County Council - Regular Meeting

Recording in progress

The project that was awarded under the 2026 Community Development Block Grant Program. The capital investment plan has been amended and it was decided to apply for funds on behalf of the Wasatch Front Regional Council. Tooele County is graciously sponsoring us for our planning and admin project. We plan and administer the Community Development Block Grant Program for Morgan, Tooele, and Weber counties. And the project amount is for $50,000. And our application was successful in the regional rating and ranking process. And if anyone has any questions, I'm happy to answer those.

Any questions or comments? Thank you so much for coming out and working so hard that we can get grants.

And thank you so much for sponsoring us each year.

Absolutely. That will bring us down to a public hearing. So I need a motion to open up, right? Public hearing.

Can I make a motion to open a public hearing? Second.

Hearing a motion from Councilman Thomas and a second from Councilman . You stopped your track, so I wasn't sure what you were going to do. Motion from Councilman Thomas, second from Councilman Hoffman. All those in favor open up public hearing on the Community Development Block Grant. Say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Is there anybody in the audience by raise of hand that would like to make a comment while public hearing is open on the Community Development Block Grant? Seeing none, the chair would entertain a motion to close public hearing.

I make that motion to close the public hearing.

Chair, a motion from Councilman Thomas. Is there a second? I'll second it. All those in favor of closing the public hearing on the community block grant, say aye. Aye. All those who may oppose, say nay. That is closed. Chair, do I obtain a motion on accepting the information? No, this is just presentation. Thank you. I'm looking at the motion. I'm going, what? So Energy Solutions Aquatic Center, we have a presentation on that. Thank you, Christy, for coming out.

Yes, thank you.

Let's see if this works. So tonight I had some really fun slides to share with you, some exciting information. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to talk through what's happening right now. So you guys remember a few years ago, Corey came to you guys and presented to you the ready to play philosophy that they have in Parks and Rec. But I thought it was really important for us to kind of highlight the ready to play as far as what happens at the peak. So some of the things that we've had right now is through the winter we've hosted indoor BMX events. Right now we're preparing the track for some outdoor events. We've also held jiu-jitsu classes. We have our fields in use every day with softball tournaments and soccer tournaments. Next week we host the Lantern Fest. It's a two day festival. We'll have 14,000 people down at the peak over those two days. And our sports camps are open and ready to go for people to sign up for. Last year those filled up quick, so we're encouraging the members of the public to jump on and start signing up for that. Other things to remember that we have coming in June, we'll have the Bittens for Special Needs Rodeo. And in July, we'll have the Bittens for Rodeo. Also, our Sparkle and Splash event for America 250 will be on June 26th and 27th. You don't want to miss that. but i wanted to rewind you guys all back to april when a legend was brought to the peak and to parks and rec so i don't know if you guys know thunderhoof thunderhoof is the parks and rec mascot and since he's come to the peak after our ready to play festival he's been doing a lot of great things down there at the peak to help us get ready for some big events that we have going um if you Check the social media out for Parks and Rec. You'll notice that he's spent time helping get our tracks ready for our stadium cross and our arena cross, which is super exciting. He helps with our daily open ride that we offer three days a week down there for motocross. He's also been seen playing at Peak View Park. That's kind of cool, right? But even more importantly, he's been helping train our lifeguards. So we're really grateful for Thunder Hoof and the work that he's doing down there to help support Parks and Rec. But that brings us to what's even next. So this Saturday is the soft opening of the pool. We're not quite ready for that regrant. We are waiting for a few more inspections to happen. So the pool will open this Saturday from 12 to 7. It will be open Sunday from 11 to 4 and Monday from 12 to 6. There are more information on the pool times and when it will be open until our big BIG HUGE GRAND REOPENING ON JUNE 1ST. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. SO COUNCIL YOU CHALLENGED US TO HELP PAY BACK TO THE PUBLIC FOR THEM WAITING AND WAITING AND WAITING FOR THE POOL TO OPEN. AND YOU GAVE US SOME GREAT IDEAS AND WHAT I DID WANT TO PRESENT TO YOU TONIGHT THAT I CAN'T SHOW YOU RIGHT NOW. is that we do have the passes ready and available starting tomorrow for the public to pick up so for the members of the public that are here the council has very generously offered one free pass to every household in the county to visit the pool for up to 10 people per household. If you don't have 10 people, it's still just only good for the people in your household. The passes can be picked up starting tomorrow at the admin building at the peak. And members of the public will be able to pick up the passes Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the admin building. We will not be able to pass them out at the pool. That might be a little bit more confusing. So, Council, we wanted to say thank you for being so generous to offer this to the community. We wanted to let you know that it was ready and we will start handing those out tomorrow. So thank you. Next, I just wanted to say that the reopening is the big reopening will be june 1st we will start selling passes on june 1st at 11 a.m the opening ceremony will begin at 11 45 and the ribbon will be cut right at noon for the gates to open and to allow people in we have a lot of great things planned for that day but i don't want to spill all the secrets i need you to come to the pool and see so we're excited and we wanted to say thank you guys for your patience and support through the project and um Thank you for providing this gift to the community.

So what's the soft opening?

The soft opening is, is the pool just be open. Like you just show up. There's nothing fancy and sparkly yet. Uh, we have limited concessions. We don't, we we've expanded concessions. If you guys remember, you guys approved the expanded concessions. Um, we had to wait for a few more, um, approvals from the health department and groundswell fire before we can, um, complete all of those. And so just kind of a little test run until we can make sure that we're ready for the really big thing.

Does the health department work for us? Can't they just speed it up?

Well, it's not the health department.

It's the install of the equipment that's not quite ready, but yes. And no, they don't work for us. They actually work for them.

I know.

I just saw the health department director back there.

We provide administrative support to them.

Hey, could you give those hours on the soft opening again?

Yes, the soft opening will be Saturday, this Saturday, May 23rd, opening at 12 p.m., closing at 7. Sunday, May 24th, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Monday, May 25th, from 12 to 6. Thanks, Brittany. Yes.

You made it sound so fun. If it wasn't so cold, we'd adjourn and go down there.

But it's... Yeah.

Any other questions or comments from the council? Oh, thank you, Brittany. Appreciate you. Appreciate the presentation. That'll bring us down to minutes. April 7th, 2026. I'll just take these one at a time. Is there any corrections or additions to April 7th, 2026 minutes?

Chair, I'd like to make a motion that we table the April 7th minutes for now and bring them back another time. for approval, so we'll get some changes.

You have some corrections on that? Yeah.

OK.

Hearing a motion to table, is there a second?

I'll second it.

Hearing a second, all those in favor, say aye.

Aye.

Aye. All those who may oppose, say nay. OK. We'll table the April 7th. And April 28th minutes, April 28th, 2026. Is there any corrections or additions to those minutes? Do you know of right now? And Chair, entertain a motion.

Make a motion we adopt the minutes.

Hear a motion, Councilman Wardle, to adopt the minutes on April 28th, 2026. Is there a second? Second. Hear a second from Councilman Thomas. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All those who may oppose, say nay. Recording in progress. Just because I was not here and didn't get looped into the... Let the record show that Councilman Hoffman is abstaining from the vote on the April 28th minutes. He wasn't here, so he's not going to vote on it. Thank you. That's still adopted. That will bring us down to discussion item, the 2026 Tourism Board Grant Recommendations. Tyler.

just need to hit that button make sure it's green if you got you two don't mind introducing yourselves i'm chris mccormick uh tourism director uh tyler guy uh board chairman thank you time's yours okay uh well good evening council uh so i'll start by a letter that we put together from the board So Tooele County has allocated $370,000 in the TRT funds for eligible marketing and capital improvement projects. The tourism committee spent considerable time reviewing, evaluating, and scoring each application submitted for consideration. The total amount of applications this year was 1,122,146. The committee recommended funding in the amount of $324,567 for both marketing and capital improvement projects. Following our initial review, the committee conducted additional analysis on Pacific's projects. This includes gathering supplemental information, contacting the applicants, and other individuals involved. and seeking further clarification where needed. Once this additional information was collected, we evaluated each application using the reference guide provided by Brittany Lopez to ensure that the review process was consistent and aligned with the established criteria. After a thorough discussion and careful consideration, the board that the committee reached consensuous on applications recommended for approval, as well as the recommended funding amounts for each project. We also reviewed, rather, additional criteria or conditions should be attached to any recommendations. Because the county's existing criteria are fairly explicit, the committee chose to only add limited conditions in most cases. The committee has prepared an individual review sheet for each application, including our recommendations. In some instances, we also identified additional funding resources that may be shared with applicants. While certain applicants did not qualify for the TRT funding, we felt it was appropriate to provide information about other potential funding opportunities that they may wish to pursue. Throughout the process, the committee made every effort to be fair, consistent, thoughtful in its recommendations with the goal of supporting projects that provide meaningful benefit to Tooele County. We welcome any feedback or questions the council may have regarding our review process and recommendations. After the council has received the recommendations and has made its funding allocations, the committee would appreciate the opportunity to provide suggestions for streamlining the TRT applicant process going forward. One significant recommendation is to establish a required training component, each in person or online for applicants before they apply for the TRT funds. Based on several application responses, it was clear that there were some misunderstandings about the process, the eligibility requirements and expectations. A training requirement could help improve the quality of future applications and make the review process more efficient for both applicants and committee.

Thank you. Thank you, Tyler. And so with that, do you want to go through some of the recommendations that the board made?

Not just the dollar amounts. Will you explain why you're recommending what you are

Yeah, so one of the issues that we had going this year, because we had moved to a new system, so some people were a little confused by the new system. And also, we did have a lot of applicants that did attach additional information with their application. that the board was not able to access. The only thing that was available to be accessed on the system was the W-9s that were submitted. Anything else beyond that just became like a ghost link and no way to access it. So we had to go back as a committee, go back and reach out and try to gather additional information when some of that information I believe was on the on the application. And one of them, oh, excuse me for a second. So one of them happened to be with the Western Music and Songwriter Series where I had full spreadsheets laid out, I had bids, I had, I had probably 10 things attached to my application that no one could access. So then after the board had met themselves, then they pulled me in and it was a bunch of questions because no one could access it.

So is that just a glitch in the system or is it something that we need to update and change and fix?

I don't think that we really know. I think for us, we just couldn't see it. So we could see the W-9, but we couldn't see the other information that was there. So they were listed what the items were, but we couldn't see them. So we either made phone calls to Brittany's office, and she was helpful in getting us some information. You got a big book.

Yeah, I went back and got last year's book that we was able to reference to get a lot of information on the ones that we couldn't get a hold of.

Okay, we'll work on that and get that figured out then.

Yeah, so I just think that the applicants, if they had a little better understanding of what the stipulations are, and also if there's a way that we can distinguish if this is a new application versus one that might be a return applicant, it might be a little bit easier as well for us to kind of not make so many phone calls. So we can start. So I had dropped off the packet over to Megan the other day. So I don't know if you guys had a chance to review it. So I'll start with the ones that the committee felt did not qualify for the 2026 grant. So our first one is the Grantsville Social Bowl that requested an amount of $10,000. So this was for the Grantsville Social Bowl. So based off their application, they stated it was more to offset some overhead expenses. I had tried to reach out many a times, never got a response back from them. I had to try to help them out and see what they could do. So that one, the board felt like that one didn't qualify. The second was the Ritz.

Just some questions on that real quick. Did they put anything in there about how many people come from out of town or anything like that?

No, no. That was another thing that if we could talk to them, then we could really give them some good guidelines and stuff like that of what would be required. Okay. The second was the Ritz Theater. So this was for the ADA restrooms and for some marketing. So we had reached out to the Rich Theater and when we spoke with them, they had already received an additional grant that covered their ADA and stuff like that. Then also going off of the guidelines where it doesn't fall under the historical museum, that one didn't qualify. Uh, the third is the tool of school district education foundation, uh, requested amount of 40,000. Uh, this is for an old building of over Canyon that they're looking to restore. Uh, as of right now, the building's really never been open, never been visited, anything like that. So I think that's something that it needs to show some traffic and, and some stuff before that, that would fall under the guidelines of, of being, uh,

If I can just give you some background. I used to work for the Education Foundation before I become a county elected official. When they collected the data previously, that was the second most visited site, historical site, in the county behind the salt flats.

Yeah, go ahead.

Then the town disincorporated, and then that was given to, that's when the Ophir community ran it, Walt Schubert and other good people. And then when it was awarded to the school district, they can't use taxpayer dollars to preserve historical places. That's education taxes. That's the problem. It used to be opened up every Saturday and Sunday from Memorial Day to Labor Day. But there was nobody, they have no funds, nobody to open it. So I'm very, very familiar with this request. And so somehow... That's what this money, and it does need some up to keep. There's no doubt about it. They don't have the refunds, the funds to maintain those old buildings anyhow. So somehow, maybe you can coach them up and tell them how, is that the problem? That it's not marketed, it's not opened?

So that's the biggest problem is that they don't have established hours or regular hours. So it's not something that people can go inside and see or experience. They can go outside and look, but they can't really go in and see it and experience it and that type of thing. We did find a number of other grant programs that may be available to them, but I think the biggest issue for the committee was the fact that there is not any set hours. So it's not something that serves as a destination per se from that standpoint. When you classify it as a museum, but then you don't have any hours, that's kind of a challenge, especially looking at the guidelines. It needs to be something that's accessible and available to people.

So I guess my question to come back then is, as we communicate back to them to tell them why they failed, if they can develop a marketing plan, how they're going to open it up and give it accessibility.

Absolutely. So on the sheet, if you see on the, did you get the sheet? So on the right side, there's some ideas and suggestions there. Because we wanted to give them as much as they could have, as well as some other grant possibilities. But that's definitely the biggest part of it, is there's just not regular hours. So it makes it a challenge for people to say, hey, let's bring a group out here to come and see the place. And then you get there and it's locked up. So it's a great place. I went out there and checked it out myself. So it's definitely a nice place, but I couldn't get inside.

And thanks. You know, if we can communicate back, especially to the Education Foundation, I'm sure they'll find a way they can market it. So we can help them.

Can a museum be eligible if they are by appointment only?

I don't know. That's a good question. I don't know. I have to research that.

Yeah, we just kind of looked at where you have the museums. They have certain hours or you can go and you can visit and stuff like that. Where this one was just a building just sitting there that really is not even operational. You know, I think until we can get a plan together, I think, you know, it's just something we need to work on.

Hey, we have a person in the room that has deep ties to OFER. And I'll bet Scott Digglebeck has great ideas how to open that up, Scott, don't we? Scott did a lot of work up there in OFER, too. But anyhow, thanks.

We're willing to talk to anybody and sit down with them. Good enough. Thanks, Chris.

And just acknowledge that. I recognize that you gave a lot of suggestions. You didn't just deny it. You said, hey, if you did this better or here's another avenue that you can go to, I appreciate that.

And that's what we're trying to do with most of them. There's some that were just too far out there that we didn't know how to really react. But that one is one we would like to see open because, just like you said, when we did the research, we came up with the same thing. It used to be the second most visited place in Tooele County, et cetera, et cetera. So it's a great place. It is great.

chairman can i make a comment on that one too so the historical funds were set aside for um they had to be done for ada improvements and so this actually didn't qualify because it didn't have ada improvements for this museum so it wasn't that we didn't want to provide them with funding it's that the stipulations were the ada improvements so

I don't know if it was all 100% ADA, but that's the majority of them were anyway, so.

Okay.

Okay, so the next one was the Wendover Airport. The requested amount was $16,589, and that was to repair a hangar door.

So this one I actually asked you guys to not grade because you guys had set aside funding for Tooele County Historical locations, the airport and the Benson Grist Mill, so they just didn't qualify as well.

Yeah, I think the biggest challenge was it was a maintenance issue more than a restoration or heritage preservation issue.

Okay, and the next one is Grantsville City. The requested amount was $20,000, and this was for a veterans memorial park. So we felt that, you know, With what they're looking to achieve and making it a memorial site, that's something I think that kind of needs to be looked at through Grantsville and maybe through the county.

Other funding, is that what you're saying?

Yes. It didn't qualify as a museum or that type of thing either. Place of destination.

And there is some good grants that we did list in there that would help them out as far as moving forward on that.

I think I would really encourage them to reapply next year and focus on the tourism side for us. Yes. I think we could get our heads around that a little bit better. This county is built on the backs of veterans, and there is a historical significance to that. But I'd like to see if they can play with that a little bit, whether it's matching money for other grants or whatever.

Absolutely. Okay, and the last one was the North Willa Fire Protection District. The requested amount was $476,000, and that was to purchase an emergency response vehicle. So that one didn't fall out of that. A CAPITAL OR PORT OF THEM. SO THEY DID HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF EXPLANATION IN THEIR APPLICATION. IT WAS MORE OF WHEN WE HAD LARGE EVENTS, THEY WOULD HAVE A MORE QUICK VEHICLE TO RESPOND A LITTLE BIT FASTER. BUT I JUST THINK THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT THING WHEN IT COMES TO PURCHASING THE VEHICLE. BUT WE DID LIST SOMETHING THEY CAN LOOK INTO THAT MAY BE HELPING.

I saw that you put down a lot of sites and grants that they can go to. Thank you.

Okay. I don't want to take up too much time, so we'll hurry and go through these. So these should be in the same order of what I submitted over to Megan, so hopefully we can follow along here. So these are the orders that I'm going to present are the orders that they fell in as far as with the scoring. So where we scored them. So starting with the very first one to be the highest score and all the way down. So the first one that we did recommend, so this is the Tooele Pioneer Museum. Requested amount was $676. It was very, very thorough, had really a lot of information, so that one was really a no-brainer for that.

Congratulations to them for being that way.

They were extremely thorough. Their information was stellar. The next one is NASA, the Utah Region LLC. Their requested amount was $15,500. uh they was very thorough on their application did show a very strong local partnership of hotels and restaurants they had a really good use of the twillow county brand and was also able to research some of their uh their past that they have submitted for reimbursement so the committee did recommend that the full amount of fifteen thousand five hundred

There are races out at the old UMC.

What's that?

Where's that race held at? Yes.

Mr. Chairman, may I make a comment? We're going to go through another one on UMC, and the change in ownership has allowed us to look at this through a different lens than we have in the past. In the past, it was a very difficult lens because of the partnership with a foreign adversary, and so we are grateful that it has been purchased, that we look forward to the anticipatory changes that will be coming, and hopefully it will maximize the potential it was built for. Okay.

THE NEXT ONE IS THE TWILA DOWNTOWN ALLIANCE. SO THE REQUESTED AMOUNT WAS 5,000. YOU KNOW, THIS IS A TOTAL OF SIX EVENTS. SO WE JUST, YOU KNOW, 5,000 IS A VERY SMALL AMOUNT FOR SIX EVENTS BEING HELD. WE JUST LIKE TO SEE THEM, YOU KNOW, TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME TRACKING NUMBERS, STUFF LIKE THAT. SO WE WOULD RECOMMEND THAT ONE. So the next one, the Benton Spur Rodeo, the requested amount was $25,000. The board did recommend the full amount of $25,000. So I know over the last couple years, the Benton Spur Rodeo has made a dramatic change, and that's as far as with their board members and stuff like that, and it's a whole new group of people. They really have looked at the rodeo from a whole different angle as far as what they can do for more improvement and stuff like that. From what I've seen last year as being an attendee there versus what I've seen in the past, last year was probably one of the better rodeos that they've had. I think they're going in the right direction. I know going into this year, they are looking at adding a two-night concert with the rodeo as well. That's just another way of boosting their stuff. The next one, upper echelon cycling. This is that wild horse gravel race. The requested amount was $5,000. The board did recommend the full amount of $5,000. So we was able to go back, look at their numbers from their last previous races that they've had, and they've had some great numbers. So we went ahead and recommended the full amount. So this leads us to UNC, LLC, the Utah Motorsports Campus.

You skipped the Arts Festival, at least on our record. That's coming up.

Oh, did I skip one?

At least if it's on the list that you've been going in, the order you've been going in.

Yeah, it's in there.

Maybe you have it in a different order.

OK. We'll keep you in the loop. So this one is a full arts festival. The requested amount was $5,000. So the board did recommend the full amount of $5,000. One thing that we would like to see and sit down and meet with them, and for as many years as the arts festival has been going on, they should by now have a way of being able to track track numbers as far as what they have as far as people visiting from out of town so that's something that they're willing to work on and they do kind of have some things in place but we'd like to get a little more clarification see if we can't help them out on that UMC, OP, LLC, the Utah Motor Sports Campus. So the amount requested was 200,000. This is one that went back and forth for quite a while with all board members. So we did recommend an amount of 100,000. So we figured with all the changes that's been going on down there, stuff like that, they are a big draw to the county with the races that they have. They did have a very solid plan laid out as far as all their advertisement, what they're doing, stuff like that.

Do you know how many events they have planned for this year?

I don't think that was submitted. I know they talked about bringing in more events and doing more, but as far as an actual number, I don't recall seeing a number of events.

So I'm wondering as part of this then, generally we don't front the money, we reimburse. I'm wondering as part of that if they could include in their report how many events were held, those sort of things, so we have a metric to judge it by going into next year. Okay.

The monster truck family tour. So the amount requested was 50,000. After all the research that we had done and looking at their numbers, the board did recommend an amount of 25,000. So they do seem to have a pretty big draw. They do have great partnerships with restaurants, hotels. They did give us numbers as far as on hotels and stuff like that, and it's pretty impressive. OK, so this one, the Western Music and Songwriter Series, the amount requested was $15,475. The board recommended an amount of $11,000. So this was kind of, and all the stuff that was submitted was kind of broken down into two different parts. One was the advertisement portion of it, which was only about 6,000. 5,000 of it was from a bid from O'Neill Productions. That's going to take 13 years of material that we have and take it into a studio and reform everything. So we'll have social media content that'll be used from here on out and also an audio that can be submitted to radio stations for commercials and stuff like that. It's just a really long process to break everything into two parts. But after meeting with them and if we get the production site done, That's something that we'll have for everyone. We'll never have to change it. It'll just be a formatted advertisement thing that we can use basically everywhere. That'll cut our advertisement pretty much down to nothing. Stansbury Service Agency, the Stansbury Park Golf Course, the amount requested was $15,000 and the board recommended the $15,000. So they did have some pretty good data as far as the use of their golf course and where they're going to be advertising and stuff like that. And based off of past year's applications, we felt that we would keep them right for what they requested. UH THE TWILA SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION SO THIS IS FOR THE THE ELEVATE DANCE SHOWCASE SO THE AMOUNT REQUESTED WAS 8000 UH THE BOARD RECOMMENDED 2500 So this was another applicant that was a little confused as far as the process and what's the stipulations as far as with the grant. They did have, half their funds were used for advertisement through the transcript and ads through the transcript and stuff like that which didn't follow the guidelines of the TRT grant. Uh, 20 total county parks and recreations. This is for the cool Valley museum and historical park. And this was for the improvement on the model train displays. The requested amount was 3000 and the board did recommend the 3000. Rush Valley Town, this is for the historic church museum, and this was for brick and masonry repairs. So they did have bids and stuff like that as far as what was going to take place. The requested amount was $60,000. But go on with the building and under the guidelines, the board. It recommend an amount of 50,000 and that's another 1 we'd like to reach out to and kind of see what their long term goals are. And their plans and stuff like that, because I really don't know how much that's really getting used. Daughters of the Utah Pioneers amount requested was 7,431. This was to improve the handicap parking. So the board did recommend the full amount of 7,431. The upper echelon cycling the salty lizard gravel race Requested amount was 5,000 and the board did recommend 5,000 just like their other race They had some really good numbers and stuff to kind of back up with what they was doing. I like the name salty lizard Okay, the city of Wendover So this was So this was for the races out there on the salt flats.

So this one was a really confusing one. And I had placed a couple of different phone calls, some emails back and forth. And I think there's a huge misunderstanding in what the program is about, how it operates, how it functions, the whole thing. And there was a lot of back and forth. I talked to a girl. that literally sounded like she was a teenager. And she went back to the council and got some information. I actually typed up the whole process as simply as I could to try to make it as understandable and clean. And then the answers that came back just simply didn't fit what I was asking for or what the committee was asking for. So it was really... A tough situation, because the person that I was talking to I don't think is the city council. I think it's an office clerk. And like I said, it sounded like a teenager. So how do I say this? You're OK. OK. You guys know I don't really want to disparage anybody publicly.

I don't know if anyone in this room has ever been shy about saying anything.

At some point. Well, I don't need to do that. So the bottom line is there's a major misunderstanding, and I don't know if it's a communication issue. I tried to make it as simple as I could.

Well, along those lines, I'm kind of surprised because we've had this issue with them before, and it almost seems like they feel like they're entitled to it, but can't ever explain why. And we have, you recommend that we meet with them and stuff like that, and that's happened multiple times.

Yeah, and that's something that I wasn't aware of until I met with Megan.

But it seems like in the past, the things that they were wanting it for weren't necessarily eligible for the money due to these requirements. So are they meeting the requirements this year?

So they do not meet the requirements. So one of the things was is that we tried to spell out the requirements. And so in a very long debated process, the committee decided, why don't we say, what was the amount?

Yeah, so we recommended the amount of 15,000. But these are the guidelines, these are the stipulations. And either you're going to follow these, and these are the stuff that you're going to turn in for your reimbursement, or you don't get it. So now it's back in their hands if they can actually follow through. So that was.

I mean, you don't give the money up front anyway. So we kind of felt like. You're right. The conversation was just what you said. It was kind of an entitlement.

And we went back, and this was probably the hardest one that we worked on, to go back and forth of kind of, you know, see what are you going to do? Now you've got that number out there. These are the stipulations of what you've got to follow, and either you're going to go by the stipulations or you're not. And my belief is it's not going to happen. Okay.

Councilman Wardle.

First, they do contribute a lot to the TRT. They've got a lot of hotels, they have a lot of visitors. I think that overall, every government that I've ever worked with in 20 years has felt some entitlement to money that is generated. Now that doesn't take away from the misconception of how it's supposed to be used. And I think that this may be something tied This is your committee and it's Eric's area that you may want to sit down with whoever is running the city, the executive, and walk through it all and let them know, I think we want to promote them.

I believe that's been done multiple times, even with Bridger Bollinger. Since he made the changes to it. But I could be wrong. Didn't Bridger sit down with them as well?

I thought he did. I think that if we say, here are the requirements. And then if it comes back next year, we've erred on the side of trying to do as much as we can. No, I get that. It's an important community. It's a community that does bring in a lot of visitors. Sure. And I mean, some of the events that they hold, I'm looking at this going, advertising their hotels, we're talking $24,000. And I don't know what the ROI is, but I know that we haven't had the best relationship. And I think that that might be something. My recommendation as a council, that we talk government elected leaders to government elected leaders, policymaker to policymaker.

I was assigned this task to give Wendover the call, and so a couple calls. And anyway, I made the same offer to come out, sit down with them, to walk through the process, to do whatever I could, and they did not.

Well, I think we make it contingent upon that. How's that? I mean, we make the grant contingent upon first sitting down and walking through what the expectations are, And if they're not willing to do that, then all you can do is outline the process, outline the law. It is their obligation to want to do it in that manner. But I think I may run counter to everyone else in here. But I can tell you that $24,000 is a lot better than $15,000. And in a city with a budget that size, that's an important amount of money.

Yes.

And regardless, and I felt like I've had to do this a couple of times, you have to eat crow and you have to go and jump through the hoops. That's what we do with the federal government on many different issues. We do it with the state government on many different issues. It's just how it is. And if they don't want the money, they don't need the money.

Yeah. Well, I can tell you the committee definitely wanted to give them the money. They just wanted them to be able to understand the guidelines so that we were in compliance with what we're supposed to do.

And it may, you know, Ty, I think there's a way that we can have a discussion, but I think before the grant is awarded, that's got to be done with the city elected leaders.

So is this one we want to take off campus? I mean, You want to set this aside and have it longer?

No, I would amend the recommendation that we fund them fully with the stipulation that they have a sit down and understanding of what the agreements are, that they sign that. And that with that, this is the expectation. They don't want to sign it. I mean, good heavens, let's not create a ton of angst with it.

Are we deciding on these tonight?

I don't know. Are we? Yes. Then if we're deciding tonight, that wouldn't be my record.

I thought it was just discussion.

Now, hell, we can talk these things to death. Well, we have it down on the agenda as a discussion item.

Brittany said it didn't.

It's under discussion.

So it's only a discussion. There's not a vote tonight. Well, I don't think it can.

OK, let's move on with that one.

OK, yeah, we've only got a couple more here.

You've got as much time as you need. Yeah, much ties.

start showing up there okay so that one that's a whole different thing we can't make a motion in this meeting on these okay so this one is the clark historical farm uh So this, there was some information here that I kind of got left out. So they had this in two different things. They had the ADA sidewalks and they also had the display, the covered area. So I was able to reach out to Lori Hurst and get a little more information on that. She did submit the bids over for the concrete, which were two different bids. One was just for the ADA pathways, and the other one was for the pathways in stamped concrete, which I feel, if you want to go a little more Design as far as your concrete, that's kind of more back on you. And then for the display for their historic tractors. So the tractors that they have down there have been donated to the farm. The only thing is, is during the winter, all of them have to move out of there and put into something where they're covered so they're not out in the elements. They never did submit any kind of a bid or anything like that as far as what the cost would be on that. So we just awarded them. THE REQUESTED AMOUNT WAS 50,000. WE RECOMMENDED THE AMOUNT OF 34,460 TO COVER ALL THEIR ADA. OKAY. AND THE LAST ONE, WE HAVE THE HISTORICAL WENDOVER AIRFIELD. SO THE AMOUNT REQUESTED WAS 24,475. This was another one that really had a lot of good information. The board recommended an amount of $15,000.

So this is one that we also felt, since they're in Wendover, would be a good person to sit down with their city council and say, this is how it's done. Because they gave a stellar presentation compared to what we saw with the other.

And that could be it. Ty, maybe you ought to get those two in the same room. Thank you. Well, thank you, Tyler and Chris. Appreciate your work and long hours on that. It is certainly appreciated and the detail that you've given.

Are we bringing this back in two weeks?

We will. It's a discussion item.

No, it doesn't say discussion.

It does say it on the agenda. It does say that. Discussion item.

I think the only thing that I would add to a lot of the recommendations, I love the Explore Tooele County logo. I think if there are events that needs to be sponsored, that they have sponsors, it needs to say sponsored by Tooele County. And that needs to be on everything. The taxpayers need to know that they're sponsoring these things.

So we put that on, I think, on most recommendations.

Explore Tooele County was on, but I think if there's a sponsorship, For instance, Bitten Spurt is sponsored by Tooele County. Explore Tooele tells us what we want them to do to see the moniker. The money is coming from Tooele County. Okay.

And, Ty and Chris, thanks for your work on this. Yeah, thank you, guys. You can tell you deep.

Thank you Yeah, well we just felt as a committee in any events that we do have in Tooele County Even though they didn't fall under the guidelines of the grant We just felt it was important to show them a different direction Because if we can still make that then a success and help them out some way This was such a good process, thank you Thank you

That'll bring us down to contracts. Contracts, Brittany Lopez on the tourism marketing services.

Good evening, Council. I wanted to add something to that last tourism presentation. We have a company called Placer that we've paid a subscription with the other cities that belong to the CEO board. that for all of these events, we could also do a geofence around the fence to collect that information ourselves to know the out-of-county area codes that are coming too.

It would be wonderful.

And I know that Tyson, who's on the Downtown Alliance, would know that, so he would know to request that, but we could also put that stipulation on some of those events. So just wanted to make that clear. And then now I'll get back to the agenda. Sorry for derailing your meeting. Thank you. Council, tonight I come to you with a contract approval for a company that we put out an RFP for. This goes along with our co-op grant that we receive from the Office of Tourism. Chris McCormick, myself, and Ryan England from Better Cities graded and then interviewed these companies. And we are just asking for approval for this company to come in and do marketing and advertising for Tooele County and expand our Explore Tooele brand. And we can come back to you with a list of what they will be doing as they start working on it once you approve the contract.

Okay. Any questions or comments on that? No? Chair, entertain a motion.

So moved.

A motion from Councilman Hoffman. Is there a second?

Second.

Second, Councilman Thomas. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All those who may oppose say nay. Noted that Councilman Wardle is absent on that vote. That will bring down the contract for health record system. Peter?

Good evening, Council. By way of introduction, my name is Peter Clegg. I'm the Director of Human Services. Tonight, I am bringing your attention to a contract between Tooele County and a contractor by the name of Qualifax. This last month, we went through an RFP process where we had six different proposals that were very compelling. We landed, after review, my office To, I guess, a little bit more context with it, this is, the scope of work was for an electronic health record. Kind of bringing us back to our budget discussions last year, we're in We had discussed and I shared a little bit about how we were doing a lot of encounters manually and trying to track those types of the services that are being provided within our provider network and things were just kind of getting lost in the weeds and this was going to help us kind of streamline things and digitize everything as well. What was very exciting about this particular proposal was that it would allow our provider network to continue to use their existing electronic health record and that it would use an API, don't ask me what that acronym stands for, but basically that all of the EHRs would share a language and be able to share that information interchangeably. And so that would reduce their burden as well as make it so that we can consolidate all the data and be able to get what we need out of it for the billing and processing as well as the data management with the state of Utah. um this this contract the way that it's set up is a five-year it's a multi-year agreements for five years this first year which would start um given your approval would be a little bit heavier just because it's it takes quite a bit to kind of get things up and running the year one is 59 850 dollars with the years two through five averaging in about 38,000 per year. AS DISCUSSED IN THE BUDGET PRESENTATION LAST FALL, THAT DOING THIS AND BRINGING MORE OF THE OVERSIGHT OF THESE SERVICES IN-HOUSE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT WOULD BE ACTUALLY A COST SAVINGS BECAUSE WE'VE HAD TO FARM A LOT OF THIS TO OUR MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATION. SO AT THIS TIME WE'RE JUST REQUESTING YOUR SUPPORT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS CONTRACT.

Is there any other questions or comments from the council? And so this would be, as you put this, enter this information in the records, this is throughout the state, they'll be able to pull from it?

That we would be collecting encounter data from our local providers that are within our network, and we'll be consolidating that and cleaning things up, making sure it checks all the boxes, and then being able to transfer that up to the state to fulfill those requirements.

I really appreciate this. I think it helps us become more precise and effective in how we are doing services.

It would be very insightful. And being able to keep the data in-house for us to be able to see what's working and what's not and be able to make data-informed decisions would be very beneficial.

If not, any other discussion, Chair, to entertain a motion?

So moved.

I hear a motion from Councilman Thomas. Is there a second? Second. And a second from Councilman Wardle. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All those in favor say nay. Thank you. Thank you. And we'll bring up line item for solid waste. Am I right? Yeah. Okay. Go ahead.

All right, Council. We have one line item transfer for you tonight. This is, we were hoping that we could get a grant for a scale house out at the solid waste department, but unfortunately that grant didn't come through. And so we need to adjust the budget to account for that. And so I just have the one line I have an adjustment for you tonight.

May I ask a question on that? So if we're pulling it out of the fund balance, how will it affect the fund balance?

It'll reduce the fund balance by the 1.3 million.

And what is our total? Do we know?

I'm not sure I can get that information to you.

If you'll just text, email it sometime, that would be grateful.

Thank you. Thank you. Is there any other questions or comments on this? Chair, do you entertain a motion?

I make a motion that we make the line item transfer.

Okay. Hearing a motion from Councilman Wardle, is there a second?

Second.

Second from Councilman Thomas. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All those who may oppose, say nay. Adopted. That will bring us to the resolution 2026-11.

Just one quick item, I guess. When we did our budget, we anticipate their fund balance this year would be about $5.8 million. And so it would be around that. We're doing the audit right now, so we'll have more precise numbers. But that's what we'll be taking from that amount. Thank you. Very comfortable. Thank you.

All right, council. We have several budget adjustments for you. The first one that we have is from the attorney's office. We had to hire a bankruptcy attorney for the US MAG situation. So we have an adjustment for that for $50,000. The attorney's office will also be getting a law intern. That one will be for $10,000. The next one that we have, we have to pay our election workers by W2 instead of 1099. So there'll be some increased costs associated with that. So that one is for $6,000. The sheriff's office is requesting an increase for $4,600 for some new video cameras, a new video camera system. The next one that we have is we had some damage to the south rim fire station garage door and we received some insurance proceeds. And so we just need your authorization to be able to move. use those insurance proceeds to fix the door. So that'll be 3930. Is that just a pass through? Yeah, pretty much. Yeah. Usually there's not any problem with you guys allowing us to use insurance proceeds, but we have to come before you to make sure that we thank you. Um, uh, the next one that we have for you is, um, uh, uh, grant for the weeds, the weed board. Um, this is a state grant that they have.

I love.

It's one of the most important board. It is. I just want you to know, this is one that the chairman takes very seriously.

Yes, very important board. The next one they have is a series of adjustments from the health department. This will be for some painting and carpeting that they have, that their board's approved, as well as some remodeling. In addition, it'll be for a PIO officer and some adjustments for their financial coordinator. We have... Also an exciting announcement we have received our fire truck out at the South South Rim fire station I'm not sure Bucky drove it here tonight, but we do need to pay for that fire truck. You're not giving rides I Can vouch that is a very nice fire truck, but we do need to pay for that fire truck And we have set aside funds, but we just need to get them into the right account to keep for that and so that is five hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and twenty five dollars And then the last one that we have is out at the window for airport. They'll be doing some repairs out there in the amount of $24,630. Thank you.

I just have a question about the health department one where it's $400,000 for paint and carpeting. That seems like an awful lot for paint and carpeting. Was there bids that went out on that? Maybe I'm wrong. Is that just what it is now?

Grant is here and can speak to that.

Grant Solano, public health director. So $385,000 of that is for painting and carpeting throughout the health department, and that was based on vids through facilities. So $15,000 is for remodeling one reception desk in environmental health to match a couple others that were updated.

Is that for a desk or for a remodel then?

That's for front reception desk area. So it's the same thing we did previously in our nursing area and in our WIC area.

So this building's 20-some-odd years old, if I recall.

Part is older and then part is newer.

And so, I mean, as part of standard O&M, there comes a time where you just have to do this. The other portion, Grant, why we have you up here, I know we're going to pull a lot of this out of the, at least Eric told me, that we're pulling a lot of this out of fund balance. That's right. The ongoing cost for the PIO and that in the future, are you building that into your future budgets?

We are. And this is based on just growth that we're seeing and our need to be responsive to the public. Things like measles, it's really taking up our staff's time. So appreciate that question.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other questions or comments? No? Okay. Chair, do we entertain a motion to open up public hearing? So moved. Okay, a motion to open up public hearing from Councilman Hoffman. Is there a second? Second. Second from Councilman Thomas. All those in favor of opening up public hearing on Resolution 2026-11 say aye.

Aye.

All those who may oppose say nay. Public hearing is now open. Is there anybody in the audience that would like to speak to resolution 2026-11? That was articulated from our auditor, McCoy, by a raise of hands. Seeing none. I'll make a motion to close public hearing. Hearing a motion to close public hearing, Councilman Hoffman, is there a second? Second. Hearing a second from Councilman Wardle. All those in favor of closing public hearing on resolution 2026-11? Say aye.

Aye.

All those that may oppose, say nay. That's adopted. Public hearing is now closed. Chair, entertain a motion for Resolution 2026-11. Move to approve. Hearing a motion from Councilman Thomas to approve Resolution 2026-11. Is there a second? Second. Hearing a second from Councilman Wardle. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye. Aye.

All those that may oppose, say nay. That is adopted. Thank you. We'll come down to Resolution 2026-12, adopting the Tooele County Safety Streets for All Action Plans.

Thank you, Chairman and Council Members. I'd like to introduce our consultant, Dallas Wall with WCG. We received a grant to complete a Safe Streets for All plan. We put out an RFP and WCG was awarded that contract. They have completed the plan. This is to help make our roads safer. And our goal is zero fatalities, of course. So the plan has some suggested mitigation activities that we could complete. Did it work? Or does Brittany have it up? Awesome. Anyway, so they are going to go through the plan with you. This resolution, we're asking for you to adopt the plan.

that we can start working on implementation of the suggested safety features thank you thank you thank you just state your name and where you're from please yes my name is dallas wall i'm i'm the project manager for the safety action plan i work for a company called wcg and it's a full service engineering firm headquartered here in utah One of our specialties is transportation safety. So also with me tonight is Scott Johnson. He's our Tooele County expert. For the last 14 years, we've worked as an advisory consultant for UDOT and traffic in the Traffic and Safety Division. We've also consulted for several other municipalities on traffic and transportation safety. So the Tooele County Safety Action Plan is an extension of the Wasatch Regional Council's Safety Action Plan. The structure of the report and the information is strictly based on the request for proposal during the advertising stage from the county. The project was to take 12 months and the purpose of the report is to provide opportunities for infrastructure improvements through implementation grants in the Safe Streets for All program. The report was done in time and is about 70% of the proposed amount. The RFP outlined the elements of the safety action plan components including the following. Your review and acceptance is key to the part of the leadership commitment goal setting action item. Besides coordination with local representatives, the plan focuses on identifying the key crash types and locations for improvements and public meetings and provided a countywide survey which was used to gather information from over 500 citizens. We received current county policies and recommended processes that might lead to more consistent approach to safety and transportation. And finally, we provided training to county representatives to conduct safety analysis through UDOT's online portal safety, AASHTO SafetyWare. The plan starts out reiterating the goals of the county. These goals are the same for the Tooele County Transportation Plan and the WFRC Safety Action Plan. And it also adds in a commitment for applying the safe system approach. So the safe system approach is the roadway safety strategy used by the federal government and it's built on six core values. The first idea is that death and serious injuries are unacceptable. to recognize that humans make mistakes and humans are vulnerable and the responsibility is shared by everyone for the public safety. This safety is a proactive approach and that redundancy in safety is crucial. So in our analysis we noted that on average over the last five years between 2020 and 2024 roughly every six days someone in Tooele County either either has a crash that involves a death or a life altering injury. Societal crash cost estimates from 2020 to 2024 are $2.1 billion to the county. 63% of that happened on state managed facilities and 37% on local managed facilities. The RFP outlined the methodologies that the county wanted to use to identify crash locations for mitigation. First, we used crash trees to identify crash types that should be targeted. Then each jurisdiction was provided a one-page summary of the severe crashes in their area. Five-year crash rates for both roadways and intersections were used to identify facilities with high crash frequency. The United States Roadway Assessment Program was used to help target crash types of interest and high risk roadways. Finally, crashes per population was reported for each jurisdiction. Now those were the five that were required in the RFP. WCG added a sixth predictive modeling sensitivity analysis to help policy guidance. The findings were that Tooele County needs to focus on the following crash types. Roadway departure type crashes, left turns at intersections, active transportation crashes, and mid-block urban crashes. A heat map was made for each of these crash types to identify areas that might be investigated. I wanted to show this here. This is, I don't know if you can see it very well. This is the heat map for roadway departures on state routes to identify locations where mitigations might be implemented. And then we also did the same thing for federal aid routes, which are routes that are locally managed. The final report has 21, recommends or suggests, I should say, 21 locations that could have a project implemented to help improve the safety. Each one of those locations has a discussion of the observed crash history, the treatments that are recommended, the estimated cost, and the benefit cost ratio for each of the treatments. It also has in the footnotes links to UDOT studies if there are any applicable to those same roadways or intersections. A key element required by the FHWA is the underserved communities assessment of their traffic safety. There's one underserved community in Tooele County that extends west from the Stansbury Mountains to the state border. Roads in these communities often lack often lack maintenance prioritization, resulting in poor conditions of roadways. These roads would be a great place to look for implementation grants. Also, I'd like to point out, we did our survey, an online survey, and we got quite a bit of responses back, over 500 responses. And I just wanted to point out that the reason that I wanted to have a survey was I feel for you guys. Typically the only people that show up to a meeting like this is the people that are angry. And so that's normally what you hear. And what you don't normally hear is what the rest of the population thinks. And so I think these public surveys are important. 88% of persons in Tooele County have either witnessed a crash or been part of a crash. And 67% of those people attributed it to aggressive driving. Most people agreed that they would like to see more safety for active transportation users. Those are pedestrians and bicyclists and micro-mobility. Also, I found it interesting how much observation or how much concern there was with speeding. 95% of the people feel that other drivers speed. But when asked if they speed, only about half of them said they do. So maybe that's because we only attracted safety-minded people.

But not one will admit it to two people in this room.

I found it interesting that 83% of the people would tolerate some delay for improved safety. I think that's important because working with UDOT, I am constantly arguing with delay and minimizing delay. And I think it's important to know that the public would be okay to tolerate some delay in order to improve safety. Members of the steering committee were asked if we might review planning or policy documents that pertain to safety. Key points for each of these documents are provided in Appendix F. So we reviewed the Tooele County Transportation Plan, the Tooele County General Plan, the Tooele County Roads Policy, and the Lake Point Transportation Master Plan. Those were the only plans that were provided for us to review. And Scott did all those reviews and made all those comments, and the memos of his suggestions are found in the appendix. Finally, we conducted a training session with a few people from the county so that they could log in and access to crash records and help answer questions about what's the status of crashes in Tooele County, how things are changing and any other question that you have about crash data. So we would ask that you accept or that you would adopt this safety plan. There's no commitments with this plan other than bringing safety to the forefront and thinking about safety. What it does is it opens up opportunities for other funding options through implementation and demonstration grants from the federal government. There are also other funds that I'm aware of for transportation safety. One that's not used very often is the HSIP program. It's managed through the Utah Department of Transportation. Most people I talk to do not understand that the HSIP funds are available for any public road, not just state routes. But any public road can qualify for an HSIP fund. Now, they have to do that through the traffic and safety representative at the regions, but they can do that. Thank you for your time. If you have any questions, I'm more than happy to answer those.

Council, any other questions or comments to that?

I've got a question.

You mentioned... Yeah, speak into your mic. I thought it was getting loud enough.

Is this better? Dallas, thanks for your work on this. Dallas is a good guy. He was my neighbor in Overlake for a little while, about 25, 30 years ago. We moved in about a month apart from each other. And unfortunately, I had to tolerate him as a neighbor, or he had to tolerate me. It depends on your perspective. You mentioned life-altering events other than death. What is considered a life-altering event other than injuries? Did you guys consider?

That's what I meant. So they break down the... the injury levels into five levels. The first one is fatal. It was a fatal crash, someone died in it. The next one is a serious injury crash, which means they suffer an injury that will permanently change the way they can, like either their mobility or their regular lifestyles. Then there's minor injuries. And those are ones that you go to the doctor and you heat your stitches and you heal over time or you set your bones and they heal. And then there's the possible injury crashes. And those are crashes where injuries might have occurred, but they're not really going to the hospital, but they feel sore or bruised. And then finally, there's what they call the property damage only crashes, which are just where the vehicles are damaged.

So it's not like something where a business could be put out of business because of an accident that's their fault or something like that? That's not considered life altering?

No, that's not what I meant. What I meant was they either had a fatal crash or a serious injury crash.

Any other questions?

First of all, thank you. Scott, I've known you 20 plus years. He's a great dude. He had to put up with something. I think one of the things that's very interesting about this, though, is as we look at our transportation planning over the next 10 to 30 years, this becomes very critical for us when we're looking at Our connector routes within the county, those hotspots concern me. If you notice those hotspots, they are our flex points where we can, if something were to happen and then another event, it becomes very dangerous for us to be able to get out of the county. And so I think that that's very important. I also appreciate the recommendation on grants and where we need to look. So thank you very much for your efforts.

Thank you on that. Andy?

I have a question for Rochelle, but it's related to your presentation. So one of the slides you had up there was on Mormon trial, if you can pull up that one. And the reason I bring this up is because we received grant funding to make some improvements there, and I want to make sure with the recommendations, that's what we're getting to UDOT, to make sure they're including in those recommendations.

We just had it.

That one says Mormon Trail Road. We have a $5 million grant. We put in about $2 million more to make some improvements there. So I want to make sure when we work with UDOT as they design the improvements that they're including in these types of items as well so we take care of it all at one time.

Yes, we will get this copy of this plan.

That's just a timeliness issue since I think they'll be doing that next year. Yeah, OK. Absolutely. Thank you.

This would be a very good candidate for the HSIP program. Because you have a good history of severe crashes, meaning fails and serious injuries. And they're all roadway departure, right? So I'm sure you guys are getting funds to either widen the shoulders or do whatever in the pavement. In that same time, there should be rump strips and paint and everything else in there. Go after them.

Yeah, absolutely. Thank you.

I wanted to show you something here that, let's see if I can find it really quick. I talked about a predictive analysis approach We created a table, and the report is really long. It's 226 pages or something. The actual report is 65 pages. And I would strongly recommend that anyone's interested to read those 65 pages and write on it things that make you mad, things that you think are funny, things you think are dumb. But read it. It's 65 pages. In that, there's an extensive table in there. And what we did was we went through and most safety approach that's done is done based on crash history. So they see a crash happen, someone dies, everyone panics, they run and they fix the problem. And what they want to get away from, they kind of want to get away from this idea of chasing fatalities. And what they want to do is start addressing crash risk. And what this table does is it says, okay, so if I'm looking at this table and I read for roadway departure or cross-medium crashes, these are crashes where the vehicle's going off to the right or going through the center line, off to the left, okay? And here are some different countermeasures that are proven safety countermeasures by the FHWA, okay? Enhanced delineation of horizontal curves. We went through here and we said, okay, on a rural two-lane road in Tooele County, if we assume that these enhanced delineation, that's enhanced markings and enhanced signing around that horizontal curve, if we can install those for $3,000 a curve or spend as much as $10,000 a curve, so we have a low and a high estimate of what it's gonna cost in there, that means that we can justify spending that from a predictive analysis. That means based on crash risk and the chances of a crash occurring, we can do that on roadways that are as low as 500 vehicles per day. And if it's $10,000, then it's 1,500 vehicles per day. So that gives an engineer that's working for the county the idea of like, well, how many vehicles are on this road? Okay, if there's that many vehicles on the road, I don't care whether a crash happened there or not. This improvement is justified, okay? You don't see this very often, and so I wanted to point it out because what it does is it gives you huge versatility when you're making your applications. Because you can go through and you can say, we want to do this, this, and this, and our safety action plan pointed out that these are the limits. Therefore, these are what we want money for. Okay? Anyway, those were just some ideas I wanted to add.

So did you guys identify specific curves on specific roads then where this may be applicable? No.

But you could. All you need is an AADT map in ArcGIS and just say, give me all the roads with horizontal curves that have over 3,000 vehicles on them. Or excuse me, over 500 vehicles on them. And it selects those. And so you can easily see those. I can't remember. Is it that the road goes from Stockton out to out west?

Out to Mormon Trail?

The Mormon Trail goes south.

Yeah, but that's Silver Avenue.

Oh, Silver Avenue. So like in Silver Avenue, you're like, well, how many vehicles are on Silver Avenue? You get that, and you're like, oh, well, if there's over 500, and we can do these delineations for less than $3,000 a curve, this curve, this curve, this curve, this curve, this curve, is where we can do those. So that was what we were trying to point out in the plan. We used all the identification locations and we came up with those 21 locations, but then we added this table at the end to try to help guide your road policy design and when and where you want to make improvements. And again, these are all recommendations. There's nothing obligated on these. It's just information. So this is, what I mean by that is this is when the benefit cost ratio gets above one, is at these limits. Okay? So I mean centerline rumble strip. If you can put centerline rumble strip in for less than two bucks, or a buck a foot, then any roadway that has 120 vehicles or more on it should have centerline rumble strip. Now, we haven't talked about pavement densities and everything else, but that's the idea.

Any other questions or comments on that?

I'll just state this. We did have a citizen concern. We have a hotline that people can submit that to. And this is one of the more unique ones because his recommendation was in an ideal world, all the wrecks would happen in one spot or two. And then he had something very unique, which I've never seen and I don't know what it looks like, of how we could solve that problem. But unfortunately, that's not the world we live in.

Yeah.

It was an anonymous thing, so I'm not sure how we respond, but it was creative.

I'd like to show this. I showed this to the . Yeah, there you go. Crashes are rare and random events. So this is the fatal and serious injury crashes starting in 2010 in Tooele County. So the idea is each year you can see that for the most part, they're rare and random events. You don't know where they're going to occur, right? Now, there is some problems. You might make an argument down on Berta Way and SR 36, but other than that, they're rare and random events as far as severe crashes happen.

So one of the news organizations today, I'm just trying to find it real quick, listed RI80. going out to Wendover is one of the top six most dangerous roads in the state.

Yeah, so what's weird about I-80, I hope I'm not taking all the time. What's weird about I-80 is from an engineering standpoint, engineers look at it and they're like, wow, we've got clear zone forever. cars were leaving the roadway and then overturning in areas that they were like, they shouldn't have overturned here. UDOT, over the last 10 years, has invested millions of dollars on cable barrier, both in the median and the side shoulders. And you guys have probably seen it out there, and it probably drives you nuts. And the biggest complaint is they have to fix it. So their maintenance costs went through the roof. And the maintenance shit is like, the worst part is people hit it, and then they drive away. Right? And that's bad for them. But from a safety standpoint, if someone can drive away, then we've won, right? We did something, we saved something. That person didn't get injured. They were able to drive away. Anyway, yeah, I tend to talk too much, but I really love this kind of work, and I think it's important in Tooele County especially.

Oh, we appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. If there's no other questions or comments, Chair, I'd entertain a motion.

So moved.

I'd entertain a motion from Councilman Hoffman. Is there a second? I'll second it. Is there a second from Councilman Wardle? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All those who may oppose, say nay. That is adopted. That will bring Ordinance 2026-04. rezone of 1,329.33 acres of land. Thank you. Lee. How was your last name pronounced?

Thank you.

It's a tough one.

I'll probably screw it up.

Oh, my. So sorry. Please bear with me. Thank you, Councilman. My name is Millie Pioquinto. I am the planning staff under the Department of Community Development. And I bring upon you tonight a rezone that was formerly known as Rezone 2026-016. But for tonight, it is evidence 2026-04. The applicant, Chris Thompson, along with other property owners, are requesting this rezone for their properties from an MU40 to an A5. And it's a total of 23 parcels. So... The site is primarily situated along the west side of Utah State Route 36. The area is also commonly referred to as Rush Lake, and it contains a series of wetlands associated with natural drainage patterns within the site. Surrounding districts for this area include other MU40 zones, manufacturing distribution districts to the west, along with the Rush Valley municipality boundary. There's also MG Manufacturing General to the east. We have a few spots that are rural residential 5 acre minimum and rural residential 10 acre minimum and then also we have agricultural 20 acre minimum as well. The proposed rezone is consistent with Tooele County General Plan Update 2022. Additionally, Tooele County Ordinance 2025-13 amended the general land use map to reclassify 23 parcels from open space to agricultural so this area was originally before this ordinance was reserved as open space but we had the we had the property owners come to you to get that changed to agriculture And that was approved in September, September 2nd of 2025. So when this reason was brought to our office, a lot of the issues and concerns was that most of these parcels have been broken off into smaller parcels by meets and bounds. So this has made them unbuildable lots. So whenever a property is unbuildable, broken off without going through the proper subdivision process, this makes them unbuildable and we cannot authorize any permits until they do the correction and the only correction to rectify the break off or the process of meets and bounds is through subdivision. So it's not necessarily breaking them off into smaller parcels, but just rectifying that process and that's through subdivision. The neighborhood response was not too alarming or negative. There was a property owner that is not included in this rezone that just had questions on property taxes. There was another public member who had concerns whether these were legal non-conforming. And we also had... two of the property owners kind of provide more clarification as to why they were seeking this rezone. And so I come before you tonight to, oh, so the conclusion from the Planning Commission was to grant a favorable recommendation to the Tooele County Council for this rezone. And it was a roll call vote with all of them. Voting yes, and so tonight we come before you to consider the reason application.

Thank you for that. Is there any questions? Just start off with that. Is there any questions or comments on this?

Go ahead.

Yeah, I've got a few.

Okay, Councilman Wardle.

First, I appreciated the packet info. It was very helpful. The traffic study started to really help me to see what the impact would be. And my questions on rezones from this time forward are going to center on usually four or five issues. And I don't think you'll have the answers tonight, by the way. But they're questions I think we need to answer. Moving this to 265 lots, which is what the traffic study indicated this would be moved to. moving it to the A5. It talked a lot about subdivision, and it talked a lot about possible building lots. And my questions revolve around how do we put 285 wells in that area? How do we do 285 septic tanks, and what will their impact be on the groundwater and the other areas surrounding them where we already have several wells um i i don't know if i can get those answers tonight and i think that those need to be answered i i think the other question that really came down and you're going to hear us talk about this for a while now is power do we have the ability to generate 285 homes of power with power into that area and i think that these are questions that can be answered i just think they need to be answered The last one was a statement made by one of the engineering firms on the geotechnical side. They said that the federal government has recognized it as a floodplain, but they don't know how significant it is. My question is, if we put 285 homes in this area, and we have a series of winters like we experienced in 81 through 86, what happens to the homes? And has modeling been done on that situation? I know that when I was with Tooele City, this isn't your question and answer, I think it's the applicant's. But when I was with Tooele City, we did a worst case scenario on the 2000 and, what was it, five flood or rain event that dumped five inches, and what that would do to the dam, what it did to other areas. I am concerned about that event, and so Why I see this has many benefits, and I do in truing up a lot of property lines and looking at how this looks. Once we rezone this, we're going to have to look at it for the next 30 years out. And I'm not against the rezone, but I don't have enough information. I am going to say this. It allows for solar fields. I know that they're out trying to buy up a bunch of land right now. I'm not a big proponent of solar in this area, not gonna lie. And so that is one concern that I have with the Rezon and the table. Windmills are allowed under the other, I'm not a big fan of windmills, but the solar is not proving as a technology that has long-term sustainability and viability within different, so those are my comments tonight. millie these aren't for you to solve um and i've been in sick for five days and so i would have gotten many of these to you earlier uh but i i i'm going to put that on the record if we're voting tonight i don't know if i can vote for it if we we can go back and get more answers i'm more than willing to look at that but tonight i would vote a no on the reason without answers to those questions thank you councilman uh world chair recognized councilman thomas

Scott, I appreciate that, your comments, and very, very valid. I have another issue that I have a problem with is developers coming in and not meeting and following our guidelines for planning and zoning, for subdividing. They do meet some bounds, causing problems for the people who purchase them. And so with Councilman Wardle's suggestions and Somehow we got to get a handle on developers who just come in and sell off ground without doing it the proper way. So tonight, I'm going to make the motion to table this rezone and ask staff to review the existing development properties and determine the minimum acreage that is needed to make these properties come in these parcels to conform. So that's my motion. And to answer the questions that... And to answer the issues that Councilman Wardle...

There's a motion on the table. Is there a second to that motion?

I'll second it.

Hearing a motion from Councilman Thomas and a second from Councilman Wardle. All those in favor of tabling it until some of the questions that were raised that can be resolved. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

ALL THOSE THAT MAY OPPOSE SAY NAY. THAT IS ADOPTED.

CAN I GET UP AND SPEAK? I'M ONE OF THE APPLICANTS HERE. EVERYTHING YOU GUYS ARE SAYING HAS BEEN DISCUSSED MULTIPLE, MULTIPLE TIMES.

THANK YOU. WILL YOU BRING IT TO THE STAFF?

I HAVE FOR THREE YEARS. OKAY. SO, AND, YEAH, THIS IS GETTING WAY OLD.

OKAY. THANK YOU. THIS WILL BRING UP RESOLUTION 2026-13, amending the... Thank you very much. Resolution 2026-13, amending the Tooele County fee schedule. Nathan?

Good evening, Council. Nathan Harris with the Tooele County Attorney's Office. Um, This one's an easy one. The fee schedule, we amend it when we change our fees or when we need to change our fees. And so this one is, changing some fees for the solid waste department. They had some additional items, miscellaneous items that needed to be updated. They needed to increase, put a fee in for computers and then they needed to amend their fee schedule for if they were selling wood that had come into the landfill. And then with the health departments, this one that is actually, it looks like there's a significant amount of changes, but as has already been mentioned, the, Health Department doesn't work for the county. It's a separate entity, but we do offer administrative services for them. And they've been amending their fee schedule over and over, and it is actually set by their board. And so what they have done is they have said, oh, hey, we probably want this all in one place. And we agree that it would be beneficial if people could find the health department fees. So it looks like there are significant changes, but these have been being amended. And so now moving forward, what we'll be doing is we will be taking their changes that their board approves and just implementing them immediately all into one place with our fees as well. So the health department is more for informational purposes, and then the solid waste did have those miscellaneous items that they needed to update.

Well, I thought this was a really good deal where they're only charging $25 annually for massages there.

bring that up with them there's a sign up online okay there you go i'm not interpreting that right wonderful any other additions okay any questions or comments council andy no okay chair to entertain a motion Resolution 2026-13, amending the Tooele County fee schedule. Move to approve. Second. Hear a motion from Councilman Thomas, second from Councilman Hoffman. All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

All those who may oppose say nay. That is adopted. I'll come down to boards. Those are on our website. If you have a desire or you know of somebody that would like to serve on a board, and encourage you to go there we still have some vacancies on some of the various boards that we have here in toila county with that we'll go to council updates uh ty would you like to start us off i'm just going to run through some of these um things real quick from uac down in st george that were touched on a lot of the bills and legislative updates house bill 79 it was one that they

Talked about I'm not gonna get into what they get for the sake of time We can go look at them if we need to House bill 38 147 House bill 450 Senate bill 275 House bill 449 484 485 House bill 56 House bill 231 I 236 and 91 and these are all ones that um uac got involved with and had for various reasons for their impacts on the county um house bill 507 and that's about it so i'm not going to get like as i get into the details on those um i'll give more of an update on wir next week but the only thing that Kind of that goes along with that that we need to be ready for according to that is How much FEMA is pulling back? Disasters and what they're saying and on June 8th, we've been invited by Bucky's group to go to the mark the multi At the junior high down in Stansbury that from 530 to 730. I think we all ought to try and be there but That's getting to be a bigger and bigger issue for municipalities. One thing is we are much more prepared, I think, than most counties because we have the EOC as well as we have a lot of other resources for emergency response. But I don't think... any of the cities are nearly as prepared as they need to be. And so we need to work on that and get that because federal funding and federal involvement is going to significantly and is significantly decreasing. So we need to be seriously ready for that. And I, we need to rethink the way we do a lot of things. It's all talk more about that. Um, in two weeks.

Okay.

Councilman Thomas.

Yeah. I'd like to give a big shout out to a sheriff's department. They had their awards banquet last week, I believe it was. Maybe that was last week. And the compliments to Brian and to Sheriff White and also Sheriff Wimmer. Recognition, praise, credit goes a long ways. And to tell the story and to meet the sweetness of what, our law enforcement emergency services do every day and it's part of their job and it changes lives. The other sweet spot of that was to meet their spouses and to be able to see and tell them thank you. Councilman Hamner was able to go that night. We had to divide, there was other activities going on and all the council went different ways. I'd like to tell you thank and recognize you for praising and rewarding the people of your department. And thank you for your leadership. Thank you very much. That's all. Thank you, Councilman Thomas.

Councilman Wardle?

We did divide and conquer that night. I was at the Tooele Technical College graduation. And what a remarkable event. There were 285 graduates recognized. There were over 500 who received degree completions this last year or certificate completions. That means that we placed 500 people in new jobs, categories with skills that not only help to make a livable wage, but as we consider the economic development needs for the future, realistically, that's a 10% number of the workforce we will need to develop. in two categories over the next 10 years. That's 10%. We'll need 500 or 5,000 welders possibly and that same amount of electricians and how fortunate we are to have a university area, a college area, and high school area that is developing skills and trades. And so I just wanted to report on that. The families, my favorite part of the whole ceremony beyond the student speakers, and I'm not bashing on the adults, Mayor Manziel gave a great speech, was to watch how proud kids were of their parents. and what tone it set for those families. To watch little kids and then to watch parents of adult kids, just it was an amazing impact that we don't see tangibly in many areas. And so I just want to report back on that.

Thank you. Let me just add a couple of things. And the sheriff's banquet was great. Thank you for doing that. I would just suggest you have a couple more jokes that you tell. But it was wonderful to recognize all the hard work. And there is one out there that I think the sheriff recognizes. Whenever there's a crime, and I won't detail that, but it takes a herculean effort to make sure that they get all the right information, call it evidence, that they go through and many, many hours of long paperwork and walks to make sure that those are done. and tireless nights that they have, right? So we appreciate that. A couple of other things you may remember last month that we had the governor come out to Tooele County. It was on television where he recognized Tooele County had been awarded the opportunity to bid for a nuclear lifecycle campus. Then we were invited down to Cedar City. Anybody know how far Cedar City is from here? Oh, no. Well, three hours if you're doing 100. Watch him.

Watch him.

It took a little longer than that, so we left here at 7 a.m. to go down there because they announced that there's a new smelter that's going to be opening up out there in Iron County. The reason why we were invited is because there's a mining company that has now purchased the rights to mine out of Gold Hill, and a lot of the things that they will be mining will be shipped down there to be clarified and molded into something that it will be used. And so they were a very close tie there. So we met with them, and again, The governor complimented Tooele County and all the people that he has met in efforts that have made forward with that. And then once again, the governor came out this last Monday and worked at Habitat of Humanity. Yes, over at the home. In fact, he made the comment, maybe I should share my calendar with his because we keep seeing each other. But it was great to have him come out and again, recognize Tooele County in what they're doing in this particular case, Tooele City. So it's fun to see all the efforts that everyone's making in their different categories to make your community better, and thereby making Tooele County better, making Utah better, and the United States. So there's an update with that. That will come to our manager update, Andy.

You've already taken a couple of mine, actually. But I'll just add to one of yours, the trip down to Cedar City with the tungsten and antimony, if you're from Australia, or antimony, if you're from America. But one of the things that I heard them say as well is that we look at critical minerals. I think Utah has the most of the list of critical minerals of any state in the Union. And so we're seeing an increased interest in mining those now because of you know, where we're at internationally. So I think that was just, I didn't know that, that Utah has all of those. And so we're glad to work with that company. I just was looking at their brochure, and I think they're getting all their permits. They're getting pretty close to where they'll be starting up, which is pretty exciting. I think in the next four or five months, they'll be up and running. The only other thing that I'll mention is, just as an update, we've been dealing with the state on tearing down the old jail. And so it's taken some time to combine all of the parcels I THINK WE HAD EIGHT-ISH PLUSHES AND WE HAD TO COMBINE THEM INTO TWO, ONE FOR THE STATE, ONE FOR OUR BUILDING, THEN I THINK THERE WAS A LITTLE SLIVER FOR THE ROAD. AND SO WE ANTICIPATE WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH OR TWO GETTING OUR FIRST CHECK FROM THE STATE ON THAT. AND SO I THINK IT WOULD BE A MILLION DOLLARS THIS YEAR AND THEN WE ANTICIPATE I THINK IT'S A MILLION AND A HALF I THINK IS WHAT IT IS NEXT YEAR. AND SO THEY JUST HAVE TO BUDGET FOR IT NEXT YEAR. SO THAT'S PRETTY EXCITING. AND SO THAT PROJECT IS GETTING UNDERWAY PRETTY SOON HERE. WE HAVE THAT OUT TO BID TO

get working on that so that's this we've been under construction internally and now we're doing the construction externally now so it's a lot of work but we appreciate your patience as we work through these problems and getting these things cleaned up so that's all i have thank you andy appreciate that our next item will require going into a closed session for pending litigation and so i will need a motion uh to suspend um public hearing go into a closed session So moved. Motion from Councilman Wardle. Is there a second? Second. Second from Councilman Thomas. And we'll take a roll call. Councilman Hoffman, how do you vote?

Aye.

Councilman Thomas, how do you vote? Yes. Councilman Hamner votes aye. Councilman Wardle, how do you vote?

Aye.

We are in a closed session. Thank you.