we'll get started. We've got a pretty good size agenda this evening. So first item up, Mr. Cooley is going to give us an update on capital improvement projects. Oh, John, sorry. I know that recycling is good. So much recycling going on. Can you click the PowerPoint? Yeah, definitely. So we're here to talk Momentum Glass Recycling. They are our current glass recycler. So I don't know if you're aware, but we offer glass recycling, curbside glass recycling to all of our residents. Currently, 213 residents have curbside recycling. That's less than 2% of all of the residents that have utility bills. In July, they came to us and increased their rate from $7.75 a month to $8.25 a month. Because we were raising taxes and we were raising water rates in discussions, we decided to postpone any changes to that at that current moment. And we, for the last six months, have been paying for, we're short about $50 a month for that service. So the city's been covering that cost for those 200 residents. So we're coming to you today with a few different options for you to vote on and tell us which way you would like to go. The other municipalities around us are all charging $850 for the CAN. Some of those are billing it through a credit card so the city is not even involved. there are three that you can see there that are billing with the utility bill, so the cities are involved. What does that mean? Well, currently we have our staff in finance who deal with all of our utilities, and part of their time is now associated with the glass recycling. It's about five hours a month for their time combined. So that is on top of what we're paying to Momentum to do their glass recycling. The city also has two glass recycling large dumpsters, one out back and one at Ikea. So we pay for those. They come and get picked up on a monthly basis. So based on that, we have some things that we'd like you to tell us what you would like to do. So I've listed basically four options. Option one is that we continue with the service as it is, meaning that we continue to charge residents $8 and the city pays the tab of 825 and the cost of the employees. That's about $50 a month that we are paying to Momentum plus the cost of the employees, which is maybe around $200. So the city is putting the bill for that every single month. Option two, continue that. raise the rates, we can raise those to $850 like other municipalities. We can certainly cost justify even higher than that with the cost of our employees at five hours a month. We can raise the rates as high as $9 a month. So that would be a dollar a month increase for the residents. Option three, I don't know how likely this one is. Work with Momentum and see if we can change the way they're billing and they offer it to the residents through their service, and they have to provide a credit card to be able to get the service, and then the city is eliminated from the equation altogether. Or option four, we just eliminate curbside recycling. Along with that, we could offer an additional bin, large bin at a different location, but we'd have to determine where that would be, or multiple bins. So to you, We just really want to get a little direction on what you would like us to do. Mike? If you go back to the chart of the other municipalities, I'm assuming then that they're just not even involved in the process at all? In other words, momentum in Bountiful goes directly to the consumer and charges an 850 for a can and Bountiful City is not involved? That's my assumption, but we started to do some checking on that and haven't gotten any answers back. We can continue to follow up with that and see where that leads us. So I can't see super well, but it looks like they're all 850-ish. Yeah, the only one that's not charging 850 is Salt Lake, and they're charging 824. And we're charging $7. We are charging $8. It's Salt Lake. So I'm going to tell you Salt Lake raises their rates on all of their things in the CFS on an annual basis. based on the consumer price index. So I'm going to guess that rate came about because they raised it from $8 with the consumer price index. Option three, work with Momentum to see if they can bill directly to the residents. And if they can't do that, do you have a different option? Then go to 850, I would say. Yep, and then change the consolidated fee schedule. We've got one wants to go with the momentum do it. How many of you want to do the momentum do it? I think momentum does it. That's the best. I like that. But if they won't, then just raise the rate to cover the expense. And then option two, cover the cost on the rates. And that being at $850. That covers us, right? Well, does that cover the employee? It doesn't cover all of our employee costs. That's where we have been in the past. Prior to this, we were billing $8.00. And they were charging us $7.75, so we were making $0.25 per can per month, about $50 a month. Our employees' costs, five hours at $25 an hour, is more than that $50 is covered. So we could raise it as high as $9 and be cost justified, or we could go with $8.50 like the other minutes. I think we need to cover all of our costs. You want to cover all the costs? How many of you want to cover all the costs? So I'm good with option three if that works. But in option two, you want to go cover all the costs? Anybody else want to cover all the costs? When did we raise it last? Or has it always been paid? When we started these services. So this would be the first raise, first time we raised it. I mean, there's another option. They can bring it down here. Right. And that's option four is we don't do it at all. And we get out of the business. And we can offer a different bin, or we can just go with the two that we can. Yeah, but the cost we pay to get an additional bin is about the cost of one. It's $200 a month. Right. We're already incurring right now. I'd just raise it to $9, and if that makes us whole, I think that's fine. So the option two, you guys all agree, would be $9 to cover all the costs. Is that right? Mike, were you with that, Brent? Yeah, that's great. It looks like you have the whole crowd. Okay. But if they're already doing it with other cities, I don't know why option three isn't possible. That's kind of weird. I am not sure why we are one of the three that does it that way. So I'll have the conversation with Momentum and see if we can, if we eliminated the service, if they would reach out to all of the residents. I thought that's how we were doing it. Yeah, that's how I thought it was. When we originally got presented, that's what I thought it was. Yeah, I didn't know that we were an intermediary at all. I didn't do anything to do with it. Will they notify all residents, like this is a service that we offer, would you like to sign up for it? We can have that conversation with them as well. I think the number 213 is low. I bet if they notified all the residents, we'd get more. I might do it, because I'm a little lazy even though I come to City Hall often. I make my mom do my job. But that might give them motivation to do the direct billing if they know they can market it to all the residents. There's 98% of the residents that aren't doing it. They can't be making a lot of money. That's a lot of effort. When we started this, they did market to the entire city. They did, yeah. We can see if we can get a It's something to put in our billing every month or a couple of times a year or something like that. Getting billing on them would be great because if they don't pay, they can't get it. Right. All right, Mr. Cooley, sir. Robert's going to do the presentation. Go ahead, Robert. They were really good bears. Yeah, they were. They did a good job. Jumbo blueberries were amazing. projects that we finished since the last time we met in July. We did our sidewalk gap connection projects, which was on 200 West and then just south of Juan Diego. Our pavement maintenance project, we did a bunch of slurry and crack seal all over the city, and then the main one was we resurfaced 114 South. We widened 150 of these at to get more space for the stacking of the right turn lane. And then we resurfaced, that was blowing up traffic. We reconstructed Walton Lane and fixed a bunch of storm drain in there. Turned out pretty good. Our zone two sidewalk, we try to do 20% of the city annually until we get caught up with all the sidewalk we couldn't repair. So this is part of our plan. insurance package so we replaced 868 sections of sidewalk that was damaged like that we went through all the signal update upgrades to the city for the head crossing upgrades and then we installed this right turn arrow at 13. it's so good it's amazing um our stormwater crews in-house did six different detention basins that all failed in the August 3rd, 2023 storm. So we worked on that all year, rebuilt them, added capacity, made them function better. There was a lot of debris in that one. Our water division has done over 90 valve repairs and replacements throughout the city, a majority of those in Suncrest. We've done six PRV repairs, majority of those in Suncrest, and then 55 leaks. That was while we were attempting to replace the valve, and guys felt the ground shaking and took off. Wow. Our streets division, you guys recall we budgeted for a massive machine in July. We got that. We've done 20,000 square feet of that since July. Did 352 tons of asphalt. This was where we ripped out the railroad ties on Bolter, smoothed it out, and then we've done 33 yards of concrete replacement. This PRV, it's the lowest PRV on Suncrest Drive. This is that stuff, the old sewer access road. It blew up, so we're replacing it out of the line so it's out of the road so it won't be exposed to some salt. The valve itself or the whole project? 50,000? 60,000. That should wrap up. So now I'm in the projects we have yet to complete. That should wrap up by the end of this month. It's functioning. There's just a few little things we've got to do. Our pump station three, this is just above Mike Weir on Traverse. We completed the HVAC improvements that will help keep it cooler, and it was a state requirement. We're still designing the capacity issues. We don't have enough pump capacity. We don't have enough pumps. And in order to do that, you need to change it to a much larger transformer with rock mount power. It's been taking a long time, but we'll do that. We do have some corrosion repair we need to make below and get some cathodic protection on there. So we're designing that. It'll probably be next winter where we can show you. We replaced all the guardrail. Well, a majority. I don't know if you guys know, there's one guardrail contractor in the entire state, so he's hard to get. And so he came and did as much as he could, and then they left, and we'll wait until they come So it's to be all rusty. There's a monopoly on it. We've got three different projects on this. One is the lovely one. We're underway with the reconstruction of this culvert that we got determined was structurally unsanitary. We are in the process of trying to widen this culvert. We've been working on parking on power again forever. We're hoping we'll be putting that out to bid in January. widen that so that we can finish the plan to widen the road this is from around 2650 to 123rd you know smooth that turn out get some more capacity of the five-way intersection we got has federal funds to replace the culvert on 114 south the canal this is home depot right up here we split ours We thought they were going to do it this winter, but they haven't started, so I'm going to guess it's next year. This is the lowest detention basin on Suncrest Drive before all of our stormwater discharges the highlands. It currently doesn't function. It doesn't contain water. It's not maintainable. So this has been awarded. This will start in January to reconstruct this basin so that we can get some headgates and control it, open it, release more water. another base in our cruise, cleared at the top of the split. I don't know if those of you know the area. It's been full of water for 17 years I've worked here. We finally got it exposed, figured out where the downstream outlet was completely buried under 10 feet of earth. So we have a survey, and we'll get that designed and planted. A much better design, we'll get that constructed this spring. Zone 3 has been awarded. It started. There's usually a slow time in the But again, we've got another 800 sections in that green area that we'll be replacing. Most of it's usually roots. 17th East, storm drain improvements. If you guys recall, we'll be constructing a regional detention somewhere in this area, helping out the other inadequate stuff in the area. It'll help. 138 South Widing, this is from 4th Street to past the trail, or I can't remember what road, Southport, on the east end, wide naked curb gutter and sidewalk. If you guys recall, we have a lot of these homes flood when it rains. That should be helpful. And the pavement's blowing up. When are you planning to start that, do you think? You'll probably see utilities soon. There's a lot of utility work that needs to be done, gas, water lines. The acquisitions are almost done. This is the 700 West drainage issues. We were resolving what to do with our drainage. We got approval last week from UDOT. So we can start on this. We still need to work on an estimate for getting sidewalk down one side all the way. We are focusing on this. Right now we have a sump that we built two years ago. It's a pain in the neck to go back. intersection at Minuteman and Highland. We have the gravel funds to help improve. Currently, we're going to be installing the advanced warning sign to the site distance, telling people when the light's turning red, and then we have a study to figure out Fort Street, this is a federally funded project from Pioneer to Carlquist 132nd. It'll be a residential minor collector. So this master plan cross-section except for the intersection at Little Springs and the intersection at Golden. The two intersections to the high school, they'll add turn lanes. This will be another difficult one with utilities and drainage. We have an environmental study, federal funding, to do the Pioneer from 30 to 5. He said he's taking it differently. Yeah, he's going to do Fort Street. Yeah. Probably a good idea. Any questions? Well, what was just done on Fort Street a few years ago, or all that? I mean, storm drainage was put in there. That was just sewer line. So this is going to be a similar project like that then? Yeah. probably more intrusive. All right. Mr. Cooley, are you next on this? Of course, Robert's doing this, too. Are you doing this, too? briefly go over some of the issues we face with our current facility at Public Works. This is the yard. Currently, we own this four and a half, 4.9 acres. We are operating on this, which is owned by General RV. You can see our plows, our active police cars, our brine shed. Some of the issues we face with our yard, it's too small, so we don't have anywhere to store materials or parts. Our decantation pit, which is where we dump out our mud dog and our factor truck is only that big. That's where you have to dump it so that the solids can settle out and evaporate before you have to fill it again. We only have one washout bay, which if you have to wash all your plows after a storm, we have 27 plows that went out. We're looking at 12 hours of truck washing with one bay and then nine garbage trucks every week. fall apart, and our salt storage is too small. We keep a lot of our very expensive equipment outside, exposed to the elements. We sweep our trucks in 350, 400,000. Each one of these 10-wheelers is 300,000. So our salt storage, if you recall the old one, the roof collapsed. We made shift. We did this six years ago. It's worked great. It only holds about 1,200 tons. For yards of salt, we can blow through that in a 48-hour storm. So then you're trying to haul in salt with belly dumps while you're trying to load trucks to go snow plow. It's rough. There's the one wash bay. It's the only one truck that gets in there. Our brine salt, we took our old salt hangers and tried to build the shit out of it. But we haven't spent any money to keep that from getting exposed. It gets contaminated. It'll clog the brine lines in the trucks. We haven't been able to boost our roll-off program. We bought the roll-offs, but we have to stack them because we have no space, so we can't increase that program. And that's our decantation pit. PRVs? No, this is our watershed. So, I mean, if you think about all the pipes and valves and everything you should have, we have one garage shed to fit as much as we can in there you've got expensive stuff that's outside exposed personally when we did the traverse transmission line i was out there in a foot of snow trying to find things in the middle of the night was it's not good stuff falls apart after a while or it's contaminated um our shop space that's the highlighted portion too small so we're currently split into two locations we're in the logistics building as of november um we only have a half a pit in this shop and a half a pit in logistics, which is not enough. We don't have any space for inventory for parts. We have limited post lifts. We need more lightweight lifts, more space for organized and secure tool storage. Our expensive tools are not anywhere locked up. We need additional fluid storage. We don't have an exhaust system. So in the winter, if you're running engines, you've got to open the doors. You can see it's a safety hazard. This is our entire spot to store all inventory for parts. So all your filters, all your wipers, brake pads, everything, just this wall. So your wipers are there, your filters, all that, those shelves. It's our half a pit. And then we do try to keep our mud dog and backer truck inside and sweeper. So out of the elements, these are some of our portable lifts. These two bays. And there's no pit or lift in those, just a portable one. And then finally, office space. We did add a trailer a year ago fall for our water division with the managers in this building. Our fleet manager and foreman's in this building with half his crew in the logistics building. Our storm water manager and foreman share office with their staff. Our streets division's up to five guys in an office. I don't have any pictures of the toilets, but we have three for over 50 people when we're plowing. And we have no adequate This is supposed to be our conference room. There are maybe five people in there. This is the street's office. You can see five guys sitting there at a time. And this is our break room slash conference room. So we're trying to do training. We did only about a third of our crew. And if we're doing training in here, because we have no media in this room, then no one can do their lunch break. But now that you're getting depressed. Mr. Dobbins. Marcia said it's nice to have the band back together again. So this is the solution key. Well, just to be clear, I didn't solve this before I left. So probably not back. Robert Jensen's back here in the corner. He is one of the owners of General RV. He and I have been working on this project for a very long time. So we sold part of the property. that we used to own. So we own this piece right here that we sold to General RV quite a while ago. They let us continue to use part of it. As Robert pointed out, it's been problematic for some time. General RV would love to take over all of the property, but we've never been able to find a place to move publicly. Ideally, we would have Public Works have a new building somewhere. I've had discussions with The Point for several years now, thinking that we would be able to get property out there. We need roughly 10 acres for a proper long-term solution for Public Works. So even this site, there's really no place to expand and make it work outside. So we worked with The Point for a long time, thought there were different times where we thought, hey, we've got a solution. The point is we've never been able to step forward and say, we're ready to finalize a spot. So we talked about 146 out. We talked about Second White House. We talked about . And it's time now to just come up with a different option, because they're not in a position to give us . So we've got to just take Galena? Yeah. One of the options that we looked at for a long time, again, was the point that didn't work. So what we talked about doing for some time is going out to Galena Park. And on the east side of that road is space that can be used for ball fields, parking, and Parks Department has space out there already. So one of the things that we've looked at is moving public works out here. It would take up most of that space. We own these lots in here as well as that. Wasn't the fire department going right near there? So we talked about that as an option. It could accommodate, you guys need, last time I talked to the plan, it was about an acre and a half is what you would need for a fire station site. The point is willing to give one to two acres for a fire station at 600 bucks. Part of this is because a fire station is not as unattractive as a public works building. So that's why they're not willing to do that. So one option is to look at having public works take this space. It would also give parks an opportunity to expand. What we would do is we would Try to negotiate with the point to move ball field space out to the point so that we're not collectively losing park space. They said they're open to that. They have park space playing field plan for the point. We haven't worked out timing or details of it, but they are open to doing that. They've actually, Rhett and I have looked at plans for it so progress to that point, they are open to it. Yeah, I spoke to Mike Ambre, is that his name, today, this morning. And he actually talked to me about this. And he said they would be willing to give us the 10 acres for softer fields. But they don't have any money to put in the fields. So they would expect us to fully fund that. But then we talked about the grants from the county that we've gotten before for parks. We just got one for that west side curve. Maybe that would be an option. Yeah, so it would be. outside the geographic area of phase one. So that's partly why it's not funded. We've talked about collecting part of the impact fee from development at the point, which could then reimburse for some of that. So there are options, but as you heard from Robert and Scott and General RV, we need to find a solution. What we don't want to have happen is have General RV, who's consistently in the top 10, if not higher, sales tax producers for the city. So you don't want to lose that revenue. So to keep them in the city, it would be great to be able to let them expand. We had an appraisal done several years ago for that property. So is still wanting to buy it. We're updating the appraisal to find out what the current value is. We would love to buy the whole property. We would then, and currently in the budget, there's $7 million from different funds set aside for a new public works building. There's some nuances to that that we'd have to work out over time. But if you have roughly seven in cash now, probably, I'm guessing... Ten. The old appraisal was four and a half for a public works building. So you're looking at somewhere between seven and eight million or somewhere around there. The appraisal will tell us what it's valued at. So you have roughly 12 to 15 million dollars in cash that we could use to start the new garden. There's issues with timing. You would lose this field space. You may not have new field space built in time. What we need to start doing is we need to tip the first domino and get things going. So we would need to decide, do you want to move public works? Do you want to sell the public works building? Do you want to move the ball fields out to the point? I think everything's kind of lined up to make that happen. We just need to finalize the details of it. So there's multiple steps, but the first is, are you open to doing that as an option? So that's where the project is at. Again, we've pursued every other option. Scott and I have looked at every vacant piece of property in Draper as an option. We've pursued different things over the years. Harvest locations, we've used, I mean, there's certain places that you just don't want to put that kind of use. There's really just not 10 acres of vacant property left in the city. There's always an option to condemn, but that would be a difficult scenario to go down. Time consuming. This seems to be the best option in terms of timing use. Good thing is that you own the land, so you don't have to buy the land or just acquire the land. You don't have to condemn anything that fits on the site. current city uses in that area. We've also had issues with the people that park on the east side crossing that road. If the other side, this would somewhat resolve that issue. So it's a good option. It's probably one of the few actual options that we can move on in the near future. So to me, the next steps would be to get the appraisal done, hire an architect to look at what it would cost to build a new building. and then work with the point on time and cost of . I have a question about the usage of that field. So I've had kids play soccer. I think some may have been rec, and then some have been comp. I like eliminating that for the safety of just crossing that street. But I am concerned about not having a place for soccer to play. But as far as do we get revenue from comp teams do they pay us to use? Like renting the fields? Yeah. Yes, we give pretty much, quite a bit. Okay, and then. Quite a bit. Yeah. That's a version of quite a bit . Probably true, but. But just, is there, I mean. I'll run a report of two years and send it to you. Robby, do you mind just briefly, I mean, give them an idea of the kind of sales you do, what it means if you can have more space for our own sales tax revenue. We took over that, your building, which if we took back the land, it would just be because of good neighbors that you're using. It would probably be your building. We took over that building. We think we can get another 25 bays. Every bay is worth $200. or just service every day. We're about $198,000. But then 19, we did $156 million. 20, we did about $180,000. 22, you just throw out, we did $250,000. Just in that little store right there. He's an evangelical RV salesman. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Hallelujah. To give you an idea, I am still the landowner. I'm the founder of I'm the landowner still at the Camping World Stores in the western United States. The Camping World Store that's just down the road from here, I still own the land. They do about $30 million. We do $200 million. Our goal is to stay at $200 million. We've now just built a brand new facility in the west, which is on I-84. We have 40 acres there. We're hoping that So we think we can create about 30 million We love Draper. We love being here. They donate RVs every Draper Days. So those RVs that you see over at Draper Days. We help the police department too, and they have tax and stuff with RVs. But all that aside, we love our sales tax, but we love being here. Is there any way to time this so that the soccer kids can get pushed to the soccer field that's going to go in over on the west side? Yeah, the Jets in phase three, which is not funded yet. No, I don't think there's any way to time it. That's the question. If you start it, it's in the improvement fund right now. And how much is it? We're like, but here's a new one opening where we could push some of you. Yeah, that would be our plan. At the point, replace those three at some point. Right, but Jetson Farm might be faster at some point. I mean, I feel like the moon is a little high in the sky. How much is three soccer fields at Jetson Farm? We'll only have one at Jetson Farm. We wouldn't replace all three at Jetson Farm. Phase three at Jetson Farm. That's why we need the $9.5 million for the public works. But we do have that. Well, you have the money in the bank. You have the sale of the property. You have a really good taxpayer client. But public works needs to be fixed now. I'm good with it. There's not another choice. It's not should we. I think we have to. We will eventually have to. You say there's a way to time it. No, there isn't. That's outside of even phase one. They don't even have phase one. It could roll quick. I mean, it could. They could be able to promise that. I'll give you one other point that we have that we're really struggling with. In 2024, we did 400. So is the point also, they'll give us soccer fields, but are they also going to give us land for fire department? Because we're going to, I mean, that's the other thing we're losing over here. It's not just soccer fields, but also that fire department. Well, we still can hold on to those lots if we have to go there. But to get to the point, to get to the stage where we can talk with the point about timing and things, we need to know if this is an option that you're wanting to Well, this doesn't sound like there's a second option. Is there a second option? We've looked everywhere. The cemetery. I would say there are other options. I'm in favor of it. I just would like to see if we can do some things for the soccer kids, like maybe approach the rec center and say, could we use that field that's vital hollow that's never used I think we could maybe have an agreement with them. Let's see if we can move funds around to see if we can get something done at Jensen Farm. Yeah, right. Let's speed Jensen Farm up. So you guys are all good with the Domino and moving forward with it? Yeah. Give the appraisals on the property and moving forward with it. Right. Everyone? Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for all you do for us. Next. I had a conversation with a woman today who's an events planner who has an event plan for New Year's Eve at the new building at Highland and Bangor where Capita Financial is. There's event space up there. It's called the Ballard, I believe it's business license is under the name of the Ballard. So she, typically her, the way she does her events that serve alcohol is the host of the event buys all the alcohol, hires a bartender service, thereby they don't have to get a special license. This event for New Year's Eve is, I'm assuming, a cash bar, which requires a permit from DABS. Unfortunately, she approached me too late to get on the agenda for tonight for local consent. And she's wondering if the council would convene for a quick special meeting to consider an application for local consent for this one event. We're meeting on the 10th for the Christmas party at 6. That might be a good time if we met here at 5.30, perhaps, as an option. Or if there's other times. Or if it just doesn't work, it doesn't work. And I understand that. But I told Edward. Does that give her enough time? I don't know, quite frankly, what her time frame is. Because I think she's saying she needed 30 days or something with the Utah liquor. Yeah, I think. And I talked to her today. And she's not well-versed on state liquor laws, nor am I. But frankly, I don't know if a special events permit is the type that requires you be on a DABC or DBS agenda, like a bar license or a full liquor license. I think they can just do those administratively, but I don't know. I mean, if you're willing to meet her, then really the ball's in her court to figure out what she needs to do. And maybe, to your point, Fred, maybe the time has passed. I don't know. I said I would bring it to the council, so I don't know. You guys want to have a quick meeting and hear it? I'd rather not do it right before Christmas dinner. Okay. Then what am I doing with my husband? Yeah, I agree. Take ten minutes. We have an audience. Right. We've done this before. I bet it'd take less than ten minutes. Unless you had a bunch of people. Looking at that week, the 9th, I don't see any... Of course, I don't know your personal schedules. Well, the only thing I see is the canteen hunt at 4 at the historic park. It's supposed to get posted within 24 hours, right? It just needs to get 24 hours notice. So there's no 10-day or seven-day notice. Yeah, your permit has to be turned in 30 days prior to your event to start the application. I don't know, Mike, what the status of her permit is. She may have already submitted something and the DABS said now you need to get local consent. Yeah. I mean, I'm happy to do it sooner than later. He doesn't want to do it on the 12th. We could fit it at about 3 o'clock on the 12th. Yeah. That's fine with me. It's fine with you. Do you want to do it on the night of the party or a little bit earlier in the afternoon? Like at 2.30 or 3 would be okay probably. Yeah, I'll just call her. I can't come at 2.30. You just need to have one person here though, right? The rest can call in. I'm telling you, it's not going to take more than 10 minutes. What day is the holiday one? 11. 11.30. That's a little on my calendar. It's not on my calendar either. And at 12 o'clock, I'm supposed to go to Salt Lake County to pick up some type of paperwork from the government. For your license. Apparently, you have to go there and make an appointment to get permission from the government. You don't want to pick a time right now? Do three of you want to pick a time right now? Do you want to pick a time right now? 9, 2.30 or something? Well, I don't know. Is the candy cane hunt, is that a? That's at 4. That's at 4. Mayor counts down a few. 3.30. You do it at 3.30? I have to pick up kids. Oh, on the night? 3.30? Well, I can't. But you can do it. You only need three of you. Right. I could come earlier. I can do it at night. You want to do it at 2? I have court from 1 until who knows when. You just let me know and you call it. I think the best time is honestly Tuesday at 530. 545. Tuesday at 530. Well, we don't all have to go. Right. Can three of you make it Tuesday at 530? Yeah. On the 10th? Yes. Mike? Marsha? Yeah. OK, let's do that. OK, thank you. If you other ones want to call in, we'll. Yeah, just call. Very appreciative of that. Next item. I'll wrap you up. So we mentioned they were already talking about paper days. We've had a couple of things before we set the schedule to see what's all the way out there. So our main question, we're just trying to set the hours for the vendors and everything. So we talked about. Is this for the three day? Okay. So really, Kelly and I, we met at the end of the day. I have three questions, just real quick, just like your opinion or direction. Number one, we talked about this earlier. We discussed the options of moving Friday and Saturday to not begin until 4 o'clock. You can see the Things are relatively slower, not much distance, and then it spikes dramatically after 4. So that would be the booths, all the children's activities, everything starting at 4 o'clock on Friday and 4 o'clock on Saturday. The alternative is to probably keep it later on Friday, but keep Saturday the normal open. 11, 11 last year. It was so hot last year. It was so hot. It's hot every year. It's always hot. And we thought maybe that's such a long day for staff, maybe they would like to break. But then today, we were like, well, maybe they'll just stay if they don't live close by. We don't know if the vendors will appreciate not having to be there in the hot with nobody coming, or if they're going to think they should get more hours for the same amount of money. We're undecided. Yeah. What other things? Is there any way you could poll the vendors? It's kind of hard, but I wonder if they would give you their input. Maybe ask. David thought the food vendors might be the ones that care the most because they like to get the lunch hour. That's what we talked about. They had a choice. They'd probably rather come earlier, but none of them are not going to come because they probably make 85% of their money before 4 o'clock anyway. So there might be a few that are upset, but it's not going to stop them from applying. We thought last year the pancake breakfast was such a hit that maybe we have more time to do that over at the park and then start at 4. That was a hit. And last year they wanted to do it on the North Pavilion. We said no because of dripper days. But if that's a better location and we start later, they could do it there. We've got to get the police to one up the fire department. Yeah, we might make it the first responders. So you're saying do the parents take breakfast over here rather than there? But then you get everybody there. People are going to be there. They're going to want to go through booths. So we can keep it as is. We had some complaints last year that some of the vendors didn't like the bands doing their sound pieces. One guy said he couldn't sell a cheeseburger from 11 to 5, just because it's so hot. People weren't there. You can't control that. I mean, you're not guaranteeing the sales with cheeseburgers. And I think from 5 on, he sold 100 cheeseburgers. So he did OK. He might sell one to 8. Is it feasible to still do the breakfast there, though? Yeah, we can start anytime. Because that does bring people there for the vendors. And maybe if we get a breakfast at 10.30, we open the park at noon. I don't know. I like that. I like that. So open it right after the breakfast. I mean, people come for the parade. I know they don't all walk to the park. I don't know. It's really going to mix it up. The other reason why I wonder why it was deader, more dead, is the car show brought people there on Saturday. Where we're doing that on Thursday. Which I still like the car show on Thursday. With the children's parade area, that was fun. Did you guys want to mess with the hours or not? No. I don't care. Whatever you do gets messed. Over there. And then maybe start at 11. Yeah. Okay, we'll do that real quick. Second thing is, we've discussed this before, but kind of just need a final answer or direction. Currently, we have two nights of fireworks. It's the exact same fireworks show, same sequence, same songs, same everything. So it's basically two shows, two nights in a row. We've talked with new technology to possibly do a drone show Friday night. Roughly the same cost. It's been a little bit. We can make that a stipulation, but If you're open to it or not, we could try it or just leave it to you guys at Fireworks. How much does it cost? We didn't want to make any calls without it. They're pretty similar. How much does the drone show cost? Depends on the number of drones. Just like, you know, same number of fireworks, but roughly $15,000 to $20,000. Wow. So I went to the West Jordan drone show, and I was not that. I was underwhelmed. I personally like the fireworks. I'd rather just go hard with the fireworks. One of the best fireworks shows of all time. Sorry. Two nights of fireworks. It was $10,000. Even Donny Osmond was taken aback by the fireworks. I was just thinking it would be cool if we could afford it. If it was like $10,000, if we could do a drone show like Saturday night at the rodeo or something. Up there. I've been looking at that. Anything you want with mine? I feel like... The show should be slightly different, maybe. The fireworks is redundant a little bit, with maybe different music, or have a shorter fireworks show on Friday and a longer one on Saturday, so it's really like the big night. I would like it to be a little different. Because we didn't even used to have Friday night. That's true. No one's ever complained about those fireworks. Everybody loved them. We weren't complaining. We're not complaining. And lastly, if you have any suggestions for me, fans or artists that you'd like to focus on. We're looking hard at them right now. And do you think we should go with two covers, or do we want to stick with a big name on Saturday, cover on Friday? Big name Saturday. Cover on Friday. Come on. I love the Jenny lady. I thought Friday was a blast. And last year's element is repentant. I do think the covers kind of get people out dancing. I think you need to get a cover band. Yeah. Okay, well, if anybody's got any connections to get us banned for cheaper. That's the problem. He's reached out to a few, but they're like $70,000. I'll work up a list. You don't want to stand up? You want to stand up? We can handle those crowds. Okay. All right, we have a couple minutes. Anything else? Anybody have anything else? All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our city council meeting this evening. Sorry we're a little bit late, but I'd like to call the meeting to order. We're going to start off with the Pledge of Allegiance by our assistant city manager, Ms. Kelly Chalbert. Everyone please rise. Thank you. Our first item, next item, I guess, next item is an opportunity to recognize, and I have a write-up here, our Corner Canyon High School mountain bike team, which I think is the most awesome and definitely maybe the biggest and most influential mountain bike team in the country. So I'm going to read this, so if you don't know, they, again, are state champions. And so I have a little bit of a write-up about the team, so just bear with me for a minute. The 2024 Corning County High School mountain bike team is made up of 220 students. Two head coaches and nine assistant coaches. That's a lot of kids off the couch. The team won all four regional races for the Region 3 championship title. First year head coaches Mandy Zabrarski and Jason Grimes led the team to an unofficial state championship after a severe snowstorm caused the first day of the racing to be canceled. We could use the snow now. THE LEAGUE'S RULES STATE THAT EVEN IF ONE RACE IS CANCELLED DURING THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP, NO OFFICIAL CHAMPIONSHIP TITLE WILL BE AWARDED. BUT I'M GOING TO USE MY MAYORAL POWERS AND GO AHEAD AND AWARD ONE FOR YOU HERE. BUT AFTER A SUCCESSFUL DAY TWO, THE CORNER CANNON HIGH SCHOOL MOUNTAIN BOARD TEAM ANNOUNCES THE HIGHEST SCORING TEAM OF THE CHAMPIONSHIP. SO CORNER CANNON HIGH SCHOOL IS ALSO HOME TO THE 2024 BOYS VARSITY STATE CHAMPIONSHIP. ETHAN SHIREY, ETHAN, ARE YOU OUT THERE? RAISE YOUR HAND. SINGLE CHAMPION, AWESOME. Congrats to the 2024 Corning County High School mountain bike team for another successful year. The coaches will not be able to attend tonight, so the team director, Seth Shearer, is here to represent the coaches. And we have a certificate of recognition and some snacks that you can go burn off tomorrow. So do you want to come down there? Can you guys come up for a photo? It might be easier to... writers. Thank you again, and tell the league that you are officially the Draper City State Champions by decree of the mayor. So there you go. Anyway, thank you. It's truly amazing to think about that mountain biking is a really new sport, but it took here, obviously, because we have probably some of the best trails in the world, but it's just grown and gotten better, and kids love it. I love getting passed by them on the trail. As they say, you're doing good, mayor. I always appreciate that. Usually it's the girls just going right by. Anyway, we're grateful for them. Next item is a presentation by the police department. We do this every year of our 2024 holiday card winners, and I'm gonna have Chief Rich Ferguson come up, our police chief, and he's gonna present the winners of the holiday card contest. Chief, take it away. Thank you, Mayor, Council. As you know, we have some very talented students in Draper, and every year, The Draper Police Department asked the fifth graders to submit their renderings for a Christmas card for our department. And then we declare it a very difficult job to go through hundreds of submissions to select just one to be our department Christmas card. But tonight, we'd like to start off by recognizing our second runner-up. And I'm going to ask them each to come up when I call their name. Hannah Campbell is our second runner-up. This is her card. Our next runner-up is, our first runner-up is Lena Hayden, and this is her card that we have. And then this year's 2024 Christmas card for the Draper Police Department, first place winner is Sophia Sanchez. Sophia. Sophia. So, Mayor, would you mind coming down and counsel and have a picture for us, please, with these fine artists? I have to say, there was one card that came in that caught my attention, and it was a group of individuals standing there that said, Say Chief. So now it's no longer Say Cheese, but Say Chief. So thanks. Let me move this over. I know our Canyon Patrol officer is going to want a Bronco now for sure, having been on the card. So you guys dispel that idea from him, if you would. Anyway, that's a great tradition. They're always great cards, and so we really appreciate it. Next item is we're going to have some oaths of office for our fire department, so we'll have our assistant chief take over. Come on up. Mayor and Council, thank you for the opportunity to stand before you and conduct the oath of office. We're grateful for the opportunity, certainly. We'd like to just excuse Chief Smith. He's conducting a training or going through a training out of state, and so he was unable to attend. And one of our members being sworn in today is unable to attend as well. Today we're swearing in three of our newest members to the Draper Fire Department and a member for a paramedic promotion. These three members have completed a 10-week recruit camp. where they learn crucial firefighting skills which have started their journey in the fire service. These recruits performed at the top of their class and we're grateful to have them as part of our organization. Tyler Cox has recently completed his paramedic program and completed testing for his license. Throughout this program, he learned advanced life-saving techniques that will be directly, excuse me, beneficial to the residents of Draper. The commitment he has shown to this program has been immense and intense. During his time employed at Draper City, He has shown his dedication to our organization. Draper Fire is grateful to have him as a member of our organization as well. Can I please get Bailey Zeal, Kay Caldwell, and Tyler Cox to come forward? We'll start with the firefighters, Bailey Zeal and Kay Caldwell, swearing in. We'll have you guys stay up here for a moment. Tyler Cox is our paramedic who's been through this course and dedicated his time to get his license, so we'll have him swear in. We invite the loved ones of Tyler to come up for the badge printing for his paramedic badge and then those that would like to take a photo and the command staff that are here to come up. Congratulations, gentlemen. Thank you. Finest paramedics and firefighters in the land. Next, we have an oath of office from our police department. I'm going to invite Chief Ferguson to come up again. Mayor and Council, again, it's a pleasure to be with you tonight and to introduce to you the department's first master officers to go through our new career series. Our new career series was introduced earlier this year, and it's largely in part to your support and the support of our citizens. Our career series in the police department is meant to challenge our officers It's to help them grow in their expertise within our profession and to build the department's leadership. You'll recognize a master officer going forward by the insignia on their sleeve of the one stripe and the star. So that's how you'll know they're master officers. Becoming a master officer is a significant accomplishment in these officers' careers. First, they are required to have a minimum of six years law enforcement, two of which have to be in the city of Draper. They are required to attend a series of advanced trainings and actively serve within the department in a specialty position. And most importantly, these officers must be capable of serving in the capacity of a sergeant in lieu of one, meaning they are in charge of the entire city at times in the absence of a commander in the city. I want to take a moment and introduce each of these officers to you and tell you a little bit about them. After that, I'll ask... Laura to come forward and give them the oath of office. Nate Bannery. Nate Bannery has been in law enforcement for 24 years with the LAPD where he was a sergeant and retired, moved to Utah. He's been with the Draper Police Department for the past seven years. Nate and his wife Allison have four children and six grandchildren. His current assignment in the police department is he is in charge of our office of professional standards and training. He is over training. He is over submission of that and a lot of other things that he does. He does an outstanding job. Officer Corey Smith is married to Andrea. They have four children. Corey's been in law enforcement 17 and a half years. He began his career with the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office and then made the smart move to come south to Draper. where he is currently serving as our school resource officer for Corner Canyon High School, and he is a sniper on our South Valley SWAT team. Adam Neff is married to Lindsay, and they have three children. Adam has also 17 1⁄2 years of law enforcement experience. He served six years in the beginning of his career with the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department. one year with West Valley City Police Department, and again made the smart move to come to the Draper Police Department, where he has served for the past 11 years. His current assignment is the school resource officer of Draper Park Middle School. He also teaches DARE to our fifth graders, who we just saw submissions from. Gina Haas. Gina has three adult children and four amazing grandchildren, as she told me. She's been with the Draper Police Department for the past 12 years. Gina's expertise spans a wide range of specialties, including child at risk team, officer involved critical incident team investigator, fire investigator, peer support, forensic interviewer. She is currently a field training officer in our patrol division. Officer Hobie Young has two daughters, ages 8 and 7, who are in bed at this time, I hear. Cannot be with us tonight. He has 10 years of law enforcement experience. He began with the Tooele County Sheriff's Department before joining the Draper Police Department. His specialties include he's a member of the Salt Lake County Collision Reconstruction Team. He's a field training officer. He's a public information officer. He's a member of our public order unit and a mobile command operator. He currently serves in our patrol division. And Officer Rulon Green. married to Sarah. They have a son who is seven years old. Rulon has 15 years total law enforcement experience. He began his career with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, served in many capacities there, ultimately moved to Utah, began his career here in Utah with the Midvale Police Department, and then in 2015 took a job with the Draper Police Department. Some of Rulon's assignments have been AS SCHOOL RESOURCE OFFICER, A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC ORDER UNIT, PEER SUPPORT FIELD TRAINING OFFICER, AND HE'S CURRENTLY ASSIGNED TO THE PATROL DIVISION WHERE HE IS IN OUR TRAFFIC UNIT. HE IS THE ONE WHO WILL PULL YOU OVER FOR EXCESSIVE SPEED. MAYOR, WE ARE FORTUNATE TO HAVE THESE OFFICERS IN OUR DEPARTMENT SERVING OUR CITY AND OUR CITIZENS. YOU CAN SEE WE HAVE A WEALTH OF EXPERIENCE WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT JUST WITH THESE SIX ALONE. These officers are sworn in. I'd really like to get a picture of you to get in stand, and we'll have our command staff come up at that time. How many husbands and wives do we have here for all these officers? You guys stand up. Give them a hand as well, and firefighters too. Thanks. All right, the next item on our agenda, item number eight, is an opportunity for general public comment. If you're here tonight to comment on an item that's on for public hearing, we ask that you wait until that point to comment on that item. But if you would like to make a general public comment, is there anyone here that would like to make a general public comment? All right, the rules of our comment period are you can see a clock to my right, be your left. It's three minutes. You don't have to use them all, but you can. But at the end of three minutes, your turn will be over, and we're real strict on it, so... When you come up to the podium, come on up, ma'am. Just give us your name and address. That's when the time will start. I'm not a man, but I'll go first. My name's Tally Lloyd. I live here in Draper at 12883 South Fayview Lane. And I just wanted to, I'm here actually at the request of my wife. The feral cat community and population here is of concern, and awareness by her was actually what brought me to become more aware of some of those things and wanted to express my thoughts on that. And I'll turn the time over to Jen for her comments. You want your own three minutes or part of his? Oh, I want my own. Okay. Give us your name and address. All right. Jennifer Palmer, 12531 South Bear Castle Cove here in Draper. I'm going to read mine. Eight years ago, feral cat advocates living within Draper City first brought the issue of feral cats and our desire to trap, neuter, vaccinate, release, and feed community cats to the council's attention when they sat down one-on-one with a few individuals on the council at the time. Many of those Draper residents are here in attendance this evening. This is an important issue to them as it is to me. Since this time, we have continued to communicate with the council and have sat with each of you on more than one occasion. For eight years, we've been asking the city government to allow Draper City resident volunteers to TNR the city's community cats. Within the last year, we were told by the former city manager that this issue would be put on the agenda for a vote. However, something more pressing always seems to come up and our issue has been repeatedly put on the back burner in favor of more pressing city issues. The time for action is now. We have been waiting for eight years and we are asking for Draper City to allow volunteers to feed, trap, neuter, vaccinate, and release community cats within Draper City limits at no cost to the city or to the Draper taxpayers. Those who are aware of the feral cat issue in the city believe that there are currently upwards of 2,000 feral cats roaming the city of Draper. Left unchecked, one female cat can have up to 32 kittens per year. Currently, there is no written policy in Draper City that talks about community cats. Unwritten policy as told to me by Draper Animal Services just this year is that, and I quote, feral cats are not allowed within Draper City limits. There is no cure for the feral cat problem. If cat owners allow their unfixed cats to roam at large, our community will continue to have a feral cat problem. When I spoke with Draper Animal Services earlier this year, I was told that the cats may be trapped on private property and they are to be dropped off at the shelter where they will be pulled by rescues and adopted as working cats. There are only a handful of working cat opportunities compared to the enormous number of community cats within the city. This is not a viable solution for the cat problem. I have volunteered at the shelter over the years, and I can say with 100% certainty that the shelter is not remotely large enough to accommodate even a fraction of the number of the feral cats we have within city limits. Our best course of action is to allow our volunteers to educate our community involved Draper City residents in the process for caring for these cats and working towards reducing the numbers by spay and neuter. I did conduct a survey and I will be emailing the results. I was able to poll about 180 people. I got responses of 180 within just a few days. 93.7% of Draper City residents support an ordinance to implement TNVR within Draper City. 97.7% of Draper City residents surveyed support the introduction of TNVR practices by unpaid volunteers to decrease the feral population at no cost to the taxpayers. we would ask that this issue be put on an agenda for a vote. Thank you. Thank you. And you've timed that just perfectly. Working. Good work. Is there anyone else that would like to... Anyone else would like to make a public comment, general public comment? Hello. Terry Hansen, 12985 South, 1185 East. Draper is an amazing place to live, and to acknowledge, say the feral cats don't exist is just ridiculous. To actually do something about it would be proactive as opposed to reactive where you're chasing the problem. It does exist, we're taking care of it, I'm one of the people that are taking care of it, we're doing it at our own cost, and it's just like, why not make Draper one of the best places to live? We know it exists, we know it's here, so let's just handle it and do it. Can we get it on the ballot? What do we need to do? Because there, you know, we don't have tons of people here supporting us because they're probably out trapping cats right now and saving their lives. But West Valley has a situation where you can actually, they'll trap and spay them and bring them back to you. And it's at no cost to you. We're not asking the taxpayers to pay for this. Most of us are doing it out of our own dimes. And it's just because we care for the animals. But otherwise, you're going to have a lot of animals on the road that are hit. A lot of children are going to see these animals. I didn't plan to speak tonight, but I just was really moved just at the fact that it's almost like it doesn't exist, and it does exist, and we all know it exists. Let's just be the best city we can, look at it, do the best we can. Like they said, there's only so many barns and places where you can put these feral cats. A lot of us are willing to take them back, feed them, give them homes, let them live out their lives. It wasn't their fault. Somebody dropped them off. We're a throwaway community, so this is what we do. We get cats or dogs, and when we're done with them, we just put them in a field, and they'll go eat the mice. But Draper is not a county place, or it's not a country place anymore where it used to be. There's houses everywhere. Every little place where we can put four and five homes, we do. And so these animals who didn't ask to be born, didn't ask to, you know, be here, it's not their fault. So why don't we just take the time, let these people do this, I'm one of them, We're doing it with our own money. We're not asking for anything. And just take care of these. We're all in this together. You know, I don't know what religion you are, it doesn't really matter, but it's like, you know, God put these animals down here and part of what we're supposed to do is take care of them. I don't have a lot more to say, but I have 46 seconds. You don't have to use all your time. Aren't you glad I won't? It's one of these, to act like it doesn't exist is just silly. It does exist. There's people out here that are more than happy to literally put their own money out and do it and take care of it because it is a problem. And if we don't do it, like they said, I've witnessed it. One cat can have baby after baby after baby, and pretty soon you're so far behind the eight ball, there's nothing you can do. As if we are proactive, we can actually get this under control. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO MAKE A GENERAL, WE DON'T DO THE APPLAUSE THOUGH, SO PLEASE, YEAH, WE DON'T NORMALLY DO THAT. THAT'S JUST A PUBLIC COMMENT, OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COUNSELOR. ANYONE ELSE WANT TO MAKE A GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT? HI THERE. I'M MATT ERICKSON. DO YOU WANT MY ADDRESS? YEAH, GIVE US YOUR ADDRESS. 198 EAST ROCKY PARK LANE. I want to talk about bicycles and cars. I'm a pedestrian and bike rider in Draper and want to thank the people in Draper who have electric cars because when there's no wind, the gas fumes are like nauseating. But typically it's okay, you know, out there on the streets. So I When I was at BYU, I looked at car safety and I pulled up the statistics for 2023 and it turns out bicycle riding is actually safer than walking here in Utah, at least it was in 2023 with 33 deaths attributed to walking, seven deaths attributed to bike riding. Cars, however, 259 deaths, and that's the third leading cause of death in the state. It's in front of suicide. It's in front of Alzheimer's disease. I don't know who in the city would be able to focus on increasing the messaging when it comes to getting out of your car and walking more, or bike riding is even safer. That's all. THANK YOU. ANYONE ELSE LIKE TO MAKE A GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT? ALL RIGHT. SEEING NO FURTHER GENERAL COMMENTS, WE'LL GO TO ITEM NUMBER 9, WHICH IS OUR CONSENT ITEMS. ITEM 9A IS APPROVAL OF THE NOVEMBER 19, 2024 CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES. ITEM 9B IS APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION NUMBER 2463. IT'S THE RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL ESTABLISHING THE REGULAR MEETING SCHEDULE FOR THE CITY COUNCIL AND PLANNING COMMISSION FOR THE YEAR 2025. ITEM 9C IS APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION 2464, A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL APPROVING THE CITY COUNCIL ASSIGNMENT LIST FOR 2025. ITEM 9D, IMPROVAL OF RESOLUTION 2465, IT'S A RESOLUTION OF DRAPER CITY COUNCIL ELECTING TOSHA LOWERY TO SERVE AS THE MAYOR PRO TEM FOR THE YEAR 2025. AND ITEM 9E IS APPROVAL OF RESOLUTION 2468, A RESOLUTION APPOINTING LUCY WILLIAMS TO THE DRAPER CITY COMMITTEE ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE. COUNCIL MEMBERS. MR. MAYOR? Go ahead, Mr. Green. I move we approve consent items A through E. A motion by Mr. Green to approve the consent items or a second? I'll second. Second by Ms. Johnson. Any further discussion? All right, Mr. Green, how do you vote? Yes. Ms. Johnson? Yes. Mr. Lowry? Yes. Ms. Lowry? Yes. Ms. Faudry? Yes. That's been a while, but you're right back on track. Excellent. Didn't miss a beat. All right. I SHOULD ALSO HAVE WELCOMED MS. I FORGOT. I APOLOGIZE, MARSHA, YOU'RE JUST, YOU FIT RIGHT BACK IN. I SHOULD RECOGNIZE THAT WE DO HAVE OUR NEW MEMBER AFTER THE YEAR, COUNCILMEMBER RODRIGUE, WHO'S BEEN WITH US BEFORE, BUT WE'RE REALLY GLAD TO HAVE YOU. SO WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE YOU BACK. ITEM NUMBER 10 IS ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION STARTING WITH ITEM 10A, WHICH IS A RESOLUTION AGAINST 2457, RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL regarding the Audit and Annual Comprehensive Financial Report, or the ACFR, a fiscal year ending June 30, 2024. We'll have Mr. Veik, our finance director. Are you doing that, John? Go ahead. Actually, our auditor, Rob Wood, will be here to present. That's right. I felt the presence of an auditor. Go ahead, Mr. Auditor. Such a great thing, isn't it? It's like an IRS agent. Go ahead, sir. Ouch, I'm hurt. Okay, pleasure to be with you this evening. First, I want to thank you as council for the stuff that you do and making sure the stuff is set for the city and giving direction to administration for their organization. I want to thank the administration staff for the time and effort, especially the finance department. Obviously, you can see this book in PDF form is very long. It's 140-something pages long. There's a lot of stuff that goes into this. So time and effort in putting this together and making sure that the finances of the city are properly reported. So our firm has had the privilege to audit your city again this year. As part of that process, really what you're looking for is an audit opinion on the statements. So if we go through the first couple of pages, we'll get to the auditor opinion. Because the manager smells auditors. So on this we start out with our opinion and in the audit opinion for we cover not only your governmental funds in your business type funds which is your entity wide statements we also coverage your major funds and your aggregated information after that on each of the respective fields and statements that are presented in the statements collectively we feel that those statements are fairly presented in accordance with auditing standard in accordance with the general accepted accounting principles We don't feel there's any material misstatements. Now, obviously, we cannot test every single transaction, so a lot of our stuff has been done on sample-type basis, but this is the best opinion our audit firm, CPA firm, can give your organization. In giving you some highlights, there's a management and discussion section. This is the only place in your financial statements where you will find comparative information. So I like to refer to some of these highlights that's put together by JOHN HELPS ORGANIZE MOST OF THIS BUT LET ME GIVE YOU A QUICK COMPARISON HERE THIS IS A SUMMARY COMPARISON OF YOUR ENTITY WIDE SO ALL OF YOUR GOVERNMENTAL FUNDS AND THEN YOUR BUSINESS YOUR UTILITY TYPE FUNDS ARE PRESENTED SO IF YOU CAN LOOK AND SEE YOUR ASSETS HAVE ACTUALLY INCREASED BY ABOUT FOUR POINT SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS ON THE GOVERNMENTAL SIDE WHEREAS YOUR BUSINESS ACTIVITIES HAVE AS YOU LOOK DOWN THAT WHOLE ENTIRE COLUMN HAVE REMAINED PRETTY STEADY this past year. In essence, you almost had a break-even year on all of your utilities. All the revenues that you brought in were offset by the expenses to operate those respective funds. Down at the bottom, you can see the net position for each of the funds. You have $537 million in governmental activities. Well, 446,000, sorry, $446 million of that is related to capital assets. less debt that's been used to purchase those assets. Same size, you can see majority of our net position is really made up of assets to help run programs and provide services. One of the interesting notes here. There we go. So ending the year, if you were a business, for your governmental funds, you had an increase here of 3 point, almost $3 million. And in our business type activities, $121,000. So like I said, almost a break-even point for the business type activities. One of the things that's interesting to note is interest rates have actually gone up on what we earn and what you have invested out there. Now in total, between the PTIF and your investment with Morton Asset Management, who invest in more fixed income and CDs and so forth, You can see on a total, the city earned $7.2 million this past year compared to $4.5 million in 2023. So you've had an increase there. But as we also know, inflation and cost of materials, supplies, services have all gone up. So yeah, we've had an increase there, but we've also had a significant increase in the cost of purchasing goods and services. So it's an interesting graph to kind of give you a comparison of where do our revenue sources come from, where do our government-wide Expenses go to, as you can see, 24.5% of it roughly goes towards public safety. And then you have another significant portion towards general government and highways and public improvements, just covering over half of what the city does as far as expenditures. Let me flip to page number 19. Page number 19, these are your governmental funds. So we've talked a little bit about the entity-wide. Let's get into your operational fund as your general fund. And then you also have a capital project redevelopment. Those three funds make up your major funds here at the city. The rest of them are considered non-major and are aggregated together just because of the significance of what they do and balances that they have as far as assets, liabilities, revenues, and expenses. Bottom line, when you look at the fund balances, you see across the board, Second to last line, positive balances in all the funds. All your funds seem to have a healthy balance. One of the things that the state auditor's office asks you and us to perform is we take a look at this number here, your unassigned fund balance, and we compare that to the revenues for the general fund in the current year. Now, state law mandates that you be between 5% and 35%. So if you're below that, there's things that you need to do in order to rectify it. If you're over 35%, that's our favorite finding to give, actually, because that just indicates you have excess funds to fund some of your projects or road projects and so forth, parks, buildings, all that type stuff. So in calculating your percentage compared to the revenues this year, you sit at 32% for a city. So you're within the requirements from the state. You also have a lot of project money that's been set aside in the capital project fund to fund projects you're working on right now. If we look at your business type funds, water, storm water, solid waste, and your ambulance fund, they also have healthy fund balances. Let's go to the bottom of this page. So you're looking at 33 million, 48 million, 11 million, and 2.7 million. Now they all have healthy fund balances, but obviously you can see same similar situation. A lot of those are made up of the assets that are in those funds. I know one of the significant events this year happened early October, or was it in 2023, I think in August, your storm water fund had a significant repair because of some flooding that took place. So their operational results this past year were quite different. statement. Let's go back to this one. They took a $1.7 million loss. The reason being is they had a $2.5 million expense to help repair some roads and infrastructure that had problems with that flooding that came down the mountain. Overall, all of your funds are in a healthy position. We don't have any reportable conditions that we feel needs to be brought to your attention or put in writing for the state or bondholders or others that will use your financial statements. We have given some minor recommendations to finance on stuff they can track better, do better, and improve some reconciliations and tracking of various things. But for the most part, the city's operating in a very good standpoint with healthy balances. I know if I were to go to the end of this report, there's two more reports that we do. One on your compliance with state, with regulations, laws, whether they be federal or state. state and how you handle grant monies that might come in, because usually those have stipulations. Now you didn't break the $750,000 threshold which would require you to have a single audit from a federal standpoint, but we looked at those stuff and your designing of internal controls over the various areas of the city. We didn't notice any weaknesses. We don't give an opinion on that, but we didn't notice any weaknesses that need to be reported. The last report is required by the state auditor's office. They put out a state compliance audit guide. In that audit guide, there are certain things that we have to do every year, like you do. You have to have the fraud risk assessment. There is your adoption of a budget, how you set governmental fees and the costs that you incur for those, and so forth. There's also stuff that we review on a three-year rotation basis, such as impact fee reporting, bonding for your treasurer, and so forth. Happy to report that the areas that we tested this year, there's no issues here at the city. Everything's running. You are in compliance with what the state wants you to do. So I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. Any questions, Councilmember? Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Mayor. Yep, we do. I need a motion. Mr. Mayor, I make a motion that we approve action item resolution 24-57. All right, motion by Mr. Lowry. Is there a second? I'll second. Seconded by Ms. Johnson. Approving resolution 24-57. Oh, sorry. Ms. Faudrey. Seconded by Ms. Faudrey. Any further discussion? All right. Seeing none, Mr. Lowry, how do you vote? Yes. Ms. Faudrey? Yes. Ms. Lowry? Yes. Mr. Green? Yes. All right. That impasses unanimously 5-0. I'm used to having Calvin over there. Ms. Johnson, did I not call you? I'm AF. Then it's 5-0 now. Sorry. I've had too much peppermint bark. I'm a little bit off my... which Ms. Johnson brought, so it's really her fault. Oh, no. That's kind of how it goes, but anyway. Item 10B is Ordinance Number 1627. It's an ordinance of the City Council amending Title VII of the Draper City Municipal Code regarding the Draper City Cemetery. We'll have a staff presentation by Spencer Duchesne. Go ahead, sir. Thank you, Mayor. Now, many years ago, When I was a first-year law student, I had a professor named Ken Malili, and he's the funniest man alive, funnier than any stand-up comic I've ever seen. He used to be a federal prosecutor, and the prosecutor, the judges that he prosecuted before didn't appreciate his jokes, and so he became a law school professor. So if you don't like my jokes tonight, you know, maybe I'll call the University of Utah and see if I can be an adjunct somewhere or something. but tonight we're talking about the cemetery code this is a month and a few weeks overdue we should have covered this in the second uh council meeting in october it'd been perfect for it but here we are um so how did we get here we're amending the cemetery code and how did we get here so first of all we acquired the church uh excuse me we acquired the property from the of the cemetery from the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints and when we acquired this property we um we had some stipulations that came with it. The conveyance from the grantor had terms and conditions, and in those terms and conditions, some of those terms and conditions we have still in our code. Some of them we're following pretty well. Some of them we're not as well following, but there's not really anything that's gonna happen about it. Some of our cemetery code is mandated by state law, and we're following that pretty well. And then some of our code, it was great when we drafted it back in 2006, but it does not look good today based off of how we run the cemetery. So we're updating our code to match what we practiced. So we're doing what we say and saying what we do, which is a great way to have a code. So here's what's changing. So we have a clear expectation of a right to burial. Back when the church owned the cemetery, they sold burials. and they sold plots as almost like a property interest. And since we've taken it over, we've made it clear that you don't have a property interest and a right to be buried in a certain grave or in a certain spot. But that's not in our code, so we're making that a lot clearer in our code. We are changing the way that we run our cemetery rules. Currently, any change to the cemetery rules comes before the council, and you have to approve all of the rules. that gets a little bit cumbersome. We have an enabling ordinance in Title II of our ordinances that allows some things to be done by committee. This would be one of those things where it would be appropriate to, or some of those things would be done administratively and this would be appropriate to be done administratively by committee rather than sending every cemetery rule change to council. We are putting a clear bar on people being buried outside the cemetery. Currently our code does not, I mean it says you, It could be interpreted one way that you can't be buried outside of the cemetery. But there is some ambiguity there. So currently people might be able to make the case, hey, I want to be buried out in my horse pasture. There's a bar on that that we're enacting. That's consistent with state code. And then we're also using more precise industry terms in this version. In our current version, we say body a lot in our code. Sometimes there's not a body to be had, sometimes it's cremains. So remains is the term that we're, one of those terms that we're using in place of body or cremains. All right, here's what won't change. Cost for right to burial, it's currently $500. That's the best going price around. I mean, that, that is a, that is such a great price, people are dying to get it. Cost for burial, that's not going to change. Also very cheap. And a perpetual care fund. We do have a perpetual care fund. It is, I don't know, our auditor can probably tell us it's not very well-funded, is it, John? Okay. What's new? We're adding a speed limit to the cemetery, 10 miles an hour. Animals are being prohibited. Now, of course, this isn't mentioned in our ordinance, but there is going to be exceptions, obviously, for service animals. And then we're adding a cemetery committee. will be the ones who administer the code. That's gonna be appointed by our city manager. And I think that that's it. Do we have any questions? Any questions? Oh, good. This is the cemetery ordinance. Is there a motion? Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve Resolution. Motion by Ms. Johnson to approve Ordinance 1627. Is there a second? I'll second. Second by Ms. Lowry. Any further discussion? All right. Ms. Johnson, how do you vote? Yes. Ms. Lowry? Yes. Mr. Lowry? Yes. Mr. Green? Yes. Ms. Faudrey? Yes. I got you all. That's five to zero. Okay. Item 10C is next. It's an action item also. Resolution 2470. It's a resolution approving a memorandum of understanding between Draper City and the point of the Mountain State Land Authority. Mike, are you handling this, Mr. Barker? Mr. Dobbins will. Mr. Dobbins, come on up, sir. Good evening. With me tonight is Mike Ambre, who's the fairly recently appointed executive director for the point of the Mountain State Land Authority. This MOU is fairly straightforward. outlines the agreement that we meet me in the city and the point will continue to work collaboratively to make efforts to get these improvements so they're their infrastructure reviewed by the city conditionally approved allows them to move forward while we continue to work through the details of finalizing an agreement on how we will address life safety issues especially cost because we want to make sure that the existing taxpayers of Draper are not subsidizing the point. It will allow them to move forward while we continue to address those issues and provides for them to understand what our concerns might be, but allow them to move forward with that, with the design as well as the beginning of the construction of the critical infrastructure for the entire site. So it's fairly straightforward, does not bind the city to do anything at this point, and just allows them to move forward, and we'll continue to work with them. Since Mike's appointment, we've been working on a regular basis to try to resolve a lot of these issues, and we've made a lot of good progress, but this MOU will allow them to start making some decisions on timing of construction. Happy to answer any questions you have. Questions? I do want to say, Mike, welcome again. I've been on this commission since its inception. I can tell you that Mike, since he's been on the job, we have moved more dirt, so to speak, than ever. So Mike's working hard. We're all working hard. It's exciting. December 17th is the groundbreaking. What time is that at? 10 o'clock. It's the groundbreaking for infrastructure. So we're going to see dirt start to move in construction-wise, that is. And just so you know, Mike comes to the point with a lot of experience. Number one, he's the one who tore down the prison, and he's also the one who built the new prison. So he's got a lot of prison experience, but we're moving him into really cool stuff experience. So anyway, I really appreciate Mike. He's been really good to work with for our committee. If there's not any questions, is there a motion? Mr. Mayor? Ms. Vaudrey? I move we adopt resolution number 24-70. All right, motion by Ms. Faudrey to adopt Resolution 24702. Second. I'll second. Second by Ms. Johnson. All right, any further discussion? Ms. Faudrey, how do you vote? Yes. Ms. Johnson? Yes. Mr. Lowry? Yes. Mr. Green? Yes. Ms. Lowry? Yes. Item is approved unanimously, 5-0. All right, Item 10D is next. It's a public hearing. This order is number 1628. It's in order to amend the official zoning map of Draper City for approximately... .52 ACRES FROM RA1 RESIDENTIAL AGRICULTURAL 40,000 SQUARE FOOT MINIMUM LOT SIZE TO COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL CC ZONE FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 12240 SOUTH 700 EAST KNOWN AS THE BREAK ZONING MAP AMENDMENT. WE'LL HAVE A STAFF REPORT BY NICK WHITAKER. NICK, GO AHEAD. THANK YOU. SO HERE IS THE FACINITY MAP. for the property where the proposed zone change is occurring. And the aerial map. Land use map, the current land use is neighborhood commercial. And here's the zoning map. So currently the property is zoned as RA1. The applicant is hoping to change that to CC, Here is a proposed map amendment that the applicant prepared. The applicant owns this property here and they will be, the purpose of the application again is to rezone this property located here from RA1 to CC. The current land use designation is neighborhood commercial. I'd also like to point out that the goal behind the land use is for a restaurant. And though that is not a compatible zoning use, staff finds that it is, that it does correlate with that designation. Just an overview of the request. And the current zoning is RA1 or residential agricultural. And the proposed zoning is CC or Community Commercial. And the Planning Commission recommendation, the Planning Commission made a positive recommendation for approval of the zone change at their meeting on November 14th, 2024, on a unanimous 5-0 vote. Here's a photo of the site, the property. And questions. The Planning Commission, what was the Planning Commission? You skipped by that side quick. What was the Planning Commission's? 5-0. So just to clarify, the change does allow for a restaurant? Yes, yes, yes. The current land use is, or the current zoning is residential. The proposed use would allow for a restaurant. Any questions for Nick? Is the applicant here? The applicant is here, yes. So you're welcome to address the council if you'd like. Tell them what you're trying to do. Come on up, give us your name and address. Gary Knapp, 1623 West, 425 South Layton, Utah. And yeah, I'm working with my client to help put this together where they have these two properties. Really, this property will just be used for parking for the most part. The building will be on the other side. property, but we need them to all be together so we can use it and be able to park enough people on that. So that's what the current plan is. Do you have a type of restaurant? It's going to be a restaurant bar. It's coming from The Break is what it's called. And that's what the plan is at this point. Is it a chain or unique? It is a chain, yes. Any other questions? All right, thank you. Thank you. We'll give you the last word if you need it. I don't see anybody in the audience. This is a public hearing. Ordinance number 1628. Redundantly, is there anyone in the audience who would like to make a general or a public comment on this item? Seeing no people, close the public comment. Pray to bring it back to the council. Mr. Mayor. Mr. Green. Move we adopt ordinance 1628. Motion by Mr. Green to adopt Ordinance 1628, second. I'll second. Second by Ms. Johnson. Any further discussion on the motion? I think this is a compatible land use. It matches the surrounding areas, and I think it will be a value add to the city, especially with the storefront there and the increased tax revenue. I don't think it affects the neighborhood. I would agree. It also fits the master plan for that area, I believe, doesn't it? So I think it's a good thing. I'm screen. How do you vote? Yes, Johnson. Yes, Sir Lowry. Yes, Larry. Yes, I'm approved unanimously 5 to 0. Item 10 E so public hearing as well. Ordinance 1629. It's approval of an ordinance amending. The compensation for statutory officers for fiscal year 2024 2025 and will have Mr. Bike on this one. Go ahead Sir. I don't get to pawn this off on someone else. State law requires that we hold a public hearing to make changes to statutory and executive officers. In the budget this year that you had adopted, we had put in some additional money for changes for salaries and We made some of those changes to the hourly employees earlier in the year. At the beginning of the calendar year, there is a proposal to make some changes to those employees who are not hourly. And included in those are your executive and statutory officers. And so in accordance with state cut utah code we are here to have two public hearings and the first is for the statutory officers which are your city recorder and your city treasurer and then we will hold a an additional public hearing for the executive officers so questions what what was done was we did in a salary study and and looked at all the salaries, and so you can see that the amounts are different, but that is based on where the current executive employee is in comparison to others within the market. If you have questions, happy to answer those. If not, this is a public hearing. Any questions? Mr. Barker had mentioned to me that the funding was already allocated, right? So this is just a moving of the funds. Really, what we're here for is to comply with Utah Code 10-3-818 by holding the public hearings and notifying the public that we are making changes to these officers' salaries. We were pleasantly surprised last spring that our insurance rate did not go up. So the money that had been tentatively budgeted for those potential insurance increase was allocated for this purpose. And I might add that the goal of the salary study was not to make any of these positions, you know, the highest in the market, but to bring them in line with kind of in the meat of the curve, if you will, which kind of has been the philosophy, if you will, that we're not the highest paid, but we're solidly in the middle of that. And Melina did a lot of the work on that. So she also can answer any questions if you have further questions as well. All right. Any questions? Is there public hearings running from the public that would like to address the council on Ordinance 1629? Seeing no one from the public, I'll close the public hearing and bring it back to the council. Mr. Mayor, I move we adopt Ordinance 1629. I motioned by Mr. Green to adopt Coordinates 1629. Is there a second? I'll second. Second by Ms. Johnson. Is there any further discussion? All right, seeing none, Mr. Green, how do you vote? Yes. Ms. Johnson? Yes. Ms. Vaudrey? Yes. Ms. Lowry? Yes. Mr. Lowry? Yes. Item is approved unanimously, 5-0. Item number 10F is next, and it is a hearing. It's a resolution on adopting Resolution 2467, Approval of resolution amending the executive officer compensation for fiscal year 2024 2025. All right, Mr. Pike, the same same story. Yep, same story. Just these are the executive officers. You can see the list on the screen minus the two that we just did of the city recorder and the city treasurer. All right, this is a public hearing. Is there anyone from the public like to address the council? On item 10F, resolution 2467, seeing no public, I'll close the public hearing and bring it back to the council. Mr. Mayor, I move we adopt resolution 2467. Motion by Mr. Green. Adopt 2467. Is there a second? I'll second. All right. Second by Ms. Faudrey. Any further discussion? All right, Mr. Green, how do you vote? Yes. Ms. Faudrey? Yes. Ms. Lowry? Yes. Mr. Lowry? Yes. Ms. Johnson? Yes. All right. Item's approved. Is that the last item? Mr. Mayor, I move we adjourn. Actually, it wasn't on the agenda. All right. We have a motion to adjourn by Mr. Green. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? We stand adjourned.