City Council - Regular Meeting

the Pleasant Grove City Council on this Tuesday, November the 18th, 2025. And we excuse council member Anderson and uh we have our other council members here this evening and a lot of our staff and we welcome the public who have joined us here this evening and also those who have joined us remotely. We'll start out with the uh pledge of allegiance by council member Leone after which we'll have opening remarks by council member Williams. and to the stands nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Our dear Father in heaven, as we come before thee this evening on our Pleasant Grove City Council meeting, we wish to thank thee, Father, for the many blessings which we have, the wonderful country that we live in, the city that we live in and the liberties that we enjoy. We are grateful, Father, to meet together today. We we are grateful for the ability that we have to meet peacefully and civily and and in accordance with the freedoms of this great land under the Constitution of the great United States. Help us tonight that we will be mindful of our residents, of our of our citizens, of people that we represent civily that we may understand their needs and come to an understanding of of proper roles. And these things we pray for, Father, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Thank you, Todd and Sid. Now, [clears throat] uh, approval of tonight's agenda. We have a few changes. Scott, the changes listed are on the agenda, which is the public hearings. Under item nine, we have uh or sorry, under 11. Uh, they will all be continued to our meeting on December 2nd. Okay. So, with that, I ask for a motion with those changes. Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve tonight's agenda as stated on the agenda itself. We have a motion by council member Jansen. Do I have a second? Second. Second by council member Williams. All in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. We'll now ask for a motion to adjourn and reconvene as the board of canvases. Mayor, I'll make a motion to adjourn uh and convene as the board of canvasers. Second. We have a motion. We have a second. All in favor say I.

Any opposed? Okay. Okay, we're reconvene now as the board of canvases to consider for adoption resolution 2025-040 authorizing the mayor and the municipal council sending as the board of canvasers to accept the election returns and declaring and certifying the results of the municipal general election held on November 4th, 2025. And we'll turn time over to our city recorder.

Hello. I'm very happy to present you all with the results of the votes for the 2025 municipal general election for Pleasant Grove. For the mayoral race for Eric Jensen, there were 4,353 votes. For Sid Leone, there were 3,460 votes. For our city council race for Diana and Anderson, there were 5,113 votes. For Todd and Williams, there were 4,367 votes. And for Tamron Naylor, there were 3,586 votes. Eric Jensen won the mayoral race with 55.71% of the votes. And both Diana N. And Anderson and Todd N. Williams in the city council race. I would ask that if the board accepts the canvas that as you are making the motion, please name the resolution and then include sections two and three which designate Eric Jensen as mayor and Todd Williams and Diana Anderson as city council members. And then all of you please sign the canvas report.

Okay. [clears throat] Any other questions for Okay. Do I have a motion?

Mayor, I'll make a motion to adopt resolution 2025-040. a resolution of the mayor and municipal city council sitting as the board of canvasers accepting election returns and declaring the certified results of the mun of of the municipal general election held November 4th, 2025 and 2025 where in section two the board hereby certifies that candidate Eric Jensen had the highest number of votes and declares him elected as mayor for the four a four-year term. and section under section three, the board the board certifies that candidates Todd Williams and Diana Anderson had the highest number of votes and declares them elected as city council members for a 4-year term and providing for an effective date.

Okay, I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. A second by council member Jensen. And this will be a roll call vote and we will start out with Mayor Gel Fugal. And I vote yes. Uh, Council Member Rogers, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Leone, yes. And Council Member Williams, yes.

Okay. Thank you. That motion carries. And I will pass this down to you to sign. And before I do that, I will ask you for a motion to adjourn from our canvasing and re adjourned for [clears throat] for our city council meeting. Do I have a motion? So moved. We have a motion by council member Jensen and a second by council member Williams. All in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Okay, we're we're back into our Senate council member hearing on this and we'll move on to uh uh our open session and invite anybody come forward and address the council at this time. I see no one coming forward. So we will now close our open session and bring it back up here to the council and move on to our consent items for this evening which consists of our consent A through C who have been in your packet and you reviewed. So with that I ask for a motion to approve tonight's consent items. Uh, mayor, I'll move to approve tonight's consent items as listed on the agenda under section 8 A through L.

That we have a motion from Council Member Rogers. Do I have a second? Second. A second from Council Member Williams. All in favor say I. I.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. Now move on to uh we do not have any board commission or committee appointments this evening or presentations and we'll move and our number 11 A B and C have been uh pushed to our next meeting. So we'll just move right to our action items this evening 128 and consider for resolutions 2025-041 of the governing body of Pleasant Grove authorizing the mayor to sign the first amendment to the interlocal cooperative agreement between Cedar Hill City Pleasant Grove City for the Harvey Boulevard widening project project 4000 north and Pleasant Grove providing for an effective date and we'll turn the time to our public works director. Thank you, Mayor Council. I'll give an update on the project uh as well. The the project has been designed pretty much 95% and we are ready to execute land agreements on 4,000 North to finish the the widening of from the Cedar Hills Park essentially up to First or Canyon Road. We could not move forward with the land negotiations until we had more money allocated for the project. Uh the project sponsor is Cedar Hills. We are acting as extremely heavy support to Cedar Hills. uh and so as such uh we are also cost sharing in the the match with MAG. So um we needed to update our interlocal agreement to reflect the new values

associated with the additional funding that MAG has granted. So to just highlight the the need for us to um continue to work with MAG and and the process is slow, but it's an important part of funding uh roads that qualify. We've uh been working together with MAG to get additional roads on the list to get additional funding in the future as well. and we are consistently working with them along those lines. So, what's before you today is the agreement between Cedar Hills and Pleasant Grove to simply update the numbers. The agreement is nearly identical and mirrors what we've already signed with them a couple of years ago, uh, reviewed by their attorney and reviewed by our attorney.

Any other questions for the director? I mean, it just it just appeared to me that we're just updating. They provided significantly more funding for the project. Yeah. And the only thing we're doing in the agreement is is changing that number to reflect their additional funds that they're asking. That is correct. Which the funding was considerable, very considerable in in volume and in percentage particularly. It was it was an effort to uh to make that happen. It's going to be a great road when it's [clears throat] Yeah, we're excited to long time coming to move forward with that.

Any other questions? Thank you. So, with that, I ask for a motion on resolution number 2025-041. Mayor, I make a motion to approve resolution 2025-41 of the governing body of Posen Grove City authorizing the mayor to sign the first amendment to the interlocal cooperative agreement between Cedar Hill City and Pleasant Grove City for the Harvey Boulevard widening project 4000 North in Pleasant Grove and providing for an effective date. Okay, we have a motion by Council Member Jensen. Do I have a second? A second. Second by Council Member Rogers. And we will start out with council member Jansen. Yes. Council member Leone.

Yes. Council member Rogers. Yes. And council member Williams. Yes. All right. Thank you. Motion carries. We'll now move on to 11B. Consider for resolution 2025-042 authorizing the mayor to declare a 2023 Toyota Tacoma truck as surplus and direct that it be disposed of according to the city's policy for disposing of surplus property providing for an effective date. Again, back to Director Wh.

Thank you. As part of our ongoing fleet uh program, we have found it advantageous uh to cycle through and uh this is a Toyota Tacoma that has value u and we will recoup that value and invest in another vehicle and uh that's what's before you today. Any questions? Okay, thank you. Need a motion on resolutions 2025-042.

I make the res the Approval motion I make the motion that we adopt resolution 2025-042 authorizing the to declare a 2023 Toyota Tacoma truck as surplus and direct that it be disposed of according to the city's policy for disposing of surplus property and providing for an effective date. We have a motion by council member Leone. Do I have a second? Second. Second by council member Jensen. And we will start out with council member uh Williams. Yes. Council member Leone. Yes. Council member Jansen. Yes. And council member Rogers. Yes.

Okay. Motion carries. Thank you. Now go on to our next item 12 C. considered for resolution 2025-043 the [snorts] city council of Pleasant Grove Utah County Utah amending policies and procedures manual for the Pleasant Grove cemetery providing for additional policies for crematorans and providing for an effective date and we'll turn time over to Director Giles. Mayor and council, with the expansion of the cemetery uh and the Cook family park, we were uh allowed to bring in some new uh colariums for cream niches. Uh and doing that, we need to update our policy to handle those situations. [clears throat] As we did the update um in the introduction, we just increased our numbers to reflect what we currently have out there. Uh we completed the fee study uh in September looking at um nine other cities around us. Uh and those fees will be coming up in the next council meeting to to look at those and approve those. Um one [clears throat] of the things that we wanted to do was limit the purchasing uh of lots to 10 lots per person. Uh we do have some very large sections that residents own that are just not being used and so we wanted to kind of limit those to 10 lots per person. Uh along with the niches we need to address the earn size and we actually decreased the the number of cremations allowed in a a traditional lot from four to one. This allows us now to put those urns in a cremate niche in the columbarium.

Um we also came up with the rules. We we talked with a lot of cemeteries and came up with the rules for the uh shutters on the columbarium. This is the panel that will be engraved for that that ern. Uh we're not going to allow any photos, vases, anything like that on them. They've they found out that if [clears throat] someone puts a flower and they're down here and the flower goes up and it's tall, it it blocks the other the other uh niches. And so we're just recommending that there's not there's no decorations are allowed on the shoulders. We're also addressing the upright and the flathead stones in section H and J. This is the new sections. Uh with the non-restriction of height, we're requesting that we do two rows of flats and a row of upright uh headstones. This allows us to adequately water and also some of the the headstones that we have now the height is restricting us a little bit on getting the equipment in and being able to operate to you know to put the dirt and stuff in the dump trucks. So that's another request and then and then we've uh updated the the current ma with the map with the current layout of the cemetery.

Any questions? Questions. Council. Thank you, Dion. So, I ask for a motion on resolutions 2025-043. Mayor, I'll make a motion to approve resolution 2025-43 of the city council of Pleasant Grove City, Utah County, Utah, amending the policies and procedures and manual for the Pleasant Grove Cemetery, providing additional policies for cremations and providing for an effective date. We have a motion by Council Member Jans. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Council Member Leone. [clears throat] And we will start out on this one with Council Member Jensen. Yes. Council member Leone.

Yes. Council member Rogers. Yes. And Council Member Williams. Yes. Thank you. Motion carries. We'll move on to our last final one this evening. Resolution number 24.

[clears throat] Consider resolution 2025-044 authorizing the mayor to sign an addendum number four to the cooperation agreement for nond district use of district lands with the men met Metropolitan water district of Salt Lake City and Sandy and Pleasant Grove City the applicant to include additional trail descriptions to the existing agreement providing for effective Back to Director Charles.

Thank you, Mayor. Um, currently from Grove Creek north to Cedar Hills along the Metropolitan Corridor, uh, we have an agreement for our Valley Vista Trails and also the the Bonavville Shoreline Trail. uh with the sales of the Nimmer property and Metropolitan uh Salt Lake and Sandy uh gaining ownership over their property along from 200 South, sorry, from 200 South to Lyndon. Um they approached us and wanted to just tighten up our Bonavville Shoreline Trail Agreement. This agreement covers from Grove Creek now to the Lynen border on their property. So, this will give us access to to improve those trails when we when we have the funding in that to do that.

So, they're not trying to This [clears throat] is a good thing for us. Is that Well, this is a great thing. Yeah. Yeah. No, this just expands our trail system through from Battle from Grove Creek now to Lynen on their property. Yeah, we're kind of already using their property, but this Yeah, this just kind of clarifies it. Okay. So, any questions for the director? No. As for a motion on resolution 2025-044,

I make the motion that we approve resolution dash or two 2025-044 authorizing the mayor to sign addendum number four to the cooperation agreement for non-district use of district lands of the metropolitan water district of Salt Lake and Sandy and Pleasant Grove City to include additional trail descriptions to the existing agreement and providing for an effective date. We have a motion by council member Raone. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Council Member Williams. And we will start out this time with Council Member Williams. Yes. Council Member Rogers. Yes. Council member Leone. Yes. And Council Member Jensen. Yes. Thank you.

Motion carries. That concludes all of our business items this evening. I will note that uh this is last one was resolutions number 044. So, we've done 44 resolutions this year and might have a couple more in our last meeting. A couple more. So, maybe we'll Okay, we probably won't hit 50 though.

Hope no. Okay, it'll be longer meeting. So anyway, uh with that, we will now uh go back to our and finish up [clears throat] our who we didn't cover in our uh Daniel. We haven't heard from you yet. So anyway, [clears throat] mayor, council, um I've been working with my staff and uh I received some direction. I wasn't in that meeting, but um I was informed by the city manager that you guys would like to see the staff reports uh earlier for uh legislative decisions. So we make some adjustments and now we have planning commissions on Thursdays. Thursdays night um Thursday night at 7 pm. We start at 6 but we have also working session and uh then we start meetings at 700. We usually end up around 900 p.m. So if if uh what we decide is to have uh Friday, Monday, and Tuesday of the next week uh to prepare the staff reports and send them to you guys. So you guys will be getting them on Wednesday right after planning commission. Okay? you will be getting the and we need it because after planning commission so you guys know the decision of the planning commission you guys will get the report of action saying what the voting was and you guys will be getting them by by Wednesday they will also be on the package but we'll work right after planning commission to be able to provide them to you okay uh for example we had planning commission this uh last past Thursday and we work on them today so they're ready to go uh to be email email to you guys tomorrow. So, that's going to be the the process how we're going to um let you guys ahead of time what we have. Okay, that's what I have. Mayor Council,

any questions for um probably anything you can tell us about anything that's going on? You know what? right before I I I I don't have specifics, but I'm just curious if there's things that you should you could you would probably soon. Uh right now, we're just working on some early stages of project, very very very early stages. And uh but you know, it's my favorite thing to announce when I know something short and I I would love to share with you guys this guy at this time. No, I don't have nothing solid. Well, appreciate it. Is Freddy's coming out of the ground yet? Yeah, they're pouring concrete.

Okay, good. I'm glad you got them going. Yeah, I mean we we recently approved it and you guys heard from David Renell there will be couple restaurants coming u ice cream shop uh shops and Italian restaurants coming. So yeah, I see they got the maglebe sign up on the building down there. So that's a great project. I remember council Williams uh uh put me on the right direction. I I talked to the to the person who was going to do it. We worked uh to make sure they comply with the parking. That was the biggest concern we had. we work something out and we're happy to welcome to our city. I uh I talked to him uh just a couple of days ago January 3rd. That's awesome. Awesome. So yeah,

it's and it's going to be the the one similar to uh the one that's in there in Spanish. Springville. This is the big uh place. Yeah. Be a great place for us. Good addition to us. Glad to have him in town. Okay. Thank you, Daniel. My pleasure. Okay, David from HR. When it keeps all of our employees happy. That's right. No, their their spouses.

Yes. Yes. I don't have much to say, but the employees and their spouses will be happy um on Friday. Um we have paychecks coming in on Friday. And just want to express some gratitude to the mayor and council for supporting our employees. because that check will be a little bit um larger than than the normal check. So, thank you for thinking of all the employees at the holiday time. Um we are just working towards the holidays trying to keep everyone staffed and and happy. Um so, thanks again for your support. Um and that's all I have to say. Okay. Thank you, David. Denise, do you have anything from us?

I don't. Okay. Wendy, anything else? I'm I'm glad we're finally done with the county elections. Okay, you and I both. Okay, so anyway, Oh, yes. I missed Chief Brown. Come. I know. He He was just hoping No, if he I'd miss him. He was really hiding. I couldn't I couldn't see him back there. Scott. [laughter]

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um, [laughter] Neil went for an hour one time when we were just about out of here. So, uh, [laughter] I remember that night. Well, yeah. And you're the only guy in the room that has a gun, so I don't know what they're giving you grief about.

I know. Um things are good at the police department. We haven't uh you know we haven't talked for a while and I haven't done the uh briefing this week uh because there's we just been busy. We had our chili cook off this last week. Uh uh Councilman Williams was there. He was one of our judges. Uh we picked a winner. Uh we had nine chili chilies in our contest and a bunch of soup. So if you weren't there, you missed out. Um but it was a our second annual cookoff. So uh which which number one? I'd sneak out early to a for a meeting, but I don't remember which number it was, but it was Shay's one. It was Shay, right? Number one. Yeah. Okay. It should have been nine, but you know, hey, they were all great. It was a pleasure to be there.

Great event. Uh, and it was nice to get a lot of other members from other departments uh here in the building and uh just have a nice lunch with them. Uh, a lot of things going on in the city. Um, our speed trailer is out uh collecting data. We're down on 1300 West. Uh, apparently it is a freeway down there, but we had it there for 4 days. It's up on 7th east now. Uh, we're going to move that thing right. It'll be out all the time. So, if you have your favorite road you want me to put it on to see what uh speeds are happening, let me know and we'll put it out there usually four or five day stretches. But, it's a it's a data gathering machine. It's a it's pretty fancy. So, uh um it's providing us a lot of information on areas that are bigger concerns than others. So, uh we just want to make our streets safer and uh find the times of days that are the bigger problems. And right now, it seems to be, you know, middle of the day, at least for that stretch of roadway down there. Um so, we're focusing on that. There's a few parking problems we're trying to deal with in town. Uh that just comes with uh some of the housing and there's just never enough parking. So, we deal with some of those some of those issues. And we're going to uh be talking more about that this week with other city staff. Um few calls in the city. We've had had a few couple death investigations. Uh a lot of fraud reports, suspicious reports. Uh making a lot of traffic stops. We This is the time of year we don't a lot of salutations because, you know, money is pretty tight this year, but we are making a lot of traffic stops to slow people down and make our streets safe. Um couple of uh notable accidents, one with couple ebikes and stuff like that, but the injuries were uh were minor. So, uh just a lot of stuff going on in the police department. Uh officers in training. Uh one of our officers now off for a couple weeks. Him and his wife were going to have a baby. I just haven't heard what they had. Mitch

Curtis and his wife were off for the last couple days. I think they probably had it by now. But that's that's all we have. But uh things are things are great. Uh have a good time and love to come to work every day. Any questions? I just I just had a neighbor complain. I'm sure you're aware of this, but she seems to feel like there's some drag racing going on Canyon Road late at night. Yeah, sure. Between 11 and 2 a.m. Yeah.

Canyon Road. Uh out by on the Lynen side, out by the landfill and out on that road right there. I mean, whatever we can find a stretch of roadway and uh and uh no oncoming headlights. Uh yeah, uh we'll catch a couple now and then and impound the cars. Yeah, just so that they don't uh whatever. So that's it. That she's just mentioned that to me. So I think you know they kind of speed by so on Canyon Road. On Canyon Roads on that one,

right? Right. You know what I mean? just north of Discovery Park. I mean, I'm sure they do have the speed of a sign that'll give you an accurate reading to find out how fast you were going when you were when you were winning. So, uh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that I thought I saw a red BMW out there.

Yeah, we we are looking for [laughter] we are looking for for a time trial from a Beamer just to see what it'll do. So, but other than that, uh uh things are uh just this is a busy time of year. A lot of stuff going on. We're doing our uh gift baskets here. We've got a date for that. Two days in December will be uh delivering to about 15 families here in the city that we uh had some tough situations with this year. So, we're looking forward to the employees uh donating their money towards those and uh had a good meeting with the colonels today and they continue to support us in our endeavors and uh uh I just things are good. I like it like coming to work every day. I haven't like sitting on the back row on city council even though you did spot me. So,

but I like it. Hey, thanks chief. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Hey, there's nothing new about First. Okay. It used to be there wasn't very much traffic on First East and so that was a favorite place where we would go but we didn't realize it and it was on a Sunday. I just have to fess up to this. I was going to say this is a weave. And uh and uh uh so anyway, and uh what we didn't realize is that uh uh Judge Bullock, who was in the police department at that time, and the county sheriff were up the road a ways just I don't know, they were out having a smoke or something, I guess, and and we go blowing by and yeah, then it ended me in it was a pretty good find for it was exhibi exhibition of speed. Okay. So, so we were going pretty good. So, anyway, and I did win the I did win the race. Okay. I won the race. So, anyway, but yeah, my dad

type of Mustang. My dad wasn't very happy about that one. So, anyway, so hey, I'm glad it's still still out there. It's still a tradition, I guess, mayor. So, okay, we'll turn time. Uh Scott, do you have uh our next meeting and probably go over our calendaring? Yes. So, well, before we do that, let's Tina, do you have anything for us? Um, no, I'm okay. See? Okay. I just want to Okay.

Yeah. calendaring December 1st is our Christmas tree lighting. 6 o'clock p.m. downtown park as it's been mentioned. I have put that uh appointment out in your calendar. Uh December 16th will be the staff uh Christmas party with the elected officials. Wait, what day was that? December 16th. That's a Tuesday. That changed, right? Yeah, that was the 15th. We moved it to the 16th. That's at 6:30. That's going to be at Snook Farm. Um, I will be sending out a a doodle for uh locking down a date for our city council uh planning or our one-day work session uh planning retreat um with some possibilities. See what availability is for those dates.

The word retreat. No meeting is a retreat. You guys You guys don't like the word retreat, but it's No, no meeting is a retreat. It's a one day work session. It's a work session. I wanted to make it sound like it's going to be fun. That's a long day. We're going to have fruit. We're gonna have sodas.

Uh but we we need to lock down a date for that. So, um that that's it for calendaring. Uh in regards to next week, um we're still working on the work session uh schedule, but we we talked about our fee schedule. We'll also uh set our meeting schedule for 2026. Um we have some stuff we need to do for our privacy policy as per state mandate. Uh we'll have surplus vehicle, tree city USA designation, our three public hearings that we continued from today. Um and probably a few couple other things. So December 2nd's going to be a little bit of a meeting. We do uh on the work session, we want to talk about our special events calendar for 2026. Uh we've been loading Andy Vinker down pretty well and so we want to go over the events and maybe streamline a couple. So we'll review that in our work session and then hopefully we'll have our updated information as requested by the council in regards to the pickle ball courts, tennis courts.

Okay, that's what we have. Okay, thank you. So Sid, do you have anything for just just I want to verify. So Tina, the application will be available mid about mid December for anyone interested. No January 6. Oh, January 6 with us reviewing it on what day? Just the special meeting. So I I guess to talk about process, if the council has questions that you would like specifically for the application, we're submitting those to Tina. Yes. Email those to Tina. She will create that application. Okay.

On June January 6, that application will become available for 14 days for those residents that are interested. And then on um in fact, I just put it into my calendar. probably the 27th of January would be is when the interviews will be held. That's the last Tuesday. That's the fourth Tuesday in January. Um that's when we would do the interviews and make this selection. That would be just a special meeting. That's a special meeting just for that. Okay. Thank you. No, that's all I have. Okay, Steve.

I don't just thanks Daniel to your staff for being willing to kind of adjust their schedule and get that stuff to us early. I appreciate that. But All right. Nope. Nothing. Uh, no. This I will I will not be here on the second. Um, so this is probably my last council meeting for 2025. Uh, but um, thanks for everybody's work and effort and time and energy and we'll see you in January. Yeah, we'll do it another for another four years. Well, since I will well I'll just be at the first to meet in January. I thank you. We'll see we'll see you there.

I'll see you there. But thank you for what you've Thanks, man. It's been a pleasure to work with and and I'll miss you. Thanks. So anyway, appreciate you. Anyway, so with that, I [clears throat] think we're uh hey, we're at a good point in our this evening and and I didn't think we'd be through this quick, but I asked for a motion to adjurnn. Mayor, I'll make a motion to adjurnn. We have a motion. Do I have a second? And we have a second. All in favor say I. I.