Smithfield City, Utah City Council Meeting, Wed, June 10, 2026

Good evening, everyone. Public notice is given that Smithfield City Council will meet in a regularly scheduled meeting 96 South Main Smithfield, Utah on Wednesday, 06/24/2026. The meeting will begin at 6PM. I'd like to turn over the time over to John Engler for the welcome pledge of allegiance, thought or prayers. You

stand for pledge, please.

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

Our father in heaven, we're grateful this summer evening for the chance to gather as a a city and as a council. Grateful for all the hard work of our, good and dedicated employees and elected officials. We pray that this, meeting may be attended by the spirit that we may, be of clear minds and be kind and respectful to one another as we discuss matters in the city. Grateful for this country in which we live, and we pray that we can work to uphold the principles upon which it was founded. We pray in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.

Item agenda number one approval of the city council meeting minutes from 05/13/2026.

Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we approve the city council meeting meeting minutes from 05/13/2026.

I'll second.

How do we vote? Yes. John. Yes. Chris. Yes. Jen. Yes. Todd. Yes. Item agenda number two, public comment on any items not on the agenda. I'd like to open that public comment at 06:04. If there's anything you guys would like to say or share, you're welcome to now. Please state your name. You almost have to swallow the microphone.

So. Understood. Thank you. My name is Andrew Jackman. I live on, 135 West 400 South. According to Smithfield City's Municipal Code section eight point zero eight point zero five zero, whenever the chief shall approve an application, refuse to grant a permit for which application has been received, or when it is claimed that the provisions of the fire code do not apply, or that the true intent meaning of the fire code have been misconstrued or wrongly interpreted, the applicant may appeal the decision of the chief to the governing body within thirty days from the date of such decision. May I pass these to you directly? This is a letter requesting that appeal according to the municipal code.

There

you go. That is all. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

My name is Chris Monson. I used to have an office upstairs. And I just have other things going on with this council and this mayor. These people are above board. They are doing the very best they can in the positions they hold, and I want to tell you thank you. It's a lot of work, and a lot of time, and a lot of pain, when people criticize. So I would like to say thank you, and I would like to ask those that keep bringing these things up, to please not do that anymore. Because I know how hard you work, and I know that you're not doing things you shouldn't be doing. So thank you. Number two. I had to write this down, which is kinda weird, but I always had notes when I was up there anyway. As you're preparing this budget, this is a ton of work, especially for Justin, and I watch this over and over and over. These decisions are not made lightly. The budget is not made lightly. I know every single department head looks at every single entry in his budget, and does it to the best of his or her ability to make sure that the budget runs smoothly. So whatever you decide tonight, I wholeheartedly agree, and I will be happy to pay those taxes with those increases, if necessary, by your decision. Number three, our most valuable asset in Smithfield, our employees, in this city, they need to be taken care of, including yourselves. Every time we brought up, in the past four years, raises for City Council members and Mayor, it was turned down because it's public service. This requires massive amounts of hours and work, and you deserve every penny. So if you choose to vote a a raise for yourself, I wholeheartedly support that as well. Please give your department heads a raise. You lose them, you are losing years and years of experience, and they are the best in the business. I know them each individually, and I appreciate each of them, and they deserve every penny they make, if not more. Please vote yes for your budget, and for your raises for employees, and for yourselves. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Chris.

Any other comments? I'd like to close the public comment section at 06:08 p. M. Item agenda number three recognition of Carrie Hogan as the 2026 Smithfield Lions Club Citizen of

Year. So Amy. Okay, perfect.

I'd like to turn the time over to Amy from the Lions Club. Okay. Amy Anderson. Sorry.

Good evening, mayor, city council members, city staff, and members of our community. My name is Amy, and I am the president of the Smithville Lions Club. It is my honor to present this year's Citizen of the Year award to an individual who has made a lasting impact on the youth and community of Smithville, Kari Hogan. Kari would come up. We did present or we did announce it at the youth theater production, but she was unfortunately out of town. I don't want to. But she was out of town, so we would like to present this. I'll give you your little word. So, Kari embodies what it means to be a dedicated community member. She is kind, compassionate, selfless, and generous with her time and talents. While much of her work happens behind the scenes, her influence can be seen throughout our community. When the Health Days ambassador pageant faced an uncertain future, Kari stepped forward and revitalized the program. Through her leadership and dedication, participation has grown from just a handful of young women to approximately 25 participants in recent years. More importantly, she has helped create opportunities for young women to gain confidence, develop valuable life skills, build lasting memories, and earn scholarship funds to support their education goals. Kari's attention to detail and genuine care for others are evident in everything she does. From organizing meetings in her own home to ensuring every volunteer participant and supporter feels appreciated. She leads with kindness in a servant's heart. Those who work alongside her speak not only of her dedication, but of her warmth and ability to make everyone feel like family. As a lifelong Smithfield resident, Kari understands the value of community traditions. She continues the legacy she shared with her mother through the pageant and has helped ensure that tradition remains strong for future generations. There is not enough words to describe the positive impact Kari's had on Smithfield. Her service, leadership, and love for this community make her exceptionally deserving of this recognition. So on behalf of the Smithville Lions Club, it is my privilege to recognize you as the Smithville Citizen of the Year. Thank you.

I just would like to add my 2¢. I have the privilege of overseeing the Health Day Ambassador Padgett, and I have thoroughly enjoyed working with Kari. She is a joy, she is a gem, and I am so grateful that she received this honor. She is wonderful. And if anybody don't know her, please take the opportunity to She is wonderful. And if anybody don't know her, please take the opportunity to get to know her because she is amazing. We're blessed to have her in our city. Love you, Carrie.

Thank you, Carrie. Congratulations. Item agenda number five, public hearing for the purpose of discussing resolution oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Backwards. Number four, recognition of twenty twenty six Arbor Day poster contest winners. I'll turn the time over to Jeff Barnes.

So we held our annual Arbor Day poster contest with all three elementary schools, all grades in all three of those elementary schools, so can including kindergarten up through the sixth grade. We had a lot of winners. Our our theme this year was America two fifty, trees of all shapes, colors, and sizes, and the students had a fun time with that theme. They were all invited to the city council meeting on the eleventh and then I was informed that the meeting had been changed and I hurried and read letters over to the schools before they closed that week. But it looks like we don't have any of the students here today. Too bad, because, their posters were amazing. But I would at least like to read who the grand champions were from these schools. So at Birch Creek Elementary, we had Weston Nielsen and Elsie Sheffer as our grand champion winners. At Sunrise Elementary, we had probably pronouncing these names wrongs wrong. Raya Raya Stokes and Walter Nielsen. And at Summit Elementary, we had Ty Lee Barlow and Corinne Rich. And some of these students did show up on our health days down at Forrester Acres. They helped plant our Arbor Day tree down there by the new playground equipment. I think four of them showed up to help, plant that tree. So we appreciate, the students participating in our program. The the winners so we we recognize all our five place winners for every class at every school. So first, second, third, fourth, fifth place, and they all get some money in their envelopes. So first place winners get $10. So the kids are always excited to participate and get earn some money in the process. So anyway, thanks. Thank you. Thank you, Jeff. Thanks, Jeff.

All right. Not jumping the gun this time. So number five, public hearing for the purpose of discussing Resolution 2026 dash six, a resolution amending the fiscal year 2026 budget, which is which is the period 07/01/2025 through 06/30/2026.

Okay, Mayor. Thank you. We're gonna go over some highlights and then we can go over by by more line item by line item if you choose. We are wrapping up our fiscal year as we end that on June 30. So a lot more, we did a midyear budget adjustment. Now we're proposing year end. For the general fund, it must balance and we're proposing revenue and expense increases of 2,100,000. I'm gonna hit some of the highlights, where does that 2,100,000 come from? Increases in sales tax, RAPS tax received, mass transit tax, local road tax, the class c road tax, rural rural transportation infrastructure fund tax. Now, those are all at a restricted fund. Class C rural, they have to be used for roads. Local road tax has to be used for roads. Raps tax has to be used for the project. Sales tax is not a dedicated tax. We've done a lot of burials in the last year, sold a lot of grave plots. Those are up. Subdivision fees are are up quite a bit. Interest earnings to the benefit of the city are way over projected amounts. And then we had, unfortunately, we had had a truck totaled, so we got some funds out of that and we had to buy a replacement truck. And then we have several grants. We had a CLEF grant, a TEC grant, some donations to the library, donations to America two fifty. And then you look at, like, the rec center, revenue is up in the rec center, 143,000. Golf course revenue is up 497,000 is what we're projecting there. All of that told comes to about 2,100,000 on the expense side. Some of those highlights are we're adding in the America two fifty program, some funds for the art council. No change to police, but we are gonna talk about a change for that we're recommending for them later on for an equipment purchase due to our revenue being up. In the streets department, the biggest thing is we're conducting some traffic, and transportation studies. And as those numbers come in, we're able to finalize those. In regard to Class C road funds, we actually aren't spending that money. We are going to that is a restricted fund. We will set that money aside for a future fiscal year as well as our RTIF money, the transportation fund money, the local road tax. In the parks fund, we are looking at our portion small increase as we finished up that RAPS tax project down to Forrester Acres. When you are looking at the Historical Society, it is for the Douglas Mercantile, which is now the Smithfield City History Museum for that project as we moved on. The library, CLEF grant, ARSL grant, ILL grant, a small increase at the cemetery as we approved that new section. It required some professional engineering, professional map development. We're working through that. But the main thing that I want to point out, counsel, on this proposal is the second to last item, the capital improvements of 522,000. That is actually a transfer. That is not an expense. Basically, in simplest terms, we are wanting to transfer money from our checking account to our savings account. In this case, it's from the general fund to the capital improvement fund. We have to budget for that. So we're looking at asking you to transfer it, not to spend it. Now, we are gonna propose an expense in there, but that is for a transfer only. Fire department. Cash County Fire contract is a FEMA grant, BEM or excuse me, Utah fire grant, BEMS grant, wildfire. The guys are out on calls now. We want them nothing but to be safe. With that being said, on the expense side, we have to account for wildfire wages. Some of the other things that are involved in Medicaid expenses up, wildland fire, the wages. Credit card fees across the border up. More people are paying with credit cards than ever before, and cash is less. That's kind of a that's is a hard one to budget for and we are asking for an increase across in all departments. How do we allocate that? We actually allocate those funds to the admin, to fire, to water, to storm water, to sewer, and to golf, so that they all pay their share. Rec centers had another amazing year. Proposed revenue is going up 143,000 and expenses are going up 60,000. The golf course, proposed revenue increase of 497,000, proposed expense of 401,000 that we wanna talk about for a minute. So, council, what we're asking on the golf side is we would like to buy with their they've had a really good year, like there's several 100,000 to the good. We would prefer pro pros that we would like to buy some equipment with their earnings. What we're proposing tonight is a dump trailer at $8,000, a spreader at $7,800. Now for one of the big ticket items, a fairway mower at 94,000. Very specialized piece of equipment. You just don't simply go out and buy a mower. I think we've seen those. We know what they are, very different. The other thing we're proposing is in the new budget, we had allocated funds for a sweeper. That sweeper is actually available, at a local vendor. We are proposing that we move the sweeper, into this fiscal year and remove it from the new fiscal year. And so that's from golf. Now, as far as impact fees, stellar year for impact fees, as far as collecting them for parks, we're proposing an increase of 547,000. That is actual funds collected that we will be able to set aside and use for future projects, for future parks projects. That is a also a dedicated fund. Looking at the general capital improvement fund, what we're asking tonight, counsel, is so you would have 601,000 in revenue. Now, keep in mind, 522,000 of that is a transfer. The difference is interest earnings on our funds. In the expense side, we have a couple of expenses that we would like to that we need to approve there. One, if you'll remember, we had some ambulances that crossed fiscal years. This is resolving those. We had a crashed truck, that we're replacing, so we received some revenue to replace that. Now, we have to pay for it. But the biggest thing we're asking you to allocate counsel tonight is we would like to pay department leased trucks. It is included in that $180,000. We don't want them to all come due at the same time with interest earnings and some of that other revenue above above projections, we are in a spot that we could pay three of them off by the end of the fiscal year. Looking at the water enterprise fund, we're proposing we're proposing revenue increases of over $800,000 and expense That is a lot of that is coming from dedication payments, from impact fees, from interest, sundry revenue, a little of everything. We have tried to be under on be under on revenue. So when it comes in, we can hopefully set that aside. But we also have a lot of as you know, we have a lot of water projects we need to pay for. Currently, we have two water line replacement projects we're working on. We're also working on a new 3,000,000 gallon tank that is under construction and then some other water line improvements there. In regards to the sewer fund, we're proposing increases of a 162,000 in revenue as well as and then only 14,000 in expenses. City is growing, we get more revenue. We project that upfront based on we wanna be low, but we also know we're going to add several 100 well, not several 100, that's wrong. We're going to add units every year to as the city continues to grow. On the storm water fund, we're looking at increases of a 124,000 in revenue and only 5,000 in expense. Storm water impact fees of 142,000. And then we get to the solid waste slash garbage fund and we're only asking for an increase of $4,008.59 on the revenue and expense side. So this is trying to get us through the end of the fiscal year. I'm super proud when I look at the rec center, fire department, well, all of the departments. Kudos to all of them. They're all coming in under budget on almost all the items they're doing. Revenue is up when you look at rec, when you look at golf, you look at fire, coverage offered by the the PD, what the library does, what the library offers. I'm super proud of the department heads and every single employee we have as well as thank you to the council for letting us consider and do what we do as we trudge on to the end of the fiscal year. It has been a good year financially for us council and that's because of interest and and the and the staff always looking for grants. Grants are we're we do a lot of projects for grants, especially you look at the library, a lot of their programs. RAPS tax has been very, very good to the city. And while and fire grants have been very good. Police, we will always continue to look. We will always bring those back to you, whether it be a fifty fifty match or a 100%. The days of the 100% are almost gone, but we would never turn down a fifty fifty if we financially can meet that. So this is only this discussion right now is only on the current budget. It is not on the new budget and some things that we're going to talk about in there.

Any

questions? I know that was a lot.

I think I've got all the numbers. I think I've got them all in my head now. No. I think it sounds like it's been a great year and I'm really grateful to the department heads and to Justin and all the work that's been done here to stay financially and fiscally responsible. I think that's just outstanding. I think that puts us in a good position heading into the new fiscal year.

Just one question about the sweeper. That's the same budgetary item. The price hasn't changed or is that just We

had 74,000 in the new in the new budget and it would be 74,000 in this budget.

That was the street sweeper, right? No, no, no, no. Different sweeper. This is the sweeper for the golf course. Golf course. Okay. Yeah. That is in the the the big sweeper Is a different in the new fiscal year Yeah. Were under the stormwater department. Okay.

Sorry. Like at this time to open up a public hearing for discussion and possible excuse me, public hearing for the purpose of discussing this resolution. So open that at 06:26PM. Not everybody all at once. I'd like to close the public hearing at 06:27PM. Discussion and possible vote on resolution twenty twenty six dash zero six.

I think they've done a great job, I think, what's going on with it. The year end budget's always been kinda interesting to me, but I think they've done a good job. I really like the idea of of the police department being able to pay off theirs, their trucks and stuff because that gets them into a good program. Start rotating that crew that way. I like the new equipment that's been out there. It's being purchased and everything. I think it's really kudos to everybody that's been working really hard for it. Yeah. Grants and everything.

I I agree. Especially anytime you can get out of a lease and be able to pay some of that off. I think that's a great thing. So, thank you, Justin, for for all the work you do on this. I know it There's a few hours spent putting us all together. So, I appreciate that, and all the department heads for for all that they're doing. And and the common workers who are out there working their butt off, wanna thank them.

Right. I think any opportunity that we have to get out of debt and not owe on anything is a win.

Absolutely. Definitely.

Yeah. I I wholeheartedly appreciate it as well, looking through the through the budgets and seeing what you guys are dealing with. Seeing the decisions that you're having to make and seeing the priorities that you're putting on them. I've been very impressed by your consistent ability to properly prioritize. I think it's just been fantastic. And as I look at other situations, other cities throughout our valley, throughout our state, I feel like our entire group of leadership within all of our departments just sets a gold standard of of how to do it right and I appreciate that.

It's very eye opening to have spent time with these departments, to tour these different departments, to get an eye on how things work and what is needed is really eye opening. It's it's incredible what these departments are doing, and I thoroughly enjoyed spending time at the departments and learning how things work and what they need and why they need it. And it just helps us understand the need so they can do their job better.

You ready for a motion, mayor? I am. I'd entertain a motion. I would move that we approve twenty twenty twenty six dash six resolution as written. And with kudos, congratulations to everybody who's worked hard on it. And I would second that.

Second that.

How do we vote? Jay? Yes. John? Yes. Chris? Yes. Jen? Yes.

Todd? Yes.

The motion passes. Item agenda item number seven public hearing for the purpose of discussing ordinance twenty twenty six dash zero eight enacting compensation increases for specific city officers and elected officials.

Mayor, as we draft this, it is required per Senate Bill nine 91 that was adopted in 2024 as proposed. Some of the the appointed and the appointed officials as well as the elected have to be included on this list. I just wanna point out a few things. The city Council has not had an increase since July 2017. They went from $5,840 per year to $5,900 per year, which is a 1% increase. The Council mayor, the current wage of the mayor, he has $10,267 per year. There was one increase from July '17 to current, and that was 67. So I just wanted to point that out. As far as our the wage for the golf superintendent, Zach took over the wage for the golf superintendent, Zach took over for Chad Daniels after forty one years. Zach came on as the interim last year at a lower wage, then he came on as the full time superintendent in, I believe, in October. And at that time, we had told him we would evaluate how the golf course and things were going. It was proposed that if everything went according to plan, that his wage would go from 88,000 per year to July or excuse me, to $95,000 per year in July 2026. As far as the other department heads go, the overall budget that we're not talking about that we will next includes a 3% cost of living increase as well as a 1% possible merit increase at the discretion of the department heads. The department heads, some of them had increases in December 2025. So we looked at reducing the amount of their cost of living increase less than the other employees as that was talked about. When you look at what does 2% mean, the average increase then, it is about if you took all you took those eight employees, the average increase equating to dollars per hour right around a dollar 20 is what that equates to, plus or minus. I could give you the exact on each employee if you would like to know. But this is mandatory. If there is any changes to the employees listed on there, that's what's proposed for the new budget. That's where these numbers are coming from as proposed, Mayor.

Thank you. I'd like to open a public hearing at 06:33PM, if you have any comments. I'd like to close the oh, sorry.

Right under the wire. Yes. Under the wire. Jeff Barnes. I agree with Chris Monson about your fees. While I was mayor, your fees were not increased. I don't think they were increased during Chris either, were they? So eight years, you haven't had an increase. So I fully support this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Jeff.

So I'm Amy Anderson. I actually have worked with many of these on but as a resident Sorry. Not that tall yet. But as a resident, I appreciate it. I know I have called Josh with problems and he's been very quick to address those. Same thing with Justin and Brian and and Clay here. So, I appreciate all of the guys that work here, emails too. But I do appreciate the staff for Smithville City and I do you guys too, you know, doing what you guys do. So I do agree that you guys should approve this.

Thank you. Thank you. Any other comments? I'd like to close the public hearing at

I'm a 100% behind supporting raises for our the global raises for our department heads. We're living in a world where that those kinds of cost of living increases are real and we want to send the message to our department heads that we value them and we wanna keep them. We want them to stay. We want them to recognize that we appreciate their work here. So I am a 100% behind those raises.

I'd like to second that sentiment, not Go here. Second that sentiment as far as all of our department heads. It they deserve every bit of that compensation and more than, you know, more than that. But I so much appreciate that. But I am going to go old school and my personal feelings on city council and mayor is that we decided to do this as a service and I would not I would support that we continue as we have done for the last several years by allowing ours to stay the same and allow that to be those funds to be used for city, however large or small it may be. I feel it an honor to serve, and I feel like being compensated as I am to serve is more than justification for doing the service. And I don't I don't feel like anything else is due and I wouldn't support it for councilor mayor. But I wholeheartedly support all of our department heads. Absolutely.

I agree. I feel the exact same way. I'm just honored to be able to serve and I I don't feel the need to be compensated for it. And we're not, I'm not doing this for attention or anything. I just I I'm perfectly fine staying where we are. I didn't do this for the money. I'm very happy to serve. That's why I did it, and that's where I am.

I would agree with Jen and Todd on the sentiment of not increasing the pay. I know for the city council, I'm speaking for myself. I didn't try to run for City Council for any money. And my payment is the opportunity to interact and actually represent our residents. That is my payment, and I love it. So I just Yeah. I think that's something important. I know that there are other cities that, you know, there's some that are paying double what, and they're they have half the population, but that doesn't really matter. To me, I don't think we need to compare ourselves to other cities. I think we need to look at things for why we are doing them. And I think at some point in time, I'd love to at least keep our city this way. If you look at politics in general, a lot of people that are in politics make a lot of money by the time they're done. They're millionaires and that's because they've interacted and they know how to schmooze with people. And and that's what I don't want the city council to be an opportunity for. It We should be here because we actually care about the city, not about the money. And if for some reason we decided we were going to do a raise, I wouldn't I wouldn't accept that money. I would just have that forwarded to the to the seniors. So that's that's kind of where I stand. But real quickly, I I agree. I think, you know, I appreciate our department heads for everything they're doing. But I also wanna make sure we're not forgetting our regular workers that are out there working their butts off. And so, you know, the in December, you know, the average, that $10,000 raise on average for for the department heads was about an 8.6% raise. And the regular workers didn't get that. Now, if you look at the lowest paid, full time worker, that 8.6% or that $10,000 would have been a 28.6% raise. So I have kind of a problem with the percentages. It creates a gap between the top earners and and the regular workers who are are working. And so I think we need to not forget our regular workers that are out there. We need to we need to care about them as well. I don't I don't have an issue with department heads getting a raise. If it was me, I would say, you know, I'd love to see it maybe be a 1% colo raise for department heads and add a percent to the regular workhorse above what we're saying right now, the possible of 4%. Making that changing that to five just because they did not get a chance. Not only did they not get a chance to get a raise or merit raise, I guess I'm assuming that it was a merit raise in December, but it was given to all department heads. But because of that percentage that that puts the department head so much further than just your regular workers. So I'm here to not just represent department heads, but regular residents and those who are working. So that's just my personal thoughts.

I look at I worked with a lot of these guys over the years and everything and know what they've gone through and what they go through. They put a lot more time in than just the regular forty hours a week. Sometimes it's sixty hours a week and sometimes it's more than that. And so sometimes when you stop and think about it, yes, and then they have a lot of knowledge and experience that comes with it. So I I really don't have a problem with the 2%. I I I look at Chris and what he's saying also with the what happened with the 20 you know, the money that went down there. I I like the the worker bee so to speak that regular employees they really should be compensated more start looking at maybe some other wages and stuff like that as far as the city council mayor you know I didn't get in it for the money either however as I look at some things that's going on like with planning and zoning, planning and zoning, you know, they take they take some, you know, they they look a lot of things through and they also represent the city and some of the things that they're doing with zoning and stuff and in that sort of thing. What would go to us maybe go into them to kind of compensate them and bring them up a little bit more because they are they're also you know they're on the front line as well and and helping out with the city. They put a lot of hours into that as well and and that's the way I kind of look at it but I do I do agree that our our employees not only department heads are important to us but the time of money we put into regular employees is just as important and the department heads couldn't do their job without the regular employees. So it kinda all comes around. I think that's why I kinda look at it.

Can I offer a comment there? So just speaking of the future, in past, including this year, we have done kind of an across the board cola increase for all employees in the past, whether they're full time, part time. We've done that. We are looking at, the the department heads have discussed and all support, including myself, that moving forward after this year, that we go away from the COLA increase, that everything be based on a merit type system. Type system. So those that do really well will get more, and those that don't, won't. We have not been set up to do that in the past. We have purchased some new software. We're going to do some evaluations differently, give some goals and things. So does that is that in place for fiscal year 2027, the wages? No, it's not. We budgeted that a little bit different. That's why it's budgeted the way it is. But moving forward, do we have a different plan? Yes. For all of those employees that are not department heads, it will be different moving forward. I will be visiting with the council and mayor moving forward how we want to deal with or handle the department heads because they're heads because they're a different situation. And so, we would look at that. But moving forward, we are going away from a cost of living based system. As those evaluations take place over the next couple of months, the employees will be informed that they cannot expect a COLA increase in the future. That it will be based on them and what they do, not just a default. So, we are making some changes, proposing some changes there, council and mayor, as we move forward into future budgets. We feel like cost of living wise, we've just reached a point that is just not, it's not a default anymore and we need to reward those that should be rewarded more than those that should not. So that's the process of what, all the department heads are here tonight. You ask any of them, they've all we've all met. We've discussed it for the last couple of months, what's involved in doing that and how we would need it's actually going to require more work on all of their parts. They all support that and would would plan on going down that road unless the council does a different direction. But we do want to go away from that in the future future budget year.

That's awesome, Justin. I support that a 100%.

Thank you.

I have a lot of thoughts about all this happening right here. This is a lot to discuss. I hope that the residents of Smithfield are hearing what these council members are saying is that not a single one of them is here for the money and the money is not a lot anyway. But these are people who are dedicated to this the service in the community. That being said, without a increase since 2017, that's basically a 30% reduction in the value of compensation for council members and the mayor and that's significant. Right? And it's not significant because the money matters to any of us here. To me, this is not a paid per hour kind of job. I think that money is significant because even though those of us who are sitting here now apparently don't aren't here for the money, don't need the money in that way. I think it's important that the money is available to elected officials so that those who may need the compensation for the work that they do if they're elected to this position is available to them. And I think that's important for future council members because elected positions should be available to anybody even if their own salaries and wages at their jobs may be low and they still want to serve, that a bit opportunity should be available to them. And so I think that's it's a legitimate reason to have a reasonable compensation and to to keep putting off increases for council members for elected officials, I think is a little bit irresponsible down the road. And so I I honestly again, I don't I'm not here for the money and I'm not doing it for the money and but I think thinking about future officials. Now that being said, we've got a challenge here because it is a sticky spot to sit here in the seat and then say I'm gonna vote me more money. No none of us are comfortable with that and and those are the kind of people we all want in our elected positions are people who would not vote for more money for themselves. By my way of thinking, maybe we should set in in in place some kind of process where those whether it's cola or whether it's a a percentage of cola or some kind of increase is an automatic increase that just happens over time. Not a huge increase, but it does increase over time where the council doesn't have to say every single time, I'm voting me more money. But that's just the process so that this like the council members don't have to be put in a really ethically challenging position that way. So that would that those are some of my thoughts about that. I I I really would like to see the support offered for those who are serving and those who will serve in the future even if the compensation would be important to them. I think it's important for the community to recognize and show their value to council members in the future. So if if we're gonna say maybe that maybe we don't vote for ourselves an increase for the balance of, you know, this fiscal year or the next fiscal year while we're still in in our terms. But for a future council, maybe we could say two years from now, we're gonna say there's an increase of x percent and we're going to also put in place a standard over time increase so that the council doesn't have to keep voting themselves more money. So those are some of my thoughts about how that

ought to think about and work on in this next year. I mean, technically, we're all volunteers. We're a volunteer. I know what it means to be a volunteer. I've done it for many years. However, sometimes the time that we spend away from our homes, you know, compensation coming in does make, you know, especially for families that have smaller kids and stuff, does make a little bit more easier for when they do have quality time that they can afford to do stuff. And I think that's kind of an important part of it as well, which is kind of, you know, as the mean of volunteer, you give into it, you give back what you get out of it. And I do but I think what you're saying has merit, but I think it's something we ought to probably at, it's something we can't make decide tonight. But I think it's something we ought to look at in the next year and come up with a plan of attack so that we can methodically think this thing through and and do something that's right for the citizens, but also for the council members and the future council members that might be sitting in these chairs.

Justin can I ask you a question? I don't know if there's a way to be able to do what John was saying because of the truth in taxation. Am I am I correct or to be able to to automatically do a standard amount that would just be given that's not being voted on?

In this case, no. SB 91 from 2024 does not allow that. What you would have to do is, first off, couple of clarification items. Where did three percent came come from? It is We have in the past proposed what the rest of the city employees are getting. So that's the same 3%. That's where this 3% is proposed tonight. It's up to you what you do. Automatic increases are no longer allowed per SB 91. So could you put in there, we're going to do 3% on, you know, we're going to look at now, but it's not in effect till 07/01/2027 or something. You could look at something like that, but every increase requires a public hearing and a vote of the council. So an automatic, no. Could you push this to the future? Yes. But that that's the one part of SB 91 is any change to that requires a public hearing and vote. So like tonight, if you don't want it, you would vote to adopt, if you're going to adopt it, we would vote to adopt and you would amend to take the Mayor and the Council to what you choose to take it to.

And then one other question, how does this work? I'm kinda new to the process, but like there's multiple things that we're kind of looking at here. So there may be multiple, are we just gonna amend this resolution to have it be what we're deciding on, or how do we do this? Yep. Okay.

My thoughts along with what John was saying is every council has an opportunity to give themselves a raise and I don't think that we as a council need to set that up for future councils. They can do this every June. So I think right now, we'll just decide what we're doing for the next fiscal year. Next year we can readdress it. Years after that the next council can readdress it. It just makes it easier that way. And as the youngest council member up here with young kids, I'm, I still don't think that an increase is necessary. Like I don't look at it as I didn't go get a part time job at a gas station or somewhere else for for money. Right? Like the compensation was just something that happens. It's not why I did it. And so I still think that for me, I am I am good.

I would love to find a way to make it so, because we look at the department heads and, you know, they work for the city. We are making that decision. In my mind, we work for the citizens. I would love to have a way for the citizens to decide if and when any increase is due. And if they don't feel it is, I will live with that all day long. I don't know how you do that. I don't think that is an easy thing to do. I probably not even a am working for them and this is what they deserve.

What about the possibility of having an independent commission or a group that would review on a regular basis, whether that's annually or biannually or every four years and review compensation for elected officials and making a recommendation based on cost of living, based on the complexity of the job because as the city grows in size, the job becomes more complex because we're not increasing the number of council members and there's just more to kind of keep track of and do. So maybe there's a way to create a a recommendation body so that the council can then say, okay, we're we're gonna trust whatever that recommendation body says and the council doesn't have to kind of step into voting themselves. Even though they would have to vote still, but it's not not them deciding to vote for themselves that way. Based on facts and then Yeah. The the other recommendations would come from that independent commission.

The complexity there is that you as an elected official

is you are the taxing body. So we still have to vote on it. Yeah. We still have to vote on it. Yeah. But So what's the difference

between Justin saying let's just do a raise versus a committee saying you need a raise? Because either way we're voting on it, so I guess I'm not seeing the difference. Because it's still coming to us to be voted on, whether it's coming from Justin, whether it's coming from the residents, whether it's coming from an appointed body, we still have to vote on it. And we'd still have to vote on it. But I all I'm saying is because because

Justin is just such a good guy and he's always going to promote Right. The 3%. He's always gonna make that recommendation because he is such a good guy. We need to get some a commission that's made up of maybe not so good guys or something. Right? Or just some some just some independent body. I'm I'm teasing a little. Just an independent body may be made of made up of residents who are looking at that from a disconnected perspective in in a way. I We're I I know it's it's a sticky sticky territory. I just think it's it's a mistake for the city to keep postponing this and postponing and postponing it forever. We can't just keep doing that. I think that's a mistake for the city, but it's really uncomfortable to sit in this chair and vote for more money for myself. That's You care if I show her some facts about other cities? Please

do. Go ahead. So we reached out to see some other cities. Some responded about what their council and mayor paid. These are the ones that I confirmed that are larger in size. I did not reach out to all of the little tiny smaller communities. So right now, Smithfield, the Mayor, 10,267, City Council, 5,900. Hyde Park, the Mayor, is just under 13,000. The Council is just under 5,900. They have a population of about 5,800. Hiram City, their mayor is at 18,000. Their council is at 6,000. Providence, their mayor is at twenty one thousand five eighty three. Their council is at ten thousand four zero eight. They have about a 9,500 person population. North Logan, their mayor is at ten thousand five sixty five. Their council is at fifty five thirty five and they have a population of just under 12,000. So and our population, plus or minus 15 to fifteen five. The other things that you are dealing with too, that those other entities aren't dealing with, you we have a golf course. We have a fire department. We have a police department. We have a rec center. Several of those other communities don't have any of those funds. So, just as we we talk about your what you're dealing with and your the number of funds and bodies and people, just a little tidbit there from when we reached out to the other cities. And do we have to be what the other cities are? No. Of course, we don't. But just

as where they're at, there are a couple on that list were really surprising based on their population where they're really at. Yeah. Based on the population, based on what we have going on in our city, it feels to me like we're not too far off what's happening elsewhere, maybe on the low end 100%. But not super far off. So I don't feel any urgency certainly to vote and increase, but I I would like to establish a better pattern of professional responsibility towards elected officials in the city officials in the city because someday all of us are gonna be out of this position and somebody else will be here and we want to make sure our elected officials are supported in in the work that they're doing, especially as the city grows and the responsibilities of council members increase

over time. We'll reach out to some other cities and see how these handle this because their council and mayor is going through the same thing. If that's okay.

Mayor? I'm not here for the money either. I'd I'd enjoy the job. So my fear is that you turn it into this gross anomaly. Like, North Salt Lake City has a similar population to us. The mayor there makes $42,000 a year. City council is, like, sub 20,000 a year. So I guess my question is, what's the point of I I agree with what John is saying, but to what end? What does it what what do we gain by being appropriately wage managed? I guess, is this this four years from now, eight years from now, you're gonna have the same problem. So I guess that's I don't know what the what's the purpose of increasing the wages, because we're all gonna vote them down. I would hope that all of us are in a similar situation where we're not here for the money. Right? Right. For me, the best compensation we could ever get is to have residents who care, who are involved,

who do their research, who reach out to us. Like I said last month, that would be the best compensation for me. It's just having engaged residents who care about their city enough to do a little bit of work. That would be all the payment I would need, honestly.

I I agree a 100%. It's it's a pleasure to serve in the city and to work with the residents here. There's no question about that. That's its own reward for sure. And it's great to have this council chambers full tonight. Thank you for all you for being here. So

great. I'm just so grateful for the residents who do care. And there there are a lot of them who reach out and that's it's that's awesome. And I just wanna say even though I am thinking differently than than you guys, I appreciate your perceptions and your thought processes and I totally understand where you're coming from. And so when I'm talking, I'm speaking for myself personally, that no matter what we decide, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna take any more money than what I'm already being given right now. And I would just forward that to a different entity like the like the senior great that we're not all the same. Is that is that good?

Oh, it's good. It's

good. So moving forward, it sounds like we wanna make a a modification to the resolution.

Just do part of the motion. Yeah. Can you approve, you just say Can we make a stab at it? I move that we accept the motion as presented 2026 dash eight. Dash eight. How's that? Thanks, John. And that, however, with the amendment that the, we've removed the city council and mayor from getting a raise, but all the department heads get their raises. Is that okay, Justin? Yes. I second that.

How do we vote?

Jay says yes. Thanks, Jay. John? Yes.

Chris? Yes. Jen? Yes. Todd? Yes. Motion passes with this with the modification to remove the mayor and city council. Item agenda number nine, public hearing for the purpose of discussing resolution twenty twenty six. Oh, I'm already sorry. Wow. I'm off here? Let's see. Number nine. Number nine. Yeah. I'm sorry. Public hearing for the purpose of discussing resolution twenty twenty six dash zero eight, a resolution updating the prevailing fee schedule of the city specifically for garbage recycling and green waste utility rates. Let me turn the time over to Justin.

So when we started the process back, oh, geez, many months ago, I really started in January, it's the bottom of my head, when I came to the council. Our our hope was that we would not have to adjust any utility rates. That was our goal from the beginning. We were not proposed we have not proposed anything for water, stormwater, sewer. We are proposing a change to garbage. It has reached a point, we got our recent renewals, within the last month and some other information. So the current garbage rate was put into effect in September 2022. The current recycling and green waste fee was put into effect in July 2023. We just got our notification from our carrier, from Econowaste. They'll be going up another 4% again on July 1. They have in their contract that they can go up 4% in July of each year. They have done that the last couple of years, and we have absorbed that 4%. We have not pushed that forward. We have been notified by Logan City that they're going to be going from $38 a ton to $40 a ton for the landfill fee. Garbage cans are going up. We don't charge the residents or anyone for an individual can. We we include that in the in the price. We've included we've been able to include everything else in those prices. So what's proposed tonight is an increase to the residential recycling of 30¢ per month from 7 to $7.30, commercial recycling 13 to $13.60 or 60¢ a month, green waste from 9 to $9.40 or 40¢ a month. Probably one of the number one questions we get is why am I paying green waste year round when I don't get that service year round? We simply divide it over 12 for ease of use. If we did not do that, we would divide that number. You're going to pay the same over twelve months or over nine months. We do it over twelve, so that for consistency, But you would be if you're like, I don't if I want to go to only the use months, then we would have to change our billing schedule and increase that because you're gonna pay the same. The proposal is 40¢, $9 to $9.40. The 90 gallon black garbage cans, an 85¢ increase from $20.15 to $21, and the 60 gallon counts from $17.90 to $18.65, which is a 75% in cents increase. This would be effect if adopted on the billing that go out at the end of July, and it is all based on our pass through costs. When you look at, like, the carrier cost, you're like, what is their cost per month? We're basically going up 50¢ a can per month. So we try to keep this as low as we can. We do own our cans, unlike some of the other cities. I'm adamant that we stay that way. I feel like that is what is best for our city. We can control the carrier. If we had a falling out with the carrier, the carrier could move on. We would still own our cans, and we could hire a new carrier to replace them immediately. Some cities also limit commercial to only a specific body that can be there. You can have any commercial carrier you want in Smithfield. We allow all commercial carriers in the city. Commercial carriers are not affected in this increase as they contract independently for their service outside of possibly commercial recycling. But, unfortunately, council, we've reached a point last year, we were right on the tip of with that 4%, but we were able to absorb it. It. But like I said, the last increases were September '22 and July 2023. We appreciate Logan City. Logan City, the one nice thing we have with Logan City, Logan City has always been very good to us. They gave us ample notice when that contract went away. We did prefer we prefer to pay them directly so that the carrier cannot mark up the tipping fee or the carrier or the the the landfill fee. So we pay them direct. We pay Logan City direct. We pay EconoWaste direct. We buy the cans direct. We handle that a little bit different than some of the other municipalities that contract with one entity, and that's all rolled into one. So the proposal tonight, council, is a small increase. We are very well aware of what other entities are doing with property tax and some of the other things they're considering. We're trying to keep this as low as possible and try and keep it right around that 4%. And that's about we're just a little bit over that if you run the actual numbers. But that is what is being proposed tonight, council. Is this the first increase we've had since

the we signed the contract with Econo Way since since we went that way? So we had to do an increase when that went into effect, but this is the first one since that one. Okay. And then is that contract, is it a with Kekana Waste, is that

on the horizon or is it a five year, ten year? It was a five year and I would have to pull it. I can't remember if we signed it in '22 or '23. So it's two weeks ago. Noting that back out to bid when that time comes. Okay. Econowaste was bought by Robinson, who was turned around and recently bought by Republic. Okay. They will honor that contract. The only change that may come of that is we may see a baby blue truck in the city rather than their, white trucks. But everything will stay the same until that contract is fulfilled. But we will certainly, when that time comes, be putting that back out to bid. Put it back out to bid. Okay. Cool.

I I don't think there's anything with this. I think it's just a pass through, like you said. I don't think we have any any way

to deny it. I don't know. Yeah.

So I'd like to open the public hearing at this time, 07:08 for any comments on this

resolution discussion. Anybody wanna have a garbage discussion?

I do. Okay. I love it.

Justin laughs at me because he knows where I work. I actually do want to say though that the Smithville City, they did do a great job when they split with Logan City. Buying their own cans was a big decision and a great thing for the residents. Because like Justin said, if something goes wrong with this carrier, we have the option to switch over. If we didn't buy those cans, they kinda have us by the toes, I guess you would say. Because they can take away all of those cans. And from personal experience, taking cans away from residents is not fun. It's not easy. It is a very long and hard day, couple of days. And a lot of equipment that is required or needed to do that. So, as a resident do I love my garbage rate going up? No. Do I understand it though? Yes. Because that is the first thing that people complain about that's not done in the city. When your garbage doesn't get picked up, they get called pretty quick on it. So, that's my 2¢.

That's right. You work for solid waste, don't you? Thanks. Yes. I forgot. Sorry.

It's my understanding too that many other municipalities have had

significant rate increases and multiple rate increases. Right? So we haven't. One city I talked to that is south of here, they've had four since they started. Wow.

Are we are there other cities that have bought their cans as well? Or are we one of the few?

So Smithfield, Richmond, Lewiston and Cornish all own their cans. I Providence does their own service. Logan does their own service. The rest are through waste management. Waste management mandates they own their cans.

Price wise, how do we compare to some of the other cities?

We're higher than some, lower than some. As far as, like, the economy side goes, we because of economies of scale, we pay less in Smithfield than Richmond pays, who pays less than Lewiston, who pays less than Corniche. But there are some that are a little bit, there are some that, like, I would have to get the pennies, but there are some. We are we are not the lowest, but we are certainly not the

highest. Is there any other public comment?

You know, if if you have a a well landscaped yard and you you have green waste continually. And I have just one complaint. I I guess I need to state my name, Jeff Barnes. In the fall, I would like that green waste extended. Now, this last year, it was extended because we had great weather. But, you know, as long leaves don't all fall at the same time. And so, I end up throwing a lot of my leaves in the black can because the green can is no longer picked up. So look at the dates in the fall for those green cans.

Thank you. Any other comments? I'd like to close the public hearing at 07:11PM. Discussion and possible vote on resolution twenty twenty six dash zero eight.

Justin, we don't choose when that when the green waste ends. Correct? So it is in a contract

through the end of October and they have been we have worked with them. They have been willing to extend it into November, each of the last couple of years. Is that one of the items we'll be certainly negotiating in a new contract? For sure. That's one that is probably the number one concern about that contract, but they have extended that. They've actually come sooner, in a couple of years because of weather. They have extended it later, you know, three two to three weeks in most cases, not into December. But that is something that we will, lean heavily on in in in that regard. But yes, there is a specific date in the contract, but they have extended that every time we have asked.

I mean, even if they do like every other week or every three weeks and just slow it down, that would be helpful too.

Justin, question, do we happen do we know how many households are serviced? In other words, how many how many cans, how many locations they are doing in Smithfield?

I don't have that with me tonight, but yes, we know it to the to the can to the we have account for resident we have account for every single type of can that we pay every month and know where they're at, where they're going. A 100% we do. I'm sorry, I just don't have that invoice with me tonight. That would that would just kind of help understand the the total overall

amount increase for the city, you know, so that we would understand that, not that it has anything to do directly with the financial for the city.

Well, I think it's extraordinary that the city has absorbed the increases for several years already. Yeah. And the fact that they're asking for a, what, three to 4% increase this year, I think is a no brainer. Right. You know, that city is doing a marvelous job.

If you have a recycle can, green waste, and a 90 gallon garbage, your fees will go up a dollar 55.

And when you consider inflation and everything, that's actually amazing. So kudos to Justin for being able to kind of do what he's done. So thank you.

Increases are never fun.

Ready for a motion? I'd entertain a motion. Excellent.

I'd like to motion that we approve resolution twenty twenty six dash zero eight, as presented.

I'll second it. That's Jay. We'll second

it. How do we vote? Jay? Yes. John? Yes. Chris? Yes. Jen? Yes. Todd? Yes. The motion passes.

Oh, Mayor, could I mention one thing while we're still on this? Just because some people here may not understand it, but there have, there were over time some indications that people thought that as it was happening that some trucks were coming and picking up trash and recycling with the same truck at the same time, therefore, mixing them. I'd just like to reclarify as we did previously one time, that that is not in fact the case. They may have very similar trucks. They may even turn the same truck around and come back out for one of the others, but they are not and never have mixed recycling and

garbage. I had my wife believing that for years. So Thanks.

Thank you for clarifying.

She was writing the license plate numbers down.

Hit her off in the past. It is the same truck. She's like

okay. Alright. Item agenda number 11, public hearing for the purpose of discussing resolution twenty twenty six dash zero seven, a resolution adopting the fiscal year 2027 budget, which is the period of 07/01/2026 through 06/30/2027. I'll turn the time over to Justin.

Okay, counsel. I wanna talk about this. We've talked about it every month for the last few months, but there have been a few changes since last month. We were able to finalize. So we are not proposing a property tax increase this year, but we were able to get that new number. We have adjusted that. Our property tax revenue is estimated at $2,099,212. We are super excited. We got three wraps tax applications approved. One with the the Children's Theater, youth theater, one for the Smithfield History Museum, and one for a safety project at the golf course. Those have all been added in since the last meeting. RAPS tax has been very good to this city. We've done a lot of projects over many years. With that, if you see a Cache County Council member, please thank them. They are very instrumental in approving our projects. We also, as far as expenses go, we made a small adjustment to some of the IT items, adding a little bit more each year as we had our IT representative come in a couple of months ago. We did not add anything substantial, but we looked at adding like, a thousand, couple thousand dollars to those line items. We did, on the children's theater, increase and add the RAPS tax in there. We did, on the historical society, add in the RAPS tax application there. The one I would like to point once again, I'm going back to, because it can be a little confusing, is when you see to the general capital improvement fund of 216,000. We are not spending that. We are transferring that down on the next line item where you see 256,000 and the $2.56 includes the $2.16 plus interest. Now, on the revenue on the expense side, we do buy we do purchase some equipment through there. There are going to be, when I get done, counsel, a couple of changes. We're going to make you ask you for an amendment as this is proposed based on some recent information. We also removed the golf carts that we originally had in this in this budget as they were able to get those this year. And then we added in the safety netting project. On the general capital improvement fund, we did add in, if you were we got a bid to the crumbling stairs on the east side of the library. We added in some funding there to take care of those. On the water department, we added in our estimate for phase two of the Canyon Spring Line project. That will actually go to bid and we'll adjust that later in the fiscal year. But we did add in that once we got the bid estimate off of phase one. We used that to formulate an estimate for phase two, which we're hoping takes care takes place next year. Our general fund budget is proposed at 14,200,000. When you look at the grand total and see our expenses versus our revenue, we have expenses of about of approximately 29,000,000 and total revenue of 24,000,000. That doesn't sound very good until you realize we've been saving money for years and years for water lines and stormwater projects, and in order to pay cash for those. So a lot of those projects are coming, to fruition in this fiscal year and as we move as we move forward. The one thing that I will ask when you're done is we would like to make an amendment, to this as presented. We would like to have you remove the sweeper from the golf course budget and replace it with a rough mower. And we would also like to add in because so the the golf course, we have some building problems with the clubhouse. We have some window problems. We have some physically just simply can't get them done in the next week. So what happens to that overage or that money that their their profit, I'll call it, that's actually we moved that to the general capital improvement fund. So we're gonna ask you to turn around and allow some of that to come back out in the next fiscal year to pay for to allow because we could get it done in the next fiscal year. We just simply can't in this fiscal year. So our recommendation is, or our request of you is that we would amend, the budget to remove a sweeper, add a rough mower, and add, building improvement projects at the clubhouse, is what that proposal would would be or we would look at. That's what I have right now, Mayor.

Thank you. I would like to open a public hearing at 07:20PM. If anybody has any comments. That being said, close the public hearing at 07:21PM. Discussion and possible vote on resolution twenty twenty six dash zero seven.

I'd like to compliment the department heads and all the department and Justin for, you know, putting the budget together is a long and durious process. And to get that together and trying to hit it on the head every year is is a, it's just a testament to their professionalism. And I think they've done a great job with this, and working through the numbers and everything, and trying to project what needs to happen. And then also working within their three, five, and ten year plans. I mean, that's where it all comes together is building on what we did last year, and doing it next year, and year after that. And that's where that's where the savings comes in and I think that the cities and departments that are very well, very well in that area. Congratulations. I think you did a good job. Completely agree. Thank you.

Yeah. I would like to say the same thing, just absolutely agree and hopefully everyone that is here, as you listen to the improvements that we are being able to make, as we hear the adjustments that are being made and the things that every one of these is a benefit and a improvement for the city as a whole, and yet to be able to stay absolutely within our budget to be able to do so takes so consistently, year, after year, after year, after year after year is impressive and I'm I'm proud to be watching that happen.

If I could add to that, Todd, with no property tax this year, and I think all the citizens should recognize that there's no there's gonna be a property tax increase. And I think that's really says something.

That's actually pretty astonishing considering that with the inflation that we're seeing right now and the city is fiscally sound to the point that we don't need to raise property taxes this year. That being said, I wanna just be on the record of saying, we probably should be increasing property taxes most years considering inflation, considering the growth of the city. As the city grows, it becomes more complex and and that just if we're not raising property taxes regularly, I'm not saying it has to be every year but regularly, then we're actually getting behind on on the revenue that the city needs to stay fiscally healthy. But as has been pointed out, we are in a really good spot and I and I love what's happening. Rec center revenue is amazing. Golf course revenue is amazing. And those are just fantastic. And and all the departments that aren't revenue generating are being very responsible with their revenues, with their budgets. And so I think we're in a really, really great spot. So well done.

There's nothing like trying to dig through all of this and asking questions to Justin, and he's got all the answers to help you appreciate really how big this is trying to put this all together. I've I've got a lot of admiration and a lot of respect for the time that's been put into this and it's definitely been in in a very good way, fiscally conservative way, where we're we're trying to make our money count the best. You know, the other thing to think about in the future, I think we still have got to address some things and you're aware of them, Justin. The condition of some of our buildings. We can laugh about it and it seems like we always kinda, it it goes to another year, but I think at some point in time we do need to address that. And also, I'm I'm saying this for you, John. Trying to increase what we're doing with some of the parks. I think there there's really been some residents that care about that. And as much as I think we've got some great facilities, we've got a great golf course and things like that, not every citizen, not every resident's gonna go to the golf course, but there are a greater anyways, just just some thoughts there to think about. And then, you know, if we're able to do some things even a little bit smarter, we've kinda talked about this and we've had some meetings about it. You know, rather than just raising, you know, taxes for the residents, being able to bring in more businesses to help pay the cost of things, I think is a great opportunity. And I think we're working on that. We've got a committee that's trying to work on on some of that. And hopefully, we can we can make a difference. I've already had some some companies reach out with this Main Street program that we have going on. They're interested in getting involved. And I think, you know, the more we can kinda get that going, I think that's great and and bring in more businesses to help carry that load. So

A couple of couple of comments. We are working on, the department heads are working on long term plan with their buildings. We're doing some improvements to most of the buildings next fiscal year. Some we have to make really hard decisions on probably in the next couple years, like the senior center. Some buildings are in trouble. We'll be discussing that, bringing that back. Some of the others just need a little TLC, as far as that goes. So, we will be bringing you back to that. We wanted to get through this, come up with a long term plan there, short term, long term. As far as in regard to parks, the one thing that the staff is probably most excited about, the USU vision project, is that they going to help us create a layout or potential layout for a new park. Then we can turn around and get some engineering estimates. And then at that time, we can go apply for some grant funding that we believe is going to be available, we've been told will be available next year. So do we have a plan? Yes. Is it quick? No. And, that's really hard for people to hear because all of us, we watch our kids grow really fast and by the time the park's built, our kids are done and gone, right? That's just super hard. But, there is a plan there. It's just never fast enough. Well, and I think also, we want to,

enough. Well, and I think also we want to, you know, number one, we want the citizens to understand that there is some need out there for parks and facilities and stuff like that. And we also welcome your input. You know, we got a lot of people here in the community that has a lot of time and talent. We welcome your input in facilitating some of these things and how we're going to do it. And I think that's an important part for the citizens to get involved with that as well because it's going to be in your neighborhoods. These parks are going to be your neighborhoods and work in there. So just like to say that. Our last bond was in 2015.

Super proud of that. Proud of that. That's a lot of councils, mayors, and department heads done a lot of over a lot of time. In regards to the park, it was hard to write a million dollar check, but we did. And we're super happy that we have that land, about just under 12 acres. But, now it's time to come up with a plan and move that next step forward. A lot of people have a lot of interest in that. We anticipate with almost 12 acres, we can get something hopefully up there for everyone. But we are excited that that will come, that that plan should come in the next fiscal year. It's a lot easier when it's visual.

Yeah. Absolutely.

I'm glad to see that there are some capital improvements happening for many most of our buildings this year. That's fantastic. I think we also need to keep in mind, and this won't affect this coming budget, but future budgets, we need to make sure our facilities are prepped for growth. I know that the library's busting at the seams. I know that we have equipment that we're purchasing including in the coming budget for the golf course and for public works that may not have a good home under a good roof, and we need to make sure that we're protecting our investments there too. So and of course whatever goes down with the rec center county wide and city wide, we need to make sure that we're moving forward on those too. So we have some big decisions to make in projects in terms of buildings for the city and so hopefully that'll be part of our ongoing discussion over the next year. I think you will see with the

fiscal year budget in a year from now that there's gonna be a more focus on buildings and equipment. We've tried to do really hard with the equipment. I think you're going to see in most cases, buildings are going to be priority one over some of that equipment now that we've, been very fortunate and been able to get a lot of that out of the a lot of that purchased and in place. I think you will see, especially, you know, from golf to public work. Public works, we have a building space problem. Like, we have a big one there. We have a plan there that hopefully we can build an expansion, an additional building down there, but we're a year away there. You say the library, Karen and Sean are amazing. And when you're amazing, you get a lot of people that attend, and their programs are are busting at the seams. You know, the other thing we hear a lot about, and I don't know what this answer is, people would love to have some type of outdoor space for concerts, for gatherings, city gatherings. I don't know what that answer is, but we hear that all the time. They would love a place to gather in the city. We don't really have a great gathering spot. The the the gathering spot on the north end of the library is just a small gathering spot. Right? Like, so we we have some challenges like that long term, but we will definitely be bringing more buildings and park expansions and stuff back long term.

I'd like to give a real thank you as well to coming back to our department heads and the departments themselves, because I've watched the maintenance that they do on their own buildings that they have been entrusted with. Whether it's the the rework that the police just finished doing in the police department, I think that absolutely deserves a round of applause and appreciation. I've seen the same thing at the fire department of just literally feeling like, you know, the grounds at Disney are dirty in comparison to being able to eat off the the truck floor of the fire department, just keeping it clean with what Sean and his team do with the library, with what is done with our, you know, with rec, everything. They are caring for these buildings as if they were their own, not only their own buildings, but their own children. And it's just, it's appreciated. And I think everybody needs to understand that we have some fine people that are really doing their part to care and maintain and minimize what our costs have to be with the buildings we've got. I think that deserves a round of applause.

Where we at, mayor?

Any more discussion? I would entertain a motion.

Oh. Okay. Who wants to take a step? Sorry. So Justin, what amendments do you need with this? So would ask that you amend resolution twenty twenty. To come up? Yeah. I apologize. Okay. Sorry. Are you closing it? You're closing it?

Yeah. Over here. It's closed. Yeah. Did you close it? I closed it. As you were talking. I'm sorry.

Yeah. I apologize. I was my name is Andrew Jackman. I was trying to find some more detailed information about the the budget. I looked through some reports. I couldn't find any payroll information. I wanted I haven't seen these numbers in a in a little while. It's probably been a year or two. I was honestly embarrassed to find out how little money our police and firefighters are getting. And especially considering how much mortgages have increased in the last few years. And I would if I have a question, it is I'd like to be reassured that they're not getting just two or 3% increases. Is that something that you can answer?

Justin? Certainly. So the budget has factored we have factored in up to 4%, but let me explain what that means, 3% cost of living. And then there's a 1% based on their total budget that will be x amount per department, that each department head will have those total funds available. They will then get to go through their employees And those that hopefully need to be awarded a little bit more will be able to be done. So it's not just a straight 3% now. But it will be up to the department heads how they allocate that difference based on each

employee Okay. In this particular budget. Isn't it also that their their benefit package will also go up because the wages are going up? So So, health insurance is up.

That's why we had to back off our original proposal, was I believe, now it's been so many months, was like five and a half percent total, like 3.5 cost of living, 2% merit. We had to back that off simply because the health insurance premium went up so much and we absorbed that cost. So we are every employee is seeing a benefit that on the health insurance premium side, we contribute and you are in the Utah Retirement System, whether the employee does or not. It all full time employees are part of the Utah Retirement System. Then we have some other insurance, short term, long term and some things. So, in answer to your question, Andrew, it's a little complex, but yes. Do the do the department heads have the ability to do more than 3%? In some cases, they do.

But that will vary by employee to employee. Alright. I appreciate that. Thank you.

And and one thing, I think Justin could help me figure this out because I was just trying to just adding about, on average, about a 37% of each person's salary is the the the Benefit. The benefit package. So if when you see the salary, that is not including the benefit package that they're receiving. So you could add 37% on average to each person's wage to show what they're getting as far as a benefit package on top of that salary.

Yeah. And everyone's different, like URS, Utah Retirement System. A police officer, their retirement percentage is different than fire, who is also different from all of the other employees. Health insurances, whether it's single, two party, family. We calculate every single employee individually in the new budget. Obviously, we're gonna have employees come and guide a lot we do changes throughout the year. But we have tried really hard on our health insurance. Health insurance is typically our number one concern heading into every budget year is what's that number going to be because it is going up. Like, it just never ever doesn't. And we've been able to absorb some of those, but it the offset to absorbing a health insurance increase is a smaller wage increase. And that is why we did have to back off from where we originally had hoped to be. But the department heads, through employee evaluations and what they have seen with their employees, will have some discretion with the employees below them.

Thank you. Thanks for the comment.

Now, in answer, Jay, to your question, we would ask if you're going to adopt them, that you would amend it to remove, you would amend the golf we would amend to remove the sweeper and add a rough mower, as well as add for building repairs and maintenance for windows and rock work at the golf course is what we would like to include. So we would be removing one item, the sweeper, and then adding windows, stucco rock work, and a rough mower.

I'm gonna make a motion that we adopt resolution twenty twenty six dash zero seven for the fiscal year twenty seven budget with the amendments as outlined by Justin rough mower, and the repairs, improvements at the golf course.

I'll second that.

How do we vote?

Jay? Yes. John? Yes. Chris? Yes. Jen? Yes. Todd? Yes. Motion passes. Alright. Agenda item number 13, city manager report.

Mayor, before I give some comments tonight, I have asked Chief Allen and Chief Hunt if they would address a few items, mainly fireworks, fires, what to that scenario. Right now, it's very popular on KSL and others that, with fires in other areas, of the state and a lot of concerns there. The city staff, and I don't know if you have received a lot of calls across the board from that, so we were asking chief Hunt and chief Allen to just give a few comments tonight in regards to fire fireworks and a couple of those items, and then I'll circle back to a couple items on my report. Chief Hunt.

So I guess you guys all know what's going on in the state if you turned on a TV, open Facebook, Instagram, or anything else. Mhmm. It's a little bit wild. So right now, currently, we are at a stage one fire restriction by the state. Us as a city, we've already have an ordinance in place where we restrict fireworks from 600 south Of Center 200. No fireworks are allowed. The state has gone to level one or stage one, which means no fireworks, no smoking and dry vegetation, vegetation, no exploding targets, no cutting, welding, grinding metal and dry vegetation. Grills, stoves, and propane fire pits are allowed. Campfires are allowed in improved sites with a pressurized water source. Come Friday on the twenty sixth, we're moving to level two, which means no open fires at all of any kind, and the only devices that will be allowed are pressurized gas. So, propane or natural gas. So, these areas include anywhere outside of the city limits for those. So, the city's ordinance will still trump that. So, the East of 600 East and second East restrictions will still be in place. But outside of the city limits, there will be no open flames at all.

What what was the date that's going to level two? The twenty sixth. Twenty sixth. Alright. Yep. Friday. Yeah. It'll be

Friday. Or they're anticipating

that. Yeah. Good.

I agree. And if you're concerned, so am I. But we're supposed to be getting thunderstorms rolling through here tonight that are supposed to be producing dry lightning. So rain's not gonna hit the ground, but the lightning might. So I know with the wind blowing, that's gonna make it worse. Yep. And then this weekend, I don't know how much it'll affect up here. They're expecting high wind warnings this weekend, which are gonna affect the fires down south. And if you want an example of what those fires are doing, in the first thirty hours on the Cottonwood, it ate three or 30,000 acres. That's a thousand acres an hour that that fire is moving. And as of today, it's over 60,000. So they've got 900 firefighters on it and it's still moving that fast. And still 0%. 0% containment. At the same time, they're still trying to battle the iron fire, which is only 9% contained. So Wow. Then there are evacuations for Maryville and Yep. Circleville? Yep. It took the ski resort last night.

Right ahead. Mhmm.

Took the law.

Not right. Eagle Point. Eagle.

Eagle Mountain.

Yeah. I don't ski that far south. So I don't ski at all. I snowboard, but not that far south. It's a little dire right now, so we'll keep our forces up. We'll be out and about trying to help remind people where they can and can't do it. So

You know, the interesting thing when fires get that big, and Jeremy knows this too, but they almost they create they start to create their own winds, their own tornadoes, and they start they almost take a life of their own. And so it might not be windy, but the way the fire is burning, it'll actually create its own. Right. We saw it last year on the Monroe Fire, that fire

tornado that fired off. That was caused by the fire. Mhmm.

So So, yeah, my my point is we're not exempt here in Smithfield either. There's a great potential, especially up around Smithfield, Canyon, and up in that area. So we all need to be vigilant. Right. And my mind what the orders are. Yep.

Can you share with everyone how many crews Smithfield has out on wildland fires? Right now, we have one type six that's out, and they're actually out of the state. They're down by Ely, Nevada right now. They've deployed before these fires started breaking. So right now, we called Northern Utah, which is the agency that controls it. They have a we call putting a truck on the board. So agencies call around, they'll put it on the board, then as requests come in, they'll send them wherever. We called them today. There are zero trucks on the board and they're still getting hundreds of requests daily. So anything that makes it on that board is going to get sent somewhere. So Wow. And from what I heard today, the Cottonwood fire is becoming a federal fire. So they got a federal management team coming in, which will bring EMAC teams in from all over to try and get a hold of it.

Chief Hunt, so we also would just be just, you know, make sure everybody understands too. As we're sending resources out, we're not cutting our city by any means. We still have backup resources and backup truck to handle the the emergencies that we will have here. So we're not we're not gonna cut our city anything. And if it does come to that point, you obviously you'll probably withhold them. Is that correct? We'll stop it.

We we built this system over a lot of years and council member downs knows because he was part of that build. We have so we still have four type sixes in our city right now. We did build these trucks specifically to go out and do the wildland deployment. So we are not depleting our resources that here to protect the city by going out and doing that. It's an addition.

Which is a great benefit because your people get out there, they get trained, they bring that experience and knowledge home. So and they win, we have great benefits. That's why I bring it up. It's just recognize that we are able to help.

Yep. Thank you. Thank you, chief. Thank you, chief.

No. As far as as far as law enforcement on the enforcement side, like Jeremy said, they generally have crews out, you know, the three days before, three days after the fourth, twenty fourth, helping us out because we will get dozens of calls. As far as what we do when we we respond, obviously, if they're in a legal firework, we'll seize them. But most of the times when we show up on scene, first of all, we have to catch the people doing it, and they'll generally start off with a warning. And then any subsequent violations, we will issue citations for shooting the fireworks outside the boundaries.

Chief Allen, so, you know, I've had this before. If citizens are concerned about illegal fireworks, like, they feel like their neighbors are are shooting them off, what should they do? So if they call dispatch the non emergency dispatch number, that's the best way to get law enforcement dispatched out to the incident scene.

That's we prefer. Like I said, we'll have a couple guys out during those nights, but we get dozens of calls. So we're not everywhere at once, and we'll try to handle as many as we can as, you know, as timely as we can so that we can address all the issues. But there's a backlog of calls in these times.

I think it's important for the citizens to understand and know and coming from that side of it. This year, we're seeing dryness and things that are they're unprecedented. And I think we all I know we all like to celebrate the fourth, but however, I think everybody needs to take a step back and go, you know what? This year we need to really be conscientious of what's going on. Right. Because I think it doesn't matter, you know, and understand if you set a fire arc off and it causes a great big fire, you're gonna be on the hook for it as well.

And I think it's also a little important to note that as law enforcement, we kinda prioritize. So if we can see the aerials and the illegals going off, we're going to go to those ones first. Like, I don't necessarily prioritize the people, like, the fountains in their driveways over, you know, the aerials that are up on the East Side that could be a much greater cause for a fire. So Detrimental. We prioritize prioritize our calls that way too. So Did you plan on increasing, you know, patrols that night or around those days or anything? Yeah. And that's when we always ask Jeremy and the fire guys to help us out, drive that East side so that we have more eyes because we'll we'll try to have two or three law enforcement guys on, but that's, like, kinda gets us at our max as far as our resources for that time of day. So Good luck, gentlemen. Yep. Thanks. You guys have any questions? Appreciate you. Any questions for Jeremy? He wants to get it back up here. I know. See, here he comes.

Sure. Okay.

I was just gonna throw out there on the Cottonwood fire. As of today, the have exceeded $2,000,000. So that's in two days that what it's costing. So when you start talking about restitution or they'll be on the hook for suppression, that's two days worth. They're also expecting that fire to not be put out until August. So

Isn't it true also if the fire starts in Smithfield, we could be on some of the hook for paying for some of

that? Yes. I mean, there could be some costs associated with us. We are current with our CWPP, which is our cooperative agreement state. That's kind of that insurance policy. So if it starts here, spreads outside, we share the cost. But That is great. The majority of it.

And then you said that it was human cost.

I have heard that too. I don't I don't know that for sure. I have heard that too. I don't I don't know that for sure. I don't know that for sure. I don't know that I have heard that too. I don't I don't know that for sure. Thank you, sir. Thanks. Thanks. Thank you.

Just a couple of comments, mayor. We are super happy that we are done with the budget. We only talk about it for a little while, so we're gonna get away from that. Here's some totally worthless facts as we finish up with my comments tonight. Since July of first of twenty twenty five, we have had a 195 new units either be built or under construction cemetery map, both online, and in the offices for the new sections the council approved. There are 4,937 active utility accounts. We have 58 full time employees, four full time job openings, 46 part time employees, and 45 seasonal employees, during the summer months. When we are fully staffed, we are right around 150 total employees. Within the next two weeks, the, button engaged flashing lights on 800 South 2 or 8250 East 800 South will be installed and functioning. In since July of last year, we have had the police department has had 4,409 incidents, issued 2,090 or excuse 2,090 warnings and 944 tickets. The fire department in calendar year 2025 responded to 1,646 calls of service or an average of 137 a month. One last item, even though it is an election off year in the city, it is through the county. The city still is involved. Dana is involved with the primary election and the general election. She helped last night lock up and secure the facility, the box, and deliver those ballots. So even though we are happy to not be paying any money, we are still involved, with our friends at the county. The county is good to us on our election years. We try to return that, to them on, when they need help. And then, covers that for the primary and the general election. And outside of that, unless you have any comments, I don't have any more tonight, Mayor. Thank you, Dana.

Thanks, Dan. Vehicle agent 99.

Agenda item agenda item 14 is council member and mayor reports. Anyone like to start?

I'll go ahead and start. Thank you. Just make it really quick. I know we've been here a long time. First of my committees, historical society, things been going around. Hopefully, everybody got a chance to see or has had a chance to recently go through the museum over here. It is continuing to progress. Things are not done yet, and we are actively seeking bids to be able to do some further structural work upstairs to to be to be able to develop and finish that. So it is continuing to progress. We're super excited about the, wraps tax money that was received as well, which is going to help us be able to continue to do things and make that even better. On the, tree committee side, we have not had a meeting for a few months. However, Jeff was able to cover, some of the original things on the Arbor Day poster contest. And also, we've been looking at and wanting to make sure that we don't have a use it or lose it situation, and we're trying to take the last bit of money that was in that department for the year and we'll be able to continue to get one or more additional threes. Somebody somebody gonna break out an old 45? It's not me.

There we go. So you're interested in me with my business.

That will be continuing. Hopefully, we'll be able to get word on where we place that. Jeff is committed to be able to get that tree and get things moving on that. We will find out where that's going and let people let people know in case they're interested in that. So both both groups are healthy and active. I know there were some communication in the way that some of the trees were being trimmed this spring. There were some good responses that came back to that from the tree committee in that sometimes I don't I don't think everybody realizes some of the city requirements, height wise, outreach over the street, etcetera. So some of the trimming does not look like it was trimmed 100% for visual, you know, pleasing visual things, but they were trimmed as pleasingly as they could be to still be able to meet city requirements for clearance and everything else. So we do not have vehicle damage to vehicles or damage to the trees from vehicles. So hopefully, everybody can understand that. If there are concerns, continued concerns, please feel free to reach out to myself or to Jack Green, and, we will certainly look into things. But they are trying to do just as prudent of job as possible with that trimming. So that's all I've got, Mayor. Thank you.

You wanna go, Jen? I will go.

Okay. So for the Arts Council, they are still in the works of planning the store but festival. It takes all year, so they are planning that and it's going awesome. They're excited for that. The last summer concert is this Saturday at seven in the Library Park. Jerica Jamieson will be doing a patriotic concert. This has been announced over the entire valley, so we're expecting a really good turnout. So I highly recommend that you come. It's gonna be it's gonna be amazing. They will there will be food trucks there. They'll be there at six, so come get food. Get there early. We expect a big crowd and then the concert starts at seven. It lasts an hour, just over an hour and it's awesome. I think it's worked out really well to have the concerts in June versus spreading them out one a month. So, we'll have to have some discussions as the council and see what they think, but I think it's working out great. We have a meeting next Monday with them. The Health Day ambassadors, they have a parade this Saturday, it's the Idaho Days parade, and

we're

ladies come to our mayor's association dinner. Right. And Right.

They're impressive. They're doing a great job. So They are. They are wonderful. Lots of confidence there. That's good. Yep. And they're still interested in serving, if anybody has ideas. Yep.

Awesome. Thank you. We've got our Youth Council. For most of them, they're taking a little bit of a break during the summer. But there are some of the exec council who have already been put together that'll be meeting this Saturday. They'll be helping with the with the 12 crossings run there. And Lily King is the is the new mayor. She's been involved multiple years. She'll be a senior, so she's she's the one that's always got a smile on her face and she does a great job. So anyways, we're excited for that group. 15 we had 15 more people that that had applied this year than in the past. So this is gonna be the largest group that we've that we've ever had. And so anyways, but we're excited about that. And the Youth Council as well, they get involved in helping with multiple different things, But they're always open, they're always asking, hey, is there something more that we can do? So we'll be meeting, we'll have our first meeting with the with the main whole group, August 17. And be getting them back from from their summer and and we'll be putting putting them to work. So they're they're they do a great job of helping out with different city city events that we have going on. The seniors are doing great. I love getting an opportunity to to visit with them. I usually go almost every week to just to just to have an opportunity to meet with them. They're our biggest concern or biggest worry, and it's not a huge deal, but they do remind me every week, they would love to have those bushes removed from from that area. So anyways, I know it's on the horizon and I know there's a lot of other things that, you know, are being done during the city, but they do let me know every week. And I I did tell them, I said, well, if it doesn't get ripped out sometime, let me know. I'll do it myself. But anyways, we've got some awesome crews that that that help out and and doing a great job. And Josh, you're they're keeping pretty busy, this year with with everything going on. But anyways, also just I'm excited to be a part of the America Two Fifty program. It was kinda mentioned about the Jerica Jamieson concert. We're excited about that. That's she she's our own local local talent. She's she's amazing. And then obviously, we have the July 5 now. Lisa Schmuel has done such an awesome job, running that committee with America two fifty. We're so grateful for her. But we do have one big grand finale July 5. That'll be a Sunday, Sunday evening at 5PM. And that's at the Merlin Olsen Park. Now originally, that was going to be at our own Mac Park, but it quickly got larger of a group than we originally had anticipated. And so it's gonna be people county wide are gonna be involved in this. They're gonna have over a 100 people that are that are singing. And so we moved it to Merlin Olsen Park. So any of you who think that that's gonna be at the Mac Park, it's not gonna be there. It's been moved to Merlin Olsen Park, 5PM on July 5. And we're just asking people to bring bring their own picnic dinner, bring their families. I know with the America two fifty, we've had what was that? The the coin little Scavenger. Scavenger hunt. Yeah. Yeah. And we've we've had a lot of people that have been participating in that. The winners of that scavenger hunt will be announced at that July 5 meeting by the mayor. So anyways, great opportunity to to get out and and and and be involved. So anyways, that's that's all I've got. Thanks. Thank you.

Just a few quick updates. The Bonneville Shoreline Project, Shoreline Trail Project is moving along. Sunrise Engineering is reaching out to all the affected landowners and finalizing negotiations for the exact route of that trail but that's coming along well. The library is very busy this summer. Lots of great programs. So we're thrilled to have what the the programs they're offering in addition to the programs via the rec center. So we have just so much for our families and our youth to be doing this summer. Our committee community development committee didn't meet this month, but we continue to work on building priorities for our USU partnership that will I mean, we're just two or three months away from starting that. So that's exciting. The Chamber of Commerce kind of takes a break during the summer because of summer schedules, but they'll be ramping up here soon again too. So things are going well. We're just having fun for the summer really. It's what we're doing. Summertime. Summertime.

Okay. Mosquito abatement. K. At the mean, they were all a buzz about their fogging. Here we go. Anyway, some interesting things about the fogging. Fogging is going on right now, so you guys all know that driving up the trucks down the street. If you have a reason that you do not like the fogging, there is a way that you can go on their line, go online, go on their website and request not to have your area fogged. Okay? But however, understand that they said understand that if if you have if there is like a a Nile virus or a virus that's been detected in the mosquitoes that that that trumps everything and they will they will still do it. But there is a way that you can because there were some concerns with bee owners and stuff like that, and they said that the bees are mostly dormant at night, so it doesn't affect them, it affects the mosquitoes. But however, if you do have that concern, you can go online and and request them not to fog in front of your residence or your property or whatever. As far as Police Department is doing great. As you guys know, they're restructuring. We're gonna have some more, sounds like some more promotions. So they're working on that and Travis, Chief Allen is doing a great job with that as well. The fire side of it, the fire meetings, that's the that's the never ending meetings that's going on. Just so you're aware, we had a meeting with the North End Mayors and Fire Chiefs and EMS personnel last Wednesday night, very productive meeting. What they what came out of it was they're discussing on operations, funding, future growth that could happen within our areas up here in the North End Of Valley. The South End Of The Valley did a similar thing. They have different problems than we have because the way their ambulance is structured down there, where ours is all comes out of our department here as much easier than what they're dealing with down there so they're really doing some good things there's gonna be some follow-up meeting coming up we're gonna meet back together and then that stuff will be taken down to the fire board and by the way this was all at the recommendation of Mayor Rudy. He put together a great email that came out that kind of said okay you know this is a direction that we need to go in and kudos to him for doing that it stood up and that was really great. As far as the Fire Board, the Fire District Board is concerned, there's this meeting scheduled for Friday, but Friday, but we don't know if it's gonna go on or go off. They're discussing more and mayor can go into that more, but they're still discussing like structure adding more people to the board, more mayors to the board, that sort of thing, the voucher system and stuff and so it's still in progress. There's a lot of lot of stuff that you're gonna see in the papers now and a lot of things that are going on and being said. Alright? If you really wanna know the truth, get with the Mayor or myself and we can help you out understand what's going on because there's a lot of moving things are going on and talk going on with it. And get with Chief Hunt. Chief Hunt can, you know, he's more he's been involved from this from the beginning. Get with Chief Hunt and he can actually explain it to you as well. And I I encourage people to find out the truth before they really start saying this, that, or the other. So other than that, thank you. Happy summer.

I would like to provide an update on several important projects and community initiatives currently underway throughout the city. Some of these have been touched on briefly, but I'll just make a quick pass through it all. Phase one of the stormwater project on 1000 South continues to progress. The contractor is currently working through some challenges involving telephone and irrigation lines, but overall, the project remains on track. Phase two of the project is anticipated to go out for bid later this fall on 925 South. Installation of the water and sewer lines has been completed. The next step will be connection of the stormwater system. Once the underground infrastructure work is finished, Thousand 100 East to 250 East and improve access and connective connection to the area. The 3,000,000 gallon water tank project is also moving forward. The tank floor is scheduled to be poured late tomorrow night and into early hours of Friday morning. The poor is expected to require approximately 1,000 yards of concrete. The new tank is being constructed in Smithfield Canyon near our existing tank. Completion is projected for later this year. We sincerely appreciate the patience and understanding of residents on Upper Canyon Road and throughout Smithville Canyon as a construction equipment and concrete trucks continue traveling through the area to support that important project. Two water line up sizing and replacement projects are currently underway. One project is located on 300 South between 100 West and 200 West, while the other is on 200 West between 400 South and 450 South. Phase one of the Canyon Waterline Replacement Project is just beginning and is expected to continue through the fall. Phase two is planned for next year. I'm pleased to report that all these infrastructure projects are being funded and available through our cash reserves. No loans or bonds are required to complete these projects. Chris kind of touched on America 250. If you guys have any questions about Fire Board or America two fifty, please reach out. Thanks to the dedication of our volunteers, the Smithfield City Historical Museum is now open on Tuesdays from six p. M. To eight p. M. And Saturdays from two p. M. To five p. M. For those unable to visit during those hours, special arrangements can be made by contacting Jeff Giddens. We are grateful to the Cache County Council for supporting all three of our Smithfield Wraps tax applications this year. Funding was approved for the children's theater, continued improvements to the history museum and a safe meeting, safe netting project for the golf course. Finally, I want to express our appreciation for our strong partnership with Cache County School District. This district is currently installing a sidewalk along the south side of Skyview High School at its expense. The city is designing and will construct a pedestrian bridge crossing the irrigation canal just west of 455 East, so the sidewalk can connect through that area. The collaborative effort and will provide long term sidewalk connectivity and improve safety for students and others walking to school. Thank you for all your continued support on these projects and initiatives that help strengthen our community. And with that, I motion that we adjourn.