The Payson Town Council met on December 10, 2025 at 4:00 p.m. in the Town Hall Council Chambers. Major actions included approving a new town engineer, forming a stakeholder committee for Taylor Pool, approving a liquor license for Payson Roll N Bowl, and allocating the 0.88% sales tax increase toward emergency services retirement, facilities, and roads. The meeting adjourned at approximately 6:29 p.m.
Pastor Rory Gruders. Good afternoon, everybody, and Merry Christmas, by the way. A bunch of scrooges, Merry Christmas, everybody. Wow. Lord Jesus, Father. As we are in this Advent season of celebrating your incarnation and of your birth, we thank you for the blessing in coming to Earth. And we ask you to help us today, Father, to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with you and with one another. We ask that you would help us to have dignity and decency and respect in our conversations and our discussions. And then Hree. And then F. Some people have to leave early, and they would like to be able to vote on those items. And then our new town engineer is here and needs to be back in the valley by six. Got it. Okay. Well, we have 40 minutes of call to the public here. I'm gonna say we're gonna have to do our engineer. Uh is that C1? Yep, that's C. Um, no, actually that's Kyle. So I'll introduce Kyle and he can cut out two. If that's C and then H2. H2 as the engineer. Is Nathan. Yep. So this is actually the town manager's report. I'm just gonna zip through it uh real quick. And what I'd like to do is I'd like to introduce to you Kyle Christians. Um he's the director of capital improvements. He basically took the place of IPM that we've been playing paying, I think about $750,000 last year, too. He comes with us with 20 plus years of experience. Um I want to make it clear that we we've been shifting a lot of people around and people at left and people have go. I think we're still one FTE, one full-time employee below from when I started. Wow. So we still have one position that um is kind of a floater that we haven't decided where we're gonna put them or or replace it all. So um so I'll Kyle, you want to talk a little bit about yourself? Uh sure. So Mayor Aldo, it's a pleasure to be with you and with the council. My name is Kyle Christiansen. As uh manager Caldwell mentioned. I uh I have actually 11 years of uh public sector experience and over 25 years in in uh public or project management experience, my previous experience experiences with the town of Page, City of Page, where I was the public works director uh leading several projects up there, also as the airport director leading several multi-million dollar projects for airport improvements and town improvements. Uh it's a pleasure to be down here in Payson. It's a great community so far. Pleasure to meet a lot of uh community members, been very welcoming. There's a great opportunities here. Um come with my wife, she'll be down here in another month or two. She's an educator up there in uh Page Unified School District, and also bringing my youngest son with me as well in a couple of months. So pleasure to be with you. Welcome. Welcome to the Scott. Do you want to introduce introduce Nathan H2?