City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, welcome everybody. Uh, we were I'm a little out of it. I had a little cold. Jason and I are hanging in there doing pretty well today. So glad to see you all here. Um, I'd like to call the Moab City Council meeting to order on March 24th at 5:30 p.m. We'll start with the pledge. And Michael, if you would leave us in the pledge, that'd be great. Got excited. Yes.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. All right, we'll start with our 2627 budget workshop. As you all are aware, last meeting we uh had the uh police department, who else did we had? Police and utilities last time.

So, this this week we're going to be talking about administration budget, the community development office budget, and public works. And we are um our next meeting we will be talking with parks and wreck because that's a pretty big budget and we didn't want to we didn't want to take up too much time. Yeah. And we'll have CIP wrapped out some some that we can go through pretty quickly in vehicles as well tonight. No, next week. Next week or next meeting? Next meeting. All right. So, we'll just start with the budget. And who's up first? Admin. Alexi is gonna run admin. Lexi Vonnet first.

Okay. So, I'm gonna go through the administration budget that includes administration, recorder's office, treasurer, human resources, and then there are a few budgets within those departments as well. All right. So, a brief summary to start with. Um, highlights this budget is a little less than $5 million. there was a 9% increase among all of the budgets collectively. So that includes personnel and operation expenses. Uh and then do you want to talk salary and benefits?

Yeah. So just a quick reminder, I know we talked about a couple weeks ago, but what we're kind of expecting for salaries is about a 7% that's for cola and merit increases and then the 10% for benefits based on the rising costs. So that's just kind of a reminder of that before we get into what each department has for increases.

Okay. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through each of these departments and the budgets and them. If you have questions, let me know. Starting with human resources. Uh, this budget has largely stayed flat. Uh, there are some changes like professional and technical. You'll see this in a few of the other bud departments as we go through. Uh, software was moved to the IT budget because it's used by city staff outside of the department as well. of software that's used citywide has been moved. Uh so we're going to see that I think in the next slide when we get to the IT budget, but that affects human resources, treasur's office, and reporters's office. Uh the operating budget is down in this department. Salaries and benefits are up. Um salaries are up 6.24%. There is a frozen employee in this department and then benefits are at the expected 10%. So it stayed pretty steady. Okay, moving to the recorders budget. Uh this one again we see the same thing with professional technical and the software moving uh the information technology IT uh budget is the second one here. Um and then you can see that the software is showing up in that budget instead uh for these other departments. Uh let's see other notes. The special departmental supplies in case that's of interest is covering the cost of checks for account payable. And then there are still some services in the professional and technical category. The reporter budget for the operating non-personnel expenses is also down. Uh although the IT budget expectedly has increased because some of the software's moved there. We don't have an election this year. So we don't have costs in that section. So we did see an increase in salary and benefits in this department. Um it is

higher than the 7%. It's due to an offcycle increase that we made to um handle kind of the compression that was happening among some of our departments and our department heads. So there was an off cycle that did happen in this. So it's a 30% um increase across that department for both salaries and benefits. Right. Next up's treasurer. Uh again, same thing with software we see here. Uh there was also a note that um bank handling charges are something that increases yeartoear, but it's not a cost that we can avoid. Uh overall the uh budget is pretty close to flat, a little up. Uh but the operating budget is down. And this is the same thing with this one. We did see a little bit higher increase here, 18% um for salaries and 8% for benefits. Um, this again had to do with the compression issue that Michael and I were addressing.

All right, this one's uh got a little more going on um as far as changes go. So, this is the admin budget which used to in be separate, three separate budgets. It was an administration budget, a communication budget, and a sustainability budget. And those midyear were combined uh to be just one. uh that does create some differences year-to-year because we're not comparing apples to apples uh based on that combination of departments. Uh other things to note here, uh there is a specific budget for communications that's still in here for advertising and social media. Uh pays for ads, social media, other advertising that we do as a city. There's also some changes in professional and technical yeartoyear. Part of this is because it includes projects for sustainability strategic initiatives depending on the year depends on whether we have projects in that budget and then it also includes consultants and a lobbyist.

So I was going to touch on that really quick. We have two lobbyist contracts. Uh one of them is coming out of admin and the other one is coming out of general and I've left them like that for now because that's the way they were previously and it would show even bigger increases if to move them around. But I do want to consolidate those two. Um, and that's a total of about $145,000. But Lincoln Hill is in is in the admin. Bennett Group is in general. Then I also have some some resources in there for some u uh finance director services, third party services.

I can't miss. Okay,

there's also the other category I believe that is some of the employee appreciation different types of expenses there that increase to reflect how much uh we've been spending in past years on that and grant expenses. This is also sort of a department unique one uh for sustainability. Right now it includes $40,000 but be it's essentially a match $10,000 to a grant that we're going to apply for which would give us an additional 30. So it would be dependent on us getting that grant for us to spend it and actually 10,000 of it would be coming out of city budget. The other 30 would be from the grant we were to receive it. Uh overall in this department the operating budget is down and if we excluded the potential grant which is dependent on receiving it would be down 33%. And so as you can see on this one, your salaries and and benefits search a lot higher than what we expected. But again, that was because we combined those departments together.

And did you mention that those departments were in another area? So they're not they weren't they didn't come from admin. They came from community development. So we moved. You did mention that. Yeah. But yeah, Alexi mentioned that in the beginning. Yeah. But yeah, that's right. So they they wouldn't have shown up here previously. Yeah. Okay. And then we have a few more budgets that are also under admin. Uh general budget, attorney, and elected. Most of these are pretty flat.

Yeah. So, general, I have a couple things on general really quick. Um we've got the uh travel and food in there for uh generally we do one party per year. Uh that's where that is coming from from and we usually do that around the holidays. Um and I also already mentioned the Bennett group is coming out of here. Everything else is pretty pretty much the same has not gone up except for in our general insurance uh which we have budgeted just a little bit more. It just depends on what kind of claims we have in this coming year. So oh and then the attorney really quickly attorney I just I just bumped them up 3%. Uh we did have a recent charge under the prosecution services. So we had had kind of an uptick in that. I may need to modify that line as far as the the resources required there. But I feel pretty comfortable about everything else there. And then under elected, this is where we have um benefits and travel and things like that for the elected. And as you can see, it's pretty pretty much the same.

All right. Okay, the summary of this is uh the big changes were that admin communication sust sustainability were combined into the admin budget and then we saw some shifts based on software being moved to the IT budget. Overall the increase among the budgets in admin were 9% increase. There was a 23% increase in personnel and a decrease in operating. Are there any questions? Questions. Um could you tell me the IT again was wish like a bunch of different departments had it and then it was all put into one.

Yeah. So our main um our main software polaris was split between HR and treasure but it's something that's used citywide. So the decision was made instead of splitting it three ways to take that out and put that into the IT budget.

So another thing about the IT budget is that under professional and technical we're using an IT service now and they've informed us that they are going to be raising their rates. So, uh, Summer put in in that line how much it would be if we went with them with the raised rates. Uh, we we think it's a little bit too much, but we know that that's the worst case scenario, so we're going to budget for it. We have an IT, yeah, an IT RFP, a request for proposals that is going out in by the end of the week and we're hoping we can get that number down and we can get it closer to what our previous uh budgets were, which is would be about $150,000 less than what we're showing there.

Okay, that was that was my next question was like that ever goes out to RP. Other questions? I this was a helpful explanation um because I was trying to figure out um and I I was able to figure out a few of the salary and benefit moves um and some of the increases. I was curious about the big jump in elected telephones. Is that

I think it's just a matter of of cost. Um, I'll have to Can you bring that up? Where's that at? Section here telephone. It went up to 1500. Yeah, I that Do you know why we bumped that up three times what the actual is?

I'll take a closer look at that. I don't think there's anything as far as like a bunch of new phones or anything. Um, I believe we just uh maybe bumped it up because of what the trend was in the cost of of diesel fuel. I don't So, I'm just kidding. I blame everything on diesel fuel. But, um, we'll take a look at that and adjust that if necessary. But, there wasn't anything like new in there for new phones or I mean, new phones come with the program that we have.

Thanks. Yeah. And then I I think you you mentioned it briefly with travel food and with general office expense and supply. I think yeah I was looking for clarification on like when we decide what is driven through because I'm assuming like staff lunches early staff lunch would come through tribal food for admin or is that also in general general just trying to understand all that. Um,

now it's also there's there's several things that that go with general that we are we are trying to plan for. One of them um, let's see here. Well, it was an admin this last year, but um there was a at the party there was, you know, as this is typical, this happens most every year, there's a $50 gift card that employees got and that that comes I think I wanted to move that into this budget as well. It wasn't budgeted last year and and we ended up um using some other resources to take care of it. So, it fell under a budget, but I wanted to make sure it was captured in in this coming year. So that's why we see the increase there.

Thanks. Um and then Danny, can you explain a little bit more what compression means? I can. Yeah. So compression when we look at like positions, one of the things we looked at this year was the leadership team and and and our supervisors across the board to kind of see where everybody fell and we found that there was some numbers that were not in line with where they should fall. We had some compression where we had some non-supervisor employees that were pushing up and sometimes overlapping what our supervisors were making. And so that's that compression point that we had to make an adjustment to bring them in line with everybody else. Thanks. Thanks. Anything else? Okay. Thank you.

Thanks. Thank you. Next we have

community development. Just another clarification, those telephones are for landlines, the one that we were looking at. Um,

no, they are cell phones. Okay. Yeah,

that sounds good. I just wanted to make sure I was talking about the right thing. Those are Okay. Thank you. Gotcha. All righty, I think we're ready getting council. Um, I'm Cory Sher, community development director. Uh, walking through the items tonight. We're going to be covering a couple divisions within the community development department. Um, so the structuring on this uh will hopefully make a little bit of sense at least with this initial slide. Community development being kind of an admin component of the devel uh excuse me, community development department. So that's going to house a number of employees that service the three divisions. Uh think about that way. So within that we have planning, building and engineering. Uh so we have the department as a whole and then community development in this instance is myself, our community development admin assistant and our code uh code assistants are formerly code compliance uh specialist. So within the operational budget we are having uh what is perceived a pretty significant increase here which makes sense because not only through the operational capacities of staff but through our audit of the three divisions we've pulled a number of services and budget items into what should be housed as the department whole. So when we're seeing this increase here it's because we're u removing it from the divisions for the most part. Um, but this department was created uh within that 2025. So, we're operating off a relatively recent development of how we're structuring that budget. Um, moving into where we're proposing now.

So, and just kind of jump in on that real quick. One of the things to re to look at this when it's going up this far, he did mention there were three employees in this department. Prior to this year, there was one. So, it was just a reallocation of FTEEs. They aren't new. They just removed from other departments. So you'll see some of the departments that are going to go down and that's why this one went up so much with salaries.

Yeah, the when we get to uh our planning division, we're going to see a pretty significant decrease there which will make a lot of sense. Uh uh but generally speaking, that's the operational side. Um and so speaking to some of the changes that we're seeing on the right hand side of the screen, again, relocation department staff and supporting budgets to support those staff, consolidation department supplies and technical services. uh engagement with some of our plans as well as the legal support for some of those plans falls into that uh establishment of an abatement budget uh which has been variously housed over the last several years. So we're housing a a modest uh infund budget for that that abatement process and then consolidation like I said of technical services establishment of a department vehicle and permitting software housing under the admin component. Um and then Danny anything else?

Yeah, with the two FTs that were moved, we talked about this last meeting where we had one FT moved out of police. So you guys kind of saw a decrease there that this is where it landed was here in community development. And then we also moved the admin assistant from planning department over into CDD which is the increase for salaries and benefits in this one. There were no other odd things here.

Perfect. Uh so moving on to engineering. Uh so just south the 10% increase on the operational budget side. Um within the changes that we're looking there, we were relatively pretty flat. There are some uh department specific supplies necessary for accomplishing some of our technical services. One is aerial survey support systems and then just certifications and maintenance of our credentialed staff.

So for salary benefits in here, you're seeing an increase that's pretty significant. Uh one of the things we found we were going through and doing this comparison is that we actually had a full FT that was missed in last year's salary budget. So, good news is is we were able to still come out okay in the budget because some other stuff wasn't spent, but it does look like a much bigger increase because that's now being reflected here. Benefits are the same reason.

All right, moving into building. Um, again, pretty relatively flat change over time with our operational budget here. Um specific changes within this budget are are again pretty minute, but uh we do have a three-year recurring required uh supplies element as far as our code book up update. So that is it's a price tag as far as building goes. Um compared to other departments, divisions, that's not very much u but that's the the one effective change that we've seen there.

Yeah. Kind of explain the salary is only about 2.95% in here. I know it's on the slide, but just to explain that when we did the budget amendment and we we took an FTE from public works and moved it over here where it was needed. Instead of moving six months, I moved 12 months of salary over. And so there's going to be extra in this year's budget that'll be in part of our a fund balance that goes forwards. But that's why this looks so small because that should have only been six funds.

Alrighty into planning. uh nearly a 100% reduction in operational costs. Um so yeah, a lot of what we were seeing in that CDD admin absorbed many of uh those components. So now we're purely to an administrative uh excuse me, yeah, administrative operational perspective of two employees in the planning division. Um so within that we did a pretty significant budget audit amongst all the divisions. Uh this one was formally the division that maintained the department lead attributes. So there are a number of major elements we pulled into CDD that were originally housed under the planning director who's now will in the future be a planning manager. Um and again the relocation of all those services and department level subscriptions, plans and everything else.

And then this also shows the transfer of that FT over to CDD benefits looks really huge. This just kind of shows the picture of what benefits cost on an employee. So it's a very small division to start with. So when you pull out a full employee is pulling out their full benefit load, which is the reduction of the 65%. And then this will just give framing as the overall full department. So not that community development asterisk, but the full department. So we're sitting about 4.25% change uh over last previous year budgets. We've maintained pretty pretty uh thoughtful uh requests as to what's needed and required. And so that's all I have for you

questions. Have a few um so I I was able to track that a little more closely with CDD. Um and across the board, yeah, department is not going up that much. um full change was like $12,000 that so I I am monitoring that but um did have some questions about um and I saw you had a couple of them listed but um engineering professional technical uh I think there's across a few of them um maybe it's just them no um professional and technical across kind of uh both CDD and um engineering. I was curious if those are for is that like code rewrite? I saw you had um

yeah, happy to speak to those if you want to stay with CBD for the moment. Um so the CBD as far as the admin CBD professional technical we have housed what is going to be a carry through. I want to use the right terminology here carry through for Kenyon Keys who's our our land use code update consultant. So, we're moving those funds into CDD where they were previously in planning. In addition to that, we're accommodating for what will very likely be the downtown adopted plan. Uh, so that's what we're budgeting for. Usually, that's a standing and maintained operational budget for tech professional technical. That may include everything from services from uh planning specific legal services when we're engaging uh outside of what would be the the city to admin realm of legal services and then maybe accommodations of master plans, plan types uh or studies. So we've selected for 27 what would be the the downtown master plan. So that's those two pieces that you're seeing. CDD as far as engineering goes. Professional technical is a bit of a a tough place and we're actually seeing consolidation where we've reduced the budget down to zero and consolidated consolidated it excuse me into professional technical what was formerly plan reviews and so those are both maybe using the right terminology not carryover but passroughs if we're going to use that. Uh I think I think one of them I'm looking at it now one of them is plan review services which is pass through. So if we have to pay for outside review we get reimbured from the applicant for those things and that's about a third of the money that's in there and professional and technical is the other twothirds and that would be to hire outside help if we need things for our projects that don't fit under say like a an established uh CIP project that's already already there.

That's right. So that essentially that item has two main thresholds. One's pass through, one is support services for CIP projects. Thanks. Um kind of similar question for special department supplies looking at engineering going up to 21,000. I'm sorry what what was it? special special department just for engineering just in general question I think just in general I' I've flagged it both for CDD and for engineering the big one in engineering is the drone

right okay sorry we we were on professional technical now we're on special I'm with you I'm with you I'm going through

uh yeah so one yeah the biggest piece in that is we're upgrading our aerial surveying systems uh the drone not only hardware but the systems and certifications that go along with that. So that's the biggest price tag that's usually that's being budgeted, but that is um a request coming out of engineering that is itemized into that. So we're not we don't have loose uh general funds in there. Those are going to be very standard operational itemized elements. As far as CDD goes in special departmental slides, excuse me. The big increase that we have here is that through the divisions who had previously maintained those funds, we've accommodated and consolidated all three divisions into some of those elements. The biggest being, sorry, let me give up to it around

a bait to it. Yeah, I was curious where that will be a different GL code once we work with Danny. So, uh, that will bring that item within that particular item to $2,000 is what the estimate would be for SP special departmental that's consolidated from every other division. But then a major whole item which is 40 40,000 for the abatement. Yeah. And is that can you talk a little more about the abatement fund what what the 40,000 would go towards?

Sure. um that is not a non-comprehensive uh budget that we would have in that when we have a dangerous building code abatement, those are what we've experienced recently much larger scale and will have to be budgeted specifically for those. Uh but typical nuisance abatements can range to some some more expensive, some less expensive from a thousand dollars up to a couple uh tens of thousands of dollars. Um so this would basically allocate for maybe three maybe three average nuisance abatements and we have currently a running list uh I've got some staff behind me that may correct this number but about a list of four in the queue. Um these mean they have all legal precedents for us to advance for abatement and have been waiting for the funds to be there. So they're in line to have us execute on those. So right now we probably get through three modest maybe two a little bit larger maybe five much smaller abatements. So we're we're not going to knock everything out. We just know that. But we do need to move that needle forward.

Thanks. I guess since that's timely and we're talking about it, can I ask questions about us talking about abatement later or Yeah, talk about it later. Later. Later. Perfect. Okay. Thank you. Anybody else? Thank you. From that side. Thanks everyone. Thanks Corey.

Thanks. Next up, Levi public Awesome. Thanks, Mayor, Council, Michael. Um, Danny and I like to present public works. There's eight total budgets within public works, so we'll try to make it fast. Um, first we'll start off with streets, the streets division.

So, this again is just the reminder, the 7% for salaries and 10% for benefits. So, in the streets department specifically, the salaries went down by about 11 and a half percent. Um, this was because we had the departure of a long-term employee. Our long-term employees do cost more money and so the, you know, that budget did swing down a little bit. Benefits, on the other hand, did swing up a little bit and that had to do with employee benefit status changes as we talked about last time.

Excuse me. This slide represents the last two years and the actual numbers. Uh 26 budgeted numbers and then the proposed 27. Uh overall it's a 14.6 decrease from 2026. Uh some of that is operation like uh like Danny mentioned it's long-term employees. And I'll just point out too, it doesn't that that decrease doesn't mean that we have deprioritized streets. Class C road funds is also going to be coming up in this. And then also CIP. We have a lot of road projects in CIP. So just want to make sure that's really clear that we haven't we're not moving away from from maintaining streets or anything like that.

Wait.

So again, salaries is up slightly above the expected 7%. This was due to the step adjustments benefits for the same reason.

Uh same slide. um represents the last two years of actual numbers uh current budget year and the proposed for uh overall it's less than 1% increase from 2026. Notable changes that oper operational costs increase represent aging equipment in this in this department over the last two years. Public works admin Public admin salaries are at 3.4% which is significantly lower than what we expected. There is an employee who is frozen this department which is the reason for that low number. Um and then the benefits are standard where we expected them to be at the 10%. overall budget costs for the last two years, the actuals uh current 2026 numbers and then proposed for 27. Uh five this is less than 5% overall increase for from 26. Notable changes uh similar similar operational cost from previous years. um in buildings and grounds line. We want we'd like to make some office improvements for the superintendent um desk arrangements. It's very challenging space to try to accommodate everybody. So trying to trying to work through those details.

Safety. We don't have any personnel and safety so I don't have anything to update on that one. Overall budget cost for the last two years. the actual 2026 uh budget and then proposed is identical to 2026. So no overall increase

the salary position that's good

road class C um again no personnel uh it shows numbers for 24 25 the actuals uh current 26 six and proposed uh 2027. There's the 54% overall increase from last year. Uh 25 numbers represent the the overlay on Mil Creek. Um that's why that number is so high. And so notable changes for this year is increasing level of service obviously, but uh when we did that thermoplasty project with straight strike, our crews were heavily involved with that. So uh we're able to get some very valuable training and so budgeting for uh smaller projects that maybe straight can do, but so we can take some of that on ourselves.

Great. Thermoplasty and crack sealing. um small striping project as well as supplying the paint so we can stripe uh replacing light poles, decorative light poles. They're roughly 8,000 a pole. Um we'd like to have a small supply. And then our salt shed uh it blew over a couple years ago. And so rebuilding that to protect the salt sand we plow with uh or salt salt the roads after plowing. Um it's it's time to rebuild the shed. Uh we're not we're not going to relocate the public works, rebuild public works anytime soon with failing infrastructure. So um it's uh it's time

it's it's not so th this budget is funded mainly um through two sources. That's parks really quick. And it brings in about $750,000. In the years that we don't spend up to that 750, the money just goes back and and builds the fund for the 21 fund. This is not general fund. So, we're getting money from class C road funds and from the transportation tax. And those are come in around $750,000 a year. So, what um what Levi and I did was we we we're going to spend all of that. We're going to try and get all of that into striping and doing maintenance projects and things like that. This fund also carries a balance which I'll report on um when we talk about CIP, but those funds can also be uh used to to pay for larger projects and things like that. But we don't see any reason why we shouldn't spend the operational funds that are coming in each year with the amount of maintenance that we have. So that's why you see a 50% increase in in budget. So, we've talked about doing things like um Hawk lights or pedestrian lights, you know. Um is that out of this budget or would this be out of another budget?

It would. It depends on a couple of things. One, if it can fit into a project, like it's already part of a streets project, it would go in there. If it was something where we already had the street, we weren't doing a project nearby, it could potentially come out of here. Um there's it could come out of the fund as well. It could could also come out of um a general CIP uh line item as well. So there's a few places that we could take it from. Yeah. Grants as well. We should definitely grants for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Storm water.

Uh the actuals for the last two years, our current budget 26 and proposed for 27. Uh it's a less than 1% overall increase for 26 notable changes. We we have an issue on 100 west 200 north uh storm line issue we'd like to refund and then the rest uh the increases for detention basin maintenance.

I'll bring up some on that one too when we talk about CIP at the next meeting. Um, we'll also be talking about storm storm drain lines because uh the roads that we're talking about, any road that we're talking about also looking at storm drain to see if we can address storm drain with those projects, water and sewer as well and any other things that we can tie into that. So, so storm drain carries over to CIP as well.

Questions? Levi, I was really impressed by this budget because I know that we've added so much your plate in the last couple months with King Creek and dispersed parking. I mean, so much landscaping to to help maintain. Uh did did I hear that housed in the the special projects? Where where are we seeing that reflected all that increase? And and it's the facilities budget at the very very bottom. It is part of that special that 64,000 special project. Okay. Yeah. Got it. Okay. Yeah. If you'd like an actual breakdown of what it's it so it's supplies, irrigation supplies, landscape materials, um hand tools, those sort of things. Great.

Um it also includes that small project for the North Trail. I think that's like a third of the the budget. Okay, great. Thank you. And nice nice work. Yeah, nice work absorbing that. Thank you, Jason. So, is your department fully staffed then after losing that um full-time person.

So, we currently in facilities, we have that open um not budgeted position. So, we're down one there. In streets, we spent the last year and a half uh with with some missing personnel. And um we just hired we just filled the sixth uh vacancy and that person will start in two weeks. Um, so we have a new guy. Let's see. We're going one one individual just just past the six month. Two individuals are still within their six month. Uh, we have a guy we just brought on board who's been there almost a month and the the last six full-time employee is actually an employee from the WRF. So, they'll have vacancy. I know last time we or talked a few times about that you're having issues with like CDL drivers and um and not being able to use like the street sweeper or dump trucks, you know, or whatnot and stuff. Has that all been kind of figured out?

Um yes and no. We have two current two of the six are currently CDL holders. Uh two of the new that are within the six month are all but they they just have to take the final test and they'll be certified. Uh the fifth person we just hired that's within the month. He came with a CDL. Um and he's he's not from here. Him and his wife uh relocated. Um he's from England. Trying to get him driving on the right side of the street. It's challenging. Um and the sixth individual from the he'll need some training. He doesn't have a CEO. So yes and no. We were able to figure it out. Um but it's there's some uh steps we have to take to it.

Nice. Yeah. Anybody else? All right. Thank you. Caitlyn, you had another question you wanted to ask about community development budget. I believe I did. Um I think I missed it, but thank you, Levi. Thank you. I didn't know. Yeah, he's got it together. Everybody. Yeah. Going back to community development and and I guess one of my questions because I even missed over it is community contributions whether that

Yes, that um that definitely is part of this not part of community development. It's part of the overall general fund. I'm going to cover transfers and and um those contributions at the next meeting when I talk about revenues as well. So okay. So, and that so just for information that'll be all the transfers that we transfer out of the general fund, the the money that comes in for property tax, which also goes to the CIP, money that's going to grants and things like that, the community contributions, and anything else along those lines where we're transferring money from one budget from the general fund to another budget. And I'll do that with the revenues.

Okay. I guess I'm wondering then if it should be in the CDD budget or I think it's more admin honestly. Um it's it's contained in the hierarchy of the budget. It's like right at the bottom of the 10 fund but um I believe it I believe that's more of an admin function and so I've just left it an admin oversight. So yeah, admin makes sense. I guess I will save my comments on that for next meeting then. Great.

Anybody else questions on the budget? Very good. Thanks everybody for all your hard work presenting this to us. Really appreciate that. Um feel good about our budget this year. All right, moving on to uh our regular meeting. We first start with public comments. So, if you'd like to make a comment, if you could fill out one of these forms with your name, address, and what you'd like to talk about and give it to Michael, that would be great. So far, we have Bill McGee who's going to talk. You have three minutes. State your name so we have it on the record. Sure. And three minutes. Thanks, Bill.

Hi, everybody. My name is Bill Aging. Start my timer. Oops, that's eight minutes. Pardon me. I'll put three minutes. So, my name is Bill Aing. live on Mil Creek Drive and um over the past year I've spoken to many of you um about the noise levels um specific to just Moab in general, but also the street I live on. And I want to thank you for your time and attention to this matter. Um, I'm here this evening to hear what the city council, the mayor, MOAB administration, city manager are proposing to address the excessive levels of noise, OV noise. Um, I realize this is a discussion, but it would be informative to know the framework of your plan. You know, timing, enforcement, key performance indicators, you know, like what does success look like? Um and um and contingencies like what if what if the solutions that you're discussing don't prove effective? Um so leadership is also important. So we'd also like to know like who's going to oversee this effort. Um, is it going to be the city manager, the mayor, city council member, you know, somebody who who I won't say accountable, but can at least be this the the point of contact for, you know, for how the project is progressing. And I think of this as a project. Now, I realize that Utah state code makes it difficult, but not impossible to regulate speed on vehicle type, but I'm optimistic that there's a solution that brings the community or the OV community into compliance with Moab's noise ordinance. Reducing speed is one of many approaches, and hopefully today's discussion will explore multiple possibilities. Now, before I conclude, I just want to remind everybody in a leadership position that Moab prides itself on enhancing, and I quote, our vibrant community in improving our quality of

life. This is what's on your banner right here for your meeting announcements. And so, we consider noise control as a critical component of quality of life. Noise is just not a nuisance. As I've mentioned before, it's a pressure wave, a vibration that that at elevated levels is harmful to humans. And this is why OSHA has regulated sound at a workplace. It's harmful. And so, thus, cities, municipalities have similarly adopted noise ordinances as a matter of public health, welfare, safety, and quality of life. And and if this part sounds familiar, it's because this is the first statement in Moab's ordinance 2021-7 that addresses OB noise. This is in your codes. So, finally, leaders are often asked to make difficult decisions. The possibility, the possible threat of litigation is always a consideration, but we the Moab community think that our quality of life and health should be given precedence over this concern. And we will support you if you support us. And from a financial perspective, we really want to preserve our property values. Excessive noise diminishes our home's value. So we will protect this investment. Thank you.

Thanks, Bill. Hey, because you're here to fill out the card. No, I know you. You know who I am.

Yeah. Just state your name in the microphone. Okay, my name is Pete Gross here, backed by popular demand. Maybe not. Um, I want to echo some of the things that Bill said. Um, first I want a little bit of history. Uh, we're at the 250th anniversary of the formation of the United States. For more for about 130 of those years, more than half of that time, the Reeves brothers invented mufflers in 1896. So, we've had a lot of time to improve and perfect that technology. Um, and just like, you know, we've realized that secondhand smoke is a health hazard, secondhand noise is also significant hazard. Um, noise impairs development in children. It triggers the release of stress hormones, particularly cortisol and adren adrenaline that even during your sleep, you may not wake up. You don't even know you're being affected, but you're getting these stress hormones released into your bloodstream. Um, I feel bad for for Bill Ag because I know he's at ground zero for UTV noise. I'd live on the other side of Mil Creek from Mil Creek the creek from Mil Creek Drive which is a UT OV thoroughare up to Sandlat and the noise bothers me. I get woken up. Um what else did I want to say? I'm trying to be quick here. Yeah, I don't need to repeat what he mentioned about the noise ordinance. It's 5 years old now and I'm wondering has there been even one noise ordinance citation issued based on motor vehicle noise? Oh, and also, um, I I made a non-verbal comment here, too. There's something like two to 400 yard signs of this nature. And also, um, I think there's a couple hundred of these teachers. Did I hear the three minute thing?

Not yet.

Okay. Oh, the one last thing I would like to add is um I had a conversation with um someone in this room about how the city could be proactive in working with the OV community. And one of the things that struck me is electric UTVs could be a gamecher. You know, they're so much quieter and whatever company chose to go that route. Yeah, they're not going to appeal to everybody, but they're gonna gain a significant segment of the OB um you know, community economy tourists and um also engender a lot of positive feedback. Anyway, that's pretty much all I have.

Thanks. Thank you. Anybody else? Can I just Can I save everybody three minutes and say that I stand with Live behind Bill? Come on. Get Get in the hot seat, Eric. Come on. My name's Lord.

Cara, who's doesn't speak publicly. Um, we live on leverage and I would mimic all these things that were said about the same thing. It's over. We've been there for 15 years, for 18 years. Um, and it's a very different place living there now than it was. And it's a very different place this week in the last three weeks versus what it was in January when you can actually be in the front yard because it was 90 degrees in January. But, um, you can't really be in the front yard at night. And we go when the sun sets and everybody comes down from sand flats, we go inside and shut the windows and the doors. It's it's miserable. It's horrible. So that's all. Okay.

Thank you. Anybody else? All right. We'll move on then to department updates and um Michael's going to start this discussion.

I am. And I'm going to invite our engineer up here. And Corey, are you coming up as well? So, we wanted tonight to respond to a request by the city council to evaluate speeds throughout town and then also talk speeds for vehicles, legal street vehicles, street legal vehicles um throughout town and also talk about the disproportionate amount of traffic on some of our routes that is affected by tourism. So, those are a couple of things we want to talk about. We're going to show you some maps and things like that today. Um there there's a couple of things I wanted to go over though really quick. First of all, we we have evaluated our code and the state code and I've gone through many iterations of conversations with people all the way from from here our legal uh advisors to the state to state officials. And it's very clear that there are inconsistencies in the state code that uh that cause problems. And those inconsistencies cause it make it so that it um it makes it so that we have trepidation about enforcing speed limits on vehicles differently. A street legal vehicle is a street legal vehicle. And that's the way the code, the state code is basically saying things. our our code may say something a little bit different. Our code should probably come in line with the state code. We have talked to legislators like I just mentioned. There isn't an appetite to make any changes to make that more consistent or less inconsistent or to give us the opportunity to regulate differently for these different types of vehicles as long as they are uh street legal. So, I wanted to bring that out really quick. So, um, in the city of Moab, what we're

saying administratively is our our recommendation is and our operational, um, trajectory, I guess, right now is that we treat all street legal vehicles the same. If they are street legal, there is there should be one speed limit for those. Uh, we do have signs around town that say OV OV speed limit 15 miles an hour. And that's another thing I want to bring up today. Um, OVs are not street legal. That's the sign is inconsistent itself. It It is somewhat of a problem with our police department because the police department pull people over and they say, "Well, it says right there that OVs, the term is street legal ATV." And I know that that might sound um semantic, but the reality is is that words matter. and the way that it's it's proposed or put out there to people really matters, especially if we had to go to court over something. So, we are going to talk today about uh speed limits, about the opportunities that we have on some of these streets. We're going to talk about what it would look like going forward. We are not proposing a big implementation here tonight with this is a department update. We want to talk about it. There is planning that needs to be done. We need to address the three E engineering, education, and enforcement. None of these policies can be implemented without um providing equal resources to each one of those E and we'll talk about that a little bit later. Um and then last thing, I guess I mentioned it with the 15 miles an hour. Um those signs, like I said, are inconsistent with what what how we interpret state code. And we wanted to say tonight that we are intending to take those down because of that reason. Now, when we take them down, I think we we've got some leeway there. It doesn't have to be in the next couple of days. Um but uh but within the next month or

so, we're looking at taking those down. So, all right, I'll turn it over to these guys. Oh, and Lex is on the line as well. Lex is at Chiefs of Police conference. uh but he is on Zoom and can answer questions.

Perfect. So the short preamble of this we're going to break this into maybe three three components including Lex is the engineering department put together this uh interactive map. So it'll give us the opportunity depending on where the council like to go with this discussion. We can zoom in particular areas with particular information. Uh it is limited. This is not comprehensive but I think for tonight's discussion will give us pretty uh applicable tool. So that being said, I think we're going to have Mark generally go over what this uh mapping system and routes option which has u well I'll let him go through all those elements and then uh for myself maybe talk a bit more about trafficcoming and the nature of that philosophy and how it can be used to our benefit beyond simply uh speed limit mitigation or any particular elements like that and then Lex can maybe contribute to the enforcement aspects of that. So that's hopefully the preamble we can get through. Take it away, Mark.

Okay, so we came prepared um mostly viewing this as kind of an information session. So we compiled a bunch of data that we have and took a stab at um designating ATV routes. It's maybe not quite the right word, but we wanted to take some attempt to identify what we thought those routes were. So what this map shows is uh we have ATV routes. Those are symbolized by either triangles or circles there.

So, just to be consistent with terminology because I just said it was so important whenever we talk about ATVs, let's just say we're talking about street legal ATVs. The city of Moab doesn't have any off-road trails that we're going to be talking about. So, we're talking strictly about street legal ATVs.

Mark, would you zoom in just as we zoom in? This is going to populate with more information. So, we might see a little bit more what actually is included. We'll get a little sample there. Yeah. And uh and just a little background on these routes that we have designated. Um these were originally identified I think maybe five years ago now for another presentation that was like this. Um and uh so uh several of these were identified as particular routes that were used by particular uh rental uh uh ATB rentals and uh and other ones were just ones that we identified as being hey we think that they go here. So this isn't terrifically uh robust. This isn't backed up by ATB counts or anything like that. We're just trying to identify where we think they're going just just for the sake of discussion. Uh and then we think we've identified what heavy use and just sort of generally commonly used ones are. Uh uh but again, you know, not really based on any particularly robust data or anything. We're just trying to put something on there for the sake of conversation. Uh and then we've got uh speed limit signs. These are surveyed into here um uh uh based on GPS data uh in our GIS system. Uh so if we want to identify speed limits along those routes or really any other street in the city uh we can look into that. Uh and then we also have on here uh all of the traffic counts that we've done. So if I click on one of these little things uh and we want to look at uh an average daily traffic on a particular week or two that we would have studied that for example this one was done way back in 2022. uh we could get, you know, put a pin in the number for uh just what uh traffic was on that road. So, if we wanted kind of a sense of high use roads and low use roads just in general, again, that doesn't break out ATV traffic from

general traffic. Then, um we've also got on here functional classification. We probably don't need to address that tonight, but we've got it on here just because we wanted to sort of make sure we had everything included. Um yeah, so that that's uh that's the uh the GI GIS data that we have prepared. Um we show several routes on here. Mil Creek as it's come up earlier. Um we've identified as a heavy use route um amongst others. So I suppose we could open it up for discussion.

I might jump in think real quick. Um, so again, as we're looking at this mapping system, the dotted line, those are the city limit boundaries, and you can see that there are some faint white lines. And I think this coloration actually does it pretty pretty good justice for interpreting what we're what we're looking at. But the classification of roads, I think, for my end, are helpful in that those classifications of road are typically established by widths of rideway. So they correspond with whether they're uh signed at a particular limit or not with higher levels of travel flow if you want to think about that way. So our our main or major collectors arterials to minor streets the form of the street will often naturally dictate the level of travel level of service the road's going to manage regardless of your speed limit size. So this is what is corresponding into my side of uh n natural traffic calming. So from some of this data that we have that's a bit more historic to what we've just completed with our dispersed parking and increase complete street systems and dispersed parking. I think we could all anecdotally assess there's been a natural calming effect in some of these streets regardless of their signage. So, when we're talking about routes and everything else, I think it does factor into what are what are kind of historically perceived uh legal ATV or street legal ATV routes uh to our natural uh traffic, how these ATVs may be avoiding some of these traffic routes for, you know, systemic circulations like school pickups, uh workflows, uh in and out of town, in in commute and out commute. So it's it is truly a systemic system. Uh that's redundant but uh when we're looking at these things we have to keep all those elements in mind that one particular amendment will not have a universal effect throughout but it will have a ripple effect. So I talk about

yeah and that's what I'm talking about with the three E. So when we talk about street changes that's engineering. We talked about um signage that's education. And then we talked about pulling people over, writing warnings or giving tickets. That's enforcement.

Um, so do we I think the big question is here. Do we want to look at some of these routes and consider whether or not um speed limit changes, engineer or engineering changes or enforcement changes might uh might be appropriate. And the big routes are are on there that you already know what the big routes are. Mil Creek, Fourth East, Fifth, West, First South, Third South, First North, Cane Creek, and go on. I think everybody's pretty familiar. Well, unfortunately, um, these, you know, vehicles do go by neighborhoods and there there are, like you say, major collector roads that they have to access to get to the back country and unfortunately, you know, I fear of them when they go down Cane Creek. You heard people here in the audience tonight that spoke about where they live. It's changed. And so, you know, I feel like we need to utilize whatever we can to help reduce and mitigate the noise in on those particular areas where where our recreationalists are accessing the back country. How we do that. I think that that's what we want to be talking about tonight.

Yeah. I'd like to talk about specific routes. I think that's great. I would love to talk about the the Mil Creek route, the Northeast route. Um, you know, I feel like uh, you know, these are the things those three are uh, you know, especially the engineering and and um, education are are the things that we know we have completely in our hands. You know, the enforcement is as we're exploring all these things is is a little bit more challenging. Um but I think those those two elements and I think that those are uh you know two of the really heavily affected areas and and you know this is something the the routes is something that I brought up with uh recently because some some residents of Locust Lane had uh approached me about having the you know multiple UTVs every day going up looking for sand flats. And so I think, you know, in a way to delineate or designate routes is is uh, you know, definitely a a need in the community, but I also see, you know, Mil Creek is this this great opportunity because we're, you know, as we're exploring that intersection and some other, you know, and the increase of traffic that's going to be coming into town via Mil Creek, I think that's a great way to slow people down and and, you know, sort of give the feeling of of coming into a congested area. Um, and so yeah, I always love to talk about especially the engineering of of Mil Creek.

Well, I think that naturally will come up with multi-use pathway and safe streets for all and I think it's worth talking about given the three to 400 units of apartments are coming in on Mil Creek. I think that that's I agree with that for sure. Um,

all right, Caitlyn, you you continue.

Great. I'll continue. Um, yeah. And I wish that there was anyone from the UTV business community here. Um, I think that I'm going to put that off the bat. I really appreciate all the comments from all of you. Um, and we're very aware of that and I'm also aware that um, there are two sides to this and it's important for us to be proactive in in getting that which which for me is education and and I think having a conversation about I think we all know that these are the routes. Um, and the next kind of difficult conversation is about what it looks like to designate or not designate. um how are we um working with these neighborhoods? You know, I think uh four out of the five of us sitting up here live on this map as it is shown right now. So, we we all get it. Um you know, so so I think that that's like engineering and education wise. Um those are going to be more of the challenging components with this and with other kind of hotspot areas. Um, so I think engineering is a part of it. I would love to start with education. I think you've made enough comments about enforcement and how challenging that is. And so I think going back to that reopening those conversations with businesses about what we can do um and us kind of like looking at larger policies about what we can do, looking at engineering about how um just increased vehicle traffic and density in this area is going to change the classification and the needs and honestly some of the zoning uses through this entire corridor. Um, so I don't have specific answers. I think for me personally, um,

decreasing Mil Creek Drive, um, 400 East, like trying to decrease all of our roadways to 20 miles an hour, I think is going to cause a lot of heartburn in the community. Um, if we are going the route of every uh, you know, every vehicle, every street legal vehicle driving the same speed limit. Um, so that yeah, so I'm I'm I'm struggling with the idea of rolling back speed limits to try and meet in the middle between ve vehicular traffic and a lot of traffic moving through this area. Um, before we consider like I think traffic plumbing engineering will help us guide towards 20 miles an hour. Um, but I think engineering needs to be considered, traffic calming needs to be considered for that because otherwise it will be an unfortunate issue for everyone that lives here.

What kind of engineering are you thinking?

Um, I think multi-use pathway I think um storm, you know, just kind of like street design. I think what we would do is look at well with the with the safe streets for all we know that we're going to be getting some recommendations and most likely those recommendations for pedestrians are either going to be around intersections or midblock crossings and both of those places are perfect to do neck downs on on the street to to slow traffic down. It's an excellent uh engineering fix or implement to help slow things down. We can see how it worked out on Center Street. That's a good example of a lot of engineering, but there are there are things that we can do with striping. There are things that we can do with with less expensive um projects that could be effective as well. I think that I mean, you hit the nail on the head. This is a and you said it too. It's a system and you can't just do one thing in a system without affecting other things either positively or negatively. And um for us, you know, showing this this information, we wanted to get out there that we we agree that there is a disproportionate amount of tourism related traffic on these streets. It might be street legal, but that doesn't mean that it's it's it doesn't have an impact. And uh I think the my recommendation would be that staff come back with some some plans for the highest priority roads on in the shorter term and then look at the larger system in the longer term. And I would suggest like you did that fourth east and milreek are high priority. I think uh Third South is a really high priority because it it already has implementations of the education, but enforcement is difficult there and the engineering is just not there to support

that. First South is a lot better because it's at least there's parking on the street. It's a little bit narrower, but Third South is is super wide uh and provides a you know very comfortable place to speed up. Um, so that's that's something that we could to do to move things forward on more of a shorter term as opposed to maybe doing an entire master plan. Uh, maybe looking at these in sections of priority Miles.

So, uh, as someone who's lived on Third South and now lives on 400 East, um, I'm acutely aware of this situation. Um there are a few comments I wanted to make which is one I am very interested in dealing with the speed limits as is on fourth or 400. Um frankly I think a lot of us do the we drive five five miles an hour over the speed limit deal. I know that's fairly consistent amongst people and uh so leaving that speed limit at 25. I've seen pedestrian conflicts and otherwise like not just a noise issue, but people like to move down 400 pretty quickly into that intersection area where we have a lot of people walking around in that small commercial space. Um, so I think that's worth a consideration. Um, in line with the rest of this, I mean, it makes a lot more sense to me to have one speed limit and to enforce that. And if we're going to have a noise ordinance in regards to vehicle noise, like that is something our officers should be trained on and be able to enforce. Um, and finally, and this is something that kind of it's it was a while ago that I discussed this with Corey actually. Um, but there's a potential understanding that we could uh be a little bit more lenient with some of our screening and buffering on the frontage for people. So that if you wanted to try to separate yourself a little bit more more from the noise than is typically allowed on a frontage on one of these identified heavy use routes. um that you would be allowed to do so and I'm interested in pursuing that as well. Jason.

Um, so this winter I I did have the opportunity to speak with some of the UTV people um up at the state and some of the groups and all of them kind of have kind of said kind of says the same thing, you know, that um the OV sign, you know, is permitting basically you could have like a motocross bike, you know, going up that road and you're saying it's illegal, you know, because that sign saying OV offhighway vehicle the speed limit. So, um, by getting the rid of those signs, I think it's a it's a really good start, um, to being able to enforce people who are going too fast, you know, or, um, that that it gives our police department um, the ability to start enforcing stuff because that offhighway sign is actually permitting a group that's not legally permitted to be on the roads anyway and stuff. So, I think that clears up. Um I think that um by making it you know whether you split the difference or whatever make it 20 miles per hour for everybody you know so that you know because there is that section in that ordinance that says that if a UTV is street legal it has to be treated exactly like any other street legal vehicle. And that's where we're running into this and that's where we're running into um this. So if even if we say UTVs have to go a certain speed limit, we can't enforce that, you know, um it has to be the same speed limit for all vehicles if they have a license plate on it. And um so I think we need to kind of work within work within those means. Um, I think I talked to um, you know, Bill and I talked about it last week and I and I tend to agree with Bill a little bit said that that he was kind of against designated routes and stuff because it it concentrates so much traffic on those designated routes and those people who live on those designated routes are then bearing the brunt of 100% of those vehicles, you know, and stuff. And so, um, I kind of I kind of agree with that. I do think we

can do things in neighborhoods, you know, like like Locust, for example. um or these other side street. Well, you could put up signs that say no UTV access or something, you know, you're not prohibiting it, but you're discouraging it, you know, and I'd like, you know, to see something like that in in neighborhoods that um kind of kept people off of those neighborhood routes, you know, and stuff. Um but I think um you know, like these first steps and and I've talked to people in the UTV community and they're like, if you see people going, bust them, you know? you know, like pull them over. We we we want to see the bad actors pulled over, you know, we want to see people um having to live by the rules that you guys have set up for everybody and stuff. So, I think there is support within the community to set up these um you know, set up these whatever we're doing and then make it so that all vehicles can do it. And I I know that also in that code it also says that um a UTV that comes from the factory with the factory equipment on it is legal when it's transferred over to be made street legal. And I think that that's a kind of a big barrier that we got to figure out is like have people put aftermarket, you know, mufflers on? Have they made them, you know, they put on um louder pipes and stuff on it? And um and I think that those people should be um cited for that. But we got to figure out a way to um to do that from you know how do we do that within our code to site those people who have put aftermarket stuff on. So I think these are all great things and I think that um moving forward with this kind of um um opens us up that we're we're trying to get this figured out. And I also think that we need to really kind of push the enforcement of this um in these neighborhoods, you know, because like I think Pete's right. I don't know if

there has been a noise related citation ever written, you know, and stuff because because we didn't know and I think we need to figure that out, you know, and stuff. So, I think that we need to kind of push enforcement once we get these plans into place. Any other comments, Tony?

Um, yeah. No, I I agree with Jason about, you know, designated roots. I I just think that funnels everything to the same people and they bear the brunt. Um we've been working on this for a long long time and um I think every everything we have um every little step we have made somehow has been countered. But I think we're more on the right track. I I think it's important to remove those signs because I I thought that for a long time. I if it's off highway vehicle, it shouldn't be on the road anyway. Um, so I'm um and I do want to make a comment. Um, I live down on the west side of town and the Andra condominiums this time of year fill up like crazy. I mean, there have been years I have counted a hundred machines from 500 West to 650 West. I mean, and that's not counting the ones that are parked inside the condominium property itself. And I mean, I've seen guys working on their machines out in the middle of the road and you have to go around them. Um, but in all honesty, when they leave, there is not a giant confilgration that and I've been up at 5:30 for many, many years, and I just it's not deafening. I don't know what they're doing there that's different because I I mean I've sat up on Mil Creek and yes it's it's just it's deafening. You can't have a conversation. So I I think I think greater minds than mine can come up with something to help mitigate some of this.

I'd like to I' I'd like to like this is should be an encompassing noise ordinance. It's not just about UTVs. It's about you know big diesel trucks, rice burner, you know, car, you know, or something, you know, like anything loud. There's a lot of loud vehicles in and around Moab.

Yeah. Yeah. And I'll say that's why I really think the noise ordinance is a good way to go with this because frankly like you can have a vehicle that has aftermarket market pipes and you can drive it in such a way that it does not create unnecessary noise and you can have a vehicle that has stock stock tuning on its exhaust. And if you're accelerating and revving it for the heck of it, you're going to make more noise than should be allowed in our community. So, I think enforcing it at a noise level kind of solves a lot of the complications of officers needing to know how to recognize whether or not someone has modified a stock vehicle instead simply if they're compliant with the noise or not compliant with noise. I think actually that I mean that's a big reason why we haven't enforced it is it how do you like individually measure one singular UTV's noise source especially when they're driving by in a group and there's other like I think that that is the challenge

um and I know that you want to move out I guess what figuring out how to move forward on this I think one of my requests because I'm sure all of you are sitting in the audience teeming with your thoughts not something talking about. I I I'm wondering I I would like to figure out a way to have like a town hall or like public conversation about this. Um because I think we all have different perspectives. I'm sure everyone in the audience has different perspectives. Um clearly we have some things on the books that, you know, we need to make a decision on how we move on. Um, and I think I would also like to open up the door for other conversations about what the public wants to see five years later, how how we address this moving forward. Um, I think it's going to be really challenging for us to be able to figure that out in a public meeting.

Well, I just like to say that um I feel like the speed limits is a first a first step. It doesn't mean we have to change all the speed limits to 20 miles an hour, but the routes that we know are designated that that's how they access the back country. And I've talked to Michael about this and we need to talk more about it. But I feel if we're going to remove 15 miles an hour, we need to replace it with 20 at the same time. Otherwise, they're going to be going 25, 30 miles an hour. Needs to be very clear. You know, it's not going to help us this spring if we don't do something soon. And if we're going to take down the 15 miles an hour, we need to replace it with something and it can't be it has to be something in between. So 25 15 we get 20. Um and I also feel I understand the whole system the whole engineering idea. I also know how long that takes. And I feel educational campaign I don't think we've had a really robust educational campaign. Had a lot of conversations. There's articles in the paper but we haven't put out anything. you know, we haven't given our ATV uh um owners and businesses something that says, "Hey, give this when you rent out your, you know, UTVs to people, give them this document. You know, go to in Toronto and and give that out, leave it in your hotel room where we know those folks are going to be staying." Um, and just get that information out and have much more robust educational campaign because I believe we we've never really done that. And and I and I really appreciate the idea about the designated routes because my I was thinking, well, we know where they're going to go, you know, let's direct them there. But you're right, if we do that, we're funneling them all into, you know, it's it's not fair. But we do know 500 West and unfortunately Mil Creek Drive up into Sand Flats is where everybody wants to go. So, let's work on those areas and

get that taken care of so that we can kind of start to mitigate this as soon as we can. is Jeep Forest is next week. It's going to just keep ramping up until the end of May. And I would really like to see us getting something going as soon as possible. I really like your idea, Caitlyn, of having, you know, more conversation with the community. I'm sure Bill and Pete would love to be involved in those conversations. And I know this has been a challenge for us, but I think we have a small solution that could help that we should try to implement as soon as possible. And then look at all that engineering. I know we're looking at 400 East as kind of our next big road project. That's when I think we could really do some good um complete street work and and do that engineering there. So anyway, those are my thoughts and I think um go ahead. Do you have

Are you done? Well, I didn't mean I don't mean to close everything off either. I don't we don't have to move on. If you have more comments that you'd like to make and I just wanted to ask about that. I mean, how can we So, so we're about to queue up our next big road project. Um, how can we uh kind of move Mil Creek, you know, add that to 400 East as as a priority? Um, and potentially I mean, can we just can we do that? Well, I mean, it's uh we're in planning phases for both of those. So just say the word and you know we can we can present a budget that's consistent with with adding it to 400 East. Okay.

Yeah. We will be discussing the CIP at our next meeting. So you know hopefully that is going to be part of that conversation. But um how do you want to move forward with this Michael? I I I like your idea of providing recommendations. You've heard what we've all had to say. So, can we in the next, you know, meeting or two come up with some recommendations so that the public knows that we're moving this forward. We're not just giving lip service up here. We really want to get something done.

So, I I think we can definitely come back with recommendations, but um you know, I Lexa is on the line and and we have another officer here who who could both speak to this, but enforcement is extremely important with these. I mean, the uh the ability to get out there and because part of enforcement is education, too. If you're giving somebody a warning, that is education. Um the ability to to enforce and to be able to uh do it consistently for a period of time after speed limits change are really important. So, when we come back, we'll talk about the ability, you know, the resources that we have and and all of those types of things. The other thing I was going to say is um we'll talk more about the speed limit signs, but as you know, they're prolific. They're not just on on on routes all the routes that we're talking about there. They're prolific throughout the entire city. And I don't think we're talking about changing all speed limits. So, so we you know, it's it is a challenge. There's a lot of things we have to think about. But question was, do you think that we could get something back in the next two meetings? Yeah, absolutely. we can we can bring the discussion back and have some recommendations.

One thing about the speed limit enforcement also to keep in mind I think and I've heard Lex talk about this before is that if we have the ability to legally, you know, pull people over for going over the speed limit, that opens the door to look at all the other things that these guys are doing. And my understanding is they get some DUIs that way. So, you know, having the speed limit and enforcing the speed limit allows us to maybe do some things that the noise ordinance doesn't capture that we can do by pulling people over for speed. So, more to come on this, you guys. We hear what you're saying. Um, I know it might not address everything that you want, but we're really trying. Um, so we'll be talking more about it here in the next couple of meetings, I hope. Anything else before we move on? Thank you. Thank you guys.

All right, we have our first item of consideration which is our consent agenda. We have four items. Arbor Day proclamation, the dark sky week proclamation, the approval of the minutes from March 10th, March 10th, and the approval of the bills in the city of Moab in the amount of 501400 51,400.96. I normally like to read the Arbor Day proclamation and the dark skies week, but every time I talk, I have to cough. So, we all love trees. No. Okay. Um I we love trees, so that's what that's about. We love our scar starry skies. That's what that's about. So, if I could have a motion to approve our consent agenda.

I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. I can second that. Motion by Jason, second by Colin. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Motion passes. 5. Oh, okay. Um, I guess my brain's in a little bit of a fog. So, our next general business item, I have to open the public hearing. It's item 6.1, public hearing for resolution 06-2026. Resolution assessing abatement costs and fees for the abatement of the dangerous building located at 737 Mountain View Drive, Moab, Utah 84532. This is a requirement in order for us to put a lean on the property. So, I'm going to open up the um public hearing at 7:04 p.m. And Michael and Summer, do you guys want to talk about this real quick?

Not really. I think this just allows, like the mayor said, allows us to recuperate the $93,000 that we spent on abatement costs. We would do that through applying a lean to the property. This resolution uh takes us to where we can do that.

All right. Anybody from the public want to speak to this agenda item? Going once. Okay. Lack of enthusiasm there from the crowd. We will close the public hearing at 7:05 p.m. And then the next item is consideration of the approval of resolution 06-2026. If I could have a motion. There is no um there is nothing on the agenda summary. If if you could just just read it off the agenda. Make a motion to approve if I read it.

Okay. I'll make a motion um to accept the city resolution 062026. A resolution assessing abatement cost and fees for the abatement of the dangerous building located at 737 Mountain View Drive. Mo, Utah in the amount of $93,863 and plus interest at 7% anom to be assessed against the city property um authorizing staff to pursue and recover such funds. Good job. Yeah. Very good.

All right. We have a motion by Jason, second by Tony. Any discussion, Jason? No. Thank you. This is so good for this um community and for this neighborhood to have this moved. It's it was a long time coming and um and it it's a safety hazard that um needed to go away. So, I'm excited that this happened pursue it. I agree. All right. Anybody else?

I do I do want to return to the abatement from earlier. Okay. Um wondering if you know budgeting for that just want to make sure that that budget anything that we would do with that abatement fund on behalf of someone's property will always kind of follow this process or is it

it will this is a legal process required by the states in order to put a a lean on a property and um private property is is um is protected and you know we wouldn't be able to do anything on private property without following the process that led it that got us to this point which included going through court and and going through an appeal process and all of those types of things. So it would it would follow this process. So I guess the question is if if we are going to do abatements on private properties as was discussed earlier in order to recoup that money we would put leans on those properties through the same public hearing process. Right. That's my question.

Yeah. Some some of them might be small enough to do fines. If we felt like there was we weren't we couldn't get where we need to get through that way get through that way then we would have the option to do that but we'd follow this process. Thanks. Any other discussion? One thing on this um this pro this property is I'm glad to see we did put money in the budget for abatement because it did open our eyes as to we don't have a we don't have a process or the finding the funding to do this in the future. So it did took a long time but I think it really helped with policy. All those in favor say I.

I. Any opposed? Motion passes 5. Next up, consideration of resolution 05-2026, a resolution adopting the city of Moab's fiscal year 2627, strategic plan. Alexi did a great job at our last meeting presenting this, unless you have any questions. Um, Alexi, do you have anything briefly you want to

Uh, yeah, I do because we also have a new staff member. So tonight we have the full version of a strategic plan and a new staff member who happens to be in the strategic plan on page three which was a total accident. Oh no way you meant to be. Okay I'll let you introduce yourself. Hi I'm Alex. Everyone called me do call. So Alex could you move a little closer to the microphone so we can get it on the recording. Hi. There we go. You don't have to do You're good. Yes.

Um, hey everyone. I'm Alex. I go by Val though. So, uh, yeah, just really excited to be in the role and it is true. I am in the strategic plan on page I think the table of contents. Uh, I was in the the play this year. Pass the town's in there. Yeah, I know. I can say that was the box on your head. A lot of people. I think I'm in there too. Rabbit brush coming out of my head. Oh, very nice. Slightly set to the right there. Oh, is it yellow?

Yeah, Lexi just um Yeah. Yeah. said that over me. I was like, whoa, no way. That's funny. So, uh yeah. Yeah. Super excited to be in Moab. Been here for about a year and and really really excited to be in this role uh bringing resources to a community that I have grown to love so much. So yeah, looking forward to working with you all and uh happy to answer any questions or um yeah, swing by my office. I'm right when you walk in the door, take a right with Michael and Alexia. So welcome, Val. Glad to have you here.

Yeah. So he'll be working on grants and sustainability and some of the strategic initiatives like the things in the plan. Uh this year's plan follows track of last year's. It's very similar. It ought to look pretty familiar. I would be happy to answer questions or if uh you want to any more detail on things I can also pull the plan up questions for Alexi.

So Alexi I you through this whole process you've done such a great job of collecting and filtering all of our ideas into this. Um, the one thing that came up in the last meeting that I don't see represented in the the active transportation piece was the the safety element we talked about, you know, and I think Miles brought it up and it was about cameras, lighting. Um,

yeah. Um, some of that was stuff that we were considering or are still considering for the Mil Creek Parkway. We can include that more explicitly like to improve like safety lighting or some of those things. Yeah. Yeah. Uh I mean I guess you tell me uh that that seems like that was a priority. It came up in the the strategic plan uh retreat. It came up at that last meeting. Um is it okay for it to not be in here? Is it do we do we should should we want desire it to be in here so that it it is sort of in the forefront? I mean you you tell me what you think. I you know I don't want to

I I feel like it can go either way. It's an easy modification to put it on one of the actions. Uh or those are things that we are working on as we kind of specifically we have like that cleanup and repair flood damage. There will be work on the parkway. So we could also just add it in there if you would like. I guess I would love to see it added in here so that especially when then we're reviewing include that in the in the motion. Okay. To include safety elements in the act of transportation be perfect. And it was somewhat mentioned on the top five priorities. In number three, it mentions like uh the construction projects that implement and support safe and desirable active transportation. So that felt like a a hint towards it, but

I think it should be an action item. An action item. Yeah. Yep. Anything else, Colin? Uh that's it for me. Caitlyn. Yeah, I had a couple. Um, so starting with downtown, I think the actions are reflective of the things that we talked about, they feel a little more shortterm than full next fiscal year. I think you had stronger language in the way that you describe the background in terms of um like even listing some of those planned enhancements. Um I think um other additional features like I feel like you kind of packed in other things in there.

So I guess I'm wondering if there's a way to kind of re I don't know if it's like rewrite that or um kind of reframe the actions in the way that you've described versus kind of like um some of the shorter term things that we have listed there. I like you'd like some of the things in the background to be reflected in the action list. Is that

uh Andor I when I was thinking about this I was wondering if um maybe instead we just kind of like consolidate that into like actually bringing the downtown master plan into the action item so that we can kind of encompass a lot of these smaller things into a comprehensive downtown plan. Um,

yeah. And I think some of that gap is we we know some of the things that are going to be in the downtown plan, but since the downtown plan is still moving along, um, as in we need to do the dust study to consolidate it, don't have the actions from that plan to put in here. Um, but we we can include more than is in there currently, for sure.

Okay. Well, then maybe it's I don't know, run this by the team. But I guess I'm wondering then if if we should just actually put the 2017 downtown master plan adoption in our action items. Um the 2017 downtown master plan or I don't think it was actually adopted. Well, that that's that's what I'm saying. It was never adopted, but we're using it. We're using it to to come up with a new plan.

Yes. Which is being worked on there. We are trying to get that organized so that we can take parts of that plan, not not redo it, but glean what we can from that plan and then get it into a format that the council would feel comfortable adopting.

Okay. But I guess that's my ask is because yeah, I know we've been talking about that. Maybe my ask is to list that as an action item to adopt a downtown plan. Sure. Okay. Um and then the second one also related to plans um was in implementing plans but or in housing I'm not sure but um updating the land use code

um and that isn't in there right now because it's going on currently. So, I guess it does just depend on the timeline of when it's completed as to which school year it'll actually fall into. Yeah. Okay. And then I I guess I was a little surprised to see updating the general plan. I was a huge Yeah, it's that is kind of inspirational, but Corey made us do it. Corey, our last discussion in our workshop, that's when it was put on the table. Um

um I do I do think there are portions that that we could potentially look at on a shorter term, but I totally agree with you. It's a it's a massive thing, but to be honest with you, um I know Corey would agree with me on this is we should have done the general plan before we did the zoning, but we had so many zoning issues that we went ahead with the zoning first. But um so I guess the question is should it be stated like that um knowing that it's not going to happen in in this next year completely? Maybe maybe we just stay differently again. Yes. That we um begin discussions on

implementing a new general plan something to that effect. Yeah. I think it was a was it a five-year process? The last one was a pretty significant uh it'll take five years. It was a It could take a year or so. Okay. It definitely will take a year and it should say leave it but you know just to begin the process of implementing or discussing. Yeah. Does that sound good to you guys? Very good. Yeah. All right. Okay. All right. Incorporate those all these changes.

I'll help you with that. three modifications. Um, adding safety on Mil Creek, uh, adopting a downtown plan, uh, or an updated downtown plan, and beginning a general plan update. Will there be a time during this budget process and and with this downtown or this top priorities where we're going to talk about like um I know part of it was like we bought a bunch of garbage cans and now we need to buy x amount more like you know do we need to do that or we want to continue the sidewalk project you know and and what's that

I think that's that's part of our budget. Yeah, that's what I just wanted. Yes. Yeah. As we as we go forward, we'll we'll start seeing those numbers in there. You will and and that Alexi and I will work on a way where we can um try and tie each CIP project to a strategic plan. Perfect. Okay. That's Yeah. Yeah. That's all right. So motion

I'll take a stab at it. Um, I move to adopt, excuse me, resolution uh 05-2026, adopting a city of Moab fiscal year 2026-2027 strategic plan with the following modifications. Uh adding safety enhancements to the active transportation. Uh adding um adopting a downtown adopting a downtown uh plan to the downtown uh section. And then the last one would be the begin discussions on the general plan.

Oh. Uh changing the wording to to about the general plans and beginning discussions on it. Very good. Okay. Got a motion by Colin. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Caitlyn. Any further discussion. All right. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes 5. Nice job. Thanks for the great work, Alexi. Val, you got a lot of work to do. Yad, excited about you.

All right. Our last agenda item, presentation and acceptance of the fiscal year 2425 annual audit of the city of Moab. Michael's going to present this. The auditors are online if we need to hear from them if you have any questions. My understanding is that uh we had a good audit. There was a few minor adjustments, but other than that, I mean, and Tony who's on the audit committee, if you have anything you'd like to comment on, we'll start with Michael. We'll move to you and then if we need the auditors there available. So each year we perform an audit. This year was no different. This this looks at our last full fiscal year. Uh we were issued a clean uh letter of opinion. I think that's the way it states. It's basically we did a good job. We passed. Uh there were definitely some suggestions that were made by the auditors. Uh I'll just bring up one of those. This is the main one actually. there weren't a lot of suggestions and that was to implement procedures requiring journal entries uh process a journal entry process that was a little bit different than the way we were doing it before that provides a better uh background and tracking of those journal entries when we're changing um how we're charging something after it's been charged and uh Summer has worked on that. She's already implemented that. That is happening as we speak. We have multiple levels of approvals that we go through and uh we think that we are already uh meeting that one and that's no different from anything else in the audit. Uh everything that was suggested we take a look at and again it was just a few things but uh we have resolved and we learned from these and uh hope that we don't have those same mistakes in the next year. Mistakes is a is a probably the wrong word but um

findings. Yeah. Yeah. Well, and they're always going to find something. I've never heard of an audit that was perfect. So, Tonnie, do you have any comments from the audit committee? I don't I don't really Michael Michael explained it quite well. Any questions or comments from the council? I'll ask for a motion to accept the fiscal year 2425 annual audit of the city of Moab. I'll make a motion to accept the Moab city annual financial audit for 2025 2425 2425 motion by Jason second I'll second second by Miles any discussion Jason

no I read it and it was actually didn't understand much of I read it at least I'm not the only one but you're being honest about it he must have been sick recently for Negative. I was like, look for negative words in there. Miles, any any comment? Anybody else? All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes. 5 Z. Very good. Um, all right. Last up, we have city city manager updates and then mayor city council reports. We do not have a close session tonight, thank goodness. And we'll go with you, Michael, and then we'll go around the DAS.

Okay. Just a couple of quick updates. I was able to attend an umptra meeting where Department of Energy, the cleanup crew was able to talk about where they are in the process. There's a lot of interesting and new and exciting updates out there. And one of them is that the burm is completely gone. It's at level all the way to or it's at grade all the way down to the to the river. Um they are they're doing a lot of work out there and they wanted to talk to stakeholders in the community about uh what ideally the um the community would like to see remain behind or how they would like the property left. the site futures committee has done an excellent job in preparing a a master plan that I think shows very well what the community's desires are and and that was reiterated at the meeting and um talked about quite a bit. So it was a good meeting. Uh had a great time uh looking at all the outbuildings and everything. It was a lot of fun. There's some historic structures out there. There's a big box covert, concrete box covert that apparently is a historic structure and we'll have to go to Shipo through Shipo in order to take it out of there when they're all done. Also have to be tested for contamination. So, um we have uh we've been doing leadership training with our leadership kind of working together to learn from each other within our leadership team. We're going to be expanding the leadership training in our uh with our staff to allow uh upand cominging uh employees who are looking at potential career opportunities within the city um to to get a little bit of leadership training to to learn more about the city and operations and and how to um potentially go from being an employee to a supervisor and and so on. So, we're really excited about that. I announced that last week and uh our

first class, you know, we're going to have 10 people. We've already got close to double that of the people who are interested in doing it. So, it's really really exciting. There's a lot of a lot of people here who would love to to uh to move up and would like to see some upward momentum. So, I just wanted to bring that up. We'll be starting that this summer, most likely after budget. So, probably around July 1. U budget is the big thing right now. There's a lot going on with that. Uh, however, you saw tonight that we've pretty much gone through all of the departments, parks, recreation, tourism, which doesn't include parks maintenance, but everything else will be presented next week. I'll talk a little bit, not next week, in two weeks, talk a little bit more about uh revenues for all of the budgets and we'll do CIP and then really quickly do wrap tax, which will only take a second, and uh which is its own fund now in the vehicle fund. And we're we're looking forward to wrapping wrapping this thing up actually. Uh and we're excited about the progression. Uh I did also attend a wire wildfire evacuation tabletop exercise and uh the county put this on with their emergency manager and all of the local agencies were there including the city of Moab. police department was there, the fire department was there, the the county sheriff, search and rescue, MPS, BLM, everybody was there. And we talked about what what would happen or what how would we approach evacuation uh due to a wildfire, which which I'm pretty familiar with in living in southern Oregon and having to go through a process like this. And I thought that the county did an excellent job uh running this and uh we were able to identify some some areas that we could improve on including shelter and things like that. And uh and so I I really appreciated the opportunity to be

involved in that and I can say I have a lot of confidence in our emergency personnel and first responders. Uh they're they're very good at their job and they're very dedicated. So the community should should have confidence in them as well. And that is all I have for my updates. Thank you, M. Michael. Um, who wants to go? I'll start with you, Jason, because

So, I didn't have a whole lot um last week. I had um I only had one meeting and it was a pretty important meeting. It was the airport board um had a meeting last Monday on the 16th and it was basically the whole meeting was dedicated to picking um a new essential air service um carrier um to propose to the Grand County Commission who then proposed it to um the Department of Transportation. Um there was four um four great candidates that put in for it and um and the airport board after meeting with all those guys um and then going over the applications and the proposals um picked Sky West. And so um and then that went to the Grant County Commission the next night and they unanimously also approved for Sky West. So hopefully now goes to the Department of Transportation and um and they'll review everything and hopefully I think it's is it October 1st I think um Sky West will start service to um to Cany. So um they just have the best kind of product I think for for everybody.

And that was all I have. Thanks Jason Tony. I didn't have a whole lot either. I had my monthly meeting with the mayor and grand time was had by all and I met with some of the museum staff just to discuss the gayla and some next steps for the museum and gayla is Thursday nights and there are still tickets. That's it. Thanks Colin.

Okay. On the 16th I met with the the mayor in miles. Uh the 18th had a solid waste meeting. Um couple things happening. Solid waste one the spring voucher uh uh is open April 20th through May 2nd. And then uh the I'm really excited that the composter is actually turning up right turning right now up at Moab Landfill and generating compost. Um so that's a really neat thing. And then after the solid waste meeting, I went to have dinner with team Rubicon. Uh Danny hooked me up with a lot of wonderful um city of Moab swag and uh so I took it up there and I I had missed dinner. The dinner was delivered early. Um but they were really excited to get a lot of really neat stuff from the city of Moab. Um on the 19th I had a wrap tac meeting. Uh we touched on this a little bit actually no we didn't touch something else. Um this year there were um 25 projects. It's a record. I think last year there were about 22 projects. The total ask was about $235,000. We had about $85,000 to give. Uh so it was again another really long uh process trying to whittle that down to to all these very deserving events and organizations. Um I can't say enough about this year's RAP tech committee. We really have a phenomenal group of people who are really passionate about this community and it was just a really really great discussion. I was proud to be

When do you anticipate we're going to see recommendations? Uh I was surprised that they weren't on this agenda. They'll be on the next Okay. Yeah. So it should be our next meeting.

Yes. Um on the 20th I I did a site visit with Team Rubicon. Um, for those of you who don't know, they're working out on sort of the back nine of the Frisbee golf course by the the the real golf course. Uh, the city owns, I don't close to 20 acres out there and that most of that is is completely engulfed by uh Russian olives. They have in that this effort cleared, I think like four acres of it. Um, just incredibly hard work, incredibly good work. Uh, that that property is absolutely amazing looking now. Um, whole whole bunch of wonderful ideas floating around what what could be done with it just to sort of maintain it. Um, but I can't thank them enough. And as I was out there and I was talking to all the different uh agencies that were involved in that um and all of their leaders, the one question that I had was whether the city had been a good partner in all of this and was being a good partner. And every single person, whether it was car from rim to rim or car from the fire department, um, everybody had the same thing to say that that uh, especially Levi and Mark Matson had just been absolutely amazing. When I was out there, they I think they had every chipper from the valley out there trying to keep up with these the cutting these folks are doing and uh, including the city's chipper and had two employees out there and and people just couldn't say enough how what a wonderful partner the city had been in these efforts. So that was a really really proud moment. Um on the 23rd I had uh 51 years old I had my first jury duty selection that the first positive from a broken leg. I got uh kicked out of jury duty. Um, and so, uh, then I that night I got to go and brag, uh, alongside Caitlyn and Miles at the Democratic caucus about all the amazing work that the city is doing and has done in the last year and people

were really really excited to hear that. Uh, the city really uh, you know, it's just it was it was great to to see how excited folks were about all all the good work that's happening in the city. Um, and then the last thing I want to say is that, uh, Jeep Safari starts this weekend, right? Yep.

And I, you know, my ask of the community, this is such a wonderful event. It's an event that I love. Um, and it's also an event that probably gives more funding spread out throughout the community. I was a huge recipient of that as the coach of the mountain bike team. Um, but so many organizations benefit from Jeep Safari and the Red Rock four-wheelers, and it brings so many wonderful people down. So, I just ask the community to be tolerant and patient and and really embrace these crowds that are coming in this week because it really has a a wonderful ripple effect throughout our community. Um, and then, uh, spring spruce up, April 11th that I'm involved in organizing. And so, put those out in calendars. I haven't checked yet if you're registered, Caitlyn.

Uh, but just just another thing to put on your calendars. I heard you were very entertaining last night. I get really excited about how much good work this city is doing. Good job. Thank you, Kaitlyn. Yeah, Fight Man did a fantastic job. Actually got people to start, you know, with with a little instruction. was pretty denying a little bit fun but um but yeah I mean if nothing heard from a lot of people what a functioning government look how much you guys are doing um know isn't that amazing

so that that was really nice to hear um yeah um okay so from the last meeting on the 11th I attended a local homeless council meeting um there are I would encourage everyone to go check out what's for rent Wednesday. There's a lot on there. Um including some um spots at the Virginia um some low-inccome all across the board. That's kind of the theme of my whole update. Um and then we also heard a presentation from an organization called Clean Slate Utah um which helps people move through the expungement process uh for free. there's technically an automatic way to um get records expuned um and is very tedious and difficult um and so encourage residents to reach out to them if they have things that are eligible for expungement. Um on the 18th I we had a little city housing subcommittee meeting um talking with Johanna mostly about the presentation that task force will give to this body. Um, and I'd say kind of within that theme, there's um, the task force is working on updating mobhousing.com to tie a lot of these resources together. The county apparently, we've been talking about doing this dashboard. Apparently, Lisa Jeffers at the county just made one with city data. So, it still doesn't have county data.

Has city data. Well, nice of her to do that. Yeah. Which is really nice. So, you know, momentum moving on that. Um, as it were. Um, on the 19th, I had a pretty fun kind of 24 hours celebrating a few projects. On the 19th, went to the 15th cooperative, groundbreaking with Michael, um, which was um, and is just gonna absolutely change that entire area. I haven't been out there in a while. It's massive crazy. Yeah, it's changed.

Yeah, it's changed in um and will continue to change as other side AU Boulevard keeps building out. Yeah. So, um and then that evening on the 19th, I also went to the Red Cliffs grand opening which was fantastic. Um I think they did a really nice job. Um it was nice to see local faces working there. Um and I think would be really fun to have our retreat there again. I I am advocating for that. Yeah. It's not real popular with staff though, but that's okay. I'll go back to it. Um, so how does it look?

Is it It's because before it was the cowboy kind of theme. What is it? More Marriott kind of theme now? It's um I'd say it's like western boutique hotel. Like it's very boutique like Jackson White. Kind of. Yeah. go out there. It's gorgeous. It's gorgeous. I was highly impressed. Good. Um, yeah, I'm I think that this community uses Red Cliffs for conferences, strategic planning, and and a lot of different events, and I think it really is elevating the experience for us as well to use it.

Um, and then on the 20th, I also went to a ribbon cutting for the Desert Soul Villas, which is a county HGHO project. Um, I think with everything going on there, there is just so much housing um, opening up, so much momentum between city and county. Um, so that's feeling really exciting. Um, we were supposed to meet with the mayor and Jason a couple times and we'll get that back on. So, sorry. Yeah, we've been talking for a week. So, we

So, glad that you're better. Um, that's it for me. Thank you, Caitlyn Miles.

All right. So, uh, I'll keep mine quick because a lot of mine has already been covered, but, um, meeting with Colin and Joette on, uh, the 16th. Um, the 18th, I was also part of the Moab Area Housing Task Force meeting. Uh, Caitlyn covered that one pretty well. We're excited for our presentation for the rest of the of council. Um, I also went to see Team Rubicon at the site as well as joined them for a dinner. Um, I'll echo what Colin said. That's amazing work and it's fantastic that we're able to get that here. I am excited to go further with conversations with folks from Rim to Rim and the fire department and, you know, go towards our strategic plan initiative of building a wildfire management plan for our city. Um, that's really exciting and I think really needed. So, I'm very excited about that. um had a hassu meeting. Um a lot of the kind of same stuff from the last one. Um their units are filling up. They had one vacancy at the cottages that's already being refilled, a couple vacancies at Victorian. Um and they've turned a couple of those units and done some updates as they're moving new people in. So, they're staying pretty full. Um and they're moving into a bunch more another block of self-help houses, which is exciting there. Um GISA meeting. This one has a little bit of meats to it. Um, mostly from Guissa or I mean the lake is at 34% and we barely cleared that. Um, they're looking at starting irrigation April 1st. They will be opening up the irrigation wells at the same time they start irrigation. They're looking at a 50% restriction hands down across any and all irrigation from GISA. and they are still expecting to essentially run out of irrigation water ahead of time. Um it's going to be a super dry dry year. Um they are working on their own ska

program. Uh so we've did a couple approvals there in regards to that. Um, and the thing I really wanted to talk about too is that I think we could partner with them because they're going to be on a big educational push in regards to educating people on the avenues to access the reimbursement for RER removing your lawn or and like education on what more aid environment friendly uh landscaping could look like. along with uh how to if you're going to have landscaping or if you're going to have a lawn, how to water that in a responsible way this year. I mean, there's kind of a a running joke of like we might not need green lawns this year. Like your your lawn will make it through the year if it's half brown, but we really need to understand what we're using. I mean, 60% of our culinary water used here is irrigation and landscaping. So we um we we want to they want to do an educational push. I know here at the city we want to do an educational push along the same lines. This is going to be a really dry year. Snowpack for the entire state is way down. Snowpack in Los Al is way down. Um we actually have kind of higher soil saturation numbers right now, but a lot of the understanding of that is that is currently our snow pack coming down. So we're not going to see the same spring runoff we're expecting um or we've had in previous years. So um in general that is some of the major things that have come up. Um they uh mentioned that some of the folks from cloud seating might be interested in doing a presentation if we're interested. Um and uh yeah those are most of the

significant things that I wanted to mention out of my meeting. And that's it for me. Thank you, Miles. Um, I did see today, and this was pretty shocking, that year to date, to date, our snowpack is at 1%. Oh my god. Yeah.

I mean, that's bad. Michael and I are talking. I'm sure he'll be having conversations with Alexi for us to put some water restrictions in place very soon. I noticed on my way here today, people are already watering their lawns. It's March. We shouldn't be watering our lawns still for another month at least. So, I hope that we can get something in place in one of our upcoming meetings in April. So, um appreciate what Gwiss is also doing. Real concerned about our water situation, not only this year, but down the road. And I think we're going to be having some deeper conversations that long term.

Yeah. Um, for me, I had um a meeting with the Western Energy Alliance. I don't know if you all are aware, but there was a Great American Outdoor Act bill that went into effect five years ago. It was funded by a fund called the Legacy Restoration Fund. It did not get reauthorized. So, all that money that was supposed to go into improving deferred maintenance at the national parks across the country doesn't have any funding anymore. So, I'm working with them to do a video to try to get u our Congress to reauthorize that fund. Um, we met with I met with the communications person with the um Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. They're going to be coming out for the URA event on April 9th. So, I'm u meeting with them again tomorrow morning to get kind of get some coordination. uh please mark your calendars for the evening of April 8th because um I'd love for us to uh have a dinner or some you know we'll figure that out but I'll give you more details but um it would be great for you guys to meet them. They're they've really been instrumental in making sure that that project got completed. Let's see. Um, we met, Michael and I met with um the county on the with Mel and me Lisa and Karen Fury who's a subcommittee for the MAPS project with the Canoness Healthcare Special Service District. We're moving forward with an RFP to put it out with a consultant to do a master plan for the remaining eight acres at the MAPS project. Met with Jen Sad off um to discuss some issues that we're concerned about with Moab's aging population. And there's a lot of people here, myself included, that don't have family that are now struggling and we need to kind of start talking about how we're going to manage that. I think that's something with the MAPS conversation we can we can look at

overall aging and place issues that we need to be addressing. Uh we had an LPC meeting uh to talk about the end of the session for the legislative session. Um I I've updated Colin and Miles. Didn't get a chance to talk to you guys. There really wasn't a whole lot that impacted the city this year. I know I've mentioned the bill uh House Bill 501 that was going to require us to increase our fees if we got state funding, which we are going to CIB for funding for the water tank. That would have impacted us, but that did not pass. So, that's that's good news. And then lastly, the last meeting I had before I went down was with the Department of Interior staff, Sam Croft and Mike Olsen. That meeting was primarily to talk about the Arches Timed entry system that, as we all know, went away. Uh we just kind of wanted to get a sense of what the process was, the decision to to determine um to determine why they eliminated that um system. There was not much of a process from what we could tell to be honest. Um so uh we also talked about some of the concerns and the impacts we think that's going to have on our community, what the benefits were. They listened. Um we'll see where it goes. I think this is something that we we need to pay attention to and um see see what happens next year. They did imply to us that it won't be back. So, I think uh that's something that we um need to be thinking about and maybe advocating very strongly for because as we all know, the lines are already out. We've gotten a letter. I got I've received letters from tour companies that are already complaining about getting into the park and how frustration how frustrating it is once they get there. They can't find a place to park. You know, Jason has talked about how he's talking to his staff about how they're going to have to reorganize to do tours. So there's a big

impact from that going away and disappointed that that happened, but I think that there's room for us to continue to have that conversation with the board. So that's it for me. Can I ask a question? I saw a big semi-truck this morning full of saw. Was it going to Rotary Park? It It could have been. Did it? They've been doing a lot of work over there. Yes, it did. And it was amazing. No, I I don't know for sure, but but they they're definitely they finished the concrete at Rotary Park. They're doing they're getting close to that if they haven't done it already. Are we seating or are we doing sod? It's sod. Okay. And is it in? No, I don't. Oh, man.

But it that same guy was going back to get the load for us. You guys turned up. I almost flipped around to see if it turned into rotary, but I was like, has to be who else is be getting would have thought, but it's getting close. I know. All my neighbors cut their grass and turn on their sprinklers this past weekend. I know. And so, yeah, come up with something. I don't grass except maybe crab grass. Yeah, I don't have any grass. Well, I do have grass this year. I don't know why, but bad grass. I have to It's bad bad grass. I don't water it. Kill it. All right. A motion to adjurnn.

Make a motion to adjurnn. Motion by Miles. Second by Colin. All those in favor say I. I. All right. We're adjourned. Thanks, everyone.