Smithfield City, Utah City Council Meetings, Wed, Feb 11, 2026

Any other recommendations?

So I second the motion with this amendment.

Sure. As long as she agrees with it. Thank you. I have to agree.

No.

I'm

good. I'd like at this time to invite the Smithfield Youth Council. Oh, I'm sorry. Need a vote to adopt the minutes. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

Both passes. I'd like to now invite the Smithfield Youth Council, Emily and Jace, to do their presentation.

I'm Jace Tueller.

I'm Emily Hanson.

So last month, January, we did the or wait. Yeah. January, we did the triathlon, and we were able to help out with that, and it was super fun. And then what's coming up is we have the America two fifty art show coming February 21. We're gonna help set that up and take it down. And then way in the future, April 4, we'll be we'll be helping with the Easter egg hunt and we'll be filling those eggs at our meet at one of our meetings.

And then we will also be doing a capital trip for exec and gonna go down to the capital, and I think we will be talking to some senators there and other representatives for us. And I went last year, and it was super cool, and I learned so much. So that should be a good thing coming up in, I think, March. And then, also, I'm the secretary, so I do attendance, and we have had amazing attendance this year compared to other years.

Awesome. Can you just review the date for the art show and the time for that again? Do you know that?

What we have written is February 21, and we're helping at 04:30 to 05:30. And then the next day, we're setting it, we'll take it down 07:30 to 08:30.

Thank you. Very good. Thanks. Hey. One cool thing about you guys this year, you guys have more people in your group than we've had in many years. So you guys have an awesome group. Thanks.

Thank you. Thanks, you guys. Yeah. Awesome. Thank you. Moving on, discussion and possible vote on Resolution twenty twenty six dash zero one a resolution amending the prevailing fee schedule of the city. I've turned the time over to Brett Daniels. Oh, I'm sorry. We'll switch the public comment around. So I'll have Brett go first. Sorry.

Thank you. Appreciate you giving me just a a moment of time. And why I'm why I'm here, I just want to express our my appreciation for the help with the senior center that we just re kinda remodeled the floor. And I think it's going to be a wonderful change. And so I know that was approved kind of in the prior council, but all the same budget. And thank you for your support there. I think it's it's going to be well received. I don't have I've got a few items for the prevailing fee schedule. We're not changing any of the rec center passes this year. We're not changing any of our our building rental rates or even our parks and sports fields rates. But we do have some individual things that we're changing. And most of it that we're changing is, just because of costs. Costs are increasing, and and most of them are very small increments. And I'm just gonna kinda go down through the list. And if you have any questions, feel free to stop me. A few of these, like the youth hockey program, are just brand new. So those are the fees that we're proposing as we begin that new program. And then as you go down the list, the reversible jerseys, we use reversible jerseys for our basketball and all our soccer programs. All the rest of our sports, we just do t shirts. Those are going up $2 just because our costs have gone up $2. So we don't make any money on the jerseys. It's just what our costs are. We try to keep those as low as possible, but that's about what we're paying to get those now.

So the pricings you've got there are for each of those?

Yes. It's $15 for a reversible jersey now instead of 13, which it has been for the last several years. The the other ones we can kinda just kinda combine, the prep league, the comp league, the adult basketball leagues. They are all kind of run the same way. Even though the prep league was cheaper because we used to be able to use younger referees, that's not the case anymore. We've we use the same referees for our prep leagues as we do our adult leagues as we do our comp leagues. And it's getting harder and harder to get the referees to come do games. And so and we're having to pay them more to get them get them to come. And so that that's just a small increase there in the in the that's a team fee. So when a team signs up, that's the amount that they would be paying. $4.25 would be across the board for all those team sports for basketball that sign up as a team. The dodgeball camps just going up $5. Adult volleyball, same thing. Same thing with adult softball and our two pitch softball. It's just getting more expensive to get umpires there. And the cost of materials to maintain the the infield. We just actually just finished the $250,000 irrigation system that we're excited about. It was paid for through grant money. I think it's really really gonna help us this year, so we're excited about that. But those fees will just be going up $25 a piece. And then the for the runs, they're mostly a dollar a piece, mostly just because of expenses. It's cost us a little bit more for our chip timers. It cost us a little bit more for the t shirts and those kind of prizes that we give out. I'll skip over the next page. Same thing, turkey trot, same thing as the health days, just going up about a dollar a piece for those rates. The family is going up $5 a piece. The indoor triathlon, that might be just a little bit confusing. That's not it is new and the fact that those fees are for a relay. We're going to start doing having the possibility of doing a relay. We've run the tri for the last five or six years. Those fees are not changing. Those are 35 and 40 depending on when they sign up. That new fee, the 70 and 75 is if we've had some interest with people wanting to break it up. You know, I don't wanna come do the swim portion, but I wanna do the spin bike portion or the running part. So we're gonna try the relay option and that those are just new fees. K? The health days booth rentals are going up a little bit. We just kinda did comparisons to what we're seeing around the valley. And that's about average as far as what we're seeing there. We have been getting I get probably once a week getting phone calls from people wanting to set up food booths somewhere, whether it's down in the Blue Sox Field or whether it's at our Softball diamonds or any of our special event. Well, our special events, we we probably we have that booth rental. But we just had one yesterday where a cookie company wanted to come in and rent space. And they have to go through the process of getting a a special use permit and also to show us proof of their business license. But we didn't really have a fee for that. So that's just a new fee that we have. And so if we we get a phone call for somebody wanting to set up, if they wanna go through the process and and we just charge them $50 and that's k? Those bottom ones are just new new programs that we started started or are starting. We started some of them this summer that we need to get on the prevailing fee schedule. And those are just the price of doing those. The the Lego camp, the science camp, those are six of about 50 camps that we do during the summer. They're just new ones. So those that's what I'm pro for proposing that we we raise those prevailing fee schedules for the rec part of it. I don't do you have any questions?

Brett, on the on the relay fees, is that individual fees or is that just a whole for the whole group? That's for the whole group. Okay. And you can sign up either two or you can sign up three. But that's same

price. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Okay. You're feeling comfortable with the revenue you're getting balanced against your costs? Like, that just continues to go well and you feel like Yeah. I think so. More than the strong rec center. Yes? Yeah. I think so. I I mean, our revenues every year continue to increase.

We have some concerns with some new competition that's kinda moving it down on on in the Hyde Parkway with some new indoor facilities and gyms. We're not sure how that's going to affect us, but we continue to do to be doing quite well as far as the rec center goes and our outside programs. Our parks are busier than ever, and so are our programs.

So every year, it seems it seems to increase that way. So and it needs to to to keep up with the cost. Yeah. How how are you feeling in terms of capacity for managing all of the different leagues and events and outdoor spaces. Yeah. Are you feeling like you're starting to push up against capacity? Or are we still doing okay? Or Yeah. That's a good question. Yeah. We're we're we're about reaching it.

I think as far as outdoor space, we're doing pretty good. We need another baseball field, another little league field. But we're doing okay as far as, you know, our softball, our our our football field, and the rest of the baseball fields, our soccer fields. We're doing pretty good. We do use on a given Saturday, we're using not only the four gyms at the rec center, but we're also using the youth center, the civic center, and we're running schools. So we've got seven gyms going on Saturdays from basically eight in the morning till about five five at night. So, yeah, we're we're reaching our capacity. We're feeling a squeeze a little bit. I think SkyView is feeling a little squeeze too. But and we're we've we've talked about some but it's it's kinda down the road about maybe some possibilities there. But but we're we're grateful to have what we have. I'll put that way when I look around the stake. When I when I tell people the amount of gyms that we have, they're they're pretty jealous. But we could use double that. We could.

Well, this shows that you're running some good programs and doing a great job. If you're getting a lot of people showing up. And everybody that I talk to, enjoys one thing or another at the rec center or other locations. So appreciate what you're doing there. And and you seem to always be pretty money conscious or budget conscious. You're not, like, trying to gouge people here with with these changes. But so thank you for that. Appreciate

it. Hey, Brent. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Real quick. These prices you're proposing the prevailing fee schedule, are you as competitive with other

do you compete against others? Are they basically the same price or what we do? Yeah. I mean, we I mean, a lot of this stuff, we're the only ones in the Valley that do a lot like, the competitive basketball leagues. I think there's some schools that run those. Like, Ridgeline runs a competitive basketball league, but no other cities run one. The adult leagues, we pretty much we're about the only game in in the Valley, really. Logan used to run some, but they don't run that. Oh, really? As far as basketball as much, they do run some softball leagues, but our leagues are quite a bit bigger than theirs. And and so our softball prices are probably at least the same, if not, maybe slightly more. Okay. But they we get those adult teams. They wanna come here. Awesome. The the youth stuff, we're really we're really careful with the the youth rec stuff. The stuff that we just want everybody to be to participate in. We try to keep those costs as low as we possibly can. When it comes to competitive basketball, we charge a little bit more. We it's not as big a priority to get everybody involved with that. So we wanna make sure we cover our costs, and we probably make a little bit more off those competitive and adult sports than we do the the recreational leagues.

Thank you. Thank you. Great work, Brett. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you.

Any other questions? Are you prepared to vote on this now?

I'd like to make a motion that we pass resolution twenty twenty six dash zero one, resolution amending the prevailing fee schedule of the city.

I'll second it.

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

Chris. Yes.

Jen. Yes.

Todd. Yes. Vote passes. Sorry, I flip flopped this around. So now I'd like to open public comment on any items not on the agenda. One thing I'd like to do is, I'd like everybody to feel welcome, like they can speak their mind if they have anything. We're we're going to implement a sign up sheet, which will be in the next meeting. So if you do have something you wanna say, I'll have you sign up, just so we have an idea of need volume, things like that. So I'd like to open public comment at six 06:22.

Thank you so much for your guys this time. My name's Lizette Vojegas. You guys are probably going to get bored of me, but I have great, information for you guys. The last meeting I heard a lot about that small town feeling. And I think we hear that a lot, that we want Smithville to still have that small town feeling. And then I went during the whole month, that has been on my mind. How do we work on that? How do we do this? Right? And with us being the help healthy city, one big thing that I went to a training for Bear River Health Department. Health Department, they trained us on the Sharps survey. You guys heard of the Sharps survey? Kids from sixth to twelfth grade do do that one. And our sixth graders are struggling with bullying, drugs and alcohol sex, right? So I said what better way that we bring in mental health and, I couldn't imagine myself one of the questions was where do you get bullied the most? And it was on the bus and the bathroom. So I couldn't imagine that being here in, you know, Cache Valley in general or anywhere for that fact, right? But, if we could build something to bring that small town, for us as adults, to show that to our children. I think that would be a really way for us to show that we are healthy. We are gonna fight that fight of bullying. Though our numbers, I went to the board meeting for Cache County School Districts, and our numbers for early teen pregnancy, were the lowest in the county. So that one was a good, thumbs up for us on that one. But I would be happy to help, if we start a committee, I I saw the difference between some saying, oh, we still have that small town feeling. And some said, no, no, we don't. For us to get together and think how we can, us as adults, be the leads on showing the love to our children. So our SHARP surveys in next two years show that they feel safe. But that's my 2¢ on small town feeling. Thank you. Thank you, Liz. Thanks, Liz.

Everybody, I'm Lisa Schmuel, and I'm the chair for America two fifty. I hope that you can hear that. And Lizette helps me, and we have a lot of city community members that are helping us and we love and Brett, we have a lot of the rec center. Can you all hear that? The rec center helps us a lot and we're very very happy with all of the help and the youth that came tonight are helping us. I just wanted to let you know that we have an art show coming up on February 21 05:30 to 07:30 that these schools have been notified so that they can participate in it. Please go back and when you're leaving and look at the art some of the art that we have being presented there we also have a Facebook page and Instagram page and we have a website that is formed now that is also hooked up to our Smithfield rec website. So please and we have a whole celebration of events every month so please go and take one of those flyers out there. Lizette is helping us as well. We talk about the small town feel. We are trying to bring all of the town together. We have a Cinco de Mayo that we are doing. We're working with the parade. We're working with health days. We're working with many, many things. And so if you wanna be involved, we would love it. Come up and approach us.

Okay. Thank you. Thank

you. Thanks, Lisa.

The Delaware swim was a lot of fun, so I didn't actually get in the pool, but

Should have been a Delaware, polar plunge. Right. That would have been interesting.

Hello. My name is Kaylee Crane and I live kind of in the Stonehaven Big Sky neighborhood. I don't know if you guys know exactly where that is but it's on 6 South just before the roundabout. There's some townhouses and some houses kind of on the South end and so I'm sure you guys are aware that the Cache County School District has changed a lot of the boundaries in Smithfield. It's created a lot of fun drama. But we are going to be now going to Sunrise, which is interesting and part of the problem for us is going to be that we live within the walk zone for Sunrise. And so we have about 50 ish kids in our neighborhood and that doesn't include some of the other townhouses on the North Side Of 6 South as well as the one spice just directly south of Sky View. But we have a lot of kids within that walk zone and there's not sidewalks. And so it is something that I and several of my neighbors are concerned about. The most direct way for the kids to from our neighborhood to get to Sunrise would be to go on 6 South, go through that roundabout and then up through the Skyview parking lot up to about 455 East. There is no sidewalk. There is a little bit of one on that south side where those new houses are but it ends and so you would have kids crossing in the middle of a block and once again it's the high school. So we even though technically Skyview would be in session you could still impulsive kids and it just it doesn't sound safe to me. The other alternative for the kids to get to Sunrise would be once again through the roundabout and then going North. So there is a sidewalk past Skyview, you know you get to the Seminary Building but then from where it doglegs to turn into 30 East there's no sidewalk. And then you get to 3rd South, once again another busy road like 6 South. There is a sidewalk on 3rd South but it's on the North side. So those kids would have to cross from the South side of 3rd South to there to take the sidewalk. And so, you know, the of 3rd South to there to take the sidewalk. And so we're just, it just doesn't sound safe you know to have a bunch of just even first and second graders on their bikes. I mean my daughter is one of them bless her soul. It's impulsive. You know she's gonna ride her bike and love it but is she good at looking for cars? Not always. And so, I'm just proposing and asking that the city council please consider adding sidewalks so our kids can get to school safely. I've heard from other people that you know sometimes you can get a grant or something through safe routes to schools to help pay for it. I understand sidewalks are not cheap but I heard that Hyde Park had done so from some of the teachers in the district. But I know I read through your city master plan. I think it was page like 30 that talked to that was something that the city was wanting to consider as well. I thank you for your time. I know we all want to keep Smithfield wonderful and great and we would love for it to be safe for all of our kids and boundary changes are just part of the Cache County school district's thing right now and so we just had to roll with it. And so if you could add that to your considerations, I would appreciate it. Thank you. Do you know if there's

a do you know if there's a crosswalk on Thirds?

So, 3rd South? There is. It is a four way stop. It's not a school crosswalk. I think it's just a regular one. So if you take the dog away. Intersection. It's not. I haven't looked I didn't watch the the lines on the road. But it's just I know it's a four way. There's actually very few crosswalks on the 3rd.

Yeah. So There's one on the the three way. What's that address?

700.

7 and then I don't know. Is there another?

What's up? I can't hear. I'm sorry.

I don't hear any others. I don't I'm not aware of there is. Okay. It's definitely a problem. I recommend we work with the school district and see what we can do. We need more crossing guards there. We need we need to figure something out because yeah. Because like I said, there's No kids get to try the school buses to Sunrise. We all get to drive and walk and I know it's lots of fun.

And We're a Sunrise family. We get it. So Yeah. And I don't know, like, if some of the other neighborhoods will change because, like, we are on the boundary. So anything further south would technically get a bus. Bus. Currently you know Cash School District's not really saying one way or another for us. But yeah. Yep. So it's just a lot of kids and we we'd just like to keep them safe.

Okay. Anything else? Very very good point. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Kaylee.

I figured if there was an open mic, I'd introduce myself. My name is Matthew James Afrant. I'm new to Smithfield. I've been here for I moved to Smithfield. I was in the middle of a divorce and needed a place where I could just get back to my roots and been working on a farm just on the same street as McDonald's there at 200 North, believe. I wanted to offer myself as a resource to the people of Smithfield. I have a career in technology software. I'm an architect designer and I've been working for the last year with Palantir Technologies, actually. Designing everything from commercial large commercial projects and direct to consumer, that being online sales like Shopify, things like that. But with the current climate in The United States, as well as this state, there's a lot of apprehension about AI software, I'd say also with just entrepreneurialism in general. And I wanted to offer myself as a resource here. I I probably have two to three months left in in town, but would love to contribute in any way possible. Not really on a a money making basis on my side, but more just on small business and and helping people in that capacity. So whether that be with with local events at a coffee shop or things like that. But if the city was interested in doing type of AI grassroots knowledge sharing events or experiences, that's something I'd like to offer cost free and maybe looking at other local businesses that would potentially like to sponsor those type of agendas.

So that that that's all for me. Thanks Matthew. Thank you. Have you did you sign in at the back and maybe you could even just write a little note on that that's saying. Contact information. Yeah. Contact information.

No problem. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Hi. My name is Mikael Heckle. I also, live in this neighborhood and just wanted to be a second voice for what Kaylee Crane was explaining. I have three children. One just turned five, so I'm about to,

old. And I just wanted to share, currently, right now, I hold a leadership role at my church where most of the people are in the church. And I just wanted to share,

see there really is in just our little block from, around 800 South to 600 South, and then from one hundred and fifty East to two hundred well, I'd say three Hundred East, there really is about 50 to 60 kids alone. And I just know several of their parents personally that are very concerned about this because right now there's just hardly any way for not only just one parent, but both parents are working. And they really do rely currently on the bus or in the future if there's no bus, they really are gonna have to have their kids be walking. And so I just wanted to share that because as much as we'd love to have a carpool system, there's just so availability, and a lot of these kids will be walking. So thank you for your concern.

Thank you, Emily. Thank you so much.

Any other comments?

My 2¢ on that is if I know building a sidewalk is probably not something we're gonna do really soon. Right? But I do see Can you restate your name? Oh, Lizette Vojegas. Sorry. Lizette Vojegas. If we could get some of the police officers that park at at Summit, because sometimes we have two or three at Summit, maybe come and help these families to keep their kids feeling a little bit safe. We might not get the money off of them people pulling them over for speeding which people shouldn't be speeding but sun summit really does have three cops after school at pick up. And I go to Sun Sunrise and then nobody's at sunrise. So maybe we're a safer school, but that might help these worried mommies while we figure out a sidewalk to have a couple police officers down there.

That's it. Thanks Liz. Thank you.

Any other comments? I'd like to close the public comment section at 06:36. Moving on to agenda item four, discussion of the general plan. Thank you, everyone, that's provided feedback on that. We are aware of the typo. It's been fixed with the 19 diligently looking at those things. So I'd like to turn the time over to Brian Carver and Quinn Dance from JEB Engineer.

Good evening. I'm Brian Carver, the lead planner for JUV Engineers, and the well, also the the planner that's been assisting the city for the last year or so in in updating this general plan document. And, with me, we've got, Quinn Dance.

Yeah. Quinn Dance, JEV as well. Have the opportunity to support a little bit on this, but also support in some of the water system work that we do for Smithfield City. So it's a great opportunity. So I know there's been several meetings, several comments. I think our intent is just to kinda be here to continue to hear those, see what type of direction the council would like to go. I know Brian's been working through a few comments and things like that in this process. But as we go through this process, I just wanna give that opportunity at your direction of of what would be our next steps and how to proceed down that road. We know it's a living document. There's always gonna be things that that we may need to tweak even in a few years from now. But and that's okay. As we work through this process, it gives us the opportunity to kinda take a snapshot in time gives us the opportunity to kinda take a snapshot in time, I guess, which is hard to do. It can be very difficult to do, but hopefully, this can do that and then and then kinda take the next steps as we go through this process. So

Yeah. This this document has already been reviewed by the Planning Commission, and recommended for your review and approval. That was back in November. Since then, I've received a few additional comments from council member Olsen that we will work to make some corrections and and changes to the document there. But at this point, we are really just interested in learning what the city council thinks has to say about the document, if you have any recommended changes. At this point, the content of the document is in your hands. You are you are the final arbiters on on what this plan says. And so if you have any, if you have any additional recommendations to us and to staff, we can make those incorporate them into the document and then prepare it for the next step, which would be an additional public hearing and public review and comment. And then and then you can decide whether to continue making changes or or adopt it at that point.

I've got a question. Regarding the population projections, I know that you're pulling that from as it says, the University of Utah, their policy institutes. Just curious as to what you have witnessed as far as accuracy in the past, because I'm I'm I'm struggling with the further side of their projections. And I I want to know what, you know, what your experience has been just to have another way because you, you know, do do this with other cities and wanted to know whether their projections have been that accurate with that.

So my experience with the Kempsey Gardner Institute and and their Utah population estimate and and population projections that they provide, the most recent projections came out last summer. Their county level estimates are historically very accurate. The challenge is once we get below county level, the smaller the scale you work with, the more volatile the numbers can become. I would put more confidence in the ten to fifteen year numbers than I would the twenty to thirty year numbers. Simply because there are a lot of variables that come into play with municipal growth. Job creation weighs very heavily in in the formula that the Gardner Institute uses in generating these numbers. And so they they're relying very heavily on what they estimate the economic prospects of Cache County are. And and they're not looking so much at Smithfield individually, but they're looking at the county as a whole and and Smithfield as a a portion of that. And and, you know, that's why they put out new numbers every five years, because that target moves and and we readjust our our community forecast as new data becomes available. But so I I, you know, I would say within the next ten to fifteen years, I think the numbers are fairly I mean, they're useful. We could have another recession. We could have a new factory open up in the valley that all of a sudden creates 10,000 new jobs and and that population gets redistributed throughout all the valley. You know, there are there are single events that are hard to predict that can make a big impact on a community the size of Smithfield. And so, you know, it's it's a it's a useful number to help us kinda get an an idea based on past trends. But, you know, we want to be continually revisiting and and revising as new information comes in.

Thank you. Yeah. I would maybe add to that, and that's a big reason with a lot of utility master plans that we do. That is the one of the main reasons that we encourage cities and municipalities to continue to update those plans every five to ten years, because it is very difficult to to make those projections to Brian's point. And so and it's the same principles in the general plan as well.

And and if you don't like the numbers, I'm happy to consider an alternative. But we do like to try and find some sort of rationale behind any sort of projections or modeling that we do. So and and the Gardner Institute has a very a very sound model. It's not always right, but it's useful.

Yeah. I take your point, Todd. It's hard to believe we're have negative growth twenty years from now. Like, that's just Yeah. Doesn't seem likely. Especially as we continue to see their projections for county increase.

I think that we would be on the leading or growing edge of that. So that was one of the things that things that concerned me.

I I guess I have a question for Justin maybe in terms of how important are those numbers in terms of future planning, growth, road development, sidewalk installation. In in making those determinations?

We don't really look at population as much as we look at just how the things are developing. The sidewalk discussion tonight, that'll be a focus of the new budget is the sidewalks where we're missing the change in the school route, new subdivisions that are approving. When you look at growth, you've also gotta remember though, when when we start looking at the annexation boundary and where we go, let's let's look north. At a for north of 800 North, on the east side of the highway is almost impossible in a lot of ways. There's a gravel pit that's stopping it. There's only, like, one parcel left. When you go east, if you stay with where we've been keeping below the high voltage power lines, you're almost done going east. Until you annex in the Northeast Corner, you're almost done there. The gap between Hyde Park and Smithfield is getting really small. Was there any gonna be any housing allowed in the Southwest Corner? Are we gonna is the housing going to continue to go in the Northwest Corner? So we're more not looking at population as we are units, development, re zones. Yes. Is there a number that goes with those, you know, 3.8 plus or minus per household? Yes. But we're more looking at roads, development, water models, with their assistance than we are, like, at a population number. The population number doesn't tell us much, as much as it does just simple development.

Thank you. Justin, I have a question just to kind of follow-up with that. So the the general plan's a living document. Correct? 100%. Okay. Which means that if we move forward and we move to adopt it and we go forward, and if we get down the road, like, six months down the road and we find that there's a change that we wanna do in the document, it's just a simple matter of factoring it back bring it back for the city council and we change it that way, amend it that way. Is that how it would happen?

Yeah. It can be amended at any time. I mean, and I would expect it would be I mean, the expectation would be that it gets adopted and then it's immediately kind of already in review. Because your when you look at your land, you your your land your zoning map Right. That's subject to change every month as long if when a request is is coming in. So immediately, things change based on approvals or denials of zoning maps. The water conservation plan was just adopted in December because the state made sure that we got that done. Is that subject to change? Absolutely. Right? Moderate income housing is due is is is changing, is growing. So a lot of everything is moving and changing all at once. So I hate to say it, but the general plan will be out of date the day after it's adopted. Correct. People don't wanna hear that. But it's almost kind of a fact because a rezone could come in the very next meeting that changes that. So is it a document? Yes. Is it a guide? Yes. Do we wanna look at it? Yes. Is it gonna change? Absolutely. I mean, look at look at what happened with that ecclesiastical facility on 8th West. Everything changed overnight. General plan was totally out of date the day that that was announced and the location was announced. So are we changing and moving as we go? 100%. Can you change it like the the future land use map? I fully expect there's gonna be changes to the future land use map based on recent comments over the last one to two, three months. As

input is received by the council and mayor and you're like, no, we don't like how this lays out. We wanna change that. Absolutely, it can be changed. So I guess the oh, sorry. Joe. Go ahead. So the follow-up on that. So the question is is if the council feels good enough with what's happened so far, but the idea that if things that could be changed in the future, go ahead and proceed with it, then change it in the future. You know, I I know, you know, for example, I know some cities south of us that, like you said, as soon as they move in the meeting, another subdivision comes in, growth comes in, that automatically changes their their general plan. And I I kinda get what you're saying there is is that as growth happens, it might be ten years you're changing your own plan. But if you have a lot of growth, you'll be changing it sooner. Is that a fair statement? Yeah. I mean, yeah. Look at the annexation. We don't have any annexations proposed today, but that doesn't mean one doesn't come in next month

that is x amount of acres and that the council and the planning commission choose to make changes there. So it's based on what we see today. The our old plan is really old when you look online. I believe it was 2017, if I recall correctly. We would love to see from a staff, I think from aside, we would love to get something more up to date. You know, I'm thinking, like, if the council feels somewhat reasonable where where we're at, like in March, we would have a public hearing, get input for the residents about what they wanna see there and swing it back in April. We would love to see that knowing that things could change. We look at more like that future land use map and annexation map. Those things are the things that are gonna change really quickly. Could be amended almost immediately. So it's up to you guys how you wanna proceed, what you want to do there. But we're just like, the 02/2018

that's in place is old. It just is. So what we probably is be more diligent in changing and keeping up to date and just waiting

for eight to ten years. Yeah. I mean, you also gotta look to the the amount of growth and stuff. Yes, we had a lot of growth, but there were certain factors in that that made that explode a lot. Okay. You know, there were some projects approved. We haven't had, you know, there was some, like, back to back to back master plan communities that were approved. Haven't had a request for one of those for, well, I would have to look, I want to say two years. But a lot of that reason has to do with those projects are really big. You know, they're 50, a 100 acres. Their build out is a decade, not a year. Right. You know, nonprofit, they they got theirs approved. They build little groups of eight, typically, maybe 12, but 16 units a year. 16 units on a 100 acres takes a long time. And that's already set how that's going to develop over time. So, yeah, we would love to see this move to get something better population. You know, when you look at, like, 2025, the 2040, we actually think that's pretty dang close. Like, right now, based on when we pull we pull, like, I pulled our number of utility accounts, you base that on, you know, kind of like a 3.8 plus or minus per household. I'm like, we think we know we're over 15, we feel that we're under 16. So we're like, we think that $15.05 40 is right there, where it's going. So, yes, you can make changes. We fully expect there to be changes as that thing goes and there's focuses by the council on what they want and the planning commission on what they want to change.

Thank you. If if I could contribute something, and you know, we don't want to make it seem like the general plan will be obsolete as soon as it's adopted. The plan itself, the map for zoning and for land use is important, but that's going to change. What is important about the plan is that it's a policy document and the goals and objectives that you adopt in that in this plan should be the guiding principles that you are using in making decisions about how land use changes within the community. Those goals and objectives are the policies that you want to follow. The policies will should continue year over year until certain objectives are met or certain outside factors change to where they are no longer pushing you in the direction that you wanna go. At that point, you can get in, you know, and modify, change those policies, change those goals, and, you know, refocus your aim a different direction. So it's it's that it it it's those guiding principles within the document that are going to help you the most over the next, you know, three to four to five years. Of of course, it's always a good idea to regularly reevaluate this on an annual or biannual basis or something, and and then look at doing another large scale public engagement process to find out, is scale public engagement process to find out, is this plan still going the direction that we want it to go? Have our demographic numbers and and forecasts changed? Have our economic have our, our, you know, city economics? Have the schools changed? You know, there are a lot of different factors that will change over time, but you want to be continually evaluating those. I I like to quote president Dwight Eisenhower. He said that plans are worthless, but planning is priceless. You know, I may not have the quote exactly correct. But the point is once the document is on a shelf, yeah, it's it's not as valuable. But that continual process of communication and reevaluation of your situation, that's the important part. And and that's what the plan provides you with is those those guiding principles to help you as you're making those decisions.

Thank you.

So Justin, a couple of questions for you. Has Brian had an opportunity to look at the latest that that I Your list? Uh-huh. Yes, he has. Okay. All right. A. I'd be happy to respond to that. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't know how much we wanted to talk about that tonight. I don't wanna waste a lot of time if those are if they're pretty straightforward things. You know what I mean? But there were a few things that kinda stood out.

There there's definitely some document formatting issues that I've been working with my graphics folks to get them, you know, like the making sure that the table of contents is ordered correctly and linked correctly and

and numbering the appendices appropriately. One of the challenges there is that each of those appendices

is a separate document on its own and so it's a little more difficult. Yeah. Set a page numbers and so Yeah. You know. But absolutely, the way it shows up, you know, in the document itself, the appendix is appendix b should not have, you know, a page number right after the appendix a title page. So, yeah, we understand the challenges there. You had a comment about the transportation map and having future roads listed there. Yeah. That was just something that I had noticed that was kind of missing and I Yeah. I don't know. For me, that seems kind of important. That is a good thing to consider. We were kind of hoping that by now we would have information from our transportation master plan process. It's been going on and and I spoke to Quinn about that earlier. And that should be wrapping up really within the next couple of weeks. And so we can provide that information from that plan incorporated into that transportation or that traffic and circulation map and and and then see if there are anything anything that needs to be modified.

And that maybe is why some of that hasn't been done. That that's helpful to know. I I had just noticed that, you know, the general plan doesn't include a future transportation plan. And so I'm thinking, that's kind of a critical thing. So, I don't know if it's worth just including the one from 2017 and for now until you get that information, you know, so that we can move forward with stuff. But I think that's something we definitely don't want to leave out. And I guess what I'm saying is that I'd hate to vote on something and say we're done but then it's missing, you know, future transportation.

I mean at the very least I agree Chris that, you know, the CMPO has maps and future traffic corridors built into it and it makes sense that we would at least adopt that

Smithfield portion of it to to our plan. Yeah. And I think some of that is already on the 2017 version.

And then Yeah. We I appreciate that comment because that actually, that CMPL map and stuff, those are actually in that transportation master plan document. The one thing we wanna be cautious of is to not duplicate too much out of that, just because it does make for I mean, if if something's slightly different than what what overrides, what dictates. Dictates. And, obviously, we will I mean, we'll definitely match everything up for the most part, but the the general plan and the transportation section is really gonna be a really brief summary of transportation items. Your detailed information will definitely be found in that transportation master plan is how we would kind of encourage you to go. I can understand a 100% the idea of of of a map to to kinda correlate the two together and to meet those requirements, because it is a nice thing to have where you can just go to one spot and just get a glance. We we can definitely accommodate that.

Especially where we're trying to

bulk up our infrastructure and trying to look forward for some of that. I think that's pretty pretty important. So And this just briefly, and this I know this isn't probably necessarily part of it. Like he said, the transportation master plans come a long way. We've got final review right now on that, and that the we'll discuss that a lot with staff to to make sure everything's included from from what they understand and the usage there. And it goes into a lot more detail of, okay, how wide is this street and what's the typical section and and all those types of things. It doesn't have has traffic counts throughout of of things throughout the city, and so we can do some summary and and some some basic mapping in the general plan, but a lot of those details will be in that other document. So

Quinn, Brian, question on that with what you see with others. Would it be just more appropriate to just reference that plan rather than be redundant?

I I honestly would recommend that. More of a reference. I know personally, I I don't I don't wanna duplicate too much because it does become confusing at times for people and then I've tried to do that. There are cities that do like more information in the general plan related to transportation or water or parks, any of those really. I I personally do encourage cities to to limit duplicate. And if if you can just reference it, that's obviously up to the council and the mayor and things. But I I just don't like to duplicate in case of errors, potentially. Or if people go to one spot and say, well, I found this here. Where's the rest of it? It's I like I do like it all in one spot, which in my opinion would be the transportation master plan. So I don't know if you think differently, but

I would agree with the exception that there are a few elements of the trans the well, it's called traffic and circulation plan that are required by state law that need to be incorporated into the general plan. And and that map is one of the things. But, yeah, a lot of it can

be referenced very heavily to the transportation master plan. Master plan. And so then, when you're talking about the transportation master plan, that's still gonna be a kind of a part of this document, it'll just be at the end. Right? So, I think that's fine, as long as it's kind of in the same document, so that when people are viewing that, they don't have to go to, you know, the CMPO web page to go look at something. You know what I mean? No. Make it as easy as possible for It won't be part of this. It will be a separate all by itself. It is a standalone document, if that's what you're asking. And I thought it was, but I thought maybe it was only the 2017 version that had the master plan as an appendix.

So this one, this document would add probably what, 50 plus pages to it if we included the whole transportation plan? Yes. It's a lot. Yes. It it's a stand alone. Okay.

I think what you might be or I I believe the current one, I think, that did get included, but that's partly, I think, because it did comes quite a bit after, I wanna say. I can't remember for sure on the seventeenth. Maybe it was before I do there, but it is a standalone document. You could include it as an appendix. I think it would it would add a whole lot of pages

to your general plan. Or even some kind of a hyperlink if it's gonna stay, you know, in a certain

location where people can click on it and get to it easily, I think would be valuable. That would be our plan. Yeah. Reference it reference it Yeah. To the regular document that says for master plan, go here. Yep. And name it. You know what I mean? Yeah. That way, somebody's looking through, oh, there is a master plan for that. I think it's yep. I I agree with that for sure.

In fact, that would be perfectly laid out with how we have it on the website now. And you said something that was very important to remember. A master plan is not Yeah. They're two very separate things. One's far more detailed and far more required. One is required, but doesn't have to be

abided by. One is also far more flexible.

And the general plan should be objectives and goals. Policies and code are set based on that general plan and not in the general plan.

How many other comments or questions? Just a couple of quick items and then I'll I'll be done. I I'm all for trying to to push this forward as quick as we can and trying to get this. But I am also in favor of like what Jay was saying, that as soon as we get it passed, I think it'd be great to have, you know, a group of people that are looking at a specific part of this and that we're ongoing trying to, you know, improve this on an ongoing basis. This is not really, and I don't think this would have to be done before we approved it, but just something to think about. And that is, at the very end of this version, there is a planning, surveys, and public engagement section, which is just, it just has a section heading, but there's nothing in it. But I do know that we have had done a survey in 2024 that's already been done. And then, we did one in 2025. And that would be really easy to just include those, so that you actually had something in that appendix. I don't know, That might be valuable. Just a thought. Yeah. I appreciate you catching that. That's kind of a big section. I mean, people go to appendix 11, if they're looking for what they're gonna see, they're not gonna see anything right now. So And then one other just small thing. You know, we kinda talked about the goals and objectives being important. And in the Parks and Recreation, we kinda moved that around a little bit. It was in the sub heading. Then it kinda got, became its own major heading. And as a part of that, there was a land use goal, it was land use goal number six from the from the older version, that had to do with Parks and Recreation. Originally, when I made a suggestion that we move that, it looks like it didn't get moved, but it just got deleted. And so, I don't know, to me, we actually had a survey on that and that was kind of important to the citizens. And so, I think actually having, you know, that moved to the Parks And Recreation Area would be, would be helpful. Don't know about your thoughts on that or if you've

No. No. I thought, well, yeah, we will, we'll get that reinstate, reinstated, that language and Yeah. Yeah. I'm not sure why that disappeared.

Most of the rest of the stuff is just little teeny things and, yeah, not not a big deal. And you guys have just done an awesome job. It's not easy trying to have a 150 page document that's doesn't have any issues. So I'm very appreciative of of all that you guys have done to to make that happen. Thank you.

Yeah. And I would just add to it. I mean, I know I haven't been as heavily involved in the steering committee work and the things that have happened. That's what Brian and Allison, our other planner, have been working on, but it's been I hear it from the sidelines, and there's there's a lot of work that goes into it and a lot of outreach.

That you would like to see, if you could get those to Justin. He can get those to us in the next couple of weeks and we can prepare a new draft for you to review and then we can decide if it's ready to go to public comment.

Thank you. Thanks, Brian. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Nope. Bye.

Bye, teachers quorum. The teachers quorum.

Before we move away from this, I asked you a question earlier today, Justin. I think it might be good just for general knowledge for everybody as we're looking at space as we're moving out into agricultural. I'll restate that if I and please correct me if I'm wrong. I was looking across through some different properties and found a property that was labeled as a 10,

and yet the piece of property was far smaller than 10 acres. And so I was a little

acres. And so I was a little trying to determine how something was a 10 when it was didn't meet what we would think of as a standard qualifier for a 10. But I learned through Justin's help that when we have property that becomes annexed in that is agricultural, that regardless of what its size or what its current circumstance is, if it is agricultural to begin with, that it comes in as an a 10. Is that am I stating that correctly? Everything, no matter what's on it, comes in as an a 10 default and then would have to be rezoned. So it doesn't matter if it has a house on it, but if it's any in any way, annexed, however, it comes in by default as a 10 agricultural 10 acre. So it doesn't even have to be agricultural to begin with? No. Okay. That's and that's per our municipal code. Okay. That was something I was not aware of until I asked that, so I thought it might be good for all of us to be aware of that.

Yeah. Definitely good information. Thanks.

This is a thought. What's our timeline? We're gonna keep moving on this that we will we have something in March, like a draft, or we can move on to April? Our goal would be to have the public hearing in March. Okay. And then based on what comments you have in that, possibly bring it back well, I would like to bring it back in April. If things went really well, it would be March, April.

So what do you need from us, just the nod or No. No. Like, what we wanna do is get it out.

They'll they'll do JUB will make those final changes. We'll get it back out to you. And if you guys are like, yeah, we feel good about taking it to the public hearing, we'll take it to the public hearing. If you're like, no, we still it's not lining up or that we have anyway, the plan would be that at the at the March meeting, we would have a public hearing only, but there would not be a vote at the March meeting. At the March meeting. Okay. Thank you. That would be for you to just solicit comments only.

Thank you for that clarification.

Any other comments? Moving on to agenda item number five discussion and possible vote on ordinance twenty twenty six dash zero one an ordinance establishing a time and place for holding regular meetings during calendar year 2026.

So typically, we adopt this in January each year with some different changes. We're just getting around. We have also changed some meeting times as proposed to the city council meetings will be at 6PM. The planning commission meetings will be at 6PM. The dates that are listed on here, council, are the ones that will be held for regular council meetings. Council can add additional meetings at their discretion. For example, in two weeks, we're we're going to add a February 25 meeting, whether we call it a workshop, a meeting. All of those other additional meetings, if the council chooses to add them, they'll just be advertised as regular. This is just setting the regular council meetings. You'll notice in March, we do list two meetings. One of those is because one of them is our annual budget meeting where we kick that off. There are hearing there held or not. We have to already schedule that in January of each year, when that would be because, the cities in the Valley and the County cannot have those meetings on the same day. They all have to be separate. So that's why that's listed as the twelfth and the twenty sixth. November is not the second, Wednesday because that would fall on Veterans Day. So we moved that up one week to November 4 to avoid Veterans Day. But right now, Council, we're just asking this so that we can update our code. So if people want to see when our meetings are, they'll see them. But like I say, there we already know there's going to be some additional meetings. We will just advertise those once they're confirmed as we trudge forward with

those. I move that we adopt ordinance 2026 dash o one, an ordinance established time and place for regular meetings in the calendar year 2026.

I'll second it.

Speak to Jen.

You see me leaning in?

I don't have a mic.

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

Jen? Yes.

Todd? Yes. That passes. Item agenda number six, public hearing for the purpose of discussing ordinance twenty twenty six dash zero to an ordinance amending the Smithfield City Municipal Code Title two Administration and Personnel Chapter 2.56 Access to Public Records Sections 2.5603 request for access two point five six point zero four zero appeals and 2.5606 forms.

So, Mayor, this is a housekeeping ordinance council. This is a housekeeping ordinance adopt or updating what we're already doing and actually offering another another possibility on grandma request. Some some of our old code still references back in the smithfieldcity.org days. We are now a Smithfield Utah Dot Gov per state code where we had to update to the.gov. Hats off to Dana for helping draft this, put it together where she is our records officer. And also, currently, the way the code reads, you have to submit a specific form. We do not have the ability to do an online form and submittal, based on past code. So this would do a couple of things. It would update it to our current smithfieldutah.gov. It would list specifically for the police department how that request is submitted there. It would also mentions that you can submit a fillable form that Dan has been working on that would be on the website so that you don't have to do that anymore. So housekeeping does not restrict anyone, actually adds more options and updates our current contact information. Thanks to Dan and others involved in doing that, so we can stay current with where we are at.

I do not have any other comments, mayor. There is no change on any of the fee schedule for those requests? None. Okay.

I like it. I think it's great that we're offering online form, another way for people to be able to access that. So I think that's great. Thanks, Dana, for finding that stuff.

Discussion and possible vote on ordinance twenty twenty six dash zero two. The public hearing. I'm sorry. Public hearing is now open for discussion of this at 07:14 p m.

Mister Forrester's got something to say. I can see it.

If there are no comments, close the public comment hearing section 07:14 p. M. Item number seven Item number seven discussion and possible vote on ordinance twenty twenty six dash zero two.

Seems pretty straightforward to me. I I think it's great.

I went online and looked at the form, or looked at the way it's laid out there. Mhmm. It's great. Yep. I think it'll be good. I think it'll be good change. There'll be things here.

Moving into the twenty first century.

It's

gonna drag us in whether we like it or not.

You ready to vote. Motion.

I move that we that we pass ordinance twenty twenty six zero two as stated on agenda item six.

For clarity I will second.

Way to beat Jay. Jen good job.

I'm used to trying to beat Wade.

That's what I feel. That is kind of Wade's spot. So people are jumping the gun over on the left side. I feel it.

The white chair.

How do you vote? Jay? Yes. John? Yes. Chris? Yes. Jen? Yes. Todd? Yes. Motion passes. Next item on the agenda, number eight, City Manager Report.

Just a few items, council. The place working with JUB and Spindlers. The new 3,000,000 gallon water take project slated to start the March with with completion in September. We did talk to JUB today about phase one of our big stormwater project, as well as phase one of our new, spring waterline project. They're going to be ready to put those out, in March. We are going to stagger putting those out. The reason we are going to do that is stagger the there is quite a process in that bidding process, meeting with contractors, holding meetings. We don't think we don't want to get them confused. We want to put out one project, work it through. A couple weeks later, put out the other project, work it through. But the intent is both of those projects will go out to bid, will go out to bid in March. The senior center remodel, we're way happy, I think, with how that turned out, thanks to Brett and Public Works and those involved. The flooring is very nice. We have new tables, new chairs, some new LED lighting. We're working to get the ceiling tiles replaced. They come in little groups of like 52 out of 100 at a time. So, we have some really nasty ones still up there. We have some really nice ones. That project's coming along. The seniors held their first meeting with the new flooring and stuff yesterday. They only complained a little bit. So we were pretty happy overall. I heard there was a great talk, even. Oh, yeah. I heard there was a great Best speaker they've had. There there there was a sitting ovation

Sitting ovation. For the speaker. Let me tell you, they were rocking the house.

They did have a full house, so I'll comment on the speaker. He's not very good. He talked way too much. We know that. He did. The city office will be closed on Monday on Monday in observance of President's Day. On February 25, we will have a meeting with and some training discussion with legal counsel. Planning Commission will be invited to that meeting as well. It will start at six. Seth Tate from Olson and Hogan, our legal counsel, will be here that night. The new budget, we're working with the department heads on the new budget. We will you will see that, the first preliminary on the March 25 meeting, and then we'll talk about it again in April, May and with an adoption in June. When it comes to sidewalks, we do have a sidewalk plan. We've actually talked about those particular areas that were mentioned tonight. We'll get I'll get you some information on that council. I don't want to misspeak, but there's some potential tree issues and other things that have held that project up in the past Because the second the city manager mentions he wants to cut down and remove a tree to install a sidewalk, you guys start getting phone calls and emails. But trees, we had to decide between trees and sidewalks which one's more important. So we'll have that discussion on some of those areas at a later date. But we definitely looked at those considered those areas at a later date, but we definitely looked at those, considered those. We have a lot of sidewalks to know where we would love to complete. And mayor and council, unless you have sent it to anything else, I don't have anything else this evening.

Thank you. Thank you, Justin.

Item agenda number nine, council member and mayor reports. Who's on the hot seat first?

I will start. Let's go with Todd. Just a couple of real quick items. We did have not met yet this month as a tree committee. Still working on going through making some final changes that they would like to be able to put into the or revise, clarify in the code just a little bit. And we will be discussing that next week. We have that meeting next Tuesday evening. But a real quick shout out to the library and the fact that they made some trees available, much appreciated. I think that's that's great. I I hope that we had some takers on that and that's great. Hopefully, people can get them in the ground and they don't get killed by strange weather. But we don't know if we're done with that yet. As far as the historical society continuing to have good progress over at the rock store, by good progress, it doesn't necessarily mean fast, but it is consistent. They've done a lot of the caulking work on the upper crown molding, which is beyond anybody's expectation of how difficult that probably is going to be. They have mastered filling gaps from point zero one inches to 2.91 inches due to the oldness of the building, but are making progress. Jeff was just here this evening with a sample of the paint color that they're going to use for the seating in the main room, which is gonna be awesome. I think that's gonna look really nice. So continuing to have good progress progress here. So happy with that and hope that they the good weather keeps holding out for them, picking snow everywhere else but around that building would be good. So that's that's all I've got, mayor. Thank you.

Jen? Me next. Okay. We've already had our update on the seniors, so I'm not gonna keep knowing now. No. The arts council canceled their meeting this month. They didn't have anything pressing, so they just canceled the meeting this month. We will meet next month, and we'll start talking about summer concerts, which we're trying something new this year. They're moving the concerts to just having them in June, Fridays or Saturdays June and then being done just because summer gets busy and people leave. We're just gonna see if maybe we can get better attendance to those. And then we'll discuss more health days things like the chalk art festival. The health days pageant is March 7 at 7PM at the Skyview Auditorium. Everyone make note of that. The committee wanted me to make sure that you guys knew when it was and make sure that you guys are able to come and that you are welcome and they would love to see everybody there. Particular for a couple of reasons. First we've had 25 applicants which is more than we've ever had. So it's making it the one day event be a little bit tricky. So we're kind of toying with the idea of having it be a two day event. So we would have the workshops be the day before. So I might need to utilize a city building the day before and just do some workshops. Along those lines, we are still incorporating the empowered women theme that we've always had but we're also using the America two fifty. So we're decorating in red white and blue. We're having questions red white and blue. One thought that I had was using some veterans as the escorts instead of high school boys which has been previously done. And then we also would like a veteran or active military to come speak to the girls in the workshop. I am learning that a lot of these groups are having training on that weekend so I'm having a difficult time finding active military or veterans so if anybody has connections to somebody that would be willing to help with us that would be very helpful. I was gonna get in touch with Phil Redlinger who lives in Smithfield and does the VA for Cache Valley so I was gonna talk to him. But if anyone has any leads I would appreciate it. It's coming together so nicely. It's just gonna be so great. We've had a couple new committee members join us because we need all the help. It's like anything else as it grows you need more help. So and our chair people have been in for a couple years. We're trying to get things established so that when they're ready to move on we've got things in mind so the next people in mind can have something to work with. I'm trying to think. I think that's everything.

Thank you. Thanks Jim. As the youth council already had an opportunity to tell us a little bit about the triathlon. Emily and Jace came up and talked about that. I had an opportunity to be there with them and it was kind of fun volunteering. Got a chance to say hi to Brett and he was meandering around. You you weren't doing the triathlon, but there were quite a few people. And so, one of the things that these youth have an opportunity to do and it's fun to see the leadership ability. Some of them who've been there for a couple of years, kinda get tasked with being the people who organize and kinda move the different groups around to their different stations. And it was fun to see these youth taking that to heart and doing a great job. One of the things that we got to do when we were volunteering was to count the laps for the swimmers and for the runners. And so we were doing that and I and so we were doing that and and I thought I was doing it faithfully. But one of the youth leaders came up to a couple of us and said, you know, you can cheer them on. And I'm like, I hadn't even thought about that. I'm so worried about counting the laps, making sure I was getting that right. So we started cheering them on. It was really quite interesting to see, because all of a sudden, you just saw these people running around and there there were a few who like, you know, it was hard. I I would have a hard time doing this triathlon. There were some of them who you could tell that when they got around to us, they started running and then they'd get around to the other side, maybe they'd walk for a little bit. But but because we were cheering them on, they actually got a faster speed on their on their on their laps. But it was it was a lot of fun to to be involved with that and and I just appreciate the rec center and how organized they are and the opportunity for the youth council to have some leadership opportunities there. I'll also be going with them on Friday February 27 to the Capitol. We've got it scheduled to to the Capitol. We've got it scheduled to do a little tour with Mike Peterson and Chris Wilson and kinda see some of the bills that are being sponsored. So that'll be a lot of fun. A lot of the youth committee always comment on that later on after after it, that that it's a great opportunity. So and then, obviously, they're gonna be helping out with Easter egg hunt on April 4 and that's always a I don't know if you've ever tried to stuff a 100,000 Easter eggs, but it takes a little while. But anyways, and it was fun to to get a chance to actually see the changes that were made at the at the senior Definitely, Justin was the life of the party. He kept Ruth Swanner unsure about what he was gonna say next. And Ruth made sure that he followed the list and answered every single question that they had on the list and he answered even more than that. It was a lot of fun. They're they're a great group there and they're very interested in knowing what's going on in the city and Justin did a great job of of letting them know about that information. Hopefully, in the future, something we can do there would be to get them access to maybe printed newsletters or some of them who don't have email or not ever gonna use that. They're getting copies of the three things every month. Are they? Oh, awesome. There's a compilation that goes out to them every month. Oh, cool. Cool. I didn't know that. For the whole month. So that's how they get their updates. Oh, yeah. That's awesome. Amazing. See, I'm learning things too. So that's all I got. Thank you.

Great stuff happening. In terms of the trails committee, a few weeks ago in the three things notice, I invited comments and suggestions for trails and parks ideas. I got 33 emails that I need to answer and respond to. So that kept me busy for the last few weeks. Great ideas. Just great ideas. And in fact, one neighborhood has formed a kind of a neighborhood advisory group and they're going to all their neighbors and doing surveys and gathering neighborhood information to kind of jump start the process for the park design up up on Crow Mountain. So that's really awesome. Those guys are fantastic. Chamber of Commerce met last week. There were over 30 businesses represented there. Great conversations and connections happening there. And of course, they're the ones that are working with the youth council on the Easter egg hunt on April 4. So they're excited about that and then they're also kinda gearing up for health days. There's a tricycle golf tournament and a pancake breakfast they'll be working with. So the chambers continues to be very active and busy. In fact, we need better location to meet. We just we don't it's getting so big, those Chamber of Commerce meetings that we are having a hard time fitting anywhere for those meetings. So that's another new It was a full house. It It was absolutely full house. A packed and then some. Right? Yeah. And the mayor has recently asked me to represent the council with the library board. So I'm excited to work with Sean and Karen and the gang over there. Had a good conversation with Sean the other day. Good things happening. Their of course, their partnership with the arts council has been fantastic. That story book festival was kind of a highlight now and has become a a real stake in the ground for Smithfield. And in fact, Sean was invited to speak at a at a state Utah Utah Library Association conference on a panel. So we're getting some state recognition for what we're doing here and I think that's fantastic. That's the level that we're working at in the library. So that's fantastic. That carpeting project for about half the library is done and so that's fantastic. We're still working on a software migration project that's happening over the next few months and the big news is that the library received $10,000 Carnegie grant That's gonna be really useful. They're still actually deciding what to spend that $10,000. We've got more than enough projects that they could go to. We wanna make good use of that grant. So that was really fantastic to get notified that the library was award that grant. So the library board meets next week. Things are moving along really nicely. Thanks.

Awesome. Oh, I get a mic. Just a couple things on my end. The Cache County nominated and voted on mayor Rudy and mayor Miller from Hiram to be on their board of trustees for the county board of trustees. Hopefully, we'll have some more information coming back. They're meeting tomorrow. So it's gonna be, it's just moving along, but it's gonna be some interesting stuff that's probably might affect us what we're doing. On Monday, I had the opportunity and chief Allen, invited me in to watch the swearing in of two new of his officers. And the thought hit me, wow, they're young. And, you know, and and they really are young. Right right out of the academy, chief. Yep. And, you know, it's it's interesting to think, you know, going back to my days and everything, the awesome responsibility chief Allen and his staff have to train these guys up and and and to get them out there and to be safe and keep us safe. And I think that it's really it's really cool to watch that that process happen, to get them on their career and get them moving down the road. And welcome welcome aboard to them. So, hey, that's it, mayor. Thank you.

Well, I was gonna share about the fire district, but everybody's doing such a good job. I don't have much to report. With that, I think we're going to move to sorry, too many papers. Agenda item number 10. So we're going to close this portion of the meeting and discuss the purchase exchange real estate property. Utah code annotated 52Dash4Dash2051B1

motion to close the motion. Yes.

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