City Council · 2019-03-26

We welcome everyone out to our City Council work session today and would like to start with the annual update on our service line warranties. Jamie's on his way back from Salt Lake, so we'll continue on and he'll join us when he gets here. So, all right, glad to have you here.

Thank you. And again, thank you again for letting me come out here. I love presenting out here. I love coming. I'm from Pittsburgh, so Anytime I get to come out to the West Coast, and I love Salt Lake City, so this area.

You know, we're not on the coast.

Well, not west. Yeah, the west. You can get some skiing in there.

Yeah, skiing's still good.

Her husband came out with her and it's his first time west of Indiana.

Yeah, he said the most west he's ever been is Indiana.

So he likes the mountains.

Might as well be the coast.

He loves it. He's like such an outdoorsy person, but he's never been anywhere near here. So I was— being able to bring him out here, best way to award, definitely up there. So, um, but thank you. For those who don't know me, I'm Sammy. I am the account manager for the city of Orem and actually the entire state of Utah. Um, so I just— I work with Service Line Mortise of America, and we offer— I'll kind of go into next a little bit. Um, so this is who we are, just kind of an update on what we do. So we are recognized as the nation's largest and most trusted source of utility line plans. We're endorsed by the National League of Cities, but also we have now grown to offer over 4 million households across the country, and it's actually going to probably break 5 million by the end of the year. But we work with over 550 municipalities across The country, municipalities, and also utilities. But we offer the external water line and sewer line plans for the residents of Orem. Yeah, so, and just a little bit about us as well. Next, this is more about the background of our agreement with Orem. We entered into an agreement with the City of Orem in September of 2015. We did our first mailing in October of that year as well. Since then, we've done 7 mailings with the City of Orem, and we currently offer the exterior water line service warranty and the exterior sewer service line warranty. Unlimited coverage for each claim, per— no annual coverage, no limit on that as well for both of them. So here's the main meat of the presentation. So this is what the current numbers are for the City of Forum, which we've seen an increase in all metrics across for the City of Forum, which I think is great. Still, um, 4 years doing this and still the numbers continue to grow, which is awesome. We currently have 2,446 residents signed up for the sewer line warranty. Again, as you can see, it's an increase from last year when I was out here. And then for the water line, it's almost 3,000 residents signed up for the warranty, which again is an increase from 300 since last year.

So a question for you, I don't know that you would even track this, but do you know how old these homes are that you're insuring?

I do not. I mean, we could probably—

I'd really be interested to know.

Yeah, I mean, it's something I could probably find out.

Most of the questions I get asked are If my home's built prior to 1970, then I'm interested. Those that were built 1980, 1990, they're not interested.

Anyway.

No, I mean, that's something I definitely think we could look into. I'm not sure if they— maybe not specifically for Orem, but maybe just across the country. I think they can get that information. Our data team's pretty—

I will say though, with people that have had issues, it's It isn't always as much just on age. There's soil conditions, there's trees, there's, there's just a lot of other factors that come into play.

So that's one of the reasons why I'd like to know.

But there's definitely no— because we'll get, we'll get, I'll get calls too of, hey, should I do this?

And there's just—

obviously I'm not going to give them that. It's not going to be on me whether they get it.

Sure.

But there's just, there's just too many factors to make it say— I mean, it's really just, it's an insurance It's like saying don't get car insurance because you've been a good driver for a lot of years.

You know, there's too many factors.

But the majority of the problems are in older homes.

I don't know.

So it could be because trees are one of the biggest things.

Are trees covered then, the roots, if they go in the line?

I believe so, yes.

Yes.

So the roots are covered. So if the lines, they go into the lines.

And typically you've had to have time for those trees to grow. The biggest offender in our city is our city center. So Whipple said the 2 biggest places they come out to to fix problems with roots going through lines are the Provo City Center and the Orem City Center.

Really?

Wow. For sewer, for water.

We'll get it covered.

We're working on—

yeah, I was gonna— yeah, we're working on this entire city center. Absolutely. Um, we are— I think they are in the process. I know right now it's just residential homes that they are working on. That we offer this to, but—

And only single-family?

Single-family, yeah, single-family residential homes. But I think they're in the process of figuring out something for commercial, but keep you updated on that for this nice old building.

So basically you have 10% of our city, and of those that have signed up, 10% of those have put claims in?

Yep. And I mean, 8 to 10%, yeah, around that, because most of the time it might be the same person who just might They might have a— get a line stained, or, you know, something simple like that where they have to do it maybe once or twice a year. Or it could be something major for one person. But again, this is like— these are numbers that we like to see just because the residents are using the program and are understanding the program. You know, they remember that they have the insurance. Sometimes people don't really know, and especially when it starts, it's new, so they don't really You know, know what to do. So now that we've been here doing this for four years, they start to understand. They call into this to the line; they get someone to come out. Kind of the process of it. So when kind of now that we're talking about claims, so for a person, for those who don't know, for something happens for a line, they say they think they have something going on. They can call into our call center. They'll talk to an agent, and an agent will say, "Hey, we're going to get a contractor back to you." Yeah. And they'll get back to you within an hour or so to get you scheduled for a time to come out and look at it. And usually they are on site within 24 hours is what our, you know, we'd like to see. But if it's more of an emergency, they have different levels of, you know, something, maybe a leaky pipe or something, you know, they could get out in 24 hours. If something's like water spewing through the sink, You know, we'll get someone out there within the next, you know, couple hours. So we like to try and keep it— we generalize and say 24 hours for most cases, but depending on the severity, it kind of changes.

Do you go to the contractor?

So that's why I was waiting on a list to get back to you. I'm going to actually forward this over to Steven as well. I have a list of the contractors that we work with. So our contractors go through a vetting process, so we just don't let anybody Join the contractor network, especially just because we're going into residents' homes. They don't want any Joe Schmo off the street to walk into somebody's home. And so we put them through a vetting process and ask the city for any recommendations, but we like to keep it, you know, small and people who are good workers that we like. So next, this is—

But they are— the last time I saw this, they're all local companies.

Yes.

So we're usually hiring local companies.

Yes, all local.

I should have mentioned that.

They're all local.

But this is something— the best part of the presentation, in my personal opinion. Just the number amount of money that residents have saved. As you can tell, we've increased almost $160,000 for both water and sewer from last year. Again, these are numbers that we like to see that the residents are using, getting the benefits of the program, and not just, you know, getting these letters and you guys are getting calls and questions and Why are we doing this? This is the reason why we like to do this, because you're saving.

So your largest one to date is over $20,000?

Yes, so that was actually this past— or last year, a resident saved over $20,000 from this program. So it was really— we like seeing— I like seeing that. I don't know about our accountant, you know, whoever has to do that.

The guy that called me about the thing doesn't have to see that. Again, what's the average annual premium?

For like $5, $6? Oh yeah, yeah, it's $4, $5, uh, $408 or $658.

Yeah, yeah, I paid annually.

Yeah, so you do annually or monthly, so you can do that either way. Um, but again, this compared to $10, you know, $7, it adds up. So it's nice to see that You know, residents are getting the use out of the program and being able to show the benefit of it. And actually, so the average amount spent on each claim has gone up since last year as well. Um, I think the water— the $20,000 was a water line, so that's why the water line average, I believe, is so high. Um, but again, it's just nice to see that the money is being spent, that they are getting use out of the program for us to show them as well. I don't know if anybody has questions on claims or anything like this right now.

Good.

All right. Um, so next, this is kind of just updates on the program in general. Um, so this is something new that we are offering. Uh, currently we actually have a new city in Utah that we work with, uh, Kaysville. They're here. I met with them this morning. Um, and Clearfield City is also the other one that we work with. Uh, so they currently are offering this as well. So it's incoming. So it's something that we would just offer Via the call center or online. So it's nothing we would actually mail, but it's just another opportunity for the residents to, you know, understand the program but also get this extra benefit. Um, I did a little research about the homeowners— for homeowners insurance versus this. Um, so for most homeowners insurance, they'll cover it. Again, all depends on your insurance. This is another reason why the residents can look into what they have, but— Most of the time, the homeowner's insurance will cover the damage to the home but not the actual pipe. So the repair to the pipe, anything new, it won't cover that, but it will cover any damage inside the home. But again, this is just another option that we could add, unlike something new that we're adding to residents. Again, this is all going to be sent out. I'm going to send this to Steven so he can send this out to you guys electronically. So if you guys have questions or anything like that. We actually did an article, it was in the Herald, about the program last year after this meeting, and I think it has helped increase the numbers as well, just getting the promotion about the program. So again, we are always open to any PR, any Articles, anything like that you guys may feel that we could help with, we are absolutely open to any of those, and we continue to hope to work with you guys on that as well. Any good press, you know, we always take a good chance at. So, um, and then below, this is my contact information. Uh, again, this will be sent out to you guys.

So how long are you out here for?

Tomorrow. Yeah, okay.

Yeah, we fly home tomorrow night, so they finally have a direct flight to Salt Lake City from Pittsburgh. So yeah, so enjoy it. It's so beautiful out here in New York City. You guys are very lucky. It's stunning. I tell Steven all the time, if I could move out here, I would.

But she has to present monthly.

I, I do.

I really would. I would come and update you guys every month if you wanted me to.

I mean, I could totally boss that, so So the in-home plumbing option, is that available today?

It is not available yet. So we're starting— I was actually talking with Steven about it. It's something that we can offer. We won't offer it right away. We just want to get the approval from the city. So if you guys find— think you have interest from, you know, your residents, or if you guys think this would be beneficial, we could definitely get started on adding that for your residents.

And do you often have landlords will get this for their apartment or anything like that?

So if it's a residential, like a single-family home, it gets kind of tricky with that. But rental homes, yes, they— as long as it's in the homeowner's name, they can absolutely do that. Um, it gets kind of tricky if it's like a duplex or apartment building type thing, but, uh, if it's a single-family residential home, we can absolutely do it as long as it's in the homeowner's name.

Yeah, anytime we were first looking at it, anytime the line is shared by multiple units is when they don't— won't cover it because they can't determine which it came from and who was paying for it.

Gets a little more tricky.

Yeah, but it sounds like they're looking at maybe options.

Yeah, so we are definitely looking because it's becoming more and more common. I think they're definitely looking into options to work with it, but definitely. Do you have like deductibles, like those amounts? So all of it's all— Yep. The only thing you have to pay is the monthly or annual.

So one last question, we'll let you go. So do you do more cities out west or out east, or is there any preponderance?

Wait, I'm sorry, what?

Like, do more cities in any area of the country?

Um, so I can do state by state. Um, I do— I have the state of Utah, I have Florida, I have New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Iowa, kind of all over the place.

Um, so are they pretty similar to us, or—

I will say this, and I've told Steven this a number of times, I love working with my Utah partners. I— they are the nicest people, um, and they're very understanding and very easy to talk to. Some people in different states, it's very different. And they— it's very— I think it also depends on, you know, where you're located. But yeah, no, I— that's why I've always been a big fan. We're actually starting to work with the Utah League of Cities and Towns. We're starting to work with them and actually promoting the program through that as well. So—

So a couple years ago, or about a year ago, the state legislature passed a requirement that every city has to notify their residents of this responsibility. And so this satisfies our requirement to do that.

And so it's—

So I just take a whole thing off your list. Sure.

Well, great. Well, thank you for being here.

Thank you again, guys, so much for having me. Um, if you guys have anything, I'll leave a couple cards if anybody wants one, if you guys have any questions.

Great. Thank you.

Uh, well, now I'll turn some time over to Ken and Joe and Kathy, for the Mayor's Centennial Ball update.

Thank you, Mayor and Council, for this opportunity to give you a brief update again on more centennial items. And while Stephen pulls up this video, earlier in the year we contracted with the video lab to do We do short videos for each of the events, and we have our first one to show you today from the Centennial Kickoff.

So we'll look at that.

We hope you enjoyed that.

Well done.

And the videographer's going to be doing videos at our next few events and then do a montage at the end, and we have lots of ideas for the uses for those. Now we'll turn the table over to the panelists.

I want to see some of that dance at the mayor's ball.

Sure, okay, we'll work on that.

So, um, the mayor asked me just to give an update on the mayor's ball, um, and so that's why I'm here. I'm just going to run down some notes and then I have a surprise for the mayor, so he'll be excited, I think. So, um, the theme this year will be 100 Years of Orem. It's going to be on Utah Valley University's Sorenson Center ballroom.

On June 1st.

The Grand Ballroom.

The Grand Ballroom. We are negotiating parking because we know parking's a little bit of a challenge there, but we haven't heard back on it yet. We will be having volunteers helping to direct people because we know that that can always be a challenge there, but we're excited to have it there. The dress will be black tie optional, so expect tuxes, guys.

Keep expecting.

I want to see Tom in a tux.

We'll be having a reception, um, at 5:30, um, in the ballroom. Many of you that have been there, there's kind of a, like, a lobby area in front of the ballroom. That's where the reception will be. And then at 6:30, we'll have dinners, speakers, entertainment, and then dancing. That's when the dancing comes in. Our reception menu will be shrimp cocktail, fruit skewers, cute cheese platter, assorted crackers, hummus and pita chips, sparkling apple cider, and water. So we'll get full at the reception, then we'll get even more full at the dinner. Dinner will be flank steak with twice-baked potatoes and seasonal vegetables, green salad, roll with butter, cheesecakes, and water, and potentially some sparkling cider there as well. And we will be having table assignments, so if you don't want to sit by someone, let me know. Um, the ball will replace the Summerfest VIP dinner this year, so So we're going to combine the VIP dinner with the Centennial Ball this year, the Mayor's Ball this year. All committee members and sponsors will be invited to the ball along with those invited to the VIP— invited to the VIP Centennial Kickoff. We've also added a few other people. Student marshals, instead of doing our student marshals there, we'll actually be presenting our student marshals at the kickoff storytelling event at University Place the first day of summer. Summerfest, and that's what we'll be rewarding the student marshals. The Royal Tea will be providing the music during the reception. They'll also provide the prelude and dinner music and will act as our hostesses for the evening. KSL's Dave McCann will be in town and will be emceeing. The Heritage Museum is putting together a slideshow for us to use as our backdrop with a bunch of pictures of 100 years of Orem. The mayor, the governor, Rick Woodbury, and Mark Stadd will Speaking about Orem. And there, I think he's probably one of the longest people that have lived here the longest, isn't he?

I've already heard the stories in the nursery.

Oh good, so you can hear me again.

He's 94.

You're leaving at 7 then, right after the dinner?

No, I'll stay to the end.

And this is the big surprise. David Osmond will be our entertainment that evening. So we found out this morning. He'll be doing 3 numbers, including the Centennial Song. So we're excited about that.

And that's the song that Alan wrote for Orem.

That's the song that Alan wrote for Orem. So that was our morning news of the day. So that was your surprise for the day. Um, after dinner, we'll be having a dance with a DJ, so get those dancing shoes on, take those dance classes. We expect you to be dancing. And then everyone will receive a co-branded coin, one of its kind centennial coin. It will have Orem on one side, Woodbury on the other. Woodbury is also celebrating their 100-year anniversary, and they're actually providing those coins for us.

Does that double as a dump pass?

That too. And then doTERRA is providing a product gift as well for everybody. So our budget's around $11,000, and some of that's coming from the Centennial budget, and some of that's coming from Mayor Evans and his wife. And so the save-the-date will be going out probably tomorrow. We're just updating the mailing list a little bit, but it's ready to go out. So we'll send out formal invitations in the beginning of May. Any questions?

Sounds good.

One thing maybe you could mention is who's invited to this event.

Yeah, so we're inviting the VIP people that were on the VIP reception list. So that included you guys and gals, former mayors, former council, some of our well-known Oramites, school district people, and then we'll have our Summerfest sponsors and our Summerfest committee also invited as well. So there's a lot of good, you know, community leaders as well, our congresspeople, senators, our representatives, things like that as well. So it's a good long list of people.

We have some of the older elected officials.

We do.

That are going to be coming.

So it should be a really nice evening. So get on those tuxes, get on those dancing shoes, and Those beautiful ball crowns, and we'll see you there.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, appreciate it. Thank you, Kathy. Okay, we'll move on to our budget discussion, capital improvement projects. I, I did want to welcome back, um, our attorney Greg. Uh, looks like you're back up and running again. He's been sick for a few weeks.

Glad to see you here.

And we'll turn the time over to Sam and Richard.

Sam?

Turn the time over to Sam.

Okay, here we go with our capital improvements, our 2020 appropriation. Uh, first sheet here is our summary sheet. I know a few of you like to jump right to the end, and here it is right here with our summary. With our reserves ongoing, the revenue fleet, and the total that we're looking to save through our different funds, our general fund being our Fund 10, Fund 45, road fund being our Fund 20, which is our B&C road funds, enterprise funds, water, water reclamation and stormwater, and then the new one up there that we show is our our transportation tax fund, which is going to be Fund 24. I guess before we get moving on, are there any questions about this sheet, this slide specifically? With Brandon being here, Richard, it can be a little bit more.

Okay, so maybe just a— Brandon, just a brief, if I may, and I apologize for being late today. If you could go back, Sam, just to the initial $4.6 million.

Yes.

The $6 million that you see as part of that summary sheet, that is representative of monies that we have from this past fiscal year. These are monies that were unspent, as well as monies that are available above and beyond 15% of fund balance in our general fund.

Okay.

So in recent years, historically, we have set aside that 15% in fund balance and swept the additional money out of the general fund fund balance and into our capital projects budget, making that— those monies available for capital projects. Approximately, I believe, $2 million of that has been set aside for— has been set aside for projects, and the remainder is in fund balance. Just on that, so we had the discussion on equipment fleet-related stuff.

Is this in addition to what we had last meeting?

So in the last meeting, it was more fleet. So this fleet column would probably be more representative of the previous presentation that Richard gave with fleet and IT. This presentation is going to be more of the capital projects and/or capital purchases. So it's one-time equipment type purchases, mixers and things like that. And as we get into the slideshow, I'll kind of be able to speak a little bit.

So last week's is not the same?

It is inclusive of that fleet.

It's on this summary but not inclusive of the rest of the stuff.

And if someone's adding up the numbers, they can see, okay, it's all covered.

So this is one-time expenses. So you did see some less last time.

Okay.

I have a question.

The $4.6 million, is that one-time monies or is it some of that new revenues we can count on year after year or is it all one-time? Do you have any idea?

It's—

Give me your best guess.

It's a tough question.

Yes.

It came from one time, I mean, it came from general fund monies.

So whether you want to consider that excess—

Was it revenue tax related?

Sales tax related? Was it property tax? Was it building permits?

You don't really have a feel. I mean, I guess the question is, is that something— if everything stayed the same, would that be available every year, or is it just a one-time?

Yes. If everything stayed the same.

Well, yeah, that's obvious.

So it's ongoing in the sense that obviously sales taxes could go down, which would affect that number.

Building permits could go down. Okay, so the first one we'll look at here for capital projects or capital equipment purchases. Administrative Services is looking to upgrade their fingerprinting equipment. It's right there, pretty self-explanatory, $31,000 expense.

This is part of Brandon's CAFR reporting.

This is to actually get the software so we can do our reporting, which is done on an annual basis, our audits and things like that.

Currently use Excel, Word, PDF files.

You need all the help you can get.

And duct tape.

So the time is kind of coming.

Right now in development services, we're asking for $15,000. For online plans submission software.

Yes.

We're going to be test driving a software tomorrow to see if we can kind of update and get more up to speed with our building permit system as far as being able to submit plans and then allow the builder to see where those plans are in the process, actually accept payment, and do some things like that, as opposed to bringing in a hard copy and having to be at the counter.

Do most other cities already have that in place, or is this a new venture?

Some have it in place. I think we're— for a city our size and for as much work as we do, we're a little bit behind the times. And we're trying to, and for the most part, our IT department has done a great job creating our in-house programs so we can track a lot of that. So on our end of it, I mean, what we have is probably better than what most things are out of the box. It's just that to go ahead and create that interface to collect plans, to collect payment, and then to allow a builder to track where his plans are in our process, we really can't do that with our stuff that we've done in-house. It's too big of a program to write, and to get the servers and things like that is just going to be a lot.

Yeah, and then our IT will build an interface so that it all talks to our systems for collecting payments and everything else it needs to.

Yeah, because we still want the software to interface with the database we have of all of our builders and contractors and things like that. This is a project that we do every 4 or 5 years. We'll hire a company to come in and they will fly the city, whether They do it with a plane, which is what has happened in the past, or we can do it with satellites. But they'll go ahead, they fly the city, and then they update any of the linework, being our curb gutters, sidewalks, streets, building footprints, and things like that. Why it's different than what you could use on Google Earth is that we can use this data. It's actually stretched and formed to our terrain. So when we match it up to our Yes. So that way, when we put it into the infrastructure we have in GIS, which has a vertical component, it'll actually fit that. And then we can use that data for conceptual engineering and things like that. So right now, if you were to look at our map we have that we get free from the county, as you get to the exterior portions of it, the aerial map does not actually match what's actually on the ground. So when we'll— for this project, we would actually hire a consultant to go in How often is that updated? We do it every 4 to 5 years, just because of cost. And if we were to do it— I mean, the city changes a lot in, you know, every year. You have the southwest area that's growing, changes to the mall. I mean, we could do it every year. It's just that it's a pretty big effort and cost to do it every year when it's probably more effective to do it every 4 to 5 years.

Sam, a question for you. We have some pictures throughout the city center here and in planning and zoning of the city of Orem from an aerial perspective, but they're all old and outdated.

Do you know when that might be done again?

Yes, we'd actually—

Is that actually going to—

but I mean, are these pictures that are going to be printed off?

Yes, yes. So what would happen, like, like we did with this project, the company that did this 4 years ago, they were out of Canada, so they flew it and then they gave us an external hard drive with that file on it. Then we took it to another company in Salt Lake and they actually used their large format plotter, which they use for billboard signs, and they printed off—

So you're doing that?

Yeah, so as soon as we get that file back, then we can print off as many as they would like.

And that'll include the southwest annexation?

Yep.

The next one is to update our data controllers for our— this one specifically, the TSC-7, is going to be for our robotic total station. Right now it's about 6 years old. The battery on it won't last more than an hour, and Trimble does not support that data Collector anymore, so now we're going to upgrade and get a brand new one, and that way it can be used for the robotic total station as well as our GPS. These handheld units, we're going to try one of these out tomorrow. This is going to be a simpler version of our GPS data collector with an antenna, and our construction engineers will utilize these to go out and collect as-built data. as well as other data that we come across out in the field currently. Public Works has a few gentlemen in each one of their sections that go out and they collect the data on their utility, whether it's sewer, water, stormwater, but we'd like to be able to collect data where we have a large excavation and there's a fiber conduit exposed and things like that. And what this will allow, it's a smaller unit than The plant inspectors will have in their vehicle. They'll be able to go out and take shots, and then we can bring that data back here and then update our GPS or our GIS system. Uh, the next, uh, requests are coming from facilities. This is paint, paint the interior of the senior center. Um, they're looking to also create an account to paint all of the buildings. The one that's Slated for this piece is going to be public safety. Most of our buildings have been painted and updated. I think we just finished public safety. City Center was finished 2 years ago. So now we'll be looking to add some money in here to start doing public safety and get it—

Public works. Public works, excuse me, which was just finished.

The roof replacement, this is seed money, ongoing seed money.

This is year 3 of 4.

Senior Center.

Senior Center.

This is the final year of seating for the City Center roof. So we'll have a total of about, I think, $400,000 to put a new roof on this building. And that'll be— and that's going to be a discussion, I guess, that the council is going to have to have on what's going to be the future of the City Center as far as do we put a 30-year roof on or do we put a 20-year roof on, depending on if If it's going to be a brand new building or if we're going to retrofit it. But with this final funding for this year, it'll be completely funded and we'll be able to do some sort of a project this fall. Fire Station 3, this is a continuation of seed money for it, year 2 of 4. We also have shower stalls at Fire Station 3. Apparently they're continuing to leak and they like to get in there and fix these. Door lock replacements. This is a continuation of years 3 and 4 of 6. About a majority of the city buildings currently are on the new wireless locks now. Now what we're going to look to do is half of this funding is going to go towards the new library auditorium, then the other half is going to start to go to each one of the offices so we can actually get away from having to use keys. We'll actually use fobs. Security cameras. This is a continuing request. Half of this funding will go towards the library auditorium, then the other half is going to go to finish out the senior center as well as some blind spots here at the city center and any other facilities. I know there's been some talk about going down to fire stations and things like that. So that's kind of an ongoing funding. This is seed money for a boiler at Public Safety. This is another start of seed money for a chiller for Public Safety.

How many years are seed monies normally for?

Depends on how much we want. I mean, right now the chiller, that was going to be for 1 of 5.

Okay, so it's a sinking fund basically.

It's a sinking fund.

I think going forward, one thing that might be helpful is just to have that on the slides themselves.

Like, this is year 3 of 5, you know, whatever it is.

Yeah, just to make it a little bit more easy to read after the fact.

Okay.

I tried to— I have it all in my notes on the side here. I didn't know if I wanted to make it too text-heavy.

Well, if it's 3 of 5, that's not too text-heavy.

Okay.

It's 2 of 5, or whatever.

2 of 5.

Okay.

City Center. This is for bathroom renovations. We started a We did have a sinking fund last year for this. This will be completely funded and then it will just be another decision whether we go forward with that. Same with the roof. Custodial equipment, this is for new equipment to help with the library. Cardiac monitors, this is coming from the fire department. Do you want to briefly talk a little bit about that, Scott?

So we're in the process of upgrading our heart monitors. We have 7 LifePak monitors. We're going to upgrade to a LifePak 15. We have a contract through PhysioControl. And what we've been doing is we've been putting into a sinking fund for the last 3 years. And what we're going to do is instead of buying— we have money for 3 right now— rather than paying in And getting the 3 units and then in 2 years or 3 years down the road getting another 2 years, the technology changes significantly different. But what we want to do is make sure that we're buying all the same.

Sure.

So that the paramedics going from station to station, they have the same piece of equipment. They know exactly how it works, where to sync button, to defibrillate, to anything else. So what we're going to do is put $100,000 into that. We got a bid for $186,000 to replace all 7, so that'll be up to current technology and be able to move forward with that.

The next request is coming from public— from the police department. This is for the digital radio replacement. They did find a cheaper alternative, but unfortunately it's only 150 meters, so they're looking to actually get some better ones. These are quite costly. Well, these ones aren't actually, but the ones that they want are. This is the RFID upgrade. This is the radio frequency identification that's used for all the library items. What they're wanting to do is update and upgrade this system. Currently, right now, a lot of those little sensors at the doors are out of warranty, so they're wanting to actually take this money and upgrade the overall system and have this kind of all in place with the new library, kind of have things updated and ready to go. Last— this original equipment was purchased in 2005. Let's see, this is a request from Public Works. This is actually down at their main facility, so this will actually be funded out of various divisions, but they're going to upgrade— actually, they currently have 2 plotters.

We have 3.

2 of them are salvaged. And we have 3 printers and 2 of them are salvaged as well.

So they'll go ahead and eliminate all those plotters, purchase one, and And as well as upgraded incredible views. This is coming out of Public Works, out of Parks. This and the Parks stuff is typically going to be funded out of the general fund, Fund 45. This is going to be a fountain floor resurfacing at Nielsen's Grove.

So Sam, a question, I don't know if you know the answer. There's more than one fountain. Is this going to take care of—

This is the one at Nielsen's Grove, the larger one.

The larger one.

There's 2 down there, Mayor, and both of them will be resurfaced.

Okay, that was my question, if you're going to hit both of them.

So both of them were previously funded, but it was—

the bids came in high, so we needed some additional funding.

That'll be a great addition. They look terrible.

So this one is, instead of putting in a new playground structure at the Sierra Park North, We're actually going to retrofit it and put in a sand volleyball court. Looks like that picture is about to fly apart.

Part of that is when the new school is built, the playground is actually going to be facing the park. And so given that there's, there's no fences or anything, rather than having 2 playgrounds right next to each other, I share that resource.

It's actually one of the deficiencies identified in our Parks Master Plan. We only have one other sand volleyball court in the schools.

Salt Lake has a company that has an indoor volleyball court, not the city, but in Salt Lake. And they have, I think, 6 volleyball courts, and they're full year-round in the building.

It's really—

indoor is really big.

So you can see there right now, I mean, right now it's mainly wood chips in this area here, but that's what we'll expand slightly to put in 2 ports in that area. Okay, the next we're going to have, Parks is going to ask for, I believe this is a walk-behind aerator and blower, is that right?

Yes, that's correct.

2 units. Yeah.

So, Sam, one question, just going back to where the sand volleyball court is going in. If I recall right, that playground that we're replacing, that's the one that's kind of more for younger kids. And the newer playground that went in at Sarah Park, I, as a parent of younger kids, it's really not designed with them in mind. So are we still So we're still going to have some play structure at Sarah Park?

Well, the elementary school is— that's the playground that's going to kind of replace this north one because how the new build, the playground will be placed, it won't be behind the school out of sight. It'll be actually built directly in sight. And those ones obviously are designed for kids at that age.

Okay, great.

So to that, what Sam brought up, I've had residents bring that up as well, is they would appreciate having some playgrounds That are meant for the smaller kids. A lot of them are meant for the bigger kids, and there are requests for ones for the smaller kids.

This one—

Yeah, maybe we could look at— I mean, like, the residents up at Bonneville feel like their playground's new is great, but it doesn't serve service the smaller kids and, and the—

Especially the 5 and below.

Yeah, yeah.

And the, the Sarah— or I should say the new Centennial Elementary playground, like, that's a very reasonable explanation. We don't want to be redundant there, but I think we just want to make sure that's part of the messaging, that that's part of the reason why we're adding this element instead of just, you know, renovating the existing playgrounds.

For Whistmoor, we're looking for the— to be funded from the general fund, $35,000. The additional $200,000 is going to come from CDBG money, and we will be looking to put in—

Where are the fence supplies at?

The perimeter fence that's going to go along, we'll actually remove the piece that's here and then put in a new perimeter fence.

All along the side.

All along this north side, as well as this west side. Right now it's currently a block wall, so we're— what we're anticipating putting in is going to be a chain-link fence with slats. It's going to be considerably easier to maintain.

We won't have to worry about the future issues, as well as cost.

As well as, we're going to go ahead and put in a The new playground structure here.

And that's the standard for our other parks.

That's the type of fencing we use.

Yeah.

You don't have much parking at that particular park. Is there any plans to expand parking options?

Uh, not at this current moment. I think at one point we looked to purchase that home there.

Which home?

Where?

I'm sorry.

We looked to purchase that when it was for sale, but it developer came and purchased it and put in an adult— it's a fourplex, but it's called— I think it's called adult affordable housing. They took advantage of that overlay zone for senior housing.

It's Main Street and what? About 1100 South.

1000 South, right?

Yeah. Thank you.

I mean, there is some parking over On the school lot, right?

Like, if school's not in session, there's generally parking over there. Continuing on, we'll continue funding the, uh, the cremation niche up at, uh, the cemetery.

This is year 2 of 4.

Can I ask a question related to that?

Brian, maybe you'd be the best one to know. How soon will we be selling lots in the new cemetery?

And/or how soon will this cremation location be—

cremation ditch, excuse me?

We plan to open the lower cemetery on July 1st.

For sales?

For sales, yep. There's some improvements that need to be made there, which we're working on right now.

And in theory, if I buy one on July 1st and die on July 2nd, can we start utilizing it that quickly?

Or are we—

are they not for use for later?

We hope so. If we can all get all of our construction projects, particularly a road that needs to bisect that main play area so that there's easier access to the cemetery plots that would be in the middle of that, what's currently the play area. As long as those projects get done, yes.

And clearly there's going to be a preferential A preferential for the lower lots for that, that group.

Are we going to have a price differential at this point?

We've— we have budgeted a 25% premium on the lower lots.

Okay.

And what are we currently selling lots for?

About $1,200.

So is that for an Orem resident?

That's for an Orem resident.

$1,200.

So the lower will be $1,500? Even 25%. Thank you.

So, Reid, I guess with that question though, we— would July 1st not be the date if we're not ready to start We won't sell them until we're ready.

Okay, that's right.

That's just—

we'll sell as early as July 1st, but not until it's ready.

Perfect. Okay.

Hopefully you won't be the first one there, Tom.

He said hopefully yes. I said one of my clients wants to purchase on July 2nd. He said, I hope you can.

We're hopeful that you won't be the first one. I was hoping that was yourself.

It's in the minutes, isn't it, Joe?

Okay, you can own it.

We're saying don't use it.

Moving along, this is continued funding, 306, for parking lot projects. Our parking lots are not funded with our B&C road funds. They have to come out of general funds and through the In the lean years, there was a lot of neglect, so this is just money that we can use to continue to get our parking lots caught up, both here at the City Center, Public Works, fire stations, parks, things like that. This is our MAG match for our 4th West, 12th South roundabout project. We're currently in the process of selecting, actually hiring, a consultant. We'll have a design here probably Middle of the summer. We'll be purchasing right away throughout the fall, winter, and then we anticipate to start construction next summer.

But that entire project is like $1.5 million or whatever?

We actually have through MAG, we've budgeted $2.3 million.

$2.3 million.

Yeah.

So that's the—

Will developers be covering a portion of that?

No.

Why is that so much? I mean, it seems like a lot.

A lot of it's going to be right-of-way. We'll probably— I mean, depending on what's going to happen with the design, we'll probably have to purchase at least this home here on the corner, possibly this home here as well, the one just But you're also redoing all those roads, entrances and exits on those roads around the roundabout. Yeah, there's going to be a—

And then you're going to reconfigure some of it.

Yeah, there's going to be a bypass lane on that south, southeast corner that's going to go ahead and take traffic to the east. We're going to expand kind of north and west is what the conceptual plan we have, as well as we'll be closing that access from the church on there.

And Sam, maybe you don't know this, but that's a pretty important spot in the city as far as traffic to UVU, traffic, you know, going up into the city, and also our UVX line. So are they going to account for that and allow movement through it as Chances are this is—

there's—

so this project's going to be twofold. We're getting some money from, from UTA, what they would have spent to kind of polish up this roundabout. They're going to give us those dollars to apply towards this project, and they're also giving us money to reconstruct 12 South. 12 South from the roundabout down to the stub road that Right, you're going to reconstruct all of that. We're going to have to reconstruct all of that. So this project's going to have to happen right after school gets out, and we'll have to reopen when school's back in session. So for them to account for traffic, they possibly could come around through Wolverine Way, but 12 South will essentially—

So are you talking about starting this year? No, a year from now.

Yeah, we won't start until next year, until we have the actual design for the The roundabout, which we'll bring to the council in a work session, as well as we have all of the right-of-way purchased and cleared.

Sure.

So it's going to take a little while. The next item was a request coming from Rec. This is the lap pool replaster at the Sierra. This is continuing funding. This is the second year, so we anticipate doing this project next fall. Carl, is that the—

The pool at the bottom of the slides, we're under contract and that should start here in the next 2 weeks.

And then we'll do demolition on—

bid out the lap pool, do demolition this fall and resurface next spring.

The water slide, this is going to be year 1 of 3. Again, I imagine this is just a rebuild. Replacement of the existing structure?

Slides are tough sometimes. Structurally, after this time, they have to be replaced. We're working on just doing the slides and doing it the least expensive but correct way.

This is our Lojo OCI Road project. This is going to be, I believe this is year 4 of 4. The change this year is that this is now going to be funded, the anticipated funding is coming from our Fund 24, the Transportation Sales Tax. OCI again is the Overall Conditioning Index, and the roads that we're looking to rebuild for next year are going to be this one here off Laguna Vista, which is just east of the park as well as this one here. This road, Hidden Hollow, is going to be taken care of this year as well as this piece of 4th East. And Public Works has taken care of this road themselves, and we did this road last year. So these are really the 2 final roads that will be done during our next year's overlay project.

What's the north and south on some of these roads?

So this is going to be The very furthest south road near there, you see Nielsen's Grove, so we're at 2000 South. So as far north there is about 15 South. Brine system, this is something that will be funded through our Fund 20. This is actually, you want to speak to this, Reed?

Sure, you've probably seen the UDOT snow trucks going and As they, they go through on I-15 and they'll drill brine solution onto the roads. It's kind of a pretreatment where it helps in the response time because when the first wave of the storm comes through, it's able to keep it from icing up the roads. Additionally, We have— we can put tanks on the side of our trucks and spray the salt as it goes in with a brine solution. When you do that, it activates the salt and allows it to do its thing much faster.

So it's—

the technology has been around a while. UDOT's been testing it out on Utah roads for the past few years, and we're ready to dive in.

Thank you.

And do it ourselves. We've actually been testing it, getting brine from a neighboring city and using it. The guys report some great results. We feel it will improve the safety of our roads during snowstorms.

And would that be used throughout the city or just kind of on the main corridors?

When we pre-wet the salt, that would be used throughout. That's activating the salt as it's going down. Then the hope would be to, uh, to pretreat the major corridors prior to when we know a storm is coming.

Question, what exactly is brine?

Brine is a salt solution, so it's a high-concentrated salt solution. So what we do is we take salt, mix it with water, it creates a very saline solution.

How is that different than what we're doing now?

We just have Salt, just plain salt that we put in the back of a truck.

So this gets a better solution wetting area.

This would go down in advance of the storm.

It can go down in advance of the storm.

I think too it also offers the chance that we won't use as much salt.

Yes, there is a cost savings as well because when we pre-wet it, we spray it as we're applying Applying the salt granules to the road.

So you have better coverage.

It activates it, it starts right away, cars don't drive and push it to the side. So that we should— we will be able to— there will be a cost savings as well.

The traffic section is getting some additional equipment. They're looking at a fiber tester. The current one that they have Is broken and it doesn't work, work well, we're going to go ahead and replace it. This is recommendation from IAT, so this way we can go ahead and test our own fiber system in the city, find out where, where there's breaks, if there's bad, bad signals and things like that. We're also looking at some new VMS signs so they don't get hacked and people can do stuff like that. So, so right now that we have 4 VMS signs, we actually have We have 3. One of them is kind of one used for parts. They were purchased back in, I think, 2005 or 2006. It was just because at that time we were doing the work on 16th North with some utility projects, and instead of renting them, we purchased them. And since then, we continue to use all 4 of those each year, both for our CIP projects or if there's fun runs, Summerfest, and things like that. So we're actually looking to take the money and put it in and purchase 2 new ones to put back in our fleet. And then finally, a sign roller table. The table we— the sign shop bought a new plotter. We've had a lot of success with our signs, but now to increase the efficiency and production, we need a new roller table, which actually helps put that laminate or that material on Chris, can you speak to this?

Yeah, so it's a larger format, and then it also, it'll attach the graphic to the sign evenly with pressure applied on both sides with pistons and so forth. The one we have right now, we didn't even purchase it, it was given to us from 3M back in the late '90s, and we've serviced it over the years, but now about 1 out of every 4 signs, there are wrinkles that are created on it. The sign looks really bad, so we got to peel that back off the sign, the blank, and then redo it.

So that's it.

This is going to help us with our labor costs and also with the material costs. We've been wasting a lot of material, and as you know, we've been making a lot more signs now lately than we have in the past, a variety of signs. So we felt we needed to actually purchase a table that will produce quality signs.

Chris, how many signs do you do? I mean, are we better to outsource this? I don't know how much one of these tables cost, but we're not doing a bundle of them. Why don't we do it at a print shop?

We feel like we have one of the top sign shops in the state.

Other communities—

I'm sure it's a luxury.

It's lovely to have.

My question is, how many do we do? And should we have the best sign shop in the state?

I would say it's a How many are we doing? I don't have a number for you on that, but we make all of the signs in the city, all the street signs. We replace them on a regular basis. We have to follow federal standards from a retroreflectivity perspective so we keep ourselves out of lawsuits when there are incidents or accidents that occur.

We can get that number from Trent, right?

Yeah, I think we got a buy or rent thought process.

Do we have somebody working full-time on that?

We actually have one person working full-time.

So they are using—

we have a seasonal crew who helps out.

We have seasonals that help, but that staff, the full-time staff has been cut from—

how much is that total?

So we're doing this with 50% staff.

We're talking for all 3 of those, it's $82,000.

Yeah, but that isn't just for the table. I want to say it was about $20,000.

It's around $20,000.

Forgive me, I'm having a large discussion on $20 grand.

I did.

Thank you.

Okay.

We're also looking at— now this is going to be funded— now these are our regular Fund 20 projects. And I know for a lot of you looking around, you see just asphalt, you know, projects happening within the city. But those are funded either through the general fund or Fund 20. And now that we'll have Fund 24, a lot of these roadway projects have will actually be funded through 3 different funding sources. Now with that being said, these— the annual roadway maintenance projects that we'll be doing, that's going to be our asphalt overlay projects, and we're looking to put $750,000 into that. Street striping, which is $105,000. Crack seal, which is $300,000.

And what's the difference between asphalt and asphalt?

Slurry seal, which is $550,000, and our microsurface projects, which are $375,000. Those numbers haven't changed from the past years.

So we spend about $2 million a year on these programs. Some years are a little more slurry, some years are a little more microsurfacing. It's whatever our pavement management team kind of thinks is the best solution for that particular road. Ideally, we want to crack seal and do those kinds of treatments to keep the road as healthy as we can before we go through and do a complete reconstruction.

Right.

Because reconstructions, for example, 12th West, we've been talking about that for a number of years from about 10th North to— it's what, 16th North is Probably a $2 million project.

Is that all contracted out?

That would be, yes. And all of this work is contracted out as well.

So on Fund 24, could you see putting that into a couple of years where you do a major project?

So we've primarily this year left about, Is that 85% of that money, Brandon? No, it's closer to 90, yeah. So we've left about 90% of that money—

In the fund.

In the fund without any dedicated projects.

Right, looking because we know that in future years we might have some major things. Saving for the new refrigerator.

Moving into our water fund, this is our Fund 51 miscellaneous equipment that they're looking to purchase with it. They're looking to get some chlorinators as well as some analyzers for their equipment. Right now we have a leak detector and he's gauging. It's not very good. So we're looking to actually upgrade and get some—

I've been told that actually works though.

It does.

It takes some time and a lot of digging.

So when we went through this budget process— I'm sorry, Farine, but just so you know, these are items that we need to replace on somewhat of a regular basis. So these aren't things that necessarily add to our program, but we're replacing existing equipment that has Yes, correct.

We're looking at AMI. This is actually year 1 of 4 according to our master plan that we adopted on the 7-year implementation. So we're going to start funding this year, $2.3 million. Currently, we've already taken some money that Metro has given us. Is that how that's worked out? Chris?

Yeah, we've kind of jump-started this project. We have 4 technicians on staff that are replacing meters today. As we have additional funding or funds available or leftover funds available for water projects, then we are putting that money and throwing it at AMI right now.

But this technically is the first year in FY20 where we're going to have money budgeted from the master So do we have a specific plan as to where we start in the city and where we go and how much of the city we cover per year?

Yeah, we have a plan in place. First and foremost, we're going to look at the larger meters because those is where we have the greatest—

So not necessarily a location in the city, but the actual meter size, you'll go to those first?

Yeah, that'll be one of our primary Meters to replace would be the larger meters because you have the most loss, most water loss. And so that's going to address water conservation and also lost revenues. So we want to capture that right away. So that's one of our number one areas that we're targeting.

And the other thing we're doing, Chris, is, is we need a backbone to facilitate this. So we need a series of towers that will actually read the information. From these meters. And so we're siting these towers right now. We would actually build the towers so that they can collect the data that comes from the meters. Most of those towers—

there were 9 altogether, and most of those are installed. One of them is up in Northeast Warren. You've probably driven by it many times and not noticed it.

At the water—

It's, it's at the lower cemetery. It's on the northeast corner of 8th East and 1200 North.

Yeah, I've watched.

There's 3 flagpoles that went in there. And, and so this will be a receiver that'll be on the top of one of them.

So, are we going to use those as flagpoles?

Yes, we are.

That's cool.

It's going to look great.

Because that's the extension of the cemetery. I thought those went in actually to be a part of that, which they are, but also for your collecting data.

Right.

We're using it to service your Yeah, that's good.

Thank you.

The next project that we will start to begin funding— actually, this is year 2 of 3— is the master plan, is the well and the storage tank. The overall cost for that storage tank is going to be $10.4 million, and that money that we're putting towards that is going to include the engineering The construction management for it, anything that's outside of what we can't do here in the city ourselves, and then any of the site improvements incidental to that tank. And currently this is generally the location of where we want the tank. Looking at this area, this area here, down, down in here. I know we've explored some of these areas as well, but this is generally The area where we're looking to place that tank.

When will that start?

Right now we're still working through trying to finalize where exactly we want to have the tank. So Chris can probably speak to that as well. I know the consultant— Orm Community Park. I believe we've had some work sessions as well.

So that property, Orm Community Park, is encumbered with the land Water Conservation Fund encumbrance. And with that, you cannot change the use of that property or diminish the use of that property for which it was intended, which is recreation. Even though we put a buried tank there, we can't have the access on that property where the encumbrance lies. So we're working through some issues. That's managed through the State of Utah, working also with our lobbyists back in Washington, D.C. on this very issue. But our intent was to swap or to obtain the west 2 softball fields in exchange for the baseball field property. It's about 3 to 3.5 acres. The Atlanta Water Conservation Fund steward said that's not acceptable because that property where the baseball field is would create a donut. In other words, it would be a hole within that Atlanta Water Conservation Fund encumbered area. So we're going back to the drawing board a little bit with them, and we're going to bring an alternative proposal to them probably next week.

I think we're still trying to shoot for a location of the facility in this general area. Ideally, The closer we can get it to 4th South, the ability we have to minimize the piping costs associated with the project. So if we place it farther to the north, and we've got to bury a pipe very deep in the ground all the way to 4th South to access, obviously, down west. So our preferred location Is those softball fields.

And if, if either of those landowners would sell land, that would even be more preferred, right?

The property to the west is not sufficient in size to accommodate a 10 million gallon tank. And the property, the property to the south and a little bit east, the property owner has not been willing to sell it to us.

So what about the tennis courts and park area right there?

Again, we find ourselves in the predicament of the farther north we go, the more expensive the piping costs become.

Right, I realize that, but I'm just saying that is some land that could be a thought.

That's encumbered as well.

That is also encumbered.

This is encumbered?

Yeah.

There are, I don't know how many parks, but it seems like anything we ever want to do, in a park involves that conservation land grant. It's like half of them.

And then what about our, uh, our orchard there to the south and to the— just south of the high school or the school?

We have talked with them. In fact, I believe Ryan talked with them.

I talked to the one to the west.

Oh, then Neil talked to them and they're not interested. Now, There is an additional avenue we could pursue. It's one that would involve more of a heavy-handed approach, but that's not something we've entertained, thinking that we can accomplish what we're looking for by way of the softball fields.

Piece of property for which— what we want to do, if they would sell.

And the intent would be, of course, to Put the tank in the ground and build the softball fields on top of the tank.

And the other option isn't off the table, we're just trying to exhaust our other opportunities?

Correct.

So it won't be this year, it'll be a year or 2 away? I don't believe so. We don't have the money yet.

Yes, this is just year 2 of 3.

So I think we're probably— I mean, we'd like to get to the point where So we can begin engineering and we can begin some of the legwork associated with this project, and we have the means to do it now before we pull the trigger on construction. But you probably won't see us digging a hole for 18 months, more than that maybe.

And that's—

yeah, that's year 2 of 3 if we don't have to buy land. If we have to buy land, it's more than this, right?

That's correct.

Although our costs may go down.

Yes.

Which is why we've been trying to focus efforts on some type of trade scenario with the school district, and they continue to be open to the idea. We've got to make sure that it's ultimately in compliance with this land and water conservation.

The nice thing about raw land, of course, is if it takes a while to do it, you're not disrupting ball fields, schools, etc., etc.

The ball field discussion is A little easier to have because the school district also anticipates that they have to rebuild Porum Elementary at some point. They'll actually need the other 2 softball fields for staging of the reconstruction. So at some point in the future, they're going to be wanting to do the same thing that we're doing for our storage. So we'll try to time that better.

And that could actually be out of their new bond.

Yeah, I believe we are probably looking at this project sooner than they would be looking at a rebuild of the elementary.

They've talked about more like a 4 to 5 year range. Right.

Okay, well, this is a PRV replacement project. We have 2 of them that we'd like to replace. That's what a PRV looks like, the vault. Ours don't necessarily have a floor in them, but that's essentially what it is, where it's a pressure reducing vault valve in there. So the 2 places we're looking at doing this are on 2000 South. This is between the tracks. And then the other one is on Onam Boulevard and 12 South.

So that's a vault that's buried in the ground. Sometimes it's in the street itself, but it's offset in a right-of-way outside of ours.

And where is the one on Orem Boulevard and 12th South?

You can see right here where this— Right in the middle of the road?

It comes into the intersection.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's right there.

So we're looking to move that to the east, outside of the road.

Can you point to where he's— you're thinking of moving?

Uh, it's got a red light. Okay, okay.

And do we own that ground, or who owns that ground? Is it just the side of the road kind of ground, or—

It looks like it's some sort of a park strip, so I think if it's owned by someone, we'd actually enter into some sort of a conversation.

Brandon Safford owns the house right there to the right.

Yeah, there's a parcel line there, so you're right, Tom. I don't know who actually owns that piece of land, but we would— part of the process of going forward with the project is negotiating with some of those.

Isn't that the area where they were looking to reroute the road?

Right, to the north.

So would this tie in with what they're doing with that?

No.

This would happen next year, and then I guess speaking to the 1150 South, it's probably a ways out before we actually build that west leg of that intersection. It'll probably happen sooner than later with the State Street vulnerability project, and we put the medians in on State Street there, and essentially we won't have that signal there at 12 South as far as to go across State Street and get access access the mall. That signal would be relocated up to 1150. But to build that west leg would still take some time before we had the funding and things like that.

And is that something the Port of Say would be building, or is that something—

That project?

Yes.

That project would probably be something— yes, the city would be involved in it, probably either state or MAG funded. That's how that And then, I mean, it would be nice if someone were to come in and purchase all those parcels and we could renegotiate that. And when they go to develop it, chances are the city will have to be involved with that.

It appears that's owned by NHWA, that property with the easement.

Okay.

So it's just so it would be easier for the land potentially. The next project is the City Center Water Conservation Project. projects. This project here for $50,000, what's happening is the, is the Water Department has gotten involved with this project here with the library, and they have talked to the 2 users that currently use the water shares in an irrigation ditch that's right out here that runs parallel to State Street. And then Neil has worked with them to negotiate purchasing those water shares, being able to abandon this line here for our constructability of this project, and then in turn he's going to provide— what are we going to— do you know what the terms are of that, Chris? What he's going to provide as far as meter size and usage?

Just that they have 2— there are 2 different shareholders downstream of this. This line is over a mile long. It's owned privately by the Provo Bench Canal and Irrigation Company, and it services 2 separate private properties. So we're buying the shares, Metro is buying the shares, and then we're providing a service to, uh, like a water service to each of those properties for irrigating their yard. And they will purchase the water, of course, but it's all a part of a trade. So there's a 24-inch RCP line out here along this frontage, and we'll be able to Remove that and abandon that as a result. So this is a good thing to say, can you do capital facilities and then have a program to finish it?

Next one, we're going to the Water Reclamation section, which is going to be sewer miscellaneous equipment. Part of these is going to be carpet paint for the admin building, the hydraulic attachments, We're only talking $6,000. I'm not sure what those were. There's a jumping jack compactor as well as an all-weather sampler, a pretreatment sampler, and some PLC replacements. So a lot of this is just equipment both used there at the plant as well as with their collection staff.

Sorry, I missed my chance while we were still at the water slide. Where are we at with upgrading our sprinkler controllers to smart Controllers so that if it's raining, for example, we're not running the sprinklers on the parks.

We've got about 60% of the parks that are connected to the automatic meter infrastructure. It's a system called Maxicom, and there's a couple of others as well, but that's the main one.

Do you know about how long it'll be till we're across the board?

Jim wants to have it done by the time he retires, which is in about 4 or 5 years.

So we're just plugging away at that.

Sam, another thing we'll be doing in conjunction with that is putting in the AMI meters associated with each of those parks, and that'll help with leak detection. So that'll— that's one area we're targeting initially as well from a priority perspective. We put hundreds of thousands of gallons of water down in these parks every year, so we want to also measure that and make sure there's no leak that's occurring.

And the As far as replacing the controllers, that's just happening once they're kind of end of life cycle, or are we kind of being more aggressive to get them on this part?

A little bit of both. Next piece is going to be treatment plant maintenance and upgrades as per the master plan. Part of these So, some of the major projects are going to be up here at the plant. We're going to be rebuilding our number 5 and number 6 clarifier. I'm not sure which one of those are, Chris, but they're clarifiers and they're going to be these.

They're north of the oxidation dishes.

So, it's these guys.

Those 2, yeah.

So, this is year 1 of 2. We're also looking to do an asphalt rehab of the whole facility, so an overlay for that whole facility, that was $150,000 per year. We're also looking to add anaerobic zone mixers as well as concrete drying beds. These are the drying beds down on the south. That's actually— I don't think, but that's a redundant waste gas burner. So this will actually help with the waste gas for the methane if something were to happen to our current burner. This helps Burn off any excess and/or if the one goes down, then it kind of burns off the excess.

Doesn't this assist in controlling some of the odors?

Yes, so if this goes down, then we can't, we can't burn off the methane, and so it will just go to the atmosphere. Not good for the ozone.

In addition, it's odorous as well with the methane gas, so we would have complaints.

So this is a redundancy in the system.

Struvite, we're looking to address the struvite concern that we have there on, at the plant. This is a picture of what struvite does inside of the pipe.

I compare struvite to the human body with cholesterol in the artery. So if you look at a cross-section of your artery, if you have high cholesterol, it might get, might get constricted and so forth, and it doesn't do good things for your health, nor does this help out with our flow and our our sewer system at the plant itself.

So we actively clean these lines and burners, or lines and other pieces of mechanics down there on a regular basis.

So it's a constant battle we're fighting.

This is our anaerobic zone mixers. This is going to be, this is year 1 of 3. Total cost will be $1.2 million. These go in our anaerobic digesters there and where else?

That's it.

And they actually help mix all that to be a whole lot more efficient. And then we have our instrumentation just throughout the plant. There's also other system upgrades and maintenance per our master plan. $75,000 of this goes to our routine sewer liner projects. That's usually where they go around, you might see them and you might not, it's usually a box truck that pulls up on a manhole, and they actually put, they insert a polyester sock that's impregnated with the resin. It's pushed in through air, or depending on the size of the line, with water. That air is then converted Steam, the water is heated, and that heat in there cures the pipe. And in cases like, like this, if we have lines that have roots, if there's severe aggregation, meaning that the aggregate is showing in that pipe, the pipe's corroded, we want to go in instead of having to dig up the roadway and inconvenience everyone, we'll actually go through and put in a liner. That helps with both trees, and then we also have— I don't know if you can see that.

Yeah.

And then we have a symbol here for H2S, which is hydrogen sulfide gas that actually is off-gassed as the effluent is turbid. As I was telling Jamie about this this morning, that hydrogen sulfide, as the effluent is going down, it's deteriorating, and there's hydrogen sulfide gas floating in there. As long as that, the effluent is smooth and laminar, you don't have to worry about it. But as soon as that becomes turbid, whether it's through a dropped manhole or excessive flow, that gas is generated from that flow and then it attacks the cement, which creates issues like this one that happened on, like this one on 12th and North. I don't know if you remember.

Mm-mm.

But what happened here is because of that H2S, it happened to the manhole, which is where the drum of this roller is sitting, that pipe there, there wasn't a top over pipe in there. So when we did an overlay here, the first pass that this driver went by, as soon as he, as soon as he turned on the compaction, the roller sunk 6 inches and he didn't know what was going on. Proceeded to turn it off, grabbed his little lunch bucket that was on there, and the roller kept falling and falling. And by the time I got there, because I was across town, this is what had already happened in a matter of minutes. So because of that, we've been much more aggressive about treating our collection system for H2S. So we go through with liners, both with the pipe and with the manhole. Also, in some of these instances, if the line is in too bad of shape, we'll actually remove and replace that line. So in this case, we couldn't actually line it, we had to remove and replace the majority of the stuff.

Stormwater.

This is going to be various projects connected to the West Union Canal. I identified in our master plan we have a detention basin at 424 East, a Well Number 1 bypass, and the State Street component. So we're going to be asking for $568,000. Currently there's funding of about Roughly $2 million that we have. We're working with the state right now to do a study to see how much flow is actually going to be coming from the Hillcrest area, then flowing south down State Street, and eventually discharging into the Provo River. The state's going to hire a consultant. We'll work with the state and Provo to establish how much flow is going to be coming in there, and then looking to see each Each entity's proportional cost. We'll be looking at doing a pipe down there as well as also possibly upgrading a basin down in this area and purchasing a parcel of property in Provo. Another option is to take the flow from here, create a larger basin, put in a lift station, lift that up, and then gravity it down. down to 2000 South to Nielsen's Grove. Currently in our master plan, we do have to install pipe through this area. So it'd just be a matter of looking at the economics, whether it's more expensive to run a very large diameter pipe down at the bottom of State Street down in Provo, or to take that money, purchase this, build a lift station, and take it down to the wells.

Thank you.

We also have other various projects as per the master plan. These projects here, there's 2 of them that are associated with— they call it Key Plant Road, which is around UVU. This one here is not UVU. That's actually— this is the The line that's identified there in red, that is a priority line from our master plan. That's a nice project as well as the other project was the one that I spoke about previously, it's called the 2000 South Project. So depending on how this turns out with the state, we could actually upsize the pipe in here to handle some of that additional flow that comes out of And then we also have another project here called Mislands Projects. And from that account, we fund our sump rehab project, which is typically part of our roadway improvement projects where we go through and update all of our sumps, mainly adding pretreatment catch basin and/or Making those sumps, relocating them because they don't drain very well, as well as we— there are some nuisance flooding areas in, in the city that we can address. I know, I think Don Peterson sent a letter to city council and some talking about some nuisance flooding that's happening in Carterville Road. From this account, that's how we would fund that project. Last but not least, Funding from our street lighting, we, um, they're looking at about $75,000 to put street lighting down, or I guess some lighting down in the cemetery area.

Will that be just along the street, or will that kind of go—

That'll actually be in the cemetery along the whole road on the interior.

Any questions?

It'll be about 50 lights altogether in the upper and lower cemetery.

So put the summary slide back up. So one question I was looking at is, one, that's a lot of projects. Do we have, or how do we intend to manage those effectively?

Contractors are pretty tight right now. What kind of process What kind of process or what kind of resources have you got in place to make sure these projects stay on track, on budget?

Well, thankfully a lot of these projects are for next fiscal year, which will actually be funded next— well, they won't actually be funded, they'll be funded come July 1st. But with that funding in place, we will start designing them at that point with with the hope of them being actually built the following summer. That's kind of the weird thing for, for me is I always work on my construction calendar even though it's funded in the middle of my construction season. So what we will do is, is we will, once these are funded, like currently right now we're caught up, we're going to be advertising for all the work that was presented last year and then as soon as we're done with that we'll start on next year's For us, it's going to be all right in the fact that our— my staff is a little slim, but a few of these large projects are going to be something that we can't necessarily design. I wish I knew how to do a water tank, but I can't. So that, that will actually be subbed out. The AMI, that's really going to be pretty small. We've helped out with the placement of the towers. And that's going to be about it for us, because after that it's just going to be a function of going in and replacing those meters. The roadway projects, we'll go ahead and get on those. I'm trying to think of any other projects that will happen. There's going to be a pretty big effort once we get some direction going for the West Union Canal. That will start as well. And then I'm trying to think what else was in there that was Just worry about the resources.

Yeah.

What you need to be able to carry these off.

May I just add something too? Sam and his team are really good too about what they'll do is they'll put together a tentative budget for a project and then they'll bid it out. And for example, in this kind of environment, prices are coming back high, so they kind of strategically look and say, Okay, is this something that we can hold off for a little bit? Can we change the nature of the project? Does it require, for example, nighttime work? If we could, for example, develop a traffic management plan, could we do it during the day and save costs? So, I mean, that's also part of the equation. Just because we have the money doesn't mean we're going to— build the project immediately. If it doesn't make financial sense and we can wait for a number of these projects, then we are trying to kind of hold out for a more favorable bid environment, or we're trying to modify the nature of the work to accommodate the money that we have. Or if we're in some cases just a little bit shy of where we need to be, can we grab money from, for example, other projects that have run under budget, or can we, for example, cannibalize one of the lower priority budgets so that we can complete the higher priority budgets? And that's kind of a dynamic thing that Sam and his team does kind of throughout the year with every bid that they put together.

So tied to that, from a budget management process, Did you identify the amount of money that we would have available and then match projects to fill the bucket?

Or did you identify the projects that are most highly prioritized and then look for the funding to be able to address those projects? Well, a lot of the, a lot of the public works activities are tied to our master plans. And so we actually, within the formal budget document, we kind of identify, okay, this is a current need. But it's not necessarily an immediate need. By, for example, 2021, we need to replace the pool slide. So how do we get there? So we've kind of partitioned the budget in a way where for some projects we do it all in one year and we bang it out. For others, we take 2 or 3 years to fund and then we build thereafter. So we have a general idea based on our 5-year capital plan as to what we anticipate we're going to need to do, for example, in the next few fiscal years. And then of course that's a breathing document too. So if next year a project surfaces that we didn't anticipate, then we add it to our 5-year plan and we kind of prioritize it along with all the other projects. Right now we're frankly in a healthy situation with our capital projects account. And so we actually do have a considerable amount of money that we're setting aside in our capital project reserves. So if we do have kind of an immediate emergency, we need $500,000, we actually have the means to do it right now. That's just We're also looking at capital money prospectively in the future. We've got some big questions we need to answer relative to some of our buildings and some future projects. And can some of that reserve money that we have in the capital account be directed to one of these big, for example, facility projects so that if we need to finance into the future, we can minimize the financing costs associated with some of these projects. So at least in my estimation, we're in a very healthy place right now within the general fund. And of course— As we should be. I mean, the economy's doing great right now.

That's when you want to attack the capital improvements that you need to.

And then on the utility enterprise side of things, our master plan And that capital program that is put together within the plan is driving the work that Reed and Chris and Neil, their teams are essentially executing and carrying out right now. So if we were to look at, you know, take for example the sidewalk plan, when we did a priority list of all the sidewalks that needed to be replaced, this was a few years ago, it was about $16 million we needed.

Yeah.

And then we would selectively pick Okay, the $300,000 worth that are most critical. What, from a standpoint of where we're at in terms of the big picture, you've got what, $25 million up here in capital?

How does that relate to a total need that we're looking at?

Well, I mean, our total need is we're never done, right? So, you know, um, I mean, is the total need like $50 and we're able to hit half of it, or is it— If you look at our utility funds alone, I mean, we have hundreds of millions of dollars of projects.

We identified 30 years worth of projects and we're focusing just on the 10. When we address the master plan, then add another 10 years after that.

And wouldn't it be right if we also included a CPI every year 3%. And so those rate increases are incorporating the increase in your inflation to help out with that. They also have line items for miscellaneous work to be done for unforeseen, and that helps with this as well. And I would also suggest to you that we have not— we're not behind at all, even with this robust economy, on any of our capital improvement projects. So—

Thank you.

That speaks favorably to me.

You said we're not behind at all? We're not behind at all.

We're on pace.

Are we ahead?

We're on pace.

I told Brent I've been in a city of 2 million for the last week, and I don't think they've spent money on roads for 20 years. So, but look what happens.

There lies the challenge.

They become impoverished because of this. So thank you for Keeping us on plan, on target.

So, you know, to your question, Mark, as to the sidewalk plan that we have, no, we don't have a fully funded sidewalk program. But we do have money annually that we're setting aside to address those needs. And, you know, some of that plan doesn't require us to replace sections of sidewalk. We grind down the We try and maintain what we have. So, you know, we try and look at it from the perspective of what are the biggest rocks we need to tackle every year. We have seen our roads as a number one priority. If we fall behind on our roads, those are— We'd be Pleasant Grove? Yeah, we are going to be in serious trouble. And as we've— as Chris has kind of taught and reinforced year over year, look, if we can do some simple things 5 to 7 years into the life of a road, we can in many respects prolong the need to reconstruct the road for how many years, Chris?

10.

Yeah, so I think just from a big picture strategic perspective, part of what we're supposed to do as a city council is address where the lever's at.

Yes.

From a revenue coming in, from expenses going out, have we got the right balance and the right mix? And we see a whole bunch of projects that need to be done, which from a detailed standpoint, I'm, you know, way to go. Fantastic that we're on top of it and making it happen. From an overall perspective, are we also as a city, have we got the right revenue streams? Are we taking too much out of the residents and the public, or have we got too little that we're looking at?

It feels like what you're saying is right now when the economy is good, we're bringing in more than we need, but in general anticipation, that's a At least be part of the plan because we're stocking up for these big projects that are coming.

We—

when we had—

when we worked through the Great Recession, we spent almost nothing on capital efforts. And it has taken us a number of years to essentially fix what we probably should have fixed but didn't have the means to fix. And so understandably so, they went untouched. With our utilities, it's an aggressive plan, but it's an aggressive plan as a result of the policy decisions that were made to fund on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Yeah.

So that is a very healthy program, and provided we remain consistent with the plan, we're going to address and meet all of our needs. The new quarter of a cent sales tax for transportation is a huge blessing for us. But if you ask the engineers in our streets department, we could always use more. And frankly, we can. But that takes a significant dent out of what our future needs are.

Yes.

You know, if we are going to find ourselves in a future recessionary period, which I'm sure we will, then we will also kind of struggle with, okay, the things we've been maintaining every 3 years, do we now push them back to 4 years, 5 years? Some of the problems we ran into is we went beyond 5 years. It was pretty deep, unexpected.

It was brutal.

So I feel like we're in a good place. At the same time, Our staff is stretched, but also we need to find balance in that, you know, if we ramp up with a lot of staffing and then we hit a recessionary period, then we've got to essentially positively outplace those that we've hired. And, you know, we don't want to find ourselves in that situation, so we're trying to find balance.

Um, Sam, I'm sorry.

Yep.

Um, the $2 million that are coming in from that new tax, are you saying that we're putting 90% of that away into the fund, or we're applying 90% of it here to these projects?

Putting it in the fund. So it is— it's money that will be collected next fiscal year beginning July 1st.

Okay.

But to date, we haven't earmarked any projects For 90% of that money.

But maybe a thought on that is, remember when we had to rebuild Center Street and it was $1 million?

Yes.

And we didn't have it. So we were able to do it by selling a bond and then refinancing that bond at a different interest rate. But if that were to occur and we hadn't done that, we didn't have the $1 million to spend towards it.

So I think it's wise to put that in savings for You may, for example, throughout the next fiscal year say, this is the year of the sidewalk. We want to dedicate $1.5 million of that money towards sidewalks. Well, now we have the means to do that. I wouldn't anticipate you'd take all the money and dedicate it to one purpose, but—

And that money is recurring every year. So we have $2.5 million $2.2 million coming in every year.

Well, to that point, Mayor and Jamie, there are people who would have us dedicate it all to pickleball courts, all to soccer, all to—

This can only be done for roads.

Okay. Whatever we, whatever we pick, there'll be somebody else who wants to pick something else. So I think your, your measured approach is exactly what we need from your administration.

And thank you.

Well, and if I may too, we're We're about a year away from an update on the master transportation plan. We do that about every 5— we should be doing it about every 5 years. So right now we've been working on the master transportation plan that's 5 years old. We need to update that plan in the next year and a half. It would be nice, once we have that updated plan, to have the means to immediately do some of the things that are identified in the And having this money in this new sales tax transportation account can allow us to do that when we have essentially the recommendations as to how to best proceed.

Okay, Sam, how are you fixed? Are you about done or are you done?

Yes, I'm done.

Okay. Well, thank you.

Those are your 2 options, about done or done.

And just, just so you know, Sam doesn't get a lot of kudos.

Kudos.

But the budget book includes our capital plan, and Sam is the one who has gotten with all the departments and has laid out that 5-year program. So, and that is not an easy task, and it's not something Sam just accepts at face value. There's quite a bit of scrutiny that goes into, okay, the representation of the numbers and verification of costs From a priority perspective, is this really more important than some of the other issues? And so I appreciate Sam and his efforts these last number of years in really putting us on firm ground for a 5-year capital plan.

Thank you, Sam. We'll go ahead now and have a prayer on the food. And Dave, could you give us a prayer on the food?

Parents forced to stay when they come in, questions about the service, and the fact that the students were preparing. Plus, the main reason I had to buy it is just because I'm glad we can be in these systems first.

We'll go to our capital facilities fundraising after meal. So brisket on the left, pork in the middle, chicken on the right is from Smokehouse Barbecue down the street.

So that ribbon cutting was pretty interesting, huh?

Yeah, yeah, I gave it my super voice.

Yeah, I talked to her afterwards.

There's 2 women.

You'll just have to verify your, uh, yeah, but I met the people, so I don't know.

Well, it's fun to have them step it up a little.

Did you go back that evening for the Jason event?

I didn't.

I would have liked to. I had to go to Salt Lake.

Josh?

Yeah, I got my picture taken.

Oh, did you have a picture taken?

Well, what's interesting to me is he looks younger than I think he is.

Yeah, because you look at him in Pretty Woman or You know, some of the other stuff. Yeah, I mean, he looks older than he does.

Well, and it'll be just on your account, then you can watch it on 10 different devices.

So either—

that'd be nice to have that.

Well, then you just sign in. Like, I have an Apple TV and I just have to sign in.

Who's that?

My name's— I have a question about the fire. Pretty neat building yesterday. Groundbreaking. Yeah, I was, I was in the non-VIP section. So what translated that? It's probably 1,500 squares.

Oh, how'd they go?

How were they?

They were delicious.

I thought it was interesting to work math on the text of that process.

I will represent though, that probably— I think the ribbon cutting almost took as long as the construction of the building.

524 days? Yeah, I couldn't—

844 days.

But it went for what, the better part of an hour?

Yeah, yeah, there's some things that they weren't actually cutting, but the, uh, the theatrics around it was kind of funny.

Yeah, just about to cut.

The right price, nothing is sold out.

Are you saying they're still taking donations? Who made this today?

What, uh, Smokehouse Barbecue?

Smokehouse? Kind of right by the, um, So Delicious.

Bernie's Deli.

Bernie's Deli.

Yeah, in that little kind of strip mall.

Yeah.

Well, I think we're all partway through our meal. Why don't we go ahead and turn some time over to Charlene, and we'll hear about our capital facilities fundraising.

Thank you, Mayor.

I think this is a follow-up to a request that Councilmember Sumner made, and we're happy to provide kind of an Can you update us?

So we've been working with a consultant since late 2017. His name is David Driggs. He's with Mighty Penguin Consulting. Most of you have met him and worked with him so far. He has been trying to give us an overview and tutorial on the process of fundraising, and like many other things in life, it's generally about who you know. So the focus of the Modern fundraising is finding friends who will connect you to friends with the means to make a difference in some of our projects. So we have developed many different lists with a lot of your help, and we so appreciate everyone's input and advice and all the effort you've put forward so far to be those connectors and to participate.

Thank you.

in our fundraising process. So we just continually revisit the connector list, and then we try and set up appointments and meetings to share the message of both the fitness center and the library hall, talk about the needs of the facilities for the community benefit, talk about the benefits that potential donors could see beyond just a feel good for donating to the project. There's also a lot of visibility. There's a lot of momentum for different causes, family-friendly causes in the community. So we have been focusing as of late on really increasing the requests of connectors. We've met with Ronna Ralph. We met with Brandon Siegel this morning. Hannah came on board and she's been generous about connecting us to folks that she has worked with in the past, Ed Axley, Val Hale. I mean, there's a number of people who know people that have been trying to help us. And then we have been consistently setting up meetings to make initial informational sessions with people that usually then go to the next level of consideration, and then we bring in the—

oh, sorry.

I'm sorry. Then we bring in the closer, who's the mayor, and he, he does the heavy lifting for us to actually—

I take the tomatoes in the face.

Yeah, a little bit. So we've had some success so far. We received $100,000 from doTERRA for Library Hall, and we received an additional $100,000 from the Sorensen Legacy Foundation for Library Hall. I feel like we are really in a good place. We're teeing up a lot of meetings for the fitness center.

Is one of those called South Lobby?

Domterra has named the South Lobby. Sorenson Legacy Foundation did not specify a naming location for their funding. The list in front of you of sponsorship opportunities and donor opportunities is fluid, especially with the CMGC process of the fitness center, there are opportunities that will develop over time and we will modify that list. We do plan to have a donor wall in both facilities. It would be our desire to recognize donors of $1,000 or more on that wall in some fashion. There will also be, like for the library hall, a seat in the favor campaign, subsequent things Things like that would also come into play for the fitness center. We're still developing the look and feel of those. The architect is aware of our needs for that. There are designers locally that can help us with it. The architect's designers can help us with it. So we don't have the exact feel of those things yet, but there will be different levels for hopefully many different types of groups that want to give.

I'm assuming Mighty Penguin came up with these ranges of dollars. Those are suggestions.

Of course, you know, it's our project and we want to make sure that we meet the expectations of the council and the community, so we could certainly adjust them, but those are the recommendations of the consultant at this time.

I know a naming right for a park For is a big issue. a building at the university, it's 10 to 12% of the total cost.

What's our—

what's our—

6.5.

Yeah, so $2 million seems pretty high to me, and $4 million on a $25 million building seems pretty high to me. But they're the experts, and of course you're going to talk to them, right? If someone says, I'll give you a million bucks, you'll quickly talk to them.

Not that we have a lot of people beating Certainly you start out with a range and then they come back and tell you.

But in negotiations, this is too high for many to even start the discussion. I mean, if you get— if you read the book Getting to Yes, you don't start with something that's double what everyone else is charging. So I think you're starting at objectively high, in my opinion. So I'd let my— I'd give that feedback to my bank and see what they say. They're the pros, you're working with them, but these seem higher than the university gets by a substantial amount as a percentage of the building cost.

They do really like the visibility of both projects, especially for corporations.

They are good.

This one particularly right on State Street is pretty sweet.

Yeah, the proximity to State and Center and then flipping the entrance to Center Street for the fitness center does offer some really good visibility.

Do we know how much McCovey's gave for the Cubby Center in Provo, for the naming of that?

I do not have an exact dollar amount there.

It'd be interesting to find that out.

One maybe follow-up question, Tom.

So there's—

we have different amounts based off of how long it's named for as well. So $2 million would be if it's perpetuity.

Well, that's what—

like the Nordic got perpetuity.

Is that perpetuity?

Yeah.

Okay, any questions or comments?

This is—

We continue to appreciate all the help that you give us, and if there are names that come up on your list, we'd certainly be happy to reach out to them and re-reach out to them and reach out to them again until we—

Certainly this is an ongoing situation and we're going down the list, as it were. And, you know, we kind of felt like the one group we were talking to would be really interested in the fitness center, and they seem to be more interested in the library hall. But let's see how it all plays out.

So we share the— we share the message to give everyone the option to participate in either facility and The facilities are always well received on a larger scale than just an Orem community facility. People recognize that there's a lot of value to the valley with those types of facilities, and the feedback is positive. It's just about turning that positivity into an actual donation.

One of the things that went well with that ribbon cutting that many of us were at yesterday is they had 8, 9, 10 rows of ribbon cutters. So donors who had given substantially less than some of the big donors still had their opportunity to have a picture taken with the ribbon cutting. And, you know, donors had gotten down to much lower amounts to still get the recognition they did deserve.

But—

And they recognized every dance studio, every hall, every—

Well, people who gave a lot less than that were up on round number 10 of the ribbon cutting. And so I think the fact that you've got a naming— someone who gives $500 or $1,000 or a couple grand can have their name on the wall is a meaningful thing.

Is there interest in one or the other more?

I think that people certainly see the potential of both facilities, but the fitness center right now is really exciting and there's a lot of opportunity opportunity to have add-ons to the fitness center. We can build a really good facility, but if you had X amount of dollars, you could add this that was not intended, not initially planned for the facility. So those kinds of things are interesting. We've been trying to lay groundwork for the fitness center for many months, but now that it's a full active project, it seems to be revving up, certainly in terms of the interest, but people tend to kind of gravitate towards one or the other, I think.

On the fitness center, do we know kind of what we're doing there as far as— I texted you on the racquetball courts.

So yesterday the architect and the project team got together and went through a I guess what we call, Ryan, a spacing or adjacency analysis. So that's where they started having some discussions. Maybe you can speak to that in terms of specific uses, Carl or Ryan.

Yeah, they basically brought in a model with a bunch of cubes on it, and the cubes are the size of the square footage that's needed for each use, and they started to go through with the rec team on how that massing would take place, what is adjacent to what other use. Right now, that's basically all we have is that kind of a model, and then associated with each space is a cost, and that is— we're backing into it from the project budget of $23 million, including architect fees, contractor fees, and that's where we're at right now. They did have some conceptual concepts, nothing plugged into the shell. They showed 4 racquetball courts for now. They showed a 3-story building on the north in one option. They're just kind of really fun concepts right now, nothing set in stone.

Brent, you mentioned about forwarding a text. Was that about having more racquetball courts?

Well, I text Jamie—

when was that?

Yes, great.

Because I got hit up over there and they said, we heard there's 4 and we're mad.

Yeah.

And I, I don't know.

Yeah, I got the same thing.

I forwarded it, I think, to the 2 of you. And by the way, Carl, you did a great job replying. Um, they're very expensive per square foot and you— it's hard to charge an extra fee like you can for aerobics flats or whatever. So I, I understand the merit behind it. And I'll tell you, the private racquetball club that was here years ago kind of went, you know, they're not still there, so.

Well, there are no more private racquetball clubs.

Right, because they're economically difficult to work. And Provo has how many courts?

Provo has 6.

6.

Are they busy all the time?

And they didn't like them because they're glass on the one side, you know.

They started with 4. They now have 6. I talked to Scott Henderson. He said it's probably the most underutilized square footage in the building. He wishes he'd stuck with 4. But that's where they're at. There are some materials issues with the Pro Bowl ones where the racquetball players are now saying— I mean, 2 years ago ours were not real great, but right now the material that we have is what they But, you know, for example, if you look at the cost of 2 racquetball courts versus the cost of a large studio space, and you look at what could be programmed in a multipurpose space versus a racquetball space, what kind of revenue you could generate in a studio space versus racquetball space, the initial cost of constructing the studio space versus the racquetball space, all of a sudden you kind of gravitate to the studio space because you can pretty much program that thing from sunup to sundown, generate revenue from it. It's going to be probably highly sought-after space. If you're not doing Zumba in it, you may convert it to a spinning class. It may be yoga space. It may be— Dance, who knows what it is. Whereas with racquetball, it's racquetball.

Or volleyball.

Or volleyball. And you're not going to have the frequency of use between 10 AM and 10 PM. Now you're going to have—

We could add a list of racquetball courts.

Yeah, we could.

We have talked to racquetball players about contributing. So far we haven't seen We have talked to them about it.

Well, look, if it's real important, help us with the fundraising.

How much is a racquetball court?

We told them to get to the number they were at per court. I don't know, but we told them to get to the number from 4 to 8, they would need to be 6 figures or better.

6 figures or 7?

They'd be over a million.

But if promo is underutilized, I think 4 is a good number.

A million dollars a quarter?

No, for another 4, basically.

Yeah, to add on or keep some or update some.

And that's probably a low number, but we haven't come close to that.

All right, well, thanks.

Thanks for having us.

We've got time and just keep plugging away. All right, let's go ahead and move on to our agenda as far as upcoming items go. We have UVU baseball tomorrow night at 5:45.

Yeah, be there at 5:30. Okay, and then 5:45 is when they'll throw out—

Tom will throw out the first pitch.

If you need some bullpen time, show up a little bit earlier.

I do.

Yeah, actually, it's really— those guys will practice with you, and it's really helpful to throw a few practice balls because you get a feel for the distance.

So I made it over the plate last time.

Just—

Good.

And then I handed everybody their tickets. Everybody has their tickets.

Debbie did a good job.

You turned off the rain for tomorrow night. Great.

When we were booking this, it looked wet. So on April 12th, we have our Culinary Arts Gala at 6 PM at the UVU Culinary Arts Building. Uh, is everybody going to that, or some not?

Everyone has RSVP'd except—

I'm not going, but—

And I told you I may be out of town.

Correct. You're on the list for now, so just let me know if you're off.

All right, April 20th we have the Autism Resources of Utah County Council celebration, 11 AM, uh, UVU, uh, in their building. Uh, April 20th we have the Sunset Heights East neighborhood picnic at 11:30 AM.

24th to the 26th, Utah League of Cities and Towns 2019 Mid-Year Conference.

The NPU Spanish Resource Night at 6:30 PM. So do we have a fair representation from the city going to that?

Do we know?

What date is this?

This is on Friday night.

So the council probably won't be there. So Steve, for the Spanish resource night, are we covered?

Yep, yep. It'll be— the whole thing will be in Spanish. Oh, there's a lot of nonprofit organizations from our—

from the city.

Do we have representatives going?

Yeah, Kenna is heading it up.

Okay.

And she's invited all the nonprofits. They'll all bring a Spanish speaker with her. Our police department will have some Spanish speakers as well.

Okay. All right.

And then May 4th, we have a centennial birthday party. At the Orchard at University Place starting at 5 PM.

I will not be to that.

Okay.

Someone's keeping track.

All right, uh, then this evening we have our report from the Natural Resources by Sarah Bateman from the committee. On the consent items, we have the approval of the meeting minutes of March 12th, appointments to boards and commissions, uh, Danae Tyler, is that how you pronounce it?

Anybody know?

Former teacher, right? I, I, uh, Steve, reading about this care, Danae Tyler, or is it Tyler, not Taylor?

Tyler.

She's a former teacher. I've read that much about her.

Yeah, and I contacted her and had some good conversations. She just wants—

she's just excited to participate.

Everybody okay with her?

Okay.

And that'll—

just so you know, that puts us at 5 of 7.

We just, we just have struggled to fill in some of these vacancies.

So could you get me a list of, uh, and maybe the whole council, of who is on that committee, whose, you know, term is up and who's—

That one specifically?

Uh, yeah. Or are you asking for— No, the Care Advisory Commission. Oh, sure, sure. So, um, then we have a resolution, uh, as far as the CBG funds go. As far as pulling it back from Habitat to the city. Any questions or comments on that? We've had that discussion before.

Yep.

Okay, then we go into our scheduled items.

The first one's a public hearing regarding a zoning of a piece of property, 0.2 acres at 246 West 1400 South, which is over there by the Golden Corral.

Can we ask Jason any comments on that?

Yeah, Tom, I was going to ask all the speakers, which is what I normally do.

Yes.

So we had 2 people show up to the Planning Commission. One had a question just on the wall itself, right, about how the different materials were there.

We actually talked to the owner yesterday, Golden Crown.

They were willing to look at that to see if they can match.

So maybe I could bring that up. There's 2 different walls there. So the wall going up from the east to the house and around the house is actually a block wall with 10 blocks high. And then from the house going past the dealership is actually preformed cement panels that are like another 2 feet higher and have a beautiful stone effect on them. And my thought— I don't know where we're going with this, but I mean, I'd like to see the car dealership— I think it's a great idea. carry that forward behind them, but I don't know where we're at on that.

So part of the property will be the dealer, part of it will be Golden Corral.

Okay.

We asked them to look at that. The wall doesn't need to be 7 feet on the commercial side. So they'll look at that. That's part of our site plan.

Because Golden Corral is going to go to the east across the street, the new one.

Yes.

And so that will actually be the car dealership.

The parking will actually be part of that though as well.

Okay.

So, who is going to make that determination as to which kind of wall goes up?

That would be the site plan. And, if their wall is existing, they just need to add a couple courses, they may do that and actually try to beautify it.

Because you're going to take the house out, and take the wall out, and then make that parking, and take that little U out, and then extend across.

Yeah.

So, a new wall has to be put up.

The new wall could be similar to what—

And, the new wall could be either one.

Yes. And we ask them to look at that and make sure—

we'll coordinate that.

Okay.

I'd really like to see it be the car lot type of wall rather than the other. The other is an older wall that parts are coming down and it doesn't look quite as nice.

Sam?

As far as what we're voting on tonight, there's not really a mechanism to put a conditional on you need to use this kind of fence or anything like that, right? So it's not that we're ignoring that issue, but it's not something that we can really address directly here.

But I think when the home is down, to your point, Mayor, is once that home is down and the wall moves out, that section could definitely be that same type of—

Yeah, because it's right at that intersection, you can go either way.

I could add there's actually 3 different walls technically. 2 of them are cinder block, but they're different heights and different—

I noticed that, right.

So the neighbor that lives across the street is frustrated that there's 3 different Different ones, but they're under 3 different owners right now. With the proposal that we hope to bring forward in April to the Redevelopment Agency, with the land trade facilitating relocation of Golden Crown expansion of the dealership, we would be asking the dealership to expand their wall with the house.

Is that what the neighbor would like to see as well?

Well, he would like to see the 2 center block walls look the same, but what we've asked Golden Crown is I don't know that we can dictate that they have to take it down, but as long as it meets code and the type is there, we've asked them to try to make it look more presentable, whether they add a course to the top, they paint it, they make it look—

A little bit of the top has fallen off.

Correct, we need to repair that.

So you need to redo the top on the block wall?

Yeah, and we're also working with Golden Corral to install a gate and a fence that would be sight obscuring but have a lock. The problem they have right now, and you'll hear tonight, is the landscaping is not being maintained on the 14th South. This will allow their landscape crews to easily access that without driving around the block. The problem they have is their landscaper comes out, does the site, and the crew leaves if they don't realize they have to go around the block.

So—

And I don't know if there's any additional noise with the car lot, but if they were to put in, say, a car wash, whatever, Having that higher wall would be nice for the car lot to block it off from the neighbors.

Yeah, it's required to be a 7-foot wall on the commercial side by Jason.

Okay, all right.

Okay, then we'll go on to the next one, which is also a public hearing.

Um, this one has to do with the property over at Unicity on 800 East. Um, and Jason, do you want to bring up something about this?

So the neighbors are all in favor.

The property to the west, very looking forward to it being rezoned.

I don't know if it affects them. They like the community as a neighbor, so they have no problem with it being zoned to C-1. C-1 is an office zone, so it really is no actual change, no maintenance on landscaping.

But it allows them to change their relationship on the HOA.

They would get out of the HOA and maintain that lot themselves.

Okay, the next one—

I'll be stepping out for that issue.

Sure.

And if you step out, if you want, if you wouldn't mind mentioning that you are recusing yourself as you go. Then we have a public hearing on an ordinance amending Sections 22-24-1D and F regarding the City Center District Design Standards.

And Jason, you want to mention that?

So we're making some unique— obviously this is a unique building, we're adding some unique buildings to this building, and so we had to make some changes to the city zone of the city center district to make this work. So part of the requirement is at least 25% of the library hall will actually be physically connected to this building, and then 45% of the actual frontage will actually be within that 20-foot requirement next to State Street. And so we've made those 2 minor changes to make it work.

Okay, uh, the next one is a public hearing. Uh, this is a continuation from our last meeting on the lighting fees.

Um, and Richard, do you want to make mention what's happening here?

Doing what we thought we'd do last week at 2:30, then 3:35, so 3:25 to 2:34. So we're right back to where we were.

Yeah, the scheduled time.

Okay, just for the point of reference.

Did we close the public hearing?

We did, but we thought it would be safe if we would—

So just kind of for your information, you did hold a public hearing last council meeting and you did close the public hearing.

Yeah.

So you have the option of reopening it if you so choose, but it's not necessary.

Okay.

So Richard, you had a question about the Siemens project.

Was that— The question that came up was, is the fee going to generate adequate amount of revenue to cover operations? It's double-drip projected.

That was just a quick question that came up and we—

that's what we're waiting for.

For the Siemens bond, are we just going to continue paying that out of the franchise tax?

It's paid out of multiple spots and the savings In a general way, from the street lighting, we go to pay, you know, a significant portion of that bond.

And street lighting, the electricity fee went from like $450 to $150.

$550.

So $1,000.

So they take basically the difference plus some and pay about half of Jason, do you have anything for the council for meetings coming up?

So April 9th, the PD5 zone, which is the University Parkway zone, we are amending or proposing to add in those 2-use systems that allow gym, gymnasiums, and play clubs.

I know they're not currently there.

As part of the expansion, half of that is going to be converted What does a gymnasium mean?

No, I know what it means, but I mean, is it a health club that's coming in there?

Like a Vasa Fitness. It's not Vasa.

Okay. Okay.

So that other one's coming in on a conditional use permit up in the 242 zone.

They're wanting to put a 7,200 to 8,300 square foot accessory building on their property, which requires a conditional use permit.

And where is that at again?

One of the residential lots, they're going to do a lower-level basketball court.

Okay.

Which, uh, it's about 13% of their lot, so that requires city council.

They can't have over 33% of the lot being used for those types of things.

So it's not out of the ordinary, but it does require city council.

And that's just because of the high school?

Yes.

Okay, thank you. Jamie, do you have anything you want to bring up?

Yeah, just a couple of things if I may, Mayor. Obviously the legislative session ended a couple weeks ago, and I wanted to give you an update as to where we were with several of the key bills that we were following throughout the course of the session. HB 119, which is the referendum bill, was actually signed by the governor yesterday. I know there was I guess you could say a veto effort that was underway encouraging the governor to veto the bill, but in fact the governor did sign it yesterday. SB 129 is the public safety Tier 2 retirement, as well as SB 268, which is the transportation bill that allocated monies for 1600 North. Both of those bills did pass the House and the Senate.

Thank you.

Senate, and to this point, as of an hour ago, we're still on the governor's desk awaiting signature, or whether— he doesn't necessarily have to sign them, but they have yet to be signed by the governor. The public safety bill is an interesting one in that it essentially creates or modifies the Tier 2 retirement system And as of July 1st, 2020, we'll have Tier 2 public safety officers receive and be eligible for a 2% per year allocation into their retirement account, meaning after 25 years of service, they could retire with 50% of their average salary. Right now, as it stands, As it stands, it's 25 years at 37.5%. There's no money tied to it. The expectation is that as of now, local jurisdictions and the state of Utah will pick up the full cost for that change. But there is a year's time between now and the bill will take effect to have some conversation about potentially a means whereby we might fund—

The change.

that change. Senate Bill 268 is the transportation bill. Originally, we had $10 million set aside in that bill for 1600 North. It got to the final hours of the legislative session, and legislative leadership went behind closed doors, made some amendments to the bill, and we walked out with $4 million, $6 million less than what we anticipated. Frankly, very appreciative of Senator Hemmert, who really championed this bill, championed Orem getting $4 million to help us along the way for expansion, obviously, of 1600 North. It's clearly not enough, but it represents a good start. And all the other projects in Utah County that had been funded or at least included in the bill Before the final hours of the legislative session. By the time the bill passed, all of those appropriations had been eliminated. So we technically were the only community in Utah County to get any money out of that transportation bill, which obviously I'm thankful for. We are in the process of recruiting for a new IRMAA executive director. Some of you may know, obviously, Obviously all of you, I think, know Paul Johnson, who has the last 5 years served as IRMAA's executive director or CEO. He has announced his retirement, so we're in the process now of interviewing candidates to replace Paul and feel actually very good about. Are we on the committee to hire him, or do we get to decide who does it? You do not.

No, not we.

We, the city. Yes, I serve on the committee. I served on that committee. In fact, I was late to this meeting today because we were interviewing candidates.

So you're a vote on the board of who that person should be.

So the recommendation would be made to the full IRMAA board, or the full association, and they would approve the hiring of the new executive director.

Did they interview all candidates today?

They interviewed 5 candidates today, yes. You're obviously aware of a press release that was issued last week by the Department of Labor relative to some wage fine that we received. Just by way of information, we knew that this was an ongoing investigation. We met with the Department of Labor last fall. They did tell us that we had in fact violated the, the Fair Labor laws relative to the hiring of and the scheduling of 50-year-old lifeguards. We were not aware of the fact that they were going to issue a press release. In our minds, this issue was resolved last fall. And so I was actually out of the office and I get this text from, from Steven and from Brent saying, hey, they just issued this press release.

We're getting calls from—

I'm sorry, what was the question? media asking us about it. So you found out pretty much when we found out. A little disappointed. I would have appreciated an advance copy of Bobby's student release. This was from, I believe— and Carl did a great job, by the way, on the news outlets of kind of reporting on what took place. There were instances This is a violation. We thought we were in compliance.

In fact, we were with state law, but the federal law is a little different.

And Carl and his team, of course, modified our operations so that we don't find ourselves in this predicament.

We'll need to stop there.

Thank you.

Let's go ahead and move over to our City Council session.

Did you do any of the student projects that they asked people to do? I did not.

I was the one who was—

All right. Good.

So, you know, there's also—

You and Fisherman Press together. All right.

Good.

Good. Nice.

How are ya?

Good for you.

We don't hurt. Yeah, you know, feng shui.

There was no feng shui.

There was no feng shui.

There's some space on that care committee.

Oh good.

We've served some stuff here, just call Steven.

Absolutely.

Can I talk to you after the meeting or talk to Steven?

Yeah, Steven is—

he's sitting there.

He usually sits over here.

Okay.

Or he'll be around here.

But he—

yeah, so I think if you have applications already noticed If you're interested, it's how to allocate all of the revenue.

Okay, sure, I'll talk to him afterwards.

We would like to welcome everyone out to our City Council meeting this evening and would like to call this Meeting to order. We would like to begin by having a prayer and pledge from Troop 463. Devin Rich is the Scoutmaster. Our prayer will be given by Austin Sherman and the Pledge of Allegiance be given by Alex Nielsen. If Austin would like to come forward. Austin, if you'd like to go right over here to the podium, just pull the microphone down.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so very much for this day. Thank you that we could all be here at this Orem City Council meeting, and please help us to have— for this meeting to go well and Please hope that we can do what we need to do here. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Amen. Thank you. So Alex, if you'd like to come forward to the microphone.

Will the audience please rise? Please repeat the Pledge of Allegiance with me.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

The audience may be seated.

Thank you to Austin and Alex and Troop 463. We would like to go over the upcoming events for the city, and we have on March 27th, UVU baseball season opener. We have Orem City Night at 5:30 PM at the baseball fields at UVU. On April 12th, we have the Culinary Arts Gala at 6 PM at UVU at the Culinary Arts Building at Timpanogos Parkway. On April 20th, we have the Autism Resources of Utah County Council 8th Annual Autism Celebration from 11 AM to 1 PM at the Autism Building at UVU. On April 20th, we have the Sunset Heights East Neighborhood Picnic at the community park at 11:30 AM. On the— April 25th, we have the NPU Spanish Resource Night at the St. Francis Catholic Church starting at 6:30 p.m. And on May 4th, we have the City of Orem Centennial Birthday Party celebration from 5 p.m. to dusk at the Orchard University Place. And that should be a great celebration. We encourage everyone to attend. We now would like to give some time for a report from our Natural Resources Stewardship Committee, and our presenter is Sarah Bateman. And Sarah, if you could introduce those with you. Do you need some help on—

okay.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair. Great.

Thank you, Mayor and City Council, for the opportunity for us to report what we've been up to this past year. Um, uh, my name is Sarah Bateman, and Why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself?

My name is Brandon Hoffman, and we're both on the committee— or I'm new to the committee this year.

Yeah.

And who do you have next to you?

I'm Jenna Elbers.

I'm the new long-range planner and the staff representative for the committee. Great. Thank you.

So we look forward— we miss Christian, but we look forward to getting to know Jenna and Brandon and sees joined the committee this year. Missing are Darren— well, Erin Lyons, she's the current chair for the 2019 year, and Darren Hawkins and Quinn Meekum. But they are all valuable members of our committee and they will be here in spirit. So let's—

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Maybe it just needs to wake up. Isn't this a beautiful slide? Everybody love this one? Good one. That Orem logo really just pops. Okay, technical difficulties. I don't know why it's— Let's try it again. So the Natural Resources Committee has a mission, and that is to promote the sustainable use of natural resources in Orem. As we mentioned, our committee members— last year I served as chair, Erin Lyons served as vice chair, and those— Darren Hawkins, Gwenna Terry, and Quinn Meekum served as committee members. And Christian Kirkham was our long-range planner, our city liaison. Sam Lentz served as our city council member, with Cheryl Vargas as our minutes recorder. And as you heard, we were joined this year by Brandon Hoffman and Jenna Albers. We look forward to working with them. Regarding the relevant affiliations of our committee members, some of these represent other organizations that some of our committee members are involved with, and some of them represent partnerships that we have developed through our committee membership with the City of Orem's Natural Resources Stewardship Committee. So as you can see, we like to be involved with a lot of things, a lot of community organizations. That support the mission. Just a quick rundown of our role, our advisory role last year. We were approached by various departments in the city to discuss themes about recycling, water-wise landscaping, new city ordinances, smart water meters, and natural playground grant applications to recommend while the city was applying for grants, and as well as the electric vehicle charging stations with the Volkswagen settlement money. Another thing that kept us busy was engaging with the public. And so we had booths at Summerfest where we could share with the public what the city is doing to reduce energy needs, increase energy efficiency, and improve the bike lanes and various activities that the city is doing to work towards that mission. Cycle Fest, again, to encourage folks to get out there and ride their bikes, enjoy the benefits of active transportation and the recreational opportunities here that we have in Orem. Feast Utah, that was about local food where we celebrate Orem-grown food. And then Sustainability Day, this is in partnership with Utah Valley University. And as you can see, we had a proclamation read by the mayor both at the daytime event at UVU and in the evening event at the library. Some of our committee initiatives, just kind of an update. Okay, this is Gwen Meekum. And so at last year's, when we reported, we talked about Garbage audit that some UVU students did at the fitness center to determine how much of the garbage is recyclable and how much is garbage and see if having a recycling bin might help change people's habits when at the, at the fitness center. So you finish your water bottle and throw it in the recycling bin instead of the garbage, and that way we could divert waste from the landfill. So the update this year, the city has added recycling bins for public use at the fitness fitness center. So that's a, that's a good update. Okay, this is a fun one. We sponsored this, the 2nd annual Earth Day meme contest among the youth in Orem. And this was the winning meme by a student at Orem Junior High School. There were local businesses who donated some prize, some prizes to the winner, and then the winner was able to have this posted up on some of the billboards along State Street and at University Place. So that's kind of fun for a junior high student to see your work up there. Another initiative that we did was an idling behavior research in partnership with Geneva Elementary School. So here are some of the photos that we took during the process. It was a multi-stage process. First, we had the students collect the data of how, um, how much time parents spent at the curb idling while waiting for their students. And then we put up signs, as you can see in these photos, asking parents to please turn off their cars while they wait for the students. And then the volunteer students, uh, student scientists, they collected the data again and noticed a significant drop in voluntary compliance with the signs. Then, um, in the fall, we created a a math program tailored to the 6th grade math curriculum using that data so that the students now engaged in a STEAM curriculum could see a real-world problem and use science and math to discover the problem and try to work out some solutions. We sent out a press release in January and Jed Bull from KSL-TV thought it was a great story and came down and interviewed some of the students. About the project. And then on Friday, this project will be presented at the Environmental Ethics Symposium at UVU. At the bottom there is a link to the TV spot. At the end of the year in November, we had a committee retreat to have kind of more of a visioning and strategic planning for this upcoming year. 2019. And that's when we determined our mission, and we identified 5 areas that kind of corresponded with each of the 5 committee members' strengths to serve as kind of the go-to point for each one of those areas. There are a lot of things that overlap a lot of areas, but like, um, air quality and transportation, but these were our general areas that we, um, decided to focus on. And we furthered that in our committee meetings starting in 2019 to not only add, um, identify what natural resource area we wanted to focus on, but also identify our roles within the committee. And so we identified one to be a sustainable— identify sustainability leaders in the community, both in the businesses and the schools and individuals. Events and service coordinator, best practices to find what other cities are doing that might be a good fit here in Orem. Social media coordinator and outreach coordinator. Another thing we were interested in doing was identifying how we could measure our impact. And that's kind of a tricky thing to do, but we started by measuring social media presence and our engagement online. As you can see, the 2018 totals and compare them to 2019 just from January until this morning. These are the totals. So we're, we're off to a great start this year and we're looking forward to engaging the public more via social media. This is a lot of words. I don't recommend you read them all right now. Another thing was to research emerging trends. As committee members, we are passionate about what we do and we love to volunteer for our community. And we, we can recognize some of the trends that might not be in the general public yet, but we can help to serve in advisory capacity on some of those emerging trends. For example, HB 411 was passed by the House and the Senate The Senate passed it on the very last day of the legislative session. It is currently awaiting signature by Governor Herbert. And this is one example that might be interesting to research further. It's Community Renewable Energy Act. For those communities who might be interested in moving towards 100% renewable energy, this would allow for that partnership with Rocky Mountain Power. So So there'll be more on that in the future as we kind of discuss that as a possibility for Orem. Collaboration within the city, with local schools, especially with Utah Valley University and the students there. And then other municipalities. We just— Orem was kind of the founding body in a new sustainability coalition of Utah County. to work with other city governments in Utah County in the field of sustainability. So Provo, Lehi, Vineyard, American Fork, some other folks who don't currently have an environmental sustainability presence but are interested in moving that direction. And this is the last slide. This is the why for me. We talk about all these numbers and the efficiency and how we can effect change in the community and serve our community, but this is why we're so disconnected these days with each other or from each other and from nature. And so I think this is why these volunteer committee members who are very passionate And well-versed in this field. We want a better Orem, and we look forward to continuing our service here in Orem.

Well, thank you. Love what you're doing. Appreciate your efforts and the example that you're setting. And any questions or comments from the council? Sam? Go ahead, Sam.

I just wanted to thank this committee for all the hard work that you put into this opportunity to serve the community and inspire those around you. I think one of the things that is unique about this committee is it's not just a matter of, okay, how do we help the council make this decision, or, you know, how do we complete this one event, but it's how do we inspire the whole community to jump on board with some of these principles so that we can all enjoy the benefits of what we're trying to accomplish. So I appreciate the passion and the dedication that each of you put in and look forward to more exciting things in 2019.

Thank you. Councilmember Seestrand.

The other thing that I really admire with this committee and commission is Sarah works quite a bit with Utah Valley University and an opportunity to overlap activities that go on at the university as well with Orem City, and she's been a great addition to that body of people interested in the sustainability aspect as well. It's been, it's been a good overlap with both Orem City and the university.

Okay, thank you. And thank you to all of the committee members. Appreciate you being here. We'll now move on to our personal appearances portion of our meeting, and seeing that there are none, we'll dispense with that and move on to our consent items. We have 3 consent items: approval of the city meeting minutes of the City Council on March 12th, 2019; appointments to boards and commissions— appointment to the CARE Advisory Commission of Danae Tyler, who we have already discussed; and resolution amending the Community Development Block Grant use of funds for fiscal year 2018-19 Moving the allocation made to Habitat for Humanity back to the City of Orem to be watched over and run by an experienced rehabilitation consultant. Are any of these items— does anybody on the council want to move these to a scheduled item? If not so, we'll go ahead and call for a roll call vote. We'll start with Councilmember McDonald.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Do we need a motion or—

Yes, actually, thank you, Sam. We do need a motion and a second.

I move to approve.

And a second?

Second.

Okay, and we'll start over. Councilor McDonald.

Aye.

You might want to turn your microphones on.

It's on. I couldn't hear you.

Okay.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Okay, thank you. We'll now go to our scheduled items. The first one is a public hearing on an ordinance. amending Section 22-5 and the zoning map of the City of Orem by changing the zone on approximately 0.2 acres of property located generally at 246 West 1400 South from the R-8 zone to the PD-5 zone. And Jason Bench is our presenter.

Thank you, Mayor, members of the council. I have Ryan with me just in case I need some backup, so Tonight, we're basically requesting that this property, as mentioned, be rezoned to the PD-5 zone. And then the property, after the RDA has a chance to approve the agreement and approve that property sale, that that would be added then to the properties, both the Nissan dealership and the Golden Corral property. So tonight, we're here just simply to rezone. The other information will come back at a later date.

Thank you.

the site plan for the Golden Corral and all that will have to go through the Planning Commission process. So tonight we're here just to request that that be rezoned. As part of this property, we will— as part of the site plan, the wall or the fence will be installed with— as part of this project as well. So that's— will be taken care of as part of the site plan. Be glad to address any questions that you may have.

So Jason, we brought this up before, but The wall to the east of the home is a block wall.

Yes.

The wall to the west of the home are cement— premade cement panels of a different height and a different look. So the discussion is, which wall will they put up when you take that out and then put in the parking lot?

If you can see this line right here, that's the proposed property line. So this section where the home is currently would be part of the Kengarff area. So that— I would imagine this wall that's currently to the west would be put over to the— and match into the existing wall to the east.

Okay.

That's part of the Golden Crown property. They will have to maintain that wall at 7 feet. So they may have to add some courses to that existing wall and hopefully be able to beautify that wall, but not necessarily have to replace the wall. So that's That's something we'll work with them at the site plan process.

Okay.

Any questions or thoughts from the council? Okay. This is a public hearing, so we'll go ahead and open it up to the public. Anyone who would like to speak to this issue, please come forward, give us your name, and hold your comments to 3 minutes. Seeing as how no one is coming forward, we'll go ahead and close the public speaking portion of the public hearing and bring it back to the council. Any comments or questions from the council?

Okay.

Councilmember?

I do remember that at the planning meeting there was some concern about that wall. During the site plan, will you ensure that it looks good?

Or—

I know that that was a concern for many of the neighbors. What are we going to do to make sure that that is an appropriate wall? Or are we just going to have to suggest it to Golden Corral and hope that they do it?

Or what's—

what are assurances that it will look good?

That's part of the Golden Corral Site plan, we will have to go out and do some inspection, and their site plan itself will have to address what they're doing with that wall. So they'll have to let us know if they're going to have to add to that, replace portions of it. I mean, that's going to be part of the review process. So the site plan will actually label what they have to do, and then we'll bond them appropriately for whatever they need to do on that.

Okay.

On the Kengar side, that section of wall, I think that's what we're having them replace. And I'm assuming they would— we'll have to deal with that when we get to that point, but I'm assuming they would take the existing wall that they have now is just extend it further east.

Okay.

Thanks for being sensitive to that.

So if we make a motion, can we make a motion requiring that that occur?

No.

Okay.

I mean, not effectively.

I mean, basically, like Jason said, there's 2 times I think we could do that.

One would be when we—

in the transaction where we actually sell the property, we could make that a condition of the sale, if we wanted to specify what kind of wall we wanted, we could do it there.

When they—

at the site plan stage, as long as they comply with the ordinance requirement that it's a masonry wall and 7 feet high, we'd have to approve it.

We couldn't, you know, specify the particular look.

So probably the best time to address that would be at the time we consummate the transaction of the property.

Okay.

And I would encourage that to occur. Like you say, one wall is newer, Looks nicer. The other wall is older, doesn't look as nice. I think it would be beneficial to keep the wall behind the car lot with the property that we sell for the car lot to be consistent with the wall that's behind the car lot now.

As part of the agreement that will come to the RDA, that would be part of— assuming that would be included in that agreement. So at that point, it would be— If you could do that, I When the council approves it as the RDA, that would be part of that.

OK. We'll be happy to add that into our negotiations with them on the proposed land trade.

All right.

Any other comments from the council? Councilmember Seestrand.

And who owns the parking strip or that 10-foot property on the south side there?

That is the property owners to the north.

So they— that's who?

It's either the Golden Crown or Nissan will own that property. And as part—

Responsible to maintain that?

They are.

So as part of the PD-5, when it was created, that landscape strip was required along with the wall. And then they are also supposed to maintain that.

Do they pay for the water and everything?

They do. Yep. As part of this project, as Ryan stated in the pre-meeting, they will be adding a fence, a manned gate, so they can actually maintain it easier from the commercial side.

Any other questions or comments? Anyone care to make a motion? Councilmember Sumner.

I'd like to move the City Council—

You want to turn your microphone on?

I'd like to move the City Council amends the ordinance amending Section 22-5-3A in the zoning map of the City of Orem by changing the zone on approximately 0.2 acres of property located generally at 246 West, 1400 South, from the R-8 zone to the PD-5 zone.

Is there a second?

Second.

Okay, we'll start with Councilmember Lenz.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye. Aye.

Aye.

The ordinance passes. Thank you, Jason and Ryan. We'll now go to a public hearing on an ordinance amending Section 22 —5-3A and the zoning map of the City of Orem by changing the zoning on approximately 5.12 acres of property located generally at 764th North Timpanogos Parkway from the PD-6 zone, Timpanogos Research and Development Park zone, to the C-1 commercial zone. Councilmember McDonald.

I have a conflict on this interest and need to recuse Okay, thank you.

Jason Bench is our presenter, and we'll go ahead and hear from Jason.

Thank you, Mayor, members of the council. So the Unicity building is located—

excuse me—

at this location here at the intersection of 12th North, this location, 800 East. They are part of the Timpanogos Research Park. They're requesting that this property be rezoned to the C-1 zone, which is also an office park. The whole intent of— you can see this map here— is the PD-6 So the old WordPerfect property, they are kind of disconnected, if you will, from the park. The city just recently approved residential development here. The general plan was changed on this piece to go residential as well. So they will be kind of isolated towards 800 East. They're requesting to be removed from the PD-6, which— the restrictions and covenants as well— and do the C-1 zone and then maintain their landscaping and things. On their own. So that's the reason they're coming to you tonight. This is part of their campus looking from 800— sorry, 1200 North. This is from 800 East looking west. As part of this project, they will be rezoning— or not rezoning, excuse me, replatting the property. This is another piece of property that's not part of it. They're in the process of purchasing this, and so that would be added to their property and maintained as a part of their campus. So Planning Commission did review it and recommended that the council approve the rezone, and I'd be glad to address any questions.

Okay, any questions or comments from the council? Okay, this is a public hearing, so we'll open it up for public comment. We would invite anybody who would like to speak to this to come to the podium. Hold your comments to 3 minutes and give us your name when you begin. Seeing as how no one is coming forward, we'll close the public comment portion of the public hearing and bring it back to the council. Any further comments or questions from the council? Okay, and I would accept a motion.

I'll make a motion, Mayor.

Okay.

I would move that we amend Section 22-5-3A of the zoning map of the City of Orem by changing the zoning on the 5.12 acres of property located generally at 764 North Timpanogos Parkway from being part of the PD-6 zone to a C-1 commercial zone.

Is there a second?

Second.

Okay, we'll start with Councilmember Seestrand.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye. Aye.

Okay, the ordinance passes. We'll move on to public hearing 10.3, which is an ordinance amending Section 22-24-1 and 22-24-1DNF of the Orem City Code pertaining to design standards within the City Center District. Jason Bench is our presenter.

Thank you, Mayor. So this particular amendment is specific to the City Center District Civic Zone, which is basically the city center property from The parking lot to the east up to Center Street— or State Street, excuse me. So that section is what we're dealing with. So any amendments that you see before you tonight are particular to that civic zone, not the whole City Center District. The purpose behind this is— obviously, you guys are familiar with the Library Hall. The yellow line represents the setback required in the district of 20 feet adjacent to State Street. 45% of the building that's— has been designed meets that requirement. So this amendment is to allow for this facility because we're trying to match into the existing look of the building and match that— the curve and other things that required us to come back with this type of amendment. The bottom line is that it will be 25% of the building, so you can see it's connecting at this portion, and then at this portion, 25% of that building is actually physically touching an existing part of the City Center building. That's— that is written into the ordinance. And then 45%, as you can see down in this area there, will be required to meet that setback. So these changes are specific to get the library hall to meet the requirements. So any questions that I can address?

So one question, first of all, is Is this strictly for the library hall, or is it for the City Centre District? So another building within the City Centre District could—

Within the civic zone of the City Centre District would be applicable to these standards, yes.

Okay.

So in the future, if another building in other parts of the districts come in and wants to make these types of exceptions, we would then come before you and consider changes as well.

Okay.

Councillor MacDonald.

Thank you.

I think, Jason, you addressed my concern. If someone else has a property and they wanted an exception and it looked good and it looked good for the community, we would be as likely to consider their exception as we are to consider this exception?

I think we would, yes.

Thank you.

Councilmember Spencer. So, Jason, can you go back to the picture?

So the— with the library, the little I guess where the property is outside, what is that?

What are we going to do with that?

Is it going to stay the same?

So that's going to be a— you're talking about this area right here?

Yeah.

That would be an enclosed courtyard. I mean, there is some access to that, but it's going to be open air, but there will be no direct access. You'd have to access it through either the library hall or the existing children's wing right now.

Okay, and then I am concerned I'm just concerned that, you know, this node that it's the city building, that's why we're changing it. So if we take consideration that somebody else has a question, that we'll look at those.

Yeah, and our intent as we adopted these last year, right, the City Center District or any district for that matter, we knew that it wasn't necessarily a perfect ordinance, but it was a good start. And so I think we'll have the same difference as an applicant comes in. We would look at it with the same scrutiny that we've applied to ourselves.

Thank you, Jason.

Any other questions or comments?

Okay.

So this is a public hearing. We'll open it up for any public comment. Anyone who'd like to come forward, please hold your comments to 3 minutes and give us your name. Seeing as how no one's coming forward, we'll close the public comment portion of our public hearing and bring it back to the council. I would be open to a motion. Councilmember Lurie?

I move then that we amend Sections 22-24-1D and 22-24-1F of the Orem City Code pertaining to design standards within the City Center District.

Is there a second?

Second.

Okay, and we'll start with Councilmember Lentz.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye. Aye.

Aye.

The ordinance passes. Thank you. Thank you, Jason. We'll now move on to a continued item from our previous City Council meeting 2 weeks ago, and this is an ordinance on the 2018-2019 budget amendment of the street lighting fee. It is a public hearing. We've already held the public hearing portion of this ordinance consideration, and we'll I'll turn the time over to Richard Manning.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. This is, as you point out, continuation of amending the streetlight fee as we transition from building a system and paying for it to now operating a mature system. So what this ordinance would do is, effective April 1st, Some neighborhoods will start to come off, and there's an order that we'll go over in a minute. And then effective July 1st of this year, all businesses, as they renew their, their business license, will pay for their 12 months of street lighting, 1 unit for each business, so $2,808 a year. And each apartment will go on July 1st, and institutions— that's schools, churches, et cetera. would go on July 1st of this year regardless of their location in the city. Now neighborhoods came on in a certain order and they'll go off in the same order as they have paid for approximately 17 years of, of the, the fee to pay down the debt. And April 1st, so as we start billing next month, Cherry Hill and Lakeview neighborhoods, and July 1st the list goes from Geneva Heights down through Orem Park. and so on and so forth through July 1st, 2022, when Canyon View neighborhood will come off. And for those that don't recall why this order was put in place, it was based on crime statistics. So the safest neighborhood got lights last.

Any questions?

Any comments from the council? Councilmember Larry?

My question is, have you notified Looking like this goes April 1st, the Cherry Hills and Lakeview— has there been a notation on the utility bill that this has changed and it's getting lowered? Has there been any public relations effort on that yet?

In all honesty, we've never had anyone ever complain when a fee went down.

You did pass out, though, a card to every resident in the city.

Everyone that he was invited.

So they've already been notified.

Just to speak to Mayor's comments, which I think are very relevant for this conversation, we actually did send out about 25,000 mailers to households within the City of Orem notifying them of this process, inviting them to participate in an open house. There were social media efforts that were also underway as part of this change. And I can't remember if we put this in our community newsletter, Pete. I'm pretty sure that we placed a notice in the newsletter about this as well.

The card that did go out was not a postcard-sized card. It was an 8.5 by 11.

With an explanation as to what we have done historically, what we are proposing to do in the future.

It was very colorful and caught my wife's attention, and we had a good discussion. So anyway. We'll move on to Councilmember Sumner.

A couple of questions on the— on the businesses. Now, they— they— when they renew their license, they'll pay it. Now, does Walmart pay the same as Interstate Transmission on State Street?

Yes. And that's based upon the fact of now we have a system and everyone benefits equally from the system regardless of the footprint of That they occupy, whether it's little or small, everybody has the same benefit because you're paying for a system.

Mm-hmm.

An analogy could be, you know, the signal lights, traffic signal lights and stop signs, et cetera. We all benefit from it. It doesn't matter how big of a home we have or how small, or everybody gets the same benefit from a system that's working.

Now, you mentioned per door will pay. Is that right?

Yes.

So 360 down here will pay $100 and something?

Yeah, however many units they have per door, 1 unit per door. So the philosophy is it's like 1 living unit or 1 business unit, institutional unit. Everybody pays 1 fee per door.

How much additional revenue will this create?

It's not a great deal more than we're getting right now. What it will free up over time is the franchise tax that's going over to help support the operation of street lighting. That gradually will wind itself down, so it would no longer be needed to maintain that system.

Thank you.

Councilmember Seestrand.

And the main purpose of this is now that the lights are installed, the basic ongoing operation is basically paying for the electricity and the general maintenance.

It covers the cost of the lights, the electricity, et cetera.

And are there still some additional light poles that need to be put in?

Yes.

It seems like we're transferring out from some of the old Rocky Mountain Power System lights to the new style. How many of those do we need to still transfer purpose?

Number of lights— there are a handful of districts that had been in place long before we put lights up ourselves, and they will be replaced. And the revenue from the $325,000 difference between $234,000 and $325,000, will cover that capital cost as the neighborhoods come off. And that was always the plan. to take them off one by one and use— after the debt was paid— use that additional revenue to install where we didn't need to install lights in the first place.

Thank you.

Jamie, did you have a comment?

So I was just going to comment that those lighting districts are things that we actually have underway right now. And when we spoke with you several weeks ago in regards to our 2020 budget, we included actually a A flex employee who is actually working with our street lighting crews right now with the property owners in the installation of these lights, because it's going to require us, for example, to gain access and entry onto residential properties throughout the community, specifically in those areas, the old lighting district areas, when we go and we put in our new infrastructure. In addition to that, you'll start this summer the replacement of the cobra lights that are along the State Street corridor south of Center Street. They, too, will be replaced with our standard green straight light that we have along our commercial corridors, for example, State Street north of Center Street.

Thank you. Councilmember Lentz.

And Richard, we discussed this in previous meetings, but just to reiterate, This lower fee doesn't address capital replacement or anything like— this is just operations and maintenance. And I think part of the reason for why we're not building that in was that the nature of streetlights, they don't necessarily have a specific fixed endpoint where they're all going to go bad on a certain date. But it's just, you know, as one or two come up, then we'll address those individually rather than— A full-scale overhaul of the whole system.

That's a correct assessment, yes.

All right, if there's no further questions or comments, I'd like to make a motion that we, as a City Council, pass the ordinance to amend the fiscal year 2018-2019 budget for the street lighting fees. Is there a second?

Second.

Okay, and I'll start with Councilmember McDonald.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

The ordinance passes. Thank you, Richard. I appreciate it. Before we go to the city manager items, Councilmember Lentz brought up he wanted to have a comment on ranked choice voting since the date when that is allowed changed from the end of last year to the middle of this year. One thing I just wanted to mention, we have had that discussion already in our city council work session and took a vote. It's not on our agenda, but Sam, if you want to bring it up, I would encourage you to bring it up in a City Council work session in the other room. That is a public session where it is recorded and streamed, so everybody's comments will be available to the public.

And I, I had wished to do that. However, we ran out of time and we were adjourned before we finished legislative session.

If we could do that our next City Council work session, I think that's the proper time.

Here's why that would be.

Because this is not on the agenda.

Here's why that would be an issue, though. We only have one more meeting until we hit that deadline. So the reason I just wanted to ask— and maybe the answer is no and we can just nip it in the bud right now— but with HB 277, they extended the deadline of when cities can decide if we want to try out ranked choice voting this year. They also made some changes where we have the option to use a primary as part of that. So before, with ranked choice voting, if you did it as a city, you could not have a primary. And they also put, I think it was $250,000 to fund additional equipment and voter education as part of that. So my question wasn't necessarily to vote on it right now, but just can we have a discussion on that at our next work session?

That would be fine. That's my recommendation. Thank you. We'll now move on to Jamie for any comments.

Yes, thank you, members of the City Council. Just a couple of additional informational items. Today we actually held the library pre-bid meeting for construction of our new library hall. I'm pleased to report that we had 7 contractors in attendance that were interested in the project, and responses for those bids are due April 11th. So we'll look forward to feedback and Going formally through the bid process. You may also have noticed that utility work is underway out on 1st North. We're actually in the process of laying a new sewer line to the site, as well as facilitating some other utility work in cooperation with Rocky Mountain Power. We also are now— In the process of taking down some trees that are in the direct footprint of the new building. And you have also seen construction fencing that is going up in and around the City Center campus, primarily right now in the area that is east— excuse me, west of the City Center. And we would anticipate in the near future when we award a contractor or construction management general contract award for construct— or excuse me, when we hire a contractor for the Library Hall project. They will stage, and we are proposing and anticipate that they will stage in the south parking lot of the City Center. Did you have a question, Councilmember McDonald?

I don't have a mic on. To that end, I, I've been involved in other projects, and we often hear how slow city is compared to the free enterprise, and I've been very impressed with how you're moving. And I couldn't even get down First South tonight, so I'm impressed with how fast you're moving the process along, you and your staff, Jamie, and I just wanted to compliment you on that.

Well, and really the kudos goes to Ryan Clark, our Development Services Director, and our engineering staff who have just— Taggart Bowen is the one who is kind of leading the utility efforts, and he and his staff—

Please pass on— Wonderful job.

Can I add to that that our Public Works Director and his staff has been phenomenal? They've taken the charge on all these site improvements and just taken the bull by the horns, and they're Doing fantastic.

Let's give them a collective thank you.

So really, really happy and appreciate— thank you for reminding and recognizing the Public Works crew as well. Just a note about our Recreation Fitness Center project. We actually tomorrow will hear presentations from finalists for our construction management general contractor bid. We have 3 3 companies that will come in, and we anticipate from that questioning, we will, we will move forward with awarding the contract to one of those contractors that will allow us to proceed forward on the construction end of this recreation project. So we're encouraged that also, as it relates to the recreation fitness center, we're making progress there as well.

Thank you.

And also appreciative of the support we're receiving from the Alpine School District. We had a meeting yesterday. It was quite a lengthy meeting. We even had support from the school district in that meeting as well. I want to make you also aware we have a police officer, Sergeant Scott Spieth, who is receiving this week at the Utah Chiefs of Police Association He is receiving the Officer of the Year Award for large jurisdictions. I just wanted to make you aware of that and appreciate Sergeant Spieth and his dedication and his efforts. We do have members of our police administration who are down in St. George and who will recognize and be a part of that recognition for Sergeant Spieth. In addition to that, you may have seen on a number of media outlets the county attorney released the their report relative to the unfortunate shooting that took place last fall. You'll recall we had an officer-involved shooting that resulted in the death of an individual, and—

A 17-year-old—

Yes, yes, and the county attorney yesterday noted in his report that our police officers were legally justified in exercising the force that they did. And I just wanted to make you aware of that if in the event you may not have seen that. And then just lastly, we'd like to recognize and wish Councilmember Mark Seestrand a happy birthday.

And City Manager Jamie Davison.

And I do also have a birthday this week.

So we're meeting after this meeting.

There will be a meeting after this meeting in Room 107, and We'll sing happy birthday to Mark and send condolences to Jamie and have a treat. So that's it.

Thank you.

So Jamie, one thing, we know that a special session of the legislature is going to be called. I believe it's for late June or July. And could you keep us informed as to the bills that they're going to present in there, as there's going to be several?

Sure. You'll remember during the legislative session, HB 441, which was the quote-unquote tax reform bill, found its way at the end of the session back in the Rules Committee with the pledge on the part of both House— the Senate and the House that they would revisit that during the interim. And they actually appointed a group of senators and a group of House reps to work on this project, and they have also invited the Utah League of Cities and Towns to provide input into that process. So we do anticipate between now and the next legislative session that there will be some movement, movement on tax reform. The conversation initially was broadening the base. There has been obviously continued discussion about that. There's been some discussion as to does the state reinstitute the sales tax on There is also some discussion as to, well, we want to make sure that it is not a windfall-type situation. So if we do in fact broaden the sales tax base, is there a tax that we can reduce in, in like manner so that it is a revenue-neutral kind of change? The governor is a strong proponent of reducing the sales tax rate. And passing that savings on to consumers by way of the sales tax. And right now the legislature is more focused and inclined to extend that, that tax rebate, so to speak, on the income tax side of the state revenue stream. So that, that will be obviously an ongoing conversation. And yes, I will be sure to keep you involved.

So we know that the legislature passed what they call a any budget withholding $400 million that was planned, and many of the projects you brought up in our work session did not get funded. So once this tax bill is digested and whatever happens happens, I believe that $400 million will come back into play to fund a lot of these projects. So that'll be of great interest.

Thank you.

Thank you. All right, I'll make a motion then if nothing else, to go ahead and adjourn. Is there a second?

Second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

We're now adjourned. Thank you.