City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome at 7:01 p.m. on Wednesday, March 18th, 2026. The Tilla City Council's meeting in a business meeting being held at Tilla City Hall Council Chambers located at 90 North Main Street in Tilla, Utah. We are also streaming this electronically on the Tilla City YouTube channel. Our first item today is an America 250 tribute and pledge of allegiance. This is presented by Twilla High School Junior Leadership Training Corpse. We'll turn the time over to them. Council Mayor, my name is Lieutenant Colonel Anderson. I am the JTC instructor for all four high schools. Uh my class basically is a military science elective class that the district has. Um my students can do it all four years. They can uh enlist in any branch of the military as an E2 or an E3. So that's a nice jump in pay and time in service. Um, I've had the opportunity to enlist some of them into the National Guard and the Marine Corps, the Navy, and so as an officer, I can do that. And uh, we're we're happy that we got asked to do this. Have the audience please rise. group left face. present.

Will the audience please repeat the pledge of allegiance after me? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Order arms. shoulder, arms flat about face. Flush goes forward march. The audience may be seated. Thank you. Thank you.

Once again, thank you so much for coming. We really appreciate that. We move on to our second item is a roll call. Councilman Gosset present. Councilwoman Goas present. Councilman Hansen present. Councilman McCall present. And Councilman Brady and I'm present.

We'll move on to item three. This is the public comment period. This is the time for the public to address the council. We ask that you keep your comments to 3 minutes or less. You state your name into the microphone and then there's a paper by Shiloh that you have to sign there. The 3 minutes is being timed. A message will pop up on the screen letting you know that your time's up and there will also be an audible alarm that you'll hear. After the audible alarm, you have about 5 seconds to finish your comments and then the mic will be shut off at that point. The time is now the public's seeing no one come forward, I will close the public comment period. We'll move on to item four is resolution 2026-15 a resolution of the Twilicity

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Oh, I'm sorry. We did have one. Yes, I completely forgot about that. So, I need to go back to the public comment period. We had an online public comment that I need to summarize real fast. So, we received this on March 4th, 2026 at 3:20 p.m. and it is saying they're writing to formally request a review of the current seasonal schedule for pickle ball net maintenance. Several neighbor they want the hours to be extended. We close the pickle ball courts in the winter. They say that every or several neighboring communities including Grantsville, Stanbury, and various locations in Salt Lake maintain their nets year round or for an extended season. They would like to suggest that the pickleball nets remain accessible even when restrooms are closed. They state that other local amenities such as the Twilla City Skate Park remain open for use during the winter months without requiring active restroom facilities. And then they also suggest that there's a significant demand for dedicated courts on the south end of town to better serve the growing population in that area. And it is from Tina and Jeff Simonich. All right. Okay. Now we're going to move on to item four, resolution 2026-15, a resolution of the Twilla City Council amending the Twilla City fee schedule regarding animal shelter fees and police department record fees. presented by Adrien Day, the police chief.

Thank you, council. This ordinance is requesting both fees as uh as you just stated. I'll start with animal control. We're starting a a small TNR program where we take the cats to them offsite, best friends in ORM. This is giving us access to a vet, which we we don't have access to. Our local ones are too busy. and it's giving us an avenue to sterilize and vaccinate dogs besides cats for for a much more affordable cost. So, we'd like to add a rabies vaccination fee. We haven't been able to um do a rabies vaccination before. We've been doing a deposit, which most people don't make good on that deposit, but this will allow us to go and and get get it done, make sure it's done. And this is required by state law for us to do before we adopt or let a let an animal back out to its owners. We have to do this or the deposit. We have a fee of $100. If somebody brings in a dog carcass for disposal, people are using this fee. I don't know why um they're paying a hundred for us to dispose of their dogs. We don't have one for cats. Uh so we were suggesting lowering the fee to 50 for dogs, cats, small animals. We have had dead rabbits turned into us recently. And bringing back the surrender fee of $100 for those living in Twilla City limits for dogs. Um we took away this fee. We were charging this and it was taken away because we weren't going to take um surrendered

dogs from owners, but there are some instances when we when we can when we're short on aggressive animals and if people are out of out of options of what to do, such as they've moved to a rental or or uh family matters have changed and we're able, we can take that dog. And we'd like to add a fee of $30 for cats that are surrendered as we work with best friends. And second is police records. These uh the first request is separating them from Twillis City fee records. Uh this is because police records are different than than regular records. uh here at city hall in sheer volume alone we had over 4,700 requests last year and I think city hall had in the hundreds

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close to 300. Um ours are more sensitive. Uh we do have to do redactions a lot more for private information mostly but there is protected and and uh controlled information also. receive uh expungements also from juvenile court, UC just the Utah criminal justice information system and uh other courts. The report management system isn't built for this. So that is extra time we have to do to expune records to make sure we we don't release them. And we usually most instances do not charge victims of crimes for their report when they come and request that. We give them to victims for free. I'm requesting the fee for the police or accident report to increase to $10 from five. If you can see exhibit B where I have five police agencies similar to our population just below and five above. I think this supports uh supports this fee increase. And I'm here for any questions you may have.

Any questions or comments? I I did have a question. Um when uh people bring in their animals um for that they're for disposal, how do we dispose of them? We have a uh ice box and we take a load to the dump when it gets full. Okay. So there's an animal location there. Okay. Thanks. We we take animals that aren't dogs or cats, though. Like you said, someone brought a rabbit. Yes. Okay. We're saying no livestock. Uh if it's small animal, we can accommodate. Yeah.

They've come out and they want to pay that surrender fee. It's more than the fee if they did it themselves. So for the rabbit though, do they pay the because I don't see anywhere that it says which fee they pay. They just pay the normal fee even though it's not specified that it's a different animal. That's that's a good question, a good point. I we would revert to the dog or cat depending on size, but we could separate that for other small animal. Matt, do you think we need to separate that or you should consider cat size?

The rabbits we accepted recently. We didn't charge. She had two rabbits. She was elderly and uh my animal shelter supervisor just took them. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the disposal fee is $50 no matter what animal, right? It's it's the dog and the cat that are correct. I was going to the surrender fee. Yeah, we it is $100 for dogs and uh we were lo it's all 50. So Okay. I guess we could just reward it on our fee schedule to small animal, not livestock. Yeah. And I I think the way um Chief you've presented it will work. It's animal carcass but no livestock. So, I I think that Okay. would cover it. Yeah.

Thank you. Okay. Any other questions, comments? Okay. I'll entertain a motion. Thank you. Motion. We need to clarify that part. I don't think so. Matt says it's written. We don't need to clarify anything, right? We can just That's right. As far as disposal, it's just all animal carcass is $50, but no livestock is accepted. Yeah. So, whether I was blending things there, I think. Yes, that's right. My fault. Okay, I'll entertain a motion.

Mr. Chair, I make a motion we approve resolution 2026-15, a resolution of the toilet city council amending the toilet city fee scheduled regarding animal shelter fees and police department record fees. Second. We have a motion from Councilman Hansen and a second from Councilman McCall. We'll take it to a vote. Councilman Gosset. Hi. Councilwoman Goches. Hi. Councilman Hansen. Hi. Councilman McCall. Hi. And Councilman Brady and I vote I. That passes 5-0.

Item five is ordinance 2026-05, an ordinance of Tilla City enacting a temporary land use regulation amending Tilla City Code section 7-26-3 regarding water rights exactions presented by Paul Hansen, the city engineer.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We had this discussion with the council a couple of weeks ago, but in a for the public and for those that may be joining with us both here and online, Tula City has been exacting water rights for all new development since August of 1998. So, we're almost 28 years into a policy. Over that time, development has increased and water resources are becoming a little more challenging to develop. We felt that it was appropriate in order to protect the city interests and ensure that the water rights that we receive have backing, that they're valid, that they have quality, quantity, and supply that we add some minor language to the ordinance. It does not change the amount of exaction. It doesn't change any of those requirements. It's simply to give the city some additional protection for our future use. Loretta helped me put, excuse me, helped me put that code up on on change and it will is right there. The yellow is the added language. Everything else is currently as currently in the code. It allows the city to evaluate the rights proposed for conveyance and in its discretion may refuse or modify or alter that. It also adds a condition that if it's a water right that's not associated with a developed or identifiable de uh developable water source, we would have this option to not accept it as well or to put other conditions on it and then also better condition to or better look at water source sufficiency and water quality. What we know and what you have heard before is that the state engineer has overappropriated water rights in the Twilla Valley, particularly the east side. There's still water to be developed. We're doing that right now. We're drilling a well down near Rogers Road. But as we look at developing future resources, we want to put the

city in the strongest position to make sure that the water rights we receive for development can continue to be used and supply the water that we'll need for the future for the intended use. That's the sole purpose. Again, it's not intended to be further punitive or restrictive, but just to make sure that the city and its residents interests are best protected. This would be a temporary land use ordinance, meaning that if you were to approve it tonight, we could begin implying it tomorrow. We don't have anything we're looking at applying tomorrow, but it's simply to protect us. And because it is a title 7, we would be taking it to planning commission for their consideration, then a recommendation back to the council for a code change. Any questions you have for me?

Any questions or comments? Okay, I will entertain a motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion to approve ordinance 2026-05, an ordinance of Tula City enacting a temporary land use regulation amending Tula City Code section 7-26-3 regarding water rights exactions. Second. We have a motion from Councilwoman Coaches and a second from Councilman McCall. We'll take it to a vote. Councilman McCall, I. Councilman Hansen, I. Councilwoman Goes, I. Councilman Gosset, I. I'm Councilman Brady, and I vote I.

Thank you, council.

Thanks, Paul. That passes 50. Item six is ordinance 2026-06, an ordinance of Tula City amending Tula City Code section 6-7-4 regarding the imposition and collection of fees for impounded animals. Presented by Matt Johnson, the city attorney. Thank you. Thank you, council. Um, this was one of those, uh, we come across a code that has a problem and so we find better wording for it. Actually, Chief Day caught this one. What initially got us looking at this bill is that it, um, this has to do, the amendment specifically has to do with fees and costs that are um, associated with animals that are impounded. Um he caught that we had a provision that uh said that those fees of not paid voluntarily could be collected through a civil action which is fine or by being added to the owner's tax or utility bill which sounds a lot like we'll turn off your water if you don't pay this which is not what the city does so we didn't want it to read it like that. We looked at some better wording. Um, uh, the wording that we have there in in the new subsection five, I think reflects more realistically what we do to collect that. Um and uh besides that, it also what the old code didn't have is any specific provision on this is how we notify the owner of the the amount of money that's owed and this is the amount of time that we have before we get to those collection um provisions in subsection 5. So that was also added in uh it's the new subsection um uh two covers that and also partly in five covers that so that they um the city does can either hand it to them or mail it to the last known address if if we can't just can't find another way to make contact with the owner. And then from that time they have 30 days before

we look at sending it either to to finance to send a send them a letter or or to my office to start a collection action or any other any other way to collect those there. Any questions? Any questions or comments? Okay, I'll entertain a motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion that we approve ordinance 2026-06, an ordinance of Twilla City amending Twilla City Code section 6-7-4 regarding the imposition and collection of fees for impounded animals. I'll second. We have a motion from Councilman Gosset and a second from Councilman Hansen. We'll take to a vote. Councilman Gosset I. Councilwoman Goes, I.

Councilman Hansen, I. Councilman McCall, I councilman Brady and I vote I. That passes 5-0. Thanks, Matt. Item seven, invoices and purchase orders presented by Shiloh Baker, the city recorder. Jesus.

Thank you, council. I have just one invoice that was in your packet for you to consider tonight. This is for I work. This is um a software renewal. It's our permit for planning and it's our permit management for planning and zoning as well as business licensing. It's the software that allows online payments for permits and business licenses. The cost is $30,000 for the annual renewal. Okay. Any questions or comments? I'll entertain a motion. Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion to approve the invoices and purchase orders as presented by Shiloh Baker. Second.

We have a motion from Councilwoman Goes and a second from Councilman McCall. We'll take it to a vote. Councilman McCall. I. Councilman Hansen. Hi. Councilwoman Goes. Hi. Councilman Gosset. Hi. I'm Counciloman Brady and I vote I. That passes 5-0. Shiloh. Items eight are the minutes for March 4th, 2026 work meeting and the March 4th, 2026 business meeting. Any corrections? You look great. Thank you. I'll entertain a motion. Mr. Chair, I make a motion we approve the minutes. I'll second. We have a motion from Councilman McCall and a second from Councilman Hansen. We'll take to a vote. Councilman Gosset, I. Councilwoman Goches, I. Councilman Hansen, I. Councilman McCall, I.

I'm Councilman Brady and I vote I. That passes 5-0. And item nine is to adjourn at 7:22 p.m. And so I need