Cache County Council Regular Meeting – 06-09-2026

To order, council meetings today on 01/09/2026. I'd like to recognize the absence of our council chairs, chair Goodlander. She is absent today, and, councilman Keegan Garrity is not is not with us. We have the opening remarks will be provided by council member Mark Hurd. Great. Thank you, madam chair. Just briefly,

just been on my mind, so I wanted to phrase it. Hopefully, simple, but communicative terms that I'm grateful for the freedoms we enjoy in this land. And I would just encourage each one in attendance or listening to take the time. If you know a veteran, give them a give them a handshake, tell them thanks. If you can still hug your mother, do so. And with that, I'd like to continue with a prayer. Thank you. Our father in heaven, we ask thee for thy presence to abide here with us this evening as as we begin our county council meeting. We're grateful father for the opportunity we have as citizens of our community to be able to participate in the government that prevails in this land. We're grateful, Father, for the means and opportunities that Thou has blessed our community with, and we pray for Thy hand to continually be in the lives of of our friends and family around us. Military service members. We ask thee to continually watch over and protect them. We pray, Father, for preservation of this land, for the protection of the freedom. That are enshrined in the Constitution. We pray for the clarity of thought to fulfill our oath of office to protect and defend this constitution. We pray, Father, for we pray we offer a prayer of gratitude for the opportunities we have to know thy love for us and the opportunity we have to serve one another. We say this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. And last, please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance.

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

Thank you, madam chair.

Thank you. I will accept a motion to approve this evening's agenda. So moved. Second. We have a motion by council member Got all. Got all Nolan. And and seconded by Dave. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. And I will accept a motion to approve both of the minutes for the workshop on the twenty sixth as well as the council meeting minutes. Move to approve. And a second. And a second. K. Any further discussion? K. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. I will abstain. I was not in attendance at that meeting. Now we'll move on to the report from our county executive.

I I have no appointment, madam chair. I would tell you that most of our time is spent working with fire board issues and trying to get progress in that area.

Okay. Thank you. We will move on to the items of special interest. We have the twenty twenty six Cache County royalty that is joining us, as you can see, here on the front row. And we have Trish Gibbs who is here on that's going to be introducing them. I'm sorry. I don't know which one Trish. Trish Gibbs. Would you please come and to the microphone and present each of them? Is is that no? Yes? They're making their face. They're okay. We'll have them introduce themselves. Thank you for joining us tonight. So if you'll take turns coming to the microphone,

and it looks like you're prepared. So please. Yeah. This is being broadcast through the whole world. So You guys can Smile.

Hello, everyone. My name is Reese Page, and I'm your twenty twenty six Cache County Fair and Rodeo queen. My roots run deep here in Cache County. My parents are Derek and Jamie Page, and you might even know my grandparents, Darius and Dixie Page. Our fair and rodeo is being talked about all over the country. I've had the chance to talk with professional rodeo athletes and even world champions, and they always have good things to say about our event. More often than not, they bring up our beautiful fairgrounds. It's got lush trees, a wonderful river flowing through it, and lots of shade while also still being in a convenient location near town, as well as they often bring up our wonderful payout. We are one of the highest paying out rodeos in pro rodeo. And because of this, we qualify to be in the Cinch Governor's Cup circuit, which attracts the best competition around and more times than not, world champions. So because Cache County's fair and rodeo is such a unique event due to its location and tough competition, we would love for you guys to come because it's truly something that you won't want to miss out on.

Thank

you. Thank you. Hello, everyone. I'm Pathley Thompson. I'm the Cache County first Attendant Queen. I am so excited to be here. Cache County Rodeo is one event you won't wanna miss. Last year, we welcomed more than 81,000 people, filled every seat, and sold out all four nights. If we had more bleachers, we're confident they would be filled too. We also had over 700 contestants and trees last year, bringing top talent and exciting competition to the arena. Join us August fifth through the seventh for an unforgettable experience. Tickets range from 15 to $27 depending on the night seating depending on the night and whether you choose covered seating. We'd love to see you there. Get your tickets early. They tend to go fast. Thank you.

I'm Brianna Bassett, and I am the Cache County Fair and Rodeo second attendant queen, and I love the Cache County Fair and Rodeo. I grew up showing goats at the fair and going to the night every rodeo with my parents, Justin and Carly Bassett. And let me tell you, not only is the rodeo athletes one of my favorite parts, but also the entertainment we have. We have Parker Haviland coming this year, bringing his beautiful big, black horses, and they all hitch together and they pull the wagon. And they work hard all year long to bring us something different each year. Thank you.

Hi. My name is Zixie Christensen. I'm the Cache County's Junior Humane. I'm from Richmond, Utah. My parents were Timothy and Denise Christensen. Because of our outstanding rodeo, livestock vendors, and carnival, we were voted best of Northern Utah's annual event this year, which will be the sixth time in a row. So you should come and enjoy the best week of the summer at the Cache County Ford Rodeo. Thank you.

Hello, everyone. I'm Marley Hall, your Cache County 2026 princess.

Being in being part of a road royalty looks like

representing our rodeo at rodeos and events in lots of areas, including Preston, Lewiston, and Hiram. It means waving to the crowd from Lewiston and Hiram. It means with sorry. It means waving to the crowd from horseback and fourth of July parades, participating in buzz runs, being on the radio, thanking sponsors, and taking part in fun royalty photoshoots. Royalty all royalty members also help put on Ash County Fair and Rodeo itself. From carrying flags and moving cows to helping with the mutton busting, throwing prizes from the truck, and even signing autographs for little kids. It's it's a summer full of service, friendships, confidence, and a unforgettable memories. We would love for you to come to our cap to our sorry. For you to come and experience our queen contest this next year on May 29. Thank you. My name is Indiana Earl, and I'm the junior the Cache County Junior Princess. My parents are Clay and Kaydon Earl. If you come to the Cache County Rodeo this year, you will see our specialty act, Jessica Blair Fowlkes, riding her beautiful white horses, showing off for

council, we have a proclamation. If it's okay, we'll read it to you right now. This is a proclamation recognizing and honoring the 2026 Cache County Rodeo Royalty. Whereas, the Cache County rodeo rodeo royalty serve as the official public faces of Cache County, promoting our rich western heritage and agricultural traditions throughout the community and the state of Utah, and whereas the members of the royalty court demonstrate outstanding leadership, exceptional poise, and elite horsemanship, serving as excellent role models for the youth of Cache Valley, and whereas their dedication and hard work significantly support the success and promotion of the annual Cache County Fair and Rodeo, bringing our community together. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Cache County Council does hereby recognize and honor the members of the twenty twenty six Cache County Rodeo Royalty Court. Reece Page, Cache County Rodeo Queen, Hadley Thompson, first attendant, Brianna Bassett, second attendant, Dixie Christiansen, junior queen, Marley Hall, princess, Indiana Earl, junior princess, and thank them for their dedicated service, leadership, and excellent representation of Cache County throughout their tenure. I will accept a motion to approve the proclamation.

So moved. Second.

We've got everyone jumping at the bit. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Thank you so much for representing Cache County and for everything that you do with such poise. And what are you would you rather do, ride a horse or come and talk to the county council? Actually, right now, we would like to give the opportunity to have a photo op for the royalty and and two minute recess for them to come and get a a picture. So if everyone could just breathe easy for a minute, and they can come up and take a picture here with the council. Out of the way? Yeah. You guys can come up here. We don't need to be in. Can we get the store picture with you guys there too? You can get a picture with us here if you'd like.

I was gonna put them in the chairs.

Okay. Go all the way over. Well, we don't wanna be You're No. We do want you blocking this.

What's the average weight of those hats? They look like they got a lot of the proclamation. A lot of proud moms out there.

Thank you so much for coming to see you, and thank you for all what you do. Do I give this back to your YouTube? We we give it to you, and we have copies for oh, we have multiple copies. So we'll go ahead and distribute. Well, you can take that one, and we'll provide copies. Well, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome to stay for the remainder of our meeting.

You'll just love it.

Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Good luck. We'll see you guys at the rodeo on August 5 and Through the eighth. Through the eighth. Yep. We'll Thank you, guys. You'll be great again. Yeah. Thank you. Thanks for all you

do.

Oh, this meeting got a lot less sparkly.

We look They're good people. Okay.

They're not. You're doing good. They're just not sparkling. Continuing with our agenda, we will have a presentation for VAWA, VOCA, and UBSP grant reports presented by county attorney Dane Murray as well as the Cache County deputy attorney Andrew Crane, Sarah Owen, Cache County victim advocate supervisor, Scott Bodley, Cache County Children's Justice Center coordinator. Andrew, thank you.

Andrew Crane with the county attorney's office. We'll give it a moment to get slides pulled up. Part of the as you're well aware, one of the requirements for the VAWA grant is to do a presentation to the council twice a year, basically. So this is part of that grant requirement.

Most of

what I'm gonna go over today, you've already seen. So if you have any questions, feel free to jump in. But, really, here's the purpose. The mission of the county attorney's office, I'm not gonna read that. We're we're aware of that. There's been no change. Basically, we're here to uphold and defend the constitution as best we can to make sure the rights of all are protected. Going over the VAWA overview overview, essentially what we have, again, there's been no change to what we have to do on. There are three SBU prosecutors. You have one in each district court, and myself, Josh Cohen, Mark Winkel, spread out among the judges there. There are also two of our investigators are on the ground as well, Nick and Nate. And so I give a shout out to them. They've been very helpful for us in helping us get follow-up on cases. I've used them often, and they're an indispensable resource in getting, follow-up done on the cases. As far as the current grant year award that we are in, 2025, it's a two year cycle. Again, there aren't as many changes to this. These are some of the requirements we have to do. Again, talk about the we do semi annual and annual reporting to UOVC, and we have to track our time and hours of what we with what we spend on the VAWA cases. That just, I guess, is a note for coming up next year, we'll be in the grant cycle again. I'm not sure what the funding will look like when it comes to going through this process again next year. I'm sure a lot more discussions as that comes up, but given the track record with what's happened on the federal side of things, I would not I would not be shocked if what is available if we are granted anything would be lower again as well. So just to give you a heads up on that. Just wanna throw out some information on what we've have reported. You'll see what we reported back in 2024 with the number of cases that were investigated by our investigators and cases received and reviewed by the prosecutors. Kinda see the differences there between 2024 and 2025. For the most part, everything has gone up. So it has been a busy time for us in the office with handling everything that we handle. So unless there are any questions, that is what I have, and I'll be followed by Sarah.

Is there any reason to account for the domestic violence to be

to have that dramatic of an increase? It is. That was a big increase. I honestly don't know. It's just really ebbs and flows. And, Dana, I don't know if you have anything you wanna share on that as well, but I'm gonna speak a little bit, and I I think what I'm gonna talk about will probably

be I didn't answer that right now, but Okay. I will hold Okay.

Thank you, Dane. Any other questions?

That's sad. Yep. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So this is just a little bit overview of the Cache County Victim Services.

These are our three different funding sources. So my reporting will be about the VOCA, the Victims of Crime Act, and the UVSP, the Utah Victim Services Provider. So we are funded by federal grants, state grants, and then our county, county funds. Same with Andrew, as he said, we haven't had a, we haven't been provided a lot of information about what the grants, financial side is going to look like. But I think that is the continual trend that we've heard for the last many, many years. And so we will report to you, as soon as we hear that information. But I think that is to be expected, of a decrease in, in our, at least federal funding at this time. Just again, our personnel overview, we have six full time victim coordinators, together we cover the District Juvenile and Specialty Courts in the First District. Our District Court, Sarah, Tanya, Jenny, and Caitlin, we are all in the VOCA grant. The juvenile court is Candace, and that is our UVSP grant. District and juvenile court is Linda. She is our bilingual Spanish speaking advocate. Caitlin covers our specialty courts that is mental health and, and drug court, and all of our co our coordinators cover our on scene response. And we have an executive assistant, Jennifer, who is critical to our team. I know there's a lot of numbers. You're provided a lot of numbers, but this is our quarter two numbers, of this grant cycle. So from October 25 to December 25, our federal reporting, these are all the categories that we have to report. So we track all of this information on a quarter, well, daily, but on a quarterly basis that we turn over, for our reporting. Some of the numbers at the very top, that I think are helpful to just get a tiny, tiny perspective. Our total new victims, you know, every quarter we've got new victims, but every quarter we also serve all of our victims at the same time. And so in this quarter, we had three zero one new victims, but overall overall our victims we serve were six fifty four. What's really hard is this is also how the federal guidelines want us tracking these cases. I have a personal opinion, that I think this doesn't equate for the true number of victims that we work with during these quarters. I think they are a lot larger. And so I just wanted to, to offer that perspective on it. But as you can see, you know, we go through what we call persons and property crimes, and we serve victims of all across the board. Same for quarter three. This is January, '25 to oh, shoot. '26. I I messed up. I'm so sorry. January 26 to March 26. Same thing. We've had two seventy five new victims and our overall victims are six eighty eight. And every category ebbs and flows every quarter. But that is our numbers for quarter three. We're just finishing up quarter four, which will end, at the end of June. And then we start our year two cycle, of these grants. Okay. So I just provide you guys with a lot of numbers. But I think numbers don't equate to every single person. So I wanted to give you an example of a person in our community, and what her story was like. So this is a case of walking in their shoes. This is a defendant, Jeri Rice. I want to walk you through the many, many years that this young girl, as you can see, this case started out when she was six to seven years old. An incident happened where she was a victim that she was sexually assaulted. It was a person that was in the home. It was a family member, and she was really, really young. That really shapes a young person. And when it's somebody that's living in the home, that also brings a lot of fear of how can I report what happened to me? So as you can see, the disclosure happened when she was 14 years old. She disclosed to law enforcement that she had been sexually assaulted. She was interviewed at the Children's Justice Center. Law enforcement did extensive interviewing, to be able to gather evidence for this case. The for this case. The case was then turned over to the county attorney's office, and it was filed when she was 15 years old in 2019. He was charged with five counts of rape of a child and five counts of sodomy on a child. We went through them through the court process. So that was ranging from 15 years old to 17 years old, from 2019 to 2022. We had 36 pretrial hearings. We had a four day jury trial. And this girl's testimony will be a vivid memory in my life, probably forever. The moment she got on that stand, I think it impacted the jury instantly. You could tell the fear and the the anxiousness that she had to go through in telling her story to these random people. That she doesn't know who they are. She's got Jerry Rice right in front of her in the courtroom. It was a terrifying experience for a young, young person. So at 17 years old in 2022, he was found guilty, of all 10 counts. He was then sentenced to fifty years to life in the Utah State Prison. He then appealed his conviction, and went through the appeals process. And then, you know, he went to prison as well. And then at 19 years old in 2024, the appeals the Utah Court of Appeals denied that appeal. Now she faces continuation, with any potential, parole hearings. She will then have an opportunity to speak at the Board of Pardons and and parole. I hope this is a helpful perspective of just unfortunately one person's story out of those, as you can see, 600 plus people that we deal with on a daily basis here in our community. But I hope this can help you just know how important this work is to be able to help every single one of these people. So that's my report. If anybody has any questions or anything?

Thank you.

These are this is an example of one that did Go all the that came through and was strong. And and, there's a there's a lot of fear out there. The the quiet ones that we,

I guess, just don't go through that process. Absolutely. And there's a there's a few There's a lot of there's a lot of pain that goes with it. A lot of pain to come forward. There's a lot of pain to not come forward. Yeah. And we meet victims where they're at, because it's still pain no matter what it is. Mhmm.

Thank you, Sarah. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Thank you.

My name is Scott Bodley. I'm the director at the Cache Ridge Children's Justice Center. I don't have a fancy media package to put up, but I've got some information I wanted to be able to provide for everybody here. Just as a matter of clarification for those who are unfamiliar with the Children's Justice Center,

we are the evidence collection point for a

child abuse investigation for Cash County, Rich County, and then we work also cooperatively with Box Elder County to provide medical services. Medical services are provided by contract through the Primary Children's Medical Center. So they work at the CJC, but they do not work for the CJC. Specifically, with the idea of creating a child friendly environment where a child abuse victim can come and talk about their experience in a way that can be introduced into court for a criminal investigation. Wanted to talk quickly about some numbers. We talk about the number of interviews that we do. And a lot of times, last year, I determined that that doesn't catch everything that happens at the Children's Justice Center. So for example, in 2025, we had 222 interviews. But I started looking at all the people that come in to support that child, And we started tracking those numbers to to see who is coming in and receiving services or referrals or just helping that. That's law enforcement. That's our multidisciplinary team. We started tracking that in March of of last year, and by the time the year was over, we had had 1,848 people come through the Children's Justice Center. Using that metric our metrics for this year, we already have twelve twelve sixteen that have come through the Children's Justice Center for 2026. Okay? We've seen a significant increase in our caseload. Working cooperatively with the County Attorney's Office, we identified a potential issue as far as understanding with the turnover the law enforcement has experienced, the DCFS has experienced in how to bring cases or when it's appropriate to bring cases to the Children's Justice Center. So we did a training in January with our multidisciplinary team. Immediately after that training, we saw a huge increase in numbers. I'm not gonna say that the training was all of it, but just as an example, in 2025, we were averaging 20 interviews a month. So far, in 2026, we're averaging 27 a month. In 2025, we averaged a 190 people coming through the center. In 2026, we're averaging 243 people per month through the center. That that all represents the work that we are doing with our community to be able to help, attorneys prosecute cases, to help our multidisciplinary team investigate cases, and to be able to help, kids heal through terrible experiences. There's a lot of other numbers that we could talk about, but I don't wanna take up all of the time, and and I know that Dane has some things to present as well. So with that as a backdrop, I will entertain any questions if if anybody has some.

Thank you, Scott.

Mike, I do have something, but we are at time for our public hearings. So

I I think we can go ahead and finish this, and then we'll move on to the public hearing. Thank you.

Dane Murray, Cache County attorney. And the reason I decided to present and have Scott present because we're required twice a year to have a presentation on VOCA and VAWA. But I I thought this that's a good time to just update the council, the executive on what our office is is working on, where we're at for year. And then June just so happens to coincide with our our number tracking cycle ending for the previous year. That's kind of an archaic goes back to the how we'd rotated our special victims prosecutors in the past on a three year cycle. So we've tracked cases on a three year cycle. We had grant reporting that was that was due at the end of June, and so that's where we've tracked. So from June first of each year to the next year on May 31. And so, up here, we can you can see the the total number of cases for three year periods beginning in 2014 and the average number of cases per year. And then you see what we had for that same period in just one year in 2025, 2026. So we had six hundred and forty three cases, which is, our our three year average from 2022 to 2025 was four hundred and ten. Last year, we were about, five hundred and thirty. So we had it a little more than a 100 additional cases year over year. But over our three year average, we're we're almost half in more than half in one year of what our three year average or three year total was. I think that I I guess that there's some good news in this. Our total number of cases submitted by law enforcement

I as the it was alluded that as the possible decrease in federal funding, how are we gonna make that up to be able to keep up with

Increased load.

And I I I hope that we don't lose that federal funding, but I think that's the reality that that we're in and there's gonna have to be tough decisions to be made whether it's what what level of service can we continue offering the public or it it I think that's that's something that's gonna all throughout the country, that's it's been a real benefit to have some of those federal grants to help victim services and prosecution because those are, and law enforcement law enforcement agencies also receive those funds. Those federal funds dry up, it's it really pushes burdens back onto the communities. I I I hope that they don't. Especially, I'll I'll speak to Voca specifically, the funds are victim services. That that's one that I really hate to see dry up because it's not coming from taxpayer dollars. It's coming from fines from, federal defendants and from seizures. And so that that's one that it it just really is unfortunate that that's drying drying up, and it's just the the nature of how sentences and things are going these days. But but those those are gonna be tough discussions that are gonna have to be had because that's that's the reality. You look at statewide, our domestic violence numbers across the state have been increasing consistently at about a 3% rate, on top of just the natural gain from population growth, and Cache Valley hasn't been immune to that.

I appreciate you bringing that information up right now that we can keep talking about it.

Right. That's something that, unfortunately, with how the federal fiscal years line up and where the state lines up, it puts the county in tough positions sometimes to not know what we're we're gonna have as far as funding until partway through a year. Yeah.

Anything additional for the attorney? Thank you. Thank you for all the departments that spoke today for all you do to bring justice and advocate for the victims that we have here in our community. Thank you very much. Heavy stuff that you deal with. We are past the hour for the public hearings. We'll move on to the item number seven on our agenda, and that is the public hearings that we have for, three different public hearings. We'll start with the Wellsville Safe Storage 2 Rezone. We'll get some background. Thank you. Brian.

Good evening. I'm Brian Abbott with Development Services. Tonight, we've got the Wellsville Safe Storage Rezone. This is located off Highway 8991. Sorry. Next one. It's north of the American West Heritage Center, East of two Cache County owned parcels meant for future outdoor recreation use. It's in a view corridor identified by COSAC. The South is the Wellsville City boundary, but access is off of County Road. As you can see on this map here, the yellow represents agricultural a 10. That's the vast majority of the surrounding property. There's a little square of purple and that's an industrial zone near Hiram JBS that was rezoned in 2018. There's just a sliver of red on that end there. That's some some commercial storage units near Nibley, and then all of the green lines represent a future annexation area for Wellsville, Just a brief overview. This rezone request is for eight acres. There this came up for a rezone request, in the industrial zone that was denied. The planning commission recommended denial four to two and the county council denied it five to one. That was on March 24. The current request to rezone to the is for a commercial zone. This would allow for commercial business, commercial kennel and animal shelter, self-service storage facilities, general vehicle repair, recreation facility, campground, medical services and facilities and additional uses. This came before planning commission May 21. Planning commission recommended denial of the rezone to the county council on a five to two's vote. Public comments received against the proposed rezone were received by Utah State University and the American West Heritage Center. Some conclusions is that, the commercial uses are not consistent with surrounding land uses which are agriculture. And the nearest commercial zone is 1.74 miles to the Southeast. Any questions for me on this?

At after the public hearing.

Thank you. K. We will now open the public hearing for ordinance twenty twenty six dash Thursday thirty, Wellsville Safe Storage 2 Rezone. We will keep the comments to two minutes. Andrew, we'll have running stopwatch there, and we ask that you bring new comments. If if something that you were gonna say has already been stated, just new comments with with each comment, please, and be civil in your comments, please. And and it is now open, and come and state your name and your address at the microphone or city you live in city you live in. Excuse

me.

Travis Baldwin. You want me to address to? Just the city you live in. Paradise. Thanks. I did send some emails. I don't know if you guys forwarded them to the county council. I sent them to Connor yesterday. I had some AI models mock ups that you guys could see how we could I know one of the big things is aesthetics going along there. We did some berms with some bushes on top so you could hide them aesthetically. You could put some river rock in there with the berm and then put some trees on it. So that way you can, match that surrounding landscape. And then we can color the storage units a light brown or whatever, or a cream color to match the wheat fields or the alfalfa fields. We could do green and light green, to match those surrounding areas. Again, we're we're good neighbors. We've we're not there to to put a big eyesore coming into Cache Valley. We like it aesthetic. The last fifteen years, I've donated to the American West Heritage Center. My business has that's something we plan on doing and supporting and and helping them out. And I did not bring any of those pictures, but I am sorry. I sent them to Connor. He said he'd forward them to you guys. I agree. Did you guys get them? That doesn't start today. That's, yeah, we've got In the packet. We did. We did receive the pictures. Okay. As I've I gave you guys three of them so you guys could look. They were received out of her. 06/2026

is when they were received, I guess, for us Okay. Sent to us. So it's yeah. It's in the packet. Okay.

But it has one has a berm. One just has some large trees. I mean, I had bushes out in paradise, some shrubs that were 10 feet tall that you couldn't see in my backyard. So that's why I said, there's different things we can do to help alleviate and, do that. The other thing is I know you guys didn't want it in the industrial zone, and so we came back in the commercial, and that was some of your guys' biggest holdups against it. So we came back with the commercial. Do you guys have any questions for me? Okay. Thank you guys.

Margaret Bosworth, and I am part owner of the Christianson eight acres, myself and my brother. And I do appreciate you letting us come back and and talk to you again. And just in the meetings that I've been to and that, in the last meeting, there was a gentleman from the American West says that it was never approached to buy it. And, I mean, if if that's what he if that's what he found, that's fine. They've never approached us on buying it when they did buy the the two prior, West pieces that borders ours at that time. Utah State, as far as I know, talking to my brother, have not approached him on buying it. And it really wouldn't be any difference if either one of them did. We would want we would want to know what would go on that property as we are concerned. Just what it looks like, what it benefits, and the looks of it that we would want it to be nice depending on who whoever bought it. The only thing my big concern is I think you need to really consider property right owners right property owners rights. And when you are a land owner, I mean, I know I mean, I love Wellsville and and everything too, and coming into the valley and everything also. But I think you need to look at property right owners, the rights and lost revenue for our family in what we want to do with that piece of ground, whether now or down the road. And I guess that's all I've got to say. Is there any questions for me?

Thank you. Okay.

Move to close the public hearing. Second.

Yes. Follow protocol. Thank you.

My name is Deborah Van Noy, and I just wanted to comment on the topic of of these smaller parcels of land. There there would be an opportunity for generating, very attractive revenue for these property owners by considering protecting the land with a conservation easement because it is part of the gateway into Cache Valley. And I don't know if, these owners have thought about that as an option, but it certainly is a valuable one. I know that, these acreages are in the eight to 10 acre level, not large, but because they are in that view corridor, they would be very valuable. I just wanted to add that comment. Thank you.

Mike Baldwin. I'm from, Wellsville. There, I just live a couple miles from from that spot. And, yeah, I I we did put it back to you guys. I appreciate you re taking another look at this. And I do appreciate the the open space, and I've worked with some conservation easements in the past with my father's land. And it it has worked out, but this is a smaller one. The amount of revenue you can generate with that is limited compared to what you can do for the Bosworth and Christiansen family. They're the ones that came to us because we had another project. It's, that they were working on, their their son. And, said, hey, we'd love to have that on our property here. And I said, let's let's take a look and see if we can make this work, for you. And so that that's how it came together. For me, it's just in residents of Wellsville, just like me, that are around there, there's nowhere to go that isn't already full near us. We went through the planning and zoning, and again, the gentleman that we might compete without him amended on that corridor coming in, it's just another open space corridor, coming in on the West side of the valley, that has storage sheds, again, voted and didn't recuse himself of that either, which was unfortunate, where it's a conflict of interest on that. And so, but they did speak out, several of them, about the property rights, on the planning and zoning commission as well that voted for it. So that that's something to consider. Her family has is being able to generate that income. They have a farm down below there. This is a piece that they can't farm without leasing it out to somebody else to try to do that. So it limits the income, they can get just just off the leasing rights, not generating it with their own. So any questions?

So I have a question. So you're the developer?

You're not the owner of the property. Right? No. She's the owner. The boss was the boss. You're the developer. Right? Yes. I'm they they came to us, and we had a project there and where I was in Wellsville as well. And I have another business in Wellsville there that we just built. She she wanted some help in in being able to put something together where they didn't know how to do it on their own. And so that's why we said instead of us just buying the piece from you, let's invest together on that so it doesn't just, you know, profit me or another partner that it that it helps their their family as well long term, and that's a fit that worked for them.

Thank you. You bet.

Move to close the public hearing. Second. Thank you. There's others.

Okay. Any further discussion? Nope. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. K. Moving on to the ordinance twenty twenty six dash 31, Richmond City Creek rezone.

Alright. So the Richmond City Creek rezone is just South of Richmond on Highway 91, 9000 North. It's current use right now is agriculture, and all of the surrounding areas are agriculture with a few houses, located around there. Brief overview. This rezone request is for 7.58 acres on two parcels from agriculture to industrial. The nearest industrial zone is, the is to the north, point three eight acres, was Lauer Foods. That rezone, was approved, earlier this year. The industrial zone would allow for storage and warehousing, self storage facilities, transport services, general vehicle repair, crematorium, and and some other uses. This came before the planning commission also on May 21. Planning commission recommended approval of the rezone to the county council seven to zero. Their conclusions, the property is consistent with the industrial zone. The nearest parcel zone industrial is just north of the subject property. Richmond City provided comment that they have no issues with this rezone.

Thank you, Brian. Same guidelines as the previous public hearing. Please step to the podium and state your name and and the city you reside, and keep your comments to about two minutes, please.

Hello. I'm Judson Eads. I'm the one that's, under contract to buy that if it can be rezoned and I probably need to be coached because I've never done this before. So I don't know if there's questions or anything I should be, telling you that I haven't thought of or go if you got any recommendation ready to or questions you might have, let me know.

I've heard it, so I'm good. So

I was not planning a date. Hearing goes. No no questions. Yeah. Public hearing. So Yeah.

I

Not not a data center. I

don't know. I don't know.

You have questions on what to do with it? What I is that something I should answer?

You can. What are you gonna do with it?

I'm in adrenaline industries and we build expedition trucks, which is like off road motor homes. Cool.

Any other questions for for Pradet? No. I've got some for Brian.

Okay. K. Okay. Thanks. Any other public comment?

We have to close the public hearing. Second.

All those in favor, say aye. Aye. K. Moving on to resolution twenty twenty six dash 17, opening and amending the Cache County 2026 budget. Third amendment. Mister Funk.

Matthew Funk, Cache County Auditor. This budget opening is for the second quarter. We have these each quarter. This budget amendment would allow us to, proceed with, booking about a million dollars of revenue. Most of that would be inter or intergovernmental revenue or the grants and what have you. Expenditures in this opening would be $6,300,000. At least 4,000,000 of that would be would be funded by wraps. So and would adjust fund balances down by 5,200,000. Again, that's mostly wrap. So it would actually increase the fund balance and the general fund by $177,000.

Thank you. Any, public comment concerning the resolution twenty twenty 6Dash17, following the same protocol right now? K. Seeing there is none. Move to close the public hearing. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Okay. Thank you. Item number eight, we'll move on to initial proposals for consideration of action. And eight a is ordinance twenty twenty six dash thirty wells fell safe storage two Rezone. Brian, if we could have you I think first, there's some additional questions for you, if you don't mind. Sorry. Trying to pull it up.

The road that passes this, it is a minor local road.

Yeah. And the the county owns that right now. And industrial and commercial are not allowed? The I have one of their conditions, if approved, would be to upgrade that road.

At the cost that'd be their cost? The developer's cost. Yes.

What's the distance of the road from the highway to there? That's

it's the very first parcel right as you turn. So

not very far at all. But there is no they have no frontage themselves to US 89. Right? Correct.

Yeah. But they have to improve at the entire length of the property? Of their property.

There's quite a there is quite a diff distance between there and other commercial properties.

I know it's In the county. Yeah. About a County? Just under two miles to the next one. 1.67.

Yeah. And those those all those properties, do they have frontage to US 89 that are zone commercial?

I don't think they're on the US 89.

But that one big understand your question correctly. No. All the other commercial properties that are in that area there that are do they have frontage to US 89 that are within that 1.67 miles?

I feel I don't know if I should speak. I think some of the ones they they turn off of the road and kinda have frontage roads of their own to them. Come back. Yeah. The the one I'm thinking about, that's what they do.

Are there any in Wellsville City limits?

Yeah. Pallets of I don't know what their name there's a pallet company that just got put in. That's the one that That's the big one. Comes in and and then kinda has their own front of the highway. And that's in that's incorporated?

Yeah. And how how far away is that? It's close. Just across the highway? Yep. About yeah. And that's is that industrial or is that commercial in there? City, something that's true. They're they have different zoning. Okay. It's pretty big.

Has there been any reported safety issues? I know the I know when there's events that come out of and utilize that road to get out of the events that are at the American West Heritage,

it's quite a safety concern. There's a lot of them that refuse to turn left there. Yeah. They make most people turn right, and then they go down the road aways and do a u-turn. Crossover. Yeah.

I've seen that quite happen quite a bit.

Hopefully, they go to the light. How far is it to the light?

Two miles? Not too far. Yeah. I don't know.

I don't know. Everyone goes so fast. It's all relative.

I mean, other people do, not me. If you're walking, it's a long ways. If you're driving, it's just a little bit. Yeah.

And I should have asked you while you're up here. Did you try to incorporate into Wellsville where you are adjacent to Wellsville?

We have not yet.

Okay. Because it is adjacent to Wellsville City. Correct?

Correct.

Where was in the county we Just once. Went to the county. Okay.

But what's the distance between that property and Wellsville City though? And it's Across the street. Try it again. It should have annexed.

Yeah. Miracle West Heritage Center is in Wellsville City.

Oh, across the small road. The front oh, across the little road. From the south. Not the not the highway. And and across the highway. Anything south, like you said, you can see it up there. That's Wellsville City. Oh, yeah.

Off on that, whatever that road is called. Yeah. We don't have frontage on even there. Okay. I guess I'll I'll state my concern. Previously, when we reviewed this, I didn't think that industrial would be the proper zoning for this, and and so I think bringing in in with a commercial application for zoning is is more appropriate. I I ideally would love to see it be in a gateway and to be open space, but also we deal with willing land owners and that's right in what we state with our COSAC and and other things. And and that means that has to be something that they would propose themselves and not be compelled to do. And so believing in their right to develop their property, I I don't see why how I would deny this.

I kinda like the idea that they did switch from industrial to commercial. And they're so close to commercial in Wellsville City too. Makes it a lot better to me because I think I know probably America West Heritage is is that zone agriculture? Very commercial even if it is agriculture. Weeks out of the year it is. Yeah. Well, they do it. Yeah. They do. They have a year round program. They do. They do.

It just seems so it really does seem so different right in the middle of all that agriculture area. Yeah. I I know it would have an effect, you know, no matter how much she tried to hide it, it would stand out in the just, you know, just approach approaching that whole area right there. It's they're they're trying to make that a heritage a heritage area. And I I I worry that it would be to me, it'd be somewhat blighted bringing in a a business right next to all of that.

So Well, what I noticed coming through there is all the buildings from Utah State, all their agriculture things. There's a lot of buildings. I mean A lot of agriculture buildings. Well, they're classed agriculture, but they're still

buildings, you know, with bigger agriculture. Utah is, like, a 25 Pallets of Utah is, like, 20,000 square foot building across the street. Yeah. I mean, it's massive.

So I think the view is really kind of already taken up with buildings. That's what I noticed coming through there.

Well, it's initial, so it's up to

Yeah. We can continue. No motion. I can't make a motion.

Continue. Do you have to change the rules or any of that? We can continue it and

and take action on next meeting, or we can take take an action today. Either way. It's the first time that we're seeing it, so we can just Go straight. We can do it next meeting as well. The rules would need to be suspended. Yeah. If we were to take action today, we'd suspend. Sorry. Excuse me. Sorry. Thank you, Dane.

Well, it seems like they've been coming. We've continued and continued already. But if you think you need more information, or shall I make a motion? Suspend the rules, make a motion that we accept the rezone of Wellsville too. That's how I feel about it.

Of ordinance twenty twenty six session? Yeah. Mhmm. K. We have a motion made by Joanne. Is there a second?

I'll second.

K. We have any further discussion on the motion on the floor?

This is a tough one. Just north of there, there is property for sale on both sides of the highway. I love the idea of open space, and I love the idea of vistas and corridors. But at the same time, I love the idea of property rights. I've wrestled with this, but I I have a problem. I and I've we've got a letter here. I got emails during the week of not wanting it there, but I have a hard time saying that we're putting this coverage on this property and not giving property owners say so what goes on this coverage as far as an open vista and everything else. I love the open vistas. I have ground on my own. I wanna keep open, but we got growth. So and I want to support the planning and zoning, but there was a great debate in planning and zoning. And I'm gonna side with the two of the planning and zoning who denied this, and I'm going to agree with what Joanne has proposed here.

The executive, yes.

Yours is ending your rules to vote on it. It's it's a major issue. I wonder if you shouldn't have a full quorum to dispose of this issue. Noted. Thank you. I raised that question for you.

Thank you.

It's a good point. Commission or council members, what are your thoughts of what the executive said?

There is a motion on the floor. There is a motion on the floor.

We need to vote on the motion on the floor. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Nay. Motion prevails. K. Moving on, we will go to ordinance twenty twenty six Dash 31 Richmond City Creek Rezone. Thanks, Brian. You just were planted there for a minute. Yeah. It's alright.

Questions?

Questions. It's adjacent to industrial. Yeah. Lauer's is just to the north of it. A couple of fields. Oh, a couple of fields. So it's not three eight miles. Yeah. 1.38 miles. So we're in a similar 0.38. Oh, 0.38. Oh. Is is there only one point of access?

It'll be on I think that's 9000 North. I call it Whiskey Lane my whole life. There there it I just looking at the maps, it didn't look like it came over it. It won't come off the highway, the access to this property. Yeah. I was gonna say, UDOT will have it. No. I don't think they wanna attack UDOT. 9000 North. So that that's where their access then will be. Yep.

Whiskey Lane? Yeah. That is that what you you gotta be from the North you gotta be from the North to call it that? I guess. But he didn't name it. Oh, okay.

I don't think so. No. No. It wasn't. Yeah.

It it was named that when we learned to drive on road. But you're saying the access will be from

from this lane? 9000.

9000 North. Matt lives on.

Matt Funk. Oh, Matt Funk lives on that. Oh, okay. He might have named it. He might have named it. How it's coming together. Back in prohibition. Okay. Is there any further questions that we have or any action that we wanna take this evening?

I would move to suspend the rules and pass ordinance twenty twenty six dash 31.

Second.

We'll take Nolan. Second by Nolan. Any further discussion? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and vote. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? The motion prevails. K. Thank you. Now we'll move to the resolution providing round one approval of twenty twenty six dash nineteen, excuse me, providing round one approval, to the Birch Canyon Weed and Seed Co op Open Space application. That one was a tongue twister. Oh, Brian. Sorry you sat down. Oh, no. Chris. Excuse me. Chris is here. Chris was Sorry. On a couch. Thanks, Chris.

Thank you. Thanks for having us. We're excited, again, to, bring another couple of COSAC, recommendations of approval to the council, tonight. And so the first project and and, for both projects, I I believe we have landowner representation, here tonight. So if you have questions, feel free to, ask them of any questions you may have. So the first one is called the Birch Canyon Weed And Seed Coop project. This is a small relatively small, property, but it's, size, is significantly I'm sorry. The the the significance of it is is much larger than just the size of the property. It happens to border the north end of the recently acquired, Cache County parcel, project known as the Chute property. And so this project would abut bond funded open space that the county council utilized.

Can you point which direction that bond funded To the south.

On that. On that map. Yep.

South is dead. Yep.

Straight to the bottom. Straight bottom. I'm sorry. You need to scale. I know on that which way to start. This would be at the top end of the county parcel. Okay. Gotcha. And it happens to involve Birch Canyon Road, for those of you familiar with that area. It's very popular access for hikers, bikers, and other recreationists, in addition to a handful of land owners up in this area. So as mentioned, Birch Canyon Road and Birch Creek both run through the property as well as the, water pipeline. And, the landowners here are very interested in in protecting the the native habitat that exists on the property. Just a reminder, we're we're in this first round of our application process for this project. And this was, is a summary of the categories that were evaluated for the property. So in terms of scoring for COSAC funding, we looked at, Scenic VISTAs, valley gateways, agriculture, waterways, wildlife habitat, public action access, and any other distinguishing factors, to come up with the score. Out of, a total of a 100 points, this project received 49, which is still a pretty good scoring. Just for reference, we haven't had a of of the 20 projects that have come before you, I don't think we've had one score more than 76, just to give you an idea. Mhmm. So it's not below a certain grade fails or anything like that. This just shows that there is broad benefits for the project overall. In terms of protecting scenic vistas, the COSAC scored it a 5.7 out of 15. It is a very scenic property, However, it's not along, a highway, a major highway, that sort of thing, and, can't really be seen from the valley floor. So, really, those who are gonna experience are gonna be, up Birch Canyon or perhaps on some of the adjacent properties. It's not near a Valley Gateway, so got a fairly low score for for that. It's not farmland. So again, a low score for farmland. However, where it tends to stand out is in for maintaining water ways. As mentioned, Birch Creek, flows through the property. And, the landowners have worked for many years to, remove invasive species on the on the property and out of the riparian area. It's also really good wildlife habitat, so it got nearly 12 out of 15 points for that. There's a fair amount of nesting that that goes on in some of the larger trees on the property, and of course, the usual wildlife that we would see up in the canyons frequent this parcel. And the existing Birch Canyon Road is a very popular trail, access leading to a trailhead, or former trailhead, I suppose, that accesses forest service property or public land, up the road from this property. So folks are already traveling through the property on the county road and are able to benefit from from the view, of the property and and the other, resources that come with the property.

Yes, sir. George. Chris, I I just wanna make have a little understanding of what the situation is up there. I'm I'm familiar with the the roadway I've been up there. Is is the roadway now in some way restricted from bikes?

It's not. So,

you know, yes, there's motorcycles, trail bikes. There's electric

bikes and so on. Yeah. And vehicles, cars, trucks.

Right. As I understood that the owners of the property are proposing

to close it? They No. No. No. Not to close it. So, yeah, sorry if that there's a misunderstanding there. Same thing. For for would be a disturbance. What what Correct. For if you were to ask them for developing trails other trails through the property, not the county road, but Okay. Other trails to the property, say, to connect to the county roads, And the landowners are here and they can speak to it, but they just recognize that bicycles bring a level of disturbance that they would prefer to avoid. Yeah. And I I think, frankly, the the

area would be better nonmotorized Yes. If we're something. But I wanna make it clear if we're making that decision or not. By Yeah. By approving this, we're really not changing whatever the road rights are now. Is that correct? That is correct. Okay. That is correct. And I think I said I don't want them changed. I just say that we're this isn't changing at this point. That's correct. And

and and, of course, all of that would be worked out at a later time. But at least as far as the land owner has explained to us, they're open to public access. They want people to see the property and view the property, but would prefer that it's by foot, for example. Sure. Yeah. So Okay.

Mason Roads You'll have to come Sir, do you mind coming and speaking in the microphone and stating your name? Interrupt me. No. You're misunderstanding here.

The main road is a county road, and right now it supports about 19 different sets of users. Some go slow, horses, families, walkers, some go fast. It will get more congested, but I because the road goes through my our land, we we weren't talking about that road at all. Okay. That's all I wanted to say. And, sir, will you state your name just for the record? I'm sorry. No. You're fine. K. O. Robertson, and this is Beth Callinger, my wife. Thank you.

Thank you, K. O. Okay. And then some of the distinguishing factors, primarily, you know, just recognizing that it's adjacent to an existing bond purchased land, and with that, provides potentially a connection to Birch Canyon from county land. So think about that and and opportunities there. We see we see an opportunity. So next steps would be to request your approval for round one, so we can move on to to round two and get more specifics as far as what the landowner would like to see in terms of a project and project funding. Other questions we can answer on this one for now? I have another question.

This one's a little bit different than what we've seen on the other open space ones. So who would be a partner in funding on this? Right. Give me example.

It's gonna be limited because it's a small parcel, you know, just from our work with you on the workshop, there it's not gonna attract NRCS funding necessarily or Leroy McAllister. They wanna emphasize agricultural land. So, potential potential funding sources is one thing. A potential funding source and or, easement holder in this case could be, for example, like the Division of Wildlife Resources Or as we talked, you know, is this one of the projects that the county could potentially be the easement holder if if you agree that that would be a good thing? So

Chris, potentially a municipality.

Could be a municipality. Could be a nonprofit organization also. So there are other options. It's just not likely to attract much in the way of funding. And and so I think that's really the kinds of things that we'll get in dig into detail on in round two,

get those things figured out. I would tell you that I think there's significant support in Smithfield City for this project. This is this is a really beautiful canyon. I recognize the landowner is not putting a restriction on the county road, but we may choose to do that and and how to enhance this area. But it in connection with our Chute property, this is this is a real important parcel, and I would think that we would want to do everything to encourage this project. That's I recognize years ago when we were working on this as establishing a county road, Smithfield City was vitally interested. But it wasn't it it would there was still an open discussion about what kind of views ought to be, but citizens enjoy walking up Birch Canyon. Just a lovely place.

Got it. I think this is one of those unique projects, right, that we were talking about earlier. It's not gonna fit the mold of most of the other projects that we're gonna bring to you. So, we need we may need to be creative. I I know that the landowners have expressed, you know, that the the the financials of it is not the driving factor for them. They just really want to see this project conserved or this land conserved.

It mentions there that the Bonneville Shore Line Trail, does it is it actually proposed that is it gonna traverse this property, or is it near this property? Nearby. I think there's potential connections

in the that could be made in the future to the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, but it's not not necessarily on this part. Does not restrict

That's right. That, you know, bicycles are allowed on that. True. So That's right. That that might be an issue then. Yeah. But, you know, you

you can as the landowner on your property, you can allocate an easement or a trail for Bonneville Shoreline Trail for all the uses. You could also have a trail that tiers off of that that maybe comes into this canyon that is more restrictive. So I think that is possible. Other questions I can help answer? Or would Thank you. I wanna hear from the landowners?

I I would, I would move that we go ahead and allow this to move on and we pass, I guess, phase one? Do we suspend the rules? Do we have to suspend this ordinance? I don't. This is That's This resolution, we don't have. Sorry. And so, we go ahead and pass this and send it on to continue its process. And I think it's gonna it's gonna be a evolution as we go because it is a unique five and a half acre smaller parcel. We'll have to learn as we go. I'd second that motion.

K. Thank you. We have a a motion on the floor. Any further discussion? Seeing none, we'll vote. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Thank you. It passes. Council, I asked for your forgiveness. I inadvertently skipped c on our eight c. So while Chris is here, we'll go ahead if if you'll allow, we'll go ahead and move on with e and circle back to see if that's okay while Chris is at the podium. Is that okay? Matt's thinking about Whiskey Lane anyhow. I know. So excuse me. We will get back to see, but let's go ahead and let Chris if that's okay with the council. Okay. Okay. Thank you, Chris. Thank

you. Okay. I was doing I'm sorry for math. I was just feeling Here's a here's another great, project for, your consideration that we're bringing to you. This is called the Willow Ranch Project, and again, we have the landowners are here this evening, should we have any questions. And they are partnering with the Utah Agricultural Land Trust on this project. And so we have a little over a 100 acres, on two parcels. And one thing, you may not be able to see it there, but, the road along the southeast portion of, the parcel on the east there is called Sinner Street. Yeah. Whiskey Lane and Sinner Street. That is the Sinner Street that comes all the way to Downtown Logan. Oh, center.

Center. Oh, I thought you said Sinner. Center.

Don't tell her about Cannibal Road.

And then we have Cannibal Road. Sinner Street.

So Center Street. And so one of the unique things I discovered about this project, if you're in Downtown Logan and you're standing under the arch on Center Street and you look due west, this is part of the landscape that is framed by the tree lined street down Center Street that you see in the background. So it's pretty important, you know, from a number of vistas across the county even though it's not on a highway. The farm's been in the family for over a hundred and fifty years, has a intermittent stream that flows through the property, and the landowners are actively working on restoring, the property there. It's also, that southwest corner of the upper parcel there touches, US Forest Service land. And so it does connect to public land. Similar to the previous projects we've brought to you recently, we're in the first round here and and looking for round one approval from the council. I won't go over the scoring process, but I'll just jump right cut right to the chase. This project scored 58 out of a 100, which is a great score. Scoring similar to a couple of the other projects we bought to you recently on that West Gateway area. Those prop properties and projects are north of of this one, but not very far north. So they're all part of that same landscape. If you're driving Valley View Highway heading west and you're looking at the Wellsville Mountain, this project that had Jay Ranch and the Polson family Farm, they're all viewable from Valley View Highway. Protect Scenic Vistas. So this is, as mentioned, a pretty scenic parcel. Got eight out of 15 score. It is near a valley gateway, though. It's not along it. So it did garner some points because it can be viewed from from the gateway and Highway 30, which is only about a mile and a half away. It is primarily agricultural land, so it got a high score for agriculture, 11 out of 15. There are intermittent stream channels through the property and active work by the landowners in establishing some beaver dam analogs on the property. Wildlife habitat is similar to the other projects we've looked at, so that's 10 out of 15 in this area. And

There's moose on that land? What's that? There's moose on the land? Yeah. They come down from the forest, actually.

Wow. So they have husband, mother, and child there a couple of years. Sometimes we might get Okay. So we have a pot. The land owners are willing to consider public access. And one of the interesting things about it is that that western along the western boundary there is a prescriptive easement to allow access to the Forest Service. So there's, ranchers that use that as an access if they're bringing their livestock, through the area to the adjacent parcels or onto Forest Service property. And it doesn't have a great connection to to a public road necessarily, but in the future, as this part of the valley continues to grow and property via public access. And then lastly, distinguishing factors, just just a few items, the importance of the open space. It's sort of the backdrop, to some views in the valley, and it's near the valley gateway. Okay. So similarly, we'd like to seek your round one approval so that, we can work with the landowners in the Agricultural Land Trust to, bring, the project specifics to round two and and learn more about the project and its potential. Any questions I can help answer?

Or I would move res that we pass resolution twenty twenty six dash 20 for the Willow Ranch open space application and move it on to, that, providing round one approval. Second.

K. Thank you. Any discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. K. Thank you, Chris. Thank you so much. And thank you. Thank you for coming. K. We're gonna circle back to item c. Thank you, Matt. Resolution twenty twenty six dash seventeen. Opening and amending the Answer about the Cash County 2026 budget. Maybe questions for our auditor.

From our appropriations meeting, it was fun to see something that's

not taking

Yeah.

So Thank you to all your work you've done.

And this is considered a special

budget opening. Council chair that my staff, you know, that thanks for for the good of my staff. Please pass along our appreciation.

No problem.

It so is this a special budget opening then, rather than our It is not. It is the This is our quarterly, and this is the only item?

Yes. Quarterly.

40 items. There's a lot of them. 40 items in there. I know. 19 pages or 20

The one big one that you talked about with the wraps and everything. Yes. The fact that the council,

to use the word I used in preparation, So adroitly, addressed the wraps tax with such, alacrity, allows us to put the wraps funding into this. So we don't need to have a special wraps opening here in a couple of weeks. While you're thinking, I I would note, there's a big airport capital project in this, but the FAA is paying for 95% of it. So, the airport already has the funds, for the remainder. So there's no there's no county money, involved in that particular, endeavor.

Has that project been solidified by FAA? Yes. Is it for sure? Okay.

So what's the total increase?

70,000.

The total The bottom line. The total increase across every fund is is $6,300,000. Now of that 6,300,000, 3,000,000, 1,000,000 of that is is revenue from other governments, federal and state. And pretty much the rest of it is coming from RAPS funding. So in fact, it's because we have RAPS funding now, we are able to go back and decrease the amount of of of funds that we were going to expend from the general fund. And $177,000 back into the general fund. That's exciting.

So the net amount, do you have a not just an estimate is good.

Well, it it, it will increase the the the total expenditures from $133,000,000 countywide to 140,000,000.

Even taking in consideration all these variables you mentioned.

Most of that is RAPS funding. RAPS funding is 5,100,000. So of the of the $6,300,000 in expenditures, RAP's funding is is roughly 5,100,000 of that. And then we've got the federal government coming in for about 1,000,000.

Okay. Your motion?

I'll make a motion on resolution twenty twenty six dash 20, providing round one approval. No. Round 17. 17. Got me mixed up on this c. It's c. I'm sorry. I was all excited to read down the page. Alright. Resolution twenty twenty six dash 17, opening and amending the Cache County 2026 budget, third amendment. I say we approve it.

Second? Any second? I'll second that. K. We'll be hanging out. Thank you. Thank you. Further discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Thank you. Thanks, Matt. Pending items. A, mister executive.

We've worked on this. During the April 21 meeting, you approved to have that developer hook onto our road. The developer, because of that, was able to submit a subdivision application to River Heights. We're we're providing you an update of what the consequence of that is. Matt Phillips talked to the River Heights City engineer and the council member who was in charge of the project, and they have received a preliminary plat for that subdivision. Copy of the comments and the planning commission are with this packet that I'm going to give Andrew and add allow you to add that to the record of this meeting so you can review it. Based upon discussions with River Heights City staff, the next staff, the next step will be to get their plans for the connection to our highway. We anticipate that'll be received in two to three months. And then at that point, we'll, Matt will go over it and see whether it it it meets our necessary criteria. And if it does, we will formally approve it, and the project is underway.

They can take that long on a subdivision approval?

It's their task. Yes. But I I think it's We don't get that long on the county. Things they're gonna be doing at the same time, but we don't expect to see this until about two or three months. Is that right, Matt? So that's an update. My suggestion is that you take this thing that's on your agenda every two weeks and put it out three months. Now that's one part of Highway County Road 238. There's a couple of other parts that you need to be aware of. Millville has filled in cuts, and we're talking about trying to do a chip and seal there. We're going to be asking Millville to correct those, trenches so that we won't have the problem that's now occurring where the ground is sinking. Providence has asked us to work with them in getting school crossings done, because they're changing what was a middle school to an elementary school, so they want an additional crossing. My understanding is Providence has ordered those and is prepared to pay for them, but we're going to have to have Matt review those to make sure they meet our standards. Those are the things that are happening with the high white. And a draw

of security for Matt, this flipping thing.

Yes, I think, for two or three months, he's safe.

We could give it to you. Anyway, I do appreciate the report.

If you add that excuse me. Here's a better copy. Let's add that one And that one? To the agenda so that you have it.

You're done. Give us some interest digest, will you? Yeah.

I can do that.

Yeah. Scan it into the mouth. Yeah. Yeah. But it can be put into

it's records that it was just received. Commander?

According to state law, one of the members of the county legislative body has to Receive it. Has essentially, tell me to put this in the record. So I appreciate it. It has to be one of you all to Will you put that in the record, please? Thanks, Andrew.

Thank you. And

that everything for that. Yes. Unless you have any questions.

Matt, you wanna we make your life better. We we just do it today. We give it to him, then I'd be done. And they get to do all that. I know. We're trying to we're trying to help out, but sometimes sometimes helping out, it just keeps it can cost you a lot of money in that rather than say, Merry Christmas. I hate this. We gotta get our executive group to talk to Providence. I mean,

aren't they hailing from Providence here? Yeah. I'm just, you know, rubbing your nose in it for a bit of paper. I'll leave this.

His property taxes from them. Maybe he could withhold his property taxes from them. Yes, baby. K. Ordinance twenty twenty six dash 21, amending chapter 17.14 on the resort recreation r r zone. Brian Abbott. Arr

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Arr. We've gone over this before. You have any questions? You want me to go through the whole thing again? Oh, please. Please. But, Angie and I did meet with Sandy and Andrews the other day, kinda went, over with any concerns she had. I thought that was a good meeting, and we came to a pretty good understanding. I don't know if we wanna wait till she gets back or go for it.

Was there anything in that meeting different than what the planning and zoning had done and talked about?

We updated a few things. We revised it, a few things that they had concerns about. We can go over those if you would like.

Yeah. Right there. I think if you change it, is it gotta go back to planning and zoning? Yeah. I would think it would have to if we're changing it. Yeah. Yep. They're the land use authority or they're the they're the land use. Although if we change it or it has been changes, it's gotta hit the p and z again.

Yeah. We just cleaned up the format a little. It was a, b, c, d. Now it's a one, two, b. So Formatting? If we need to take it back Substantive changes or Pardon? Substantive

substantive changes or

Yeah. We just kinda cleaned up the format and added some numbers.

So did we have a question on the Land Use Authority, who that was? Did that get clarified in there? Yeah. Yep.

Yeah. It got clarified. Got here and there. So

What do you wanna do? Do you wanna take action tonight?

Do you wanna take action? It's gonna start feeling like the road one if we don't.

Perpetually be on and just keep rolling forward.

So you're saying there's there's no wording or anything different. It's just the layout? Yeah. Still though. Dean, is P and Z the land use or what? It's not substantive. It's just just formatting, but it doesn't need to go back to running. K.

K. Yeah. The the original the one from May is on there, all the same except the format of it.

And I I'm ready to make a motion. I'd like to follow the planning and zoning. So ordinance twenty twenty six dash 21, amending amending chapter 17.14 on the resort recreation, our our zone. I say we approve.

So second on the motion.

My people are hanging me out this night, so Looks like I'm dying.

Three, two, one. Stop. Done. All the whole second, Jeff. Okay. Still alive. K. Discussion. It seems we need some discussion on the motion on floor. You know, as as I read it, it's there was

it isn't anything that's confusing, but it's just there's just some huge There's no concept.

Huge

or I don't know, impacts that that could that occur that we just can't walk away from everything up there. It's a lot tax dollar lot. And and we are. We're covering the base, but it's I just don't wanna just kinda give give the farm because

they're they're the red head stepchild kind of thing. We don't always know what's going on up there. Yeah. We've got to. It's a so anyway, sell still second pair. Yeah. We've got to. It's a so anyway, sell still second pair. Yeah. We've got to. It's a so anyway so anyway, sell still second to that.

My my concerns are just as we're changing it from the development agreement to just abiding by the master plan. I just operationally, I just haven't been able to wrap my head around it fully about how we're going to make sure we do that right. There is an email that was sent to you today that might give you some insight. Yeah. And I haven't seen that yet. It's just Kane. So Olga

Mariasina.

Yeah. And then also something from mister Webb about what we're talking about up there too.

And and their master plan is way more involved than even our code. Right. Yeah. But just

ensuring we enforce or follow, you know, we we Yeah. Whether it's their master plan or not, we have to ensure that it's abided by. Sure.

Thank you, Kurt.

Questions? Particular ones?

He and I had a discussion today on this letter, and I went over and I encourage you guys all to look at it and go over it too. But from what Kurt's put into it, it seems that my concerns were is everybody kept saying the county was gonna get all this money and everything else. I I don't think we are, but I think we're not gonna be spending money and everything there too. So net net on revenue tech and cost. Right?

Yes. Every every service that we have to have, them do for us. We have arranged for them to do it for no more than we pay or to have them do it, by expanding their fire district, for example, and taking over, sewer and water by the expansion of the their district up there that does that. And fees, we've got currently, there are, interlocal agreements that are being written for your approval that that that talk about these standards that you're that you're passing now. So you've got we rely heavily, of course, on our development services people to review this. It's what is it? 1,300 pages approximately. Those design standards are more strict than either one of the county's codes. And so they've agreed to abide by them. We've agreed to abide by them, and we will keep updates as far as what they're doing, But we don't have to approve their approve them as long as they are in compliance with what we both agreed to.

I think the other thing to point out is the sewer and water, they take care of it. That's sewer. They take care of it. Yep. So we're involved from the assessor and

Well, the assessor and the recorder Recorder. And the

the the treasurer, of course. When you say they take care of it, that's by an they're annexing into their special services district? Yes. Yeah? Okay. Pardon me? He said by them taking care of it, it's they're annexing into their special services districts?

Yes. Fire is doing that and so is Sure and Water. Sure and Water. Sure and Water has already done it. The process for fire is in process. It's happening. Okay.

Kurt, why don't you explain what our arrangement is with respect to education, recognizing that education is about 65% of our tax bill.

So Cache County School District will get to keep the normal Cache County School District, portion of the taxes. And then the if there are school aged children that are permanent residents that have to be educated in the Weber County School District, then that's done on a per student by basis. And so we would only have to pay for the amount of students that we actually have.

Enormously beneficial

to the school district. So can we cut their percentage of our tax base? So Yeah. Get some back? Good idea. Yeah. Right. Because they're getting a freebie here.

Yeah. Only in the extent that you think from the

sky. Well, that's what they kept telling me when they came to planning. I I I'm gonna take it.

The the total taxes we collect from this property a year is how much, Kurt?

100 and for us? Yeah. $25,000.

It it's it's pretty hard to view that as A windfall.

As significant.

And then the problem is all these services that need to be rendered up there to for the 25,000 if we had to provide those services.

But this is their substantial area that is to be developed. So this is set up a framework for when that development occurs.

Yes. Yes. It it could be more substantial over time, but what what we've got here is a situation in which it will handle that. Yeah. Where there may be some spare money at some point there, but like it because the the districts and things are not coming through us. They're coming directly from the home owner. Yeah. The school will certainly benefit. But the idea that there's a huge value that's gonna come to us is maybe someday it will be larger than it is now. But

k. Are we going to give them taxing authority No. In our county?

Are we going to give fire taxing authority in our counter county? Their fire district taxing authority

over properties in our county. That's yes. They are.

They're allowed to expand the boundaries by agreement

with the With our fire district. With our fire district. Right? Okay. Yep. So they don't get double tagged. We move back and let them do that and get the service. So that would be an approval by the Cache County Fire District. And that's the So that if they if they go to taxation truth do truth and taxation up into this area, that would only bite that would have to then go by the approval of the fire district the Cache County Fire District. No. Once we get it once we move out of there,

we see that that territory and they take it over. So from then on, the taxation, all of that is done by Weber Fire as a separate taxing entity. So it's it's just a one time

action for us.

Let me get a little background there. Area.

And so does your water and sewer. Yeah.

The reason that this is important, Dave, is because the original agreement was that they would that we would pay them what they charge for fire. It turns out they charge four times as much for fire as we do. So for example, of the $25,000 we collect, they wanted $19,000 of it just to do fire. So in order to negotiate that, we had to figure out, could they could they expand their territory on their for fire? And went back and forth on that for a long time and finally got good counsel from the Utah Association of Special Districts. They said, yes, they could do it. And there's just been a lot of back and forth with Weber County, on issues other than development services. Development services, I've relied heavily on development services to to negotiate and to and to massage those that, those design standards so that we were protected. So I'll let them speak to that. But as far as the other things, it was my understanding that we needed to provide these things, but we couldn't provide them. Everything we can provide, we're still providing. Everything that we can't provide and had to either pay them to do or that we had to have them expand territory so that we didn't have to tax it or do it. In every one of those cases, it's not gonna cost us any more than we would have paid ourselves. And that was a concern all along. The only thing that's up in the air, I disclose this, is that the sheriff has negotiated with their sheriff to do it on an hourly basis. Since there's hardly anybody over there right now, he felt that that was the most economical way to do it. That is that is not quantifiable right now. So that that could change, and we may have to renegotiate that at some point. But that's the only one that that doesn't have strict parameters.

K.

I really compliment CURT and Development Services for dealing with a very complex problem here.

I would like to say thanks to the executive group because this is far more than we've got than what we had before because we were being told we were gonna make so much money, and I just kept disagreeing with that. It just didn't work out. So at least we're on a path. Albeit crest fallen.

That crest fallen, there's not as much money as you thought. This isn't a cash cow like we were told.

I think if if we wanna continue, I know Sandy was was, deeply interested in this, but I I don't I think she'd be fine if we passed it tonight too. Motion and a second, and we've had some discussion. Any further comment?

I'd like to see it continued

personally.

Question?

For both. Okay. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? I'll say nay. We have one opposed. K. Thank you again. Appreciation to everyone involved. K. Other business. UAC has their Justice Summit that is on June 26. Do we have any council members that are able to attend? We're not on that. Sandy will be going and I will be going since we're part of the CJCC

as well the county attorney and the county sheriff. Okay. So we do it it is

in Salt Lake?

Technically, Murray, but yes. Murray.

So we do have representation from the county that will be attending. And if others are able to attend, please communicate with Andrew. Got a list of upcoming parades. We need to make sure that we are registered for any of these parades if we want to participate. So do you guys know your calendars or I think we're planning for do you have us registered for Hiram and Lewiston? Lewiston.

The Lewiston organizer has not gone back. We put the other ones, I believe, have registered you. Cool. Thank you. And and is All of these? All of these are registered? They're d No. Just c through g two o. So Nibali, Hiram, and Liston. K. So

far. K.

Great. Is anyone able to attend Nibali besides me?

I'll be out of town. Sorry.

Where's that? Such a great parade. We could do. We've talked a lot about it. Yes. We could do.

Well, we'll see. It might be intimate. Might just be afraid of one. K. Council member reports.

We'll start. Joanne? I don't have anything. K. Nolan?

We had a meeting with development services back to some things on for planning and zoning. So we've asked planning and zoning Brian, the development services offices to work on our subdivision, plan on the water that we had brought forth, tweak it a little bit, get that out. I think given what we're seeing by mother nature, it's very important to start considering what we're looking at there from from that. We also talked about rental units in the county, what we're looking at at that, coming up with some things. So we've asked the development services office now that Kirk can get out of their hair maybe. Let them work on some things. So now they'll still be busy with, Powder Mountain, but hopefully they can give us some things on that too. So we'll be seeing more of that, hopefully, and let planning and zoning do that again and then bring it back to us. I think that's an important thing we need to work on. That's all I have. Thank you.

I was invited by chief George. All of us were invited by chief George to attend a a multi divisional training that they had for the fire up Blacksmith Fort Canyon in two weeks a week ago. I I don't know what time. Ten days ago, probably. And I went up there, and it was super interesting. They had he'll probably correct me, but I think they had so they had representatives from the forest, like, US forest department. Service service. Service service services. Thank you. Fire division. And then they had, like, Weber and they had all the way down to Alpine, so many different departments and then our department, and then they had, state agencies that were there too. So we had federal agencies and our agencies and and state agencies that were all together and they did training. And I thought what I thought was really fascinating is they don't all these different agencies don't even use the same radio frequencies when they are radioing each other. So it's like they have to learn, you know, if you if we have a disaster and we're calling in these different agencies, they don't wanna have to learn day of how to use each other's equipment or how to even con communicate with each other. So they are, you know, having these multi departmental trainings so that they can have be prepared beforehand. And they had videos of showing me how they were our our our department was guiding the chopper with the bucket into the, like, inflatable swimming pools to fill it up with water and how they could learn to do that. Now, again, before disaster, there was they they showed me all sorts of, different drills that they had learned. I had dinner with them. It was a really great experience, and I enjoyed it very much. And, that we have a great staff, and I'm glad that we were able to see the training and that we were able to host that training. They they really appreciate it, and everyone there appreciates the county. And I think that all the different departments I think we won something or maybe it was Alpine. I don't know. I'll say we won. Alpine had such a fancy rig up there. It was really fancy, but ours was humble and but it was okay. We still were really represented well. But we really I really enjoyed that. Going in the same vein as fire, we had a meeting where we had a an informal workshop to listen to those that are employed in the fire, the different fire departments across the county as they have expressed concern for not being able to give voice and and to be heard. And it was just two hours of of listening to to them and their concerns that they have with the fire district. And, hopefully, they felt that that they had an opportunity to to speak, and and we listened to them, and that their their concerns were were taken into account. So that was last week. And we have another meeting with the fire department Thursday fire district on Thursday. So lots going on with the fire district. Other than that, I I don't have any additional additional other thing. You wanna mention the UAC call yesterday? Yes. UAC call yesterday, we had Brandy had called an emergency UAC call for I mean, we'll call it what it is. I think all of us use SAC. So it's just the yes. Just the councils and commissions to talk about and get ahead of we know we've all witnessed what has happened across the mountain with Box Elder and how we can learn more about data centers and and learn about this what the they've experienced, but also messaging in our communities. And I think it's it was really good. They're going to put together information and have an informational session for us, and I look forward to that so we can all learn here within within the state to see the impact that it has and and the the need that we have for those, but also the need to learn about them and to help with the messaging across the state. Do you guys have anything else you wanna

share about that? Did send that email today. So Yeah. Brandy did. Did she send it to everybody in the council?

Just those that was on the phone. I I know. I got it. I don't know. Those aren't on Friday. It's the GoEd communication and survey link below. So have we has anybody They taken that from They We just having one of us? That. Are we all taking it or is it supposed They sent that to everybody. Okay. So it doesn't it's not redundant if we all take it No. On the council? Okay. So, yeah, the GoEd Yeah.

They've given us another week to to find to finish that. K. I got kicked out of it twice. Oh, so it's So we need a week then. Right? Mhmm. See? Okay. I started it twice, but it but I was in a bad place to The service wasn't right? No. Or you were in a bad place? No. I was bailing hay, and it was bouncy. Oh. So they kept hitting the wrong button, I think. So

I'll let your tractor head shock absorbers in comfort zone.

So yeah. We have a week. We have until next Friday. This Friday, excuse me, this Friday to take that test that that survey. So the opportunity zone survey. So encourage everyone to hop on and take that survey. Dave.

It was interesting in that listening to that last Monday morning or yesterday morning. It was really interesting. It just whatever whatever comes out, thing. It's just really interesting how certain factions grab it and try to just make it like a bigger issue than really what it is. And I'm not talking just DC data center. I'm talking about anything that comes out. It's just like, you know, we gotta we gotta blow it up before we really look at it. And I felt bad of for a lot of the our fellow commissioners over there in in, Box Elder County. They're just they're just trying to work through things. And Yeah. And they also have the same, you know, respect for private property rights as anybody else. But anyway, it it it's tough. It's tough right now. But

Oh, what was my dad?

You know, it's a it's I think that I think if we go into a lot of these things and look at a lot of this stuff just a little more open minded, I think that, I think we'll get better results on everything, whether it passes or not, kind of thing. We just need to go through a little bit more open minded on everything that comes our way. But that's I anyway, as far as other reports, there's a lot of moving parts right now. It seems like going on and everything. I don't know if you guys feel the same way. Am I wrong? I mean, there's just a lot of, you know I feel like we're in a rubber room sometimes, because there's a lot of things going on. And and I I I wish we could kinda just methodically kinda pull some of those and and maybe just vegetate on those later and come up with some, you know not everything is as high priority as we think it is sometimes. So that's it.

Mark.

Nothing to report on as far as actions that have occurred since our last meeting, but just by way of things happening, coming up, we've got OMP meeting on Friday, wherein we'll be discussing the airport, authority interlocal agreement. And if time permits, one of the other 10 items on the pending agenda. And then on Monday, fifteenth, the Northern Utah Outdoor Recreation Initiative will be holding a workshop. Just way of update. That's a state program that UAC appoints members of counties to. And I one of the county representatives on that board of ours is five five counties in Northern Utah. And so I'm just representing our county there. And I'll bring back some information from that as to what we can do with, what we maybe recommendation on what we ought to do with the funding that would be available to us for outdoor recreation programs or projects.

That's it. Thank you. Yep. I I have something after all. Oh, okay. Thank Go ahead. I attended a a sort of a training with CAPSA and the other agencies with that, and it was very informative, and they need funds.

Was it the USU?

No. It was here at the CAPS open. Oh, okay. I'd and the BRAG. There were several agencies there, but we met over there at the what do they call that place, anyway? That gray building on 10th 10th North where they the the victims can go. Mhmm. I don't know what it's called, but he does. But

It's it's a tenth or third. It's caps as head orders. Right. Right. That was it then. Yeah.

That's great.

I Yeah.

Just invite Bryson to give an election update.

You have early voting some days?

Say that again. 12PM to 6PM. Good.

Yeah. Monday through Thursday of next week.

Alright. Two weeks. Two weeks. I don't know what day it is.

Well, right? Yeah. Bryson's been really busy. They're ready to go. So, yeah, let's let's get a lot of votes. Try the turnout.

K. I'll accept a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. Okay. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. I

didn't wanna

leave no one hanging out there to drive. You know? This This this I went to take that survey and the map to identify what area your aim for is broken. Yeah. That's that's what I ran into. I did too. Nice. Yeah. So I That's what I had.