City Council · 2024-04-23

Work session, uh, on item number 2. We already had item number 1. Which was our Arbor Day tree planting celebrations. Now we'll move on to a much more interesting budget presentation.

That's debatable, but it is a lot of money, let's put it that way.

So should be interesting.

It's much money we're talking about today.

Okay, so we'll turn the time to Brandon. Take over.

So just as our culmination of our work session meetings, Our next meeting will be the tentative budget, the first council meeting in May. But prior to that, the last item that we want to discuss here as part of our budget are our capital projects that are related to— part of the discussion around when we have our budget meetings and discuss the needs of the city and the things that are going on is how exactly we fund those. And obviously capital projects are big, generally speaking, big dollar items. And so we put together this presentation to kind of identify for you what a lot of those projects are. So you have an idea what those are. And a special thanks to Trevor Bell and Tagger here, of course, helping keep track of these and put them together, and especially Tagger in getting this presentation put together. So without further ado, I will turn the time over to Tagger.

All right, thanks, Brandon.

It's a pleasure to be here.

It's hard to compete with planting a tree.

I know this is some pretty exciting stuff, but, uh, this is fiscal year 2025 capital improvement projects.

Hopefully I put enough pictures in here.

I tried to put a lot of pictures on this page. We've got, uh, one of my favorites is the— you recognize this building here, the Geneva Park maintenance storage shed we did last year, and then some other stormwater projects, roadway projects. And capital improvement projects, one of my favorite things to talk about. Um, this slide's just a summary of the budget, uh, the different budget funds. Got CIP, water, water rights, stormwater, and streets.

There's all the totals coming up to a total, uh, cost of just over $17 million.

And the asterisk on the CIP—

the CIP fund is primarily Parks projects, transportation projects, and library, uh, the library project in that fund for that total of just over $4 million. And facility— Yeah, facilities. And the asterisk there indicates that that fund also includes land and water conservation funds, CARE tax down there in the corner, and then Lakeview Parkway Fund 2.

Sure.

Uh, pretty neat project is a cabin restoration project which is currently down at the water reclamation facility, being, uh, held there until next year where it'll be moved to Heritage Park. So the city will hire, yeah, special contractor who specializes in historical preservation to Take this cabin.

So you got another picture of it there.

No, it was built in the 1880s, so they're gonna restore the walls and floor and the windows and doors. Basically take it apart, put it back together, put a roof on it to a similar type of style.

We got this 3, 4, 5 years ago, didn't we? Seems like it was inside a house and we found it some years ago.

A few years ago, yeah.

Okay, thank you. Yep.

So that'll be moved to the Heritage Park on top of the— near the water tanks. So it's a pretty cool project.

That's found kind of close to Carl's Jr., right, Ryan? And when they were demolishing the properties, they found that it was sort of a house within a building.

Yeah.

So that's where that was.

Bill Fairbanks was the owner.

$200,000.

Okay, here, now the original builder would be shocked that we're spending $200 grand on us, right?

Oh yeah, $200,000.

I don't know, maybe we have as well a little bit of inflation there.

Uh, next project is Center Street and 800 North landscaping. This is your one of 3. Um, this is actually $500,000.

We'll go through a slide later on that shows $50,000 will come from the water fund. $450,000 will come from CIP. And I'll show you the next slide, the locations, primarily on Center Street near I-15. There's some areas there that don't look very, very good right now. A lot of weeds.

We want to clean those up, beautify that. So, 7 of those areas are on Center Street, and then we have this next picture here.

We have 4 more areas on 800 North, and these areas are all owned by either Orem City or UDOT.

So, that's the nice thing.

That's right.

Right.

So, this will be year 1 of 3, and right now we're looking at Doing the middle section right there, 2, 3, 4, and 5.

And then on the previous slide, doing all of those with this year's money. Well, several years ago we did a project on 800 North.

You can kind of see it there.

Well, it's hard to see, but, um, right there on 800 North to the east of number 11, and really cleaned up that area.

rock.

And we also have a monument sign there and some plantings on top. And then back in 2021, we did the Center Street project.

So if you look back at the number 1 area there, that's right there about 950 West on the north side of the road. We did a project which—

It's been pretty nice, I think, to plant that slope there.

And so that's what that looks like on the north side.

So we want to kind of replicate that on the south side. This is a pretty exciting project, Windsor Park. I just learned about it, more about it recently. It's going to include a multi-sport court, pickleball courts, a new storage, uh, restroom building, and improve the walk— walking path, lighting, benches.

Are we just replacing the tennis courts with sports courts or adding to it?

Does anyone here know?

I can speak to that. We're going to leave the tennis courts how they are.

They're in good shape because we refurbished them a couple years ago, right?

So Windsor Park, where the building is just to the west of the ball fields, yes, there's that old pad of asphalt right by the building that's got some old basketball hoops there. That's going to be an all-new sport court, multi-sport court that should have, uh, 6 basketball hoops and accommodate futsal. And then To the west of that, we're going to put in 4 pickleball courts.

There's a concept where you look at it.

That is my park.

Thank you.

You got us a new playground a while ago.

Oh, thank you for the— thank you.

Looks great.

Does it have the Jazz logo on that sports court?

Yeah, we've actually— Cardiff and Marty's been a big help to go after some additional grant funding. Uh, it's looking quite promising. There's a real good chance that we'll get some partnership with the Utah Jazz, and, uh, WW Clyde is going to donate a lot of concrete. Part of the, part of the deal is that we brand it with Jazz logos, which will be cool anyway. So yeah, we're looking at every possibility to save a little money here and there.

What are you doing to the walking path?

The walking path, you'll see the pickleball courts are kind of where they are. This is still up for debate. This is concept at the moment, but we are either going to swing the jogging path around the pickleball court or we're going to actually reroute it. And we're looking at being able to afford to replace all of that old asphalt. with a reduced scope of nice new concrete where it makes sense, and maybe we'll make the jogging path part of that.

We're, we're still trying to decide.

It'll be awesome.

And there's those trees, the trees where the pickleball courts are.

Um, obviously they're going to be moved.

They'll be in the middle of the court.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

There'll have to be a few trees removed. We're trying to find the best spot to not spook about the trees. So there will be a few that probably need to move, and we're trying to take that into consideration where we impact the trees the least. Um, any trees that we remove, we're going to replace one-to-one.

So, so, and then do you— will you have the timed lights? Are we putting that on our pickleball courts and all that?

So yeah, this, this plan includes lighting for the new courts, and we're also considering updating the lighting for the ball field Nice.

That's—

yeah, very cool.

I love it.

And then we've also got just a zoomed out view.

And if you can—

it's kind of hard to see, but the asphalt in those areas around those, those, uh, baseball fields, walking areas where the bleachers are, just in really bad shape.

And so we want to replace that with concrete.

And so it might not be as wide as this in the walking path area, but I want to clean that up and then fill in some of the asphalt area with landscaping, sod, trees.

You know, wait a minute.

I didn't like what you just said.

Did you say the walking path is not going to be as wide as it is now?

Might be through this area where the, where the building is.

Oh, okay.

Yeah.

Because oftentimes when I walk there, right, and Yeah, you have to walk off when you meet someone. It's actually kind of narrow.

Yeah, so just where the building is.

Okay, awesome.

But around the grass, it'll be the same.

Yeah.

And just back that amount, $1.75 million. And that also includes the—

gotta have an acronym in the engineering slide— LWCF grant. That's a Reimbursement, you know, Tyler, on that.

I'm sorry, I was answering an email.

LWCF money, is that the question? Yeah, is that reimbursement 50/50?

It's a 50% match.

And we—

I was in a meeting with them recently.

We're probably going to be reconvening because when we put the application together, it was almost a year and a half, 2 years ago, and costs changed.

But yeah, it's a 50% match.

Uh, 50% of this I don't believe is in the application though, as in we added lighting after the application was sent. We're going to negotiate with them and see what we can do to increase that scope and get a little more money.

So for those on the council that are unaware, LWCF is a federal grant that gives— essentially it covers the land Such that it has to be used as park space in perpetuity. Well, there's a number of parks in Oregon where they've used these grant funds in years past. And so anywhere where parks already came covered in that way, we've now found some success going back to apply for these federal funds, and it essentially doubles our money and doubles the size of the projects that we can deliver in these loans.

Is it basically a conservation easement?

they're putting on that property.

Yeah, I'd say that's basically—

yeah, wow.

I want to make sure that it forever is conserved as park space. And this park already has one on it, so when they're already encumbered, we're saying, okay, great, now we want to come back and we're going to improve these.

We want to re—

and it's encumbered anyway, so really there's going to be cost of this.

Well, and we've learned it gives us an advantage to get the money because it's a lot less hassle for them when it's already encumbered.

You just reevaluate and go through the application for us.

So it's been a really good way to make parks improvements.

And where, you know, I mean, by the ordinance that we passed, we want to serve parks and schools. That's our, that's our orientation. So it just fits in with that.

Yep.

So this kind of reminds me of Sharon Park, and we've also done some improvements at Geneva. So I think this is a great project for Windsor to—

And their pavilions, they're not even involved, right? We can go to that again, but there's pavilions there. They're far enough away, looks like they're not going to be touched, right?

They're about as far away as the main house.

Because they seem in good shape to me.

Yeah, they're fine. Okay.

Um, we are going to walk that and see if there's any other little things we can do to improve. Bryce and I've been talking about doing more to add more of the park.

We want to give the feeling of— Brooke said it perfectly— a new park rather than an old park with new amenities, right?

We're trying to see what we can do to give some really nice touches in all aspects. So there will probably be some new benches, maybe some picnic tables. We're going to try and soften up the hard space with some landscaping, and it'll be nice.

So just kind of so you know, right? So the center, the grassy area that the walking path is around, that's like the soccer practice, you know, and then the The hill, the berm. Everybody loves that. I taught my kids how to ride their bikes on that because you just took the little bike down, helps them work out balance. But yeah, you're going to preserve all that.

That remains untouched.

My son practiced soccer there as well, and that's been something we've been very mindful of.

We don't want to change any of that open public space.

You what?

I said except for the parking lot, but we'll drop to the bedroom.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, you're dead.

Then we have a new playground there as well.

Yeah, it's gorgeous.

I could take my 20—

my young adults there to play so they could experience it now, but I don't know that they would.

And then the Jazz logo.

Next project is parks, fiber, and security. Most of our parks already have Fiber accessible for each park.

So the next step now is to— multiple-year type project is to get security cameras, mag locks on the doors, sensors, stuff like that. So better security at the parks.

So that's $50,000.

Another really cool project, Bike Skills Trails Park Phase 3.

We've already done 2 phases.

The first one was just kind of a beginner pump track and short loop, or a small loop up north of Tippendogus Park. This project with the superscript there, number 2, you've got a couple—

you've got that Utah Outdoor Recreation Grant and the CARE funding paying for that.

About $90,000 is coming from the—

You also bring And the remaining 130 from CARE. We've got a really good picture here.

If you look up, can you see my mouse?

Yeah, yeah.

Right there is our water tank for Canyon Springs.

And then so north would be to the right, and then here's the highway right there, Provo Canyon.

Right down here in the left bottom corner is Timpanogos Park, and Just out of the screen here is the dog park, and to the, uh, to the east of there would be the bike phase 1 and 2.

So some cool features there. You've got some berms.

It's kind of hard to see, but each little red pin shows the different features. You've got some jumps, drops, bridges, fence, Right here where the trails start, you've got a kiosk. And the other section of the—

oh, go ahead, Brad.

Have we been working with the local mountain biking group to— in the design of, of this next phase and, and making sure that's kind of going along with, you know, the skills and, and, and features that the mountain biking community—

Something Tyler can—

Yeah, I can speak to that. We, we ended up working with the Dirt Lizard group that helped design our last one, and he consulted with Jason. In fact, Jason helped with this concept. This is just very preliminary concept, and Jen and I were just talking about putting a group together, including her and Jason, some of those to get with apps.

They're currently in design.

And we'll—

Jason, Jason Christiansen is—

He's one of the bike team guys.

He's one of the bike team coaches, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So yeah, we'll do that. The next part improvement project is sidewalk leveling.

We have a similar type of project we do annually every year.

It's called trip hazard mitigation. We hire a contractor to go throughout the city and we select different neighborhoods, and then they'll systematically go throughout the city and, and, uh, where the sidewalk is settled or heaped up and they have a, a difference there, they'll go through and cut that down and make sure it's safer. So this one's specifically for parts, $50,000.

And so there's the total, $2.7 million.

You take all the, all the amounts there, then you have your, um, Windsor and the bike skills trails park, the CARE funding contributing to those.

I think, I think what's really impressive about all that is just the level of grants you guys have been able to bring in to projects, because your money goes that much further and the benefits to the citizens when you bring in those grants. You guys are doing a great job with that.

Yeah, Carson's been coordinating with us on some Future grants as well. So really good job on that.

Next section of CIP is the transportation project. This is an ongoing annual type project.

We have $200,000 for traffic signals or traffic type projects. So that was $200,000.

The next project is 1200 West Center Street. This would be a MAG project.

A future type project where we would have some improvements done at 1200 West Center Street interchange at 15. And for any type of MAG project, as you're aware there with that superscript, city match is 6.77%. And we've got a picture there of just to make this intersection safer, be some options to have some Especially this one on the right where got students trying to get to UVU, maybe traveling this direction, or they can take this channelized right turn, loop around, and be able to get back down south or in that neighborhood there and not have to come out into the busier traffic.

So, uh, next one's Lakeview Parkway.

This is a pretty big project that is in year 3 of 3, $500,000. Got a picture of this one.

Just to tell you the extents of this, you can see my mouse there that we have a new intersection would go in.

So just to show you where we're at here, this road right along here is the existing Geneva Road.

This intersection right down here is kind of hard to see.

It's 200 South and Geneva Road right there. This development here is called Lakeview Fields.

When—

and this is an older image, but Lakeview Fields has now been built there. Then if you follow Geneva Road up just to the north here out of the screen is University Parkway. Where's the— to the north or to the south? To the north. University Parkway.

University Parkway is up there.

200 South?

That's 2000 South.

It's been rebranded to Provo.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, sorry. What did you ask?

Where's the temple? Temple in terms of the turn?

Temple is just before the turn.

Yeah, about right here.

Hard to see.

Yeah, it's right there.

I think this turn-in actually is for the temple property right there. So just There's 3 big projects going on right here, pretty big coordination effort. The UDOT project is from University Parkway down to this.

They'll build a new intersection and they'll wrap around here coming back down and tie into existing Jenny Crowe. That's all UDOT.

They're currently at about 90% design and hoping to bid out this summer. And our project, which is a MACS project, is from this intersection about 1500 South down to 2000 South.

So, city project, Lakeview Parkway. And then the 3rd project is Provo City is also building their portion of Lakeview Parkway that'll wrap all the way down toward the airport. And then they would also like to build 2000 South from Geneva-2000 intersection over and connect onto Lakeview Parkway.

Are you anticipating a widening east of 2000 South?

East of Geneva, widening. Widening.

What are they doing?

Um, when you say they're building that, they're just continuing the road through?

Yes.

And they—

and so they don't own that property, right? Isn't that the lady who owns the horses?

Uh, yeah, it's Provo City. That will be in Provo City's boundary. That will— have they acquired the property?

They acquired the property?

Yes.

Okay.

They've actually bid that project out and got pricing back.

Okay.

Yeah, they were hoping to have it finished by the end of the year, and pricing came in so high that they had to change their plans. Are still going forward with trying to do—

to install utilities this year.

So, and Lakeview Parkway, $500,000. The next one's Trail Improvement Fund for $50,000.

Purpose of this would be to connect multi-use, multi-purpose trails in Orem, sections that are missing, so we can identify those and go after those.

Does that include our canal bike things that were announced?

Which—

what do we have specific trails identified on that?

Yeah, so Mike Taylor's been working on these. These are connections between Vineyard and Orem down around Cheever Road and 4 South. Okay.

Also, he's been working on a—

they call it the Lake and Mountain Trail that runs all the way through Vineyard, up 8th North, and then ties into the bottom of the shoreline and Morrogh Canal.

So we're trying to fill up— fill these missing pieces in. This funding would go towards some of that. We're also pursuing grants, and this would be match money if we can get grants.

Next item, bike plan update.

Like to hire a consultant to update our bike routes and bike lanes and bike plans as part of transportation master plan. So those $50,000 go toward as part of the active transportation plan to go toward that match. And we're also seeking grants, trying to get grants right now for this type of project.

So, could I make a request? I would love to have my neighborhood commission involved in that. The bike plan update.

Sure.

Okay.

Yeah, I'm supposed to— a city bike group.

Yeah.

Well, we'll have everybody involved that wants to be involved.

Okay.

It'll be a big—

I mean, it's a project they would really enjoy working on and giving feedback on.

Yeah, that'd be great.

Yeah, bike world would love to be in the middle of that as well.

Yeah, they're always pretty much—

yeah.

They are the bikers, right? Appreciate that.

For transportation projects, the total comes to $850,000. Our last item as part of the CIP is the admin area remodel. Price can probably speak more or better to this than I can. This is the layout of the entrance to the children's library.

To the east here would be the parking lot.

Here's the main entrance. And the, the general idea here is to open this up, get a better, uh, open space there where patrons can come in and they can help them. Anything else you want to add to that, Bryce?

Okay, yeah, I mean, Bryce, can you give us a little bit more idea? My understanding is this is Essentially, to take our library to the next, for the future, right? With these new programs, these new, all the different things you've been working on. So, because it's half a million dollars, and so you can give us just more depth on that.

Absolutely. Yeah, this is, this is actually an effort that will focus a lot on some of our staffing challenges of the library, bringing the staff together, combining some of our desks, and updating what was a circulation desk. designed for all in-person interactions when this part of the facility was built 30 years ago. We're able to get staff a lot closer, the life of the book a lot quicker, automate a number of those pieces, and we'll be able to reduce some of our operating staff costs, not necessarily our librarians, but, you know, our part-time pages and some sort of like the labor of the library. And in doing so, that will open up 2 other physical spaces in the building that we'll be able to turn into sort of the experience space. We'll take it from a staff office area into some programming space and some community space, and we'll be able to take the funds that have been previously dedicated to just operating staff and move those to programming staff or experiential staff or even collection development dollars. So this is sort of that first big piece that will move us in that direction.

In that direction of a community gathering center.

Yep.

And also just to incorporate all the best practices of libraries you've been going to and touring, that sort of thing, right?

Yep, absolutely.

Okay, thank you. Thanks, Bryce. Next section is building maintenance, just to review some costs as part of the budget for building maintenance items. At $5,000 for bike racks at public parks and facilities. Tiger, if I could jump on that bike racks. Yeah, uh, Councilman Williamson, remember our bike ride with the, the group a year ago, and they asked for some bike racks in some more parks? This is what we'll start doing that with.

And we've added— we've ordered a bike rack for out here in the vestibule on the west side for those that come up State Street and go on a ride around the building.

That's on order and should be here in a couple weeks, hopefully. Again, that'll be the smallest one.

And that one actually brought up a good point because that was our— one of our residents, right? And she said, um, she wanted it in the vestibule because it was raining, right? Good on her for riding her bike in the rain. So to me, I think if that's something we could maybe look at as far as coverings, rooftops over bike racks, something to encourage or assist You know, the protection. Some of these bikes are quite expensive, so I don't know where they're placed or if that's even a— I don't even know how you design that.

When possible, I think we'll try to do that.

Okay.

Um, it does add to the cost quite a bit.

Yeah.

But I think anywhere we can find the option where we have an overhang or something like— yes, beside the city center here, we have that as well.

One of the overhangs, we can put it close to restrooms, storage pavilions, and even Where they can be seen with security cameras.

Yeah, absolutely agree. Next item, Rec Center diamond plate installation, $7,000.

Uh, have a lot of weightlifting going on, people throwing weights around, hitting the walls, bashing their heads into the walls. I don't know what's going on there, but they're scuffing up the drywall.

So this is one of the items they'd like to— they like to install these diamond plates. They're just a picture of one. They'll probably go about 5 feet off the ground, just in that area where they're damaging the walls.

So it'll make it look nicer and keep them from needing to repair the drywall.

So that's what that is.

Biosolid building improvements, $37,000.

It's part of the wastewater reclamation facility. This is over at the senior center, fence replacement, $13,000. That one's on its last leg.

Uh, $110,000 for new city center security cameras and locks. Fire station bay doors—

this is station number 3, which is over on 1200 West, just south of 4th North.

We have 8 doors there.

And Mark's not here, but I think, uh, this is in—

this will be done in conjunction with, uh, a garage door entity that's providing some amount of help as well. So it's sort of a— it's grant-esque in terms of like a local business is wanting to participate in, in helping us replace and improve our, our fire station for a discount.

Is that— I don't think donation— very nice donation. Yeah, they want materials, but maybe it's too much.

Um, depending on the station, so some stations there did need more than others.

Are they doing it at the other stations as well? Byron's working with them right now to determine the scope and to determine which doors need it the most.

It's Tyler, so a spin-off of his mom and dad. Sorry.

Oh, anyways, that's good.

He lives on—

he opened a business at 401. Wondering who said— I'll just—

they're being very generous in their donation, um, and they expressed a willingness to do a lot. We haven't wanted to, you know, the gay person out, so that's not what Brian's being— that's why we're trying to be sensitive about what the scope is.

Exactly. Thank you.

Next section is our ongoing funded projects. I changed it from on sinking, ongoing.

Thank you.

It's gonna say glass out projects, but not just subcosts.

That's right.

Nice.

Come on, Brandon, you can do this with that.

So this one When the rec center was built, we put in a snowmelt system.

It's north-facing. We all know in the shade that ice just doesn't melt, and it actually slopes toward the shade, just the way we had to build it there. And so snowmelt systems work really well, but the concrete cracked, so we had to go in there and repair that. When they went and repaired it, they nicked the glycol, and it leaked. So we had to repair that.

Now we've repaired the concrete, now it's leaking again.

So that's— those $20,000 is to go in and fix that system. So, so what the way that system works right now is the snow melt system's tied into the heating system of the entire fitness center. So if that starts leaking, it impacts the whole building. So this solution is to isolate the snow melt system on its own miniature heat exchanger and separate it from the rest of the building. So it's something we wish we'd done when we built the building, but now we know how temperamental these systems are.

They work great when they work, but they leak easily, we've found out.

Next project is the Sarah Full locker room boilers, $44,000.

Boilers can get really expensive.

There's a picture of the Boiler.

Uh, Sarah, concrete deck replacement.

We got some sections of sidewalk there that are cracked and need to be replaced. Concrete's really expensive, seems like it keeps going up. So that's the $37,800.

This item's for painting all buildings, $35,000.

This will be an annual type ongoing project that would cover Many different buildings. Public Works roof replacement and HVAC unit replacement here for— you have $138,000, $90,000 for a total of $365,000. So the total for the maintenance and ongoing is $707,000.

And, and just to clarify, all those year 103, year 404, that's just for this year? That's 4 times that or 3 times that, right?

Yeah, yep, correct.

The next slide is for water projects. We have $1,850,000 as part of that landscaping project to help install meter sprinklers.

Master plan projects for water would include anything related to the pump house near the water tank as needed, with pricing still an unknown of how much that's going to cost. We have that extra money there to add to that.

And we also have a list of water line projects that we put on hold through the past 2 years that are in queue waiting to be done that we can use this money for. And then we have a water line down— 12-inch water line we'll install as part of the Lakeview Parkway project that we'll use this money for that as well.

A water rec Fund.

They have $500,000 for maintenance, $3.6 million for master plan projects.

Master plan projects would include maintenance for, uh, rehabbing sewer lines or move and replace main lines.

And also part, part of the master plan projects would be the capital facilities plan, which is the wastewater reclamation facility.

So a big chunk of this money would go for projects that have been lined out at the wastewater treatment facility.

So, so back to that. So that water reclamation plant, that's looking at like $18 million or something, um, for that plant.

The wastewater reuse.

The wastewater reuse. And that's different than this?

Yes.

So, as we've over the last year, year and a half, as we brought kind of capital facilities by for the treatment plant itself, that's been quite a big number as we look over the next 40-plus years. And, and so we will still look to go out for potential debt financing, start to do the first phase of that.

To, to.

upgrade and replace some of the important components of the treatment plant. So, so this is just a small portion to make sure, A, that we're using existing fund balance to go towards that so that when we go to put it out for financing, it's as little as possible. And then we're also showing bond overseers that we're, that we're doing our part to So we're not just completely relying on pure debt funds.

So this actually goes towards that big giant project we've been talking about. These are just some of the critical things that have to come.

They're not going to be obsolete.

They're part of that project, right?

At least some of it. Now, some of it is like Tad was saying too, is we always have a list of mainlines out in our streets that we, uh, That we try to knock off some of those markings as well, in terms of whatever the worst ones are. So when we send the cameras down our different lines, then that's how we assess if there's a lot of leaks and it needs to be relined or replaced.

Thanks.

Next slide is the master plan stormwater projects.

This would include—

I call them canal abandonment projects.

The West Union Canal is in the process of being abandoned by the users, the irrigation users.

Our stormwater currently— there's many locations in Orem that our stormwater empties into that canal.

We'd like to get out of that canal because as the irrigation users abandon that, we're left with our stormwater in there as the only user of that canal.

So We would like to get as many lines as we can out of that canal.

So to do that takes quite a bit of planning, and some of it is really expensive. And there's some, yeah, really pricey options that we're still trying to figure out. One of them is, there's one that we did last year, it was the very first slide, a picture of We took at 4th South near Carterville Road.

We now have a line that goes into the Provo River.

So we got out of the canal at that location.

So we're slowly chipping away at getting out of the canal, diverting out of the canal.

This slide covers our annual streets projects.

Every year we do these projects to improve our streets. First one's overlay and reconstruct for just under $1.9 million of our slurry and crack seal, microsurfacing for $500,000, trip hazard, miscellaneous street construction striping, and concrete ADA ramps.

We just finished up our concrete ADA ramp project for—

that kind of went through the, the winter for $4.9 million.

How often are you doing the slurry?

I know you used to go through the neighborhoods every 5 years or something. That's still—

we're still kind of targeting?

Yeah, and we meet every year and reevaluate where we are with the state of the streets and adjust accordingly to try and keep that high standard.

Wonderful.

Just as a point, as Jen and I had the opportunity to do a tour of all of the The Public Works has a wonderful— they, they go through and they have a computer model of everything in the entire city, and they, and they track the highest priority.

And they—

so they know by serial and tracking and, and every piece of property and underground and overground when it needs to be done, and which is very impressive. And this is just now taking that into a model and then now having it proactively taken care of. And so I'm just really impressed.

Thank you.

Thank you. Oh, thank you.

What you do— so on the reconstruction, is that 950 North on 8 East and 400 East this year?

You're killing me, man.

Been like 10 years.

That's the—

that's the worst road in Orange.

Cracks in my road out front of my house.

No, go drive— go drive down Canyon View.

It's nice and—

you'll lose your—

sell your tires on that Porsche, babe.

I just want to lose my Phillies, man.

That thing's If we can do it, we will do it.

I know we're waiting on some utility permits in there too. And as you know, yeah, because Chris has been pushing it down the road and we got to get something going.

Yeah.

Now, I think 200 West is first because of the well and all those other big projects the water's tied into.

We can't put a new road on those bad water lines. And so as soon as they're good, we'll get you.

Yeah.

Sooner than later.

Actually, when we did the tour, they mentioned your street.

by name.

And they said they were not going to do it.

Dave Spencer's Porsche.

Let's make it a target.

11 years.

Let's make it a target for Dave Spencer's 70th birthday to have softer tires.

Softer tires.

I've heard of the road.

That's next week, Simon.

What's that?

That's next week.

You gotta, you gotta get moving.

Oh, it won't look as cool.

So just so everybody's aware, there's 3 revenue sources that pay for these roads. You have whenever you buy gas, there's an excise tax element that, uh, called B&C Roads that pays for a portion of this. And then on when you buy, buy anything that has sales tax related to it, um, there are 2 pieces in that sales tax, uh, transportation sales tax, which was initiated several years ago. And then just here this, this year, new public—

exact term is—

but public transportation tax was added. So those 3 revenue sources are what are funding all of these projects each year.

You don't know, Brandon, how much of this total comes from that latest tax?

I think we estimated it would— that new one would be around $2 million $1.5 to $2 million range, somewhere in there.

Okay, thanks.

Yeah, so maybe a little bit more to Councilmember Spencer's point. So we do, we do go through a very detailed grading system on all of our roads, and each one of these items will then kind of bump back up the grade for each road. And we take that plan and that data and we overlay it with What is the capital infrastructure that's beneath the road? And so that we don't— we want to make sure that we don't reconstruct a road or make it like new one year, and then have all the neighbors go through the pain of, you know, having their local road closed, hard to get in and out of, and then come right back within a year or 2 and say, oh, sorry, we've got to cut up the road and put in a new water line. So, That does require us to then be patient in the meantime, but that is at least kind of the method behind that.

Thanks for—

thank you for having that foresight.

I've seen other municipalities do just that. So thank you. Yes, you guys are awesome.

One of our main goals is we don't want to tear up a new road.

So we meet regularly with Public Works, Street Section particularly, Review all the roads upcoming over the next year or 2, the roads they want to rehabilitate, and then we meet with the utilities in the coming months after that to review over all those roads, make sure all the utilities are good.

So that's one of our main priorities is making sure everything's lined up.

And I should say it is more than just a customer service thing. Anytime we cut into a road due to utilities, It creates essentially a weakness in, in the road itself where then weather could get in underneath that new kind of seam, and then that causes sort of cracking or deterioration of the road even quicker after that.

There is just the summary again from the, the beginning of the presentation with our total for all the funds and then our total just over $17 million.

Anything you want to add, Brandon?

So I guess the other thing I want to add is keep in mind, every year we, in June, when we come to our final budget amendments, we transfer some money that has— at least we have in the last number of years— excess funds from the general fund. Large portion of those, particularly the CIP fund area, those funds that we transfer are paying for many of those projects. So just keep that in mind when we come to you in June, what we were referring— when we refer to those monies, that those monies are being used and have been outlined here as part of this presentation.

Any other questions?

That's it.

That's Dagger. Thank you, Dagger.

As long as you're up there, we've got, um, item number 3, a presentation, and that's construction standard drawings and specifications.

This is an update.

Not through with me yet, so bear with me.

This is the less boring presentation. Oh, I love capital improvement projects.

So in Orem, for a long time we've been using the APWA specifications and standards.

Familiar with that.

This is— this presentation is an update to our construction standards, drawings, and specifications.

And Tiger, APWA stands for American Public Works Association. American Public Works Association. I tried to get the class— sorry, my bad. So APWA, there's another acronym, American Public Works Association.

It was First published the set of specifications in 1991, just to give you a background on how long they've been around. I'll just go over quickly with you some benefits of the APWA standards and specifications.

One of the benefits of having those as a city adopting specifications is they make an attempt to stay current with the latest industry standards. They provide standard construction practices for contractors.

So every contractor out there, if I go to a contractor and I talk to them about the road base specification and compaction requirements, the type of gradation required for road base, and I'm in a different city and I'm talking with APWA, I can make a reference to that, and it's just good to have that common knowledge across multiple agencies and cities. It also outlines requirements for public works.

If they're maintaining a utility or road, they have requirements all laid out for them for utilities and infrastructure. I also have a consensus on—

I was just mentioning organization of specifications outlines everything in a nice table of contents.

And everything is very organized and put together very well. It also provides uniform construction practice among cities, counties, and other agencies. And they also provide updates and amendments to the specifications.

The most current APWA specifications are from the year 2017.

They try to come out with a new update to the APWA every 5 years.

Well, that would have been 2012.

They're supposed to come out with a new update to these in 2022.

And due to reasons I'm not aware of, I'm not sure why, but they still haven't come out with the 2022. So the most current specs right now is 2017. So we've been told that in 2025 they're supposed to come out with a new one, but they've been saying that now for a few years, so Our goal is to have this updated to the most current specifications.

So we use the KPWA specs for capital improvement projects, for CIP, for private development projects. Every time we put together a capital improvement project, we have a bid schedule. So we put together that bid schedule, could be 20 line items, 30 line items. And we outline in there quantities for each of those line items, and we put together what's called an MMP, measurement payment special conditions. So every one of those bid line items has a paragraph of information that will describe that item.

Everything would be included with that item.

It's detailed and lined out in that MMP measurement payment. And inside each of those paragraphs describing those items, we would call out the APWA specifications.

Related to that item with reference numbers.

APWA specifications for 2017, 897 pages. It's a large document. If you're bored and want to take that home and read it on the weekend, it'll—

you're really—

more power to you.

It's a page-turner.

Top of my list. It's good reading. So right here is the title page.

This is the Utah APWA Chapter 2017.

What we've done, and we got to give props to engineering staff and public works, they put a lot of time and effort into reviewing these APWA specifications. So we've created a supplemental document.

It's 105 pages long.

And what that document—

I just outlined it.

I'll just go through these quickly, but I've outlined a few things here: traffic control, concrete, roadways. Urban gutter, asphalt, landscaping, utilities including water, sewer, storm, traffic signals. So everything in this supplemental document is in addition to the APWA. It's a little bit more specific.

APWA is more generally based on the construction. It's more generic. So we've gone into the specifications and created this other document that's more specific here toward Orem and Or different methods that Public Works has approved in coordination with engineering. And what this document does is it outlines, say, if I want to find out how far to install a sewer line from a water line, I can go to this document and find out it needs to be 10 feet apart.

What type of hydrant do I want to install on a warm hill?

It'll have that in this document.

The type of grades or the type of pipe material that we prefer in this document.

There's a lot more specific items related to form in these items.

So there's just the title page, and then that's— It's probably hard to see, but there's just an outline of the table of contents. And the main items as we've gone through that document, coordinated that with Public Works. Any questions on any of that? This is really—

The way I'd summarize it is that this is, this is Public Works and engineering best practices. Sets a standard for us to make sure that we're constantly striving to be the best and learning from others' mistakes and don't don't make those mistakes that then led into these kind of, of standard operating procedures.

And so another part of our coordination we've done, of course, is we have standard construction drawing details. There's about 70 of those.

We've gone through and redrawn all those Taking a lot of time to go through, make sure the notes are correct.

Everything looks good here.

Tried to clear up—

an example I can think of, something we've updated recently, is our wellhead drinking water source protection zones.

Have our new wells at 10, 4 South, 4 West.

So the new—

I think I've included that in here. We included that in our new construction details showing All these water protection zones have been updated. So there's a lot of things over the years that it's just a process and things are always changing. There's better methods to come out.

Public Works has good ideas, so we like to include those in the details.

So just included a few details.

This is our trench detail showing a T-patch. The way we install the trenches to include a 1-foot additional construction from the edge of the trench to help reduce settling. We've got our table compaction requirements in there.

This detail is of our typical cross-section. It's got asphalt width, minimum depth of asphalt, road base, sidewalk width.

All that's laid out in a table that's going to be easy for developer or contractor might follow. So our water meter detail showing the type of line we prefer, the size of the can, stop and waste, different dimensions, diameter of the can.

Good stuff.

And this detail outlines what a pre-treatment catch basin is, the sump, Uh, big concrete corrugated metal pipes.

These, these are used to percolate water into the ground for stormwater purposes. There's our wellhead protection source map.

And in the notes, they're really small there, but it does outline where sumps are allowed. These different zones to protect the wells.

There's a detail for typical pseudolateral, and there's our standard 80-year amplitude test.

That's everything I had. So any questions?

I just appreciate Tagger's level of detail and thought given. our ability to make sure we, we do things right and learn from any, any best practices, both from ourselves and, and other public works and engineering teams. Thanks.

And Tiger, this would be on the next consent agenda for resolution to adopt these standards, is that correct?

Yeah, and put together resolution document.

bring it before you to—

Well, and I think you've done a great job here. I mean, our, our push has been more transparency, more clarification of policies and procedures. I appreciate you're putting all the time in to really step it up on that, this end, because, you know, I wouldn't have thought of this to have these standards.

So I appreciate your expertise in there. Thanks.

Any other questions?

Thank you.

Thank you, Tiger.

Thanks.

Okay, next up we've got item number 4, adjourn to a closed session in room 107. We've also got lunch that just showed up, or dinner, I guess.

Um, how do you guys want to do this?

Do you want to eat and go do the closed session?

Do you want to do the closed session, come back and eat? Let's take Plus what?

Take him 15 minutes.

Okay.

I didn't have lunch.

All about the money.

Yes, I think so.

Okay, let's, uh, I'm not sure how to do that exactly.

But we need to vote on the closed sessions.

Do you want to vote to adjourn and then we'll just go in a little while?

Yeah, my water here.

So I make a motion that we— wait, do we adjourn to a closed session to discuss— to discuss—

we can go whenever we want, right?

To discuss pending or reasonably imminent litigation, the character or professional competence of individuals, or the purchase or lease of real property.

Do we have a second?

Second.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Okay, we'll return to a closed session in about 17 minutes.

Sorry.

Oh, I'm so bad.

So I just asked the girl because if they're in a meeting, you cannot like not do it, but because they're adjourned, we can.

And because I don't know how long it's going I don't want people coming or commenting or anything like that.

What's going on?

So I'm just gonna end it.

Oh, this one, you'll be able to see everything live. So like when you change the camera, there are no delays. You can always like go check in on YouTube stream every so often, make sure it's— But usually You would know if something breaks on this screen too. Yeah, same stuff. So these, when you first come in, all the mics will be muted, so you'll just hit unmute all. Okay. Carlos or something. And then, yeah, these are the camera— these chairs are the camera selections. So if you want to— So like if they're presenting up here, I would click— And this one's for the podium, so you can put comments and stuff. I usually don't unless they're going a long time or something. But yeah, usually no. I just do the whole diets preset thing like that. Yeah, we're on share screen right now, which is why you— so this will be what people are seeing.

Let's see.

Oh, so if you don't want to, you just unclick it. Yeah, and then it would pull just video up. So this thing's in the learning. Um, yeah, sometimes you'll have to manually move the cameras, like for the new features or something, as you can Zoom out because they usually get up here.

Like, I asked you to—

yeah, it's pretty self-explanatory. These are the HDMIs. It's usually always centered for people presenting out there. And Blake would put it up back at this screen because I want people at home to see I'll hit share screen again when I'm actually up there. So they're seeing this right now, which is fine because we're done.

I'm still trying to get to this.

They're gonna send you somewhere. Is it for work or for pleasure?

Are your microphones on?

Okay, I'm gonna go get it.

How much time is left? 4 minutes.

Mine isn't that right next to his screen. My what? I did. You want to go ask Teresa to grab them?

Uh, I haven't looked at it. I just shared. Yes. Yeah, we sent Jody's. We have— Jody sent me something. I sent them, and I think they just included it into the appendix. We're leaving the blinds up. Like it, it's natural light. Oh, Pete, you want to sit up here? Show her the ropes. Well, I can sit on this little— No, I'm gonna sit in the back. Are you sure? Oh, okay. All right. So I'm gonna stop sharing the screen now. You'll usually— so then you'll be able to see. Good grief, this will, this will change. It's crazy how long the delay is. I know. There we go. Matt, did you pray for us to not break anything today? You say your— you say your prayers for us?

Oh, should I?

Yeah, you know how it goes.

I don't know, I sort of enjoy the chaos.

It makes it fun, it spices it up even more.

You know, that show all the bronies watch, My Little Pony? Yeah, discord in it.

I'd be as bad as Louie.

Anyway, yeah, I'm a little discordy. You ever see that show?

The what?

My Little Pony with Discord?

No.

I can tell.

I don't know who Discord— what is— no one?

I often see all these people.

There's so many people. Sorry. Oh, it's one of the main bad guys in Star Trek is Discord. Oh, it's basically the same character. He's a dragon.

I like having these windows open. It brightens it up. My goodness. I don't think they've been open.

Those are disgusting.

I bet you can't get it off. You need some heavy chemicals. Oh, I know, it would buzz and then fall. It is hot.

Yeah.

So yeah, anyway, you can control all the lights and stuff from the room controls.

Honestly, as long as these chairs are comfy. One's in 107, I can put them both back.

Oh yeah, well, this one I hate because it just like leans back without me like wanting it to. Yeah, it has its own mind. Look, it's like permanently leaned back. Oh, there's a little switch that stops it.

Yeah, and just like the— yeah, it's this one, and you do upper, down. Yeah, yours is broken.

Because this, this side has like a little knob thingy. Oh shoot. And it has like a— yours has a little workout for you guys. Somebody must have like thrown themselves back on. Yeah.

I know, I feel bad for all the guys.

They have like jackets and everything.

At least I get shorts and like short sleeves.

There's one behind him.

I know, they should use it.

I feel bad I kicked you out. I was like, hey, I can sit down there. You can still sit here.

We need to turn that— will you turn that microphone on? Just that gray button on it.

We'd like to call this meeting to order. Do it again. You want to gavel it?

No, I know.

Okay, I haven't— thank you. We'd like to welcome you tonight to our City Council meeting, and we'll start out with item number 4, an invocation, and number 5, a Pledge of Allegiance. Uh, Nelson— Representative Nelson Abbott will say the, uh, prayer, and his wife Kristen Abbott will say the, uh, the pledge. Uh, and before we go, uh, Lynnae asked you to Come, Nelson. I have a hard time calling you Representative Abbott because— totally good, right? We work together.

So grateful that Representative Abbott would take the time to come and, and give— and his wife Kirsten— to give the prayer and the pledge. Um, I just want to do a shout out. We appreciate your representation of Orem, and I'm especially grateful for your representation and your initiatives and advocacy for mental health. Initiatives in Utah. Thank you so much. Thank you.

Heavenly Father, we're thankful that we could gather together this evening and attend the city council meeting. We're thankful for the mayor and the city councilors and the other city employees, and for the sacrifices they make to serve us and to work to better Orem and to help its citizens. We ask thee to bless us tonight as we meet, that We may, um, be able to conduct ourselves with respect and with, uh, for the process and for each other, and that as we express ourselves, we may be able to show our care and our concern for our city, but also the, uh, care and concern that we have for each other and the citizens of this city. We ask thee to bless the city councilors and the mayor as they act and conduct business, that they may be guided And that they may have wisdom to make choices that will benefit Orem and its citizens. And we say these things and ask these blessings in the name of thy Son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

Thank you. Please stand for the pledge.

Please join me in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of 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.

Okay, moving on to item 6.1. We have a presentation, uh, our city birthday, uh, birthday of service event. Karina, if you could tell us about that. And Karina, if you'll introduce the rest of your group.

Well, Jenica is getting that pulled up. Um, we are thrilled to be here today. Um, With these 2 incredible individuals. So Jenica Jones, our Innovation and Strategic Manager, and then Laura Bascom, our Public Works and Volunteer Manager. So we are here to present on our Orem City Birthday Service Day event. As we plan for our upcoming birthday, we received guidance from our exceptional City Manager's office to find a way to give back to our Orem community. And we wanted to create something that would involve families and to contribute to the beautification and enhancements to our parks and also give back to our community. So therefore, we wanted to extend an invitation to the mayor, to all council members, and then to our Orem family community to come out and participate in this celebration of our 105th birthday. So it'll be on May 4th at Nielsen's Grove Park, and then I'm going to be passing the mic over to Jenica and Lauren. They're going to be talking to us about some of the special projects that we are going to be including in this birthday service day event and how it's all going to work.

Thank you. So, um, we wanted to do a couple of special things to commemorate Orem's birthday rather than just being one of the standard service projects we do. So one of the bigger things we want to do is replace this very old wooden flagpole, 12-foot flagpole, with a new beautiful dark bronze flagpole just to stand as a guide for the city and a welcome to our park there. So, and we're also going to be cleaning up the area here, removing some of the tripping hazards, just beautifying the overall, um, area. We would like to invite you as the mayor and city council to raise that new flagpole that day.

Well, I also want to beautify the The— oh, sorry.

Oh, yeah, let's do that one.

You can just push this button. Thank you. Okay, we'd also like to beautify the barn area where the restrooms are. So when people coming in and out of the restrooms, we want to put up some climbing roses that smell really nice. So we'll just create a nice pleasant experience for people. So we'll be— the roses aren't quite ready. And we're getting the trellises built, but we'll prep the area.

And we'll have a lot of other projects that day, uh, so it's for all ages. Families are welcome. They'll— we'll plant some new trees, reestablish tree rings throughout the park, weed and plant new flowers in the flower beds. Uh, we'll have a rock art project for the kids that will scatter the rocks around that flagpole area, polish the statue, clean up the pavilions, all sorts of fun stuff. So Come ready to get your hands dirty. We have about 250 people already signed up to help, so we're expecting this to be a wonderful event and a great way to commemorate Orem's birthday. So thank you, and we're excited to celebrate with you.

Thank you. And I'll, I'll just give a shout out to anyone out there that's watching this or listening to it. So whenever Karina is over an event, it's amazing. So if you don't show up, you're gonna be missing out. So come on out. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Okay, next up, item 6.2. We have a proclamation for Arbor Day, and we just planted some trees earlier in the city council meeting in honor of this. This is This is a proclamation from Morum. Whereas, on April 10th, 1872, the state of Nebraska planted an estimated 1 million trees, which became the inspiration for annual Arbor Day recognition. Whereas, Arbor Day is recognized annually throughout the nation. And whereas, Arbor Day is celebrated each year on that last Friday in April. in the state of Utah, and whereas trees beautify the landscape, enhance property values, moderate the temperature, clean the air, reduce erosion, and provide habitat for wildlife, and whereas the Tree City USA program was started by the Arbor Day Foundation in 1976 and is celebrating its 48th anniversary this year, whereas Orem has again been recognized for the 32nd consecutive year, along with 3,400 other cities in our nation, as a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation, and desires to continue its urban forestry practices. Now, therefore, I, David Young, Mayor of the City of Orem, proclaim Friday, April 26th, 2024, to be Arbor Day in the City of Orem, and encourage citizens to improve the quality of life in Orem by planting and properly caring for trees on that day, dated this 23rd day of April, 2024. Next up, and appropriately, we have item 6.3, a report by the Natural Resources Commission. So Matt Taylor, if you'd like to come up and present that.

Thank you, council members. Mayor, it's a privilege to introduce the Natural Resources Stewardship Committee to you. Um, every year they do come with an annual report to the council, and also in conjunction with the annual report, stewardship awards that they present. to various groups or individuals each year. Um, I've certainly been impressed, uh, as I am staff support to the committee. I've been impressed with the diligence of every member. It's rare that any of them ever are absent, many of them attending by Zoom call, uh, across the world even right now. Mongolia is one of our committee members, are Actually serving there as a tenure, uh, you know, a professor, visiting professor. I got— I'm sure I got the title wrong, but, um, I'm going to turn the time over to Quinn Meekum. Quinn is the committee chair for this year, and as soon as I get this up, I'll turn the time to him. Did you want the video or the video later?

Committee members, if you'd like to come up as well, join us.

Quinn, if you'd like to introduce your committee members as we get going here.

Sure. As Matt mentioned, my name is Quinn Meekum. I'm chair of the ORM Natural Resources Stewardship Committee. We are really grateful to have so many talented people with a lot of professional and personal expertise in areas related to natural resources on our committee. We have Paul Dunn over here on the far left. He's vice chair of our committee. Um, we have Sarah Bateman, who is a founding member of our committee as well. To his right, Darren Hawkins as well, who's on our committee. Hillary Hungerford is the, the one currently in Mongolia. We're grateful for her as well and her expertise. In addition to that, of course, Matt Taylor is very active in participating with us. Jen Gayles, our current city council representative. We're also very grateful for Debbie Luray, who served with us over the course of 2023. It's a real privilege to work with individuals that are so committed to this mission. So our mission is very simple. It's to promote the sustainable use of natural resources in Orem. And we do that in a variety of ways, and I'm grateful that you're also doing it as a city council. Thank you for your support for Arbor Day. at the end of April. That's meaningful to us. I'd like to talk briefly for those of you who are new to the council, help you understand a little bit of what we do in conjunction with that mission. So here are all the great faces of our committee. We do natural resources advisory for the city. So if you feel like there's something where you could use some committee input on, that's one of our functions. We spend a lot of our time educating and informing citizens. We build a community of stewardship leaders in Orem, individuals and organizations, and we celebrate the work that they do. We advocate for the conservation of natural resources in the city, and we work to build alignment across natural resources. Resources organizations, not only within Orem but also across other municipalities in Utah County, other organizations like the Utah Lake Authority, for example, as well. Some of the things that we specifically focused on within our mission this past year is we really decided that we wanted to be a leader in providing community events for for Orem that were both educational and enjoyable, that got people outside and helped them to understand their landscape and the resources that Orem has available. We also worked a lot on our educational mission, and we also did some advisory as well. Some of our events included an Orem Water Wise tour. We gathered people from across Orem to go visit a variety of homes and yards in the city of people that were really working hard to do water-wise landscaping, recognizing our particular climate as well as focusing on native vegetation. We learned a lot in that process, and we're grateful for those that participated in that. We've had a gardening event. We've had a bike around Orem event to understand how to get around Orem on a bike a little better. We've had a hiking together event. We have supported a free swap, which just took place again this year, this week, where people share things that they are no longer in need of, and rather than purchasing new items. So we're excited that we have worked actively to make sure we have one good Orem community event every quarter, and we've been able to do that this year, and we've had increasing numbers of people attend, attend those events. We also have an education outreach mission. We both seek to learn and to share best practices. We've brought in experts to advise us on a number of things. We're learning from other cities in the county that do a lot of great work in this area. We've learned from Provo and Lehi and others some ideas that, that we'd like to support in Orem. We've also been at a number of Orem city events with a booth and with information. We've supported the Harvest Festival with a booth. We supported our Earth Day booth. We had an art contest and provided awards for young students who participated in that art contest for Youth Day. We've been active in helping our citizens understand the various consumer rebates they might get from energy and water-efficient appliances and ways that they, they can take advantage of some of those rebates, whether they be statewide or national rebates. We've also advised on a number of items. We've advised on Heritage Park, on City Hall construction. We— one of our members is a member of the board of the Utah Lake Authority, and we've provided feedback to them on some of the issues of their concern. We've advised on the transport plan. We've supported the UVU Sustainability Summit. One of our committee members is very active In organizing that, and it's a great bridging opportunity from across the valley. We've advised on the landscaping ordinance in the city, and as well as the city energy plan, the Watt Smart City energy plan. And we look forward to opportunities to do those kinds of things in the future as well. In addition to our core mission, and, you know, we continue to work to plan community events and educate and advise. Some of our, our areas of focus that we're particularly interested in this year include building community, really helping people understand the marvelous ways in which Orem has really great natural resources for them to take advantage of and ways for them to conserve and protect those resources. We are interested in finding additional ways to partner with the city. on areas of your concern as well as city staff's concern. We're interested in expanding participation beyond our committee to have volunteers from across the city participate with us in a number of events and help to support this mission in a variety of ways. And we will continue to expand our media outreach to make sure that we're reaching more and more people so that they understand what we do. even though we've been active for a number of years, we still find that there are a number of citizens that don't know what we do and how we do it. So we're excited to help them understand that better this year. We've had a great budget discussion this year. I know that the budget proposal is in the planning process, but we've tried to be very deliberate about some of the priorities we want to spend money on this year. One of the things we're excited about partnering with the city on in particular is bike racks. We've had some good advisory from the Bike Orem group on where we need bike racks, and we're working with our city staff to make sure that we expand the range of opportunities for bike racks. One of our aspirations for Orem Farm Fest this year is that we actually, on, on the busy Saturday, we have a bike valet. So you can ride your bike, it will be stored by the bike valet for the time you're there, and that we're encouraging people, particularly because that's such a busy traffic event, to ride and store their bikes with our valet and then move on. We're also Very interested in supporting the water meter rollout this year. So there's been a lot of great work that's gone into smart water meters and helping our citizens understand their water usage and the ways that they might conserve that water. And our hope this year is that we can be active partners in helping our citizens understand how to use their smart water meters, their apps, and, and save a lot of money in the process. So those are our hopes for this coming year. We do want to celebrate both a couple of individuals and an organization that we would like to provide an award to based on their leadership around natural resources. So we have 2 awards to give out tonight. The first award will go to Arianne and Neil Newell, who are Orem city residents who have been really quite remarkable in the way that they have transformed their own landscape and the way that they've been educating the community around how to better incorporate native plants into our yards and to reimagine the way in which we might live in this particular climate in a way that's really beautiful and really satisfying. So, um, we recognize, uh, their leadership in that particular area, which is one of our, our water focus areas for the year. Our 2nd award today is going to go to Bike Orem, which is an organization, an Orem-based organization that has been newly active at helping us understand the ways in which we can be great bike riders in Orem and have the kind of resources that we need to make that a part of our, our life. So I'd like to invite Arian and Neil Newell to come forward, please. Darren Hawkins, member of our committee, is going to present the award. Thank you to the Newells. Also, all those who are here from BiCorps, if you would come forward to receive your award. Sarah Bateman, a member of our committee, will present that award.

Thank you so much for— it's been a pleasure to start getting the bike out more and have a more intimate experience with the forum. So thank you for having me.

Yeah, let's come on up and get a picture with you with the council. Okay. Oh, I guess Rob.

All right, here we go. 1, 2, 3. Thanks so much.

So I was checking on—

We are always looking for Orem citizens and Orem organizations that provide great role modeling for us, and we just really are grateful for the ways in which our citizens step up and provide leadership on areas that they care about that help to make Orem a better place. I just wanted to say in conclusion, for anyone who is listening, that we, we meet in the Resources Planning Development Planning Services room. Is that right, Matt? What's the name of that room? Development Services Conference Room. Development Services Conference Room on the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 5:00 PM, and those are publicly open meetings. And, um, they're warned, and, uh, the recordings of those meetings are available online. So we encourage anyone who would like to participate, uh, to come participate with us and to learn about some of the things that we're doing. We're looking for people who would like to be more involved in these kinds of areas, and we're just very grateful for a mayor and city council that provides support to this committee and for the efforts that we're trying to do. Thank you.

Thank you, we appreciate that. Next up, we've got item 6.4. This is a celebration of International Firefighters Day, May 4th, 2024, and Chief Sanderson will lead this conversation.

Mayor, Council, Mr. Bybee and members and citizens in the audience, my name is Mark Sanderson. I am your Fire Chief, and it's my opportunity to outline International Firefighter Day. It is a day of remembrance, recognition, support, and celebration where current and past firefighters are recognized, especially those who have fallen in the line of duty. This day began back in 1999 after 5 Australian firefighters were killed during an attempt to battle a wildfire on the outskirts of Melbourne, Victoria area. After their deaths, J.J. Edmondson, a volunteer lieutenant and firefighter in Victoria, Australia, rallied the— rallied to coordinate this day as a national and international day of recognition and remembrance. The date of May 4th was chosen from the link to the feast day of Saint Florian, who is the patron saint of all firefighters. Saint Florian was first known— was the first known commander of one firefighting squad in the Roman Empire who ultimately lost his life saving and in the protection of others. Saint Florian is a widely recognized symbol in the fire service. One would often see it on a challenge coin or medal of recognition. International Firefighter Day is observed in many ways. It is represented by blue, a red and blue ribbon, which symbolizes symbolically links the main elements of firefighters' work with red to fire and blue to water. These colors are also internationally recognized as representing emergency services. So it's, it's my honor at this time to invite you to join us. Orem Fire Department will be recognizing our firefighters on duty for each platoon on May 6th, May 8th, and May 10th, and ask you to join us for lunch on one or all 3 days. Um, that are available.

We'll be hosting this at Station 2, and I'll make sure that it hits your calendars. And if you have the availability, we'd love to see you there.

So with that, I, I'm gonna present you with this letter and then one of our department challenge coins that actually has St. Florian on the other side. So thank you for your time.

Thank you. Thank you, Chief. Moving on to 6.5, we have an award. Uh, it's 100 companies championing women by the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity. Carrie Rugg, if you'd like to come up.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. We're really excited about this opportunity to speak today. I would like to introduce you to Janie Shaw. She works with the Governor's Office of Economic Development or Economic Opportunity as an outreach manager. She'll be presenting to you the city designation.

If you don't mind, I'm going to read this so that I don't mess it up. Uh, thank you, Mayor and Council. The State of Utah actively engages in changing gender disparities for women, including improving workplace inclusivity. Your leadership in innovation and supportive policies and cultures is an example for other Utah cities, companies, and business people. The city was selected to be in this group based upon the excellence in areas of professional development for women, uh, Women in Leadership Scholar— sorry, the Women in Leadership Scholarship. flexible schedules and remote work options, family-friendly policies, and tuition reimbursement, just to name a few. So, on behalf of the governor and the Governor's Office of Economic Opportunity, Utah Women and Leadership Project at Utah State University, we'd like to congratulate the City of Orem on being selected as one of Utah's 100 companies championing women. So, thank you.

Thank you.

Do you want to get a photo? Yes, of course. And then— Yeah, this looks good. All right, 1, 2, 3. Perfect, thank you.

All right, all kinds of good news. Now we're up to item 6.6, uh, the swearing-in for the fire department. Chief Sanderson.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. As excited as International Firefighting Day is, this is actually even more exciting because what I get to do tonight is present to you 2 of our team members that have gone through a series of of interviews, um, with not only the floor members but our administrative staff. And 2 of the 4 have been selected to be promoted to the rank of Battalion Chief. And so tonight, if I could ask our chief officers to come up and line up next to Mr. Bybee. This is a new process for us as far as the, uh, swearing our command staff in from a captain up. From here on out, when we promote our individuals, we want them recognized by you all and want you to take part in this. And then the badge pinning is another part of our ceremony. So if I just— Battalion Chief Mike Dunn, Assistant Chief Lon Myers, Deputy— I'm sorry, Division Chief Ben Williams, and Division Chief Derek Spencer. At this time, if I could ask Dave Chase and Brian Boehner to come forward, please. And if you could stand on the stage and turn and face the audience, I'll turn the time over to Teresa to swear you guys in.

All right, so if you'll raise your right hand and just repeat after me. I, state your name, do solemnly swear that I will support, obey, and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the State of Utah, and the laws and ordinances of the City of Orem; that I will conduct myself in a professional and courteous manner; that I will provide Professional quality and compassionate service to the residents of Orem with dedication, pride, and integrity, that I will discharge the duties of my office with fidelity. Thank you.

They're usually much happier and more enthusiastic. That was not the interview that we saw when we promoted them. At this time, I'd like to ask Katie Chase and Becky Boehner to come forward please, and provide them with the Battalion Chief badge that they have the opportunity to pin that on their husband's chest. We got, we got paramedics in the room. Congratulations, you guys. With that, Mayor and Council, what I'd like to do is thank you, Becky, Katie. I'd like to get a picture with our exec team and you all with these 2 newly promoted battalion chiefs. And I have to just tell you while we're lining up for the picture that I'm very excited to have these 2. The experience they bring, the professionalism, and the true love for the job and the true love for the members of the department that are going to serve, they're going to make a huge difference for our leadership team. No, not— I always get stuck by Lon, and he's like a foot taller than me. It's not right.

Uh, here we go. 1, 2, 3. Ah, perfect.

All right, you've seen me enough tonight. Thank you.

Thank you, Chief. All right, moving on to item number 7, personal appearances. We don't have any personal appearances tonight, so we'll pass that. Item number 8, consent items. On the consent items, we have the approval of the meeting minutes from April 9th, 2024, and we have item 8.2, an appointment to the Heritage Advisory Commission. And this is for Rod Crockett, but Tom, if you'd like to say something.

Yeah, Rod's here. I'd like him to stand up. He's a neighbor, and as you can As you can tell, he's proudly wearing his Kiwanis vest and has accepted an opportunity to serve on our Heritage Advisory Commission. And I move that we approve these consent items, including Mr. Ron— Rod, excuse me. I'll second.

Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. The consent items are approved. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Rod. Okay, moving on to item number 9, scheduled items. We have a public hearing, an ordinance, uh, on the city manager contract, and Carrie Rugg, our Management Services Director, will lead this.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. Um, I'm bringing forward this ordinance for consideration regarding an employment agreement between the city and our City Manager Bren Bybee. Um, just to give you a little bit of history behind Bren's career here at the city— Pete, you got to get— you got to get a photo of him. That's a good meme right there. He became our ACM, our Assistant City Manager, in February of 2014 and served in that capacity until December of 2022, late December '22, when he was put in as the interim city manager. Then on— in June of 2023, by unanimous vote by the city council and mayor, he was put in as the city's city manager. I know that I can speak for all of the executive leadership team as well as the city employees in appreciation for each of you in seeing Brent's outstanding leadership qualities as he leads the city forward in building a better Orem. He truly sees the value in each individual he works with and is always positive and uplifting to others. Um, this employment agreement between the city and the city manager is not just a formality but an important step, um, for a positive working relationship. I'd like to highlight a few of the key items in this agreement for you all. This employment agreement does not change the appointed designation that is applied by state code to all executive leaders in the city. The city manager shall serve at the pleasure of the city council, and nothing within this agreement should be taken to imply or suggest a term of office or guaranteed tenure. This agreement continues for an indefinite term until termination by notice, vote, or without— with or without cause by the city council. The city agrees to pay the city manager an initial annual base salary of $200,000 for his services. The council will conduct an annual evaluation of the city manager's performance and may award performance incentive pay, which would be determined by the city council, as well as a market adjustment similar to what other city employees will receive. The employment agreement includes several benefits for the city manager. The city will provide a city vehicle and an additional contribution into his retirement accounts that's calculated by the average of the Public Safety Tier 1 rate and the Firefighters Tier 1 rate. They also offer the city manager to receive contributions into another qualified retirement fund as directed by the city manager. The city acknowledges the potential relocation of the city manager, or Bren, to Orem and recognized the benefits of him living within the city. As a gesture of support, the city agrees to provide an incentive for him to move within city limits. Any questions?

Mr. Mayor, I move that we approve— or is this a public hearing? Does it have to go out? Sorry, I have no comments at this point.

Does anyone else have any comments? Okay, there's not a lot of comments that you're going to get from us because we've talked about this at length. And we feel really good about Brent, the job he does, and the need to get him on a contract. So Brent does a great job. But let me open this up to the public and see if anyone has any kind things they'd like to say. At least one.

I'll do it. I'm Karen Adamson. Hey, Bren, I don't know you personally, but I've come to a lot of city council meetings, and I love your personality. You're very friendly, very happy all the time. And I, from what I know, which is very little, I think you're going to do a great job.

Thank you. We don't have any other comments. We'll close the public hearing. And we'll bring it back to council.

I'd love to make the motion. Having known Bren for well over 25 years, I'd like to move that we approve the city manager contract as presented by Carrie. I second.

Aye. Aye. Aye.

Aye. Aye. Aye.

The contract's approved. Thank you. Congratulations, Bren.

Yes, can I just verbalize Thank you. And, and my gratitude. And it is a, a solemn thing for me to, uh, accept this and to work for the city. And, and it's very serious from— and a genuine, uh, desire for me to serve you and serve the Orem public and make sure that you can hold me accountable and that, uh, uh, together we can make sure and provide, uh, the these very needed and meaningful services to the— our Orem residents, our Orem family community. So thank you.

Can I say one thing? I'm sorry, I have to say one thing. I'm, I'm actually very grateful that Bryn— that we have his talents in our city. I think he could go elsewhere from what I've seen from his leadership skills, his ability to herd the cats up here, as it were, of the members of the City Council. He's a natural in government. He could take whatever he wanted in the private sector, my opinion. So thank you for your sacrifice to actually help us build a better Orem. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay, moving on to item 9.2. We have an ordinance Amending Article 22-11-41 of the Orem City Code to include an optional use of interior climate-controlled storage units as a permitted use. Amending Article 22-5-3A in the zoning map of the City of Orem by rezoning the property located generally at 1385 West 1600 North from the Is that HS? HS zone to the PD-28 zone, and amending the Appendix L by adding the concept plans and building elevations for the Citadel Storage development as a permitted use in the PD-41 zone. Jason, would you present that to us?

Thank you, Mayor, members of the council. As stated by the mayor, there are a couple things that they're requesting tonight. Uh, this is located, uh, 1600 North, uh, right next to the on-ramp of— or off-ramp of, uh, the I-15. It's behind the, the Maverick, if you're familiar with that area. The Bowen Insurance and then Security Metrics are all along that street. It was, uh, years ago, and I, I wasn't here at the time, but I believe it was an old Stinker's gas station back in the '70s. And so it's, it's been around a while. It's been dilapidated and kind of used for storage for quite some time. And so the applicant is here to propose a different use on the property. In order to make that happen, they came in and requested that the potential to rezone or amend the highway services zone to allow storage units. Staff was very discouraging on that. We feel we have enough storage units and really didn't want to make that open to any other IHS zone in the city. So I encourage them to, uh, take the PD zone, which is surrounding security metrics, expand it to, to the west, and, and, and allow storage units only on that specific location within this specific PD zone. So it would not affect any other location in the city. It would only be, uh, the PD-28 that would be affected tonight. So what they're proposing is to amend the PD-28 zone That was done specifically for Security Metrics. So it was designed to allow Security Metrics to build a 75-foot-tall building. Ultimately, it's an 81-foot-tall if you have the screening around the equipment on the top. So this ordinance was specific to that. Appendix L, I'll show you that a little briefly later, basically outlines what was supposed to be built with Security Metrics. We're proposing tonight that what's proposed for this development also be added into that appendix. So the only thing that we're amending in the PD-28 zone is to allow climate-controlled storage as a permitted use. And then it just outlines the 3 access points on 1600 North. The base code is the HS zone, so they still have to comply with the HS zone with a few exceptions that are outlined in this ordinance here. So they're proposing to rezone that portion to PD-28. Like I stated, they do have a couple different concept plans. They're working with Rocky Mountain Power right now to try to vacate an easement. They have a substantial buried power line, and so they're trying to vacate that. Rocky Mountain is working with them, but they may or may not vacate it. So they've provided 2 different concept plans, one with it vacated, which makes it a little more room for a larger building, which is Concept 1. Concept 2 is a little smaller building. They move the walls outside of the easement, which you can see. Let me turn on my— you can see the, the gray. I don't know if you can see my hand right there. So that's a retaining wall on this. So they would move it out of the easement and move it closer, which requires them to shrink the building just a little bit. So those are the 2 concept plans. They're proposing indoor storage. So they'll have— you've seen them around the country. They're indoor, climate-controlled. They will have some office space on the top floor, about 8,700 square feet of office on the top floor. The rest of the floors will be indoor storage. They'll access it internally— externally. Internally, there won't be any doors. I guess that's what I'm trying to say, out to the public. They'll all be accessed internally. So what you'll see driving by is an office building, but it'll function as storage units with some actual office on the top. These are the elevations. We've encouraged them not to— like, you see a typical storage with the orange doors or the green doors that you can see visibly from the street. We've asked them not to do that so that you won't be able to see other than the Citadel Storage name will be able to be visible, obviously, from, from I-15 and 1600 North. They will, uh, if you're familiar with the area, there is an entrance between the Maverick and the, and the Levitt Insurance that will be their main primary access back to that building. Uh, the Levitt and the Maverick both have access rights over that easement, so they— it's a shared access that will go out to 1600 North. Traffic would be pretty minimal as far as access. There's small office component, small storage units typically are accessed throughout the day and even into the night. So there's not going to be a whole lot of focus on access and traffic into the area.

Will that entrance number 3 be right turn only?

No, it'll be a full access until such time as, as UDOT may in the future may restrict that. But right now it's Slated to stay as is, which is a full access. That's my Maverick that I frequent a lot. So you don't really want to go west. Yeah. You want to always go east, right? Unless, you know, it's 2 in the morning. But anyway, so we're proposing that these be put into the appendix. So Appendix L will include these 2 concept plans. So whichever one they decide on based on vacating that easement, and then the elevations will be included as As part of that as well. So when an applicant, if they decide to sell, come in and a different owner comes in, they will be tied to these elevations and they will be tied to either one of those concept plans.

And by that you're saying it will need to look something like this according to the development agreement?

That's correct. So yes, if it, if it looks different and they want to change it, they'll have to come back to the council to make that change.

And how many, how many stories is it?

I believe it's 4 stories.

So it's 72 feet high. So they're really big stories, right? Right. I mean, normally that would be like 6, 7 stories, right? 72 feet. 6, 5.

Yeah, that's a good question.

I'm not sure how much room you have HVACs, but yeah.

Yeah, I think they're taller than your standard 8-foot.

Yeah. Jason, this has been a piece of ground that has been attempted to be developed for years, right? Yep. And, and this seems like you found a solution. Maybe you're going to tell us how the Planning Commission felt about it.

So it was a positive recommendation. Yeah, there was— trying to think now— 7 to 0 for approval.

That's pretty positive. Yeah.

Thank you. Jason, would you go back to the site plan? So I'm wondering, you know, I noticed we've got some condos right there to the south. Is there a way we can encourage some trees or some type of additional buffer Along that south edge? I mean, I don't know, how wide is that grassy strip?

Without looking at it, it's probably 10, 15 feet.

Would that be appropriate, or do you think we could encourage— it would just beautify it more.

Yeah, so yeah, this is just an ordinance, so they will have to come back to Planning Commission. We would definitely, as part of that landscaping plan, encourage that to be planted. Absolutely. Perfect, thank you.

Do you know how tall that is? Is it Security Metrics that's next door?

Security is 81 feet tall. To the, the top of the parapet.

And this would be 70— 72. Yeah. And but Security Metrics doesn't own this property. This is somebody completely independent who's trying to do this, correct? Yep.

Uh, were there any reservations from Security Metrics? Have they been in contact?

I know one of our planning commissioners did talk to the owner, but we have not heard heard anything from him or residents at this point. They did hold a neighborhood meeting, and from my understanding, they were fairly positive. Just to show— I— you all have probably seen what it looks like. It would definitely be beautification to the location. And as mentioned, the Planning Commission did make a recommendation to the council modify the text and rezone the property to the PD 28 zone. Be glad to address any questions.

Any idea how many units of cold storage are in this?

Yes, uh, let me go to the actual site plan. So in the one— this option, there's 975. So the, the smaller one units, so they're, you know, small ones to probably some medium-sized, all accessed internally, uh, with 6,750 square feet of office. The option that they, if they can get the easements vacated, they'll have 8,750 square feet of office with 1,200 indoor storage units. So my guess is the majority of them will be the smaller—

So they're just teeny little storage units?

Most likely most of them will be the small ones.

So, and what, I mean, I don't know anything about this particular business model, but I mean, that's a lot of little storage units to fill. What What do they put in those? What do people rent those for?

So I would imagine with being acclimatized, you can do, uh, you know, plans, paper, those type of things that may be accessible to heat and exposure to that effect. So you'll get a lot of probably office uses storing their secure information, things like that. That's probably not, you know, like a vault. It's going to be more of something that, you know, isn't high security, but it's something that they would store, and it could be anywhere from the household uses to business materials and different things like that. But there's a lot of them. I don't know if you've seen throughout the country that there's a lot of these types of facilities that are going in that seem to be more of a fit, in my opinion, into the neighborhoods that are not looking like a typical storage unit, but they're more of an office-looking development.

So, would you zoom just for the record, the visual record? Zoom in that building closer. So it's on the record of the square footage and the real layout, just that, like you did before on both versions.

So there's the— there's a tabulation table. Do you want me to go into the actual—

Yeah, and then go over to the picture too, just so we have that in there. Oops. Wow.

Sorry about that.

I think it's more the picture that's harder to read. There you go.

Yeah, so the larger one is 8,750 square feet of office. And then the, the other one would be 6,750.

So the, the entire top floor is office, right? And do they— do we know if they've— maybe too far, not far enough into the process to know if we've got Businesses that want to rent that office space.

I'm not positive if it's their corporate offices or if they're going to lease it out. I'm not positive on that.

We have any other questions? Yeah, let's go ahead and open this to a public hearing. There's anyone that would like to come up and comment? No. I guess I'm part of the public. I guess, uh, we're the— we're the developer. Thanks, Jason. Appreciate that. Um, just a couple of thoughts for you. So, um, Council Member Mellett, the— the— on the south side, uh, there will be some landscaping there between the residential area. There's also a 7-foot, uh, uh, precast wall that— that's required by the city ordinance that goes in there. And so there is a separation. Yeah. And yeah, our intent is to, to build up, utilize the top floor for our office space. Yeah. And so it's a, it's a neat project. I'm excited to be back in Orem to do a project here. We— I started my married life here in Orem, and now back doing a project here for Orem. But You can tell it's a great city. And when we first started looking for a project spot for this, we went kind of up and down the corridor trying to find a place where we could have good access. And then when we ran across this property here, the first thing we thought of was, this is a gateway to Orem. And right there, 1600 North and the freeway. And when we started looking at the property, the condition of the property where it's at, we thought, wow, we could, we could really improve that and make it a really nice property as you enter the gateway here. And so we teamed up. My, my job is to kind of work with stakeholders and the municipalities and, and try to pull together a plan that works good for everybody. And so we engaged with the city, and hats off to the city staff. We threw out some ideas and they threw out some ideas, and what you see up here now is kind of what we unitedly came up with that seems to work for everybody. And it's a beautiful— it's a beautiful building, and the architects have gone into quite a bit of detail already. But, uh, we'll finish that up and, uh, and make it a beautiful spot for the city. And so, uh, any questions, I'd certainly try to answer them for you. Yeah, from my perspective, that's where it is, one of our gateways coming into the city. We want it to be beautiful. We want it to really look great. Um, and to my previous question, can you just give us a little bit of more of an idea on the business model of how this works. I'm just curious how you, how you ramp up. And I mean, you got to get to breakeven. And I'm just curious how your whole business model works. It just seems like a whole lot of cold storage units to me. But yeah. So what we, what we do is we engage a group that will do a feasibility study. So they study the logistics of the whole area. out here, and they do comparisons on what kind of storage is needed for a certain density of population, especially with a city like Orem that's pretty well built out, and there's a lot of people in this area, and especially going to the west. And so the feasibility study identifies the needs for a storage unit, and obviously A combination storage with, with the office is really ideal. It works well. And then as we get into it a little bit more, we'll do a little more study and figure out what sizes of storage units are needed for this area right here. So we kind of hone it in right now. We're out here like this. And, and then we'll hone that in just a little bit. And so, uh, the number of units, uh, might go down a little bit, um, depending on, uh, how we, uh, progress with our studies. So once we get about— So 1,200 is not a concrete number right now? You're still figuring out what's going to be optimal? Yeah, we gave, we gave the max number, and it could be less than Yeah. And what are, you know, we talked about a little bit, but what exactly does your demographic look like? What are people storing in your facility? Yeah, a lot of it, a lot of it, like Jason was talking about, a lot of it is, is records. A lot of agencies, government agencies especially, will rent those storage units to put documents in that have to be kept for a number of years. Some of them 10, 15, 20 years, and those kind of documents will go in there. Household things go in there, especially people that are moving from college into apartments and those kind of things. They'll have small things that they'll put into those storage units, and then as soon as they get homes, then they'll move them out and just kind of rotates. Yeah, we can get to get them filled up to probably 80-90% fairly quick.

So, Mayor, if I can just clarify, you referenced cold storage. It's climate controlled, not, not cold storage.

Okay, so it's regulated as far as— so it's not cold cold, it's just not 110.

Climate control, so 70 or whatever that— right, right.

Hopefully it's cooler for you guys than me. I'm in the hot seat. And we appreciate, you know, we appreciate those that have kind of been involved in the whole thing. The city staff again has just been, been great. I know Jeff's come out to our open house and, and been involved a little bit there. Members of the Planning Commission's been engaged kind of following it, but we appreciate that, that unity and kind of the support. You know, having everybody involved in the process really helps a lot. Any other questions? Okay, well, thank you. You betcha. You're welcome. Do we have any— it's Norm Avery. Avery. Do we have any other public comments? Okay, we'll close the public comment hearing and we'll bring it back to council.

I'm, I'm ready to make a motion if— unless somebody wants to speak. Okay, Mayor, I'll make a motion that the city council, by ordinance amending Article 22-11-41 of the Orem City Code to include an optional use of interior climate control storage units as a permitted use, amending Article 22-5-3A and the zoning map of the City of Orem by, by rezoning the property located generally at 1385 West 1600 North from the HS zone to the PD-28 zone and amending Appendix L by adding the concept plan and building elevations for the Citadel Storage development as a permitted use in the PD-41 zone. Second.

Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. The project's approved. Thank you. So, all right, we're up to item 9.3.

Yeah, Mayor, I'd like to, uh, move to table the agenda item 9.3.

Second. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. The motion's tabled. We'll move to item number 9.4. Excuse me. I motion to table item 9.4. Second. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. That motion's tabled also. Okay, moving on. Do we have any city manager information items, Brown?

Uh, just a couple. Um, one, we were notified recently by UDOT that they are going to be doing a microsurfacing project along Geneva Road from 1600 North to University Parkway starting in May and going through July. So that'll create some additional congestion there there, that upkeep maintenance. So we'll be getting kind of word out to the public, so be aware of that as that's kind of a major project. In good news though, we're moving along well with our Hillcrest Park project and on schedule for our planned opening. Recently, we were the number 2 city in the country for pickleball, and we are in process of surfacing the pickleball courts there at Hillcrest Park. We also just recently got another number 2 ranking for number 2 best place to retire in Utah, and it's based off of the activities and amenities we provide. So it's kind of a nod to our senior center and to Sierra and to our pickleball courts, actually. And then finally, You as council know, but we'll also be sharing with the public our recent award that we got down at the Utah League of Cities and Towns conference for being designated one of Utah's city— a healthy Utah city community. And this is based off of our efforts to improve health and wellness amongst our residents. Specifically, we were recognized based off of our extra open space, our parks like Hillcrest Park, our recreation and library cutting-edge programming, and then finally the community events we do and how those promote social health and community gatherings. So kind of kudos to the city, and we'll be sure to announce that to the public as well. That's all I have.

Thank you, Brad. Great awards. Orem keeps moving on in a positive direction. Would someone like to make a motion to adjourn? So moved. Second? Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. We're adjourned. Thank you for coming.