Joining us uh electronically.

So we will begin with uh councilmember Perucci offering an invocation, and then council member Heymond will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Our dear Heavenly Father, we're grateful for this opportunity that we have to gather together as the community to be able to discuss uh the business of our community.

We're grateful for uh this land that we live in, the freedoms that we enjoy and uh the safety that we have.

We're grateful for those that sacrifice their time uh to ensure our safety and for those that um keep our city running smoothly.

We're grateful for all that that was given us and uh for this time of year that we have uh to uh spin with each other and to uh experience a renewal of the earth and uh to be able to enjoy the beauty of the earth.

We pray for thy spirit to be with us during this meeting, help us to be able to uh come to uh decisions uh that are in the best interest of the community as a whole and to be able to uh move forward together in unity and uh in collaboration.

And this we pray in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

So now we don't have this biggest crowd tonight, but before we start our pledge here, I just want to make note I'm trying to teach the rest of the country that there is not a comma between one nation and under God.

But people always put a pause there.

It's just one nation under God.

So everybody repeat after me.

I pledge a legal lead to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, individual with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Councilmember Perucci, Councilmember Heymond.

Um we moved item 10 on the agenda, and that's a citizen comment.

Do we have anybody here that would like to address the council?

If not, we'll move on to elected official reports.

Um Spencer, would you like to council member Heyman?

Would you like to start?

Anything you want to report on tonight, sir?

Um Yes, Mr.

Mayor.

Uh as of here.

Uh I attended the uh association of municipal councils the other day, and we had a review of much of the legislation that was passed uh by the legislature up here on Capitol Hill.

And uh fairly interesting, lots of different things that have been pushed out to the cities and stuff that we need to keep an eye on.

But uh otherwise everything's good, nothing to report.

Thank you, Councilmember Broker.

Thank you.

Uh first of all, UFA wanted me to make sure and thank project management and particularly Todd for the improvements to the uh kitchen on station 112, 121, 159, 121.

Thank you.

I always get them confused.

Anyway, I have not seen it in person, but I understand it's beautiful and it's working great.

So thank you.

Um, and I think give me one minute here.

Sorry.

I actually think that is all I have tonight, Mayor.

Thank you.

Great, thank you.

Um Josh, I guess just let me know when um Councilmember McKay has joined us if she has anything to report on.

Okay.

Councilmember McKay, anything you'd like to report on tonight.

I don't have anything to report.

Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you.

Councilmember Perucci.

Yeah, thanks.

Couple of items.

Uh one, uh, I was the low uh loan no vote at the Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District's meeting where we um did the tentative budget approval.

I have concerns with both the water rate increase and property tax increase without looking at some budget cuts.

And so um I was unsuccessful in persuading my colleagues, but I will continue to do so because I there's uh there's a lot of opportunities, I think, to make some cuts.

I've actually had some communication from people that live in Riverton and outside of Riverton afterwards, um being grateful for that one person in particular that had a whole list of ideas on cuts based upon his experience with the district.

So more to come there.

Um if I'm not successful, which I'm not confident I will be.

We'll probably see an 11% property tax increase this year from Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District.

Uh and then uh also yesterday I attended an event with the South Valley Chamber of Commerce um called the Comcast Rise Grant Program.

Comcast is going to be handing out 105,000 grants to small businesses in the South Valley, coupled with like some advertising support and hands-on consultation and marketing support for a year.

It's a pretty cool program.

They do it nationwide, and they had to compete kind of like Shark Tink internally within Comcast to make the argument as to why the South Valley in Utah would be a better location than Baltimore and a couple of other locations around the country to prioritize these resources.

And so they did a launch of it yesterday at the South Valley Chamber businesses kind of start applying.