City Council - Regular Meeting

All right. Notice is hereby given that the Tula City Council meeting, the business meeting on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 is immediately following the RDA meeting, which is now at 7.11 p.m. The meeting will be held in the Tula City Council Chambers located at 90 North Main Street. I have no idea. At Tooele City Hall. So we will start our city council meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. All of you please rise and repeat the Pledge of Allegiance with me.

I pledge allegiance 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.

Also, I want to excuse our council chair, Justin Brady. He's off with his son in Costa Rica having a good time. So appreciate all that he does for us, and we'll miss him tonight. We will now have a roll call. Councilman Gossett. Present. Councilwoman Gossett.

Present.

Councilman McCall.

Present.

And I'm Councilman Hanson. I'm also present. We will now go to item number three on the agenda, which is the American 250 tribute to just serve community recognition awards presented by Mayor Manziong.

Thanks. I'm going to turn around.

Okay.

Okay, so Tooele City is a just serve city and we are excited to recognize those people who serve in our community. During the school year we often do youth awards, but during the summer especially we like to recognize people who are just service oriented in our community. So we have two of those awards tonight. The first is for Josie Prescott. So if you'd like to come up. Let me tell you a little bit about Josie. Josie was nominated by Kayla Cameron with the Tula City Library. Josie has served as a teen volunteer for the Teen Advisory Council at the Tula City Library since August 2021. During her time as a volunteer, she has dedicated more than 88 hours of service to the library and its teen programs. That's a lot of hours. This year, Josie was the only teen to apply for and serve on the TAC. Even while working independently, she remained committed to supporting local teens by creating engaging and meaningful activities for them to enjoy. Over the years, Josie has organized several successful teen programs, including a St. Patrick's Day scavenger hunt, craft activities, and science-based programs. She has consistently worked to encourage teens to visit the library and participate in activities designed specifically for their interests. Josie has also participated in multiple service projects through the library. She has helped clean the library grounds, wipe down walls, and most recently assisted in creating blankets and baby kits for new mothers, which were donated to a local hospital. While completing her senior year at Stansbury High School, Josie still found time to serve at the library and accomplish the goals she set for herself as a TAC member. Her dedication, leadership, and willingness to serve have made her an invaluable part of the Teen Volunteer Program, and she is deserving of recognition for her outstanding efforts. Congratulations, Joseph. Okay, and our next award winners are Stephen and Wynne Marsh. And we're going to excuse Stephen, who's out of town, but invite Wynne to come on up. Thank you. Steven and Wynne were nominated by the Tula City Parks and Recreation Director, Darwin Cook, for their outstanding volunteer efforts in the community. Steven and Wynne moved to Tula 18 months ago to be closer to family in Stansbury Park. Both enjoy spending time outdoors, hiking trails, and appreciating nature, something I also enjoy. After being impressed by the community, they look for ways to give back and help improve the city. The couple frequently walks at England Acres Park, where they begin picking weeds and cleaning up trash along the trails. They have also dedicated time to maintaining the Bevan Detention Basin on Brook Avenue by checking trees, ensuring the water system is functioning properly, pulling weeds, and helping keep the area looking clean and well cared for. Most recently, Steven and Winn removed three dump trailer loads of tumbleweeds and garbage along 1000 North near the wall by the 55 and older community. Their hard work and commitment have made a noticeable difference in the appearance and upkeep of the community. So we congratulate them. But before you clap, Winn told me that she was a little bit embarrassed to be here receiving this award by herself because she felt like she had a team behind her. So she would also like me to list Marty Randall, Carl Jensen, Lou Michard, Clint Spindler, Dee Greenland, Mark Hervit, Jerry Saltern, Madonna Saltern, Carol DeShane, Pam Larson, Rick Larson, Steve Newkirk, and Ornella Frescati. So it's awesome that all these people work together to make our community better. It does take leaders to organize that awesomeness. So we appreciate your efforts in doing that. Thank you very much. We'd like to take a picture with the council and our recipients. Oh, are you raising your hand? Do you have something important to say? You are? Well, thank you so much for helping. That is amazing. Are you going to grow up to be just like your grandma and be helpful, right? Oh, that's awesome. Thank you. Thank you. So we would like to take a picture.

Do you want to come down to the rotunda?

Okay, so we'll go out into the rotunda just briefly and take a picture. So we can post that on our social media. And again, this is broadcast on YouTube, so if you have friends you want to share with, feel free to share. Thank you.

Thank you. Are you just seeing pictures?

You're going to stay with us? I would like you to stay. It's not on, right?

No, okay. All right.

Okay, it's on now, yes. So item number four on our agenda is special to all of us tonight. We're going to recognize Loretta for her long work on Tula City and her retirement. How would that be? Come on down, Loretta.

Okay, you ready?

All right, we gotta read about you, okay. And a certificate, so that's pretty cool, yeah. Okay, the Tooele City Council Mayor is The City Council, Mayor and staff would like to publicly recognize and thank Loretta Herron as she prepares to retire from Tula City next week. Loretta has dedicated the past 10 years to serving Tula City and serving as Deputy City Recorder since October of 2023. Through her time with the City, she has consistently demonstrated excellence, reliability, and a strong commitment to public service. Her hard work behind the scenes has helped ensure our meetings run smoothly and our agendas and packets are prepared and distributed accurately. And the technology is always ready. We have come to depend on her dedication, attention to detail, and willingness to go above and beyond. Loretta, we sincerely appreciate your years of service, hard work, and commitment to Tula City. You will be greatly missed by the Council, staff, and all those who have had the privilege of working with you. We wish you a long, happy, and fulfilling retirement with good health, joy, and many new adventures. As has become a tradition, we are pleased to present you with this keepsake flag that flew over the Utah State Capitol in recognition of service, dedication, and contributions to Tooele City as deputy city recorder and as a valued member of the Tooele City team. And I got to say that she's amazing, and she's always making everybody happy and smiling, and we just appreciate all she's done and appreciate what she's done for me while I've been here on the council, and I'm sure the others feel the same. So thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Yes, we need to get a photo. Yes, let's go in front of the photo. Yay!

All right. Thank you.

All right, moving on to item number five of our agenda is a public comment period. The public comment period is we ask that you state, if you come up to make a public comment, we ask that you state your name into the mic and keep your comments to three minutes or less, and then sign the paper over here by Shiloh. Loretta will have the timer going. When your time is up, a message will pop up on the screen, and there will be an audible alarm letting you know that your time is up, at which point the microphone may be shut off. The time is now, the public's, if anybody would like to make a public comment. seeing nobody rush to the podium to make a comment we'll close the public comment period and we will move on to item six on our agenda item six is a public hearing in motion on ordinance 2026-12 an ordinance of the tulsa city council amending section 7-11a-17 design standard walls and fences adding an exception as to the current fencing requirements when a new Multifamily Resident Project is constructed adjacent to an existing fence. And that's presented by Anna England, our city planner.

Thank you. Okay. So, um, we had already discussed this, um, during our work session today. Um, it's a current fence, uh, our, um, city council decision for a text amendment to, uh, to Ellis city code seven 11, a 17, um, regarding multifamily residential design guidelines for fencing. Um, when fencing is required next to an existing fence. So we did get a little bit of clarification during the work session and we realized that there was a little bit of an error in how we were interpreting what the request was from the applicant and we were thinking that it was going to be that we were proposing to exempt the full fence requirement if there's already an existing fence, but that's not what was What the applicant's request was to remove the column portion of the fencing requirement so that there wasn't as great of a gap in between the two fences, the existing fence and the proposed fence. And so we did want to kind of modify what was proposed by Planning Commission due to this misinterpretation. miscommunication We do still as we work through the work session we did feel that the community development director as proposed by Planning Commission Should go ahead or should remain as part of this text amendment and then all of the other requirements basically That the applicant had submitted with us would just maybe a little bit more clarity that it's just for the column only only and not for the entire fence and so that Being said because it's not the required fence the two The two Senate heard the two additional requirements that The Planning Commission recommended for this should which is in the red on here Should go ahead and just be exempt from from the approval on This text amendment so I just is there any other? Clarification or any other discussion you want to have on this there any questions from the council?

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All right.

All right. Okay. Thank you. This item has a public hearing. It does, yeah. And so we will move to the public hearing. If you'd like to come up to the podium and address this item at the public hearing after you do that, you need to go over and sign in over by Shiloh after you are done. So we will open the public hearing now.

Thank you, counsel. Being the applicant, I'm not sure if you want me to comment now or after the public hearing.

You can comment now.

All right. Thank you, sir. Yeah, thank you for that great clarification last time. The few things we did want to bring up, just for further clarification, the way we drafted it was, It's not an automatic open that it can just happen. It says the community director now, development director may approve it. So if Andrew and Anna look at it and say, hey, this isn't going to work, it's not an automatic approval. So it's not just an open of a floodgate. It's in certain situations. My other thing, too, I just wanted to clarify, too, when we do these runs for cosmetic for us, you know, that's why we said a certain amount of the fences have to be in. If we have a run, we don't, even if a fence isn't in it on two or three homes, but the majority of them they are, we don't want to have columns and then not columns just from an aesthetic purpose. So I just wanted to clarify that, that the... The purpose of this is in these runs that we have, for lack of a better word of defense, that it would all be conforming to no columns in that section. So I'll be around if you have questions.

All right. Thank you. You just slide in over there, Brett. Okay. Seeing no one else come forward, we will close the public hearing and turn it over to the council for a motion.

Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion that we move forward with ordinance Lost my place here. 2026-12, an ordinance of the Tula City Council amending section 7-11A-17 design standards walls and fences, adding an exemption to the current fencing requirements when a new multifamily residential project is constructed adjacent to existing fencing. And I guess just striking six and seven off of the...

items that are in red and if we can clarify that you're referencing exhibit e as well i know i apologize i know we have several versions if you're looking at e if we can clarify that exhibit e striking six and or excuse me six and seven yeah thank you i'll second the motion we have motion by councilman goss we have a second by councilman mccall uh we'll take it to a vote councilman gossett aye councilman mccall aye councilman woman gochis

Aye.

And I'm Councilman Hanson and I also vote aye. So that passes four to zero. We will move on to item number seven. Public hearing a motion on on ordinance 2026 14 the ordinance of the Tula City Council amending the Tula City Code section 7-16 B-6 regarded regarding minimum landscaping requirements and heavy industrials sections of the Tula City Business Park zoning district presented by Anna England our city planner Okay, so as we discussed in our

our workshop meeting earlier. This is just a clarification to bring the Tuala City Business Park zoning to heavier residential or Section C to be conforming with the rest of our heavier industrial zoning districts to remove all of the landscaping requirements as you see above. And then Planning Commission did make one recommendation to clarify the irrigation use solely for the establishment of vegetation within disturbed areas shall not be required to be permanent. So they just want it to have clarification that this does not mean that irrigation to reestablish reseeding is permanent. Any questions on this or?

Any questions from the council? I know we discussed that in our work meeting also. We had some questions then. So thank you. This item also has a public hearing. So like the last one, we will open the public hearing. If you want to come up and speak to this public hearing, then after you're done, you need to go over to Bly Shiloh and sign in that you spoke at the public hearing. And so we will go ahead and open the public hearing. Seeing no one rushed forward, we will close the public hearing and I will move on to the council for a motion on this item.

Mr. Chair, I make a motion that we approve Ordinance 2026-14 and Ordinance of Tooele City Council amending Tooele City Code 7-16V-6 regarding minimum landscaping requirements in the heavy industrial sections of the Tooele City Business Park Zoning District, TCVP.

I'll second it. And can I ask for clarification in the motion? Is that with or without the Planning Commission's recommended condition? It's with the Planning Commission's recommended conditions.

Thank you. Thank you. And I'll second it.

Okay, we have a motion by Councilman McCall and a second by Councilman Gossett with the exception on there. We'll take it to a vote. Councilwoman Gochis?

Aye. Aye.

Councilman McCall. Aye. Councilman Gossett. Aye. Councilman Hanson, I also vote aye. That also passes four to zero. We'll move on to item eight, which is a resolution 2026-28, a resolution of the 12th City Council consenting to Mayor Manziel's reappointment of Crystal Larmore and Julie Ruff to the Library Board of Directors. And it's presented by Chase Randall, our Library Director.

Good evening, council. So today we're just, it's time again for our library board, and we're presenting for these two people to be reappointed to the board. So they've been serving on the board for their term, and we'd like to renew that term again. They've both been excellent members of the library board, very attentive in attending, participating, and Julie Brough is also the secretary, so she takes the minutes and does an excellent job there. They're both excellent additions to our library board, Hope you consent to their reappointment. Thank you.

All right. Are there any questions for Chase? Okay. I think I'll make a motion to approve the rule at Resolution 2026-28, a resolution of the Tulsa City Council consenting to Mayor Manzielin's reappointment of Crystal L'Amour and Julie Brough to the Library Board of Directors. I'll second. Okay, we have a motion by myself and a second by Councilman McCall. We'll take it to a vote. Councilman Gossett. Aye. Councilwoman Gauthius.

Aye.

Councilman McCall. Aye. And Councilman Hanson, I'll vote aye. That passes four to zero. We'll go to item nine on our agenda, which is the library annual report presented by Chase Randall, our library director.

All right, good evening, Council. So here we have my PowerPoint for my annual report to you, so you can see what the tax dollars are being used for at the Tooele City Library. Do you go to the next slide? So here you have the breakdown of our statistics from our last inventory. So every November, we close the library for a couple of days the week of Thanksgiving, and we inventory everything. We go through and scan every single item in the collection and we have, and then all the staff, we do a little potluck and we call it Scansgiving. So that's our annual tradition at the library. So this year, as you can see here, we had 44,751 physical items. That includes books, movies, and our special collections or Spark Sets. And then as far as electronic items, those would be e-books, e-audiobooks, videos, et cetera, that's available online. Through the Libby app, we had 492,154 items. And through Kanopy, which is where you can stream movies and TV shows, we had 37,279 movies or TV shows that were available for patrons to use to view. And we had 87 items that grew legs and wandered off. which is a little bit higher this last year, but that's well within kind of the normal range. Every year there's items that disappear. So next, here's our different usage statistics for fiscal year 26. So this last year we had 163,053 visits total to the library, and that averages about to 13,387 a month. We have 10,347 active cardholders, and so that's a 10% increase over last year. So that means that those are cards that are actively being used and that have been actively renewed in the last year. So we have more cardholders, but their cards have now gone inactive, that they haven't used them. And we have our non-residents. We have 978 non-resident cards, and that's about 9% of our total, with the lion's share of that being Stansbury and Erta. but still plenty of Grantsville and Stockton as well. So that means that about 24% of Tooele City residents have a Tooele City Library card. And this last year, we also had 178,770 checkouts or renewals, which is about 61% of our total circulation, and 114,438 digital checkouts. So that's Libby and Canopy, the movie and TV show streaming. So you can see we're running about that 60-40 between physical items and digital. And I would expect that that'll probably stay the same, maybe increase a little bit more with the digital circulation. But we're holding steady there. Next slide. So this last year, we filled two positions in the last calendar year. We had one full-time library tech position that we filled with an internal applicant who went from part-time to full-time. And then we hired a new part-time library tech. And they've both been excellent additions to the team. And they've been doing really, really well. This last year, and so in fiscal year 25, the library brought in about $38,014.02 in total revenue, and that's a 15% increase from the previous year. And you can see I have it broken down there that the miscellaneous fees was $11,699.12. That covers basically for people who come in to get a fax or to print black and white or color. So that basically just covers the cost of the printers, the paper, and the ink. And then our CERC fees was $26,314.90. That's our non-resident fees, as well as people paying for damaged items, lost items, et cetera. And then you can see I compared that to the fiscal year 24 total, which was $33,021.32 and the comparative numbers. So we're increasing, we're noticing that this corresponds with obviously increased usage of the library, of more people paying for books that get damaged, more people getting non-resident cards, and more people using our printing services. As far as technology utilization, we had 22,159 uses of our public computers or Wi-Fi in fiscal year 25, which was a 10% increase from the previous year. 46% of that was from our public computers, 42% from the library Wi-Fi that we offer, and then 12% came from the Wi-Fi at the Aquatic Center and the Del Papa Parks. I will note, though, that this will be the last year that that last line will appear on this report because UEN is cutting the support for that system that we were using to do the Wi-Fi at the parks because we have a big antenna on top of the library that was broadcasting the Wi-Fi to those parks and that service is being pulled. So next year that won't be on there, just for your information. And then lastly, we have our library programs. So in summer 2025, we had 3,185,738 total minutes read, which was 300,000 more than last year. So a little bit over 10%. You'll notice that's kind of a theme. Throughout this whole presentation, we're up 10% in that range on most of our statistics. And same thing, we had 1,671 active participants in our summer reading program, which was 150 more than the previous year. So if any of you haven't signed up, got to sign up and start reading and log your minutes on Beanstack. And then for our storytime tween and teen activities, young adult and adult programs, we had 282 programs in fiscal year 2025. And we had total attendance of 14,801 at all those different programs. And you can see there's a photo from one of our programs that we had. So as far as our projects in this last fiscal year, 2026, since I last gave my presentation to you, we got a new printing system for patrons. So this mostly didn't change too much from the patron side, but this has resulted in easier It's easier now for people to print stuff at the library. We got an upgrade there because the system was getting phased out, so we upgraded. Another big change is I'm dragging the library, kicking and screaming into the 21st century that you can now pay for stuff online at the library. So if you need to pay a fee or a replacement card or for our non-residents, rather than forcing them to come into the library to make that $40 a year payment, they can just go online and make that payment now. And then another big project that you can see here in this photo is we xeriscaped and we made waterwise landscaping on the north side. And in that picture you can see where there's going to be three trees that will be planted. So we have drip zones already set up. So I'm just coordinating with the Parks and Rec Department to get some trees planted there. So that was a big project that was done this last year. And a project that's actually ongoing currently is we're getting new thermostats and actuators for the HVAC system. which that should result in better control for the HVAC system as well as cost savings, especially once we get the new chiller. And then we also did a minor remodel of our children's area that we had a desk there that was just taking up space. We worked with the local contractor and he removed that and now we have more space in the library and taking better advantage of that space usage. And then the other big thing is we got new study pods for the patrons. So that if you want a quiet room to study, to read, talk on the phone, or whatever it might be, we've got three new study pods. And I'll show you some pictures of those on the next slide. And then the other big thing is we got a new black and white printer for the patrons to use. And it is a significant upgrade. The old printer was just not very good. So we're very happy to get that new one. So here you can see on the left side, you can see we have two individual study pods that we just got. So those are for patrons, obviously. You can single person to be able to be in there. And then we got the one on the right. It's a four-person study pod. And we actually got that from the North Logan Library. They were getting rid of it. So we got a really great deal. And a shout out to our city maintenance team that we hopped in the truck with the trailer and we drove up and spent the better part of a day taking it apart and bringing it back down here. So that was a good long day, but we were able to get that down here for a really good price. And it's been really nice for the patrons to have. So that way if our reading rooms are full, our patrons now have other options for that kind of that quiet room for meetings, phone calls, et cetera. So I'll be happy to take any questions from the council at this time.

Any questions for the council?

No. Good job. Okay. Thank you.

I got to say great job, Chase. You got lots of great things going, lots of people involved. That's great.

And thank you for your support.

All right. We will move to item 10 on the agenda. It's resolution 2026-30, a resolution of the Tooele City Council approving and ratifying an agreement with Broken Arrow Incorporated for the 7th Street storm drain improvements. 500 north to Bird Street presented by Nathan far our public works director.

We appreciate you a council approving this project while we were missing a council meeting we've Been able to work closely with the broken arrow for a while and they were the low bid on on this this project and have commenced potholing and getting ready to start major construction so Looking forward to having a storm drain implemented in this area and hopefully take care of some of that heavy flow that comes down off of 7th Street.

And so for public, just aware that we did approve this before and it's got started, but we are just going to ratify it on a resolution tonight. So I'll bring that back to the council for a motion.

I'll make a motion that we approve resolution 2026-30, a resolution of Tooele City Council, approving and ratifying an agreement with Broken Arrow Inc. for the 7th Street storm drain improvements, 500 North to Birch Street. I'll second.

Okay, we have a motion by Councilman Gossett and a second by Councilman McCall. Let's take it to a vote. Councilwoman Gossett?

Aye.

Councilman McCall? Aye. Councilman Gossett? Aye. And Councilman Henson, I also vote aye, so that passes 4-0. Okay, thank you, Nathan. We'll move to item 11, on our agenda, Resolution 2026-11, a resolution of the Tooele City Council authorizing the Mayor to sign a contract with Paul Hanson Associates LLC for City Engineering Services, as presented by our Mayor, Mantillon.

Thank you, Council. As you have in your packet, you have a contract for our contract engineer, Paul Hanson, who has served with Tooele City for about 27 years. And when we have contract services with Mr. Hanson, he comes with not just himself, but also assistant and interns as necessary to provide services for the city. And although he is a contract engineer, he does spend the bulk of his time here at the city, so it was always accessible for our staff and for myself and the council as needed, and has provided some great service for Tooele is very well knowledgeable about our water situation and the water shares and recognized throughout the state for his knowledge in water. So his contract is due on July 1st, July 1st of this year, and so I'm presenting it to you for authorization to sign that contract for another four-year term.

All right. Thank you, Mayor. Do we have any questions?

I've got one question, and thanks again. 26 years. Holy cow. So the only thing as I was looking through the contract that I wondered about, now knowing that I said Paul and I both dye our hair this color just so that we can get the senior discount, but at some point in time, you're gonna retire and I'm just wondering if we have any plan in place for succession whenever that ends up being to have somebody up to speed at that point.

Well, you're welcome to come talk if you'd like. I talked to Paul about his plans and we're not gonna hold him to anything, but he says he's not gonna retire for the next four years.

Correct. It's not my intent to retire within this next time period.

Yeah.

Of course, things change, and the provision of the contract is that changes can be made. You know, at the discretion of the council or myself, but it's my intent to continue supporting the city as we can.

My question was really just like at the point that you announced that that's going to happen whenever it is. I just worry that somebody's up to speed so that there's not a gap in.

We will do everything we can to make sure that that gap is not left open.

I think it's a difficult question to answer because First of all, we can't afford really two engineers at the same time. So when that time comes, we're going to have to think of, you know, when we hire, for instance, we have recently hired a new deputy recorder. And she has a current job now, but they're kind of overlapping for a little while. So when it comes to that point, we are going to have to have a plan for some overlap. But probably in this time of the city's budget, It's not going to be something like a year or two years, which would be awesome to be able to share information. But I have been to Paul's office. He has really good records. I think there does have to be a transition plan at some point. It's something to consider, but just by sitting next to somebody also, you can't absorb all their knowledge. That's the hard part. I came from the city council where In theory, you step right in to be mayor, and it's easy. It's not. You know, I know some of the things. I don't know all the things. So a new engineer is going to know some of the things, not all the things, and that is going to be a learning curve for the city. It's going to be a challenge.

And your city engineer that has 26 years' experience doesn't know everything either. We learn every day.

I think that's all of us in all that we do, yes.

My philosophy is the day we stop learning is the day we shouldn't.

I think as a city we need to focus Focus on that. We know that's coming and we need to plan for it is what the key is. I think you're right Thanks any other questions All right. Council, if we come back to give a motion on this resolution.

Mr. Chair, I make a motion. We approve Resolution 2026-31, a resolution of the Tooele City Council authorizing the mayor to sign a contract with Paul Hanson Associates LLC for City Engineering Services. I'll second it.

Okay, we have a motion by Councilman McCall and a second by Councilman Gossett. We'll bring it to a vote. Councilman McCall? Aye. Councilwoman Manson, or Coaches? Aye. Sorry, Mayor. Councilman Gossett? Aye. And Councilman Hanson, I will also vote aye. That passes four to zero. Okay, we'll move on to item 12, Resolution 2026-32, a resolution of the Tooele City Council declaring Tooele City's commitment to fostering compassion and inclusion as core civic values, establishing April 12th as a yearly day of kindness, and authorizing the mayor to implement corresponding municipal programs. And this is presented by our mayor.

Thank you. This actually comes from our community engagement department. And they thought along with service comes kindness. So they've been working with One Kind Act today to designate us as a city of kindness. So what it does is it establishes that day of kindness on April 12, which is a nationally recognized day, to promote and celebrate acts of kindness, generosity, and compassion within the community. It encourages community engagement, which, as you know, we have a very small but robust community engagement department that engages in a lot of activities throughout our community. Public awareness about the Day of Kindness, an implementation plan, which the community engagement department has already come up with, and then an annual review to make sure that we're fulfilling the requirements of the program and to consider if we want to continue. So I don't think kindness is bad. I think it goes along with what we're doing, and I think we could use more of it in our community.

Agreed, yes. Any questions for the mayor? Okay, I'll bring it back to the council for a vote.

Your chair, I'll make a motion that we approve resolution 2026-32, resolution of Tula City Council declaring Tula City's commitment to fostering compassion and inclusivity as core civic values, establishing April 12th as a yearly day of kindness and authorizing the mayor to implement corresponding municipal programs. I'll second.

We've got a motion from Councilman Gossett, a second from Councilman McCall. Councilman Gossett? Aye. Councilwoman Gouches?

Aye.

Councilman McCall? Aye. And I also vote aye, so that passes four to zero. Item 13 on our agenda is Resolution 2026-33, the Resolution to the Tulsa City Council Approving Audit Agreement with Larson and Company, PC Certified Public Accountants. And that's presented by Shannon Wimmer, our Finance Director. Thank you.

Good evening, council. This is to renew our contract for our yearly audit. We had a prior five-year contract with them. That was the first contract that we had with Larson and Company. And, excuse me, so it's time for us to renew that contract. So we are asking to sign another five-year contract with them. If you look on page 13 you'll see the proposed fees and it's very surprising to me with all the increases that we've seen in every other area that we are still keeping the audit very affordable. There's hardly any increase from last year and if you look over the next five years it's $2,000 or less increase year for the services that they're willing to provide. So I think we're getting a great value for our money with Lars and Nicole. They've been doing a great job for us and their work is also reviewed by the state. We haven't had any feedback, any negative feedback from the state from them as well. So we're very happy with their services.

Thank you. Do you mind just saying for the public what that number is that we're paying them?

So for 2026, it'll be $38,800.

Okay.

And if we need a single audit, so a single audit is if you have federal funds over, I believe they just changed the limit to $750,000. That would be an additional $4,200. Okay.

All right. Thank you. I appreciate that. And we'll bring that just back to the council. Oh, is there any questions, first of all? Seeing none, okay, we'll bring that back to the council for a vote.

Mr. Chair, I make a motion that we approve Resolution 2026-33, A resolution of Tooele City Council approving audit agreement with Larson and Company, PC certified accountants. Public accountants, sorry.

Okay, we got a motion from Councilman McCall and a second from Councilman Gossett. We'll take it to a vote. Councilman McCall? Aye. Councilwoman Gossett?

Aye.

Councilman Gossett? Aye. Councilman Hanson, I have a vote aye, so that passes four to zero. Item number 14 on our agenda is resolution 2026-29, a resolution of the Tulsa City Council authorizing the Tulsa City Purchasing Agent to dispose of surplus personal property. A whole bunch of vehicles.

A whole bunch of vehicles. Yeah.

Presented by Shiloh Baker, our city recorder.

Thank you, council. And if you would allow me quickly, I just want to, as this is Loretta's last council meeting, I'd like to just personally thank her. And then as the mayor alluded, we have hired a new deputy city recorder. And so I'd like to introduce Clarissa Pankratz as our new deputy recorder and thank Loretta for all she's done and welcome Clarissa. Thank you. All right, so back to the resolution, surplusing Public Works vehicles. The Public Works Department currently has eight vehicles that we are requesting council declare a surplus. They are listed out for you in your packet. These vehicles no longer meet our operational needs and have reached their end of useful service lives for Tooele City. All of the vehicles are more than 10 years old and most, a good chunk, are approaching 20 years of age or more. These vehicles were all originally part of the police department fleet and have since been reassigned to various city departments over the years. Due to their age and condition, they require frequent repairs, ongoing maintenance, which results in increased costs and reduced liability of those vehicles. So in accordance with city policy, we are requesting that the council declare these vehicles a surplus property, and upon approval, we propose to dispose of all of the vehicles through auction.

Okay, any questions for Shiloh this time? Okay, we will, thank you. We will bring it back to the council for a vote.

Mr. Chair, I'll make a motion that we approve Resolution 2026-29, a resolution of the Tooele City Council authorizing the Tooele City Purchasing Agent to dispose of surplus personal property public works vehicles.

I'll second. before I turn my phone off.

Okay, so we have a motion from Councilman Gossett and a second by Councilman McCall. We'll bring it to a vote. Councilwoman Gossett.

Aye.

Councilman McCall. Aye. Councilman Gossett. Aye. Councilman Hanson, I also vote aye, so that passes four to zero.

Thank you.

And we'll move to item number 15, resolution 2026-24, Resolution the Tulsa City Council offering the Tulsa City Purchasing Agency disposals Surplus property from the public works department and streets to equipment and that's presented by shine. I'll make her our public our city recorder and

Thank you. So Resolution 2026-34 is also surplus property. This is equipment from the Streets Division of the Public Works Department, also in your packet. They are requesting a 10-foot, 1-ton Salter hydraulic, a 14-foot, 10-wheeler Salter hydraulic, a line striper, a drag-behind lay-down box, and a sign hammer drill breaker. Again, this equipment no longer meets our operational needs and has reached the end of their useful service lives. Due to the age, condition, and maintenance requirements, the items before you are no longer practical or cost effective for the city to continue using these assets and have not been used in some time. In accordance with city policy, we're requesting that the council declare these pieces of equipment a surplus property. And upon approval, we propose to dispose of all the equipment through auction.

Any questions from the council? I will bring it back to the council for a motion.

Mr. Chair, I make a motion. We approve resolution 2026-34, a resolution of the Tooele City Council authorizing the Tooele City purchasing agent to dispose of surplus personal property, public works department, street division equipment.

I'll second it. Okay, we have a motion from Councilman Call and a second from Councilman Hanson. We'll bring it to a vote. Councilman Gossett.

Aye.

Councilwoman Gautas.

Aye.

Councilman McCall. Aye. Councilman Hanson, I also vote aye. That passes four to zero. We will go to item 16 on our agenda, which is invoices and purchase orders. Again, presented by Shiloh Baker, our city recorded.

Thank you. We have two invoices for you tonight. The first is to Dell Marketing LP in the amount of $32,397.16. This is to replace core networking equipment. The warranty on this equipment ends next year, and that old equipment needs to be replaced as it's out of warranty.

There's one invoice.

Oh, sorry. I was waiting for you to say yes. The second is to Huber Technology. This is to every four years, the sludge presses in the greenhouse at the water reclamation facility need to be serviced. That total amount is $68,407.18. I just knew you were going to slip it in there.

No, no. All right. We'll bring that back to a motion from the council to approve the invoices. Mr. Chair.

Oh, go ahead. Go ahead. You sure? Mr. Chair, I make a motion that we approve the invoices and purchase orders.

I'll second it. I have a motion from Councilman Goss and a second by Councilman McCall. We'll bring it to a vote. Councilwoman Goss.

Aye.

Councilman McCall.

Aye.

Councilman Gossett. Aye. Councilman Henson, I also vote aye. That passes four to zero.

Thank you, Council.

We'll move to item 17 on our minutes from our May 6th meeting, May 6th, 2026 work meeting and May 6th, 2026 business meeting. Do you need a motion to approve the minutes? Mr.

Chair, in the minutes of the business meeting, my name is spelled incorrectly in number three. And I emailed to let her know, but I apparently failed to hit send because it's still in my draft email. Okay.

And so how did she spell it?

M-A-R-I-S-S-A.

Okay. That's probably pretty common. All right. Okay. So we need to make a motion to approve the minutes with a change on the spelling of the mayor's name.

I'll second.

Okay, we'll bring it to a vote. Councilman Gossett? Aye. Councilman McCall? Aye. Councilwoman Gochis?

Aye.

And Councilman Hempstead is all opposed to vote aye. That passes four to zero and we will adjourn at 8.04 p.m. Okay.