City Council - Regular Meeting

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Call to order, along with roll call. And we have council members Busenbark, Cloward, Hancock, Goodrich, and Allen all in attendance. And I am Mayor Tommy Olsen. And with that, I will give us a word of an opening prayer. followed by the Pledge of Allegiance with Brian Klanders. Our dear Heavenly Father, we are deeply grateful for this opportunity to come together on behalf of this of the citizens and residents of Roosevelt and the employees and those that enjoy the many things that the city has to offer. We're thankful for their many blessings and the moisture that thou hast sent us and we ask thee this time as we open this meeting that thou will please guide us and direct us that we will do those things which are right on behalf of our citizens and residents. Please bless us with continued moisture that will bless this area with prosperity as well. In this we say and do in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, Ryan. OK, I want to move down to right before, sorry, approval of business. And we do have the previous minutes. Did that have the updated version with the? Yeah. OK. So the updated version has the, of the minutes, has the council positions that were updated. I don't know if we have any questions on that. I have a motion to approve the minutes. We have a second. All in favor? Aye. Okay, thank you. Has everyone had a chance to look at that expenditure and financial review? Sorry, we distracted Don and hadn't come in with us. Then we're good.

I didn't see anything that was out of the ordinary. Do we approve? I have a motion to approve.

Okay, moving forward. At this time, we have the public comment period for a maximum of 15 minutes, three minutes per person. I believe we have at least one. We'll give you the mic.

Hello, my name is Alyssa Strait, and I appreciate your time there, Olson and Council. Last Tuesday, May 26th, our entire backyard and home's basement flooded. This is due to what I observed as a cloth storm drain behind our home on 500 West. Our backyard filled with almost two feet of water and our basement at least nine inches of water. I believe that this could have been prevented and can be prevented for the future by regular maintenance of our city's infrastructure. Could this be prevented by maintaining these drains once or twice a year for inspection? And can the city hold landowners of undeveloped property responsible to mitigate issues such as trees, weeds, debris, sand issues to prevent some of these drains from getting plumped. And on a lighter note and a positive note, I just want to thank the three city employees who were called out that evening that also treated me and my husband so well. Brady Nielsen, Braxton Nielsen, Trevor Teeples. Thank you to Mike Oaks for also showing up. Dr. Jason Koalas, Dr. John Nolte and countless neighbors for being there in a time of need. Marion Stout for bringing such a wonderful dinner for us. Thank you for your time.

Thank you. Thank you. We spoke briefly, and that was kind of along the lines was my thinking, too, is when maybe we address this a couple of times a year, where we are taking inventory of our storm drains. Theoretically, I believe Roosevelt City can handle water, but when it's When there's debris and sediment and whatnot, it gets plugged.

So there is a program, but it's not as often as it should be, which we've been working on recently. But there's a lot of places where this type of storm, which is a terrible thing, but the mountain came down through this undeveloped area with all the mud and everything and stuff. It'll pack it in there. But this particular thing was a terrible thing. And I did talk to the straights. And we tried to respond fast as we could. And the damage was done quickly, correct? Yeah. And then we burned up everything we could to prevent any more damage happening, which I instructed my guys to basically go on private property undeveloped to do this because, in my eyes, it was an emergency. And we did everything else to keep it from maybe getting worse, I thought. We did. Is that correct? We did. Thank you. So I can suggest, the only suggestion that I would have, Council Mayor, is so if we could get with the landowner to maybe create a retention plant to where that amount of water would hit it first, it would fill up, Then you would have a pipe so that it would slowly drain out. Not that it can't take it, but that amount and with that kind of debris, there's no way. This would alleviate, and this was almost a grenade, like they say, a 200-year storm. It was 0.80 inches in like 30 minutes. You know, it was crazy. But I think this would help tremendously before it went directly into their backyard.

How often do we check those? Storm drains.

They have been at least probably over three years, two, three, but it needs to be more frequent. There's others that are more particular to receive things like this, and that's one of them, unfortunately. But we have multiple areas in town that there was a lot of issues.

You know the highway in 200 North, the police had to block that off because it was so bad there.

And just so everybody, and I know everybody knows this, but all cities have this with that amount of rain. There's issues everywhere, which... It is terrible and a tough thing to deal with, but you do what you can when you can. But yes, I think those kind of things would help a lot. And even if we got a landowner or a retention fund. So that's just it.

That's a good idea. Thank you, Cody.

You're welcome. Any other comments or any questions? Are there any others that would like to speak? IF NOT, I WILL MOVE FORWARD THEN. AND I'LL MOVE TOWARDS THE DISCUSSION ITEMS. AND THE VERY FIRST ONE IS THE MOU WITH TRAVIS PHILLIPS. AND JEFF, MOVE ON THAT ONE. RIGHT THERE IN THE MIDDLE.

PERFECT. SO JUST AS KIND OF A QUICK REFRESHER, SO THIS PROPERTY is right at the intersection of 8th South and 5th East, where the roadway project is planned in partnership with Ballard City and Duchesne County. On the east side of 5th East. On the east side of 5th East and the north side of 8th South. Kind of that northeast corner of that intersection. This is the last piece of right-of-way easement There's been a little, I don't know what you want me to say, Ryan, but Ryan and I met with Travis. Do you want me to speak into that?

Sure.

So Ryan and Drew Eschler and I have met with Travis a few times about the property. So the city actually owns some ride of wind right there. I believe it's 60 feet wide. Um, but we needed additional property through the Gulch where it drops up in the Gulch for the filler up. So that's kind of where it started in meeting with the landowner. Um, as we met with him, um, turns out some of the city storm drain infrastructure was on his property outside of the existing driveway. And so there was some discussion about that. And I think he's had some experience with the city going back. What is that? Well over 14 years. SOMETHING SINCE KIND OF BEFORE 50'S GOT PUT IN RIGHT AROUND THAT TIME. AND I KNOW THE CITY'S KIND OF BEEN BACK FILLING IN SOME OF THAT AND THE CITY'S EXTENDED THE STORM DRAIN A FEW TIMES, BUT AS WE MET WITH HIM TRYING TO COME TO KIND OF AN EQUITABLE SOLUTION, WHAT'S BEEN PROPOSED IS, AS SHOWS ON THE MOU, THE TOP LINE IS ON THE COMPENSATION SCHEDULE. is for the new driveway or new easement. Sorry, it would be easement. So he would retain ownership. The city would just have the right to go in there and construct and then maintain the roadway with the associated drainage improvements. So that's approximately 0.23 acres with the legal descriptions. I'm sure it's 0.23 something at the rate of 5,000 an acre, which is what had been essentially used on the rest of the project or in the county and for the other side of the street there. So that's $1,150. And then the other compensation that's shown on there is what Drew and Ryan and Trent, the holder, and I worked together to try to come up with as far as a little bit of compensation for previous damages of installing the storm drain on the property. And then he has had some trees that he kind of built his fence around. I don't know if Ryan passed around those pictures of what it used to look like before all of everything happened i think what was happening is his property was eroding because the storm ring got put in right there and it terminated just right off the side of the road it started to growing out conundrums and a bunch of stuff so that's this is the proposal that we met with and i think between me and drew and ryan we all feel like this is pretty fair and equitable for him and with part of the project, we would actually move that storm drain outside of any of his property. It would all be within the city right of way. So it should clear up some, there's kind of existing conflict right now. So this would clear, the project would clear all that up as well.

And would this come out of the budget for the project or is this something the city needs to pay?

I would say typically this would, so the city's got a contribution part of the project, right? I WOULD SAY IT'S FAIR FOR THIS TO BE CONSIDERED AS PART OF THE CITY'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE PROJECT.

YEAH, BECAUSE WE HAVE YOUR MARK, 300 AND SOMETHING.

IT'S LIKE $296,000. FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, ALSO, THIS IS UNDER BUDGET, THE PROJECT. CORRECT.

YES. AND I'LL BE GOING OVER THAT NEXT AS WELL. THE OTHER THING THAT YOU'LL SEE IN THERE, AND THIS WAS PRETTY STANDARD WITH EVERYBODY ELSE THAT WE WORKED THROUGH. The project would install some fencing and a driveway, like a driveway approach and a gate and entrance for him to access the backside of his property. So that was pretty standard across the whole project, but will apply here as well. And those items are accounted for in the bid.

What questions do you have for me, or Brian, anything you would add to that? I just want to give a shout out to Jeff. He worked hard on getting this right away, and a lot of time went into it. And we feel like this was the best route to go. And to go along with the fence issues, or the fence, it's also resolving other issues, too. Because right now, currently, it has random people, I guess. parking back there, going in the dogs and stuff. So I think with this project and the fencing, it's going to resolve a lot of issues.

You're also doing this with Ballard City, right? Working with Ballard City?

Yeah, so Ballard's kind of the project sponsor. Right.

And so I was just curious, time frame, when are they hoping to start? I know they just opened bids, but.

Yeah, so we hope to officially award it, have Ballard officially award it tonight. Realistically, a contract wouldn't start for a month, and probably that really is. We do have the schedule allowed for in the contract is they would have to have the box covert and all the fill and all the underground work, so storm drain and there's a water line portion. All that would have to be done by, I think, November 1st. I can't remember the date, this year. So it's all part one. Essentially, Roosevelt, in simple terms, Roosevelt will just give their money. Ballard will invoice Roosevelt for their portion. That money will go into a PCIF account that the state has set up to go along with the CID funds. And really, Ballard will coordinate most everything else, obviously, that they put from Roosevelt. But Roosevelt's required.

Other needs are very minimal other than that. This will be the easiest project that I've done in a long time.

That's good for you, right? Just have to show up and tell us what's going on, right?

The fence, the two gates, and the driveway, they're in addition.

They are in addition to that, yep. and they are also absorbed in which which was pretty standard on the rest too like when i talked about the kind of 5000 an acre compensation that was pretty standard that the other property owners were getting fence driveways okay any other questions i assume you need approval tonight to Yeah, so if the council were to approve it, I'd love to get a signature on the memorandum of understanding from the mayor tonight, if possible, or whenever. And then really, with Drew's help, probably I would just chase down and get the owner's signature on everything. This would be the only signature we'd get from the city. Everything else would just be signed by the council.

Do we need council review on this at all? Or has there been legal counsel review?

I haven't. It sounds like there's a new MOU drafted, Jeff, not that it's part of the old one. It's updated, just like with the fencing and then the compensation. If there are any things that have changed. I'd like to review it, but I'm fine with you guys going ahead and approving a subject legal review.

Okay. That's all.

I just want to make sure we give... And then I can send you a word doc.

I would move we approve with legal counsel review.

Okay, I have a motion to approve with legal counsel. I have a second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right, motion passes.

You want to hold on to that until I get with you? In case you want to change this?

All right, you're going to lead. You two will lead off on the second as well.

Do you want me to do the next one too?

Well, go ahead. You've already done 60% of that.

Okay, perfect. So we kind of already talked, and I don't know if you have the summary of bids that move up there.

We didn't because I didn't know how much I can show.

And I can pass this around if you want. So we had a bid opening yesterday at 1 p.m. That was the advertised time for the public bid opening. And so we had eight bids that were submitted, and the low bid was Perco Rock. They're out of Cedar City. Jones & Mill has done quite a bit of work with them on emergency watershed protection projects before and a few other things. They actually are the contractor that took the trees out on 1500 East before Ballard did this last project. So they were the low bid. $3,473,118. And our estimate was $3,568,000. So actually came in about $90,000 under our estimate. We're not looking for action from the Roosevelt Council tonight, where Ballard's the owner on the project. That'll be the one that awards. But I just wanted to come and kind of present that to you. That would leave the project with approximately $300,000 in contingency. Um, including everything else. So we're sitting in a pretty good spot. Um, I feel like we'll probably award that and we'll get things going. So should be really good. It's going to be an awesome project and exciting to see it get to this point.

Time three months, probably take a year, two years.

So we gave them, I should have looked this up Don, but like 160 days, I think total, and that would be calendar days. We did allow for a break, so like, let's say November 1st hits and it snows, they can just stop work and then come back in the spring. It's gonna be really tight to assume that it can get paved this year. In fact, I would say it's most likely not going to.

I wouldn't think so either.

But I would be surprised if it's not completed by the end of May of next year.

By the end of the year.

Yeah.

That's awesome.

Yeah. So, we're good. Thank you. Anything else, Ryan? No, I just know that we're excited for that company. Ballard is pretty stoked because they're pretty joy on the spot.

They're a great company. They're very proactive. Yeah, good contractor to work with. It's always nice when you get them to respond.

I was just curious if you guys, just so, I know you don't, you're not the lead, but just so you're kind of aware of what's going on. We're involved.

Yeah, we'll make sure Ryan and Kirby, whoever wants to get involved, at least invited to the, like, week reconstruction to get to that.

Do you need a motion on that? Any other questions? Thank you. Awesome. Thank you. That brings us down to the discussion item number three, which we are actually not taking any action on. Like a referee, upon further review, IT WAS DISCOVERED THAT THIS WAS ACTUALLY AWARDED. THAT 3% INCREASE, WHICH CAN BE ASKED FOR ONE TIME DURING THE CONTRACT, WAS ASKED FOR ON THE 2ND OF JANUARY 2024 AND INITIATED ON THE 16TH OF JANUARY 2024. SO WITH THAT, WE'LL MOVE TO the discussion on the K&K sanitation, the contract renewal.

So in our meeting, Beau was there, myself, Tommy, we had Grant and a few others. The mayor was there. And I think the consensus is we would go a year and revisit in February. Correct me if I'm wrong, Bo, or Mayor, but I believe the plan is we'll go forward, renew for the year. My recommendation is if they want the 3%, let's wait until we have Mary Ann and their person, Ashley, get together and they can look at the cost of the city so that we can, because I don't want to raise the 3% and then raise it another dollar You know what I'm saying? Let's do it all at once. And then in February, if things are working, we can look at that. If we feel like things aren't working or we're not getting, then the recommendation would be that we go to RFP and do that.

Does that sound reasonable? That's a good summary. Mary Ann, do you have anything?

No.

You're meeting with Ashley tomorrow, right? You and Zeke? Yes. I think the concern we have on our side is the time, and we've mentioned this many times, on the billing and managing that and mailing those bills out. While we do mail them out, we do, some people just have a garbage bill and we're basically losing money on those, but even on the others. And so we need to maybe reevaluate that 50 cents. We were trying to keep the, when we did this before, those of you on the council before remember, it was just a, We were trying to get them to be more involved in the process and we were willing to take less thinking they would handle things and I don't know we met where we hoped to be. I don't think we've gotten there yet. I thought we had a good meeting last week on communication and working things out. Josh has made a change having Marianne take that account over with their person. Ashley seems to be on the ball. We'll find out as Marianne gets a chance to meet with her, but obviously we probably will have to look at adjusting that on our end from the city. But like I said, I just hate to do a 3% a month or two later than we have another 50 cents or a dollar or whatever we feel is fair for that.

It seems like there was also the discussion of possibly moving that 50 cents per trash can.

Yeah, we did discuss that, that we weren't doing that for Trash Can, and that might be something to help as well. So, anyway, I just, I think right now, given the time frame, because the contract ends June 30th, I don't think we have time to do anything other than just renew a can cave for now, with the idea we would just do a year, and then in February we'll meet again, revisit, that'll give Marianne a chance to and Ashley to see if there's something they can streamline. And if we can come to some agreement that it's working better, we can look at that. If not, then I think I would recommend that we go to RRP. And it wouldn't necessarily take K&K out of the mix. They could easily put in a bid just like anyone else. They would have that option.

And I think it's noteworthy that we also add that K&K was also in agreeance with the one year. Yeah.

Not necessarily do I want to add, but I'm taking notes and just want to make sure that I'm understanding the proposal. So you want to do a one-year extension. The increase for the initial term, we're saying that the increase that they got in 2024, we have that, and that we're not going to consider an increase on the renewed term until February of 2027.

I think that the increase for the next year we would look at as soon as we get a little better information from Marianne and Ashley, because we need to figure out on the city side if we need to increase ours a little bit as well. on the management side of it.

I think we need a few months to be able to determine.

Right, so my- Honestly, you know what I mean?

Yeah, for clarification, February was the date, that was when we are going to review everything.

Yeah, that'll be a review. So I would say, I would hold off on the 3% till probably August, September. I don't think they'll just have to wait, cuz like I said, I just hate doing one and then doing another. When, if we can do it all at once, that would be, I think, fair to the citizens.

Okay. So how about if I just put September, they have 26, that they would be eligible for the next increase. Okay. And then the other thing that I need you to give me some direction on is the increase right now says that they could ask for an increase one time in the initial term, which was the one in 2024. And then there could be an additional time in each extended term, but the, it was contemplated that the extended terms would be periods of five years. Uh, if we say that they have one on a one year extension, we could be putting ourselves in a position where now instead of every fifth year, they're eligible that every year they're eligible for an increase. Do you want me to keep language in there that they can ask for an increase, but only one every five years to keep it the same?

Would it be better to say during the contract period? Because the contract, if we put it up for an RFP, it may not be for five years. It may be three years.

Or if we were to give notice, it's a

What is your recommendation on that grant, is to do the five-year based on the contract?

It's simpler. But I can figure out a way, if you just tell me when you want it to be eligible for increases, I can figure out a way to do that. But another way to handle it would be to renew it for a five-year.

term and then if we want to get out of it to give notice this is the termination of this and i have no preference which of those we do either one will work i know dave was more in favor of doing at least a two year um when we were talking i think the others were okay with the one year so we could evaluate that i'm not opposed to the three percent during this and if we need to protect ourselves, make that, if we continue with them, that would be there.

Yeah, I would also prefer that if there is a 3% later this year, that we also put in there that if they have the ability to, whoever it is during this next contract period, that perhaps it not be allowed for the following two years before they ask for it again. I'd hate to see it at 3% this year and then somebody be awarded the contract and then it goes and immediately ask, like within a year and a half, another 3% increase. So if we could delay in this next contract how soon they ask for it, if that makes sense.

We can do that. And we can... Well, we run into issues where we've kind of already been pushing the envelope a little bit on the RFP for a while now. Right. Not something new, but going back as long as I've been here to 2012, there's been several extensions with probably more modifications to the contract than we really should have been doing. I was going to say we can do this one-year extension and a new contract next year and would control it the way that Tommy... is saying that we really should be doing an RFP. Right. With some of the changes that have been.

No, and I don't disagree with that. I'm just thinking time frame. Oh, I understand. And that's the only thing I'm concerned, which is why I think the year, and then if we can't come to some agreement, then we would. But it sounds like we probably should just open up RFP in a year anyway. It would really... clean up everything.

Yeah, we would be on much more stable footing if it was ever challenged, if we could show that it had gone to an RFP.

My understanding coming out of that meeting is that we would, in one year, have an RFP.

And I'm really not concerned with a one-year extension if the plan is to go to an RFP, because we would be adopting basically the exact same terms and conditions, which is allowed without an RFP. It's when we get on unstable ground well that sounds like that's probably the in our best interest to do it that way then is to extend the year planning on rfp in february or whatever okay so then if that's the plan um i'll just put language in that there can't be an increase until september of 26 We'll do a one-year extension, and then any future increases we'll address in the RFP and the new contract. Is that okay? Yeah.

All right. Any other comments?

No, thank you for the refresher.

With that, I'm going to move down to Roosevelt City contract employee. Contract employee. Contract. Kirby.

I'd like a new contract. Just kidding. Hopefully you guys had a chance to review this contract for Colton Roberts, the airport. The only thing The only change that I know of, and I've discussed this in the grant, is Colt would like it to be in his business name, CCR Services LLC. That would be the only change that I know of. And we need to put in the monetary compensation.

Do you remember what that was? $1,000.

That's what we were talking about.

Yes, he is. Yeah, it would be $1,000. And he's okay with that? freebies instead, and we can't do that, right?

Yeah, actually, this would work out really better for him. He's in agreement, yes. Okay.

Yeah, in that email, those were the only two things, was the name, CCR Resources LLC, and then there was, it was just dollar signs in the conversations. Yeah.

Any other questions, discussion? Seems pretty easy, huh? Move, we approve.

Can we approve this where it says discussion? Oh, yeah.

You're right, never mind. Move it up to action. Sierra, move that to action next time. I thought it was an action. Okay. All right. Can you put that on...

Thank you.

Would you tell them it'll probably go through, but it'll be next week?

Yes, I will. Okay. Moving down to Chief. Chief Watkins, updated strike force or grant, sorry. Either one. We've got the next three. Okay. I'll have you for the next two.

We'll go really quick. No, you're fine. Thank you.

Okay, so did you say which one you want to talk about, Tommy?

The strike force.

Okay, so there was a member added to the strike force, Daga County, Aspie Abbott. That was approved. And as I went through it, Mark, it looks like that's really the significant change here. Is there anything else that you want to talk about on this one?

No, I think... They had some discussion with AP&P, but they worked that out, and I thought they had that in there, too.

Yeah. If AP&P was in the last one, they're still in this one, too. Yeah. Nope, that's it. Okay. So the only reasons for the change from the last one that you guys approved,

I would recommend approval.

So it's my understanding things are a little better, right, Chief, at this point?

We've had several meetings with the chiefs and sheriffs, and several of the issues that we have had has been worked with the exception of one, and it looks positive. So we've elected to continue pointing in the right direction. As for now, we want to stay this course.

I did receive a notice, sorry. No, go ahead. I did receive a notice for a request for signatures, so I have not signed that without the council approval.

Our contribution to this is $20,000 per year. Are you part of their local?

A year.

A year, yeah.

Well, I'm glad it's... our jobs, right? Or you guys can do your jobs.

It's looking promising.

So as long as it's going in the right direction, I would move to go ahead and approve based on recommendation.

Can I have a motion to approve on the recommendation? Do I have a second? I'll second. Do I have a second? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Action approved. Which leads us to the court contract approval.

This one also is an agreement that we've entered into multiple times. In fact, this one is annual. There were no changes. It's a form contract. I checked with Mark. He's okay with renewing it. The reality on this one right now is that it's very rarely being used. Or to you, Mark, I think the recommendation is to go ahead and renew this one, too. I agree. So this one has the $42,000 per year maximum budget. So we're highly likely we'll get that. We're not even getting close to that. I haven't met with Zeke to see what the actual numbers are. I just know based on the number of days that we have according to year that we're waiting.

So they're not using this much over here? No.

considered it yes yeah if they're not using a lot we ought to look into that the one problem that they have right now not so much us but all of the recording equipment is in there so even though we're doing court online the clerk is in there even though she's the only person in there and so she can record the hearing well maybe

Josh, you and Josh and others can look into a little more?

Yeah, we've talked to them about it, and we did a little tour over there and stuff. The setting's a little different.

We'll have to figure out who's... We've even talked about trying to do a joint thing where even this area between the two rooms would be incorporated into a room that was usable. They were willing to talk to us, but... Every time I've dealt with the courts on the lease, and that's for both Roosevelt and Duchene, they're really reluctant to give anything up. But we could continue the discussion.

Well, I hope we would. I think.

When is the lease up on that? Did we just renew it? It seems like.

It seems like we just renewed it.

It's been up in the last three or four years. Yeah. I would say in the last two years. I would say. As soon as you know that, it wasn't too long ago. And is it a three-year contract or five? I can't remember. I'd have to find a cop. I can do that by the next meeting.

We can let them know. I would move or approve based on recommendations for the court contract.

Okay, I have a motion to approve and a second. Any other discussion? All in favor? All right. Any opposed? Motion passes. All right, which will also lead us into our last discussion item, children's justice.

And again, this is one that we've entered in a term and are getting ready to start a new one.

I didn't talk to you specifically about this remark.

I just reviewed the agreement. I've not heard of any complaints with this one. Do you have any issues with that?

No, none at all. And actually, just on a side note, we're the blame for this because we need accreditation and want to update it. And they went, oh, that needs to happen. There we go.

Okay, so it just recommends approving a new office. Question? There is grant funding. I'm not aware of anything seasoned during the game. I think it runs almost completely on grants.

The renewal is for how long?

Five years. I didn't see it was five years. I didn't see any money, and I just was curious. I assume it gets utilized more than we care to admit, unfortunately. I would move we approve based on the recommendation.

I have a motion to approve based on the recommendation and second. Any other discussion? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion approved. So over the weekend, we had, was it 38 teams? Does that sound right, Dustin? No, that's more than that. It's 48, what is it? It was 10 each one. There was five different age divisions, so it was close to 48. And I actually took off from work. I went and shuttled people back and forth, especially considering the health they need. Dustin got me a golf cart, and from the bathrooms down to the complexes, I just shuttled people back and forth, back and forth. Twelve hours Friday, twelve hours Saturday, and I heard nothing but, you have a beautiful complex, you have a beautiful complex. We just need rescue. So anyway, I wanted to pass that on. I've already talked with Dustin about that, but the compliments that we received were awesome.

Well, the whole point of why we put it in is so that we could hold stuff here and not have to travel all the time.

Yeah, and I've heard the discussion along the lines of to have nine softball diamonds so close together is almost unheard of across the rest of the state. So I think we have a great complex. Other than maybe some, we may need to address the pavement on the ball diamonds. Back in the 70s, I don't know why they built it, but coming out of the dugout, it's asphalt. It's asphalt.

And it's terrible.

Let's get rid of them. Coming up in our capital projects in the future, we're going to reach the most done house.

Nice. Thank you. It's terrible. I do.

Once it's done and no one knows how it happened, then we have to fix it, right?

Thank you for indulging me. I'll turn that time over to you, Edwin. Thanks for doing that. I saw that as a need last year, and I said, I'm going to come up and help with that. You know, the opportunity as mayor, it was a little more doable. And it was fun. I'm not going to lie. It was actually fun. It was people wanted to talk about our complexes.

Cool. I wanted to thank Dustin, too, actually. Yeah. Got compliments on that, too, just for the work that he did grooming the fields and getting them all prepped, too. That was another part of that that we saw on that social media post, too. So he's well-received on that. Yeah, so Edwin Butterfield, Recreation Director. I'm excited to be here. This is part of the stuff where I'm assuming you're like, this is the fun stuff right here. All recreation side of things is where people are getting out and about. That's what we're all about here in the recreation. See if this little clicker works here. And it looks like Awesome. So what I wanted to do here with the recreation department, I have my division managers here as well. They are going to actually do most of the reporting. They're the ones that know most of what's going on in the individual areas. So with that there, we have the aquatic center, the recreation, and then golf. We're actually going to do it in that order. Each division manager has come up with a quick five-minute overview of It includes why recreation is important in their side, what's been going well for them, things that they've been finding challenges with, and then as well as what their future goals are for this next fiscal year. I do welcome any questions that you guys may have. If you could give them at least a chance to go through their overview and then if you have any questions for them then. We try to program this to fit the 20-minute period to make sure we don't go over and keep this nice and clean for you. And as I said, yeah, why rec matters, the strengths, challenges, and the goals we have. I'll go on to the next one then. Something on my side I wanted to say before we take this off is why does recreation matter? There's nothing better than seeing our community come together. We've had so many different events, different leagues. We can see, and my division manager will tell you too how awesome it is to see either youth learn a new sport, a new league, learn how to swim, given adults an opportunity to collaborate with each other. We have staff that have been able to recreate in different leagues that you'll hear about here in a bit too. There's a lot of great opportunity that we have for work, for community, for play, for togetherness when it comes to recreation. It's built for families, friends, neighbors, anybody that wants to stay active. So yeah, we're excited to get this rolling here.

as I did last time. It's truly honestly a pleasure to be back in front of you today, especially to go more in depth and speak about things that I am incredibly passionate about. One which is the Aquatic Center on top of recreation on things. If you want to go to the next slide. So for me, I have a background not only in aquatics and recreation and sports, things like that, but I also have a background in some health and medical management things along those lines, and I'm a huge believer in pairing the two together, health and safety with recreation and physical fitness. Just right there, when we look at the averages of things, when we look at medical side of things and other things, it says in the National Health Institute, the purpose of leisure activities is diverse, such as relaxing, enjoying, acquiring skills, and contributing to our society. Very specifically at the Aquatic Center, we see all of these things come together. We act as a community hub that has our intergenerational individuals coming together, such as our water aerobics program. We have people that are brand new mothers all the way up to our seasoned senior citizens who have been here throughout all of the history of the aquatics in Roosevelt. Not only our current facility, but the facilities before. And it's really exciting to hear their stories, like hear their excitement when they come together. It's not only an exercise or two for them, but it is very, very much a social gathering place for them. And we see that now starting to trickle down into our youth. I've seen moms bring their children to water aerobics to encourage that growth and that togetherness. We also see it set up for major youth development. when it comes to skills and critical thinking or job skills for our young lifeguards. We throw them into really intense, extreme situations, and watching them go at 15 years old to learn how to save a life, to my 19, 20 year olds that go off to college with a large resume of not only communication skills, but de-escalation skills, to all different fields. And we're excited about that because our goal is to grow them, not only as youth, but as members of our society. We want to see them grow with us and come back. And that happens at our aquatic center quite often. We also see it as a huge public safety scenario here in our community. Within the UH Basin, we have over a thousand natural bodies of water. It is phenomenal how many bodies of water we have out here. And it's funny when we talk about recreation, the aquatic side, and natural bodies of water, but we find that within an aquatic center is where you learn those safety skills. It's where you learn the skills about life jacket safety, about how to rescue yourself from a sinking boat. We actually teach that in our swim lessons, how to jump and swim away from a sinking boat. We teach reach, throw, don't go, according to our Red Cross programs. And so It is a huge safety proponent on top of the kids enjoying themselves, having fun. And as an economic catalyst, we see that it is very like, yes, we're subsidized, you know, persona to the city, but being subsidized is an economic catalyst for people wanting to move here. People that are coming out from areas or even relocating from Vernal or Might or Duchene will be more enticed to come when we have things like our aquatic center and our recreation. more easily accessible. And that's just kind of like the basis of my passion for it. But we also look at targeting our social impact. So we have a huge socioeconomic impact here in the Basin. We have a really unique situation where we have a lot of community members who easy access to things. And so with our aquatic center, we do strive our very best to lower that impact for those individuals. We have insurance-based memberships for our elderly individuals. We offer on-camp physical education memberships through Athenian Academy, and we would love to see that grow through other avenues, such as school district avenues, things along those lines. And then we're also a safe haven for our first youth. We would rather see them in our aquatics facility year round than know that they have nowhere else to go. I'd rather have them come and have, you know, have a time of their life for five hours where they're here with us than just be out where there's not a lot for them to do. And so we see that equity begins with our access to the same life-saving skills regardless of our neighborhoods. And this last year is, I've hit my one year mark. I'm still relatively new. And in this last year, there was a steep learning curve for me on some of the facility and some of the things that I have not been super familiar with, but also at the same time, I'm very, very passionate. And I tend to run head headstrong into some things. And so this last year we did revamp quite a few, quite a few things right away, such as restructuring our private swim lessons. I've been a private swim instructor and a swim instructor for the aquatic center since I moved out of here to Roosevelt back in 2021 or 2022. I would, I'm assuming is when I got the job. Um, but it's been a while. And so I've seen it from the inside out. And so when I did take this position, I took that with the thought process of being an instructor and seeing where we could increase and what we could bring to our community. we've seen a huge increase in not only the demand, but the success in our private swim program on top of our group programs. We have also outreached to our residents with surveys, open door conversations, tailored meetings, such as with my school district to evaluate our growth, feelings of discourse. So say for instance, one of the things that we did with this year was we offered Connor more specifically, to custom fit their life jackets before at the very beginning of the season. And so what that did is that increased the safety of the individual swimming, but it also increased the efficiency. We found that when they were coming, it took us a quarter of the time of their paid reservation to custom fit their life jackets that day. But we fit their life jackets on the first reservation, tagged them, labeled them. And so then every day they came, they were just instantly handed out to the right individual. And so we did a lot of tailoring to very specific, unique situations. And then we opened up our access. We opened up more hours of our open swim, more hours for our private lessons, and we tried to outreach to new audiences. This year, very, very specifically focusing on our adaptive community. We've had a major outreach with our adaptive community to bring in new timeframes. such as we offer our inflatables once a month. If you've ever seen them, they're giant, bouncy inflatables, super duper fun. But we do acknowledge that sometimes it's difficult when you have a family that has special needs children to bring them to those events because they can be very overwhelming. And so this year we enacted a specialized swim time before for those special needs families that was more of a sensory swim. less open to a wild phenomenal thing that meant maybe turning off our water pump not our pumps but like our water features things along those lines over stimulation for overstimulation reasons and these are just all trial and error basis and then throughout the whole time frame we're looking for feedback through these groups and we're trying to continue to revamp these as we go along but this is all within the last year so like i said i tend to run this wrong real fast and some end up some new ideas. But as we look into our future, I'm very passionate about the thought process for our timing, as well as our frequency to increase. So right now, especially with new management coming on board, people are very excited to tell us their pros and their cons at the same time. And so as we talk about our timing, we want to take advantage of these open conversations. We want to know what our economy wants, what our people need, so we can start building for that future. It takes a while to build aquatic sites of things. It's not super easy to just say, hey, we can throw in a new slide for you. We can throw in these new things for you. But what we can do with that increase is we can look at things such as our new concessions stands that are going up, things that we can make a difference on right now to improve those quality while they're here. all within keeping in mind the purpose of why we're doing it. I like how Theodore Roosevelt said, the joy of living is he who has the heart to demand it. And we have the heart here in Roosevelt to demand that. we want more we want more for our youth we want more for our senior citizens we want more and it's just a matter of what can we do to look forward this next year we're increasing our solicitors again we're increasing more opportunities within that adaptive community to all the things that we started um one big one this year is that concession stand we very quickly rolled that out this last couple of weeks took advantage of the ability of an eager partner, and we're really excited to see that convenience of not only having to bring your children, but your gear and their swim gear and food and all of these things, we'd like to have it more accessible right at their fingertips. We would also like to continue this next fiscal year to look into collaborations with our school districts, with our groups where we can bring in better education to the children, better opportunities, whether that be we offer free swim passes to those who complete a PE course or complete a perfect attendance record, things along those lines to encourage them to bring their families to the facility.

So, I just had a question. I know in the past we've had some Difficulty with the school district. Are we doing better with the swim team and the So that is that's a different kind of conversation when I talk about collaboration with this I know and I've talked to Edwin about the one you're talking about and I would still love to see something happen there and I've been working my and I'm just curious what you found because I know in past we've had some issues with the swim team and temperature of the pool, patrons, and the temperature. Have we kind of been able to get that worked out?

We actually just met last week, not with the school district, but with a couple of the parents of the swim team. I would say that it's maybe ongoing, but to say the least. Or maybe you have a...

I was just curious, because I know it's been a little point of contention. And I know we had to negotiate getting them to pay, because they weren't paying.

And we worked some of that stuff out. And as far as the paying, of course, they couldn't represent the school district. But I think their biggest point with the swim team from the high school is just capacity. And Roosevelt City is unable to meet capacity.

I do know, if I could speak to, Natalie's been working really hard on trying to find different ways to think outside of the box. I know Councilman Busenbarker brought up about swim lessons and trying to incorporate that to the school grades too. I know that is a heavy emphasis on Natalie here. And she is really trying hard to figure out outside of the box, how can we collaborate with these school students and really try to work with the different economic groups and try to help give an aquatic education an opportunity for anybody. board and the school district, too, so.

Well, if you need help, let me know, because I've been trying to work both sides of that. Edwin knows, because I've talked to him several times about it, so.

Right, and I think that's where it is an advantage to seek broader conversation of different avenues, different areas, besides just our swim team conversation. Like we had a, we gave a presentation to East Elementary School. I took me and two of my lead guards to East Elementary, and we did a water safety presentation. during their education and community fair that they have. So there's a lot of things that we can do that reach beyond just the conversation of a swim team to increase our connectivity with those school-age students.

And just so you know, I'm all for that. I was just more curious about where we were with regard to the swim team, because I know that has been a contentious point. Right, Edwin?

We're working on it, though. We really do want what's best for our youth. the city is taking care of to its taxpayers to exactly so we're trying to get that fine balance between that to help out and it's as mayor did mention there is a work in progress and we are driven to try to make sure we find it good well I mentioned to you when I was a kid they took us on a bus to the swimming pool and that was part of our class that we did we go swimming for half an hour and

It was a half an hour on the bus, probably, and then swim for half an hour and then come back. And we did that for a couple weeks, three weeks, and then we were done. But we were able to get that. And so I would love to see something like that where more students have opportunities that way. So I'm all for it. That's what I went through. And so my high school had a pool, so they actually had PE classes. And we would take like a four-week, a three-week, I think, three-week PE time there. That's all we did was go to the pool for three weeks during the PE class. Nice. Yeah. But I'm up in Washington. There's a lot of water up there, too.

Is there other questions, too, for Natalie? This is a point where I want to make sure that if you have questions about provision and stuff here, too, for that minute or two, if you have something and give you that opportunity.

Did you have any questions for us?

Not at this point in time. So if I do, I will go ahead and voice those when they come up. Thank you.

All right, thank you. Did you need any additional time, Edward?

So you've got two other divisions here. Oh, never mind. Never mind. Cody is excited to talk about other sports here. Oh, yeah. Well, Councilman, Mayor, I don't know.

Thank you guys for hearing me out. I'm the recreation division manager. So for Roseville City, these are the leagues that we offer. We have our adult leagues. We have men's softball, women's softball, co-ed softball, men's league basketball, adult co-ed volleyball, and then for youth leagues, we have junior jazz and youth volleyball and tennis. The races that we offer, we offer three races a year, and then we partner with UBIC for the triathlon. And then this is some statistics with participants and how many have registered throughout the years in fiscal year 24, 25, and 26, went through all the data, and that way we can see the trend line and see if we're losing participants or gaining participants. It looks like for our youth leagues, we're pretty consistent throughout the years, and this year we've seen a big increase with our adult leagues. So, especially with softball this year, Vernal isn't doing the league, and so we've seen a lot of traffic from Vernal to our league, and it's put us in a very unique spot to and, you know, up our league and our participants. So for extension opportunities, men's basketball, I want to add A&B League to accommodate 12 to 15 teams. Based on that, this basketball tournament, I'd like to coordinate with other cities that have junior jazz programs and see if we can get the top three, two to three teams in each league and do a big tournament, and like a Super Bowl, like what they did with football. And then, yeah, softball. The Journal's not offering any adult leagues this year, and so we've already seen each of our leagues gain a lot of traction this year so far. Registration is still open and we're still seeing people sign up, which has been awesome. New ideas and for my vision for 27, I'd like to start a U Street hockey program. We've coordinated with the Utah Madness and they've donated a bunch of equipment, a hockey rink, everything to start up our league. UVIC, we're going to be doing a clinic during UVIC and we're going to offer It's going to be a free clinic, and they'll get a hockey stick and a free puck. And then if they want, they can sign up for a 3v3 tournament. And then the beginning of school, I'm going to coordinate with all the schools and the principals and try to get in with the PE teachers and get put out to street hockey and have the kids participate in it and try to build attractions so we can start a league. We have fishing class. Last year we did a fishing class, and this year we are going to be doing another fishing class in July. I'd like to start a pickleball program and a disability sports program. I'd like to partner up with maybe Conmore and see the needs and try to get them more involved in our leagues.

Can I ask you what you're going to offer on that?

With the disabilities? I think that's a great idea, but That's where I want to coordinate and see what they want. Like if they want more basketball or if they want to try baseball or volleyball. I want to get their opinion and then we'll go from there. Do you have an age group in mind? I'm thinking probably K through 12. That way we can get everyone included, all age groups. And then obviously I want to start itty bitty ball. We don't really have leagues for pre-K and K. I'd like to maybe in the summer do a one-month program where each week we do basketball, and then we go try golf, and then we do soccer and t-ball. I know my little three-year-old son, he gets really bummed out because his older brother used to do all these activities, and he's just as capable, but there's nothing out there for him. And I think it'd be very cool to see these little kids try these sports and see if they like it or not and build their confidence. What's working? Adult leaps are showing strong growth in demand. Community races are building momentum, revenue trending upward year over year. Our total revenue has gone up from fiscal year 24 from 72,492 to 82,290 and we're projecting with ALL OF OUR SIGNUPS FOR SOFTBALL THAT WE'RE GOING TO INCREASE UP TO 89, 850 THIS YEAR. AND THE FISCAL YEAR IS ENDING THIS MONTH. SO WE'RE STILL GETTING DATA AND STUFF COMING IN WITH REGISTRATIONS. AND OUR KEY WINDS AND HIGHLIGHTS, MEN'S BASKETBALL GREW FROM 8 TO 12 TEAMS, 50%. HAD TO TURN AWAY TWO TEAMS BECAUSE WE WERE AT FULL And adult co-ed volleyball grew from seven to 18 teams, 157% over two years. Women's softball tripled from three to 11 teams in fiscal year 26. Revenue increased 13 and a half percent from fiscal year 24, 25. New programs launched. We launched, we have the youth tennis right now is going. We have a, TENS CLASSES RIGHT NOW, AND WE COORDINATED WITH THE HIGH SCHOOL ON THAT, AND COACH BRUCK IS RUNNING THAT PROGRAM. WE HAVE OUR COMMUNITY RACES. IT'S GOOD TO SEE THE MAYOR OUT THERE, THE MEMORIAL THEY'RE ON. IT'S GREAT. IT'S BEEN AWESOME TO SEE ALL OF THE RACES AND SEE THE MOMENTUM THAT WE'RE BUILDING AND THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH THE RACES. This year, Roosevelt City has proudly participated in men's basketball, cowboy volleyball, and adult softball leagues. These programs not only provide recreational opportunities to participants, but also help strengthen community relationships, promote a healthy lifestyle, and enhance employee morale and engagement. It's been really fun to see Roosevelt City and the police get together and go out there and have a good time. It's a really good stress reliever for everyone. And I've heard a lot. from even the police where they're just like, it's good to go in a different environment and see my coworkers in a different environment and get to know them. So that is it. Any questions?

Matt Williams. That's the hot seat now.

I'm old-fashioned. I can't do the whole projection thing. I just have my notebook. Firstly, I would like to say thank you to everyone who has made the transition back to Roselle for me. Pretty smooth. It's been good. I'm excited to be back. Everyone's been helpful. I've had good competition with Bo and Rowdy about And it was fun to come work a couple weekends, see what was going on, have my insights, and then be full steam ahead in May. So in the month of May, May is over now, we had a great month financially. We were up year to date of last May over $13,000, which is good considering a rough spring. So we needed to get a little bit of a bounce back for the month of May, which I really like to see. For the most part, weekends, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, are full of golfers. I'm hoping to see that trend creep more into the weekday. Roosevelt's an interesting demographic, though, because a lot of people work the oil-filled, six-on, eight-off type of work schedule. And then you also have lots of teachers, stuff like that. And so you see kind of this with the tee sheet. And so we're coming up with different ways to make golf more appealing. One thing that we have right now that is appealing is the season pass. It's in a peculiar spot where it's such a great deal. You kind of, be dumb not to buy one because it's such a great deal for everybody. And so we want to continue that trend of having a season pass available for the dedicated golfers in the community, but also keep it as a great deal for them too without having to jack prices on everybody. That's pretty much the overview for May. May was a really good month. June is a really great month for us as well. We have lots of tournaments coming up. We have a hospital tournament this week, a drill team also this week, and then Children's Justice Center next week, give a break, and then, oh no, no break, and then API, which... It's going to be huge this year. I know it's their 50th anniversary. We did some kind of special for them this year of waiving their tournament fee. And so they were very appreciative of that. So that's kind of fun to see. I mean, even when I grew up here, it was fun to go and work API and get the food and so participate in all that. So they're really stoked about that. We're stoked about it. API is always fun. But yeah, we're full steam ahead. Some projects, though, that we have going on. We had the opportunity this week to meet with our water conservation audit person. And it was great for the numbers we needed for CIB. I don't have all of the numbers yet. He's going to send me the final diagnostic report. But we are operating on about 30% capacity for the golf course. And in light of saving water, we're losing about 58,000 gallons of water a day just from the system, just from leaks. We shut the system off yesterday and we just watched the meter still go because the system is so archaic. Still the original system from 50 years ago, which bodes well for us because we can send this audit with an appeal for a grant to the CIV and hopefully get that cib grant to move forward with the total replacement of the irrigation system some other projects that we're working on right now is mike and i are designing along with the irrigation system uh car packing the entire golf course which would go into that project with the irrigation The reason why we are doing that is because this spring, as you all recall, the golf course had to shut down carts for four weeks. Close to six weeks. And if, I don't know how the winter is going to be this year, but if we had another winter like we did, and we did have cart path on the whole course, we wouldn't have to do that because of the geofencing and the cart tracking module. that we have now, we can confine everybody to cart path only.

So we do make it so it's just open to the carts that the golf course has that on?

We haven't talked about that. We would have to figure out a way. Basically, we would have a marshal patrolling the course on the cart path if people did take their personal carts. And we'd have to figure out the correct way to approach it, saying like, oh, guys, we're a cart path only, and if you continue to break that rule right now, we're going to not allow you to golf until we are back on full capacity of being able to drive in the fairways and stuff. But that's a very helpful product that we have coming down the pipeline, just for overall course condition. The golf course is somewhere where people get to go and enjoy nature and see one of the best Since I have come in as the golf professional, a couple things that I am working on with the staff is just an overall upgrade in the professionalism of how we handle customers, how we conduct ourselves, and how we take pride in the golf course itself. The other thing that we're working also is T-sheet efficiency. There was lots of complaints and lots of problems of groups starting on the front nine, and then they're playing 18 holes, so they'd be coming up hole nine, getting ready to go to number 10, and then on the number 10 T, we would have two or three groups stacked, which Bo can tell you firsthand, that might be one of the most frustrating things in the world, but we are fixing that, We are going over more computer trainings, TCE software trainings with our staff to make sure that doesn't happen. So they're more well equipped to handle situations like that. We are in the process, Mike, Kyle and I, of designing a renovation to the driving range. And the renovation to the driving range would allow the city to then sell lots on that land and use the money from those lots for capital projects golf course projects or rainy day fund and it's a product that would actually use all of the stuff we have now at the driving range so it wouldn't be like we would need new posts new nets things like that so that's in the very early stages of development right now so the driving range right now has nets that go all the way out Our thought right now is you can't hit driver on the driver range. You'll hit the houses behind the range. And so our thought is taking all the posts from the very back and pulling them up to about the 90, 80 to 90 yard marker, keeping the same post, same netting, but then taking the netting that we're not, the extra netting that we're not using anymore, stretching long ways and hanging it across the top. So then you can hit driver. Exactly. We have a top, but then that would open up. 200 yards by 100 yards of length behind the range that could then be developed by the city. West of the range. West of the range, correct. That would then line that neighborhood, or that road, so the houses facing each other. So that's the very early stages of planning, just with Mike Kahn, I'm kind of going through seeing what it would take to move those nets, move those posts up like that. And then another thing that's very important to me is the public sentiment. around the golf course. When I was growing up, it was up and down like this. People like golf, people don't like golf. They think the golf course should be developed. They don't think the golf course should be developed. And so one thing that I have taken personally upon myself is anytime I see somebody I wanna talk to them about the golf course, invite them out. I want them to know of all of our junior programs that we have, the public tournaments they can play, and then just come and see what the golf course is about. And before you know it, they're addicted to the game, and then all they want to do is golf. So that's kind of the overview of what's been going on in the course thus far. I've only been here a month, obviously, but it's a lot. It's a lot of good stuff going on. It's a lot of big projects that would really help the overall condition of the golf course, but just the overall... emphasis on how important golf is to the community. Any questions?

Matt, have you fielded questions towards the amount of tournaments that we are having at the golf course versus season passes?

Yeah, so it's an interesting one. The three main questions we get are, why do we have so many tournaments? And then season passes and corporate passes. I came from a golf course where we did no season passes and no corporate passes. One of the reasons why is because the golf course was busy enough to where it didn't make sense to financially do it. For a season pass to be financially lucrative for the golf course, they would have had to charge an astronomical amount of money for one person. So it would have just been for yourself. Rozo's a little bit different. I am indifferent on the idea. I don't want to take it away. season passes. But I also think there needs to be a trend line of maybe an increase somewhere down the road. But it's interesting because it's something that people like. It makes them feel like they're part of something, like they have their own country culture in the basin. Corporate passes is a little different. We have really cracked down this year on people using the corporate pass who aren't necessarily on the list for it. So unless we'll say, let's say you had a corporate pass, unless somebody you gave us a name for, maybe it was four or five guys. If somebody who wasn't on that list came in and we would say, oh, I'm so sorry, you're not on the list under the corporate pass, they need to call me and approve this or you're going to have to pay a normal rate for the round today. So we really cracked down on that. And then the corporate passes always still include a cart fee. We haven't had any pushback on that actually, which is good. The tournament ones, yes and no for tournaments. It's a great source of revenue for the course because I mean, it's $5,000 or $4,800 to do a tournament at the golf course. If you do a double tournament, like most of the big ones are, like UBSC, or not UBSC, the hospital ones, like a boarding and an afternoon flight, that's just double that. So it's $9,600. The only downside is we do lose that weekend. Well, this year a little less because of how many corporate passes and season passes that we've had this year. I think an average Saturday right now is about Anywhere from $7,000 to $8,500 revenue, depending on how many corporate passes come out, season passes come out. And that's something that we could discuss in the future as well as like, well, you can buy a season pass, but it's only good Monday through Saturday from these times, right? Or same with the corporate pass. Corporate passes are this much, but you can't use them on Friday, Saturday, or holidays. So then we're getting our Saturday back. We're taking those prime tee times back for the business, and then... we have that option too. This is one of those things like, I don't want to turn businesses away from buying this corporate best. And I don't want to alienate the golf course to where somebody gets a feeling certain or somebody's really mad about it, right? Like we want to do our best to accommodate all parties. So right now, I mean, tournaments are lucrative. because of how many corporate passes and season passes we have. And mainly it's the corporate pass holders and the season pass holders that give us the pushback on, oh, why do you have so many tournaments? Well, I mean, our job is to make money. And they're also the ones playing the tournaments. And they're also the ones paying the, we're paying the bucks, right?

Yeah.

So it's, yeah. I agree with you on that. I'm not surprised about the,

initial findings of the water yeah it's it's a lot uh i knew it was bad i think it was that bad but it bodes well in our favor if we're trying to get the cid long and i'll talk to kevin yak tomorrow about how we go about that i know josh is out of town right now so i'll coordinate with ryan and edwin as well but My hope is that we're breaking ground by the end of this year or early next year. And then the irrigation system, I talked to Rolando. He was the water audit and the designer of the new system. He's saying three to six months from start to finish, depending on weather. And we don't have to shut down the golf course at all while it's going on. So they trenched the main line down the rough. And they would only have to shut down portions of the golf course at times to run boards on the lines, but then those portions would be right back up. So.

Have you gotten bids on the system or just one person?

He will send out the bids with the design. So I've been working with Josh and Edwin already of getting the audit and then getting the design made up. And then once we get the design back and hopefully approval for the CIB grant, We'll then come to the city and say, how much are we willing to put up? What's the maximum budget? And then Rolando sends out bids to dozens of contractors for full system replace. It would still be located on 16, but we actually talked about it today of running a, I can't remember exactly what he called it, I think it was a reverse pump, all the way to 7 as well. So then when we shut down the water, secondary water, we wouldn't have to put a full pump station on 7, which would save a lot of money, but it would run a reverse pump from 7's pond all the way to 16's pond, so we would have more water available for tee boxes and greens, while secondary's off, if we don't get the moisture right. Yeah, I mean we're, right now we're pumping about 20 months of water through the system to survive seven months of play, because we're losing that much from the pipes. It's pretty wild. So that's kind of the main focus of where I'm at right now is irrigation and carpath.

I know you talked about tournaments. I was just curious. I know Dynaland a couple years ago cut back on the number of tournaments and wear and tear and stuff. Going forward, what are your kind of thoughts on that? I don't care, I was just curious. I have some thoughts on that.

I think we get some wear and tear from the tournaments of like how much stuff we set up on the golf course between trucks and trailers and wheels and stuff like that. The only part of wear and tear we get mainly from the golfer standpoint is our tee boxes and our greens get fairly beat up for tournaments because Players have been properly educated on how to fill their divots on the tee boxes or fix their ball marks on the greens. But some of that is on us as well. I've already been talking to Mike, and he's already been doing it, about making sure that we have sufficient sand and seed ready for the car kids to fill sand and seed and put full bottles in every golf cart, especially before a tournament. So then we can start training the tournaments, people who are playing, hey, fill your divots, hey, fix your divots, stuff like that. So that would be the main concern of wear and tear on my things.

Bob?

No, I just think the tournament needs, I mean, at some point we've got to look at what an appropriate rate is for them.

Yeah. Yeah, I was wondering about that. And even, I'm not opposed to maybe backing off a couple if we felt like there was too much especially with those kind of things going on. I'm not saying now, I'm just thinking down the road as we kind of evaluate those tournaments, I mean some of the bigger ones obviously we want to keep those, but some of the smaller ones we may want to, like I'm thinking like some of them do fundraisers for some of the groups, maybe we can combine them or do something different. Like I said, I know Dinoland has dropped back on theirs quite a bit, and we were picking up some of theirs because they weren't running tournaments over there.

And I'm not opposed to having them, but I also don't want to... We've already turned away probably five this year. I'm just saying, hey, I'm sorry we're full. And I talked to Kyle, and I was going to talk to Matt Labrum. I think he's the athletic director, right? Yes. About those fundraiser terms, because we don't need one for baseball, basketball, football. just do a union high school sports fundraiser golf tournament. And then we have it all in one. We don't need three weekends back-to-back with high school sport fundraising tournaments.

That's all I'm saying is I think we need to kind of evaluate that a little bit. I don't say let's get rid of them, but maybe let's maximize our efforts because, again, we want to make sure that if people have season passes, they can go golfing. And if there's a tournament every single weekend, it feels like sometimes. I mean, how many did we run last year?

Forty-two or something.

I think it was more than that, wasn't it?

No, they count the doubles as a two-day tournament. Yeah. It's like 30 in the summer.

Yeah. I've already seen a good change in Matt and what he's implemented. Matt was up there on Memorial Day.

No, I think Matt's going to do great. Like I said, I was just thinking of tournaments in general going forward and maybe, like I said, reevaluating some of those.

Yeah, and I already have a price breakdown of a price point that I've created for season pass, car pass, corporate pass, yearly rates, and tournament rates that we could implement next year, maybe next time we open.

And so if you ever want those, I can send them to you. We can talk about them and just stuff like that going forward. Just, I mean, the golf course, I would like to see the golf course close itself to debt completely and be completely self-sufficient.

And that's the goal, right? I want to make it easier for the citizens, so.

I talked to Kyle. He was very positive on what's going on up there too.

Any conflicts or anything? We allowed people to use the golf course to walk until like 8 AM.

Any issues with that?

not yet and i say that tentatively so we start tee times at 6 45 in the morning now because it's light i don't know how much you guys know about the golf course sleepy ridge there was an incident a few years ago where a little girl was struck by a golf ball and she passed away it's a pretty tender story for me i was working that day i dealt with it it was not fun So that's my only concern with having walkers on the course, allowing walkers to be on the course during tea time hours. If we were to set it up, like you said, before hours, after hours, I think something like that would be possible. We probably, can we change it? Is that, I don't know. That's what I'm wondering. If we could change the policy to just be, I don't know. Because tee times change in a week, right? When it's getting lighter, I'm moving the tee sheet back every single week. It's about two minutes a day of more light and then vice versa. So we have golfers on the golf course right now. Our last tee time is 6.45, which means they could be on the golf course until 8.45 golfing and then starting at 6.45 in the morning. So that's kind of the hours. It's 6.45 a.m. to 8.45 p.m. in the winters. walk we have a car path um it's it's an easy walk so if we just were to take a look at that policy and kind of maybe amend it but yeah i think it would be totally fine yeah i don't want anybody in it and that's kind of the thing about public sentiment and that would that would be very detrimental to the court system like that would happen somebody

does our policy say anything about kids versus adults is it just adults i looked it up recently but i don't remember i'm designed and they weren't supposed to be anywhere where you could play yeah perimeter stuff is all we've asked yeah i know that perimeter gets used up pretty quickly

I did want to say to each of you guys, Council Mayor, I got you guys a swag bag, too. So if you look at your desk, you have a drawstring bag that has a few recreation items in it.

I wanted to say thank you for what you guys do for our community here, too. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you. Before we move on, Corey left. I was just going to have Corey stand up. I don't know if any of you are familiar with Corey Wild, who was just sitting right here. I don't know if you saw her over my shoulder. She's our new economic development county for the county. She's our director. Let me restate that. Economic development director for Duchesne County. I just missed her. She was sitting right here just over my shoulder. WITH THAT, I WILL TURN THE TIME OVER TO THE CITY MANAGER UPDATE TO RYAN.

OKAY. I'M GOING TO TAKE PROBABLY DOUBLE THE TIME AS DIRECTLY AS I CAN. GET COMFORTABLE. NO. SO I JUST HAVE A FEW ITEMS. ONE THAT I WANT TO GO OVER JUST A LITTLE BIT. I WANT TO TAKE THE TIME AND THANK OUR CREWS. LAST WEEK WE HAD THIS. matter of minutes it was going to destruction everywhere citywide and we had a meeting here going on and didn't get a chance to even see it we heard it but afterwards the phone's blowing up everybody was going everywhere and we were chasing debris and water and mud everywhere trail system too as well, so very appreciative and you guys did awesome.

And the police also, they came out and they cut off a big area there over by 200 North on the Newell Highway.

From what I saw, the south of the town handled the water pretty well, especially compared to the last time. Yeah, that's really, that's a big deal. Yeah. Yeah, around Northeastern we still have issues, but these areas we've taken note and we're gonna continue to figure out ways to improve, so. Second of all, I have just a quick update on the State Street project, because I know you guys probably get phone calls on why is it closed and how long. And so it is currently closed right now, but they are gonna finish paving Friday. probably one week and a half after that will be done completed after pavement they'll have the fencing topsoil and then painting lines and they'll be paving the trail I can read Audrey's mind they are paving the trail so strata to the golf course will be complete and we have a company that will come in afterwards as soon as we get a seal coat on the whole thing so it's all still coated and looks good so excited to get that one and then the last thing I wanted to bring up we have a committee and it's not here she left we have a committee that's going to be for the 250 year celebration and one of the things that we put on the calendars july 8th we're going to have a barbecue kind of a i don't know what you'd call it audrey just uh what'd you call it uh yeah no spot it was like small town heroes and community barbecue or something like that it's because we're hometown heroes So we're going to close down the street just south of the fire department. We're going to bust out the trucks, the cop cars, everything. We're going to try and get as many things there for the kids to do and just have like a giant barbecue and they can see inside the station and outside. The champ is good with the two, yeah. So police will have a presence there too. No, they can't say no now. They asked it beforehand. I got his approval beforehand. So anyway, we'll probably be sending out some invites too and get your help on that and kind of rub shoulders with the community. So it'll be a good event and excited for that. So any questions for me? You want to also give them an update on the gun range? Yes, I can. There's a lot of sand blowing around out there. Everywhere in the area? Yeah, and then we have a flash flood and it just fills every culvert that we put in. So it's a Interesting situation we have, but we're figuring it out. Danny's been busy, but right now we're building parking lots and hauling in road base. The restrooms are coming on the 29th. We'll be completed by the 30th, unless you'll only be two days on that. And then we'll start doing the buildings, and after that we'll be pretty much rocking and rolling. Yeah, it's been good. Thank you. Is that it? That's all I have. Okay.

I can keep going if you want. No, very good. Thank you. Any committee reports?

Interfaith has their first concert of the year. It's going to be a patriotic to go along with the Americans of the Fleet on the 28th. No, we need to meet and see where you guys want that. I've got the electrician ready.

Can you come tomorrow at noon? Yep. Right here.

We have interfaith, and then we could... Let's go on site and see exactly where you want it.

We'll meet here first, so if you want to meet after there, but if you could come here, and then we can let you know when we can get over there and do that. Yeah, they usually put one of those trifold.

I have one that came up on social media.

Yeah, they have a digital one, just one. It's ready. You can share it to the interface page too.

All right, I don't believe I have anything else other than our 4th of July activities are coming up. I think...

Wayne is working on that, too, by the way. Wayne Underwood, a whole list of all the stuff for that. Have you reached out to the others?

Yes, yes. It should be a good time. It's interesting to see someone like my wife, who has become a naturalized citizen. She became a citizen in 2018. And she has decorated our place. We have 25 little small flags and two flags under lights and a banner that we hold as a flag on the garage door. So I think it's awesome that we show our pride and the blessings that we enjoy, the freedoms that we enjoy here. So I just take the opportunity to enjoy these moments of patriotism and flag-waving freedoms. I don't have any appointments, sorry.

We don't need a closed session or anything, do we, tonight?

No, no, not tonight. So with that, I'll entertain a motion.

We adjourn.