County Council - Regular Meeting

Recording in progress.

Welcome everyone. Thank you for coming. It's August 25th, 2026. It's noon, 12 o'clock. On the 25th, we are located in the building of the county, on the third floor, in the council room. We will proceed with the sermon of allegiance led by Rose. Please all rise. Thank you, Rose. For the nominal appeal, we have our county prosecutor here, Scott Broadhead. As far as the council is concerned, we have Councilor Thomas, Councilor Handler, Councilor Hoffman, Councilor Stroban, Councilor Stroberg. The councilor wanted to be excused. He gives lessons. For the county director, we have our director Andy Walsh here and the assistant of the director Lopez, who is from the office of the janitor. Thank you for being here, Scott. And each of you, thank you for being here. Let's now move on to the comments from the audience. Is there anyone in the audience who would like to make a comment by raising their hand?

No. I send four.

So we're going to limit this to a few minutes. Go ahead. Too many minutes. Two minutes. Go ahead. Do you want to indicate your name and where you come from? Make sure the viewer is green. Do you want to check that the viewer is green? You have to press the button over there. That's it.

Very good. Good afternoon, video advice. My name is Chase Randall. I'm from Tula City in Utah. I've been living here for six years now. I just wanted to come to this meeting to tell you that I fully support the construction of a data center here in the county of Tula. I know there's a lot of information circulating, it's pretty funny. There's always a subject of news that makes people angry, man. Whether it's the satanic panic in the 80s, then obviously the Covid, there always seems to be a big subject that scares. And I invite you all to carefully examine the facts, to check that as long as it is a closed circuit system, that they provide their own nuclear energy and that they reduce our electricity costs to 500 per kilowatt hour, by building a beautiful nuclear power plant, we will have this stable and good market electricity. There are many great advantages. If you look at the county of Loudoun in Virginia, which is the richest county in the country, this is also where there is the most data centers. It is literally just a big building full of computers. I therefore ask you instantly, as these questions are submitted to the Council of the County, to carefully examine the facts, not to give in to hysteria or misinformation and to think about it seriously. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Well, let's go. Hello, I have been here for about six years. First of all, I appreciate the parallel between the satanic, whatever it is. and the data center. They are all just as horrible. One thing I would like to highlight is the Resolution 2026-20 concerning the recognition of drought in the TIA county and the fact that it is a threat to health and human safety. I find it very ironic that you are ready to recognize this while wanting to move forward with Resolution 2026-8 to create this data center and all the other enabling ordinances. I find this really ironic and the logic does not seem coherent. But anyway, let's move on to the impact study on traffic. As you may remember, there was a discordant voice and the reason seemed to be that the gravel had not been sown to do the same thing. There was no audit of the impact study on gravel circulation. Compare here, you know, apples and chicken thighs. The impact of traffic coming from the data center, the campus or whatever else will be much more important than the one related to gravel. The logic was also to say that it would only cost 10 000 to 15 000 dollars at Rowell, instead of a complete audit of 100 000 dollars. If this project is realized and this audit is not carried out correctly, it will cost much more than 100 000 dollars. And I don't see how the way it was presented is a real concern for the public. This seems to be more in favour of the promoter. I therefore suggest that you reconsider the allocation of additional funds and ensure that the audit is properly carried out in order to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest or partiality. Moreover, if it is now the new meeting schedule, please inform everyone so that we can organize ourselves accordingly. I would be happy to release my time job every Wednesday when necessary. My name is Nathalie Mariam. I've been living here for 10 years. I wanted to say that this is not reasonable. It's difficult to ask people to come here during the working day. We can't hold these meetings when people are missing work. They must take place in the evening so that people can really attend. I have questions about this Resolution 2026-18 of the County of Tula. I don't like the way it was hidden in a list of very vague hypertext links instead of being clearly indicated at the end of the day. I have the impression that things are hidden and difficult to find. I wanted to make a remark while you were working on this chapter 34. We are waiting for you to do more research on water consumption. Closed circuit systems consume more water than open evaporation cooling systems if we take into account the increased energy needs So don't just look at the water consumption of the data center, but also at the need for electricity. Thank you. Hello, my name is Christine. I've lived here all my life. I currently live in Penn Canyon, as the Virginie mentioned. Yes, they have a lot of data centers, but do you know what they've just done? They have imposed restrictions to study the current environmental impacts due to this overload of data centers. So this is not a proven fact. Mr. Hoffman, you are afraid of being overtaken by the Cold War. China against America. Do you know that China has only 450 data centers? We have more than 5 zero-year data centers and I don't know how many others are planned.

There is therefore no race.

You should not listen to Google, you should listen to your voters. There are a multitude of problems here and we must make sure that all aspects are taken into account, from the environment to traffic, through the nearby communities. You must take the time to slow down and wait for all these studies to be carried out, rather than listen to the companies that tell you the opposite, as they should not have been at this meeting anyway.

Hey, that brings us to our... No, we had... I'm sorry. What is it? Did you forget me? I didn't see you raise your hand. You're the only one here.

She just arrived a little late.

Oh, okay. We'll listen to you.

I apologize for my delay. My name is Alita Boyce. I live in the county of Twila, on the mountain Herda. I would like to ask for a one-year moratorium on a data center in the county of Tuila. I know that this has been asked by several people during the public commentaries, but it has not been addressed by the planning committee. I realize that you are working on a plan. We all know that there is a plan. And as a member of the Urbanism Commission, to ask why not to set up a moratorium. They didn't know, and no one answered. No one explained why. They just said, oh, but we are planning a work out. What to plan? You work on chapter 34, did you say? Which is not really an answer. You can set up a moratorium on a data center today if you wish, unless you have decided not to include the public in your projects, because we don't want that. Why does a precise traffic study with 22 wells cost so much? Why... Sorry? The 22 wells are not included in the traffic study. And to them, it will double the traffic. But it will cost more if the traffic increases and the roads must be redone. It's more than double what Project P does. Will the study be saved? less expensive than road repairs, than refusing the project of the 22 wells or having to make adjustments later. Two advisors, M. Wardle and another person, mentioned the Vaux-Elder county during the last meeting. If the council works with the promoter of the data center as the Vaux-Elder county did, then maybe we should worry about it a little. If this is the case, if you do, excuse me, the advice, then you should probably expect a response similar to that of the county of Boxelder. A similar response from the residents of the county of Twila.

Thank you. Thank you. Very well, this brings us to the contract concerning the sale of the field of the Justice Palace.

Thank you, Mr. President. Nathan Harris from the County Prosecutor's Office. The contract you have in front of you today, we discussed it during the last meetings. We published the proposal for sale in the newspaper. We had a public comment last week. And so today is the day when you vote to know if you are going to sell it. With this sale of the field of the Palais de Justice to the State, do you have any questions? We have somehow deepened this.

Yes, we talked about it during the last two meetings, and that's where the calendar, the duration, had to be extended. Any other questions from the Council? Very good. So the President is waiting for a motion.

I propose.

A motion from Councilor Thomas. Is there a second? A second from Councilor Hoffman. All those in favour of the sale agreement of the field of the so-called KB for Hege. This seems unanimous. Are there any oppositions? Very good, it's adopted. Thank you, Nathan. Then, the sixth point, the councillor Wardle, after having discussed it with his family and given his new job of professional time, has asked to resign from his post of vice-president of the council. So we have accepted it, he simply wants to devote himself more to the needs of his family and to their future projects. That being said, the nominations for the vice-president's post are open. It is written here, nomination K, but I personally propose the candidacy of Eric Strömberg, not K. I know you laugh, but would you accept? This nomination, Eric, is...

I suppose at least I'm at a distance this time. Contrairement aux autres fois où vous m'avez impliqué.

Donc oui. Vous êtes là et vous nous entendez. C'est le cas. D'autres nominations ? Motion reçue pour Clore. Les nominations au poste de vice-président est nommé, Eric, par acclamation. Y a-t-il un second ? Un second du conseiller Hoffman. Tous ceux qui sont en faveur, dites Cabot. I'm glad you said that too, Eric. All those in favor. I make this unanimous. This seems unanimous. Moving on, I don't have any updates. Do you have updates? Do you have updates? Do you have updates? Okay. Eric, do you have updates?

No updates from me.

Very well, the President accepts a motion to raise the session. Adopted. A motion from the Councilor Hoffman. All those in favour, say why. For. The session is raised at 12h13.