Smithfield City, Utah City Council Meeting, Mon, Nov 17th

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He uses that word, Lucy. No. It's conspiracy as we all did. No. No idea. No idea. I didn't even heard of your name.

I thought everybody else thinks. So That's okay. We're not dissing that today. I thought conspiracy of well, true. One of the biggest cities in the city. There's several. Come on. Wait.

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I please? Yes. Public notice is given that the Smithfield City Council will meet in a regularly scheduled meeting at 96 South Main Smithfield, Utah on Monday, 11/17/2025. The meeting will begin at 06:30 p. M. And we'll start with the welcome and pledge of allegiance from Todd Orum.

Mayor. Thank you, mayor. If you would all please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. We appreciate that. I pledge allegiance to the flag

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

Thank you.

Allow me to lead us with a word of prayer before our meeting today. Our dear father in heaven, we are very grateful for the bounteous blessings which we receive here in Smithfield, Utah. We are grateful for our city. We are grateful for this state. We are grateful for the blessings that we have in this great country. We're grateful for the opportunity we have to be together as citizens this evening. We pray that thy spirit will be with us as we handle the matters of the city this night that we may be able to do so in a manner that is cordial and that is pleasing, and in a manner that will allow us to continue to grow and continue to develop and improve our city. We pray that that will help each of us to have proper thoughts in our minds and desires to to serve and to help our city, and that we may make decisions that will truly be for the betterment of the city, and that we may be able to all improve and grow together. We, again, are so grateful for all which we have, and we pray for those within our city who may have special needs or struggles at this time, that I will be mindful of them. And we ask and say these things humbly in the name of thy son, Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen.

So I asked, Toddy if I could take the time to, give a thought tonight. And I've thought a lot about what I wanted to say right here. And if you come to any of these meetings in the past, several times we've talked about the dignity index, and it's how we disagree better with each other. It's something that the state has gotten behind. It's something that Smithfield City has gotten behind. And I've been thinking a lot about this because of the rumors that have run rampant in this city, before and after the election. So there's a few I would like to dispel right now for you. Number one, I did not leak the video of Ted Stokes. Number two, John Engler was not pre chosen. He was chosen because of the paperwork that he turned in, just like everybody else. I I do know there was some Facebook stalking from a few of these people up here. I do know that they checked with other people, and Number three, the Smithfield PD is not being defunded and is not being taken apart. I had a chance to talk in a great length with the new mayor that's coming on. And we both agree that the police department is very important to Smithfield City. They will continue to be funded. They will continue to be trained. They will continue to be supported with even even more and better training and funding. And we are we both signed a letter, myself and mayor elect Aaron Rudy, that said their jobs are safe. I need you all to know that. I'm tired of the rumors, and they need to stop. So as I looked at the dignity index, I realized that we have sunk down to number one is the worst, number eight is the best. We're between a two and a three when we pass these rumors. These rumors are being passed on social media, phone calls, squad cars, the grocery store, the gas station, the county jail, and at church. And it is destroying these groups. It's causing so much trouble. And we need to stop. Smithfield City, we are better than this. I've been in city government for twenty three years now. And I haven't seen it sink to this level until this year. It needs to stop. We have caused panic within the police department. We have broken up friendships. We have broken up neighborhoods. We have divided church groups. Why aren't we reaching out to each other if we have a question or an accusation? That's what I finally had to do when I called Mayor Rudy. And we were able to discuss decided what should happen with the police department. It is so much better to do it that way, than attack each other from behind. So I would suggest that on the dignity index, we reach number seven. We mistakes or changing our minds. And that's what I'm asking Smithfield City, you here in the audience, and you out there on Youtube, let's change. Let's do better. This isn't the way Smithfield City acts. If you think there's still a conspiracy theory you'd like to talk about, feel free to reach out to me. Feel free to reach out to Mayor elect Aaron Rudy. Feel free to reach out to any of these people here. We would like to dispel that rumor right now, so that our city can be, can pull back together, and we can make this a better place to live. That's it. Number one, approval of the city council meeting minutes from 10/15/2025.

I'd like to make a motion that we approve the city council meeting minutes from 10/15/2025.

Do I have a second? I'll second. Motion's been made by Wade, seconded by Jen. How do we vote? Todd? Yes. Jen? Yes. Sue? Yes. John? Yes. Wade? Yes.

Thank you.

We don't have it on the agenda, but I'm going to turn the time over to youth council. Ali and Jake, are you here? Come on up. Tell us your last names when you stand up too, would you please? My name is Allison Harding. I'm Jace Tueller. Oh, Jace. I'm so sorry. Okay.

And some activities

that we have coming up. Right into the mic, please.

Some activities that we have coming up, we have the turkey trot this Saturday, November 22. We'll be helping, like, them, like, on the course and stuff, like, at, like, checkpoints and everything. And then Friday, December 5, we will we're helping with the night of giving, the fifth and sixth. We'll help put that up and take it down. And then Monday, December 8, we're we're helping with the story book festival at the library.

You guys are gonna be busy. Yeah. Did you wanna say anything? Ally?

I'm excited for all these activities. This is one of our best times of year, and I think that with our current council,

But you guys do an awesome job, and you provide a much needed service, so we really, really appreciate it. And thank you for your time. I know it Thanks. With studies and everything else, it's a lot to do, so thank you. Thank you. See you at the turkey trot. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Number two. Public comment on items not on the agenda or agenda items not requiring a public hearing during the council meeting. We have a limit of three minutes. As you stand up, please say your name. Please treat each other, and we will treat you the same way, with dignity, and respect, and kindness. And I will open the time up now for public comment.

Hello, counsel. For the record, my name is Jeff Gittens, and I wanted to make a few comments tonight on on the goodness of people in Smithfield. First of all, I want to thank Todd Orm. He's been a very, very good counsel and help with the historical society. He's not afraid to get his hands dirty. He's done a lot of work. And he's been good advice and counsel to us. Okay. Got it. Just yell. I'm kinda hoarse tonight. I wanted to make you aware of, counsel, of another hero in our community, Frank Nilsen is having his viewing just across the street tonight. Frank Nilsen is 96, nearly 97 years old. He has served this community for all of his life, in two wars, he's been a veteran. He's led the flag ceremonies, led the parade in Smithfield many, many times. The salute, and, that's been given in our to our people as they're buried in the Smithfield Cemetery among the American Legions. He's been a great leader there, and been a part of that those ceremonies for many, many years at no cost, which is very rare for that kind of thing. Little side story quick. They are so loyal. Well, it was veterans as our American Legion at one time. During those ceremonies, they went to do the 21 gun salute for a veteran being buried, and one of the men participating had a heart attack. His his comrades, if you will, dragged him across the lawn under the shade of a tree, leaned him up against the tree to be as comfortable as he could until they finished their responsibilities. Then they get to go to the hospital. That's loyalty, and that's service. I'm grateful for the Smithfield Cemetery for the work that's been done there in the last year or two. It's just our cemetery has improved vastly, and it's a treasure in our community. I know Justin's had a lot to do with it, and I'm grateful for that. I go there often to reflect. I have a lot of friends there, too. And very often, I run into other families, that they, too, attend to reflect upon their family members, and to honor them. I wanted to give you a quick report, and Todd may want to report more on it, with the progress that we're making over at the rock store museum. We have the crown molding all up. That was a a big job. It's up. We have pictures, maybe Justin can share some pictures with you sometime. John and I spent a good share of the day. There you go. Right behind you, folks. John Wells and I spent a good share of the day gathering materials for the baseboard molding. We found some good wood moldings to finish up the baseboard. Those walls are 13 feet high, and we're thankful for the city workers to help with that. At the ten ten foot mark, we're going to have hanger molding, where we can hang pictures, because we can't put nails into the stone walls. And so, we'll be hanging pictures, historical pictures, from a 10 foot rail. And we got quite a bit done today, and we'll soon have it finished up, so that we can finish painting it, and also, refinish the original wood floors to match the maple doors. So, anyway, we're grateful for everybody who's helped, and I just want to say Smithfield is a good place to live. Thank you. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you. And thank you for the good reminder.

It is a great place to live. We just had a little problem. Anybody else? Sir, you have three minutes.

I know you can't respond to my comments. So, my name's Mike Monson. Martin Luther King Junior said, the great question we should all ask ourselves is what are we doing to help other people? So, tonight I just wanted to thank those that have served, those that are serving now, and those that will be serving in the future. What makes Smithfield a great place is the willingness of people to think of other people and what else, what can they do to help others. I've witnessed in my house somebody that's put their heart and soul into it for over twenty years. And I know that those of you on the council are doing the same thing, and I've watched many in the past do the same just give everything they could to try to help our communities. So, thank you very much.

Thank you. Thank you.

That was not fair.

Sorry.

In the first couple months.

Very defeated. I apologize. Go ahead, Chris.

He just said those things because he knew you wouldn't count three minutes if he got you emotional. My name is Chris Olson. And I'm just also wanna thank those who've served and those who will serve for everything that they're willing to do and have done. I'm getting up to just talk about just a couple of quick things. Since there's already been a public hearing in the Planning Commission meeting tonight, and some people may not be aware of this, if you're wanting to talk about any of the re zones that have already been spoken of previously you would need to talk about it here this first part of this meeting. So I just wanted to voice my opinion of being against ordinance twenty twenty five-nineteen. In the Planning Commission there were quite a few people that showed up to voice their concerns about that rezone. And and so just wanted to to make you aware of my thoughts on that. I also do have more information on the general plan update, which it doesn't look like there's a public hearing for that portion of it as well. But at some point in time I've taken the information and I don't know if you've received it or not. Some of the suggestions that I had for the general plan. I've kind of compared what they've done with the most recent update and just kind of looked at what things got implemented and which things didn't. If at some point in time you have any questions or you want me to send you the document that has an update to that, I'd be happy to. So thank you. Thank you Chris. Thank you.

I'm Ashley Spackman. I'm here for the Duncan family. They couldn't make it, so I'm reading a statement from them. Will you pull that up to your mouth? Thank you. Sorry. You're fine. Thank you, Ashley. That's about the zoning thing that he just spoke about. My family owns and lives on the property adjacent. For over one hundred years, this community has been single family dwellings. It is not comparable to the properties across from the railroad tracks because it because it has long been established for larger lots, gardens, and animals with single family dwellings. Going to multi family is a significant change to the nature of that community. There is no direct access on 1st On 1st North. There is only one way out. There are no sidewalks, no room for parking. This location was not set up for inner multiple family dwellings. There has been no mention of a traffic study to see the impact of increased traffic, garbage removal, mail, and other deliveries. I am concerned about the security of the neighborhood and the Planning Commission has already recommended this not be approved.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much.

I'm also here to speak on Can you tell us your name first? Oh, sorry. Thank you. It's Mandy Rogers. Okay, thank you. I'm also here to speak on the discussion of the twenty twenty five dash nineteen ordinance rezoning. It's already been denied and, it is not meant for apartments. It is my neighborhood that I grew up in. And it's just a beautiful place to be. And, I've said this before, we all know what happens when you go and cram apartments into a family neighborhood. It turns it into not a family neighborhood. And I also love Smithfield. This is my home, this is where I grew up. And I would like to keep it a beautiful place to live. And especially for my 90 year old mother, that lives in that neighborhood. There are farms still on that block, part of Smithville.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Jeffrey Strait. Sorry. Can't give it high enough. I want to speak in opposition to the twenty twenty five nineteen. We're experiencing something similar down to where I'm living. It was presented to the Zoning Commission, last month. And I was in opposition to that and I'm in opposition to this one, as well. And these are the reasons. Over on 120 South 400 or let's see. Yeah, 120 South 400 or 120 West 400 South. That was rezoned and they were gonna put retirement homes there, because there was cause there was many retirement homes in the vicinity as well and a lot of the people were okay with, you know, some retirement single family home excuse me, homes going in at that particular location. Then after they got it approved at the 12,000 square feet by the Zoning Commission and the City Council, whoever approved everything, the contractor then changed what was going to be there and they put apartments. And it's been kind of devastating to the the farming community down there, because they're kind of messing with livestock and on people's property in terms of messing with livestock, leaving gates open, etcetera. And so for that reason, maintaining the Smithfield Open community, that area was always considered to be residential agriculture or a buffer zone between the main city and agriculture. And we've lost a few farmers recently and I hate to lose my neighbors to farm my Kansan. And so I'm in opposition. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I guess it's my turn.

I am also against Will you state your name, please? Oh, Kirk Kimball. I'm sorry. And you can pull that down so it's a little more comfortable. There. That's

so I was here the last time we spoke about this. It was just a few months back, this ordinance twenty twenty five nineteen. I also grew up in that neighborhood. My mom lives there. I've lived in Smithfield my whole life. I I love this town, and I love the way that it has that small town feel. And I I know the last time we were here, the the the members who were sitting where you're at also gave their opinion that they wanted to keep Smithfield with that small town feel. I'm afraid that something like this is gonna get rid of that small town feel. As a matter of fact, I know it is. You know, when you start trying to cram as many people into a small space as you can, the small town feel goes away. You know, you can't have both. And that's why I oppose it. And I know it's very lucrative for the contractors to do that. I realize that that's the reason they do it. And it might the more people you can put in a small space, you know, the more taxes you you get out of it. But there's there's something that goes away when you start doing that. You know? The small town feel goes away. And and the last time we spoke about this in this council, nobody was for it. And I'm pretty sure that nobody will be for it today except for the contractor that wants it. And that's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Hi, Eric Bingham. I'm also speaking in opposition to Ordinance twenty twenty five Dash 19. When we moved to Smithville, we loved it because of the small town feel. When we moved within Smithfield to another place in Smithfield, one of the reasons we moved was because there was discussion of putting big multi family housing, across the street from where we lived, which was a field. And we wanted to stay that in an area that was more small town. And so we found an area where we felt like it was more small town. I feel like when you change the res the zoning, people who move there with the assumption that's what it's gonna stay like they and then and then it changes on them out from under them after they've already settled down in that area. It feels kind of deceptive if you change it at that point, because that's why we moved to where we did. So

thank you. Thank you, Eric. Thank you.

I'm Becky Hall. I was here at the last meeting and opposed it, and I'm opposing it again. This is like right in my face. I feel like it's starting to be, like, a spot zoning. Like, everybody's, like, trying to just get these little spots and rezone them. And that one that neighborhood, I live right there, and I don't feel like I mean, they're all zoned the exact same, and he wants this little lot to be rezoned just special for him, and I don't agree with that. I also want you to realize that you guys have created this trail that goes through that park, and bring apartments in, which will bring more traffic. And sometimes when you get, like, more traffic, you're gonna have a safety issue. There's gonna be little kids that play. They the the rec they play soccer down there. There's football down there. You already have kids running around, and now you're expecting to bring more traffic in. I worry about I watch kids go to football practice and go to soccer practice, and they're on their level bikes. And I worry about more people and more cars. And that park is used for, like, weddings and engagements and fun family events. And now you're gonna bring more people and more cars and more traffic through there. And there's lots of amazing things that happen on that street. Then you worry about, like, I watched the sewer line go in down there to help with the homes over there. So does that mean you're gonna bring all these apartments in that's more cost on you guys to do more sewer, more water? We already get water restrictions in the summer there. Like, we've had to, like, watch our water, and that's our house water, watering our lawns. I just feel like you are taking our little neighborhood that is like, there's not room. There's really not. That you're talking about last time he talked about putting up a fence, and I feel like you're like, we're open back there. Like, I feel like it's it's just gonna defeat it. It's gonna like, we have a neighbor that they moved. His wife passed away. They've sold that. They're trying to sell his house. You're gonna put an apartment there, and what family is gonna wanna live right next to an apartment complex? Would any of you guys buy right next to an apartment complex? Would any of you guys buy that house and put your family there? I mean this is like our little home. And I I love it because we have our little we have our little hobby farm, our little animals that go there, and we have enough to put a couple animals in our backyard. And like they said, I mean, we we have to watch our animals, you know? We get little kids that feed our animals, and some things that kids feed animals can make them sick, and it can kill them. And then we're out. So kill them. And then we're out. So just take that into consideration. But I am strongly opposed about putting an apartment there.

Thank you. Thank you.

I was worried I'd scared everybody off. I guess I wasn't, I didn't, so we're okay. Thank you. Let's move to item number, and I appreciate all the public comment. It makes a difference. Number three, discussion and possible approval of John Meyer as a member of the Smithfield City Planning Commission. Is John here? Do you wanna come up and just come up here, please? And just tell us really quickly a little bit about yourself, and why you wanna be on the Planning Commission.

I didn't expect to be up here. I know. It's a test.

Prepared for that chance, and selected a good candidate. And then several of you reached out and suggested that I stay involved stay involved and do the planning commission, have a little bit of a background in real estate. So my wife's from the Valley. We just live over here in the downtown area, so I'd like to be involved in the city.

Does anybody have any questions for John? Make a motion. Go ahead, make a motion.

I would like to make a motion that we approve John Meyer as a member of the Smithfield City Planning Commission.

Do I have a second? Okay. Motion's been made by Wade, seconded by Sue. How do we vote? Wade? Yes. Sue? Yes. John? Yes. Jen? Yes. Todd? Yes. Okay. Okay. Welcome. Okay. Thank you. You'll start tomorrow night. Wednesday. So next week, next Wednesday. What am I thinking? Yeah. I'm so thrown off with this being a Monday meeting. Alright. Number four. Discussion and possible approval of Jeff Strait and Russell Smart as members of the Smithfield City Historical Preservation Commission. Are, I know Jeff's here, I saw him. Is, Russell Smart? Are you also here? Yes. Can you at least stand up so we can see who you are? Thank you. You've been highly recommended. Who's who? This is, this is Jeff Strait. This is just right. This is Russell. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Awesome. We really appreciate people who volunteer and work on our committees. It makes such a difference. I am ready

for a motion. I'd like to make a motion, if I may, that we approve Jeff Strait and Russell Smart as members of the Smithfield City Historical Preservation Commission.

I'd like to second that motion. Okay. Motion has been made by Wade, seconded by Todd. How do we vote? Sue? Yes. Jen? Yes. John? Yes. Wade? Yes.

Todd? Yes.

Welcome. We're excited for you to work on that commission. Number five, discussion discussion and possible vote on ordinance twenty twenty five Dash 19, an ordinance rezoning Cache County parcel numbers 08 Dash 085 Dash 0008 and 08 Dash 085 Dash 0011 from R one twelve single family residential 12,000 square feet to RM multiple family residential. The parcels are located at approx. 385 West Center, and total approximately 1.4 acres. The request was submitted by Lucerne Management Company. Corey Adams, I think is, do you want to come up? Is Corey here? Go ahead and approach. And I'm gonna turn the time over to Brian, and he'll say something first, and then we'll turn it over to the council to ask questions. Okay.

Okay. This property, 1.4 acres, This is 1.4 acres in a previous r one twelve or a current r one twelve, and they're looking to rezone to an r m. Other than that, there are no other issues and the rezone will come to you for a decision Unless you have any other questions.

Questions for Brian? Okay. So Corey, are you the developer?

Are you Lucerne are you Lucerne management? We are. There's only two of us. It's me and my brother. Okay. Small company. Lucerne is actually a a hay that we raise in our family farm in Morgan. Okay. That's where we get the name from. Go ahead. Do you want me to talk about the project? So Sure. As I looked through the the general plan that it was adopted by Smithfield City, it identifies that that area as a three to five units or dwelling units per acre. And that's what I'm asking for. I think under your current zoning code, that translates into the RM zone, but the reality is is we want to follow what the general plan has been adopted for. And so we would like to have the general plan used in this situation where we can do three to five units per acre, and that's what we're wanting to do. As you look at the railroad that could go through the property, you have the RM property on the West, and then on the West there you have a general commercial. On that 400 West Street. When I was here a couple months ago, there were some ball games being played in the park. That whole street was lined with cars. It was interesting, and it see many folks taking the West Center Street going out. They would go back towards the 100 North Street. So I do understand there's traffic issues there, but I think there's traffic issues there regardless of what's transpiring. Historically, that property was owned by the Smithfield Implement family, and they used that as a area where they offload their goods. There was a warehouse there that actually still is part of a warehouse there, and we'd be open to general commercial or to be able to use that same zoning that they did. I know some of the neighbors talked about animal rights and things and and having some grandfather type issues, or if that's the case, we would love to have this grandfathered in as light industrial as well. I mean, we're open for that, but when we looked at your general plan, that's what I identified as, okay, we wanna follow the general plan of three to five units per acre. This would be a good area where we have a buffer zone between the railroad area and then the current R 112 zoning. We do have that right away or that easement property where the, I think, the one residence used right now, that's only a 16 foot right away, which we don't have fenced in. We would obviously put a privacy fence around this area. Our proposal is to bring a street off near the railroad area and that's where we'd access the property. So it doesn't affect the access right now, going back to the Sorensen's home, and we'd have a stop sign there. Obviously, the people would have to make a stop to be able to get back on to the West Center Street.

Do we have any questions? Council. If there are no questions, I am ready for someone to make a motion.

Just not necessarily discussion, but just talk for a second. Please. So some years ago, three, four years ago, a parcel next to mine on the East side of town was requested to do a similar thing. It's a larger lot, little it makes it a little over an acre. And there was a little debate on that one, and it was felt at the time, and I still believe that to be the fact is I'm a strong proponent of somebody that owns their property, has a right to make, to bring value off of that, to sell it, to have it make that gain. I also believe that there is a way that we need to balance somebody's right for gain on their property to make it work with something like a residential zone. And I I look at this property, and I I think and there is every right currently to to break this into smaller lots and and do several homes on it probably, if if everything was able to meet the qualifications that we have in the city ordinances. But established neighborhood. I don't believe that fits this parcel. I think it works in certain areas of the town. Generally speaking, I feel it's in newer subdivision areas where it's it's almost all brand new to do a mixed use. But to do that in these older ones, I know some cities are are focusing on growing in and growing up, and that's not been the Smithfield that I've grown up in that I wanna see or that I feel like we should have now. And so I don't support this type of development in general, whether it be my neighbor, whether it be the neighbor of the Kimbells and the Halls, or the Duncans. And in closing, if I may make a motion.

Anybody, I think Todd wanted to make a motion. I just had a couple of comments, or a couple of concerns as well, because I went back and I read the minutes from the Planning Commission meeting on that, and there were couple of things that really caught my eye. One was the statement, and I believe this was a statement by you, Mr. Adams, that, and you kind of alluded to that again tonight, that you thought this would be a good buffer between the R-one 112 zones and the railroad tracks. But in fact, the railroad tracks are an excellent buffer as it stands right now, between the existing RM property that is there and everything else that is on the other side, which is R-one 112. So in my mind, it actually doesn't create a buffer, but it actually removes the buffer and drags things around a little bit. So I really can't support it in that way, because I think it actually deteriorates or destroys that buffer. The other statement that I had, or the thing that just came to my mind, was the statements indicating, and I know there was a little bit of back and forth as far as a statement that was made, that the property is currently an eyesore. There were some that took that to mean other properties around that were being included in the statement, which I can see that it wasn't. The statement was regarding that property. And I understand that, but one of the things that caught my eye was the second part of that, considering that property and saying the property as it exists right now is an eyesore, Said this project will clean it up. But my but it also states in there that the property has been owned for several years. And I'm so I'm curious as to why it is taking this type of a project to get somebody to clean up property that's been owned for years. That seems like that's something that you would do first, would be to clean the property up so that it looks presentable, so that then there could be some discussion on it. But to claim that the property, or to insinuate that the property needs this project, to clean the property up and make it no longer be an eyesore, is a little bit troubling to me. And so, you know, for those reasons as well, I went down and I drove it again today, just relooking at it and hoping I could get through the water, because I know that road cutting through the mid block is pretty deep in some areas. But I went through on that and looked at it. And the feel to me is that is not, just not a good boundary, not a good fit for it. So for that reason, I'm feeling opposed to it as well. But I'll let you make the motion wait since you're going to. I'm ready for a motion.

Alright. I would make the motion that we deny ordinance 2,025 dash one nine.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

The motion has been made to deny from Wade, and seconded by Todd. How do we vote, John?

Yes.

To deny. To deny. Yes. Wait. Yes for denying.

Jen? Yes. Sue? Yes. Claude?

Yes. Okay.

So, ordinance twenty twenty five nineteen fails. Thank you for coming. Number six. Thank you for those of you who came for that item number. Number six, discussion and possible vote on resolution twenty twenty five dash 11, a resolution accepting a petition of annexation on certain real property under provisions of sections 10 dash two dash four zero three and ten dash two Dash 405, Utah code annotated as amended. The parcels being discussion. I'm gonna turn the time over to Dana.

So a petition has been filed by the S and G Bloom Haven LLC. A little closer. Closer? Can you hear me now? Yes. Okay. So there's been a petition filed by the S and G Bloom Haven LLC for a petition for annexation. For today, what is before you is is the potential to accept the petition for further consideration.

Petition only for annexation, not an annexation itself. Let's open it up for discussion. I have a comment. Please. I have a conflict with this, resolution, so I am going to withdraw from it. So I won't be participating. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for letting us know.

So far as I'm aware, this is part of the annexation boundary in the plans going down the road, correct? Brian or Justin? And this is just starting the process of the reviews of the county, different entities, and everybody look at it. So I would support Okay. Supporting the acceptation exception of the petition.

Go ahead. Do you have somebody else who wants to say something?

I'll just make the statement that I'm I'm very concerned about the fact that at least as I am understanding this, and and please correct me if I'm mistaken on this, but from what I am envisioning on this, it appears that, and I I realize now and I appreciate the clarification on this, it's just a petition for consideration of the annexation, But considering that this early on or looking at the potential to do an annexation on this this early on, to me appears to create an island of non

contiguous,

yes non contiguous non annexed property that becoming an island within annexed property, which as I've understood it over the years is a a big red flag to be able to have non, you know, annexed property inside and fully surrounded by other annexed property. I just think there's more work that needs to be done before it even gets considered.

For me, infrastructurally, there's no good access. There's a dirt road, with really no potential for good access. The townhomes that will be affected, I don't think that anybody wants that much traffic going through through those town homes on that street. You know, with respect for residents and wherever they choose to live and invest in their living, I just with concern to them, that is a lot of traffic on their part, and it will chronically have that traffic, because there's not a lot of options for roads with this parcel.

So if you look at this parcel, I'm gonna interject here. I don't get a I don't get a vote, but I will tell you. If you look at this parcel, the only way people are going to get out of this parcel is going down a half road. It's not a full road on 10th South to turn into the multiple family housing that is very dense, and drive down that road. This is over 70 acres. I personally do not believe that this is ready to be annexed, and that we should jump at it. That's my thought.

I think if I have any concerns, it's primarily on the access. The traffic is a major concern right now. If we're gonna have 70 acres, we're talking about hundreds of housing units of one kind or another. Mhmm. And that means hundreds and hundreds of vehicles in addition to what's already right there. And there just is not the access on on the roadways and the availability to that area. It's a good concerning. Like, I I it's absolutely within the future annexing plans of the city. And I think down the road, it could be a great move once there is roadways that are ready for this piece. This this not

to interrupt. This requires a lot of planning, and I think that I would like to avoid what has happened on 4th West. Right now, we're trying to figure out how we work 4th West being such a very narrow road. And I think instead of jumping on that and just not worrying about it, we need to be a lot more thoughtful, so that the residents that will future live there, we've thought about them. And not left them with very narrow roads and the infrastructure's not there. I think that it's not good planning to just jump into something before it's

ready. I think we have a problem. And as as soon as land opens up now, a lot of our, I'm gonna say this very carefully, a lot of our big corporations are out to get it as quick as possible. And I know this is probably one of those times when they would like to know for sure that this is going to be a viable piece of land to build on. But we need to make the decision whether this is the time that we think this is right.

I do wanna add that I think we're all facing growing housing prices and availability problems for a lot of our residents. And we need more housing. And we need more affordable housing. But we need to make sure and and I think this body has a responsibility to send the message to those who are interested in developing areas that

we want these areas, but we want them to be ready when it's time. And done correctly. And

done correctly. And I don't think and to Jen's point, I think it's not fair to put a pinch on future residents that don't know yet how future roads are going to be. I think we wanna have those roads planned and in place and part of the arrangement ahead of time so that it's fair to everybody down the road.

Yeah. There's one other potential road that that would potentially link into that, coming from those, from the higher density that's there on the west of it. But that has some major, major issues right now also, that would really need to be worked out. And I think that it's not, you know, it's not going to be able to be short term worked out. It's going to have to be a part of the grand plan and the grand scheme. And it just, right now, it's just not possible.

Question. How far away is Hyde Park City boundaries on this?

So, our agreement with Hyde Park is four thousand four hundred North to the South. Okay. At the very bottom of this map. That's what I was making sure there. Yeah. We still have a long term plan. We're working with them on some long term roads down West of there. But, yeah. But our our agreement with them is 4400 North.

Any more, please, go ahead.

Regarding agenda item number six, I would like to make a motion that we do not accept the petition for annexation.

Okay. I'll second. Okay. Motion's been made by Wade, seconded by Jen. How do we vote? We're voting against accepting the petition for annexation. Let's start with Sue. Oh, that's right, sorry. Wade? Yes for? Jen. Yes for not accepting. Yes for not accepting. John? Yes for against. Jen? Yes. Todd? Yes. Thank you, and thank you for the good discussion. Okay, number seven. I'll turn this time over to Okay. Number seven. I'll turn this time over to Dana. We're going to canvass the election results of the November.

Alright. So I'm just gonna read, basically, what's on the screen, so it's onto the record. So our general election canvas for 11/04/2025, the mayor's a four year term, Aaron Rudy with 1,649 votes, Chris Monson with 1,570 Aaron Rudy being the elected. For the City Council four year term, Chris Olsen, 1,802 votes. Lizette Villegas, 776. Sue Heyer, one thousand five hundred and forty one thousand five hundred and forty two. JD Downs 1837. Total votes cast 5,957 with Chris Olson and JD Downs being elected. The statistics, active registered voters 7,934. Total ballots cast 3,246 with a voting turnout of 40.91%.

Thank you. Do we need to do anything with that? We need a motion? Okay. I need a motion to certify the election results.

I would like to make a motion that we certify the election results of the November.

Motion's been made by Wade. Do I have a second? I'll second. Seconded by John. How do we vote? Wade? Yes. John? Yes. Sue? Yes. Jen? Yes. Todd?

Yes.

Thank you. Alright. Let's go into something a little lighter here. Number eight. Discussion on e bike use in the city. And we're gonna ask Officer Brandon Douglas to come on up, so we can hit some questions. Now I know in our a couple of months ago in our mayor's dinner, we have a collective mayor's dinner once a month. They talked quite a bit about what they wanna do about e bikes, e scooters, e motorbikes, whatever. And they said that as a county, we are starting to reach out and work together on this, because it doesn't make sense for one city to make one ordinance the Association of Police Officers are talking about it as a group too, and the mayors are talking about it as a group. But we thought we would get Officer Douglas here, so we can ask at least some questions. So do you want to say something first?

No. I'll just try and answer your questions the best I can. Okay.

So what I what I heard there was they were most concerned about the e I I think were they the e motorcycles? The e motorcycles. Correct. E motorcycles, because they can get to a speed of? Around fifty, fifty five.

So as far as oh, sorry. As far as e bicycles, we're not really seeing an issue with them. They're you're fifteen, twenty mile an hour bicycles. The problems we're having in the city are the motorcycles, and we'll just deal with them as we continue. If they're speeding, we can cite them for speeding, and you know, if they're driving recklessly we can address that as well. But that's the e motorcycles are what we're seeing the bigger problem with.

Do they do they ride those on the streets or on the sidewalks?

Yep. I haven't seen a e motorcycle on the sidewalk. Okay. But on the streets, yes.

I saw them at the out sale, and I saw a lot of people buying them.

So And when you say a problem, what what are we talking about when we say there's a problem with e motorcycles? Well, it just fall the traffic laws.

So sometimes kids get on them, 16, 17 year olds, and they're just driving them, like

And and they don't have motorcycle licenses is what you're saying?

I haven't stopped any myself, but they would be required to have a motorcycle license to be on them. So Okay.

Yeah. That's that's kind of one of my concerns. I've I've done a lot of research into this. I think we're talking about the Suran and and some of those other models, which are the more the dirt bike, e motorcycle type situation that again has the speed. But the other problem there is those are primarily designed, or with the classification that those are and it's unfortunate they haven't classified it better within the Utah code. But with those, they are of such that they shouldn't be under one of two classifications, either as an OHV, which means it should go through the licensing process of an OHV and should only be allowed to be ridden in areas that an OHV is allowed, or the vehicle would need to be made street legal, which then requires mirrors, tail light, brake light.

Insurance.

Insurance, headlight, high beam and low beam headlight, and would need to be licensed, insured, and would need to be ridden by a licensed driver. And I know I personally have seen, again judging age, they may have been small for their age, but judging age, kids 12, 13 years old, no helmet, 55 miles an hour, using the edges of people's driveway where the curb ramps up to jump and jump up onto the sidewalk for one and jump back down onto the road with the next on these bikes at thirty five and forty miles an hour. And it's a liability for the city. I grew up on a farm. I grew up on motorcycles. I would love nothing more. I would be doing the exact same thing. I grew up a little more rural than this, so it was a little less dangerous. But particularly in city, it's a real concern.

I've also had two or three people reach out to me saying that, and this is not the e motorcycles, but the e bikes on the sidewalks with kids that are just flying down there, because they can go up to 20 miles an hour on those. Yeah. They are on the sidewalks with people they're trying to walk. That's also my concern.

Unfortunately, they are legally allowed I know. On the sidewalk. However, they are it is a part of the mandate that they have to yield to pedestrians, and that's the problem is

a lot of the kids don't grasp that. They're not being trained before they get it. Yeah. It's not like getting a driver's license.

Right. I I from what I understand, I know they're working on some laws to help govern and enforce the e motorcycle portion of it. They just haven't got to that point yet, so we just gotta wait for that to continue through legislation.

So From your perspective is this mostly an education issue or an ordinance issue?

Maybe a parent issue. A parent? Okay. That's fine. Sorry. My chief will probably kill me for saying that, but I say Okay.

Goes out and buys responsibility

for them. For their kids, and then they get on them and they just go and there's no real rules. But if we could educate parents what's legal and what's not. There's been a few times we've taken kids home with their electric motorcycles, and parents are like, I had no idea that it had to have insurance, and they need to have a license, and they just think it's a toy and put their kids on them and send them down the road. So Right. So maybe something in the newsletter.

Mhmm. I know our three things that would be a good one, especially around Christmas time. I was just gonna suggest, Mayor. I would be I've done

I know I just did mine this last week. I would've I wish I would've thought about this beforehand, but Let's talk.

Okay. Yeah. I'd like maybe an opportunity on that. I think that's a good idea. Let's let's get a special with a link.

Yeah. Special. It'll be a longer than, it would necessitate a longer than normal. That's why we could put a link in. But, in. Yep. There's some great things. That would

be really important to just send out on Civic Plus. Let's do that just before Christmas.

Or maybe just after Christmas when everybody's. I like that. I know my

biggest thing concern is the safety of everybody, including those who are on those z bikes or e motorcycles. We'll continue to try and enforce what we legally can and educate as much as possible as well.

Right. From your perspective, what can the city do? What's the next best thing the city can do to help you do your job and and keep Just continue educating them. So like I said,

95% of the people we talk to have no idea their what the legality of them on the road is.

So So what is the county doing collectively? Do you know anything yet? No. I haven't been included in those discussions. Okay. That's probably the chief that's starting with those discussions. Cause I'm hoping that we do move together as a county collective to make some suggestions and and maybe some some laws and rules that will help all of us collectively.

And that could be happening state wide as well. Yeah, I understand the legislature was going to bring us up also. So, yeah that would be. I think it would also be very important for us to help stress, and like I say again, I was a kid, I grew up on motorcycles, and I have really have a you know, tears in my heartstrings for that same thing to go on. But I I think that if we can inform properly and as a part of that information also help them realize what your limitations are and, you know, you have to uphold the law as well and help them understand the limitations that our police are under that they can't just forgive everything because because oh, it's just a kid and it's just a bike. You know, I'm I'm sure you guys are as lenient as you can be. We need to help them parents understand, do not take this out on the officers. You know, if if they are, if they see something that's egregious enough that happens, please understand we're doing this for safety reasons and it's not an officer being a grumpy officer that's doing it. He's trying to save a kid's life. Or other people. Or other people's lives, yeah.

Yeah. That'd be my biggest worry is pulling out of a driveway or a road and some kid who doesn't stop at the stop sign goes right through and gets That was a rod sign.

So.

Yep. Any other questions?

Okay. Okay. Thank you so much. Yep. Thank you. Thank you.

If any of you have comments about that later, please email us or call us or text us. We'd love to get your input as well. That would be awesome. Number nine, update on the general plan update. And I'll turn the time over to Justin.

Alright. Counsel, just a quick update. We're not approving anything tonight. We're not voting on anything tonight. So for those in attendance, the general plan upstate, we applied for a grand a couple of years ago. We've taken some funding to update the general plan, as well as our transportation master plan. A steering committee was formed, boy, well over a year ago, involved a couple planning commission members, some members of the community, some staff, some elected officials that slowly worked its way through there. It's a draft that eventually went to the planning commission. The planning commission reviewed it for, I would have to look, three or four months for it was multiple months. I had a there's been some surveys. There's been a public hearing. Just an update tonight, council, of where we're at. So it is not done. It will now that it's it has been a dot well, it's been recommended for approval by the planning commission. It will now start working its way through the city council. What that means is with significant changes to the elected positions in the city, we're not going and not being able to basically adopt it in a month. This will not come up until 2026. It will circle back around. There will be discussion. There will eventually be a public hearing. There will eventually be a vote on that. The council and mayor will decide how they want to proceed with that, come 2026. As a side note, there is a water conservation element in there that come January 1. We are not in compliance. We're trying to see if we have any options to possibly adopt that, We're trying to see if we have any options to possibly adopt that element separately. We don't have that answer today. We're reaching out, working with the state, some others to see if we can do that to stay in compliance, or if it's just going to be part of that plan. The transportation master plan cannot be finished until the general plan is updated. We have been talking to our neighbors to the south. Hyde Park's been very good as we as they plan for Wolfpack Way, and as we, plan for 1st East, 250 East, 1000 East, 1200 East. But the transportation plan right now is on hold till the general plan is adopted, and then they'll finish up the transportation plan, which will eventually work its way through. So just for an update for those in attendance, this will be put off for a couple of months till we can restart this at the start of the year. And it will take most likely three plus months, I would estimate, at least, for itself to work its way through, if not longer. So that's just a quick update, Mayor. We will have this posted on the website if anyone wants to There are still some typos and stuff. We appreciate those that have reviewed it page by page, offered their comments, critiques. We even got a few today. We appreciate those. We submitted those too. We've been working with JUB engineers on this project from the start. They keep making those tweaks as we come, but council will eventually circle its way back to the council and work its way through. But we just wanted to provide an update for those that are wondering where it's at. But yeah, no vote tonight, simple update. It will start working its way through the council in 2026.

I think a really interesting thing about the general plan is the day it's adopted, it's outdated. And that it's a very fluid document, And you add things and take things away as it moves through. So just understand that it is a fluid document and in about ten years, we'll redo it all over again. So. Okay, number 10. Discussion and possible vote on ordinance twenty twenty five-seventeen. An ordinance amending the Smithfield City Municipal Code Title 17 Zoning Regulations, chapter 17.81, Master Plan Community MPC Zone, section 17.81.030 definitions, and the rest of them. So let's just go to Ordinance twenty twenty five-seventeen and talk about this, and I'll turn the time over to Brian.

Thanks. So in a nutshell, for quite some time, for a long time, private roads in residential areas are problematic. A lot of times what happens is they, well, what does happen is that they don't design them to the city standard. That's the first thing they do is they'll make them smaller than the city standard. And then if HOA either goes away, disappears, dies, decides not to take care of things, so maintenance falls down, then we start getting a lot of complaints from residents and citizens. And eventually, a new HOA will come in or the citizens call and continually ask the city to take over that road. And we don't, because it's not the city standard. And so it even becomes more of a problem when it comes to snow removal, getting large trucks to take garbage back and forth. And so what we're doing here is just removing the possibility private roads to stay in intra blocks. And so when you vote on this, this is the change right here. We want to make sure

Exceptions.

We put private roads are not allowed in residential zones with the exception of intra blocks. That's the place where we really need to have those. It doesn't really work. Intra block is a conditional use, so it has to come and be approved anyway. So that's the exception that we've put in, and we still allow them in commercial manufacturing areas. They're just not allowed in residential areas. They're problematic. We've wanted to do this for quite some time.

Any questions for Brian? I'm ready for a motion.

I'd like to make a motion that we approve ordinance two zero two five dash one seven as outlined in agenda item number 10. With the amendment of sixteen point one six point zero three zero as shown in the attachment for this ordinance.

Okay, do I have a second? I'll second. And seconded by Todd, how do we vote? Jen? Yes. Sue? Yes. Todd? Yes. Wade? Yes. John? Yes. Okay.

Mary, before you move on, can you just make one comment? Yes, please. So this will not apply to any already approved projects. Those projects that are already approved have laid out private roads. Those will still be allowed, because that project's previously approved. This is only moving, projects moving forward that this will apply to. Thank you.

Number 11. Public hearing for the purpose of discussing ordinance 20 dash 20, sorry, twenty twenty five dash 25. An ordinance amending the Smithfield City Construction and Design Standards Part one, Design Standards chapter five point o, Culinary Water System Design. I'll turn the time over to Justin first, and then I'll open a public hearing, if you'd like to speak.

So, as proposed, the current code says, all water service connections that service more than one unit after the meter must have individual disconnects uniformly and prominently located, and is easily accessible to the city staff. We are recommending or asking for a proposal to change that to all water service connections for residential and commercial. You shall have an individual water meter per unit. The reason that request is being made is we are running into problems from the city side, as well from the residential side or the the consumer side, where you can have the potential to have one meter supplying to several different units. For example, right now, we have a commercial unit that is supplying or one meter is supplying a couple of commercial units. The one property owner refuses to pay his utility bill. The other property owner pays his utility bill like clockwork. The only way that the city can try and go after this person that is not paying their utility bill is basically through legal counsel. And so, we don't wanna hire an attorney if we can have a separate meter that would dictate, keep all those accounts separate. Those that aren't complying, we have some options, those that are. Another problem we're running into on the consumer side is you have, for example, a fourplex with one meter and all the water runs through there and then it becomes how is that Single person is not using much water. Their neighbor was a family, I believe, of of like six, using substantially more water. They're like, me as a single person, why am I paying the same? My the renter or the the landlord's dividing it by four. This isn't fair. We have no way to split that down so that each one of them would have their own meter, their own service, pay for the exact water that they are using. So our proposal as proposed is that each new unit would have its own water meter. This would not impact anyone from the past, those that already have single meters and shutoffs. They would not be forced to go in and make any changes. This would only be new construction moving forward.

This is why we have also required this on ADUs, accessory accessory dwelling units, that we ask that they also have their separate water meters, separate different meters for for electricity, things such as that, because to help with this problem. Okay. I'm gonna open the public hearing at 07:41PM. If anybody has a comment about this, we welcome you to come up at this time, state your name first. And we have a three minute time limit. Okay, I'm gonna close the public hearing at 07:41, bring it back to the council. Any other discussion or questions?

We'll just, we'll call it a short story, emphasis on short. Okay. John and Coy Manning We'll miss these. Are residents that have passed away, but they were about a block and a half east of us here. They had their home and they had a barnyard with some some cattle. When John and Cloy passed away, their boy purchased it, and eventually, he built some town or apartments kinda thing on where the barn once stood. And the water service, all service, actually went through the residence of the home. It just tied into the culinary system that cows used to drink out of. And then when the Mannings sold the property, one entity bought the home because they were different partials, technically, and another entity bought the multifamily area, but all the water was tied through the resident's house. And it was unknown at the time until maybe about a couple years. I don't know if you remember this, Justin, but it became quite a kerfuffle. Yes, and this would have been something that would have prevented that, is just every unit has its own water meter, and it it should have been something that was done at the time. They had to dig up their road, tie in some water. You couldn't shut it off to all the tenants because they were paying their paying what was due to them, And neither property owner, it turned out, really knew what was going on when they purchased the property from the Mannings, and I don't believe that it was done maliciously, it was just done. And so I think this is a good ordinance to tweak things to prevent future problems as well as keep things square with people that, you know, I use 5,000 gallons a month and my neighbor next to me uses 12. I think that the user ought to pay And so I would support this wholeheartedly, knowing the short story situation as well as going down the road in the future.

Does this go retroactive? In other words, does this need to go backward and resolve any current standing issues? There are several outstanding

There are several outstanding issues, but this would not impact them. Okay. So, this is only food you're going? Yeah. This is only new. Yeah. This is only moving. So, grandfathered. Correct. Correct. Okay. Okay. So,

what is the resolution for current meter?

Now, say that again. What is the resolution for the current problem, with one meter for multiple meters? It's a very awkward situation with property owners and renters, and the City has to deal with those on a one on one basis, as time comes along. But this will prevent There are not I realize that. There is not a good option for the ones that we are having problems with. Hence the word kerfuffle. That's a And no good option for the City to try and do anything retrofit. No, because a lot of those, like for example, the one that we have a lot of problems with, that meter, you would be cutting driveways, you would be, like, the the amount of infrastructure time trying to split those, trying to find water lines, it would not be fair to anyone involved to ask them to do that. It's just a past lesson learned. We would like to fix that moving forward. Prevent

it. Okay. Any other comments, questions? Then let's move to number 12, discussion and possible vote on ordinance twenty twenty five dash 25.

I'm ready for a motion. I'm gonna jump in before we get the chance. It's a great second. And I would like to make a motion. Oh.

They're retiring.

That's right.

That we approve ordinance 25 dash 25.

-Motion's been made by Todd. Do I have a second? I'll second. Good, Jen. K. Motion's been made by, Todd, seconded by Jen. How do we vote? Todd? -Yes. -Jen? -Yes. -Sue? -Yes. -John? -Yes.

Wade? Am I allowed?

Yes. Could you please spell kerfuffle?

K e r f l u f f l e, I believe.

Is it really? Did you work it out? You didn't make it up. No. It's a word. It's a word. She's maybe using this in It's an old word. Is this going to be in the minutes?

I completely do. I mean, please do. This is important. You don't know that word, Jen? I've never heard of it. Really? It's a word. Well, maybe it's an vernacular.

Well, she's gonna have to ruminate about that. Mhmm. Yeah. Okay.

Alrighty. Number 13. We had another public hearing. There, this one's been withdrawn for tonight. It's being reworded. Okay. Did not know that. No, you didn't. Sorry.

And that means 14 is over two. Okay. I am going to turn the time over to Justin for the City Manager Report.

Just to update on a few of our big projects that we've been working on for years, actually. The 3,000,000 the new 3,000,000 gallon tank project, the contract has been awarded and signed with Spindlers. The construction on that, they can start at any time. The completion date of that new tank is anticipated to be September 2026. Thank you. This has been discussed for several years. We're super excited that we're to the construction part of this project. The tank will go up the canyon by one of our other existing tanks. It won't be too far from it. We're happy after years this will be a project that we're paying cash for. We're way happy that we do not have to bond and that we're finally going to start that. Stormwater project, the biggest stormwater project the city's done is we are, after talking with the engineering company, because we've been working on this one for a few years and we're still having some discussions with the Army Corps of Engineers, this project would be on 10th South from just West of the highway, all the way down to 1200 West onto some property we own, a pond would be created down there. This project is going to be spit into two phases. For the current fiscal year, we are going to bid out relatively soon from basically, we'll just say, west of the highway down to the railroad tracks. We're gonna call that phase one of the stormwater project installation of Clay, is it a 40 inch pipe? Two. It's a very large pipe, a very large stormwater pipe. Phase two of that project would come in the next in the next fiscal year and that would go from the railroad tracks down to 1200 West. Also, the creation of that storm water pond down there. We're currently working with the Army Corps of Engineers on that, what their final request and stuff will be. Clay's been Clay's spent a lot of time and hours. Clay and Josh have, as we get ready to finally be able to do phase one, another project that we're paying cash for as we move forward with that. The anticipated anticipation is phase one and phase two will both be paid for with cash. We've been saving for a long time. This will be our largest stormwater project. Update on the spring line project that is when we started, I believe it was 99 years old. Now, it's well over a 100 years old, several years into that. We are to the design point that we're going to after review with the engineering company, we're looking at spudging that project into two phases, because the construction will be so different. Phase one, we're going to call the county side, which will be, basically in Cache County. It will run up the road, kind of to the words of Forest Service boundary. We're gonna call that kind of where it will stop, plus or minus. Phase two, would be the Forest Service property all the way up to the spring. It will be a significantly harder project. There's a lot of rock rock ledges, turns. So we're going to we feel like we're going to get significantly more bidders on phase one, because the equipment is not as extensive as will be needed for phase two. We anticipate that it will go to go to bid. We're hoping the sooner the better, but we're hoping for sure in the first quarter of next year, we would love to see that project finally start. That project overall is approximately 4.7 miles of pipe that will be installed. It will go up the road. It will go up the canyon. It will require a canyon closure. It's going to be a big project, but it's been building for years too. We're looking at the financing on that as that thing comes around, where it's being split into two phases. For calendaring council, we've kind of had October and November council dates have been moved around due to various factors. The December meeting will be on its regular date of Wednesday, December 10. During that meeting, we will be looking at it's hard to believe we are at the halfway point of the budget cycle. We'll be looking at budget adjustments in December. The audit is complete. We just couldn't get on Diana's schedule for November. Diana and her staff, well, they will be here in December to to present the results of the audit. One project, another update, the 400 West and the 800 West Bridge projects, bridge widening projects. Big thank you to Clay. Clay has overseen these from the design to the construction to basically, we're down to sidewalk and asphalt. That will not be completed until the spring because of the weather or the temperature. But we're if you've seen those, we think they're a much needed improvement on both of those bridges. Kudos to Clay for watching those and spearheading and overseeing those from start to finish, as well as Josh.

And Mayor, that's all I have tonight, unless you have something else. I'm just gonna bring up really quickly that part of the reason the water line has been on hold is we've been waiting for U. S. Forest Service permits to be granted. And we paid them the money for those permits last spring, I believe. We paid those permits. We paid those permits. And the Federal shutdown has not helped our situation. I just wanna let you know that this has not been put off. That was another rumor I would like to dispel. I'm gonna go ahead and turn the time over to Council Member Reports. If I can start with Todd.

You bet.

We got a really good portion of the Historical Society and the changes to the commission as well, to the adders that are there. So we're grateful for that. Grateful to be able to have those additional members with that. They, Jeff kind of stole my thunder a little bit because I was going to have Justin post the pictures and show the the crown molding. My original understanding was that just the crown molding and the main big room had been done, but they've also done it in the, memorial room. So both of those have the crown molding in them now. I just stopped over and looked today again before meeting. So that's moving along really well. It's, we're again starting to ramp up with some progress now that activities are slowing down and winter is coming. So hopefully we'll be able to continue to make some good progress there. In addition, the historical society has been asked by the two fifty committee to be able to help with the celebration of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of our nation. So, this Saturday they'll be helping with things with the turkey trot. They'll be helping with several different things. So, they're anxiously engaged there and doing well. As far as the tree committee, we had a meeting last week. We are losing two of our tree committee members, Carol Holland and Kayo Robertson. They've got some other commitments in their lives, so we're going to be losing the two of those. But we do have a recommendation that will most likely come to us as a council next month. And so we'll look forward to that as far as one of the replacements there. Having some good discussions in regards to trees. We've had some discussion as far as being able to better identify, better map. We'll take a look at some things on what we can do there within the, within the tree committee to be able to supply some additional things for our citizens with that.

Great, thank you. Jen. Okay,

so the Health Day Ambassador Pageant is still on for March. The sign ups are ongoing right now. They've had five sign ups so far, so we're really gonna try and amp up the awareness so we get more girls sign up. This year, I would like to tie into the America two fifty theme and have the pageant be revolved around that more patriotic. The music, the decorations, and different things like that. So I'm looking forward to it. It's gonna be a special pageant. It always is that I would like to to have, have it be part of the celebration as we celebrate the two hundred and fifty year anniversary of our country. The Arts Council is all hands on deck, just making final plans for the second annual storybook festival being held on December 8, just out in the library parking lot. It's a free event for all families. It is cold, but dress warm. There's heaters. It is so fun. The committee started planning this as soon as last year's story festival was over. It's beautiful, it's magical, there's a lot of talent from our city and even our, the valley. So put that on your calendar December 9 to 05:00. Are they vendors? There are vendors. They're still looking for more. I don't know how many they have right now but there's a lot. But they're still accepting applications for vendors. And they're more looking for things that can be given as gifts. Not advertising, they're trying to get away from that and do more things that are last minute little things that you can give as gifts. But there's gonna be food trucks and music and it's gonna be beautiful and magical and we hope that the weather cooperates. Plan b is just kind of a drive through. It is gonna happen, it will just look different if there's

a lot of snow. We'll see. So we'll see. Okay. Sue? Have they given the theme for that? Like the story It is a nutcracker. That's what I thought. They had a little teaser, didn't they? Mhmm. Okay. Yeah. I'm just gonna throw in. Have most of you been to this Storybook Festival? Fantastic. It's fabulous. So in the live magic windows, they have vignettes from different parts of the story. With live actors. With live actors standing in the windows. They have all these vendors selling goods and gifts and things. They have Live music. Live music. They pass out candy canes. They have stories being told. It's fabulous. It's a lot of work, but it is fabulous. And I really invite all of you to come.

-Almost kind of Disneyland ish. -It is really cool. It's magical. I think that's the word. It is magical. -It is. It is definitely something that will put you in the description. -There's no rides like Disneyland.

It's magical. -Yeah. -It's

in our three things we keep do do you guys get the three things? Are you signed up for Civic Plus? I'm signed up for Civic Plus, but I didn't even know about that. You know what? Come over and give him your email.

Leave your email address and we'll make sure that you receive it. If you're not getting weekly updates about the city,

you need to give him your email and we'll get you right on. Definitely. Sue, sorry. Youth council gave my report, so we're good. Thank you. Mhmm. Thank you. Yep. John. Chamber of Commerce continues to go well. Of course, the

night of giving. The Chamber of Commerce night of giving is December 6 at 06:30 at Sky View. Are we out of tickets? Does anybody know? I think we're close to I think we're close to having sold all the tickets. So that's always a great fundraising event. And I've met briefly with the trails committee chair. I'm just getting to know the players at this stage. So trails have kind of been paused on hold for reasons unknown at the moment, but I'm digging into it. We're gonna figure out what's going on and get that moving again. But things are going well. That's awesome. I'm going back to Jen for one second. I'm gonna show you goodbye.

Along with the storybook festival, there will be free books handed out, a Christmas book handed out to each family that comes through. They were donated and it's a pretty big thing. They're gonna they're really cute family Christmas books. So Yeah. There's a company called Gibbs Smith out of Layton, that we have access to those books. And this year they doubled the amount. Last year they gave us books

at $15 a shot. This year, there are 300 books at $15 a shot. So it's pretty cool. Wade.

Mosquito Abatement District, kind of the off season for mosquitoes, thank goodness. So they're buying a couple of things ahead that they have the funding for, different chemicals and things, and just getting ready for the upcoming year, doing end of year closeouts with different things, and

hoping

good success with the enhanced use of drones to combat, you know, more rural placement of treatment in the ponds and things that are on public or private property as access is limited on some areas. So just happy to report on that success with that and the increased control that that has been able to allow the Mosquito Abatement District to do. Library board. The meeting is this next Wednesday. They've been working through different projects and things over there. I don't know if Justin has anything specific to

address with that, but I'll turn it over to Justin on that. No. There'll be the other half of the carpet this year. We are super excited. They will be closed for a period of time, like complete closure. They are working with Public Works staff. They are having a lot of heartburn that they have to close the library for this project to take place, But, there's a lot of coordinating going into it. It will be a really good project when it's done. It will be done done, half of it was done last year, the other half will be done this year. It's an item we budgeted for, planned on. Just take some coordination, do it in the winter. Sean and them are very stressed. Public work staff is not stressed. This will be a lot easier going than the last site, because the old part of the building was like a wave with a floor, was very uneven, had some issues. This the part of the the newer part of the building is much better. The contractor is well aware that we are offering a complete closure and that they have to come in, get their thing done and get out. One of the big parts of doing that is moving the shelving. That shelving is brutal. Lots of books, lots of shelving, lots of weight. We're coordinated and ready to do that, thanks to Josh and his staff. And we'll just put that together and work with them and only keep it closed, the minimum amount we have to, for that project to get done. But they're excited to get it done, but they also, it's hard when you are offering a complete closure.

That'd be great if we can find out what that date is early enough to get it in a couple of the three things, so that people are aware for their kids ahead of time that we will go get your stuff. The library is gonna do some communication there as well as I've understood that some of the programs, some of the younger kid programs, they're gonna try to do off-site. Here, in this building? Yes. And still try to offer some of the things, though the library itself, as as was mentioned, will be closed.

And we'll try to put that in the three things. But also, if you don't follow the Smithfield Public Library on social media, you're missing out. They send out great posts that are fun and very informational, but really fun posts. So get on and start following them. I recommend it. Anything else from any of you? Okay, I have two things. So I have a couple of projects that I, one project I just wanna talk about just real quick. I don't know if any of you have noticed the rock by the skate park that was put, lay down about two or three years ago. Very jagged, big, ugly, horrible rock. And I have asked for that to be removed and replaced with something that's a little more user friendly. There were reasons that was put down and that was kind of to keep people from running into the streets from the skate park. But I think regular rock will do a better job. So that is something that we are working on. As soon as we have a project where we can move the sharp, large chunks of yellow rock there, we will move those and we will be putting in a more family friendly rock in that area. This last one is with mixed feelings and a heavy heart. I am announcing the retirement of the Chief of Police, Travis Allen. It will be effective 01/15/2026, And we will be opening the applications for the position sometime this week. So please keep an eye out for that. Any other comments? And with that, I will ask for a motion to adjourn.

I'll make a motion to adjourn. Second?

Second.

How do we vote? Jen? Yes. John? Yes. Todd? Yes. Wade? Yes. Yes. Thank you all for coming. We really appreciate you being here tonight.