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| All right, we're rolling. We're going to go ahead and get started. Today is October 25th, 2023. It is 6:00 PM and I'm going to | 00:00:00 | |
| call the venue, City Council, into session. | 00:00:05 | |
| I am going to start out with an invocation. Christy, would you mind doing our invocation Impress? | 00:00:11 | |
| Our dear Heavenly Father, we're grateful to be gathered here this evening as council and staff and as residents of this city. | 00:00:21 | |
| We pray that we will make wise and good decisions. | 00:00:29 | |
| This city of ours, and we pray for also the leaders of our state that they too will. | 00:00:32 | |
| Be wise as they. | 00:00:40 | |
| Especially going. | 00:00:42 | |
| More legislative? | 00:00:44 | |
| Decisions coming soon we pray for. | 00:00:46 | |
| Safety and 1st responders and those serving in the military. | 00:00:50 | |
| And after that, we'll continue just to watch over this country and and bless for the the many that are suffering around the world. | 00:00:54 | |
| And we say these things in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. All right. | 00:01:00 | |
| I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. | 00:01:08 | |
| Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. | 00:01:13 | |
| That brings us to our public comment. This is a time, well, it's a great time to remind anybody who has their cell phones to | 00:01:24 | |
| silence them. And then this is a time for you to come and share your thoughts with the council about things that are not on the | 00:01:30 | |
| agenda. What you'll do is you'll come to this podium right here, You'll state your name where you're from, and then you'll share | 00:01:35 | |
| your thoughts with us. The time is restricted and I'll let you know as you're running out of time. So come on up if you have | 00:01:41 | |
| anything to address the council with. | 00:01:47 | |
| Daria Evans, Vineyard resident. Thank you. So nice to be here. | 00:01:58 | |
| I was walking in with the. | 00:02:04 | |
| Morgan Brim and Janine Broxton and mentioned the Morgan how wonderful it is for Rojas Farm to let everybody have those pumpkins. | 00:02:06 | |
| That was a great community service. | 00:02:12 | |
| Our community good on the Rojas family. | 00:02:18 | |
| Also, I like how though mural has turned out on the water tower, I think that looks really good. So good on allergy. | 00:02:22 | |
| Also, thanks to Public Works, I'm hoping they're the ones responsible for fixing. | 00:02:30 | |
| The depression in the lake trail where it? | 00:02:37 | |
| And then also, did you also fix where they? | 00:02:40 | |
| Put the drain through up near the Marina, the new development. There was some sections of pavement missing and they're filled in. | 00:02:44 | |
| We did that. Thank you. I can ride my bike with with ease. Thank you very much. | 00:02:50 | |
| Um. | 00:02:56 | |
| I also thank you also for providing the dumpsters. | 00:02:59 | |
| For our cleanup, I I'm grateful for that. | 00:03:03 | |
| I do have a concern though. | 00:03:07 | |
| They're working on the refuge on 600. NI really hope that it's going to be adequate. | 00:03:11 | |
| I'm really concerned about that, so I hope it will be adequate and then I would like to know if I will be able to ask a question | 00:03:17 | |
| on a consent item. | 00:03:21 | |
| OK. Which consent item? | 00:03:26 | |
| It's the one about the school zones. OK. Yep. I will pull it off for you. Thank you very much. Actually, dude, just want to ask it | 00:03:29 | |
| now. Yeah, I just want to know. | 00:03:33 | |
| What are the lengths of those speed zones going to be? | 00:03:40 | |
| Are they going to be for the same for every school or different because of the the bands in the road and that kind of thing? | 00:03:43 | |
| That they were by the worst director as an engineer. So that's a very good question about that. | 00:03:53 | |
| The item about the reduced speed school zones. | 00:03:57 | |
| Will allow the school zones, Foster's or marked areas for school zones to be reduced down to 20 mph to remain. | 00:04:01 | |
| At the locations where we're currently in. | 00:04:09 | |
| This is an item to help bridge an exception to the policy that is in EU dot or the Utah METCD specifically about school zones. | 00:04:11 | |
| On that, though, the public will not see a change in terms of the distances or where their signs are placed. | 00:04:25 | |
| OK. Thank you very much. OK, thanks. | 00:04:34 | |
| David. | 00:04:45 | |
| There's a rumor afoot that we're going to appoint. | 00:04:50 | |
| Eric Ellis is our city manager. | 00:04:55 | |
| If that's the case, I'd like. | 00:04:57 | |
| If you're thinking about it, I just like to. | 00:05:00 | |
| Offering an objection to that. | 00:05:03 | |
| I mean, here's other a little bit of. | 00:05:06 | |
| She's probably leaving the. | 00:05:10 | |
| You know, like authority on a little bit of the cloud, he. | 00:05:12 | |
| It's He produced a couple of letters, sent a couple of letters guaranteeing wrong. | 00:05:16 | |
| The Island project in excess wasn't 43 and 60 minutes like that number may be awful, but about about those numbers $1,000,000 | 00:05:23 | |
| without consent or approval of his board. | 00:05:28 | |
| And so I would be really worried about some. | 00:05:34 | |
| With that level of ethics coming to serve here, in a situation where we have close to a full time mayor, a part-time City Council, | 00:05:39 | |
| he'd be the full time person. | 00:05:44 | |
| And throw the person in charge over the reins. I'd be a little concerned about that. | 00:05:49 | |
| And I would ask if that's the case that you consider that carefully. | 00:05:54 | |
| Before you make a comment, you may come up to the microphone. I think I am going to make a comment on this. | 00:06:11 | |
| Actually, could you come back up? I just need you to clarify a word that you said. | 00:06:19 | |
| Did you say that he is being accused of that or did you say that he had done that? | 00:06:29 | |
| It looks like it looks like he has, actually. We have copies of letters where he's guaranteed that kind of money into that | 00:06:36 | |
| project, so that. | 00:06:40 | |
| Is certain. | 00:06:46 | |
| And. | 00:06:48 | |
| You know, I don't know. I want to write words artists. Is that a loan guarantee? I think it is. OK. Thank you. That's what I | 00:06:51 | |
| wanted to know. And I would say this as. | 00:06:55 | |
| The executive director of the Utah Light Commission or the Utah Lake Authority, which he's held positions of both of these areas. | 00:07:00 | |
| Whenever you write something of engagement or a letter, it is. | 00:07:07 | |
| In the authority of that person to write it when you're being accused, though, of appropriating a bunch of money without. | 00:07:12 | |
| Authority. That would probably be something else, however. | 00:07:21 | |
| As somebody that sits on the Utah like authority and as somebody who sits on The Who has sat on the Utah Lake Commission, I don't | 00:07:25 | |
| know of any letters. | 00:07:30 | |
| Where he has appropriated funds without board approval and I feel like. | 00:07:36 | |
| Making a statement like that that says that it's true out into the public, that I need to say something on the other side of it. | 00:07:42 | |
| So I guess what I'll say is this. | 00:07:46 | |
| Anybody obviously is willing is allowed to say something in response, but. | 00:07:52 | |
| I will verify it. | 00:07:58 | |
| And then I will come back and I will make sure that that didn't happen. | 00:08:00 | |
| And as somebody that serves on that board right now, if it didn't happen then I will make that statement as far as I'm aware. | 00:08:05 | |
| And the letters that you're referring to, that is not. | 00:08:13 | |
| How? | 00:08:17 | |
| Understand those letters to be, but I will make sure to clarify that. | 00:08:17 | |
| Thank. | 00:08:22 | |
| Tyler Harrelson I'm a resident in Edgewater. | 00:08:27 | |
| I'm sure you guys are aware on Monday the 16th a pedestrian was killed in an accident on 400. | 00:08:31 | |
| I don't know if the school zone changed. The consent item is related to that because I'm not as familiar. | 00:08:40 | |
| But in any case, lowering the speed limit there is not going to actually help anything. There are a number of studies. There's one | 00:08:46 | |
| I read the other day from. | 00:08:49 | |
| 1997 I believe they studied. | 00:08:54 | |
| For like 5-6 years they studied over 90 sites across the nation. | 00:08:57 | |
| Raising and lowering their speed. | 00:09:03 | |
| Just the posted limit on the sign and it did essentially nothing. | 00:09:05 | |
| Umm. | 00:09:09 | |
| Because people. | 00:09:11 | |
| Pay attention to the design of the road. My recommendation to you to prevent this from happening. | 00:09:13 | |
| Especially because we're in October, which is the deadliest month for pedestrians of the year, and Halloween is the deadliest day | 00:09:19 | |
| for pedestrians of the year. And as you can imagine, most of the pedestrians killed our children. | 00:09:25 | |
| I went to the Orem City Council meeting to ask them the same thing last night, and I went to the Planning Commission meeting to | 00:09:34 | |
| ask them the same thing. Please do something now with temporary measures. | 00:09:40 | |
| I don't care what you do as long as it's something. Orange construction cones. Haydale sounds like from people I've talked to, | 00:09:46 | |
| that that's not an option. | 00:09:50 | |
| It doesn't matter what it is, just do something that is physical and actually on the street. Please, like immediately by the end | 00:09:54 | |
| of the week. | 00:09:59 | |
| Please get it done as fast as possible and if there are any procedural problems in your way. | 00:10:04 | |
| You are elected. | 00:10:10 | |
| Get rid of them because they're not serving you well and being up to code is what got the girl killed. The code is not working for | 00:10:12 | |
| you. | 00:10:17 | |
| Change them if you need, and if you don't need to, that's even better. Please do something now that's my comment. Thank you. Would | 00:10:24 | |
| you like to make a comment? | 00:10:28 | |
| So again assuming our public works director in regards to the reduced schools, reduced speed school zone item on there, it's not | 00:10:40 | |
| in response to any particular incident or. | 00:10:46 | |
| Or such. It's it's in order to bridge a gap where the Utah MCD specifically states that reduce school speed zones are not | 00:10:53 | |
| required, and areas where there's a stop sign or a stop light. | 00:10:59 | |
| Which would in essence remove. | 00:11:06 | |
| Our ability to be able to have reduced speed, schools, school. | 00:11:10 | |
| Speed school zones and areas where elementary school kids are going are walking in masses to school. | 00:11:14 | |
| As well, so this so that policies in order to clarify the exceptions to the to the cases as dictated by the city engineer being | 00:11:21 | |
| myself for special circumstances and it goes across the board to you in order to help enhance that by actually placing specifying | 00:11:29 | |
| the schools that are within 1000 a 1000 feet from a public park. | 00:11:36 | |
| Where a lot of kids, including my own, crossover from their elementary school to their public park, are allowed to have a slower | 00:11:44 | |
| speed, a car is driving slower speed. | 00:11:50 | |
| On that, and also I do, we are setting up a meeting I can always talk about. | 00:11:57 | |
| Rows and rope configurations in the near future to help obviously make things better across the board, not just in one particular | 00:12:03 | |
| area, but also I know. | 00:12:07 | |
| The Planning Department has the. | 00:12:14 | |
| Principle in place to make things safe across the board throughout the city, such as the what was referenced earlier about this | 00:12:18 | |
| 600 N Main St. | 00:12:22 | |
| Pedestrian refuge which is currently being installed. | 00:12:27 | |
| Had a concrete port today and working with the contractor to install the RFP flashers in order to allow pedestrians to cross | 00:12:31 | |
| safely over at at busy Rd. | 00:12:36 | |
| As well. | 00:12:42 | |
| And in regards to the actual incident that happened in October 16th, I don't have any specific information as to the | 00:12:44 | |
| circumstances. | 00:12:48 | |
| Of what led to it, so I can't speak. | 00:12:53 | |
| Per SE, I do know that we are working with the dot, the dot in terms of that particular intersection to help clean up ownership | 00:12:56 | |
| that intersection as well. So we can also can give the city greater ability to take control over areas within. | 00:13:05 | |
| Adjacent to the Vatican City's boundaries as well, because if we can make things safer for those pedestrians across the board, | 00:13:16 | |
| that is of course in the best interest of the public's quality. | 00:13:22 | |
| That's all I've got. | 00:13:30 | |
| All right. I do want to make a comment on that. | 00:13:40 | |
| The loss of Santa's life is tragic. | 00:13:44 | |
| And. | 00:13:47 | |
| There are things that are true accidents and it was tragic for all of us. | 00:13:49 | |
| It was tragic that a young girl lost her life. | 00:13:55 | |
| It was tragic, that somebody. | 00:13:58 | |
| Probably has to go through a lot of healing. | 00:14:02 | |
| Taking the life of that young girl. | 00:14:05 | |
| And probably. | 00:14:09 | |
| You know, working with that family, the entire thing was tragic. | 00:14:11 | |
| I think there are a lot of lessons to be learned here. | 00:14:15 | |
| And I do know that the City Council isn't going to move forward not learning from the lessons that come from these types of | 00:14:17 | |
| things. | 00:14:21 | |
| Our goal is always to be preventative. | 00:14:25 | |
| So that we're not being reactive to situations like this. And so the lessons that we're learning are these. | 00:14:27 | |
| Not every intersection. | 00:14:34 | |
| Is something that we prioritize. | 00:14:36 | |
| To have people cross. | 00:14:39 | |
| There are different intersections, different types of intersections. This is why one of the safe routes for school is that this | 00:14:41 | |
| the students actually go and they walk down to a very specialized corner, and this is where the safe walk is supposed to be. | 00:14:48 | |
| And the tragedy for an area like this that's difficult, that's right outside of our jurisdiction and have this convoluted area | 00:14:56 | |
| like Nasim was explaining is that it's right on the corner of a park and it's right at a mid block crossing. And so people want to | 00:15:02 | |
| cross it. And this is what causes some of those accidents because it also comes into this area where sunlight hits your car and | 00:15:07 | |
| you can't see as very tragic. | 00:15:13 | |
| The city is prioritizing, making sure that the places that we prioritize as a city where people are going to cross. | 00:15:20 | |
| That those areas are clear. We're also prioritizing the education to show people where and how to cross and to make sure they're | 00:15:28 | |
| crossing at those safe places, and also notifying our drivers of when and where to be aware of the pedestrians that are coming | 00:15:34 | |
| through the area, because nobody wants to experience something like this. | 00:15:39 | |
| So we will take action, but we are working with our partnering cities, cities to do this. They're working with the dot and we'll | 00:15:46 | |
| continue to do those things to provide safety for pedestrians and to keep. | 00:15:52 | |
| People who drive in cars aware and attentive, and when true accidents happen, we will breathe together as a community because that | 00:16:00 | |
| also happens. | 00:16:04 | |
| And. | 00:16:09 | |
| Always grateful to hear the comments from the community. | 00:16:10 | |
| Kim, Cornelius, Village resident. | 00:16:18 | |
| I just wanted to kind of dovetail off the first gentleman's comments. | 00:16:21 | |
| Grapevine is a dangerous thing and so I'd like to go with something a little bit more concrete, although there there may be some | 00:16:27 | |
| suspects in the media section of our lives. | 00:16:31 | |
| As. | 00:16:36 | |
| Here are things as reported in the Salt Lake Tribune this afternoon under the headline Utah Lake Authority Director Steps Down | 00:16:38 | |
| after Tribune Asked Questions About Money Promised for Dredging project. | 00:16:44 | |
| Couple of short little paragraphs in two secret letters, Eric Ellis said he would provide 10s of millions of dollars in support of | 00:16:50 | |
| a project that would have built artificial islands. | 00:16:55 | |
| We know that project is. | 00:17:00 | |
| That's my comment. The Executive director of the Utah Lake Authority, which formerly operated the Utah Lake Commission, abruptly | 00:17:02 | |
| resigned Wednesday. Eric Ellis announced his departure in an e-mail to board members, which was less than 1/2 hour after this all | 00:17:08 | |
| 8 preview and asking questions about his support for the restoration solutions. | 00:17:13 | |
| So I would echo. | 00:17:19 | |
| Be careful. | 00:17:22 | |
| I don't know any other way to say it, but I mean, we're talking about. | 00:17:25 | |
| The guy that runs the city. | 00:17:28 | |
| Council. | 00:17:31 | |
| But, and that's as much as I'm going to say about that, although I would just pose. | 00:17:33 | |
| Is the city manager's job? Has that been posted somewhere for applicants to apply? | 00:17:39 | |
| Has it been posted? It has been posted. Have you had any replies? We did. We had a lot of applicants. | 00:17:45 | |
| They were all excellent. | 00:17:52 | |
| In our opinion, Eric was the most qualified and best fit for this community, however. | 00:17:53 | |
| Because you are bringing these things forward and even though we know about this and understand the aspects of it, we are going to | 00:18:00 | |
| go into a closed session before that appointment so that we can talk about it and navigate it and look. | 00:18:07 | |
| Have these discussions to know how to move forward, because we want the community to know that when you bring things to us, we are | 00:18:14 | |
| going to do as much as we can to properly approach and answer those questions and so we are going to go and discuss right before | 00:18:19 | |
| that. | 00:18:24 | |
| Item, yeah, I would just add that in this particular case, due diligence is paramount. | 00:18:30 | |
| Uh. | 00:18:37 | |
| If it's OK, I've got just one other item for the follow up council meeting. | 00:18:38 | |
| At a Planning Commission meeting. | 00:18:44 | |
| Two times. | 00:18:46 | |
| The developer for Utah City came in and did a really nice job of presenting what the the plans were for the two parcels. I think | 00:18:48 | |
| they are that we're up for approval. | 00:18:53 | |
| Bryce asked the question. So what's the housing component? Are those ownership or what are they? | 00:18:59 | |
| And he was very forthcoming to say, into all rentals. | 00:19:05 | |
| And Bryce says, is there an option to do a mixed-use there of those? And he says, well, yeah, we can talk about that. | 00:19:07 | |
| When Bryce came in at the last City Council meeting two weeks ago, he gave you a nice report on that meeting. | 00:19:15 | |
| But didn't say anything about the discussion. | 00:19:22 | |
| We've got 400 plus units that are going to be sole rentals owned by the developer and so I went back and sat next to them at the | 00:19:25 | |
| end of the meeting and I said hey. | 00:19:29 | |
| Great job. And she didn't mention? | 00:19:34 | |
| The discussion about the total rent. | 00:19:36 | |
| Situation. | 00:19:39 | |
| Yeah, I probably should have said something about. Make sure they're made aware of that. | 00:19:40 | |
| Well, he's obviously not on the agenda tonight, so I'm just making sure that somehow you understand that that's a concern. | 00:19:44 | |
| And there's one other thing. | 00:19:51 | |
| Maybe a little bit more of a concern when Governor Cox on September 21st in a press conference with the Daily Herald. | 00:19:53 | |
| Talked about low income housing and he made this. | 00:20:01 | |
| He said he. | 00:20:04 | |
| Government isn't the only solution and noted a recent partnership between 2 foundations intending to create upwards of 850 rent | 00:20:06 | |
| subsidized. | 00:20:11 | |
| New Orleans. Now that's different than just rentals. | 00:20:16 | |
| He finished with his. | 00:20:20 | |
| We've taken away a little bit of authority from local communities and the idea. | 00:20:21 | |
| If the state is going to invest billions of dollars for a transit of in your community. | 00:20:27 | |
| Front runner. | 00:20:32 | |
| And that infrastructure we should have more D. | 00:20:34 | |
| Housing around that transit hub. | 00:20:38 | |
| This is Daybreak. This is happening at Lehigh, seven other cities and looks like Vineyard because it looks like a mirror image of | 00:20:41 | |
| what's going on in these other areas. | 00:20:45 | |
| I was on the phone earlier this week with our sheriff's Lieutenant for Vineyard. | 00:20:51 | |
| And we had a long discussion about crime in a couple of incidents that have risen within a week of each other. | 00:20:56 | |
| With front. | 00:21:02 | |
| Rentals, subsidized. | 00:21:04 | |
| We're a little concerned. | 00:21:07 | |
| And so these are some things that I think we need to be having a discussion with the developers. | 00:21:09 | |
| Because at least in the village area we're here, we're planted and probably going to be planted 6 feet under because we're not | 00:21:15 | |
| planning on going anywhere else. | 00:21:18 | |
| What's that going to be? Is it going to be rentals or occupied? | 00:21:53 | |
| What's the mix And he? | 00:21:56 | |
| The developer is going to own a unit. We're going to rent them out. | 00:21:59 | |
| Well, that's a sweet deal for the owner or for the developer we like. They like that. | 00:22:02 | |
| I hadn't heard anything since and I didn't get a chance to go to the follow up Planning Commission meeting, but I heard from some | 00:22:08 | |
| that did that, he offered. | 00:22:12 | |
| Some condos or townhouses in another section. | 00:22:17 | |
| That really wasn't what he was asked to do. He came back with that and I don't know what the resolution was or the the | 00:22:23 | |
| conversation was between the Commission members, but. | 00:22:27 | |
| It's a concern for us. OK. Thank you. That was for the site. | 00:22:31 | |
| Sarah Cameron. | 00:22:44 | |
| I just. | 00:22:47 | |
| Mayor, if you could clarify your relationship with Eric Ellis for us, your previous experience with him, you've known him for a | 00:22:49 | |
| while, that would be helpful. | 00:22:53 | |
| As you guys are considering him for this position, Sir, I have served on the Utah Lake Commission and the Utah Like Authority and | 00:22:58 | |
| he was the executive director. Did he appoint you to that position? | 00:23:03 | |
| I'm sorry, thank you. Appointed to that position. No, I'm appointed as a mayor for the region to serve on those in most | 00:23:09 | |
| capacities. | 00:23:13 | |
| And then he's hired by the people and the boards. Actually, I don't actually know. How are you? | 00:23:17 | |
| Were you appointed by? | 00:23:24 | |
| Comes with a microphone. | 00:23:27 | |
| Sorry to put you on the spot, Eric, I just actually need to. | 00:23:30 | |
| Say whether or not you are appointed, you're hired, right? | 00:23:33 | |
| Yeah, yeah. Hired by the mayor. | 00:23:37 | |
| And the people sitting on the. | 00:23:40 | |
| Thanks. | 00:23:43 | |
| Is that your only question, Sir? | 00:23:44 | |
| I. | 00:23:48 | |
| It's over. | 00:23:58 | |
| My name is Jacob Walter Holloway. | 00:24:00 | |
| And I have carried the weight of this on my shoulder for over a year. | 00:24:03 | |
| I do get emotional just thinking about the burden that it's been in my family. | 00:24:09 | |
| You guys know that I came in good faith to the city to go to Ireland. | 00:24:14 | |
| When I found out about the involvement of our city in the loan, I knew it was wrong. | 00:24:20 | |
| I know, having read all the emails, that this did not start with Eric and Julie. | 00:24:27 | |
| That it started well above. | 00:24:32 | |
| With the lobbyists within the legislature. | 00:24:34 | |
| I know that's a very strong claim. | 00:24:36 | |
| But I know you were. | 00:24:39 | |
| With the Trump administration. | 00:24:41 | |
| The whistleblowers come forward on that. It'll be out in a few weeks. | 00:24:44 | |
| I just want to say that I never wanted to divide our venue community, in fact, What Car away? | 00:24:49 | |
| Was all about bringing the community together. | 00:24:55 | |
| I knew that this was being was dishonest when we met with LRS about their plans and their ideas about giving us a couple | 00:24:59 | |
| $1,000,000 to. | 00:25:03 | |
| Improve the. | 00:25:07 | |
| I've taught government ethics and procurement for many years. | 00:25:10 | |
| It's very easy to teach these things. | 00:25:14 | |
| It's very hard to implement them when they're in your own city. | 00:25:16 | |
| This is not attacking you, Julie. | 00:25:20 | |
| This is just attacking the pure government process to protect all of us. | 00:25:24 | |
| I'm asking. | 00:25:29 | |
| And I've met with. | 00:25:31 | |
| All of the Lake Authority member Commission members at that time, they did not know about these loans. Chris Connie didn't. | 00:25:33 | |
| And Frost. | 00:25:40 | |
| Mayor Kath. | 00:25:42 | |
| A forestry fire and state. | 00:25:43 | |
| They never gave Eric authorization to do any of. | 00:25:45 | |
| When asked you guys, both denied. | 00:25:49 | |
| OK, I'm just asking you to do the right thing. | 00:25:52 | |
| Mayor, I believe that you need to step down. | 00:25:58 | |
| I know you have the power. | 00:26:01 | |
| To do so, and it would be the right thing. I don't think it needs to take an election. | 00:26:03 | |
| But I think that's what will take our city to come together. | 00:26:09 | |
| Call Kelly Tenyard. | 00:26:25 | |
| About six months ago, I sat down with you our. | 00:26:29 | |
| And my desire and my effort was. | 00:26:33 | |
| Get your side of the story. | 00:26:38 | |
| To. | 00:26:40 | |
| Try to understand your perspective. | 00:26:41 | |
| To try to understand some of the issues that our daily, our city was dealing with. | 00:26:44 | |
| Umm. | 00:26:49 | |
| You at that time promised me that you would give me a packet of information. | 00:26:51 | |
| OK, I have not yet seen that packet of information. | 00:26:56 | |
| Recently you texted me, you sent me a text message and you confronted me on an issue. | 00:27:01 | |
| And I replied to your text, and we had a conversation. | 00:27:07 | |
| You felt like the reason why you didn't send me that packet of information. | 00:27:11 | |
| Was because you felt like I attacked you in a social media post. | 00:27:15 | |
| I never mentioned you by name. | 00:27:23 | |
| Never said any any any details about our meeting or anything of that nature. | 00:27:25 | |
| I didn't recall any. | 00:27:30 | |
| And as we had that discussion via. | 00:27:33 | |
| You confirmed that you might have jumped to conclusions that I was attacking you. | 00:27:37 | |
| Again, I don't recall that I ever did attack. | 00:27:43 | |
| After that meeting. | 00:27:46 | |
| At that time you said you'd give me that packet of information. | 00:27:48 | |
| I still haven't seen that packet of information. | 00:27:52 | |
| So I'd love. | 00:27:55 | |
| Your side of the story, and I'm interested to hear it, but but to but to but. | 00:27:58 | |
| Find out the way to find out that the city now has hired Eric Ellis. | 00:28:06 | |
| After, after this, it's scandalous. | 00:28:11 | |
| It's scandalous. | 00:28:16 | |
| And we're disappointed. | 00:28:18 | |
| Many of U.S. citizens are disappointed and and Eric, for you to be able to start under these conditions, it's dirty, it's | 00:28:19 | |
| unfortunate, and it's dirty. | 00:28:24 | |
| And I hope that City Council members, if you do have a vote in this and and and I hope that it becomes public record because | 00:28:29 | |
| Christy, you need to go on the record of how you vote on Eric Ellis being the city manager. | 00:28:35 | |
| As you are currently conducting a campaign, our city needs to know how you vote on this. | 00:28:42 | |
| OK, because I think it will reveal. | 00:28:48 | |
| A lot of the corruption that we're trying to figure out in our city. | 00:28:52 | |
| So. | 00:28:57 | |
| That's all I have. | 00:28:58 | |
| My name is Timo Christensen. | 00:29:15 | |
| I was here to talk about also 400 S pedestrian safety incident that happened last week. | 00:29:18 | |
| Umm. | 00:29:26 | |
| I think Tyler and Nas. | 00:29:28 | |
| Covered most of what I was going to get at. Umm. | 00:29:32 | |
| But there's. | 00:29:35 | |
| One thing I noticed. | 00:29:40 | |
| Response that I. | 00:29:42 | |
| Just wanted to address. | 00:29:46 | |
| I I really appreciate the sentiment of. | 00:29:50 | |
| Being proactive instead of reactive when it comes to caring about pedestrian safety and identifying the places where. | 00:29:54 | |
| We. | 00:30:02 | |
| Have better streets. | 00:30:03 | |
| And that was exactly what. | 00:30:06 | |
| Coming up here to say originally, umm. | 00:30:10 | |
| Looks like it beat me to it. | 00:30:13 | |
| I. | 00:30:15 | |
| Heard that? | 00:30:17 | |
| We had areas that are prioritized for pedestrian safety, which these areas that aren't. | 00:30:20 | |
| And I think. | 00:30:27 | |
| Everywhere really should be prioritized for pedestrian safety. | 00:30:29 | |
| Even if it's not necessarily that we need a crosswalk right here, one thing I've noticed is at the intersection of Vineyard Rd. of | 00:30:35 | |
| 400 S in particular. | 00:30:39 | |
| There are those diagonal curb cuts, which tends to imply that there is a crosswalk in both directions there. | 00:30:45 | |
| And when we talk about educational campaigns? | 00:30:53 | |
| That's great, but doesn't necessarily reach everyone and doesn't necessarily reach the people who are going to be. | 00:30:57 | |
| In that situation. | 00:31:03 | |
| And. | 00:31:05 | |
| If we can address these places where people aren't supposed to walk, if that's what it's going to be, and make it clear that | 00:31:07 | |
| people shouldn't walk there and move to an intersection. | 00:31:12 | |
| I think that's something. | 00:31:18 | |
| Would be great to see. | 00:31:21 | |
| Thanks. Thank you. | 00:31:23 | |
| Claudia Larae, vineyard resident. I just like some clarification. | 00:31:34 | |
| About, we've had great response with. | 00:31:41 | |
| Public safety and I'm wondering what is the status? | 00:31:46 | |
| Of. | 00:31:51 | |
| Are a fire department a building? Are the response times. | 00:31:52 | |
| In fact, were they? | 00:32:00 | |
| What they needed. | 00:32:02 | |
| At this really tragic accident, it doesn't seem like it's anything that's really being talked about. Where are we with the fire | 00:32:04 | |
| department? | 00:32:09 | |
| Because I don't see any fire officials here. | 00:32:15 | |
| Yeah, they're they're at a conference I know or PD was the first one on site that being in their jurisdiction. But as far as the | 00:32:21 | |
| fire station goes, we're currently undergoing an 8 week study where in the last like 3 weeks of that that'll have some design | 00:32:26 | |
| options for for our new site location. | 00:32:31 | |
| We We really. | 00:32:38 | |
| I'm not saying a study isn't. | 00:32:40 | |
| Needs to happen. | 00:32:42 | |
| We should do a lot of studies in this. | 00:32:45 | |
| And it's probably time to. | 00:32:48 | |
| Take care of our citizens. | 00:32:53 | |
| I want to. | 00:32:56 | |
| I'm hearing different things, which is of course the Grapevine and who knows, but what's your position on what we're doing with | 00:32:59 | |
| the fire department are? | 00:33:04 | |
| Waiting for the study. Is that satisfactory to you see you next time this study clarify. So. So the previous study that we had | 00:33:10 | |
| that we presented in council identified 4 site options that were viable for the next phase of that was to narrow it down to two | 00:33:16 | |
| specific site options, the ones that the council had approved to move forward with. So now we're proceeding with architectural | 00:33:23 | |
| design on those sites. So pretty soon we'll have architectural design building and where is that site. | 00:33:30 | |
| We have one that's located here and then one is located at the north part of. | 00:33:38 | |
| Here in this building is that what? | 00:33:42 | |
| Adjacent to the building. | 00:33:46 | |
| Then where will. | 00:33:48 | |
| Council chambers. | 00:33:50 | |
| Well, that's adjacent to the slot, so it's next. | 00:33:52 | |
| Thank you but. | 00:33:56 | |
| Any idea that it does transform this whole area? Then the City Council would move to a bigger building. Right now our staff is in | 00:33:58 | |
| different buildings and so at some point we hope to come back together. I frankly don't see how or why we want to add so many | 00:34:04 | |
| people. | 00:34:10 | |
| To our. | 00:34:17 | |
| The numbers in our community, what is the latest in Utah city is 60,000 more people. I'm really disappointed that the city has | 00:34:20 | |
| moved forward in this way. | 00:34:26 | |
| We. | 00:34:32 | |
| I used to come to City Council and I heard about the promenade. That's where I was all of a sudden. | 00:34:33 | |
| Utah City. | 00:34:40 | |
| First of all, why would we do that? Secondly, why would we call it Utah City? | 00:34:42 | |
| I was driving home from Salt Lake, and at the point of the mountain where the prison was, I saw no fewer than it looked like Bob | 00:34:47 | |
| the Builder, 15 Backhoes. | 00:34:53 | |
| Go into town. | 00:34:59 | |
| Why? | 00:35:01 | |
| All have to play the same game and it seems. | 00:35:02 | |
| It seems like we follow the. | 00:35:08 | |
| To get to this place, Vineyard City. | 00:35:11 | |
| It we can do better, we should do better and. | 00:35:14 | |
| It's embarrassing when I have people who have moved out of vineyards saying do you think Vineyard was planned very well? | 00:35:20 | |
| My son moved out because he couldn't find a parking place. I'm just so disappointed. | 00:35:28 | |
| Respect you. | 00:35:35 | |
| And applaud you for your willingness to. | 00:35:37 | |
| I'm disappointed in your lack of willingness. | 00:35:41 | |
| To hear the. | 00:35:45 | |
| So. | 00:35:48 | |
| The downtown was vested in 2019. | 00:35:49 | |
| Most of the people sitting on this table were not part of that. | 00:35:53 | |
| But before that. | 00:35:57 | |
| The downtown, the last time it was voted on was in 2019. So these people. | 00:36:00 | |
| This person, she's not here. | 00:36:06 | |
| They didn't vote. | 00:36:08 | |
| So the majority of the people sitting up here didn't vote on it, I got to vote on. | 00:36:10 | |
| Got to vote on? | 00:36:15 | |
| But these people didn't get to vote on it. | 00:36:16 | |
| That time there was a promenade there. There was 2 promenades there. | 00:36:20 | |
| Just like there is today, nothing has changed. | 00:36:24 | |
| However, hold on one second, however. | 00:36:27 | |
| At Geneva is what it was called for a very long time. | 00:36:31 | |
| Just recently they changed their name because they named their own developments like they named Sleepy Ridge the Seminar Waters | 00:36:35 | |
| Edge. They have now chosen to name their area that they're over, that they're the property owners of the Utah city. But nothing | 00:36:41 | |
| has changed. | 00:36:46 | |
| It is just a new name. | 00:36:52 | |
| So I just want to clarify that I don't want to get into an argument, I just want to respond so that you understand the timeline of | 00:36:54 | |
| when this happened, it went through public process. | 00:36:59 | |
| It went through all of the same regular meetings. People understood it, people talked about it, but now you're seeing visuals and | 00:37:04 | |
| what I've explained to people that come in is going to go according to the market. | 00:37:09 | |
| And we're not promoting, we're doing projections for traffic and we're going to get those numbers closer to what they actually | 00:37:14 | |
| will be. And there are constraints that are in that ordinance that show what is available there and you can go and read about | 00:37:21 | |
| them. But looking at a picture and wondering if you're going to see a really tall building, it's it's impossible to say if there | 00:37:28 | |
| if, if that's something that's going to be seen. So you need to keep coming and attending the meetings and. | 00:37:34 | |
| And see things as they come in like Huntsman Cancer Institute or the grocery store or the new buildings that were just talked | 00:37:41 | |
| about today. But to say these things as if we are not listening, there were there's been lots of time in the public for people to | 00:37:48 | |
| come forward and talk about this and it has been approved and it is done at this point. So we do hear you. We do hear people now. | 00:37:55 | |
| We do hear people's frustrations. We hear people now. | 00:38:02 | |
| Now we heard from then, I'm saying we're hearing your new comments. We're hearing that you don't like the new Utah city. | 00:38:10 | |
| My street better protected. | 00:38:17 | |
| It was on the map as a country Rd. and you said. | 00:38:20 | |
| Well, I don't care what it was. It's a thoroughfare now because you guys didn't have the infrastructure. | 00:38:25 | |
| Twice we came in with 85%. | 00:38:33 | |
| Vote of the people on our street and your response was let's go to lunch. | 00:38:37 | |
| I don't want to go to. | 00:38:42 | |
| To have. | 00:38:45 | |
| What we research for and we had when we moved here. | 00:38:47 | |
| I I know. | 00:38:53 | |
| This makes sense to you. | 00:38:56 | |
| But we jump through ho. | 00:39:00 | |
| We jump through lots of. | 00:39:02 | |
| I don't come. | 00:39:05 | |
| Because. | 00:39:07 | |
| It's. | 00:39:08 | |
| Falling on deaf ears because you're going to do what you're going to do. These public comment sanctions. We've been to some of | 00:39:10 | |
| them. We went to Envision Utah where they throw what is this we have? | 00:39:17 | |
| Information and they expect us to make lines and. | 00:39:26 | |
| Tape on it. It's just ridiculous. | 00:39:30 | |
| I just, I'm letting you know that I'm very disappointed with how the City Council has behaved to move forward with this. | 00:39:33 | |
| That didn't need to be like it is. We don't have to do what the state says. They have a recommendation we can keep. | 00:39:45 | |
| Vine. | 00:39:53 | |
| Nice community. I'm not saying an extra 40,000 people won't be nice. | 00:40:00 | |
| But we don't need to add 40,000 people. | 00:40:06 | |
| To. | 00:40:10 | |
| It's landlocked, put on one side. Everybody has to use the same streets to come in. | 00:40:11 | |
| I'm just expressing my dissatisfaction. Thank you. Thank you. | 00:40:19 | |
| My name is Tim Heaton. | 00:40:37 | |
| Unfortunately, I'm also here to discuss the hiring of Mr. Ellis. | 00:40:40 | |
| In one of the letters obtained by the Tribune. | 00:40:49 | |
| Mr. Ellis was is on record requesting 893,000,000. | 00:40:54 | |
| Dollars from the federal. | 00:41:00 | |
| And to help justify that request. | 00:41:03 | |
| He made certain. | 00:41:07 | |
| One of the claims that he made was that he was. | 00:41:10 | |
| Able to commit the state of. | 00:41:14 | |
| To paying $63 million over the course of several years. | 00:41:17 | |
| And contribution to the project. | 00:41:22 | |
| Mr. | 00:41:27 | |
| Knew that he did not have authority to commit that money you earlier tonight. | 00:41:28 | |
| Attempted to defend him by saying he had the authority to write such a letter. | 00:41:35 | |
| Not appropriate, appropriate. I just mean engage and support things that are already being approved. So I hope that's clear. | 00:41:40 | |
| So. | 00:41:49 | |
| When the federal government received this letter. | 00:41:50 | |
| In their consideration, luckily, they did not approve the loan. | 00:41:52 | |
| But he allowed them to believe. | 00:41:55 | |
| That he had the authority to commit the state of Utah to that expenditure, whether he had the authority or not, whether it was | 00:41:59 | |
| actually appropriated or not. | 00:42:03 | |
| He led the federal government to. | 00:42:08 | |
| Something that was not. | 00:42:11 | |
| Putting all of the other facts aside and that all by itself. | 00:42:17 | |
| Is grounds for not hiring somebody. | 00:42:21 | |
| It is deceptive. It shows a willingness. | 00:42:25 | |
| Game the. | 00:42:28 | |
| It shows a willingness. | 00:42:29 | |
| Hide facts or to obscure real. | 00:42:31 | |
| When very large sums of money are at. | 00:42:35 | |
| And he did this unilaterally. | 00:42:38 | |
| Without anyone on his governing board being aware of it. | 00:42:40 | |
| The allegation is is also. | 00:42:45 | |
| Well, the division of. What's the name of the division? I was? Forget the name of it. | 00:42:48 | |
| What's that? | 00:42:53 | |
| Yes. | 00:42:55 | |
| That's the division that has the true authority to to commit and appropriate such funds. | 00:42:57 | |
| They had no knowledge of this. There was no conversation had between them. The director of that division was very surprised indeed | 00:43:04 | |
| to learn of this letter. They had actually tried to obtain a copy of it. | 00:43:10 | |
| But for Mr. Ellis's request to the federal. | 00:43:16 | |
| He asked them to keep it secret. | 00:43:20 | |
| For at least a year. | 00:43:23 | |
| Until after the decision was made, no matter what the decision was. | 00:43:24 | |
| And. | 00:43:28 | |
| The division chair of the head of the division was denied. | 00:43:30 | |
| Her request to obtain a copy of that letter until it was provided by them. | 00:43:35 | |
| By the Tribune to her a week ago. | 00:43:40 | |
| So this is someone who is who appe. | 00:43:44 | |
| By reasonable. | 00:43:48 | |
| By reasonable witnesses and by indisputed documents. | 00:43:50 | |
| To be willing to dece. | 00:43:54 | |
| And to go to some links to. | 00:43:56 | |
| That. | 00:43:58 | |
| This is not a fit. | 00:44:00 | |
| For the city of Vineyard. | 00:44:02 | |
| Thank you. | 00:44:06 | |
| All right. So any other comments? | 00:44:08 | |
| As I have. | 00:44:17 | |
| My name is Bray Hakes and I am an Orem resident. | 00:44:21 | |
| And. | 00:44:24 | |
| As I've seen in several City Council means, the public's comment section seems. | 00:44:25 | |
| By and large, the critiques, to put it mildly. | 00:44:32 | |
| So I would just like to say good job. | 00:44:36 | |
| I was excited when I read about the Utah city. | 00:44:42 | |
| The Daily Herald. I was particularly excited about the collaboration with Jack Spec, who literally wrote the book on quality | 00:44:46 | |
| pedestrian infrastructure. | 00:44:52 | |
| And if you want to talk about prevent. | 00:44:58 | |
| Road design to prevent tragedies like that that happened on 400 S. | 00:45:02 | |
| Please listen to what he has to say. | 00:45:08 | |
| And. | 00:45:12 | |
| If I can see Jeff. | 00:45:15 | |
| Vision. | 00:45:17 | |
| Come to fruition in Utah City then? | 00:45:18 | |
| I will be very excited to move in and would recommend it to all my friends. | 00:45:22 | |
| So once again, good job. Please listen to the man. He knows his stuff. Thank you. | 00:45:27 | |
| My name is Keith Vincent. I'm a vineyard resident. | 00:45:43 | |
| In. | 00:45:48 | |
| Has been talked about tonight and what was reported in the Tribune. | 00:45:49 | |
| I'm extremely disappointed in. | 00:45:53 | |
| That Mister Ellis. | 00:45:57 | |
| Qualified. | 00:45:59 | |
| Individual. | 00:46:00 | |
| Serve as a city manager. | 00:46:02 | |
| If that's the case, then you need to reopen the position and get some qualified people. | 00:46:04 | |
| Mr. Ellis is obviously not qualified. | 00:46:09 | |
| Based upon the comments made in a tribune. | 00:46:12 | |
| I would also like. | 00:46:16 | |
| That. | 00:46:18 | |
| You said that the planning was done. | 00:46:19 | |
| That it. | 00:46:22 | |
| A Fait accom. | 00:46:24 | |
| For Utah City, that's not true. All of you have the power. | 00:46:25 | |
| To stop it, or at least slow it down until. | 00:46:30 | |
| Comments can be heard. Obviously the community is not happy with the changes that have been. | 00:46:32 | |
| And what was originally planned? You have that power, you could use it for the better community. Good. Thank you. | 00:46:38 | |
| OK, I'm going to go ahead and close the public comment and section and move on to mayor and council member reports. | 00:46:51 | |
| Yes, Mayor. | 00:47:01 | |
| Have. | 00:47:03 | |
| Discussions held by the legislature in the midterm meetings this past. | 00:47:05 | |
| September end of August 1st of September in Saint George. | 00:47:10 | |
| And that was followed by the. | 00:47:15 | |
| Utah. | 00:47:18 | |
| What's it called? Utah Committee for Development. | 00:47:21 | |
| Which was formed by the. | 00:47:25 | |
| In those meetings of a wide variety of topics were discussed where the legislature prepares for the bills that it will. | 00:47:30 | |
| And January's next session? | 00:47:38 | |
| The two major topics was water continuing the developments of last year. | 00:47:42 | |
| Reviewing what they had done and what the results were in discussing of new items that they wish to propose for the current | 00:47:47 | |
| session. | 00:47:51 | |
| To increase, for example, the amount of water that flows into the Great Salt Lake. | 00:47:56 | |
| And to restrict water. | 00:48:00 | |
| Where they can, IE the watering of lawns. | 00:48:05 | |
| In. | 00:48:08 | |
| They also discussed a great length. | 00:48:11 | |
| Both housing for you and I and housing for. | 00:48:15 | |
| Those who are not able to get housing. | 00:48:18 | |
| The president of. | 00:48:22 | |
| Senator Adams. | 00:48:25 | |
| Spoke at length about the need to develop more homeless housing. | 00:48:27 | |
| And about the need to increase the number of houses. | 00:48:32 | |
| Yeah, lamented the fact that we are. | 00:48:37 | |
| Probably about 20%, the amount of housing that we needed in. | 00:48:42 | |
| And. | 00:48:47 | |
| He wished to have the cities. | 00:48:48 | |
| And various officers in charge increase the amount of housing that was produced. | 00:48:52 | |
| Of all. | 00:48:57 | |
| You mentioned single. | 00:48:59 | |
| Apartments, condos, small homes, etc. | 00:49:02 | |
| Those remarks were followed by the. | 00:49:08 | |
| Said basically in synopsis. | 00:49:17 | |
| He wished that the cities. | 00:49:20 | |
| The mayor's, The council's, The Planning department. | 00:49:22 | |
| Do all that they can to increase the number of houses that. | 00:49:26 | |
| Or apartments, etc. | 00:49:30 | |
| And that that was his main chief aim for the coming year in the legislature. | 00:49:33 | |
| And that he would work with them to see that was done. | 00:49:39 | |
| And the meetings that things were proposed, such as eliminating garages. | 00:49:43 | |
| And account for parking spaces in the state code. | 00:49:48 | |
| And to for the state to take charge of the number of. | 00:49:53 | |
| Spaces that were allowed in. | 00:49:57 | |
| The main attempts there is to reduce the cost to developers. | 00:50:02 | |
| And providing space for parking. | 00:50:06 | |
| They also wanted to They introduced the idea of the state taking charge of zoning. | 00:50:11 | |
| In cities and counties. | 00:50:17 | |
| For various reasons. | 00:50:21 | |
| They also wanted the state to take greater control of land use. | 00:50:24 | |
| President Adams. | 00:50:28 | |
| Legislature has the authority to regulate land use, but that had been given to counties and the cities. | 00:50:30 | |
| That they were capable of taking it back. | 00:50:37 | |
| So that they could determine what zoning was done. | 00:50:40 | |
| All of this points to the fact that this year's legislature, once again will. | 00:50:45 | |
| Attempting to limit the powers of local government. | 00:50:51 | |
| I. | 00:50:59 | |
| Add my thoughts to you. | 00:51:00 | |
| You seem to think that we have great power over many things. | 00:51:05 | |
| I would wish that you would acquaint yourselves with the power of your state legislature. | 00:51:11 | |
| And that you would talk with your senators and your your House members. | 00:51:18 | |
| About what they. | 00:51:23 | |
| As far as governing. | 00:51:26 | |
| There's an old tail running around. If you want to have a party, don't ask the government to plan it. | 00:51:33 | |
| So. | 00:51:41 | |
| I would just hope. | 00:51:43 | |
| Track what goes on at the state level, as much as some of you appear to track what goes on into your local level. | 00:51:47 | |
| Because my power, what little? | 00:51:54 | |
| Comes at their behest. | 00:51:57 | |
| What I get and what I don't get comes from your senator and. | 00:52:00 | |
| House member. | 00:52:05 | |
| Thank you, Amber. Yes, the Growth and Prosperity Summit is coming up on November 2nd at UVU. You can attend to join with leaders | 00:52:08 | |
| and stakeholders just to discuss development in the county and workforce infrastructure, all those different things. | 00:52:16 | |
| Yeah, sort of exciting. This week we kicked off our economic development steering committee. We had a bunch of meetings and it's | 00:52:29 | |
| been fun meeting. | 00:52:32 | |
| All the vested interested parties and we've even had residents and all sorts of people come meet and help start this plan. We've | 00:52:36 | |
| been talking about plans tonight and. | 00:52:41 | |
| We do do a lot of plans in Vineyard and since we're growing from scratch, so to go somewhere good, you got to have a good plan. So | 00:52:46 | |
| this is helping us set our vision moving forward with some of our economic development. So that's really exciting. I wanted to | 00:52:51 | |
| tell everybody that. | 00:52:57 | |
| The pumpkin patch that we love only refer to sometimes next to Gamma Park is open. | 00:53:03 | |
| Was open today, but also tomorrow every residents allowed to come pick a pumpkin. So we're so grateful to the farmer that's | 00:53:08 | |
| leasing that property from us this year for that. It's always fun at the end of the season, I will warn you. | 00:53:13 | |
| A lot of the pumpkins that are left are very large and very heavy, so bring the gloves and a knife to cut them. | 00:53:19 | |
| And some muscles. | 00:53:25 | |
| Also, it's called clean up time, which is my favorite time of the year because the city provides A dumpster. And if you're like me | 00:53:29 | |
| this weekend, you'll be cutting all of your fruit trees and plants and things. And we have a a place that you can bring those and | 00:53:34 | |
| dispose of them, which is really nice. So please take advantage of that. | 00:53:39 | |
| Because next week when all my neighbors calling to ask about it, the dumpster will be gone to do it this week. | 00:53:45 | |
| And also I wanted to let everybody know. | 00:53:51 | |
| There's a wonderful opportunity with our neighbors in Orem to visit the new temple that's down the street from us. | 00:53:54 | |
| It's open for public tours October 27th through December 16th, and it's a really awesome opportunity for the whole public to go in | 00:54:00 | |
| and see that facility and that building. After that, it will be closed to the public. So this is a really great time for you to | 00:54:05 | |
| check out that. | 00:54:10 | |
| Structure that's down the street from us and is also a big part of our community and I would highly recommend everyone go see it. | 00:54:15 | |
| I was able to go this weekend, it's spectacular, so check that out. | 00:54:20 | |
| OK, just a few updates. | 00:54:31 | |
| Those who have driven up past 1600 N. | 00:54:33 | |
| Know that our mural is done, so I have a short time lapse video of that being painted on the side of the building here. | 00:54:37 | |
| So this is our new water tank project. It's 6,000,000 gallon water tank that will help meet the needs of our water use in the | 00:54:51 | |
| city. | 00:54:55 | |
| And that'll be commissioned in January, but we had this mural commissioned by one of our local resident artists. | 00:54:59 | |
| Al. | 00:55:07 | |
| He did a great job on it is the largest mural in. | 00:55:09 | |
| And yeah, the video doesn't do it justice, but it is very big and really, really. | 00:55:13 | |
| Really cool. Who went through? | 00:55:18 | |
| Awesome public process, getting feedback and input from residents on what we should put in it, and I think it turned out. | 00:55:20 | |
| Really quite amazing, so thank you all for your input on that. | 00:55:27 | |
| Secondly, we have some construction on 600 N and Main Street. There will be a pedestrian refuge that's installed, so it'll be a | 00:55:31 | |
| mid block crossing. So that way you can cross one side of the street, look for cars coming the other direction across to the next | 00:55:37 | |
| side. We'll also have a very exciting piece of technology. It'll be an LED flasher so that when you push the button, lights will | 00:55:43 | |
| come up. | 00:55:48 | |
| As you cross the street to a lot more visibility at nighttime, which will be really exciting. So we're very excited to see that | 00:55:55 | |
| project through that timeline will be within the next few weeks on the concrete and then the pedestrian the light will be. | 00:56:02 | |
| The flasters will be installed soon after. | 00:56:10 | |
| Tomorrow we have our Meet the Candidates night and a debate hosted by the Utah Valley Chamber of Commerce over at the HBA | 00:56:13 | |
| Building. So all candidates will be at that, I believe and come in here and learn from, learn from them. It's an election season, | 00:56:19 | |
| so that election again is on November 21st, so. | 00:56:26 | |
| Watch out for those. | 00:56:32 | |
| And then we also received a $7500 grant from Rocky Mountain Power for the design of the Gammon Park fields. As many of you know, | 00:56:34 | |
| we had a large public process for designing that park space and Rocky Mountain Power has graciously contributed that. So we wanted | 00:56:41 | |
| to thank them for that. | 00:56:47 | |
| That's all for me. | 00:56:54 | |
| OK, great. We'll go ahead and move on to our consent items. I just need a motion. | 00:56:56 | |
| So moved. | 00:57:02 | |
| And a second second so. | 00:57:04 | |
| Motion by Christie to approve. | 00:57:08 | |
| And a motion by Amber. | 00:57:10 | |
| A second by Amber pulling off that item, we're not, so sorry. I moved to approve and adopt the consent items as presented. | 00:57:13 | |
| And second, by Amber, all in favor. | 00:57:19 | |
| OK, tight Amber. Yay. Marty's excuse, Krusty. | 00:57:22 | |
| Perfect. All right, we'll move right down to our proclamation. As you know, we always participate in Kindness Week. It's something | 00:57:26 | |
| we've done every year. And so I'm going to read the proclamation that goes with the celebration of Kindness Week and lifting the | 00:57:32 | |
| community. | 00:57:38 | |
| Whereas now more than ever the world needs more kindness. Whereas kindness can be as simple as a smile, a thoughtful message to a | 00:57:45 | |
| friend, just a small act, unexpected, an unexpected gesture and the effects can be powerful. Whereas one act of kindness can write | 00:57:51 | |
| in a moment, lift someones spirit and turn a bad day into a good story. Whereas. | 00:57:57 | |
| Now, therefore, be it resolved that I do a former mayor of Vineyard, UT here due by do hereby complaint proclaim, excuse me, the | 00:58:36 | |
| week of November 6th, 2023 as Kindness Week, and encourage the people of Vineyard to practice one kind act a day in the spirit of | 00:58:43 | |
| compassion and goodwill towards all persons. | 00:58:49 | |
| And witness thereof I hear unto set my hand and. | 00:58:57 | |
| And caused the official seal of the City of Vineyard to be affixed this 25th day draft of October 23rd. Pam, this is a draft, so | 00:59:02 | |
| I'll find something else, OK? | 00:59:07 | |
| Right. | 00:59:12 | |
| All right, we'll move into our public hearing. I'll need a motion. This is where we're going to be adopting the Vineyard Fiscal | 00:59:14 | |
| year 2023-2024, Budget Amendment #1. | 00:59:19 | |
| Thank you, Tice. Second by Christy, all in favor. Aye. And that was to go into a public hearing if that wasn't clear. So we are | 00:59:25 | |
| now in a public hearing and David will be presenting on that item. Thank you, Mayor. | 00:59:31 | |
| I've never had a crowd quite like this for a budget item, so I appreciate everybody here. | 00:59:38 | |
| To listen to this. | 00:59:43 | |
| I know the spreadsheet looks a little bit daunting, but I've color-coded it so that it's a little bit easier for us to go through. | 00:59:45 | |
| And I'm gonna go straight down to the legend and just talk about kind of general general things of this budget amendment first of | 00:59:52 | |
| all, for those that are in the audience or listening online later. The city adopts its fiscal year budget every June. That budget | 00:59:58 | |
| goes from the next of July right after. | 01:00:04 | |
| Through the following June. And then the budget is kind of a living, breathing thing. There's things that we maybe didn't | 01:00:10 | |
| anticipate or opportunities that come up. And so we have the ability throughout the year to amend that budget. | 01:00:18 | |
| So you can see everything that on the spreadsheet that is shaded in pink is related to a carryover of budget that was previously | 01:00:59 | |
| approved in the prior budget year and we're just requesting that it be reapproved in the current fiscal year so that we can finish | 01:01:06 | |
| those projects. That totals up to 616,100. It is primarily capital project related things such as our water tank and our water | 01:01:13 | |
| pipeline, other various projects throughout the city that were started and not yet completed. | 01:01:20 | |
| Everything that can you clarify what our fiscal year is for? Yeah, so the fiscal year goes from July 1st through June 30th. | 01:01:28 | |
| And everything shaded in yellow. There was a request by the city manager and our HR manager to reallocate some of the places that | 01:01:36 | |
| employees are paid. So essentially because we have multiple departments, multiple funds and certain employees that serve all of | 01:01:43 | |
| those funds, we do a direct allocation in our budget where we so the water fund is paying a certain percentage of the city | 01:01:51 | |
| managers wages and so forth. | 01:01:58 | |
| So we just did a little bit of housekeeping in reevaluating what those percentages should be and really it's just shifting around | 01:02:05 | |
| where things are paid for accounting purposes. But also along with that we're requesting the addition of one full time employee. | 01:02:14 | |
| For the public works area, it would be a public works technician, and so that's why this total here is an overall increase in | 01:02:23 | |
| personnel costs for the city of just over $57,000. | 01:02:29 | |
| And then really the, the item I wanted to focus most of the time on is new budget requests. So these are items that have come up | 01:02:37 | |
| since the budget adoption in June that we wanted to bring forward to the Council and request an amendment to add these budget | 01:02:42 | |
| items. | 01:02:46 | |
| So I'll go through them. There's not very many of them, so you can go through them one by one. The 1st is a membership to the | 01:02:52 | |
| National League of Cities. | 01:02:56 | |
| You know, for 1800? | 01:03:00 | |
| Next, a Qualtrics Analytics subscription. There's going to be more discussion about this and another agenda item, but this is a | 01:03:02 | |
| service for our website that allows us to analyze how the website's being used and where people are going and just wanting to | 01:03:09 | |
| better be able to serve our residents and improve our customer service with our website. | 01:03:16 | |
| This $2000 postage item, this was just a formula error in the budget when we adopted it in June where it got missed. So we just | 01:03:24 | |
| need to throw it in there so that we can buy some stamps and send out the letters and notices that we need to send out. | 01:03:30 | |
| Moving into the Impact Speed fund, we had a stormwater master plan budgeted in the stormwater fund, but it is an eligible expense | 01:03:37 | |
| to be paid for with impact fees. And since we collect our impact fees and our impact fees fund, we're just requesting the transfer | 01:03:43 | |
| of that budget from stormwater fund into our impact fund. | 01:03:49 | |
| And the next one, this is an opportunity that came up recently with the ability to purchase some additional water shares. | 01:03:58 | |
| And so we can use impact fees for that from our water fund. So we're requesting $175,000 to purchase. I believe it's 1.5 | 01:04:06 | |
| watersheds. | 01:04:10 | |
| 5.5 that's the type of, I apologize, 5.5 water. | 01:04:16 | |
| And then this again, this $40,000 is the moving that master plan for stormwater from stormwater fund to impact the fund. | 01:04:23 | |
| And then finally in our internal services fund, specifically in our information systems area. | 01:04:31 | |
| We're requesting $12,730 to improve the service that's provided to us by Executech, who are our third party IT provider. | 01:04:39 | |
| This service would give us additional cyber security. | 01:04:50 | |
| Protection, which is more and more of a concern lately, as many of you I'm sure, have heard of stores in the news. | 01:04:55 | |
| Very valuable, something that we think is much needed. In addition to that, this would help us upgrade our firewalls to provide | 01:05:03 | |
| some additional security there. | 01:05:08 | |
| And then $41,000 to help implement a couple of new software solutions that we feel will be beneficial for our our city, one being | 01:05:13 | |
| smart. | 01:05:18 | |
| For permitting and licensing and then the other asset essentials for asset management. | 01:05:24 | |
| And so that's all of the new requests. And then coming back down to our legend here, everything else on the sheet that I didn't | 01:05:31 | |
| specifically mention highlighted in blue and green, those are really just allowing us to move all these things around. So it's | 01:05:36 | |
| either a change in transferring funds from one fund to another or changing the amount of beginning fund balance that we're using | 01:05:41 | |
| to accomplish our goals. | 01:05:46 | |
| And that is all I oh sorry, I almost forgot. There's two items that were brought up that weren't able. I wasn't able to get them | 01:05:52 | |
| onto this list that was sent out to you. But additional requests that staff has made that we'd like to propose to you to consider. | 01:05:58 | |
| One of which is A to add a part time library director in the amount of $15,394.00 and then the other is a carryover. Once again, | 01:06:04 | |
| we didn't include it before, but. | 01:06:10 | |
| Realized afterward that we probably should request this carryover for council directed capital projects of 100,000. | 01:06:17 | |
| OK. Any questions from the public? | 01:06:28 | |
| Come on up. | 01:06:34 | |
| State your name, where you from and your question. | 01:06:36 | |
| Keith, Vincent, A Vineyard Res. | 01:06:43 | |
| Who does the audit of the city? | 01:06:46 | |
| Who does the audit of the city? Yeah, so we're contracted currently with Gilbert and Stewart Cpas, OK. And have you received the | 01:06:54 | |
| clean audit, the last audit? Yes. OK. And are these budget items prepared under? | 01:07:00 | |
| Generally accepted governmental accounting standards. | 01:07:07 | |
| Yes, budgets don't have to be prepared with gap standards, but. | 01:07:09 | |
| Yeah. OK. Thank you. | 01:07:14 | |
| Any other questions? | 01:07:19 | |
| OK, I need a lesson to go out of a public hearing. So moved. Thank you, Christy. Second, second by Amber. All in favor. | 01:07:26 | |
| Right, Council, I'm sure that you have questions and you can put those forward. I'd like to continue this item to November 8th if | 01:07:33 | |
| possible, I'd like to. | 01:07:38 | |
| I think there's some things I just want to understand a little better, better, but if you guys have questions, we can discuss it | 01:07:44 | |
| now as well. | 01:07:47 | |
| No, I feel good moving it actually, just to get a bit more clarity. | 01:07:53 | |
| Anyone else? | 01:07:58 | |
| That's fine. If you want to move it, you can make the motion OK, yeah, I'll make a motion that we move this. | 01:08:00 | |
| OK, I mean, I tell you. | 01:08:08 | |
| I just don't actually have it performing. So somebody with it before then go ahead. | 01:08:12 | |
| OK. Thanks. | 01:08:16 | |
| I move to. | 01:08:19 | |
| Just kidding. I want to continue this item. I make a motion to continue the assignments to November 8th. | 01:08:20 | |
| Mayor, I move that we continue this item to the meeting of November 8th. Great. First by myself, second by price, any discussion. | 01:08:27 | |
| All in favor, all right. | 01:08:37 | |
| Great. We'll go ahead and move on to the discussion and action by the Qualtrics service. | 01:08:40 | |
| Since we are continuing this item and it's not for November 8th and this is kind of coinciding with that. | 01:08:46 | |
| But what we have to do for that anything or will that just? | 01:08:53 | |
| The agreement can be approved and we have existing funds that we could pull up forward with. This would just be for the full, the | 01:08:57 | |
| full. | 01:09:00 | |
| Fiscal year for that agreement. OK. So it's. | 01:09:03 | |
| But I'm happy to introduce a Qualtrics team. We've been working on a completely revamped website. | 01:09:08 | |
| Our website is a little bit older and we decided to update that. So we've been working very hard to simplify our website to | 01:09:15 | |
| provide valuable feedback to residents in a more understandable way, help help it be a little bit easier for residents to reach | 01:09:21 | |
| where they are looking for on our website. And so part of that we wanted to. | 01:09:28 | |
| Work with Qualtrics to help get more insights from our website and help help them help under help them help us understand how our | 01:09:35 | |
| residents are using the website and how we can best serve serve those needs. So with that, I. | 01:09:42 | |
| Turn time over to them if you want to go ahead and get set up, I can talk a little bit more about it. But essentially we currently | 01:09:49 | |
| use Qualtrics for surveys. So you've probably received a city survey at some point asking for feedback on an event or. | 01:09:56 | |
| Feedback on plans that we're doing at the city, and now we are. | 01:10:05 | |
| Looking to implement their entire communications package and so this would be much more than surveys. This would provide us | 01:10:10 | |
| helpful insights for our communications. | 01:10:14 | |
| Efforts throughout the city to help keep our residents better informed in a more transparent process. As well, we're always | 01:10:19 | |
| looking to improve our communication and our transparency to residents. | 01:10:25 | |
| Go ahead. Thank you. My name is Chandler Hoops. I work for Qualtrics. | 01:10:32 | |
| Let's see if this works. | 01:10:38 | |
| There we go. | 01:10:39 | |
| First off, thank you for letting us come and present to you all. We have been discussing with with Ezra and his team for quite | 01:10:41 | |
| some time about all tricks. You guys have been a customer of ours and we're excited to be able to expand with you. | 01:10:48 | |
| Been on Qualtrics, Qualtrics over the last 25 years has worked with the largest companies in the world to help them with their | 01:10:56 | |
| experience management with that data and understanding of what we've done for them and their customer service. | 01:11:02 | |
| Over the last 10 years, we have helped city governments, county governments, state and federal, and the federal government to be | 01:11:09 | |
| able to help improve their customer service for their residents and those who who they serve. | 01:11:16 | |
| Over that time. | 01:11:23 | |
| We've learned that cities and towns much as much as you're going as much as yourselves operate currently under under these two | 01:11:25 | |
| data points and organizational and operational performance that can be based on lack of ability to dig deeper that can be because | 01:11:31 | |
| of. | 01:11:38 | |
| The the amount of heads headcount you have in your in your city what have you cities have traditionally operated under these two | 01:11:46 | |
| two these two models and as you're trying to affect impact in your cities we we find that it's it's it's difficult to do so until | 01:11:51 | |
| it really gets the root cause of everything. | 01:11:57 | |
| What Quatrix is has been able to learn and to do with other cities all across the United States is to be able to provide. | 01:12:03 | |
| The insights and the data and the understanding of employee profiles, services that are provided to residents and how satisfied | 01:12:10 | |
| they are, Experiences all across your city that provide a great insight to understand how people feel about their city, about | 01:12:17 | |
| certain items, about legislature and different things like that. But as well as those day-to-day experiences, whether you're going | 01:12:24 | |
| to a park or if you're using one of the facilities, we can, we we've helped. | 01:12:31 | |
| City governments to discover that. | 01:12:38 | |
| The way we do that is do 3 pillars we call listen, understand and act. We listen to your residents. We like, Ezra said. We will be | 01:12:42 | |
| implementing a listening portal much like an open door solution on your guys's website to be able to help. | 01:12:50 | |
| Immediate action. | 01:13:30 | |
| Closing the loop on those experiences and be able to move forward in helping those residents here in in. | 01:13:30 | |
| What we've learned is Vineyard is a very passionate community and those that work at in Vineyard are trying to be as responsive as | 01:13:38 | |
| possible to be able to give the best customer service. | 01:13:43 | |
| That being said, as things start to grow and as as issues arise, they aren't that right now in the way that it's operating is in a | 01:13:49 | |
| very viable or great structure to be able to do that at scale. And what Qualtrics will do is, is provide that that infrastructure | 01:13:57 | |
| to be able to respond and to be able to give the best customer service possible to your residents so that their issues go checked, | 01:14:04 | |
| that they're they can be monitored and that they can make sure that everybody's questions are being answered. | 01:14:11 | |
| As well as there's a lot of different really loud voices in the community. We want to be able to find that silent minority | 01:14:18 | |
| majority who is in the community that may not be able to come to City Council meetings or may not be able to interact with you on | 01:14:24 | |
| a on a normal level, but give a voice to them so that everybody in the city of Vineyard can have a voice. And then finally making | 01:14:30 | |
| sure that all the different communication channels that you have in the city can be. | 01:14:36 | |
| Analyzed and all that data can be understood and can be acted upon, and contracts will be there to help with that and the way | 01:14:43 | |
| we'll be doing that. | 01:14:47 | |
| Is through these two things three? | 01:14:52 | |
| Is through these three things. | 01:14:54 | |
| A resident experience platform much like that open door solution like I mentioned to be able to help you guys interact with your | 01:14:57 | |
| residents, whether it be on the website, in your parks, in your facilities, to be able to understand how and how they prefer to be | 01:15:03 | |
| interacted with and be able to gather data about their experiences. Second employee experiences. | 01:15:10 | |
| The employees that work here, they're people and they live in the community as well. And so we need to know how they're feeling as | 01:15:16 | |
| issues are are are rising and as they go about their day-to-day to be able to get the data from that and then finally community | 01:15:23 | |
| research. We want to be able to empower the city of Vineyard with the ability to conduct panels and be able to. | 01:15:30 | |
| Pull those those residents on certain issues as they go forward and make sure that all the information is statistically valid. | 01:15:38 | |
| I won't go too deep into this, but this is our proposed plan with the City of Vineyard. | 01:15:47 | |
| But this doesn't go. | 01:16:21 | |
| And that this is successful in short terms. | 01:16:24 | |
| Thank you so much. | 01:16:30 | |
| I'd be happy to fill any questions, any questions from the Council. | 01:16:31 | |
| We do have a question from the residents and I'm going to let him make a comment. | 01:16:39 | |
| While he's coming up, I just want to add very excited about this technology. As our city grows population wise, it's so important | 01:16:45 | |
| to to be able to meet the needs of our residents. I think we're really uniquely positioned in Vineyard where nearly 100% of our | 01:16:50 | |
| households have access to the Internet. And so we have I think an important responsibility to be able to make ourselves available | 01:16:55 | |
| via the Internet to to hear whatever residents are saying. | 01:17:00 | |
| Tim Heaton once again. | 01:17:07 | |
| Would be possible to delay the vote on this for a couple of weeks to give time for the cities procurement director? | 01:17:09 | |
| Conduct a national study to see what other cities are paying for a similar package of services. | 01:17:16 | |
| To make sure we're on par with that, the price themes. | 01:17:23 | |
| Yeah, we have this group here through the state contract. So the state reviewed it at length and we have those numbers from. So | 01:17:28 | |
| when you say reviewed it at length you specifically. | 01:17:33 | |
| That they have compared the. | 01:17:38 | |
| Paid by other cities nationwide for a similar package of services, that's correct. | 01:17:40 | |
| OK. Is that is that available to be reviewed somewhere? | 01:17:46 | |
| It's available on the state website, but I could provide a link to them. | 01:17:50 | |
| Thanks for your. | 01:17:54 | |
| My non compete with Qualtrics is over. | 01:18:00 | |
| My name is Jacob Walter Holloway. I used to work for Qualtrics and they're a fantastic company. | 01:18:04 | |
| A state contract. | 01:18:09 | |
| Is only for through NASCAR value point does not mean that it's been competitively bid, it just means that they're piggybacking on | 01:18:11 | |
| that. Qualtrics is a fantastic product I recommend us going through, but for $74,000 that is an extremely high price point for a | 01:18:17 | |
| city of population 20,000 or so. | 01:18:24 | |
| And so I will make public and kind of work through that price point. That's a regular city. Our size is five, $10,000. | 01:18:31 | |
| Also the pictures last year of being at the concerts of our, all of our employees being there during X4 and going through that, | 01:18:41 | |
| it's completely inappropriate with procurement guidelines. | 01:18:46 | |
| And so Qualtrics inviting us and going through and doing. | 01:18:51 | |
| And so, yeah, I would recommend that the council take a couple of weeks, look at that, look at Survey, Gizmo, SurveyMonkey, | 01:18:55 | |
| there's other platforms that are out there. | 01:19:01 | |
| I would recommend Qualtrics. I think they're above superior. I think they're a great Utah company. It wouldn't have anything, but | 01:19:07 | |
| the price point is extremely high. | 01:19:10 | |
| Yeah, I can maybe add to that. Currently we have the Qualtrics survey function. So this would be for the entire XM package, which | 01:19:16 | |
| is a lot more than just the survey software. | 01:19:21 | |
| So that's all. OK. And that's only a couple 100 bucks for the other stuff at other platforms. OK, thank you. Council, do you have | 01:19:26 | |
| any other comments did you want? | 01:19:31 | |
| Make a motion. | 01:19:38 | |
| Does it have anything you wanted to add? I'm sorry that you made a comment or you're good? | 01:19:49 | |
| Yeah, you can always come up in response. | 01:19:54 | |
| Oh, hold on one second until you're at the microphone. | 01:19:57 | |
| Nathan Newman with Qualtrics. | 01:20:01 | |
| Work with Jake in the past I have respected him and but unfortunately. | 01:20:04 | |
| The comment that was made of another couple $100 is he's extremely false. He knows that he sold the product and. | 01:20:11 | |
| He was. He's also not been an employee for quite some time with new things that have come down the pipe with government solutions, | 01:20:20 | |
| so. | 01:20:25 | |
| That clear you cannot. You're not able to do. | 01:20:32 | |
| These things that we're talking about through these other products like survey Gizmo or SurveyMonkey that he mentioned. | 01:20:36 | |
| Thank you. All right, Council. | 01:20:42 | |
| Mayor. | 01:20:47 | |
| We'll default. | 01:20:49 | |
| Our staff work and. | 01:20:51 | |
| States vetting of this bid, so I moved to adopt Resolution 2023-42, approving the authorization on service contracts. | 01:20:54 | |
| Government exiting service platform. | 01:21:05 | |
| Second all right at first by ties, second by Amber any. | 01:21:07 | |
| All in favor. | 01:21:13 | |
| OK, nice. Amber. Aye, yay. Marty is absent Christy, All right. | 01:21:15 | |
| We'll go ahead and go into a closed session. | 01:21:21 | |
| We're going to discuss some of the comments that were made before we go into our final appointment. What we'll do is that | 01:21:25 | |
| everybody can stay in this room. We'll exit this room to have the closed discussion and then we'll come back for the last. | 01:21:30 | |
| Item on the agenda. So I need a motion to go into a closed section for item A. | 01:21:36 | |
| There's no motion. | 01:21:46 | |
| Hi Moo, I'm just going through a closed session. | 01:21:49 | |
| For the purpose of discussion of the character, professional competence, or physical or mental health of an individual. | 01:21:52 | |
| 2nd. | 01:21:59 | |
| Do I need to do this by record? OK Size Amber. Aye. Yay. Marty's absent Christy. | 01:22:00 | |
| OK. All right. We will be back. | 01:22:07 | |
| All right. Thank you for waiting. We're going to move on to 9.3 discussing an action city manager appointment. | 01:22:27 | |
| And I'm just going to read this in accordance with the Vineyard Municipal Code. | 01:22:33 | |
| 2.08.010. | 01:22:38 | |
| See, the mayor and City Council will appoint a new city manager. So I'm gonna read something after a discussion. The hiring | 01:22:42 | |
| process that the city went through was expensive. We did a national service. We had over 150 applicants apply. The full council | 01:22:49 | |
| was involved in the vetting process, which was eventually narrowed. | 01:22:55 | |
| To applicants eventually narrow to applicants to three finalists. | 01:23:02 | |
| The staff participated. The full council followed established recruitment and vetting practices. We came to a unanimous decision | 01:23:08 | |
| out of the candidates we vetted. | 01:23:14 | |
| Who were excellent. We found Eric to be the best qualified for this position. We did our due diligence, we understood about the | 01:23:20 | |
| letters, and the information that was shared tonight is incomplete. | 01:23:25 | |
| We feel comfortable moving forward. We've heard some comments today from the public. | 01:23:31 | |
| We recognize that some of these comments question this decision. We believe the questions come from a good place but have | 01:23:36 | |
| insufficient information. | 01:23:39 | |
| We hope you will reserve judgment until you're able to see the quality of this work. We're happy to have Eric here and we hope you | 01:23:44 | |
| can join us in welcoming him. | 01:23:48 | |
| I need a motion. Yes, thank you, Mayor. I moved to adopt resolution Resolution 2023-43, approving the appointment of Eric Ellis as | 01:23:53 | |
| the city manager, and allow the mayor to sign the employment agreement. Second OK, first by Christie, A second by. | 01:24:00 | |
| All in favor A roll call ties. | 01:24:07 | |
| Amber. | 01:24:12 | |
| Yes, Marty's excused Christie. | 01:24:13 | |
| Welcome, Eric. Wherever you are, there you are Welcome. And we're so excited to have you join our city. | 01:24:19 | |
| All right. With that, I need a motion to adjourn. | 01:24:35 | |
| So moved all in favor. Aye. Give us a few minutes and we'll start the RDA meeting. | 01:24:38 |