The Payson Town Council held a regular meeting on November 13, 2024, at 4:02 p.m. in the Town Hall Council Chambers. The meeting included public comments on airport hangar leases, approval of a development agreement for American Gulch, a fuel mitigation contract, appointments to the Planning and Zoning Commission, and an executive session resulting in authorization of a separation agreement with Town Manager Troy Smith. All votes were unanimous (7-0) on each item.
Welcome everyone to tonight's Payson Town Council meeting. I'd like to uh call the meeting uh to order. Um, if I could have Pastor Rory Gruders, please uh from Restoration Church come to the podium for the invocation. Everyone, you can please rise, remove your hat. Thank you. Lord Jesus, we thank you for our country and for our community. We thank you, Father, for taking us through this uh election season and cycle. We ask for wisdom, Father, on those whose candidates uh we ask for humbleness rather on those whose candidates won. We ask for grace on those who did not. We ask for a peaceful transition of administrations, both in our community and in our country. We thank you, Father, for the police officers and the firemen and women, and the town council and the ambulance workers and all of those who serve and protect our community. We pray your blessings upon them and their families. And Father, for this meeting today, we ask for your peace in all discussions and in our differences. We ask for wisdom for the town council's deliberations and in their decisions. And we thank you again for the privilege of living in this beautiful community that we call home, the town of Payson. We pray this in your name, Lord Jesus. Amen. Thank you, Pastor. Sir. I pledge allegiance. And to the republic for which one nation. Yeah, that another meeting. All right, so call to the public have a few speaker requests forms. Let's see, we'll start with uh Mr. David Wilcox. Yes, yep, if you uh pass a few the clerks there, perfect. One other hanger record. All right. Thank you, sir. If you could please state your name in yeah, three minutes. I'm David Wilcox. I am what you might call an administrator of Payson Hangar one, which is a uh a set of hangers, set of ten hangars that is on the airport property, and we lease the property and the building from the town of Payson. Uh this hangar, and this is just a background on the way things are today, was transported and erected here in 1990-91, something in that uh vintage. And we had a 20-year long-term lease on it. Uh lease ran out in 2011. And since then, we have been month to month uh with the town of Payson having the option to cancel our contract with nothing more than 30 days' notice. Okay. Uh I didn't realize this when I uh purchased my hangar. I thought I owned the hangar and we were just renting the plant. That turned out not to be the case. Um the reason we didn't get another long-term lease was because there was a plan to move the taxiway into the location where or near where the hangar was. And so they didn't renew a long-term lease, and thus we're still on the 30 uh 30-day thing. Basin hangar one is an LLC, and it is member managed. Uh, there is no manager uh uh per se, but I handle the checkbook. There are seven of the LCL uh LC members, and each one acts as if we own that hangar, although we're perfectly aware that we don't. But when it comes to maintenance or sale and resale renting to another person, we perform as though we own that hangar. Each member has a vote in all major decisions of the LLC, and uh four of the hangars are actually occupied by the person who's a member of the LSC. Three of the members rent their uh hangers out, and three of them are owned by the LLC without a specific owner, and we rent those out directly as uh as the company. Uh Basin's only available rental aircraft are in two of our hangars. Uh we're currently paying 1425 a month, uh about 17,000 a year for the for the lease, and we pay for insurance uh at the tune of uh $1,100 for the building, $2,500 for liability, and we also pay the property taxes and an electric bill on the property.