Hyde Park City Council Meeting 1.28.2026

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Yeah. So that We've got a control on it. So now we're ready. Sorry. I I had grabbed the wrong mouse. So wanna welcome everybody to our Hyde Park City Council meeting for January 28. Appreciate you coming and attending and expressing interest in the functions of the city. We're going to lead off with councilman council member Fowles is going to lead us in prayer in prayer, thought, and the pledge. I'll pray. Alright. Thank you.

Father in heaven, we are grateful that we can be gathered here this evening. We are grateful for the good residents and citizens of Hyde Park City and pray that that would bless us as a community as we all work together to keep our community safe, that we can work together to help the lives of those who live here be good and positive and that we can, as a city council and support with our mayor, have good discussions and represent the citizens well and that we will be dedicated to this work that we have been elected to perform and do so in a manner that will be good for this city. We are grateful for our city staff, for the many efforts, for their hard work. We especially pray for those of our public works that are out and about. We pray for our officers of our North Park Police Department, especially as they truly deal with significant issues each day and put their lives in danger. And we pray a special blessing for them and for our firefighters and all those of our public servants. Again, we ask you to be here this evening. Grateful for the blessing it is that we live in this land and we can meet together and offer this prayer in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Please follow me in in a pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America, and we see the Republic for which it stands, the condemnation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Certainly. I'll take a back. I'll take a back into you. Thank you. The first item, actually third, I guess, is for the agenda that is before you. I'll having no changes to that, but will take up an item later on that that developer has it's on the agenda. Okay. Keep it on there, but it's going to be something else. So I don't have any changes to it, council. So having none, I I would if you don't have any, look for a motion to approve the agenda. Oh, I I skipped number three. Sorry. The meeting minutes from January 14, I apologize.

Dave, do you have any I I do have one comment. Line one ninety one, page five, it said that we would have our workshop beginning on February 11 at 6PM, and we just completed that. So we just need to change the date on that to the January 28 instead of February 11. But maybe that's what we did. But I think when we finally left, we said that we would have it tonight. Okay.

Stephanie? No. Good one? Nothing from you. Carol? No. K. Then having no other comments, I would look for a motion to approve the agenda or approve the meeting minutes from January 14 as amended.

I'll move.

Got a move from I'll second. And a second from Gerald. Any other discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed with nay? On the agenda, I I would like to just move one thing, if we would. We have action items. The second one, consider preliminary plat application for Sunrise Square. I look for us if we could just move that after the citizen input so that we can take care of something real quick. That's that's the only change in that council. If you would accept that, I would ask for a motion to approve the agenda as amended. Now

move that we accept the agenda as amended.

We have a motion from Dave. I seconded it. A second from Stephanie. Any discussion? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed with nay? Motion carries five zero. Now is the time for us to open our city council up for public comment on any item that is not currently on the agenda. We ask that you be specific on the details and keep it with facts that are relevant, to the city council and limit the time to three minutes, and we'll open it up at this time. If you would come forward to the microphone, we appreciate it. Having no comment, we'll close that input portion and move on to the item that I moved up on an action item. It's to consider the preliminary plat application for Sunrise Square. With the state of things that are going on and the discussion with the developer, they would like to have us continue this. And to to continue it, or the city council would take a motion for that. They are not wanting it to come through the council at this time.

And would you would it be helpful if I kind of explain how we got here? I'll be brief.

There. Were you brief? Okay.

The city staff is working on making sure we interpret our codes correctly. It's one of the main goals of our new city planner. One of the things we've encountered with this project when it was submitted is there was a lot of or a lot of questions about the application, a lot of issues we needed to be fixed. The developer the application, the city staff found that it probably shouldn't go forward, but we don't have the authority to deny the applications that sits with the land use authority. And so we're trying to work with the developer and trying to make it happen, but also trying to respect the ordinance and move it on. The city council being the land use authority, we, as city staff, didn't feel like we had the power to not move it on according to our process. Yeah, if the city council wants to postpone hearing this item until the developer's ready to present it, that's pretty sure that's within your authority to do so. And and would that mean that it just we just wait until the developer comes back to get it onto the agenda? The the developer did their legal counsel did send an email requesting a specific date. Tomorrow. We're happy to reach out and see if that's still the date they want or if they just want to kinda postpone it. That's what happened. We'll see it again on a agenda Yes. Down the road when they when they're ready and decide they won't do that. Yes. Okay. We could also deny it. Is that right? Well, the mayor's proposal, I guess, there'd have to be a specific motion. I mean, yeah, the city staff recommends if we're going to address it tonight that it be denied because it does not meet the codes currently. However, we recognize the developer is working on it, but we as city staff just felt like we don't in our ordinance, we don't have that authority to just kill it and say you can't do it, and we didn't feel like we had the authority to stop it in its progress. There's there's three avenues. The developer could could have pulled it.

There you could vote on it to deny it, but working with the developer and talking speaking with them, they're wanting to try and see if they can get it back to a a workable position and continue it in the process where they're at. So like Marco said, staff will reach out to them tomorrow, but that that's the direction that I think is best. But you guys I don't make motions. That's what you said. For clarification,

is this so that they can come in under a previous zoning? Or

No. It's it's complicated. I didn't really wanna spend the the time to explain everything. It there's a lot of moving parts with this. The developer applied about a month ago. By code, we have to have an action on the application within a month, and so we felt like we had to keep moving it. There's some talk now between their legal counsel, our legal counsel, and the state ombudsman's office to try to figure out if that was the appropriate way to handle it. So as city staff, again, we just felt like this was the appropriate way to go. But you being the land use authority, we also feel like if you wanted to table it and wait for them to rework it, that would be appropriate. For just for the record, the planning commission did say they really liked the project. They thought it was very interesting and good for the city, but it just doesn't meet the code as is today. So the you know, just like everything, there's no prejudice with this. The city staff looks at things in black and white, and we leave it up to the land use authority to make the final decisions on these things. But speaking with the the developer,

that that was the request to continue it and move and try and and work this back in. And that's you know, I you certainly can make the motion however you wish, but are trying to work with Yeah. Those that come to the city and trying to accomplish something. So

I just request one clarification. So planning and zoning, they were in favor of it. Big scope, so it wouldn't go back through them. I just wanna make sure that we aren't short circuiting the planning component

role. That's the part that we're still trying to figure out. Depending the first big hurdle was this meeting. Right? If the city council votes to just deny the project and they have to start over, there's some legal concerns with that. If the city council votes to continue it, then we have some time to work with the legal counsel for the developer oh, I'm sorry. And figure out what the appropriate steps are because we have an idea of how it should move forward. They're having a different proposal. We're sure we can reach an amicable arrangement, I mean, without having to pursue legal action. There's just with the timing of the city council meeting, it all kind of came to a head just a couple hours ago.

So there's your short version. It would probably be best to work with them and table it and give them time to try and resolve their issues and just to figure out where we can meet. I don't think that I think that's fair. I'll make the motion that we table the

Yep. Table versus continue. I heard those two words. Continue.

Continue. Yes. The preliminary plat application for the Sunrise Square. So I have a motion from Tiffany to continue

Kirk had a call. The consideration of the preliminary plat application for Sunrise Square. Is there a second? Did you have a comment, Kirk? Well, I was I was gonna I was gonna get there. I'm I'm just trying to go through the I'll second it. Got a second from Dave.

Any discussion additional I I just have a quick question. That's the one that the planning commission like but

Right.

Recommended

they didn't pass it. Right. And, again, it's not because it's a bad project. It's just because there are pieces of it that don't meet the code. And when the applicant changes those things based on the DRC's comments, it's gonna have a a huge ripple effect in the plans.

But So that's that's the part that you're you're correct. That's the one, but they're trying to work through that. The part they liked the project. There were certain things that were challenging for them. And so that was the recommendation, and that's what the developer wants to work forward to try and get it presentable to the council.

K. But if it comes back to the council, I want to know that the commission is okay with it because there's a lot of things we don't know what happened, when it went on, then it comes back and says, oh, it's all done, and we say, yes. I Well I I think it needs to go back to the planning commission and get their blessings before it comes to us. That

that's not the process that it's currently on.

Well and we, as city staff, we could approach the developer and their legal counsel to see if that's something that we could do. At this point, since we've involved the attorneys, we're just trying to go by whatever the law says. But, yeah, I know the planning commission would definitely appreciate having a second look, especially since they gave an unfavorable recommendation. And a lot last time this happened and they gave an unfavorable recommendation, and then the plan was changed and it was moved forward, that was tough for them to handle. So we'll we'll talk with the applicant and with the state ombudsman's office to see if that's something we could we could have happen to avoid that conflict.

Any additional discussion? Think about all those in favor of continuing the consideration of preliminary plat application for Sunrise Square, say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed with nay? Motion carried five zero. Alright. The next item is for mayor, staff, council reports. Marcus, I I and I know some of the information was being pulled today, and I know Dania is probably gonna re report on the one that I sent to her board. That doesn't Well well, no. But you'll probably do it in your section. So, Marcus, I did you receive any input on trying to get some of those the information

for the Yeah. I sent it to you, but it was when you were in the middle of another meeting, so I wouldn't blame you for an ad channel to look at it. Can you summarize that? I'd cert Yeah. So summarize some of the the highlights. So that I

presented to you in our last council meeting on goals for the city and just wanted to have some reports out and start getting some of the input from

how how good are we, how are we accomplishing it, how do we know it. So I Right. Just highlighted a few of them. If you could just give us a So the mayor requested an update on a couple of ordinances that we that was requested we work on. Mikhail has a great path forward to address the specific code about high density housing. We haven't started drafting it yet. We've been a little involved in some of the developments and legal proceedings that may or may not be happening with those. But we have a path forward on those. The public works, it was asked of them where we're at with ordering some equipment such as a snowplow and a street sweeper. I'm happy to say that we have a street sweeper that we really like. We are ordering the company is offering to give us a demo. They're gonna send a machine up here for our guys to try out, so we're taking advantage of the free demo. And if everything works out, we will be purchasing a machine. They're gonna give a demo. Will they give us a price on the used one afterwards? We're we're pretty sure we can afford a a new one, but, yeah, I don't think they do that. But, yes, it's a it's a very nice machine. The the city has been budgeting and looking for a snowplow for a couple years now. Problem that we ran into is, originally, we thought what we thought was the way to get a good deal turned out to not be a way to get to get a get a good deal. And so what we're doing is we're meeting with we've had discussions with the county about purchasing one of their snowplows, their old snowplows, which are actually newer than any of our snowplows. So we're looking at purchasing one from the county after this winter weather season, if you can call it that this year. And then if that goes well, they actually have another one they're looking to serve us the year after, and we could acquire that one as well. But we're still hammering out the details of that,

so we are making progress there. And I've I've got executive Danes on

in agreement with us. Right. It's all it's all we have an email saying this sounds great. We've got phone calls saying this sounds great. We just need to get the paperwork buttoned up. But the county said they can't do that until we're out of the winter weather season because they're still using those two snowplows while they're waiting for their new ones to be delivered. So just a timing issue there. We were asked to give an update on water meters and how the installation is going. If the city council will recall back in 2020 when did we apply for that grant? '23? We applied for a grant from the Bureau of Reclamations to buy a pallet of water meters. It was, like, almost 300 water meters. Of that, as far as our account goes, we're pretty sure we've installed all of them at this point. Now the fun part is our list of meters that need replacing has gone down, but it's not eliminated. Every month, we get new meters that aren't working anymore, and we still have to replace. So this year in the past year, we've replaced, like, a 110 Replaced or Replaced. Used. Replaced. K. That doesn't include new meters that we've installed with the new houses being built and new businesses being built. We've replaced about a 100 to a 110 meters. And just in the last month, even though it's the dead of winter, our guys have done 11 meters in the last month when we've had good weather days. So that's just an ongoing project. We're still working on it. It's we lovingly call it prison laundry. Nobody really wants to do it, but it has to be done. And so that's one of our lists of tasks that just never seems to go away.

I think the the big push behind that is because we had some measures that we know were in error and we're trying to hit the big targets early. It was and Carl had taken this on sometime, and and now we're dating when the project was when we got that grant. But I I just wanted to be able to get that out there so that we had accountability of what we're doing and trying to make still it's a goal to there's more that has to be done, but progress is made. We don't want to just highlight the problem and then not visit it again. So I think that's So how many do we keep on hand? I mean, we gotta have more than one on hand. Oh, yeah. We it varies from time to time. I know Brett likes to have anywhere from

10 to 20 on hand at any given time.

And if we buy the cheaper, it would be too possibly, wouldn't it?

Well, you'd think that. As it But not really. The suppliers we buy from, I'm pretty sure they're on they give us the state contract pricing, which is already very inexpensive. We don't really get a bulk deck. Can as far as get the next 10 at full price.

Yeah. Let's make sure those people use lots of water and get a brand new one. They want me to

Well, if if you'll recall, when the city council approved the last upgrade to our water rates, it was intention that the bulk of the money that we bring in from that would go towards water meters and water meter replacements. And I can tell you what, we're spending a lot of money on water meters and meter replacements. So

So can those costs be included, or are they in our impact fees for the water? Yes and no.

New houses pay for their own meters and pay for the install. Those are your I'm talking about all these replacements that we No. Unfortunately, this is shown impact. Impact fees can only be used for updates or upgrades to the system caused by new growth and somebody's water meter going out. You can't really blame that on your next door neighbor building a house. So Yeah. K. That's a Consider, I guess, a maintenance.

That's maintenance of a lot, not the maintenance of the overall system Right. For the components. Okay. Yeah. So thank you, Marcus. That was the biggest thing. I it's also for counsel. And Tiffany, would you kinda give a little summary of what we had with the meeting

at Port? Yeah. Housing for what do they call themselves? Housing for oh, gosh. I can't remember. Life. Life.

No. Housing housing for something, for people.

For all. Is that what it is? Housing for all? They are a nonprofit organization looking to build affordable housing and partnering partnering with cities to find opportunities to create affordable housing within our communities and to plan and work towards those objectives. So they would like to come and have a work session with the city council and planning zoning to see if that's something

pursuing. I think Gerald and and Dave. Dave already sat from them. Heard from it. There's a little more information. We thought it was important enough that it should come to, like, a work session So everybody can for the council, not necessarily in the council meeting. But

They've kind of perfected their how they, what they will charge for the homes, how they will they're gonna do a lien. So because my concern was property values and how that impacted our community as new units came in that were substantially less than the same units that Selim bought, like, six months ago. And they have a plan to remedy that so it doesn't harm their neighbors, so I think it's worth talking to them.

Good to see you. So and and we have zoning or Heard. We don't know. That that may be too Everybody's asking those kind of questions. Parts on. Okay. But because I I don't wanna have to come in if there's no possibility that they would ever be able to do a development in town. Well, that's why they wanted the work session. No. I mean, we really have to have a landowner too involved. Right? Right. A landowner or city property or yeah. They're looking at different options. So it doesn't hurt. The the soonest we could do it would be the February

or March on on the

Well and I'm and I'm gonna fight for my turf here a little bit. I think we should do it on a different night than our regularly scheduled workshops just because I really like what happened tonight. I've got a training already planned for the next one. I don't really wanna give it up to the housing guys. I'll I'm in the local I know. You all need more more training, Marcus? No. No. But I think what we did tonight is valuable, and we should keep doing it. And Yeah. Also, the housing thing is valuable, so I don't think we should have them conflict and be trying to share space. Yep. We can do that separately. That's just my opinion.

Well, that was a noble fight. But but it it's worth, I think, the larger council hearing from this. And so be looking for a scheduled meeting, Marcus Isle,

ending leg wrestles for what night it'll be. But it will help us meet some of these objectives that we're going through our city plan. I think it it helps us work towards those goals as well. So And perhaps planning

or invite also because, I mean, it's if it's gonna be a got a dog in this one. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Agreed.

Kirk, do you have anything for the council?

Daryl? I have one question. I got a call today, and I noticed the stop signs are up with black over a month, $408.08, I guess. The one concern, and I'm sure that this is what I was gonna ask you, coming down that hill, they're concerned about stopping in the wintertime, and it is steep. I I agree with it. Was that talked about, or what was On on 4th North?

On 4th 50. Well, they have to stop anyway. When you're coming

It's I think it's 700 East and 450 North. The concern is coming

going west, coming down the hill and sliding through the stop at the bottom Correct. Where it intersects with 700.

Yeah. They're upset about it. I living there, I'm I will just say I appreciate the four way stop. I do too. I'm I come down that hill. People coming higher fly down that hill before they ever get to that four way stop. It's incredibly dangerous, and then they continue to fly down the hill. I think it's gonna make everybody be more aware of what's happening. I think the only problem would be major snowstorms coming up the hill, but we now have other routes to get to that area of our community. So I don't see it being a major problem.

How quickly is that sanded if we had a storm?

Isn't that Oh, so when we finished the connection for 7th East, that became one of the top priority roads to get plowed. I don't know all the snowplow routes off the top of my head, but I know 700 East and 450 North are high. But currently our it's only after two inches and maybe sometimes

less than two inches is still really dangerous.

Yeah. Right. And that change that we made was really reflecting almost every other city in the valley. Most other cities in the valley also have that two inches.

Yeah. So but there may be like, when our police officers are out late at night and they say this is really dangerous, even if there's not two inches, I think we ought to send people out sanding.

And to my credit report, we've been really good at at that. When it has happened, we've called and and they've been able to get ahold of Brett, and and they've come out. Yeah. When it's really icy or really dangerous, we definitely send people out, but we won't do, like, a broad

Broad. Yeah. I understand this. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I know the

the public works has a kind of a snow plow plan. There's major corridors that they want to make sure the first things they take care of is for roads that EMS to get north, south, east, west corridors, school buses. That's so they try and get all of that first things in the mornings. And and then all of the other roads, they they have their sections and they take care of those, but they make sure that the major corridors, the transportation, which that is one of them Right. Okay. Is taken care of. But I know when they haven't been able to, they've relayed it through the emergency system, and I've received calls from from the dispatch. So and then I'm calling other public works people because I think I'm, like, third or fourth on that recall list. Or Yeah. So

Well and at at some point, you know, as as a public, we also have to be careful and drive slow. I think the chief can probably reinforce me with this one, but the number one cause of accidents in the wintertime is just speeds, and it's not even fast speeds. It's just Yep. You gotta go slow in the snow even if there's not much.

Not too fast.

Tyrone? Yeah. Do you have anything? No.

Tiffany, anything? I do have one other thing. Dave and I have been attending a steering committee for the new Oh, yes. Elementary school, and there has been a lot of discussion about the safe routes and what's important to have it be safe. Mayor probably have or chief has input, I'm sure. But I am worried where we're going to be reviewing the budget. There is the things that they're requesting, I'm sure some of them will be required to do. I'm not sure to what extent we're required to do it, but there is a lot of talk about committing dollars to this. These types of things that will be potentially impacting our budget, potentially the police chief's budget. It will. And I think we need to be thinking about that. Yeah. I make me I'm going back. As far as as far as that goes,

I I agree with you because I things that we when we approved our city budget, we have line item, things that that are approved that that now the staff can go and execute. This is outside of that. So when we discuss anything with yeah. The city will build a sidewalk or we'll put crossing guards here. Well, you don't be committing the chief to something. Yeah. That's his budget. Yeah. And when it when it's not something that we had budgeted for, it needs to come back to this council and have that discussion. So that's just let's let's make sure that and and sometimes the people may say, well, you don't care about our kids. We do, but we also care about obeying the law with our

city appropriations and how that's done too. So We care about a a lot of things, but, unfortunately, it'll cost money. Do you have a list of what they're requesting or timeline of when they would want it? We are putting together the draft budget for next year right now. If this is something the city council wants to prioritize, we're happy to try to find a space for it. Can come up here in February where you can get more specifics. But there's also I mean, the city council as a whole sets the budget. This shouldn't be something that we're just, you know, doing Maybe they'll do. Have to wait for school next fall this year.

Well,

like that. You can't open now. We do have a list. I think we'll have a more refined list after probably this next meeting.

And and that was certainly the intent as we start looking at and talk we've talked to chief about, you know, what's gonna be required by state law to have crossing guards, and it's gonna be but we'll discuss that in in the budget Yeah. Meetings we'll have over the next couple of days. That's But we just anticipate there's gonna be some costs. We'll get you a list of what they're Yeah. By all means, get that as

quickly as you can to Dania and Marcus, and let's get that tomorrow worked out, and then we'll get with g.

And I don't I don't wanna speak for the mayor, but I would imagine if the committee representatives from the committee besides the two of you wanted to come and actually have a discussion with the council, we probably could make room for them on an agenda or do a Yeah. We can have some sort of meeting. The next meeting and and see if they're prepared to bring information to the council. K.

So I have an update for that as well. Today, I met with the school district with the safe routes in mind. I was on the agenda for that. And one of the concerns that I brought up was that the North Park has never been consulted in in that. We have seven schools in our area and zero school resource officers, which means that the brunt of the traffic and the problems fall upon my officers to handle that. State law requires that law enforcement have a seat at that table and that discussion. And the standard practice has been with the school district that they're not consulted. It's here's your list, deal with it on that. And so in talking with them, they were very receptive of that. And they said, okay, we'd like to schedule that meeting with you, chief and a couple other people. So we can have that one on one with them to talk about the concerns of this is gonna be a problem. The drop off is gonna be a problem. The traffic right there on 4th is gonna be a problem on that, and they're willing to listen to that. So I felt like that was a good thing today Thank you. With that. That's good.

Yep. Yeah. It's being able to be heard and be at the right table, so that's good. Yep. Absolutely. Stephanie.

We are going to have royalty applications available starting in February. So if if you know any young ladies that are interested, please talk it up, and I wanna know. It is a scholarship pageant now for the older girls.

And I had a discussion today with one of our sponsors for that, and he said to send that information and so that we can get that sponsorship again. Since you said it's scholarship, I guess I really have to now. We have sponsors that we the young women in Hyde Park are amazing, and it's well deserved. They do some good things. And we also do that with our youth council mayors and leaders there. So

I do not other than to say thanks again to the staff for your staff reports very much. It's very, very helpful having that before we come to the meetings. Thanks.

We're trying. Okay.

Yep. I have I have things to talk about, exciting things, I think, on there. I updated you on school safety. So let's move to our second favorite, I guess, the deer problem. I had a conversation today with the division of wildlife, and they have brought up a deer trap that they are setting up. And we'll be able to look at that tomorrow. With that, what they're wanting to do is put some GPS collars on them and collect some samples for the chronic wasting disease to see what type of problem there is with that. And they're hoping to get some geo based data, I guess, on where the deer are and if they're migratory or not, that will help us come our harvest time for that. So that's a good thing. We're still trying to make progress on it. This last year was kinda difficult for that, and so we're hoping to avoid that by getting the early start and try to get some things in place for that. So that is encouraging.

I spoke with that property owner Oh, yeah. Today or yesterday. There's a dozen living there. I know I about hit one of them three times in the last month. So

they're they're out there. It is frustrating. Hoping that this helps and gets us some information that we need for that. The second is the e motorcycle concern. So being on the the Utah Chiefs of Police Board, I took that to them and it turned into meeting with some legislators. Representative Cutler put together some amendments that I have here, and I'll leave some copies with you guys so you can look at. So this is what's being presented in the committee, and some of the changes include number one, they've cleaned up the definitions for the class one, two, and three bicycles and what they are allowed to do and and not do. Some of those include that an individual 16 cannot operate a class three bike on a highway, and the highway is being defined as the right of way for vehicular traffic. So anything that the or public normally drives on and with the vehicle is considered that highway. They're also saying that anybody 14 may not operate an electric assisted bicycle on public property, highway path, or sidewalk unless he's under the supervision of his parent. So anybody 14, direct supervision of his parent, which means they have to be right there. And then anybody under eight would not be allowed to operate on any public property at all. So those are those things. They've also included an amendment in there that makes it so that the ebikes are subject to impound as well. So that takes care of the ebikes or the emoticycle part. They have cleaned up that definition of what that is, and they're moving those restrictions and placing it under the existing motorcycle law code. So the same requirements for motorcycles will now be for the electric motorcycles. They are also trying to mandate a safety training course. So anybody under 21 would have to have a safety certificate with that or a class d license with, the motorcycle permit. Basically, the motorcycle endorsement. Yep. On that. The state, though, is also giving the cities the caveat of being able to add to those restrictions or take away. So if it comes back, it says, okay. We want to have them be able to ride from here to here during this time. They're gonna leave that up to the city. But those are the things that are being debated in the committees right now with that. And like I said, I'll leave this with you guys so you can kinda look through it. But but there is gonna be some progress on it this year, and it does clean up and give us some teeth on what they can and can't do. Before it was, I don't know. What are what are the city ordinances on it? And then is it an OHAV or not? So they've cleaned up all of those definitions and just made it a little simpler for us to to try to force That's great. On that. Also wanted to talk about this last Saturday. I had the opportunity to attend a meeting with Mayor Cox, and I offered to the mayors that were in attendance for North Park to be able to give some presentations to them on extortion or other issues that they're being concerned about. And so that helps us in our grant funding and that helps us just try to get that information out there. And so we're seeing good things because of that. People are requesting that several mayors have reached out and asked for presentations with that. So I was pleased about that. And then last thing with our calls for this last week, we had a 102 calls. 40 of those were priority type calls that required an immediate response to that. It equates to about 39%. Those include the accidents. Those include the medical emergencies that we went to. We had a DUI. We also had several child abuse investigations that we had to go work through and try to get that done. And then some of the others, the attempt to locates, the citizen assists, noise problems, parking problems, some things like that. They still require a response, but it's not quite as high demanding that they get there. Currently, as of about ten minutes ago, we were at 413 calls for January. Last year in 2025, we ended January with 443 calls. We've got another three days in the month, so we're right on track to be slightly above or or ending right where we were last year as as far as calls with that. So that's kind of where we're at. We're busy. There are a lot of good things that are in the works right now with the department. We interviewed two today for our two open positions. There's a a high chance that we're gonna hire these two, pending the background with them, but that'll bring us to full staff on that. So it's good. Full full full staff. Is that what I heard? Full staff. First time since when?

Since Full time. Decide that when he gets them onboarded and know what it's before then. Don't get too excited. We could could We're trying. Yeah. Good. Great. Good. Thank you, chief. Appreciate all the work and effort you do there, and we'll be having

a police commission meeting in Yep. In February Next Next week. February 5. Yes. We'll have the year end stat report that we present and the budget review, the quarterly review, some things there. Okay. Marcus, I kinda glazed past the MIH.

Is there anything you wanna talk about the modern income housing other than we're waiting till after legislative to see what they do to us? Yeah. So just as a refresher for the city council, our modern income housing plan goes back to our general plan, the housing section. We chose three goals that we wanted to accomplish or work towards as a city to facilitate the building of moderate income housing. We don't have a specific target for number of units or anything. We're just supposed to make it easier for them to happen. Our all three of our goals revolve around rezones and granting rezones specifically to the mixed use zone or the residential transition zone. The report shows the few that we've granted. It's slowed down a lot since the council and the planning commission worked on the re redo of the mixed use zone. The big focus for the report, though, is this year, we're going to be proposing a new set of strategies. The council may remember a year ago, we had a workshop and decided that's something we wanted to pursue. Then the state legislative session happened, and the train got derailed, and we never got back with it. Now we've reached out to the department of workforce services. We know how that plan is supposed to be changed. We're still gonna wait for the legislative session this year to be over before we do anything because they are proposing changes again to the moderate income housing plan. But the salient point for us as staff in this report is we will be proposing new strategies this year that aren't involved with strictly zoning. We think there's other things could be accomplished. Getting the feedback from the planning commission and city council last year and got some ideas of how we can change that plan so it can be more impactful directly for our residents and not necessarily just for the development community. So more info coming soon. And then if there are any questions with the staff report that it was in box, I'm happy to

field those now. And, Donya, I wasn't forgetting. I just figured you do yours when you do your budgets. K. We could Thank you. If we could, if we could scan that and send it to everybody, that'd be Oh my goodness. Alright. The next item of business. Alright. Thanks, chief. Can you please call on me? Well, be careful out there. It's slick.

Yes. It's it's

The next item is to consider an ordinance, proving that is a zoning map amendment for property located at approximately 3257 North North Highway 91. There's a parcel number about 3.82 acres. If we're considering it an action zoning amendment, amendment change, public hearing on this one?

No. That was held at the planning commission Okay. At their last meeting. So if you open up

there's a document.

I got it now. You're pulling that up. Shows it. Yes. And would you like me to get the background? Infinity map. No. You already gave a great background in your staff notes. Great. Well, those those were Mikkel's, so you can thank Mikkel for that. She writes all the staff reports. Of course, there were Mikkel's. That's what I really The the zoning and anything that goes before the planning commission, and then I just put my name on it and steal it for you guys.

Yeah. And we're in discussions with this business potentially coming to Hyde Park, but this is the vicinity map. Do you have any questions on this council? If there's no questions, I'd make I would look for a motion to approve, disapprove, continue what you may, counsel.

I move to approve the rezone of Parcel 04 Dash 030 Dash 0028 from commercial to industrial based on the findings of fact and the staff report and conformance with the Hyde Park City Land Use Code, the general plan, and the future land use map and the recommendation from the planning commission.

I agree I mean, could you restate that? I'll second it.

You could you can find it in the staff report for those of us who struggle to make motions and do things. The staff is helping Dave balance out with that.

So we got a motion from Dave to approve the rezone request. Is he and I'll second it. Tiffany, you gave a second on that. Any additional discussion? All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed with nay. Motion carried five zero. Next item is our midyear budget review. It's the Donya show. She's done amazing. And I did make references. She's getting ready on notes going out in the newsletter that we didn't increase the tax rate, that if they paid more in property taxes because county either adjusted their taxable rate of their household or county increased their tax rate, School district didn't. So there's a lot of reasons your taxes could go up. It is not Hyde Park. So anyway, that's one of the comments that's going out within this nation. To address the other

the mayor asked me to give a report on where we were on selecting or at least putting out to bid the option to select a new auditor.

So that that was one of the goals picking

Yeah. And and as I've done research as I have done research, the Utah State recommends every five to seven years you go out to bid on an auditor. And that doesn't mean you get a new auditor because our auditor still may put in a bid for that and we may select them. But you still go out to bid and so you're keeping it competitive. You're getting a fair price. And so I've got that prepared. It's from the state auditor's office, so I don't even think you guys need to review it. It's just a template from their office with our information in it. And so I'll put that in all of the places. If you guys know of places for this to go that it may hit auditors, let me know, and we'll get it Gerald, you probably have some good good places to put this. So,

anyway Yeah. I don't know of any others, but I I do know I felt good about the people that we've had do it. But Yeah. Me too. I Yeah. It's not saying anything about who's we've had to do it. We've done that all the time. I just know that I only get concerned about familiarity and and wanting to have fresh set of eyes. And Yeah. I know they do a fantastic job, and they spend a lot of time going through our books. I just wanna make sure we're doing it right and cover all the bases, make sure we get a thorough comprehensive thing. And then that has nothing to do with Oh, please. What's your new name? And that it's not Jack or Jackson. That's Richie May. Okay.

Is this a commitment for seven years? Or

No. We we get the contract from them for a period of time, but this is just the state recommends that we go out to bid every five to seven years. But Okay. When we do have one, we we have a contract with them for

I can't remember if it's three, four years. Haven't for the last few years with Aldrich Jackson, but we used to every three years. And that's what this new bid says is that we will enter into a single year with the potential to enter into a three year agreement with them, so depending on the offer. Anyway, now to the budget review. Once again, I'll make this quick because I know your eyes start to close. But I just wanted to let you know year to date where we're at because it actually looks pretty good, better better than I thought it was going to because there's a lot of expenses that have come in the last little bit. Anyway, so the revenue, as you can see, this is just full categories. So this isn't itemized. And we're at 62% midyear, which is great. That means we're slightly above 50% in revenue. We like to be high in the revenue. And then if you go down to the bottom of the expenses, we're at 40%. So we're slightly under 46%. So we're slightly under at midyear. So everything is on track. I'm not even recommending any midyear adjustments at this time because any any big adjustments can be made year end, and there's not a lot of them. So and then what I've done is anything that is really high in expenses, like, as you can see, planning and zoning is where we were hit at 210%. And so if you go down to the bottom of this, you'll see it's because of engineering fees. That's where all of the subdivision engineering fees goes is to the planning and zoning department, and there has been a lot of them, a lot more than expected this year. So we'll do we just need to adjust that budget because we definitely want our engineers going over those subdivisions. So and then they it also we're getting a new I work program that was very expensive and is going out of several different departments. And planning and zoning has took a big chunk of that too. So if you go to streets, which is our very biggest expense, I did itemize that one. So you can see where everything's spent. And then down at the bottom, you can see how our cap class c road funds are being spent so far. And most of it's the $3,368,000 that was spent on street repairs. And so that's why it looks so high is it was just it's already been done this year. Our allotment for street repairs was done during the during the summer. So capital projects, we're right on. If you go to the next one. A lot of it hasn't been done. A lot of it's for the CMPO phase two, which is still in the works. So that one's good. Water, this is the one I'm always concerned with, and our revenue is slightly above. Our expenditures are slightly above too, but that's because our bond and and water tank are done. And so they they took their a big chunk of the expenses, but they're done for the year. So

so I read in in the notes that they're trying to find a time to test that from here to the tank. Mhmm. We know any more on that?

So there's two big water projects that we're still finishing up. One is the well house and the transmission line up to Lions Park. We're working with a contractor right now to schedule that. I initially, we wanted to do it in April because that's when our spring flows are ideal for that. With the weird weather that we're having, the spring has been a little erratic. So we're trying to our engineers put it they're trying to plan it like a NASA launch, create some windows where we could do it and have the contractor kinda ready to deploy in any of those windows. So we're figuring that out right now. The other thing that was in the staff report is our 500,000 gallon tank up in Juniper Trails has sprung a leak. It's not catastrophic. It's not, you know, drop everything, fix it now, but it is pretty bad. And so we're working with a contractor to get a bid for how to fix it, but also we're we need a little creativity from our engineers because we're probably gonna have to do a a pretty unique fix. So as soon as we have a plan put together, we're gonna bring it back to the city council for approval before we go out to bid. It's probably gonna be expensive. I'm just telling you right now.

It's not it's not under warranty.

No. It is

Are we hoping the fix can last for Yeah. To fix the problem? The problem

the project that we're fixing happened in '95. So it's about thirty years do you think? Which the expected life on the pieces. So it's not necessarily a system failure. It's just kind of reached the end of its life cycle. So we're overall, the staff were not just, like obviously, we're disappointed, but we're not, you know, really surprised to see this failure happening. And, again, it's not catastrophic. We're not looking at washing out people's houses or anything. We're just trying to get ahead of it and plan to fix it this year.

Okay. And you'll notice at the bottom of all of these departments when you're going through it through it on your own time, I've listed the capital projects that we wanted to get done in each of those comp departments this year. They're the capital projects that we're budgeted for. And, like, in the water fund, if we don't get to one of those projects because we need to repair a water tank, that's okay. We can get to that next year. I mean, sometimes things have to be changed around to accommodate problems. Anyway, the Sewer Fund, we just haven't had a lot going on in the Sewer Fund this year yet. But you'll look oh, yeah. Other than we got yeah. We won't talk about that one. You guys just look at that one on your own. Stormwater. We've started taking in stormwater impact fees this year, so that has bumped up bumped up our revenue significantly. And yeah, and there's and there's also, as you can see, the projects down below. The thing that the 98% is Sunrise Engineering once again, but they've been working on the Berry Hollow Canal project and documents for stormwater updates and so forth. So they've been working on a lot.

And the other reason why this budget is so strained is because of the audit that the state did for the stormwater. We had to throw a lot of money to Sunrise to help us out with that because we didn't have the manpower to address all the state's concerns, right, all the plans that they wanted us to produce in three months. So we had to spend a lot of money with Sunrise. We're still spending money with them to do stuff like updating all of our GIS mapping. And so, yeah, there's lots of reasons why this budget's real insane this year, but this definitely is not the norm. Once we get the the state stormwater budget items cleared up, that should not be an ongoing ex expense.

But you can see in the capital outlay, the system improvement, there is still plenty of money to do the capital projects that we had wanted to do in stormwater for this year. So the budget's there to do those. Anyway, basically, the you guys have done a great job managing the budget this year. It's all within 50%, and

I know. This this is for you to say both of you. Look good, Dona.

So what have we done? Dona, you've done a great job in achieving what it was. Apparently, we asked you to do months ago.

Anyway, that's the amendments. I didn't there isn't any. And then one the capital projects at the very end, that's what we worked off at the very beginning of the year. Those are all the things we wanted to get done this year in our budget. So just browse through it when you want to. And if you have any questions, please come in and see me.

So we're we're doing good.

How how do we deal with these old water lines in some of the old part of town? Yeah. That's It sounds to me like we're spending quite a bit of money just fixing every year. We are. And how how efficient is that? Yeah.

Well, we we kind of have to. Marcus and I had this discussion about that. And anymore, before we do road projects, we're we're wanting to we're getting all of our infrastructure assessed when it was installed, where the maintenance has been. If we're going to do an overlay, we're going to do an assessment of the waterline before we do that. So and and we're we're now we have to have a line item budgeting for those kind of expenses. We don't want to have the maintenance. We need to be proactive. When we have one waterline underneath a fairly new road that's broke four or five times Yeah.

Because Hey. We're fixing that one this year, though. Yeah.

Yeah. So Yeah. We'll see. We're we're trying to get ahead of that to plan for it and save for for those things because it's

Yeah. Frustrating. So a couple things. First, a plug for our expensive software that, Don, you talked about, that's gonna automate all that. So it's a way for us to not only have all of our applications in the same place, all of we can create work orders to keep track of all of our maintenance projects and things we're doing in our parks and our everywhere else, and it connects up all of our GIS mapping for our systems and creates recommended maintenance lists for us. So it's an expensive software, but it's base we look at it as instead of hiring a person to do all this, we're paying for a software who automates all of it for us. But the other thing is Hyde Park's infrastructure is just that old. I mean, the the city did we've got records of major infrastructure projects for big chunks of the water system and the sewer system back in the nineties. Really, those pipes only last thirty, forty years if we're really taking good care of them. So it's just time. It's just time to pay the piper, time for those lines to be failing, time for us to be putting the money back into it. That's why with these developments coming through, it's important that we look at them not only what the impact is today, but also in thirty years down the road, how many of the how much of that pipe are we gonna have to replace? How much is that gonna cost the city? You know, are we making sure that the zoning and the lot sizes that we have are producing enough revenue for the city? We can afford to do that when it's time. So, yeah, there's a lot to go with it, but the truth of it is it's it's not necessarily anything we're doing wrong. It's just these pipes are thirty, forty years old. It means it's time for them to be replaced. And we are budgeting a little bit every year to that's gonna go into some sort of capital fund just for maintenance projects. And the mayor's right. When we have a road that's failing and we need to replace it, we're gonna coordinate those systems to talk to each other and tell us, hey. You've also have a waterline that's 30 years old that you probably should replace while you're there.

Do you have any budget questions for Dawn? And and she's always been open about that. There was one other thing that makes significant to bring up. We we received that a grant to continue Woolpack Way, the 3,800,000.0, almost $4,000,000 That money was allocated for 2027, but I've been in communication, and we have been going given the go ahead. We're gonna go out for bid this spring, and we can start utilizing that. We're gonna make sure before we ever issue a grant or issue the bid that or the the contract that all that is lined up. But I've been speaking with Jesse, and we're we're we've got the engineering. We're negotiating with the properties. We're working through all of that so that we can go out to bid and keep moving on Wolfpack Way. And then we'll apply for the remainder of the portion in Hyde Park. I'll be applying for that this fall, another about 5,000,000. So

so just just for the record, mayor, does that mean that we'll this summer, we'll start seeing dirt being moved from our Center Street heading north? What does what does that really mean? What do can we expect to see and let the public know?

If the sun rises in the East, the sats in the West continues that way, yes. Got it. It's gonna go up to 400. I think it's 400 north.

Yeah. And there's a couple of moving parts we're still figuring out. Like, we're still getting the property acquired. We have to sit down with the funding agency and make sure all the ducks are in a row. They have the funds available. There's a couple other cities who wanna move their projects ahead too. So there's just some coordinating we have to do. But the mayor's right. It's all signs are pointing to, yeah, we'll start digging dirt this summer. Great.

So that's that's that's a good thing. Good things happening in the valley that way, and then and we'll continue to keep you informed on a couple big projects that are potentially coming to our community. So other than that, I don't have anything else in the council or staff does it.

Can I just put a plug in for our seed swap on Saturday in the basement? Yes. It's our seed swap, our Healthy High Park Committee is organized a seed swap Saturday from nine to eleven in the basement. If anybody's interested, please That just reminded me. Everybody's welcome even if you don't have seeds.

I I sent out an email about League of Cities this spring. Please let me know if if you can attend, if or if you can't attend because if if at all possible, we have enough newer planning commission members. I I really like the spring one because we get a real good download of what the legislative session was about, and it's really helps us that way versus the big city stuff that happens at Salt Lake in the fall. So if you can't go, that's okay. If you can, please let me know. I'd like to if you can't go, I'd like to open up for some planning commission. So

please respond to that email. And, Tiffany, did you bring those papers for us to sign?

The papers You sent an email to us. But Stop, you know? That was not. That was going on. I was like, but did I have to say something? Yeah. Have you got those for us? Yeah. I'll be right back with them. Yeah.

Alright. If not, I'll look for a motion to

dismiss. I'll make a motion to dismiss for the evening.

We have a motion from Garell. Is there a second? I'll second. Second from Stephanie. All those in favor, say aye.

Aye.