Nibley City Council Meeting - 6/25/26

Appointed place and the appointed time before we call the city council meeting to order, I invite council member Lauerson for opening ceremonies, please.

Thank you, mayor.

Tonight, I have invited a local youth group, young women to find first of all. I was inspired to ask them to perform by just seeing our incredible talent in our city children's theater production. So we're gonna be the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Tonight, they're performing Leonard Cohen's. There's a little bit of history about the song. He spent his five years writing it and went through got here with YouTube.

Oh, my bad. Yeah.

I just need to mute it. Thank you.

So he spent five years writing the song. He went through literally between 80 and a 150 draft verses of it. And then even after all that effort, his record label actually rejected it initially, And it was ignored for years before it finally hit the charts and became a global standard decades later after other performers, movies, and television shows picked it up. So similar to our theater program in the city that started with just a few kids forty two years ago, almost blossomed into, like, 200 children now. This is kind of a perfect reminder, I think, of how local government sometimes work. The civic work that we do is an iterative process. It takes time, patience, and rarely is it perfect on the first time or implementation. We'd like to get it right and do the right thing the first time, but sometimes that's a moving target. And the value that we do up here, I think it might someday come years later or decades later when someone else picks it up or implements it or makes it better for what's needed at that time. So the talent and dedication of young people is inspiring to me, and it gives me incredible hope for the next two hundred and fifty years of this country as well as our city.

And so please enjoy the performance. And afterwards, mayor, I'll just turn it back over to you, Thank you, Nathan.

Nathan, you will, from this day forward, be assigned our opening surgeons. Thank you, guys. That's that was terrific. Thank you so much. Okay. With that, I would call the June 25 meeting to the order of the Nibley City Council. Let's let YouTube know who we are and who's here. Randy, will you kick us off, please? We have this problem.

Nathan Hanscap.

Aaron Mansample. Aaron Mans. Nathan Morrison. Larry Jacobson.

Staff, please. That's me. We better our city planner. Justin Monsieur Andrew.

Talent legal assistance to be recorded. And we have Steve Eulson, a public board chair.

Thank you all. Yep. So with that, counsel, I ask you to turn your attention to two sets of minutes, May 14 and June 11. If you've had a chance to take a look at those, I think a motion. A little discussion.

Erin? Yeah. I'll approve maybe I should approve both sets of minutes.

K. Thank you, guys. I have a motion. And a second from Maddie to approve those two sets of minutes. Any discussion on that, please? Seeing none, those in favor, say aye. Any opposed? K. And tonight's agenda will be asked for consideration.

Nick? Make the motion to approve. Motion to approve

from Nick. Second from Eric. Thank you. Discussion on that motion, please? Seeing none, those in favor of tonight's agenda agenda, agenda, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Terrific. Now we have a public comment period. This is a chance for anyone, really, to stand up and address the city council about whatever is on their mind. And I wanna set an appropriate expectation that is a requirement of the Utah Open Public Meetings Act. Those of you that come to our meetings regularly have heard me say this before, so it's not a new thing. The Utah Open Public Meetings Act requires that we do the people's business in front of the people. And that includes a requirement to disclose what will be on our agenda and what policy discussions we will have for a given meeting. So this is a chance for you to stand up and say whatever you want, but we cannot engage in a policy discussion with you until we put it on our agenda. We can exchange information. There's nothing wrong with that. But the council won't debate policy. There may be a point by your end meeting where things are brought up during this public discussion or public commentary that fit within the agenda that's been published. I invite the council to bring them up at that point if they're so inclined. K? You don't have to sign up. I do see three people that are signed up, and so we'll start with those. And if anyone else has something to say after that, we'll go to them. We have 18 items on our agenda tonight. If you stay for item 18, I'll give you an extra three minutes. But if you don't, I'm going to ask you to stay on task and limit your comments to three minutes. We'll run a timer to give you real time feedback on that. Rick Parnell, are you willing to address us, please? Sure. Yes, please. Down to who you are and where you live. Okay.

Yeah. Rick Darnell. 735 West 4600 South. Just the topic just being where we have all our homes on the curb gutter project that's definitely going on there. So I just have a written statement here relating to that topic that I'll just read here. We have specific questions in writing on the front end of this project, you know, how our property might be impacted, we're never told that there would be a dip in our driveway, something we did not have before the project. We did everything we knew how to be informed of these issues on the front end of the project. Instead, we found out on Monday of this week after observing over the weekend with the new sidewalk now laid, that there would clearly be a dip. And upon questioning, thinking they will cut more of our driveway back to adjust the slope, we're told the dip has been part of the design all along. The construction company is wanting to work on the home's driveway starting tomorrow's understanding, maybe Monday. So we are seeking help. Our biggest concern among others is that the depth in our driveway will create natural pooling of water as well as ice, and therefore, potential injury and liability on our property not placed on us as a direct result of city design. The manager with Rand has expressed these very same concerns of pulling water in our driveway based on current designs to us, and our understanding is he has expressed these concerns to city personnel as well. We were asking the city to reconsider given this input. He's expressed the best way I can explain it that if they don't follow the city engineering design exactly, that they could be the ones at the fault for the pulling water. So it's imperative that they do everything that they can to follow the design exactly so that if there is cooling water, it's a flaw of the design of the city, not faulty work. Sounds complicated and uncertain. We have been told by the city to trust the city and that this will all work out and promise that the city will remediate and repair any problems after the fact. If not, if there ends up being water issues, then I would have to assume there are fairly sizable cost to reengineered, redo, etcetera. We've also been offered by the city to engineer and install a drain system in our yard to help. Why engineer through this? Wouldn't it be better and possibly less expensive in the long run to have no dip just like things were before this project? We asked the construction company what the cost would be to take out the rest of the asphalt for our driveway. They quoted us in about $3,500, plus there would be more topsoil to build the front yard to the new grid in the driveway. Seems to be pretty inexpensive compared to the overall project cost and potentially even cheaper than the current design if the city were to have to come in after the fact and fix water drainage issues because of the dip. I I don't know if the neighbor being affected by this. It is pleased with the results, the potential impacts, and how we got to this point. If the change is to be approved, it would need to be probably by no later than this weekend. Just give an intro to where the project is. We ask to be informed of any decision by then.

I've got one paragraph that they make. If you stay till item 18, keep going.

Well, I can have my wife finish this. So Oh,

You can finish it right here.

So just lastly, in the case that the city chooses not to make any change and continue forward as is, we request in writing that the city will take the necessary measures to fix any cooling water in our driveways and yards until resolved and impaired just as a group of bus neighbors were promised that would happen just on Tuesday. We also request in writing that the city would indemnify any liability due to injury or water or ice on on water or ice that is on our yard or driveway due to their project changing drains on our property, we would ask for a response to these requests.

Thank you. K. Thank you, Greg. Amanda Arnell, would you like to speak to us, please?

Amanda Arnell. 735 West 2600 South. And I'll keep it short because I know you've heard a lot from this week, and thank you for your responsiveness. I just wanna read to you from a flyer that was given to us when we were given the blueprint six days before the project. Part of one one of the paragraph says, the project will widen sidewalks on the North side of 2600 South from the school to 800 West.

This is why. To address the large number of school children walking to and from school in shade,

and we'll also address historic drainage problems. That's the biggie. Right? The puddles in the road that kids all love. We appreciate the city's efforts to address the historic the historic drainage problems along the road. However, we don't think it's okay for the way our driveway has drained historically to be changed by the city's project. And as I said in the email to you a day or two ago, just because a construction standard is met does not mean that we as homeowners are made full. Thank you.

Appreciate that. Brenda Brown, please.

Hi, Brenda Brown, and I'm in the South 41 West 4600 South in Nibley. And since the school has been there, we you would not believe the amount of parents that knock on my door, threatening with a lawsuit because I had a big problem in front of my house, and all the kids rolled their bikes, rolled their scooters, fell through the ice, fell through. I have seen some very serious injuries there, and I really feel sorry for the parents. But now that that I used to call it Niddly Lake where all the kids would play on their ramp too for our school. And now they tell me that Niddly Lake is gonna be moved from Niddly's property to my property. And I know there's things I can do, like no trespassing signs that would not make me liable for the children or if I do get the big ice puddles that I've had in front of my house forever. But I just think we're at the school that we should be able to get our children to school safely.

Thank you. Anyone else like to address council, please? Doesn't have to be about sidewalks. It doesn't have to be about anything specific. K. Appreciate those comments. Hopefully, gave the appropriate disclaimers about when we can take action on things and when we can discuss things. With that, we'll move on to planning and zoning report. Levi, can you do that for us? Yes. Okay. And by the way, mister Arnell, if you want to give the council a written copy of your comments, it'll it'll be in fact, we need one for the record. Did you email it already? Would you email or No. The email would be the best Yeah. So you don't have to type it all in. Right? Okay. So if you would please send Talon. Talon. Hey. I'll try to think if we sent it to you. That's fine. Talon

You can just send it to me. You have any more. You have just

that'll help us get it into the record. Now

we'll go to the planning commission report. Levi, with those. Yeah. So in the planning commission, there were a number of administrative approvals that that happened. So the four different preliminary plat subdivisions were approved. Three of them were, just two lot subdivisions. One was Maple UHawk Subdivision, which is the middle school and the, Heritage Elementary School. So that, that was approved in order to dedicate the right of way for the road that accesses the the new middle school, and it splits the property to to two lots there. So that was approved by the planning commission. The Mount Logan Celebration Center, which is just just west of that area that it's they're calling it Mount it's Mount Logan Mortuary is that there was also both a preliminary plat and a site plan approved for that. The site plan was for a new mortuary in that area. So both of those were approved by the planning commission. And then the rig Rigby Home subdivision or 4150 South Hollow Road subdivision, that's a lot split for for a lot on on Hollow Road. That was approved. And then one more of the Oak Haven Subdivision, which is a a 22 lot subdivision in an area that just just recently annexed to the city is just south of the Nibley Farm Subdivision. So all those were approved, many with with conditions in the in the meeting.

And, again, those were administrative approvals. Mhmm. State code says, planning commission and staff can take care of those approvals. If there's not a legislative action, we won't see it. Right. We've already made our decision on that.

Yep.

Good. Thanks, Deepak. Yep. With that, let's have staff reports. This is the time for staff to give us brief updates. We have other staff, items on the agenda that, including wire concerns, so on and so forth, solicitation ordinance, stuff like that. So if we have anything other than what's on the agenda for a brief report from staff, we'll give you a chance. If shake your head like that, we'll just move on. I can stop one, and I can do that. Right? Or No. I'd I'd rather have you do it on the agenda. Alright, please. If it's separate, then Yep. Then your agenda item. Thank you. So the license Public works director.

So I might just wanna give an update on 1200 West, the funds that were allocated for that. Just moving forward, we've done a intersection studies. We removed the walls and now I've got some linear delineation systems coming, but we'll go along the wall that'll be wide, retroreflective along the glass side of the wall. They should be here in about a week. I'll get the chip seal project out of the way before we start installing them. So that'll be if you've noticed these already changed and they're yellow, but that's what they'll do is they'll they'll highlight that wall all the way down. That's

that's good. So We were may I ask? Or council have any other questions? We were we were planning an agenda item to have a full report of those intersection studies from the consultant. That's still ahead of us? Yes. Okay. I'll start that next meeting. Okay. Perfect. Thanks. Any questions for Steve? Alright. Next, then we'll move to a public hearing. This is amending the budget for various funds of Nibley City for the fiscal year 2025. The budget process is a very exciting process. I I really appreciate the way city treasurer, city manager, department heads get involved in this process. And I I I think we have a great product, a detailed product that also shows general overview and, strategies for the city by the time we're done. So with that, Justin, do you have a presentation

before the public hearing? Yeah. Just real brief. This is our same hearing. So you guys have already heard this, but just for the sake of the public, maybe I'll give a really, just quick update. And I know you guys have been through this long, drawn out, super fun process of budgeting for next fiscal year. Well, this is to put a bow on and tie off the current fiscal year. So we're done with looking forward. And now we just need to deal with kinda tying up those cents from this fiscal year. So every, you know, May, April, May, June, we work on projecting what we think we're gonna need for the coming year. We operate all year long on those budget budget numbers, do everything we can to hit all those budget numbers, and sometimes we're unable to do so. So at the end of the year, we'll just bring that to you guys to make sure you guys understand what it is, why we did it, and then we tie that off, put a bow on. So just a few things that needed to be adjusted this year. The biggest one well, not the biggest one, but the first one is the waste management contract where we pay for garbage collection because it was just purely by number of can. And so we collect on a monthly utility fee, we collect from residents, and then we add, I believe,

5¢,

10¢. And then we turn around and and and pay the rest of that in the waste management and put it on track. And just because we under projected the number of cans that we would grow, we were a little short there. So we add $40,000 to that line to be able to cover that expense. The other big one is the money that is left over at the end of the year in the general fund. We've had a lot of discussion about this. But for the residents, we do try really hard to budget our revenues lower than we expect them to really come in, and we budget our expenses a little higher than we expect to actually spend. And we've been working for a number of years now to try to bring that number closer and closer and closer together when we continue to do so. But where that number landed this year is about a million dollars. So we have a million dollars left over the budget that we will need to move from the general fund into capital projects to pay for our big projects like the side of our project that was mentioned or parks and things like that that go on. So there's a million of dollars that is is rolled over to that fund. And Okay. We also paid off the this building. This last month, we made a final payment, so we no longer It's my time.

And we

no longer have any debt on this building. So currently, the only debt the city has is on the sewer system, and that is an interest free loan. And so there's no real need or necessity to get that paid off anytime soon. I believe we have ten years off of memory ish, maybe plus or minus a couple on there to be able to be have the sewer paid off. But regardless, the NBA, Municipal Building Authority, is a vehicle or a tool that the city used to borrow money to build this building. And when we made that payoff, there was just a little short on the the actual payoff versus interest and things like that. So we need to add the $20,000 to that. That still leaves, I believe, 5 or $6,000 on that fund that will just sit there until we decide to either roll it in capital projects or go build a building. And I believe the last one is just a general entry really to pay for 1200 West Street improvements that were mentioned earlier. We paid for those out of a large portion of those out of capital projects, but we had more impact fees come in than what we expected. And so we would rather use those impact fees instead of the capital project fees. And so what that's what that last line is, is to is to pay $200,000 out of impact fees instead of capital projects. So that just makes that adjustment. So and with that, that is my report. Thank you.

I'm very impressed at this time of year, every year, how how well we predict income and expenses for the city. And it's an iterative process. We get better at it every year, but I appreciate you and and department head staff. The fact that there are a whole bunch of things to true up. And in fact, they're they're small and minor, and most of them are in our favor in terms of being served here. So thank you for that. With that, I'll remind the public that this is a public hearing to true up accounts for the fiscal year that will end on June 30.

If there are

things that you know of that we don't know of that need to be trued up in the city budget, it's been spinning on the website and the financial reports you've seen on the website, that would be appropriate to address with the council. If there's no objection from the council, I will open the public hearing. Seeing none, They didn't we didn't have a sign up, but you don't have to sign up in order to k. Same. Thank you. Thank you for your attendance. Seeing no comment from public hearing. We didn't receive any written comments, did we, Tom? Thank you. With the council's approval, I will close the public hearing. K. We'll do so. And next, we'll turn to resolution twenty six sixteen, which would be the city council's action on this same topic. I'll turn it to you, counsel.

May I already do a motion to approve resolution 20 resolution

twenty six sixteen.

We have a motion from Nathan, a second from Garrett. Thank you for approval of twenty six sixteen. Discussion, please. Justin McNabb. Yes, please. Manny, go ahead. So, Justin, if

if you are nails and other concerns on 26 Sidewalk,

if the city decides to make some changes,

do we have the will we have the budget going forward to make those changes? Or do we need to have an event adjust? As we improve the budget now, we have enough to do what we need to do if we make some decisions there. If the staff makes some decisions.

Oh, that's a good question. I I'd probably prefer to wait and just if if we amend next year's budget, if not knowing exact costs and things going on and rather than guess and mess with this kinda putting the ball on this year, I would rather just discuss it and amend the budget for the next fiscal year is the process that I will prefer.

Okay.

Yeah. That could include, correct me if I'm wrong, re reprioritization of capital projects that are discussed in the coming year's budget. Council is the decider on that. Yeah. That's correct. Thank you.

Yeah. So I'll tell them.

Well, do we just as a clarification, do we need to know we'll put a budget in in the next meeting so we have proper posting and everything if we wanna make

amendment, like, add a code review and other things that we

Correct. But now we can do. Yeah. Correct.

Yeah. Open you know, so we've had some discussion about this. We've actually never really done that. We've never opened the budget in the middle of the year, but certainly can do and would figure out the process. And it's I'm sure it's just posting and having all the proper checks in place and letting the public know what it is and then move forward and make that happen. But This is a concern by the way.

I'm just making that, you know, unused because we didn't have any snow on the machine. Yeah.

Yeah. So right now, as the budget stand, that's all that that million bucks was moved to capital projects. And so, really, that money's still there. It's just in capital projects. If you guys wanna give direction on how to do use it differently than what's been posted in the budget, by all means, we can we can make that happen.

K. K. Since we're done discussing this, Aaron, or did you have some Okay. Do I have an objection to voting on this resolution twenty six sixty? Seeing no objection, we'll proceed with voting. This is second reading, final reading. Talon, if you'd call a roll for us, please.

We can do. Council member Larson in favor. Council member Vann? In favor. Council member Vannsell? In favor. Council member Jenti? In favor. Council member is holding in favor.

Yep. That five in favor, none opposed. Thank you, counsel. Thank you, Tal. Let's move right along to resolution twenty six eighteen. There's something we hope you'll really enjoy. This is to discuss a contract with Cass County Sheriff's Office for law enforcement for the coming year. Chad, thank you. Sheriff Chad Jensen, thank you for coming out. We always appreciate hearing from you. We always appreciate your service. Justin, did you want to say anything about this, or we turn it straight over to Chad?

No. To Sheriff Jensen. Excuse me. I don't mean to show this. Chad's great to be. I've I've answered a lot worse than both of those things. So

I'll just quickly express appreciation for working with sheriff Gantz and all that he does and that the support that he provides for staff as well as all the citizens and residents of Nible City. We appreciate all the sheriff's office does. And what this is is a contract to a certain amount of hours that we would have a deputy dedicated inside Nible City limits to deal with and to take care of Nible City issues. So I I don't really have much else to add to that other than the the Okay. Say thanks and turn it over to sheriff Jensen. K, sheriff. Lynn, so thank you.

First of all, before we get into that stuff, I talk about the fire issues right now. The governor, the mayor of that day, he made a a confirmation that he's made fireworks illegal across the entire state, and there's a caveat to his executive order is municipalities can choose specific places where where you would allow fireworks inside your corporate city limits. The county right now doesn't have an ordinance that prohibits the use of fireworks or shooting outside in in the unincorporated county. I was notified today by the division of Forestry and Wildlife Management that they're gonna close the WMAs, which is basically the entire face of Yellow Bell from Cliffside to to Hiram to shooting on the WMA. And this also wouldn't be a PCN like a face above Richmond for shooting.

WMA.

Sorry. Well, I manage the meeting. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Got it. Yeah. There's basically anything above the deer fence from Yeah. About Cliffside to to the higher the higher the canyon. Yep. Last week before canyon. So those are those are coming up in the past. You think Kim will be mad about that. It's been I have to sign it as the sheriff and say that we'll enforce it if there's a problem. But we haven't had any problems with people wanting to get their machine. I think our citizens in our valley have been very respective of what the fire dangers are and the damages that come from it. And if you live on this side of the valley like I do and watch that face burn and see what happens if that torches off them, it's it's really much of a change from what the state does every year on the on the WMA's. It doesn't prohibit people from the shooting ring that they wanna shoot. The Forest Service has to pay restrictions on Forest Service property where people can normally shoot. It just it states WMATA is their issue right now. So we'll keep track of that, but they've done this four or five years in a row, and we haven't had any issues with the citizens getting outside the bounds on who on where they can issue.

Thank you.

That's something that will come. And with that, I appreciate the time that you guys have always given me to come in and talk about the sheriff's contract. I mean, I'll bore you with a few numbers if that's if you guys both here for this, if they tell you what we're doing here. So last year let's just talk citation wise. Last year, Amaral has wrote 667 citations, and this year is through May. We're about six forty six. Now we've done things differently with the traffic. There's more directly control on problem rather than just random patrols trying to take care of pilot safety issues, not just randomly being somewhere. We still do that, but we've been trying to be more directed with our with our patrols. So and we've seen double overhead increase. I think we've got a lot more compliance with some of those directed things rather than just randomly trying to be somewhere. So if there are issues that the city has, where Justin has city areas, times, places, that we can help and have those directed things, it's a better use of of your hours and and our time if we can go address a a public safety concern about just the random patrolling lifestyle. Your calls for service, we live in Savannah's boarding, which the rest of the county is boarding as far as how many calls for service we actually take a year. Last year, we took 1,353 calls for service just in memory city limits, and that's it. That's everything. That's trespassing, and citizen disputes, and citizen assist, to drug cases, whatever the reports are. This year, it's through May. It's about right on track. We're gonna be up about 50 calls for service if it if it stays on track. And, like, and what goes through those, there's not one a that's like, oh, man. Look. We're having a problem here, a problem there. It's just ones and twos in a little across the board on what we're responding to. So it's it's pretty consistent with what's going on in nearly as well as the rest of Valley and other contract cities with both their calls for service they're doing. The population's growing with the population growth. You you you're gonna see a little bit in increase in calls, but we we the LA cases aren't more. The violent crime cases aren't more. A lot of what we are are nuisance type calls, and that's where we're most of the calls are service we're responding to are. Well, I think that the city and really all the cities have been great partners with the sheriff's office. We we contract with the city number of hours, and what those hours are are are really just extra patrol hours. Your tax dollars are paying for the jail. They're paying for investigations. They're paying for all the operations. What the contract hours are are more patrol cars, more visibility, and faster response times to your calls for service in New York. If you didn't contract at all and it was us, we're still gonna respond to your calls. It just may take three days rather than three minutes. I mean, that's that's what you're getting is is the increased response time and visibility from patrol. Our our staff love it here. You guys have been great with us. The city's been fantastic over the years to to work with each other and be fair on what the hours paid for and what the hours provided are. And I think we're in a great place right now with with Midway and all our all our contract cities, actually. Right now, through the end of the year contract here, which will be next week, we'll do about a 135% of what of time that we provided versus what you paid for. And I I I'm very happy with that number. I I'd rather us be over than come in short and not give the cities what what they actually paid for. So I'm very comfortable with the hours and don't really see anything do anything with the hours of service unless the the city has some specific they want to address with the patrol hours. What's gonna happen with the increase in the contract this year since I will never come to the city and say, we're gonna fix the hours. Now we gotta fix the rate. Now we're gonna fix the rate again. Now we're gonna fix the hours again. I think that's where the partnership comes as we look at the hours and say, all the services are going up. Staff needs more. The last three years, we worked on increasing those number of contract hours to be more squared with what the hours we're providing are. But what I haven't done with that is anything with the hourly wage because I don't wanna dump all that on the cities at one time. So for the next three years, that's the contract that I provided Justin and the mayor. The the contract hours will stay the same, but there's gonna be an increase every year for the next three years to get us up to what our actual costs are to have a control. I think we were 52, 35 in all this starting. The county's been great to our staff over the last several years and and actually pay our debt these a wage that we're not losing 15 or 20 people a year, but that comes with the cost to the budget. So our cost isn't $52.35 anymore. It's more in the $74 an hour range. At the end of the next three years, we'll be about $68, and I think that to me, that's a pretty comfortable place to be. And and work with each other and work into it. And I just struggle everybody in a long time. So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions or concerns or wanna talk about other things coming up, whatever you guys wanna talk about. Yeah. I don't know if you wanted to mention the code enforcement thing or not. That's it. Yeah. I'll we'll bring that up. Let me that's been a good topic. So code enforcement has kinda been a thing. This been the stuff that made quite a bit over the last several years. And I've always been handed into to hire part time people because I don't know if I can I can give people and get them trained specifically for ten hours a week in a specific city? And we've talked about this in the past is that both others, like, three cities getting together and hiring a full time employee that we can actually get people who wanna make a career of public service. We can train them specifically to what the needs of the cities are. I think we're in a good place with that right now with with Midway and a couple other cities and with the unincorporated part of the county. I made these adjustments. They the code enforcement guy with the county was doing building inspection and code enforcement. Building inspection is going to stay with building inspection. And they've asked me if I would, since I'm having these discussions, if I would take the ordinance enforcement on the county side and bring it into this position here. We we talked about, like, what the hours of what new we are applying with the county. And I think with the hours that everybody's asking for right now, there there is certainly enough hours and money there to to hire a full time person who will service those three communities. So I think I told Justin and the mayor that I would if I prepared a contract. We're gonna post the full time position Monday. By statute, we have to run it for two weeks. Once we run for two weeks, we'll get a pool of candidates, and we'll invite mayor and Justin and our office. We'll we'll interview the staff, and we'll pick the right person for the job. They they can really provide the service and not just hire somebody and show it at the out bank. It it worries me just to say, yeah. Let's do this contract and and underserved what you're actually paying for. I think with four times that, it's a career position for somebody. I think we'll get we'll get a lot better service. We can provide a lot better service if we go that route.

And and we have we haven't seen the file numbers yet, but everything we've talked about is pretty close to in line with what we have budgeted the salary. So we'd be able to just move that out of salary to to cover a contract.

Perfect.

I want Justin to be a separate contractor then? Yep. So that would be the third contract. We also contract with animal control. So law enforcement, animal control, and code enforcement. Yeah.

Yeah. And the the co enforcement piece of it and the animal control on our side of contracts are different because what it costs us for the public safety side of things, the deputy side of things, is about 30% more than just the higher civilian side just because of The U R the retirement system costs. Animal control, law enforcement, we require them to be law enforcement certified, but we can get them law enforcement trained and response trained or riding trained. But it and they just come at a lot lesser cost just because of the benefit package that comes with with the deputy. And and the law enforcement deputy is a need. And they can write tickets. They can do all the things in in municipal code that my deputy can do. Anything else? Nathan?

I just have one question that I've never asked before this contract comes up, which is just curious on the amount of time spent and funds given for the state that are control that we have. Because I I believe do we have any so the state has state that yourselves give so much for the control back and other things. Yeah. And then this contract talks that we give our portion back to you, and you you build those hours. Yeah. Because then the state record the state record money, it it's by state statute. It's just an asset money, and it's and it can only be used for

enforcement of alcohol law, which we can upgrade, work in the parade, and believe it or not, we arrest a lot of people in parades for alcohol problems. But it's just passing money to to the long work agency strictly for alcohol type enforcement. The money comes from alcohol sales, and I think there's a population piece that kinda figures out the state figures what each city gets in that funding.

I was just saying and we do have an off the wholesale within in the city. Right. Off premise

beer Yeah. Consumption. Yeah. That's curious. Yeah.

Yeah. I've never seen that number. Or

because it comes with those. Yeah. I I don't even know if it comes with those. I've never seen it. Those. It just goes from one to another. Yeah. I'm not even sure. I I don't ever see the chats either. I mean, normally, you guys hold your Venmo. So I'm on. Yeah. We we do get I think once a year, we just get a list of, like, here's the here's the alcohol funds for each. You know? I I just thought we made assumptions that that you guys are getting the same list and the same thing that I get because my piece is just information gathering. It's not like an invoicing piece that that we do. Forget I said that.

Anything else? I have one or two, sheriff. If you don't mind, what was there? Okay. We're working on this with lieutenant Ramirez, and I guess this is a chance for you to step in front of it if you don't like it. But one of the things that I think we really need to focus on in Uplicity and and Tim is is going he's he's gonna support us on this as far as I could tell. This month's newsletter, maybe it's just because I'm trying to write a newsletter in my head while I'm sitting here, but it's about safety. It's about roads. And Mhmm. And we're redoing our master transportation plan, and that includes trails, and that includes bike paths, and that includes roads. And one of the things we need to really do better in Nibley City, and I think it's not only Nibley, but the use of e motorcycles and motorized vehicles on pedestrian trails and sidewalks and so forth. I'm not talking about e bikes. I'm talking about what the state defines as a, you know, e motorcycle or we we need to do we need to make improvements on that because we built I'm very proud of the trails that we have in Nibley City, and and we need to keep those safe for pedestrians.

No. I I understand. I know Jim's worked on that, and we do support that. Well, Spain Bot has changed in input findings. What what is the scooter? What is the motorcycle? And there are state laws regarding that. And we we're working we'll 100% work with you on what nobody needs to do to to make that happen. Okay. Appreciate that. And I'm I'm so appreciative of of how

when we put a traffic control in a certain spot where we've identified with the radar data loggers, you know, this is a place we think we could make a difference. If we put can you help us put a specific traffic control out there? How that how effective that is at changing vehicle speeds and driver behavior? So my question is, how can we do that without having a car there, without putting a patrol there? How can we get people to follow the speed speed limit when If you can if you can if you can figure that out, you

you just got king of the state. Alright. You know, I I really our our rally is not just nearly a truly everywhere. Our rally is not really a transient traffic county. Everybody goes to work the same way every day. They drive home the same way every day. They go to work in the same way every day. And it's really the enforcement piece. It is not so much punishment. It's to try to get compliance in. Right. You know? But I think a newsletter that, you know, I have people pay attention to the speed. I mean, they drive the same rounds every day, and it it's almost because of that. You just get an average of just doing the same thing all the time. Yeah. You know, I personally learned the place academy is don't ever get into a routine. I'm the easiest guy in the world to assassinate. I get my car in line at the same time. I'm swab at the same place. I don't wanna eat my drink. I drive the same way every day. So I think a lot of it is just breaking the habits of of how people drive because I don't know if we're gonna or we want them to change directions or or what their

Yeah. What their pack what their patterns are. Thanks for that. And I want want you to know that we take that responsibility on this council as one of our own as well. In fact, we have instituted through planning and etcetera and actually built traffic calming into roads because it helps people to drive at the speed that the road makes them feel comfortable and that is a safe speed. And you have been very supportive. Tim Berners has been very supportive with our efforts on a specific

specific routes that we built traffic calming into, and we appreciate that. Yeah. Well, I can I mean, even the whole valley of Nibley, I don't say that because I'm here? Nibley is is miles ahead of what other communities are doing as far as trying to to tame some of that down. Okay. So I think congratulations. You guys have been fantastic. You you have a little foresight in in what those traffic patterns apply. Okay. Thank you, sir.

Nick? I'm pretty sure. First, thanks for being here.

The only time, though, I honestly really notice and I'm not saying you're not, but I I think the fact that, like, as we drive around that we don't notice

the the office here, I think that's a good thing. Right? That means people are Mhmm. For the most part, like, you know, obeying the law and not so. But the one time I do notice, especially this last year, and I I'd like to hear your perspective on this is, you know, during those school morning times. So my my child goes to Heritage Elementary, and I know, I really noticed a heavy presence along the roundabout, making sure people are following their laws, making sure they're letting the kids go through the crosswalks and meeting the crossing guard and so on and so forth. And I was just kinda curious as as the amount of feedback

that, any of the deputies gave you last year or just as you discussed as a crew, right, of, like, what what they've noticed over time with the heavier presence at at select times. Yeah. I've I've noticed a lot of people just, like, getting pulled over, probably getting warnings about, hey. This is actually how you behave in this scenario. Making sure that pedestrians are safe crossing

the street. Right? And all that kind of stuff. Did you notice, like, a a behavior change from Midway residents?

Yeah. Just in the number of citations and warnings in the incident reports that they make, we we've seen those issues resolve and come down. What we've also done with those is we have a with the school contract, we have the school resource to get the every school, and we're bringing them out. School traffic patterns and school traffic patterns that may come out and help us. We've been able to put more people out and cover more of those those routes. The the crossing guards aren't complaining as much as they have in the past that we're not around enough or or controlling the speed. So I think it's been it's been a positive move as

part of weekend time. Yeah. I would agree. Yeah. I I know it. Like, when I just drop my kid out and I see an officer there, I'm definitely mine and my PCQ, so it's good to to see that. Well, thank you. So, folk, confession, part of the increased control. I'll tell you this. Part of the increased control at the roundabout is

engine break trucks that are going to JPS. So that's a that's a real problem for some people that live there. And when they're not happy, they let me know about it. And

have you been supportive on that? Well, we had we've been we've been working a little bit on our end early with DPS. I mean, those are big truck issues, and I have patrol as training and equipment. They they can check those kind of things. So we are working with the DPS guys as well to resolve that.

That one's a tough one. Yeah. I see. I will. So It's transient. Right? Yeah. They hit the engine brakes in the dock. So we have to be a little bit resourceful on that one. Anything else? Nathan, please.

I think you kind of spoke about this as we've talked a little bit about this potential code enforcement officer. And this is probably a question first for staff, Liam, or the chair, Chyna. In number two, it talks a little bit about how the chair has final say over disputes of the extension of services offered, which makes sense. But has has there been problems of that process on the Citi side or of things we haven't been happy about that need to address? And then share she's gonna talk about maybe situations where you've had to kind of implement it. Hey. We don't do that. And what process you go through to make that? I was kinda curious about that contract. I mean, I can answer that on on my side.

This contract, that that's labeled in this web partner since 2015. At least since I've been sheriff, the name of the bureau when I was in terminal control. I've never had a dispute or had a game in the middle of something. I think it's just legal. At the end of the day, there's a dispute and so and it's there are employees that that we would have some say, but I've never had the big question or exercise that section of it. K. Thanks.

May I ask one question Please. For Justin? So can you tell me understand on the the budget how this works? So we had budgeted for this coming fiscal year 2627, 137,000 for law enforcement. So this new for the new contract for this next year, here is a 180.

I you're looking right here.

It needs some. We assume that in the budget that we improved, we have a $137,000

budgeted for law enforcement this coming year. Right? Yeah.

But that's

But the contract in front of us shows that we need a 180,000.

Just I think that was the updated one that can't even send you the one the right one. But that one is probably my mistake because when I send the contracts out, I had somebody put them together for me. And when I was increasing the hours, the hourly rate, they increased the hours as well. And the hours should have stayed exactly the same, and only the rating increases. So I think your number, the 136440, is the right number. Yeah. And I think, Justin, I don't know if he got that from Kenny, but I apologize. I mean So it's actually gonna be a 136,000. Yeah. Excuse me. 36440.

440. Okay. Yeah. And then it's do you remember the increase each year? Six. Yeah. It goes to $1.45,

May, and then January, 630. Zoom. Okay. So I followed back the loan.

Kenny and I shot back and forth a few different contracts. I apologize. I got a little more in here. To do that.

Yeah. Yeah. I was in the map. I was in the map. I was like, that's just Yeah. No. And I

apologize. I

checked that checked that. I thought I've just been I got the wrong That that mistake is 100% mine. Well, that's okay. I just wanna picture We we budgeted the correct Yeah. Mine's yeah. We have correct we have budgeted the correct amount. K. Alright. Thanks. Yeah. Sorry about that. It's

Well, we got him running in the right direction. Let's keep going.

Thank you. Yeah. That's a lot of

Anything else, Counseling? I need to amend that.

Nick? Make a motion to approve resolution for twenty six fifteen.

K. Are you waiving second rating? Oh, I was about to read. Yeah. Waiving second rating. We got a motion from Nick, second from Randy to approve resolution for the law enforcement contract and waive second rating. Further discussion, Nathan, please? Yeah. I don't know if we need to address that that we're gonna approve that one that was just presented to us as opposed to us in one packet. So I'm not without without objection, I made that. So do I have an objection to approving the numbers that Dustin has in his hands that he can share? The 136440,

I think. Is that the right number? Yeah.

The 1 thousand something hours.

Thousand seventy four hours. Yeah. Thank you.

With that objection, that will be part of the motion. K. No objection. That's the new motion. K. Any opposition voting? None. Since we're waiving second reading, this will be the final on that. Will you please read the roll, Talon?

Council member Aderson? In favor. Council member Rand? In favor. Council member Randell? In favor. Council member Tanske? In favor. Council member Spalding? In favor.

Thank you, Sheriff. Thank you, counsel. Don, appreciate you. Motion passes. Thank you. Favor, not opposed.

Sure. Appreciate your service. I just

need make him sign. That's the deal. Sign on the hotspot. See you next time. Perfect. Thanks for that. Thank you. Okay. Let's let's move to the next item. This is discussion and consideration of an adoption of an economic blueprint for Nublucid. I'm not gonna say anything because Levi and do do you want Levi to go first and then you share, or do you wanna kick us off?

I could I can make a quick introduction. Just just kinda where this came from. Okay. K. Levi, you want Yeah. So this this is really an an updated economic development strategic plan, which was one one of the strategies that came out of our recently adopted general plan. Going through that process as we as we did the analysis on economic development in the city, We saw that our our current strategic plan was quite outdated. It's from 2013 and and not very relevant to what we were doing now. And, thankfully, the the state, just started this economic rural economic blueprint program where, and they and then go to more detail on the program and and the plan, but to to provide technical assistance to cities, in rural areas in in drafting and and going through the process of, doing an economic development strategic plan. So we've been working with Sherry and with August from the governor's office economic development, and they'll they'll present to you what is in the plan where this is this is as a first reading on the agenda, and and we really hope to get any feedback you have. We don't we don't expect you to adopt it tonight. Please, you know, take your time and and make sure that this reflects what you think the direction the city should go with with regards to economic development, and and we'll bring you back for a second reading. So I'll turn I'll turn over to to Sherry, and and August is is online there. K. So Sherry Stevens,

from the governor's office of Beckman. First of all, I'll just jump in. My sincere appreciation for your help on this, August's help on this, and in giving us the grant security grant for us to to work on this. So much appreciation. Thank you for being here, Sherry. You're welcome. So I I just

to introduce myself, Sherry Stevens. I work on the Center for Rural Development team, specifically at BOA and Social Order of Utah. And then August is a team member of mine, and we have partnered with a steering committee that has an interest in economic development and in the city specifically for this plan. And it's been in process since let's see. Your application was approved at the end of last calendar year, and so this has been in progress for some months. We're certainly open to input a feedback if we've missed anything, and that's what we're here for tonight. And, August, if you're online, then go ahead and introduce yourself on the process that we've been through along with the details of the plan.

Awesome. Can everybody hear me in the room alright?

Sounds great.

Awesome. As Sherry said, my name is August Granath. I'm a technical outreach manager with the Center for Rural Development at GOED. This program, the rural economic blueprint program, was introduced in early twenty twenty five to supplement and complement the programs that we offer to local governments and businesses in rural Utah to support economic development. Really came out of a need stated by stakeholders saying, hey. It's great that you have some grant programs and and and other things to support rural economic development, but we need help with the kind of big picture strategic thinking. So we created this program. I was recruited. I'm based out in Moab, former Grand County economic development and tourism director, to basically take that experience of being a a a rural county economic development professional to other, counties and communities across the state. So we created a process, that that we'll we'll talk through today, that is free of charge to communities, and and hopefully kind of provides a a a grit a written framework to answer the question, where are we today, do we wanna go tomorrow, and what are the steps that we need to take to get there? I'm just gonna go through the the PDF document that is attached that will be the the the document we're considering today. So there is some some acknowledgments in here that just go over who participated in the process, a quick overview of the process in general. There's some economic data that I'll go through at a very high level, a SWOT analysis, that'll go through at a high level, and kind of the ideal vision for a future economy that came out of our conversations with stakeholders. I'll touch briefly on the existing objectives that are in the 2025 general plan as they pertain to economic development, and then the new goal strategies and projects, that are really the actionable side of this program that, if if adopted by the city, Sherry will then take and basically use as a as a project tracking tool, with city staff to ensure that these things get accomplished with state resources. So the working team was myself, Sherry. We have a team member named Olivia Midgley who does a lot of the data work. Levi Roberts, city planner applied for this program on behalf of the city and was our main point of contact. We also worked very closely with the mayor and city manager as well. The steering committee made it was made up of two additional city council members, the city treasurer, folks from the AOG, individuals from Utah State University, and then a handful of private business interests in the area. So I I should say that this this has already gone through a review and revision process with the steering committee, and we're delivering that to you here today, council, really requesting your input and and feedback here rather than saying, here's the final product, you know, and and it's done today. This just describes the program at a high level, and and we'll hop into some of the data that came out of this. So, really, every economic indicator for Nibley City suggests that it is ahead of its peers. If you look at the city and the state or the state and the country, population growth is is especially in the in the thirty year period from 1990 to 2020, vastly outpaces the rest of the country, and the state as a whole. And although it slowed down in the last five years, continues to to to rapidly outpace, those comparisons. It's younger than the state and the country. It's it has a greater employment rate than the state and the country and has a higher median household income than the rest of the country and the state. It has a higher educational attainment than the than the state and the country. And one of the things that comes out of this is that Nibley is largely a bedroom community where folks are commuting outside of the the incorporated boundaries to go get that income for the most part, or or maybe they're working remotely. So we do have the major industries that are based in Nibley itself. Manufacturing and educational services stand out here at the top. The numbers on the right, the location quotient location quotient describes basically the the percentage of jobs in your jurisdiction divided by the percentage of jobs nationwide to kinda indicate that you have two times as many manufacturing jobs as the as The United States average and 1.4 times the national average when it comes to educational services. This just provides kind of a high level indicator of where your jobs are coming from. And we also pulled department of workforce services data to to show who are those employer those major employers in your community. I'll go through the initial assessment here at a high level. So this is really the summary of my individual one on one stakeholder interviews with the folks in the steering committee. And then this was reviewed by the steering committee as well. So strengths, we can start with population growth, residential development, and strong demographics. I'm not gonna read through all of these, but just this one I feel like is is is relevant. Nibley has grown by 3,400 people or 4% a year for the past fifteen years and is forecasted to continue at a similar pace for the next fifteen and beyond according to the general plan. With a median income of 108,040 percent of the population 18, Nibley possesses an active, educated, and high spending consumer base that is invested in the community's long term future. If the city can foster additional commercial and retail business, it is well positioned to benefit from its local residents' buying power. Second strength here is strategic location and highway access. Nibley is is is very well located within the valley between two major highways and in in proximal to Logan. It also is is nearby to I 15, I 84, A 80, and freight rail access. Nibley has quality municipal leadership, high levels of service, reputable parks, and recreation amenities. City maintains quality staff, active leadership, and high levels of service with relatively new infrastructure, and the parks and youth programs are regional draws and one of the community's greatest strengths. Two things two more things on strength that I'll mention. One thing that came up is that there's a very strong entrepreneurial home occupancy business ecosystem. Although Nibley is known largely as a bedroom community, there are quite a lot of home based businesses within those residences. There are 217 home based home occupancy businesses distributed across 2,139 households, meaning that one in every 10 homes has a business within it. This indicates the a potential opportunity that that if that entrepreneurial community could be fostered, supported, and kinda create a pipeline to filling additional commercial space that could be built into the future. And then lastly, on the South end of the valley in particular, Nibley has significant available flat green space for development that is within its annexation boundary. In terms of weaknesses, the flip side to being a bedroom community is the lack of of commerce that takes place within the the jurisdictional boundaries. So the current general plan estimates that Nibley had a $112,000,000 sales tax leakage in 2024 with an estimated lost sales tax revenue of 571,000 for the city. If all of the sales tax leakage were somehow captured in 2026, it would represent a 10% increase in total general fund revenue for the city's twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six budget. If this replaced revenue were used to offset current property tax revenue, it would represent a 42% decrease in local residents property tax bill. So it's significant. If you can capture even a marginal amount of that sales tax, that is gonna decrease the city's reliance on property tax revenue, to fund its general obligations. Another weakness is is there is a growth pressure that I mean, this is this is discussed today. Whether it's a weakness or not is perhaps up for debate, but there certainly is increasing pressure on services of that the city has due to increasing population growth in residential development and takes a lot of services from neighboring jurisdictions as it's just brought up by the last budget item or agenda item. Two more things here. There's kind of an absence of a defined commercial core, and there is minimal industrial base in Nibley. The city lacks a defined commercial downtown district, which limits community retail in these and third spaces. There is also limited industrial land available for development. This, again, highlights that, reliance on property taxes to fund city infrastructure and services in addition to grants. Lastly, there's there are some in environmental and infrastructure barriers to growth. It was noted that the high water table and sensitive wetlands in some of the remaining developable areas complicate construction, which can potentially increase cost to developers and and could slow or hamper growth. One stakeholder noted that Nibbly faces power constraints that could stand in the way of attracting high power needing industrial business. Now moving to opportunities, and this is kind of really what a lot of this is built off of is looking at some of these opportunities. One of the ones that stood out mostly was designating and developing a town center. There is, according to the the the survey results in the general plan, a rare political and social consensus, nearly 60% community support for a walkable town center. There's an opportunity to create a third space, a place that isn't work or home, which could attract local restaurants and boutique retail. Largely, this has been convening around the location of 2600 South And State Road 165. The general plan has some other plate places that it indicates that in in its future lighting map. Additionally, there's opportunities on the highways, eighty nine ninety one and one sixty five, specifically at nodes around 2226 Hundred, 3200 South. The South side of town is another huge opportunity looking at the the kind of boundary between the future annexation maps of Hiram and Nibley and and the potential to create a new South Valley connector between 89 and 165 and and create industrial opportunities on either sides of that road. Generally, there's also the opportunity to catch Logan spillover. Cache Valley has, really strong aerospace defense, food processing processing industries that is overflowing from Logan, and Nibley has the available land to draft off these clusters, providing space for auxiliary suppliers that may not find room in the Logan area in the future. And lastly, active transportation is a big thing that Dibley has has prioritized. And in its future land use plan, trying to develop the Greenway Loop and other active transportation connection connections between residents, commercial nodes, etcetera. Couple threats, there is competition from neighboring municipalities. As Nibley is geographically boxed in, it is in somewhat of an annexation race with Logan to the North and Firem to the South. And there, you know, is some potential concern that if the city does not move aggressively to pursue those areas in the Northwest and southern corners, that neighboring cities like Logan and Hiram might be able to incentivize private developers to annex into their cities instead and and turn those tax producing parcels into those other municipalities. Another threat is is that because UDOT controls 8991 and 165, that there's the potential that that they could add to that boxing in effect by making it difficult to get in and out of Nibley into the future. There is also the the the the threat from local residents, this general antipathy towards towards development that is specifically dense and and commercial oriented. It's clear that there's a vocal segment of residents that value the rural low density feel of Nibley and push back against potential increases in density and development in general. However, there is broad support for some economic development, so long as it is concentrated and represents a balanced approach that allows for some commercial development while preserving key aspects of the community's role character in the survey results of the general plan. Lastly, relying solely on residential growth is likely unsustainable in the long run without a commercial tax base to subsidize the cost of providing high levels of service to its residents. Long term infrastructure maintenance costs will outpace residential property tax revenue. So that's the the SWOT analysis, which kinda keys up this ideal vision for the future as defined by stakeholders, which which is captured in six bullets here. So the first and foremost is a future where Nibley can transition from a dependent bedroom community to a more self reliant complete community. Stakeholders envision a future where Nibley develops more commercial activity, begins capturing some of its estimated 70% tax sales tax leakage, and use that revenue to minimize property tax increases while funding municipal infrastructure. Second is to develop a town center for Nibley and plan for additional commercial nodes along US 9189 And 91, and and State Road 165. Stakeholders identified the need for a defined heart for Nibley. This component of the vision focuses on centralized walkable commercial hub near 2600 South and State Road 165 that could be anchored by gathering spaces and community amenities. Third is to support and expand existing home based and traditional businesses in Nibley. Stakeholders express the desire to work with existing local businesses, identifies those that are ready to expand and create a pathway for growth that helps to fill additional commercial spaces created by the town center and other commercial zones. Fourth bullet here is to plan for an industrial zone with sufficient buffer for residential development. Stakeholders plan to set aside the undeveloped Southwest Corner Of Nibley for industrial opportunities such as manufacturing, tech, or logistics. There's an opportunity to build off of the success of adjoining agricultural production facilities south and plan far enough ahead to create a buffer buffer zone and avoid problems with residential areas. Fifth vision here is to integrate active transportation to drive a trail connected economy. Because Nibley's top tier recreation programs and green spaces are major community strength stakeholders see a future where economic growth is explicitly tied to the city's trail systems. These trails would physically link residential neighborhoods directly to retail nodes, allowing residents to safely bike or walk to local services. And lastly, preserving quality of life through missing middle intergenerational housing. This vision seeks to balance the community's intense desire to maintain a small town single family identity with the pragmatic economic reality that diverse attainable housing types are required in order to ensure that the city's youth and seniors are not priced out of their own hometown. Next, we we speak to the existing objectives of the 2025 general plan. I'm not going to to kinda get into this in too much detail, but just to echo that this is already what's on pulse in in policy that's been adopted. So five goals. One is to ensure financial sustainability. The second is to coordinate with economic development entities. Third is to focus commercial growth and key nodes with buffers. Four is to maintain economic development focus, and this is kind of what this is the outcome of, complete an update in economic development strategic plan with established resource and partnerships. So, hopefully, this is helping to accomplish that goal set forth in the general plan. And fifth is to increase housing ply supply to match demand. And we hit the actual kind of tangible to do list, if you will, that comes out of this. So the first goal is really tied to that town center project. Well and expanding commercial activity in general. And I'll I'll zoom in on this a little bit. Hopefully, it shows up on the screen a little bit better in the room here. So there are a handful of goals within every goal. There is a set of strategies. Within every strategy, there is a set of projects. So I'll just go through these very quickly here. Under the strategy to designate and develop a town center, there's four tangible projects. First is to if, you know, that twenty six hundred South and State Road one sixty five area does feel like that's where that town center future, is going to be, begin engaging with the local landowners near that area and begin planning for the future town center at that location. Second is to work with the local u Utah State University staff and students in landscape architecture department to begin visioning exercises for the future town center. Third is to consider what local amenities and gathering places the town center could provide for the community. This came out of a discussion with the the strict the steering committee, to really discuss what what the side retail space, or commercial frontage a town center could provide. Mill Creek City has created a big skating rink in their kind of town center area and has created a gathering place for their community. So starting to think about could it be more than just, you know, commercial development? Fourth is to create a small area master plan for the future town center site and engage developers to build out that plan. Second strategy here is to create a business expansion pipeline for home based businesses. So two projects. One is to to survey existing home based businesses, identify growth opportunities and resources that could be developed for this group of business owners. There's already a really great list that the treasurer has developed, based off of business registrations, and I think that that it's a very tangible starting point there. The second is to develop those resources. So whether that be, an incubation space or just a community group of of of entrepreneurial home business owners, basically provide the resources or try to create the resources that the that the people are requesting who are in that community. Second is to develop a central mixed use corridor on 3200 South. A couple things on here. First is to build out street design changes that are considered in the transportation master plan. Second would be to consider zoning changes to 3,200 to turn it into more of a mixed mixed East corridor, and third is to build a road to or consider building a road to connect 3200 South to the commercial Malouf properties on Nibley Parkway. Goal two here is to expand commercial and industrial activity on Nibley's periphery with with two, main strategies. One is focused on industrial activity in the South end of the valley, and the second is to pursue, development, on and adjacent to the the main highways that that form its boundaries. So the first product is to pursue congruence across Iram and Nibley's annexation boundaries on the South end of Nibley's future land use map. Obviously, requires collaboration with another incorporated entity and potentially a delicate conversation there. Second is to establish an industrial zone on the South end of Nibley's Nibley's future land use map. Third is to engage in a ongoing BRAG funded feasibility study process that is considering areas for a future AgriPark development in the three county area and advocate for that to be developed in the South Valley Industrial Zone if if council, feels like that is a good fit. Fourth is to proactively build out water, road, and sewer infrastructure to the South Valley Industrial Zone to to incentivize development in that area. And fifth is is to to engage with Bragg, GOED, and EDCU, Utah resources for working with site selectors and recruit businesses to South Valley Industrial Zone and other parcels in Nibley. Second strategy here, looking at at highway based kind of nodal development, prioritizing development along those intersections at 2600 South and 3200 South and two two projects with UDOT. One is to develop the corridor OraDOR agreement, on US 8991, and second is to participate in the study the corridor study on January. Third let's not skip it. I have to zoom out, I think. Here we are. Pursue improvements to quality of life to facilitate economic development. The strategy here is to develop active transportation and trail assets that connect places of residents, work, commerce, and recreation with four attached projects. One is to pursue the development of the Greenway Loop as identified in the general plan. Second is to pursue the development of a blacksmith fork connector trail that would connect the town center to Blacksmith Fork Canyon in the Bonneville Shoreline Trail. Third is to consider build out of an active transportation running East West on the 2600 South Corridor to connect residential subdivisions to the future town center. And fourth is to ensure that additional residential subdivisions continue to add to the existing active transportation networks. Goal four here is a is is relatively simple and and simply states, make sure that this blueprint has legs and and and moves forward. So implement the Nibley City rural economic blueprint. Strategy is to create systems of accountability and support to ensure that the plan is implemented. Three projects here, create or designate an implementation committee to oversee the completion of the plan, assign specific staff with the responsibility of implementing the plan, and allocate sufficient funding, support staff and committees as they implement the plan. I appreciate your patience as I kind of word vomited a 20 page PDF to you in fifteen minutes or so. I'm open to any feedback, questions, input that you have as counsel with the kind of understanding that that we can make any changes necessary before second reading.

Thank you, August. And, Council, I'll turn it to you, and August knows our process. This first training is usually to ask questions, informational type questions. If there's policy arguments, we can have those now, or we can arm wrestle over them at second reading. It's you.

Nate? Got a question for either August or Sherry.

Obviously, you guys are well aware just the principle of economics, right, with with how commercial development works for cities.

And and nine times out of 10 times, it means everything, but this in this space. Right? Where maybe Midly is an entity just given the history of where we are temporally in the cities around us and where they're at. Maybe in a lot of ways, by Nibley is where where we're at with respect to or with our economic development growth is just simple matter of timing of those around us. Right? So do you see this as you work with maybe other cities similar to Nibley? This is almost like a a jumping up when it, like, us just getting our ducks in a row for when we are ready, making sure that we have provisions and plans in place and whether it's a policy directive and making sure that we have good code in place. Right? And and maybe describing the vision of what kind of economic development we want in Niddly. Do do you see it more like that for Niddly and others that that relate to Niddly?

August, you might wanna speak to this more, but we it is a strategic action plan where we'll be taking steps forward as it pertains to Nibley. August has experience with communities across the state of Utah and counties that have asked for this. We're in our second year. It's the only community in Cash Outty that applied. So, August, do you wanna speak to that a little bit more in the communities that you're working with across the state and any implementation maybe moving forward since this is so new?

Sure. Is the question more specifically about how Nibley City should view what adopting this blueprint means for its approach to economic development, or is the question how do we as an agency see this blueprint process being useful to communities?

Yeah. I think probably the latter. I mean, really, you you you tailored this to Nivli, right, as as you've researched our city, worked with the the steering committee like that. So you understand our constraints well enough to, you know, we're in the realistic likelihood of what commercial development looks like in Italy, right, given our constraints. Sure. So I can from your perspective, do you see this as more like, here's here's some here's a prescribed marching orders that we've that you know, not not that you're enforcing upon us, obviously, but, like, how do you see like, what would be our you know, describing, like, what we need to prepare moving forward would be right. Okay. That's a that's that's a that's a great question.

I think we view the blueprint program largely as a as an as an opportunity to put on paper all of the conversations that take place in various volunteer boards, city council meetings, you know, between parents at soccer games. The idea is that what's written down here is generally reflective of what feels true to the citizens, business owners, employees of of Nibley so that if if the mayor or city council is going after a very specific project that may or may not be recommended within this blueprint, it can be attached to that grant application per se, and the the people who score those grant applications can relatively quickly get a really good understanding of Nibley's context and recognize that, oh, you know, this project that has been highlighted in this blueprint has been considered, has been weighed against alternatives, and and has gone through a process. So it's not something that, you know, one staff person has come up with in the last six months because there's a funding opportunity on the table. We hope that this is a pro is a tool that increases the likelihood for our partner communities to win funding, towards projects that they feel is really important for their community. I would say is the super high level. I think also everything that's in here has been the result of con of of things that have come up from other people. So the the the recommended actions and the goals, strategies, and projects, almost none of them are things that I came you know, sat down and wrote down myself because I thought Nibbly needed to do it. Those are things that had been considered by somebody on the steering committee, whether it was the mayor or city councilor or or or somebody else. So my hope is that this were is is reflective of kind of where Nibley sits today and where it wants to go and and can guide future decision making. You know, the the usefulness of this blueprint really lays at the feet of those people who are gonna go implement it. So the implementation process, how we hope to support and guide that is that these tables at the back that have the sets of goals, strategies, and projects turns into a a, basically, a spreadsheet with time timelines, point people, notes, etcetera, that then Sherry is going to to engage with city staff, mainly Levi and others to when they meet quarterly or or monthly to say, which one of these are you really trying to work on right now? What are you trying to put in the budget next year? And how can we help you get resources to make these things happen? As we all know, local government, you have to do a lot of different stuff all all the time, and it's really easy to lose track of some of the longer term strategic objective stuff, especially economic development. So we hope that this helps, city staff and and electeds, keep your eye on the ball of the things that you feel is valuable to you, and we try to hope hold you accountable to accomplishing your own dreams and try to point out the resources that are available to help make those things happen. Is my long winded response to your question, councilman?

Thank you. It was so good. I do wanna add as he's talking about funding, the rural community opportunity branch specifically is one that we've had our eye on with Nibley. There was an application submitted last year, and as it was not awarded, the blueprint program was. And so with this planning in place, I think it positions Nibley to compete a little bit better for some state funding for economic development projects. So that grant opens again September 15. It will close October 30. And if maybe I identify the project out of the plan that's created, it might compete for up to $600,000 to put towards that. There's a match as you put some skin in the game, but then there's spending coming in from the state and resources that way. So that's it it's not us coming in and and instructing or dictating. But as you identify projects that would be beneficial to the community, we wanna be able to support that if we can. And that's why we're here. Hopefully, that answers your

question.

Yeah. On the strategies and goals, the very first strategy and the first project talks about engaging with local landowners, digging in planning and beach town center. I didn't notice any specific details in the project, details about reaching out to commercial developers. So, obviously, it's like there's a multi pronged approach here. There's potentially a Nibali driven development that maybe is like a park or a skating rink or something. But then there's also a planned commercial area. So what conversations did you guys have in your steering committee about Nibali's responsibility to go after or pursue commercial developers to come in? Or is this is this Nibali driven, or is this waiting or commercial to be commercial driven? What do you I don't know. Maybe I maybe you can help speak to that too.

I think that's I mean, I think that's a great comment. I don't know if August or Sherry, if you have any any feedback on that. But I feel like, in general, we get a lot of attention from residential developers. They're used to working here. There there's a lot of residential development happening, and and I think more outreach with commercial developers, if that's what we wanna go after, can yeah. Being more proactive about it, I guess, we we don't I would say we don't spend a lot of time engaging with specific developers. We wait for them to come to us. But may maybe that's something we ought to do is is in engage in those con initiate those conversations.

Encourage developers to go engage local developers, make an offer on that land. Right. Are are we the ones driving these deals to try and make this happen? Or or who's who's spearheading? Like, what's the what's the driving force spearheading our commercial town center?

That's a good that's a good question. I don't know if, August, did you have any feedback on that, but I I think I think Aaron has a good point.

No. It's a really it's a really good and important question. And I I think that there's the there's the planning component that is the city's obligation to to say what you know, the the planning and zoning nitty gritty of is this parcel zoned for what we want it to be into the future, and then trying to recruit or engage with or do visioning exercises to try to kinda paint a future of what we kind of want it to look like, hypothetically, or what we want this area to be. And I think that's where the the small area plan concept could come come from. But but you're right. If if if the city is not the landowner, then, ultimately, whatever that private property owner wants to do with it is going to to kind of happen. So it's if if the city wants to see it become a specific kind of of vision for the future, then it's incumbent on the city to to kind of drive that, whether it's through planning processes, whether it's through land procurement, etcetera, etcetera. So so I I it's really it's there's been a lot of talk about the town center I think a a similar a similar type of community, Mountain Green, is is is is developing at town center, and that's very much a commercial developer led process at the moment. But if you look at the the an alternative, like what Mill Creek City did was they created that public space, and they had private development on the fringes of that public space. So so it it's really up to you all to see to decide what you want that to look like and and use the tools at your disposal to to to push that towards your ideal vision.

Yeah. I think I think it's very helpful if we have a clear vision of what we want, and then we and then we can engage with developers. But but maybe August, I think to Aaron's point, we could add to that that first project, engage with landowners and developers, potential developers for that area.

For sure. I can make that revision for sure.

And we'll have a chance for more revisions when we get to second grade. Hopefully, we'll take this and digest it and and offer new things.

Yeah. I will say that if there's anything that you guys don't bring up in today's meeting, but something comes to you, a shower thought later tomorrow or something like that, I'll I'll I'll send an email to all of the counselors and set a deadline for for feedback so that I can get it to the next city council meeting that we're planning to get the second reading to.

Yeah. And I would I would suggest, August, if if you get feedback from individual council members just to come ready to summarize everything you got so peep so the can so the council knows what may have changed from first reading to second reading as well.

That that sounds good to me.

Yep. And is August collater ideas from council members or you, Levi? We've got different ways on this with plans. You guys decide either way. I mean,

I I think if you send it to August and you copy me Okay. That's that's good because he's drafting it.

Yeah. Aaron, I think he asked a really interesting question. It's a it's a question of marketing Nimbly to potential commercial developers. Levi, I think he said it correctly. Despite Nimbly City's success in growing, we've we've never marketed ourselves to any anyone who's looking for residential commercial or whatever. It's just it's just happened, you know, because we have space and it would be interesting. We could look into it. I think the the the success ratio and what is successful and what's not successful and what, if anything, is successful about marketing to and how do we go about marketing to potential commercial developers? How do we sell ourselves? They certainly, as Ari said, we have to have zoning invoice. We have to be we have to be ready when somebody's ready to come here. We have to be ready to

entertain their proposal.

And I when when you are ready and August, do you do have a a project number on there that references EDC, Utah, that can help attract commercial? And then also you're contracted with Brad for economic development. That is your economic developer at this point that can also assist with that, who is on the steering committee. So when you are ready, you have some supports in place that could help with that.

Yep.

K. Anything else, Randy?

No. I just think that that fiscal imbalance is a little scary going long term. And I do think we have to get some more commercial going to

to wait for the services that we're offering. So I I don't think we have to take that seriously.

Yeah. I I agree, man. Yeah. I've said for a long time, I I feel like we're on the verge of greatness. I've been saying that for twenty five years now. And and greatness to me is when we become a complete community as opposed to a bedroom community. We we we sleep well and I believe, and we recreate well and I believe. And wouldn't it be nice if we could also perhaps work in if we had jobs for people and then we and wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to get in your car and drive to Logan, you know, to buy a gallon of milk or a loaf of bread if we could, like, shop it into two. And it's not just about economic growth. 42% less property tax

on the hypothetical that we could have a breakeven

on point of sale sales tax. Right? That's pretty attractive. That makes me excited. But those spaces, even the Maverick in our town creates a third space. We I see the nicest people at Maverick. I'm pumping gas, and they're pumping gas and say hi and start chatting about stuff. So, I mean, those third spaces, as much as some higher level planners, I'm not a planner, might say, we don't wanna franchise it at Maverick. That's a great place to to for our community to to cross paths. So that's the kind of thing that Town Center picked before us, I think. We're still on the verge of greatness. I think our positioning here is to say, how do we get critical mass so we can actually move the ball down? And we appreciate

you guys' help on that. We really appreciate time on your agenda and the process. We love working with Natalie, so I look forward to your feedback after you have time to review this somewhere.

K. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Have we had a motion on this yet? So I'll make one. Hey, Aaron, please. Can I have your motion to approve resolution twenty six nineteen for first reading? Yeah. The motion from Aaron saying from Nick to approve for first reading, and we'll whack on some more if this motion passes. Any opposition voting on that? Seeing none of those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye again opposed. K. Thanks. Thanks, guys.

You are, miss.

Thanks, all of us. Drive home safe. Oh, yes. Sherry, you drive home safe.

I'm already home. I'll I'll see you guys soon. Bye bye.

See you.

You are great, but you wanna

okay. Let's do it. Let's let's let's move yeah. Tell us the score of the World Cup. Okay.

Well, you can interrupt me. They just started. It's probably zero zero. Alright.

So next is for the council discussion and consideration, an annexation event with K Holdings LLC setting for terms and condition for Nelson and Rompolero annexation. So we're we're looking at this agreement before we actually consider the annexation. Am I correct on that, Eli?

Right. But I'm if you don't mind, I'm gonna present kind of all of it Yeah. Together, those all all these items that are related. Just having some difficulty getting the thing to share. Item one more.

Who will we assign these guys for them? Okay. Well,

let's see how that goes. I mean, I could just put it on, and we can Yeah. Submit an agenda if you want. But How rain does it Sorry. It's it's have I'm having some issues technical issues getting the presentation up. I'd like I'd like to show you some I mean, I could talk through it, but I'd like to show you some things to What is the problem, guys? Okay. Maybe that will do it.

Take your time. We'll do it. Sorry.

Maybe you should take a recess. Let's see. No. It's just in it's, like, stuck.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Just get rid of PowerPoint. Good idea.

Delete. There you go.

It's not doing it? Sorry. Like I said, I could talk through this, but I think the the visual innovation will sort of help.

And we'll we'll come back. Correct? I think that I want to be ready to go. And then if you're you're Levi, not Nibley. Levi, you will give information that will be leading up to the public hearing as well. Is that correct? Correct. Good. K. Well, we'll start with Sorry about that. We'll have a short recess. Thanks.

With that, I mean I don't know if we stop and start it again.

Sleep. I mean,

Maybe.

Well, I I spoke too or I spoke too soon.

Yeah.

I I plan to I mean, it's

frozen. It

won't let me close out a PowerPoint. Let's see.