Cache County Council Regular Meeting – 05-26-2026

Good times.

K. I think we're gonna go ahead and get started. Looks like we have everyone here that we need. Awesome. I would like to, first of all, excuse council members, Keegan Garrity and Catherine Buse, who are out of town right now. So there's just the five of us, but we will be able to get things done. I'm gonna start with opening remarks by council member Joanne Bennett.

I'm gonna give my remarks in the form of a prayer. Our father, which art in heaven, we are thankful for this beautiful place that we live. We are thankful for the freedoms that we enjoy. And a more perfect union, we are facing more enemies within and without than we have ever before. But we want to pay tribute to those who have put paid the ultimate sacrifice in preserving our freedoms. And we also want to pray for the safety of those military who are deployed around the world and then let them know of our gratitude for what they sacrificed for us. We also want to pray and thank those in our county, the public servants that work in our behalf for the dedicated work which they performed for us. And we pray that they will be guided and watched over. We pray that thou will bless us this day, that we will have thy spirit, and that we will have the power of discernment to be with us in all we do. We say this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Please rise for the pledge.

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

Thank you, Joanne, and thank you for mentioning our military people, especially with this Memorial Day weekend just passed. We are really grateful for all those who serve and all those who have served. So we we thank you for that. I would take a motion if someone wants to approve the agenda.

Move to approve the amended agenda.

K. Second. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the amended agenda. Those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? K. Let's do the approval of the minutes. We have the workshop from last meeting on the twelfth and also the council regular meeting minutes.

Excuse me. I move we accept them.

Second.

K. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the minutes from both the May 12 council workshop and the regular council meetings. Those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? K. Report of the county executive, George.

Do not have any appointments or updates to provide.

I'm gonna have to excuse myself. All of a sudden, I got a bad tickle in my throat, and I can't talk. K. Items of special interest, the presentation of the Bear River Health Department audit. We'll turn that time over to Jordan Mathis. So pretty clean.

Just a minor point of correction. This isn't an audit. It's the annual report required for us to report.

Thank you. Thanks.

But we do have financials. That's weird. We all have that for those that are participating. You can find this on our website. It shows up. I'll show you. Find on our website.

Or you can come back to this.

You're you're doing the first part. SC Hunt's gonna help me, but it's already up on our website. You just go to about us, go to annual report, and they're right there. Estee's gonna walk through, the data from from this annual report for us. We're actually so if you're going through it, jump to the very back.

Page we'll start on page eight. And I'm always excited to come and present the annual report to all of you, and and share the great work that the Bear River Health Department does for the community. But I am gonna start, just quickly talking about some of the data points on here. I know we only have about ten minutes, so I'll go as as quick as possible. Starting on page eight, you do see the leading causes of death. It's broken down for Bear River Health Department for 2024 to 2025, so you can kinda see the difference. And then also compares us to Utah. You can see the trends, and I do not wanna cause anyone great alarm with the bottom one being kidney disease. It shows a huge increase, but this is not really statistically significant. The number is actually so small in such a big population. We're looking at if we were to say of a 100 or a thousand people, they were saying a thousand people, it would be nine. We'd go from nine to 13. So it's not it looks like it's a huge increase, but that is just really we're such a small population. And also some of those numbers could have been secondary primary or secondary causes of death that that the physician may have mentioned there as and that is why it's made it onto that list. So no need to like jump out of your seat in regards to that but that is just those things are kind of the same every single year. You don't see a lot of change without those top 10 leading causes of death. You'll see our socio demographic snapshot for each community on page number nine. And I did then just wanna go through a few things, and highlight a few items on page number ten and eleven to just talk about a few of the services that have been took care that took place this past year. One thing that we wanted to mention was right there at the top where it says TV monitoring and follow-up visits. I really wanna compare that data more more to 2023 than to 2024 because the 2024 and 2025 are very much the same. There's a very small increase there. And what we we wanna make mention to each county is that the federal money does not take care of the TB, any of the TB monitoring, or any of the follow-up visits associated with. That is that is county money. And so we appreciate that because you'll see that that number isn't going down. It is it's continuing and with TB monitoring, any active case requires active monitoring monitoring daily for nine months. And for four months, we do monitoring for latent TB. So it is time intensive when TB patients do, present themselves at the health department. So we're in our in our health district. So that is just something to take note of. I think that's noteworthy. I also wanna mention, the high risk expectant mothers that were visited by a Bear River Health Department nurse. You'll see a decrease in that area. First of all, mentioning that we do continue to focus on this in the community because we do believe and it is it is, it is proven that infant and maternal health is very important in regards to public health. You'll see that decrease in our, there's a lot of reasons why that potentially could decrease and I can't necessarily put towards exactly what that is. However, I do want you to know that we have talked to our community health. Our community health worker, yeah, Mary, who does a great job in in promoting this program with physicians because a lot of these patients actually are referred to us by physicians or by our own WIC program. And so they've they're they're high risk mothers that have come to our program or gone to a doctor and have they have said this service would be of use to you. So that word will continue to get out and we'll see how those numbers do change this next year. We have seen it seen an increase in mothers and babies enrolled in the Medicaid that were visited by our nurses, which is a big help to some of those families as they as they begin raising kids for the first time. Our environmental health services on that second section is very close to last year. There's very few changes, just reiterating the, the work the environmental health does do. It's, it's basically showing they do a lot more than this, but this is, one of the things that we do show is is the inspections that occur. Our our WIC program, and unfortunately, we didn't get the percentage and increase on this graphic, but there was a 6.2% increase in WIC services this past year. WIC funding is increasing. So, federally, we are seeing an increase in in WIC funding, which is good. We haven't seen that for quite a while and definitely good because we're seeing an increase in services, which we have seen since COVID. This again just reiterates the importance of treatment in these programs. I can if you can see in those line graphs up there, the percentage in change or increase as individuals are able to abstain from using both alcohol and drugs in both of those. So again, very important work with our behavioral health team. And our community health service is just showing you some of the services that have been provided to the community, where the numbers of participants attending an evidence based mental health and suicide prevention training that's been done at the health department. Eight hundred and ninety four individuals this past year received that training. Our car seat, they do car seat checks and you can see that the there's an increase in knowledge just from those car seat checks and also, an increase in our tobacco retailers actually not selling to underage users, which is huge increase. Right? And a lot of that does do to our compliance checks. So some great work by our team at the health department that we're there to report. And that's our data. And I wanted to then flip to page, number seven. And the reason I we're kinda going backwards this year and showing you this report is, our report is outlined in our strategic goals. And we like to tell a story for every goal through through the year. We kind of pick a story and and our our team picks a story that we we should highlight and seems noteworthy. And this past year, for for the goal of healthiest people, we wanted to talk to the community and our the councils and the commission members about, our new dashboard that we've been working on with the CDC Foundation. And that has been some awesome work that's been taking place and it will really help our community be able to see more timely data. And any of you, if you're interested in looking at more of that data, all you gotta do is scan that QR code or you can actually access it on our website which Jordan's showing you right now. And you can see the the live dashboard that's taking place. It's broken up. And this has been I want you to realize this is not our we have been working in a partnership with the CDC Foundation, but the CDC Foundation has created this dashboard for us. And it it it might look kind of elementary but there's actually a lot that goes into it and it's been a lot of great work. So what it is is able to show people the work we're doing in a very timely manner. So if you any of you would ever like to see that and like to pull it up, just know that it's here on our website, and accessible to anyone at the in the public. So with that, I'll go ahead and turn it over to Jordan.

Thanks, Estee. Estee does a great job with our team compiling this. If you ever wanna look really deep dive into some of the data, just a real quick explanation of the dashboard. It's broken up into our strategic priorities up there on the top. Our our indicators for a great organization, our indicators for community partnerships, increasing access to opportunities for individuals in our community, and probably our biggest one, which is healthiest people, which ties back to, a lot of health indicators. You just go in and you can click on any of those, and you can it populates and looks you can look at it. You can determine why we're looking at it by clicking here. I'm not gonna go into all that with you here. What I'd like to do is just go over the other priorities. So that that dashboard shows us how we get to healthiest people. We're gonna kind of reverse engineer this. If you jump back from healthiest people, we get to healthiest People by creating access to opportunities within our community. And the the story that we we opted to highlight there in the report is our team's work around suicide prevention. We've known for a long time through the data that oh, thanks. That suicide, as you saw in the leading causes of death, is an issue. Right now, it's currently trending in a in a better direction. And I like to think that it it's partially because of the engagement of our community on a lot of different fronts. And we've been working on this for years, but just recently, we were able to get a grant from the Department of Health and Human Services to focus on a comprehensive suicide prevention plan in our community. So that is a five year grant that allows for us to bring partners together, and they've started to implement it. We have the plan. We're bringing the partners together on a regular basis. And one of the highlights from there is regularly, we work with the the medical examiner's office who leads the charge, but they do what's called a suicide fatality review, which is gather the data on the occurrence of suicide in our community, and we look at are there gaps? What things could have been done to potentially prevent this from occurring? And are there things that we can do as a community to to look at that? And so it's it's looking at those things. And so those that's happening. We're the first community in the state. They've been doing these on a statewide basis, but they do them community specific. They come up to our area, and we we can be in the partners, and we have those conversations. So that's been a huge thing, and we have that for five years. This is the first year of five. Our team worked really hard on that. The next one is, in in reverse engineering, we create opportunities by creating partnerships. I've said this time and time again. I believe it. Public health doesn't happen in a silo. We create partnerships. And one of the things that was highlighted this year was a really quick partnership that was pulled together kinda last minute. We got the news that that an individual who had measles had entered the Budge Clinic into the pediatric area and had been there for quite some time, and waiting to be seen. And unfortunately, during that during that window, there were 11 infants that were exposed, that were there either seeking care or with their their caregiver. And so these were individuals that had no opportunity for access for an immunization. They were too young to get the vaccine. And so the only thing to prevent an infection of those individuals who are also the most susceptible to the disease was to administer immunoglobulin. I always have a hard time saying that. To them, but you have to do it within a certain window. And by the time we found out about it, we had about a day and a half to to pull them all together and figure it out. So we worked with the state. We worked with Intermountain. And then we were able to pull two pediatricians from our community together to administer those. And we are able to get a hold of all of those individuals, their their parents or caregivers, and all of them came in within a day. And we were able to administer those to them. In fact, that work was highlighted in the New England Journal of Medicine, because there isn't a whole lot of precedence for for that. It's just due to the effectiveness of the vaccine, there hasn't been a whole lot of need for it. So how to do it? So these two physicians really figured it out on the fly, and we had no additional infections in those susceptible individuals. That all happened because of bringing individuals together from a variety of different agencies and making it happen. So we're really proud of that. That one could have been increased access to opportunities as well. But we all in reverse engineering that one last time, I'm gonna hit the last page. Why can't I go back? Right there. We really believe that people only wanna partner with us if we're a great organization. If we're a great organization, we we believe that people will actually wanna work with us. And and so we work really hard at trying to not only focus on who we are, but focus on how do we build the best workforce possible. And so there's a few things that that we focused on. We can look I'll talk a little bit about the budget here in a second, which you'll see there. But a couple of things that I wanna highlight is 87% of our team members,

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twice twice a year, we do a survey of our staff. And 87% of our our individuals who work for the Bear River Health Department feel that they're part of a team. And when you look at levels of engagement across workforce, that is really critical. Feeling like they're part of a team, and when they come to work, they belong, and the work that they do matters. We've also that graph there at the bottom, we really focused on increasing two way communication. When we first started this, we noticed that there was they didn't feel like there was opportunity for two way communication, and that continues to rise. So it also creates opportunity for dialogue for us to really problem solve and work together. And then the other part, we've always had pretty high high reported this, but most people know what they need to do to succeed in their role, which I feel like is important. And then 80% of individuals recognize recognize that leadership across our department recognizes that people are the most important part of our organization. And that's really important to me, because we can focus on these other numbers, these these, these financials which are important, but people in the end are the individuals that help to change lives and change communities. So looking at this, I'm not gonna go into a whole lot of detail on the finances. We had about a $15,000,000 budget. We had about $15,000,000 in revenue. The one thing that I do wanna bring to your attention is next year, you will see this jump drastically. It's gonna go from about 15,000,000 to right around 24,000,000. Do not be alarmed by that. That is because of the other partnership that we've been working with the counties on creating, which is the integration of behavioral health services. All the dollars that the counties used to hold on to and receive in contracts, and have for match are going to be accounted for in that budget. The majority of that is going to be passed through to by contract to Bear River Behavioral Health, for the delivery of those services in our community. And with that, that is my report. If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer those, or I can go into the next agenda item if you want.

Does anybody have questions for Jordan? These are great numbers. You guys have done a great job. Yeah. Trevor, if you wanna join Jordan, we can just move to part b, the substance abuse and mental area plan.

Mental health, I'm sure that should And we'll let Trevor explain what the plan is and go over that.

K. I think, also, you're familiar with the area plan if you've been in your seats for the last few years, I think everybody here has been, the area plan dictated by statute comes from the department of health and human services out of the office of substance use and mental health by statute. We're required to prepare a plan and then submit it to the counties to have the counties review and then approve it as some local mental health authority. And so we go between Cash Rich and Box Elder Counties as interlocal agreements been written out here in the last year. So Jordan sent you the area plan, I believe. I told it when we presented to the board of health that it's 84 pages long. And so for you guys to understand it fully, we plan on reading it today, but we'll skip that. You can look at it. It goes over just a high overview what the county is responsible for and then the contractor to help department bear river mental health currently, and, 12 man data services that we have to fulfill. And it kind of gives a community input now as a new one. So we did that through the health department's board meeting, and it's kind of it in a nutshell. It's a plan that outlines our services to provide to the citizens of the three counties and how we implement and spend the money that's that's contracted down to us. So this year we're focusing on as we integrate services. We haven't talked about that. Have you talked about that? So this year we're integrating substance use with mental health. So traditionally by about thirty years ago, there was a split for some reason, this area where river mental health has been around since like 1992, I believe. And then at some point there was an issue where substance use went to the health department, mental health state with fair river mental health. And it's been like that since then. Jordan, as he's presented in the past, says that this area is a barren corn, which is completely true compared to the rest of the state. So the rest of states always had mental health and substance use integrated together and they're the same roof for a variety of reasons, funding duplication of services. And also for the main reason, it helps clients who have co occurring diagnosis get the services in one place. And so the treatment teams altogether in our area hasn't been substance use was with the health department. And as we've gone through the last few years with, the interlocal agreement being changed, kind of some contractual issues that we've seen that the County attorney's office brought to light. We've decided that substance use should still go with mental health for those reasons, duplication of services. This area wasn't capitated Medicaid under substance use that, the counties have since approved that we capitated it. We're in that process. It will start July 1. And so with the integration, we streamline funding, we streamline services to clients, we streamline who's doing what. So the employees that have been employed with Bear River Health Department will now come over to Bear River Mental Health and be employed by us. One employee seek a different job. The rest of them are coming over. We are gonna change the name to Bear River Behavioral Health so that we encompass both mental health and substance use through the name, and that's gonna be done through a DBA. So all of our forward facing documents going forward, July 1 will be Bear River Behavioral Health. The website will change. Our name will change. Our logo is changing. And so through this transition, what we're hoping is with the area plan, we'll ramp up this, case management with substance use. I think it's kind of been lacking. And their mental health always had a really strong component of case management, which then leads into the receiving center. For those of you that know about the receiving center, I think everybody here does. Receiving center, we're hoping, will be functional July 1. Receiving centers for those who have a mental health or substance use crisis. They can come in for a twenty three hour period of time, receive services. Hopefully, that will help with, individuals going to jail who shouldn't be in jail and individuals going to the hospital that don't meet the criteria of inpatient. They can come get the services with us. Our case managers will then lead them to other resources within the community during during that twenty three hours. And that's kind of that receiving center in a nutshell, but we should have that up and going if construction continues to go as we plan. Any questions on the area plant or receiving?

Can I just mention the case management? It falls in line with what we're doing with the, I always forget the name, the

Coordinating counsel. C g c c. Yep. Yes.

Case management is really about a warm handoff. As we're trying to get people from from services to services to services, it's trying to help them to navigate and develop warm handoffs and have a greater opportunity for success. The more people that fall through cracks and end up hanging out with the sheriff all too often costs money. Case management is a way that we can actually reduce that cost, and that's why we're gonna focus on that and receiving center. Those things just go hand in hand. So that's the focus of the plan. My last part is we did hold a public hearing. The board of health voted and recommended to the counties to give consideration for the approval of the substance abuse and mental health area plan. Is that what it's called? Mental health. Yeah. There's a prevention

part of it as well that the health department keep the prevention part. So we'll work with them going forward on that as well. We do need a formal vote

from you as the substance abuse and mental health authority for the approval of this plan moving forward. It will be an annual thing, and we'll be back every year.

K. Just who has questions for either Trevor or Jordan?

How is it working with the other counties too with all with everything that's happening on you know? And there's a lot going on. There's a lot you know, they got Rich County, Box Elder County as you all work together. There's a receiving center. Does it help these other counties too as much because of travel? Or So the receiving center was located in Cache County for a variety of reasons.

One is the call volume is much higher in Cache County. So for instance, we have a mobile crisis outreach team. We kinda retract those calls, and then that, I think, will transfer over kinda how our receiving center's being used. And so typically, in a typical month, we'll get about a 130 calls for MCOT, Right? About 30 to 40 come from Box Hill. The rest are from Cache, and then we may get one to two from Rich County. So that was one of the determining factors of why to have it in Cache County. The other thing is the travel time really from Box Hillard County is a half hour, you know, from most of your populated areas, obviously, Drouse Creek's way further. And then Rich County is a little bit different, but even the Garden City, it's fifty minute drive. So we have to respond within an hour. And so our individuals go there. And so we feel like, you know, if law enforcement wanna bring somebody to us or a family member wants to come to the receiving center in Cache County, it's not that far of a drive compared to like, if you look at four corners, which is kind of a sister agency to us, they are driving from Moab to Price. I think it's an hour and a half to get to the receiving center. So we cover some frontier prop frontier counties and then cash is still considered rural, with the office of substance use mental health. So that's why it's locating cash. And we do believe that we're within driving distance of those law enforcement agencies and the counties. If they choose to use it, they may not. It's up to them.

I love the new name. You know, get get rid of the the mental. Yeah. Mhmm. You know, that's kind of such a negative connotation, it seems like, anymore. I I love the new name, and then I seriously, I, I wanna compliment the abilities that you guys have all uphold together to the work ability has been quite amazing to watch. And, what hasn't been easy, but it's been you've been able to just work everything out, and it's been good. Yeah. It's been good. I think Jordan and I have a great relationship.

Their individuals coming from the health department to our company have been great. They've jumped on board. They've been very positive, a lot of questions, which is understandable. And but it's, I don't wanna say it's gonna run completely smooth, but it's been going pretty well.

Good. Yeah. Any other questions? Does someone want to make a motion? Did you do you thought to accept the area

plan, right, of the the Bear River Health Department and Bear River Behavioral? Yes.

That's my motion. I'll second. K. I have a motion and a second that we approve the area plan that has been presented to us. Alright. Is there any further discussion? Those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? K. Thank you. K. It's time to set public hearings. Someone wanna make a motion for that?

Make a motion that we schedule a public hearings for 06/09/2026 at 05:30PM for the following ordinances. Ordinance twenty twenty six dash thirty, thirty one, and a resolution twenty twenty six dash 17.

Second. K. It's been moved and segmented that we set the public hearings as as presented. Those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? K. It's time to hold a public hearing about the, ordinance twenty twenty six dash 28 enacting the county board per diem standards for the planning commission compensation. Andrew, you're gonna present that for us?

I'm gonna hand something out really quick that comes up later in the in the presentation.

Okay. Thank you.

Good evening, council. So ordinance twenty twenty six dash 28 comes as a request to do two things. So an overview of the ordinance is it does, number one, it establishes a general policy on county board per diem standards. And number two, it specifically sets the per diem compensation of the county planning and zoning commission to a set dollar amount. All other boards will stay at $0 per diem. But specifically, the council ordinance and policy review committee said to send this to the county council for a final dollar amount with $70 as the placeholder. So that the recommendation was to further discuss the $70 number. Okay. So right now, there is no dedicated general policy setting or defining per diem compensations for the members of county committees, boards, commissions, or etcetera. The members of county plan the members of the county planning and zoning commission currently receive $15 per diem for each meeting they attend. Utah State code says that the county may set and compensate board members at a per diem rate for meetings actually attended such that the per diem rate doesn't exceed limits established by the state's division of finance via administrative rule. So a little bit more on those limitations. The limitations from state state rule say that for a meeting that lasts up to four hours, the maximum you can compensate a board member is $135. If the meeting runs up to four hours, you have the option to enhance it to up to $200 per meeting. This means that in general, per diem rates cannot exceed $135. However, per diem compensation may be set higher at 200 for a meeting that lasts longer than four hours, though this is not required. Right now, the ordinance in front of you is written so that a board member cannot receive per diem or travel compensation if the board member is already compensated by a government entity while performing their their service on the board. A good example would be council member Nolan Gunnell. He technically sits on the planning and zoning commission as a nonvoting ex officio member. But, technically, since he's serving in his capacity as a council member, he wouldn't be able to receive specific per diem that's only for meant for the planning and zoning commission board members. In terms of the planning commission compensation, it's standard practice, to provide some form of compensation to members of local planning commissions, such as meals for the day or night of the planning commission meeting, per diem compensation for each attended meeting, or, compensation through educational materials, conferences, etcetera related to land use. Additionally, if no per diem compensation exists, almost all planning commissions in Utah at least allow their members to submit reasonable costs for reimbursement incurred in performing their duties as members of the planning commission. So the handout that I passed out, shows two different graphs. So the yellow bar indicates where Cache County currently sits in terms of its per diem. The green is the placeholder $70 amount, but it shows a continuum of a sample of cities where you have some that don't compensate whatsoever, such as, Tremont or Provo City, but then you have others such as Logan City where they compensate $50 or these other cities compensate even higher than that. So that's just for Utah cities as a comparison. This is for Utah counties as a comparison for the other sheet. Box Elder County, their commissioner serve their planning commission members serve without compensation, whereas with other counties, it's rather common to have them be paid somewhere at least $70. For example, Wasatch County or Utah County. So this means that there's really two there's, two categories of compensation really that you can, infer from this. One is the category where there is no compensation per diem or you have a compensation of $60 per diem or above. So right now, Cash County is sitting somewhere between those two categories of not paying and paying $60 plus.

We're pretty close to the not paying Yes. Team.

Pretty darn close. Yes. So the next steps would technically be to hold a public hearing. Afterwards, consider the proposed amount. I would suggest that you all discuss the $70 amount and decide if that is a number you would like to adjust up or down. If you like it as is, keep it. Adjust if you like it. Then afterwards, pass or reject the ordinance. Do you have any questions?

So I'm saying how do we arrive at 70? I mean, if you look at the tenure of our planning and commission members, it is deep and strong. And so I've been advocating a long time that they get paid. And I understand we wanna be in the middle, but I don't think we're in the middle when it comes to quality of our commissioners.

So I And we can discuss that further after we hold the public hearing too. We'll have we'll have that option.

Yep. Just so so for now, the for the public hearing portion at least, the placeholder is $70

for those who wanna speak on it. But if there's no questions, I would suggest moving to a public hearing. Thanks, Andrew. Yes, ma'am. K. So this is a public hearing. Is there anyone here that would like to speak to this ordinance? Speak now or forever hold your peace. Close the public hearing. K. It's been moved and segmented that we closed the public hearing. I'll second that. Oh, I can't second in. K. It's been moved in segmented that we close public hearing. Those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Alright. Let's go to the initial proposals for consideration of action. Eight a, this is our county board per diem standards. And I'm gonna agree with with, Nolan. I served on the Logan City comparing us to these cities. I don't know how other cities are, but in Logan City, we met twice a month. It wasn't just once a month. And so the amount of work was spread out more. It wasn't such impressive meetings that our commissioners do, and I would recommend that we take that placeholder to a $100 a month. That would be my thought about that. I think that's more than fair for what they do, and I don't know that we need to I I don't know how you guys feel about making it more if their meeting lasts more than four hours. I don't know if we wanna get into that. Yeah. We don't wanna give them incentive I know. Meeting. Well, that's I kinda thought that, but but it's also minutes. We I have been in meetings that went longer than four hours, and that's pretty massive. So anybody further discussion. Let's discuss this. Make them an employee?

No. No?

No. It's just a per diem. The $70

was like travel money kind of for if the meeting was $70

or you're talking per hour, does per diem it means per day. Right? Well, per diem technically does. And in a lot of instances, it's like this is the amount of money you get to to cover your expenses. But in this instance, it really is a a fee that we would pay them for their service for being here. And they call it per diem in this instance, but it's not it's not compensating for money that they have spent. It is for their time.

But it's at least $100,

you're saying, or 70, whatever the number is? Yeah. For that meeting. For that meeting, they meet once a month, and it's many hours. A lot of times, many hours and things that they discuss. And remember, before they even get to the meeting, they're studying Yes. Stuff that's been mailed out and traveling to the site. And just going out to look at the sites. Yeah. There's a lot more involved. I am at least a $100 with Sandy on that. So Andrew, did you wanna say something? I mean, our our our guys have had tenure for a long time. And we've got Chris Sands. I don't even know how many years he searched. So a

great

job. Increasing at least recognizes that they were underpaid from the past too.

It was like $15 thirty years ago. But I was in Board of Adjustments. It was like $15 is what they paid you for the to be on a meeting on that. And I wow. That's a lot. Boy, that tells you, oh, we really had no inflation? No. It's a I think we need to recognize that. There was a lot to say though. And it it's actually to me a huge compliment to the people that have served because of their their willingness to just serve to serve. I mean, that's It's a true volunteer. Yeah. It it has. But but, you know, $5 gas and some things like this, you know, there there is it just takes a lot of time, little bit of, I hate to say call it change, but a little bit of something to, you know, to help alleviate some of those costs that even that they are putting out just to travel. You know? I think I think it's well warranted. Yeah. I think You know? I think I think it's well warranted. So Now you said yeah. Go ahead.

Chair, you made a comment specifically on the frequency Yes. About being paid. So in the ordinance as it's written right now, I know that the planning commission currently meets once a month. But if that ever did change, the ordinance is written so that it's $70 or $100 per meeting. So if you wanna change it to per month, that would also require an amendment.

No. I think per meeting is still I'm still comfortable with that. Thank you. Let you know. Thank you. I don't know how if anyone wants to make a motion or if there's more things you wanna discuss.

I will make a motion that we raise per diem to a $100 per meeting. $100.

I will second that. It's been moved and seconded that we approve ordinance twenty twenty six dash 28 with the per diem amount being set at $100 per meeting. Those in favor say aye.

Aye. Aye. Aye. Point of order. I believe you would have to vote on the amendment first and then the ordinance at the end. Okay. That's that's correct.

Thank you. Vote on that amendment and then a vote on the amended ordinance. Ordinance. Okay. So do you wanna

make a motion just to amend the ordinance? He he did. Oh, he did. Okay. So let's take a a vote on amending the ordinance ordinance to a $100 per meeting.

We strike out the number 70 and insert the number 100.

K. And you seconded that. I seconded that. K. It's been moved and seconded that we amend the ordinance to be a $100 per meeting. Those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? K. Now, after the motion has been amended, I need a motion on the amended ordinance.

And it is initial, so we have to Yes.

Suspend the rules. I will suspend the rules and say that we approve the ordinance on the per diem standards for planning commission.

I'll second that as amended. K. It's been moved and seconded that we suspend the rules and approve ordinance twenty twenty six dash twenty eight as it has been amended. Those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Perfect. K. Open we have some open spaces applications. Are you gonna do that for us, Chris? Yes. Thank you. I was happy to see those come in. And these are all the initial. Right? This is the initial? Yes. First round. Yep. First round. Yep. That's what I read. So we're voting to whether to move them on to the second round. Correct? Correct. Yeah. Correct.

So there's no there's no particular financial commitment at this point. Awesome. Thank you, Andrew. Yep. Okay. Very excited. I'm Chris Sands with the CoSagrant Cash Open Space Advisory Committee. And we're excited to be presenting two projects to you this evening for approval to move to the second phase of our application process. And so the first one here is the Polson family Valley View Farm. Mister Wilcox is here to represent the Polson family, and so if we have any questions about the applicant, I imagine he'll be able answer, for, the applicant. Scrolling. Oh, I'm scrolling the wrong way. Okay. Alright. So a little summary on on this one. It includes, three noncontiguous parcels. One of the reasons two of the parcels are not contiguous is because Highway 30 splits or goes in between the two parcels. Natural natural barrier. It's a natural barrier or man made barrier perhaps. Yeah. And we're we're just under a 150 acres for this combined project. And currently, the the properties are used for primarily dry farming for wheat and safflower. And, of course, the applicant is interested in in preserving the agricultural operation here and, it is a multi generational family farm. Here's where we're at in the COSAC process. So there's two rounds and this is in the first round, the second step in the first round which is to bring, it received a unanimous recommendation from the COSAC, for approval by, to to the county council for for your review and approval, to the second round. And this is a quick summary of the factors that we evaluate. And just as a reminder, these come directly from the bond language for the most part, those categories, and it's a 100 scale. And for this project in particular, this project scored, 63.67 altogether, which is which is a pretty good score. And, as comparison, you'll see at the bottom of the screen there, the Harris Farm, which was has moved through, both rounds and and is, approved for funding. The score on that project, just West of Richmond, was 65.7. And so it's a it's a really great project. The components of the just just to touch on each of the scoring components for Protect Scenic Vistas, of course, this was a really important category. This is a view from the drone, sitting above one of the parcels looking, southeasterly, and you can see Highway 30 Corridor, in in the middle ground there. But it received a 12.67 out of 15 for this category. So it's, great scenic vista. It's also within our designated gateway area for the Highway 30 Corridor, on the western side of the county. So it falls within there, received 12.33 score out of 15 for that. Maintaining agriculture, got over a 13 score. This farm's been in the family for over a hundred and fifty years, so a lot of history and some interesting aspects to this project that I'll touch on in here in a minute. There's no waterways on the property, but the parcel boundary is split by 4 Mile Creek. So it's immediately adjacent to the 4 Mile Creek, corridor in this area. And there are a number of natural drainages, sort of ephemeral drainages on the property as well. Wildlife habitat, great wildlife habitat, nothing like critical habitat, but they see a lot of wildlife on the property. It scored a 9.5 out of 15 for wildlife habitat. As far as allowing public access, there's no plans in the County Master Plan trails to have any trails that would traverse this property. However, with the Highway 30 corridor, we know that the multi use trail is headed that way and has made it out to the intersection as part of the current highway widening. And so we would anticipate that that multi use trail will be continued at some point in the future and will end up going right along these properties. And then lastly here, the distinguishing factors, 7.5 out of 10 points for this category. It was, you know, these are gateway parcels. It's a historic family, farm and on-site is a historic family cemetery, which is which is pretty unique. They're interested in continuing the sustainable stewardship of of this open space for for wildlife and for agriculture. And so it's a it's a really great project. So next steps for this one would be to receive your approval to move to the second round, and then we'll receive a more detailed application on some of the financial numbers and that sort of thing. I know that they're partnering with, Utah Agricultural Land Trust. I don't think their representative is here tonight. And Brian or, Deborah could could speak in more details about that process, but and and perhaps mister Wilcox could too. And

so any any questions on on this one, or would you like me just to jump through the next one? You know what? I think we'd rather take a vote on this one before we move to the next one. That'll make it a little bit easier. Does anyone have questions for Chris?

I I have a question. How does this relate? Do you all and COSAC, how do they intersect?

Are they totally separate? Or We are totally separate. Yep. We we represent the county, and organizations like the Utah Agricultural Land Trust are nonprofit organizations that help landowners, apply for and receive funding, and they can also, hold easements. They could also, do the baseline work for easements. So they provide services to landowners who are interested in pursuing conservation easement project. And so, because COSAC doesn't apply for other funding, that's what these organizations do. They step in and and help find other funding so that county money is not paying for a 100% of a project. Thank you. Yes, ma'am.

Anybody else?

This looks like a great project. It is. We're very excited. I I'll just mention too, I, if I'm not mistaken, these two projects also came to us, following the mailing that went out to our gateway land owners. And so we're very excited to to see some applications. We have quite a few, coming in the door that you'll be seeing more of us here, I think,

in the next few months. I'd actually like to if we could, I'd like to hear the other one. Oh, before we vote? Yeah. Before we vote. Even on because they they do I almost say overlap, but they're continuous with with each. They are. And then you could probably see the the impact of the two together, which I think would be pretty I know the area, and

I think it'd be neat to see the the impact of everything together, just what what could be accomplished. You bet. You bet. So maybe maybe before we jump out of this one, Andrew, hang on a second. Let me pop back up and just point out does this have a laser pointer on it, by chance?

Okay. Not on the TV. So

just note that you see the the two parcels at the North and then the the Southwest parcel. So it's the the bigger Southwest parcel that is immediately adjacent to the Hat Jay Ranch. So on the eastern boundary, the southeastern boundary, so those parcels going from that one to the east yep. Just keep going all of them all the way to the highway and then across the highway

Oh.

Is the next one. You'll see it then. That's awesome. So those two and again, the landowners could probably reference. I know it came up during our site visits out there. But, of course, they know their neighbors and other landowners and maybe other family members who are landowners that are at least tentatively interested in in, pursuing this as an option. And so I think these projects have real potential to build on themselves and create, you know, kind of at the right time, the perfect, preservation of a gateway entry, for the valley. So this is pretty exciting for us. Okay. Well, with your blessing, we'll maybe jump over to the next one and I'll just talk through that one real quick. Okay. This is the Hat Jay Ranch project. Mister Olson over there, to the left of mister Wilcox, is the applicant on the Hat Jay Ranch. And so a little bit about this project. There are seven parcels altogether in this project and totaling about 335 acres altogether. You can see the image there that highlights the parcels and you can kinda look to the, West and then to the North to see the other properties, that are part of, the Polson, family project. Yes, sir. Thank you, Andrew. Perfect. So again, we've got this project has parcels on both sides of the highway and the properties are used for grazing, cattle ranching, dry farming. And they've had the operation's been continuing since it was homesteaded in the eighteen sixties. So quite a history on this side of the valley. Larry, did you start it?

In 1860.

And so just just like on the other previous project, this is where we're at in the overall process. And just a refresher on the scoring. This project scored 62 out of a 100, which, again, is a really solid score. Similarly, comparison is is the Harris Farms project as highlighted there. And so, again, it was a unanimous recommendation from the COSAC Scenic Vistas. Now, I will mention that we have the same photo in each of these and that's because Justin, the the wind got hold of his drone that day, and so it didn't make it through the rest of the day. And so we're limited on our photos, but we do have a couple of great What's interesting is

that even where your your pointer is right now Uh-huh. See that's there's quite a bit of impact that could be happening, you know, that's been proposed at different times that it could really change the scenic vista. Absolutely. I think this is this is very, very important to, you know, to keep a I don't They'll look into this Yeah. And dig into it a lot tighter because Yeah. Say something. It's kind of interesting. I got a letter today from the cast development.

And my next door neighbor, which is across the fence, they indicated that they won't come to a time

yeah. Very interesting.

Okay. So scenic vistas, obviously, this is also, as I mentioned, along the Highway 30 gateway. These lands, you're looking at them as you're driving west, leaving the valley and you see them, these are the first lands you see when you come around the corner, heading into the valley. And so, this is within the valley gateway, got a, almost a 12 out of 15 score. Maintains agriculture. It's a great working farm. 13.5 out of 15. Maintains waterways. There is a a short section of 3 Mile Creek that traverses the the southernmost parcel, right along the boundary. And, so it does have, an intermittent stream that flows through, one of the parcels. So it scored a little bit better in that category. Wildlife habitat, a lot of the wildlife we see here in the valley, including coyote, mountain lion, raptors, public access. Similar to the Polson project, there are no planned trails through this area as part county master plan. However, the multi use trail along Highway 30 is anticipated to be expanded and will, immediately pass these parcels. So it did get some points and then distinguishing factors. Again, just building on this gateway area, the quantity of acreage, the amount of the gateway that we can preserve in this one project. So it makes it pretty unique. Okay. And that's, the end of our presentation on that. And so any questions I can answer or mister Olsen can answer?

Anybody?

I know I'm I I know the area. I've been up there. I have a in a lot of those places, and it's a it really is. As you're coming into the valley, that's kinda like the the shock and awe right there as you're, you know, pulling into the the valley, and I think that's there's a lot of merit to do to actually, if we could, support this. And so with that, I I would move that we go ahead and and pass the, I guess, revolution twenty twenty six fifteen and sixteen for round one approval of both the Polson Valley View Farm. Open space application and the Hat Jay Ranch open space application. Second.

K.

It's been moved in second and Chair, can we take those one at a time so I'm clear which

okay. And I'll okay then. I'll back up. Twenty twenty six dash 15, we'll start there, on the Polson Family Valley View Farm open space application. I'll still second. K. It's been moved and seconded that we approve resolution twenty twenty six Dash15.

Is there any further discussion? I would just like to say this is exactly what the voters had in mind when they passed that bond, so I really appreciate this. Very excited. Yeah. K. Those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

K. Then I would follow-up with the motion for the pass resolution twenty twenty six dash sixteen of round one approval for the Hat Jay Ranch open space application.

I will also

second that one as well. K. So moved and seconded that we also approved resolution twenty twenty six dash 15. Those Those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? K. Perfect. I look forward to seeing those move along. Yep. We'll be back soon. Thank you very much. Yes. Thank you. Much appreciated. Okay. Amy, you're next on the agenda.

Good evening, Council Members. What I'm presenting to you is an amendment to the Personnel Policy and Procedures Manual for the, county cell phone and cell phone stipend policy. This has been through the ringer, through Ordinance and Policy Committee, and we have definitely talked about it a lot. So, I hope you've had a chance to read through it. It is quite lengthy. I don't wanna have to do that tonight, but I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have. Maybe what I should highlight is some of the changes to help you. Changes to help you. Yes. So, the the changes are are mostly to levels where it has the bullet point of level one, two, and three. The original document, specifies a dollar amount. And the personal policy and procedures manual, we like it to be a little bit more general, so that every time we have a change like that, we don't need to come back to the council and have you approve that. However, that doesn't mean that you wouldn't have approval for a change in a stipend amount as it states here in the policy. So it just means that we don't need to change the personal policy and procedures manual. Would the current stipend amounts stay in in They are staying Okay. In effect. Yes. And it talks about that, right above that, the stipend amount. It says the monthly stipend is allocated based on the estimated usage levels as determined by the department head or the elected official. Stipend amounts are reviewed annually by the compensation committee with any adjustments submitted to the county council for approval. So each year, the the compensation committee, that will be part of our discussions. And then if there needs to be an adjustment made, we'll we'll bring that forward to you. K. So, the other thing that it does on level two, it does tighten that up a bit, to, where it talks about, phone calls, text messages, photos, and emails during working hours or after hours. So, this would be maybe someone that's on call in our Public Works department, something like that, where level three is reserved for department heads, elected officials, public safety, or exempt employees.

Okay. Does anyone have questions for Amy about this resolution?

Can you just go over gram grandma? Because when I'm reading that, it just tighten that up for me, would you? Yeah. So basically,

I'll give myself as an example. So I use my personal phone as a work phone as well. If there were to be some type of investigation or something that someone wanted to see, emails or text messages or phone calls, then my phone could be grammied, and I would have to basically turn over that information. So, this hasn't been something that has been in our policy before, and I think it's really important that our employees understand when they are receiving a stipend for using their personal phone for work, that this is what they're agreeing to. And that's what I wanted to point it out. They can thank you. Even your personal

yeah. K. Yep.

Well, can I can I verify that? Yes. Please. So you can grandma records related to your work, not not just everything on your personal device. On your phone and say, if you see everything now. Produce the records that are related to the grammar request.

That's on your personal device. Okay. Okay. They don't have to give you don't have to turn over your whole phone. I thought that's what you're saying, like, I thought you Yeah. Yeah. I know. Right? The the reverse of it is if you have a text related to the grammar request on your personal phone, you cannot deny Yes. Access to that text. What if I can't even find them? Well, I mean, most people delete their text after thirty days or something. So It basically does. Doesn't it? Yeah. You can set it up that way if you want. Okay.

I don't know. They It goes somewhere.

Okay. Generally speaking, do employees have one phone and they put all of it on one Yeah. Like I do? Yeah. Yes.

Yeah. Like, in my case, I'm using my my cell phone number. That's my personal number that I've had for twenty plus years. That's the number that's on my business card. That's the number I give to employees, if they need to contact me. That's yes. Yeah.

K. Anybody have any other questions or discussion, or do you want to make a motion?

I think it's something good. This should come around, so I will make a motion. I'll second it. On resolution twenty twenty six dash 18, amending the Cass County personnel policy and procedures manual, cell phone policy.

You still wanna second it, Joanne? Sure. Okay. Okay. Alright. It's been moved and seconded that we approve resolution twenty twenty six Dash 18. Those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? K. Thank you so much, Amy. Alright. Pending items. Are we George, I forgot to ask you earlier. Are we any closer to the our class b road agreements?

Made no progress on k. Last week. Remember, I got your back. Matt Matt is working on setting up a meeting with River Heights. Yeah. So that's what we're waiting on right now. Okay.

Alright. The the last one of our pending items is this resort recreation ordinance that we were that we received. And Angie is here to answer our questions. Andrew and I did meet with Angie and Brian earlier today, and I know you all received the outline that Andrew had put together and a lot of those things we were able to to talk about. And so we're gonna ask Angie, first of all, to the the biggest question that I had, and this may be and then the rest of you can we can go to a lot of questions. But the this new ordinance takes away the development agreement, all of the development agreement language, which was something that we all kind of depended on when we approved the rezone and and we're looking at the master plan that we knew was going through planning and zoning. We felt really comfort in having that development agreement process within our purview. And so this taking that out was a big concern of mine. But if you want to, Angie, kinda talk about why why that was done and and how it relates to state code and and kinda start with that, and then we'll go to everyone else's questions too.

Okay. Yeah. So at the beginning of this process, what we learned was that having a development agreement be a step after adopting a master plan was outside of state code because you couldn't require a legislative act or additional requirements outside of the administrative standards that were approved as part of the master plan. So per state code a development agreement cannot be entered into if there's already land use regulations in the County Code that address the uses and what's permitted and not. So that was the primary reason for removing that. We did use a development agreement process, while going through the master plan adoption, in order to allow them to build new ski lifts, maintenance facility, art trails, and, one other thing which I can't quite remember. But ski lifts. Yeah. Like, four different ski lifts. But, again, that was because the master plan hadn't been adopted yet and there was nothing in the code that, regulated it at the time. So again, that is why that has come out. In the later sections of this code, there is a separate process called the development plan application, which comes after the adoption of the master plan, but, ensures that the master plan is being adhered to. So they're not building anything outside what was approved in the master plan. They're building it in the plan. And so that's just a check on making sure that they're still getting or still developing within what was approved. And then we're double checking, the number of units that they were approved and then they have to go through that before they can get any permits to actually build. So that's still an additional step. It's a step that only goes to Planning Commission because it's still an administrative step but

that is an additional step to make sure, again, that they're adhering to what was approved as part of the master plan. So they they will still do a development plan. They just don't that adheres to the master plan, but they don't have to do the development agreement.

Correct. And I I compare the development plan application process to our conditional use permit process, very similar. So

k. There was also if you look at c in the blue the blue part of the new this up here, if you look at c, the very first sentence says, within the boundary of an approved master plan, parcel legality is not applicable. That was like a bit like, what does that mean? And so we've asked Angie to explain that and then maybe flush that out in in the and rewrite that differently to bring back to us. Yes.

So again, going back to kind of our other base zoning districts, in our title 17 zoning regulations, seventeen ten is our development standards. Within that is a ratio for density based on the acreage. So we do not have that for resort recreation. And so what we do have instead is part of seventeen fourteen, we have a section called density unit equivalent densities, which reads kind of like a menu. And I'm happy to hand out copies of this if you want, but reads it like a menu of different things that could be incorporated into the master plan. It's in a it's in our it's in our it should be in the the ordinance. Yeah. And again, I do have, copies here if you wanted to look at that more closely. And then based on this, the Powder Mountain master plan, they included

which items from that kind of menu list that they wanted included in the master plan. Do you have copies of that for everyone? Yeah. Would you I think that might be helpful, Angie, if you take a minute to to let Andrew do it. Pass this

down. So this first one that he has is from the staff report from the master plan showing what Water Mound has elected to develop as part of their master plan boundary. And then this, second one is is just the section of code from 1714, none of which is changing as part of this ordinance amendment, but again is kind of the menu of items. And then it also shows you how it's calculated out. So, if one unit is the equivalent of a single family home, but then a hotel room that's under certain square footage has different ratios and calculations. So based on all of that, then they can, then they, identified which ones they wanted in their master plan. So they cannot go outside of what they've said in the master plan without amending it. So and that is what, on that page from the staff report, they have 225 single family lots they're proposing, 65 cabins, 415 multifamily units, and then some commercial rec facilities, ski areas, and corporate retreats. And again, how those unit densities are calculated are all based off that section of 1714. So it'd be like one unit for every thousand square feet of commercial. And then they've allowed for about a 150 of those units. So

So basically, this is what's in our code, but this is what is in their master plan, and it's not specified in our code.

Like, it Yeah. They've they've elected from that list of possible items. But To to put that in the master plan as well. Obviously, they're not putting, like, a golf facility in the ski resort area. So I mean, I guess they're good for summertime activities. So yeah, that was the question on that. We will be in clearing up some of the language, though, so it's it's more apparent and maybe not as confusing. And then, yeah, going back to the parcel legality, because we've identified this physical boundary of the master plan area and then as well as limitations of those unit equivalent densities within the master plan, that's why the parcel legality is not an issue because we've already limited the physical area and the scope of what they're going to develop because of the adoption of the master plan. So in our other zones, we do look at partial legality back to 2006 just to make sure it's not a restricted lot. But again, because we have these other mechanisms to contain and limit what they can develop as part of that master plan, it's not necessary in this. And they still have to go through the subdivision process in order to create lots for all those single family homes. They still have to go through that development plan process to do the site analysis for any commercial or hotel or multifamily developments as well. So but again If everything they're proposing is gonna be in an HOA, or is it an only the single family lots, it's gonna be the HOA? Yeah. So the entire development is all on private roads, and so that all will be dictated by HOAs, their CC and Rs and things of that nature. So they're gonna bring in the

hotels and everything into that too.

Yeah. And then again, these proposed development standards, a under seventeen fourteen forty says, development standards shall be specific to each approved master plan. And then B, as a condition of approval, the applicant for that particular master plan has to submit, development standards. That because we don't have anything specific in the resort recreation that would apply to any and all resort developments in the future. As an example, Powder Mountain has submitted this document that provides all sorts of standards that they require. This is based off their Weber County development, but applies to, you know, types of materials, location building envelopes, things like that. And these are much more restrictive than anything that we could come up with in our code. Our development table for setbacks in that for our other zones is just on half of a page in section seventeen ten. But it does go through again, very robust standards for design, location, landscaping. And then they have a separate document that would apply to commercial building structures as well as infrastructure. So road development, stormwater development, that stuff. And again, the road requirements and that are above and beyond what is currently required of our road manual. So but each, resort recreation development that came comes in would have to have their own standards adopted separately, and codified into 1714, and that's what this language is talking about in a and b.

K. What other questions do you guys have? I I think I got most of my questions answered. There's there's a part in there where it talks about the land use authority. That means the county council in b where, you know, on b where it says standards must be adopted by the land use authority.

That that is us. Isn't that planning and zoning?

Because it's an ordinance amendment, it's technically legislative. So codifying those separate development standards after the master plan's adopted would go through council as an ordinance amendment. But, yeah, it would go through planning commission first as a recommended as the recommending body.

I just find it interesting that that title is used in two sections then. Because the planning and zoning is the land use authority.

Am I wrong there, mister Dain? It depends. Yeah. See? That's what Yeah. That's if it's legislated or not. So under the code, there's we have an table in our code to try to make it a little weird, but there's specific decisions where they're the land use authority and specific where they're just a recommending authority and the county council's land use authority depending on what's being done. So so like Angie said, where this is an ordinance that is legislative, so this body is the land use authority. Yeah. Like, a CUP

doesn't come to us, so they would be the land use authority on that. Right? Is that a good example? Well, subdivisions don't come to us. Yeah. Yeah. So

But rezones do because that's the map change. And then, like, our source water protection changes that we made to the ordinance, that comes to you ultimately for final decision. Did you say subdivisions don't come divisions don't come to us?

Right. They don't. No. Because we've already

imposed the policy that says a subdivision must meet this or cannot do that. So they're just administrative.

K. So Angie's gonna clarify some of that language for us. And so we'll if if it's okay with all of you guys, we'll continue this till the next meeting and and really dig into it. And if you have any other questions, Angie and Brian are more than happy to take those questions so that we'll we can be ready at the next meeting. Okay. Thanks, Angie. I'm I'm just trying to think some of this that, yeah, read here.

I'm looking at other parts of the county. So

the RR zone, the resort recreation, is only currently found in the southern part in the Powder Mountain area. It was established local up local Canyon? No. It was established in 2002, and the initial rezone of Powder Mountain was done in 2002. I think an initial 3,500 acres. But it's only been at that location this entire time, and it's only been right now that we've actually applied this section of the code for Powder Mountain. So So no other places in our valley have that code? Yeah. Because it requires a minimum 2,000 acres. So, but that is the only part of the county that's I I thought that it might

be up there with Beaver Mountain.

Yeah. That's just considered a recreational facility in the F R 40 zone. K.

Anybody else have questions for Andy? Okay. Thank you so much. Okay. I lost my there it is. K. That was the last thing on our agenda. The upcoming parades. I have asked Andrew to please get us Lewiston parade. Oh, it's not on there. When is that? July 4. Independence Day. Yes. So That one needs to be Okay. Yeah. That's right. And I'll tell you guys this something kinda special. This was an idea of Catherine and I, and we've shared it with with the executive office. But we would like, in the fourth of July parade, to be something special that it's not just our regular truck, that maybe we can we're looking at maybe some horses or something that we can decorate and go big. And I also would like to discuss what you guys think about we'll have those two parades on the July 4 that we invite any county employee who would like to join us in the parade to just come and be have it be not just a council entry, but the whole county. It's for anybody who wants to be a part of that. And it's just gonna depend on if we can find a little bit of money in the budget somewhere to to get some horses or to do whatever that would take, but we're we're discussing that.

So kind of see what you think about that. Saying all these people would be part of the Yeah. Absolutely. The parade with us? Yes. Absolutely.

Not a Kurt. Kurt's not invited. No.

He ride he could ride his Harley. Yeah.

So our budget affords stick horses then. Right? Oh, probably.

Probably by the time we pay for the candy. That's the thing. We wouldn't be able you wouldn't be able to throw candy. We don't have candy for everybody, but but we'd like to we just like to make it special. This is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our country and especially on that July 4. There's some all these decorations around the building, there are a few leftover that I've gotten from Janine that we could use to decorate maybe I don't know. We're just still thinking about. So if you have any ideas, let's let's discuss that. On the higher end fourth, the road department comes through with graders and some other things from the county. So Yeah. Yeah. There'll be there and I I think, like, there'll be candidates and maybe the party and, you know, there'll be some other things, but for us just to do something special, we thought that would be really appropriate. So anybody has any ideas, please contact me or Catherine. K. Council member reports. Let's start with you, Mark. Do you have anything?

No

official, liaison ships or department reports for me. K. David?

We haven't had an OMP for at least a day yet. Yeah. It's I know. When's the last OMP? Seventy two hours. No. I I don't have anything to report right now. K. Nolan?

Nothing. I don't have any All my work. I feel like have sand. I well, it's like I'm busy all the time, but it's

Hey. I will come out and say, I have talked about water ever since I got on here. I went to my spring yesterday, and I've been involved with that spring for over sixty years. This is the worst level I see my spring at. If we as county don't do something on water and something, we're messing up our citizens. I mean, Hirem is now putting out a reduced use on that. My well is having some downdraft. This is I don't know. It's gonna take years to correct this, but that's the lowest I've seen my spring. And I I just think we're we're needing to do something in that area.

Well and I'll just tell you this too because when I met with Brian and Angie, we talked about a couple of other things that we we started talking about solar ordinance and then the subdivision ordinance that we had a big meeting on. I think we need we've kinda need to jump back into those and set up a meeting. Brian said if we could meet with him as a few council members and give them direction, they will start crafting a code so that would be ready to bring to the planning commission and then come to us. Like, let's get let's get something done. Let's see see what we need to do and and work with them too. And And not only that, but

we need to come up with a Airbnb type of thing to consider in the county. County. And I've got citizens who are complaining about certain types of rentals going on in residential neighborhoods. And so,

we really don't have anything to address that. We don't. We don't, do we? I know several of the cities are passing those ordinances, but we need to do something as a county. So, anyway, let's think about those things, and let's let's kind of make that a priority as

I agree.

K. Alright. I'm gonna take a motion for adjournment. So moved. Second. K. Done.

Like, right there.

Yep. Go. Go. Go. Tell her happy birthday. I will. K. Katie, can I talk to you for just reading about the fire board? And I think that the our shirts should be done