the bank or the bank on the corner and

yeah, center straight. So So those are those are some different things. It's we're being very controlling and very deliberate about what we think the main street is going to look like and how it's going to function. And so we can always come back with updates on that. But like Kate said, we're getting to the point where where there's a pivot point where we're not just trying to see, hey, let's try to see if we could find cool bu uh businesses to come main to Main Street. We're getting lots and lots of options now of businesses that want to be there. and we're actually being able to choose is that the right fit or not because it's not anything is better than nothing. It's really we want the best there because we have a short street. We want to make the most of it. So,

we're starting to get into a really really good position with that and you'll see that as we bring stuff back to you. Thank you. And I think the last thing I just want to add is that um when this initiative was first approved um it was alloc it was there was a budget of $5 million to be spent over the five years um with the caveat that uh staff may come back to request additional funding if needed. Um, and so I guess I would also like to know if your guidance if you want to keep that five million. Um, and yeah, if you want to see this program continue. Yes. Yes. Okay.

Are you asking if we want to approve more or keep it? There's a yes back here. Um, I I mean my recommendation would be to keep it to the same just to kind of give you guys perspective. the the Canary I almost called it the court um was a little over a million dollars. Um it was a smaller development and then West Main was um around six. So I it kind of varies around that. Um and so I think having the 5 million is probably a good starting point and then if for some reason um it's in excess of that that'll just be something that will come to the board for approval. That works. Great. Okay. Any other questions? This is a resolution. So, you need us to

uh No, it's just a discussion. I'll bring it back. I'm g I'm I'm gathering that it's something that we want to renew. Okay. So, I'll come back next time with with the resolution. All right. Thank you. Thanks. Okay. We do not have a closed session tonight. So, I'll look for a motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn, mayor. Second. Okay. Motion and second. All those in favor of adjourning RDA say I. Any opposed? Okay. We are adjourned. But now, even more magically, we have reappeared as the Midbell City Municipal Building Authority. Uh we have a couple items uh to discuss tonight. Uh first, we will do a roll call vote. Rory, will you see who is still here? Yes. Board member Glover here, Nicholash

here, Billings here, and Brown here. Okay, that is all of us still here. Move on to public comments. I don't see anyone uh from the public other than Chief Mazerin. Would you like to say anything to the to the municipal building authority. Um, seeing none, we'll move on to the consent agenda. We have one item, consider minutes of December 2nd, 2025. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? May I motion we approve the consent agenda? Second. Okay. Motion in a second. Rory, we call the yeses and nos. Yes. Board member Brown, yes. Michelash, yes. Clever, I. And Billings, yes.

Okay. It passes unanimously. One action item tonight. Consider resolution number 2026 01 MBA adopting the fiscal year 2027 municipal building authority tentative budget beginning July 1st 2026 and ending June 30th 2027. Uh Mariah who is leaving after this meeting to go uh on I'll be here tomorrow morning. Oh yeah. Okay. Well, she's going on vacation after this uh Grand Canyon tour. So we wish her all the best after this very long evening for you. Thank you as always. Let's go through the MBA.

Yeah, the MBA exists solely to make uh bond payments on this building and a few other uh things around the city. So, this is just an update to uh the revenue is all collected as lease revenue and then we make our bond payments and we pay some professional service fees for the management of those bonds. Um the only thing really of notice that the major change in this is that the streetlight portion of this um matured in 20 uh 24 and so that decreased this one a lot. But really, the changes are very minuscule and it just reflects bond payments and the needed revenue to pay those. And I don't have a resolution. It's in your packet.

Okay. Thank you, Mariah. Yet again, um any questions for Mariah or staff? If not, resolution is in the packet. I move that we approve resolution number 2026-01 MBA adopting the fiscal year 2027 municipal building authority tenative budget beginning July 1st 2026 and ending June 30th 2027 second okay motion a second one more time tonight Rory will call the yes and yes board member um Glover I Billings yes Brown yes and Mich yes okay that passes unanimously again no close session is There a motion to adjurnn. Motion to adjurnn.

Second. Motion a second. All those in favor of adjournment say I. I. Any opposed? We are adjourned. Thank you everyone. Enjoy your Grand Canyon trip. Mariah and anyone else like I saw on Facebook. The guy was like, "Yeah, it's definitely not