The Lehigh City Council held a pre-council work session at 5:00 PM and a regular council meeting at 7:00 PM on July 14, 2026. The pre-council included presentations on the Children's Center Utah, a water conservation update, and discussions on public safety impact fees, the certified tax rate, and a parking issue in the Fox Hollow neighborhood. The regular council meeting featured a water-wise yard award, citizen input, consent agenda approval, and action on several zone changes, subdivision approvals, and development code amendments. The Council also addressed multiple items related to the Thanksgiving Point Housing and Transit Reinvestment Zone (HTRZ), including approval of participation agreements with conditions and a tabled interlocal agreement.
Pre-council meeting. Today on July 14th, 2026, 5 p.m. here in the Lehigh City Council Chambers. We have a full council, Councilmember Newell, Councilmember Harrison, Councilmember Stallings, Councilmember Freeman, and Councilmember Lockhart, and we welcome you to our meeting today. Reminder that this is a pre-council meeting, so there is no public comment during this meeting. But we are grateful that you're here to participate with us. So with that, we'll go ahead and get started with item number one. We've asked Councilmember Freeman to offer our opening prayer. Our dear Father in Heaven, and we're thankful to be gathered here today to discuss the needs and wants of our city, and we're thankful for all of those of you put in the hard work every day to make our city a better place. We're thinking for the residents and for all the city staff and officers and we ask the to have for blessings upon them and their families and upon this council this day and the staff that are here supporting us. We love the U.S. East's name of Jesus Christ Human. Thank you, Councilmember Freeman. Okay, item number two. We'll start with presentations and report. We'll start with 2.1 with the Children's Center presentation. Welcome. If you will state your name when you get there, we'll thank you very much. Good afternoon. I'm Rebecca Dutson. I have the pleasure of serving as the President and CEO of the Children's Center Utah. And the honor of being with you today to tell you a little bit about what we're up to in Lehigh. Just get connected here. All right. And I've I want to just do a time check. We've got about 10 minutes, is my understanding. Okay. Well, thank you again for your time, Mayor and Council members. It's our pleasure to be here today and tell you a little bit about the Children's Center Utah and our new center located here in Lehigh on the Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital campus, the Larry H. and Gell Miller family campus. And it's our pleasure to bring some really critical services to the families and specifically children and their caregivers in Utah County. The Children's Center Utah has been around for 63 years now and serving mainly the Salt Lake County area. However, we do have a lot of families who travel to us from adjacent counties and even further away. And so together with our board, we have been working to provide more services statewide, specifically our outpatient clinical services and our day treatment services for really young children. And our mission is to enhance the emotional well-being of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and their families. And so I'll tell you a little bit about how we go about doing that. Please, if you have questions, I'm happy to take them as we go along. So the Children's Center Utah, as I mentioned, is a licensed outpatient mental health treatment center and day treatment center. And we serve in our Salt Lake County location, which is located in West Valley, about 1,000 children and their families every year through family therapy and then intensive outpatient treatment and group therapy for children ages two through five who need more intensive treatment. I want to talk just a little bit about that before I go on to explain some other aspects of our organization. One of the questions that I'm most frequently asked is do children that young have mental health concerns and challenges? And yes, they do. And yes, there are evidence-based and trauma-informed treatments that can help that child and their family so that we can give them the tools that they need to overcome the challenges that they're facing so that they can enter school ready to learn and experience life's joys and also face the everyday challenges that that we all will experience throughout our life. So you can see that we have a full complement of outpatient mental health treatment services that we provide for kids and families, including mental health assessment, psychological evaluations, psychological testing, of course, all of those supporting the outpatient family therapy. And then for children who need more intensive treatment, we do refer them into our therapeutic preschool program. Now, it's not academic, but it looks a lot like a preschool, and it is designed to help children function well in traditional settings like child care, preschool, and of course, entering kindergarten ready to learn. The Children's Center does many things beyond our outpatient treatment services, and many of those are geared toward supporting providers of all backgrounds who are working with young children. These services are free to providers, and we provide these services statewide. We offer 100 hours of training per month to providers of any background who are working with young children. So not only can they get on to our website and participate in webinars and training by our clinical professionals, but we also offer consultation services where they can speak directly with a trained clinician about a specific child to get help and direction.