It all adds up.

Landscape architecture.

You got to do all the planning first.

You you know this.

You see all the pickleball courts are about eight hundred grand.

So it's really not that we're not going to be able to do that.

And in fact, there was a study done here by some statisticians at at BYU that that actually got on the ground to count how many people are playing versus U disk, and they determined that it's a factor of five.

This so that historical record will show April.

And like like this review says, love this course, it just keeps getting better.

And people are noticing.

Over the last year it went from a 3.9 reviewed course to a 4.2.

And you can see down here, it looks incredible.

It's time to come back.

Thank you for all the volunteers.

People are loving it down there.

Now in July of 2026, I bit off more than I can chew, and I'm hosting the United States Women's Disc Golf Championship.

We're using four courses.

Brighton up at 9,000 feet.

That's where the FPO will play.

And that's the female pro open.

That's gonna be uh televised on Amazon.

It's gonna be uh all over the world.

It's it's gonna be a fantastic display of of sport in the mountains.

Uh Creekside and Roots, Roots is actually a historic course as well.

That was also designed by a steady ed back in 1981.

And then uh Dragonfly.

We're putting uh the pro the pro 50-year-old women and the pro 55 year old women here, as well as the advanced level amateurs here on Saturday and Sunday.

So there will be a champion, there will be champions crowned in Lehigh.

Uh currently we've got about 350 competitors registered, we expect over 400.

It's open to spectators.

In fact, we've got tickets on sale right now on the website, so uh make sure you get some tickets and head on head on up there because it's gonna be a spectacle.

So here's what's coming to town.

We've got 45 states represented.

Uh this is one of the first majors, or there's not very many majors on the west side, typically the east side get them all.

So we're getting a lot of people from California coming, Texas, Washington, Arizona, Idaho, a lot of a lot of Western states are really excited about this.

And we've got uh sixteen international registrations from eight countries so far uh flying here for this.

Sports Salt Lake, the pre-event impact has this thing coming in with uh four point five million of business sales, supporting almost eight hundred jobs and almost over two thousand overnight attendees for thirty-six hundred room nights.

This is real economic impact.

This is not just a drop in the bucket.

This is significant.

So really we host the the major for four days out there.

It's already a jam, and so we're now we're asking you guys to make it a generational.

Uh you got 40 acres of natural wetland, green fairways, the championship layout.

It's a top one on our course right now on 45,000.

So what does it take to take it to the next level?

Well, native shade trees.

Pretty much all the trees down there are are Russian olives that we're gonna be battling forever.

They shoot they take your hat off when you're in the woods, they they make you bleed, they poke through your shoe, and you don't even know that the thorn is there until five days later and you step on a rock and it pokes you.

Uh improved pathways.

Uh your your staff has already started working on this over the last week.

So that's really exciting.

Um boardwalks through the through the wetlands, uh really embracing the the wetlands for what they are.

Tea areas, mud-free tea pads with benches and bag holders.

Uh these are these are relatively small ass, but when you're thinking about that, you might as well have a landscape architect design the space.

Just like all your other parks.

Um restroom and water.

We want to complete the park experience down there.

We want families to be able to go down there and and and relax and enjoy their time.

And like I said before, landscape architecture.

This is a this is something that the Disgolf does not get because it's sold to City Council as something that volunteers can build.

And volunteers are not landscape architects.

Volunteers cannot unlock the full capacity of the land.

That's a professional's job, and we should pay a professional to do a good job.

This is really what's exciting about Dragonfly is uh Draper down there has spent probably about 50 grand in trying to irrigate their their expansive land down in the river bottoms to support tree growth.

You guys have water table access.

You can drop trees down there right now.

We could just go dig a hole and plop a tree in there, and it'll probably probably grow just fine as long as we're choosing the right varietals, which is another landscape architecture job.

So trees, paths, restrooms, ADA, just standard park infrastructure, the stuff that that is all over your city already.

So your own master plan is already saying that you're gonna do this.

Um which to me is is just like great, you know, because when when I saw this, I was very excited about it, because in August 5th of 2025, your system plan says that this is either completed or underway, and it's certainly not completed, so it most likely is underway.

So site improvements at Dragonfly Park, including a pavilion restroom, storage to paved parking, fencing, and pathways.

So Dragonfly is already in the plan.

It's more about scope.

How much money are we going to put into it?

And based off of the play counts, it's it's obvious to see that you can put as much money into this as you want, and you'll get your outsized return by hosting these large-scale events.

And according to this same master plan, uh 80% of your residents support funding parking improvements.

You had 2300 responses.

The top priorities are shade trees, trail connectivity, natural areas, and open space.

That is Dragonfly.

So we just want you to fund dragonfly like any other park.

Volunteers built it, the community plays it, and the major arrives in three months.

Thank you for your time.

Thank you.

Any questions?

Comments you'd like to make or for Scott.

Just one question, Mr.

Mayor, for Steve.

I just love to hear kind of the history from the park's perspective on maintaining this area.

Um realistically, I'll tell you the same thing I told him then.

The minute that we allow the volunteer group in here, it creates work for us.

Um this is the fruit of that work, is now we have this wonderful thing, and the volunteers have done amazing work.

I'm gonna call out Aaron specifically.

Uh, we we actually hired Aaron last year to go mow this.

Um we do have so much foot traffic down here.

We do have all of that.

And again, it's another one of those projects that is this the direction that the city wants to go.

And I think that's the hard part is we already have how many unfinished projects.

This is another one.

Um do I see this have great potential?

Absolutely.

Uh is there a use for this?

Yes.

I mean, there are so many positives on this.

Again, the the whole issue of this is going to be is how do we maintain and how do we support this?

So do you have I guess just an estimate of the cost and manpower that would go into it just for the minimal amount of maintenance to make it?

Well, that's the problem is it's not minimal.

This is this is uh weekly mowing.

This is this if we do plant trees down here, yeah, we do have water table half half the time.

Um we will have to put in irrigation.

This is no different than building any other park, except for you're not gonna irrigate all of the turf grass.

Uh that is gonna be natural.

Um, I think we could do it eight to nine hundred thousand dollars and have a great project.

And he's absolutely right.

We can go out for grants on this, and they are very successful.

Eight to nine hundred thousand dollars.

And then for year for maintenance, is that what you're asking?

Or are you?

Yeah, I guess one time versus ongoing.

Um if the partnership continues the way that it is, these guys are pretty self-sustainable.

Um, they clean up after themselves, they're very good that way.

Uh we would eventually need to put in restrooms and actual parking structure, things of that nature that we would have to have staff there every day, which is you know, seasonally more, you know, we're not gonna heed the restroom or any of that.

So we're talking uh seasonal employee, maybe two, and then mowing on top of that.

We have to continue and actually increase that dramatically.

Uh we have a lot of work down there on trees, so another you know, 50, 60 hours a year trimming and maintaining trees down there as well.

So as far as an actual budget number off the top of my head, you know, I don't know.

That's a hard one.

Okay.

Thanks, Stu.

I have a question.

Oh, for Scott, sorry.

So you have what so at this point.

Do you have what you need for to how you're gonna be hosting your good for July?

But a kind of looking, this is looking forward if you want if the city wants this to be continue to be an appealing place for people to play and or increase the appeal, even I guess is right.

Is that what I think?

Yeah, I've been I've been kind of cooling my heels since since we had the discussion earlier uh this year about the expectation of the city versus you know what we want.

I I'd love to have some benches down there at the at the very minimum, especially because we're gonna be have we're gonna be having 50 and 55-year-old women out there.

There's currently one bench I bought it from uh the University of Utah surplus store for 10 bucks.

It's probably my greatest achievement, my best find.

Uh and that's sitting on hole 11 down there or nine.

Um but one bench, I mean we can have more benches.

So that's a that's a relatively small ask that uh that we could install.

Um but other than that, you know, I I think we've got our parking figured out.

Um we're just gonna park along that road there and along the frontage road there by those farms.

Um so we don't necessarily have to figure out parking.

You know, we don't we don't we don't need to make any giant large scale things.

I do need to put two tea pads down there that's uh that I've said that the nonprofit would fund to make sure that there's no friction at the Lehigh budget that's not uh you know unanticipated.

That's gonna cost about 2500 bucks.

Um and uh we're gonna we're gonna hire just some local guys to do that.

Okay.

Can I just get a marriage?

Can I people can I get a show of hands if he's here to support this project or who was here?

Okay.

Thanks.

Any other questions?

I'm gonna uh keep a question.

Yeah, what's the timeline for uh going out for the grant and receiving a grant?

So the grant window now is currently closed for this cycle.

They close in in March.

All right, like right around mid-March they close.

So now's the time to start planning so that so that we can just submit when ready.

Umtah has $10,000 to submit to to put in on a grant as a as a nonprofit uh partner in this.

We'd love to be able to support this project with with some not just volunteers but also some cash recognition as well.

Because that's that's 20 grand in the project, so that's that's good use of the public's money in in my opinion.

Any other questions?

Brad, I'm gonna I'm gonna slip over to you because I do know that there's a major corridor um planned in the future that would come this way that I think probably affects some of the impact of this.

Do you mind speaking to that?

Sure.

Um yes, as many of you know, the Pony Express Parkway roadway um is slated for extension from um Center Street East.

Um it it crosses the bottom end of Dragonfly Park.

I'm not entirely sure whether it crosses any of the fairways or or the T boxes or anything, but I just want to let everyone know that uh that it does seem that it does seem to have impact that area.

I mean I I could pull it up on Google if you want, but I I don't know if that m makes any changes as as you know we're in the process of uh uh contracting with our designers right now for that project.

You'll probably see that contract in the next two weeks.

Um but uh yeah, that's a major project.

The proposed design right now is a two-lane roadway um which extends uh 19th south overk.

We'll be buying a hundred and fifteen feet of rideway where we need to, we won't need to buy it through this area because owned by the city.

But um it's up to you if you'd like me to show you that proposed alignment.

I can do so.

You know, we've been out, done all of our wetlands mitigation, you know, wetlands delineations.

We've started our botanical work, but um, I just want to remind the council of those plans.

I think we're good with with that as as that goes into work, just uh just uh something to have in the back of your mind as that comes.

Any other questions for Scott?

Thank you.

Thank you for your time.

Okay, we'll put item two um presentation by Mr.

Mike West.

There he is.

I thought you got rid of me earlier, but uh you probably do that.

Yay.

There we go.

I know I come talk to you guys about like walking and biking a lot.

There are a lot of other things for us to plan in the city, which is good.

This is a plan we've been working on for the last about three and a half years.

Um despite all this talk about bikes and everything, I do I used to be one of the biggest auto enthusiasts out there, which is kind of crazy.

I used to be one of the biggest auto enthusiasts out there, which is kind of crazy.

But anyway, moving on.

I just kind of want to get some basic feedback from the council.

We have eight main goals of the plan, which are basically what we hope to do within the next five to ten years.

These are all based on vision and goals are based from the public outreach that we've done.

We've done a goal setting exercise with the steering committee, the planning commission, and then previous council.

And then these, yeah, goals are on the five to ten year horizon.

We did things like taking the planning commission out on a bike ride.

That's a poster from when we were trying to see what people's priorities were.

There was like 40 or 50 different ideas that people had put into it, and it kind of got tapered down to these eight goals.

But the main themes that we heard, especially from the public feedback, were safety and connectivity.

So those are the biggest things that people feel like we're missing in terms of trying to get out and using uh whether walking or biking.

Um so the vision at the time, which again we can always look at changing this, but the vision based on all that was that Lehigh will be a safe and comfortable for families and individuals of all ages and abilities to walk, bike, or roll to their desired destinations.

So uh again, based on the previous uh council.

Uh I know there's three three new members now, which is why it's so important to come back and talk about this.

But the idea of having this being a family-friendly plan and about the safety and connectivity, and that's kind of where this vision comes in.

I'm gonna go through the goals.

Um these were by no means in any order of importance.

Um, this is just how they kind of got thrown into the presentation, so um, you can obviously direct me as to which ones you feel are more important than others or if there's other things we should be looking into.

Um the first one's basically to update development code and design standard requirements in a way that city departments can agree upon to help increase um safety and comfort.

Um that might mean creating internal committees to discuss these types of changes with planning, parks, engineering, public works, public safety, um, and then propose these types of changes and bring them forth to the council after discussion.

Um goal two is to add 20% of the missing sidewalks along undeveloped roads.

Um so I know the engineering department's done a lot of work mapping out where we're missing sidewalks and getting an idea of what the priorities would be.

This goal would say you know, within the next five to ten years, we should be trying to go after 20%.

We get a little more information on what that would look like and put that back to the council as well.

I'm gonna say and stop me anytime if you want.

If you have questions or comments.

Um yeah, uh identifying some funding sources.

I know we use C to BG, but perhaps there's other places we can look as well.

Another one which power department's already uh been helping out with, but complete lighting of 16 miles of our shared use paths or trails.

Um we did uh kind of our first pilot along the rail trail between 12th West and Triumph Boulevard.

Um they seem to look really nice and uh provide some really good lighting.

The the point of this is to make it safer, um, especially in winter time, but when it's dark, um both for personal safety, but also so you're not crashing and hitting things in the middle of the night.

Um but yeah, a lot of the benefits that come with that.

I'm not gonna go through too many of these details for the sake of time.

Um goal four is just to focus the expansion of the network to connect key destinations that can include things like schools, transit, you know, front runner stations really important, um, connecting neighboring communities, um, but and downtown Lehigh.

Um we can map and try and decide what those priorities are working with you as the council.

Um five is to create an additional 11 miles of paved trails and another 12 miles of off-street bike facilities, um, which can come in many shapes or forms.

Um just to give an idea of what we've done in the last five to ten years.

I think the 11 miles of trails are probably happen anyway, just based on development with our mesh plan communities.

In the last 10 years, we've added 30 miles of trails.

A lot of that's been stuff like Holebrick Farms, um, now Inverness.

Yeah.

And then uh as far as on-street bike facilities, it's been a mixture of UDOT bike lanes or some of the ones that we've done, such as 7th South or up on like Waterbury Way in Holbrook Farms.

Um another one was to create pedestrian districts and gathering spaces.

Um, and that could be uh planning, you know, downtown obviously has some great opportunity and potential for this kind of a thing, but maybe there's other little neighborhood centers around town that we could look at as well.

Um, identify existing places, but also look at where we can create these.

But these are areas that people in the community can come together, have gathering spaces.

It kind of creates that vitality in the community, provides a lot more opportunity for socialization and also for uh fostering some of those local businesses in there.

And then uh one of them was to look at completing murals at three undercrossings.

It's about 25% of bar under crossings.

We have about 13 total at the moment, all with different ownership.

Um that could be from any different means, you know, volunteers or whether we hire somebody, but there's all kinds of means of how we can try and do this.

Oh, that was good.

Sorry.

Goal eight was to uh it probably kind of correlates with uh 11 miles of shared path, but this was added on um by one of the previous council members to look at uh connecting a couple gaps in the recreational network.

So I put a couple of pictures on here.

The one on the left is uh where the dry creek trail comes down, it stops right as you approach Pioneer Crossing.

There is an undercrossing there, but there's not a trail on the other side yet.

We don't do own all the property down there, so that's potentially one that we could look at.

The other one's the waste stitch trail, there's some gaps in that one as well.

Um just to give you a quick idea.

We've been working on this plan for the last few years normally with the master plan.

If you have a consultant do it, they might do it within a year.

But as you guys understand, we highly growing like crazy, and we're doing the best we can to keep up with that.

But that means some of these uh projects take a little longer when we do them in-house.

This is an example of what the text will look like when we uh update the text.

And then uh shout out to the planning staff and for Brittany to be putting this together.

Um before I move on, I just want to see kind of your basic thoughts.

And this is something that you don't even necessarily have to write off the bat think of something.

You can always you know email me and give me suggestions, and I can always come back to the council to discuss anything.

But generally I'd like to know if we're heading in the right direction or if there's some things we should be thinking about.

Any questions for Mike.

Um so I guess just one.

I I like reviewing this just because I think as we grow different needs come up.

And um I do like that some of the the future planning for at least bike lanes are above curb uh rather than on asphalt on the on the road.

I think that's excellent, and it's better for everyone, I think.

Yeah, especially probably the safest option.

Um this is uh more tactical, but kind of going back to this ongoing discussion we've had about 700 South.

Uh a couple weeks ago just occurred to me, you know there's a lot of different ways we can approach that.

I would I would be thrilled if we could just experiment um on 700 South and without spending any dollars except for for man hours, uh removing the the candlesticks or the the posts.

And you maybe you can go back to one of those photos with with 700 south, but um and the reason I say that is because uh I mean the locals definitely know the parking situation.

We could always add um you know painting for for you know to indicate parking.

But I think the posts they're they're not really for safety, right?

Um, because the the true barrier are the cars parked between the the bike lanes and the the driving lanes.

Um I know it's not your decision, but I think just kind of pulling my colleagues up here.

I would love to just remove those.

I think that's most of the headache, um, especially for those residents on the north side of 700 South.

Um I think removing those increases visibility.

Um it makes it a little easier to get in and out of um driveways.

Um and and as long as the paint is is clear on the road, I think I would be very open to trying that as a as a first step.

Um I think long term we can look at a different design that that kind of checks all the marks of safety and and um connectivity and everything else, but I would love to just remove those and see see how it works.

Yeah, but any thoughts from any of the other council members.

I mean that that's been my issue all along with 700, is because it feels like it's a construction zone.

I'm concerned about safety.

Um and that you know, people still trying to drive in that area.

I I don't know how those are attached if it's like then screwed into a base at the base stays.

I just I feel it's like beyond me to know am I causing a safety issue by doing that.

That would be my I don't want a kid to get hit because we this is a temporary setup.

It was always intended to be um to have a curb there which would look way better aesthetically but yeah that that would be my only concern is doing something for aesthetic and then somebody gets hurt.

Yeah.

And I do through a lot of the comments I've heard the aesthetic is definitely one of the biggest issues but there are other things people have mentioned.

One thing I will say is they don't provide like a physical protection but they provide protection by affecting people's driving behaviors.

It's like slower turning around the corners versus if they're gone people might cut the corners a little wider but also you know if somebody's driving distracted and there's no cars parked you'll hear that so that at least gives it's not like a true good physical protection but it it protects a little bit just on behaviors.

Now with that being said there's no nobody's married to this idea because I agree they're not the best looking they're just cheap and effective for what they are.

But it's definitely you know we can look at all kinds of different options for the buffer space.

Mr Mayor if I may I wish I had brought this up when we were talking budget but it's somewhat related um I know a few weeks ago we went through the options for 700 South and the one time funds associated to those options.

Would you mind just again I sending those out via email to the council so when we come back to budget discussions we can we can also talk about possibly getting some of those things done this year.

I'm not that we can or will but just it'd be nice to have that information in front of us.

Yeah.

And then also the murals um goal number seven I think it was we talked about that today in the budget.

Can you tell me just why murals are important why why was it important enough to you to include it as goal seven yeah so there's a couple layers to it first of all like the mural on the right here was in by my house in daybreak but there used to be a lot of graffiti in the tunnel and when you see that it really deters use makes you feel less safe less comfortable by putting that in there deterred that it's still been four years and haven't seen anybody painting a graffiti on there.

So it has that effect but also it encourages people to use after transportation just one of those elements that helps get people out more often.

So it just makes people feel more safe and it's more interesting so and it can help create a sense of kind of place for the community and you can be proud of you know whatever you paint in there like South Jordan actually did a project under on the 14th South on the or 100 six South on the Burton River Trail.

They had a bunch of people come in and paint different pictures and they reflected you know different aspects of the community so I think it can have that effect as well.

Thank you.

Yeah okay thanks for your work on this yeah um I I was reading over this before I had a session and and I also ran this past the Park Shrails and Trees Committee and I think they support a lot of the goals I for for me what stands out the most is goal number four, five and eight.

And I think that they uh that's kind of I got some feedback about some of those as well as strong goals.

So perfect.

Yeah I don't to me my brain wants it to be in order of priority so I can do it we can do that.

However you have to organize it but we've it just helps to know number one is number one goal.

So yeah now I was going to say too I mean not to make everything about seven south but you know Brad and I and all of us we're always looking at all kinds of options of how we can deal with the buffer in ways that maybe are a little more stychically pleasing than the the poles and that are still you know obviously it'd be ideal to put concrete or even a planner ship for trees would be ideal but it's just a cost issue.

So that's what it comes down to.

So the one thing there are more slides here but I'll skip those for now for the sake of time but uh I was going to see if with the council and mayor your willingness would be to take a little bike ride with us planners and engineers and I have a little bike loop in fact we did it with Jason and Cameron once where you go down you test out basically all the types of bike facilities Lehigh has.

So just riding in the road which I feel like you have to experience the bad to understand the good right on the road you're gonna ride down south south ride on the shared use path and power line trail and ride like on a kind of a shoulder bike lane on Main Street.

But I think through experience and understanding different perspectives it can help you more with your decision making process.

We do have e-bikes that if everybody wanted to ride an e-bike we have one available so anyway I just want to throw that out there if that's something the council would ever be interested in.

It was it's interesting when we talk about those and how they you're right, they don't actually provide a physical barrier for the users of the trail.

But an interesting thing that we found is uh you all have seen that those same flexi posts on Main Street in front of uh pedestrian planters between Center Street and First.

Those um structures were being hit three or four times a year to the cost of tens of thousands of dollars every year that the city was just absorbing.

They were something that we put in just to try them out and see what effect they may have.

And to my knowledge, in the two or three years they've been, and we haven't had one of those barriers hit one.

So um it's just interesting that even that um even though, like I said, they don't provide a physical barrier, because obviously car could go right through them.

Um I don't know whether it's when people hit them, it's kind of that bump bump and it kind of gets them back into paying attention.

But I do believe that there is definitely more than just an aesthetic um protection for the users of the trail, but there's a physical protection too.

Um anyways, it's just it was just an interesting thing that we found when we put those on Maine, because it was costing us so much money on Maine that we were just getting ready to remove them.

But we knew that we needed them for the mid-block crossings.

Thanks, Brad.

Um any other questions for Mr.

West, I think we're good here.

Uh Mr.

West, just so you're aware, I just did buy an e-bike and I can tune it up to 28 miles an hour.

So I look forward to the ride.

Yeah, we've the rest of us does.

Except for Jim.

Thank you very much.

Yep, thank you.

Okay, we're at the uh portion for citizen inputs.

Um we're gonna open uh open it up for 20 minutes.

In fact, we'll open public input at 750.

Uh I'll remind you if you would like to come make comment, we would ask that you state your name.

And you'll have three minutes.

Uh we don't have a horn or uh anything.

I will just if if you get to three minutes, I will remind you that we'll we're at three minutes, and if you would wrap up your comments.

So with that, it's now 7.51 and we'll officially open public comment.

Hello.

Uh I'm Taylor Braithwaite.

Uh I just want to comment on two things.

One, uh, I think it's awesome that I think it's awesome that we have uh trails and that you had this uh agenda item and that you're focused on it.

Um I think it's great, and I think that we're getting a lot more use from trails with uh kids riding more and using e-but e-bikes, and I think it's gonna increase.

The second thing is I saw that there was um uh article from uh Lee High Free Press, Mayor Benn's um possibly increasing property tax, and I I just wanted to show my uh support for for something if if we see that it's necessary.

Uh a median house um in Lehigh in 2002 would uh pay roughly around uh 349 uh dollars a year uh today that would be $642 per inflation.

Um but in reality with with this proposed increase, it would actually be uh 419, so well below whatever inflation is since 2002.

So I I I don't see that that is huge.

Um because Utah has a truth in taxation system, um, when home values increase, when property values increase, uh the city collects the exact same amount.

So everyone's house could increase in property by 200%, but the city collects the exact same amount.

Our our rate would go down.

So the because there was a freeze on taxes in the city for two decades, um theoretically we're we're we could possibly be behind, but we were getting a lot of money from building new homes.

But as the population increases, new homes are making up a smaller percentage of the total population.

So it's almost a Ponzi scheme at one at some point.

Um the other um yeah, so I guess in the end I just want to say I I think um it's important uh it's it's uh brave and and good to consider that if we need to increase these taxes, they don't increase increase when our property values increase, they only increase when you increase them.

And I think it's important that we adequately fund um uh police and parks, and uh that's the end of my comment.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Braithwaite.

I'm Richard Hawley of Lehigh.

Uh I'm sitting halfway back.

I can't hear what is going on up here.

This thing is nice and expansive.

And so if you guys can speak into your microphones, including the guy that's up here, it would be better so somebody isn't back there with their horns in their ears.

Does that make sense?

Okay.

That's all I got.

Mr.

Hawley.

Thank you.

I do.

Uh Michelle Cafusi, 318 Comanche Lane Provo.

Uh it's an honor to be here, Mayor and Council members.

There's so many new faces.

This is exciting.

Um I was the mayor of Provo for uh two terms, and then on the school board and school board president for seven years part of that.

And I just wanted to come and introduce myself.

A lot of familiar faces.

So it's so good to see Jason again and Ryan.

This is just really fun.

And are you Carrie Struther's brother?

We grew up together in Provo.

I was Carrie and Lori's age.

So this is just really fun to be here.

I am running for county commissioner.

There's two open seats right now, C A and C B, and I am running for CA.

So we are in a primary, and it will be ballots of land on June 4th, and the conclusion is June 23rd.

So most people aren't thinking about elections.

Everyone's on vacation, and but for me who has this desire to keep serving and I love people problems.

Like this is really fun for me.

And everyone's up here thinking dollar signs, because I know you're in the thick of budget right now, but I love a good people problem and I love to solve them.

So I have worked with a lot of you.

I was elected by my fellow mayors to be president of all the mayors of the state for years.

And so that's how I've been able to get to know.

I was on the division of water quality appointed by the governor, so I was able to help the communities all across the state with their sewer problems.

I love the interaction.

I'd love to lift our county and have the opportunity to serve you.

So just wanted to say hello.

And this building is amazing.

I you might find me wandering around for a few minutes after we leave here.

It is really nice.

And was that loud enough?

Could you hear?

Um you gotta like eat the microphone, right?

Anyways, it was nice to attend your meeting tonight, and and thank you for what you do, and good luck with the budget.

Thank you, Mayor Cafusi.

We appreciate that you'd come.

Any other comments?

Yeah, can I go on?

Yes.

She's the kafusi with the football players.

Okay.

Uh I didn't know we could bring laptops.

I just got a couple pictures.

Uh my name is Brian Wyatt.

Uh my fourth generation grandfather was a founder, one of the founders of Lehigh.

I wonder if you ever heard of him.

His name is Samuel Mulliner.

Anyone recognize that name?

That's a good thing I'm here.

I thought he might be up there someplace, but I I can't find him.

Uh anyway, way back in 1850, uh Lehigh was getting started.

Samuel Mulliner, who has a rich full history.

I don't have time to go into that.

But uh he crossed the plains 1850, and Brigham Young sent him south to help tame the wild city, the wild west city of Lehigh, Utah.

And as he lived here, Brigham Young would visit him.

And on one occasion when he was here, Samuel showed him a spring that was coming up out of the ground.

And Bergam Young said, you ought to put a dam on that spring and put a mill pond on that on that site.

That's what he did.

It's the Sam Mulliner Mill Pond.

Does that ring a bell?

Do you guys know where that is?

You know where the sugar factory is?

If you look down, you see the mill pond.

That was my fourth generation grandfather that put the dam there that's still there.

And there's a roller mill there fifty years before the Lehigh roller mill.

Um I understand the city is purchasing land that surrounds the mill pond.

And I just want to make sure that whatever your future plans are, that you recognize one of the founders of the city.

If you if you look at the sugar factory, you notice there's a landmark down there that explains that explains the sugar factory and all the verbiage.

Four seconds.

And he has a guess always had more time.

But he had a full history.

And uh at one point after he had his mail bonds and an American fork and Lehigh, we're going to send him south to start the City of Orderville and the United Order.

He has a lot of history.

Anyway, now he he became deaf and dumb, came back to Lehigh, and he's buried in the Lehigh Cemetery.

So in your future plan, you just keep that in mind.

Thank you, Mr.

Wyatt.

We appreciate you.

My name's Bart Christofferson.

I grew up in the city riding my bicycle all over, grew up in American Fork too, but would ride my bike from my grandparents in Lehigh by Wines Park to my house in American Fork over by the hospital now.

Because I spent a lot of my youth riding a bike.

I know all about bikes and bike lanes or bike access.

But as an adult, when I pay taxes on my car and then I pay taxes at the gas pump, and then we pay taxes when I bought my car, and then I see the bicycle people with the signs that say share the road, my tendency is share the taxes.

I don't have a problem with kids riding bikes and not paying taxes.

That's not my issue.

But when I see a fancy paint job on a tunnel and potholes in the road, someplace there's a balance missed.

So sure.

Help the kids get safely to their destinations.

Design that in, that's the engineering department here.

Don't forget who paid the taxes to make that happen.

Thank you, Mr.

Christopherson.

Any other comments?

We will close public comment at 801 and bring it back to back to us up here.

Okay.

Consent agenda.

Uh if you've all had an opportunity to review the consent agenda, are there any questions?

Just for these purchase orders, are they um they're just for the power department, is that what I understand?

Just got them now.

Maybe maybe Dean can answer the purchase orders questions since I just passed those out just now.

And can you tell me what the AMI is?

So one is just for meters.

So to install new meters.

They're getting they're trying to get to where all of the meters can be radio red or caught continuously red.

They're not there yet.

So and all of those are just kind of going into their inventory and they use them as they uh as they can use them.

And the other one is for a project, and I can't remember exactly what it was.

Power they they buy things for future developments, and it takes them months and sometimes years to get that the items there.

So it looks like for the sorry, it looks like for the sky substation.

For the substation.

So that will go towards the substation.

Any other questions?

Um just on the city council minutes.

I just wanted to change one thing.

On line 672, I think I said burning and flooding.

But I it meant burning and flooding of the ditch.

So if we can just add of the ditch to that, that would be great to clarify what I'm talking about.

Burning and flooding things.

Any other questions?

I say we don't approve it.

I'm happy to take a motion.

Uh Mr.

Mayor, I um as a new council member, I'm not entirely sure how it works if we oppose something on the consent agenda.

Do we need to pull it off the agenda or do we need to, is it okay to just voice it in this vote?

You can you can take it as part of your motion to make if you want to strike.

Okay.

I better not be the one to make the motion then.

I'm thinking if there's one thing you sorry.

You might want to pull it if there's one thing you want to vote against, but everything you want to vote for.

Yeah.

Okay, Mr.

Mayor, make a motion that we approve the consent agenda, but we remove item four from that and vote on that separately.

Is that in line?

Is that a okay?

Yep.

Yeah, you still need to vote on it, but that's the way to do it.

Okay, so I have a first from council member Freeman.

Lockhart.

Lockhart.

Excuse me, Lockhart.

No worries.

I would like to amend the consent agenda for the minutes, like I as previously stated.

I will add that to the motion.

Is that a second council member Freeman then?

I just am I was wondering why you wanted to take it off the consent agenda.

I I want to vote against for, but I can't if it's on consent agenda.

Okay.

That's why.

Then I'm a second.

Sure.

Okay.

Any questions on that motion?

You got that motion, Tisha with the strike.

Um okay, so we'll start with Councilmember Newell.

Yes.

Councilmember Harrison?

Yes.

Councilmember Stallings?

Yes.

Councilmember Freeman?

Yes.

Councilmember Lockhart.

Yes.

Okay, so we'll bring item four uh to the to the um table consideration of resolution 20-31 approving the allocations of the park tax funds for cultural uh facilities organizations within Lehigh City.

Councilmember Lockhart, do you want to open that discussion?

Oh I just uh during our last discussion, I was hoping that we could find some more common ground, and I don't feel like that was reflected in what's presented.

Um I approve of most of the things in there, but I felt like we were missing some of the pieces that I would have liked to see.

So I just wanted to take the opportunity to voice that and I recognize I'm outnumbered and that's an understandable and totally fine.

What pieces did you have concerns about?

We had talked about um putting in some benchmarks or some like operational performance um options for the museum, and I didn't see that reflected in the packet at all.

Um and so I just would have hoped that we could have added that stuff in.

Um I think that would be a different agenda item.

We're talking about park tax allocations.

If you want to amend the contract with I don't know which curiosity museum or Hutchings Museum, um that I believe that might be something separate if you want to redo the criteria um for the park grant committee.

I think that would be separate as well.

Yeah, we're uh allocating more than 50% of the operating budget to one of these um organizations, and that's against one of our policies.

And so without having some concessions or some understandings together as a council, I'm just not comfortable doing that.

Again, I don't I don't mean to take up time by having a discussion.

I'm happy to just vote no and move on.

But those were my concerns, and I don't feel like they were met in what was presented in this packet.

So I'm just and likewise I had concern about following state law.

Um I do have a question, maybe um are we voting on the entire resolution?

I mean, there was an exhibit A, I think, that wasn't included, so are we gonna go through them one by one or just is um the council reviewed section?

If you click on it, I think it's okay.

Is that consider is that exhibit a on the resolution?

I think so on the resolution on part one number one.

And maybe I'm maybe it's in the packet and not on the but it says the funding recommendation showed on exhibit A.

Oh, yeah.

So that's the second attachment in there in your packet.

So it says grant request council review 2026.

Yes.

Okay.

That's and then councilmember Lockhart, your your hesitations are with funding the Hutchings Museum as much as we have without having stipulations in place.

And it violates the policy in place of 50% above the operating budget.

Or I'm not uh we're funding above the 50% operating budget policy.

And we haven't we I don't feel like that was adequately addressed.

Again, I'm 105.

I really don't we don't need to hash this out again.

I just would like the opportunity to vote to express that I'd like to follow our policies.

That's all.

I did leave the meeting with the understanding that we were going to kind of relook at Hutchins in the future.

The voice that they would be willing to re-look at their how they structure things and whatever.

And I thought that was a great thing to do.

I'm not the liaison there, but I think that that's a great thing to do.

Just to address the the 50 percent, there's um several of those two where we pulled funding over from the general fund this year that did go over the 50 percent.

That was something with the previous council that was noted.

We knew that was going to happen this year as we were pulling it over, and that's why they were separate as an exception.

So I I think that that might be something we address in the future, but it was discussed in the past about acknowledging that these were going to break that 50 percent.

I think that's a good point.

It's it's not just the Hutchings Museum that's over 50 percent of the operating budget.

So again, I just I'm concerned about singling them out.

Um I know there was an email sent out that pointed out the percentage each organization was getting of the park grant.

But I hope the council will also consider the broad impact that the Hutchings Museum has on the community.

I mean, we're funding some things that are uh maybe for three days, whereas the Hutchings Museum um is almost year-round um and it goes into schools.

It touches a lot of people.

Um I could go through the numbers.

I did ask uh one of the staff there to give me some numbers, and I I don't have internet connection, or I'd pull that email up.

But she did go through the numbers of uh the outreach, how many they impact, how many residents at the museum impacts, and they she talked about the schools that they go out to, the the schools that do virtual um field trips there.

Uh the events that they do for free at the Roundup, the their YouTube channel that they've just started and all the viewers there.

So yes, I know it's a lot, but it is have a broad, broad impact.

So I hope we'll consider that as well.

Emily, can I can I ask a question?

Um So I I agree, I think the the guidelines are important, and we talked about this in depth in previous meetings.

And so I guess outside of our verbal communication, I think these organizations understand um there will be de decrease in funding as they are able to get more operationally independent.

Did you are are you looking to to have like a separate resolution in the future to to outline those more specifically?

Um or did you want to include it in the motion?

Like I'm just curious because I I agree with the principle.

Yeah, I um again, this is I in our last meeting I expressed my continued support for the Hutchings Museum.

Um this is more so as I um in that last meeting I wanted to get to a place where we were all unanimous, but I didn't feel like what was presented in this resolution reflected the um I think council member Newell correct me from but something like a performance audit of sorts was discussed and I just operational the right people that they need.

Yeah.

Anyway, so again, I'm not trying to open up this I just would have loved to see that reflected in it when it's tied to taxpayer funds.

Um that's that's really just where I I'm at.

I would have liked to see some of that written into the resolution, but I um I I just wanted the opportunity to voice that and that's why I pulled it off the consent agenda.

But we in no way, shape, or form do we have to rehash our previous meeting.

And this is not a reflection of a lack of commitment.

I actually believe putting these in place shows a strong commitment for the success of the museum.

So yeah, and I think we we discussed redoing looking at that policy uh again in the future, maybe in the coming months, so that the next round of applicants for the next fiscal year will have more clarity incorporating your concerns as well as council member Stallings um looking at state code and seeing how we can improve our our kind of letter of the law.

Um so okay.

Thanks.

Uh I have a question regarding that for legal Ryan.

Requiring uh performance audit or operational audit or whatever for one organization seeking park grant funding.

Is that equitable?

I mean, is that fair and equitable to just do it for one particular organization tied to that?

Yeah, it's not so much, it's not so much a legal issue.

I mean, you're kind of framing an equal protection argument.

You have to treat them all the same.

As long as you have a rational reason for that specific one, it would be just fine as far as ethical or you know, more general fairness political concern.

I I can't really answer that one, but that would be the very minimal legal threshold would be had to have some rational basis for why you're treating one differently than the other.

Yeah, and I I would say that that would it wouldn't be something that it would be more of a suggestion to since it had been offered for free to help them get to the point where they because my worst fear is that they come back again and they haven't made the steps necessary and we don't have the amount of funding available in the future.

So if they if they don't want to do it, that's up to them.

It was just uh this is something from the outside looking in that could possibly help.

I'm I'm with I agree with you.

And I I think as a we can't force a private organization to have this done at this point, like you know, without in my opinion, I think applying it to all the organizations, and I think that's I think it's a little overkill to force them to do that at this point, but I think with that suggestion in place with the kind of stipulation, knowing that we are gonna be examining this more closely.

Especially when the offer is out there, right?

That's the big thing is because if it was something that was gonna cost them money to go do, then it's definitely like something I want to push, but just to to be able to um look for the word places that they're so I'm comfortable passing the resolution as is uh I'm happy to take a motion.

Mayor, I move to uh approve resolution number 2026-31 approving the allocation of park tax funds for cultural facilities and cultural organizations within Lehigh City.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Second from Councilmember Newell, first from council member Freeman.

Any questions on that?

Motion.

Councilmember Harrison.

Yes.

Councilmember Stallings.

I am going to vote yes, but I I would like it included in the minutes that I do have strong reservations about approving funding that for organizations that don't meet state requirements regarding having it as their primary purpose, a cultural and also that they need to be located within the city.

Councilmember Freeman?

Yes.

Councilmember Lockhart?

No, and I just want my comments of um violating our policy as well as um being given information where these organizations would have taken less, but we've given more in violation of that policy noted on the minutes.

Councilmember Newell.

Yes.

Okay, we'll go to the next item on the regular agenda.

Item number one, the public hearing to consider feedback on the Lehigh City Community Development Block grant, the CDBG annual action plan, which outlines community needs, potential community funding, priorities and program structure and governance for the program year of 2026 to 2027.

So this is a public hearing.

Uh so before we give it to you, is there anyone in the public that has come to make comment during this open public hearing?

Okay, there is not.

So we will close the public hearing and bring it back up.

Did you have any comments you'd like to make on that?

Um I just wanted to let you guys know that we had um our final allocation did come through.

We got an additional $9,685.

And the last time we were here, we had voted, or not voted, but the projects that were selected were for Lehigh City Engineering and then just regular admin funds for the administration of the program year.

And so I have just up the Lehigh City Engineering for that remaining amount, so they're at 302,424.

Great.

Thank you.

Yep.

And I'll be back in May for the final resolution of the annual action plan with the projects.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay.

Item number two.

See your hollow holdings annexation located at 400 South Center Street.

Uh this is also a public hearing.

Um is there anyone from the public that's here to discuss this item?

Come up.

You'll have the same three minutes.

And we'll go to that point.

So when it came up before, I said I was in support of it.

I really like the the concept.

I have my own personal reasons, but also want to make sure you you keep in mind that we don't want high density and want to keep it.

So it's just normal family houses.

Thank you.

That's Mr.

Christopherson, correct?

Yes.

Sorry.

Nope, you're good.

Thank you.

Anyone else from the public here to comment on this item?

Great.

So we'll close that public hearing.

So we will uh turn it over.

Hold on.

You are you here for public comment?

He's the owner.

So we'll so you're good.

So are we ready?

Do we want to go ahead then?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Come on up and we'll go through it.

You ready for us?

Yep.

Make sure to talk into the microphone.

Very loudly.

I'm loud.

Um we brought it forward before and showed the idea of the annexation.

We've had quite a few people ask about the concept and this high density.

Um we've we brought something forward to staff and have been talking to them about it a little bit.

But we do have um because the church is wanting to come in and they're dedicating water towards the project.

We wanted to have a just a quick discussion on the concept and the idea behind the church going in there, if that's fair.

Is are you okay to show that, Kim?

Or do we need to if you're okay with that, we just kind of show so that you know the community can see it and we can kind of see what the idea is behind the church coming in.

Um the church it'd have a commitment towards the water dedication.

So the development single family, it's oriented to the R1 flex, it works just fine within the development.

Umce the Olsens created their subdivision with no through road, I mean that became a cul-de-sac uh on the idea behind it.

The church came in and said worked with with the Coopers to basically purchase those two cul-de-sacs to the south is the idea behind it.

They're willing to come in with the annexation, create, you know, or bring the water dedication, but we wanted to just make sure with the community and with the council, this is the right direction.

If they're coming in and committing the water towards that, um they just need kind of a positive head nod from the council that this is the right direction to go to bring that forward.

So in talking to Kim, we thought it might make sense to bring it forward, show the council the direction it's going and see if there's any feedback from that.

Any comments for Mr.

Terrain?

Or questions for Kim that might come up on this?

So is this a new plan?

I mean does this it doesn't it's flex, but it doesn't increase the density, right?

Yeah no just to make sure it's clear we're not voting on the plan.

I think Tony just wanted to give you an idea of the direction that they're heading.

But yeah, um in this would meet all of the flex zone standards as far as the mix of because the flex zone requires a certain percentage of 12, 10, and 8,000 square foot lots.

This meets that if the church buys that lower end, uh it would they would be buying up some of those 12,000 square foot lots.

So anyways, then I don't know if it would probably still so you take you basically take those 11 lots and turn them into one lot where the church goes.

So I mean overall on the 15 acres, the density would decrease you know significantly as far as single family goes.

Um that percentage.

I guess that that was the direction the church is coming in and saying, does this does this methodology work to commit the water to the annexation?

We can go through the process of why.

I mean, that's the approach that we've taken.

I mean, I don't see a problem with it, but I don't, you know, looking at it for a minute, I don't I don't know what you think, Kim, or you know what other alternatives there is to be honest.

When you're calculating the density, you're taking out the church lot, correct?

Um yes, and I went out of the acreage.

Um the overall density does stay below it's at 3.05 units per acre.

3.05.

3.05.

Yeah, if you took out the church, it goes to 3.2 on the overall.

But yeah, there's 3.05.

And if you include the church in the 15 acres on the density, it's at 2.

Sorry, I put it on there.

What was it, 2.4 on the density?

Oh, 2.39, yeah.

So 2.4 would be the overall density based on a church lot and the 15 acres.

This one right here is I think 3.05.

What you're saying is if you took the church totally out independent, where does it hit?

It stays below the 3.25 density range on the property, yes.

Okay.

How many acres is the church taking 4.6?

4 point.

It's actually 4.2.

I mean, if you zoom out, Kim, I think it says what the acreage is on that.

That's including the roadway, though.

So they're taking 4.2 on their lot.

Basically, this is just kind of a heads-up head nod.

You're looking at okay.

Yeah, I mean, I we wouldn't normally do this, but where the church is bringing water to the table, they wanted to make sure it's going to work on an annexation.

So it's you're still above the 10 acres, then that changes density, right?

Yeah, they s you'd still have about 11 and a half, 12 acres of of development, which uh over 10, they still would need to meet the mix, and I guess that's the whole crux of it is that if the church buys that lower area, they're gonna take out those lots down.

Some of those 12,000 square foot lots.

And the 12,000, you might be a little bit shy on the I think it's 40 percent, has to be 12,000.

Yeah, the the mix would would change because the church is buying where those bigger lots were with those cul-de-sacs.

Um but the density remains.

Yeah, so the option is yeah, the the density remains under the 3.2.

Are you taking out the larger lots?

Those those where the church are going is where those larger lots would be on those cul-de-sacs.

Okay, I guess that's so we're with an annexation, we're approving the zoning.

Well, yeah, yeah, you're approving the R1 flex.

Like I said, the biggest challenge we've we've got moving forward would be um the church bringing water to the table.

The approach is working for the city.

A church can go in any residential.

I think I think I would need DRC that see, you know, I need fire to say, oh yeah, we can access that and all the things.

So I can't make a good call at this point.

But I mean, from a minute looking at it, it looks great.

So yeah.

Okay.

Yeah, go ahead.

Uh Cole Cooper is representing the uh Cooper family on this.

Is that my dad?

Or is that was that demonstrated?

Yeah.

Uh Cole Cooper representing uh Cedar Hollow in this is just want to make sure that everybody understands that the church is the one that approached us.

We didn't go the church, they came to us.

We have no one we had no intention of developing this property.

Uh they came to us.

Uh we thought it is a better fit for maybe the community for what's going on down there.

Uh if it's not, like we kind of need to know because we we don't want to give up get turn in water and then not be able to proceed forward with it.

It kind of like it's it's kind of a financial commitment on our end.

And actually it'd be you know, it'd be in our financial benefit for us to develop it more like this than actually put a church in it.

So once again, if if you know much about us, I mean we grew up right here 48 South Center.

We live in Lehigh our whole lives.

I coached the high school.

My my dad created the uh second subdivision in Lehigh, helped with the special districts anyway.

Whole history there, but in the end, is is it comes down to just trying to get a guidance of whether this makes sense?

If it doesn't, would like kind of a heads up because we'll just bag it and say, you know, and just wait to annex it at a different time.

So I have a question if you don't mind.

So when you say does it make sense, my understanding is the church can go into any residential so we can't say no.

I mean, if it works, it really is.

Sure, but if this concept, the overall concept with everything doesn't kind of find out.

Are you asking for like I know there's flexibility, all right, with R1 Flex.

Yeah.

Um as far as lot size go.

But well, no, I I think what we're gonna what we're kinda asking, Tony, is this is that uh because I think this concept fits in your one flex already.

It already fits the criteria.

Uh-huh.

So if the church comes in and they're telling us they want to purchase that lower end, it's gonna change a little bit of the requirements.

And if and if it you don't think it's gonna work, we just okay.

We'll just bag it.

So that but but the church wants to know and we don't want to make a financial commitment with water if we're really not going to move forward.

So I don't know if that's us or we just thought it was fair to be very upfront on this.

We've done this a few times in the past.

I mean, you do a development, the church come in and says um we did it out west with them.

They come in and they say we're gonna buy this area that encumbers these many lots.

Um Kim and I were talking about we move forward with a preliminary plat with those lauded, and then if the church wants to buy them, they can buy them.

The challenge with that is that the church is committing water, so they just wanted they said, Hey, can you get a head nod from the city council?

That's all we're trying to do is this make sense, is this the right direction?

That's does the church want to commit.

Oh, go ahead.

Right.

So I guess my question is does it make sense for you guys?

Are once we approve the zone change, they're required to meet the requirements of that zone, correct?

Correct.

Does and again we're not voting on that, but does this plan with the church meet those requirements, or are they looking for uh some exception?

So one way you could think about it is if if let's say they took this plan all the way through to final, even the church comes in at the end and says, hey, we're just gonna buy that section of your subdivision, and then they could come in on their own accord, vacate those lots and create the parcel for the church.

So but in this case they want to come in at the beginning.

So this meets it when you take the church parcel out, it takes I think it takes a few of the there's still some 12,000 square foot lots even in this one, they're they're close to the percentage, but it would probably drop it out of compliance if you looked at this just in a vacuum.

But but in the grand scheme of things, you know, they or they could even subdivide and do phase one and two, and I mean there's ways that I I don't know if you're gonna take it around, but there are other ways to do it.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, not in our conversation, I didn't want to take that approach.

I just wanted to be very upfront and say, look, this is the direction.

I want to be fair to the church.

You know, we we could, and Kim and I talked about we'd would come back with the preliminary plat with the lots if the church wants to buy the lots.

They they've done that in the past with us.

But this way we're just saying, does it make sense to just show you up front right now?

This is what the proposal is.

We're coming back with a preliminary plat, and we're asking the church to commit right now for water and they're get their site plan going.

I mean, they're in kind of in a hurry on this, so they've they've they've mentioned that, so that's why we've gone this direction.

And we're very open to your direction, but that's that's the criteria.

If we need to go back with a preliminary plat to get the lots in there, work with the church independently.

To me, that didn't make the most sense.

This just being up front, this is the direction.

We still have all those 12,000 square foot lots, but when you go through the criteria, the church is buying lots, basically, if that makes sense.

Basically, you'd kind of have to come meet with us separately outside of this meeting.

So you're just kind of doing it now.

Is that what I understand?

Okay.

Well, it it meets the general plan.

So I'm fine.

And as far as it meeting code down the road, that probably won't ever come back to us, right?

The city council.

No, that's the subdivision would the preliminary would go to planning commission and then the final is uh DRC.

Okay.

You can work it out then, however you want.

Well, that's that's why I wanted to make sure everything was up front, and we're just look, this is the direction we're going.

We want to make sure this is the right thing.

Because we are having the church, like I said, commit some water, and I just want to make sure that this development works for them as well.

That's the right right direction.

But anyway.

Mr.

Mayor, oh, I'm sorry, Michelle, go ahead.

I I was just gonna say uh sounds like there's ways you can get to that.

So um you may ask the question.

So is there a reason why this concept plan wasn't also included in the packet and gone through the planning commission experience, right?

Like why I feel like I'm being asked to to to make a judgment on something.

I don't know if we need to make a judge.

Yeah, so that's the same.

You are asking that.

You are asking us to make a judgment on the city.

We can take a step back and just submit the whole concept in an independent way.

But I guess I don't know why you didn't include it with the annexation.

If this was a if you were trying to be upfront, why wasn't it just packaged together?

We weren't worried about it until we had some conversations with staff.

And at that point, I'm like, you know what, if we're trying to speed it up or trying to I I just want to be upfront with the council.

That's it.

Where we would be approving something and the residents haven't had the opportunity to come to the planning commissioning or and give their voices.

If you yeah, if you just want to give your opinion on the direction.

Um if it's okay, Mr.

Mayor I have one more question, and I think it's just a clarity on top of what Councilmember Stallings asked.

So the um what's currently proposed without the church is in line with what they're asking for.

Yes.

Um but if you add in the church, there that is not reflective of what they're asking for.

So they would have to come back through anyway and get exceptional.

Is that what you're saying?

I just want to make sure I understand.

Exceptions.

Or they'd have to ask for a different zone.

Um I'm trying to think of how to describe this.

They I think they could still meet all of the standards that the church could just come in and you know they could plat this entire subdivision so that it meets a hundred percent of the flex and all the percentages.

The church could then come in afterwards and just say we're buying these eight lots, and it's gonna net the same effect.

And it's either option is well below the the flex zone actually allows three point five units per acre.

And in either scenario, they're below that.

In fact, they're well below it if you take the church area out or leave the church in the equation.

So you know, I I think there's there's ways, and I don't even think it's a workaround, it's just a fact that the church could wait until later in the game and just come in and buy those other laws.

And there's nothing illegal about that or shady or anything.

They just choose to wait until the plat's been approved, they buy those laws.

Sure.

I think they're just trying to see if everybody's okay with the thing.

Yeah, I know I would have preferred a concept plan um and it to have gone through with it.

I understand you had some timing issues, but the public comment period is very important to preserve, and that happens at the planning commission level.

It does.

And and we'll I I we have met with a bunch of the neighbors, tried to sh explain to this uh of the direction.

And we think it's the right direction, but Kim and I had a conversation and we just said I'd like to just bring it forward right now just to help the church understand the direction.

And we we think it's the right thing, and it's a it's a good solution for the church.

We just wanted, I guess, full disclosure for them because they're committing water to it.

And and last question, which church?

Fair.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Lottery Saints.

Thank you.

I'm working with another one on Main Street, though.

Um I just want to add appreciate you bringing it through this way.

Um there's loopholes and we know like all the loops you can take, and I think that you're being transparent with this and to be able to so we know what would go in there.

Um I I really appreciate that.

I think it needs to be called out.

So thanks, Tony.

All right.

Any other comments from Mr.

Trent?

I don't believe this is an item we're voting on.

Is that correct?

Although the annexation is a good idea.

On the annexation, without the concept.

Oh, so we are voting for the annexation.

Resolution and ordinance?

Yeah.

Yes.

Okay.

So with that, I would be happy to take a motion.

I move that we approve resolution number 2026-32 resolution of the city council approving an annexation agreement with the owners of the property that is the subject of the Cedar Hollow Holdings annexation.

I'll second that.

Any questions on that motion?

We'll start with you, uh, Councilmember Stallings.

Yes.

Councilmember Freeman.

Yes.

Councilmember Lockhart.

Yes.

Councilmember Doell.

Yes.

Councilmember Harrison.

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thanks.

Okay.

Item number three.

Both the resolution.

Oh.

You're right.

So let's go to uh C consideration of the ordinance 22-2026 approving the Cedar Hollow Holdings annexation with R1 Flex zoning on 15.31 acres of property located at approximately 400 South Center Street.

Mr.

Mayor, I move that we approve ordinance 22-20 2026 approving the Cedar Hollow holding annexation with our one flex zoning on 15.31 acres of property located approximately 400 South Center Street.

Okay, so I have a first from Councilmember Newell.

Second?

Second.

Councilmember Harrison, any questions?

Councilmember Freeman will start with you.

Yes.

Councilmember Lockhart.

Yes.

Councilmember Newell?

Yes.

Councilmember Harrison.

Yes.

Councilmember Stallings?

Yes.

Thank you.

Okay now we're move to item three.

This is the sleigh holdings annexation located at 2300 West third South it is a public hearing.

So if there's anyone here from the public we will open uh the public hearing at 840.

Doesn't appear that anyone's here to make it public comments so we'll close the public hearing and we'll first start with item B consider is it consideration of resolution 2026-33 approving an annexation agreement someone here to speak to this just asking for final approval for annexation on this four acres any questions on this item I'm happy for a motion mayor I move to approve resolution number 20 26 dash 33 approving an annexation agreement so I have a first from council member Harrison there's DRC I'll second it second council member lockhart any questions on that we include the DRC comments on that one totally second stance okay so councilmember lockhart we'll start with you yes councilmember new yes council member Harrison yes council member stallings yes council member freeman yes okay item c consideration of ordinance 23-2026 approving the slate holdings annexation with R1 Flex residential zoning on four acres of property located at approximately 2300 west 300 south any questions mayor I move that we approve ordinance 23-2026 approving the slee holdings annexation with our one flex residential zoning on four acres of property located at approximately 2300 west three hundred south great I've got a first from council member newall a second from council member lockhart any questions councilmember new will start with you yes council member Harrison yes council member stallings yes council member freeman yes council member lockhart yes great thank you thank you very much okay item number four consideration of ordinance 21-2026 creating the Lehigh City Small Business Advisory Council and approving and adopting an accompanying guiding principles policy you should have all received that council member Harrison do you have any comments you would like to make on this no I appreciate um all the really good feedback I've gotten from the other council members and also the the coordination effort by Marlin I know there may be a couple minor edits before we pass it tonight but we can do that in the motion but Marlon if you want to no I really since he's a since this has been sent out I just wanted to see if there were any comments from the council uh any edits that we need to make if there are I would just ask that they be put in the motion tonight.

When I talked with Ryan uh about this he said that there I'm gonna I'm gonna slot it this Ryan uh not the guiding principles the bylaws by laws but he said that the document itself contained enough information that it covered that information so anything that we need to add to it for tonight in the motion uh we can get inserted into it then we should be good to go to move this forward with that any questions comments additions yes Mr.

Mayor if I may yes just one of my big concerns with this was the um council's ability to pass resolutions and I just as I was reading through I think that's been removed but I just wanted clarity they can't pass resolutions they're not a like a policy making body they but they can recommend is that correct that is correct so we clearly stated in here I'm trying to find the ex uh first page article one section C says this is an advisory council with the ability to make recommendations to the city council with regards to business practices and ordinances within Lehigh City that affect the business community as an advisory council all recommendations will be made to Lehigh City Council and the council will take formal action if needed I yeah and I think my point of clarification is just I don't know if that fully covered it that's why I'm just asking I just don't want this body producing their own resolutions creating conflict with the council right they they're welcome to create recommendations but I just would I think it's confusing to the public if the if the council is creating resolutions of statements of policy that aren't actually in line with the goals of the city and the council correct I guess as you read through the document everything is recommendation to the city council okay there's no we've never stated in here resolutions or anything like that.

If the if the council is creating resolutions of statements of policy that aren't actually in line with the goals of the city and the council.

Correct.

I guess as you read through the document, everything is recommendation to the city council.

There's no we've never stated in here resolutions or anything like that.

Ryan?

I mean resolution is the only way they can actually make a recommendation.

Right.

So if you want some clarity that says, you know, the resolutions will only be recommendations to the city council, but that is the way they have to act.

They can only act through a resolution by a majority of the board.

Yeah, I think I've I'm a part of an organization that passes policy resolutions often, and while they have like no weight, I'm just concerned that this future body takes on policy decisions with that that would interfere with the goals in the city and the city council.

So that's I just want to voice that and see if there's a way to make sure that that's clear.

But it sounds, you know, C is this is pretty clear.

Mr.

Mayor.

Yes.

Um just a couple of corrections on this, Marlin.

Um Article 3A1A.

Um can we change that to from his staff to their staff?

Article three.

Say it one more time.

It's Article 3A1A talks about the business, his staff as a business owner, and just make it gender neutral.

Uh we're at in the little paragraph, uh, I don't know.

Last line.

Last line, the members.

We've got it.

Okay.

Just included in your own.

Got it.

Okay.

Um so the one thing too with the chair being elected, and then there's a couple of things in there, like with the secretary having a three-year term, but then they're especially in the first year, they're appointed to two and four-year terms, and then it becomes three.

I'm just wondering if the election cycle should happen every year with the positions being able, they're gonna be able to hold that position back to back for two years, like how planning commission is, and that just so you're not elected to chair for three two years, but then your terms actually up in that for the second part.

So I apologize.

Can you clarify?

So the SBA chair, the SBAC chair, uh elected by the uh majority of the members.

Are we talking about the chair?

Are we talking about the membership?

Uh Article 4, A1, and then B1 is talking about the chair and the vice chairs with their terms.

So I'm thinking I'm wondering if they should be able to do that.

For the SBA for two-year term.

And they can serve two back to backs.

Yeah, I think I see what you're saying.

Some committees do that.

The committee is emily liaison to the case.

Okay, so serve one year term, but considering they can do it back to back.

You know, if you want to say two or three years back to back, but at least that way if their term ends and but they're still elected chair for an additional air year, it's it has that cutoff.

So they would have like uh election cycle every year or whatever appointment.

Okay.

I see what you're saying.

Um and then past chair was still referenced in article eleven ten.

Yeah.

I saw that too.

Um so there probably needs to be something with a fallback facilitator if the chair and the vice chairs are unavailable.

Article one six.

Or six, sorry.

Yeah, six ten.

Okay.

I'm catching up.

I'm catching up.

Apologize.

And article six to point ten, and I just think we need scratch pasture.

Correct.

Article.

And I don't know if we need something to have a fallback.

Ten.

Scratch, got it.

If maybe the chairs and the two vice chairs aren't available, maybe they shouldn't have the meeting.

And then just another grammar one on Article 6, 3, just need a period after the three dot space after the period.

Oh, got it.

I had one just question.

Maybe this is for Ryan, but in Article 2.

Paragraph B, where it lists, you know the issues.

This is not limiting, right?

This is an example.

What I what I'm uh getting at is uh A B and C shouldn't be the only issues they could potentially talk about, right?

But such as just means these are probably common.

Okay.

All right.

Kind of infers including but not limited to language.

Yeah.

That's too legal, right?

Um on Article 3 A, 2, and then you go to the small B and then 4.

We talk about you say talk about the city liaison, and I think we reference that person as a city council liaison.

Um just want to make sure it's city council liaison.

And I was a little confused also under Article 4, A 5, where we talk about the small business council chair is a liaison.

So I apologize for that.

Councilwoman Freeman.

No, so Article 3.

They're just on one.

Sorry, A, two, and then you go to B and then 4.

Yeah, it's really give me one second.

And then it talks, let's see.

I've got these out of order.

Five.

I think it says uh other city departments, blah, blah, blah.

So instead of C.

Okay, so Article 3A.

And then two.

Okay.

Got it.

And then go to B.

Got it.

And then go to four.

Got it.

And then under that, I think there's another A.

There's another A.

And it says City liaison, and I believe it's supposed to be, well, city liaison from council or their alternate.

But I think if we said city council liaison, but we're my point is that we're talking about the city council person, that's a liaison.

And then I'm just kind of confused because later in the in this, we talk about the small the chair being the liaison between city council and all that.

So anyways, I was trying to clarify that because I believe that the city council person is liaison.

Yes.

So okay.

Yeah.

So I get what you're saying on the five, should it be like spokesperson to the mayors is some something like the but like they're not a liaison.

They're not a liaison, but they're like a well, they're really not.

They're the chair of the committee.

Yeah, the city they're they wouldn't be talking to us.

It would be the city council liaison who would be.

I mean it does say that they present reports a couple times a year, but the thing is is they're not the liaison.

I think the roles are clear.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So then under article four A5, it talks about the chair as the liaison, if that makes sense.

So it so that's what I'm trying to make sure that we have clear clarity about who is the liaison.

What their roles are, what the chair's role is, the chair's kind of helping direct, not direct, but I guess direct the the um small business council, but then the liaison is the city council person.

Correct.

Yeah.

Okay.

So under article.

That's that's the intent.

Okay, so under article four A five.

Yeah.

Then I would take away that whole thing that says liaison to, like it's not under one of their duties as the chair.

Does that make sense?

Yeah.

So Article 4A 5, I would just strike that whole thing.

So the insuring SBAC recommendations strike that whole thing?

No, so Article 4.

Oh, Article 4.

Oh, jeez, I am so sorry.

Sorry.

Article 4.

I could have just emailed this to you, but I I was told to this meeting.

So I'm doing it now.

I appreciate Article 4.

You're good.

I'm with you.

Article 4A.

Got it.

And then five.

Got it.

It says liaison to.

So if you I would just strike that whole thing.

Got it.

So that would smooth up.

Six would be five sentences.

So I just kind of I kind of feel like we need to go back, and this needs to be like I just don't know if we can motion this whole thing, to be honest, but anyway.

Five and six.

Um and then one other thing.

Yes.

Okay.

Okay, we're going back to Article 3.

Article 3 got it.

Okay.

And go to the big B.

The big B.

So there was some stuff added in there.

I don't, I don't know.

I didn't add it in.

I don't know who added it in.

It wasn't in there before.

Um let's see.

B under participation standards.

Got it.

And then you go to four.

Got it.

And it talks about how the small business council members are expected to participate, et cetera, et cetera.

etc.

And any formal report and recommendations to city council.

And then this whole part basically that says the city council will have 90 days to respond and actions will include implementation, any declined recommendations will include rationale.

Like that was all added.

And I would actually strike that they basically 90 days.

Like I don't know.

Yeah.

Like I would I wouldn't put any restrictions on what the city council is going to do with that, because like the parks, trails, and trees committee can make recommendations the park committee.

Like I just think that just seems to me that I don't think that this should be codified that the city council has to respond to them in a certain amount of time and all that, and then provide rationale and all the stuff.

So the reason we put that in so that if the small business advisory council does make a recommendation.

We have three months to respond to them.

Like what's the point of them making recommendations if we're not going to well that's the point.

So we can strike it, but does that then have no culpability for the council?

That's what I guess that's why we put it in was to kind of give some defined terms so that if they do come together, they do make a recommendation that there's at least a path to follow for them, knowing that I make a recommendation, even if it's a denial, great, but at least some action is going to be taken.

I think the I think this document is to help guide the advisory council on what they do.

But I agree with Rachel on we don't want to put anything in there that would restrict or require the city council to do or not do something.

Perfect.

So your recommendation is Council Freeman that that actually section number four, do we just strike the whole thing?

I like the first sentence.

Yeah, the first sentence is fine.

Um but then upon formal recommendations, city council, city council will have from that point forward strike out.

Yeah, I mean that was all new when I was comparing this document to the previous one.

So I would hope that any city council will include rationale because we seem to include many rationales for our decisions up here, too many.

Well, but again, you're absolutely correct.

It doesn't it allows you the opportunity to take the recommendation, allows you the opportunity to debate debate it, but it doesn't force you into do we have to make a decision, we have to take action.

Sometimes we have to study it more, sometimes things like that.

So maybe we don't have 90 days because we have to do something.

And it does I mean it requires us to respond and to give you know rationale.

I mean that that puts the burden on us, and I I'm willing to take recommendations, but we've got a lot of things to consider, so perfect.

We can strike that out.

Not a problem.

Did you have anything else, Councilman Freeman?

No, I didn't.

Okay.

Any other comments for that?

I do.

Yeah, it is.

Just one more thing, and it I'm not even gonna clear at the bottom page.

It it says that we'll review it every five years.

I would like to review it sooner.

You know.

Maybe within one year to just see how it's going.

And then as it picks up speed, I guess, as it gets going, then we can review it every five years.

But I like the first review to be like within one year kind of thing.

Okay, would you be okay, Michelle, if we did it after one year at this initial period, and then following that every five years?

Yeah.

Or every three years or something.

That we you might want to you could see where that goes five years is kind of a long time.

And it will go through, I mean, that's a whole term plus a year, you know.

So three.

Would you be more comfortable with three?

I don't I don't know.

I'm comfortable with three, and I think we can review it whenever we want, whenever the council seems fit, but but it's just that it's kind of requ a requirement.

I just don't think you want to do it too specific because then you're locked in to have to you could do at least every five years, and then we could do it sooner.

Well, remember, remember too.

I think we have a late liaison there for a purpose, right?

Liaison at any point could call for a review.

Yeah, so if if we could change that to say at least everyone, at least every five years.

So put in at least.

Sorry, just to clarify, I heard consensus for three, going to three.

I like three better than five for what council member stallings said, but yeah, I think I think just changing the language to review at least every three years or as needed.

Sounds good.

Yeah.

Majority.

So if I may, Lehigh City Council review the effectiveness of the SBAC at least every three years or as needed to determine if the committee is still meeting the goals as set forth in the guiding policy.

Sounds great.

Okay.

Anything else, Councilman Stalling?

Councilmember Stallings?

That's it.

Okay.

I think we've gone through it.

Any any last questions or any motions to consider?

Yeah, I'll move.

Um Mr.

Mayor, I moved to approve ordinance 21-2026, creating the Lehigh City Small Business Advisory Council and approving and adopting an accompanying guiding principles policy and include all edits made tonight in that regard.

Thank you, James.

I think yeah, between Marlon and myself, we took the notes.

Okay.

I took notes too.

I got a lot of notes.

Any call any questions?

We had a second from council member Newell, first from Councilmember Harrison.

Any questions on the motion?

Good.

Okay, so we'll start with Council Member Harrison.

Yes.

Councilmember Stallings?

Yes.

Councilmember Freeman?

Yes.

Councilmember Lockhart?

Yes.

Council Member Newell.

Yes.

Okay.

Thank you, Marlowe.

Thank you.

Item number five, boards and committees update and discussion.

Tisha, are you going to lead us on this?

Um yeah.

So I'm actually not as prepared as I would have hoped for this for this item.

I got a little tied down and I've been gone.

So I apologize.

I don't have a great update, but um I can let you know kind of where we're at.

We do have openings.

Um so uh we just finished up the park tax committee, like their duties right now are up, and I know that we have um Lindsay, the chair, she wasn't planning to um continue on the committee because of her role on the planning commission.

Um so that position is available, and then I believe we had maybe one or two others that weren't interested in um remaining on the committee either.

So we would have some openings there.

Park Charles and Trees Committee.

Um, Rachel, I think you said that there was at least one opening there.

Yes.

On that committee.

I I know of a one at least, yeah.

Okay, maybe yeah, one or maybe even two um historic society.

We do have an opening on that one, and Michelle had submitted a name, I think, to the mayor, and the mayor's planning to interview that person.

And so we have reached out to him a time or two and are having a hard time getting a hold of him.

Oh, are you?

Yeah, so I can try.

I know Sherry's reaching out to him again in the date next day or two, so just a heads up on that.

Okay, thank you.

Yep, you know.

And then that's kind of just really all the update that I have, but this is also an opportunity for you guys to ask questions or um if you want to give me some direction on some research that you might need for these committees, or if you want to have a discussion on anything about boards and committees.

Um yeah, I'll just turn it over to you guys.

Tisha, I apologize.

It's okay.

I went out of town too at the conference and totally forgot to look into some of the committees I'm on.

So I'll try to get that information to you soon.

Maybe as as a heads up on the committees that you're serving on, if there are vacancies, please feel free to reach out both to that committee or to yourself or to other council people about people that you might recommend.

I know a recommendation's been made um by council member Stallings for one.

We're reaching out to him.

We're gonna interview him and make sure he's a fit for historical.

So I think that's a a good positive place to leave this is as you're serving on your committees, um, always be looking for recommendations that would be able to serve and then pass those along and we'll we'll bring them in and take care of it that way.

Any questions on that?

Well, I was wondering because I I think when we started having this discussion in was it January, I don't know, February, whatever.

Um you're talking about yeah, going through the committees, making kind of seeing the membership and and the and then looking at terms and maybe term limits and possibly standardizing that or looking at codifying some of that stuff.

I'm just kind of wondering what the thought is on that.

That was my impression was that that was happening.

But are we just taking each committee at a time for terms and all that and not looking at it overall?

I just I'm I'm fine with whatever.

I just kind of wanted to get a feeling for what's happening.

Yeah, and I'm good.

I'm I guess that's maybe some direction that I'm hoping for too from the council.

Uh where do you want us to spend our time?

Tisha, are on will you and and this may be a little bit of a project for you to do, but on each committee, can you look and see if there are terms by code that each committee?

Because some there are some committees that don't have those or follows along.

So maybe what would help us is can you put on a uh some information so that we know which committees do have terms and and those types of things so that we are a little better moving forward with filling those positions.

Yeah, okay.

That sounds good.

And maybe just for simplicity, we can start with the city committees first.

That would be great.

Kind of under the umbrella of the city.

If you could put that together for us, that'd be great.

And then Tisha for the small business advisory committee.

I think we already determined, right?

Okay.

I was just making sure I wasn't imagining that.

Yeah, I think James is the lead liaison and I'm an alternate if he needs me.

Okay, perfect.

Is that position for the historic preservation committee?

No, that okay.

Because as like it's only ones where the city operated.

Okay.

So that's a question.

I you said start with the cities, but are do you want information on the nonprofits that we have to do?

Yeah, I mean we'll get to them too.

So yeah, if you could gather some information for us on those too, that would be great.

Um I do have quite a few of their bylaws that I've um come across, but I know like like for example, the archives.

Um I have a copy of their original bylaws and articles of the corporation, but I just need to know if they have passed new ones since then or if they've been updated.

I think the same with the museum.

Uh the articles that I have are oh there, I think they predate from when they decided to become a uh 501c3.

Oh, okay.

You know, I think there's a little bit of cleanup there we can do, but it sounds like we're on the right direction to doing that.

Can I ask another question?

No.

Okay.

I just want to get up.

Yeah.

Councilmember Freeman, go ahead.

Um for the Thanksgiving Point Advisory Board.

It looks like we have a account uh uh staff liaison to that.

Is that something that can I how explain how that works and if yeah?

I guess Jason.

So I used to be the liaison or uh the board member to that for a while.

I haven't been active in that.

I haven't been getting invited lately.

So there's not much that's been done there.

So I think that's a good thing.

If a council member wanted to take it.

Well, I think we're paying them to be on that board.

Like we're paying them some of what I was looking at, some budget money was going there.

I I was not a good thing.

Okay.

Not that I'm aware of it.

Not that I'm aware of either.

I think it's just their board.

And if they invite Lehigh City, that's kind of up to them.

It's an advisory board, so we just give them our thoughts and opinions on how will this fundraiser do, how will that activity go?

How often do they meet?

They meant quarterly.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If a council member would like to take that awesome.

Okay.

Maybe they'll invite you.

I don't know.

I think when we were looking at the boards, I think I saw a few associated with that one.

So some kind of membership or something, but maybe I'm wrong.

Um I'd be I'd be happy to take that just to if I don't know.

I can I can re-engage with them and just say, yeah, we'll we'll switch out and were you asking for that to be you, Rachel?

I mean, no, I mean I'm good with James doing it.

Okay, I just was wondering about that because I think I think we I would like, you know, I I I thought that I also saw a fee associated with that, and I just thought if we're paying them to be on their board, then I don't think so to be able to do that.

Okay, I think so.

But now looking back, yeah, I'm curious about what that might be though.

We could look into it.

Okay.

Okay.

Any other comments?

Sorry, so who was gonna take that?

Oh, I mean it's fine that's a good thing.

James, unless everyone wants it.

And then I guess too, I just had a question for uh James kind of as we start the small business council.

Oh well, really for the rest of the council, kind of as we're kind of filling this new board.

Do you have any direction for staff on how you want us to go about?

Like, do we want this like on social media, advertised on social media, collect applications?

That is a great question.

So the reason why we really wanted to pass it sooner rather than later.

And this is in my discussions with Marlin, is I think once we hit June, we hit the summer lull, right?

Everybody's out of town.

So what I'd really like to do, and maybe we can work with John Tiel on putting this out is um putting out you know invitations to apply, uh, giving some details and I can help with Teal and Marlin on kind of crafting that message.

So hopefully we can get all the applicants by May 31st or whatever makes sense, and then we can go through those applications and then as you know, the summer ends, we can hopefully establish it and have maybe the first meeting uh in September, if that sounds good with the council.

Okay.

Okay.

Perfect.

I can yeah, I can coordinate that with stuff too.

And I can I I think even maybe this week if um Marlon and Teal want to have a meeting, I'm happy to we can strategize on that with Emily if you'd like to join as well.

Yeah, that'd be great.

Thank you.

Okay.

Thanks.

Okay, uh Mr.

Walker, any anything for an administrative report?

Nothing there.

Okay, council.

Any uh reports from your committees or anything?

Uh Mr.

Mayor, I had the opportunity to attend our paramedics graduation on Saturday and saw our three new paramedics graduate and they did a fantastic job and we're um really excited to have them.

So that was great.

Thank you to the fire department for inviting me out to that.

Appreciate it.

Anything else to report Um had a great board meeting with the Curtis Center, their Hope of America um event is May 2nd at 7 p.m.

If you've ever been to one of their events, they you'll just love it.

It's amazing.

So if you have time, um go over to that.

And they uh it means a lot to the participants to be there.

So not a not a committee assignment, but I really enjoyed Chief Kraft's presentation yesterday.

Um I hope we can do more of that in a broader community sense because I think there were a lot of very good reminders.

Um, you've been through a lot as a person.

I think a lot of people have um experienced a lot of hardships in life, and I think you've gone through it tremendously brave and courageous, and that was a in the business, busyness of all the things that we're doing, that was a great reminder.

So thank you, Chief Craft.

Yes, so we have two unveilings this month, and the first is this Saturday.

I'm like already.

So that is May 2nd at 10 a.m.

And Councilmember Harrison, this is your official reminder.

You're speaking at that.

Um and then the second one is Saturday, May 16th, also at 10 a.m.

Um this one is the Carter trying to Carter Airport, and then on the 16th is Lehigh Tabernacle, and that's that's Councilmember Harrison's or Freeman's speaking engagement there.

So appreciate you guys participating in those.

Um we did the historical society, got to have a tour of the city hall here and appreciate Steve Marchbanks for taking them around after hours.

Um they enjoyed that and enjoyed the hard work.

Um the board there also uh got a chance to come separately and look at the facilities to prepare for heritage days.

So that'll come up the end of the summer.

Um again, the the conferences, UM's conference in the U Telly of Cities and Towns Conference was great to learn so much.

Um I we mentioned this in the budget discussions, but I think that AI policy is something we should look at for sure.

Um learned a lot there.

It was worth it.

I don't have anything from my committees.

I do I do second the ULCT conference is great, and uh there is a water conference coming up in June that we'll all much of our staff will participate with um from ULCTA got some ideas and some connections of some committees that they are gonna be starting about some legislation um that's they're anticipating coming up in the interim and working on into the interim and for 2027.

And they said that if we want to see to the table that we should let them know, and I have let them know on a few different things because I think our staff is fantastic and represents Lehigh and Northern Utah County really well in a lot of um areas, and I would really like to see our you know, some of our senior staff members participate in that and wherever we can help us as council members as well so that we can make sure that our residents' needs are communicated well to our legislators and help to influence policy at the state level.

Great.

Uh one last report from me.

Last Saturday.

Um Lehigh Rodeo has begun.

The Lehigh Rodeo Queen was crowned last Saturday.

So she and her two attendants are up and ready to go.

So uh 'tis the season.

And the other thing is we are grateful for the rain that fell.

So uh continued reminder to use your water wisely.

It was nice to see some water fall from the sky for two straight days.

Uh hopefully in the coming weeks we get some more that takes a lot of reprieve and a lot of pressure off, so we appreciate that.

With that, I'm happy to take a motion to adjourn.

Mr.

Mayor.

Not that I want to have a motion to adjourn.

Could I just could I report on Meg?

No, you can't, Brad.

Yes, you can.

No, I just I just can't uh express how excited we are.

We went to we had our MAG voting yesterday at the MagTac Committee.

We proposed two projects.

One of them I know many of you are very excited about the Center Street pedestrian bridge.

Um that was the highest rank um trails project in the county.

Um so I strongly believe that will be funded.

Um we also propose an extension of 700 South and the cycle track from third east down to Pioneer Crossing and across Spring Creek.

I believe that will probably rank fifth or sixth in the county.

I believe it will be funded also.

So we're excited about that.

Yeah.

Best case scenario for the 700 South expansion.

What what's the timeline look?

So both of these projects are probably slated for the 2030, 2031 time frame.

Um so we have time for right.

I mean, it's usually a four-year cycle, three to four year cycle, but I think it's going to be four to five years out this time because of some funding challenges with our contingencies.

Yeah, there'll be a one paused year that we'll pause and we'll push everything back a year.

So yes.

So the other exciting thing uh looks like um American Forks Project.

Uh their proposed or that our highest ranked project was the uh phase two extension of Porn Express Parkway to um Pleasant Grove Boulevard.

So I think that one will get funded too.

So exciting, yeah.

I I think the mayor attends the MPO board meetings.

Uh those will come to you in a few weeks, Mayor.

But um we're just excited um about about these possibilities.

That's great.

Thanks, Brad.

Kim, anything you want to add?

No, I'm good.

Oh, okay.

Can I ask Brad?

So with that extension, does that include doing curbing and like doing so the at right now it's conceptually the design so that we would continue with a somewhat same design to where we have existing pavement, then we would pull the trail off the road behind the curb for all new construction.

So once we get to about third east, we would pop it off the road behind the curb and run it separated um for the remainder of the distance.

So that's brilliant.

So that's that's our plan.

That I mean we could possibly pull it off the road starting at Fifth West, but we would have to we would probably have to do some major work to remove a bunch of planner strips and things along roadway that's already built.

But um, but yeah uh again we can work through the concept later on, but generally speaking, that's the plan, kind of continue with it to third east, some form of it, and then pop it off from behind the curb.

And the the plan connector from it's waterway, it turns into waterway, right?

Or or whatever that road is on the uh it connects on the very east end, so it goes eastward, then swings down towards the south and ties into Pioneer Crossing.

Uh goes across Pioneer Crossing.

Yeah, runs along the north side of Spring Creek, the existing Spring Creek development and ties into 850 East.

Um and then um American Fork has funding to construct to widen second south and construct their trail.

I think the challenge that American Forks having right now is that their council is not willing to use eminent domain, um, meaning that they can't utilize the funds that they would have to extend that trail to the front runner station.

That is correct.

Any other comments or I'm happy to take an adjournment?

So moved.

Second.

It's nine forty.

Nine twenty nine twenty.

Excuse me, it's nine twenty.

It feels like nine forty, but it's only nine twenty.

Have a wonderful evening.

Thank you for coming.