Council Meetings - workshop

22nd, 2026. We are in the council chambers at Washington City Hall for our workshop meeting agenda. We have three items, including a closed session council, which will be for pending or potential litigation. That said, I will turn to you for a motion to approve the agenda as outlined.

So made, Mayor.

Motion by Councilman Ivey.

Second.

Second by Councilman Belliston. All in favor?

Aye.

THE AGENDA IS APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY. FIRST ITEM OF BUSINESS, TELEGRAPH STREET, TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND SAFETY MEDIAN. CITY ENGINEER PAUL MOGLE. AND I SEE SHARICE WALKER WITH AVENUE CONSULTANTS HERE AS WELL AND HER SIDEKICK LACY JUST AS BACKUP.

ALL RIGHT, PAUL, TAKE IT AWAY, BUDDY. Thanks Mayor. Thanks City Council. This project includes the installation of raised medians along Telegraph Street between Albertsons Drive and 500 West and along Green Spring Drive as well as the construction of a new traffic signal to serve a future grocery store development. Additional roadway improvements will be necessary to accommodate the new signal infrastructure. Because these improvements will affect access to several existing businesses along the corridor, we wanted to brief the city council before beginning public outreach and project development. The city has retained avenue consultants to lead the public involvement process, which will include stakeholder engagement, business outreach, and public communication throughout the design and construction phases. And as the mayor had mentioned, we have Cherise Walker with Avenue Consultants. And she has a presentation. I'll turn the rest of the time over to her.

All right. I feel like Paul gave away all the punch lines already. But I am Therese Walker. We're part of the project team working for you under the direction of the Public Works Department. And we're excited to be finally helping on this project. I know that Paul's been talking about this one for a long time.

Cherise, can I give a little context too? Yes. Most of this council and staff have been around long enough, but I want to say it was at least five years or longer ago that Mike Shaw was in front of this council or most of this council talking about the very same thing, medians. We've drug our feet a little bit. It seems like now is the time.

Perfect. Well, I know I've been chatting with Paul about it since at least 2022. So I have not been on it quite as long as some of you, but it's been a long time coming. So as Paul mentioned, we've got a few different improvements involved in this, the new signal and then the raised medians that will go from the west side of Albertsons Drive up to 500 West and then from the intersection down Green Spring Drive to about Home Depot. There are multiple reasons why we're going to do this. We've got a couple quotes from some engagement work we did around road safety back in 2024 for the Washington County comprehensive safety plan we worked on. So I pulled a few that you might appreciate.

This resident is putting it lightly.

Yes. So the purpose is to improve safety, improve that traffic flow, and respond to the growth and increase in traffic volume that we've been seeing in this area. Here's a little bit, the drawing of the retail space that's going to be, you'll probably see some demolition happening back there pretty soon, but it definitely is going to impact the traffic patterns and behaviors there. We'll have that new light, as Paul mentioned, to provide dedicated turning time and will be coordinated with the existing signal at Greenspring. All right. Now for the raised medians. I mentioned the 2024 Safe Streets for All Washington County Comprehensive Safety Action Plan. Um, which we completed in 2024. And as part of that work, they analyze historic crash data. Uh, they prioritize, you had it ranked some road segments in the county based on risk for fatal and severe injury crashes. And there were three road segments in Washington City that made the top 50. And all three of them are kind of spokes off of that intersection. So this project is really going to get a high return on your investment in safety improvements. All right. So right now, there are 15 accesses to the main roads in that corridor. CREATES MULTIPLE CONFLICT POINTS, UNPREDICTABILITY IN THE TRAFFIC AND LEFT TURNS. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE, CURRENT STRIPING PROHIBITS SOME OF THESE MOVEMENTS BUT WE KNOW Not everybody follows the rules. I personally have experienced someone trying to turn left from a driveway on to telegraph really close to that intersection and kind of have experienced the snarl that kind of happens from that. I was very thankful it wasn't a serious crash. I know that there have been incidents in that area.

So let's just see if I can run my pointer.

All right. So the benefit of a raised median is it brings all those left hand turns to intersections. We'll continue to allow right in and right out accesses. but it reduces conflict points, it improves predictability for drivers. And we've got a great, okay, the video will be next, but this is what it will look like once those medians are in place. So you can kind of see it just starts just west of Albertson Drive. There are breaks at each of those intersections down to 500 West and then down to about the Home Depot.

driveway on the south end uh the green arrows show there's still that right in right out access at all of those points so let me so all all of the left turn access are at intersections that are lighted there will be no left turns out of yes unlighted intersections

And yes, and these segments in that safety plan we did ranked high for mid block angle crashes. And that is a lot of that, you know, those accesses and trying to get on and off of roads. So that will definitely improve that. So this is the moment of truth.

In Utah, we're dedicated to work with local communities to identify the best technologies that help local residents keep moving safely. You know those video games where you had to cross the road and the other car's paths kept crossing your path? Well, it isn't nearly as fun in real life. In real life, when vehicles' pathways cross, you get a conflict point. The more conflict points there are, the higher the likelihood of a crash. And it's more than just intersections. Whenever a vehicle turns left or pulls out of a parking lot or even anywhere it could drive across traffic, you have conflict points. And when the number of lanes increases, conflict points go up dramatically. Raised medians reduce conflict points by directing turning vehicles to specific locations along the roadway. By merging these pathways, you combine their conflict points, resulting in fewer distractions for drivers. On a busy road, drivers monitor conflict points from all directions. Too many conflict points make driving unpredictable and risky. By reducing conflict points, raised medians create a more predictable experience for drivers. Studies have shown that installing raised medians reduces severe crashes by 40%, making it one of the most effective safety features for today's roads. In addition to increasing safety, raised medians can also benefit the local economy. Safe and reliable roads give businesses a longer reach, while unpredictable roads reduce that reach. On average, raised medians improve traffic flow by 30%, which increases market reach by 35%. In Utah, we work together with local communities to identify where raised medians can give drivers a safer and more predictable drive. This is how we keep Utah moving.

I'm so happy the video played. If I can now get past it would be good. Okay, perfect. So any questions about the improvements? Any thoughts about that?

Pretty good. So are we closing any access points or the medians just make them right turn, right in, right out only access points?

That's what I understand is right in, right out will stay.

No proposed closure. Other than the Albertsons that needs to be adjusted. Okay. Yeah.

Perfect.

All right. So, for a timeline, we are still kind of in that design phase, having conversations with property owners, doing that prep work. We anticipate construction to start early in 2027, maybe even spring, kind of. That's what we're looking at. We will be providing public engagement through the whole process, however long that takes. And then during the phase that we're in now we'll be having some targeted stakeholder conversations so property owners that are adjacent the busing system the school district you know looking at those operational needs making sure that you know we're doing the best we can to take that into consideration during construction. And then as we move closer to construction, I'll be back to see all of you, give you an update on the details as we have those developed, and then just be very responsive to the community to provide you know, that support to take complaints, take comments, take concerns, work with the project team.

Sharice and I don't want to take away from the council's ability to ask questions, but you're really good at what you do. We've we've worked with Avenue before and with you specifically. YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION YEARS AGO, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THIS COUNCIL WAS VERY AWARE OF IS IT'S GOING TO CHANGE A LITTLE BIT THE ACCESS AT ALBERTSON'S AND AT HART'S. BUT AS I LOOK AT THIS AND AS I LOOK AT JUST KIND OF THE DETAIL THAT PAUL INCLUDED IN OUR PACKET, LIKE I SEE THAT THIS WILL ULTIMATELY BE BETTER ACCESS FOR THOSE BUSINESSES, ESPECIALLY LINING UP THAT INGRESS, EGRESS, ADDING THE LIGHT THERE AND BEING ABLE TO COORDINATE THE LIGHTS FOR THE STACKING. I actually think when this is done, it is gonna be better for businesses both on the west side of Green Spring along Telegraph, but also on the east side. So I guess my question is, are you able to make that with the, I think specifically our residents, our communities, mostly those businesses, those are our main contact points. Yes.

And we have some outreach activity planned to work specifically with businesses because I know change can feel scary, you know, when you're like, Hey, this is going to impact my livelihood. I mean, Those are important.

We deal with that every council meeting and almost ten out of ten, at least nine point something out of ten times. The end result is better than it was going in. And the change can be scary and and sometimes it's just growing pains.

Absolutely. So, yeah, we definitely have have plans to work directly with the businesses in that corridor and help them understand how people who their customers, you know, would feel, because I think maybe what we're missing at this point is how many people don't go there. They just avoid it completely. Right. Because of predictability.

If we can have better flow.

Yeah. So that's why I hope to kind of convey that message that, yeah, raised medians will change the patterns a little bit, but you'll just draw people to intersections. The parking lots, you know, there's a lot of interconnectivity. there's ways to kind of get past that, so.

And I appreciate Blake and his department and Paul bringing this to the council. It is a big, it's a big change for our community. And I think there's a lot of wisdom in them saying, hey, let's just get this in front of the council so that, and council really, this is your opportunity with Charisse, also with Paul and the other public work staff. If you have questions or comments on this, this is our opportunity. One more question for you real quick. When do you know assuming the council gives kind of the nod that I anticipate happening? When do you start that public outreach with the potentially affected businesses?

We have channels established already. We've got a hotline. We've got a website. We've got an email set up We would start this fall I would like to have kind of a almost like a workshop meeting, invite them to go through some of this material specifically designed for those business concerns to have those one-on-one conversations. And if there's questions whether their business is going to be impacted, I have some strategies to encourage them to maybe get a little input from their customers. Maybe that would help kind of convey that.

And how to open access during construction.

I would like them to be fully aware and understand before. I don't want anybody surprised. That never goes over well. So we will be doing that this fall.

Councilman Henderson.

Yes.

Hi, hey, thank you. This is wonderful. I was just looking at the map and right between IHOP and is that Petco, there's a outlet from that Home Depot parking lot. going out onto, you know, Green Springs Drive. That's a pretty rough intersection right there during the day. Is that the boundary between Washington and St. George? Is that why we're not continuing that or?

I think the city boundary is a little bit further south.

Paul? Paul, you were too comfortable there.

Stand up to that mic. The city boundary is just a little bit further south. Yeah.

Is that spot not warrant the median or?

We can we can look at this isn't set in stone, but we just wanted to take it to that intersection. And because the city boundary was pretty close around there, we just ended it right there. I mean, we can look into extending it down to the city limits, but

Just from my perspective, I'm at Home Depot multiple times a day just from my job. And I would say that is the worst of all of, that's the worst one right there. We could take it a little bit further down.

We could potentially work with St. George too to bring it a little further down. Because on the left-hand side there, it ends just after that.

Yeah, I was going to say, I think the city boundary doesn't end right at an intersection.

We'll have to do an angle curb cut on the median.

I think that's the last intersection.

Paul, I think you don't want to do a median all the way through it. No, no, you want that one open. Correct, yes. So that would be the end of the median. It's just the question I would have is, does it warrant a signal or does it work versus not?

Right, yeah.

And maybe that's a different project altogether. Right. but you don't want to, this needs to stay a full movement is what we're saying.

Yes, yes, exactly. Yeah. Thanks for that comment because yes, this needs to stay a full movement. Um, and you know, whether it needs modifications after that, that's a whole other project, but, um, and that's the last intersection in the city. Then the city boundary. I don't know if that one going into fabulous Freddy's I don't know. I don't think that one's fully in the city. And so that's why we chose to end right there Sounds like there's room to continue making improvements to the system.

So Yeah, that's pretty much uh what we've got today if anyone has any other questions Councilman Ivey Councilman Casperson any feedback for Charisse or Paul when the construction starts what is typical for the time frame for something like this I think Paul said I think about six months is that what we're estimating for about six months yeah

Councilman Billiston, anything?

Yeah, Ms. Walker. How involved is the public engagement portion of this, right? Because I've been through a couple of environmental assessments, and they're really involved. But this one doesn't seem like it should be that involved.

It's a little bit.

More than just having some conversations with the business owners or property owners.

It's a little bit different because during an environmental process, you're taking a lot of input from the community. With this project, we're at a phase where it's pretty much nailed down what the design is going to be. So it's just working with people so that they understand what's gonna happen, make sure that we're listening to their concerns and understanding during construction, what do we need to do with the school district and what do we need to do with Suntran and just- So less input, more output. Yes, yes, absolutely. But like I said, surprising people with construction never goes over well.

Is anyone going to public outreach to our former public works director, Mike Shaw?

Is that your job, Paul?

Andy, he let Mike know we're finally getting these done. He hasn't been sleeping for the last three or four years worried about these medians. Yeah. Anything else, counsel, on this discussion? I think we're all pretty aware of it and knew it was coming sooner or later.

Perfect. And I just, you know, personally want to give you my congratulations for the efforts to improve the safety in the county. This is gonna be a, like I said, high return on investment, making improvements in this area for us all as county residents.

Yeah, there's no doubt. Thank you, Cherise. Paul, anything else you have?

No, I don't have anything else to add. Just thanks for your time and appreciate it.

Okay, so we'll just, at this point, Blake, it's you and your staff on... on your judgment on when and on some of those design particulars as you heard feedback from the council. Okay, next item on the agenda is Wills Park upgrades. This is a little bit of a continuation from two weeks ago. We have a little more CLARITY ON THE NUMBER, DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT WE HAVE TO FINISH OUT SOME OF THOSE IMPROVEMENTS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY THERE. AND I THINK ALSO WE HAVE SOME DONATIONS THAT WOULD ALLOW SOME OF THAT BANNER SIGNAGE. COUNCILMAN IVEY, DO YOU WANT TO LEAD OUT WITH THAT OR PAUL OR WHOEVER WANTS TO START WITH THAT CONVERSATION?

NO, YOU PREFERENCED IT REALLY WELL. I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS THE DIFFERENCES IN THE AMOUNTS. We'd start with Paul Walker.

Walk up here.

Thank you, Mayor, Council.

I'm happy to give you a couple updates on some things we talked about in the last meeting. A few of the changes we've talked about that after our discussion last meeting is we're going to add some bike racks where the kids bring their bikes and leave them. We're going to put some bike racks. We're going to plant some more trees in the grass area. I know that shade will come a little bit slower, but that's some of the things we're working on and happy to answer any more questions or anything else.

Do you have a dollar figure with those that you're talking about, like with the bike racks and the trees?

Yeah, those are pretty small dollar amounts. The bike racks will be around $4,000 to $5,000, so they're pretty minimal. We're And we're still going through bids and finding some cost savings. So we're probably looking around about $320,000 is kind of where we're shooting for with a lot of these numbers. The fencing, we're going to try some chain link in some areas. And some areas, we're going to try some barbed wire. And we think that that's significant savings. And as long as that works, we'll continue using barbed wire where it's temporary. If we need to, we'll upgrade. to chain link. So we've done a few things like that that will save us some money. So we're kind of targeting that 300, 320 is kind of the price range that we think we may.

I know we talked about, Councilman Coates, we talked about some benches and more shade structures.

Yeah, we've kind of changed the quantities of benches. We'll still add some benches, but not as many as we had before. Garbage receptacles, we're still adding a lot of that. We're still trying to work out, we're looking at some other options for shade. So we may have a combination of the cantilevered shade we looked at and some other options. So we're exploring a couple of things that may be able to give us some shade in a smaller footprint and less dollar amount. So we're looking at some combination of things.

On those trees, Star Nursery has been very generous with the city and especially with their future

store there I would reach out to them too yeah we can definitely do that hey Paul does the 320 does that that doesn't include the archway no because our last discussion we didn't we didn't include that in the okay good in that total thank you so um none of this made it back into our packet and what was in from last week

STILL DIDN'T INCLUDE EVERYTHING THAT WAS, THAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN WORKSHOP, RIGHT? SO I DON'T HAVE IT TO REVIEW. ARE YOU GOING TO LINE ITEM THAT BACK?

YEAH, WE CAN GET IT, WHEN WE FINALIZE THE NUMBERS, HAPPY TO BRING IT BACK.

WHERE WE FINALLY LANDED ON ALL THE DIFFERENT THINGS, HERE'S WHERE WE WORKED OUT ON PRICING AND, YOU KNOW, CHECK THE BLOCK THAT IT COMES BACK.

YEAH, WE CAN DO THAT AS WE GET SOME MORE FIRM NUMBERS. OKAY, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.

I THOUGHT IT WAS A GREAT CONVERSATION. I think that's great, Paul, if you're willing to do that. Is there anything else on that? Anything else that you'd want to add?

Mayor, I'd just like some clarity on, I know that we had talked originally about 12 different shade structures. Has that number changed after we talked last week, or is that still kind of where you're at?

That's still where we're at. We're kind of shooting for that number. We're going to go down there tonight and pop up. a canopy and see where we cast some shade, look at a few other locations. We may increase that a little bit, but we're kind of looking to do as much as possible.

And then the bleacher seating, that was something that was originally talked about, but we haven't brought that forward, right?

No, the bleachers we've got out there seem to be sufficient. If we need more for an event, we could bring some in from other locations.

So what did we decide on that archway that banner was there, is there not enough funding for the archway right now, or do we have a desire to do that? I, I know I was up in pleasant Grove yesterday. I saw the new park there that seemed to pop up out of nowhere between the last time I was there. It looked pretty nice, but I know, you know, funding constraints are always an issue.

So, well, mayor, I, I had suggested two weeks ago in council meeting that that would be a good, I felt like that would be a good community effort. to raise the funds for it and then have just a little plaque for those that contributed. I think that, you know, our community is wonderful. They're generous. I think that that would add a lot. I know that when people come there, it's kind of the place that they look for to shoot their videos and take pictures in front of. And I agree. It was a really good discussion last week in council, and I realized, too, that that money is something, you know, archways are something that's not a necessity. It's something that's nice and adds to the, quality of the park and the experience, but I really feel like that our local businesses would donate, already have some pretty significant donations towards that. So I appreciate taking that out.

So I guess my question to the council is if the community came forward and could fund an archway that the council approved of the design, is that something that the council would support?

Mayor, I like I love the idea of the archway and I wouldn't even mind if the city needed to put some money towards it as well. I mean, I think it's important for a park of that magnitude to have something like that. I mean, I like the sign that's there now, but I just I don't think it's sufficient for for this park. And so I like the idea of having the community donate. But I mean, if the city needs to honing up a little bit too. I mean, I have no problem with that.

And of course, mayor, I'd be happy to, you know, we wanna work with the council, get with the design of it and stuff, but just numbers, you know, that we're getting right now, you basically have the metal, the welding, then you have some rock work. Those are the big things. And I just can't emphasize enough how generous our community is and how willing they are to step up and contribute and help out. But the number that we're kind of looking at right now is around 20,000. We do it the Washington way, right? It doesn't need the biggest, most elaborate. It needs to be nice. It needs to be suitable for people to take pictures in front of. But I think that we can easily raise that amount within our city. I'm very confident of that. And I would be happy to get some designs and let council look and see what everyone likes and then kind of run some numbers and see where it is. But I think on the top end, it's

20 to 25 and it could be as low as like 15 just to give you some numbers anybody opposed to that with councilman ivy doing that or you okay with that if the community wants to step up i got no issues with it i guess from my perspective my only challenge is like i have no problems with functional upgrades but there's a lot of money in that park and there's a lot of fun things to do and you know you can You can spend money and spend money and spend money and spend money, but at some point you got to say, hey, look, we've spent enough.

I think you make a great point. Like I think the arch is cool looking. I really like it. I just, when I look at that park, it speaks for itself. The enjoyment is the bowls, the things, the bike track, the splash pad, the playground. An archway doesn't define that place. I hate to spend more money that we've already spent. I mean, originally I was told this was going to be a $10 million park. ended up being 15 million, all said and done. So I'm just concerned that where do we stop, right? And it just speaks for itself. I really like it. I think it's cool. I'm happy. That's my biggest concern is just spending more money on that park. I know we have some funds. It seems like we have more funds, but we should just, I would like to get hard numbers. I know Councilman Ivey, you think it's 15 to 25. I think it's more than that.

Well, I wanted to wait until we had our conversation tonight to move forward on getting those prices. But the thing that's been amazing, too, is since the park opening, we get calls and people visiting the park say, what can we do? We want to help contribute. What can we do? And outside of just we try to run the foundation to pay for skate camps and helmets. In fact, we're delivering eight youth helmets tonight. We've used all the ones that we had from the grand opening. But I do agree. And I think that if this was something that was funded with taxpayer dollars, I would be on the other side of it. But I'm very confident that our community will step up and I think it will be an addition. And I don't know. I think it's important to this archway as well as the flags were part of the conversation from the very beginning. And once we got going with the designs and stuff and Paul, you'd remember this. We just didn't know where they would go. until you see the park built, you didn't know where the flags or where the archway should be. Should it be at the front or the back or where? And so it's been a conversation from the early onset. I know Barry, you know, we looked at it and said, well, let's just address this, like, towards the end. And then there for those last two months, we were working hard just to get the park open. But I'd be happy to bring it back and bring some prices, you know, that the council can look at and decide if that's.

that sounds all right i think the important thing though is we already went over budget on the park and it was needed like it that is the most used park i think i've seen ever it is previously was the dog park previously well and it's funny that all the places we use like i think it's great i just again if we can raise the money but are we supposed to be in the business of asking our fellow many people come to us and say here's money that's one thing but i

I was going to ask Avenue Consultants, but.

Yes, pay a consultant to go ask for money.

Lacey would have to go up the chain of command a few rungs, I think. I don't know.

I just want us to, I mean, I'm just concerned about it because when we talk about public funds, the public fund, it's all public funds, right? We spent $15 million of public funds on it and we got some arbitrage money, so that was good, but it doesn't make sense to put it back on that or something else.

to be more of an asset and that's the only thing I want to make sure is that we're not just because I mean I know Councilman Henry said throw a little money at it but I'm like we threw 15 million at it already yeah but so so here's I mean we're talking about 12 shade structures and some other stuff to me a nice sign is just as worthy as any of those shade structures

So well, again, I don't I just be very clear because people at home might not follow what we're proposing that this be raised by the community. And it's not even engaging them. It's them reaching out, wanting to contribute, wanting to help. So it's not like we're twisting anyone's arm and people have a love for that park. They've realized what an asset it is to the community. And and I agree. Like I said, if it was tax money, I wouldn't be having the conversation. But I think we can provide something there tax-free and allow people to participate and feel good about contributing to the park.

I think that's great. So what's our goal with the rest of the money? Because we have $389,000. If we raise it outside, I mean... Is it $389,000 or $320,000?

I think it's $389,000, isn't it, Jeremy?

$387,000 and change. $387,000 and change.

So here's what I'm hearing, and council, just fact check, just help clarify so Paul knows. What I'm hearing is we had a really good discussion two weeks ago. Some of those items, bike racks, trees, fencing, benches and shade. Those were the primary practical functional kind of punch list, not total punch list, but punch list items, um, that I think are really justifiable that the council feels is justifiable.

Um, were there also, what was the security additions?

Was it the, it was the, the fencing fencing, fencing, mostly the other big one was the flag poles, flag poles and garbage.

So you're going to put all those on a spreadsheet for council and line out as best as you can on that. And then if there's no opposition, I think what Councilman Ivey is going to do is look to see if some private donors will willingly provide funding for an arch, at which point he would bring it and present it to council. I'd be happy to. Is that anyone opposed to that?

We don't vote in a workshop meeting, but... No, but what's the plan with the remaining 57,000 if the rest is 320?

Maybe let's wait and see where it all comes out, and then we'll know exactly how much we have left, and then you guys can decide what to do with the remaining, whatever is remaining. I think I sent out an email with the different options, but... We don't want to discuss that now. I mean, we can, but we don't know exactly what the number is yet once Paul gets all gets everything together, we'll know exactly how much we have remaining. And then I think that makes an easier conversation.

I don't know that an exact number really matters. There's going to be a little bit extra. I mean, personally, in my book, it's debt, right? So I would rather pay the debt down. That's just me.

That's kind of the conversation I wanted. Whatever's remaining after we do the essentials. And then as we look at this archway with donations, then that doesn't. and then the rest goes toward the debt.

You're going to be around $65,000 probably when you look at that you're saying that you're estimating $320,000, that could change. But we also have $387,000 when our previous conversation, it was closer to $308,000 or whatever the conversation was. And so we're going to have a significant amount left over, but I wouldn't mind paying the debt down if that's a prudent thing to do. But we also look at maybe some needs in other areas for the city to consider as well. But I always like paying that down. That always makes you feel better. If you can do that, if it's the prudent thing to do, then I think paying it down would be great. But we haven't heard even some other options that you might have bring forward and say, well, this could really help with this or that.

Little league concession stand building that gave you guys this. We've got a lot of parks projects.

That thing was trimmed.

One interesting part just from a governmental accounting standpoint is because the money came out of impact fees, it came out of bond, and it came out of the grant. For a purpose. For instance, we can't take it and use it for upgrades at the community center or any other place. The only thing we can do with it is pay down the bond or put it back into impact fees, which those came from. But we have a lot of impact fees. Or into the project. Or use it for this project, yes. Those are your three options.

Paul, will you let me know when you have that list and those numbers based on council feedback? And we'll get you back on another workshop agenda. We'll keep chewing on it.

Hey, Paul, can I say one last thing, Mayor, if you don't mind? I've gotten to know the new employees, and I don't know who does your hiring, but if I had a business, I'd have you hiring for me. They are great individuals that have just brought a really good feel to the park where they're very kind, but there's a presence there that is fantastic. So I'll just say good job on that as well. Thank you. We're really happy with the employees we've got out there.

They've been great. Thank you.

Thanks, Paul. Council, anything else on Wills Park? Jordan been seen rollerblading down there? Any sightings of? Where's Jordan? Is he wearing knee pads and a helmet? Elbow pads too?

And a pillow tied on his backside. Pillow on the backside.

OK. If there's no further discussion on Wills Park upgrades, I will ask for a roll call vote. First of all motion the second followed by a roll call vote to go into closed session To discuss pending or potential litigation and then we will reconvene at 6 o'clock in the council chamber for a regular meeting So made second a motion to go to closed session for pending or potential litigation by councilman Bellison with a second But councilman Colts will go roll call with councilmember Belliston. I Henderson coats. All right, Ivy. Hi Casperson We are moving into the boardroom for that closed session. Thank you everyone.

There's a learning curve to it. Slowly.

Started here. It's six o'clock. Despite going a little over time for the workshop, we are back on schedule. Today is Wednesday, July 22nd, 2026. We are in the council chambers at City Hall for our regular meeting. As a reminder, our meetings are streamed live and archived at washingtoncity.org slash meetings. We appreciate our relationship with the Interfaith Council, and I'll invite Casey Jones of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to offer our invocation.

Thank you. Just briefly wanted to bring on behalf of the entire Interfaith Council their love, prayers, support and appreciation for the work that happens in Washington City. So thanks to all of you for all that you do. Our Heavenly Father, we are grateful to be gathered in this beautiful facility, in this space where civic discourse can happen and where lives become better and where important decisions are made. Heavenly Father, we ask that thou please be with Mayor Staley and with all the council members. Please also be with all this employees in the city departments and all of the work that they do that make this community such a wonderful place to live. Father, we'd also ask thy blessing to be upon our friends and neighbors to the north. Please bless those in Beaver County who are suffering and please help us to reach out with help and love and support to them in this time of need. Heavenly Father, please bless that this meeting will be able to have thy presence, that civic discourse will be able to happen peacefully, and that there will be wisdom in making the decisions that are laid before the council this night. And again, we're grateful for all of thy blessing. And we say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Amen. Thank you, Sister Jones. I've asked Councilman Henderson to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Please follow me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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.

Counsel, I will make note that we do not have need for closed session this evening. That said, I'll call for a motion to approve the agenda as outlined. So made. Second. I have a motion by Councilman Bellison, a second by Councilman Coates. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? The agenda is approved unanimously. I will make note that today, July 22nd, we are 178 years, 363 days from 24th of July, 1847, when Brigham Young and that first wagon company traveled about 1,300 miles from Illinois into the Salt Lake Valley. And I think the famous words were something along the lines of, this is the place. The unlucky ones got sent south a few years later on what they call the Cotton Mission. Nonetheless, we will still have a really nice celebration on Friday for Pioneer Day. Incidentally, we are 250 years and 18 days removed from the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Pretty impressive. And we're 250 years, 20 days removed from the official vote in Congress that declared the colonies free from from British rule. So just a couple of fun points of context for the day and year and the blessing we find ourselves to be in Utah and as a state in the United States of America. Speaking of the 24th of July, the parade will be wonderful. The entries were full well in advance. It will start at 8 AM. It will follow the parade route from the community center on 300. It will turn right or to the west on Telegraph Street, and it will end up Main Street a block or two. At 9 a.m., free donuts at Veterans Park for attendees in red, white, and blue. I'm not sure if one or two of those combinations will get you a free donut. I don't think I'd take my chances. From 9 to noon, we will have games, our traditional foot races and activities at Veterans Park. If you stay after noon, it's too hot, go home. From 10 to 11 in Heritage Hall, we'll have a reading of the Declaration of Independence. I have it on good authority that CURRENT COUNCILMEMBER, FIRST FUTURE COMMISSIONER TROY BELLISON WILL TAKE PART IN THAT READING ALONG WITH OTHERS. I SAID IF THEY GET DESPERATE I'LL HELP OUT TOO. AT 11 A.M. FREE POPSICLES AGAIN FOR ATTENDEES DRESSED IN RED, WHITE AND BLUE. THAT NIGHT 10 P.M. FIREWORKS WILL BE LIT OFF FROM THE COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ENTIRE WASHINGTON COUNTY COMMUNITY TO ENJOY. WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME CHAIR OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION, PETE BULLOCK. JUST WALKED IN. COUNCIL, ANYTHING THAT I MISSED ON ANNOUNCEMENTS THIS EVENING? I EMBELLISHED A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLY SHORT AGENDA TONIGHT. NEXT ITEM OF BUSINESS, DECLARATIONS AND ABSTENTIONS. ANYTHING TO DECLARE OR ANYONE ABSTAINING FROM A VOTE THIS EVENING? Seeing none, we'll move on to the consent agenda, which consists of approval of minutes from the city council meeting 7-8-26. I'll call for a motion on that.

Mayor, I can make that approval.

I read the minutes and found them to be in order. You've heard the motion by Councilman Ivey. Is there a second? Second. Second by Councilman Belliston. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? That is approved unanimously 5-0. Item five, award of bid. This is consideration toward the bid for the Telegraph Street Asphalt Repair Project to stake or parson in the amount of $624,165. Assistant Public Works Director Andy Steven, if you'll present on this item.

Mayor and council, thank you for your time. So this is the first of a multi-year project TO DO A MAINTENANCE PROJECT ON TELEGRAPH STREET. SO THIS PROJECT WILL GO JUST THE EASTBOUND TRAVEL LANES. SO WE'RE SEEING SEVERE RUTTING AND SOME ISSUES WITH THE RIDE ON THAT ROAD. SO THIS PROJECT WILL START AT 300 EAST AND IT GOES TO THROUGH THE INTERSECTION AT HIGHLAND AND WE'RE LOOKING TO PROBABLY EXTEND THE QUANTITIES AND GO CLEAR TO COUNTRYWAY WITH THE PRICES THAT WE SAW.

Wonderful. So this is the eastbound lane. So half telegraph. Yeah.

So just the eastbound, we'll just do from the bike lane, take out the double yellows. And so just the travel lanes and we'll be milling off two inches asphalt and putting back two inches asphalt.

Okay. Council questions for Andy.

I'm just, again, kind of surprised that the engineer engineer's estimate was like $210,000 higher than the actual.

Don't say that out loud though.

My bids will come in higher next time. I'm happy that they are, but is that kind of the trend that we're still seeing?

Yeah. I think personally that the engineers are still kind of running off of COVID prices where they were out of the ballpark. And so they adjusted up and now we're seeing more realistic prices. So I could see the engineers coming back down.

Further discussion on this item? Milanoff, two inches. When would we get started?

We kind of left that open to whenever it fit in their schedule, which I think were reflected in the pricing.

Good. Council, if there's no further discussion, I'll entertain a motion.

Mayor, I'll make that motion that we approve the award. TO STAKER PARSONS WESTERN ROCK FOR $624,165, PLUS ANY ADDITIONAL DOLLARS THEY DECIDE FOR THE EXTENSION UP TO THE BUDGETED, WE ALREADY HAVE BUDGETED FOR THE PROJECT.

NEW SPEAKER Yeah, THIS COMES OUT OF THE MAINTENANCE MONEY. NEW SPEAKER THANKS.

WELL SAID, COUNCILMAN COATS. YOU'VE HEARD THE MOTION. IS THERE A SECOND? NEW SPEAKER SECOND, BUT JUST A QUICK QUESTION.

Well, he mentioned he's going to extend quantities and go farther because they had budgeted eight up to 800. Right, Andy?

Yeah. Yeah. I was I was thinking 800.

So so I would say, well, I'm just to the state of Parsons, but then giving him the latitude for a change or for a change order up to the budget amount of 800000. Is that what we had?

Yeah. Yeah. So I have an engineer estimate to extend the quantities to country way is one hundred and ninety six thousand five hundred.

Okay, so I would leave that up to staff to determine. Second.

Okay, you've heard the amended motion by Councilman Coates and a second by Councilman Belliston. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Thanks, Andy. That's approved 5-0. Item 6, we have a couple of conditional use permits. 6A, consideration to approve a conditional use permit C-26-05 for a commercial development located at 912 West, Red Cliffs Drive. Applicant is Greens Development, Community Development Director Eldon Gibb will present.

Thank you, Mayor. Council, this site is approximately 1.98 acres in size and currently zoned C2. The surrounding zoning is open space to the north and C2 to the east, south, and west. The applicant has submitted a demolition permit to remove the quality inn that's currently located there, and that has been approved. Should be seeing work take place here shortly. Yeah, we're out there today getting going. So that's great. Great news. Get that going. The applicant is proposing two new retail buildings. Pull up the site plan here. The applicant is proposing two new retail buildings and one NEW RESTAURANT BUILDING. THESE USES ARE PERMITTED IN THE C2 ZONING. HOWEVER, BUILDINGS LARGER THAN 5,000 SQUARE FEET REQUIRE CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT APPROVAL. AS SHOWN ON THE SITE PLAN, THE LARGER RETAIL BUILDING IS SITUATED ON THE NORTHEAST SIDE. ZOOM IN HERE TO THAT ONE. AND IS 26 FEET TALL AND INCLUDES A VARIETY OF EXTERIOR COLORS. This building meets the required 20 foot street side and 10 foot side property line setbacks. Zoom in on these buildings adjacent to Red Cliffs here. The proposed 3,000 square foot restaurant and 3,100 square foot retail building are shown adjacent to Red Cliffs. These buildings are 27 feet tall. include building segmentation and were designated to match the development on the corner of Red Cliffs and Green Springs Drive to create a cohesive building between the two. We'll go with a street view here. You can see this existing building there. The proposed building here on the corner, which will be located in this area here, will blend in with that existing building there. The required setback adjacent to Redcliffe Drive is 20 feet. The applicant is encroaching this setback, which will need to be approved by the City Council. The property line is angled at this location, with the closest part of the building being 11 feet from the back of sidewalk and 16 feet 5 inches to the farthest property line. The required site yard setback is 10 feet, and again, the applicant is proposing for this to be a zero-foot setback. This setback will also need to be approved by council. Staff understands the need for this request and supports this ask. Proposed buildings require a total of 187 parking spaces. And they are providing 117, 16 of which are for compact cars. Proposed parking is providing in excess of 30 parking spaces. The applicant will provide a shared access agreement from the proposed development through the parcel to the west, which is where the Costa Vida is located, to allow better vehicular access from Redcliffe Drive to this development. On July 15th, the Planning Commission reviewed this request and unanimously recommended approval as shown in the exhibits with the findings and conditioned as outlined below. We can pull up the building elevations here. You can see this is the larger 13,500 square foot in the northeast corner. And these are the two proposed buildings adjacent to Red Cliffs Drive.

Well, then is there a proposed sign to go on the site? Like a monument? Well, like a billboard sign for the freeway or no?

There's an existing sign. Last I heard, they're planning to utilize that sign and just swap out. So we shouldn't need a conditional use permit or anything with that. That concludes staff report. I'm happy to answer any other questions.

Council, additional questions for staff?

Yeah, real quick, Eldon. On those setbacks, What utilities do we have going through there? Or do we have any utilities going along there?

As for specifics, I know just the standard utilities are there. I'm sure John would love to come up.

Thank you.

It was more fun to watch Eldon sit there screaming. Hey, we're not going to let Eldon do your job, John. Come on. No, we don't have any utilities that parallel the roadway outside of the standard dry utilities and stuff there. All of our utilities are coming in perpendicular to it. There's storm drain that you can see that comes up through the Costa Vida drive-through, but nothing specifically where their buildings are looking.

Because under the staff report, both Public Works and Engineer brought up the setbacks. is public works and the engineer comfortable with encroaching into the setback right from utilities perspective or for other perspective right i don't know that there's a site issue so much but i mean we're 50 into that and i know that those the some of the other times we've had I've seen staff get a little funny at times when things get built in a public utility easement.

We would never get upset about that. No. My comments in regards to easements and stuff are back further in the development for looping of water mains and stuff like that for the development back there. This up front, we're comfortable with what we have. Our water main and everything is all free and clear of this. So we don't see that this is... We have no problems with it. No, they're working on a vacation of gas easement that runs up through there and stuff like that, but we don't have any issues with this one in this location.

Okay. Well, I've got John. Any other questions?

If you're happy, I'm happy, John. I always want to make you happy, Troy.

I guess my only question is I'm assuming these are The easements they need to vacate are the old access easement, and if there's gas easements, those don't come back to us, correct? That would go to only the public utilities easement. Sorry, John.

Yeah, you're right. The gas easement from what I've seen is actually with the gas company, so it won't come back for us. The access easement is accessed between.

I'm just saying, can we do that in this motion if there are any? that staff just work through those or do we have to? I mean, it's more of a question for that.

There is no access easement. I looked on the plat. The only access easement that is noted on county website is is this one that we want to keep the one that's going to go away? I looked and searched and couldn't find a documented access. He's been there.

That's yeah. Yeah, I'm fine. I just want to make sure I just like to take care of it all in this. if we needed to. So staff could take care of those vacations if we had to. And that was my only question, if there were any that came up.

But if we don't believe it's a public right, there's nothing for you to vacate. Now, the private landowner may assert and say we still have a right to access the road at that location. And we've got we've hired a firm to represent and consult on that for the with those landowners.

Yeah, that was I appreciate that. I just I'm asking I'll just drop it. If there's none, I won't worry about it. I just wanted to make sure we took care of everything in this meeting so we're not back in three months saying, oh, we got to vacate this easement or this. But if there's not any we need to worry about from the Washington City side, then I'm not worried about it.

Usually there's little details that need to be buttoned up a few months in, but none that we're aware of right now. We're buttoning up the details we're aware of today.

Council, any need to speak to the applicant or the applicant's representative? If not, I'm happy to entertain further discussion and or a motion on this item. Mayor, I'm ready to make a motion if the council is. I see no objections.

Go ahead. I'll make a motion. We approve conditional use permit C-26-05 at 912 West Redcliffe Drives with the finding conditions outlined by staff.

Second.

I have a motion by Councilman