Riverton Law Enforcement Service Area Board Meeting – June 17, 2025
Riverton Law Enforcement Service Area Board Meeting – June 17, 2025
The Riverton Law Enforcement Service Area (RLESA) Board met to approve final budgets for fiscal years 2024-2025 and 2025-2026, and to adopt the property tax rate for the upcoming year. The meeting started significantly later than the scheduled 7:00 PM, being called to order at 8:45 PM according to the minutes. All actions were approved unanimously by the board members present.
Consent Calendar
- Minutes Approval: The minutes of the May 20, 2025 RLESA meeting were approved unanimously.
Public Comments & Testimony
- Public Comment by Rustin Lance: Mr. Lance expressed concern about increased crime in the community and asked whether the state was providing financial support to Riverton for law enforcement. Chief Shane Taylor responded that there is no state financial support and noted that the crime rate increases are not dramatic.
Discussion Items
- RLESA Resolution No. 25‑02 – Final Amended Budget for FY 2024‑2025: Administrative Services Director Nick Geer presented the amended budget, which increases the use of unassigned fund balance by $150,000 to cover higher-than-expected salary and insurance costs. Board Member Andy Pierucci commented on the need to meet public safety demands as the city grows and acknowledged that increased services may eventually require increased costs. Following the public hearing, the resolution passed unanimously.
- RLESA Resolution No. 25‑03 – Final Budget for FY 2025‑2026: Director Geer presented the budget for the upcoming fiscal year. No additional discussion was held. The resolution passed unanimously after the public hearing.
- RLESA Resolution No. 25‑04 – Adopting the Tax Rate: Director Geer explained that the board is adopting the same property tax rate as the previous year; because property values have increased, the effective rate decreases while total revenue remains flat (excluding new growth). There is no tax increase. The resolution passed unanimously.
Key Outcomes
- All three resolutions (25‑02, 25‑03, and 25‑04) were approved unanimously by the board members present: Vice Chair Tish Buroker, Spencer Haymond, Tawnee McCay, Troy McDougal, and Andy Pierucci. Chair Trent Staggs was excused.
- The meeting was adjourned at 8:55 PM.
- Note on Timing: The agenda listed a 7:00 PM start, but the minutes indicate the meeting was called to order at 8:45 PM. This discrepancy was not addressed during the meeting.
Meeting Transcript
We move to Riverton Law Enforcement Service Area Board Meeting Agenda. We'll call the meeting to order. We'll start with the minute approval. Consent item. I move that we approve the uh consent agenda there. Consent items. Okay, seconds. Thank you. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Thank you. Motion carries. Anyone opposed? Thank you. Okay, moving to our public hearings. We'll start with item 3A, our Lisa solution resolution number 25-02, adopting the final amended budgets. Please, Mr. Yearin. I was going to ask you if you if you have a minute, if you could just, we should have probably done it earlier, but where you could show some of the changes that you've had to make in the budget. Are there any on this one that might be interesting and helpful? I apologize for that, but it is interesting. I have it up on my video planet. Thank you. Sorry to hit you in a prepared for that. I think based on our previous discussions, it might be interesting to see. Mayor Pro Tem, may I just make a comment while they're pulling that up. Please go ahead. Just to go. Oh, it's not Mayor Pro Tem, it's board chairman. There we are. I apologize. I I'm getting confused. Um, because we're actually talking about our Lisa, which is our fire, not our fire, our uh law enforcement area. And this is one where I really appreciate the thoughtful conduct of council. As Riverton has grown, and we all know the growth has happened here. The needs of our officers and the demand for public safety is also grown. And I think uh it's interesting we're seeing more and more one of the major roles we have is to provide a protection for our citizens, as well as you know life-saving services, like we were shown tonight by our officers. So I just wanted to point out that as we have examined this, and as the council's looked at this, we've recognized there has been a need to maybe increase officers. Many residents have concerns about speed, they have concerns about crime, they have concerns about um those kinds of things that are directly impacted by our law enforcement. And the best way that we can mitigate any of those things is to put more officers on the street to monitor more speeding, to monitor more crimes. Um to the credit of this board. Um, when I came on six years ago, we had a very distinct problem with break-ins in cars and vehicles in our city, and many of us remember what a problem that was. And I look at we just haven't had that problem to an extent, you know, knock on wood, um, in the last couple years, and that's one of the reasons why we felt there was a need to meet some of the requests that chief asked for was to continue to meet that growth. Coming back again to what council member Perucia said, this is an area where if we're going to increase those services for residents, eventually we're going to have to potentially increase the costs also because those services of safety and speed all come at a cost because that's really fixed through more officers. So you're ready to roll now with your numbers. Okay, so that was just a little quick comment. So for our LISA for the final budget amendment, we are increasing the use of unbalance by 150,000. This is to cover some salary expenses and then some insurance expenses that were larger than expected for the fiscal year.
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