The Lehi City Council met on July 13, 2026, to discuss several administrative and policy items including a potential exterior book drop for the library, fees for the Steinway piano, continuation of the NICE health care benefit, parking fees at Dry Creek Lake, and northwest transportation options. The meeting also included a closed session.
And stallings, Freeman and Lockhart. And we will start with an opening comment by Councilmember Harrison. Our dear Father in Heaven, we are grateful to uh gather together today to think about the things of the city and how we can uh work hard and collaborate in order to make the best decisions for the residents. We're grateful for our staff and for public safety officers and ask for a blessing upon them as they take care of the residents and serve um our neighbors. We are grateful for all the blessings we have in this great country and for all the liberties that we have. And we say this in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Thank you. All right, we'll start with our administrative report. Can you hear me? Can we? Yeah. Got that. So uh I'll invite Steve. I got a connect. Hold on. Oh, Steve is trying to connect. So what we'd like to do today is talk through a potential for a book drop. So we want to have a discussion about some ideas that Steve has brought up or come up with. And then we have Christy here also to talk about the impact as far as staffing goes, what we would expect that would take to do a book drop. So maybe Christy, if you want to come forward first. I am going to just bring my computer up there. So as far as staffing goes, um we looked at other um in trying to find another library that had an exterior book drop that needed to be um cleared. We looked at Provo Library. So we were able to look at their amount. And according to uh what they do, they have said that they empty their book drop five times a day. So and then it takes two people to do it. Sorry. No, please keep going, I'm sorry. So um so five times a day, six days a week is 30 trips. Each trip takes two people. It takes them approximately um an hour and a half to go out, exchange the bins, bring the bins in, clear all that out, get them all checked in and ready as though they had gone through the automatic book drop that we currently have. Um so that added up as 90 hours per week that we would need additional staffing for. Um mid-range for a library page is 1273. And so yearly that would be 4,680 hours times the 1273, it's 59,576.40. So that's kind of the impact staffing-wise for that. Yes. Mayor Pro Tem? Um part-time or full-time? Part-time. Okay, so no benefits. No. Okay. Any other questions with that? My only question would be uh so you're saying this is to get it to the stage, it would be as if they had collected it from inside. So it's not like taking into account the less time that would be used when people doing the drop box inside that would use it outside. Is there any calculation with that? Is there any kind of reduction of hours on an on the other side because they're now using the outside book drop? So my estimate is that if we provide the exterior book drop, a drive up book drop, that probably about 85 to 90 percent of our books will all go through that. In many ways, that um totally wastes our automatic book check-in system that we just got two new, you know, an exterior and an interior.