Council Meetings - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Thank you for being here at city hall in the council chamber for our June 11th, 2025 regular council meeting. Before we begin, I'd just like to excuse Councilman Belliston, who is uh with family this evening and asked to be excused. Uh, as always, our meetings are broadcast live on our website, which is Washington city.org/meings, and they're also archived there for later viewing. Uh, this evening, I've invited Councilwoman Kim Kim Casperson to give the invocation. After that, I'll invite uh Chief Jason Williams to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Our father in heaven, we're grateful to be here together as community members and residents of Washington City and uh we're grateful for to be able to live here and grateful for the freedoms in which we we have and ask that thou would bless us with your spirit and your guidance and your direction tonight. And we say these things in the name of Christ. Amen. Amen. 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. Council, I will note that we do have need to go to close session this evening and that

will be for pending or potential litigation and also for um purchase exchange or lease of property. That said, I'll I'll call for a motion to approve the agenda as outlined. So moved, Mayor. I have a motion by Councilman Coats. Second. Second by Councilwoman Caspersonson. All in favor? I. The agenda is approved. Announcements. Uh, city hall will be closed on Thursday, June 19th in observance of Junth. And now for another proud announcement for our Washington City High School. Uh, I'd like to invite Coach Abbott and three of the seniors if you'd come forward. Uh, well, I'll just talk while you're coming forward. Uh, this has been a pretty special run, and I'm convinced that, uh, you know, I wasn't much of a baseball player myself, but, uh, you know, four years as mayor, three of those years you guys have won state. This year it was, uh, it was going in as as the underdog rather than the favorite. Can you talk just a little bit about this remarkable season? Um, introduce us to your players and then I I'll interact with them just a little bit. Coach Coach Abbott. Um, I what a lot of people don't realize is um, you know, going in as the underdog in the eight seed, the lowest seed point going into the state tournament. Um, the losses that we had, six out of our eight losses were all by one run. Um, you know, we had a little opportunities there to close games out. didn't get it done. But I think it was something that really kind of resonated and stuck, especially with these seniors and the leadership and, you know, the uh the energy that they brought. They weren't going to let any of those underassman, you know, feel like that again. And these guys really, you know, put those underassman on their back and and did a great job as seniors.

So overall, uh, this the the season for me is something that's special because, um, I felt like the grind, you know, and and and the grit that these guys had was something that was special. And, you know, people on the outside, you know, don't see the the hours that these guys put in at practice. And, you know, I told these guys time and time again, it's the best part of my day is going to practice with these guys. And it it was it was seriously, it was so much fun. It was great. And you know, these guys were a big part of it. So, yeah, it was special. So, so coach, tell us, actually, you know what? Why don't each of you just take take a turn and introduce yourself? And now I recognize you cuz I I I got on there and and watched the live stream. It was too hot for me to go out and it's not too hot, but it was just more convenient to watch it from my couch. So, I turned on the live stream and watched watched you guys during uh the the finals there. It was awesome. I think you were on the mound. Tell tell us your name. Uh I'm Staten Cranadon. Okay. Tell us your position and and and tell me tell me a little bit about your experience on that best of three with the cross town rivals over there at Snow Canyon and all your buddies over there. Bragging rights, the state championship trophy on the line, hardware. Uh, I'm a pitcher and for my experience, I came in and started to close the game and just couldn't get the job done and the guys behind me back me up and it's all I like to see is guys behind me doing their job and being able to be able to uh hope on those guys and see them uh do the job that I couldn't do. So, you you pitched earlier in the tournament and then did you pitch game two in of the state tournament of of the finals? Yeah, I came in during like the sixth inning and started to pitch and just couldn't get out of that inning. So, they brought in Quinn Chznik and he did his job and got out of that inning and then closed the game out for us. Yeah, it was awesome. What a great Hey, what's what's been the best part of the year for you? State

hardware aside, like what what's been the best best part of this season for you? Uh probably winning state because I moved down here my junior year and it was just a good experience to be able to come out here and Abbott trusting me to be able to come out and pitch for his squad. So that's probably the best part. So a lot of these individuals up here have played sports. One collegiately she's wearing purple. But you know the at some point the sports end and you you might go on and play next level. I don't know. But I can tell you like looking back at my experience and you know coach Ivy was there at Dixie with multiple state championships that you always remember those relationships and those things your coach taught you. So here's my question for you. What's the one thing you're going to take from coach Abbott that you'll remember throughout your life? What's the one thing that that that that crosses over from baseball to the rest of the great things you're going to do in life? To never give up and to always put my all in everything that I do. To never give up and to always put my all your I do. Yeah. Awesome. I love it. Congratulations. All right, let's go with MacArthur. It's Yeah. Jason. Jason. Big your dad's Andy. My dad's Aaron. Not. Is Andy an uncle, too? Yeah, Andy's my uncle. So, I went Ira, then Andy, and it was Aaron. Andy's a soccer player. Mayor. Yeah. Wait. Okay. I I I know your dad, too. Okay. So, what position do you play? Uh, shortstop. You're at shortstop. Lead off. Yeah. You lead off that. Lead off. Play shortstop. Nice. Tell me about it. Tell me about the season. You guys were You weren't supposed to win state. What happened? Yeah. A lot of people in the beginning kind of overlooked us, but uh my own personal opinion like the kids that I played with, like all the team, like the

just the team, all the kids that were on it, like uh you know, there's a couple games where uh we really put it together and put it to a few teams and uh kind of saw the potential in the team and uh at like at the start like few of us were nervous and stuff about it, but um I was pretty confident all the way through and But just, you know, you got to play as a team and, uh, that's what we did and we were able to come out on top. So, aside from that series with Snow Canyon, what uh, you know, what was the toughest part of the of the tournament? What was the was there a point there? Did you guys have Ridgeline in the in the in the semis or No, we had Tempenogous. You had Tempanoggas. I mean, what was there a point there where it got a little where it got a little crazy? Um, I wouldn't say crazy. Uh, I we we were down against them in that one game and uh, you know, we just battled our way through because they'd come back through the one loss side, right, of the bracket. Yeah. So, we end we beat Desert Hills and then we beat them. Uh, hey, you weren't supposed to beat Desert Hills. Yeah, Desert Hills. They everybody was just talking really highly and they're a good team and, you know, it all came down to who was playing better that day and so we ended up playing better and beating them uh, two to zero. And so yeah, but we ended up playing those two games against Simpanogus too and we were down in the one and you know one of the things that we were talking about like in the huddles was just how gritty uh we were as a team and so you know in that situation like the game's never over and so you know we just got gritty and we were able to pull through. How' that how'd that game turn? What turned that game when you were down at Typanovas? Uh I don't know. We uh we had Matt Staley. Uh he was one of the mental coaches, I guess. And uh you know, he got us together and we all talked as a team and like he would gather us uh in between innings and stuff, but um you know, we just kind of sat back as a team like the

game's not over and we knew we're a good enough team to you know, we can go put up four or five rounds an inning and you know, you just never know what can happen. So you just got to stay in it. I love it. Same question. Life lesson from coach Abbott. just, you know, if you're going to do something, kind of what Staten said, relay to that, just, you know, do do it with all you got and uh, you know, be a good person. And so, like, uh, Abbott and a lot of the other coaches, they care not just like about the kind of player that you are, but, um, they care a lot about like the person you are outside of baseball. And, uh, yeah, just, you know, learn to care about others and put your all into whatever you're doing. I love it. I thought you were gonna say get gritty. Get gritty. Hey, good job. All right, Whitmer, get up here. So, I'm gonna name two of your uncles, too. Danny and Shane. Yeah, they're my dad's cousins. So, all right. Tie me in. Who's your dad? Tyler Whitw. Tyler, of course. Okay. What position do you play? Um, I was the center fielder and relief pitcher. How did you put up with that right fielder? The redheaded kid. I love Cutter, man. Sometimes he scares me when he's slipping in the outfield. You don't know what's going Yeah, that was there was a slip late in that game, but you know, early two doubles, one from each side of the plate, you know, for sure. But early in the tournament, I lost the ball and he came out of nowhere and made a amazing catch right in front of me. So So center, you've got priority. I mean, you you got some wheels and some ground to cover. Tell me that game. How was how what was your experience like? Tell us about the game. What was your experience like? In the final games, I didn't really get anything. So I was just there to, you know, fill a spot in, I guess. But cheer for McKay, right? Who was making crazy plays and trying to help cut her out sometimes, but it was it was an awesome day. Tell us about that Tenonogus game. Yeah. Okay, we know. So, yeah, it was um I had a bad game for the beginning. I had three what three strikeouts and then we had uh guys on second and third were

down by down by one and then I had a single to put us up and then uh later went to extras and Ryder Lenn hit the hit the walk-off to win the game. So it's a great game. So let's talk about that. I mean isn't that life sometimes like three times to play you not getting wet but then the fourth time when it mattered Mhm. for just how baseball is. You got on base, right? Yep. just going through when you need to, which is how our whole team was all year. Well, you guys make us so proud. Like honestly, we just like your success at Crimson Cliffs, it's Washington success and we we feel like we're doing a lot of things right here, too. So, I'm going to ask you the same question and I'm going to give Coach Abbott the last word. Um, what's Coach T? I know you guys are all seniors and I know a lot of your I know a lot of your peers are out playing and different things right tonight and couldn't be here, but what uh what's that life lesson that you'll take with you? Uh definitely one of the many was to always lift each other up around you. Never put anyone down cuz nothing's going to work out, especially during our season. You keep each other up. Just have the most fun you can. That's that's how we won. I think we're just we had so much fun. I love it. I love it. It's a game. you're supposed to have fun. And I love the fact that uh I actually think it's a testament to you, coach, when you when when you're building you got a program and you're rebuilding this team and I don't think it's how you start, but how you finish the season. Coach, give us a last word. What would you like to tell your players? What would you like to tell the community? And what can we do to continue to support you? Um, yeah, the uh I will say in Jackson's three strikeouts, so I think I think at least all three of those some of those were balls. Yeah. So, he had some good at bats. I know the strikeouts don't don't say that, but his his at bats leading up to that was the right guy for that spot. So, you know, the community is great. You know, I think, you know, on a Tuesday and a Friday night at our place underneath the lights, it's it's packed and and people in our community

are great. And you know, I even mentioned that in a postgame interview after the state championship. We're grateful to be part of a great community. You know, our administration was really supportive and you know, I talked to Kurt, you know, quite often throughout the season and you know, always telling us good luck. If you need anything, let us know. But uh yeah, I think he build his house close to the field just so you know, just so you can come and watch. Just like a moth, I go to the lights. No, this is it's a special group. I'm going to miss these guys. this this group of seniors, we had seven of them. And uh you know, you you every year you lose seniors and you think about how you're going to be able to replace those guys. And you know, at times you're like, "Yeah, you know, I think I can kind of replace him with with him." And this group's going to be tough. And like you know, like Jason said, it's it's not the baseball players that I feel like I'm replacing. It's the it's the young men and the relationships. Yeah. and and you know you know stat moved in but you know these guys have been a part of our program since since they were freshman and you know Jax is going on a mission and to Baltimore and coming back and going and playing at Eastern Utah um and uh you know um by trade if you guys need some electrical work Jason's an electrician nice he might have an opportunity to go play some college baseball we're trying to work on that MacArthur you know a little bit about electrical work just just great guys, great kids to be around, you know, and then the other five seniors, one's going to, you know, a junior college in California, and the the rest of them are going on missions. Peru, where's Matt going? Ohio, Cincinnati, Ohio. So, yeah, it's great group of guys. I was just grateful to be a part of it and be able to spend some time with these guys. So, we appreciate all you do for the community and the culture that that you've built and that you maintain. And we're just really proud of you. I know I promised you the last word, but council, any any thoughts or interaction you'd like to have here? good job. Like I don't know. I mean, I live right there. My son goes to school

there. I mean, I I love Crimson High School. My wife's a Pine View grad and we love Pine View as well. So, I only tease her a little bit about being Pine View, but I only say that because our attorney is a Pine View grad as well, but we love both our schools and we're so proud of Crimson and what you guys have done. So, appreciate it, guys. So, Mayor, I just I I want to, you know, this is really special for me. You know, um I was able to to coach uh MacArthur's dad to a state championship in 94. And the thing that you guys already realize is that binds you together forever in greatness. You know, it's it's emotional to me. So, I'm sorry. But Stanton, I want to talk to you for just a second because of something you said. Okay? You said that you didn't get it done. You couldn't get done. So give me let me tell you what I saw. I saw a kid do a gut check that I hadn't seen all year. I saw you get through the three innings before in big s in big you know you don't have blanket success in in sports or in life. You've got some setbacks but I saw you really do a deep dive into who you are and through pitches at the great time and keep your team in a position to win. So you know I just I want you to know that it I noticed it in the stands. I told everyone I was sitting by. So we we know what how you guys won, but those are the things that you know as players. You ask any of your teammates about that those previous innings to when you were taken out, you kept them in the game in a very difficult position for your team for pitching and stuff. So anyway, I can talk baseball. Mayor, I'm done. Thank you. Appreciate it. Guys, can we get a picture before Good job guys.

We got ready. Thanks for coming. All right. Next item of business, declaration of abstensions and conflicts. Anything to declare this evening? Seeing none, we'll go to the consent agenda with approval of minutes. Consideration to approve the minutes from city council meetings of 51425 and 52825 and board audit report. consideration to approve the board audit report from May 2025. Any clarification or any item to pull? If not, I'll call for a motion on the consent agenda. I've reviewed those minutes and I can make a motion to approve the consent agenda for our June 11th meeting. Council, you've heard the motion by Councilman Ivy. Is there a second? Second. Second by Councilman Coats. All in favor? I. That is approved unanimously. Item five, public hearing. This is a This is item 5A. This is a public hearing and consideration to approve height waiver request HW-25-01 for a church to be located at approximately 3265 South 300 East. The applicant is Sky Engineering Community

Development Assistant Director Elden Gibb. Will present to council on this item. Mr. Gibb. Thank you, Mayor. council. The applicant is requesting a height waiver to extend above the maximum building height in this residential zone, which is 35 ft. They are asking to extend the steeple portion of this church up to 69 ft at its highest point. Um, this is in line with previous height waiverss that we've done within a few feet. That concludes staff report. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Questions for staff? Thank you, Elden. This is a public hearing. Anyone who would like to speak to this item, please come forward, state your name for the record. Seeing none, I will close the public hearing and move and turn to the council for a motion to a motion on this item. I'll make a motion to approve the height waiver HW 251 for a church to be located approximately 65 South, 300 East. I've got a motion by Councilwoman Caspersonson. Is there a second? A second of Mayor. Second by Councilman Ivy. Let's go. Uh roll call on this beginning with Council Member Henderson. Coats. Ivy Caspersonson. Hi. That is approved unanimously. We'll move on to the next section of the agenda which is ordinances. I will note that for the three uh items under ordinances, the public hearings occurred last week at the planning commission. Like to welcome Commissioner Davis here this evening. Appreciate the work you do for the community. And I will also note that we did not receive any additional public uh comment. Although I will note that I think we did receive an email that I read this afternoon that the city

manager replied to. That said, we will go to item 6A. This is consideration to approve an ordinance for zone change Z-25-12 from A20 to OS or open space and RA1 and A5 located at approximately 1410 South Heritage Fields Drive. Community Development Dire Assistant Director Elden Gibb will present to the council on this item. and council, I'm just going to give you fair warning, and this is a total joke, okay? But if we as we go by this, if this gets approved and houses are built there, my ribs will have another bruise from my wife by seeing farm fields become subdivisions. But we love the good neighbors that move in. I'm just saying my ribs will pay a little bit the price. So, Elden, if you'll present to the council on this one, and as a joke, it might be worth that then, mayor. I'm with you. The purpose for this zone change is to develop 5.11 acres of RA1 into a residential development, change 1.68 acres to open space, and uh maintain 6.91 acres of agricultural use. So, not quite all of it will be developed. So, some some good news there, Mayor. The proposed open space follows the existing erosion control wall and the remaining portion of this wall will be built out with development. The applicant has met with city staff and discussed the master plan trail and flood hazard in the area which will be addressed when the land develops. This particular location has a general plan land use of low density and open space. Low density supports a 3 to4

density per unit acre ratio. The surrounding zoning to this parcel is PUD to the north, A20 to the east and west, and R110 to the south. The planning commission reviewed this request on June 4th and unanimously recommended approval of the proposed zone change based on the following findings stated in the report. That concludes uh staff report. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Questions for Elden. Is the current flood plane where the open space line is or you know I I would have to compare side by side. I I believe you don't know. Okay. We can address it and the planning. I just have the same concerns I had on the last one. So yeah, I I know it follows the erosion control. Um, so it it should be in line with it. Okay. Is the erosion control that was built uh adjacent to River Shadows past this point? It is. Yeah. The wall extends into this development, but does it go all the way through it or does it stop? It stops. Okay. Just curious. All right. Thanks, Elden. Additional questions for staff on this zone change request. Council, do you have questions for the applicant or is the applicant or the applicant's representative here? We know you. Would you like to say anything or are you comfortable with moving forward? Any questions? Any questions for the applicant's representative? If not, I'll turn to you council for further discussion and or a motion on this particular item. You know, mayor, I did get out and went for a little walk today and walk along um on I believe it was 1410 South, is it? We got 1410 South and and uh kind of got some bearings on this property and and uh you know it's it's

really good. Council Coach keeps a good eye on that flood plane. I appreciate your work on that. That is something we always have to consider and I like the way that they put that open space to that that side. And um I'm actually um comfortable with this. If the council's ready for a motion, mayor, I'm ready unless there's any objection. Councilman Ivy, go ahead. Make a motion that we approve an ordinance for zone change Z-25-12 from A20 to open space RA1 and A5 located at approximately 1410 South Heritage Fields Drive. You've heard the motion by Councilman Ivy. Is there a second? Second. Second by Councilman Coats. We'll go a roll call beginning with Council Member Coats. Ivy. Caspersonson. I. Henderson. That is approved unanimously. Four to zero. Rick, you know what to do next. bring us back something nice. Okay. Next item 6B. This is consideration to approve an ordinance for zone change Z-25-14 from RA5 to I1 located at 1902 East Washington Dam Road. Once again, community development assistant director Elden Gibb will present to the council. Mr. Good. The I1 request is to use the land in accordance with the I1 use list in 9-11-1D, which purpose is to provide appropriate space for uses such as storage yards, warehousing, light manufact manufacturing, fabrication of goods, wholesaling, and other similar establishments without creating smoke, gas, odors to surrounding areas. This particular location has a general plan land use of industrial. Industrial supports the I1 and I2 uses and the surrounding zoning to this

parcel is RA1 to the north and east, PUB to the south and I1 to the west. The planning commission reviewed this request on June 4th, 2025 and unanimously recommended denial of this proposal due to the residential zoned properties to the north and east along with the limited access to the site. So you can see there it's kind of a flag type lot there and that access is 26 28 feet wide. And that was based on the following findings stated in staff report. That concludes my report. I'm happy to answer any additional questions you may have. Council questions for Elden. It was discussed in the planning commission meeting if they did want to further subdivide this property, they would be required to obtain additional land to bring the required width for any needed roadways to meet the minimum requirements. The applicants aware of that and in line with with that knowledge there. What is the access width currently? 26 28ish feet wide. Wouldn't that couldn't you do it based on an alley width though or is it not like to do a public road? Yes. But if you did a private road, couldn't you do it? 24 is the minimum. So, okay. As long as you're there aware of it. Mayor, maybe I just um would like a little more clarification. I don't know. I'm sure Councilman Henderson is there. C I'll

let the uh planning commission meetings as well as others. Um the denial was based on there being a residential home on the property with a private drive. Um maybe just a little context or back or information on that as to why that would lead to a denial to this property if there's something that maybe was spoken there that we need to understand better here. And Elden, if if you'll speak to that and then I will give the applicant an opportunity to speak as well. Go ahead, Elden. there was concern that the surrounding uh residential use uses um homeowners weren't aware informed of of what was going on and the applicant ruled out they've been in touch with those app uh homeowners and there's been no push back from those surrounding homeowners at the time that they reached out. Were there notices sent out? There were. Yes. And um we didn't receive any feedback from them either. Drew, can we zoom up on that so we can kind of get an idea of what the surrounding is? While he's looking at that, what was staff's recommendation on this? Staff supports the the change here. Recommended approval. We do recommend approval. Supported by the general plan. So Drew. Yeah. Thanks. So to the west, are those residences or are those shops?

Okay. Yes. I think it's owned industrial, right? Well, the general plan's industrial. Thank you. That's the north. He said the west. Yeah. Hey, Drew, can you speak into the mic, please? I know. It's like I'm losing it already. I know, too. So, this this particular property is owned by a family. They run their business out of it, but they also are horse people. See, they've got their arena back here. They've got their business stuff items up here in the front and this is their home. These folks just have their home and they've got a little roping area as well and some barn. But the stuff took but the one on the west is a multi- business recreational and and residents. I mean, I'm somewhat familiar with the area, but to the west, I don't see any houses there. Those are all shops, right? To the left. These are all industrial properties. Yep. And to the east is mostly a horse corral. Yes. And then did you say that home that's kind of in the center in the middle? Is that also Sorry. Right. Yeah. Right here. And then the other and then the other home. Is that all part of that? This is a different owner over here right on the north, but they use the same entrance. Both

these these folks use they come off pretty much side by side. What is the biggest difference between like an industrial and like a SC2 like an I what they're requesting with the I they're requesting I1 the I1 what are the permitted conditioned uses for I1 um well it we could go to the chart depend on what they wanted to do look at the comparison but like I say the difference between I1 and I2 is basically I1 is taking materials that have already been refined into something and then they create something, manufacture it. I2 is heavy industrial. They're taking raw materials, you know, whatever it is, and then and turning them into usable products that can be then turned into finished products in an I1 type thing. So, could say because C2 and then I So, what would you say? C2 and I1. We have a C3. C3 that's in there and that's kind of right at that border of I1. It's at the extreme business side but very very light industrial side is our C3 and um so that's the difference between those two and then C2 is on the other side of C3 which is pretty much straight retail. I1 also doesn't allow creating of smoke or gas right etc. But that's what I I2 is for is for all the noise, the smells, taking raw materials, making them into, you know, some sort of usable product. And then I I1 is taking those all those different products that have been made from the raw materials and making them into manufacture them into a finished product. I think that would be a concern to have, you know, because there's been previous issues with in this area where there's been

concern with with smells and, you know, where there's zoning with heavy industrial next to resident. Am I correct in just want to make sure I understand this? The concern is the surrounding zoning is not that there has been notice. There was no neighbors that reached out and was in opposition. It was just a concern of the planning commission for the the zoning around this property. Is that correct? Correct. Yeah. The existing uses there to the north and east. Councilman Henderson. Um, I guess one concern I would have when I look at it is large trucks coming in and turning around, you know. Um, but I mean I I guess we don't have any kind of a sight plan or anything yet on on that. So, I guess that would be my main concern just, you know, having had chops and stuff in the past myself with deliveries and big trucks coming in and stuff like that. Um, other than that, I mean, so it was noticed to all the neighbors and um, I mean, the general plan is industrial for that area. And, uh, so I mean, I I think I'm okay with it. You know, like I said, my only concern would be turning trucks around and stuff like that, but I guess that's something that needs to be uh discussed with the site plan, right? Once once there is one. So, well, I thought of that too, Councilman. Um, but I but with almost what, four and a half acres, but I I thought of that too. If it's if

it were small done me. No, you're you're fine. I want to hear the conversation. Councilman Casperson, anything else you have to add on this? Councilman Coats, you want to hear from the applicant? Applicant, you want to talk to the council? Come on forward and then just state your name for the record. I'm guessing you're Russ Robinson. I am not Russ. I'm actually Dave Kloff. I represent Okay. Say your name one more time into the mic. So Dave, last name is Kloff. It's C L O U G H. Welcome Dave. And noted on spelling. Um, what would you like the council to know about this zone change request? Well, so I mean the whole thing of it is is the more you look at the property, if you to go visit it, you could see that it actually makes a lot more sense if you go to visit in person than it does like a large industrial development plant. Um, the first thing to note with the with the entrance, if we could just scroll up just a little bit to the main road, Washington Dam. There we go. So, the access to this property would actually be right there as it goes off on the private lane, which we talked about is 26 to 28 ft wide. Uh, right now, that road is currently the one that's used for all the industrial site to the south. Wait, left, south, right? South. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. So that entire industrial area is using that right now as exists for all of their inout trucks. So the really the majority of the of the you know the the trucks things like that is already in place. Um the other thing to note about it is actually the city um of Washington took about 06 acres from this property uh right at that area right there to create that road actually goes into the industrial property there. Um so that was actually something that was given up back in 2005. Um the other thing with regards to the access is because as you come along the private road there um the house that is to the

north is about 20 ft lower in elevation and it's about 250 ft from where the trucks would be coming in. Um so there is a pretty decent buffer there uh to that. Um the other thing is is if you look at the if you can scroll down just a little bit if you look at the overall use of the property even though it is four and a half acres the useful area for this is actually substantially less. Um, with it being an I2 designation, you're most likely going to get a small business owner, something of that nature, landscaper, you know, plumber, something like that, some exterior yard space. But if you can see that, that entire um top portion corner of there is actually a wash. Um, so that is not at this point even even usable developable land. Uh, the other thing is is with the the 26T 28T entrance, you could not subdivide the property. So it' have to be a single industrial uh oneperson user property for uh for the entire site. So we we think the traffic and thing is actually going to be much more minimal than if you pictured a large industrial site. You're not going to have, you know, 40 50 foot trucks coming in packing up and delivering things. It's most likely going to be, you know, more of a small business owner that's going to support the community. Um so that's kind of with reference to uh the specific site. Um, with regards to the other things, just I'm a commercial real estate broker. I deal a lot with industrial. Uh, Washington County in general is severely lacking and has a huge demand for industrial sites like this. Uh, just closed on one a couple weeks ago and it was we literally looked for three and a half months, submitted several offers, multiple offers. Most of the time you have to purchase a building before it's even built well in advance, even basically before it even started because the demand is so high. Um, so there's a pretty significant demand for that in the area. Um, and it's it's yeah, it's something that would be by far the highest and best use for this property right now. You do have a somewhat of a large house on it. Some of

that can be converted into office space, things like that. But it is the owner that actually has that house obviously. Um, so it can either be raised or it can be, you know, it can actually be converted to office, however they want to do it structurally. They can figure out what to do with that, but it's there shouldn't really be much of a consideration with the reszone. Can I ask you a question? Yeah. So, does the owner the the applicant lives in that house right now? You're saying that you? Okay. Yeah. So, it is currently listed for sale. Okay. I mean, I uh you know, I that would be a fabulous uh property for like a a tradesman that could live at the house and have a giant shop in the back. I mean, it's perfect location that and um you know, I can't really see it being subdivided into more residential units. I mean, right, it really can't be. So, it's R it's at R5. So, actually right now we're actually below the limit for residential, right? As it is, it stands for the single um developer, the single home. I'm inclined to agree with Councilman Henderson. I think the most impacted property owner here would be the one to the north where he's got a driveway on the west and he's got a border his uh south and and this property's north and not hearing any concerns. That would be the one that would carry a lot of weight from me. I know that person that lives there and he knows me well enough that I'm sure he'd have reached out if they was if he had a concern. I tend to agree with Councilman Henderson on this just to help move the conversation on a little bit maybe. Anything else you'd like to share with the council? I don't think so. I appreciate it. Thank you. Good. Good call. Uh council, I'm going to turn to you now for further discussion and or a motion on item 6B.

Mayor, may I ask just one more question just as we're absolutely not here? I apologize. I didn't I didn't see it before you ask for that plan that um the the runoff on this on from the BLM was mentioned. Um and I'm sure we have a mitigation plan for that. Um but that was mentioned and I just I I know that it's been talked about, but can you address that please? Yeah. the runoff. Come up come up to the mic and and just state your name and could couldn't let you off that easy tonight. Mr. Robinson, thanks for being here. Speaking of the mic, tell us your name and answer the question. Russ Robinson. So, I've got a little pond in the back that kind of slows it down because it used to run down uh the ravine and come out on our property up at 1900. And when that property got developed into the road, I put a little BM in the back so it comes down to BLM. It stops on the BLM. You're comfortable with that? Yeah. Well, it's got a double. There's one there and then there's another one in front of it in case it ever overflows. That's good enough for me. I just want to make sure that Thank you. Discussed. Thank you. Further discussion, further questions for the applicant or staff? or John. I can't make a motion question, but Councilman Henderson can ask questions and make motions. Are there any issues with uh you know if we you know move forward and change the zoning to industrial are there any issues with some somebody

living on site and building a shop in the back? I mean zoning issues, you know what I'm saying? That that's kind of where the the rub I would say if there is a rub on this one is is that because our industrial code does not allow for residences in it. You can have a night watchman through a conditional use permit, but you're not supposed to have residences in I1 or I2. So in essence, I think they would be sacrificing if it's up for sale that they couldn't I hope they're not going to promote it as a a residence with industrial because we don't have any any zone for that. So if it gets changed um and they're the one asking for the change then they're sacrificing that that use. If we came and changed it they could stay and use it as a residence if we you know sweeping zone change say of of an area then we can change that but their grandfather didn't to do that he changed it. So you're squashing my dream of buying that house and I knew I that's why I kind of went really slow in saying it. I didn't jump on it, but yeah, I I knew that's probably what would be happening. Okay. Feel bad, but So, basically, the home would have to be either turned into something or raised. Come on back up, Mr. Cle. In fact, you just stay close by and then um if you'll add your comments and then I I know the city attorney has some comments to add as well. I mean it really there really wouldn't be much of a residence and live work situations are actually not all that common anymore. Uh most likely it's either going to be converted into an office uh with you know storage and things like that that it's going to be if it remains at all. Um depending on I mean right now most likely the uh again the most uh valuable use for that area is actually going to have it raised and probably for yard space uh exterior yard

storage things like that is is actually more of a value than than the actual uh house would be. The good thing is you can actually use as an office that actually helps with SBA uh financing because there's a structure they can actually use SBA financing as opposed to making it con uh construction loan. Okay, sounds good. That makes sense. Stay close. Stay Stay right there, Dad. Oh, I was just going to give the councilman some some legal terms. Uh, we we call it a pre-existing non-conforming use. And if the city came in, they said, "We're going to broadstroke this for something else." Usually, the pre-existing non-conforming uses are allowed to stay as long as they stay within the the narrow use that they were in at the time of that change. Um, this one the applicant's asking for all of it to be re reszoned and so we interpret that as meaning that that house would would go to that new use as well. Drew, while we've got you here for a little bit longer, um, if this is approved, the zone change request to I1 Industrial and the access is, you know, 26 to 28t lane or alley, you know, what kind of uses could you see that could handle traffic that would come onto that road there? And I mean I I look at I mean what if they want to do storage units and you start having you know more traffic there. Storage units would be I think um in this case where they say the use is very non-h harsh but the but the the uh the effects of that would be difficult on this one. I know you can't put a condition on a zone change but does does the ingress egress here factor into the next step if it's approved? It it would and what type of use they do. Now again, it would be perfect for a con, you know, a particular contractor that just had

needed an area to park a lot of different things in it. It would be great for them because it's just going to be them coming and going. Um, you know, a semi could get in and out of there. This is the size of a city park almost roughly four and a half acres. Our city parks are five acres. So, you can just pick any park you want and think a semi coming in. They they won't have any issues getting around um if it's just one and then getting back out. Um, but it it it'd be interesting to see what goes in there. But in this particular case, storage units would probably be one of the worst things. That's that's going in there due to the the volume that could happen at any given time of cars coming in and out. So, I hope that's not what they're looking at pushing. I hope John, will you talk come to the mic and talk just access management on what might be some of the limiting factors for the if this is approved for what the next phase would be? if you'll just share the mic there. Yeah, I think Drew was hit exactly right and stuff. If we saw something that had, you know, a high amount of traffic going in and out, um that would definitely cause us issues with our access management. Um again, we'd have to have something that's going to have a wider lane and have to try and obtain that extra extra width from the adjoining property owner and stuff to meet our our either private or public road, you know, especially if they try to subdivide it. But anything that's going to have that type of turnover like a storage units or something like that definitely would have be an issue for us um going forward. But these would be addressed at the at the um at the subdivision level or the or the site plan level. Right. Yeah. When they start to bring in their their um conditional use permit or our civil construction drives. Okay. Thank you, John Hanky. Further questions for staff or for the applicants? Okay. Thank you, Mr. CL. Um, I'm ready for a motion on this one

unless you guys have additional uh discussion or additional questions. I'll make a motion. Mayor, go ahead. Councilman Henderson. Um, I'd like to make a motion to approve an ordinance for zone change Z-25-14 from RA5 to I1 located at 1902 East Washington Dam Road. I have a motion by Councilman Henderson. Is there a second? I will second that, Mayor. A second by Councilman Ivy. We'll go roll call starting with Council Member Ivy. Hi, Caspersonson. Hi Henderson Coats. Hi. That is approved unanimously. Bring something good there. Okay, make it work. Thanks, guys. And I would just just for the record, um I think it's important to note that we did not receive any negative public feedback from the residential neighbors. I feel like we can work through the access at the next level and it is general planned for industrial. So I think those are all the compelling factors that the council would respectfully appreciate the plan commission's recommendation. But uh I think those are the compelling factors on this one. Thank you. You don't have to stay the rest of the meeting. We're not going to be here too late either. Next item 6C. This is consideration to approve an ordinance for zone change Z-25-15 from R16 to AP located at 181 East 200 North. The applicant, Washington City. The uh staff representative will be community development assistant director Elden Gibb. Talk to us about this zone

change request from ourselves to ourselves. from my understanding and which predates me. This was previously attempted which uh got denied at at some point. Hard to hear me there. Um on this second round here, we didn't receive any any comments from the public. Uh I think they've kind of adapted to the use and and you know, take that for what it's worth there. and might I add a beautiful parking area to the north of the Covenant home and the John De Bishop storehouse and so it's fitting in really nicely. So I appreciate you bringing this back now. Continued. Looks great. The requested change is from the current zoning of R16 to a proposed AP zoning designation. The surrounding zoning to this parcel is R16 to the north, east, south, and west. Staff has no concerns with the proposed zone change as outlined. The planning commission reviewed this request on June 4th and unanimously recommended approval of this proposed zone change based on the findings as stated in staff report. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have at this time. Questions for Elden? Thank you, Alden. Council, further discussion and or a motion on item 6C. I'll make a motion we approve the zone change Z-25-15 from R16 to AP. You've heard the motion by Councilman Coats. Is there a second? I'll make a substitute motion. I'll second it. I have a motion and a second done in good humor. We'll call We'll do roll call vote beginning with council member Caspersonson. Hi. Henderson. Hi. Coats. Hi. And Ivy. That was too soon. All

right. It's never too soon. And that concludes our ordinances. Um, next section of the agenda is a resolution. And this is uh the culmination of a lot of work by staff and uh significant involvement and review and even a conditional or preliminary approval by council. Item 7A is consideration to approve a resolution adopting the Washington city 20252026 fiscal year budget budget finance director Brian Brown. Elden, you got one off, but you're up again next. Okay, go ahead, Brian. Thank you, Mayor and Council. So, we held the public hearing on May 14th, and on up on the screen, I show there were just two changes. We removed the we added the 7500 to the youth council and removed it from the legislation bud budget and then also the wrap tax we from the tenant budget we put the $50,000. So the adopted budget be the $139 million and that's the final step of the budget for the fiscal year 26. Do you have any questions for me regarding the budget? Questions for Brian? We've spent months on this. So, any questions for Brian? Councilman Henderson, Councilman Ivy. Mayor, I don't really have any questions about the budget. It's we've all done our due diligence and going forward and backwards through it, but maybe just some updates on some things is what I don't know if this is where you'd like those considered, but I'd just like to have a just some comment about um like the community center, the golf courses, where they're at and what they're if they're uh in profit realm or if they're still striving towards that. Just for an

update on that. That's the only that's the only question that I have and then I'd make one more uh comment later on and that's all. Great. Brian, you want to address the golf course and community center? If not, I see that uh I see some department heads and assistants that might be able to address that. The golf course was at 100%. So, the amount of revenue they brought in exceeded uh expenses. So, that it's been operating like that the last few years, which is quite a change over the from when we were in the great recession. And then the community center when you look at the five years the last five years trend they've been I don't know the exact number I can email it to you I think it's right around 60% and they cover pretty much 60% of their expenses and that's how it's been for the last and has that been it it seems to me that 60% has been the target. Yeah. With that that's where so we're hitting target. Yeah. I would say just a clarification we're we don't ever expect the community center to cover its expenses. It just was never designed that way. That's it's a it's an expense for the community and a a service, but but it is hitting the target that the council has set for. Good questions, Councilman Ivy. No, I I appreciate that because that's I think that was our thought is it's a great benefit to our city, the golf course and the community center and I think it's it's performing very well and I think those are good words um Jeremy to to mention that because I think it has great benefit. It was just it's just something that we always strive for, you know, to that we'd love to make it as as profitable as it can be so that it doesn't dip into the general fund. But, uh, no, those are I'm very good with those answers, P. Yeah, I agree. And they are really, you think of Washington City, those are two of those assets that benefit not only our city, but the entire community. I mean, Green Spring Golf Course is just a really, you know, crown jewel of golf courses down here in our community center is one of a kind. So, um, let's go to Councilman

Caspersonson. Any any thoughts on the budget? Any questions? Yeah, Jeremy, can you just kind of talk about the the wrap baseball field design is allocated for that for the 50,000? Uh, this is a concept that came up during our initial discussions on the budget. And uh the request was made for a $50,000 wrap tax expense to to start planning and potentially architectural design on upgrading the baseball fields. So looking at potentially shade, um bathrooms, which it doesn't currently have, and maybe some storage areas. So that's just we don't really have a plan yet. This is the money to start putting together that plan. So would the plan be the design or what is the is the 50,000 what is that all that money what does that go to be enough to get us all the way to a design that we could put out for bid I would assume okay but the actual money to do the project is not in this budget so it would be in a subsequent budget so this year we would do the planning and then if the council wanted to you could you could allocate money for the actual project to Okay. You know, I actually appreciate council and I had bringing that forward as I was thinking about this since since a few meetings ago and we've got those restrooms to the east near the cemetery expansion that are really nice, but we don't really have functioning bathrooms there. In order to do that, we would have to, you know, pull utilities. Another thing that that might be something for that could be looked at with this design would be maybe rather than a new building that would cost a lot of money to bring bathrooms, you might look at a shade structure in that

center that would that would function more economically while not duplicating bathrooms that are just at the end of you know right field from the pony league field. So, those are just some things I think that maybe as as as staff and and we might get a little committee together to look at that we might just consider, you know, what's how do we get the most out of out of our RAP dollars and, you know, to what extent? But I know that there more in the softball world than the baseball world, but I know that often you're seeing kind of those snack shacks going away and sometimes you more have food trucks or something that come in or um or even, you know, pop-up tents, but if you have kind of a shade structure around that middle, that's really what a lot of people are looking for because they want to sit under the shade while they're so I think there's a lot of things that could be looked at on that field design discussed by the council. Apologize. I know uh just a couple weeks ago they had closing ceremonies for little league this year. They had Bob Jensen, his family there. Yeah. And for those of you who don't know this, he was the gentleman back in the batting cage. is we add the community. Community that recording in progress biggest the biggest concern that I had personally was the fact that I don't want four-year-olds going off site to go to the restroom. And I think that that to me was the motivation. I think we can deal with everything else. The board, little league board is wonderful. They don't complain. They put they deal with what they have. They always find a way for players to play even if they don't have money. We love that. That's what Washington City is. It's what we're about. But I just think that at some point we have to look at that whole complex and say it's probably been kind of displaced for a while. and and looking at it this way with this 50,000

I hope that we'll consider everything but I don't think there's an end target of how much we want to spend. I think it all depends on what the council decides and this will just help bring some alternatives forward. But for me personally it was really just storage for the coaches and and a decent bathroom there maybe two or three uh bathrooms so as I said the little little kids can not have to go off site to use the restroom and have parents trying to watch a game and trying to keep track of them. Well said. Well, and I was just, you know, wanting to know what that that money included. And, uh, you know, before we allocate money towards that, I was wondering if it would be helpful to, you know, oftentimes we make site visits, you know, before we make decisions like we did with other projects. And so I and I wonder if it'd be helpful to, you know, maybe have a some type of meeting there where we meet with city staff and different community members as a council and and kind of look there to see, you know, what would be the best use and improvements that could be made there. And I mean, I know that you're more familiar with it since you attend more of the games there, but you know, before we spend money on that, I think it might be helpful to do that to meet with That's a great idea as a council and with staff. Thoughts on this end? I think it's uh I agree with you, Councilman Caspersonson. I I like being involved. I I also know that it costs money to get going, too. So, I don't mind spending the money to get the plan started, but I think part of the plan should involve us as we go forward. So, I mean, I'd recommend we we keep the 50,000 to keep I mean, we're going to need it to get the plan going, whatever we decide to do on the project. So, that's how I'm looking at it is just the that it's what you need to get going on a plan and start a plan is kind of how I'm looking at it to to decide what we're going to do down there. Seems like

there's a need. So, I was going to say I like all comments. Um, Councilwoman Caspersonson, I think that's a great idea to make a site visit up there maybe for a meeting or something. We can go look up there and out a little bit and see what we think. But, uh, I agree, you know, we need to have some money in there, I think, this year. Um, we don't have to spend it all, you know, if but used to have some money available to uh to start the process. So, anyway, anyway, we can bring back the old raetball court and the old swimming pool with the high dye chicken wire. Yeah, I lost a lot of balls up getting stuck in the chicken wire. I lost my hearing in those raet ball courts. All those rocks up there trying to get your That's right. Yeah, those are good days back. So, councilwoman, how do you feel about leaving this amendment to the budget and then meeting on site before going forward? Does that feel good to you? Yeah, I'm good with, you know, having some I like to have know what the like the plan is that we're going to be spending our money, but I get that if we're going to move forward with it, it's nice to have it budgeted. So, when we do want to go forward, we don't have to come back and do, you know, amendment to the budget or something. So, I'm okay with having it there. I just want to be part of the process that, you know, I like it as we go forward with it. Okay. I think staff could commit to not spending the money until the council has had a chance to have a site visit. We would do that and I don't think they're ready on July 1st to start spending that money. Hang tight for a bit. That'll be great. Councilman, I have you said you had a final comment there on the No, I just I appreciate the comments, too. This council is just an honor to serve with these with this group individuals. It's well thought out, community- based, and I think we all see the value in it. But we take spending the citizens money very

seriously and I think a site visit would would be collectively a great idea. But leaving the money in I do agree it probably needs to stay there so we don't have to come back and revisit that part of it anyway. Well said. Okay council this is uh let's cross the finish line here. I'm looking for a motion to approve the fiscal year 2025 2026 budget. Here I'll make that motion. and we approve the 2025 2026 fiscal year budget in $139,39,389. Okay. You've heard the motion by Councilman Coats. Is there a second? I'll second that. Mayor, I have a a motion by Councilman Coats and a second by Councilman Henderson. We're going to go roll call on this item for approval of the budget beginning with council member Henderson. Hi. Coats. Ivy. Hi. Casperson. Hi. Brian, department head, city manager. Excellent work. Thank you. Thank you for uh for making it stretch. We appreciate it. Appreciate you too, Chief Williams. I hope you feel our support. Next section is land disposition item 8A. This is consideration to approve the disposition of land located at 4290 South 380 East. Applicant Washington City Community Development Assistant Director Elden Gibb will present. This is a little bit of housekeeping. Go ahead, Elder. Um, if we get this map up here, Drew, we could just pull up the corner of 380 East and 429. Hey, if Drew ever retires, who's going to drive right there? Well, we'll figure We're going to be if in big

trouble. We might have to put it right there where you are. There we go. that circled portion there that was included in a final plat uh phase three Finley Farms and by mistake it was dedicated over to the city in the owner's dedication. Um so we are asking to give that back to the applicant and they will their plan is to convert that into a residential building lot. Uh where's the detention pond then? It's in phase 1B just a half mile to the south. So, is there already laterals and everything stubbed to it? There is. So, I'm confused on why they needed it and now they don't need it. It originally came in on the preliminary plat. There was also history with separate ownership of the two phases. So, th this history goes back to some of those challenges we had at Weatherbe Way. And so, it may have originally needed it because it was trying to be a standalone phase, not connected to the other phase. Does that make sense? That makes sense. I just got a lot. We should one time funding for some baseball plans. We got room for a We got 90 foot bases there or we saying use that money to pay for the plan for the We got a We got a building lot. Councilman's saying we have a building lot. Do we want to really give it back? So yeah, there can you scroll to the plat language, Drew? Um the map district attorney didn't find that very funny. Well, it it's not a building lot. It's open space is what the plat shows it as. And the city generally tries not to own open space that's in an HOA. Mostly because HOAs come and have high expectations of what the city does with

those. Uh, I'm not seeing the dedicatory language on this one. It's not on there. Do you have the preliminary plat on this? Anyway, the where the error came in, they never did they never did sign anything that deeded it to the city, but within the dedicatory language of the plat, which is where the owner signed when they were listing the things they were dedicating to the city, which is usually things like roads and other public utilities. reason in that sentence the the word open space got added to that sentence and there was a second sentence that gave open space to the HOA and so there's just confusion and and kind of ambiguity in that paragraph is it's the city's open space not correct it's not really open space it's an empty dirt lot correct and and we dug into it realized it was intentionally originally intended to be a detention space. Um we are fortunate that the developer is the same between the two phases and the other phase has sufficient capacity for both phases detention duties. And so we understand that the that the owner was going to bring an amendment to to make that into a building lot too. But mostly we were glad to clarify the county's interpretation as the city owning open space as not being the case. I'm ready to make a motion if Go ahead, Councilman Coats. Make a motion that we approve the deposition of land located at 4290 South, 380 East. You've heard the motion to dispose of the land by Councilman Coats. Is there a second? Second. Second by Councilman Caspersonson. We'll go roll call on this starting with Council Member Coats. Ivy Caspersonson. Hi. Henderson.

The uh disposition of land as described has been approved unanimously. We'll move on to report of officers from assigned committees. Councilman Henderson, anything to report on? I don't have anything, Mayor. Councilman Coats? Yeah, a couple things, Mayor. Uh we had the ribbon cutting last Friday. I appreciate everyone that could make it. It was a good event at the landfill. Building's great. Um it's it's coming together quite nice. Like I said, we we've ordered uh we had our board meeting on Monday. One of the things I wanted to report is that we officially got approved. It's more for public works that we can now dump the city can now take their dirt to the landfill for free. No more charging. So, officially got approved for that. Um that was something that our staff informed me. We a few years ago they started charging for it. Um, and then kind of got through the loophole that we weren't supposed to really I didn't feel like we should have been charging our cities, but we brought it back to get it officially approved. So, you know, like sweeper tailings and stuff is good landfill cover. And so, we got that approved and passed through on that. How many votes were there on that? That's You got a big board there. 21 chair. It's We don't get 21 people there. We I bet we get 15 to 16 every time, give or take, but we're we're doing a lot. We are going to move our board meetings to the actual uh landfill good building with the new building. I think we're going to have a lot more Zoom callins I think now because of that. Just I don't know. Just think it'll happen. Uh but yeah, so that's what I have to report there. We did have flood control authority. Uh we're working on some funding. Uh Paul, our engineer is working on some funding with the flood control uh for some uh bank stabilization down the Virgin River. It is definitely getting pulled with the the new administration. Just some of the federal

funding got cut and that was one of them and so they were they're looking for some other type of funding to help fund that. I think like rip wrap or Yeah, some rip wrap rock along the the the washes along the Virgin River. They're but they're in the middle of working on that. So it's kind of my report on flood control. So, did I tell you I got my own key card to the to the Oh, I thought you meant inside the building. I'm like, I can't even get that and I've been trying. Oh, so so I don't I have I go where the commercial guys go now and I just Oh, man. It's like sky miles for Councilman Henderson. Slick. Yeah. We've been pushing the commercials like Councilman Henderson to go that way because we have that second lane and the intent is to go faster, but it's we don't have as much stacking distance as we used to have because of the new layout, but we have two lanes and so all the Republic trucks and all those just scan and go. And so we've been pushing the commercial haulers to get it so they can just scan because if they're there once or twice a week. Nice. Yeah, it's it's so congratul Hey, you've arrived. Yeah, you have officially Did they give you a hive I viz vest with your own name on it, too? I have two of those in my truck. So, wow. That's a good idea there, Mr. Chair of the Solid Waste Committee. Some embroidered orange vests. You guys need some swag. Is that what I'm hearing? I mean, I don't know if I can compete with the mosquito group, but I'll try. No, let's try. Oh, maybe for a user like you, they might be able to swing something VIP. Thank you, Councilman Coats. Councilman Ivy, Mayor, I'm going to spend my time talking about um MO um from our meeting on May 20th. We haven't met Van met since then. And there are some things just to quickly go over just so the board's aware or the council's aware, I'm sorry. Um there was a conversation in Mo that was brought about by Lever

and Springdale and Hurricane where they were kind of concerned with UD do going in and and cutting trees down the rightway that was in their city or maybe not in the rightway. And so we asked in our in our meeting, okay, before we cut trees down in the desert here and you know what what's the process? They said, well, if we consider it a hazard and so we we asked you about what those hazards were and we come to find out that there were not any outlines as to what those those were. And so we're in the process of figuring that out. I'll be talking to some staff and uh public works about what that looks like of what you know actually creates a hazard because you just don't want to cut trees down arbitrarily and that was those city's concern and so we're in the middle of that right now. Um, another update um, from this last legislative session, SB 195 was passed is a transportation amendments and um, there's a couple things in there that affects our city. Um, kind of just some meat and potatoes kind of stuff that has to do with updating transportation and traffic circulation elements and different things. But the uh the reason I wanted to bring it up is that the MO will be working with our local public work directors to accomplish these tasks so that we're in line with SB 195 without her without negatively impacting um our city. So, um we'll be working on that and uh just wanted to make sure that council knew about that. That's so if you had input um that was brought by um Nate at Dixo highlighted that. And then the last thing um that I'd mention is I had a conversation with Gary Webster from Senator Lee's office and um just asked him what the feel and the I don't know the mood or whatever you

want to call it in DC regarding um the Northern Corridor. and it still remains the that he said that the northern corridor is still the number one discussion. Um the um and said that that is one of Senator Lee's m main focuses and they feel confident. They feel confident it's still not across the finish line, but they feel like that that the right questions are being asked and that uh that he feels confident that that will continue moving. and and I asked uh Gary to check with the senator again on his houses act and how that looks according to our what we're trying to do here in Washington city to create affordable housing using state and federal lands for that purpose. So, um always always good meetings, great folks on that on that board. We have a meeting again next week and uh and we'll bring another update. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate your service there. You're doing a great job. Councilman Caspersonson, I met with the Arts Council and they have some really neat workshops coming or they have it planned for, you know, the summertime for the kids. And then there, if you go on their website on the washington city artscounsil.com, there's different information about when the those workshops are that they have planned for the kids. And in July, they're going to do they're going to host a free one for for kids. I don't know how many parents are actually watching or how many people here would be interested, but there there some of them are, you know, geared towards kids and then some of them are for adults. But I just thought I would share that information. I feel like they they're doing a good job at giving kids different opportunities to do, you know, different things creatively this summer. So, thanks for serving there. That arts council is doing a great job. Appreciate that. I have no updates. So, we'll go to the next item, which is city manager report. I I would just reiterate what what you

said about the budget. The budget is much more than Brian or myself. It it takes a lot of effort from all the departments all the way down um to put this together. So, we really appreciate all the work that went into that and appreciate the council for passing it and keeping us going for another year. Um other than that, I don't have anything to report. Mayor, thank you. Thanks, Jeremy. We do have need to go to close session for pending a potential litigation and purchase uh sale lease of potential purchase sell lease of property. I'll call for a motion to go to close move into close session. So made motion by Councilman Ivy. Second. Second by Councilman Coats. All in favor? I that is approved unanimously. Four to zero. We'll move into close session.