City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome everyone to our July 7th, 2026 Midvale City Council meeting. We hope everyone had a great July 4th. I wanted to say at the top of the meeting, we really do appreciate all of our residents. There were very few, if any, major fireworks incidents in Midvale and we're very grateful. appreciative of our community for heeding the warnings of both the Governor and me, the Mayor, and the City Council for this very unique time that we're in with lots of dry, hot weather. Thank you UFA for being here as well. But I wanted to say that right off the bat. We'll start as we normally do with the Pledge of Allegiance, if you'll stand.

of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

OK. Our city recorder, Rory. is on her honeymoon, is that correct? She's on her honeymoon. So, Charlie, will you see who is here tonight?

I will. Councilmember Robinson? Here. McElrath? Here. Brown?

Here.

Billings? Here. And Glover?

Here. Okay, that is all of us. We have a quorum. We can proceed. The first item on today's agenda is a unified police department report. Here to do that, Chief April Morse. I think we have some special guests tonight as well.

Good evening, Council Mayor. Thank you for having me. So for the month of June, there's a few things that I'd like to go over and talk about. First, one of our crossing guards. Our crossing guards are incredible people. We are so lucky to have them. Kim Watson works in Midville at a crossing. She was driving home from completing her crossing. She noticed a West Jordan crossing guard was having some issues. A person experiencing a medical emergency went up and collapsed in front of the West Jordan crossing guard. So our crossing guard, Kim, on her own stopped while the West Jordan guard administered aid to the person suffering the medical event. Kim continued the crossings for the kids of West Jordan. making sure that they had that service that they got across the street safe and sound. And she stayed there until the crossing guard was done dealing with the medical emergency and could be released. And so we really appreciate her efforts for paying attention, for seeing that happen, and for stopping. and helping out our neighbor. So she was recognized at the UPD board last month for that and we're just super proud of her and I wanted to let you guys know about what happened there. The month of June we also assisted and supported Intermountain Health. Many of you know their building is down by the Jordan River. For the last several months, they've been planning a large-scale bomb drill for their employees, so we jumped in as a part of that. We've been with them through the planning process, and we were able to pull that off last month on putting the employees through the wringer of what that would look like. We learned a lot from that and made a lot of great relationships, so that was a lot of fun to be included in that. UPD has switched to UPD IT. We no longer have a contract for IT services through Salt Lake County. So let me first apologize if you sent an email or tried to make a phone call and it didn't get through and you haven't heard anything. We did experience a couple days being offline, but that transition has now happened. Our tech services group has had to touch over 400 machines. to make that transition happen, but now we are up and operational, and we're anticipating quite a bit of savings by making that switch to our IT.

Chief, just for clarity, the communication challenges were like to personal phones, the emergency lines, 911. That was all fine the whole time?

Yes, yes. The continuity of service continued. It was just the business email of the individual and the landline, the cell phone lines were still working. And VEC was still operational. So it didn't impact any of the calls. It was just if you called a detective for follow-up and they didn't call back, they might not have got that message. So not part of this June report, but I thought it would be important to bring to your attention this past weekend. So because of the fireworks band, we increased our staffing for July 3rd, 4th, and 5th for the weekend. We had additional officers out there that were assigned nothing but firework response, not knowing what we were going to encounter and how that was going to play out. So for those three days there were 139 calls for fireworks, which sounds like it was actually pretty reasonable. Most of the events required just educational and talking to them about the firework ban. However, there were a few that required some kind of enforcement and one gentleman went to jail, unfortunately. But it wound up being a lot calmer than we anticipated and I would just really like to say thank you to our community. for understanding the ban, the risks associated with the ban. And for the most part, there was a lot of compliance. So it was a very nice weekend and we got through it. So I really appreciate that. And then last but not least, I do have Chief of Police Jason Mazarin here to introduce you to, he's an old member in a new position at UPD. So I'll turn the time over to him.

Welcome Chief Mazarin. Thank you, sir. Thanks, Chief Morse. Just real quick, what I wanted to do is introduce somebody to you that's a new position in our organization. It's very traditional in police departments around the country that The chief of police has an assistant chief. And part of the purpose of that is there's redundancy built into every system in law enforcement. So if something fails or someone's sick or they don't show up or something happens, there's another layer or chain. Just like here in Midvale, Chief Morris has her lieutenant or executive officer that knows what to do and knows who's who and can fill in should Chief Morris be unavailable. So... UPD's gone for a long time without an assistant chief, and Chief Morse and the other precinct and division chiefs stepped up and helped a lot during this very important last two or three years, and I'm very grateful for that. But now I finally got this guy, and it's quite a relief, to be honest with you. But I want to introduce him to you. We're doing the World Tour, and we're going to go around everywhere because he works for you. This is your police department, and he's here to serve you guys, and I want you to know him by name and face. I've known Chief Hoyle for my entire career. Really? Yeah, we got hired about the same time. And he's fantastic. Police officer, he's got work ethic like nobody's business. You may recognize him. He used to be our PIO, and he was the chief in holidays. So he gets how the whole organization works, and he's going to be an outstanding addition. So I'll just let him introduce himself real quick.

Well, thanks, Chief and Mayor, Council. It's truly an honor to be here with you guys. I certainly value the partnership here in Midvale. As Chief Mazarin said, I've been the chief up in Holiday for at least the last seven and a half years and been in law enforcement for just barely hit 30. And so I truly have appreciated the partnership that we've had here in Midvale, working together on several projects, even this last Christmas, Mayor, and our little competition to see which city got the most resources for the Homeless Resource Center here and And unfortunately, we missed by just a smidgen in holiday. But I guess I don't have a chance to redeem myself. But we'll certainly look forward to supporting any of these great activities that you guys have here moving forward. But I'm truly excited to serve in this role and to serve you guys. So please know that I'm certainly here for anything that you guys need and excited to work with you.

Thank you, Chief Hoyle. We're very excited to have you in this position. And like I said, remember, he works for you, so anything you need, you can call him day or night. I was just going to say that. I love that we got to take you from holiday and now we get your serve. Thank you. Thanks for being here. And I wanted to also... Just wanted to note as well, Station 126 Platoon B is here with us. We'd like to say hi now because we know you'll be out soon enough. Hopefully, maybe not, maybe not, but we know how those calls always go. So thanks for being here tonight. We appreciate it. Moving on to public comments. If there's anyone here who would like to give public comment, please do so by stepping up to the microphone. And if you'll just state your name for the record. We do have a three-minute timer as well.

Thank you. Good evening. My name is Angela Miklos. First, thank you for this opportunity to address you. I'm here on behalf of St. James Episcopal Church, which is in Midvale on Union Park Avenue. I'm here to talk about an event we have coming up in September. It's a charity car show. But before I get to the event, I want to tell you a little bit about St. James and why I'm hoping that you'll all be able to support this event in whatever way is reasonable and appropriate for this council. St. James is a parish dedicated to its greater community, which includes Midvale, but well beyond Midvale's borders as well. Typically, which is about six days a week most weeks, we offer a safe and welcoming space for a variety of groups to get together, groups of any faith denomination or no faith denomination. These include addiction recovery groups, grief support groups, a diabetes prevention initiative, a youth theater program, two homeschool groups, and Turn Community Services, which is formerly known as Project Turn. During the summer, they use virtually every piece of our building five days a week. And last, but certainly not least, is our food bank. We are a partner agency with the Utah Food Bank, and we distribute food to those in need across this Salt Lake County two Sundays a month. And to the best of my knowledge, we are one of only two food banks that distribute to the needy on Sundays. So that's really huge. And let me just give you some numbers to tell you what an impact it is that we make. Just last month, we distributed over 20,000 pounds of food to 227 households, representing 833 clients. This calendar year to date, we've distributed over 114,605 pounds of food, serving 1,351 households and just shy of 5,000 clients. So why would you want to support St. James and their car show? 100% of this charity car show, which is on September 19th, will go to allocated to a building and grounds fund that we have within the parish that is used to benefit all of the foregoing outreach missions that I just spoke to. These funds are not used to go to salaries or to pay our lights or anything like that. It's dedicated to be able to help support all of these groups that use our building. I humbly request your support through whatever means are appropriate. Please obviously attend this event if you're able to and bring your friends, your neighbors, your families. Help us spread the word, if you could, by posting our flyer on any social media accounts, allowing us to post them if there are even in-person bulletin boards anymore in public buildings. Anything you can do to help us raise awareness and the foot traffic. The car show community is huge and very supportive. And so we always fill our lot with the classic cars. What we really would like to do is get more people to attend from the public. Thank you so much for your time.

Okay, thank you so much. And we appreciate all you do at St. James for the community here in Midvale and beyond. I will be at the car show as I was last year. I donated a lunch with the mayor who I was surprised there were actually bids on it. And our very own in the back here, John and Deanna, won that, and we had a lovely lunch together. So, yeah, I'd be happy to work on some things and see if we can get a better prize for you this year.

That's wonderful. So, yeah, I've got digital flyers. I just need to know who to reach out to. So thank you.

Thank you. And you can send those to me for now, and then I'll, yeah.

Thank you.

You have my email address. Okay. Thank you so much. Is there anyone else who would like to give a public comment at this time? Okay, not seeing any. We'll move on to council reports and we'll start as we always do. District one, council member Bonnie Billings.

Thank you, Mary. I just really wanted to be very quick and just say thank you to UPD for their extra support and hours they worked this weekend to keep Midvale from catching on fire. So thanks so much.

Okay, thank you. District two, council member Paul Glover.

Yeah, I'd like to thank UPD too. I did hear a few fireworks go off around my place, but it was very few compared to what it was years past. And I think that they went off and then they would spend like 20 minutes before they'd shoot something else off. So I do think they were probably looking for you. But thank you. It was a success that way, I believe. I think it's the right thing that we did. That's all.

Okay. Thank you for that. District 3, Council Member Heidi Robinson.

Thanks, Mayor. I, too, would like to echo my appreciation for UPD and also the Fire Department for just keeping us all safe. And then also I actually wanted to thank Adam and Wendelin for sitting down with the Active Transportation Committee last night and presenting our Active Transportation Master Plan. It's a gift to take something that's that big and condense it down to a 40-minute conversation that's understandable and helpful. So I just wanted to thank you guys for staying last night and helping me with that. That's all I have, Mayor.

Okay, thank you.

District 4 Council Member Bryant Brown. Yeah, I just have a quick story I kind of wanted to tell that happened to me about a week ago. I went to Denver to see a baseball game with my wife, and we were sitting on the front row, and there's these two boisterous men next to us, and we got chatting with them. And it turns out they were from the South Salt Lake Fire Department. You know, we're sitting there in Denver together. And of course, I said, naturally, I'm also a fireman because I did a one day training. And and so, yeah, that's weird. I got the same response when I said that. And then, you know, I said, why? You know, I'm on the Midvale City Council and they instantly were like, Your Main Street is the coolest thing that's happening right now. Someone told us that a week ago, and we went down to get ice cream at Blacksmith. We walked the whole thing. You guys have something so cool going on. And South Salt Lake thinks that they are doing some cool things, and they are. So it's just really cool. I'm in Denver, Colorado, talking to these two gentlemen, or peers, because we're all firemen together, talking about Midvale Main Street. So it's growing. It's not just a local, if you live within walking distance, a cool thing. So we'll have more stuff to talk about with the RDA, I think, today with it. And as long as we keep moving forward, I think we'll keep having those experiences. And it'll just be great for the city. It just made me really happy. I was like, this is so cool. And the Red Sox won, so it was a good game because they rarely win.

That's the biggest surprise in the whole story.

It was cool because they have a street now in Denver, 19th or something, where it's really walkable. And they had... 10 or 12 ice cream places on it you know and it's just like okay i see cities are trying to to do things and it was cool so just a great experience you know and on that i appreciate those firemen you guys and midvale because i don't know if i heard more than 10 fireworks this this weekend right my parents in west jordan and then i have a brother-in-law in west valley they did not have the same experience you know they still heard you know, not as much, but still enough that they were like, what, you know, why aren't people, you know, trying to do the right thing? So just, I think sums up our community. So, you know, grateful for you guys, grateful for our residents.

That's all. Okay, thank you. District 5 Council Member Denise McElhosh.

Thank you, Mayor. Just wanted to reiterate what they said. Thank you, UPD, the firefighters. I'm related to one. Does that make me a firefighter? I mean, close. Okay, okay. I only had to listen to stories for, you know, 40 years, but it's all good. No, I'm just kidding. But thank you. Thank you to the community. Really, I appreciate all the respecting what we're trying to do here and keeping the community safe and our services not stressed out and resourced on that. Other than that, I want to say thank you to a few of the residents who have reached out and shared concerns or issues or opinions on things that we're doing. It's always helpful to hear from the community, and it's been pretty active the last few weeks. Last thing is it is so hot out there and it's going to get hotter. I don't know if you saw, but Salt Lake County has cool zones that they're offering. So senior community centers, rec centers, a couple of other designated places. So if someone needs to get out of this heat, there's options out there. So I just wanted to share that. Thank you.

Thank you, Council Member. Yeah, I think Senior Center, Copperview Rec Center as well. So yeah, great point. Moving on to the Mayor's Report, I have a couple of things. Some were already mentioned. I do want to again thank our community. I think we really stepped up as a community and um you know other communities had a lot of fireworks from what i'm hearing especially in the southwest part of the valley but you know i i honestly didn't hear any myself at home and i know there were some in midvale but i think our residents really stepped up and and heeded the warnings that were out there You know, it's been a very busy past couple of weeks. We have the rec center, which we talked about. That's taken up a lot of staff time, my time as well. Happy to do it.

I really hope we get a good product out of it and hoping that we get a

positive determination. You may have heard the county, Salt Lake County intends to withdraw from Sylvisa, the law enforcement district. We're still working out messaging on that. We're going to have a discussion at the UPD board meeting next week on that. So for now, if you have any questions about that, feel free to reach out to me, Chief Morse, Chief Mazarin, Chief Hoyle, anyone you want. But we'll definitely, there'll be a lot more to talk about on that front later. I wanted to mention two very fun things that happened over the past few weeks. One, I got to spend time with Council Member Robinson at Life Start Village. They had a very special circles program, is that the name of the program? which is mostly a peer mentoring program for the group there, Life Start Village, if you don't know, is a community that helps folks in domestic violence situations, substance use situations. So it was really nice. They asked Councilmember Robinson and I to hand out diplomas to all the folks who graduated from that program. There were about 30 of them, I believe. So it was really, really fun and I just really appreciate all the work that Life Start Village does for folks in that situation. They really try to get people out of the cycle of substance use and domestic violence and were, as I said during that event, a lot of communities would not want an organization like that within their city boundaries. Midvale City has always welcomed them with open arms and will continue to do so. We had an America 250 event that we co-sponsored perhaps with the library. Last week, that was a lot of fun. Very well attended, especially being the first of its kind. They do plan to do this parade annually to celebrate July 4th. I'm happy to report. I don't have pictures yet. Pictures are still being developed. But the person who was chosen as the parade grand marshal sits to my left. It was city manager Matt Dahl. So he will always have the distinction of being the very first Midvale Library, Fourth of July Parade Grand Marshal. There will be pictures and videos of him riding the kids train around the library.

It is important to point out though that I was the co-grand marshal.

Oh, yes. There was a dog grand marshal as well. John and Deanna, again, in the back. Their dog, Xerox, was the dog grand marshal as well. So that was a lot of fun. Hoping, the community council did a barbecue. We sold or gave away, depending on if people wanted to pay or not, about 100 hot dogs and chips and water. So it was a pretty good event. And the one, we had a lot of leftovers. Well, by too many, too much is better than too little. But I'm happy to report the Connie Crosby Family Resource Center gladly took everything that we had left over. Probably about 150 hot dogs. So hopefully folks over there had a dog on July 4th. So happy to donate that stuff as well. So that is it for me. That is more than I intended to talk, which is always what happens. So we'll move on to city manager report, city manager Matt Dahl.

Thank you mayor. Uh, just a couple of things this evening. Um, I did notice the personal slight council member Robinson, uh, discussing people who are able to condense information into something short. I know that's what I'm saying. I know that I represent the opposite of that and so I felt that was a personal side of me. Everyone needs a yang. All right. The first thing, interesting data came out today talking about water usage. I know this is the third or fourth meeting in a row where we've discussed that. Midvale City continues to as an organization, take steps in order to make sure that we're using our water efficiently. There have been some times and places like the main park where we're going to be having the Harvest Days Festival later in the summer. We want to make sure that that turf is healthy enough for that. We've increased water here and there. But overall, June on June, we've reduced our water usage 35% as an organization. So I feel pretty good about that. Now, as you'll recall, with the moving towards having our drought surcharge and sort of following guidance from from Jordan Valley Water. Our goal was to try to reduce citywide usage by 10%, but we're only at about 5.9% decline in usage June to June. So some stuff to work on there, things for us to think about. We'll dive into the data a little bit more about where we think the savings is coming from and maybe if there's any sort of if it's really like really high users are the ones who are keeping us from hitting our goal or whatever. But we'll look into that a little bit more and see maybe there's some communication we can do around that. And then with that, I got a couple of staff reports. The first one is introducing Ben Gustafson. All, if you want to come up to the dais. As you'll recall, we receive emergency planning services from UFA through a contract. You approve that contract a meeting or two ago. Previously we, the emergency planner that was working with us was Brian Buckout. He's taken another job within that organization, so we had to go through a hiring process. And while there were a lot of good candidates, Ben sort of represents the words of House of Pain in their seminal song, Jump Around. He is the cream of the crop rising to the top. I thought they'd appreciate that more than they did. But anyways, so Ben will be working here. spending a couple days a week helping us on getting all of our emergency plans in order and continuing on the work that his predecessors have done. Do you want to do a little bit of introduction?

Sure. Like you said, my name is Ben Gustafson. I began my career in public safety as a dispatcher for the Salt Lake City Fire Department while I was attending school at Utah Valley University. When I completed that, I was actually able to take the position as the emergency manager for the city of Taylorsville and did that for a few years. So there's a lot of similarities between the role that I had there and serving that community is what will benefit the city of Midvale as well. And so it's a return for me back to a municipal government in that way. After working for Taylorsville for a few years, I was able to work for the American Red Cross and led their disaster relief operations for the states of Utah and Nevada. That afforded me an opportunity to not only help the communities that we have when there's a single-family home fire or an apartment fire or something like that, which I was able to actually assist in a home fire that was right by the McDonald's here in Midvale just off the freeway many years ago, but also gave me the opportunity to leave the state of Utah to assist in responses. So I was able to respond to wildfires and areas impacted by hurricane. I actually spent a couple of weeks in Las Vegas following the 2017 Harvest Festival shooting. So I was able to learn a lot about how to organize response efforts when things happen, impacting our communities. After that, I was able to work for the Church of Jesus Christ for a few years, and the last four of those included time developing their resiliency operations, which is their internal emergency management program. So I've been able to, in my career, work for government, nonprofit, humanitarian, as well as corporate, bringing experience in all of those different things. Now with Unified Fire and supporting you, I also support those same cities that Brian was working with as well. So I'll be supporting White City, Immigration Canyon, as well as... Right. That's the farthest one away. That's why it's harder for me to remember. But being able to spend time to support reviewing the plans that you have, improving them where we can, and helping make the city of Midvale even more ready for emergencies that might come up. My philosophy in emergency management really is what I call my three Ps that are the priorities that we have, the partners, as well as the plans. So what is most important for us to take on? Who's going to help us do that? And how are we going to accomplish those things? So that's my approach to that. And I'm happy to be here to support you in the work of serving your community. Also a Red Sox fan. They are currently leading the Chicago White Sox 4-0 in the sixth inning. Just to let you know.

Another rare.

So you've won over Bryant with the Red Sox.

I didn't have to ask another question. But you've also won over Paul with the Utah Valley University. Utah State. Utah State, sorry.

Oh, never mind. I did Utah Valley.

Never mind.

I'll show myself out.

It is blue. It's just a different blue. You won over Council Member Billings as well.

Any questions?

Welcome.

Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you.

All right, with that, next up, Vanessa was going to talk a little bit about recent projects and some things going on with the Uplift Midvale Coalition. I don't have a House of Payne reference for your walk-up. I'll come up with something better next time.

Yeah, no, for sure. We can all, we're going to all do better next time. I'm also looking forward to Matt and a train, so please.

I have the picture right here on my phone. I can just pass my phone around.

Josh?

I'm just kidding. HR violation. Okay.

Well, I just wanted to go ahead and give at least a little bit of a debrief of what happened with the block party street mural. It was a really good turnout, in my opinion. I mean, like, we were just kind of looking at if 50 people show up, if we get some community members to show up, that was kind of our... success rate and our metrics but of course we still have to abide to the grant that we were allotted um we were able to get 40 responses for our survey um 40 responses that's based off of head of household and perhaps kids that are above a certain age that could actually comprehend the survey and it had simple questions like do you feel a sense of belonging in your community do you feel like you belong in your neighborhood, just simple questions like that, if you feel safe in your neighborhood. Based upon that, we did estimate perhaps two per response, so we got about 80 to 90 people that came out, not to mention we did get, let me try to remember, we had 350 tacos, okay, so we had 290 tacos that were given out. out of 350. So this is a good turnout, yay. I have gone by the mural. It has not rained since. I mean not like significantly to the point that we can lift off some of that tar from the cars that have been going by. But we all had a riot. We did have a lot of fun. I'm happy to share those images with you guys. Some of the things that were brought up is there was a dichotomy that was happening within the neighborhoods. We also participated in community walks, which is being held by CCJJ, which is the criminal and juvenile defense over here in the county. And they have encouraged us to do community walks, which is geospatial. I kind of mentioned it before. If you have more questions, please reach out. I have some contacts. But we did notice while we were canvassing for the flyers for the block party that there is an economy. So there are people from low-income housing to people who have been there for a really long time. And that has also been proven by our survey that we got back that a lot of people, probably the majority of the the respondents were actually there for 15 years plus. And then the next population not responded were actually just there just in the past three years. So we have two groups already that people lived there for a really long time, the diehard Midvale citizens. And then you have people who are new that are just new recruits. So with that said, with our interactions that we had. Luckily, we had a great artist that has been involved with communities, has done other projects, that was able to talk and gab with them. We encourage them to reach out to you, city council members of their own districts, so hopefully they can get more involved with Mobile City events and taps. Some of the quotes that we got from that day, we got some kiddos from Hillcrest High School that said that they would really like to have a mural at their school, and maybe we should do it at all the schools, so that was pretty cool. And then we had one kiddo come in with her best friend and she unfortunately was moving, but they've been best friends for a really long time. And she told us that mom said she could stay 15 minutes longer because she's working with the community. So these are kind of like the items that our coalition are trying to invoke and we're trying to ignite these pieces that are the strengths of your community, including the risky part of our work is the low neighborhood commitment piece. I think these quotes are really good testament of what we could do moving forward. So I look forward to having your support with our coalition, especially when it comes to our action plan and more news and events to come. Any questions, comments?

I think it looks great. I think it's in a great spot. I drive it almost every day. My kids love the snake. So every time there's a snake, I'm like, yes. There it is. It hasn't moved. Yes. But they really like it. So I appreciate it. Thank you for dealing with that.

Yeah. No, dealing, it was my pleasure to get involved, honestly. Anybody else? Great. Thank you so much, guys. Thank you.

Thank you. And then one more thing, which is a little bit of a... scheduling oversight on my part, which is at the last meeting there was some discussion about the appointment of the new deputy public works director. We have made that appointment. We were with him earlier today, Levi, during our discussion about some of the improvements to the building. And I should have pointed that out at that time and did not. But we will make sure that we have him at an upcoming meeting so that he can talk a little bit more about himself and all that kind of stuff. I think that's an excellent choice. We can properly recognize him. Thank you. And with that, Mayor, that completes my report.

Okay. Now with his promotion, now we have to hire for his position, so it's kind of been a little domino effect there. We'll move on then. We have one public hearing scheduled for tonight, and that is to receive public comment regarding authorizing a zone map amendment located at 7036 South High Tech Drive from Regional Commercial to Clean Industrial. Here to discuss that with us is Jonathan, Thank you, Jonathan.

Thanks, Mayor Gittel. So this is for a rezone of a property. Some of you may recognize it. I guess it used to be an old Costco. Probably when I was very little, as I do not remember it. Dates how old I am.

I wasn't that little.

So here's the proposal if it were to be rezoned from regional commercial to clean industrial. Currently it is a large, I believe it's about 120,000 square foot building and a large parking lot. And it would be broken down into a couple of office warehouse type of buildings with associated parking and landscaping, et cetera. As this is just a rezone, we haven't reviewed the drawings against the code or anything. So if it doesn't meet it, we're not approving it tonight. As staff, we believe that it could meet the zoning map criteria numbers one and three. This property is in the 7200 Southeast Gateway Opportunity Area, identified in the general plan. One of the seven goals, number six here, is support redevelopment of underutilized properties to provide attractive commercial slash light industrial flex spaces. We believe that this property could potentially meet that. Largely due to this being, this is for criteria number three, it's been a pretty vacant large space. It's pretty hard to fill those, especially the location where it's at, which kind of indicates that the conditions and the viability of the property have changed to a degree that it's in the public interest to encourage redevelopment of the site. We have a motion for approval before you. Do you have any questions for me?

I have a question. This is right where I live. My biggest problem is outdoor storage. Is it going to be, I mean, we have places around the valley, even Midvale, and they have individual businesses, and then they store old cars and all kind of junk, and it becomes a sore place. something that improves Midville. I just wondered how outdoor storage would be taken care of. I don't know if this is the particular spot to ask that, but if we can't resolve that, I'm not going to vote for it because I don't want a junkyard at the end of my street.

Yeah, totally. So the current zone regional commercial, it doesn't permit any sort of outdoor storage or storage yard. Clean industrial does. There is in our supplementary regulations, there is standards for screening of outdoor storage or storage yards, as well as, you know, like what stuff can be located within them. And I believe that is, let me pull up. I want to say it's an administrative conditional use permit in the zone. Let's see. And I can plug in if you want to see the standards for the storage yards.

I just wondered how... In other words, if we approve this zone, what stops them from not being able to do that?

It would just have to go through a staff review for an application for it, and if they could meet the screening and stuff, then they would be able to do it.

I'm asking what kind of screening in the zone now is required.

It is, can I plug in, Josh? Well, that's right.

I'm generally a little nervous about it, because it feels like this must be, seems really trendy. You see them popping up in a lot of places, which by the time they're all built, the market for it's saturated. And its location is so great. It's right off of 72. So just to have these one story, I mean, it could be sort of taller than one story, but you know what I mean?

And to your point, to the north, there's quite a few of those similar things. And I think quite a bit of them are vacant.

Yeah. And I'm sure at Pencils, they only need to rent 20% of them or something. just seems like a really good location that we don't want to just keep turning into that but maybe me personally I would like that area to not be that anymore you know some sort of mixed-use or obviously Costco is not coming back you know that's unfortunate but I don't know that's just my thoughts it just seems like a race to the bottom for rent is what's gonna come from this

I don't mind the businesses and stuff moving in there. That's not the problem. The problem is they start moving in and then they have storage and it becomes a junkyard.

It's just a low-income driving businesses that would move in to a lot of these, right?

So I've got pulled up on the screen here the outdoor storage and storage yard standards. So for outdoor storage, it has to be in the side or rear yard of a primary structure. So depending on how it's built, if they chose to do outdoor storage, it'd have to be located behind the structure storage yards. Outdoor storage is also restricted to no more than 15% of the lot area. Storage yards is for anything larger than 15%. There's a version here that it can't be within 250 feet of a primarily residential zone, which I believe there's some just north of here of the property. Items stored within 20 feet of fencing can exceed the height of the fence The yards have to be screened from public view With a CMU or decorative concrete wall and has to be at least six feet tall I believe the zone permits up to seven or eight feet And then it has to be paved and there's prohibited items rooftop storage hazardous materials junk junk cars and debris and

What did the Planning Commission, what was their recommendation?

They had recommended approval of this.

I wouldn't mind hearing from, you know, the team over here on sort of, is this in TOD overlay? Is it right next to it?

Yeah, go ahead, Adam. I'll pull up the, I can pull up the zone. Yeah.

This area specifically was included in the required mixed use area should have changed over one day. Within this overlay area or within this requirement, this is Yeah, and that parking lot's in there, right?

Correct. Correct. Yeah, so for me personally, I feel like... Then you know I talked about this in our you know multiple times is Something isn't always better than nothing right now, and I think in Midvale this location I think is where we a lot of us see the TOD overlay It would have lower impact on most residents depending on how they situate it or whatever so for me. I don't personally I'm not a big fan of switching it to just these commercial whatever they're called the sort of light industrial

Well, to your point, that TOD overlay hasn't even been in place very long. We haven't even really given it time to test out, in my opinion.

Can I ask a question? I remember in 2020 or 2021 that we did something very similar to this on high-tech drive. And that was the company who gave us all the Frisbee. Is it the belt? Grip 6. Grip 6. Yeah, the belt.

Yeah, they're still there.

Yeah, they're in this building. They asked for a rezone from... commercial to light industrial and we approved that for them and i think i just looked it was like what is their address they're 7037 high tech yeah they're across the road i believe across the road exactly

Yeah, but I'm probably going back. Well, they're great, so they're fine now, but I think we have a different vision since that time. Yeah, it has been five years.

Yeah, these updates were just done relatively recently for the TOD overlay expansion area, and again, that entire parking lot falls within that area, so one day it could be potentially redeveloped as higher density mixed-use commercial, so... The Planning Commission did recommend approval. They felt that it was an upgrade to what was there, but again, that was just a recommendation. As the council, you can make your decision on that.

Thanks, Adam.

Thank you.

Okay, any more questions for Jonathan? Okay, this is a public hearing. If the council would like to make a motion to open this to public comment.

Mayor, I motion that we move into a public hearing. Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor of opening this to public comment, say aye.

Aye. Yes.

Any opposed? Okay, if there's anyone in the audience who would like to speak on this item, now's the time to do so. You'll be given three minutes. Seeing one. Right under the wire. Let's go ahead and state your name for the record.

My name is Brent Vincent. I represent the owner of the property. They've had the property for quite a while. Nobody's interested in a 120,000 square foot building. And they feel that commercial in this particular zone storefront doesn't work. They're a company that has a lot of property. And so they feel that the better use would be 20,000 square foot industrial users. And there's really no place for outside storage in the plan that we see now. They see it more as office space. small office with warehousing. The back has loading areas so they can bring in materials. And it's more of a factory type environment. And like I said, their sweet spot's about 20,000 square feet. These will be divided into about 5,000 square foot bays. So they're not thinking of the cheap, you know, 1500 square foot contractor that has his six trucks out back and his concrete mixer in the front. No, this is more of a, they're thinking more of an industrial fabrication use. So hopefully that would help in any view. Do you have any questions?

Not seeing any.

The way the Planning Commission saw it as, you know, we've got this huge building that we can't use. Nobody wants that big of a building. we've even looked at tearing half of it or two-thirds of it down and putting a new wall on it. But then what do you do with all the parking? And so that's where we ended up where we did. So thank you for your time. Thank you.

Is there anyone else who would like to give public comment? Okay, this time not seeing any. Is there a motion to close public comment?

Mary, motion. Will you close public comment? Second.

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

Aye.

Any opposed? Okay, so there is a motion on the board for council to consider if there's no other debate among us. Hearing no motions to approve, Would it be appropriate, I'll look to Garrett, would you like to see a motion to deny or will this fail because there's no motion to approve?

I would prefer a motion so that it's clear on the record what the council is choosing to do. If there is a motion to deny the ordinance, we do need to make findings that will go on the record to say this is why we're choosing to deny it. And so we cannot use the findings included in the staff report because those are in order to support a motion to approve.

Oh, we can just do this motion and approve or not approve, right?

The person that makes the motion has to vote yes. We found out.

But you're also saying for these reasons.

Yes. I can attempt something here. I move that we deny ordinance number 2026-0-23 authorizing a zone map amendment located at 7036 South High Tech Drive from regional commercial to clean industrial due to the fact that it does not meet the standards or goals of the city council related to the TODO overlay.

Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. Charlie, will you call the yeas and nays?

Council Member Glover?

So my vote. So yes means, right. I was going to ask this question too. Just make sure I got this right.

A yes. So yes is moving. A yes vote is a vote to deny. Okay. Yes.

Robinson. Aye. Brown.

Yes.

McElrath. Yes. Billings.

Yes.

Okay, that is unanimous. We'll move on to the next item on the agenda, consent agenda. Consider minutes of June 16, 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. Charlie, will you call the yeas and nays?

Council Member Brown?

Yes.

McElhash? Yes. Billings? Yes. Glover? Aye. Ann Robinson? Aye.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Moving on, we have one action item tonight, and that is to consider resolution number 2026R40, approving change orders with Nolan and Son Construction Company, Inc., for the 2025 sewer rehabilitation project. Here with his tie on, some of us know what that means, is Brandon Anderson, our city engineer.

What's up? You kind of strutted up with the tie, too, so yeah. I think I know what that means.

Thanks. So a lot of this is in your pamphlet, your staff update, all the numbers and the ideas. But here's the concept in the process of This project that is very shortly coming to an end, Public Works found two more or three more areas that needed to be addressed with our sewer project. So this one right here on Rio Grande Street from 6th to 7th Avenue is the replace. And then the other two are on Grande Street here. and then on Wilson here, and we're gonna line those with those cast in place linings, so. The reason we need it is just it's a vote for you guys to decide if you want to add it to this project or not. We had the opportunity to look at the project. We had Bowen Collins look at it as well as a need. It is on the master plan as needed in that work in the master plan, but it just wasn't included in the original project. Since we are still working on the project, that's when it got brought to our attention to potentially add this to it. So right now, that project is about ready to end in about two weeks, unless we add this extra work to the project.

OK, thank you, Brandon. Any questions from council?

Do we have a price tag on that extra?

I think it's 213,000, if I can remember right.

You're right, 213,996. Sorry, 966, old eyes.

I couldn't get that close, 213.

Okay, if there are no other questions, do you have a motion? There we go. Motion is on the board for your consideration.

Mayor, I move that we suspend the rules and approve resolution number 2026-R-40, A resolution authorizing the mayor to approve the change orders with Dolan and Son Construction Co. Inc. for the 2025 sewer rehabilitation project. Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. Sorry, Charlie, that is my mistake. Charlie, will you call the yeas and nays?

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

Yes.

McElhash? Yes.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Thank you, Brandon. Moving on, we have a couple of discussion items tonight. It always makes me nervous to see this wording. We are to discuss the Second Amendment to the Aaron by Signature Development Agreement. Thankfully, that qualifier there. We will not be discussing the Second Amendment as it is written in the Constitution, but this discussion will probably be a little easier. Elizabeth.

Yes, thank you. So this is for a second amendment to a development agreement for the Aaron by Signature. This is a project that you hopefully remember just off of State Street, highlighted there in the green. They probably came first in 2024, I think, for rezone. It was then tabled pending the negotiation of a development agreement. The rezone was then approved in 2025. since then they've had a conditional use permit and a small-scale master plan approved by the Planning Commission and site plan approved at the staff level To remind you the project it was 27 units of townhomes and the amendment that we're talking about today is primarily for this building there hatched in sample elevations for what the project looks like. So this is coming because the existing development agreement has some very specific language about limited building height for structures that sit within 50 feet of this western property line, which just affects this one building. It limits the building height to 33 feet instead of the normal RM25 limits at 35 feet. and has called out that it's measured from the lowest existing grade point on the building's footprint, from the structure's footprint, so many words there, the lowest point there to the highest point on the roof. This is coming up because the plans that were submitted for their site plan were evaluated based on finished grade on the evaluations. No building permit has been issued for this western property, but in looking at it and in measuring the way the development agreement calls out from lowest existing grade point to highest, it will exceed that 33 feet. So the developer is asking to change that in the development agreement from the 33 feet to a 35 foot height limitation. And that's all I have, unless you have questions for me. The developer is also here.

And he's sticking with that plan, right? So it's the peaked roof. So it's not like the whole building will be 35 feet across at the top, right? So 35 feet at the peak.

I believe so, yes. Okay.

I see him nodding his head in the audience.

Okay, good.

Yeah, he can correct me. So the reason we did this development agreement is because of the height of the buildings compared to the other. And I definitely want to see the project finished and looks the same. I would like, though, the... landscaping planting that they would put in bigger trees along that area so that they'll grow faster and it'll give it a look that it's not as high as it really is for the more fill in a lot faster yeah i mean i i drive by it's one of the better things on state street right now i i was like oh okay i can see where this is going because it's a weird shaped lot

I personally think, because they're peaked roofs, I don't see this as much of an issue. I do agree that there should be that landscaping. I think the neighbors will be pleasantly surprised with this group, because some long-term residents instead of a crummy grass field that could have caught on fire with fireworks last year. So to me, yeah. But didn't we make them do?

We do. I just wanted to put in bigger trees, taller. Yeah, I have that.

Too fast of growing trees are trees that die quickly. So you've got to balance that.

Well, I mean, hopefully they're putting in trees that are going to last. Mature. It'll give a, if they'll put in a little bigger trees than whatever was in the development agreement. And I don't have a problem with it because that way it'll give better screening and it won't, it certainly won't look as tall if they'll do a little bigger trees.

We didn't have verbiage in the existing development agreement on the size of trees that would be included. It specifies that they will build an eight foot fence and that they'll have trees every so often within 10 feet of that property, but we didn't specify the caliber of tree, the height of the tree. Is there a specific number that you're looking for?

It's hard to know. I mean, I just want some mature trees put in there that'll

And maybe that's a question maybe John could answer. I can pull it up on the site plan, what they submitted as part of their landscaping plan. I'm not sure off the top of my head what the calipers were. I can look and see.

And since this is a discussion item, in order to get the developer up here to be able to speak, is there any objection from the council?

No, I'd like to hear from you. I'll pull that up.

That'll give Elizabeth some time to pull that up. John?

You're up. Welcome. Thank you. John Semnani, Signature Homes, 630 East South Temple. Yeah, thank you for considering this. So the trees on that side, we already have a specific plan. like on center.

I'm talking more of the height of the tree to start with. Yeah. And the caliber. Like four inches or something like that.

I think they're like two and a half inch caliber. I don't know the exact on the landscape plan. But if I can give some context on this, well, sorry, please. That's fine.

I just, I mean, we told, the reason we did the development is to try to keep the height down. I mean, that's why we did. I just want to be able to say, hey, we're doing the best we can. We're putting in bigger trees so that you won't see as much of it as fast. I mean, they'll grow faster and they're more developed. That's what I really would like.

And to the height point of it, we're, so From the approved site plan, it shows 35 feet from original grade. Excuse me, 33 feet from original grade. This would bring the height down another six inches from the site plan, the approved site plan. So you dug down is what you're saying. So the original grade... The language in the code requires us to measure from the original grade. The site plan measures from the new grade. So in the site plan, from what everyone's seen, it measures from new grade, top of foundation, new grade, 33 feet high. If we were given this amendment, we would have to bring the height down even lower from what the site plan shows right now. We'd have to bring it down six inches because we're being held from, I'm not doing a great job of explaining this, but we're going to have to rework the height regardless. It's going to be less than what was in the original plan anyway. And so I brought this up because I was digging through the development agreement. And then I saw the conflict in this. I emailed Brandon. I should have emailed Elizabeth. It was the wrong person to reach out to. But I emailed Brandon on this because I noticed the issue. So if you look at the plans for the landscape, there's already substantial shrubbery. super expensive on the landscaping. And if you want me to pack more in there, then I can. Or if you want a bigger caliper, then I can look at it.

Just give us the biggest you can.

For sure. For sure. Yeah. I'm trying. I really am.

I mean, it'll just, it's a perception, okay? I understand that. A visual. But if you hire, then it's... If the landscaping starts out higher, the other is going to look lower.

Okay.

And it's all visual. I admit it.

100%. 100%. Okay.

So this is a discussion tonight. Yes. And so what we can do then, I mean, it's kind of been said, is we hear what you're, and if anyone else has anything, what you're asking, John can provide us with some more detail on the anticipated trees, and we can have some discussion between now and when the action is taken to see if that is appropriate. is sufficient or if we need to do more than that, do something different, and then we'll have to put final language if there's something. So even if he says it's two and a half inch caliber and that's sufficient, we'd want to lock that into the development agreement to make sure that that's what you're needing. but we could have some discussion on that between now and then on what that.

I mean, we.

Would it slow anything down for you?

No. Okay.

That's just a matter. I mean, they're going to plant the same amount of plants. It's just the size of the plants. And I'm more interested in the tree, the bigger trees. Okay. And. You know, we want you to have a successful project. I mean, you started it. We want it finished.

For sure.

So I'm willing to work and get it done for the neighborhood. I appreciate it. Yeah.

Thank you for the consideration. Okay.

Okay, thank you, John. Any other... So would it be an action item next time? Okay, then that'd be fine.

I'll just add it since I have it. The approved landscaping plan shows that they're 15-gallon trees, not in caliper, and Google tells me that that's half an inch to one and a half inches, though I don't... I don't exactly know. I'm not a landscape architect.

I'm fine with those. I just want to make sure they're ones that will grow to 30 feet. That's more what should have been in the agreement than anything. Because if you did 15-gallon cherry trees, they won't grow more than 15 feet high, which I'm not saying you would. I think our bigger concern for the neighbors is ones that will provide some So have you purchased them yet?

No.

So at least you can look into ones that are vertical. Because even if you did a big cherry tree, it still would stink.

That's true. Okay, any other questions for Elizabeth, the developer, Council Member Glover?

We're good. Sorry, I apologize. And just to be clear, if there are no more things, that's great. But what we don't, optimally, we don't want to come back at the next meeting, have new issues brought up, and then we have to go back and work that in the development agreement. So if there's anything that you want to make any adjustments on or have any other further questions, you know, have us look into even or something like that. Let us know, but it sounds like not. I just want to make sure.

Okay. Neither do I. Okay.

All right. Perfect. Okay. Thank you, Elizabeth. Thank you, John. We look forward to the completion of your project. It's going to be great. Thanks for all you do. Moving on, section, sorry, second discussion item of the evening, discussion of final design and contract costs for Midvale City restroom replacement. Good evening. So here to discuss that, Jeremy, our Public Works Director.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. We last talked about this at budget retreat, so I'll quickly jog your memory. At that meeting, I brought you the process in which we selected the best contractor that we felt was the best value for the city with the best product. And at that time, we watched a little video of the installation and the process that they go through on this. on this unit. So I'm just giving you a quick update and let you know what the basic services are that are included with this unit in this contract. A 20 by 16 building that's 10 and a half feet tall. The construction walls are four inch concrete with five inch floor and a five inch roof. That's all 5,000 PSI concrete. Painted steel doors, aluminum wall louvers for ventilation, a complete electrical package including LED lights, exhaust fan, 100 amp panel, and GFI outlets. Six toilet sinks and hand dryers are all stainless steel. And we chose a brick look for the walls with a cedar shake roof because that is more similar to most of the buildings within the park. We will also get the stamped engineer submittals for approval with the shop drawings, and that includes complete delivery and installation. I don't know if you can see that very well. I tried to get pictures of what the brick looks like. And to the left. It's not purple. Right. It's not the color we're going to choose, but that was a dugout that was installed in Orem, I'm assuming Orem Tigers. That's the look of the brick, if you can make that look. Then the one on the right is the shingled roof that will go with it, so that it looks similar to the other buildings that we have at the park. This is an elevation. They didn't have one with the three small units per side like we are looking to build with the front elevation. So our front elevation will have three doors instead of two on both sides. So if you look at the drawing to the right, the two rooms on the left-hand side are ADA-compliant rooms, and the others are just single-user rooms. And those are the smaller, obviously, of the restrooms, as that was the idea for the concept, to have smaller single-use rooms for less congregating and hopefully better usage. And the total contract for this is $207,170, and that is for the portion of having the unit built and delivered and installed. As we spoke earlier at the budget retreat, there is an additional cost for us to do demolition and prep. The pad, also hiring an electrical and a plumbing contractor to do the final connections. So the contractor doesn't do that. They just supply and set the unit for you. And then we'll have separate contractors that do the other part. And in the budget, we had planned for that for another $40,000. So are there any questions kind of where we're at here as this part of the process?

You'll come back on the 21st for final approval.

If everyone's good with it, I'd like to put it on the consent agenda, but if you'd like me to bring it back, I wouldn't.

That sounds fine for me.

Yeah.

Sounds good. Any questions for Jeremy?

When do we think it'll be done?

So it's a six to seven month lead time. That's why we're bringing it now. because we're hoping to install it spring before the summer season. So we can do demolition and prep work over the winter with hopefully we have windows where it's easiest for us to do where we're outside of maintenance work and can help minimize some of the costs by doing them internally.

And have it done by next harvest day. Correct.

Have it done to open Memorial Day.

I'd be happy to do a ribbon cutting at the new restroom facility. Thank you. What a great idea. That actually should be the ribbon cutting. Matt said use a roll of toilet paper to cut instead of a ribbon. I think we're going to do that. Moving on, a bit more serious of a discussion item tonight, statewide fireworks ban discussion. Here to lead us into that anyway is city manager Matt Dahl, who needs his own walk-up music.

All right. So the... As you'll recall, at the end of June, the governor issued an executive order providing guidance to the state forester in order to effectuate a fireworks ban across the state due to the drought conditions and as a response also to all the fires that are occurring within the state. Within the following order that did come from the Forester, it's been described to me as sort of a thing that was intended to give not only to put a ban in place, but also to make sure that municipalities have some ability to make some decisions within their community. And so as part of that, anyways, her ban was saying that from July 2nd through July 5th, no fireworks would be allowed. As you recall, the current fireworks law says that you can only do launch fireworks as an individual around specific holidays and for a certain window of time. And so that's what that was intended to cover outside of that window of time. Um, there's a couple of different plans that come into or laws that come into place. So technically right now it's not a ban. Um, but the law says you can't launch fireworks again until, uh, July 22nd when we're in the pioneer day holiday fireworks launching window. Um, When that next holiday comes about, if the state does not take steps in order to extend the ban over the Pioneer Day holiday, then it will revert back to the map that you approved in April where we have previously designated areas where fireworks are not intended to be launched versus areas where they can be launched. The order specifically, again, if a ban is extended to cover Pioneer Day and it has the same sort of terms as the one that covered the 4th of July, it would, in that instance, once again, give the authority to the mayor and the fire chief together to make the decision as to whether or not the area that the fireworks ban goes into effect is actually reduced. Now, an important thing to point out is even if that happens, it is very clear that it's really talking about the geographic area. There are, and we talked about this a little bit, that there might be, some people thought it also could apply to time. So let's look at the 4th of July. Theoretically, someone could have said, you could launch based on this map, but you have to stop doing it at 10 p.m. I think what we decided is that's gray, as to whether or not that's gray, or did you think that one was locked in, the time portion? We're good on that. Okay, so you could do time. All the other components of the law though would remain in effect. So we can't go and say you can only do fountains, you can't do aerials. We can't make any other sort of restrictions on fireworks other than saying where they can happen and the time that they can be done. Additionally, one of the things that I think has been confusing, though I do appreciate people's compliance during the 4th of July weekend with an exception. The, is that, in my effort to be funny, I lost my train of thought. How's that? Anyways, the compliance was pretty good over that period of time. But one of the things that can create a bad signal, I guess, is the fact that people can still sell fireworks during this period of time. And we can't do anything about that whether we want to or we didn't. So the purpose of this meeting is a council member requested that we have a discussion in case the ban is extended over the Pioneer holiday. Because we only have certain scheduled council meetings, we want to make sure that we are in a place where the guidance that the council would give to the mayor, who has the authority in combination with the fire chief, knows sort of where people are at on this. but it would just be guidance, and I think that's kind of the purpose of the discussion. How enforcement and everyone followed the ban has already been covered, and so if anyone has any questions, again, assuming that the ban, if the ban is extended, that it has the same rules as the previous one, we can answer questions around that. There's a chance, I suppose, that something could be different this time around if they did it, but we don't know how to anticipate what that would be. Oh, sorry. Two other exceptions. I know we've been promoting this quite a bit. One is that, of course, always if someone has licensed to be a fireworks launcher and gets a permit, they can still do shows. So, for example, Harvest Days would still be able to do a show, even if the fireworks ban, as previously put in place, extended into August. We could still do that show because it will be licensed and permitted. And then, yeah, I guess those are the two exceptions I want to bring up. So with that, if you have any questions or if you want to let us know how you sort of feel about the idea if a ban comes into place, if you would like to do something different, look at the map, modify this map in some way, those are things that are possible.

Can I point out a number of things? So this map does not include the school district properties and they intend to remain banned and they have that ability to do, which we don't, because I think in their press release they said that this ban was on school property just throughout the rest of the year. So there would be more red on this map if it goes back to the original map. Another thing you mentioned that the executive order that is now expired just based on the timing of the July 4th holiday. If we had that in place for Pioneer Day, that stated that the mayor, in consultation with the fire chief, who would be Chief Burchette, If there's any disagreement between the two, then the ban remains in effect. And for this July 4th ban, Chief Burchette and UFA, I think as a whole, said we don't see where there's any areas that should be approved zones for fireworks discharge. Just putting that out there, we could say as a council, we could say, no, we would like to make a couple of exceptions if a statewide ban remains in effect. I don't know how effective that would be, not knowing if Chief Burchette or anyone else at UFA are going to be more yielding on a potential Pioneer Day ban as well.

Mayor, if I may, maybe the... this was a topic that was requested by council members. So some discussion is warranted, but I think there's also a version of this where we just go, does the majority of the council feel if a band's in place, similar to the 4th of July one, it should just stay in place. If that's not the feeling or council wants to get into more details and then we can kind of get into, well, what would that mean? But maybe the first thing is just if there's a band, how does the council feel about just maintaining that at this point?

For me, I'm completely OK maintaining it. Same. I don't think we need any safe areas. I think we've demonstrated that Midvale residents understand the importance of it. And for me, we're already seeing a city that is paying the price for having fireworks. So for us, I'd rather keep the ban in place.

Same.

I mean, if there was some magical rain, that's definitely not in the forecast. You know, I would probably consider it. But right now it's pretty bad. I think this weekend is supposed to have this heat dome, which will dry everything up. Honestly, I could have thought, considered it, but I have not had a single resident ask. Not a single one. And I've had more people just text me thanks. I don't know if anyone's come to my house on the 24th. I think Dustin has, haven't you? Where we light off like, collectively probably like $10,000 worth of fireworks. And not one of them has said, hey, what, you know, it just seems like everyone is kind of, hey, this is bad. So I'm fine keeping it.

I'm also fine.

I would like to see fireworks, but the band is probably the way to go just because of the environment.

Yeah, same.

Yeah.

Okay.

Then I feel that is... I mean, the guidance is clear. The authority lies with the mayor and the fire chief, but I think, like I said, the guidance is clear. The only way we'd probably then come back, I guess, is if they come back and the ban has different rules of some kind. Then we would have to reach back out and see where folks are at with that.

Or if they didn't ban at all.

Yeah, then it just reverts to this map. Okay.

And we don't have the ability to create additional areas where we can ban fireworks? Or can we, Chief? So if, in this scenario, Governor Cox does not issue a new executive order, we go back to this map, but could we as a council come back and say, we're starting with this map with the red, but we would also like to add red, red, red, red, red, in a bunch of different places, or can we meet back as a council and say, that's great, Governor Cox, we're glad you lifted the statewide order, but we would still like to see fireworks prohibited in all of Midvale.

I think there are some parameters that you can add further restrictions to your map, but I don't think you can do a wholesale ban. I think you can add some more limited restrictions. Okay.

And that's supposed to come, correct me if I'm wrong, Correct me if I'm wrong, and that's supposed to also come with like UFA fire marshal or someone like identifying that pre-existing, some sort of, there's some language about like the conditions at that spot where you're banning it are whatever, bad, whatever the final term.

Yeah, there's some additional conditions that have to be considered. It can't just be a citywide ban.

That's what I was remembering. We can't just blanketly say. Yeah. And that was the reason for the executive order, just all of those reasons. Lots of confusion has been created through the ban because we, for so many years, have said, you know, it's not our authority to do a citywide ban. Then the governor seemed to indicate that it was, and then days later he issued that executive order that clearly made it clear you know, the purview of the mayor and the fire chief to do that. So it was kind of a bizarre head spinning couple of days of work there. But again, I think Midvale City residents really stepped up and made us proud.

In that vein, it was confusing. It happened over several days. So even after the governor issued the executive order, The Forester didn't release information until late on Friday. Laura and the mayor did a lot of work in order to try to get communication out to our residents in order to help them understand. I think we were benefited by the fact that the rest of the county also kind of went down this road. The league encouraged cities to make sure that they were putting out an effort to help people understand. And I just, again, want to thank the mayor and Laura for their efforts to help communicate what was a confusing set of instructions.

Okay. Any other questions, comments, concerns?

Okay. Thank you, Matt.

We don't have a closed session tonight, so if there's a motion to adjourn.

Motion to adjourn. Second. Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor of adjournment and going to our redevelopment agency meeting say aye.

Aye. Yes.

Any opposed? Okay, we are adjourned from city council and we have magically reappeared as the board of directors of the redevelopment agency in Midvale City. Charlie, will you see who is here and if anyone might have left?

Board Member Michelash. Here. Billings. Here. Brown.

Present.

Robinson. Here. And Glover. Here.

Okay, that's five of us who are here. We will move on to public comments. Is there anyone who would like to give public comment to the redevelopment agency? If so, please step up to the microphone. You'll be given three minutes. Seeing none, we'll move on to the consent agenda. We have one item tonight. Consider minutes of June 16, 2026. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?

Mayor, a motion we approve the consent agenda. Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. Charlie, will you call the yeas and nays?

Board Member Brown?

Yes.

McElhash? Yes. Glover? Aye. Billings? Yes. Ann Robinson? Yes.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Moving on, we have two action items tonight. First, consider resolution number 202617 RDA, approving amendments to the term sheet for a business loan agreement between the Redevelopment Agency in Middletown City and Greek Streak Taverna LLC. I will note that I did not eat dinner yet, and every time I think about Greek Streak Taverna, I am very hungry, and I can't wait for them to open up. What you got, Aubrey?

Okay, I think this will be the last time we bring this, hopefully. Okay, good evening, everybody, board and chair. For Greek Street Taverna, we have brought this for a previous amendment to the terms for the agreement. Unfortunately, there was a setback based on a miscommunication between the property owner and the original contractors having to do with the grease trap. We thought there was one. There was not. Anyways, there was a whole hullabaloo that went on of trying to solve it. It has been solved. It's in. It's approved. And our building official, Riley Jones, has been helping a lot working with the RDA and with the business owner as well as the architects that are working on the project. And so I think we've gone through and made sure there's no unforeseeable problem. you know issues going forward with the construction since everybody's communicating a little bit better now they're hoping to open end of August and so for the term sheet the proposed amendment would just be to change their first payment date to September 1st Dealing with that construction setback everything else will remain the same $80,000 loan 2% interest rate seven-year term And then the collateral is the same as last time That we included equipment and the house and that is above the minimum requirement of the 80% of the loan amount requested.

I think this is great. I have a ton of people that keep it. I brought it up. I'm like, hey, we have this Greek restaurant. Everyone now keeps asking, so I can't wait. I'm also really excited that Hubba Baloo will be in the public record. Definitely appreciate both of those things right now.

Charlie, make sure you put Hubba Baloo. It's got to be tagged up in there. I want to approve it next time.

It's getting late, okay?

Any questions for Aubrey? Real quick, I wanted to say, I know Council Member Brown alluded to this earlier, but a couple of nights I've just decided to stroll down Main Street during the week. I came on a Wednesday night, I came on a Sunday night. And just seeing the number of people walking the streets, most of them now with ice cream cones. It's pretty amazing. It really, really makes me happy to see. So this will just be another landing spot for people to go, hopefully eat there, go get some ice cream, go get some cactus and tropicals as well, all of the things. And dog treats. And dog treats as well. Can't forget Rebel Palm. But it really is amazing. So if you have an evening like me where you're sitting around and you're like, you know what, I'm going to go see how many people are eating Blacksmith ice cream. It's a lot. It's a lot. And hopefully it stays that way. Thank you. Oh, all that said, there is a motion on the board for.

Mayor, I move that we pass resolution number 2026-17 RDA, approving the amendments to the term sheet for a business loan agreement between the Redevelopment Agency of Midvale City and Greek Street, yeah, Greek Street Taverna LLC. Second. Thank you.

Okay, we have a motion, multiple seconds, because we're all hungry again. Charlie, we call the ayes and ayes.

Board Member McElhosh? Yes. Brown?

Yes.

Glover? Aye. Robinson? Aye. Billing? Yes.

Okay, that passes unanimously. Thankfully, we solved that hullabaloo. Moving on, action item B, consider resolution number 202619, RDA authorizing an amendment to the loan agreement between the Redevelopment Agency of Midvale City and the Bambino LLC regarding a change in collateral. Here to discuss that is Kate Andrus, the RDA Director.

Yes, thank you, Chair. Thank you, Board. So as just a quick refresher, back towards the end of 2024, we approved a loan with the Bambino LLC, so the pizza restaurant down the street. The loan amount was for $250,000 with a seven-year repayment term. The loan was secured by personal guarantees as well as a deed of trust against a real property owner. Located at 2411 East 4500 South Holiday, Utah. And I will just add that that property is owned by two of the personal guarantees, Jeff and Caitlin Beck. And then pursuant to the loan agreement, the collateral secures 80% of the original loan amount, so $200,000. The Beck's have come to us, as well as the other owners of Bambino's. The Beck's are hoping to sell the property that's currently serving as collateral. And they have requested to substitute a different residential property, which is owned by the other personal guarantor that's a party of Bambino's, David Gardner. And then which we have received the title report that's been reviewed. And then it's after legal review, it seems like everything is fine to transfer the collateral over to that location. However, in order to substitute or in order to facilitate the substitution, the parties have to execute an amendment to the loan agreement reiterating that the the new address is where the collateral property is. So the proposed amendment will replace the collateral property with the 4337 South Camille Street location. It maintains all existing loan terms and repayment obligations. It provides that all existing personal guarantees remain in full force. It does require that Dave's wife, who is co-owner of the building, also executes a personal guarantee for the loan. And then prior to the final execution of the amendment, it will be contingent upon completing and executing all other closing documents that will be required by the agency and our legal counsel, like the loan guarantee. The fiscal impact, it doesn't modify the original loan amount. The collateral amount that we're securing is the same, so there really isn't any change to the fiscal impact for this. I know that they are hoping to list the house soon, and with having to get the closing documents together, they're hoping that we can get moving as quickly as possible, so we are asking to suspend the rules.

I have no concerns with this. I mean, it's one of our busiest places. I would be concerned if there was like, you drive by and it's a ghost town. But I've gone and had to wait a very long time for my food, which is a good thing. And these individuals are very vested in the area. So I don't have any concerns.

OK.

No questions, no concerns. Motions on the board for your consideration.

Mayor, I move that we suspend the rules and adopt resolution number 2026-19 RDA authorizing the Chief Administrative Officer to execute an amendment to the loan agreement between the Redevelopment Agency of Midvale City and the Bambino LLC.

Second.

Okay, we have a motion and a second. Charlie, will you call the yeas and nays?

Board Member Glover?

Aye.

McElhash? Yes. Billings? Yes. Robinson? Aye. Brown?

Yes. Okay. That passes unanimously. Thank you, Kate. All right. We don't have a closed session in the RDA. Is there a motion to adjourn?

Motion to adjourn. Second.

Okay. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor of adjournment say yes. Aye.