City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome everyone to our June 2nd, 2026 City Council meeting. We did not have a workshop tonight, but we did have an open house for folks who were interested in the budget process and property tax increase that may or may not be happening. Spoiler alert, it is happening, but at a far less degree than we first thought that it might. More details on that to come in this meeting, I think. Mariah will have something for us. But we will start, as we typically do, with a Pledge of Allegiance. So if you wouldn't mind standing.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands,

Thank you, everyone. Rory, will you see who is here and who might not be here?

Yes. Councilmember Glover? Here. Billings? Here. Michelash? Here. Brown?

Here.

And Robinson? Here.

Okay, that is all of us. Before we get started, I just want to note UFA 126 Platoon B is here with us today. So if you see them leave in a hurry, it's typically because they have something very pressing to do. But we hope you can stay here for as long as you want, and we're grateful for all you do for our community. Thank you. Up first tonight is a Unified Police Department report, and here to give that, as always, Chief Morse. Chief.

Thank you for having me here. So the month of May was a busy month for us. May typically hosts the Law Enforcement Week. It's a nationwide event that they commemorate the law enforcement and what law enforcement does. So UPD had a ceremony highlighting the sacrifice of Officer Doug Barney commemorating his loss and the only UPD officer that we've lost in the line of duty. We also participated in the statewide ceremony where additional officers, unfortunately, were added to the Wall of Honor. The Sorensen Legacy Center has an art contest we participate in every year where kids all the way from elementary to high school age, they come up with an art project, whatever form they like. Midvale had a lot of winners, two second place winners, two third place winners, and three honorable mentions. So with the second and third place winners, they receive, second place gets an Apple Watch, the third place gets Apple EarPods, and a pizza party. So these kids are instantly heroes to their class. So it was a lot of fun to, thank you Mayor, coming and helping us deliver pizza and highlighting their art awards. Also I'd really like to highlight So we get so much money for pizza. I hit up David Gardner with Bambino Pizza to include them in this. He was phenomenal. He threw an extra pizza. He came with us to the high school. He came with us to the classrooms. He gave the winners t-shirts. It was a lot of fun incorporating Bambino Pizza into that event, and he wants to be a part of it next year. So hopefully we can keep that tradition going. So we really appreciate the support from Bambinos. Our shelter resource officers worked with Gardner Property Management Organization, the health department, with a pretty significant homeless encampment. There were a lot of different structures, tent-like structures, about six of them on the property. The camp lasted, or the camp cleanup lasted three full days, and when we were done, 72.83 tons of debris were removed from that camp. So that was a big effort. UPD held its motor school. So as you know, UPD has two full-time motor officers' traffic cars, and we have a secondary assigned motor sergeant that are on the bike. This school is not an easy school. Fortunately, they were able to make it through in one piece as well as their bikes. So that's a win. So we're super glad that that happened. Shared Services was very busy in Midvale in May. So just to highlight some of the stuff they came out on, we had a suspicious death investigation that they looked into for us. We had a domestic assault where the victim had significant injuries and our DV unit came out. There was a sexual assault where our special victims unit came out. There were a lot of other investigations. K9 was actually present in Midvale a lot in May with helping with our DEU search warrants and there was a pursuit of a stolen vehicle that went through Midvale and terminated in West Jordan. So they were able to apprehend that federal fugitive. And I wanted to just give an example of a call that happened in the month of May, our Midvale officers responded to. And this came from the watch command log. But a complainant called in because her adult son, recently released from jail, was threatening to take his life with a large knife. When officers arrived on scene, they could hear a commotion coming from inside the home, so they immediately entered. They saw a male. Well, a male answered the door and pointed to the kitchen. They immediately went into the kitchen. Officers could see three men struggling over a large butcher knife in the kitchen, so without hesitation they stepped in. One of our officers received... a laceration on his hand because he grabbed the knife so nobody could use it against anybody in that fight. So they were able to take the suspect into custody and they took him to the hospital where he could get the mental health services that he needed. So they did an exceptional job. Our officer is okay, but it's just an example of what's happening behind the scenes every month. So that's all that I have to report on unless you all have any questions for me.

Thanks, Chief. We appreciate all you do, and thank you for that anecdote, and please give our best to the officers. Thank you. Moving on, last meeting we appointed a new public works director who's now sitting on this side of the dais. Congratulations again, Jeremy. But with that comes the sadder news that our current, as Matt would say, our current public works director, Glenn Kennedy, is retiring on June 11th. So we have nine more days with you. We're going to miss you. I think that was made clear today, earlier today in a ceremony that was not televised. We had a retirement party for Glenn. Glenn became the sixth person to receive a mayoral medallion, which I have told him does get you out of speeding tickets. So we'll see if that actually works or not. We did want to show our appreciation and recognition for Glenn. And Glenn, would you mind coming up to the microphone and the podium just so we can publicly embarrass you one last time? And while you can, can you hand me that clicker too? I need that.

We'll try to continually embarrass you. You just might not be here.

So among all of the great things that we've all said or thought about Glenn, one of my favorite things is Glenn has a very good sense of humor. He is like, it would be as if Ron Swank... What are we doing here?

Spoiler.

It would be as if Ron Swanson became the Public Works Director in Midvale City. So we're gonna play a little game even though our agenda is jam-packed and we do not have time for this. However... We're cool. Stay up here. We're going to play a game. Who said it? Is it Ron Swanson or is it Glenn Kennedy?

How did you get that picture? For the record, my daughter was in surgery, but I was good.

Apparently, Glenn is well known for being able to nap anywhere and everywhere possible. So here's one example. So we're going to have three really quick quotes. And you're going to decide, is that a quote from Ron Swanson or is that a quote from Glenn Kennedy? And this is a very difficult game. So number one, I'm not a sore loser, it's just that I prefer to win, and when I don't, I get furious. Who said that? Who thinks that was Ron Swanson? Show of hands.

Yeah, because I'm a good loser.

Who thinks that was Glenn Kennedy? Show of hands, anyone, Glenn? Okay, some glances. All right, answers to happen later. Any dog under 50 pounds is a cat, and cats are useless. Ron Swanson.

I'll be honest, this is a 50-50.

Glenn Kennedy. Okay, we're splitting the room. Last one. Literally everything is a weapon. That folder in my hands is far deadlier than that bow of yours. Glenn Kennedy.

Ron Swanson.

The answer to all of these is Ron Swanson. However, the fact that you guys thought that it could be Glenn Kennedy speaks volumes.

I have some reflecting to do.

But no, all jokes aside, we have appreciated the last seven years you have served in this role. We're going to miss you. We're not naive to think that you'll be back to many meetings. You'll be back once in a while, but we wish you well in all that you do with your retirement. I can't even believe your retirement age, to be honest with you, but you did something right starting public service early in life. I got lucky. Yeah. Starting it early. And we appreciate not only what you've done here in Midvale for the past seven years, but for your public service over the past, what, 30? 30 years. So we're going to miss you. We have a couple of tokens of our appreciation. One, I think you saw because you were up here idling around. I actually didn't see it.

But we do have the typical sign that we do when someone retires.

So we're going to present this to you. I personally got you a Garbage Pail Kid Galloping Blend. Glenn, I know you're a man of few words, but yes, give us a few words. No, thanks for the opportunity.

It's been a pleasure. It's been not quite eight years. It's been every emotion. Early on, I recall conversations between Matt and I, and our goal was to leave it better than we found it. I hope that I did that. I do know that the city and Public Works is in very good hands, and I'm excited to see them take the next level. Again, thank you. It's been a pleasure. It's been an honor to work with you all. Thank you, Glenn. Thank you.

We do want to get a picture with Glenn and the council and anyone else who wants to be in it. We're going to do that. We'll be back briefly in about one and a half minutes.

You should have pushed him.

Thank you for your indulgence everyone. Okay, moving on the agenda. We have a proclamation declaring June 2026 as LGBTQ Pride Month in Utah. I know I share this fact every year and it always surprises folks, but Midvale City is number seven on the list of most LGBTQ friendly cities in the state of Utah, which we're just slightly below Salt Lake City. But we have LGBTQ folks who work In every industry here in Mid-Bell City, we have LGBTQ folks in every neighborhood. So we, every year, make it a priority to declare June 2026 as LGBTQ Plus Pride Month. So, whereas the June 1969 events at the Stonewall Inn in New York City marked a pivotal moment in the modern movement for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other identity individuals, and whereas on June 11th, 1999, President William J. Clinton issued a proclamation designating June as Gay and Lesbian Pride Month, and in June 2009, President Barack Obama expanded the recognition to include Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, and whereas members of the LGBTQ plus community have made invaluable contributions to society in fields including science, education, religion, government, and athletics, and whereas LGBTQ plus residents and employees have made and continue to make significant and lasting contributions to Midvale City and the State of Utah, And whereas Midvale City has demonstrated an ongoing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion by promoting principles of fairness, dignity and respect for all residents and employees regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity. And whereas recognizing LGBTQ Plus Pride Month fosters greater awareness, supports advocacy for the LGBTQ Plus community and provides an opportunity to strengthen alliances, encourage acceptance and advance equal rights. Now therefore be it proclaimed that Mayor Dustin Gettle and the Midvale City Council hereby recognize and proclaim June 2026 as LGBTQ plus pride month in Midvale City and encourage all residents to celebrate and support the diversity that strengthens our community. Adopted the second day of June, 2026, signed by me, the mayor, and all five city council members. We appreciate your support. If there's anyone up here who would like to say anything, if not, we can proceed to the next agenda item. Okay, thank you so much. We'll move on then to public comments. If there's any person wishing to comment on an item not otherwise scheduled for public hearing tonight, you may address the City Council at this time. If you do have comments for one of the items that's listed as a public hearing, you'll have an opportunity to do so at that point. And then just state your name for the record.

Hello, and thank you for your time. My name is April Thompson, and I am a resident of Midvale. On April 7th, I made a public comment explaining why joining the Utah Renewable Communities would benefit our community. On May 19th, I made a short comment asking you to vote yes when the time came. Today, on the day of the vote, I want to tell you why I want you to say yes. I have deep roots here in Midvale. My grandfather was born in his grandmother's house on the land that is now the Golden Corral on 7th East and 72nd South. Jordan School District bought his father's farm to build Hillcrest High School, my alma mater. Being a farmer, my great grandfather paid attention to the weather. He used to say that if there was still snow in Bell Canyon on the 4th of July, we would have enough water for the rest of the year. That has been on my mind a lot lately, as you can imagine. The world is changing around us. The lake is getting lower, releasing toxic dust that we are breathing in daily. Temperatures are getting higher, worsening storms and causing untold suffering. We know that this is human caused. We know that we need to take drastic steps to reverse the damage that we are causing through our use of fossil fuels. I am worried for my home. I am worried I am going to have to leave because of what we are doing here. And I do not want to leave. So please vote yes for the Utah Renewables Communities. It is not enough. Alone, it is not enough. But it is something. And with enough somethings, I won't have to leave this place that I love. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, April. Is there anyone else who would like to give public comment? Going once. Okay, we will move on then to council reports and we'll start as we normally do in District One, Councilmember Bonnie Billings.

Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to congratulate Glenn once more on his retirement. It's really exciting. I've told him all day today how jealous I am of him. And I do remember the first kind of big thing I did with the city when I was sworn in was go on a tour with Glenn to look at all the public works stuff here in Midvale, and it was really one of my favorite things I've done in this job. So thank you for that. Congratulations, and I hope you love retirement. I also just wanted to wish everybody a happy Pride Month. I am grateful to be part of a city council that recognizes everyone in the community.

Okay, thank you, Council Member Billings. When you mentioned Glen's name, my head instinctively went over there. I was like, oh yeah, I need to fix that. But thank you, Council Member. Moving on, District 2, Council Member Paul Glover.

I'd also like to thank Glenn personally and also for all that you've done to help Midvale City. You've been a good friend and always got back with me when something needed to be done. So thank you very much. Hope you have a wonderful retirement. The other thing I would like to thank is the plaza that we have out there we used tonight. Food trucks, what a nice plaza, what a nice place that we can use for food trucks, but we can use for a lot of other things too. We were talking tonight about maybe having one of the block parties in that plaza, possibly to get people involved that are up east and also all the apartments that we've got coming in down here might be a fun thing to do. That's all, Mayor.

Okay. Thank you, Council Member Glover. District 3, Council Member Heidi Robinson.

Thanks, Mayor. First off, happy Pride. And then secondly, I too want to thank Glenn. It's really hard stepping into this because there is no training for elected officials. And you have people like Glenn that go out of their way to not only advocate for what the city does, but also educate us a little bit more. I had no idea how much Public Works handles, and you went out of your way to make sure that I had a good grasp on the understanding, and you continue to do that. So I just wanted to thank you for that. It was such a huge comfort coming into this, having somebody that I felt like wanted to take the time to teach me. Um, Jeremy, luckily we're all here right now, so you don't have to do teaching for a while, but I look forward to getting to know you as well. And congratulations. Thank you, mayor.

Okay, thank you, Councilmember. District 4, Councilmember Bryant-Brown.

I would also like the theme to thank Glenn for his hard work. Since he's done with the mic, I can say that he never once beat me in fantasy football. No one fact-checked that because it's probably 100% wrong, but no one can say otherwise now that he's retired. Yeah, he's a good loser. Jokes aside, it shows the kind of relationship we had with Glenn. He was a great mentor and friend and fun to have on the council. So he'll be missed. Jeremy will never beat me in fantasy football either. I'm deciding that now. And then second, and I always seem to get allergic to the mic, so I'll be short. I just want to say I'm very grateful that we are a city that has enough guts to continually show our dedication to the LGBTQ community. I don't know if we do enough, but at least we're trying. And I just always want them to know they're welcome here and they have a place in Midvale. That's all.

Okay, thank you, Council Member Brown. District 5, Council Member Denise McElhosh.

I also want to say to Glenn, I thought I was special and the only one that went on the tour with you. Now that Bonnie went on one, I don't know how I feel about this. No, I agree with Bonnie. That was so informative. Your whole entire staff, your team, it was great to meet with them, walk through. The education I got out of that was amazing. So just the fact that you took that proves what a strong leader you were and how much you're going to be missed. But I know Jeremy and team will take that on and take the vision on, so appreciate everything you do. Summer of fun in Midvale. We have the mural festival coming up. Volunteer. We've got the truck plaza, as Paul was talking about. We also have a new grand opening on Saturday for a clay and creative. So lots going on, lots of reasons to spend time in Midvale. And you can also kick off Pride Month at the Pride Festival this Sunday. So I agree. I am very proud to represent a city that supports all communities. So thank you.

Okay. Thank you, Councilmember Michelache. For my report, Glenn. We are absolutely gonna miss you and we have said a lot about you today. I did wanna let everyone know Glenn had a retirement party today that was very well attended and you can just tell that so many people appreciate all that you've done over the years. I wanna tell very quickly one of my favorite Glenn Kennedy stories around COVID times. I decided that I wasn't gonna be a vegetarian anymore. Because why? Why would I limit myself to that with a global pandemic happening? So I was determined that year to go to a steakhouse and find the best steak that I could to end my vegetarian streak. And there was only one person who came to mind who I should ask where I should procure this steak. And it was Glenn Kennedy. And he wasn't wrong. And I thank you for that. Also, I think you gave me elk steaks, which I grilled up and they were pretty fantastic too. So we wish you all the hunting luck. I know that's going to be a great pastime of yours in retirement. as it has been during your career as well. But you'll have plenty more time to do it and not worry about coming back to Public Works on Monday. So we appreciate all you've done and look forward to hearing about all of your great tales moving forward. So thank you. I do want to say, as everyone else has, you know, it is very... It's one of those things for me, I don't talk about it much, but there are two openly LGBTQ mayors in the state of Utah. I happen to be one of them. So to have the support from the council and from city staff and every department, as I said, in Midvale City has always meant so much to me personally. So I do want to echo what Councilmember McElhosh said. There are plenty of fun activities happening this entire month. if you're so inclined to attend them. And I think at some point we might think about doing something in Midvale so that people don't have to just go to Salt Lake City for some of these events. But something to think about in the future. One last thing I wanted to mention If I hadn't mentioned it to the council, I forget if I did, but I talked about the fact that there are four mayors who get to be on the recreation bond committee. I was lucky enough to be elected by our fellow mayors to that board, so I'm looking forward to serving on that board for the next six weeks. First meeting is Friday morning at 9 a.m., so I'm hoping to advocate as strongly as I can for Midvale City. on the board and hopefully getting a rec center or or some sort of funding from the county so uh that's it for me we'll move on then to city manager report and city manager matt doll sure i'm not going to say anything about glenn because he's pushed me too far

So I'm gonna start off with, in several meetings we have had discussions about the drought surcharge. We had a public hearing at the last meeting, sorry, surcharge on the water rates. And then we've put out different forms of communication. to inform the residents of the change. I'm only letting you know that the first bills that will include the new rates for the surcharge are going to be, went out yesterday. So people are going to start getting those. Of course, if they have questions about any of them, staff is happy to answer those questions. If any of them come to you and you want to direct them to us, that's great. Invite to us, I mean to Mariah or the utility billing department. So there's that. The next thing is we are blessed in this community with a community that really cares and they have a lot of different perspectives on certain issues. And over the course of the last week or so, our staff has been, particularly Public Works, has been inundated with people who have concerns about watering. We have received calls from people who are concerned that we are watering our parks. We have also received about an equal number of people who have called to say they are concerned about the brown grass at our parks. We're appreciative of that feedback. We are doing our best to try to water at an amount that protects the assets that we have, the turf, but without also trying to overuse the amount of water. delicate balancing act and I think if as people talk to you about it just convey that we're trying to get it dialed in there will be watering but we are reducing it from what we've done in previous years and we're like I said we're just trying to preserve the the turf there are some of those areas that are in higher utilization and they will receive a little bit more water than other areas if anyone talks to you about those But we're also very appreciative of the fact that people are looking out. And there have been times in the past where there are just parts of our irrigation system that the timing is off or something. And so it's helpful to help remind us that we need to make an adjustment there. So we're appreciative of that feedback. And we're doing our best. The next thing I just wanted to highlight too, I feel like this might be one of those things like the event where I said, I hope everyone comes to this event. And you're like, I just said this. But we, as you've noticed this year, we've had some changes to our food truck nights. With the Fun Run two weeks ago, last week we had the event where everyone was encouraged to bring their dogs, which was very successful. A big part of this, we have a lot of staff who are clearly involved with these things, but our new events coordinator has really been a big part of the success of those events. and getting a new flavor to those food truck events. And we have the mural festival coming up and other events that she's a big participant in. I just wanna give a shout out to Millie and say that we think she's doing a great job and we hope that more people attend those events because she's really making something that's worthwhile to attend. The next thing is, Adam, we give the update on the project that we had talked about, the sewer project that's going to affect 700 West and Wasatch.

Yeah, thank you. So the sewer rehab project that will affect the intersection of Maine and Wasatch, that will be moved back from June 15th to June 22nd. And that's to allow work to finish on Holden and Lenox, just so they don't overlap and create even more issues. So that will begin on June 22nd. It will last 10 days. They'll be working every day except Sunday. They are in engineering is in coordination with the school district. They've already coordinated that the crossing guard will be maintained at that intersection for as long as possible. And when they do need to do work at that particular space where the crosswalk is, they'll have a short pedestrian detour. But otherwise, everything will remain as is. There will be message boards go up and then notice go out. But that, again, the main message there is just that it will be delayed a little bit just to allow the other work on Holden and Lenox to finish.

Any questions on that project? Great. Earlier I made the joke that I wasn't going to say anything about Glenn because Glenn has pushed me too far. And I do want to say that Glenn is a pusher. He pushes me. He's pushed his staff. He's pushed this organization to be better. And in all of these things, he always brings a lot of passion. I've really gotten in five yelling situations. confrontations with people and two of them have been with Glenn and and I wouldn't want it any other way even after those I am glad to see him the next time I get to see him he is he is a friend he is a person that I had to now Jeremy will be this person I'm sorry but that I will call late at night when there are emergencies that I'm hearing about that we have to deal with. It is a 24-7 job. And whenever I call Glenn, he was ready to respond, had thoughtful ways of trying to address significant issues, and oftentimes was also telling me everything is going to be okay. And almost always it was. I'm grateful for the time that he, I've got to spend with him. I've learned a lot from him and it's weird for me that he is going to retire because that doesn't seem to sort of go along with his, you know, always wanting to push to make things better, but no one deserves it more than Glenn. And so thank you, Glenn. And I know you're retiring on the 11th, but if you share that fire, the picture of me in that picture, fireman's uniform from the ribbon cutting that you know I'm talking about, I will fire you before then.

He just shared it to me, by the way. Just go. All right. That's all I have for this evening. Thank you, Glenn. Thank you, City Manager Dahl. Glenn, is that enough gushing from us? Yep, okay, I figured that might be enough for you. But thank you again. Moving on, we have, I think, eight public hearings tonight, so no better way to do it than just to dive right in. First public hearing is to receive public comment regarding authorizing a zone map amendment located at 50, 30, and 24 West Center. and 77 South State Street from transit-oriented development zone to transit-oriented development overlay zone. And here to discuss that mouthful is Liz.

Yes, thank you so much. So this is a rezone from transit-oriented development to our transit-oriented development overlay zone. This project proposal is for four parcels that comprise just under three and a half acres spanning that you can see them in the light blue from Maple to State and then just fronting right there on Center Street. Here's a concept of what they've included in the plan. You'll see that the applicant provided a number of materials for you, far more than we normally get for a rezone. traffic study and other things. I will remind you that this is a concept. Staff has not reviewed this for parking. Engineering hasn't seen this. Fire hasn't for emergency services. Nothing like that. So just conceptual. That would come at a later phase should the rezone be approved. That being said, I did want to highlight a couple of things about this project, notably that it sits within our TODO zone. There is a section outlined where parcels and properties are required to have a mixed use element. So for anywhere else that gets rezoned or is in the TODO zone, it is an optional incentive that they can do. They can include mixed use and get some other incentives in the zone. This one requires that 65% of the street-facing building facade is retail or restaurant use. So that is something that if this area was rezoned, that would apply here. I should also note that because they sit in the mixed-use requirement area, they do automatically... What's the word I'm looking for? they automatically get the incentives that are talked about in the TOD. So no maximum density and then a much higher height limit. So this is a concept site plan that they've shown to buildings with some retail space on the bottom. Again, you'll see they've outlined some commercial and amenity space. As you see it, would not be approved in our code today. So there is some work to be done. Again, just an idea for you to see something that could be. some concept floor plans for you. This is our rezone criteria from the code. So you do, the council has to find that a proposal for a rezone does meet one of these criteria. We have found in our analysis that the project meets criteria number one about promoting the objectives of the general plan and then also criteria number three that the surrounding area has had some incremental redevelopment and increased intensity of land uses. And there's been a general shift towards higher density and mixed use. And I'll get into the criteria number one on this next slide. So the general plan does outline that this property sits in the middle state street opportunity area and lists eight different goals for that zone. In our analysis, we found that this complies with four of them. It facilitates higher density and mixed use development. It leverages the site's proximity to the Center Street track station. It is concentrated right by a development node that is called out in that section and then also redevelop some underutilized properties into some mixed use residential. So I have included a motion to approve the ordinance recognizing that the council has frequently utilized development agreements on other projects. I've also included a motion to table pending the negotiation and preparation of a development agreement should you decide to go that route. And the applicant is here if you have any questions.

OK. Thank you, Liz. Any questions for Liz? OK. Would the applicant like to come up and address council? and just state your name for the record.

Alan Argyle. I'm here representing JDH Development and appreciate the time that staff has put into this and here to answer any questions. Any questions from council?

So on the one slide it said up to so much commercial. I can't remember. It was 18,000 square feet.

So yeah, as we work that through with staff as to what that, you know, meeting that 65% of the frontage. So... We were erring a little bit on the higher side, but that would be somewhere in there, you know, give or take a couple hundred square feet.

So a bottom range would be like 200 square feet less or what are we talking about?

Yes, it's really close to that to meet that 65% of the frontage, yes.

I know this is all conceptual, but do you know if the plan is for rent or for own units?

They're for rent units.

And there's the resident, it's four story, but three story for residential.

Yes. The bottom floor is the commercial and parking. And then like amenities.

I mean, there's like a lap pool.

Yeah. A lap pool, barbecue, hot tubs, all this normal.

Um, And are you familiar with how like a development agreement requirement works if we were to go down that path and everything along those lines?

Yeah, we're familiar with it. We feel like we've presented, you know, that's why we provided so much more than in a normal package is we were hoping that we'd given you guys enough to feel comfortable. We're hoping to proceed as fast as we can with this. We didn't necessarily want to get... hung up in a development agreement, that's why we gave you so much.

Because generally, I like the concept in general, but we've had situations like lap pool. I think that's a cool, great idea for this community, right? And we approve a zone change or something, and then they just put grass there, right? And not a lap pool, right? Or something very small, like a hot tub, right? And say, well, we couldn't afford it, right? And so for us to make a change, I always think, you know, we want to make sure we lock in, you know, what we envision going into it, right? This zone requires the 65% though, right? So regardless of the development agreement, they have to have – because that's also the other thing that we've been burned with is – oh, yeah, we want to do mixed use, and then we go down the path, and everyone spends a bunch of money, and they're like, oh, we can't afford to do mixed use, and they want to try to get us to back out.

Yeah, that's required. The amenities are required as well. There's so many outdoor amenities and so many indoor amenities, that's right in your code that we would have to comply with.

But, like, a lap pool's not necessarily written in there.

Correct. You know, from our standpoint... Apartment community of this nature would just have to. That's our brand. That's who we are.

Is the rent, are you thinking, is there an affordability component, market rate? What's the plan?

Currently, it's market rate. We have explored through the RDA. There's just really no funds available to help support some type, unless it's drastically affordable. It's outside of the HRTZ zones, so we would hope for market rate.

Are we limited, Elizabeth, to the four stories total on this?

Unless we do the development agreement. It's 10, isn't it? We could go to 10.

The limiting factor for us is parking. Yeah, you would have to dig. You would have to dig, and as anybody that knows, there's just no financial incentive for us to dig down $50,000 a stall to go down.

Can I add one more thing?

Yeah.

Sorry, I just remembered.

I should have mentioned that the Planning Commission did recommend approval. We did get public comment via email prior to Planning Commission. We had a gentleman come and ask some questions at Planning Commission, but didn't really have any comment on the project. I fielded a call prior to this meeting with just some questions and then had another gentleman in support of the project, but other than that, no public comment, so thank you.

Any other questions from council for the developer? Okay, appreciate you being here. This is a public hearing. Is there a motion from council to open this to public comment?

Mayor, I motion we open public comment. Second.

We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Okay, we are now in a public comment period. Is there anyone from the public who would like to comment on this item? Not seeing any, is there a motion to close public comment?

Motion to close the public comment. Second.

Okay, motion and a second. All those in favor say aye.

Yes. Aye.

Are there any opposed? Okay, public comment is over. This is a recommended motion. We have two options here. If the council chooses one or the other, that's up to you guys.

So I'm of the opinion, I actually like this. I think the outcome, if we don't do stuff like this, is the three-story townhome with no commercial. And that's been a little bit of a blight in that area where it's taken away every, we had some food options or whatever, and Joe Morley's and those are gone for these three-story townhomes. This is adding really an extra level to that that gives us that. It's still three-story residential, right? A little denser than the three-story townhome, but I don't think a lot more. I would like to lock in a development agreement capping them at four stories, making sure that the amenities sort of look like what we saw. I would like to require that they have that lap pool or something like that. That way, if it's market rate, it's going to be high, and I would like to make sure it's a nice place. to be. That's my opinion. I would like to, but I would also like to make sure there's a development agreement. I don't think financially it would make sense to go even to five stories without digging, but we've learned our lesson the hard way where we think that someone won't do something and then they do. That's my two cents on that.

I would agree with the development agreement, just because we've been burned so many times, and we've had contractors go out of business, and then we end up with something completely different. With the development agreement, we can at least have some control.

Yeah, I agree. I think the development agreement offers us some protections.

It sounds like you've already put a lot of it together. It shouldn't take that long, right, if we went down that route? because I think there's a sense of urgency here. But it sounds like you've shared a lot of that. It's just more putting it into an official agreement. Asking a friend? Finding a friend? Someone?

Adam? So I'm going to answer in the typical attorney way. It depends. So recognizing that this concept plan might be more mature than some of the others we've seen, a lot of it will depend on how close we are to something that passes all of our zoning. If we're at a site plan that is pretty close or that would check all the boxes for our zoning, then it will be pretty easy to do in the sense that we can attach the concept plan and then go through and not have to add a lot of additional work. With some of our other development agreements, though, where the concept plan is pretty distant from our zoning ordinance, it takes a lot more work to lock in floors and ceilings for the things that the council wants to see, and so that time can be extended significantly.

Like Elizabeth said, I think the commercial amenities, the commercial doesn't quite hit, so there would have to be some changes, right?

Yes.

So there would have to be some work, but maybe less work than some of the other ones, hopefully.

I'm just trying to speed up our process to get more building done sooner. I mean, we want it right and for what it fits the community, but anything we can do to help move it quicker to get housing within our community, that's all I was kind of trying to pursue, especially where they've given so much information. But if we feel more comfortable with a plan, I'm good with that. Okay, you sit.

Any other discussion? If not, someone's got to make a motion.

So for the development, it would be tabling until? Yeah. Okay. I move that we table ordinance number 2026-0-18, authorizing a zone map amendment located at 5230 and 24 West Center Street and 7710 South State from transit-oriented development to transit-oriented development overlay zone pending the negotiation preparation of a development agreement.

Second.

Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. Is there any more discussion? Liz, you came up. I think she's going to need some direction from us, though.

Yes, that's all. If you can just say exactly what you want in there. I'm hearing height. I'm hearing maybe some specific amenities, just so we have clear direction.

I would like it to look like what we got. if that helps you. I don't know what the other people feel about it, but for me, the height, the way that the commercial is sitting, and some of the amenities, they look a little bit nicer. That's what I would like.

And it'd be the commercial, they do have it in the development agreement that we'll get the 18,000 or 200 less or whatever.

Okay.

But it's in there that that's what they're going to do.

Okay. Anything else?

And I know that might be part of the zoning, but it would be good to have it in a development agreement.

Okay. Anything else?

Denise wanted it named after her, but I told her that's a bad idea.

I would have approved it today if that was going to happen. Thank you.

Okay, we do have a motion and a second on the floor here. So, Rory, will you call the roll and see how this goes?

You bet. Council Member Glover. Aye. Robinson. Aye. Brown.

Yes.

McElhosh. Yes. And Billings. Yes.

Okay. That passes unanimously. We will table that for now pending the development agreement. And we know our staff will work with you to get it done as quickly but as accurately and efficiently as possible. So we appreciate this project and we're looking forward to it moving forward. So thank you so much. Moving on to our second public hearing tonight. Received public comment regarding amendment to Title 17 of the Midvale City Municipal Code relating to home-based micro schools and micro education entities. And here to discuss that is Liz. Liz, come on back up.

Thank you.

Okay, so this is an amendment that came from the legislature, so this is helping our zoning code comply with that. It does a couple things, and sorry that it made the packet look really scary, but we just touched everything and so it had to be included. We have added definitions for home-based micro schools and for micro education entities, and I've included some differences on what those are. much smaller facilities can be operated out of a dwelling unit or an ADU is those home-based micro schools and then micro education entities much larger probably would be a freestanding building, something like that. We have created some supplementary regulations for that. There were things that the state gave us options to add requirements for and we did add everything that we could based on that. We added them all as allowable uses in every zone as per the legislative changes. And then while we were at it, we added charter schools as well because those are also supposed to be allowed uses in every zone. So that has been added. I have included what you see in your packet as the supplementary regulations for these. So, like I said, much smaller, 16 students. It includes employees' children. Big things are going to be the traffic plan, I think, will help with this, and there is some discretion for the city engineer there. I'm imagining we'll be relying fairly heavily on that. Minimal signage. They do have to provide parking, and all their stuff has to meet building code, fire codes, everything like that. for micro education entities, much larger. Their occupancy is really going to be limited by their occupancy classification for state code. So we'll rely on our building official for that. So a maximum of 100 students, I don't know what kind of facility that would have or how big that would have to be to meet that. Again, traffic plan must be reviewed by a city engineer. The other designation that happens is they do have to have access on a minor arterial, which is called out in our transportation master plan. All of our roads got classifications. So they do have to have access to a minor arterial or larger to have this kind of facility. And then much larger parking requirements. They start with a base of eight and then for every additional students, they kind of add stalls as they get more students. Any new buildings, we've outlined the sections of code that they will need to follow because there was some, I don't know, mind mapping tree flow to get there, so we made that very clear. As always, for zoning text amendments, need to find that it meets one or more of the criteria. We find that it promotes the purposes and objectives of the general plan and promotes the purposes and Utah State Code brings us into compliance with the state legislature. legislature. And I've included a motion. I think for me.

Any questions for Liz?

Thank you.

Okay. This is scheduled for a public hearing. Is there a motion to open it to public comment?

Mayor, I motion we open a public hearing. Second.

Okay. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Okay. If anyone from the public wishes to comment on this item, now is a great time. Not seeing anyone, is there a motion to close public comment?

Mayor, I motion to close public comment. Second.

OK, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Yes. Any opposed? OK, public comment is over. There's a recommended motion on the board for council to consider.

Mayor, I move that we approve ordinance number 2026-019, amending title 17 of the Midvale City Municipal Code relating to home-based micro schools and micro education entities with the findings stated in the staff report. Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. Rory, will you call the roll?

Yes. Council Member Robinson? Aye. Brown? Yes. McElasch? Yes. Billings? Yes. And Glover? Aye.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Thank you. Moving on to our third public hearing of the night. Received public comment regarding a zoning code text amendment modifying setback exceptions in various sections of Title 17 based on changes in the Utah State Code from HB 476 in the 2024 general session. Here to discuss that is Jonathan. Jonathan.

Thanks, Mayor. Similar to Elizabeth's last item, this was also a state code change, so we're just modifying Title 17 to come into compliance. This is the section in the state Ordinance 102623, specifically for some residential rear setback limitations that were added. There's a number of definitions that we put in to permit these. I'll note, to be brief, so there's some changes in the definitions. To add the state definitions, reference that. And then to development standard sections of just about every zone except for mixed use Bingham Junction and Jordan Bluffs zone. This is an excerpt of the language that is proposed specifically for landing walkout porch and stairs. This is across the board in all of the sections that are added and then we're permitting window wells or explicitly permitting window wells into the rear yard setback. We've also included a little bit of cleanup just so that there's not any confusion. This is specifically to single family home development standards that where window wells are required in basements for bedrooms and stuff for egress that it's explicitly called out that it's subject to building code standards, which would be reviewed by our building official for permits. And there's also a number of other places that we're just explicitly adding that it references building code because we have some incomplete references that just says international code or building code. So we're just trying to clean that up to the extent possible. For our required findings, we believe that it meets one, two, and three. That it promotes the objectives of the general plan. and purposes of the title. We're also, number two, trying to come into compliance with the Utah State Code. And then we're amending language to clearly state what was intended. And here is our recommended motion.

OK, thank you, Jonathan.

Any questions from councilor?

Hey, this is also a public hearing. Is there a motion to open this to public comment?

Mayor, I motion that we open public hearing. Second.

Okay, all those in favor say aye.

Aye. Yes.

Are there any opposed? Okay, public comment is open. If there's anyone who'd like to comment on this, now's a good time to do it. Not seeing any, is there a motion to close public comment?

Mayor, I motion we close public comment. Second.

Okay, all those in favor say aye.

Yes.

Any opposed? Okay, public comment is closed. There is a recommended motion for council to consider.

Mayor, I move that we approve ordinance number 2026-0-15, modifying setback exceptions in various sections of Title 17 based on changes in the Utah State Code from HB 476 in the 2024 general session as provided in the attachments with the finding noted in the staff report. Second.

OK, we have a motion and a second. Rory, will you call the roll?

Yes. Councilmember Brown?

Yes.

McClush? Yes. Billings? Yes. Glover? Aye. And Robinson? Aye.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Moving on, I do realize I made a mistake earlier. I said there were eight public hearings. There's actually nine of them, so we are almost halfway through. Next one, public hearing D, receive public comment regarding a zoning code amendment to table 17-7-12.2. of the regional commercial zone to increase the allowed percentage for changeable copy signs and adopt specific changeable copy sign regulations in Section 17-7-12. Here to discuss this, Jonathan.

Thanks, Mayor. So this amendment was before the council at the May 5th meeting, I believe, and was tabled for staff to look into our neighboring cities standards for changeable copy, electronic signs, et cetera. So this is coming back before you. We had the deadline of next meeting in June to bring this back. This was included in the packet. This is a breakdown of some of the information that we found across, this is our four adjacent cities, and then Draper was mentioned at one point, so we also pulled code from there. I'll go into these a little bit. Cottonwood Heights, they permit essentially only billboards in certain overlay zones to become electronic animation movement changeable copy, however that all works out. And that's typically only done to existing non-conforming signs in the application or in the applicant's materials, they actually did identify one of these that is on Union Park. That's across Union Park Avenue from our border. Based on the size of the sign, there's a limitation of the brightness at a certain distance based on a formula, and that's pretty much almost across the board. For all of the other cities as well, and then they don't permit any sort of animation flashing scrolling Sandy they permit pylon. So this is not a billboard. It's an on-premise so if you take like the Shopping center down here view 72 for Riverwalk. Those are examples of pylon signs and they also allow monument signs to have these sort of signs, and they do a cap of 50% of the sign area as electronic, reader board, changeable copy, etc. They also require a dimmer switch, which the rest of them also do as well. West Jordan has animated changeable copy and electronic LED signs wherever those sign types are permitted with different percentages based on the sign type. LED being 50% of the sign area. And they also have a cutoff time for billboards. from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. if it's 300 feet from residential for them to be shut off. Murray permits electronic message centers in commercial zones, and they also have a similar cutoff time for near residential. Draper... They permit electronic message centers on 123rd South Draper Parkway. They don't have any size limits and similar to the rest, they have dimmer switches and calculation of the light at a certain distance. What we have brought to you today, essentially to paraphrase our neighboring cities, a proposed increase from 25% of assigned area to 50%, so doubling our current standard, and then adopting specific standards for changeable copy pertaining to the illumination and movement of it. to limit the brightness at the property line and to also not include any sort of animation, you know, scrolling. Essentially they'd be able to do a still image and rotate it every eight seconds with this proposal. They'd also have to submit a photometric plan to show compliance with these requirements. And then we would propose also a period of activity from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. on any sort of sign that would be permitted. It was brought up where this would be applicable. Currently, this is only proposed for the regional commercial zone. So this is the light red. This is the whole city zoning map. The Fort Union shopping center area from about 700 east all the way to Union Park. This is the largest area of regional commercial that we have. high tech drive to State Street. There's also a significant portion there that has this. Just south of us here, I believe this is Allen Street by the new fire station and I-15. There's some significant spot of regional commercial there. I'm just highlighting this as areas where this would be adopted if it were approved. There's a couple little spots here and there in the city, but these are the significant ones. You've seen this criteria three times already tonight. If you feel these changes are what you got it last time in May for this, we've got a proposed finding for criteria number one and two. that it facilitates commercial business and provides commercial activity to occur in accordance with state code. If you don't, then we would recommend either tabling or denying the amendment.

I just want to say thanks on this. It was a little bit more work, but I think this is absolutely the best way for us to make a decision. I think sometimes we... You know, we don't know what makes sense for an area or whatever, and this is incredible work for us to really see the big picture. I also think, unrelated, looking at that map of regional commercial, especially that third picture, do we ever go back like that east side? I think that's right, is that Wasatch? Right?

Oh, no, that's 72nd. But like that south end of it.

Yeah, the center street. Yeah. Like that south end. Could anyone ever build there? Do we ever go back and look and say, hey, maybe we should rezone that to the properties next to it that fits the size? Because that's like a really weird shape, at least the south end. This one right here? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I believe UDOT.

I don't even think you can build on that. Yeah, I think UDOT owns that property because it was, yeah, when the 250.

Never mind then. Yeah. I just thought, like, why would that be there? But that makes sense.

Yeah, there was an old commercial condo building that was torn down when they widened 215 a few years ago.

Anyways, thank you. That's all I was going to say. I thought that was weird, so I appreciate it.

Any other questions for Jonathan?

Just want to second the thank you for the research and insight. Very helpful.

Okay, and I think the original applicant is here. I don't know if you have anything you want to add. You don't have to.

I would just say thank you for your time.

For the record, he said thank you for the time. Okay, gotcha. Officially. And I did want to say very quickly, this is one of those issues Dean reached out to me and others. And this is a great example of reaching out to the elected leaders, the city staff who can work on these issues and work with a business owner and come up with a solution that works for everyone. Thank you for reaching out. We never would have known about it had you not, if you just got that denial and took your sign down. But I think this is a good step forward, not just for you and your business, but for other light businesses around you.

If I can just take one minute. Okay. And if you can just state your name for the record. Dean Cardinale, Worldwide Trekking, Midvale, Utah. I want to thank you guys for your time. I learned a lot in this process. And reaching out to my mayor was part of that process, learning how to talk to our elected official and learn the ins and outs, as well the planning department. I try to do as much as I can for the community. I am proud to say that we are working with the Boys and Girls Clubs to bring Children up to Snowbird and Brighton two days a week all summer. And I know you mentioned a lot of the programs that are going on that summer, and that's one we're really proud of, and we are proud to be part of this community. So thank you. Thank you.

And we do have a representative from the Boys and Girls Club here today who might want to talk to you as well. This is a public hearing. Is there a motion to open this to public comment?

Mayor, I motion that we open public comment. Second.

Okay, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Are there any opposed? Okay, public comment is open. Is there anyone who would like to give comment at this time? Seeing none, is there a motion to close public comment?

I motion we close public comment. Second.

Okay, all those in favor say aye.

Yes. Yes. Aye.

Any opposed? Okay, public comment is ended. There is a recommended motion for council to consider.

Mayor, I move that we approve ordinance number 2026-0-16, amending table 17-7-12.10 of the regional commercial zone to increase the allowed percentage for changeable copy signs and adopt specific changeable copy sign regulations in section 17-7-12.10 as provided in the attachments with the findings noted in the staff report.

Second.

OK, we have a motion and a second. Rory, will you call the roll?

Yes, Council Member McElhosh. Yes. Billings. Yes. Glover. Aye. Robinson. Aye. And Brown. Yes.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Thank you, everyone, for your hard work on that. I know it was unusual to do that much research, but we're glad we got a great product in the end. Moving on to our fifth public hearing of the night. Received public comment on the Midvale City tentative fiscal year 2027 budget beginning July 1st, 2026 and ending on June 30th, 2027. Here, as always, to discuss is Mariah Hill. Mariah, give us all the great numbers.

Yeah. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I want to be honest with you. I've got a lot going on tonight on this agenda. So if I, like, am fumbling, my brain's been in a lot of different places. But hopefully we'll get through this. Okay. I'm basically going to present the tentative budget as you adopted it, since this is a public hearing on the tentative budget. But I will note where things have changed a little bit since the tentative budget. But the numbers as they are shown is the tentative budget. Okay. Just an overview is that this presentation provides a high level budget overview, detailed line item information is available on our website and was included in the meeting packet. The budget represents the city's initial, the tentative budget represents the city's initial estimates and revenues and expenditures for each fund and all departments are organized within those funds. The tentative budget is a working document and as I said, changes have already occurred and I will note those where I can. It was prepared by the finance department and the city manager and is formally presented by the city's budget officer, which is our city manager. This budget reflects an effort to maintain current service levels while addressing rising costs and identifying reductions where feasible in uncertain economic environment. And the adoption of the tentative budget, which you did at our first meeting in May, is required by law, and that marked the official beginning of the process. Now we're kind of in the middle. The tentative budget includes a proposed public safety property tax increase, as we've discussed. And just a note that I usually present this as year to year comparisons, but because some structural and accounting changes that we made, some of those, that's not really doing apples to apples this year, and so that's not the way that this is presented as it usually has been. Just a note on our timeline, we had a budget and strategy workshop April 3rd. I always like to show this just so that people can note that this is not something that just like came to be this meeting or whatever, right? And even, I should say, when did finance departments start working on this? End of January. So this is a big document that takes a lot of time and effort, but we first presented a version of it or ideas in it to you guys on April 3rd. You guys adopted the tenant budget on May 5th. We're holding our attended a budget public hearing today. And then a bit of a change with the public safety property tax increase is that next meeting you'll adopt an interim budget and then a certified tax rate for the Midvale City portion of property taxes and then a proposed public safety property tax increase for the public safety fund. And that will push us into the truth in taxation, which I'll talk a little bit more about later. And then we'll have our truth in taxation public hearing and adoption of the final budget on August 11th. For the general fund, our total revenues are just below $24 million. Like I said, this is a decrease of 20% from last year. One of the major structural changes is that we are receding our homeless mitigation funding directly into the public safety fund that funds our police, and so that made a big shift in the general fund. Our taxes are about $18.4 million. License and permits, $870,000. Our intergovernmental revenue is $1.4 million. Charges for services, $2.3 million. Fines and forfeitures, $660,000. Miscellaneous revenue and use of fund balance, about $250,000. And then again, I don't usually just throw the budget tables up there, but I wanted to kind of go line by line and talk about our revenues. and how they're changing. And maybe I won't go line by line, but you can see that there's a lot of dynamic happening in that differences column. Some things are going up a little. Some things are going up a tiny bit. Some things are going down a lot. So this is all just the work that I I do to make sure that as new revenues and information comes in every day of the week, I'm checking those to see how that impacts what our revenue projections will be and how that will impact our general fund. A breakdown of the percentage of our tax revenues. Just always love to point out that our property taxes are just a really small piece of our pie, and this is just the tax revenues as we collect them, not all the general fund sources, but property taxes in Midvale. are pretty small compared specifically to our sales tax. And then to talk about sales tax specifically, the pie on the left is the total amount that you pay when you buy something in Midvale City, 7.8, 7.4, And the only 1% of that actually is a local sales and use tax. So that's what eventually kind of makes its way back to the city. And the other piece of that is my penny graphic that I'm so proud of, which is that of every dollar that you spend, the penny that is local use and sales tax, half of that does come directly to Midvale. The other half goes into a statewide pool that then is distributed based on the percent of the population of the whole state that we are. A look at our sales tax for this year. We actually are projecting a bit of an increase back to what exactly our fiscal year 2025 actuals is. Our sales tax is distributed to the city monthly by the Utah State Tax Commission. It's on a two-month delay, so what we got distributed in May is from March sales. Sales tax are the most susceptible tax to economic trends, and as our economy is showing continued signs of slowing and declines in consumer spending and confidence, I'm always careful with this. Like I said, I'm looking at new data every time it comes in. Statewide, the sales tax is still showing 1-2 percent of overall growth, but does that always reflect back in Midville? Not necessarily. Another note is that they released the Utah Population Committee numbers, which is what now our population factor is based off of and it showed a decrease we'll likely see a decrease in our population. We will see a decrease in our population factor and what we get for that half of the penny starting in our June distribution. Again, so this is our licenses and permits and our intergovernmental revenue, and I just wanted to show just kind of all the changes that are happening without having to really list them out one by one, but business licenses declining, building permits going up a little bit, and when you think about a $24 million in revenue, and you would think $19,000, you know, does that matter? Should we be taking that into account? Yes, we are on every line looking at every dollar in every space that we can. Similarly, here's our charges for services. Like I said, look, there's one line changing by $651. That's what we're doing in these budgets in these tight years. Fines and forfeitures is one that is decreasing significantly. I'm hoping with the next couple months of data that will increase. We had seen a pretty deep decline in that, but it seems to be coming back up. Then on the expenditure side of the general fund, there really isn't that many changes. One of the major ones is our personnel. So like I said, we did some accounting changes, structural changes, and one of those was going through and looking at all our employees. We haven't done this since I've been here to make sure that they're being paid out of the place that their time is being spent. So we went through and I sat with every manager and department had to make sure that that was correct. And you can see the changes to that on that table in the left. And then the tentative budget does include a 3% cost of living adjustment for all employees, a 1% merit, targeted market and midpoint adjustments. And then we had a 5% increase in our medical costs, 4.6% in our dental. And then the URS contributions, those come from the legislatures. Those actually did have a decrease on the city side and an increase on the employee contribution side. We also have the removal of a part-time finance clerk, and then we have reclassified our policy and project manager to an economic development manager to hopefully help with the sales tax piece of it. And then we are still kind of waiting open enrollment for our employees opened yesterday. They have 10 days to make those selections, and then we will budget based off of those actuals of everyone's selections, however those change. Another thing that we're doing structurally is that we have internal service funds that we charge to all departments. And for IT, we had been lumping together the cost of operations and equipment replacement. We're breaking those out since it's kind of a one time versus ongoing thing. So those are charged separately in all accounts. And then this year, actually, we are pausing equipment charges across the board. This is helping the general fund a little bit this year. And the IT internal service fund has enough of a fund balance to kind of hold that up for a little bit. And then again, like I said, we're looking at things in hundreds of dollars. So our department wide cuts across the general fund totaled over $31,000 and that happened over 25 different line items ranging from 100 to $5,000. I didn't list those all out, but it was again an effort from our department heads to make sure that we're being as frugal as we can, especially when we're going to ask for property tax increases from our residents. This is really the rest of the expenditure changes in the general fund is that we had some large decreases. We removed some legal professional services that I promised Garrett if we get sued, we will put those back in there. We don't have an election this year, so we didn't need that. We were able to decrease some IT software costs. We removed a one-time signal from this year upgrade and we had a decrease in building inspection professional services because we brought that in-house. And then just a few small increases is that we had some communication software increases. We have a one-time cost related to we purchased a lot of radios and then the way we were going to use those radios shifted, and so we need to put in some one-time costs to build a radio to use those. The Utah Renewable Energy Program costs and a 10-year sign replacement plan in the streets department, that's funded by restricted B and C road funds. And then a planning commission needed a little bit more money. So overall, all the departments decreased or stayed steady. I think Public Works did decrease, but by not a percentage that was viable to show in these numbers. So these are the pending changes. The inflation numbers have come back higher than 3%. We anticipate that they probably will in May as well for April. And so I think we are going to be able to afford a 3.5% COLA for our employees, but that will just kind of be depending on if the April CPI in May comes back higher than that. We won't do that. We'll match it, but we kind of do have some leeway to do that. And then, like I mentioned, the actual benefit selections. And then we have had a one-time request come from the Boys and Girls Club that I'm going to let Bonnie speak to you guys about.

Thank you. I just want to give a little background. I've been working with Jamie, who is the executive director of the Boys and Girls Club here in Utah, and as well as Dylan Hayes, he's on the board of Boys and Girls Club, to make sure that the Boys and Girls Club stays a really strong and accessible asset to our community. This year they have requested a $45,000 one-time contribution in addition to the $40,000 that we give them as part of our normal ongoing budget. And I just wanted to kind of say and encourage our fellow council members to consider providing this as part of the tentative budget. Again, like I said, to make sure the Boys and Girls Club remains a strong and accessible part of our community. The request is also personal to me because I was a club kid growing up. The Boys and Girls Club provided me with opportunities, mentorship, and a safe place to grow and play during important phases of my life. The memories, lessons, and support that I received helped shape the person I am today, and I don't know if I'd be sitting here without the Boys and Girls Club. I do think it's such an important thing to do to invest in the club this year. Today, the Midvale Boys and Girls Club serves approximately 400 youth and teen members. And it provides a safe and supportive environment where young people can learn, build relationships, develop leadership skills, and stay engaged in positive activities during your critical after school hours. It's an investment in our youth, but it's also an economic investment. According to the Boys and Girls Club of America, every $1 invested in a Boys and Girls Club returns an estimated $10.32 in current and future earnings and cost savings to the community. So I really want to encourage the board to consider this one-time request for this fiscal year and add that to our tentative budget as we move forward.

Do we know what the additional money is for?

Do you want to? Yeah. Yes.

And then if you can just state your name for the record.

Yeah, absolutely. I'm Jamie Dunn. I'm acting CEO for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Salt Lake. I have been involved with the Midvale Club since it opened over 26 years ago, also as a club kid, and then as staff working with the youth and now as a professional member. So one thing that hasn't changed over the 26 years is the commitment and support from Midvale City and the Midvale community for the Boys and Girls Club. And really the city has shown up for the youth and families over and over again. So just want to thank you guys for that. As far as these funds right now, we have lost significant federal funding in the last two years. And so what our goal is, is to be able to continue to serve youth at a higher capacity a capacity that we saw in prior years before we lost those funds. And so with this money, we would be able to serve an additional 15 to 20 youth per day, which would be about 65 to 70 youth a day.

So, which I think is great, but what would next year look like for those 15 to 20 youth? Would you need us to do it again?

Yeah, that's a good question. We're actively working through philanthropy. We have already secured additional funding to make up for part of that loss in federal funds. But that loss was over $2 million. And so it does take time to build that back up. And so we have actually secured $1 million in funds to kind of help with that gap in the last year. We've also made real significant cuts to our programs and to our budget. And so we have not made those cuts at our Midvale Club. We do serve about 90 or 93% of our youth do come from low income households at Midvale. And our budget at that club is about $600,000 a year to run that facility. And we only charge families about $4,000 in membership fees throughout the entire year. And so we do have plans to be able to secure those funds in the coming year and be at a place where we're able to continue to grow again. But again, it's just taking us some time.

I think it might be worth noting too that you, because of all these budget cuts, you've had to close one or was it one or two?

We've closed two locations, one in Poplar Grove area downtown and then one in Carbon County in Price, Utah.

That's too bad, and I think the unfortunate thing is we could see this coming, right? We see a drastic cut from the federal government based on a certain administration's plans. We will not see a cut in our taxes. And in fact, now we're going to see an increase in local governments to cover the cost because these things are very much needed. So this is a very much an unforced error in sporting terms that we shouldn't even be considering this. Like, this is really silly that we're doing this. Not that you're requesting it. And I understand why you're here. But the fact that we had to cut boys and girls clubs while... You know, I can get really, it doesn't matter. Thank you. I appreciate it. I think it's silly we're here. We shouldn't be. And it's a lesson learned, hopefully, from the community.

I appreciate that. To your point, we have seen an increase in the need of the Boys and Girls Club services. We currently have enrolled with summer programs starting this coming Monday at the Midvale Club. We have enrolled 135 youth, and we have 80 kids on the wait list for the summer program.

I know it would be absolutely catastrophic if the Midvale Club were to close and anything we can do to prevent that from happening. I know in the time that I've spent there, I'm just always inspired by the youth who are there, also your staff who are angels sent from somewhere because just the stuff that they do with the kids is inspiring. As well, as Council Member Billings mentioned, the economic benefit, which is not something, you know, I think the personal benefit to the kids and the staff is what we should focus on. But there is an economic benefit to having our families here in Utah, or here in Midvale, who they wouldn't be able to work otherwise. If kids weren't able to go somewhere after school, they'd have to be home for them. And providing that economic benefit not just to Midvale City but to those families who now have additional income because they can send their kids to great programming after school at the Boys and Girls Club I think is invaluable to the community.

Thank you. Any other questions I can answer?

Well, just generally, this isn't a specific vote on...

Thank you.

Thanks, Mayor.

I was like... This isn't a specific vote. It's more of a, are you guys good with us keeping it in for the next bite at this budget apple? Sure, we'll go with that. But anyway, so just to clarify, it's sort of more of a straw poll than it is a vote on the specific request.

the only thing i'd like to see is if you put it in what it does to the our percentage of what we're getting tax increase would be.

I mean, the short answer is this is one-time money and it wouldn't happen. This would come out of. Yeah.

So this will come out of our fund balance. It will not have any impact on the property tax increase. And because of that very much as a one-time request, they have submitted us a formal request. And so I would have no intention of including it ongoing as we do their initial 40,000 that we give each year.

Okay. Thank you.

Okay.

Yes, include. Does anyone want another bite at the budget apple? I'll keep going then. All right. We have a debt service fund. Total budget for that is just about $1.8 million. This just exists. It's money coming from different places to help pay our debt service. So that's pretty straightforward. For our capital projects fund, we have a budget of $1.5 million. This is the capital projects fund always begins kind of small, but we carry over projects when we do budget amendments. So this is just kind of we always have sidewalk curb and gutter replacement and pavement management funds from some specific sales tax. We do have a new project which we'll just use fund balance in the capital projects fund which is to put new restrooms in the Midvale City Park. We have some facility maintenance that needs to be done for about $42,000, and then we do get annual money from HB 244, $500,000. That's being put towards the Stag Street project right now. So this is as it will stand in the budget, but it will be amended to carry forward other projects that are planned. continuing from this fiscal year. Here's a summary of our enterprise funds. Just wanted to show that mainly they are pretty healthy right now. All of them are having a contribution to their fund balance. However, that's not just like extra money. They all have needed capital projects, master plans that we're working through, and bond payments that are coming online and things like that. So that's just temporarily this year. Some notable changes in all of the enterprise funds is throughout the enterprise funds, they also have the personnel changes that I noted earlier, new allocations, COLA merit, market midpoint, all of that. There are some operational cost updates, but none of those were significant. And then across the board, we are able to fund our enterprise funds this year with no rate increases to our water, sewer, stormwater fees. In the water fund, we did have an 11.5% increase in the cost of the water that we purchased from Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District. And then we have included funds to update the water master plan. In the sewer fund, we had a 3.5% increase from South Valley Water Reclamation Facility and the addition of operation and maintenance costs related to a back station that is coming online that's developer built and we are taking ownership of this year. In the stormwater, they just did complete their master plan. So a few additions to that is the addition of a camera truck for an additional $350,000. This is why they have a use of fund balance in the stormwater fund. And then addition of ongoing capital outlay for the master plan of $100,000 annually. And then in the street lighting fund, the street light master plan is in the works and so some additional funds to make sure that we can do what that says that we need to do. For our internal service funds, the fleet fund has a budget of just over $2.2 million. This does include all the operations for our fleet vehicles and the capital replacements are fully funded. They also have some personnel paid out of there and that includes the personnel changes as discussed. The replacements are listed out there, and then the addition of the camera truck. The replacement charges are those monies that are put in every year and built up, so that's all just sitting in that fund, and then additional money being transferred for the camera truck. In our information technology fund, just under $400,000. Like I noted before, we're splitting the operation and capital replacement charges to this fund. And while we're pausing the capital replacement funding, we still will be doing the annual replacements with fund balance. They also have the personnel changes. We did remove, if you're looking at the table in the budget book, we've removed $200,000. That was one-time money for new CD software that's going into place. Then we have historically had server switch replacements every year. We don't actually have any of that this year, so that's helpful. Before we talk about the public safety fund, I'm just going to do a little property tax 101. That property tax rates in Utah are revenue driven, not rate driven, so we get a specific revenue amount. We don't keep our rate the same every year. We have this graphic that I upgraded. I didn't upgrade. I had help upgrading from last time, which is that we get a baseline property tax amount. So if we do nothing year to year, if we don't need any additional property taxes, then what happens is when property values increase, then the property tax rate actually decreases. Similarly, if your property values decrease, then your property tax rate would increase. Increases in property values... So that's like the very basic way that it would work. However, if like your property increases and your neighbor's decreases, then that is going to shift the tax burden among property owners. So if your tax bill is changing year to year, that's likely because of what's happening to properties around Midvale rather than that taxes not not probably it's probably both things because at any given year you have 12 entities on your property tax bill and one of those are likely going to be raising taxes, but You can pay attention to that on your tax evaluation notice that you get in July. Also, primary residential properties receive a 45% exemption on their taxable value. And then if we need additional revenue above what we had last year for our property taxes, we may get new growth. Communities that are building a lot, they will see that. We see that pretty minimally here in Midvale. Or we need to go through the truth in taxation process, which I will talk about now. So we've done this the last four years but there were some changes in the legislature this year so the process looks a little bit different. So in May we adopted the tentative budget and a property impact schedule which is a new piece that just really outlines what exactly the property tax increase is and what would be the impact of getting it or not getting it per department. So we have looked at that every time we've talked about a budget which is a part of the new We also heard a lovely explanation from Matt as a budget officer, both saying that he intended to present a property tax increase. Oh, you weren't here for that. You looked confused. And then also make the statement that we are intending to raise property taxes. We have notified Salt Lake County and the Tax Commission of the proposed increase prior to June 1st. And then you all in May also, or before June 1st, June 13th, we did it in time, had to adopt a statement of intent that we may increase property taxes. And then we posted our notices for the public hearing on the tentative budget, which is happening tonight. In June, so we still don't have 2026 tax information for this meeting. So still the numbers that I'm showing are 2025. I'm like stalking the tax commission right now, refreshing the page every five minutes to see what's changing because any number they put in kind of shifts things. So I'm keeping a close eye on that. But we don't have it yet. We will for the next meeting, which would also give us our certified tax rate. So all of the percentages I'm going to show you in numbers, they're all going to shift a little bit because we're going to have a different valuation. We're going to have a different average value of a household. So we're still operating off 2025. tax information right now. We're conducting the public hearing on the tentative budget right now and then in the next meeting in June you'll adopt a proposed tax rate that includes the increase for the public safety property tax. We'll adopt the certified tax rate for the Middletown City rate. This is all quite confusing. I'm sorry. And then instead of adopting the final budget in June and kind of operating off of that, we'll adopt it or operating off the tentative budget as was previously allowed, we'll adopt what's called an interim budget that will restrict the revenue generated by the property tax increase but will give the city something to operate off of until we adopt the final budget. Then through July and August, we have various noticing requirements, including valuation notices. We have to put the county-wide, everyone in the county who's doing property taxes, that has to be on the main page of our website. We'll have public hearing notices, and we have to put those on different websites and things like that. Lots of noticing me and Rory and Matt will make sure that we're getting it all right. I hope. And then in August, we'll conduct the Truth in Taxation hearing. And this, we are required to allow for virtual participation. So that's a little different than our regular meetings, but we will have to allow for that. And they'll adopt the final budget. And then within seven days, I have to provide evidence of compliance to the Utah State tax commission, like pictures, making sure that we had the public impact statement out on the thing. And it's going to be a very large document. I'm collecting things as I go. And then we have to file the budget with the state auditor. The only other thing to note is the property tax impact schedule. We go, it's scheduled technically, and I use statement a lot, has to be included as a separate item on all agendas where the budget is discussed. So we've had that every time and we'll continue to anytime there's something budget related. You adopted the initial one, you'll adopt one next time, but we are allowed to present changes to that as we've gone. So I'm just keeping the updated versions to put along with that. So sorry, I know that's a lot. I just want to make sure you're up to date on why things seem different than they have in the previous years. And so then here's also just the outline of that. We've had our budget open houses. In addition to the requirements where we had one today, we'll hold another one on the 16th. But that's in addition to what is required. That's not a requirement. Okay, so for the Public Safety Special Revenue Fund, just wanted to note that this was created last year to house all of our public safety-related revenues and expenses. And for our revenues, we have the public safety property tax. This tentative budget includes a proposed increase. I moved the state homeless mitigation funding. We were receding that into the general fund and then transferring it to the public safety fund. Now we're just receding it into the public safety fund. We've got some interest revenue that's new in fiscal year 27 because we collect on delinquent taxes and that's where we put that. It's a very minimal amount of money. And then also the motor vehicle in lieu of tax is related to the property tax rate. And so the portion of that that we're getting related to the public safety property tax, we're putting into the public safety fund. And then the transfer from the general fund still makes up the bulk of the revenue for this fund. For our expenditures, really just three things. We have our animal control contract with Salt Lake County. our emergency manager contract with Unified Fire, and then the Unified Police Department. The tentative budget had a 3.1% increase. Their adopted tentative budget had a 2.92% increase. So some of the things. So this is the tentative budget version. But a few things to note is that we actually have about $600,000 more in state homeless mitigation funding that has come in. So that has helped our original numbers a lot. Also, the unified police contract is less than what is stated here. So with those things taken into account, this is the proposed public safety property tax increase as it is today. Like I said, tomorrow, if I have, when I'm refreshing the tax commission page, things come up, these numbers will change. So all the... Amount of new revenue that we need to generate is just under $78,000. So this is about an 8.5% increase in the property tax rate and will result in the average residential property having additional $5.50 per year to their property tax they pay to Midvale and $10.11 for the commercial property of the same value. Any questions?

I just, I've already said one soapbox today, so I will not do another one. Other than I really appreciate the time, and when we have the Truth in Taxation in a couple months, and when people come in to say we don't tell them anything, or kind of throw you guys under the bus, I'll be sure to remind them of the nine items today, and the hour and the time we spent on a presentation. that I think we do a really good job of being transparent. That's why I will not get any more on a soapbox than that. So thank you. Thank you.

Any other questions for Mariah? Was that thank you that I'm not getting on a soapbox? Maybe. Okay. Review the video.

The only thing I would recommend, and I don't want you to do it tonight, but maybe in one of the other presentations, when you say we do get an increase from the property that was developed this year, You might, because everybody's looking at all the development down here.

I don't have those numbers yet.

Yeah. But what I'm saying is they need to understand that we don't get all the increase because of the RDA. Yeah. I just put that in there so that they understand that we are getting growth. But we're not getting the full taxation yet. Yeah. We will.

I have a hard time talking about new growth when I don't have numbers to put to it because it is such like a, yes. But when I have them in the next presentation, I will do that.

That's, it just makes, it helps them understand that, because they're seeing the growth. Yeah.

So, yeah. And we've like, I think last year, the year before I was like, oh, maybe we'll get $50,000 in new growth. And then we got like $3,900.

And if you look down there and everything that's gone in, you'd say, well, what is going on? Yeah.

Yeah. Any other questions for Mariah? Well, there's a lot to be proud of in this budget, and there are a lot of folks who worked very hard, Mariah being one of them, Matt as well, I think, will start to be able to sleep at night again now that the mitigation funding has been- He did fully come to me this morning and be like, you let the tax commission know we're raising taxes, right?

And that was like three months ago, yeah.

But also our partners with UPD as well, getting that budget down to 2.92% of an increase was a heavy lift, and you guys did it very well, and we appreciate all your efforts in doing so. We'll have plenty of opportunities to talk to the public about this in the future, but this is one of the many public hearings on the schedule for tonight. Is there a motion to open this to public comment?

Mayor, I motion we open public comment. Second.

Okay, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? There's anyone from the public who would like to comment, please do. Seeing none, is there a motion to close public comment?

Motion to close public comment. Second.

Okay, all those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Okay, this is not an action item tonight. Okay, so we'll move on then to public hearing F. Receive public comment on the Midvale City fiscal year 2027 fee schedule and utility rates. Mariah.

Yeah, Matt's going to bring this up, but we, just because we've just done the amendments for the fiscal year 2026, there actually is no changes for this, but we do adopt it with the fiscal year, and so this is just for you to receive public comment and make sure that we've properly done what we need to to adopt it for fiscal year 2027. Okay.

Any questions for Mariah? Is there a motion to open this to public comment?

May I motion we open public comment? Second.

Okay, all those in favor say yes.

Aye.

Any opposed? Aye. Okay, this is open to public comment. If anyone from the public wishes to give comment, that would be the point of public comment. Seeing none, is there a motion to close public comment?

Mayor, I motion we close public comment. Second.

Okay, all those in favor say yes.

Yes. Aye.

Any opposed? Okay. This is not an action item either.

None of my public comments are tonight.

Perfect. Moving on. Received public comment regarding increased compensation for executive municipal officers. Mariah.

This is a new requirement, not from this legislative session, but the one previous that we just needed to hold a public hearing if we are increasing the compensation for any of our executive municipal officers. These are those that we have designated after some conversations last year and then noted here are the increases related to the standard coal and merit that is for all employees and where applicable market targeted market increases are applicable. Yeah, that's enough.

Any questions for Mariah as she steps away from the podium? This is also a public hearing. Is there a motion to open this to public comment?

Mayor, I motion we open public hearing. Second.

OK. All those in favor say yes.

Aye.

Any opposed? OK. Is there anyone from the public who would like to comment on this item? Seeing not one muscle moved, is there a motion to close public comment?

Mayor, I motion we close public comment. Second.

Okay, all those in favor say yes.

Yes.

Any opposed? Okay, as we know, there is not an action associated with this one, so we'll move right along to receive public comment regarding setting salaries for elected and statutory appointed officers for Midvale City. Mariah.

So every year we also adopt this with our budget, which basically is all of the pay scales for all the positions in the city. And this one really just reflects all of the pay scales as they were. It takes into account market adjustments. And then this one has the 3.5% COLA represented in it. And if that will be different, we will show an updated version for adoption with the budget next meeting.

Okay, thank you. Any questions for Mariah? Is there a motion to open this to public comment?

Mayor, I motion we open public comment.

Second.

Okay, all those in favor say yes. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, is there anyone from the public who'd like to comment on this item? Seeing none, I always just keep looking at the one member of the public who's here, and if she comes up, we'll let her. Is there a motion to close public comment?

Mayor, I motion we close public comment.

Second.

Okay, all those in favor say yes.

Yes. Aye.

Any opposed? Okay, no public comment on that one either. We'll move on then to public hearing number nine, or eight, what was it? Received public comment regarding proposed amendments to the fiscal year 2026 general fund budget and other funds as necessary. Mariah.

Yes, this one I actually do. I think it speaks to we're operating on a tight budget. And at the end of the year, because of that, there could be a lot of maneuvering that I have to do. But I don't. This is very simple. And I just want that to speak to the staff and what they're doing to make sure that they're operating within the budgets that they've been given. So in the general fund, I am projecting it. For fiscal year 26, we had a decrease and projected a decrease in our sales tax, but actually that has been coming back more to fiscal year 25 actual. So we have room to increase that $41,000, and that will go to fund some benefits that just were out of whack a little bit in the city council and finance department. Those need to be updated. And then we have a transfer to the public safety fund for the wildlife contract that I just didn't get included in the original budget. And then we have a use of fund balance increasing by quite a bit but that's because always at this time of year I need to move because our fund balance right now is sitting pretty healthfully right around 34 and a half percent. I need to make sure that I have budgeted space to move that excess into the capital projects fund to use for projects as we need there. So that's to help make sure I have that. I don't know exactly what we'll need to do by way of that until the audit is done, but that's there so that it's budgeted to be there. And then we're transferring to the water fund. We had, it's partially the ARPA funds, but the money that the fund balance in the general fund had said they would contribute to the public works facility. So that's just budgeting for that transfer in this fiscal year. For other funds, the public safety fund is increasing by $6,000 to account for paying for the wildlife contract. The capital projects fund is increasing to account for the transfer from the general fund. And then we bonded in September of 2025, and we hadn't budgeted recording the proceeds from the sale of those bonds. So that's in the water and sewer fund as well as the associated issuance costs with those bonds.

And that's everything. Okay, thank you, Mariah. Any questions? Is there a motion to open this to public comment?

Motion to open public comment. Second.

Okay, all those in favor say yes.

Yes.

Any opposed? Is there anyone from the public who'd like to comment on this item? Okay, is there a motion to close public comment? We all keep looking at her.

Mayor, I motion we close public comment. Second.

Okay, all those in favor say yes. Yes. Any opposed? Okay, we got through those nine public hearings. Thank you, Mariah and staff. We'll move on then to the consent agenda. We have one item, and that's to consider the minutes of May 19th, 2026. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?

We have a motion. We approve the consent agenda. Second.

Okay, motion and second. Rory, will you call the roll?

Yes. Council Member Brown? Yes. McAulish? Yes. Billings? Yes. Glover? Aye. Ann Robinson? Aye.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Next, we have a couple of action items. First, consider ordinance number 2026017, establishing the community clean energy program in Midvale City. And while I go down to the podium, if we can pull up the PowerPoint. Okay, just so everyone knows, it is absolutely freezing up here, so.

Hopefully you guys are okay.

Okay. All right. Well, to paraphrase City Manager Dahl, we're getting another bite at the Community Clean Energy Program, Apple. I presented this to you at our last council meeting. So today we'll look for action to actually join the program by passing the resolution. So go on here. I included two new cartoons for people. There's the Simpsons classic. It's pronounced nuclear. And renewable energy, I'm a big fan. Moving on. It went over great. It went over well with Matt, I will say that. So just a reminder, I'm going to go through these slides pretty quickly. We had a pretty robust discussion last meeting. But just a little bit about the URC program, the Community Clean Energy Program, obviously is a brand new program. It gives Utahns the ability to choose clean, reliable, affordable, clean energy through Rocky Mountain Power. Again, the program was designed through a partnership between Rocky Mountain Power and the Community Renewable Energy Agency, sometimes referred to as URC. sometimes referred to a lot of things, but if it has something to do with clean energy, we're probably talking about the URC or the community clean energy. If we adopt the program, that is to say if the council approves the ordinance in the packet today, all eligible Rocky Mountain Power customers in Midvale will have a new option for choosing clean energy through their power bill. And as a reminder, by investing in clean energy, URC will help meet Utah's growing energy needs while keeping power reliable and air cleaner for generations. So that is a lofty goal to have. We went over this last time. I did add to this slide, you'll see phase one, two, three, and four. Phase four, when we achieve equilibrium, whenever we have a net 100% renewable. Some people did ask, I think Council Member Billings asked, when phase four, what is the projection for that? And we would hope to be in phase four by 2030. Awesome, thank you. A little bit about the process. I'll skip through here. I talked about this at length last meeting. Just as a reminder, Midvale City was the 19th and final community to join program and we are the 19th and final city to vote on whether to pass the ordinance to join or not. So we joined in I believe August 2024 and then in May 2025 we made our second payment. We're about $22,000 into this program between the two payments we made. A lot of that money has gone to getting us to where we are today and that is helping pay for the attorneys and everyone who helped negotiate the plan with the Public Service Commission. May 2025, we made that second payment that created an opportunity for me to be a voting member of the board. I used to kind of just sit there and let everyone else vote and it was weird that I was there, but I have been voting on that board for over a year now. Right behind Matt's head, you'll see on March 4th, I believe it was, yeah, March 4th, the program was approved, so the Public Service Commission reviewed and released the final order. June 2nd, that is today, you'll remember the last meeting, I mentioned the date, June 2nd, about 30 times, because today is the last day, so we need to make a decision before midnight. And I'm hoping to get through the slideshow before midnight. Okay, went over this, but just as a reminder, when the Public Service Commission approved, issued the order, I should say, that started this 90-day clock, which today is day 90, June 2nd, so final city to enter the program, final city to vote on it. So far, 15 communities have formally adopted the program. Some of these include our favorites, SLC, Salt Lake City, Springdale, Emigration Canyon, Moab, Park City, Francis, Ogden, Oakley, Summit County, Grand County, Salt Lake County, Alta, Mill Creek, Holiday, and Castle Valley. So Mill Creek and Holiday were the big ones to join after our last meeting. In sum, those communities account for more than 90% of the total eligible electric load measured in kilowatt hours. If we join the program, that number will go up to 94%, which where I come from, that's an A. That's an A grade. So three communities have opted out of the program, Kearns, Cottonwood Heights, and Colville. of which my partner's father is a sitting member of that council. So that could make for some awkward Thanksgiving, Christmas dinners, but we'll see. I actually don't know how he voted, but I think I probably do. We go on, anticipated timeline. So this is what, we spent a lot of time on this, so just very briefly. Today is the 90 day, so after that we're anticipating about five months for the preparation of the new billing system. Around and about November 2nd, 2026, that'll start the noticing period, 60 day noticing period. That's when people can start opting out if they so choose. Of course we hope, as many people say, with the program as possible. That really does make a difference in the amount of projects that we can bring online. So that cancellation period will extend four months after the noticing period, so a grand total of six months for fee-free cancellation. Customer opt out, some more information, we went over this. After the six months, there is a $30 termination fee for residential customers. The termination fee for businesses is a little bit different. That will depend on the rate schedule, but that's something we can't really predict. It's based on very specific to the business and what they are using. So I think someone did ask this question, Council Member Billings I think. If you move into or annexed into a participating community, you will be provided that same similar noticing and cancellation period at that time. Residential flat fee, we talked about this, $4 per month. Approximately $3.88 of that program will go directly to the program. And then the $0.12 surcharge, that's in flux, which I heard at our last meeting. I didn't realize that that number wasn't set in stone, but it's anywhere between $0.10 to $0.12 that will be a surcharge for the low-income program. And again, the low income residential folks who want to participate but otherwise might not be able to afford to do so, that's where that surcharge will go into helping those customers participate as well. So if you are a income eligible resident, there's really no reason for you not to participate in this program. It'll come back as a bill credit each and every month. So we're hoping again that income is not a barrier to entry to this program. As a reminder, if anyone asks, all residential customers are able to participate except those on schedule 135 rooftop solar. low-income. I won't go over this again. We went in great detail last time, but essentially if you are already on a assistance program through HEAT or HELP, you won't have to do anything at all. You will get that credit on your bill. We are, one of the things I plan to do when we start giving this information to the public is letting people know that if you have issues paying your utility bills, you should see if you are eligible for one of these programs. And once, if someone is not on one of these programs and then becomes enrolled in one of the programs, then they will that again will then receive that bill credit to participate in the program. So we definitely wanted to, I think this is one of the key things that will make this program successful because if all of the sudden anyone who's in a low income program if they're receiving one of these programs and they just opt out because they don't think that they can afford four extra dollars, I'm really hopeful that this keeps people on the program and within the program as many as possible. Again, they can participate for free. Another great thing about this is even if they decide in the future for some reason that they no longer want to be part of this program and the six-month fee-free period has ended for most people, as long as you're on one of these programs, we do not charge a termination. Well, Rocky Mountain Power will not charge a termination fee. We, Mid-Bell City, aren't going to charge any fees directly. Non-residential volumetric rate is, so businesses won't just pay the $4 fee that the residential customers were, it is based on their kilowatt hour usage. So that is charged at 0.00609 plus 12 cents, again, for the low-income subsidy. And I gave this example from before. Approximately... those businesses can expect less than approximately 5% increase in their utility bill if they so choose to participate. And we hope that they will. We are very hopeful that businesses will see the value in this program and also it gives them some marketing ability to market themselves as a clean energy facility. So we're hoping to get that message out to our business community as well. Long term, a lot of questions have come in. What about the rates? Are they going to increase? Are they going to decrease? And the public service order that was issued in March I just will read the highlighted part here. No evidence in the record suggests that the program rates are likely to meaningfully increase from the initial rates approved in this order. Instead, under Rocky Mountain Power's proposal, they would decrease rather significantly after the first two years. Again, the more projects we can bring online, we anticipate that that number pretty quickly, the $4 might be reduced. So if it is increased, it'll go through the same process of any rate increase. It'll be a very public process, but we're not anticipating having to go to that. Policy analysis, I went through this last time, but again, working to support clean energy feel aligns with Midvale City's mission of promoting the health, safety, and welfare of our community. And again, this program offers assistance to income-qualified residents along with a generous six-month fee-free opt-out period. So there was a lot of concern from other communities, why is this an opt-out, why didn't you just let people opt-in, but I think that with these safeguards in place, it's essentially an opt-in program with these things. You have a half of a year to determine whether you want to participate or not without any sort of fee, and even then, at that point, you don't have to remain in the program. There just is a cancellation fee So we're not forcing anyone to remain in a program that they don't want to be, but we certainly do hope that the vast majority of Midvale residents choose to remain in the program. Any questions? Okay. Well, this is weird being on this side, but we do have to vote on this today. There is a recommended motion on the board for council to consider.

I just want to say before we make a motion that I think it's important to point out that this has been presented multiple times. So this lack of us discussing things isn't a lack of interest or knowledge. We have been visiting this now for quite some time. But I know you went over that in your presentation, but I just wanted to make it said one more time that this has been presented at length.

Wasn't it when Marcus was mayor when we started even? So it's not even like two or three councils ago. It's been like a year.

I did mention, I think, in our last meeting, but I would like to give a lot of credit to former Mayor Marcus Stevenson. This was something he was very passionate about. It was something that he brought to the council initially, and we had some, I remember, pretty robust discussion at that point. Same questions that were asked in every community who agreed or not agreed. ended up not agreeing to remain in the program. So I do appreciate that he was passionate about this issue and brought it to us and to our attention what seems like 25,000 years ago, but it was about two years ago.

Do we need to suspend the rules? The packet says suspend the rules.

Yeah, Matt made a big mistake. Yeah, we don't need to suspend the rules since we had that lengthy discussion two weeks ago. Okay, thank you.

Mayor, I'd just like to, again, I'm not happy with having to opt out, but I do want clean air, okay? That's not a problem with me at all. It's just that I don't like the government telling me, forcing me to do stuff. But I do appreciate them going to the six months, so it gives people plenty of time to get out.

Okay, thank you for that. Any other questions?

I just want to thank the resident that has spent plenty of time to come and sit through nine action items tonight, or whatever tonight, plus multiple other meetings. I love it when the community is involved, and someone to repeat for the topic obviously is important to her, so I appreciate that.

It's definitely an issue that, I mean, we've gotten multiple emails and texts and phone calls from our residents on this one. And I would say I haven't received, I'm not just saying this because I'm an advocate for the program, but I haven't seen anything negative from any resident who said absolutely not, don't do this. So that's very encouraging.

Are we ready for a motion? Mayor, I move to approve ordinance number 2027-017, establishing the community clean energy program in Midvale City. Second. 2026. 2026-0-17. Do you want me to redo it? You're okay. Okay. Is that good?

Do we have to suspend the order? So the mayor had a typo and? I think, actually, that was Matt also.

No. That one was me, but. Are we good with that motion? Okay. And was there a second? Multiple. Multiple seconds. Okay. It's really weird to be over here for this, but we have a motion and a second. Rory, will you call the roll?

Yes. Council Member Billings. Yes. Glover.

Aye.

Robinson. Aye. Brown. Yes. And Mikulash. Yes.

Okay. That passes unanimously. There's a fist bump from the audience. I don't know if anyone saw that. Oh, fist bump. Well, we appreciate your advocacy for this as well. And Samantha, thanks for being here. Samantha's from Stewardship Utah, and we appreciate you being here for the length of our meeting. You're free to go or stick around if you want. I will move on to the next action item. Consider resolution number 2026 R29 approving the artist agreement with JC Baird and authorizing the use of public property and roadway at identified intersection. And thank you, Vanessa, for remaining as long as you have today. Tell us a little bit about the new plans here.

Yeah, hello, council. First off, I also have a smoker, and I think the steak from my house is the best. Also, I love a Mariah show, so it's all good. Okay, so I am here. I'm the Coalition Coordinator for Youth Violence Prevention Efforts with Uplift Midvale. I'm here to approve the artist agreement and getting your authorization for use of public property for our block party event. grant award that we received and talked about last time we were here. We did update the location. So as far as that yellow do not pass sign, that's where we were going to put it. Listen to your remarks and discussion items, took in your input, and now we have decided to move it a little farther east to Copperview Elementary School, which is a foundational public facility, and it will be on Fox Bridge Drive and Monroe Street. And I mean, this is a location where we're going to see a lot more pedestrian traffic. I know that there has been some complaints about speeding on this road. There's just different kinds of issues that this can definitely relieve. And I have some research in regards to the queues that increase safety for pedestrian and cyclists in just a bit. This is still within the neighborhood that has the variety of families and community members, which is a great reason to still put it here in this specific vicinity in District 4. And of course, it aligns with risk and protective factors for uplift Midvale, which we'll kind of talk about a little bit. So just in regards to the research piece, because I know that some people were kind of concerned about this, specifically in Midvale City, a study completed by Sam Schwartz in 2022 saw the asphalt art, or otherwise street mural, because street mural sounds way better than asphalt art. Yeah, it really does. Yeah, it does. There was a strong correlation in regards to improved safety benefits, 50% decrease in rate of crashes involving pedestrians and vulnerable road users, and 27% increase in frequency of drivers immediately yielding to pedestrians with the right of way. So these are all really great aspects in regards to physical safety. Just talking about other research studies and I didn't really like nose dive into a lot of these research studies, but these are some of the quotes that I took away from them. One that was done in 2022, the impact of murals and traffic safety at behavioral and crash analysis. found that the majority of participants who were interviewed reported similar responses that affirmed importance of project in providing psychological and emotional benefits. Through social contact with each other, the participants supported and interacted with one another. The study showed that there was a positive interaction between participants and community mural project. The next piece was they found as a result and a conclusion was that it was encouraging for community to participate in a creation of artwork throughout the dialogue, satellite activities, and events to foster a sense of collective enjoyment and promote community building. Lastly, with community impact for 2024, the qualitative data revealed positive feedback from participants who felt more connected to their peers and inspired by the project. And that was done in Manatee County with Boys and Girls Club and some of these, one of the other research studies was done in 17 districts. So these seem to be pretty significant and also in relation to Midvale City specifically. Just to continue a little bit more about Midvale City specific research studies, of course Uplift Midvale is contracted through Salt Lake County Health Department who has facilitated our coalition efforts and that is through the communities that care coalition structure and we kind of have to abide to those contract obligations, not to mention it is nationally recognized structure. They do go by the excuse me, the logic model, which a lot of you folks might be familiar with, specifically to different kinds of disciplines. This is in regards to business, operation management, and right now we're going to be talking about it in regards to public health. Now when it comes to logic model, we have to find the problem, we have to find why it existed, and then of course we have to find a strategy to protect us or avoid those problems or in other ways known as finding solutions. So risk factors are what lead us to problem behaviors. Problem behaviors is what we're trying to fix, right? So protective factors would be our strategy to approach that. In regards to the risk factors, this was identified through our SHARP survey, which is nationally recognized and approved by coalition communities that care. And this is the SHARP survey, which is, I believe, survey of health and risk and protective factors. And this is part of... It is implemented throughout. It's nationwide. And so we did implement it here in Redville City Schools. What we found is that we have a few risk factors and a few risk behaviors specifically to substance use prevention, mental health, and I believe... Sorry, avoidant or... anti-social behavior which was involved with gang involvement. So anyway, needless to say, what we decided as a coalition which involved community partners, local partners, that we decided that low commitment to school is one of the bigger concerns along with low neighborhood attachment. gang involvement. Now gang involvement was decided after a violence assessment that was performed by JJYS which is the etymology of the creation of this coalition asking for help and then that's how we got our funding. Low neighborhood attachment is actually at it's higher than state level so that means we have less attachment to our neighborhoods and the same thing with low commitment to school not to mention low commitment to school is kind of displayed on the ground. boots on the ground with the school district. And again, they are both, this is also according to 2023 results and a downward spiral as far as trends are concerned. So that means we need to pick those up. Now in regards to the pros is that the protective factors are strengths as a city. So family opportunities for pro-social involvement. We're doing a great job, guys. Community rewards for pro-social involvement. All those two items can be displayed alone with our events. I mean, with our mural fest, with the car events, with all the different kinds of opportunities that we have here, it gives opportunities for families to actually... get involved and engage with one another. And the same thing with community rewards for pro-social involvement. And then another protective factor is opportunities for pro-social involvement at school. And then lastly, we decided on rewards for pro-social involvement at a peer and individual level. So based off of like some of the research studies that I mentioned before, those are peer and individual level pro-social opportunities that people can take place in, in regards to street murals. Sorry. So I know this is all a lot of background, but some people brought some concerns and I would like to at least address them before we proceed. Moving on to why we need public property permission is because we will be requiring temporary use of public streets and right of way. We have sought out appropriate safety measures and have contracted through the Utah Barricade and also Public Works. And we have been able to ensure signage coordination for public safety. As far as the key terms of the agreement with JC Byrd. She has, this is roughly the design that she'll be going through. Of course, this is based off of the old coordinates. We will be adjusting it considering that Monroe kind of ends on a dead end street. I'm sorry, Foxbridge ends on a dead end street on Monroe. So those will kind of change a little bit. If you can see, there's like these beautiful glass figures. One is a fox, one is a squirrel with little, coral fish the coral fish is not necessarily specific to midville city but they seem to be very pretty to add as an aesthetic additionally the snake piece is going to be fun for people to cross the street it just kind of gives more engagement for pedestrians and of course we see foxes all the time on jordan parkway which i've seen personally and it's wonderful and this is just a really fun opportunity for people to engage with it Let's see. The other pieces of the agreement is that the artist will be charging us a $5,000 fee. Midvale City will retain sole ownership of the mural, including intellectual property rights. Midvale City will retain discretion and fiscal responsibility of the maintenance and repair. My hope is that in following years, maybe we can do another block party and update or paint again. It's just a nice opportunity, knowing that it will go well. Here's a citation from some of the research studies that I mentioned. And of course, J.C. Baird, some of her pieces, which kind of seems complimentary in regards to paint by numbers. This is a recommended motion, of course, open for discussion and any questions that you might have.

I appreciate it. It probably came up last time like, oh, I can't imagine this being a topic. And then it was a very lengthy and passionate discussion. I would like to say I like the new location. I think there's also something else I didn't think about, but it's also where the parade starts. So it's kind of a cool intro for everyone that gathers there. There's hundreds of people. I would say Glenn's not here, so we should tell him that he has to do that again. He has to run the parade. He can't say no, he's not here. I've tried. You tried?

He purposely said he was done the day before. Yeah.

So it's like a great spot. We did get one concern about both graffiti and speed, and I actually... Weirdly, the studies show how much less graffiti happens on public art, right? Now, there's obviously anecdotal examples, like we had one on one of our murals, right? So they happen. But it's just so much less than not. And I would think that this would, we actually want people to slow down on this road. So we obviously don't want distracted driving, but I do think it would cause a driver to maybe be a little more aware of, that they're in a neighborhood and drive a little slower. So I appreciate the one concern. But I actually think the opposite is sort of true in this scenario. I think this is better served for the area here. That school has had some issues. So I think kind of putting in front of the school, try to support them a little bit, maybe that can at least boost some morale there. So appreciate it. I'm glad everyone's amendable to change. I think having it on that end of the city, too, is great. That's sort of the very edge. So we should be working on the edges of our city as much as possible so people can go, this side's way cooler than the sandy side. Yeah. Which it is.

Which it obviously is.

Any other questions for Vanessa?

Comments, concerns?

Okay, there's a motion to consider. Did you have something, Glover?

No. I might just have a hard time with my throat. I just had concerns of the safety of the cars and being distracted. But it looks like most of this information you've given us says that that's not the case. And I appreciate you bringing that up. Yes, of course.

Mayor, I move that we suspend the rules and approve resolution number 2026-R-29, approving the adoption of the artist agreement with J.C. Baird and I felt like I had to yell it. Authorizing the use of public property and roadway at the identified intersection.

Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. Rory, will you call the roll?

Yes. Council Member Glover? Aye. Robinson? Aye. Brown?

Yes.

Nicolash? Yes. And Billings? Yes.

Okay, that passes unanimously. And Heidi, you really were quick there with the... That passes unanimously. Thank you, Vanessa, for your hard work on this, and we look forward to seeing the fruits of the labor.

What was the date again? Sorry. When would they start working on it again?

We're going to actually be doing this on the 12th of June. She'll be laying out, and the community input will be... Like 10 days?

Yeah. Okay, cool.

Yeah, it will be from 5 to 8.30 on that day and we'll have free tacos. Sweet. Yeah.

Thank you. Okay, moving on. Action item C, consider resolution number 2026R33, approving amendment to program year 2025 subrecipient agreement between Salt Lake County and Midvale City. I'm here to discuss this. Thank you for your patience, Moira. Moira Gray will get us through this one. Okay.

Thank you all for your patience. Yes, this is about a CDBG amendment, which is exciting. Just a little reminder, our home repair loan program provides up to $15,000 to individuals making 80% AMI and below. And that is structured as a forgivable loan, which is very exciting. So eligible repairs, health, accessibility, energy improvements, all that good kind of stuff. And this program is administered by our partner, NeighborWorks Salt Lake. They're lovely. And then just a little update on our program impact. When I came to you last time, we got $100,000 from the county for program year 25 to 26. So far this year, we have helped eight families, that's 13 adults and seven children. The average AMI that we're helping is 50%. Our goal was 60 to 80%, so we're actually helping a lower income than we were expecting, which is very exciting. And we have helped three single parent households. And you can see that since our program inception in 2023, we've helped 20 families, same average AMI basically in four single parent households. So we are serving our neediest population, which we're very excited about. The reason I'm coming to you today is we have more money, potentially, if you agree to it. This amendment will give us a bonus award of $100,000 for the program year 25 to 26 to support this program, and it will also extend our period of performance to December 31st, 2026. The reason this happened is the county did some accounting auditing, and they found, oh, we haven't given out this money. Let's do that. This is one-time funding for an extra $100,000 just for this year, so that's very exciting. Yeah, any questions?

Thank you. Just seeing it, it's like one of those things like, is this too good to be true? But there's no downside. Yes, this is interesting.

Do we have to use it this year? Or if we don't use it all, does it roll over?

That's a great question. They really want to get it out as soon as possible, because this is funding that was supposed to have already gone out, and they just kind of found it. Right now, our period of performance is until December 31st. Originally, this was supposed to be with our original contract, so it was supposed to have expired July 1st, June 30th. And we just didn't get the contract, so we said, hey, we can't spend that in a matter of days. So is there a way we could extend the contract? So I'm not sure about extending it beyond that. We can always ask. Okay. But NeighborWorks has told me that this is their most successful program. Yay. So we're really hoping to get a lot of people in the pipeline so we can expend these funds pretty quickly.

Yeah, I don't think we'd have any trouble finding families and homes that we can help with this program by December. Any other questions for Moira? If not, it's on the board.

I move that we suspend the rules and pass resolution number... Sorry, 2026-R-33, authorizing the mayor to amend an agreement with Salt Lake County for community development block grant funds to support the redevelopment agency's home repair loan program.

Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. Rory, will you call the roll?

Yes. Council Member Robinson? Yes. Brown?

Yes.

McElhose? Yes. Billings? Yes. And Glover? Aye.

Okay, that passes unanimously. I think Heidi did a pause there for drama.

I was distracting.

Appreciate it. Moving on, we have two discussion items. First is to discuss the State Auditor's Office Fraud Risk Assessment. And you probably could have guessed it, but here to discuss is Mariah Hill.

This is a requirement that was put into place five or so years ago, kind of as like it was meant to be like a tool so we could assess where we were with our risk of fraud in the organization. And it has become a little, though it hasn't changed in body in what the auditor is wanting for this, has become a little bit more of a requirement. So per state compliance, the auditor state compliance, we are required to to present this to you all in a public meeting every year. So we, a few years ago, did a few things, put a few things into place on this list to take us from the low to the very low risk level. Nothing has changed on this in a few years since then. So we have scored points 375 out of 395, which means that we have the things in place that we should. Really the only thing we're missing is an internal audit function and we just really don't have the staff capacity to do that and so we are in the very low category. Any questions?

Any questions? I've asked this question because nobody, of all the boards that I sit on, every single person or every single board has that, does the entity have a formal audit function? It's blank for UFA. I think it's blank for UPD.

Yeah, so some larger organizations would definitely have it, like maybe Salt Lake City does. maybe like a Provo. The other thing is the auditor does recommend that you don't necessarily need to have a large staff to do that. They recommend that what you could do is trade internal audits with another organization. But again, that's staff time that I just don't have to give.

I think being in the low category as a trade-off for not making staff do more work is fine, in my opinion.

Well, we still get in very low, right? Yeah, we're very low. We're very low. Yeah, we are in the lowest. It's just the difference of having a perfect score versus not.

As someone said recently, 94 is an age.

Yeah, I did hear that today. I feel confident in the things that we have in place. Yeah, yeah.

Or we could just say, hey, you're the internal auditor.

I don't want to do that. Haven't you seen my brain exploding today?

Just give her some more action items to talk about next time. Speaking of which, we have one more discussion. Is there any other discussion, questions, comments? No. One more for the city council meeting, discussion of fiscal year 2027, property tax impact schedule. Mariah.

I forgot about that one. Okay. This is all information you have already seen tonight, but we do need to, by state code, present it every time. So here it is separately, the updated proposed property tax impact schedule, just noting that we are trying to raise $77,786 of new revenue. That's where we're currently at estimated, which would be 8.26% increase, $5.5 $5.56 per year on the average primary residence and $10.11 per year for the business equaled at the same value. And then we are required to say what the affected departments would be and funds for us. That's the public safety fund. And were we not to get the tax increase, we would need to reduce our precinct officers by one at this point. That's a less scary number than what we started with. Yes. That's all.

And the Chief didn't fall out of her chair hearing that. We have no intentions of doing so, but we appreciate the proposed property tax impact schedule, whatever you called that thing, that we'll be seeing from now until eternity. Okay, moving on. Mercifully, we do not have a closed session tonight.

I think Brian said he wanted one.

He did. Denied. Is there a motion to adjourn, City Council?

Motion to adjourn.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor, say aye.

Yes.

Any opposed? Okay, we are adjourned from city council and we have magically reappeared now as the redevelopment agency of Midvale City. Same people, different titles. Rory, will you call the roll and see who's here?

Yes, board member Billings. Here. Michelash. Here. Brown.

Present.

Robinson. Here. And Glover.

Here. Okay, we are all here. Moving on to public comments. There's no one from the public remaining, but if there were, does anyone want to give public comment? Seeing none, we'll move on to the consent agenda. We have one item tonight. Consider the minutes of May 19, 2026. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?

Mayor, I motion we approve the consent agenda.

Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. Rory, will you call the roll?

Yes. Board Member Brown?

Yes.

McElhosh? Yes. Glover? Aye. Billings? Yes. And Robinson? Aye.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Moving on, we have the 10th public hearing of the evening. Public hearing to receive public comment regarding the tentative fiscal year 2027 budget for the redevelopment agency in Midvale City beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027. Okay. Do not adjust.

Can you imagine it's me again? Mariah. Okay, I'm going to present this, though Kate did a better job, so sorry if, I'm not her. Sorry I'm not Kate presenting this. I do, I'm, what? Oh, I thought somebody said that. I do not intend to be the person to go off the rails here. For the operations of the redevelopment agency, this is really just where we take transfers from the other RDA funds that are the designated project areas. and then fund the salaries and benefits for the staff. And then they're just kind of like their subscriptions and memberships, education and travel. So this is just reflective. The changes are all just reflecting the different costs to salaries and wages there. Salaries and wages were affected the same as the rest of the city with the COLA and merit and reallocations. And then equaling those out with transfers from the other RDA accounts. And then they do pay an administrative fee to the general fund for like finance services and things like that. So changes in this are really all just accounting basically. In the Bingham Junction budget, there are a few things. The professional services budget in this one is for the design for the Holden Street and rail crossing is what's included in that. The developer reimbursements has decreased. I think some tiers have completed. There's just two active tiers left. And then the rest of the changes are kind of accounting changes with the changes in our debt principal, our principal, our debt payments, and then the transfers to the other RDA accounts. For Jordan Bluffs, similarly, it's really all just kind of the accounting around additional revenue coming in and then what's required with that, what then we require to pay back to the taxing entity, tax payments back to the taxing entities and then the transfers to the other RDAs. For Main Street, we do have in the public area improvements to fund the Goble light poles. I think we had a discussion of that last time. I was like, Nate, what does this mean? He told me. And then also the professional services is for the mid-block plaza design just down Main Street. And then continuing on with some of the programs in the main street project area that have been really successful, the revolving wheel program, facade grant, all of that. And then kind of truing up what the events and promotions have been costing us. And then in citywide housing, some just minimal changes related to the salaries and benefits, IT operations, and then just there is some truing up of We haven't always been making the right transfers to the, we're required to put 20% of revenues, property tax revenues into the housing, citywide housing, and some of that hasn't always, in reconciliation, been happening, so we're working to make sure that's caught up and good. Any questions?

Any questions for Mariah? I have one real quick, not about the budget, but you mentioned the Mid-Maine Plaza. It might be a question for Nate.

Yeah, I told him he might have to step in.

Is that the grassy area where the Utah Partners of Health is? Okay, that'll be cool. Looking forward to that. Any questions for Mariah? It's going to be a great place to put a Christmas tree for our light up Main Street, just putting it out there maybe. Okay, this is a public hearing. Is there a motion to open this to public comment?

Mayor, I motion we open public hearing. Second.

Motion and second. All those in favor say aye.

Yes, aye.

Any opposed? Is there a motion to close public comment?

Mayor, I motion we close public comment. Second.

Okay, all those in favor say aye.

Yes.

Any opposed? Okay, this is an action item, and the action is in your packet.

No, I don't think this is an action. The MBA one. Oh, sorry.

Yeah, I switched ahead to the MBA agenda. My bad. Okay, well, let me get back to that.

Motion to adjourn. Second. Second.

Motion and a second to adjourn. All those in favor say aye.

Yes.

Any opposed? Okay, we are adjourned, but we are not done yet. We have now magically reformed as the Municipal Building Authority of Midvale City. Rory, will you see who is here and who might be delirious at this point?

Board Member Michelache. Present. Filling.

Here.

Brown.

Available.

Lover. Present. And Robinson. Here.

Oh, the presents are like knives in my heart. So we are all here. Moving on to public comments. Is there anyone wishing to give public comment? Moving on to the consent agenda. Consider minutes of May 5th, 2026. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?

I motion we approve the consent agenda. Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. Rory, we call the roll.

Yes. Board member Billings. Yes. Robinson.

Yes.

Brown. Yes. McElhush. Yes. And Glover. Yes.

Great night. Great night. Unanimous yeses on that one.

So simple.

Moving on to our unprecedented 11th public hearing tonight. Received public comment regarding the Midvale Municipal Building Authority budget for fiscal year 2027 beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027. Mariah, take us home please.

Yes, no changes since the tentative budget on this one. This is just our fund that kind of brings in lease revenue, and we make a bond payment with that, and that's the entirety of it. So any changes are just related to the difference in our bond payments on the principal and interest and funding that. Any questions?

Any questions for Mariah? This is a public hearing. Is there a motion to open this to public comment?

I made a statement. May I motion we open public hearing? Second.

Motion and a second. All those in favor say yes.

Yes. Aye. Aye.

Any opposed? Okay. This is open to public comment. Seeing absolutely no one in the audience, is there a motion to close public comment?

I bear our motion we close public comment.

Second.

Motion and a second. All those in favor say aye.

Aye. Yes.

Any opposed? He's on fire.

Okay.

Public comment is closed. There is an action associated with this, and that is up on the screen.

Mayor, I move that we adopt Resolution 2026-02, MBA, Adopting the Midvale Municipal Building Authority Budget for Fiscal Year 2027, beginning July 1, 2026, and ending June 30, 2027.

Second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Roy, one final time, will you call the roll tonight?

Board Member Miklas. Yes. Billings. Yes. Glover. Aye. Robinson. Yes. And Brown.

Aye. Okay. That passes unanimously. All ayes on that one. Is there a motion to adjourn?

Motion to adjourn. Second.

Motion to second. All those in favor of adjournment say aye. Yes.

Aye.

Any opposed? Okay. We are adjourned. Have a good night, everyone. Thanks for sticking around. Chief.

Oh, yeah.

Chief, you win the prize. Yep.

Can I talk to you for a second? Oh, yeah.

I'll stick around. Is it about your? I don't think so.

No, it was. Oh, okay. If this was when we started, that ivory one, we would have been here until midnight.

Oh, yeah.

Thanks, Matt. Oh, yeah.

They trust us. Exactly. The three-story had maybe 100 people. We would have been here a little bit.