We're ready to go.

All right.

We were the first thing we had teed up with the closed session meeting.

But we're going to forego that for a minute, right?

Are we waiting?

We're main issue.

The other two items are fairly long.

They're still like three.

We're kind of in.

Well, then maybe we should eat for a minute.

How long is far as you have?

Well, we could probably pause and let all of one.

Yeah, you said what you said is waited to like 540.

So it's almost there.

It could be.

Yeah.

Are you all right if we wait for Mr.

Barrett sort of starting into the long one and coming back?

Are the the other two?

Long, long issue.

Is everybody good with that?

Sure.

Then we will uncall the meeting before we're Todd's not.

You can uncall some rewrite.

So Jen, you're outline.

Yeah, so I'm actually have Todd Taylor present this one.

But I'll I'll start by saying some of you have been involved with this, Catherine.

You haven't.

The city has been working with the consultant household of being for the last couple years to do a code rewrite.

We have had a couple joint sessions with planning commission to kind of just go over our code, that kind of thing.

We are now in the uh deep end with rewriting the code.

Um so we're gonna present some changes tonight, but bring it back for you.

I think at the next meeting is what we talked about, um, to have a more in-depth discussion on a couple items.

Um, and then you'll see additional sections brought to you.

We're kind of broken the code up into kind of three or four areas where we can then work and digest.

Um we did take this to Planning Commission last week for uh discussion, had a great discussion with them on some of the proposed uh zoning districts.

Like I said, we're gonna kind of give more of an overview today, and then um specific uh zones come back to have a more robust discussion.

But Todd's gonna go over the changes that we're gonna talk about today.

Thanks.

So Jen and you can have working on this for a while.

Uh project initiation, some community engagement.

We had some joint sessions with planning commission and city council.

So currently we're sort of in the middle there with the district of use standards.

Uh and then we still have some chapters to come.

Uh so the first chapter that uh we got and we're presenting is chapter two, which is the basic overlay districts.

Uh so we took what was done previously, which was a preliminary recommendations report, where we looked at our code and whereas we can prove.

And so in these districts, we're looking at uh screenlining some zones and residential three zones have been consolidated.

There's one new zone and commercial zones, 13 zones have been reduced to six for public facility.

We were used or we consolidated two of the zones into one.

Uh but overall, most of the zones have been carried forward and just uh reorganized.

Um there's also the whole conventional standards in this chapter.

Uh and then the goal is to make the tables a little bit more uh clear for the public uh with clear footnotes, and to uh sort of follow the general plan's recommendations.

Uh so going through the the zones, uh we have the agricultural zones, um they basically stayed the same uh except the real uh the hillside residential zone, which we actually don't have any property in that zone, uh was largely uh consistent with A5, so they're being merged together.

Uh the residential zones, uh mostly renaming uh so RA1 and RA2.

We just added the one and two of the names to make them clearer because currently the names basically the same.

Uh R3, R4, and R5 are being renamed to residential suburban, neighborhood residential, and urban residential, and then RM1 and RM2 are being merged into one zone, and then we're adding a new zone that's uh sort of between the urban residential and the multifamily residential, which is uh mixed residential, and I'll go through a slide on that one at the standards is for commercial zones.

Isn't some of the sun crest in that residential sensitive hill side zone?

Uh that's the hillside open there.

Okay.

And the sun crest uh and south mountain are we gonna incorporate standards from those development agreements and put them into a new chapter that's uh called master plan development chapter.

And are we gonna keep that sensitive hill side?

Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, the sensitive hill site is an overlay zone that looks at pretty much everything on the mountain, um, regardless of whether it's in one of the master planes.

Yeah, I think we need to keep that.

It's important because it talks about grading and yeah, that's we're not proposing to change that.

Of the commercial districts here, you can see the merging is happening in Jupiter.

Sorry, didn't we?

No, no, you're good.

Okay, go ahead.

Or neighborhood commercial, commercial services, and commercial buffer are being merged into one zone that's gonna be neighborhood commercial, community commercials unchanged, general commercials unchanged, and then regional commercial, interchange commercial, and destination commercial or very similar districts being merged into one district.

As I mentioned, uh MARP and town center are also couldn't be moved into that master plan development chapter since they have their own standards.

Um then uh CO1 or professional office district and office residential resolution to one district, and then the professional office CO2 is unchanged.

Um then I mentioned public facilities, uh we have two public facility public institutional being merged, and then our manufacturing zones are basically changed.

And then as Council Member Lowry mentioned, uh we have our uh sensitive lands.

Oh, sorry, this is the one.

We have sensitive lands overlay, which is having our hill site sensitive lands overlay, and then uh historic district overlays becoming sort of landmarks, and then we're adding two uh other res uh overlays, residential infill and affordable home ownership, which I'll talk about in a minute.

Uh so these are our our residential zones.

Uh you can see over on the right, sort of what's changed.

So when we were looking at our lots within the city, RA1, a lot of the lots were actually nine uh less currently it's a hundred foot width, and so we suffered a lot of lots of 90 foot and width.

So we're proposing reducing that 90 feet to be uh consistent with what's existing out there, and then for the building coverage, uh since those are uh supposed to be a little bit more spacious uh zones, uh reducing the coverage from R to one on RA1 to 30% and 35% from RA2.

So then moving on to this is the new mixed uh residential zones, so this would allow sort of those smaller multifamily uh developments to occur.

Uh that we don't have a really take it to have all a lot of in our current zones, so it'd be either single-family, duplexes, twin homes, uh three or four unit apartments, and cottage courts, which uh I think we discussed with you guys when uh Campbell station uh project was uh stationary plan was going through in townhomes.

Um so this would provide uh sort of a step in between those two zones for applicants to come in and uh ask for the zone.

Uh the zone doesn't currently exist and it's not gonna we're not going to be applying it to any current properties until an applicant asks for it.

Are any of the setbacks changing what we have now?

So this one is all new, so everything is how is that compared to me?

Okay.

I think we could maybe in our next session we can show the tables or something.

Yeah, we could do a comparison.

Um I mean the multifamily code has some set standards for single family and different standards for multi-family.

So again, this is gonna kind of be a mix.

I mean, the cottage court is a very specific type of development, so it's gonna have different setbacks and things.

So but we can kind of do comparison.

You can see, so we have 8,000 square feet, 10,000, 20 and 2,000.

So then the next slide, these ones are a little bit smaller in our uh RM1, RM2 now and the R district.

So it's a little bit you know less dense than this one.

Um so again, this is the RM1 RM2 being combined.

Is this what one that we already have?

And the other one's new, or these are both so this is combining two that we currently have into one.

And then we're opening it up to allow the two unit and three unit developments.

And so is there um what should is it like eight to twelve?

What the um I don't remember right off the top of my head.

Um that's something that can Yeah, we can we can double check the tables we've got.

We've really kind of been looking more at what lot size and setbacks we want than uh looking at specific numbers, but we get we can figure out what that would be.

And so code does allow townhouse, but I think that's a thousand square feet currently in the R.

I believe so, yeah.

Right, but with this new I guess because it's a new zone, if they were not zoned for that town home, they'd have to come they'd have to come in even though it would apply now.

Okay, yeah, and when um you know we do have some new names and some combinations, so when we're coming through to adopt a new code at that time, we'll be looking to update the zoning map, but it'll be making sure the that we're doing what's corresponding to what's already there, um, either zoning-wise it's properties undeveloped or what's actually built already.

Um so we're not proposing to rezone properties for future redevelopment, they do have to come in and request that reason.

We're gonna stop just riveting presentation and go to more riveting presentation.

You do have our hourly rate attorney here discounted hour at MIS.

So in the interest of Bruce's meter, would someone make a motion to go into a closed session for litigation.

So listeners currently goes.

So we second.

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That is what is closed to look at.

Do we want to have that question on the record?

I'm happy to ask it right now.

We're recording your recording.

Okay, okay.

I just wasn't sure whether you paused it to while we all came in.

Um, so part of the new zones really are to look at different types of housing.

So our multi-family zones right now, pretty much it's set, it just has multi-family listed, and all we get is apartments, condos, and townhouses, and that's it.

But there's a whole array of other types of housing.

And two, you know, two-unit uh duplexes uh multifamily, but they're not single family, so they're kind of in the spray area.

We don't see three flexes and four plexus.

Those are a good way to get more affordable housing, more attainable housing.

Um with having a list.

So it's trying to get additional types of housing stuff.

But my concern is if you approve one under the understanding it's gonna be the six thousand square foot lot town home, and you approve that zoning, all of a sudden that's not going to prevent them from then switching that to a thousand square foot lot town homes instead of the two-unit duplex.

And it's gonna encourage a lot of people that have a little bit of land to ask for this instead of smaller single family housing.

So there may still be development agreements that come in with the rezone, like we've been doing.

Um, the the two-unit um product would be a six thousand for those two, you know, units.

Um, so somebody so somebody could request a twin home development instead of a single family development.

Um the the intent of looking at this is to open up the types of housing to make it that much more attainable.

So can we not add that in under the existing just expand the definition of some of the existing categories?

Well, this is basically our existing RM1 zone.

So for me, Tasha, if this is approved for this zoning, I would see for me personally, I'd be seeking a development agreement on almost every time someone wanted to rezone to this standard.

Right, and we've added an entirely new category as well.

Can we flip back to that slide?

You know what I mean?

I think it's the same on that too.

I feel like this sends the message to the public that we're actively seeking more high density housing.

Whereas I kind of feel like we've done our part with our station area plans, and I'm not really seeking to further high density housing in Draper at this moment in time.

And I'm not really seeking to further high density housing in Draper at this moment in time.

I'm a little tapped out on high density housing.

And let those be a development agreement.

Don't turn everything now into the development agreement.

And that's what to me, this is what this would do.

So would you at least with those two zones?

So would you prefer, say, one multifamily zone that's kind of geared more towards how we have now the 12 units per acre, that kind of thing, and then maybe a zone that allows more flexibility with the development agreement.

Maybe I would be open to having a larger description under the original zone that says this does include cottage court housing.

It does include twin homes.

It does include R is our existing multifamily zones.

We have but we have expanded the uses in the okay.

So then do we need an additional new retract category that we're the same.

Um we can we can look at and and I guess speaking from next maybe everybody is like hooray, let's have more of this.

No, yeah, and no, I'm in agreement.

We can dive more into the differences in them.

Um, but we could look at um look at them closer to see if it makes sense to have two or to have one or how we structure it.

We have a lot of infill remaining in Draper, and I would like to see them go more smaller single family homes.

I want them to match the existing neighborhoods.

I do not want to be encouraging them to go to the infilled zone on here, right?

I'll just say our current R1 and ARM two.

The only thing that we've added is that three and four units, so it already allows the two unit, the town home and the multifamily.

So we're that's already in our zoning, is to have that sort of spread of those different types in that zone.

So we've really only added that to what's currently existing in that RM1 and RM2 zone.

Okay.

That's fair.

Thanks.

So we talked about the residential infill overlay.

Um so again, this is something that would be requested by an applicant.

Um looking at areas probably near transiting commercial corridors, and so those it would be applied over the top of the existing zone and would reduce some of the lot areas and setbacks and provide a little bit more um flexibility uh for those projects.

Again, this would be something that would have to come to city council for approval.

But if it's in one of these transit areas, is that not already covered in our station area plans where we already are kind of forced to allow this type of density?

So, like in Kimball's, we really mainly looked at the edge property.

So if somebody wanted to come in in that wedge-shaped triangle that we sort of discussed a few times and wanted to come in with something maybe they could utilize this overlay resources of having to come in with a development agreement or something, yeah, or a new transit zone.

I feel like we're constantly being asked to adjust the setbacks and make it tighter.

You don't really want to make it easier to do that.

I'm kind of tired of doing that too.

But okay, so maybe look at the smaller lots and setbacks that we allow cottage cottage courts, which are a single family product, but but smaller footprints.

Yeah, I'd like to see what our existing setbacks are, and then compare them to what you have here so we can see how much how much compromise there too.

I don't really want to offer it up to them.

No, yeah.

Well, and that's why I want to see it how much how many of the setbacks been changed on these or not.

Okay, and all of these keep keep in mind we're we're not going to be proposing to throw these zones on properties that don't already have them.

So these would be rezone requests that would go to Planning Commission City Council.

I know it just makes it a little bit more possible.

It's like we're giving a rubber st well, not a rubber stamp, but we're signaling an approval.

I also say I think staff's trying to maybe reduce the number of development development agreements that we get because this would provide sort of something that we can look to when everybody comes into develop their property instead of having to look up each development agreement to try to figure out what standards.

So no, I understand what you're trying to do.

I guess my question too is with we had that Troid Dana property where he was saying there really isn't a zone that fits what I want to do.

Um and so then you know we we're working on that.

And so I it to me, I would like to see these be really succinct so that we have the you know a zone for the product that we want.

I agree with Tasha.

I don't want to see this infill just you know doubling or quadrupling for one single existing you know, single family home.

So you know, having this is the product that's these are the standards really succinct, so that we don't have to like what you're saying, do these development agreements.

So to me, this feels like kind of broad where someone could come in and you know, if they rezone this way, then they've got so many options that I'm concerned they'll always choose the highest density option if that makes sense.

I always because it's it's so broad, we can't say and I don't know if we you know I'd like the zone to be for a specific thing if that makes sense.

Yeah, when we were doing that Troidana thing, you asked on the dias and said we need a zone that would fit these smaller single family homes.

So what you're saying is instead of reducing the number of zones, we'd almost need to increase the number of zones with more specifics.

Well, from what I understand with this, they can do any of these four items, right?

On a parcel.

If it fits, like if they had if there's a 40,000 lot, if they owned a parcel, they could divide it up and they could put you know, fill it up with town homes and everything.

Am I looking at that wrong?

No, like yes, this would be if the underlying zone allowed one or more of those uses, then they could pick amongst those.

And I guess we're probably putting it together this way because this is how our current code is set up.

Yeah.

But if our preference is for these cottage courts and all family homes, we'd like that to be the option.

Okay.

So yeah, so we can we can look at uh restructuring these to have more of that uh zone for the small lot and cottage court single family, and then look at the multifamily.

Even that first bullet I have a problem with.

What is um the reasoning that we want to try to redo?

I'm just what's the reasoning from your side, Todd, on why you want to reduce the number of development agreements.

Is it because of the work with staff and all that is those?

It's um if if we can just reference the code, it's much easier for staff to make sure everything's followed when we have building permits come in, calls come in, and we've got to look at a plat.

We've got to look at the zone, we've got to look at the development agreement.

Um the less places that we have to look to find the standards, the easier it is for the I can see that from your side.

I think from my side, if I'm gonna rezone something and we approve it, I want to ensure that we're getting what we what they're saying representing what it's gonna be.

That's that's that's the that's our thinking.

So you understand we're not trying to create more work for staff, it's trying to ensure that what we approve is.

And infill is a tricky word because a lot of the infill that we see remaining on this side of Draper at least is in the midst of larger lots.

So I was I wondered if is it all infill then?

Could because it wouldn't be if it was surrounded by one acre homes, right?

Then it wouldn't, you couldn't overlay this on.

I think you probably could.

Anybody can earn anybody can apply for anyone.

I have somewhere in front of my house that wants to develop the property.

So this would be now looking at half acres, but very gladly would go to something like this.

And then once you say this is your zone, well, all of a sudden we have apartments or something.

Bryn's concern is valid.

Okay, we'll we'll look at some different options.

Um, do you want us to have time to go to short-term rentals?

So let's continue.

We'll we'll revisit this the next meeting as well.

So the other overlays the affordable home ownership overlays.

This is something that the state put together that we felt uh if we included it in our code, uh we could say that we're doing our part uh for affordable home ownership.

Uh so basically we tried to follow what the state uh had in the code.

Uh so it provides density bonuses for all mining projects.

Um so we look at uh the base max density.

Um so we look at uh the base max density.

You can see it's uh three, four, and five for our residential zones there.

Um it would go to six uh to seven and a half, um, and then there's a different one uh density bonus for single family and multifamily residential units to the multifamily would go up to 2012 units per acre.

Um just no, again, a map amendment and a development agreement would be required for these for the use of this overlay.

Um would this affordable home ownership overlay be uh targeted at certain areas of the city or it can be anywhere?

Uh it could be anywhere, and again it's ultimately up to the council whether they would want to approve it for said property and development agreement.

Yeah, um so basically there's qualifying conditions, they have to pick one of these, it's either 60% of them are occupied for five years, 25% of them are affordable price state's definition.

25% are under 1600 square feet, or it's the first time buyers get 30 days first pick, and then we provide some incentives that they can pick from that sort of help them get to that density, so it's decreasing some open space or loss size or setbacks or parking or multifamily or extra building height.

You might want to speak to the planning commission's reaction to this one.

So the planning commission had some concern about this, whether it was actually feasible.

Um I think they were also concerned that they wouldn't see these or they'd be by right.

Again, these would be something that could declining commission for recommendation in the city council to ultimately decide whether this is an appropriate, you know, it's consistent with the community character and all those findings that you guys make when we when we bring those to you.

Um these can go anywhere.

If the city council 20 units per acre, so in that number is set by the state.

So the state says for multi-family your density bonus goes up to 20 per acre, and then for single family, if it's under uh six units per acre base density, then uh the bonus is six, and then if it's six or more for your base, then it's times.

To get what your density is.

So we have stuck with the the minimums that the state has in the code.

Frankly, the idea with this is again to show the state that we are willing to play play ball, and I I and to give options and there is affordability built into this, and that is another.

And they want a reduction of open space requirements by 50% or only one part.

We're giving them both the density and we're reducing our our standards.

So we've got to 50%.

Yes, and we've been talking about 60% owner occupied too is too low.

And we've been talking about for those extra incentives, they have to choose another qualifying condition.

Yeah, yeah.

So choosing one qualifying condition gets them the density, um, but choosing another qualifying condition can get them additional incentives.

I what about the 60% owner-occupied?

That's when I need to absorb more.

I think it should I'll actually be 100% owner-occupied.

To prevent investors, this is just gonna be a disaster, like the neighborhood up by the amphitheater.

They're gonna claim this overlay, they're gonna turn their single family house with no parking into who knows how many units they're gonna have one parking spot, which they already do.

Public safety's not gonna be able to get through.

They're gonna get away from having a yard.

I think we have some concerns.

Do we have it?

Yes, this is the same.

No, you you don't have to do it.

And one of the things that council how the house of Lavine brought up is they said um given the numbers in this, and then the prices of the land value in Draper, this probably isn't gonna pencil for most developers.

They're not going to see how it's tight to like 120% of the area median income.

Like where we're at in terms of land value here means that double developers are gonna have a really hard time even making this work in Draper.

I was um thinking of reaching out to a couple developers to see if it's something that would want for them.

Well, if we don't have to do it and we don't want it, why are we doing it?

I don't want it.

Does anyone want to feel like I don't know enough?

Unless that now unless some of the conditions and incentives are changed.

Okay.

Well, I mean, we can look at some different uh incentives.

I mean, the qualifying conditions are directly from the state code, um, but the additional incentives are things that uh staff uh brainstorm, so we can look at some other other things and I mean if you if you guys don't want to do it, then that's the answer.

Mayor, what are your thoughts?

Yeah, I know your your wills are turning.

Well um this goes back to the old uh age old position.

We are political subdivisions of the great state of Utah, and this is an opportunity for us to if we can craft a way to fit into the state code this concept of a home ownership, which is what all of them are pushing.

Um if we can figure out a way to adjust these.

I mean, I'm not you don't have to, but this is where we're going.

Um and you can go quietly into the night, or you can go into the night and still go.

You might get beat to death on the way.

But I I think to the extent that we want to be open to this concept of homeownership.

If you just wholesale reject it and don't do it, you're gonna be put in a box with the cities that don't.

And that may not matter to you, but there will be a day when it does, I guarantee.

But couldn't we increase the percentage of owner occupied?

Yeah, like if you're if we're gonna do it, it needs to be 100%.

I think we should tweak stuff for our own, but we have to do something like this to show the state legislature and the housing affordability coalition that we're part of problem solving and not just because I'm in agreement that realistically it probably won't pencil.

Right, but it's because it won't be affordable.

Can I just start by concern?

I'm saying that the reality is is and we'll need to verify this is that you could adopt this and not have anybody come in and ever use it because it just doesn't pencil for them to actually build this here.

But I see that, but I also feel like that's slightly deceitful to adopt it, knowing that it will never be.

Right.

It's it's not viable.

Yeah, but you're showing compliance with the state in terms of and so has the state as the city.

Right, it's compliance.

It's yeah, they would like us to do it.

Um they they would definitely like us to be to have a zone that that accomplishes this goal.

But then you're gonna have some developer come in and want to put this in the middle of some neighborhood, and they're gonna want 20 units per acre, and they're gonna want to do reduce the open space, and they're gonna want to have the setbacks all reduced, and then they take a look parking.

Yes.

And this goes back to the stationary plan.

And we have done the station area plans.

So this goes back to how we got the stationary plans.

The way we got to stationary plans is we gave we told them hell no with your development.

They went to the state and said, Draper loan, you know.

And we end up in a negotiation and get stationary plans out of a negotiation.

Instead of having it crammed down our throat 70 units an acre right over here, we ended up with the stationary plan negotiation.

But I'm telling you, those discussions are not stopping.

There the this little role.

I also think there has to be a point where we're like, we have done enough of these.

We don't want mini station area plans inside every neighborhood in front of the city.

Well, I think it's a this would be a zone though that we'd have to approve.

If you come in with your own adopt your own ordinance that that seeks to accomplish the goal, tweaking it in a way that it's like stationary plans.

We we get to have say in stationary plans.

Uh you know, you may not like it, but it's better than no say, which is what we would have got if we wouldn't have.

We wouldn't have got that percentage of owner occupied over there.

Right.

If we're asking me, but I think I think we should figure out a way to craft some way to fit this in our zone because I think in the long run it plays to our favor, it shows that we're not obstructionists because unfortunately the way it works in this session was a special session of lull, a lull in taking land use authority from cities.

It was a lull this session.

It will not be one next session because it's not an election year.

Um next session, they're going to be trying to do more of this stuff.

You can say there's a point, and then the state just comes in and mandates how they want it.

Whereas if you adopt something, then we can say, hey, state, we adopted something that fits our community, and then they go, Oh, yeah, they did, so go fit it there.

You know, I that's my two cents.

Um I hate to be coming from the position of what might the legislature do, but um I I think if you don't consider that you're you can make yourself feel better, but you'll ultimately be part of the problem down the road.

I hate to be coming from the position of what might the legislature do, but um I I think if you don't consider that you're you can make yourself feel better, but you'll ultimately be part of the problem down the road that's like I think if we do something it needs to be 100% owner occupied, and let's just get rid of the open space reduction.

Do you know what I mean?

Like let's take out the things that we don't really like.

Okay, so we'll we'll look at some changes.

We've already kind of penciled this in for a study session at the next meeting to kind of talk more.

Um I don't want us to run out time to just touch no 10 minutes is not good enough.

So for the short term.

I still want to hear just a minute about the short term.

I've been coming to the rest of this.

Let's skip the rest of this.

Coming back on the second with some actual aerials of not that this is where this would go, but this is how it would work in this situation versus another situation.

Okay.

You know, if it if it's if it truly is in, you'll find a parcel that would be an infill parcel, and let's see how this works or does not work.

That's a good idea.

Okay, short-term rentals.

Everybody?

Uh so you may be aware we came to you guys in uh 2025 March and uh in February.

This is since then we drafted a text amendment, which was included in your packet.

We also drafted a good neighbor guidelines overall from what we've heard.

We want to improve public safety, protect neighborhood character, provide clear operating rules, ensure tax collection, and enable tracking and enforcement, which is sort of broadly what we've heard.

So I'm gonna run through sort of what the ordinance says.

Um so we're gonna require a short-term rental permit.

Uh part of those they'll submit an application uh to planning.

The owner or the owner's authorized agent as the house can submit that application.

The part of that will be a floor plan, a site plan showing the parking, or plan showing where they're gonna rent uh their home.

Uh they also provide the maximum occupancy based on parking and bedrooms, which I'll get to next.

The zoning administrator will approve it, they have to be removed annually.

Uh we added in some revocation uh language.

So if they provide false information, if they're not operating it as described, if they're out of compliance with conditions, if they refuse inspection, delete on taxes, if they're gonna have two citations or charges in the past 12 months, or if the court has found them to be a nuisance, we could revoke their permit.

We're also requiring business license because that's how the state will provide us with our municipal occupation uh transient or change to have is TRT.

Yeah.

So for the standards, they will be allowed in all residential districts.

Uh they can be in all or a portion of a residential unit that can be in a detached accessory dwelling unit, but not in an internal accessory dwelling unit, which is our one standard that we have currently is that they can't be in an internal accessory dwelling unit.

They can't be in a tent, trailer, camper RV.

They cannot be in a unit that has a long-term rental, so this is something that we've sort of seen in some neighborhoods where people are trying to rent out every piece of their home.

So if they already have a long-term rental, we won't allow that.

Uh, and then they can't have commercial events at the short-term rental.

Occupancy, um, so there's one short-term rental per residential unit.

They can only have one renter at a time.

That renter can have multiple guests under the rental, but they can't break it into multiple rentals and you know, separate rooms.

Minimum stay at three consecutive nights and maximum of 29 consecutive nights.

And then the box, as I said, maximum occupancy is based on the bedroom parking, and then our RV parks and our hotels and hotels are then.

So, what's the difference between one short-term rental per residential unit and one renter at a time?

So it's to say you can't rent out, you can't have a short-term rental and you're detached ADU and you're all separate, you can't have two.

But that's the same as one renter at a time, isn't it?

Yeah, so he so the one renter at a time, it's basically one rental agreement essentially.

So one uh yeah, so you know, somebody goes on Airbnb, they booked the short-term rental.

You don't have multiple people booked.

You've got one board or something.

So you couldn't have two rooms and have renter A and room one and renter B.

Yeah.

I think it's two ways that sort of covering our base.

Okay.

Um just in case they do show, hey, we have this short-term rental, but then they try to start breaking it up after we get them their permit.

What's the so um what portion of a residential unit should they rent out?

Um that's not an IED.

So they can rent a bedroom and just say it could just be a bedroom, yeah.

Okay.

I've stayed in one like that before, I don't see it again.

It's weird.

How is this different than like we the borders?

Um that would be different in that would be more long term.

Renters and they're living as one housekeeping unit, so they're roommates.

Okay.

That's a long term representation.

That twenty-nine days comes to statute.

Yeah.

Does this no commercial events and get rid of the party house?

Um how do we uh guess the three night addresses that so you don't show up on a Saturday night and throw up 50 people?

Yeah and we need to make sure that this addresses that we don't want to turn this uh into factory session request.

Yeah.

The three night rental wasn't too close to the police department.

Okay.

So you think if you have the minimum of three, that will reduce a lot of the party houses.

You're gonna avoid a one-night party house.

Right or two night marketing.

That's what we talked about.

That's why you and I also wanted three.

No internal ADUs.

So I have in my basement.

I don't, but if I did I have in my basement this um one bedroom and a kitchen that I have put in it, there's a door inside my house that I lock, and then there's an external door and that they can come in and come in.

Is that and what's not allowed?

Uh a couple of the people that reached out to us.

I don't know if they reject I assume they reached out to the whole city council, but a couple of the people were like, this is what I do right now and I don't want you to make it illegal.

So there'd be an avenue for them to come and get an ADU permit and do long term rentals.

Uh-huh.

Um we have people doing it just so you know they're more.

Banger used to do it in your um yeah, area.

But it says here.

So if you have an accessory dwelling unit in your basement or above your attached garage, that should be a long term only.

The intent of the internal AD you cut under the state law was to get affordable housing.

So we're saying internal ADs, long-term rental only.

Um if you're renting out either uh portion like a bedroom or your entire house or a detached ADU, you can do short-term.

That makes sense.

So there is avenue for people that have um basement apartments to rent those, it's just a long term.

But then right here you're saying all or a portion of a residential.

So when we do that, when they submit their floor plans, we'll say if there's a kitchen and a bedroom and a separate doorway, then that's an AD IA to you.

Yeah.

And you can't do that.

And that's our all current standard right now is no IAEs for short-term rent.

But the only way you end up enforcing that is if they come and get a permit.

Correct.

So right now the people that are doing it and you want to tackle some of the end, because we're like two minutes from seven.

It's not the uh Yeah, we we can't.

I can I can so the police could also enforce on this because the occupancy is limited by the bedrooms, right?

Yes.

So if you go and parking people there, there's obviously not 20 bedrooms, so you could shut it down.

And I believe there's more that they're gonna talk about the talks about.

Yeah, so we'll we'll pick it up at the end.

Well, I'll pick it up at the end, talk about that.

At the end of the council meeting.

Yeah, or we could move up the kids, whatever.

I'm fine if we have to bug that.

So we do have the schedule for the next planting commission meeting, so we can talk about it.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to our city council meeting this evening.

I would like to call our meeting to order and start us off if I could.

I'm gonna lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance, so please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance.

Uh that are joining our department.

Which is an exciting time for us.

So we'll start with our uh our newly promoted paramedic.

Um this is Austin Cole.

Uh before entering the fire service, Austin worked alongside his dad in a custom cabinetry shop where he developed a strong work ethic, attention to detail, and an appreciation for hands-on work.

Although his dad spent much of his career in law enforcement before transitioning into construction.

Uh thankfully, Austin chose a slightly different path and joined uh, of course, the real heroes on the fire side of the server, so I didn't write that if your dad's here.

So outside of work, Austin enjoys spending time with family, friends, especially his grandparents.

Uh out his grandparents' cabinet at Barrel Lake, where he grew up boating, relaxing, making memories with the people closest to him.

He values friendship, the support system he has built both inside and outside the firehouse and credits them with helping him through his latest venture of paramedic school, which is no small feat.

I've I've been there myself.

So Austin, come on up, sir.

Step right up front.

We get to have someone pin a badge on you, so who's doing the honors for you?

So who's doing the honors for you?

Come on up.

If I can get uh Chief Plummer and uh Chief Pearson Upper with me, please.

All right.

Uh next, I'm gonna go through all three of these since they're gonna swore get sworn in together.

So you three might as well come up here why I talk ill about all three of you.

Come on up.

Mason, come on up.

So again, these are the three newest members of our department.

Um each one.

First is uh firefighter Anthony Bauer.

Uh it's been a lifelong dream of Anthony's to work in the fire service.

He started his career with the Elko County Fire in Nevada at the age of eighteen, uh, so just last year.

Um firefighter Bauer started as a wildland firefighter, and his hard work paid off, and he was offered the opportunity to transition over to the structure side.

Uh, he's obtained many certifications while working in Elco and was promoted to a supervisor role as a lead firefighter.

Every time Bauer traveled to Utah, it always felt like home, leading him to eventually make the choice to move here to Utah.

Wanted to continue his career as a firefighter.

He started applying multiple places, and we were lucky enough to uh to grab him and make him one of ours.

Uh he's lived in Nevada his whole life.

He loves the outdoors.

You'll most likely find him fishing and riding his motorcycle.

He's a very positive and happy person, and one of his favorite things to do is make people smile and laugh.

And uh, I think I think we've already seen that.

He tries his best to get along with everyone.

Uh he works to push himself to the higher standards and strives to be someone that people can depend on.

He's happy to be part of our team, and he's uh noticed a lot of positive things with Draper in his short time of being here and already loves being part of the Draper Fire family.

Um he's excited to see where this career will take him, and so so am I.

So um congratulations.

Oops, Anthony.

Couple uh couple of pictures I won't ask about the hospital gown.

All right, next up is uh Ben Jessup.

Uh firefighter Jessup was born and raised in Apache County, Arizona after graduating high school in 2024.

Ugh, that's so young.

He joined a landscaping crew in Sholow, Arizona.

The main goal of the landscaping crew was to help the elder elderly and the widowed with the much needed upkeep of their homes.

In April of 2025, he completed the training for his emergency and medical technician certification and started working as a patient care technician in Springerville, Arizona.

Uh he started working full-time as a firefighter in June of 2025 on Interstate 40, which runs right through the Navajo reservation.

In March of 2026, we were lucky enough to hire Ben, um, where he's just completed his 10-week rigorous uh recruit training along with the other two.

And while in the academy, Ben learned the necessities and skills and the mindset of determination.

He's looking forward to applying those skills while he proudly serves our community.

Um he realized uh Ben realizes a young firefighter fresh out of camp.

He still has a lot to learn.

He's looking forward to training, getting to the knowledge for his new uh from his new members on his new platoon, and he's extremely proud to serve City of Draper.

So congratulations, Ben.

Last but not least is firefighter Mason Rust.

Firefighter Mason Rust is from Altamont, Utah.

He spent a short time living in South Texas, where his twin brother currently works as a police officer, so another wise choice here, uh, choosing the fire side of things.

He enjoys being outdoors camping, hiking, fishing, hunting, and riding horses.

Um after he graduated from high school, he worked as a wildland firefighter for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

He then served a two-year LDS church mission in Southern California and now is married uh to his wife after returning from that mission.

Firefighter Rust obtained his EMT certification from Guardian EMT and completed six-month Fire and Rescue Services Academy at Bridgerland Tech Technical College and says he's extremely grateful and excited for the opportunity to be part of the Draper Fire Department.

So welcome.

Oops, my apologies.

This is very touchy.

Make sure we get all the pictures of him and his lovely wife.

And then the three who just graduated the 10-week recruit train training process Thursday of last week.

So we are very excited to have them get them sworn in and get them put to work.

So with that, Nicole, I will turn it over to you.

This is the hardest part, you guys.

And the Constitution's August?

All right, we will do the uh badge pinning.

We'll start with uh firefighter Bauer if you'd like to have whoever's gonna pin your badge.

Come on up.

She's not in the top talk.

Get a picture of thank you.

I can do them out there too.

Yeah, we'll get some more outside.

Okay, firefighter Jessa.

Excellent.

And firefighter rust.

Okay.

Why don't we thank you, Mayor and Council, for your continued support.

We appreciate it.

We continue to recruit and have outstanding people.

So we're excited to get them to work for you.

Thank you, Chief.

And uh welcome to you new firefighters.

Um I don't know if I'm just getting old or I feel old, but you all look really young, and uh that means you got a lot of energy and you can do this tough job.

We really are grateful to have you come to Draper.

We hope you like working here.

You have a great chief, a great command staff, a great bunch of senior firefighters who I'm sure will teach you the ways.

No hazing will occur, but there'll be a lot of teaching that will occur amongst the fire department crew.

So welcome.

We're glad to have you.

Good luck as you train and get better, and thank you for protecting our community.

Next item for us is an opportunity to recognize um our outgoing Miss Draper Royalty, and then announce our incoming 2026 Ms.

Draper Royalty.

So we're gonna recognize our outgoing 2025, Miss Draper, and then welcome our incoming.

I'd like to start if I could with the with the outgoing, and uh I would like to thank when we'll maybe I'll give a minute for folks to clear out so we're looking here.

Cameron, would you like to oh you're there.

You already beat me to it.

Excellent.

All right.

Uh ladies and gentlemen, this is uh um our our queen for this year, Cameron Smart 2025 Miss Draper royalty.

Um, and along with her, we have our uh her attendant, uh Sky Ozamaloa.

Skyler, will you stand up?

All right.

We have uh Keanu Conrad.

And then we have uh Milo Taylor.

Milo, will you stand up?

She's not here.

Okay.

Well, the ladies give these ladies a hand for their good service.

Thank you.

I can tell you that uh they're they're awesome because they come to everything, and they really help make a good make a difference for us.

I would also like to thank um our our one of our um main advisor to this program, Andrea Page.

Will you stand up, please?

Let's give her a hand.

Um like everything that's cool that happens in our city, it always has some volunteers that make it happen.

And so um, we're we're thankful for people that are willing to give their time, their talents, and their energy to this.

And so with that, Cameron, you have a short presentation you would like to take it away.

I do, thank you so much.

Yeah, so I have my short farewell address, and then I also am gonna play a little presentation of our past year.

I was able to collect all of our memories, and it was pretty bittersweet to put it all together.

So thank you guys for the time.

But good evening, everyone, and I want to thank everybody who was here earlier and who's here now.

But standing here today, it's hard to believe how fast time has flown.

If you had told me a few years ago that I would be standing before you as Miss Draper 2025, I probably wouldn't have believed you.

As someone who had never done a pageant before, stepping into the world of Miss Draper was incredibly daunting but incredibly rewarding.

But I took a chance and looking back over these past two years, I can proudly say that it was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

Being a part of the Miss Draper program has transformed my life.

I've had the unique privilege of experiencing this journey from two different perspectives, one as the attendant and also as Miss Draper.

While both roles have allowed me to give back, stepping into this role has allowed me to make an even larger impact.

It's given me the opportunity to delegate task, mentor an amazing group of young women, as well as plan truly meaningful events such as the Draper Tea Party, which I was able to do about two weekends ago.

Through this all, my favorite part of this journey has been the people.

Over the course of my service, I've been able to attend over a hundred twenty plus events over two years.

Thank you.

And with those being 15 city parades, Draper City has always been my favorite.

In addition, whether it's connecting with residents of all ages, bonding with my incredible royalty, or promoting my service initiative.

I've always been working towards creating a positive impact and being a positive role model for the younger generation.

This program has also given me the opportunity to teach others about my service platform, which is called Ways of Change.

It is a drowning prevention and water safety initiative.

And I've been so thankful to promote my platform, and it's especially near and dear to my heart as May is actually drowning prevention and water safety month.

In addition, I was able to connect with Draper City Fire Department on their Push to Survive campaign during Draper Days, and they so graciously donated several dummies for me to use and demonstrate life-saving measures such as CPR.

Ultimately, these past two years have taught me as well that the true meaning of servitude is important and something I value deeply.

This past year was a hard one for me and my family.

I have done the speech twice now, and this time I'll try not to cry.

But a day before Draper Days, I had to put on a face and I had to act like everything was okay.

Unfortunately, my grandmother passed away from breast cancer a day before Draper Days.

Life does not stop moving even when it's hard, and I'm so grateful for everybody who was able to show me love during that week, especially when I was having to be on stage in front of 30,000 people, as well as being in the Miss Draper parade.

In addition, my younger brother was also diagnosed with leukemia this year in December of 2025.

I want to thank everybody again for the gratitude and the meals that everybody has brought, as well as the unconditional love that I've been shown.

I just want to thank you guys so much.

But as this chapter comes to a close, I do look forward to continuing my dedication and service through my volunteer efforts through with my sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma at the University of Utah.

Their philanthropy surrounds mental health, which is something that's been more important to me this year than ever.

I'm also planning on finishing up my business degree in business management.

I graduate about a semester early in December of twenty twenty six.

And I'm really looking forward to that.

I would highly encourage you to take this leap of faith.

And I'm so glad that I did.

I'm so happy and proud to say that I have truly dedicated my time, energy, and talents to this beautiful city.

Thank you, Draper, for a beautiful tears.

Perfect, and then we have a little video, so I'm gonna go back and sit down.

Is this what happens when you don't have enough data centers?

I'm kidding.

I'm I'm just kidding.

I'm just kidding.

Thank you.

Oh, thank you.

Perfect.

For that is rough.

Lelia been doing it.

Then the last fall called December's are we called see my family every month.

About a girl, my parents love.

So come and stay the night and I think I might have it all.

And I thank God every day.

For the go he said my way.

But I know the things he gives he can take away.

And you walked in with those green eyes, never stolen by nobody.

And they fled to the future for a moment.

Oh, hey, did I have the reason that's why your head right now?

Why your world is so we thought we don't have a thank you.

Oh, you're up.

You guys are ahead of me.

I appreciate it.

Um, welcome, welcome to McKell.

Attendant, Kiana Conrad.

Keanu, come on up.

Kiana is studying psychology at BYU and plans to continue her education in nursing.

She hopes to work in the emergency department after obtaining her nursing degree.

Next attendant, Anna Reeves.

Come on up, Anna.

Anna was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is now proud to call Draper her home.

Anna will graduate from high school with a four point oh GPA and enough college credits to complete her associate's degree.

Outstanding.

The next item on our agenda is um the proclamation of bike month.

If you'd bear with me, I'd like to read the proclamation.

Bike month mark bike month 2026, whereas through the month of May, Draper City recognized bicycles bicycling as a healthy, sustainable and enjoyable enjoyable form of transportation and recreation that continued the well-being and quality of life of residents and visitors.

And whereas Draper City acknowledges the positive impacts of bicycling in promoting physical fitness, reducing traffic congestion, improving air quality, and strengthening community connections.

And whereas residents participate in bicycling activities throughout the month, including commuting, recreational rides, educational programs, community events, and organized rides.

And whereas Draper City supported efforts to improve bicycle safety, encourage responsible sharing of roadways and trails, and promote active transportation opportunities within the community, and whereas the mayor's bike ride was held May 16, 2026 as part of Draper City's recognition and celebration of bike month bike month.

And whereas bike to work week and related bicycling events encourage residents to consider bicycling as an alternative mode of transportation and to experience the benefits of more active lifestyle.

Now therefore I Troy K.

Walker, mayor of Draper City State of Utah, along with the members of the Draper City Council, do hereby proclaim May 2026 as bike month in Draper City and encourage all to participate in bicycling activities, promote bicycle safety, and support efforts to create a healthier and more connected community.

And I'll sign it for this date.

So we will consider there no public comment, close that period, move to item seven, which is our consent items.

Item 7A is a motion for the approval of the April 28th, 2026 City Council meeting minutes.

7B is in a motion for approval of resolution 2619.

It's a resolution of the City Council adopting the official Draper City.

Oh, that's right.

That one's been continued, sorry.

So item 7A item 7C is a is a motion for approval of resolution 2620.

A resolution of the Draper City Council appointing EJ Zhang as the city treasurer.

Where's EJ at?

There she is.

Stand up, EJ.

They haven't voted yet, so that could be a little early on the clapping.

Is there a motion, Council members?

Mr.

Mayor, I'd like to make a motion to approve the consent calendar.

All right.

We have a motion to approve to approve the consent calendar by Tasha.

Is there a second?

I'll second.

Second by Fred.

Is there any further discussion?

Tasha, how do you vote?

Yes.

Fred?

Yes.

Catherine?

Yes.

Ren.

Yes.

Items are approved unanimously.

Four to zero, four to zero.

Now, EJ.

Now we can clap for you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm excited for EJ to get this opportunity, this promotion.

She's worked for us for, if I remember, I think it's seven years.

And she's she's really amazing.

Um, she was impressive in her interview.

She worked, she's worked her way through our city.

Um, you know, kind of in our in our own system, and she's uh um a team player, a hard worker, she's very bright, and she's excited for this opportunity, and I'm excited to have her, and so welcome aboard.

We're glad to have you.

All right.

That takes us to item number eight, which is now the oath of office of our brand new city treasurer.

Come on up.

All right, thank you.

E.J.

asked me one question.

She said, what was the the most important thing to me about a treasurer?

And I said, no embezzlement.

And EJ said I agree with you on that, Mayor.

So that's what got her the job.

There was no question.

She didn't even hesitate.

She just said, right, no embezzlement.

So anyway, thank you.

We're glad to have you.

Um public hearing.

Item number nine.

This item is set for public hearing.

It is it is a public hearing regarding the providing of local consent for a full service restaurant license for compass tackeria LLC.

We'll have a traffic report by Travis DeYoung.

Go ahead, Travis.

Okay.

Full service restaurant license for compass taccheria.

Here's the overview.

So a full service restaurant license allows restaurants to store, sell, and serve all kinds of alcoholic beverages alongside a food purchase.

It's located at 726 East 1220 South, suite B.

And there's two requirements that it has to meet, has to be at least 300 feet away, measured by a shorter pedestrian route from a community location, and it cannot be within 200 feet measured by a straight line from the patron entrance of the to a community location.

And the community locations included schools, churches, public libraries, public playgrounds, and parks.

And so the 300 foot distance requirement is met.

There are more than 1500 or well, they're exactly 1500 feet away from this church here.

Cross 123rd.

And they meet the 200 foot distance measured in a straight line.

Doesn't touch any community location.

And the action is to provide local consent or deny local consent and draper city code.

Um says there cannot be any limitation to the number of full service restaurant licenses the city can grant.

Thank you.

Any questions for Travis?

All right, is the applicant here in the back?

Um is the applicant here.

Are you the applicant, sir?

You don't have to address the council.

Do you want to?

Okay.

Um this is a public hearing.

Is there anyone from the public that would like to address the council on item number 9A?

It's a resolution providing local consent for a full service restaurant license for compass taquaria LLC.

All right, I see no public comment, so I'll close the public hearing, bring it back to the council.

Mr.

Mayor, I'd like to make a motion.

All right, go ahead.

I'd like to approve 9A local consent for a full service restaurant.

Motion by Tasha first.

Is there a second?

I'll second.

Second by Brins or further discussion on the item.

Gene and Tosh, how do you vote?

Yes.

Catherine?

Yes.

Fred.

Yes.

Items approved unanimously 4 to 0.

That takes us to item number 10.

Um it's an it's an action item and a disclosure item.

This uh item is put on the agenda in a manner that is consistent with changes to the Utah State Code with respect to budgets, um, city council budgets in their first meeting where it might be contemplated there would be a tax increase as part of that budget.

So I'm gonna read this um.

Let's see.

A resolution of of the Draper City Council acknowledging the filing of the tentative budget for the fiscal year 2627, prepared by the budget officer pursuant to Utah Code 106111, and adopting the tenant budget as presented, subject to further review and consideration by the city council, establishing the date, time, and place for a public hearing on the tender budget prior to adoption of the final budget for fiscal year 2627 as required by Utah Code Section 592-919 and 592-924, ordering publication of notices required by law and ordering the tentative budget for fiscal year 2627 to be made available for public inspection in the office of the city recorder and on the city's website for at least 10 days prior to adoption of the final budget.

Um this would be at the end of our discussion, it would be calling for a resolution of the council to undertake um the specified and related actions as part of the budgetary process for fiscal year 2026 through 2027.

Um I guess I keep reading them all.

I guess sorry for the I it is not a very elegant agenda, but we welcome to the new law.

Yes.

Item 10 B.

I'm gonna and then we'll do our presentation, but let's just get through this disclosure.

The budget officer, and if you were wondering who that person is, it is me.

Um in there are under our code.

And so um typically in years past, um, in fact, almost all years past, I have not taken into that position and been part of really the the presentation and reporting of the budget to you.

But under the new code, it is my job, one of my assigned statutory duties.

So you've got me to deal with as your budget officer.

Welcome to that world.

Um the budget officer intends to state the the fiscal year 26-27 tender budget includes a proposed property tax rate increase.

The budget officer intends to state as a required disclosure under Utah Code Section 592-919-4 A, that the city's tentative budget for fiscal year 2026-27 includes a proposed property tax rate increase.

The statement of the budget officer that the fiscal year 26-27 tender budget includes a proposed property tax rate increase.

The budget offer will make the statement required by Utah Code 592-919 sub-4A that the city's tentative budget fiscal year 2627 includes a proposed property uh tax rate increase.

Presentation, property tax impact schedule.

The budget officer presents and makes available to the public a property tax impact schedule as a separate document from all other budget documents as required by Utah Code 592-924 and 592-919 sub-4A.

The budget officer will present the property tax impact schedule as a standalone document separate from all other budget materials in accordance with Utah Code, Section 592-919, and Section 592-924.

Oh, man.

This is why I love our good legislature.

10 E.

Action.

Consideration of resolution 2622, a resolution of the Draper City Council acknowledging that a separate item was included on the agenda for public meeting, May 19th, 2026, modifying the book notifying the public that the budget officer intended to state that the tentative budget for fiscal year 26-27 includes a proposed property tax rate increase.

I've said that a few times now.

That the budget officer may a statement to the city council in May 9 on May 19, 2026, public meeting, that the tentative budget includes a proposed pro tax rate increase.

That the budget officer presented as a separate agenda item in the same public meeting, a property tax impact schedule separate from other budget documents as defined in the Utah Code 57 Section 592-924 and directing that the property tax impact state schedule shall be made available for public inspection and shall be included as a separate agenda item at each public hearing prior to the June 30th, 2026 hearing at which the City Council discusses the proposed general fund budget for fiscal year 26-27.

Keep going, big end.

There's only three more.

By this resolution, the council will undertake the specified and related actions as part of its budgetary process for the upcoming fiscal year 2026-2027 budget cycle.

Statement.

Statement of the budget officer or executive of the entity pursuant to Utah Code Section 592-919-4B.

The budget officer executive of the entity makes the statement required by Utah Code Section 59-2-9194B, that the city is considering levying a tax rate that exceeds the city's certified tax rate, including the approximate dollar amount of and purpose for the additional ad valorum tax revenue, the appropriate percentage increase in ad valorum tax revenue, and notice of the required public hearing.

The budget officer also will make the full statement required under subjection 4B in connection with the City's tender budget for fiscal year 26-27, which includes a property tax rate increase during this public meeting.

I think I've now made that statement.

I would take Action 10H, action.

Consideration of the resolution of resolution 2623, a resolution of Draper City Council acknowledging that a separate item was included on the agenda for the public meeting on May 19, 2026, notifying the public that the budget officer or executive of the entity intended to make the statement required by Utah Code, Section 59-2-919-4B, acknowledging that the budget officer or executive of the Ende made the statement as required by Utah Code Section 59-2-919-4B, setting the date, time, and place for the public hearing on the proposed property tax increase as required by Utah Code, Section 59-2-919, and directing the budget officer or designee to send notice before June 1, 2026 to the Utah State Tax Commission, Tax Commission, and the Salt Lake County and Utah County Auditors, the County Auditors, stating that the city is considering a property tax rate increase and providing the date, time and place of the required public hearing.

All right.

By this resolution, the council will undertakes specific the specified and related actions as part of its budgetary process for the upcoming fiscal year 2026-27 cycle.

Um, and then 10 I and final the action, the consideration of resolution 26-24, a resolution of the City Council dispersing of surplus personal property in accordance with Draper Municipal Code.

Well, that's a whole separate deal right there.

I I guess I could have stopped right there.

Thank you.

Well, I think the legislature wanted me to say those words multiple times, and I think they were said multiple times.

All right.

So Mayor, if I can interject, um the actual statement is on the uh board behind, and I will read that so that we can make sure that all of those pieces that needed to be included have been read and stated uh on public record.

So the statement says Draper City is considering levying a tax rate that exceeds the city's certified tax rate.

The proposed tax rate is estimated to increase the current tax rate from .000936 to.001170.

The proposed tax rate increase would generate approximately $2,696,000 of additional ad valorum tax revenue to be used to pay for operational and compensation costs.

The proposed tax rate increase would increase the city's ad valorum tax revenue by approximately 25 percent.

If the city proceeds with the proposed tax rate increase, the city will provide notice of and conduct a public hearing as required by Utah Code Section 592-9194C.

Current Draper City property tax rate is 0.000936.

Current Draper City property tax revenue is $10,186.

Proposed Draper tax rate with a tax increase would be 0.001170, and the proposed Draper property tax revenue with the tax increase would be $12,882.

The proposed new property tax revenue generated from the proposed tax rate increase would be $2,696,000.

Estimated increase to a primary residence valued at $807, the median home value in Draper would be $866 per month or $103.86 annually, which represents a $5% increase.

The estimated increase to a business valued at $1 million would be $19.50 per month or $234 on an annual basis.

That too represents a $25% increase.

And that is our property tax statement.

We also have one more, which is our property tax impact schedule that we are required to display.

So I will take the opportunity to make sure we display that at the moment so that we can make sure we have met all of those requirements as well.

So what this statement shows is it shows our budget without the tax increase and what the proposed budget would be with the tax increase.

And so we have three different items on this tax impact schedule.

The first impact would be just our overall budget.

And as you can see, our proposed tax uh our proposed budget with the tax increase or without the tax increase will remain the same.

The difference is that we will draw down the fund balance by $2,461, $2,461,000.

And so the impact of the tax increase is with the property tax increase, Drape will reduce its reliance on fund balance to meet the ongoing operational needs of the city.

The second item on there is for the fire department.

Um within the fire department overtime budget, we have a budget of $250,000.

That budget would increase, and it wouldn't be on the overtime line item, it would be on a personnel line item for $415,000, a budget change of $165,000.

The impact of the tax increase would be the city will fund three new firefighter positions, reducing the reliance on overtime to meet minimum staffing levels and reducing firefighter fatigue.

And lastly, parks and recreation.

Our current budget within parks and recreation for playground maintenance is $130,000.

The proposed budget with a tax increase would be $200,000 or a change of an increase of $70,000.

The impact of that tax in of the tax increase for parks and recreation would be the city will have the necessary funding to continue annual playground replacements at the recommended level in order to maintain compliance with risk and insurance mandates.

I can answer any question questions on any of those items if the council has any.

Questions for Mr.

Vike.

Okay.

I think we've met those.

I am looking to Tracy and to our recorder to make sure that we've met those.

Or I'm grateful to them for their assistance in making sure that we do that.

We can now present the uh tentative budget.

I think the mayor is going to start with a presentation.

Um I also have a presentation.

I can do it or you skip it.

That really is up to you.

Uh we'll let the mayor go.

And if there's uh further questions, I can chime in as well.

Thank you.

Um appreciate that.

Again, those are all new changes to the state code that we are complying with.

Just to start off with a little background for everyone.

Um we, as you all know, and I know you all know this because you've all been involved in multiple meetings with myself and with our finance director and our city manager regarding the budget, this budget and this particular budget in the process.

So I know you're awell of this, but I just want it for the record that we operate with a blended budget.

Um we are a city like I think most cities are like us, although I think there's a trend going this other direction, I'll talk about in a minute.

But as a blended budget, we take our property tax revenue collection and our sales tax revenue collection and all of our other taxes that we have, franchises, et cetera, and we operate the entire city out of the collective funds.

Um this property tax increase that I'm proposing is 25 percent more than our current our current budget would be.

Now, um, how did we get here and why are we why am I proposing this?

Um over the last few years, um, if you've if you've been into any of our meetings or paid attention to the world, um first we had an unprecedented event uh called COVID-19, which essentially, as we all know, locked the world down for a long time.

But what it did more than anything else, which I don't know that anyone can really still yet explain, is it created a thing called supply chain issues.

We've all heard this phrase, we've all heard people say it.

What does it mean?

Well, in the context of a fire truck, I'm going to give you an example.

When we formed our fire department eight years ago, this June, um, we went to the fire truck store.

When I say we, meet Chief Smith, our city manager, and uh uh our deputy chief, Bart Bodry, at the time, and at the fire truck store, we went and essentially picked out trucks.

Um it was a very cool experience, the most cool experience I've done as mayor, I think.

Um, but at the fire truck store, there were fire trucks lined up in this massive warehouse.

And you could buy one, and you could get one after you bought it, like in three months.

You could you could literally like go buy a car, you could go buy a fire truck.

Um so 2016, you know, just these are some values, but look at the fire truck situation.

2016, 500,000 bucks, and you could get that fire truck within a couple of months.

Today, two million dollars.

That's a 300 percent increase in the price.

That's not our fault.

I don't they drug Pierce, they drug uh Rosenbauer in front of the United States Congress this last session to ask these guys why this is happening.

We don't know.

But what we do know is if we want that new fire truck, it's gone up 300 percent, and you have to give them about a million dollars cash to hold on to while they build your truck, which you don't give for almost two years.

This is the COVID-19 excellent example of a supply chain situation.

So when we talk about why why are we where we are, why is our budget up?

We we like everyone else have experienced substantial increases in all the vehicles that we use, dump trucks.

I mean, look at it, 100% uh fire engine, uh 233 percent police vehicle.

This is this astounding one because I remember distinctly when we when we kind of went to this program that Mr.

Cooley put in place where we we we trade our vehicles in at the right optimum amount, where we still get a good trade in, but we but we you know we get good use out of them.

I remember those 35,000, and I 75,000 is the price now.

Service truck, you can see um snowplow, all of it.

That's just an example of how we kind of got here with respect to the increase that we've we've we've felt in our expenses.

Um I want to talk about sales tax for a minute.

We're we're projecting to collect 22 million, four hundred thousand dollars.

Now, I want you to look over there at Draper City and our sales tax collection, and then look at the comparable cities.

Sandy is much larger city than we are, and we're only seven million roughly.

Well, I'm not doing the yeah, eight million less.

I'm I'm a lawyer, sorry.

Um eight million less than Sandy.

South Jordan, who's a much bigger city, a hundred thousand, we're within four million of sales tax collection there.

Harriman, also a city similar in our size, a little bigger, 14 million, so we're above them, Riverton, um, Cottonwood Heights.

Um the sales tax uh portion of our budget is one that I have personally worked on as a as both a council member and a mayor to to make it a larger, the largest we could make it.

This is a deliberate act that was done by myself and fellow council members past Mayor Smith before me was very committed to this.

Um we we spent an inordinate amount of time over the last 15 years trying to increase business, and we have done it.

And I think to use my fame boxing analogy, we punch above our weight in sales tax collection.

And that has allowed us over the years, we've had growth in sales tax.

We've had new retail come on, and it's given us the ability to fund our operations and not have to raise property taxes.

Um in the past, we've had lots of one-time money events, be it grants, be it ARPA money from the great COVID pandemic, um and and federal grants, and we've also sold land, we've also bought land.

But we've we've used one-time sources of money to fund our budget, and we've used one-time sources to fund stuff that is ongoing.

And we can have a discussion about whether we should have done it that way, but that's what we did.

Um in the past, uh we've we've been consistent with regular sales tax growth.

We've seen some recovery in sales tax this year, but if you would have started talking to me at the beginning, and I know you did, we were thinking sales tax was flat at minimal and maybe starting to crater a little.

We've been lucky, people are still buying, which thank heavens they're buying in Draper.

Um, as we've uh but we've had this consistent regular growth.

At best, sales tax in our estimation is gonna grow a little, but it's primarily leveled off and will not do the leaps that it's done over years, simply because we're running out of retail space in what you would consider draper proper.

When I say that I mean Draper, not including the point of the mountain state land authority area of the prison site.

So take the point out of the consideration and think about what are the retail spots that are left.

There are very few.

Um but we are making our best efforts on those retail spots with a really exciting new opportunities in our future.

Um but with the leveling off, that that's putting us into a the game has essentially changed a little bit for us.

So I think that those sales tax comparisons are are pretty good.

In my 18 years of elected service, 18 years and five months, well, four months and nineteen days, um, we we have had one tax increase, and it was in 2024.

Um, as as all of us know, um none of us like taxes, none of us like to pay them, um, none of us really want to, but government cost money to operate.

In 2024, we did a property tax increase, the first one in my elected service at 20 percent.

And that was and that was primarily because we had, as you'll, as you'll go back with me in history, we have public safety, which has become um, which has always been probably well always has been the most significant portion of our of our expense budget.

A police department, we've had our own police department for a long time, longer than Pat's even been here, which is a long time.

We started our own fire department, I'll talk about that in a minute, but our public safety um has grown with us as a city.

About, I want to say near the 2024 tax increase, the year before that in 23, we found ourselves in the very situation that many cities were in.

Um, and that was police officers became a I I guess I know how else to say it, a hot commodity.

I'm gonna say it that way, because they did.

Um will recall that after COVID got good and going, and then we got into the summer of burning, as I like to call it, which I think was the next summer after COVID when riots were mass across the country.

And what happened in that, you know, it was great to go out and exercise your First Amendment rights, but it turned violent, it turned violent in Salt Lake City, it turned violent everywhere, and what happened was all of a sudden police officers who were just normal officers doing their job got in back into the vilified position, and it became difficult to get young people to serve and want to become police officers.

Hence, the good police officers that we already had employed and good trained police officers became very valuable, and cities began this cut throat, ruthless competition with each other, where one city would raise the pay, four or five dollars an hour, and we would either lose our best people or we would match it.

And it and we we had many a mayor round table about it, and we talked about we got to quit doing this to each other.

We'd walk out of those meetings, and someone had raised their rate to get a few more cops.

And it became a real serious problem.

We transitioned from a from one of our good chiefs, John Ening, who retired, to uh a new chief, and Chief Ferguson brought with him the the understanding of you know how to really put public safety, I guess from the police perspective, at the level of extreme competence and the ability to protect our community, not only on a patrol basis, on an investigations basis, and especially on a major crimes basis, and on a special weapons and tactic or SWAT basis.

I won't I will remember when Rich first was made chief, he took me to lunch and he said, Mayor, we have a SWAT team of nine people.

And I said, That's awesome.

And he said, No, that's not awesome.

He goes, That's not a SWAT team.

It's actually dangerous.

And so he explained, you know, what we needed to do.

And so in that in that in that wave of of police being vilified, not people not wanting to do the job, and the cost of cities fighting with each other to get the people that were left in the in the system, we did what we what I think was prudent to do, and we increased the number of officers by seven, and we increased their pay, and we created a step system, which made this place, Draper City, a great place to be a police officer.

We're not the highest paid, we're never gonna be, but we're competitive, and we offer opportunity for advancement and improvement in both in both uh professional development as a police officer and advancement in rank and opportunity.

We've implemented the uh master officer program, which recognizes quality police work by officers who are not sergeants or lieutenants or captains.

But it's a it's a system that I'm proud that we put in place.

Um I can tell you that I as I interviewed youth councils over the last I'm gonna say decade.

I asked every group of youth council kids, and it's often been more than a hundred, how many of you want to be police officers?

And up until last year, there were zero kids in these ten years of kids that raised their hand to be a police officer.

At post, I serve on the post council as appointed by Governor Herbert.

We run the police academy and disciplined police officers.

There was a time when a post class had seven people in it, and it was scary.

We couldn't, it was really interesting.

Um I asked the same kids, how many of you want to be firefighters?

Zero hands over the last decade.

Now, these young men that came today, they wanted to be, so it's obviously the tide has turned.

But I asked this year, and I had a couple of kids say they wanted to be police officers, and a couple that said firefighters.

Interestingly enough, and I asked them if they wanted to be in the military, it was always about one percent.

But so those are been the real the real things that we've lived through as a city with respect to the police department.

Um this budget um last year, uh before I leave that.

Last year, and part of the reason why John is so specific about what we're reading on the board is we we agreed that as a sales tax revenue bond, is that the right was a yeah, sales tax revenue bond.

We were that the citizens have been paying for the last decade was gonna was gonna fall off because we'd paid it off.

It was essentially a million dollars roughly in tax revenue, a 10% tax increase.

We held a truth in taxation hearing, we thought we'd we teed it up and we did everything we had to do.

Now, I I will tell you that uh the state, the tax commission, the key entity that teaches us about taxes, had a checklist of what we were supposed to do to comply with the law, and we complied with that checklist.

Not on the checklist was a was a slide that required us to, if I remember correctly, show the public what every other taxing entity in Salt Lake County was doing.

Why we needed to, I don't know.

They have their own truth in taxation.

But we did not display that slide, and because we did not display that slide, the state tax commission nullified our increase, and we did not get it.

So had we gotten that, we would have been we would have seen in the last 18 years a 30 percent increase would have been an initial million dollars.

Um we were not the only city.

Um and it, you know, I I got into a debate.

I'm a pilot, as many of you know, Brenn knows firsthand, and one of the things about checklists is they're there for a reason.

My dad taught me to fly, and he used to tell me he said there's two kinds of pilots that fly retractable gear airplanes.

There's pilots that have landed with the wheels up and those that will.

Um so he always said use the checklist.

The last thing on a retractable gear flying checklist, one of the one of the last things is landing gear down.

So my point was if you're gonna make a damn checklist, you ought to put all the damn stuff on the checklist, so it was irritating.

So anyway, but we learned so did several other cities, that's where we're at.

But if we'd had that money, we'd be in a little bit better situation.

Now as we've done our best to mix our budget, I want you to look at go to that tax rate slides if we could.

Okay.

This one?

Yeah, that one.

Yeah.

John had those squiggly lines, and we, as you all know, those were hard to read.

So tax rate 2025.

Um the slide on the slide on the left of the screen.

Yeah, left of the left.

So the slide on the left shows the current tax rates.

And then the slide on the right shows again, everyone with their 2025 tax rate, but the proposed new rate for Draper at the point zero zero one one seven zero.

So right now we're just just as as my dad would say, the NATS tail, if you will, above Bluffdale in tax rate.

My dad had a different phrase, but I didn't think it was family appropriate.

Um we're just barely above Bluffdale.

Um here in Draper, fully staffed fire department, fully operational.

Our fire department, different than even anybody else, has a fully operational wildland uh urban interface component.

The work that we do in our at our current rate um is amazing in the sense of it protects homes in the wildland urban interface, and we have a lot of them.

And so that I just want you to think that at our current position, we are still performing at this level of service, which is you know, which is a level of service that that I think is appropriate for this community, but you know, we it we're not covering all the costs.

If we do the 25% to the slide on the right, um you see we go up a little bit, um, but we still remain, if not, you know, in the top four, it appears to me, lowest tax cities in the county.

Can I ask yes.

Comment on that.

That's comparing the 2025 tax rate.

So we don't know what these other cities might be raising their tax too, correct?

Yeah, and there's and there's a number of cities uh that are raising or proposing to raise their rates.

Um one city at Eagle Mountain is proposing over a 200 percent rate, and I'll get to why they're doing that.

Um tax increase, to balance our budget and to and to to run the city at the level of service that we have.

Um what we really need is 50 percent.

That would balance the budget two-day, make it run, we would be in, we would be smooth sailing.

I know that that's a lot.

I know that's significant.

Um so I've come in at this 25 percent, knowing that we have we have you know, we have an opportunity to see what sales tax does, see what our new sales tax does, see what maybe some growth might do, see what might come on at the point, some of those things.

It gives us some breathing room.

But make no mistake that if we if we if we do nothing, if we raise no taxes, we are gonna pull 5.9 million out of our general fund balance.

And that's we can we can run the city, we can just pull 5 million out.

What I'm asking to do is cut that amount down and we'll draw down uh our fund balance by only 3.2 million this year.

So it doesn't this this proposal I'm asking for does not balance the budget at the current service level that we're at.

Um so we're gonna need some small service, some all some small increases going forward as we have a chance to balance, which is what we've always done.

We've well, we've done the one tax increase, but we've always tried to blend our budget in a way to make it work.

Um this budget that I'm proposing today, although it's not balanced, and the tax increase I'm asking for is not enough to do it, but this budget reflects the true cost of our public safety.

Fully staffed police department, uh fully functional uh major crimes unit, fully functioning investigations unit, all the state-of-the-art equipment they need, plus their vehicles, different than we used to do.

What if you look at our past budgets, you would see lower budgets and think, man, we've we've really grown it here.

We really haven't, because what we would do is at the end of the year, we would true up the budget with an actual amount, do an amendment, buy a bunch of police cars, buy a bunch of dump trucks.

And it always came in towards the end.

What we've got in this current budget is we have these vehicles put in the right departments at the replacement level that we've all agreed we're gonna get we're gonna trade them in at the right time, get the most out of them, et cetera.

Um so it also reflects the fire department.

And I want to talk about the fire department for just a minute longer, if I could.

Um when we took over um for our own fire department, there you've all heard of the ISO rating.

Uh if you haven't, ISO is a is a rating system that gives that it's a way for fire departments in municipalities and in local government to to it's a way for a community to decide how good, I guess I don't maybe I'm not saying this right, how good is our fire service for public safety.

How good is our fire service for public safety?

The logic behind it I think is sound in one regard.

And I've had Tasha said this very thing to me many times over the years that we ought to fund our entire public safety out of property tax.

And I think the sound part of that argument is public safety of all the city services really does protect your property.

That's what the firemen do and the police officers do.

And so I can see the logic, and I know I've talked to the mayors in those communities, and that's one of the reasons they do it.

When you do it like that, you have a zero general fund property tax.

So you have no city property tax.

So what the city of Riverton does is they they run their their public safety off property tax and they run the rest of their city off their sales tax.

And I want you to know we have where are we at on the sales tax?

Uh we're where are we at?

Yeah.

Yeah, and where's Riverton?

Oh, 13.

Yeah.

So there you go.

Um, but uh obviously that would be that would make our tax rate much higher than it currently is to do it.

You we don't necessarily need to do it, but it's something we could think about and consider as we go forward in time.

But um so the the current budget reflects the current public safety system, which includes the step pays, the other additional officers.

This budget also includes one police officer.

Um we the the chief would have liked more, but we're getting one because the canyon school district is opening this fantastic tech center that's going to be the state-of-the-art tech center for college or uh for for their students over at the eBay facility, and we have to protect it by state law.

We've got to provide an officer there.

So anyway, um the size of our government.

Um we are at full-time uh employment, 298 city employees.

Um the new additional employees that we've added over the years have been um increases by seven fire seven police officers, number of firefighters, Clint How many, I can't remember.

I think we've had at least seven firefighters probably over time.

Um, and we've had a few other positions.

We have current positions in our city government, such as Financial Economic Development Director, we have not staffed because we we're trying to be lean.

But I think that 298 full-time employees, we are very lean and we are very small government.

Um let's talk a little bit about uh you know costs.

Um I put into my notes every damn thing has gone up.

I don't really know how to say it better.

We kind of hit on that already.

Um all the trucks, asphalt, Cooley, how far has asphalt gone up in since COVID?

100 percent.

A lot.

Yeah.

Our budget reflects public safety fully done how we have it.

Our budget reflects our road system.

Um before before uh Mr.

Cooley joined us, we really didn't have a road maintenance program.

We sort of fixed it kind of as it needed.

We would go respond to problems.

We have a fully developed maintenance program.

We where we go out proactively treat these roads in a manner that makes them last longer and is a lot less money.

Uh hats off to Mr.

Cooley's developed it, but that is a standard that we are using.

This budget reflects that, reflects the continued road maintenance.

In the budget is a $50,000 request for what we call transportation impact fee study.

Now that was a battle fought by me personally at the legislature with the league last session, the session before last, where we will have an opportunity to study the actual transportation impact of businesses and homes, and we can assess legally a fee that goes only directly to funding road maintenance.

So if we can pass a transportation impact fee that's relevant, we can take some of our general fund money that we spend on roads and put that back into other things.

So it's a way to offset it, but that's in the budget.

Um said everything's gone up.

The cost of a mile road, I think I I remember and I'm I'm probably saying this wrong when I first elected a 60-foot wide mile of asphalt was about I don't know, a couple hundred thousand to pave.

Now it's probably eight hundred thousand.

I I don't, it's gone up a lot.

Um it's it's just everything is everything we've seen has gone up.

We all know it in our own our own homes.

Um so one of the things this budget doesn't reflect is really any extravagant things other than just operations.

And operations at a level that are good.

Um our police department um is operating and enforcing traffic laws like it's never done in my recollect in my memory.

Um the amount of traffic enforcement that we have done that that they're doing on a regular basis is outstanding.

The the enforcement has led to uh taking drugs off the street, drunk drivers off the street, but more importantly, the enforcement has caused less accidents at these problematic intersections and has made better public safety.

So all that's included.

Um we don't have in this current budget at this level of service a community center, an ice ring, or any new parks that would be other than the ones we've already funded.

This is really it.

This is this is where we're at.

Um so look at this this slide here.

Um and you can kind of see you know the sales tax increase, franchise tax, and you can kind of see where where we're going with the transportation utility fee there, school resource officer, we're we're bringing them on mid mid mid-cycle, so it's not the whole full amount.

But the the body camera enhancements.

You all both you all know that the new body camera that we're buying, it'll it allows a foreign speaking person to talk to an officer and it translate their language so the officer can have a conversation with someone who might speak Spanish who with an officer who doesn't, and it will also take what the officer says and translate it back to the Spanish speaker, and it makes for a much more effective and safer interaction with the public.

It also allows them, and I've seen this in Harriman, to transcribe the reports with some AI assistants.

It makes for a much better report.

Um three firefighters at 415,000, um, but we're cutting that overtime back down.

Um part-time code enforcement.

You've all said over the years that we need to we need to enforce the code better and we need another person to do it.

That person will be doing that.

Okay.

Now let's go to I think I've hit everything there.

Um to, if you would, um my property tax notice.

It's like I read your mind.

There you go.

Yeah.

This is my tax notice.

I wanted to use my own because I wanted everyone to know that I also will be feeling this pain should we adopt this budget.

Um but at the same time, uh I do believe, and I have always believed that living in Draper is one of the it's probably the single best place I've ever lived.

The uh the amenities that we have in this community, I I don't even know how to describe it.

Um I don't know any many places that have the parks we have, um, the playgrounds we have, the the trail system is unprecedented and undone in the world.

Um I can ride out of my front driveway and on a safe paved trail be in the mountains, and i i it's phenomenal.

Okay, so in 2025, and and I know um that as we talk about tax increases, we're not the only entity out there that may or may not be doing this.

But we provide the paramedic when you have that heart attack.

We provide the pothole filled, we provide the repaving, we provide that park and that playground and that draper days and that's Cinco de Mayo and all the events, and we provide um someone's breaking into your house, we provide a a well-trained police officer to save you and investigate the crime.

So my tax on my house, I guess 2025, $645.71 cents for the year.

That gets that gets clinced people to my house for my coronary in four minutes and saves me for six hundred bucks.

41 645 71.

All right.

So and it's gone up that one increase in 2025.

So where are we that was the proposed increase that we did not get?

Okay, the $59 for the year.

Okay.

So go to the current how it affects the mayor's property tax.

So we do not actually have that slide, but that will be generated.

So that's a uh statement that this um the county and the state generate uh once everyone has told them what they're going to do with their both with their taxes that is due out by July 22nd.

So that gets mailed out um in the middle of July prior to a truth in taxation hearing.

My recollection running the numbers against my house was about it was about $15 more a month at 25 percent, roughly.

Um keep in mind that the assessed value um my house is a little bit higher than the mean assessed value, but the average home value in this city of Draper, the or the median, the average home sale price by the Utah Realtors Association was 990,000 last uh a couple of weeks ago.

It's important to note that um we we obviously get it, we all get a break on our assessed value.

So you only get taxed on the what do you call the phrase, John?

Um the taxable value.

The taxable value, right?

So anyway, what what I'm proposing is is that it's essentially an increase to me of you know uh maybe 15 to 16 dollars a month, but it puts another couple two million, it puts that 2.9 million in our in our budget.

Um so on it on the average home value, which is $807, that's what the new rate will.

So the difference is $103.

Probably for me, it's probably $100 and about one and a half that so $140.

Yeah.

$150.

And then the business you can see.

Let's talk about the last time I'm wrapping up.

$13 a month.

Right.

Yeah, $13 a month.

And I know that there's people on fixed incomes, and I know that nobody likes taxes, but everybody likes the service that we provide, and that and it costs money.

Let's talk about fund balance for a minute.

Right now, the state allows us to have 35% of our budget in a reserve, or and we call it fund balance, general fund balance.

We are at the 35%.

Over the years, we have spent our fund balance down and we've had good years and we've put money in our fund balance, and we've kept it high.

We've also put money when we've had good years in CIP funds.

And the a couple of those CIP funds are funds that uh we we we have a big we have a big construction need for a public works facility, primarily because we're gonna lose most of the current place we're at due to a lease that we're on.

And so we we've got money to do that.

Um we we are currently renting our fire logistics facility um for some $14,000 a month, roughly.

Um I would like to get out of renting the facility and get that taken care of as part of our as part of our CIP funds that we have available.

Fund balance this year was a topic at the legislature.

The legislature um based upon someone's recommendation, decided that maybe a way to help with taxes was cut back fund balance from 35 to 25 percent.

And the proposal was that if you cut it, the cities would have to spend it down.

Um so you know it it did it didn't pass the legislative session.

Um one of the other proposals, um, well, it's down fund balance for a minute.

Um we we're gonna spend our fund balance down.

If you adopt my proposed budget, you're gonna still spend three million two hundred and ninety-five thousand seven hundred dollars out of the fund balance.

So it's gonna come below thirty-five percent no matter what.

If you do nothing, it's gonna go down five million, so it's coming down.

Um why do we need a healthy fund balance?

And this is why I think we do.

We had a storm a couple of years ago.

I think the total storm was 24 minutes of complete torrential downpour, and that thing did about three million dollars damage to our infrastructure.

Um I mean it laid bare uh uh Bangder Highway extension above the church, like to the point where there was like 100 and 200 feet of bare pipes laying on the ground because it washed the whole road out.

Um the stormwater vault up at the temple literally blew up off the mountain out into the road.

Um just immensely expensive.

Now, luckily, by good work of our of our assistant city manager and pursuing uh opportunities, we were able to get back two point nine million dollars of the money we spent.

But we didn't ever expect to get it back, and if we wouldn't have had it, we would have been in real trouble.

Um the other reason we need to keep a high fund balance, in my opinion, is we have probably the most complex municipal water system of any state, of any city in this state, maybe in the country.

If if you don't know, um if you don't live in flat draper, um if you live in elevated draper, which is South Mountain or anything up the mountain in Suncrest, your water is all delivered by pump.

And that pump system is complex and it's really expensive.

Um the pressures in the tank in the in the line are are even beyond what you can imagine in some spots.

So we we always have the the risk and the worry that we're gonna have a water main go.

Um if it does, it'll be it'll be it could be really serious, and we need the money to be able to take care of that.

Um I also think that the other thing that's unique about Draper and why we need to keep our fund balance as high as we can is the wildland urban interface.

Um not every city has that, but we do.

Um and we need to be ready to fight one of those fires that might have come.

We've had two in my time, and they've all been expensive.

Thankfully they've been on Forest Service property, which is delightful from that perspective, but we still spent money um getting gearing up and fighting them, setting up setting up our command centers and all that.

Um so we've got a lot of stuff that's expensive to maintain and protect, and I think we need to consider that fund balance needs to stay high.

One of the things the legislature talked about this year was capping property tax.

Property tax was a big issue at the legislature.

Um President Trump tweeted, I I was in a meeting with Senator Damickay for a couple hours talking about property tax and what we might tweak to the system, what the legislature wanted to do.

And we we talked about various things.

By the time I got to my truck, now Donald Trump tweets let's abolish property tax in the country.

And so there's a lot of talk about it.

One of the proposals that I personally testified against was a five percent maximum property tax uh a cap on the ability to raise property tax at 5 percent.

Um I think that would hurt a city like us, a city who's gone a long time not taking more money than we needed from anybody and running a lien budget and and doing all we can to not go to the property taxpayer, but to do everything we can, and then you know, we now are in a position where we need some little bit bigger increases going forward.

If we got capped at 5 percent, if cities were capped at 5 percent, you'd have to raise your property tax every single year in order to just stay up on top of it.

So I don't know what will happen this year with it, but there's a lot of talk about it.

Um sales tax revenue in closing is you know it's limited in the space and places we can do it.

We do have really good upside, and that's one of the reasons I'm okay with the not trying to balance it all in one fail swoop.

We do have the point coming on, and we do get our share of sales tax at the point.

Um I'm excited to say that although not relevant maybe to this discussion, but in a couple three weeks, we are about to make a big announcement about a great tenant, and it's gonna kick the point off.

And that's gonna be a future source of revenue.

And it may keep us from ever having to get into that river to enherman scenario.

We may be able to keep our blended budget and keep doing what we've been doing as we increase our sales tax.

Um your choices are really right now you can do nothing and just spend the fund balance down.

You could probably do that for a couple years.

Um, but then you'll be into a position where you won't have any emergency money, and you're ultimately gonna have to either change the level of service or um or or raise taxes.

Um the real way that you can you could look at our budget and you can find areas you can think, oh, we could cut 50,000 here.

We could do away with our events, we could we could we could cut this, we could we could do a bunch of little things, but the only thing that really takes the money out, the millions that it takes, is to is it really to cut public safety and road maintenance and park maintenance.

The things that everybody relies upon and wants, in order to really do it, you would have to significantly change our level of service.

I personally think our level of service is at the right level.

I think we need to get ourselves over the next few years to where we're covering all of it, if not all of it, most of it, maybe we set a percentage and we wait and and work and continue to improve our sales tax collection, which we're doing, and I think as we go forward, that's what we're looking at.

So that's my two cents.

Sorry.

If that was too long.

So anyway, open for debate and questions.

John, do you have more do you want to add?

Um go ahead.

Um I don't know that I have a a lot more to add.

Um I will add just a couple of things.

Uh one thing is that within the water fund, we are also proposing, let me get back to that page.

A rate increase in the water fund.

Uh we receive an increase, uh, we buy our water from the Jordan Valley Water District, and every year we receive an increase in the the rate that we pay for the water that gets used within Draper City.

Many years you can see on the chart there that we did not pass that on to the residents.

Um it put us in a deficit within the water fund.

Um we have adopted a different plan going forward, and so this year uh we received a four and a half percent rate increase from the Jordan Valley Water District, and we are proposing to pass that on in the variable rate that is paid uh within Draper water.

So that is one item that I want to make sure that we uh note.

And then the other is that we have currently set a truth in taxation hearing date.

Um of the resolutions you will adopt directs me to do that.

Um we've already worked with the county auditors and the state tax commission to set forth a date, and our current date is set for August 13th at 6 o'clock.

Is it is it the 12th?

It's the Wednesday.

The 12th.

It is the 12th.

I've been corrected.

August 12th at 6 o'clock.

And the one good thing about water increase, you can you can actually change it by using less water.

That is correct.

You can actually kind of control your the level.

Because of the way we are raising the rate within the variable rate, it really is dependent upon your use of the water.

So I'm trying to make sure I've checked all my boxes.

I'm getting a thumbs up, so Mr.

Vike.

Can we go back to the chart that shows Draper's property tax comparative with other cities?

So if I'm look yeah, if I'm looking at this one in the past, we've been the second lowest.

Would that be correct?

Correct.

And if we were to move forward with the proposed increase, we would become the third lowest.

Correct.

Not accounting for possible tax increases from other cities.

No.

But we know more than that.

And I'll be like so South Jordan, I'm trying to think of the other ones that are really close.

South Jordan and Holiday are very close, uh, Cottonwood Heights, but we do know that they have proposed a tax rate increase.

Um it's possible, uh as we've all discussed that we we know that property tax rate is a typically on a downward trend.

So it's possible that some of the some of their rates will decrease, that they might drop below us or very even with us.

But currently, at the 25 rate, our proposed rate would be the third lowest, only behind Bluffdale and then Sandy.

Which is actually fairly good position to be in.

Yeah.

Which is kind of our overarching policy, right?

We don't want to be the highest, we don't want to be the very lowest.

We'd like to be somewhere below the middle.

I've been in training meetings and they've they don't want us to compare ourselves.

But I think we always compare ourselves, right?

Um but I do I agree with what the sentiment that they're trying to say is we really need to focus on the services that we're getting.

And you know, as we've talked um, you know, in lots of meetings, the the theme of what we're trying to get to is to pay for our ongoing expenses with ongoing revenue streams.

We don't we no longer want to be paying our mortgage with the bonus that we get at the end of the year.

We want to be able to make sure that our salary is sufficient to cover the mortgage, and then we'll use the bonus to go on a trip or maybe put a roof on the house or some of these one-time needs that might arise instead of using that one-time revenue source to pay for an ongoing expense.

Well, it's a risky venture, right?

And you don't know what's going to happen with sales tax revenue.

It could crash at any moment, and we have to pay police and fire.

So it's no different in your personal budget.

Maybe you don't get the bonus, and then what are you gonna do to pay that that mortgage payment that last month of the year?

So I I really believe that this is the correct way to correct thing to do.

But I also, like the mayor said, believe that doing it in increments is the right thing to do as well because we do have new revenue sources that are possibly coming on, and we don't know what fund balance uh initiatives might come from the legislature.

So I I really you know applaud the mayor in what he's done as far as the may as far as the budget goes, and you as city council members for your work together um in creating this budget.

So I'd rather do kudos to all of you.

I would say to you, I'm not necessarily looking at this in a comparative manner.

I'm more looking to see if someone has to figure it out better than we do.

And I don't think that they necessarily do.

I mean, we can see from this chart that Bluffdale is lower than us, but we also know that they are not fully funding fire as they ought to be.

Didn't they have to close the fire station?

That yeah, that's not dreamy for Bluffdale.

I would much rather have a fully functioning fire department.

Absolutely.

Oh, go ahead.

Go ahead.

Go ahead.

Um I am just learning about the budget, I feel like, and so I have a lot to learn.

I am concerned.

I'm not sure which is better.

It's concerning to me that we are living on deficit spending, and it's concerning to me that we're trying to raise our property.

Like I don't love either of them.

Um but I do think there is a lot of evidence that the increases that we've made in public safety have helped our community, have made it better.

Um I really I continue to quote and be impressed by the statistics the mayor gave in the state of the city just about our crime rates going down and a lot of things going.

So I do think that the proof is in what has happened, and we added a bunch of police, and it has had a positive effect on our community.

So I think that's um really good.

One concern, and we've talked about this that I have just is that we have made um we have increased personnel and we're not really paying for it, or we're paying for it out of our um general fund, and so it doesn't feel sustainable.

So um so I appreciate all this information and find it.

I but I don't I don't I I am unlike I don't want to go the Riverton way.

When I look at their numbers and how much they're paying for police and fire and and where we are, I feel like we're doing a better job.

And um but I do think it probably makes it easier to go to the public and say this this is uh increase just for police.

Or so I think it makes it easier for the politicians, but I'm not sure it's better for the residents.

Anyway, but but I appreciate all this information.

Super helpful and um interesting to compare but not compare.

I think to that point I actually had just asked Mr.

Barker about that.

I said, when did they switch to that kind of system?

And he said it's because they were always outsourcing police and fire.

So it had always been a separate budget.

It wasn't like a one day they just decided to do these special service districts.

They had been using UPD and UFA.

And so they had to do it that way.

Well, they did go in-house with their police department.

They're still with UFA, but they chose to stay with that model on the Trevor Burrus.

But even when they were with UPD, correct me if I'm wrong, Harriman had a police fee.

Yeah.

Yes, that's correct.

Both so in Herriman specifically, uh, I live there and was on the council for a little bit, so I can speak to both of them were previously serviced by UPD and UFA, and both had made the decision to go into the taxing districts created by both of those entities, which was Slavisa and then um uh UFSA at the time.

But because they were part of the the broader pool of how that money was collected and distributed, they wanted a little bit more control over the money that was collected locally.

So they both created their own local taxing entities to replace the ones that were already in place through Slave and UFSA, and that's where the Harriman Police Service area and uh their fire service area in Harriman both came from.

So they they basically left the one and created duplicates with the same tax rates in place to keep collecting the same amount of money via those two vehicles.

The same essentially the and then once Harriman did that, Riverton essentially followed suit and and withdrew from both of those taxing districts, created their own uh to continue to collect those same amount of money that they had been collecting to pay for those services, and Riverton again followed suit also in eventually creating their own police force, but staying with UFA as the fire provider.

But that's where they both chose to join those taxing districts and then replaced it with their own taxing districts to maintain that same funding mechanism to pay for those services.

And I don't think they saved any money doing it.

They just switched.

It doesn't seem like it was higher than ours.

Quite a bit higher, both of them.

No, but what I mean is is when Slovisa and UFA were doing the districts, they were the same high rate.

They were still paying, they just got local control, which was what you know what they wanted, but I don't think it saved them any money, like over, you know, but they don't they did not change their tax rates in doing that.

And in fact, they've both had to increase tax rates in both of those um uh those taxing districts to continue to pay for the services in each of those entities.

There are at least two cities right now thinking about looking at going to that model.

So there's a few considering it because it is easier on the politicians.

I think ultimately is right.

So it does seem like the price tag is higher.

It it definitely seems like the agreement, and I think that's what I'm saying.

I think we can keep our blended budget.

We just need to make sure we're covering it.

And and it covering what we need to cover is a lot less than that.

I mean, even at max, even at a 50 percent increase, it's a lot less than that.

Right.

Which would balance us.

So I think we are doing a good job.

And and to that point, I do, as someone who's just come into the council, when you look at our numbers and our sales tax numbers, like as a resident of Draper, a longtime resident and not longtime member of the council, I really do appreciate the work that's been done over the last couple of decades to create that really strong sales tax base so that the um what you know the requirement of our property taxes is quite a bit lower than a lot of our surrounding areas.

Yeah, and if you you mentioned to me earlier that Sandy's Sandy was bringing in more and part of that is their Costco.

They make almost $10 million a year on sales tax revenue off of their Costco.

Lots of that's from me.

That might be their sales that's about what we bring in from property tax.

And South Georgia Rivers didn't also have a Costco.

So we need a Costco or just another Trader Joe's.

Or another.

Well, I think there's another important thing to note on this, too, that I think is deceiving.

We're we're looking at a 25% property tax increase, but all we're doing is increasing our budget by 2.6 percent.

That's that's lower than the way uh inflation is.

So we're really only increasing this budget by 2.6 percent.

And I know that there's a lot of comments that people might say about that we're growing government when you raise taxes, but for me, I think this is the way we're gonna sustain and protect our government and the the and our city.

And the reason why I say that, just a couple of observations that I've made on Mayor, your presentation was very comprehensive and great on that.

If you look at just adding three firemen, that protects our city more because you are not burning out our existing firemen from overtime, and we're actually gonna save much more in the overtime to help more than pay for those three firemen.

It's only like 165,000 difference.

There's no way, Chief, you could hire three firemen for 165,000.

And so you're gonna get three more firemen and you're gonna have a more healthy group of firemen.

So that to me protects the city.

If you look at the equipment increases of all of that, that's an average of like 154 percent increase.

And we're looking at a 25 percent increase to protect that, right?

And then there's one last thing that I want to make.

Can I comment on what you just said though, friend?

I think gosh, I might be the council member who's been here the longest now.

Well, um, when I started, we were understaffed, and that went on for a long time.

We did not have enough police officers or fire department members to fulfill the needs of the city.

We really didn't, and we could not hire them.

There was this huge gap.

And year after year we'd say, oh, well, we're short eight, and we'd hire three.

So to be where we are now fully staffed really just means we're actually meeting the needs of the city, which is why you're seeing crime go down.

Like this has been a need for a long time and we're addressing it.

That happened as we had that property tax increase two years ago to help fund public safety.

Right, right.

That that helped with that.

Like I'm sure it's very good point.

Alarming to someone new, but if you see the history of it, we're just finally getting to where we've needed to be.

Right.

And so can I add to that too, the important thing that a lot of people aren't going to understand if we don't sustain and keep that many firemen and we end up having to eliminate positions.

You talk about that ISO, it's the ISO fire protection rating.

That is critical in our city.

In an area, if that ISO protection rating even drops from a 2.0 and goes to a three or a four, the homeowner's insurance costs will be more than what this property tax increase is on each of the individuals.

I I guarantee you that's how it would go.

And then actually we even would risk in some of these areas that they would not be able to get insurance.

Right.

Or it will be be m much higher.

Because people have been dropped, but they've been fortuitous enough to be able to be picked back up by another vendor.

And we could be looking at a position where they could not find that so sustaining that ISO fire protection rating is is very important.

That I a lot of people, our residents might not be aware of how important that is.

If we didn't have that fire station at Suncrest, um I don't think you'd they probably wouldn't have insurance up there.

But that fire station, if you looked at should we have built it for the number of homes up there?

No.

You know, if you were looking back, you'd are like, what?

We're putting a fire station, we're only well, there's supposed to be 5,000 more homes, but now you can see that it makes it good thinking by the council members at the time.

No, I don't know.

But uh I don't know.

I the other thing is I think it's important for people to understand is and we had this in that last truth in taxation hearing was we everybody, you know, our houses are going up in value, and everybody thinks we're getting the the growth.

And if if we did, we would never do these things because we'd we'd grow.

But we our our specific now, our I think our property tax system is Cameron Deal and I from the league director of it's a pretty good system.

It's actually pretty awesome because you know you're gonna get the same amount next year, which is really good.

There's states that are trying this weird stuff, it ain't working.

I mean, Florida absolutely is not working.

I mean, it's our system is good.

Um, but yeah, that's important.

We don't get the growth, so that's where we're at.

Sorry.

Well, and I don't want to take up too much time, but I just I appreciate uh the work that's gone into this budget.

I appreciate John who's been so willing to meet with all of us to ask, you know, answer our questions that we might have.

Um Mayor, I really appreciated your presentation because I think it breaks down all of the important components of this budget, it makes it digestible.

Um, I am one of the fairly new newer members of the the council, and it is kind of drinking from a fire hose when you're when you're looking at um this money uh when I was a treasurer for the PTA, it was I thought it was a lot of money, and then you kind of say it's really a lot of money.

Um but I think this is something that we've all taken very seriously.

We know, I mean, my mother lives in Draper, she is on a fixed income.

You know, we don't want to raise taxes unless we feel like we really need to.

And I think breaking it down to show how um we rely more on the sales tax that we're only doing these increases when we absolutely feel like we need to, and I think the time and energy that the city staff and and even us um on the council and the mayor have spent, I think really shows our dedication to providing high quality services for you know the in a most economic way that we can.

We have three resolutions that need to be adopted.

I think they are uh I gotta remember which items they are.

Which page is it on?

Let me look.

10H.

Let's start at the first.

So the first one is 10A, um, which is a resolution adopting the tentative budget.

This is uh required by state statute.

So the proposal is to adopt or not adopt the tentative budget.

Do I have a motion?

And that is resolution 2621, I believe.

Can we uh uh make a motion to approve all of these at once?

I'd make a motion that we approve uh action item 10a, which is resolution 26-21.

10 E.

Uh resolution 26-22.

And just to note, that resolution notes that we met all we complied with all of the requirements that were put in uh the legisl by the legislature this year.

And then also 10H resolution 26-23.

And that resolution directs me as the budget off as the budget executive to schedule a public hearing, yeah.

Which as I mentioned, we have uh proceeded to do already.

All right, we have a motion by Fred to approve all of those just separate resolutions together.

Is there a second?

I'll second.

Who seconded it?

All right.

Any further discussion?

Can I just as far as further discussion say, um, I think that this is the right thing to move forward with, and and we're approving that this is the budget, but we're not approving the budget, right?

This is we're approving that this is the draft budget.

So for a public hearing.

Correct.

This this approves the tentative budget.

And we will hold which also schedules a public hearing for June 2nd, um, which is in two weeks.

And so we will notice that public hearing at which point all members of the public can come and be heard on the budget.

And that's not the truth in taxation.

That is not the truth in taxation.

That is just for the adoption of the budget.

And then after that, we will adopt the interim budget.

Well, at that point, the council has the option to be able to change that tentative budget to include or not include a property tax increase.

If we include a property tax increase, we will adopt an interim budget, which will carry us from July 1 through the time that the budget is approved and adopted following the the truth in taxation hearing, at which point we will then adopt the final budget for the city.

We have that currently on the calendar for August 18th.

I'm doing math in my head, and I think that is the correctly thought date.

So August 12th is the truth in taxation hearing.

We will not adopt the final budget until the following council meeting, which will be August 18th.

So the tentative budget that we're adopting today is really adopting a placeholder budget so that we can now move forward, have the discussions with the public and be amongst yourselves to come to a final or interim budget and then move forward from there according to the state statutes that are require either a truth in taxation hearing or an adoption of a final budget.

Thank you.

Yep.

Any other comments or discussion?

Our hearing of Fred, how do you vote?

Yes.

Tasha?

Yes.

Catherine.

Yes.

Bren.

Yes.

Items approved unanimously 4 to 0.

Next item is 10I.

It's consideration of resolution 2624.

It's resolution of the City Council disposing of surplus personal property in accordance with the Derby City Municipal Code 3-3-150.

These are surplus vehicles.

I think it's made sense.

John, that's in the packet.

It is in the packet.

Okay, good.

I saw it.

All right, we have a motion.

So moved.

Motion by Tasha is there second.

I'll second.

Second by Brynn.

Is there further discussion?

Tasha, how do you vote?

Yes.

Brynn?

Yes.

Fred?

Yes.

Catherine.

Yes.

All right.

Items approved the answer before to zero.

Takes us to item number 11.

Motion to recess the Draper community reinvestment agency meeting.

So moved.

Motion by Tasha second.

All second.

Second by Catherine.

Tasha, how do you vote?

Yes.

Catherine?

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

All right.

We will convene.

I'll call the order.

The uh community reinvestment association agency meeting.

Um first item on the on the agenda.

Um second item is items for consideration.

Item 2A is a motion to approve the October 21, 2025 community reinvestment agency meeting minutes.

Item 2B is an action item CRA resolution 2601, a resolution establishing the community reinvestment agency of Draper City Fiscal Year 2627 tender budget and setting a public hearing of June the second, 2026 to receive public comment.

So that budget was uh sent to the council.

Uh it's also in your packets, and it's as presented here on the screen.

So if there's questions on the CRA budget, I am happy to answer those.

Um if not, we are again adopting a tentative budget and we will hold the public hearing on June 2nd with final adoptions of the CRA budget scheduled for uh July June 9th.

Motion.

Uh Mr.

Mayor, I would like to move to approve item 2A and 2B.

All right, we're motion by Tasha to approve 2A and B is our second.

I'll second.

Second by Brenzer.

Further discussion.

Our hearing on Tasha how do you vote?

Yes.

Bryn?

Yes.

Fred.

Yes.

Catherine.

Yes.

Items are approved unanimously four to zero.

Is there a motion to uh reconvene or adjourn to the city council meeting?

So moved.

All right, second.

I'll second.

Motion by Tasha, second by Brynn.

Tasha, how do you vote?

Yes.

Bryn?

Yes.

Fred.

Yes.

Catherine.

Yes.

All right.

Back in the City Council meeting minutes.

We didn't do any council manager stuff.

Is anybody want to do anything?

Is there a motion to adjourn?

Can I just ask, is there any direction that the council wants to give staff between now and the public hearing on the not on the second of June?

Um anything to look into, any numbers to come back or we just proceed with the public hearing.

I just want to make sure.

So far I feel it's pretty thorough.

I don't know.

Yeah, I would say I think having the mayor present something like that was really helpful.

I think something that that would be great.

We can do that again.

I'll make it shorter.

I think it would be very interesting to know as we move forward what the other cities are considering if we can collect that data.

We will in the in each of the meetings that we hold regarding the budget.

We will hold we will have multiple agenda items, just like we did today.

Um we are required because of the new statutes to make sure that we include in the budget uh an intent to hold to make a public statement, a public statement, and a property tax impact schedule in each of those subsequent meetings.

Following that, we will hold the public hearing.

So uh it will again be a very um full agenda.

And John, the list of the other entities, do we need to do that at the truth and taxation meeting, not on the meeting on January June 2nd?

So the final time we will need to do that is in June on June 9th when we adopt the interim budget or the final budget.

If we adopt the final budget, we actually probably wouldn't need to because there would be no tax increase.

But assuming we adopt an interim budget with a property tax rate change, we will need to hold those, we'll need to have each of those three items again on the June 9th meeting.

When we go to the truth and taxation hearing, that will be some other separate items, one of which the mayor mentioned today.

We will include the the full statement uh of what our pro so our advertised rate will be be changed by because right now we're using an approximate or an estimated number.

So we'll get an actual number from the state that we will uh display an ad advertisement from, and then we will also show the advertisement for all of the county entities both in Utah County and Salt Lake County.

So don't have to hold those as far as my recollection of the new laws are.

We I don't know that we need each of those items in that public in that truth and taxation public hearing.

But I'll consult with legal before I uh say yes or no final on that.

All right.

Any further items?

One thing that I do think we need to contemplate is the missing piece of an economic development director.

We haven't had one of those in many, many years, and I think we're seeing some businesses leave Draper.

I think we're seeing some empty storefronts.

And I think it would be wise, as we've seen with our sales tax revenue, if we have someone in a position to be recruiting businesses to take those empty spots.

I know that we're maxed out with the work on a lot of you.

Maybe it's something we can contract out, but I think we need someone doing that job.

And and we can come back with some proposals or some uh some opportunities for that as well.

I I would agree and support that, Tosha.

I think it's really important.

I do too.

I think they could probably, you know, uh generate their own income, honestly.

It just seems like low-hanging fruit, but I also worry about blight.

I mean, we look in Sandy and we see a lot of empty storefronts at Joanne's has been empty for a long time now.

I think we need to address it.

All right, is there a motion to adjourn?

So moved.

Second.

I'll second.

All right.

All in favor of adjourning say aye.

Aye.

Are there any opposed?

All right, we are adjourned.

Super bummed about short-term.