City Council · 2021-11-23

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This day we'd ask a blessing on, on those that are charged with making decisions, that they will be filled with compassion and charity, and that those that are sharing information will be able to do so effectively. We say these things In the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Amen.

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

Just for information, those that signed the personal appearance sheet, the Sienna Village is not on the agenda tonight. It was taken off, and you can still speak at your— with your 3 minutes when it's— when we're ready. Okay, now we have a presentation from the National Resource Stewardship Committee. And we have Quinn Meekum, and the stewardship committee can come up and do the presentation.

Hello, Mayor and Council. My name is Quinn Meekum and I represent the Orem Natural Resources Stewardship Committee this evening. We also have Sarah Bateman from our committee in attendance. This year, 2021, marks our inaugural year of the city giving Natural Resources Stewardship Awards to businesses in the city that we feel have done an exemplary job in providing natural resources leadership. We have 2 awards to give tonight.

The first award is to R.C.

Willey. R.C. Willey's branch in Orem, led by General Manager Larry Smalley, works hard to conserve resources in the community. They have a large recycling program that recycles foam and cardboard with a compressor, as well as large items that are very difficult to recycle in other places, such as televisions, appliances, and mattresses. Again, very difficult to recycle elsewhere in the community.

R.C.

Willey is a leader in energy conservation as well. Although they have a large footprint, they have LED and motion sensor lighting throughout the store, abundant skylights for natural light, motion-activated doors to preserve heat, swamp coolers instead of air conditioning in the warehouse, and both swing doors and sealed doors that conserve heat in spaces that connect the interior and exterior of their building. Our committee sees RC Willey as a leader in both recycling and energy conservation in Orem. I'd like to invite Manager Larry Smalley to come up and receive an award. The award reads, the City of Orem congratulates RC Willey for Leadership in Preserving Natural Resources 2021.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Yes.

Do you want to come up and shake hands with the council? That'd be great if you would, please.

Thank you very much.

Thank you, Larry, for, for that leadership in our community. Our second award this evening is an award that goes to Uncle Sam's Army Navy Outdoor. Uncle Sam's Army Navy Outdoor is an Orem-built business led by owner and manager Danny Ashby. Uncle Sam's is a community icon that has built recycling directly into its business model. From using a repurposed Quonset hut as the main store to accepting and selling used goods. Uncle Sam's accepts previously used military gear, and about 40% of its goods sold were previously owned. Even the bags that are used to put purchases in at checkout have been previously used. Additionally, the store is completely powered by solar panels and utilizes a gas generator in case of a power outage. Uniquely, Uncle Sam's has a greenhouse and garden in the rear of the store that grows fruit— peaches, plums, pears— as well as vegetables such as tomatoes and rhubarb, much of which is placed by the front door and offered free of charge to members of the community that may need food assistance. The NRSC sees Uncle Sam's Army-Navy Outdoor as a model for recycling, repurposing, energy efficiency, local food production, and independent sustainability. We have here tonight Danny Ashby's manager as well as Peggy, who also works at the store, and invite you to come forward to receive an award.

Congratulations.

So Peggy, could you come up and shake the council's hand?

Sure.

Thank you, Quinn and Sarah. Now we'll go to a presentation from the Metropolitan Water Board Annual Report by Neil Winterton and also Steve Brown.

Steve, did you bring the awards? We wanted to give awards to the entire community of the City of Orem for using 15% less water this last year than in the previous year, so that's a good thing. The, the agenda item says presentation. That may be a little overstatement of what we plan to present. Uh, we don't have a formal presentation. We wanted to just come and have a conversation. Chris Shirkey forbade me from telling a joke.

Thank you.

Therefore, I will not tell a joke, but I will recount what we were talking about. We got a little sidetracked, and we got talking about cloning, and he said, I really don't like cloning. And I said, that makes two of us. Um, yeah, not a joke. Just to recap, each and every one of us here probably hits, uh, a water-giving mechanism about 50 times per day. And it's astonishing at what water is required to produce items— about 2,500 gallons to produce a pair of shoes. that you wear, and about 25 gallons for each pound of cotton that is worn. And since we all wear close to about 35 pounds of cotton a year, that's quite a bit for just that particular commodity. I racked my brain to determine if there is any product on the earth that can be produced or manufactured or delivered Without the use of water, and of course I couldn't come up with any. The work that is done with the Metropolitan Water District today will serve people many, many years down the road. The water that we enjoy today is a result of agreements made from years and years ago, from the incorporation to the time now. Some of the water that we access through the Metropolitan Water District of Orem as a city is water that was put into conveyances and into use in place prior to Utah as a state and from the very first canal company in Utah. So we appreciate the work that people have done in the past and the group is doing now. Steve Brown, sitting here, sitting here, is the chairman of the board, and I will turn the time over to him to discuss a few points. Thank you.

Thanks, Neil. They never allow me to tell any jokes at all, so just a matter of reference, the board was formed in 1935. The purpose of the board is to work with the city to assure a long-term adequate supply for the city. We have 7 board members, all volunteer. They serve 6-year terms. I think we've got Liddell Gilman here tonight. He served, my records are right, 10 years. We have Rick Lewis. who has served 22 years. Just recently, Jack Jones retired. He served 43 years. Alex Lott served 10 years. I believe Chris Shirkey, Orem City's representative, has served 10 years. Tim Crandall served about a year, new to the board. And then Carl Cook just joined the board in May. And so we're, we're getting a little bit younger on the board than we have been. Neil has been our manager, and along with— I want to point out Ruthann Ivy has been our secretary. She's been the secretary for the board for 26 years, and she keeps us out of trouble. We just finished an audit.

Very—

In my 9 years on the board, I've never had any exceptions in the audit at all. She does a fantastic job with the books, all the regulations, and everything to keep the board compliant with the state regulations. As mentioned earlier, we work with the city to supply water. All the surface water rights are held in the Metropolitan Water District. That would include Jordan L, rights in Jordan L, rights in Deer Creek, Provo River. The springs and the wells are held by ORM, and there's some legal reasons for that. The ownership of these shares, there are some that we own directly, but we have active roles in the Provo River— Provo Reservoir Company. Provo Bench Company. Neil's actually the president of the Provo Bench Canal Company, and so we, we have controlling interest in all those. One thing I wanted to point out, that to my knowledge, we have never sold a water share. Once we acquire a water right, they're like gold, and we hold on to those. From time to time, we help out local farmers We've helped out Linden City, Pleasant Grove, Lehi in short-term water lease agreements where we provide water to people that are short or need water. But as Neil will testify, before I sign those agreements, I make sure that his staff is sure that Orem has a complete, very adequate supply of water. And so we never make a decision that would jeopardize the supply for Orem. I think probably the one item of significance, and I'll let Neil maybe discuss that a little bit more, is the agreement with Vineyard. And I'm sure you're all aware where that's changing. And Neil, why don't you maybe give just a brief background on that?

Yeah, we brought this before the council a couple of months ago to change the arrangement between the Orem City Metro to provide water. On a wholesale basis to Vineyard to change the method of delivery and conveyance, not the amount or, or the, the quantity, but have Central Utah Water Conservancy District convey that water from the Olmsted diversion in the mouth of the canyon through their pipelines. and have it treated and delivered through their pipelines versus having Orem City deliver that through their pipelines. So it really is a good thing to have the city not deliver that water at the endpoint, but up in front.

So effective when, Neil?

It will become effective When the town of Vineyard builds and finishes their storage tank facility that's currently out for bid.

Thank you. I think just one other item— I had 2 other items. I have one, and I bring these every year, but I have a stack of books that is sort of a history of the Metropolitan Water District through 2010. And if anyone would like one, we'll leave one here. I think I've probably given one to everybody here, but it's— it sort of gives you a different view of the history of Orem, but it gives a lot of insight into that. And then the last thing I'd like to say is, first of all, Neil does this job in addition to his regular job with no additional compensation. His staff is very helpful. in helping us sort through the complexities of making decisions. And so I know, Neil, you wanted to acknowledge a couple people, but—

Yeah, I appreciate that. One such person is Lane Gray, who has left the water section in my division and is now working as a capital projects manager. He didn't go too far, and he's going to serve us well. in his capacity, but I wanted to acknowledge his 23 years as the Water Section Manager. 20, is that right? 9, uh, he's gonna kill me now, but he's got 33 years with the city, and I think a large portion of that has been as the Water Section Manager. And so we've appreciated his service in the Water Section and the Metropolitan Water District. Has, has looked forward to his assistance there. And I was hoping to introduce Tyler Pay. He had previous commitments. He's been named the Water Section Manager, and he will work with, with me and with the Metropolitan Water District to continue the fabulous service that they provide. And I can't ever not sing their praises for the work that they do on a 24/7, 365 basis. To make sure that our needs are taken care of with very high quality, very reliable supply of water.

That concludes— that concludes our presentation. In case you have any questions.

Appreciate your time. Thank you.

Thanks.

Okay, now we'll go into the personal appearance part of the thing. I need to read a statement. Time has been set aside for the public to express their ideas, concerns, and comments on items not scheduled as public hearings on the agenda. Those wishing to speak are encouraged to show respect for those who serve the city. Comments should focus on issues concerning the city. Those wishing to speak should be signed, signed in before the beginning of the meeting. Please limit your comments to 3 minutes or less. First one we have is Mara Garcia.

Thank you, Major and Council of Orange City, for these minutes to express our concerns. My name is Mara Garcia and I live on 199 South Terrace Drive in Orange. I had the opportunity to express my concerns verbally and by writing in 2 meetings and by email. I would like to reiterate that Terrace Drive neighborhood is beautiful and unique. I won't list all of my concerns again at this time because I have already done that before. Even though the plan has been modified from 21 to 9 units, we will continue— we will continue to oppose rezoning of this dead-end street and ask that the lots remain single dwelling residential because it's the best for our security and peace of our neighborhood. Thank you for your support.

Thank you. John Barrick, and make sure you state your name and address, please. John Barrick. Oh, just name, please.

John Barrick, 365 West 1750 North in Orem. I'd like to thank Mayor Richard Brunst and Brent Sumner for their many years of service, in case I'm not— I don't get to speak to you in a public forum while you're remaining in service. And I'd like to also say that we're excited to welcome Mayor-elect David Young and Lenee Millett to our City Council. I'd like to thank the City Council and the mayor for hosting the State Street Master Plan meetings this last week. I think they were productive. I am grateful, even though the Imagine Orem campaign seemed a bit more like a publicity stunt, we're grateful for a microphone that allowed the residents to voice their concerns, and I think you found that they were largely concerned. I would also like to encourage the city to, as we work towards revising the State Street Master Plan or repealing the State Street Master Plan, as we redo the zoning there, to pay attention to messaging and noticing, which is required by LUDMA standards.

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In 2018, when the State Street Master Plan was created in just the North Village District section, we have, we have examined every bit of messaging and noticing. There were 2 residences within the master plan that were not noticed and 64 other residences in the required noticing area that did not receive notices, which is a violation of state law. In addition, in 2019, when the State Street Master Plan With the parking ratios were changed, there was no messaging and noticing. Under a grammar request, the city responded that development services provided us with the following response: the meetings held on 9/4/2019 and 10/8/2019 did not require individual postcards to be mailed per state law. I would like to point out, I don't think the postcards are adequate, nor were they mailed out at that change. I would encourage you to follow the law and message and notice properly as we go forward. I would also like to express, express some concern regarding the University Place PD-34 zone. We know that they've acquired approximately 20 residences bordering the Hillcrest neighborhood. They've demolished approximately 12 of those. They started illegally demolishing one of those homes on November 1st without permit. They have subsequently obtained the permit and demolished the rest of that house. We know that they didn't follow the demolition requirements initially until they were stopped by the City of Orem. We know that they don't have the proper fencing permits for the fences they've erected in that residential zone, nor do the fences that they've erected meet city code, which is a detriment to the residents there. We also don't think that they are very nice to the residential neighbors, and we asked— we're wondering when the PD-34 zone expansion will come, and we're waiting, and we will be ready. Thank you for your time.

Steve Diamond, you're fine. Henry Miles, you're good. Carol?

A quick thank you to you all. I have besieged you with the problems of Terrace Drive, and we are very pleased that the developer asked to meet with us and tried to resolve our differences, which is a wonderful thing about America, that we can, can work together to, uh, in unity and, and not have any wild accusations about who's trying to take over whom. Anyway, we're grateful for this opportunity to again express our gratefulness to the Hallidays for understanding the problems that would result if they put on a building of 21 units, or even a building of 9 units, it would put too much burden on a dead-end street. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Okay, now we have Mike Christensen.

Yeah, we were gonna do this poem.

I wrote this poem to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Thanksgiving this year, and we did a version on Facebook that was a visit from Tom Turkey, to be politically correct. Now, which Tom is the turkey might be up for debate, but that's just joking. Anyway, but I'm gonna— you're gonna see that on Facebook, and I'm gonna do this version. This is my original version. 'Twas an eve till Thanksgiving, when all through the store, many patrons were shopping, making an uproar, The turkey was baking in the oven with care in hopes that Chief Squanto soon would be there. The children were running all through the aisles, making Mom feel she was shopping for miles.

With wife in her coat and me in my hoodie, as she's buying the pies, I shout, oh goody!

When from a high shelf back stock comes crashing, I yell to the kids, you'll get a thrashing!

Away from the store we ran in a dash.

In the chaos I wondered, what on earth did we smash? Back home with our goodies, our groceries, many bags full of food, I got overwhelmed. Oh, I'm not in the mood. When what to my wondering ears I should hear, the sound of a gallop coming up near. With an old feathered head so rugged and strong, he jumped off his horse and then broke into song. Dancing around shoe after shoe. Sir, I am Chief. How may I help you?

Please bring our groceries in from the car. When I do it alone, it feels so far. Fill up the fridge, the counter, the table. When I have your help, I'll feel I'm able. Our turkey, our stuffing, our carrots and peas, my pumpkins, my apples. Help, won't you please? Please bake the bread and cut up the yams. Thanks for your help, I'll wash my hands.

And then in a whirl I heard on the ground the tapping and chanting and trotting around. As I looked through the window out near and far, he's just loading his horse up down by the car. He was dressed all in leathers from his neck to his toes and surrounded by feathers, well, all except for his nose. A quiver of arrows he had strapped to his back. He looked like a hunter about to attack. His eyes, how they squinted! His wrinkles, how deep! His cheeks were like sandpaper. His nose was so steep. His rough, rugged mouth, just straight at the edges. I thought he'd come bounding right through my hedges. He was muscular and strong, a gruff piece of work, and I grinned when I saw him. Despite my own quirk. A nod of his head, a slight wave of a— and a bend soon helped me believe that— can, can I just have a little minute, another half a minute, please? Can you just— a nod of his head, a slight wave of his bend soon helped— a slight wave and a bend soon helped me believe that I was his friend. He spoke but one word and continued his help. And filled up that fridge with nary a yelp. Back on his horse and a gentle prod, he trotted away with merely a nod. He gave one more look, then tightened his grip, then sped up his pace with the snap of his whip. But I heard him cry out as he rode far away, good Thanksgiving to all, and be grateful and pray.

Thanks, guys.

It was fun.

Thanks, Mike.

You might remember I was the attempted stand-up comedian for Summerfest this year.

Thank you. Okay, so now we'll move on to the consent items. Does anybody have any issues with the consent items and like to take them off and move them? To the regular agenda. Mayor and Debbie. Hearing none. I guess I'm good. Okay. So I'm good.

Can I have a— Jody, did you make that change I emailed you about? Thank you.

Okay, so on the consent items, we have approval of the meeting minutes, meeting minutes, City Council meeting October 26th, and then special meeting minutes on the election canvas. November 16th. We have city manager appointments where we are reappointing Ross Spencer to the Planning Commission and adding Jim Condie as an appointment to the Planning Commission.

Thanking Carl, who's off.

Is it Carl who's off?

Timed off? Yes.

Okay.

So, um, I'll move for acceptance of the consent items.

Do I have a second?

Second.

All in favor?

Aye. Debbie?

Debbie on?

Debbie wasn't able to stay.

Okay, thank you. Okay, we'll move into our schedule items. Public hearing, ordinance amending portions of Section 22-1-3C enforcement and Section 22-14-28F. Garage sales, to clarify language. Presenter is Jason Bench. It's like an hour long, is that right?

This should be easy, 30 minutes probably. So it's very simple. This is Heather and you, remember, did some cleanup ordinances. These ordinances were required to go through the public hearing process. The others were just done by the council. So you can see these 2, one changing misdemeanor to non-criminal. The other garage sale signs to accessory residential signs. So just a standard nomenclature that we've changed. So very simple.

Okay, does anybody have any questions for Jason? Since this is a public hearing, we will move— open the public hearing, and any of those who would like to speak on this subject. I see nobody jumping to come forward, so we will close the public hearing and bring it back to the council. Do I have a motion?

I move we amend portions of Section 22-1-3-C, parentheses, to the enforcement of Section 22-14-28F, garage sales, to clarify language. And one who feels deeply about garage sales, I'm happy to make this motion.

Thank you.

Do we have a second?

Second.

So, Mayor, do you want to go?

I—

Yeah, that was an aye from the mayor. Jeff?

Aye.

Aye. Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Okay, the motion passes. So communication items. Jamie, do you have anything?

No, Mayor Pro Tem, I already covered it in our previous meeting.

Thank you.

Okay, I'd like to have a motion to adjourn this meeting. So moved.

Second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Meeting is closed.

That is definitely of interest to you in your city. And Eric Graffin is our project manager, as well as our planning manager, but he's overseeing the 1600 North project. So we're going to turn the time over to Andrew. And if you have any questions, please feel free to ask those questions while we're talking about that specific subject. We're going to go through a few projects, including Geneva Road, 1600 North, but we also have some other work that we felt that would be a benefit to you to hear about. So, Andrew?

And then you guys have 20 minutes. Okay, perfect.

Okay, there we go.

Okay, so the first project, like Jeff mentioned, is our Geneva Road project. So this is the widening from University Parkway down to approximately 1800 South. We're still kind of trying to figure out our south tie-in on this one, but this is the one down in front of the new Elias Temple site. We've got design consultants on board. We've just kind of— we're pretty early still. We just started our design and environmental. We're doing the environmental reevaluation through this section. This section of Geneva Road was cleared back in 2007, I think, that had an environmental study that cleared the full corridor from Provost Center Street all the way up to State Street. State Street and Pleasant Grove. So we're kind of reevaluating just the section through our project limits. The ultimate build-out on this project will widen Geneva Road to 5 lanes, kind of similar to what it looks like right at Parkway, and it'll continue that further south, passing in front of the temple and down. We're trying to figure out that exact tying point on the southern end. Some of that may be kind of driven by project budgets.

Come in, Ash.

I know it's broken.

Can I ask a question? Why you decided not to go down to 2000 South? That's a pretty major thoroughfare and a lot of people will be coming. Seems like it'll be a natural follow-up.

So part— there's a couple reasons. So this was one of the projects that was mandated by House Bill 433 by the legislature, and they identified the project limits as University Parkway to 1800 South. Part of the reason, at least in my opinion— Eric, correct me if it's incorrect— but Lakeview Parkway is supposed to be coming in and tying in close to 1800 South. And kind of the long-range vision between MAG, UDOT, and Utah County is that Lakeview will kind of become more of the primary thoroughfare, and Geneva will kind of become a secondary route south of where that Lakeview tie-in is. Okay. So I think the legislature was looking at kind of that best tie-in point approximately where Lakeview will come in in a couple years. I know Sam Kelly with the city is working with MAG right now to secure the funding on that environmental and kind of start the process of getting Lakeview extended up and cut into Geneva Road.

So what it does is it just gives some flexibility.

That makes sense. That is the conversation we've been having with local staff, with UDOT and others, is the connectivity of Linkview farther north at 2000 South.

But we are moving forward with that. That intersection will be signalized next year.

Yeah, yeah. So we've got a different project, not part of this project, but we are working on a signal there and kind of some intersection improvements at 2000 to hopefully help with some of the bottlenecks. Um, you can see our schedule here. So we're hoping to complete our design later next year, roughly that kind of November-December timeframe to advertise. And then, um, kind of as it states, pending some right-of-way approvals, we'll have to get through the right-of-way process. We do have some fairly major impacts, so pending right-of-way approvals, we're hoping to have construction in the summer of 2023. We are coordinating with the Temple project. They are still trying to figure out exactly when their timing of opening is, but we're kind of hearing they may be in the spring/summer '23 timeframe as well. So we'll definitely keep coordinating with them.

And we've been advised by the church project team that they should be done and have a temporary certificate of occupancy by November of 2022, and then they will begin their efforts to improve the exterior, and they believe go till spring. And, you know, then they'll move in and do what they need to do. So we anticipate probably a spring, early summer completion.

Yeah, that's kind of in line with what we heard, the latest we heard, Jamie, is kind of that they're thinking kind of open house in spring. So yeah, project value is $20 million right now. Again, that was legislated, that kind of got assigned to this project. So, or like I said, some of that southern limit may be dictated a little bit by how far our funding will take us. So any other questions on this one before we jump to our next one? Okay. Yeah. So this one doesn't directly impact Orem. The main reason we wanted to highlight this one is because of the improvements that are able to happen along Geneva Road. So we're working with Vineyard City right now on a rail reconciliation— rail consolidation project that will move the kind of the Provo sub from along Geneva Road out to— kind of takes it from this blue alignment onto the orange alignment. We'll kind of push it out through that business park in Vineyard and then tie it back into the main line. What that enables us to do is we'll be able to remove all of the UP track from just south of the underpass with Geneva and I-15 all the way down to just south of Center Street in Orem. So that enables us to, like I said, we can look at improving 1600 North, 800 North, straightening out kind of the kink at 400 North at Geneva and signalizing that intersection. It warrants a signal right now, but the geometry doesn't really work very well to put in that signal at this point. And then that also opens it up in the future to widen Geneva Road if it needs it, and also for the city to look at that kind of bottleneck on Center Street between Geneva and the freeway.

So, and that's been— I'm sorry. No, you're good. Looking for Sam, but the Center Street project has been essentially on our radar for many, many years, and it's that railroad crossing that has been the bottleneck, because if we were to do build the project now, then they actually would expect us to build it with railroad crossings per federal specifications. And then when they abandon the railroad, we have to pull it out. So we'd spend a lot of money on something we don't need. So we've been waiting and holding out until we get that railroad removed, and then we can expand. It's a high priority project for us, but we're just waiting to make sure that we're getting, we're getting our work done after the railroad spur is removed.

You want to jump back one slide? Sure. So I guess real quick to highlight on this one, so we are still a little ways out on this one. We've got to get through kind of the UP processes. Um, so we're working with UP to get through their approvals process. So right now we're hoping to finish designing in late 2023, hoping to build it in summer 2024, kind of like we noted up there as well. That's kind of pending UP. We're kind of at their mercy as far as them buying off on everything to be able to let us finalize that. So like I said, so that opens it up and we'll look pretty quick from a UDOT side, definitely 1600 North. 800 North and 400 North, improving the intersections there and doing some work there. And then like Jamie just pointed out, Center Street is also one that the city will definitely, I know, want to look at. We've heard that from Sam as well. So any questions on kind of this project and the related projects that will follow? Okay. I'm going to do my best to speak to this one. I'm filling in for the project manager who's actually managing this one. He wasn't able to come. But we're working right now with the city to improve the sidewalk along 800 North, kind of in front of the Timpanogos Regional Hospital and near Orem Jr., on kind of both sides of the road. Right now there's gaps in the sidewalk. On the north side of the road, there's a gap between basically Timpanogos Regional Hospital and kind of this business park just east of there. So we're working with the hospital and with the city to extend that sidewalk, make it connected the full way down so that we kind of have a fully connected sidewalk on the north side of 800 North. And we're kind of looking at the same thing on the south side. Orm Junior High kind of along that frontage there doesn't have sidewalk in place either. And then kind of there's another gap between 400 West and close to 500, kind of where that frontage road, we'll say, kind of runs along there. So we're working right now to identify some funding on the department side to be able to, to put those into place and to be able to kind of get that continuous sidewalk along both sides of 800 North, definitely through this section.

So one of the things with that is you see the project value, $738,000. There is some money, but we're going to the Transportation Commission next month for seeking funding approval to get up to that 738. So that, that's something that we have to wait for any design work or anything like that until we get that additional funding, which we're, we're hopeful that the commission will approve that next month.

From what I understand, that orchard on the north side of 8th Street has been purchased, correct? Yeah. So is it, is it An expectation that they will develop to your specification? They'll participate in that?

We're going to go a bit more. We formed a connection through Councilor McDonald with St. Thomas Hospital, and so UDOT will be talking with them about completing that zero-edge tree orchard. So we'll have a planter strip plus a 10-foot pathway. Yeah, Tim Bonoglio owns that already, so yeah, Craig Hancock's the PM for that one. So Craig's going to reach out and coordinate with the hospital, kind of figure out how much we need to get from them to make all the sidewalk section work. So any additional questions on this project? Okay, again, this one's Craig's, and I'm going to try and speak to it the best that I can, and we'll answer any questions that you guys have. If there's questions we can't answer, we'll circle back with him and definitely give you guys an answer. So this one is kind of to improve some safety around Center Street. It's extending the raised medians along State Street at the Center Street intersection, and then also extending the raised curbing on Center Street heading west. The city has already gone in last summer, I think, and extended the curbing on the east side, kind of from State Street up roughly to the Smith's Entrance. Sorry. North, but East Smith's Entrance and kind of that west limit of the park. But this one is going to enhance safety. We're seeing a lot of vehicles trying to turn left in busy times, turning into the median or different things like that. So we've seen kind of an increase in accidents. So let me read these limits exactly. So we're going to extend the curbing along State Street from approximately 100 South on the south leg to approximately 120 North on the north leg, and then on the west leg of kind of the Center Street leg, we'll extend that from State Street all the way down to Orem Boulevard. So yeah, again, it'll, it'll help with safety by reducing the number of potential T-bone crashes, or yeah, the T-bones, kind of the lefts off of State Street onto 100 North, and then kind of same thing as people leaving these businesses and trying to make the left on Center Street as well. So, and I guess even out of the kind of Smith's, Walgreens, Jersey Mike's parking lot areas, a lot of people, even though it's posted no left, still try and make that left. So this one's out for advertisement right now. We're planning— I think we get bids back in the next couple weeks, so this one should get constructed next summer pending that our bids aren't aren't too much to award. So we'll kind of evaluate that and look for some additional funding to be able to build this project. And if I can add, this project's been in the planning stages for almost 5 years. Yeah. We had public involvement where we had a PI firm through UW-Madison meet with all the business owners. So there's been an extensive effort that's taken place. This was actually bid— it's been bid out once. It was bid out once, yeah. So I guess to Ryan's point, this one was a larger project before. So we were initially— this had Center Street and 800 North, kind of the Macy's intersection up there as well. But kind of, we did bid it out the one time, bids came in pretty high, so that's kind of where we went back and reevaluated. And I know there was some conflicts with the developer at Macy's as well about concerns with cutting off access there, so we kind of split them into 2 different projects. Craig's working on still looking at the 800 North intersection, but we wanted to at least get get kind of a couple of the priority locations taken care of. So does the Zacks piece for the King left turn at 9th go away? The left in? Yeah, it would go away. They'll have to access off of Moore Boulevard. They'll have to flip a U-turn at the intersection and then come back. There's access here though, isn't there?

Oh, right there.

And also, those lines are not solid as the image shows. That's not a solid median.

Yeah, that's just showing the area.

Okay, okay. Again, that's— so yeah, thank you for correcting that. You mentioned Wallaby's access across the street here would be closed off. That's not the case. That line would indicate it is, but that's still open for those transit.

Yeah, those lines are just showing the area of the median. either being extended or being added.

Thanks for clarifying that.

Pinchpoint at 800 North is the Macy's shopping center and access there. You have obviously a busy Macy's, you also have a very busy Starbucks. Trying to accommodate that use, especially in the corner at Starbucks, is one of the challenging pieces of that whole design.

I think especially that initial turn, like right after the library.

Yeah, so I know Craig's looking at that one in Macy's. That's still on our list of ones we want to accomplish. So, um, so yeah, thanks for your clarifications, Ryan. I've been involved in this. It all started based on crash data. Yeah, definitely safety-driven, high crash areas and trying to avoid those conflicts. So I will now turn the time over to Eric, Raz, and talk a little bit about 1600 North.

Well, thank you. Um, coming to Orem is kind of home. I started my career at Orem City, um, and so I always enjoy coming here. We're still hiring, Eric. We're hiring if you want to come back. Um, we went back to 1992, um, to the Mountain Lion Association of Veterans Law Management. They had 1600 North as a project identified on Phase 1. That was 30 years ago. We still haven't constructed it. It's not for lack of trying. The city has worked really hard to try and find funding, and it's a big lift. It's a $39 million project. And so, um, in cooperation with the city, we worked with the Transportation Commission in November of 2019, and UDOT took over the jurisdictional control of 1600 North. With that, that opened up funding. opportunities through the legislature. And last year, through House Bill 433, the legislature identified the final funding piece for this. So we're currently working on a state environmental study that builds on the planning efforts that Orem City did. We'll follow through that process for approximately a year. We're going to be looking at a couple of different alignments through that corridor. One would be shifting the entire corridor to the south, one would be meandering it to minimize the impacts. One of the things we're very concerned about is price escalation, inflation. Real estate prices have increased 25% year over year, and we're concerned about our budget. So we're trying to be as efficient with the taxpayer funding as we have going forward. So we're going to work through that environmental process, and any issues that are identified there, we'll work to mitigate those. Thank you. And then once we know the alignment of that corridor, we'll hire a firm to help us design it, and we'll start the right-of-way acquisition probably next year. Next year meaning 2023. And so the design and right-of-way acquisition utility work would happen in that year, 2023. And during that time, that utility work may have some impacts to the motoring public, but the actual construction of the widening we anticipate in 2024 and hope to— most likely we'll be expanding it to a 5-lane. It's currently 5 lanes on the east. And so we have an hourglass to fill in that element.

And we just recently had our first public meetings.

We just had a public meeting a week and a half ago and had really good feedback from the public. We had a total of about 120 citizens attended either the online or in-person meeting. So we're getting good comments back and looking forward to working with the city. Any questions?

Yes, so 2 questions.

One is, how many houses will we have to take out to do this? And then the second question is, I've had comments from people on the east side of 1600 worried about what happens on the east side of State Street. So will you address that? Because they've— yeah, As far as number of houses, we don't know yet. That's what the environmental process is going to help us identify, and we'll see what happens out of that. As far as on the east side, the 5-lane section is on— is at State Street. We have 5 lanes. We plan to tie into that. We don't anticipate doing anything on the east side. It's the east side of State Street, the other Orange City service station. So our goal is to be a bit—

So, Eric, is there a chance that with the study though, that we would look a little bit to the—

Yeah, the study, the city environmental study, we're going to be analyzing the intersection of 400 West. If we identify some issues, we'll work with the city to figure out mitigation, but our current plan is to focus between State Street and 400 West.

Sam Kelly's part of that, part of that team as well, and so he's— we're coordinating with him.

The funding that we have available, like I said, with price escalation, we're concerned that we're going to be able to get to that point. Maybe if I can just speak to Councilmember Pedersen's concerns about housing, and Ryan, if you could chime in. Over the last number of years, we've anticipated that this project will one day happen, and while it was essentially under city control, not UDOT control. The city entered into purchase agreements or arrangements with a willing seller. We were a willing buyer, and we purchased a number of homes along that corridor using Mountainland Association of Government resources for corridor preservation. So our intent would be to essentially try and Mitigate and minimize the number of properties that need to be acquired through this process because we've already acquired— I think we've acquired 8, 7? 7, I believe. 7 properties along the corridor. And when we went down this path, started down this path many years ago, we had people approach us and say, well, if you're going to build this road, you probably want to Essentially, take my— you're going to take my home. Are you interested in buying my home? And we said, well, yeah, we'll go through the appraisal process, give you fair market value for your home. We used MAG resources to do that. And so we collected this inventory of a set of homes that we have to put towards the project to minimize the number of takings that will be required, if any, through the environmental process. That was a real good use of taxpayer dollars. Look at the real estate market, what's happened in the last 2 years. That was a big money loss. In fact, several of the properties we actually are renting out right now. So, uh, we have a management company that— how many homes?

We have 4 rented out right now. We have one that we've demolished, actually. It was in such poor condition. We have 2 others that will be demolished shortly because of poor condition.

The amount of money needed to fix them up to rent them out was not worth the return on investment, so Those revenues that we generate from rent just go back into the corridor preservation fund, so we have a means to purchase additional property, or MAG has the means to purchase additional property. And then the city— or the state will pay the city for any of the right-of-way needed for the corridor widening, and then anything left over remains under the city's control for other corridor purposes. Any other questions?

Okay, thank you for your presentation. Thank you.

Okay, we'll now go to the Parks Master Plan. Lisa Benson, Landmark Design. Dave, if I can just introduce Lisa. I think most everyone is familiar with her as she helped us with the planning and Kind of preliminary concept design process with the press part.

All right, there's just a Oh, there it is.

After further review.

So back to introducing Lisa. I think something that I coined during that Hillcrest concept planning process was that, you know, that we were trying to make everyone happier. And so I think there's a number of staff that's been working with Lisa on this update to our Parks and Trails and Recreation Master Plan update. And so now we've just started calling— or they've gotten sick of me calling it the Make Everyone Happier Plan.

But as we looked back, at—

the last time our plan was updated was in 2017. And really, right around when we were designing Hillcrest, we saw that we had— the city had been fortunate. And then— State grants, we'll be continuing to partner with other separate property owners like the school district or new developments that happen. So we'll continue the multi-pronged approach to maintaining the I guess the needs and the parks and trails and the level of service that the master plan establishes.

Well, thank you for the opportunity to present the update and where we're at on this plan. As Bryn mentioned, accomplished a lot since the last plan was completed in 2017. We're not going to go through this list, but you guys have been very busy, so congratulations, and especially your improvements at the fitness center. That was the biggest priority of the last master plan, so you guys have knocked the biggest one off the list. And so this plan will give you a sense of where you need to move from here. One thing we've added with this plan version is a chapter on arts and culture. So that, that is addressed along with parks, recreation, and trails. At the beginning of this process, we decided we need to— needed to reach out to the community to see where everyone was at and see where everybody's priorities were. So the city hired Y2 Analytics to conduct another community survey. It was primarily the same questions as last time, although we didn't need to focus on the fitness center, obviously, with that knocked off the list. list. So the city is still doing well with its provision of parks and recreation programs. You can see on the bottom of the list there, though, that people are a little less happy with trails. There are a little fewer people that are satisfied with trails in the community. So that all came out in other questions as well, which we'll cover. The top priorities in this plan— well, we'll get to that. So some of the main takeaways from the survey are that residents wanted to see existing parks upgraded instead of new parks funded. 80% were in favor of upgrading existing parks, and only 20% wanted to see the CARE tax used to build new parks. And something to keep in mind with this survey too is that it was conducted in February and March of this past year, so we were still on our COVID winter, and some of the survey results kind of speak to that. You see that park use increased and trail use increased, and so that's some of the other results that came out of the survey. Walkability to parks still came out as a top concern and priority for residents, and that was really important in the 2017 survey, and it still came out in this survey. Just looking quickly at priorities, this is the question where we asked residents to allocate hypothetical funding to their priorities within the community. In 2017, upgrading the fitness center came out on the top of that list. That was followed by walking and biking trails, acquiring large natural open spaces, and then upgrading existing parks and playgrounds. So in 2021, the top priority is walking and biking trails, and I thought it was interesting that upgrading existing parks and playgrounds kind of flip-flopped with acquiring large natural open spaces. And again, I think that speaks to the COVID needs of the community trying to get out and get out in parks and get out into trails with their family. So some interesting results to look at there. Demographics— we used your updated population in this new plan, so we had your 2020 population numbers with the latest census data that was released. This graphic, I think, is interesting because it shows the trending of different population groups within your community by age. So the blue shows under 20. So you can see that the percentage of children is kind of dropping in your population over time. It's trending slightly downward. Yellow represents the age group of 20 to 40. That is going slightly up. The gray group is 40 to 60-year-olds, and that one is holding steady. And then your over-60 population is slightly increasing over time. So this just shows us that your community is aging and you have a birth broad variety of needs that you need to address with parks and recreation. We've updated all of the mapping throughout the community. This map just shows your existing parks and special facilities. And something that this plan does is also update your park categories. So last time we had your regional and community parks kind of lumped together, but we wanted to separate those out because regional parks typically serve a larger service area, up to 2 miles. Community parks are generally given a 1-mile service radius, and then you have your smaller neighborhood parks and mini parks. So we just wanted to help give you a little bit more clarification on your park categories. So one of the analyses that we do is looking at your level of service. Again, this is planning level of service. Keep in mind, this is different than your impact fee level of service. So we take those 4 park types that I mentioned, the mini, neighborhood, community, and regional parks, and we also added a category into this, this year called the parks in partnership. So those are facilities where you're either partnering with the school district or private facility, private owner, where you contribute either funding or you might help with maintenance, that sort of thing. So we added that category, and so this acknowledges that. resource that you're contributing towards. And when we add all of those acres, you have a total of 299.2 acres that can be used towards your planning level of service. And level of service is just a ratio of your park acres divided by your current population and then multiplied by 1,000. So we get a sense of how many acres you have per 1,000 people, and we can track this over time. Right now, the city is at 3.45 acres. Another analysis that we do is just looking at the distribution of parks throughout the city, and Orem does really well because you have done a great job throughout time of co-locating your parks with your schools. That has helped. I've never seen this good of a distribution in most other communities unless they do this practice, so that's been a really good practice and has shown a lot of benefit to the community. Another analysis that we did, another version this time, is looking at that walking distance because people said that that's so important to them. So maybe within a half mile, what, what do people have within that distance? And so we looked at parks in purple, other special use facilities were in green. That could be like a cemetery, you know, people can go out and walk around the pathways, that sort of thing. Or looking at schools, because you have fields next to those, or even parks in adjacent communities, because those still serve your residents, even though you don't have control over those. So you can see that there are a couple of gaps that open up when you look at this, and that southwest area of the city kind of pops out. So this plan— this map shows existing and planned parks and proposed parks. So we've added in any of the parks that the city has proposed, like the expansion of Hillcrest Park or the Southwest Park. This is including land that you already own that you will, you know, develop at some point in the future. And we're showing one proposed neighborhood park here in the southwest corner of the city. Right now, the minimum park acreage for that is about 3 acres. We definitely recommend more if you can negotiate for that, and you'll see your future needs will indicate that that would be required. Thank you. quite important to do. So future level of service. Right now, the city is— the residents are generally happy with the level of provision that you have. That 3.05 acres includes those parks in partnership, so we felt it was appropriate to choose a future level of service that was a little bit more in line with what you actually own to keep aiming for in the future. So, and then also note that it's pretty typical for level of service to decline as communities develop. So the older a community is, it generally has a lower, lower level of service, and we're, we're seeing that in a lot of our work. So that's pretty, pretty typical. Looking at future needs in 2030, if we take the 2030 projected population, divide that by 1,000, and multiply that by your future LOS of 2.8, you'll need a total of 295.5 acres to meet that need, you already have 299.2, so you basically have a surplus of 3.7 in 2030. So you're sitting pretty well that way, needs are met. But when we get to— sorry, I keep hitting the wrong button— when we get to 2050, that's when things change. Your total need will be 357 acres. So you have 17.5 acres that are already planned. That includes the additional 7.9 acres that you're adding at Hillcrest Park, and then also some acreage at Lakeside, the Southwest Park, and Heritage Park, which are newer properties that you own that are undeveloped right now. So you'll be adding 17.5 acres, and then if we factor in the 3 acres that you need in the southwest corner minimum to help fill that gap, it looks like you will need about 37.3 acres in the future. And as UDOT staff were just talking about, the sooner you can acquire the land, the better, or the sooner you can, you know, if you can negotiate for it, all those options are fantastic choices to help meet the need without outright purchase some of those. One thing that the city staff is also looking at are the detention basins within the community, trying to examine existing resources that you have that you may be able to add a multi-sport court to, or a playground. It may not be a traditional park, but it might help meet some of those needs in non-traditional ways. Some of the other ways you can help meet that need are— we talked about in your State Street Master Plan, some of those more urban parks and plazas, those sorts of more unique facilities, even community gardens or hybrid sports parks and plazas. And one thing that this plan does emphasize is focusing on upgrading those existing parks and also the trail network. So you've got a lot going on while you're trying to meet, you know, this level of service need. You also have these other areas to focus on, you know, adding your— increasing your trail network and then also improving those existing parks. So you'll have a few things going on simultaneously. The plan adds a few elements to the park standard section, and these are footnoted as definitely only where appropriate and feasible, because these improvements may not be appropriate in all locations. But lighted amenities, so maybe lighted sports courts, low-impact developments or green infrastructure, trail connectivity, and then again co-location with the schools, which the city has done a great job at. We've already tackled the recreation center improvements, which again was the highest priority in 2017. Looking at recreation priorities in the new survey, you can see that athletic courts and recreational programs kind of fall towards the middle to the bottom of the list, so I think people were pretty satisfied with the improvements that have happened recently and Those, you know, those improvements are still desired but don't have as high of a priority as the trails and parks and open space. Some of the requested facilities and programs for recreation, you can see here: dog parks, pickleball courts, splash pads, trails kind of on that list. I'm not— I doubt that's too much of a surprise. Also programs for children and teens. and outdoor events and festivals. So again, trying to make sure that you're covering all age groups, including teens. The arts and culture section, as I mentioned, looks at the facilities and needs of that, of that set of services that the city does offer. You have a wide range of cultural arts and cultural facilities within the community. And you already have a lot of fantastic partnerships in place. You have a lot to offer your, your community. And some of the recommendations that come out of that chapter include just working to expand those events and programs as you can, implementing that arts requirement that was expressed in the vision of the Arts District, and also making, making use of arts as a creative placemaking and community development tool, kind of tying that into your economic development as well. And then exploring the idea of the feasibility of adding some staff to help manage these programs and facilities. Diving into trails again, top priority, walking and biking trails, and trailhead parks is down lower on the list. So I think this speaks to the fact that People just want to see the miles added. They want to see those connections added. That's, that's the important focus. And this, this plan kind of defers to your bike/ped plan, which was last updated in 2010. So I think, like Brian alluded to, there's probably an update coming to that at some point soon. This is your existing bike and trail network. The yellow just indicates some hotspots. spots that were mentioned in the 2010 plan as needing improvement. There are some existing and proposed trailheads shown on this, and this is the existing network to be built out by hopefully 2050. This vision does include the Rim-to-Rim Trail system, which the city has been talking about connecting, you know, the mountains to the lakeshore. And in red, you can see here that is— the red indicates regional trails. So This concept shows regional trails along 1600 North, 800 North, 800 South, and University Parkway, and then, you know, connecting out to the west, and then also a regional route along 8th East. And this just summarizes the amount of trails that you're adding. By build-out, you would be basically tripling your bike lanes and then doubling your regional and Local multi-use paths. So it would be fantastic network built out. Looking at the implementation, getting down to quantities and dollar figures, we did an analysis looking at amenities within existing parks. And what we do is look at how many people you have per amenity in the community, how many people you have per tennis court or per basketball court, and we look at the NRPA national standards, and we adjust that based on discussions with staff and local need that you're seeing so that we make sure it's tailored to Orem's needs and not some, you know, national average. So we can reference that, but we look at your local needs. So right now it's showing that you have a deficit of 5 basketball courts, and the city's intent is to focus on providing multi-use courts in the future. So instead of basketball-specific, trying to provide facilities that reach a broader—

Given that many of the people play basketball in a church, do we need to maintain as many as other organizations? I mean, do we need as many of those?

That's exactly the factor that we're talking about. You bring that local trend into kind of the local use into this factor, and so we've tried to adjust for that. And so where you have courts that need to be replaced, instead of just replacing it with a basketball court, you add a multi-sport court so that you can use it for other activities as well. Pickleball courts, we're showing a deficit of about 10, and then sand volleyball courts, this, this analysis shows that you're short by about 3. The city strategy in discussions with staff is instead to rather than provide 3 courts, to upgrade the existing court that you have to a tournament-quality facility so that you can serve, serve those users and also help maybe attract other people that want—

So on the pickleball courts, Hillcrest Park, is that taken into consideration on the 12 or 11?

This, this does not count those courts.

So we'd be probably zero, or we'd be right on.

Yeah, however many you end up with it.

Where are our sand volleyball courts?

On the bottom? Where?

Cascade.

Cascade.

But you remember the dog park? Oh yeah.

Okay, so to upgrade those basketball courts or other courts to— or add new multi-sport courts, that's about $300,000. And then upgrading that sand volleyball court, about $40,000. So about $340,000 to help bring the facilities up to meet those level of service standards. When we look at your park costs overall, so we add that $340,000 into that, and then the acreage that you need. So 9.6 acres here to develop your currently planned parks. This excludes Hillcrest because you already have that planned, you already have that funded, so we're not accounting for that in this.

Does this include also the increase that we received from Housing Community? I see. Yeah, it includes the level of service calculation that Lisa spoke to earlier includes those values.

Yeah, but these improvements are for Lakeside, for Southwest Park, And then let's see, there was one more. Heritage. Heritage, yeah, that's the other one, Heritage. And then the acreage to acquire and develop, that 3 acres to fill those gaps, and then the 37.3 acres that's needed beyond that acquiring and developing. One thing I want to mention, in the last plan we had some of these calculations that assumed developer provided, and so we had some of that zeroed out. But we just wanted to show you the full implications, you know, if you don't— if you aren't able to, you know, work with developers, what the full financial obligation would be. So again, acquiring the land as soon as you can to keep these costs down, and then negotiating with developers where you can, would be very helpful. Trail costs. We assume— this plan assumes that bike lanes and routes are provided as part of roadway improvements. So those aren't— those costs aren't provided separately. But we do have the costs for providing that regional trail and the multi-use trail network, some lighting and safety improvements, those hotspot improvements that were mentioned in the 2010 Bike/Ped Plan, and then new trailheads. So about $18.8 million for trail costs. So pulling all of that together, you're about $67.3 million.

How much of that is going to impact trees? Relatively small amount based, based on what develops, right? So I would say, probably averaging $600,000 a year. But I'm honest about it. Yes. Thank you. For example, your help in reaching out to Temple Oaks Hospital and Helping us coordinate with you. That covers almost $1 million for the entire initiative that is identified here. So sorry, you don't get any kickbacks from that. But anyway, those types of partnerships are kind of what we're talking about. So it was fortuitous that that example came up.

Right.

And there are even strategies we've talked within our Development Services Department about conversations prospectively with developers, especially in the southwest quadrant of the city, as they develop, setting aside a certain number of acres within their respective projects and allowing them to build their project within obviously an expanded footprint, but to preserve a certain amount of the acreage and allow them to build remaining density on the property that remains. And so essentially it's what we call a density bonus, where we can essentially have a developer, a property owner dedicate the property to the city for a— allow them to develop on the piece of their property. Which is essentially quite, quite a popular, I guess you could say, strategy that cities in Utah use to accommodate additional park acres. Because as Lisa noted, it's estimated at $1.1 million an acre, so it's a pretty expensive ground.

And hopefully they give you something other than the detention basins.

Yeah, and oftentimes that's part of the conversation too. Sometimes a developer will come in and say, well, we want to give you this property. You're like, well, this is a 35% slope. I'm not really sure this is going to be very valuable as a park. So obviously there's a certain amount of negotiation that needs to take place for that to happen.

Right. So the plan also includes a summary of capital replacement needs over the next 5 years, and these are smaller replacement and projects like replacing playgrounds or paving, that sort of thing. Those are kind of those smaller projects, and it notes the different funding sources that that comes from. Looks like a few, few couple of years out of those impact fees, a little over $400,000 for each of those years. And then the plan concludes with an action plan. So taking each one of these items that you need to achieve And applying that over a time frame. And that top part also indicates the dollar amounts and what would need to be focused between 2021 and 2030, and then what would be 2030 and beyond towards build-out in 2050. That's, that's everything. Anybody have any other questions?

We don't have a plan to come up with that $40 million right now. We just have to We just have the target, we don't have a plan, correct? No, I think, you know, a lot of what we're talking about, and, you know, Lisa's broken it into the columns of '21 through '30 and then up through '50. You know, I think that '21 through '30 are manageable pieces, but we need to start thinking long-term about, okay, well, how do we get to that 2050 number? And when those opportunities do present themselves, Do we start? And do we have the means to strike? And again, it's— this is not set in stone. This is more of a plan, an idea as to what we need to do, rather than this is what we are going to do. It just allows us to prioritize the limited resources. And honestly, going through this process before is just making part of why we were able to get so much done over the last few years. And it's helped us as staff hone in on specific federal and state grant opportunities that frankly continue to come up more and more. And frankly, you know, Lisa's talking about the acquisition of 37 acres in essentially 30 years. In the last 4 years, we've acquired almost 20 acres. So it's not out of the realm of possibility that opportunities are going to present themselves. We've just got to strike when we have the opportunity, and those relationships are important. Okay, any other questions? Lisa, thanks for your time. I appreciate it. Yeah, so now we'll go to the Orem High School Park Lane District. Can you just write us a check? Yes, for the $40 million. Not a problem.

Let's call it good.

Yeah, it might bounce, so that's okay.

All right, so we received a petition from about 50 residents that live near Orem High.

There's a current residential parking district there in place already. We'll go over that. There was a couple streets over the time, we've kind of just added streets as the school's grown, there was redevelopment with school getting bigger. And so we've, we received this petition, we did a traffic study, and we're going to recommend a couple streets be added with your approval to the current Parking permit area. Nope. How about a click? There we go. Alright, so we just talked about the petition there. So some of the findings from the traffic study, you know, obviously they're going to be mainly high school students that are parking during the daytime on these streets. Obviously, that's because of the proximity of the school. And then what's forcing these on this current street, these 2 streets we're talking about, is all the other streets around it are already permit parking only. Some of the things that we've noticed are because of the students are littering, loitering, and then obstructing, obstructing traffic. Here's some photographs that we've seen some of the residents have sent us. Parking. You know, here's another one with this. They're littering the streets. This is a lady, a picture a lady sent me that's just outside her front window. Students hanging out on the front of her house outside their parking lot, or I'm sorry, outside their front door, making it a parking lot. So if you kind of look at the photo, here's our current district in the yellow. The proposed addition is just. One little street and a cul-de-sac, so it's 475 East and 350 South. So what we're asking for the council is we're just looking to expand the current residential parking permit program on the designated streets of 350 South and 475 East.

And did we get 100% of the residents requesting it?

100% as on that street? Yes. I don't know if we got 100%, but we had on that— those 2 streets, we had over 50 signatures. But did we get 100%? No.

Anything else that you think should be added at this time?

You know what, this is kind of the last little piece that's close to the school. If you can kind of see based on the map, obviously Ellis Drive is actually in the district. I forgot to highlight that. I'm not sure if this little 700 East where it goes into that little cul-de-sac is on there or not. Um, but based on their petition and based on just the overall what I'm seeing, this seems like the last little piece of the pie for this district.

Because that's further than the parking lot, correct?

Yeah, if you kind of look here at the school, you got the field house up here that's, um, you know, up north there. That's that The little streets there where they would cut across, um, you know, your seminary building. That's where they kind of cut across there. Your field house is right in here. Your main parking lot's down here. That's your football field, track area. So they're— the south side of the school's right in here. Um, so this is that 300 South, and then they're just—

that is all permit area only, but then they're just parking right here off this little chute. So Michael, is that— it's a large area, it looks like. Yeah. Do you patrol that area, or is it on complaints? And how's it worked out, the yellow area?

Well, now that we've got our parking enforcement team up and running, it's a lot better. When it was just patrol officers trying to do it just based on priority, it probably wasn't done as it could have been. So yeah, I would say on average, you know, we might issue 2 to 3 citations a day in the district. So our parking team goes throughout not just Orem High parking district, but all the residential parking districts. One of the things I'm working on with Trent Meltzen, and we'll get you guys here in the next little bit, is putting together a map of the city with Roger Dunn, and we're going to put it together where you have the map of the city. You can see where all the current parking districts are in the city of Orem. That'll also help our parking team as well. So when you get complaints from citizens or whatnot, you can say, oh, this is because of this, because you live next to a district.

Did that answer your question?

Yeah, thank you. Mike, is the Orem High parking lot filling up, or are they parking at a convenience Closer to certain areas?

Good question. Uh, when I did the study, I would say there was probably 50 spots available in the parking lot. Um, yeah, I mean, if you've got this— they're parking here on the 4 set. Keep pointing to the computer, which you can't see. Uh, if they're parking here, you know, you've got that south entrance right there at the school. Um, they can just, you know, all their classes are on that side. They're, they're saving 100 yards of walking, you know. And so yeah, so I think there is plenty ample parking available in, in the school parking lot for the students. So not by adding this one street we're now telling students they have no place to park. They have plenty of parking available.

Does the school charge a fee?

Nope, high school does not. If they do, you'd see that on your Alpine School District taxes. All right, so that's what we're looking at. Again, this is just kind of on the last one we did. This is just kind of our city code that kind of designates, um, you know, the city manager to then, you know, have the chief of police assign out, um, which I drew the short straw. these from Chief Adams. And, uh, yeah, so these are kind of the next steps that we're looking at. Um, we, uh, we will send out a public notice, um, uh, of the upcoming vote on December 4th, and we'll work with legal to prepare that resolution for you. And we will potentially receive feedback from citizens. I don't think you'll have any negative feedback. based on the amount of citizens on that street that want this parking district, and it's such a small, limited area that we're adding.

Is that all right? Yeah.

All right, so yeah, that's what we're kind of looking to do. I mean, it's pretty, pretty straightforward. The map?

The map.

And where's the, the, the parking range or the driving range?

The driving range. So that is going to be— see, you kind of see where the football field is, the green little circle? That's going to be just kind of in this area right off of Campus Drive.

So that's, that's kind of more, more affects the Campus Drive area.

Can they park there?

Can who, the students? No, no, that, that's all— it's only a daytime permit area. Maybe something I should have clarified. So this is only during school hours.

So it's just at night. Yeah.

Yes. So it's 7 AM to— I think they're posted 7 AM to 3 PM.

Including those nights?

I believe it's— the signs are just posted for the school time hours. Special events does not not, do not count.

Yes. School, school years as well, right? Only from like August?

Yes, yes, it's only during the school season as well, August to May or whatever that is.

Holidays off. Yeah, yeah.

So it'll have those special exceptions.

It's not like our Sunset Heights ones we, we just did where it's 24/7, 365. This is limited to the high school hours.

So that's your question? Okay, that's it.

I'll just look for that resolution from Heather's team and then potentially some citizen feedback during the next council session. Other than that, we'll go from there.

Okay, thank you. We'll turn the time over to Steven from Utah Fit.

Okay, Mayor Counts, appreciate the opportunity to just chat. This is the very beginning stages of something that we're considering going down. We wanted to get your blessing before we start investing in time into any kind of ordinance or anything. There's a, there's a state law on the books, Chapter 22 of Utah State Code, Utah Fitness Premise Act that allows— well, the law's on the book and then the cities have to adopt it. Cities or counties adopt an ordinance to enforce. And essentially what it does is it deals with the inside of rental properties and the condition and the minimum standard that landlords are required to keep them at for suitable living conditions. This is the big things: active working plumbing, working hot water, electric systems, suitable living conditions. So things like mice or other varmints. Aaron McKnight and Kenna and I have been working closely with Utah County as well as Brady Andreassen to talk through how we can address this issue that's growing in our community. We have the ability to do already on the outside of the property if there's issues, but when it comes to what's on the inside of the property, that's where the issues happen right now. So people call us, they call the county, nobody really knows how to enforce, what to enforce. The people that are generally most subjected to these issues are generally the more vulnerable part of the population. And the issue that we're specifically dealing with right now is with the housing crunch and shortage. And we've had this conversation with people specifically. People are choosing between, do I say something or do I live with it because I may have nowhere else to go? So, yep, Chapter 22. Protects tenants by requiring the landlords— this is right out of Utah Fit Premises Act— maintain a sanitary and safe condition, electric systems, plumbing, heating, hot and cold water, maintain air conditioning systems in an operable condition if they have an air conditioning system in, maintain other appliances, facilities as specifically contracted. That's just right out of the code. And then cities or counties are to adopt the ordinances consistent with this code to utilize their administrative remedies like the ALJ. So again, we already cite people for issues about on the outside of their home. We have the ability to do it on the inside of the home for very specific, bigger things that a tenant might be dealing with. These are actual— this is an actual situation that we're dealing with right now in Orem that we have no kind of remedy. We're working with the county. Black mold is forming in this apartment because of the windows that are leaking, and you can see that kind of all started forming against the sides. This is a significant student housing project, older one, that there's issues. Ken, maybe you can speak to where this project is because they have tried to work with the landlords on this one.

Yeah, so this one's near UVU, just below UVU, and we've had now 3 or 4 complaints from tenants over there that the repairs are not being done. You know, we've given them advice on how they should go through Utah Legal Services through the process. They've done the process, it's still not getting done. One lady, one apartment's been without heat for 2 months. This is the— this is her boyfriend's apartment, and they've never fixed this mold problem.

They've got some staircase issues in the outside exterior of the that are not safe. And just, you know, continuing to— they— this particular girl that we've been dealing with, she's had a— with the furnace, they told her to change her furnace filter.

As you see, they were not maintaining it, caused a fire, and the fire department had to come out. So—

And the answer— the landlord's answer to this specific is they brought in some space heaters that they can use in there. So they haven't fixed the heating, they just gave them some space heaters to use. So Again, they do have a legal remedy. I think, again, we're thinking about— and that is maybe the response that some in the landlord community would say, well, they can go through legal remedy, but you've got an 18-year-old being asked to try to sue a landlord and they don't really know the path to go. You've got single moms, you've got a lot of these other situations that that population is going to be challenging for them to, with the life they're living, try to think about the legal remedies that they they can pursue. We have the ability to go in and do something more quickly with an ordinance. Please, Aaron.

I was just gonna say the legal remedies aren't very satisfactory in the current market, right? Because the renter can choose to cancel their contract and move within 10 days, which is hard in a housing crunch, or they can do the repairs themselves and then discount the cost. Cost of repairs off rent, which sounds okay, except you have to have money up front first, which a lot of these folks don't. And also, it's limited to only 2 months' rent worth of repairs. So if you have a furnace that needs replaced and it's going to cost $5,000, it's going to be a lot more than 2 months' rent. And so those are the only things that they have absent intervention by us or the county, and that's where they're getting stuck in our place and where it might be helpful to have something else for them.

No, super. Yeah, definitely appreciate that. You know, another issue— this is actually happening in Provo, but this is through Utah County we've been chatting— this is apartment complex. There's a restroom just on the top, just above this unit, that the toilet is leaking. You can see on the right, it is leaking into the apartment below, being caught in a bowl. They have been through— they have been in this problem for quite some time. They're trying to go through their legal remedies. In fact, the father of this student who lives out of state is the one trying to work with his son to take care of legal remedies. They're going through all kinds of mediation. And again, no, right now the county or the city couldn't— couldn't go in through like what we have with the administrative law process and cite and require kind of faster action. They have to go through their kind of slow and legal remedies. And again, in the middle of a semester as a student, you don't have the ability to just up and move to another, another place. So again, these are, these are real situations that are happening right now in Utah. So why would the— what would the city do to get involved? Again, more than ever, people are choosing between these conditions and having no place place to live. Those, right, as I mentioned, are most vulnerable generally. And the rentals in this, uh, being kept in this condition has an adverse impact on the neighborhoods. And the inside and the outside of the property often mirror each other. So we have the ability up to the door. We want the ability only when invited. This is not— I should be clear, this is not a proactive approach. We're not going to inspect. Only when invited into the home because of the condition would we ever go in.

I wonder if they say no.

Yeah, then we don't go in. Yeah, the tenant doesn't want us in, then we wouldn't go in. But the tenant can invite us in too.

Does this apply to residential, regular residential homes or just rentals?

No, the law is set up for rentals. Homeowners always have the ability to take care of their needs.

It could be an apartment.

Oh yes, yes, yes, all kinds of rental properties. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that was the question. Is that the question? Okay. So what we would like is to adopt an ordinance that allows these violations to be treated the same way as other nuisance of our code violations, provide warning to the landlords to make these improvements when they aren't. And by the time we adopt an ordinance, we would know— we would work with Utah County to decide exactly how to go about the prosecuting process, whether it's just through a civil, whether it's through a criminal. You know, channel. Both are open for us. We prefer civil because it's a much quicker remedy generally, and, and it's not treated, you know, like a criminal offense. But before we begin drafting ordinance, we want to seek the city council's approval.

So you think, you know, the problem might be that, you know, these people didn't have to pay rent for a year because nobody can evict them, you know, from the federal level?

So is that You know, there may, there may be, um, some of that, but this is, this has been dealing with, we've been dealing with this for years, and Kenneth knows from our Housing Habitat experience, but this is not a new problem that's come up.

Yeah, we, I have seen, you don't even want to know what I've seen out there when we did home visits for Habitat. So in order for a family to apply for Habitat, we had to see what living condition they were living in. I can't even tell you what I have seen. It's really, really sad what people are forced to live in just to keep a roof over their head. Children should not be living that way. And a lot of it is just slumlords that are not taking care of their properties to a community standard, and, and then they're milking them for all they have. And they're concerned, they're scared, because that's all they have and that's all they can do. And, you know, they've got to have— they want a roof over their head, and they live in terrible situations. No plumbing. I've seen no plumbing. I've seen mold like you wouldn't believe. Children should not be living in that condition, especially with that kind of thing. I've seen it all. I've seen a family living in a renovated chicken coop in the back of someone's house just to have a roof over their heads. So it's, it's not great out there sometimes.

I've asked a question before. Heather is kind of hiding from my side view right now. Are we on good standing doing this? Have other communities done this? What recommendation do you give? Because this is just an ability to help often young people, or perhaps uneducated, or people who don't know how to fight the system. Are we on legal grounds to do this, Heather?

So in my brief understanding and reading of the Fifth Premises Act— Aaron actually is the one who's heading it up, so he might be—

oh, sorry, I'm sorry, I rushed out right there. Answer the question.

But I think we can take administrative steps that are not inconsistent with So, yeah, that's essentially what it says.

We can adopt municipal ordinances to take administrative action.

I, as far as what other communities are doing, I don't know what other— I'm not aware of other cities doing it. And speaking with Utah County, they've indicated a couple of counties that they know that are actively going out and enforcing this sort of a thing through their health department. And I know that ideally we would like to do that, uh, with our county. They just have reservations about, about doing it.

They just don't feel like they have the resources.

Yeah, and we have tried to employ the help of the county before in these situations, and it's been difficult. So if we do have a mechanism where we can help our residents and we can do it at our level, instead of at the county level, it would— it could be very helpful.

Yeah, the phone calls have generally said, depending on who's called first, call the county or call the city, whoever gets called, because nobody kind of really knows where to go. I did have a phone conversation with the Utah Apartment Association. Paul Smith is their executive director. He essentially generally lobbies on behalf of landlords. He was actually— helped craft this bill, Utah Fit Premises Act. And in my conversation with him, he said, if our ordinance is no more restrictive, which is not allowed to be, then Utah Fit Premises Act, you have our support. So I think I'm not downplaying that there won't be some that don't like this. Generally, that's going to be the case that of one of those few select that are generally the issue. Kind of mentioned we had one in our neighborhood just recently. We went in, landlord owned 2 homes side by side. Both of them at least 100 mice living in each one. In one case, we went in, the neighborhood came together to help this family. Mice droppings on little kids' pillows, in their food store. It's a horror. And this is the same landlord owning both. I know that this is not the majority of landlords. Most are good. Most really do care about their tenants. We just want to be able to have a remedy when those choose not to, to protect the vulnerable.

Jerry, I think this would go over much better if we somehow fix or soften the charge per rental, you know, that we've had some pushback on. Hey, this is my house, I rent out this other, you know, they're in my unit. If we could maybe have a discussion during our retreat, how do we handle the—

it's a $50 charge, if I recall. Yeah, not a per unit charge, though. But yes, $50.

But those who have the— where they're living upstairs and someone's downstairs, they don't want to pay $50. Maybe we could deliver some good news along with the enforcement, because I think most people, to your point, are trying to be good landlords. Yeah. But when they're not, if we could take the pressure off the good landlords on these— this little $50 charge and then implement this, I think it would be a better thing. But I think we need to protect people who are living in these conditions. So overall, how widespread of a problem is this? How often do we see this?

So the city probably gets, you know, a few calls a month, but I think it's because people don't know what to do. You know, I mean, like, like Steven says, indicative of the property is not being maintained on the outside, usually it's not being maintained on the inside either. And so with the amount of things we're enforcing on the outside of landlord properties, I'm assuming we have a lot more situations on the inside that maybe people just aren't aware of or afraid to report because of these issues.

You know, if I may, this, this could be part of a broader discussion when we talk about within the state of Utah, there are— there is a program labeled the Good Landlord Program where, for example, land— landlords can be extended rebates for some of these fees that we're talking about, provided they participate in training and they agree to essentially maintain their properties to a certain standard. That's something we need to look at and see if we can incorporate something like that into the program. So we say, look, it's not just— it's not about generating revenue, it's about ensuring fit premises and making sure that landlords and tenants understand what the expectations are between them. That's great. Good Landlord Program, it's quite expensive. Well, there's, there's obviously there's an administrative fee. It's not run— it's run actually run by the apartment association. Yeah, the training, much of the training. Well, what I'm saying is, I don't want to pay here and then I'll pay here. No, but there are, I think there are, and we need to, we need to do some more research, but I think you can through the apartment association qualify and participate in training and apply that training to not just one property that you own, but multiple properties that you own. And so it could actually result in a reduction of your fee, not an increase of your fee. It could mean at the onset paying for training and that certification rather than paying for a landlord license, but once it's done, then it's done, and you can apply that. I even think across multiple years. It's not just— So yeah, it's been a little while since I've looked at the details of it. So, so, Eddie, that's something we could look at.

Yeah, any, any hesitation or any questions at all, please?

I think it kind of becomes subjective because, um, I mean, some of those pictures look like the first place we lived when we got married. Yeah, I mean, there's, you know, if the window leaks, you know, every time it rains, if there's water coming in the window, if there's rust on that front door, I don't know where we draw the line that that's not a good window because it leaks. And yeah, you know, I mean, no, it's gonna be a little scary because you're gonna have people say, I don't want to have my landlord come and kick me out. Correct, correct.

And that's a good point. And I think the leaky— like in this case, the leaky window wasn't the issue. It was the it was the mold that continues to build because of it. So yeah, there's no doubt. And it's very specific in the— again, the landlord community drafted this bill as to what we would be allowed to go after. And it's generally going to be plumbing, electric, um, again, things like varmints or mice. Yeah.

Yeah.

Very, very conducive to health.

Yeah. That, yeah. It's, yeah. Good call. And again, ideally Utah County would adopt an ordinance and take care of this, and we would work with them. They have just expressed that it's not their interest right now to do that. See? Yes, please, Andrea.

Well, I'm kind of here unofficially. I do work at the health department. So the complaints— I had 3 calls just this morning, and it's not people that aren't paying their rent, won't leave. This is people that have sewage in their apartment. They have both toilets backed up and there's raw sewage in their apartment and the landlord won't come fix it. Those are the kind of calls that I'm getting and they're all over the county. Um, I had 3 this morning and these people are just at their wits' end. They're getting sick. Um, so it's not just a little rust around a window, you know, that's all it was.

Some people, like I say, they haven't had heat for 2 months. Um, the toilets are overflowing. It's It's really horrible, horrible living conditions that nobody should be living in. So I'm kind of here unofficially. I'm one of the champions. I wish we could do something like this. You know, at the health department, we are so overwhelmed and understaffed.

And we would need the—

at the last report I heard was about 12 to 15 full-time staff to be able to go throughout the county and to be able to go do inspections.

They're too busy inspecting pools, apartment complexes, tanning salons, restaurants, all of that. So the money's just not there for us to do anything like that.

Thank you. And I would mention to the last— and I know our time is probably up, but how this would work for us is the same way we believe it's going to act. It's going to be similar to how we do our outside code enforcement, and that is 70% of people address this once they get the letter saying, hey, we know about it, it needs to be taken care of. Most will, especially the responsive ones. The other ones, we would go through an administrative law judge process, but we have the software in place now. There's new CommCate software where all we would have to do is click a different button than the one about the garbage outside. It's— we would click a different button, send the emails, send the texts, let them know that it's there. We have this, we have that infrastructure in place. And we believe that almost all, especially all the good ones, They'll just— they'll get a notice and they'll say, you're right, we need to get it taken care of, and it'll be addressed. And that's what we want as well.

We would have the manpower to enforce that.

Yeah, we think so. We think so. Our NIT team is talking— they're aware of this, they know about it. And we can— we have the systems and they have the tablets to go in, take a few pictures, send it off. And again, we would work with Utah County to say, hey, is this egregious enough that we do need to go down a criminal process? We've been working with Ben Van Ooy, who's an attorney for the county, And, and, and by the time an ordinance would come, we will have these kind of the how that's going to work figured out.

Okay. I just want to say, I think 98% of your landlords don't see the stuff we talked about. They don't— yep, they absolutely agree. Absolutely agree. Repair their buildings. What I'm— and I think I talked to you about this with the $50 fee in that, that was just for the door. And with the landlord program, I, I just hope we don't increase fees.

Yeah, no, that's fair. All right, thank you. Thank you.

We'll move on to, um, statewide opioid litigation settlement.

Okay, I will be very quick.

No presentation?

No. Okay, no, it'll be really fast. Um, if you haven't already heard, the state of Utah has agreed to enter into a statewide— it's actually national settlement $26 billion regarding the opioid pandemic. The state of Utah has been negotiating with 3 distributors and 1 manufacturer since July on the terms of those settlements. Those distributors are Cardinal, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, and then the manufacturer that they're entering into a settlement with is Johnson& Johnson. Or Janssen as their parent company. So the state has the opportunity to be eligible for between $151 million and $270 million to address the opioid pandemic here within the state of Utah. The reason that there is a bit of a sliding scale there is that under the terms of the settlement, if they can get more of the political subdivisions of the state, so the counties and municipalities and towns to participate, the state actually gets more money. So the Attorney General's Office has approached the City of Orem and all the other counties and cities within the state and have asked them to participate in this statewide settlement. So I, I am proposing that the City of Orem consider— you as a city council consider a resolution authorizing us to start engaging in those settlement discussions The city has not initiated its own opioid litigation against any of the manufacturers or distributors. So if there's any opportunity to have a seat at the table, this is kind of that opportunity. That being said, whether or not actual dollars will make their way to the city of Orem, it's probably not going to happen. More likely, the money will be distributed between the state government and the county government. Which is appropriate because it's usually the county that deals with these type of health issues.

What does participating mean? It just means that we have to spend a lot of time.

No, no, no. In fact, just so that you all know, once you give this authorization, most of this will be held in this— it will be handled administratively. So we're registered with the National Opioid Litigation website right now. So we kind of have our foot in the door, a placeholder. And we have to indicate whether or not the city is interested in participating before the end of the year.

So you're joining a class action suit?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, there's already been this multi-jurisdictional litigation that we didn't join, so what we're really doing is joining in the settlement and kind of taking— getting all the benefits for not having participated in the process at all. So the state of Utah has been very active. There are a number of counties who have also sued manufacturers and distributors directly. But again, I, I don't know of a city that participated, to be honest with you, or who initiated litigation in this multi-jurisdictional action. Salt Lake may have, but I couldn't find any indication. So the plan is on December 14th is just to present a resolution to the city council that will authorize us to participate in statewide settlement, and then on authorizing us to, to kind of take care of it on an administrative basis, allowing Jamie to consider the settlement documents and execute them.

And I think if we did in fact receive proceeds from the settlement, those monies would be used for public safety purposes in the fight against gangways. So this is not something that would go to the general fund.

And to be honest with you, it's really probably the money's going to go to the county. So, but we, but we will benefit through, you know, our public safety programming and, you know, walks and programs, all of that.

The way I see it, if we don't sign on, then the number is towards $135 million versus if all the cities sign on, the number's up to $270 million.

So I mean, is everybody okay with that?

Just so you know, there is a likelihood that we— that they don't meet the threshold at the state level, that not 86% of eligible cities and counties participate. But okay, I think we should move forward.

Excellent, thank you.

The feds are going after the pharmacies now. Oh, the pharmacies that have been— Ohio settled before you. I just saw that on the news.

The pharmacies Walgreens and a couple others. Yeah, I mean, you— I'm sure that everybody in this room can think of someone they know personally that's been affected by this crisis. So this is, this is a great opportunity for the state and their local subdivisions.

CVS, Walgreens, or reckless in their distribution. All right, thank you.

Okay, now we'll talk about our city council meeting schedule.

Do you want to put that up?

Yeah, every year we are required by law every year to post in advance our meeting schedule for the next— for the upcoming year. Um, so what we do is we go through and we look at conferences, both staff that participate in and council participate in, and holidays and events, and try and make sure that we, you know, don't fall on any important important dates. This year was pretty easy. We pretty much stuck to the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month, except for a couple of months where there's holidays. And so you just need to review that. Let me know if you have any concerns.

If not, we'll approve that by consent next month in December City Council meeting, and we'll get it posted and published.

You'll fill every box in the calendar invites, right?

Yes, once it's all approved, yes. And this is just a proposed Obviously, you know, we can—

second, fourth Tuesday, unless we cancel or have special meetings.

Okay, thanks, Jenny.

Okay, good.

So we will now, uh, take a break for dinner. And, uh, Jeff, would you let them know?

Our Father in heaven, we are grateful for this opportunity to be together. Grateful for the opportunity of living in this wonderful community, and we're grateful for the good people that live there, for those who serve the city. And it's such a wonderful place to live. We're grateful, Heavenly Father, to be able to take time to enjoy a meal. Thankful for the means by which it has been provided, and we pray that thou would bless it. That will help us to be healthy and pray that we would use that health and strength to do good, to serve our fellow man. Pray for these things, Father, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

So yeah, Zach, there's chicken and salad over there. So what—

there's probably just, uh, like breaded and Grilled. That'd be my guess.

Is that what it is? Ball's in your court, right? I tried to call you today.

I'm sorry.

Yeah, right. Yeah, but I think we should be forced to do that too. Yeah, but agreed. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Yeah, yeah, no, that's not a bad idea. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, it's true. I was telling Brent that the, um, you know, they've gone after the pharmaceutical The pharmacies and the landlords are probably next that they'll go after.

So somehow they'll loop them into this.

Yeah, yeah, it's a great retail market of value.

Wholesale. Too close to Christmas. I don't think Becca would love, love that. Yeah, yeah, we'll be back. Yeah, definitely back Sunday. Yep. Minutes, and then also we have the appointment of Ross Spencer to the Planning Commission, and then Jim Conley has an appointment to the Planning Commission.

That's on the consent item. Everybody okay with that?

And then we have a public hearing about amending the Section 22-1-3 Um, C, enforcement in Section 22-1428, broad cell—

cells and clarified language.

So basically, a few words. And then the main topic I think has been removed from the agenda. Yeah, just a couple of things if I may. Um, just wanted to send a tickler out to your calendar. I think Christy will do this, but the, the mayor and city council— the new mayor and members of city council will take their oath of office on January 3rd, which is a Monday, at 7 PM at the Sears. So I just want to make sure you all have that down. And Christy, like I said, will send out an invitation. Want to put it on your calendars, 7 PM Monday, January 3rd. In addition, I've been talking with Mayor Young, Mayor-Elect Young, about retreat for you as members of the City Council. That is scheduled January 7th 8th at the Zuma up in Little Way, and rooms have been set aside. If you are— know some traveled back and forth a lot last year or had different accommodations, if you could just please let Kristin know, and we'll make sure that you're covered as it relates to the retreat. And finally, just based on CDC recommendations now, All individuals 18 and over are now— the booster shot for COVID-19 is available for them, and we are beginning to encourage our employees to continue down the vaccination process. Thank you. Okay, so now we'll have a report by Brent Sumner. He turned the lights on yesterday. That's pretty good. How much time do I have? Well, it says 2 and 2— 1 and a half minutes. Okay, thanks, David. I'm on the UVU UCC board. A lot of initials there, but anyway, we've only met by Zoom this past year, and my— I retired because they won't let me back on campus. Anyway, the big discussion, the big project has been the remodel of the center down there. Of course, that's been going on a couple years. But anyway, if you haven't seen it, it's really nice.

Really nice.

The commission I'm on is the Orem Neighborhood Commission. In September, we met and had dinner before we had a PowerPoint presentation on housing in Utah County or Utah affordable housing. As all of you know, that's a fairly new commission from December 2020, 11 members on it. Why I like that commission is we've got council members, former previous council members that I served with— one of them, Black, um, Mark C. Strand, uh, Karen McCandless. It's a lot of fun. But they look at possible code enforcement, um, and like I mentioned, affordable housing, and then also looking about transitional housing for those leaving jail or prison. I'm on the Public Works Commission, and they've, of course, they've talked about the well in the 4th South, a million dollar or $10 million tank, or 10 million gallon tank. And they have a new well that they took us and took a tour on. Was that last month? Anyway, basically.

Well, it was Central as well.

Anyways, uh, this is the Central Utah Water Conservancy State District well. It's just on Geneva Road about 4th North, and when it's completed, that'll serve, uh, the Saratoga Springs, Eagle Mountain, Harriman, and possibly others. But I found out today they stopped the drilling, and you can comment. They got down to about 1,600 feet on the test drill, so it's a little bit smaller. Did some water quality testing at different elevations and found it to not be harmful in any way, but it had some aesthetic issues— color and taste and odor— that they're pushing pause for a minute and determining how they want to proceed forward. There are some treatment options that you can do after it comes out of the ground. So they're, they're looking into what they want to do, but they pushed pause. That's why the sound barriers came down and the contractor mobilized elsewhere. Thanks, Dan. And also, I'm on the Library Commission. They have several activities, events coming up in December for Christmas. I don't have a list of any Christmas carols, sing-along.

But there's several events.

It starts December 4th, so anyway, you gotta look at that calendar if you're interested. Also, Cindy Clark, uh, has been working with local students to have students create art as part of the Orm Stories, and that's displayed in the children's wing. If you want to take a look at that. That's about it, David.

You're over by a minute or so.

I apologize, but, uh, all of you should have received an invitation from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to attend their giving machine ribbon-cutting or grand opening tonight at 7 PM at University Place. Um, meeting may be an appropriate length to allow you to do that. I just wanted to Remind you, it started at 7 PM. We'll keep, we'll keep it as short as possible. Thanks a lot.