City Council - Regular Meeting

Recording in progress.

Okay, we'd like to welcome everyone and call to order the regular meeting of the West Valley City Council this July 14th, 2026. We're beginning our meeting at 630 p.m. in the council chambers of West Valley City Hall. Are we still missing one council member? Okay, so we have all council members present. Council Member Wood, Council Member Whetstone, Council Member Huynh, Council Member Christensen, Council Member Northfeldt are in person. Council Member Harmon is online. Myself, and then we're joined at the dais with our city manager, Mr. Peeley, and our, and then we're joined at the dais with our city manager, Mr. Peeley, and our supporter, Ms. Kamek. Tonight's opening ceremony will be conducted by Council Member Northfield.

Thank you, Mayor. This is our first meeting this month. I thought it would be appropriate to recognize the 250th anniversary for the passage of the resolution to declare independence and the signing of the Declaration of Independence. I found a letter that John Adams wrote to his wife that week back in 1776. It was pretty exciting to pass the resolution, even though there were a lot of things to be concerned about at that time. Our army wasn't doing so well, and it was gonna be a tough thing to accomplish to achieve our independence. But I really like what he wrote to Abigail on this occasion. He said, this day in July 1776 will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forevermore. You may think me transported with enthusiasm, but I am not. I am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this Declaration. and support and defend these states. Yet through all the gloom, I can see the rays of ravishing light and glory. I can see that the end is more than worth all the means and that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction, even although we should rue it, which I trust in God, we shall not." I love his optimism and excitement. We are in a difficult time today, 250 years later, and I hope that we can keep this independence and government that we have, this constitutional democratic republic that we are fortunate to be part of. And I am also optimistic that even though we have difficult times now and ahead of us, that we can prevail and and that we can continue. And with that, let's all rise and recite 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.

Thank you. We now move to our minutes of June 23rd, 2026. And I'll turn those to the council for discussion or a motion.

Move to approve the minutes of January 23rd, or June 23rd. Second.

Thank you. We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please say aye.

Aye.

OK, thank you. And those passed unanimously. We will now go to recognition of our West Fest committee members, and we'll turn the time over to Mr. Thomas.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Craig Thomas, Department of Community Engagement and Culture Department. I said that twice. I'll get it right. It's only been two years. Thank you so much for this opportunity to reintroduce you to the West Fest Committee. I gave them bad advice and told them to come at 530 tonight so they could hear the city department heads give their reports, and you were ahead of schedule. So they missed that, but they were all here, so give them credit for that. You know, I think I have told you on multiple occasions that I have one of the best jobs in the city, and I love my job. I get to work with amazing people on a daily basis. And this committee is an amazing committee. I have worked with West Fest over the years, 26 years, in various capacities. This year, the committee was reassigned to my department, and I got to work with them at a much different level this year. And I just want to say how much I appreciate them as amazing, dedicated residents of this community who love West Valley City with all of their hearts and they do an amazing job in representing West Valley City and organizing the 46 year tradition of West Fest here for our community. I like to say there's nine committee members. Karen and Dave Morris, Karen is the current chair of the committee. They take on a brunt of the work, they do the vendors, They do the market vendors. They do the food vendors. They do a lot of the permits. They do the business licenses. They do some of the entertainment. They do some of the announcements. They're involved in everything with West Fest, and they do an amazing job. Michael and Lisa Finch. Michael is a past chair. They have worked in many capacities over the years. They worked with signage, a little bit with the sponsorships, with some of the food eating contests, but their passion is, they're amazing with what they do. Jordan and Jordan, I like to consider Jordan a committee member. Jordan's wife Jordan stepped in this year and helped us with the site planning and the layout of the event, so really she should be a committee member. Jordan also helps with the social media, the website information, as well as some of the entertainment. So Jordan does an amazing job. Eleanor comes from the Pacific Islander Chamber of Commerce with Alan. She helped coordinate the entertainment stage, the community stage on Thursday night and Saturday night and did an amazing job. The energy was fantastic at the stage this year. Alan couldn't be here with us tonight. Obviously, he's not here. And Janetta Williams, who is also not here, she's under the weather tonight. She helped coordinate some of the entertainment on the community stage for Juneteenth on the Friday night. She also helped arrange the announcers for the parade. So she does an amazing job for us, and we hope she's feeling better soon. But as a team, they work amazingly well together. It's, it's a fantastic group to work with their passion is just synergistic and just powerful and I love working with them. I'm so very thankful for them. And the opportunity that I had to work with them so I know that a couple of them have prepared a couple of comments so if it's okay with the council, I'd like to invite them to say a few things.

Hi everybody. My name is Michael Finch and first want to say thank you to the city as a whole. Council members, Mayor, Mr. Pealey, everyone that's involved. I don't think this year was kind of an exception. We typically didn't have I think the whole city behind us. I mean literally I think every department probably contributed. So just thank you so much. Much appreciated. Obviously we couldn't do this without your support. both financially and just physically put this on. So approximately 65 years ago, a small church group, local small church group started a festival that celebrated the Granger-Hunter area or eventually became the Granger-Hunter area celebration. And in 1976, that name was changed to West Fest. So really West Fest name has been around 50 years now, but the festival at least 65 years. I believe the festival's original intent was probably the same as it is now, family, fun, and food. And now we've added commemorating the West Valley City being a city, and also we celebrate the different cultures within our communities. And that's what West Fest to us today is all about. In the year 2000, West Fest moved from what was Brainger Park at the time to Centennial Park. At that time, well, four years ago, up until four years ago, we were what I would call a private nonprofit kind of committee. The city worked really close with us as they do now. However, insurance requirements were forcing our hand to make it different. And that difference would mean we wouldn't have local entertainment that we could bring in local vendors. It would completely change our structure of our booths to where small home craft businesses, base businesses couldn't participate in West Fest. And that's not what we're about. We're about local communities. So fortunately, the city took us in under their umbrella. And at the time, we became part of Parks and Rec. And I bring all this up because I'm hoping that the city and the West Fest committee can continue to work together and to honor the history and mission that we've had over the years. And I think it's one that our community expects. Our community enjoys not only the event, but it's something they look forward to every year. And I look forward to continuing that with the cooperation of everyone in this room and all your departments in the future. And just thank you so much. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you dearly for your service to our city and for your time tonight. My name is Jordan Travis, and I've had the distinct honor of Being a part of the West Fest committee now for three years. I've been attending West Fest for four years. I love West Fest. It's an event that's really important to me. It was really a front door for us as we moved into the city. And we've come to call West Valley home. We love West Valley. And we love West Fest as a community. The synthesis of what makes West Valley, West Valley, West Fest truly is that. It celebrates so well what makes West Valley great. The incredible food we have, the incredible people that live here. It's put on by incredibly beautiful people. And I cannot imagine West Valley without West Fest. It's the perfect intersection of city, culture, community, and commerce. Having gone to other events in the region, I really do see West Fest as unmatched in its quality. It executes at a high level in providing an atmosphere of food, family, and fun that is a beloved staple in our community. And it's really the kickoff for summer, every single summer. And so I look forward to serving West Valley alongside these incredible people, alongside many people in this room for years to come. Thank you so much for your time.

Okay, thank you.

Hello, Karen. Hello, Karen. Thank you. Karen and I are friends for a long time. So I am Karen Morris, and I would just like to thank each one of you for this opportunity to express my gratitude for everyone who helped make West Fest 2026 successful. I have been referring to this year's of West Fest as an uneventful event. And that's because that was our goal. Our goal was to have it uneventful and we were successful in that. And so we feel grateful and appreciative to everyone who helped make it possible. So this is our way of helping us help you understand that this tremendous value in overcoming and coming together as a community, perhaps not like ever before. As I see how much everyone has joined together, in the six years I've been in West Fest, I have never seen us pull together this way, and it's been amazing. So to the mayor and city council and Mr. Pealey, And the support from Jamie and Craig Thomas, their staff, and especially Craig. He's been our hero. I just have to say. He's been so amazing to work with us, and we could not have done it without him. We appreciate his team, and we appreciate Craig. I mean, Kent Jensen and all the laborers, all the workers that did everything to make the West Fest look beautiful, to be an impressive view. Chief Jacobs, who attended every single committee meeting that we had. And I have to say, she gave us 100% support. We are so grateful to her and to the police, the fire, The carnival staff that had to adapt a lot, we asked them to change mid-course to do things differently than they'd done, and they did it. And we appreciate that. To our food booth and our vendor booth people who came, we're loyal to our food trucks because they've been here years, and the people come for the food that they know is going to be there. And we appreciate their loyalty. We appreciate the booth vendors that come and bring us the community in their little hearts that they've worked really hard to do. We have one vendor who has come every year for years and years. She's the dollar lady. And everything in her little booth is a dollar. She does amazingly well. And she is one of our most loyal supporters. So we appreciate all their contributions and their loyalty. And our committee members, I just want to say that I could not have done it without them. They are my family, they are my heart, and they have been the support that we needed to get through this event that was going to be spectacular because it was uneventful. We appreciate their hundreds of hours of volunteering to make it a success in their own quiet, deliberate ways that they contributed. We have much to celebrate and much to look forward to as we march forward into the future for years to come, and especially looking forward to the 50th anniversary that we can make a really big deal. Helping to organize West Fest is both a blessing to me and a way for me, a lifetime resident, to give back to a community that I truly love. Thank you. Thank you.

Anyone else from the group? Okay. Okay. You want to come on up and we'll shake hands and take a photo. And thank you so much.

So Michael, let's start right here.

Shake everybody's hand.

Okay, you have to come back for a picture, Lisa. Up here for a picture?

You guys arranged yourself very well. That's fantastic.

Okay, ready? One, two, and three. Awesome.

Thank you so much for all your time and effort that you put into the festival. Appreciate it. All right. We'll now go to our accept public comment. The comment period is limited to 30 minutes. Any person wishing to comment shall limit their comments to three minutes. Upon recognition by the mayor, you will approach the microphone. If you did not sign up, please give us your name and address. All comments shall be directed to the mayor. No person addressing the city council during comment period shall be allowed to speak more than once. Comments shall be limited to city business and matters within the purview of the city council. Speakers should not expect any debate with the mayor, city council, or city staff. The mayor, city council, or city staff may respond after the comment period has concluded. speakers shall refrain from personal attacks against fellow citizens, city staff, or members of the city council. So speaker one.

Mayor, council members, my name's Shane Manwaring. I feel like I need to give my address, because I used to live in the city, 4271 West Stain Avenue. I loved living here in the city. The military moved me out of state. And so when we came back, we sold that house before we came back. But I'm here to introduce myself. I'm running for sheriff of Salt Lake County. And I'm a resident of Bluffdale right now. I'm married. I have five children. If you count my ROTC time, I spent over 30 years in the military. I retired last July, so about a year ago. It was heartbreaking for me to do that because I loved it so much. When I retired, I retired at the rank of colonel and commonly referred to as Fulbright colonel. The biggest unit I was ever in charge of was in Afghanistan in 2019, 2020. We had 2,995 soldiers. And I always joke that we should have found five more people so we could make it an even 3,000. But that's a real number. The biggest budget I ever managed was at that same time was $300 million. was the budget I managed during that deployment. Right now, I work for the Unified Police Department. I'm a lieutenant for them. I work at night. I'm the watch commander. I get to spend time with your police officers and I love it. I love my time with them. My goal as the sheriff is to be the best partner that West Valley has ever had. That's my goal. Right now, to book somebody into jail is a 90-minute process. I've witnessed it myself. And my goal is that the police officers of West Valley should be in West Valley, not in South Salt Lake, booking somebody. And so my primary focus is to correct that so that it's a 15-minute process, which has been in the past. When I first started in law enforcement, you could be in and out of the jail within 20 minutes. And now I get text messages nowadays when people are telling me they've been there two hours. The other thing is we've got to correct the ability of the jail to hold people. Right now we book people into jail. I'll go to work tomorrow night. We'll book somebody into jail. We'll take away their drugs. Within four hours, they'll be back out of the jail, and they'll be drug sick, and they'll just be desperate to deal with their drug sickness. And so they're forced because they don't have any money. They're forced to commit a crime. to go take care of that addiction. And then they'll overshoot it. They'll pass out and they'll end up in somebody's front yard. We'll get called back. We'll show up there. The paramedics will get them back on their feet. We'll take away their drugs and we'll book them back into jail. And it's just a cycle. And so my hope is to fix that. And that's basically my time, but I just wanted to introduce myself. You can find me on Facebook, Instagram, Shane, the number four sheriff. Thank you. Thank you for your time.

Okay, speaker two.

It's unfortunate that Mr. Finch left. I got to attend West Fest with my family, and it was, you guys put on a great show. Mayor Lang, council members, my name is Kent Davis. Thank you for the courtesy of a few minutes this evening. I am the Republican nominee for Salt Lake County District Attorney. I live in Cottonwood Heights with my wife, Katie, and our two children, and tonight I'm here to listen. Short word first on why I'm qualified for the position that I'm seeking. I've spent the last two decades leading teams in very hard environments. I did two deployments to Iraq. I was an infantry officer. I have my Bronze Star, a Ranger Tab, Combat Infantryman's Badge. I came back and I continued my public service. My first job after law school was clerking for a federal judge. I went from there to the United States Department of Justice. And then most recently I served here as a Deputy District Attorney in Salt Lake County District Attorney's Office. I have not recently spoken with your city prosecutor, Mr. Robinson, but I look forward to trying to develop a better relationship with him and learning more about what it is that West Valley believes that it needs. Today, I lead the Cybersecurity and Service Corporate Council for Woodbury Corporation. I serve on two Utah Supreme Court advisory committees, including the Committee for the Rules of Professional Conduct, which is the committee that promulgates the rules that govern prosecutors themselves. And I share all that to explain my understanding that leadership, as people who are here the most acutely aware, is listening to the people who are doing the work, and that's what I want to do tonight. It's what I've been doing the past several weeks, going to city councils across the valley. And why? Because the DA's office is a countywide job, and the work that the DA does touches every one of these rooms. When one of your residents calls, or when West Valley Police calls and makes a filing, the result, lands here in West Valley. And when one of your residents calls 911, a domestic violence victim, what happens next is partly on the district attorney's office. West Valley built and runs its own police department. It's one of the largest in Utah. You are the second largest city in the state. And you should not have to wait for a press conference to know what the district attorney is going to do about any of your cases or about the repeat cases that are driving most of the crime. The community is safest when the people trust the system enough to call, report, and testify. The trust is built or broken downstream in how cases are handled. I said I'm here to listen, so I'd like to open a direct line. I want to sit down with your chief, with any council member who is interested. I'd happily attend a town hall if you're willing. I already mentioned Mr. Robinson. Tell me what West Valley needs from the next district attorney. I'm taking it seriously. I mean, as you got to find, I welcome you to do so. Mayor Lang, council members, thank you for your time.

Thank you. Speaker 3.

Hello, my name is Richard Nowak. You probably remember me. I've been in West Valley for over 20 years. I am running again for House District 25. So I'm looking forward to trying to write some bills to get some laws passed. Recently I've seen on TV people are complaining about code enforcement again. One neighbor's calling on another neighbor. So some of the codes I believe need to be changed or modified. One of them is the 30% of having green living plants in your yard. And we can do, we can have beautiful yards with a zero scape. They do this in Washington County and other counties where there's little water available. So when I'm in the legislature, I'm going to work on a bill to try to make it a statewide where zero scapes are possible. And I'm not talking about just ripping out grass and letting your yard be just a patch of dirt. So a zero scape. would require types of landscaping like false grass or fake bushes, boulders, wood chips, those types of things. And just like Shane was also talking about, crime's a big issue in West Valley. It is also in Salt Lake. So my house district actually covers West Valley from I-15 down to about 56 south and over to 35th. And then I also have the west side of Salt Lake from I-80. the way into the borders of west valley so i'll also be working with salt lake council because they also have some high crime problems and there are some ways i would like to suggest to fix those like people that come in and they get arrested like with driver mental issues they are required to go talk to like valley mental health or get some counseling don't just cut them loose and let this stuff happen over and over again So I'll be looking forward, once I'm elected, to come work with the council. I will talk with my fellow legislators about passing statewide laws to try to help correct some of the things that are problems in our society. So again, I'm Richard Knox. So anybody that's on Zoom, you can vote for me in November. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. Speaker Fork?

Jim Visak. Richard has been greatly harassed over the years by code enforcement and sounds like he continues to be harassed. I received something in the mail the other day and I think West Valley should do something. It says Salt Lake City exclusive offers. It got tore up. Why can't we do a West Valley version of that for residents? Something to think about. This If it can be done with zero tax dollars other than the cost of the property, I would be for it. There's a lot of no's for it, especially where it's at. We have a lot of homeless men's shelter people in that area. The culture center has to lock their doors because they have people coming in. This is an invitation for more of that. If we were to put that, talk about bringing in all these outside people into this area. that has a swamp water, an unsuccessful retail place that turned into apartments. Just past it, there's the Bell Bondsmen, the used cars. You're trying to promote West Valley City. This would demote because of the surrounding areas and the cost. I bring up the Davis ones. $60 million investment for 120,000 square feet. That's an old Kmart or Walmart building, by the way. Most of them are 240 now. And $2 million revenue is all. To pay back $60 million, do the math. How many years? Is it a good investment? Absolutely not. How much time do I have? I was privileged and honored to go to the gang conference again this year. I didn't know bath salt was such a big thing here in West Valley City. Had no clue. I thought bath salt was what you threw in your bathtub. No, they buy this for $300 to $400 for a kilo, and they sell it in the United States for $400,000. The return on it is phenomenal. That was one of the interesting things. They've also had some very, very large busts. And the first thing I asked the instructors after that is, where is that money? coming from and when is it going to hit the county budget and filter down into the cities. There will be some distributions coming out shortly. So we need to be watching, watching for that county money and that federal money coming back. Let's see. Oh, I thought all our parks had wifi. I went to chill with the chief last night and that park did not have free wifi in it. It's one of the furthest parks in the city. but it did not have it. I thought that was done back in COVID. I thought that was going to be an ongoing thing, and I was just wondering why this part did not have it. I think that's everything that I have. Thank you.

Thank you. Speaker 5.

Hi, Mike Markham. I can't tell you how excited I was when In the study meeting, it was brought up that we may be getting another cable company coming into the city. Right now in my three-house cul-de-sac, there's a minimum of six possible connections that go through there. And one of the guys putting in a big giant box was really a horse's rear end. Tried to explain to me that I had no say over the parking strip, which I know. And I explained that to him that I knew it. But anyway, before I left, there was a lot of discussion about wrought iron fences. And I've been gone for a while. I don't know if that's been resolved. But I think the thing that needs to be done is we need to look beyond the fences to the yards on the other side of those fences. Because there's some properties along 4100 You could start clear back at almost Redwood Road and drive all the way to 7200, and there's problems beyond whatever fence or no fence is in these yards. With that being one of the primary arteries to the city, I would think that would be a high-profile area to get cleaned up, get taken care of, So, you know, probably everybody here has a portion of, I don't know, Redwood or 4100 South, Redwood to 72, that they could drive and they could look at theirs. Don, Lars, you know, they kind of oversee the city. But yeah, there's, you know, I'm not complaining about code enforcement. I've almost decided that in my neighborhood, if you can't beat them, join us. Um, so I'm putting hardly no extra effort into my yard except for the flowers that I buy from Karen every year. Um, but you know, if you can't beat them, join them. I've just decided I've cared and worried too much about West Valley City for the return I'm getting on it. Cause I think there could be a lot more done. We coddle people, which I think is a horrible mistake. Oh, well, he's a great person, but he's trying so hard. No, we want things done. Great people still need to be encouraged. And as far as that sports center goes, we need to put something in there that can bring some tax dollars into the city so we don't have to keep hitting the citizens up every year for extra tax dollars or fees or whatever to sustain the city. Thank you.

Okay, thank you. Was there anyone that missed the sign up that would like to speak? Okay, come on up and give us your name and address, please.

Thank you, Mary Lane, council members.

My name is Joshua Majors, long time West Valley resident. As our community has evolved, so are the, so, pardon me, I'm a little nervous. So is the way we do business. Home-based businesses are no longer rare side projects. They are a significant part of our local economy. Many are full license-insured and compliant with zoning regulations, yet they are treated as though they should remain invisible. The current code allows for only a two-foot square sign attached to the home while prohibiting signs on fences or in the yard. In practice, this makes sense. many legal home businesses difficult to locate and unnecessarily limits their ability to identify themselves to customers, delivery drivers, or service providers. At the same time, temporary political signs are permitted throughout neighborhoods with far fewer restrictions because they are recognized as protected speech. While I understand the constitutional distinction, it highlights that our neighborhoods are already capable of accommodating temporary signage without harming public safety or neighborhood characteristics. I am not asking the city to allow large commercial advertising in residential neighborhoods. I am asking for reasonable standards that recognize today's economy while preserving neighborhoods' aesthetics. The city could allow modest professionally designed yard or fence signs for licensed home businesses within limits on size, lighting, placement, and duration. Such an approach would protect neighborhoods while supporting entrepreneurship and small business owners who contribute to our local economy. Code enforcement exists to adjust genuine public safety concerns and significant neighborhood impacts, not to prevent legal compliant businesses from having reasonable identification. Updating this ordinance would encourage small business growth, improve consistency in or improve consistency and enforcement and better reflect the realities of modern home based businesses. My last minute, I'd also like the council to consider a broader question. At what point does government regulation unnecessarily limit a property owner's reasonable use of their own property? As a homeowner, we purchase our homes, maintain them, pay property taxes, city taxes that support the services our community relies on. It is reasonable to ask why a legal home-based business is prohibited from displaying modest identification on the property it owns, especially when that signage does not create a safety hazard or significantly impact the neighborhood. I'll leave it at that, but I do respectfully ask the council to consider whether the current ordinance strikes the right balance between legitimate government interests and the rights of homeowners. And thank you very much.

Okay, thank you. Was there anyone else that wished to speak?

Good evening, Council. It's Ryan Mahoney from the Senate District. candidate for District 13, which includes West Alley City. Over the last year that I've been coming to these meetings, it's been a pleasure to get to meet all of you. I'd like to believe that we've developed a good working relationship. If I am elected, I would like to continue that. So feel free to reach out to me anytime with any issues that you have that you're facing or anything that I could help with. I also am considering restarting a home business that I had myself. I had to close it several years ago because I had a hip surgery, wasn't able to continue it. Also through my campaigns, I don't like to produce garbage. I refuse to make any political science. I just don't want to have to go out and gather it up and it all ends up in our landfills and it's just not a good use of money. That being said, I would encourage also, like the previous speaker, to consider things that would help local businesses, because I do believe that small businesses and home businesses are a backbone to West Valley City. Thank you for your time.

Thank you. Anyone else wish to speak?

Walt Sorensen.

long time, lifetime member, citizen of the city. It is amazing the things that we are able to accomplish in this city. We have such great things like West Fest that come around. And we have other things where we try to do the best thing that we can but instead we just create a situation where we put our city in the way of people being able to make this city great. We've heard several small business owners speak to that tonight. I too agree with that. We can't allow ourselves as a city to think that we are putting an ordinance in to protect and beautify the city when we're only just creating a Cobra effect. Now, if you don't know the history of the cobra effect, back in the 1800s, there was a problem in Delhi. They were faced with cobras that were attacking the population. The government decided, hey, we'll put a bounty out on cobras because this will solve our cobra problem because we can get everybody on board. All they did was create a backdoor solution where people bred cobras, and then they would bring those cobras to sell to the government. Eventually, the government caught on, ended the bounty on the cobras. Well, now you had all these people who had bred cobras to make a living, and all they did was say, well, these are no longer valuable to me. They didn't kill the cobras. They turned them loose. The cobra problem was worse at the end of the bounty than it was at the beginning. Every time that we approach something within the city, we need to be careful about what we're doing, that we're not creating our own Cobra effect. Upcoming, I have heard rumors that the Master Association in Highbury wants to dissolve itself and wants to turn over the maintenance and control of all of the common areas in the Highbury area to the city. This is a bad plan. This is one of those Cobra effects. The unintended consequence of making these kind of changes will be not beneficial to the city or to the community locally in Highbury. If this comes forward to the council, I ask you to turn it down and say, no, this should not happen. If we can't support the arts, we can't support taking on a community area like Highburg. Thank you for your time.

OK, thank you. Anyone else? OK, we'll close the comment period. And is there any member of the council that would like to speak? OK. We will now go on to our resolutions. We'll begin with Resolution 26-77. This resolution would authorize the purchase of one Pierce aerial ladder truck for the fire department. The lease provides financing for 10 years with annual payments of $236,935.80 at an interest rate of 4.165%. The total scheduled lease payments are $2,369,358. Turn this item to the council for discussion or a motion. I move for approval of resolution 26-77. Second. We have a motion and a second. Ms. Kamek.

Council Member Wood. Yes. Council Member Whetstone. Yes. Council Member Harmon. Yes. Council Member Hune? Yes. Council Member Christensen?

Yes.

Council Member Nordfeldt? Yes. And Mayor Link? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.

We'll now move to Resolution 26-78. This resolution authorizes a development agreement amendment to clarify which standards from the original development agreement between the City and Valley at River's Edge LLC to apply to the apartments and which standards apply to the townhomes. The owner of the property is refinancing the apartment project with a HUD-insured loan. HUD is requiring that the development agreement obligations for the apartments and for the townhomes be assigned to different entities. The standards in the agreement remain the same. Turn this to the council for discussion or a motion.

Move to approve Resolution 26-78. Second.

Thank you. We have a motion and a second. Ms. Kamek? Council Member Nordfeldt? Yes. Council Member Christensen? Yes. Council Member Huynh? Yes. Council Member Herman? Yes. Council Member Whetstone? Yes. Council Member Wood? Yes. And Mayor Ling? Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.

On our consent agenda, we have four items this evening. One is to appoint Steve Lehman to the Planning Commission as an alternate member, and the other three are our usual purchase agreements and acceptance of easements and deeds. We can take them one at a time or all at once. To the council for discussion or a motion. I'll move to approve the four resolution, the consent agenda.

Second.

Thank you. I have a motion and a second. Ms. Cammack. Council Member Wood. Yes. Council Member Whetstone.

Yes.

Council Member Harmon.

Yes.

Council Member Huynh. Yes. Council Member Christensen.

Yes.

Council Member Nordfeldt. Yes. And Mayor Lane. Yes. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.

We have no need for a closed session, so we have one more action item.

Motion to adjourn.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

And we stand adjourned. Our next meeting is July 28th. We hope to see you then.