The Draper City Council met on August 19, 2025, for a study session beginning at 5:30 PM followed by a business session at 7:00 PM. Key topics included a presentation from the Salt Lake County Health Department, review of station area plan renderings, contracting garbage services for private streets, heavy equipment operator training, a proposal to purchase a Flock camera system, public hearings on a zoning map amendment and the FY2026 budget, and an ordinance amending the city's ethics code on employment of relatives. All votes were unanimous 5-0.
Ladies from Salt Lake County. Welcome all our study session order. And our first item is a presentation from the health department from coordination Dorothy Adams, Salt County Health Director. She's going to talk to us about the protocols for water that gets in a system that's not supposed to be consumed. Oh, ID. That never happened. Come on up. I am not going to talk about that. I like a little bit of that. Is there a clicker? Yeah, I was going to say there's a clicker up front, and then if someone's going to be able to do that. Oh, okay. I got that. Well, thank you for letting me join your meeting today. One of my goals, and I'm new in this position. I've been in the position about a year, but I'm not new to the health department. I've worked with the health department for 38 years. A lot of my time in water quality. So we have a lot of great stories about water quality. Oh goodness. Okay, thank you. I'm glad something. But one of the things this is taken before COVID, and I look a lot younger, so I'm glad we'll be using that. COVID took it out of people. Exactly. But I was the deputy director for a long time. But what I also did a lot of during the course of my career is I worked in the field. So I was immersed in the cities that I was involved in, so being an environmental health water quality. I worked a lot at the city level, and I understand the connection that's needed between our department and what the needs are of the communities. Because they're different. Every city is different. So it is a goal of mine to maintain that connection with the cities because we're your health department. We've had many different needs for the health department during the course of my career, Salt Lake City County Health Department when I first started, Salt Lake Valley Health Department, and now Salt Lake County. But I think sometimes by being called Salt Lake County, people don't understand. We are the city, we are the city's health departments. There are no other city health departments other than ours. So we are your health department. We need to understand what your needs are so that our programming is meeting those needs. We're the largest local health department in Utah, not surprisingly. We were accredited in 2014, and that was by national accreditation. So making sure that the services we provide really are up to snuff with national standards. And then we were named local health department of the year in 2019 by the National Association of City Income. Social determinants of health, and I'm just gonna kind of give you an overview of what we do and then get kind of into the specifics about services that we provide. Everyone's heard, I think, this term lately. Social determinants or health are things that affect people's health outcomes, like your education, your economic stability, neighborhood, availability of housing, health care in an area, and then social and community context. And what we find in this quadrant is social and community context, a lot of it is connection to your communities. That actually has a direct impact on your health outcomes. If you're connected to the communities, it helps guide you to make a good decision ultimately. And really, um, Whitney is with our coalitions. I'm going to get into that a little bit more, but we found that supporting coalitions, and there's 18 different coalitions throughout the county.