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  • Mayor Fuller called the meeting to order at00pm.Councilmember Sifuentes gave an invocation and led the pledge of allegiance.          PRESENTATIONS/RECOGNITIONS/AWARDS/PROCLAMATIONS1.   GolfCartOrdinance Presentation Lt.HoldenRockwell,withtheUtahCountySheriff'sOffice,willgiveapresentation on the recently adopted ordinance regarding the use of golf carts.
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  • Daria Evans, living in The Villas subdivision, wanted to thank the City and staff for the fireworks display on Julyt as well as other sports and community related events that have been organized by the city. She also spoke in favor of Business Item1.           MAYORANDCOUNCILMEMBERS'REPORTS/DISCLOSURES/RECUSALS
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  • Chief Deputy Holden Rockwell gave a presentation on the recently adopted ordinance regarding the use of golf carts. He gave a general overview of the ordinance and the process that went into creating it.
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  • Councilmember Sifuentes asked about what a stop for a violation would entail. Chief Deputy Rockwell explained that the first priority in any stop would be to educate them on the new ordinance.
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  • Councilmember Holdaway wanted to know if it would be possible to add either additional restrictions limiting the use in and around the churches and beach areas or adding painted warnings. Chief Deputy Rockwell said that if there are further issues, other work could be done, and other restrictions could be added in the future. A discussion ensued.  2.   PoliticalSignsPresentation NeighborhoodServicesCoordinatorMariaArteagawillgiveapresentationonthe municipal code pertaining to political signs.
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  • NeighborhoodServicesCoordinatorMariaArteaga gave a presentation on municipal code regarding the posting of political signs.
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  • Community Development Director Morgan Brim also added that depending on the road, it would be helpful to pull back the signs even further to prevent safety issues with oncoming traffic.
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  • Councilmember Clawson wanted to know if bigger signs would require a second permit. Mr. Brim explained that they would not, that the temporary sign permit would cover both residential and commercial sign types. A discussion ensued.           WORK SESSION No items were submitted.            PUBLICCOMMENTS Mayor Fullmer called for public comments.
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  • Mayor Fullmer commented on the recent State Auditor report on the city. She read a quote from Steven Rowley, who had performed an external audit. She assigned Councilmember Clawson to lead a third-party audit that would independently investigate the city. Councilmember Cameron volunteered to help with the audit and the mayor accepted and assigned her to help with that.
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  • Councilmember Holdaway wanted to know why the city would not use the services of the state auditor. A discussion ensued.
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  • Councilmember Sifuentes’s mentioned a Peloton related event happening in the Utah City area.
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  • Councilmember Cameron’s stated she also thought the fireworks show had been amazing. She also mentioned that there had been some work done replacing dead trees and wanted to focus on what she said was something positive.            STAFF,COMMISSION, ANDCOMMITTEE REPORTS CityManager Report
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  • City Manager Eric Ellis reviewed the monthly report from all the departments, for the month of June.
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  • Mr. Brim highlighted some of the community development department’s work during the previous month. He also gave an overview of the economic development strategic plan that was being created. A discussion ensued.           CONSENT ITEMS1.   Approvalof the June,2025, City Council Meeting Minutes2.   MunicipalCodeAmendmentSection13.16PublicLibrary(Ordinance2025-10)   Mayor Fullmer called for a motion.
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  • Motion: COUNCILMEMBER SIFUENTES MOVED TO APPROVE CONSENT ITEM1 AS PRESENTED. COUNCILMEMBER CAMERON SECONDED THE MOTION. MAYOR FULLMER AND COUNCILMEMBERS CAMERON, CLAWSON, HOLDAWAY AND SIFUENTES VOTED YES. THE MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
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  • 7.2MunicipalCodeAmendmentSection13.16PublicLibrary(Ordinance2025-10) Councilmember Sifuentes said that she had spoken with members of the library board and that they had not had a chance to review the proposed amendment to the municipal code.
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  • Communication Director Jenna Ahern responded to the question as well as gave an overview of the proposed amendment.
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  • It was discussed that the item should be continued to a future meeting so that the library board could also have an opportunity to review the proposed amendments and provide feedback.
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  • Motion: COUNCILMEMBER SIFUENTES MOVED TO CONTINUE CONSENT ITEM2 TO A FUTURE MEETING. COUNCILMEMBER CAMERON SECONDED THE MOTION. MAYOR FULLMER AND COUNCILMEMBERS CAMERON, CLAWSON, HOLDAWAY AND SIFUENTES VOTED YES. THE MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.           APPOINTMENTS/REMOVALS1.   Withtheadviceandconsentofthecouncil,themayormayappointaYouth Council Co-advisor.   No appointment was made during this meeting.         BUSINESSITEMS1.   UtilityBillingPractices(Resolution2025-39) NeighborhoodServicesCoordinatorMariaArteagawillpresentproposedchangesto utility policies as they pertain to renters.
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  • NeighborhoodServicesCoordinatorMariaArteaga gave a presentation on the proposed changes. A discussion ensued.
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  • Councilmember Clawson asked about feedback from other cities that Ms. Arteaga had worked with when developing the resolution. She replied which cities had similar processes in place and that they had proven effective.
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  • Councilmember Holdaway asked about the process and specifically if it was required to associate the renter’s names with the utilities. Ms. Arteaga explained that it was not required and that if the tenants were not responsible for paying for utilities, then the landlord would not have to change anything.
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  • Motion: COUNCILMEMBER CAMERON MOVED TO APPROVE RESOLUTION25-39 UTILITY BILLING PRACTICES. COUNCILMEMBER CLAWSON SECONDED THE MOTION. THE ROLL CALL WAS AS FOLLOWS: MAYOR FULLMER AND COUNCILMEMBERS CAMERON, CLAWSON, HOLDAWAY AND SIFUENTES VOTED YES. THE MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.  2.   WateringSchedules(Resolution2025-40orOrdinance2025-13)
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  • Councilmember Holdaway wanted to know if the proposed change was just a recommendation or it would be mandated. Mayor Fullmer explained that at this point it was unclear since the item was still being worked on.
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  • Motion: COUNCILMEMBER HOLDAWAY MOVED TO CONTINUE ITEM2 TO A FUTURE MEETING. COUNCILMEMBER CLAWSON SECONDED. MAYOR FULLMER AND COUNCILMEMBERS CAMERON, CLAWSON, HOLDAWAY AND SIFUENTES VOTED YES. THE MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.   .     CLOSEDSESSION Mayor Fullmer called for a motion to go into a closed session.
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  • Motion: COUNCILMEMBER CLAWSON MOVED TO ENTER A CLOSED SESSION, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING, IN THE CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS FOR A STRATEGY SESSION TO DISCUSS THE PURCHASE, EXCHANGE OR LEASE OF REAL PROPERTY, INCLUDING ANY FORM OF WATER RIGHTS OR WATER SHARES. COUNCILMEMBER CAMERON SECONDED. THE ROLL CALL WAS AS FOLLOWS: MAYOR FULLMER AND COUNCILMEMBERS CAMERON, CLAWSON, HOLDAWAY AND SIFUENTES VOTED YES. THE MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY. .     ADJOURNMENT  Mayor Fullmer adjourned the meeting at00PM.    MINUTES APPROVED ON:        /23/2025   CERTIFIED CORRECT BY:                        TONY LARA, DEPUTY CITY RECORDER
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Event transcript
All right, we're going to go ahead and get started. The time is 6:00 PM. It's Wednesday, July 9th, 2025, and we're going to start 00:00:02
our Vineyard City Council meeting. We're going to start out with our invocation and Pledge of Allegiance by council members to 00:00:07
Puentes. 00:00:12
And then we'll. 00:00:17
Gone with our agenda from there. 00:00:18
Are there kind of my father? We are so very grateful for this wonderful summer day. 00:00:25
We're grateful that we could be here together. 00:00:29
Talking about this. 00:00:32
Wonderful city, please bless that we will. 00:00:33
Be in tune and be supportive of one another. 00:00:36
Be able to. 00:00:41
Make good decisions and. 00:00:42
Help with this wonderful city you are so very grateful for. 00:00:44
All of our servicemen. 00:00:47
All of our staff and everyone in our community, please bless and watch over them. And we say these things in the name of Jesus 00:00:49
Christ, Amen. 00:00:52
All rise. 00:00:55
One nation under God. 00:01:08
All right. Thank you. 00:01:18
Was there anybody here that was going in their public comments? 00:01:20
Tonight. 00:01:22
OK, I'm going to actually move the agenda and have you come up in? 00:01:25
Provide your comments. Come on. 00:01:28
Thank you for this opportunity. My name is Daria Evans, I live in the villas. 00:01:41
Community. 00:01:46
I just wanted to thank everyone for the staff and the city. 00:01:47
For providing such a wonderful 4th of July. 00:01:52
On July 1st. 00:01:54
The fireworks show, that was great. 00:01:55
Enjoy them all around. 00:01:57
It was quite a week. 00:01:59
I also want to express my appreciation for. 00:02:01
Baseball at Gammon Park. 00:02:05
That's a nice place for the kids to play ball in the. 00:02:07
Grandparents and adults to other adults to sit in the shade. 00:02:10
So thank you for that and pickleball is going well, enjoying that. 00:02:14
I also want to. 00:02:18
Address. 00:02:20
Business item 9.1. 00:02:22
On the agenda tonight, I am all for it. 00:02:24
I think that property. 00:02:27
Owners should be. 00:02:29
Taking care of the. 00:02:31
Utility accounts for the renters so that. 00:02:33
The city doesn't have that. 00:02:37
Great. 00:02:38
Task of finding those renters when it. 00:02:40
It should be the property owners. 00:02:43
Problem. Thank you. 00:02:45
Thank you. 00:02:47
All right, were there any other? 00:02:48
Comments. 00:02:49
OK. I'm going to go ahead and close public comments and we'll turn our time over to. 00:02:51
And Chief Rockwell, who will? 00:02:56
Talk to us about our golf cart ordinance. 00:02:58
For the public to learn more about it. 00:03:01
All right. 00:03:05
There we go. 00:03:16
All right, good. This way you can hear me. 00:03:17
OK, so you'll recall several months ago we had a work session on. 00:03:21
For a golf cart policy. 00:03:25
And we presented what the state will allow us to do and then some options for that. 00:03:26
And then it took a while several months ago and we kind of put that on hold to looking to get a grant. 00:03:31
For a micro mobility. 00:03:36
Master plan kind of thing, but we didn't get the grant. 00:03:38
So then we started to move forward with this policy. 00:03:41
As part of the policy, I've met with several of you. 00:03:44
I've spoken with several other cities. 00:03:47
Who have this this type of a policy? 00:03:50
And I've also met with residents during the new days. I took the opportunity to talk to about every golf cart driver I could find 00:03:53
that came to the to the event and just say, hey, here's what we're thinking of. 00:03:57
Few supported you not. 00:04:01
Come and get some feedback from the public. So with all of that, this is the. 00:04:03
The ordinance that was adopted last meeting. 00:04:08
And we just want to make sure that everybody is aware of it and try to educate the public on what's in the ordinance and then how 00:04:11
they can abide by it. 00:04:14
So we'll go to the top. So golf cart policy. 00:04:19
Basically it defines what a golf cart is. 00:04:24
And what it's not? 00:04:27
And then the restrictions, this is really what it comes. 00:04:28
What the? 00:04:30
The ordinance says. 00:04:32
In order to operate a golf cart within Vineyard, you have to be 16 years of age or older. 00:04:33
And they have to be operated in a safe and responsible manner with due regard for the safety of others. 00:04:38
They can only be operated during daylight hours unless they're equipped with headlights, tail lights and side reflectors. 00:04:45
And they cannot carry anymore passengers than they have seats for. 00:04:51
Or what the what the golf cart was actually manufactured to carry. So if it was a six person when you got it from the. 00:04:55
The manufacturer, that's how many people can be on on the golf cart. 00:05:00
I'm thinking that be operated on any St. 35 miles an hour or less except for. 00:05:04
Mill Road and they are not allowed on state roads, not the state. 00:05:10
Or policy statute. So we can't have them on Vineyard Connector or Geneva. 00:05:13
We excluded Mill Rd. just because of safety concerns of the dynamics of that road. 00:05:18
We don't feel like that would be safe for them to operate on. No Rd. 00:05:23
They can operate. 00:05:27
When it comes to the park, so Brian, and one of the concerns we brought up in the work session was golf carts in the parks. 00:05:29
So what we've said is that they can operate on the trails and sidewalks of the park. 00:05:35
And but they cannot, like, drive clear across the field. They can be on the grass as long as they're using that area to park 00:05:39
within 20 feet of a sidewalk or trail. 00:05:43
So if they're coming in and. 00:05:48
Into the park that that's how they have to operate. 00:05:49
And really what our goal was, kind of my goal was in talking to everybody involved, was we want people to be able to use them. 00:05:52
And most people I've talked to. 00:05:59
Use them to get to the park. 00:06:01
And get to schools. 00:06:03
And so if we did what? So ours is a little different in some cities. 00:06:04
Most cities say. 00:06:08
25 miles an hour or less. No sidewalks, trails. 00:06:10
Or parks. 00:06:13
Completely banned them from those areas. 00:06:14
Unfortunately in Vineyard or not, maybe not unfortunately, but if we said that, then people couldn't get them to the park without 00:06:16
really long roundabout ways to try and find a way there. So we tried to tailor it to ensure we were addressing safety but also 00:06:22
usability for those that have them. 00:06:27
Obviously there's some other stuff in here like they're subject to. 00:06:34
State on. 00:06:39
DUI's so you can't operate 1 and have alcohol. Now there is an exception if you're on the golf course. 00:06:41
That's an exception. That's. 00:06:46
Every city has that exception, pretty much. 00:06:48
And then? 00:06:51
Let's see, they have. They basically follow the same rules as a bicycle. 00:06:53
But they do have to stop at all Interstate at any stop sign where bicycles, they kind of have those little carve out for bicycles 00:06:57
now in the state code. 00:07:01
Golf carts have to stop at stop signs. 00:07:05
And then it can't be operated in more than 25 mph. 00:07:08
So the way that we can enforce this obviously. 00:07:11
We can offer verbal warnings. 00:07:14
We can cite the person doing it, or we can actually cite the parents of the parent. Allows somebody that's under 16 to operate 00:07:16
that. 00:07:20
We can issue a citation to them. 00:07:24
And then there's a provision in here, if they get a second offense within 24 months, it can help. 00:07:26
Be upgraded to Class B misdemeanor. 00:07:30
So. 00:07:32
Like I said, that doesn't mean it has to be the office. The deputies will have discretion when it comes to that. 00:07:33
So are there any questions on the golf cart policy? 00:07:39
Any questions? 00:07:44
And just the year where I met with at the July 1st event with the fireworks. 00:07:46
I talked to every golf cart driver I could find and there were quite a few. 00:07:50
And just said, hey, are you aware we have a new ordinance in Vineyard? 00:07:54
And everybody seemed. 00:07:57
Really. You know. 00:07:58
Had positive things to say about it, Nobody had major concerns and everybody was in actually was within compliance of. 00:07:59
Of the the ordinance. So it was. It was a good thing. 00:08:05
The other thing that we addressed is. 00:08:08
It's labeled as Micro Mobility device. 00:08:12
Today's day and age, it's really hard to define all the electric. 00:08:14
Or self-propelled things we have nowadays. 00:08:19
So tried to capture everything this is. 00:08:21
Kind of. Provo uses this. 00:08:23
And we we took from them and put it in this definition. 00:08:25
And this was really to help with. 00:08:29
The uh. 00:08:31
Micromillion device travel within our parks. 00:08:32
We had a lot of issues. We've had some issues there. 00:08:35
So this basically is it shall be unlawful for anyone to operate a micromillion device recklessly within a designated City Park, 00:08:37
including trails or sidewalks. 00:08:42
They're prohibited from any play areas. We don't want them where the play equipment is or in the splash pad within any City Park. 00:08:47
And so. 00:08:54
We get sometimes to get the kids that want to. 00:08:55
Cruise really fast across when there's a bunch of people there. So that's something we can now take some action on and it's in the 00:08:58
ordinance. 00:09:01
So, umm. 00:09:04
So if you saw a child. 00:09:05
Writing their electric scooter or something through the splash pad. 00:09:08
What would your steps be? 00:09:11
Mostly just, you know, stop and talk to him. Hey. 00:09:14
There's norms against that. Educate them on what that is. You can't be in this area now. If it became a chronic problem, then we 00:09:16
could. 00:09:19
We can do something further than that, but that's. 00:09:22
Generally what we would. 00:09:24
Be looking to do. 00:09:25
So. 00:09:26
Thanks. OK. 00:09:28
OK, perfect. Thank you so much. We really appreciate it. Oh, Jake, did you have something? 00:09:28
Yeah, I think that. 00:09:33
It would be wise for the Council to. 00:09:38
I agree with you that they write a more to parks. 00:09:44
I would add church though. 00:09:48
You go to church like crazy. 00:09:50
And the beach. 00:09:53
Like the? 00:09:56
The walk area. 00:09:56
I think that. 00:09:58
In our future design of our of our double roads. 00:09:59
Like Main Street, especially between. 00:10:03
Center and four. 00:10:08
North and also. 00:10:10
Demon or Holdaway Rd. in 400. 00:10:13
Or main. 00:10:17
That I noticed. 00:10:20
On a few different cities they actually have a golf cart. 00:10:22
Painted on the outside lane. 00:10:25
Trying to help golf carts to say please don't use the path. 00:10:28
In these there are some were like it's. 00:10:33
400 N to 800 N on May N Well, that's really busy, so it's like we don't want it. 00:10:35
There but I'm hearing. 00:10:41
On the path is. 00:10:44
Where runners in? 00:10:45
Carts are having that intersection. 00:10:48
And I think it would be smart. 00:10:51
For the staff to go. 00:10:53
And these specific roads we would like to. 00:10:55
Encouraged through painting of. 00:11:00
Having like that golf cart. 00:11:02
On this road, this is where the golf cart should be so that runners more. 00:11:04
Open or light? 00:11:09
We're not having that battle between. 00:11:10
This massive golf cart and the runner, Yeah. 00:11:13
You know, if that makes sense. I mean, initially my desire would have would have been actually to probably just ban them from 00:11:16
sidewalks completely. 00:11:19
However. 00:11:22
If we did certain the same thing about as other cities than the usability would. 00:11:23
Would be drastically reduced. They wouldn't really be able to get where. 00:11:27
They try to go. 00:11:30
And so we tried to address it initially as. 00:11:31
Less restrictive, but still safe. 00:11:35
As safe as we can if we wanted to change in the future. 00:11:37
We absolutely could. We could come back and say, hey, we're having too many interactions between. 00:11:40
Pedestrians and golf carts on sidewalks and trails. 00:11:44
Right. Come, come back and address that. 00:11:47
But I can't talk. We can talk about the team and talk about when we do our striping and see if there's areas that we can policy on 00:11:49
that. 00:11:53
Like I think that needs to be like. 00:11:56
Together, like going back to the active transportation group and going. 00:11:59
OK, so where? 00:12:03
Can we promote the golf cart on the road? 00:12:05
And also like. 00:12:08
Or is it interconnected because? 00:12:09
A lot of this is. 00:12:12
To get kids. 00:12:13
Out of the house to go do something. 00:12:14
But if we were promoting like. 00:12:17
This is the trail where you can ride. 00:12:19
And these are the roads that you. 00:12:22
Couldn't. 00:12:24
Because we know we have a holdaway Rd. 00:12:25
So it's like. 00:12:27
We have. 00:12:28
But we don't want them to go from Holdaway Rd. to. 00:12:29
Like Maverick, Because that's like, really a dangerous bridge, right? Yep. 00:12:32
But it's like. 00:12:36
OK, we want it to go from. 00:12:37
From Gammon Park. 00:12:40
This is the loop or this is the area. 00:12:41
Of like golf cart. 00:12:44
Circle or the wayfinding. Yeah, that would be a great. This is the path. 00:12:47
Of to send your kids to. 00:12:53
The the Active Transportation Commission's been working on this, Jake, it would be great for you to. 00:12:55
Like who's our chair on that? 00:13:00
Well, the problem is, is it, it doesn't connect. So I'm talking about, well, what we could do Jake, is we're going to have a 00:13:03
transportation. 00:13:07
And presentation that's coming up and I could add the active transportation. 00:13:11
Plan back onto a work session. 00:13:16
And we can bring this forward. 00:13:18
Yeah, I can find me. I think it's a great idea, Jake. OK. 00:13:20
Because I'm from. 00:13:23
So I'm on 400 S. 00:13:25
It's a holdaway, Rd. is going to go and it's going to connect. 00:13:27
But they're not going to have a golf. 00:13:31
Cart path. 00:13:32
From there all the way to Maine, and that's one of my biggest. 00:13:34
Objections to the design of like. 00:13:37
Everyone goes to the stake center on it. 00:13:40
Golf cart. 00:13:42
On stuff like. 00:13:43
Six months earlier, yeah. 00:13:44
I think we could definitely address that. There's scenarios like some of the concerns was, is. 00:13:46
We have areas that are trail. 00:13:50
Sidewalk trail. 00:13:52
And so we could definitely look at those areas and maybe be like, hey, where there's a sidewalk section. 00:13:53
We could paint that and when we look at that. 00:13:58
Any costs associated with that, we can look at it. 00:14:01
Not perfect. 00:14:03
So you're going to touch base with missing? Yep, I'll work with that. 00:14:04
I'll get Pam and Tony and get it on the agenda. 00:14:07
And go from there. 00:14:10
OK. All right, awesome. You're the best. Thank you so much for presenting this. 00:14:11
That brings us to 2.2. 00:14:16
And our neighborhood service coordinator. 00:14:19
Nader Maria is going to present. 00:14:22
Information on. 00:14:25
Political Science. 00:14:28
Correct. 00:14:29
And you're with us a few times on the agenda today. 00:14:31
So many random little things. 00:14:35
But yeah, so basically with it being an election year. 00:14:43
Obviously there's going to be a lot going on. 00:14:47
And we're just wanting to kind of go out and. 00:14:50
Educate everybody on where. 00:14:54
Political science can be what they can and can't do. 00:14:56
And so we're trying to do it a couple different ways. 00:14:59
So pretty quickly most of this is going to be written out. 00:15:04
But kind of the big points. 00:15:07
Is that? 00:15:11
That no signs can be on or overhanging in the public right of way. That's including planner strips, traffic signs. 00:15:13
Utility poles, walls, fences, parks. 00:15:19
That is going to be. 00:15:22
For the most part on city property. 00:15:24
Or anywhere that is considered public right away, so that would also include. 00:15:26
All the. 00:15:31
Like Vineyard Connector. 00:15:32
And then? 00:15:35
Anything that's going to be. 00:15:37
Planner trip wise. 00:15:39
If it is a. 00:15:41
Part of it we maintain the planter strip, so that is. 00:15:42
Our park strip partnership. 00:15:46
That's like a home. 00:15:48
So if you are privately maintaining that, you are allowed to have it there. 00:15:50
Anything that's on city property, that's the city maintains. 00:15:53
So anything outside of the sidewalk on a main road that would not be permitted. 00:15:56
Right here. 00:16:03
So science cannot constitute a safety hazard, obstruct view or create a nuisance. 00:16:05
That's going to be more towards if you're putting them in the corner of a home. 00:16:10
You can't have it too close to the curb. You don't want to block anybody's view who's driving. 00:16:15
If you are putting it on a property, make sure you have consent from the property owner. Don't just go put your signs everywhere. 00:16:21
And then that includes. 00:16:28
Commercial properties as well. If you're putting in a commercial area, you do need to have. 00:16:32
Consent from the property owner. 00:16:36
And then for any signs that are. 00:16:40
Placed improperly or are not non. 00:16:42
Client I will typically go out and I will move them. 00:16:44
If at any point there is a sign, that's removed. 00:16:48
Ivy wanted to state that I will go over and speak directly to the candidate. 00:16:51
And not the homeowner because these signs are fall under the candidate sign permit. 00:16:56
So wouldn't it be anything to you? It would be to the homeowner, to the campaign. 00:17:01
Itself. 00:17:05
Yeah, it is illegal to remove signs. 00:17:08
From other candidates. 00:17:12
Whether that's. 00:17:13
That campaign. 00:17:15
Or the candidate itself? Or just any other resident. 00:17:17
If you do see people removing signs that are, you know. 00:17:20
That you don't believe should be removed, you can always contact. 00:17:24
The sheriff's and they can go out and talk to them. 00:17:27
For size, this has been a big one. We've gotten a lot of people calling in about what size they can have. 00:17:30
In any residential area. 00:17:37
They can only have. 00:17:39
6 square feet and so that's like a yard sign. So that's this. 00:17:41
Anything bigger than this would not be permitted in the residential area. 00:17:46
And then those are the dimensions for commercial area, it's 30 square feet. 00:17:50
And like I said, that is going to be. 00:17:55
60 square feet. 00:17:58
Correct, 60 square feet. 00:17:59
And then that is going to be by permission only. 00:18:01
For the commercial? 00:18:04
You're right, it isn't 30. It's. 00:18:06
And then for the Clearview. 00:18:11
This is just explaining where you have to put them so. 00:18:15
A Clearview for us is going to be that corner. You want to make sure it's far enough away. 00:18:18
So 15 feet from the curb line. 00:18:22
And same deal. We just don't want any cars to be. 00:18:25
Unable to see when they're turning out. 00:18:29
You obviously don't want to cause any kind of traffic delay or just not. 00:18:32
Any kind of accidents because of your political science? 00:18:35
But overall that is. 00:18:38
Any questions? 00:18:40
OK, I'm sorry. Go ahead. One thing about Patrick, if you want to add anything, this might be sufficient, but there are sometimes 00:18:42
too if you are on a collector Rd. 00:18:47
Where you might even want to pull back out a little bit further. Typically like the Clearview, just for like local streets where 00:18:52
people are already going very slow. 00:18:55
But there are times where you do on a collector Rd. Pulling back a little bit further is is helpful because you know your speeds 00:18:59
are going to be 30. 00:19:03
Yeah, if you're on a road, this market 35, unfortunately people tend to drive. 00:19:07
5 to 10, sometimes 15. I need to hold it could probably a test of a lot of the higher than that. 00:19:12
And so with those feeds, like you definitely want to just make sure people are able to see Hong Kong traffic that could cause some 00:19:17
real safety issues, yeah. 00:19:21
OK. Are there any questions? 00:19:28
Yeah, I have one other question because I thought I heard you say this and I just want clarification. 00:19:30
On the commercial? 00:19:34
Did that require a separate permit? 00:19:36
Did I hear that? 00:19:39
I believe those ones would. 00:19:40
For the bigger science book. 00:19:42
They're they're also with the Canada, yeah, Canada files for a a temporary. 00:19:45
Permit that. 00:19:51
That that would cover like all the signs that they have. And so it's just the reason why we have to do is because it's important 00:19:53
that the candidates. 00:19:56
Are like accountable for the science that they're putting up because there are safety issues and also just as a city, we're also 00:20:01
trying to make sure. 00:20:04
That's from an aesthetic standpoint. 00:20:08
We're not over cluttering our city and that's. 00:20:10
I've worked for several cities and this is an ongoing issue in every city that people get. 00:20:13
You know, like you'll get major cars that just get absolutely annihilated with with science. And so it's it's an aesthetic, but 00:20:17
it's also a safety issue. And it's important that the candidates take take ownership over where their place of science. 00:20:23
I think what you notice. 00:20:29
Was it takes permission so not permission of a second. 00:20:32
Requests but permission from the landowner. 00:20:36
Correct. Yeah. So if you're going to be in. 00:20:39
Like Megaplex, you have to get permission from them to put it on there. 00:20:41
You can try to put on there, most likely take it down. 00:20:45
If one thing I did want to ask if you notice that signs are being removed as a candidate. 00:20:48
I asked that you call me first because most of the time it could just be in a spot that wasn't permitted. 00:20:54
And I removed them and I keep them at our office at HBA to be picked up at what at any point. 00:20:59
I think we did talk about the public right away. 00:21:06
I like to be, I like the interconnector that's every, every year that that's always one of the big, the big areas. And so and we 00:21:10
have a lot of we have overpasses and stuff like that, that we just need to be cognizant you dot has told us. 00:21:15
On every year to to keep. 00:21:21
Campaign signs off. 00:21:25
Up their their infrastructure as well. So that's just I thought it seems like that every year that that's going to be a spot that 00:21:26
we're going to have to deal with but just. 00:21:30
Yeah, try to help. 00:21:34
Not do that. 00:21:36
Well, that's it. 00:21:38
OK, great. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. 00:21:42
All right, this one says. 00:21:47
To our mayor and councilmember reports. 00:21:48
I wanted to. 00:21:52
Say a brief update. 00:21:53
After reviewing the state auditors. 00:21:56
Report and considering the concerns she raised. 00:21:58
We worked with a third party CPA to assess our finances. 00:22:03
And they concluded. 00:22:07
And I'm going to read this quote. 00:22:09
This is by Stephen Rowley, External CPA. 00:22:12
As we suspected, the item is not included in the. 00:22:17
Orderly reports. 00:22:20
Are the items that look to the accruals for revenues and expenditures. 00:22:22
Which are part of a normal operations as revenues are not always received within a month after quarter end. 00:22:26
As well as expenses, vendors do not always provide invoices in a timely manner. 00:22:32
The annual upload to replace the quarterly reports. 00:22:37
Corrected previous year's data and will correct for all of those differences going forward. 00:22:40
Despite this positive conclusion, I still believe that. 00:22:46
Out of an abundance of. 00:22:50
Caution, it is in the best interest. 00:22:52
Of our residents for the city to contract with the third party for an in-depth. 00:22:55
Audits to further reinforce our transparency and accountable. 00:23:00
Accountability. Umm. 00:23:05
And so to that end I wanted to assign. 00:23:06
Our Finance Committee liaison. 00:23:09
Liaison Council member Brett Clausen. 00:23:12
To lead an effort to obtain. 00:23:14
An independent third party audience. 00:23:17
And our goal. 00:23:20
Will be to task an independent auditor with reviewing key areas of. 00:23:21
Our financial operations, including the use of public funds. 00:23:27
Travel expenditures, compliance with our financial policies, procurement procedures. 00:23:31
And other relevant practices. 00:23:36
I welcome. 00:23:39
One more council member to join. 00:23:41
I know Sarah, you have mentioned. 00:23:44
Our willingness to do this, is that still something that you wanted to do? 00:23:46
All right. 00:23:50
We really appreciate that. So look, Brett, if you feel good about taking that on. 00:23:52
Yes, OK. 00:23:56
I feel like this is a really important. 00:23:59
Something that we need to do. 00:24:02
And, umm. 00:24:03
Together I feel like. 00:24:04
The essential part is that we'll be able to define the scope, the structure. 00:24:07
The work with a third party independent CPA. 00:24:11
And as you know, we welcome audits every year. 00:24:15
And we have budgets set aside for this. 00:24:19
However, if you end up needing additional budget for this. 00:24:21
If you could bring back a task order. 00:24:25
Sort of. The Council can review and approve that. 00:24:28
That would be really helpful. 00:24:31
And we can make room for that on the agenda. 00:24:32
This is a practice step in strengthening public trust and demonstrating that our. 00:24:36
Commitment to good governance goes beyond minimum compliance. And we really. 00:24:41
Aim to lead out with integrity and transparency. 00:24:46
And I feel like this is the best step. 00:24:50
For our city to really dive in and make sure that we. 00:24:53
Keep this commitment moving forward. 00:24:56
Does anybody have any questions? 00:25:00
Why wouldn't we just use the services of the state auditor's office that helps with this? 00:25:02
The state auditor has been doing limited reviews and. 00:25:08
As we work with. 00:25:11
This group, we really want to dive in and have a really deep scope and. 00:25:13
We are taking her concerns and we are taking the comments that we found from this. 00:25:17
External CPA and we're going to dive in and we're going to. 00:25:22
Make sure that we are. 00:25:26
Putting our best foot forward. 00:25:28
So I feel really good about it. I really want to make sure that we are doing the best for our citizens and leading out and 00:25:30
transparency. 00:25:33
If I may, I would also add add to that. 00:25:37
I think it's better if we find things and then take it to the auditor. 00:25:41
Yeah, then the other way around. 00:25:48
So. 00:25:50
Even deeper than what they've done so far. 00:25:53
Then that's that's a proactive step that we're taking as a city to actually get ahead of. 00:25:56
Anything that. 00:26:01
That might come out. 00:26:03
Yeah, I know that their first limited audit is done and the other stuff will continue on on as they go through it. But it's like. 00:26:05
As they go through their deep on it. 00:26:11
It's like, OK, we're going to run our simultaneous. I'm not against it. I'd love to know the total dollar amount. 00:26:14
The problem with government waste though, is it's not illegal. Like all of these things, and I want to be very clear. 00:26:20
None of this is. 00:26:26
Illegal or. 00:26:27
All of the. 00:26:29
All of the what I would call, and I know many of us would disagree on the panel here. 00:26:30
You know, it's great spending and it's well use of taxpayer dollars. So having someone. 00:26:36
Come in and say hey my opinion is. 00:26:41
This type of travel is OK. 00:26:44
It's all we already know that it's already been voted on and approved. 00:26:46
It just wasn't disclosed so. 00:26:51
I mean, I think getting the. 00:26:53
3.5 million. 00:26:56
A breakdown of what all of that was. 00:26:57
But also the total over many years. 00:27:00
I know the. 00:27:03
The requirement was that moving forward, all we have to do is disclose. 00:27:05
What we're going to be giving to private developers moving forward, but. 00:27:09
That leaves as long as that audit is going to say. 00:27:13
And I agree with this. Let's go back to the eight years. 00:27:17
That wasn't disclosed. 00:27:20
And let's put that part of the. 00:27:22
Audit. That would be huge because I. 00:27:25
They they just knew that that was going to be a heavy lift to break down and say. 00:27:27
You know, the swimming pool or the parking structure or just different things that we have funded that went to. 00:27:32
Private land. 00:27:38
We needed to be disclosing all of those things, so if that's part of it, that would be cool because I know they won't. 00:27:40
Be putting that as part of their audit. 00:27:47
Safe while you're going to? Do you have anything else on your reports? 00:27:51
No, I just want to nail that down. I think that. 00:27:56
The eight years of. 00:27:59
Just the different private dollars. 00:28:00
Is. I think it's finding 3. 00:28:02
So that would be awesome. 00:28:06
I in in mayor you can. 00:28:08
Correct me if I'm misunderstanding. 00:28:10
But one of the first things that I would want to do in that capacity is is have a defined. 00:28:14
Scope of what we're trying to accomplish. 00:28:19
Yeah. And and I'm, I'm not against that being in there. 00:28:22
Personally, umm. 00:28:25
But I think that's something that will work together is that. 00:28:27
Finance Committee and. 00:28:29
And say this is the scope of what we're trying to accomplish. 00:28:30
I can work and I think, and I think that's something that as soon as we have it, I would put out there. 00:28:33
I was like, yeah, I think my goal with this is to make sure that all of these questions are answered and we do a deep dive. 00:28:37
And we make sure that. 00:28:45
We that the people now. 00:28:47
That we are leading out in this and we're diving in and the quote that I read that came from our CPA that talks about this. 00:28:49
The reason why I mentioned the abundance of caution. 00:28:58
Is to say we want to go even neither. 00:29:01
We want to make sure that the people have all of the answers accessible to them and. 00:29:03
And let them know that our goal ultimately always has been to be transparent and if we find something, we want to fix it. 00:29:08
And like I said, we have budget in our. 00:29:15
We have money in our budget for this as we welcome audits annually. 00:29:17
And we're going to continue to do this. 00:29:22
And I appreciate you taking that on. 00:29:23
Brett, did you have anything else? 00:29:26
For your reports, I'll go through the rest of the council. Not tonight. 00:29:29
OK, Marty. 00:29:32
Nothing specific, just that I know that there's an event this weekend downtown. They're doing that Peloton. 00:29:35
An event with Utah City, so that could be really cool. 00:29:42
And. 00:29:45
I think that. 00:29:47
I think that's it. 00:29:48
That's awesome. Thank you, Sir. Did you have anything you wanted to add? 00:29:50
I just want to say that fireworks show is amazing. 00:29:54
Better than any of the other cities around that, I think. 00:29:57
So well done. 00:30:00
And then I also called Vineyard Pride. 00:30:02
Seriously, it was amazing. 00:30:05
And then I also noticed. 00:30:07
Replacement new replacement trees. 00:30:09
To switch out the dead tree. So that was cool. 00:30:12
So many times we get focused on the negative. I just want to point that out. 00:30:16
That to have a city that's so proactive and in keeping our city beautiful, I think. 00:30:19
Is pretty amazing. 00:30:24
And then let me have another one in the. 00:30:30
Left me. 00:30:32
So. So I guess that's all. 00:30:33
Thank you, if it comes back to you let me know. 00:30:34
All right, we have a city manager report. 00:30:37
And then I believe we had an update from Morgan as well. 00:30:40
All right. 00:30:44
As most as all our months, we have a report. 00:30:46
It's fairly lengthy and I just went through and highlighted some of these things, but I would encourage you to. 00:30:50
On your own time kind of look through the more the complete report. 00:30:55
From a rec department. 00:30:59
We had a lot of activities within your days. 00:31:01
There were multiple days of pickup ball tournaments, Wiffle ball tournaments. 00:31:04
A 5K and a kids 1K. 00:31:09
A race that had 240 registrants. 00:31:11
20%. 00:31:14
More than last year. 00:31:15
They hosted 72 youth baseball games and. 00:31:18
A whole slew of practices for that as well. 00:31:22
They had 12. 00:31:25
Youth street hockey games and 40 practices. 00:31:26
Our Parks Department. 00:31:31
This is sort of a random one to point out, but. 00:31:33
I know that. 00:31:35
At one point, somebody had talked about our splash. 00:31:36
They have done a phenomenal amount of maintenance, not just on the splash pad because they went and fixed a couple concrete 00:31:39
issues. 00:31:43
And some of the little technical pieces that occasionally get worn out and and need some work. 00:31:47
But they have gone through the city and through our parks and. 00:31:53
Just an incredible job. 00:31:56
Making sure that everything is. 00:31:58
Is up and functioning and functioning well. 00:32:00
We also had. 00:32:03
The Arborist. 00:32:05
I got arborist, sorry. 00:32:06
Go through in. 00:32:09
Again parked in trim. 00:32:11
All those Cottonwood trees that that. 00:32:13
That appear to be a little bit sketchy on occasion with. 00:32:15
Some of the deadlines and they removed all the dead material and that gives them a little. 00:32:18
Boost on our ability to keep those here in the city a little bit longer. 00:32:23
In the events department. 00:32:30
We had 15,000 / 15,000 people attend. 00:32:31
Vineyard Days, which is really exciting and on Saturday alone we had 5200. 00:32:35
Attendees. 00:32:40
There were fifty children's vendors. 00:32:42
Children's vendor. 00:32:45
Folks at the children's market, which is really exciting. 00:32:49
We were able to do a. 00:32:52
Drone show and a fireworks show thanks to. 00:32:54
Awesome sponsors in the city that Anna. 00:32:57
And. 00:32:59
Her team were able to collect. 00:33:00
Next year's Vineyard Days planning begins. 00:33:02
Next month. 00:33:05
That's how much work goes into that. 00:33:06
There were 33. 00:33:09
This is this is sort of in the other department. 00:33:12
REC received a $33,000 and 30. 00:33:15
$33,030 grant from Utah County to go towards Slide Hill. 00:33:20
And Speaking of Slide Hill, the construction project is out forbid and we should see that. 00:33:24
Completed before the end of the summer. 00:33:29
Recently, the council approved. 00:33:34
Having vendors at our part at. 00:33:36
Grove Park. 00:33:38
Three food trucks were selected and one. 00:33:40
Permanent semi, permanent concessionaire. So the three food trucks. 00:33:43
This year, our fancy burger. 00:33:47
Tacos Mexico. 00:33:49
I think you might have seen Taco City MX. 00:33:52
And then Pink Panther ice cream. 00:33:55
And then surf and surf, snow and Coco will be the. 00:33:57
The kind of drink shop there in the middle. 00:34:01
From a community our communications Facebook. 00:34:06
Continues to be kind of our. 00:34:09
Are leading media. 00:34:11
Instagram I guess Instagram and Facebook are pretty close just. 00:34:14
Over 5000 followers on each of those. 00:34:18
Proves to be a really good media. 00:34:20
Outreach for our. 00:34:23
Our community we have. 00:34:24
That just last month there was 81. 00:34:26
A reach of 81,000. 00:34:28
116. 00:34:30
The library. 00:34:33
Just hired. 00:34:34
Two-part time folks, so one is Josie Miller. This was. 00:34:37
This is the position that we. 00:34:41
Had anticipated was going to be an AmeriCorps position. 00:34:43
And so that that individual we were able to still hire on so that we can have the library open for the extra hours. 00:34:48
We were also able to hire. 00:34:54
Our youth. 00:34:57
Council Advisor. 00:34:58
Who in that position? 00:35:01
Put out a request for a grant. 00:35:03
And for a literacy program in the city. 00:35:05
And we had a little bit of. 00:35:08
Funding available. 00:35:10
For a seasonal position. And so we've hired Alexa. 00:35:12
Dadson to run that literacy program for the rest of the summer and we're really excited to have both of those. 00:35:17
Individuals. 00:35:23
Working with us the next little while. 00:35:25
The recorder wanted to point out that we have a primary election. 00:35:28
That will take place on August 12th. 00:35:32
And also that we'll have a meet the candidate tonight on July 17th at 6:30. 00:35:35
Here Umm. 00:35:40
From our parks at Public Works. 00:35:42
Gammon parking lot just added 16 stalls and. 00:35:44
Resurfaced. That's what looks nice. 00:35:47
In there. 00:35:49
You'll notice that they're hard at work out sweeping all of our city streets. 00:35:51
The Pi pond over at. 00:35:57
At Penny Springs. 00:35:59
He is getting close to getting the concrete poured in there. 00:36:01
As soon as that's done. 00:36:04
We can get it filled up again. 00:36:05
That will be getting converted into. 00:36:08
And it'll still be a π pond, but it'll be our community fishery. 00:36:10
So we've partnered with. 00:36:14
Division of Wildlife. 00:36:16
To bring some sport fish. 00:36:17
And keep that stock so that our. 00:36:20
Our local anglers can take advantage of that. 00:36:22
Can I interject Creek? 00:36:28
Are you gonna have somebody there that can get them for us? 00:36:30
We may not. I mean, that's all part of the learning process. 00:36:34
That's that's the first endeavor is, is that first? 00:36:38
But we did. 00:36:42
We we do have a. 00:36:43
Our fish cleaning station that will be attached to the. 00:36:44
Restrooms right there, can I ask? 00:36:47
OK. Our ground, the pipeline will be put into service, our water pipeline. 00:36:54
On July 1st. 00:36:59
From the grounds we've got. 00:37:02
They were out on Utah Lake along the shoreline cleaning up. 00:37:03
Russian olives and tamarisk to help that be a nice inviting environment. 00:37:07
Let's see. 00:37:15
Sorry, I'm skipping some of this, some of you. 00:37:16
The Linden Heritage Trail that goes along the front of our Public Works building will be. 00:37:19
Completed on. 00:37:24
In 2 days. 00:37:27
I know that there's a, there's some. 00:37:29
Grand opening type stuff being planned so watch for an invite to those activities. 00:37:31
From our Sheriff's Office. 00:37:44
I thought I could point out that. 00:37:46
The sheriff's were at Vineyard days and. 00:37:48
In there were you in your class A's. 00:37:51
They were just looking sharp down there. 00:37:54
And cooking. 00:37:57
Hot dogs for. 00:37:59
Just about everybody that. 00:38:00
Was in the parade. They cooked. 00:38:02
500 hot dogs. 00:38:04
And I know that they were hit because. 00:38:06
I sampled them myself and there were 12 so thank you. 00:38:09
Did we have one other thing for that? 00:38:14
I also wanted to point out that. 00:38:18
Lieutenant Rockwell. 00:38:20
Was approved. 00:38:23
To be upgraded to a chief deputy. 00:38:25
By both the city and the county. 00:38:28
And that went into place on July 1st, so. 00:38:30
Very exciting. 00:38:38
So I think it's going to take us a minute to get used to. 00:38:39
How to how to I already got a picture I'm so. 00:38:42
From our building department. 00:38:49
There's 155 active construction sites going on right now. Only one. 00:38:51
Single family dwelling was approved. 00:38:55
Just this last month. 00:38:59
Our our building department was very busy. 00:39:01
They they keep up a. 00:39:04
A high pace with 38.25 inspections per day. 00:39:06
So they're definitely keeping busy. 00:39:10
And with that I will. 00:39:13
In my report. 00:39:15
Great. Thanks. So for the community Development department, wanted to just add a couple things. So typically. 00:39:18
Eric does the the full thing but wanted to. 00:39:23
Tell you a little bit about the Vineyard Economic Development Strategic Plan. That's that's a 10 year road map. 00:39:26
That would. 00:39:33
Look at kind of focus on on creating a vibrant mixed-use. 00:39:34
The the development pattern within the city kind of focused within some of these these hubs that we have developing. 00:39:40
One of our strategies. 00:39:47
Coming out of that plan. 00:39:49
Is to really focus on health care. 00:39:51
Healthcare is. 00:39:54
Already something that will kind of organically has started to develop really well for us and to create a fairly great. 00:39:56
Workforce for our residents. 00:40:03
As you can see kind of around like the the yard area, there's several medical. 00:40:06
That businesses and offices and then. 00:40:11
Intermountain. 00:40:15
They have a 5 acre parcel that we've been actively working with to. 00:40:17
To develop some sort of a clinic or maybe something even kind of larger within the forge area. 00:40:21
And then we have the Huntsman Cancer Institute that's coming in. 00:40:27
The. 00:40:30
Within the the downtown portion of Utah City. 00:40:32
And so that provides us a real good opportunity to continue kind of developing out that that industry. 00:40:35
So we will. 00:40:43
Most likely in August have this go through the Planning Commission for their review and consideration. 00:40:45
And we'll then take this to the the City Council. A couple of the other things just to kind of point out that do you mind if I 00:40:51
interrupt really quick? 00:40:55
And this has been an ongoing effort for some time. And I want to point out that Council Members Fuentes has been working on 00:40:59
pulling this together with the team and Morgan's team has really. 00:41:04
Gone through so many. 00:41:09
Stakeholders and groups and steering committees and so. 00:41:11
Now we're at the point where the Council is going to dive in further. 00:41:15
And it's gone through several rounds and they're going to dive in further and then we'll get through the work session and then 00:41:19
it'll come to. 00:41:22
Ahead where we get to improve it here. So it's been a long road. So thank you and thank you for the update. Appreciate all the 00:41:25
work you guys have all done. Yeah, absolutely. 00:41:30
So that's going to be really exciting, you know, especially having UVU positioned within the city, that's just an amazing 00:41:35
opportunity for us to continue working on innovation with them. And they've, they've issued them time and time again, just a real 00:41:40
desire to, to work with the city and to. 00:41:45
Try and. 00:41:50
Develop some of these programs within their academia that would. 00:41:51
Harbor and match well with with our economic development. So that's just the really exciting opportunity. 00:41:55
And just kind of another thing to point out too, from our economic development standpoint, we have the 56 live work units and 00:42:01
that's a big strategy within the economic development plan is. 00:42:05
Providing opportunities for. 00:42:10
For for folks to be able to start businesses fairly cheap. 00:42:14
So what a live work unit is this at the allowance of pairing a? 00:42:17
Your your business and your your residence under one lease. 00:42:22
And so that's and there's a lot of cost saving into that. And so we've been trying to work with UVU and some other partnerships to 00:42:27
try and. 00:42:30
You know, find. 00:42:34
Entrepreneurs that are and even people within the city that want to move from. 00:42:35
Kind of the home occupation type used into something that is a sort of a hybrid commercial residential use. And so we should see 00:42:40
those come online. 00:42:44
Next year, that's in. 00:42:49
What we call one. 00:42:50
Of the homestead development, those townhomes so. 00:42:52
Really highly humanitized and just built to to accommodate a whole slew of types of businesses if you want to have, you know, your 00:42:55
accounting business or an engineering firm or something it. 00:43:01
But also LED there as well. There's and there's a huge demand for for this. 00:43:06
And so some of the other projects are working on is the parking study master plan. So we're kind of in the. 00:43:12
The review of that, there's a lot of studies that have been done. 00:43:18
And so we're going to bring that back to Planning Commission and most likely. 00:43:22
If they want us to focus or to get kind of finer data, then we would do that work in with Ave. consultants. 00:43:26
And so there's a lot of things we've talked about 300 W and so that. 00:43:33
That would provide some of the strategies of. 00:43:37
If we were to try to provide more capacity for parking on 300 W or some of these other parts of the city and also just developing 00:43:39
out our parking program so it. 00:43:43
Really matches and and this fits well with our city because not it's not every neighborhood is built the same and so different 00:43:48
strategies are going to be necessary as we build out. 00:43:53
I just wanted to add to a couple things the. 00:43:59
56 live work units. Also they created a shared space in their. 00:44:02
What is it called? 00:44:08
Where it's kind of like an accelerator space where businesses can go into base, and not just businesses in their home, but a 00:44:10
shared place where they can gather as a cohort. That's really cool. 00:44:15
And then I wanted to just mention. 00:44:20
Thank you to Sarah for working on that parking stuff with you guys. It's been a really good to engage. 00:44:22
Work with the citizens on that. We appreciate what you've been doing. So to work with the HOA's and and with city staff to to keep 00:44:27
that that plan moving forward. 00:44:33
We're working on our stationary plan, so that couples well with the economic development plan. That's basically the area like what 00:44:39
we call East Geneva. That's going to focus on East Geneva. That kind of further develops out some of the partnerships that we have 00:44:43
with UVU. 00:44:47
We have our zoning overhaul was recently passed and so that's that's been really good to clean up a lot of kind of the redundancy 00:44:52
in our zoning code and zoning like anything else is the living breathing document. So we have already identified probably three 00:44:58
other things that need to change. There's always signage that we can never get away from that this signage is probably. 00:45:05
You got got me back up again. 00:45:11
We're working on the. 00:45:14
The lakefront. So we found that that grant from TRCC. 00:45:16
Through the county and so we've been working diligently with them and in refining our plans there. 00:45:21
To see if we can see some significant movement and we hope to see that really soon, we're working closely with FFSL. 00:45:27
That's the State Department that overseas. 00:45:36
The the the development kind of anything within the state lands on the lake. 00:45:39
We are. We have what's called the ACE program. That's Administrative Code Enforcement program. 00:45:45
That's something that Maria has been working on. 00:45:51
We kind of listed no updates, but I would say it's completely true she's been working. 00:45:53
On potential rental program where it would allow us to be able to track our rental inventory and that's really important moving 00:45:57
forward that we. 00:46:01
We we have codes in place that can make sure landlords are treating tenants fairly. 00:46:06
But also that we are able to. 00:46:12
To have kind of a 10A population that. 00:46:14
Is not overcrowding units. There's a lot of like health and safety issues with with that. 00:46:18
And also just the quality and that's that's an ongoing thing and you can solve a lot of that by having just a really good rental 00:46:24
program. 00:46:28
We are working on what's called the Bluffs at Vineyard. That's a project. That's the the lakefront Town Center. That's the open 00:46:32
space right there. 00:46:35
And so staff like right now our goal is just to kind of keep the weeds down, but we're also working with the state. 00:46:39
FFSL as well. 00:46:46
To to to develop a landscaping. 00:46:48
Program that will allow us to come in and to plant native. 00:46:51
Landscaping and vegetation. That'll look really good. 00:46:56
And help to add kind of aesthetics. 00:46:59
It's also an opportunity because it's a fairly flattened in the uplands, to add some more recreation, so we're working with the 00:47:01
Parks Department. We did get a grant for a volleyball. 00:47:05
In court, if not still anything or from from Brian, he's he's been pretty excited. 00:47:09
We're going through that state. 00:47:14
Approval process right now to get the the volleyball courts in place. They'll be public, but they'll be near kind of where the 00:47:15
clubhouse is for the lakefront Town Center. 00:47:19
And ask a question about that one. 00:47:23
Yep. Based on what you're just saying, does that mean that the landscaping in there? 00:47:25
Will be I'm going to this is going to maybe sound. 00:47:31
Weird, but. 00:47:35
It's not going to be just boring grass with a. 00:47:36
Volleyball court in the middle. 00:47:39
It'll be more interesting than that. 00:47:41
Yeah. I mean, it's not going to be just like my lawn area that does like the. 00:47:42
The state's not not going to allow us just to put in giant fields. It allows probably some room to have some some play fields, 00:47:47
especially right by the lake. That'd be a nice place to throw Frisbee and right. 00:47:52
You know, we talked about, you know if. 00:47:56
You know, it's anything horoscopes kind of tough, but that might be a cool spot for a couple pickleball courts or a bird watching 00:47:59
area. So we're working with the state on potentially amenities. 00:48:04
Portions of it. 00:48:09
But mainly what what they they want to see is healthy native landscaping. They will allow us to like, treat and remove invasive 00:48:11
species. 00:48:15
But there is. 00:48:20
A pretty extensive permitting process that we need to go through with them. So we've involved them in that process and. 00:48:21
Keep you updated. 00:48:27
For the past few years and. 00:48:28
I mean a long time. 00:48:31
We've been working on. 00:48:32
Collecting all of the different kinds of plants and variations to add variety and so. 00:48:34
If you want to peek inside that and see Morgan can show you more, yeah, we're happy to just to show you some of the plans about 00:48:39
that. We have some from from the past and now we're refining those with the state. 00:48:44
And then? 00:48:51
Yeah, we, we are. We have what's called the Tucker Rd. Park. So the Tucker Rd. development, that's the area just just north of 00:48:52
that. 00:48:56
We're kind of Gary not to get a plan in place. That's where the trails were just. 00:48:59
Built so Patrick and his team got the trails in place, and kind of. 00:49:05
Completed that puzzle piece? That's before you go under the. 00:49:10
The overpass into the train station, there's that open space there. 00:49:13
So we'll be planning that out and hopefully be able to get some sort of a park amenity that would be kind of an entrance into the 00:49:17
the downtown area. 00:49:20
It's awesome. So thank you. 00:49:23
Excellent. 00:49:26
Thank you so much for that report. It's exciting to hear all of the things that we've been working on come together. You guys do 00:49:27
such a remarkable job. 00:49:31
That brings us right to our consent items. 00:49:36
Can I get a motion or would you like to discuss any of? 00:49:39
Could we discuss the library appointments? Sure. Could you approve 7.1? 00:49:42
Yeah, I need to approve. 00:49:48
Consent item 7.1 as presented. 00:49:50
All right, we have a first time Marty for 7.1. Can I get a second? 00:49:54
Second. Second by Sarah. All in favor. 00:49:58
Aye, all right. 00:50:00
As we're going to 7.2 and I'm going to let. 00:50:02
Jamie kind of bleed out on this. I just wanted to make a note of it. 00:50:06
There is a cross out section on Page Six of your printed copy. 00:50:09
That corrects. 00:50:13
Something, yeah. 00:50:14
That is already fixed on the digital copy for the public, but if you have a printed copy before you. 00:50:15
You can see that change. 00:50:21
On page 5 you'll notice. 00:50:22
On the last amendment, the title it it said us, but. 00:50:25
It has been corrected to use. 00:50:29
If you have a printed copy. 00:50:31
Did you have questions specifically, Marty? 00:50:32
Yeah, so I reached out to a couple library board members. 00:50:34
Just to confirm that they knew about the changes and that they will come with it. 00:50:38
And I only was able to get in touch with one of them and they said that they. 00:50:43
That the board hadn't been able to review this, Is that correct? 00:50:47
So that has to go back to Jamie. Pam's not. 00:50:51
Here, Jenna, do you have something to? 00:50:55
Bring up with that as well. Go ahead Jamie, if you have answers on it, I don't know the answer to that. 00:50:58
OK of whether Pam or. 00:51:03
Well, we we don't even need we can. 00:51:04
I mean, I'll let you talk. Yeah, we can just move it. 00:51:07
Read our meeting and give them that chance because there might be other changes that they're interested in and then that would 00:51:09
give them that opportunity. 00:51:13
But Jenna, I would like an update because they've been pushing for the funding agenda and so my. 00:51:16
I think Marty has a relevant question. Yeah, for sure, I think. 00:51:21
It's been in the works for a while. 00:51:25
So I think it kind of like came together really fast. 00:51:29
Like at the end, I'm not really fast, but like, it kind of came together. Like, oh, we've been pushing this off for so long. Like, 00:51:32
let's get it on the agenda. 00:51:35
And so it kind of was in between board meetings. So yeah, I. 00:51:38
Hadn't thought about that. It was more just me thinking like we need to get this code approved. But yeah, we can definitely push 00:51:41
it and have them review it. The next ordinance was anything significant change? 00:51:45
That they would need a review? Or is it? 00:51:50
Pretty common to what they put in whether. 00:51:53
Degrees of change that. 00:51:57
Are relevant. It was kind of aligning with state code while also making sure that. 00:51:58
The stipulations are relevant to like Vineyard and our small library and kind of involving staff. Because we're small, it's like 00:52:05
making sure that staff's involved as well as the board. 00:52:11
While we're on a quick question, that's a good answer. 00:52:19
Who have they elected as their new chair? 00:52:22
Do you know? So Julie Gray served as their chair and have been working on this with their whole board. 00:52:27
Or their Commission. 00:52:33
And we really appreciate her. We haven't been able to recognize her yet as we were waiting for the announcement of the new chair, 00:52:35
but we'll get that name brought to us. 00:52:39
And Marty, this is great. We'll go ahead and pull this off and move this. 00:52:43
And we'll thank Julie for her service during that time, but I bet this is part of that transition is that one chair was working on 00:52:47
it. 00:52:50
And now our nature needs to. 00:52:54
Take on that role. 00:52:56
So awesome. OK, well. 00:52:57
I need a motion to continue this to the next. 00:52:59
Or to a future agenda. 00:53:02
I move to continue. 00:53:04
Item 7.2 to a future agenda. OK, thank you. First by Marty. Can I get a second? 00:53:05
Second. Second by Sarah. All in favor. 00:53:12
Aye, excellent. 00:53:15
All right, that brings us to. 00:53:17
9.1. 00:53:21
This is the Utility Billing Practices Resolution 2025-39. 00:53:23
And Maria's back up and she's going to present the changes to our policy. 00:53:28
Yeah. So this is really just. 00:53:35
Something that we've been wanting to do for a while. We've talked about it and kind of talked about it. 00:53:37
So what this would be is currently how? 00:53:42
Renters are placed on an account. Is there not the main person on the account? The owner is still the owner. 00:53:45
But we do get their information. 00:53:51
We put them on the account as a guarantor or a renter. 00:53:53
The only issue with that is that. 00:53:57
We're not always told when renters move in and move out, and that's. 00:54:00
Pretty consistently with. 00:54:03
A lot of these being college kids. 00:54:05
And So what we're finding is that. 00:54:08
We have accounts that aren't getting paid. 00:54:11
They're getting put on the list of shut offs. 00:54:13
And we call them. That tenant has a. 00:54:16
Well, we haven't lived there in two months. 00:54:18
We don't know what's going on. 00:54:20
We then try to get in contact with the owner. 00:54:22
Donors sometimes have answer to the point where we have to go and. 00:54:24
Put a notice on their door which we don't like doing. 00:54:27
So the goal of this? 00:54:31
Is to just say. 00:54:32
You know what, we're not going to deal with the renters. 00:54:34
We're going to leave it in the tent in the owner's name and the owner alone. 00:54:37
And then? 00:54:40
The tenant would go to the owner, say hey I need the account number they would go to, then our express bill pay. 00:54:42
And make an account through there and they can view their bill at any time. 00:54:49
As well as make payments. 00:54:52
And they would make their own tenant account. 00:54:53
They would just remove themselves once they move out and the new owner would be responsible for putting them back on. 00:54:56
The goal of this goal of this is really just to help us. 00:55:02
With umm. 00:55:05
Not wasting so much time having to call these tenants, these owners. 00:55:06
And not having to have our guys around put a lot of notices on doors when they're not really necessary and sometimes it's just the 00:55:10
new tenants and aware that they need to pay the bill. 00:55:14
But that's pretty much it. 00:55:18
A lot of cities around us do it. We have Linden, Orem, American Fork, They've all done it and I've spoken to all of them. 00:55:20
And they said that they love it. It makes it so much easier for them as well. 00:55:26
Because the onus and the buck stops at the owner. 00:55:29
The owners always would be responsible for the bill, so yeah. 00:55:33
But this is just making it a little bit. 00:55:35
Easier on our end and not just having to. 00:55:37
Wonder who's in the house, who's not in the house? And even now? 00:55:41
The the tenant can't really do much to the account. 00:55:44
So there's not a point to having them on there. If they want to add something to the account, it will change something. 00:55:46
We have to contact the owner to get that permission anyways. 00:55:51
When you were talking to other cities. 00:55:54
Did they have any? 00:55:56
Thoughts or feedback from owners when they made those changes? 00:55:58
A lot of them said that it was something that some owners were upset about because they don't want to have to deal with it. 00:56:03
Even now, though, for us, we send the owners a bill. 00:56:07
Anyways. 00:56:10
So we send the owners and the tenants to copy the bill. 00:56:12
So we're just doubling the work on that end as well. 00:56:15
So they should be already used to getting a bill. It's not going to be different, it's just them. 00:56:18
Now having to deal with the tenant themselves of saying. 00:56:22
Here is my account number. 00:56:25
Go make an account and then you can pay it. 00:56:26
OK, Yeah. 00:56:29
That is it. Do you have any questions? Any other questions? 00:56:34
OK, I just need a motion to adopt this resolution. 00:56:37
I have one quick question for the adoption. 00:56:44
Do you have to put the renters on because I'm a homeowner? 00:56:46
And I'm like, I didn't even put their names on it. 00:56:49
No, the the issue with that is. 00:56:52
Again, if we get a. 00:56:55
Tenant who calls in. 00:56:56
Right now, as of now. 00:56:57
And they say, hey, what's my bill? 00:56:59
What I'm saying is, is I pay all of the utilities for my renters. 00:57:01
No. So yeah, you don't need to. 00:57:05
It's just something that a lot of people do and a lot of it is just the owners. 00:57:07
Thing I don't want to deal with it, but it just makes it harder for us. 00:57:11
Because it's just. 00:57:15
Like if we get let's say. 00:57:16
60 accounts of good. 00:57:19
Part of that is renters because they're just unaware. 00:57:20
Or they've just moved on. 00:57:23
And that's just a lot of time. 00:57:25
OK, can I get a motion? 00:57:28
I move to adopt resolution 202539 utility. 00:57:31
Billing practices as presented. All right, we have a first by Sarah. Can I get a second? 00:57:35
2nd. 00:57:40
Second by Brett. This is done by roll call Jake. 00:57:40
Aye, Brett. 00:57:45
Aye, aye, Marty. 00:57:47
Aye, Sarah, all right. 00:57:49
9.2 The watering schedule resolution 2025-40 is not. 00:57:51
Ready and. 00:57:55
Has been asked to move to a future meeting. Can I get a motion to move it? 00:57:57
9.2 Yep. 9.2. 00:58:03
Are you making a motion? 00:58:06
No, but I wanted to make a comment. Are we just changing the policy and it'll be changed? 00:58:08
Is it? I just had one quick question. Is it just a recommendation of watering or is it? 00:58:13
Is it like at this point we don't mandated at this point I'm not sure we know because they're reworking it and so that's why it's 00:58:18
being moved. 00:58:21
OK, I'll just wait. 00:58:25
Did you want to move it? 00:58:27
Yeah, let's move it. 00:58:29
All right, Jake. 00:58:30
I had a person. 00:58:32
To move to a future meeting. 00:58:33
Yes. OK. Thank you. Jake, can I get a second? 00:58:36
Second. Second by Brett, all in favor. 00:58:39
Aye. 00:58:42
All right, that brings us to a closed session. We have a closed session for item DI. Need someone to make a motion and read item D 00:58:43
out loud before we go into a closed session. 00:58:48
I moved to go into a closed session immediately following the. 00:58:57
Council meeting. 00:59:00
In the City Council chambers for. 00:59:02
Aesthetic session to discuss the purchase. 00:59:04
Exchange or lease of real property, including any form. 00:59:07
Of water, right? 00:59:11
Or water shares. 00:59:13
Thank you, Brett. We have it first by Brett. Can I get a second? 00:59:14
Second Second by Sarah. 00:59:19
I will do this by roll call take. 00:59:21
Aye, aye, Marty. 00:59:25
I can't say all right. 00:59:27
All right. With that, I'm going to adjourn the meeting. Thank you so much for coming today. 00:59:28