The Payson Town Council held a regular meeting on August 14, 2024, starting at 4:00 PM and adjourning at approximately 5:15 PM. The meeting included proclamations, a presentation on broadband funding, a resolution to rename the water treatment plant, and the first public hearing on a rezoning request for self-storage and U-Haul facilities. All council members except Scott Nossek and Jolynn Schinstock were present.
Good evening, everybody like to call to order tonight's council meeting for town of Payson and ask Pastor Joseph Kruppenbacher from Ponderosa Bible Church to please come forward to give the invitation. If everyone could please rise and remove your hats. Thank you. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Lord Jesus, we just thank you for the privilege to be able to serve our town. We thank you for all of the stuff that you bless the town of Payton with, uh, the leadership here. And we ask that you would give each person here clarity of thought as they're making major decisions, Lord, that you would help them to not take the uh the dealings going on in Payton lightly and help them to have a clear mind to go the right direction. Be with this town council tonight in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Pastor. Vice Mayor, could you please lead us in pledge? I pledge to my United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation, other God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Thank you. All right, Michelle. Can we get a roll call, please? Let the record show that all council members are present except for council members, not the English document. All right, thank you. Call to the public, have one speaker request for Mr. Tom Dunning. If you'd like to come to the podium, please. I'm a twenty-year resident of Payson. And uh tonight, I'd just like to offer you some quotations. They're quotations that you've heard many times, but one more time isn't gonna hurt. My first quotation is from Winston Churchill. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried. Democracy's hard. If you have a family and children, you have to make a living, you have to take care of your kids, and that's a tough job. If you're a senior, you have to find out how you're gonna make it through today, this week, next week, the month, the year. So it's hard because democracy asks that we above all that we have to do, educate ourselves, be involved, and vote. So it's a hard job. My second quote is uh attributed to Thomas Jefferson, although during the revolutionary time, I think everybody was saying that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. If we want to have our freedoms, we can't take our eye off the ball. That was true then, that's true now. Get up. That he was going to be hurt, damaged, might even be killed. He stepped on the bridge, he walked to the other side, and his skull was fractured. But a days later, his head bandaged, he stepped back onto that bridge, he walked across it, and he walked all the way to Montgomery. The John Lewis voter uh protection act has not been passed. But I know that it will be passed. And I know when we are hurt, when we are damaged in the fullness of time, we shall overcome. Thank you. Thank you. Tracy, do we have any speaker requests online on Zoom? No. No. All right.