On January 20, 2026, the Riverton City Council held a work session at 4:00 PM and a regular meeting at 7:00 PM at City Hall. The work session focused on regional transportation planning, budget kickoff, development projects, and formation of a skate park subcommittee. The regular meeting included public comments on the ICE partnership and other issues, adoption of ordinances and resolutions, and recognition of the police department's crash investigation team.
The regular meeting adjourned at 8:19 PM.
Yeah, that's the one to send it down here. Ted, are you okay if we wait five minutes? See if we can get somebody else to come. Because I gave you thirty-five minutes anyway, so all right. Okay, we'll we'll we'll stall for five more minutes. When I was in high school, uh being like all this by the presentation. Yeah, I was always connected. We can go ahead and start. And in everyone's defense, we've never started before at four. This is a little earlier than we're used to, so it may take a little time for us to adjust. And for the council members to understand, I wanted the work being to to be very robust um and informative. So that's why they're starting a little earlier than we're used to. But if they just become tedious, then we will reduce their time that we're in this meeting. We don't need to be here just to fill time. Okay, so let's start our work session with a presentation from the Wasatch Front Regional Council. Okay, you can hear me. Okay, I assume I'm Ted Knowlton. I'm with Wasich Front Regional Council. And I'm I'm the chief planner and deputy director. I'm joined here today by uh Hugh Van Wagenen, uh, who is our active transportation specialist. And um let me start by giving you a sentence uh or two about WFRC, and then I'll tell you what I'm aiming to accomplish with this presentation and see if it fits with your expectations. Wallset Front Regional Council is a member driven organization. We are a governmental entity, we represent the cities and counties from on the north end Brigham City all the way down through to the southern tip of Sullick County, inclusive of Morgan and Towilla counties. So it's it's a variety of counties and lots of cities, and our main purpose is to work collaboratively and facilitate the region's transportation plan, roads, transit, and trails uh long term, and then we also facilitate the programming or the funding of projects collaborative a pot of money relating to that. That's kind of our purpose in a nutshell. Um I had a chance to meet with Mayor Baroker and uh City Manager Hicks, and uh they invited us to come with an eye towards talking about the transit fresh look, that uh transit visioning process in this area, and active transportation. Now we cover those two modes and roadways as well. We just don't have material tonight on roadways, but I want to let you know we love and care about the quality of our roads too. Um and I are gonna endeavor to be succinct and then listen. And so if you find that we are too succinct, just say, can you like drill down into that a little bit more? And then also you can do the opposite. If I act if I end up being long-winded, you can say, hey, let's let's let's get a move on. Um next slide, Jason. The regional transportation plan is a 30-year plan. We are this plan that we're working on now, uh, goes out to the the horizon year of 2055. You can think of this as the place where projects are born. So before I-15 was widened, or the red line uh tracks line was built, or even the Jordan River was built, it first appeared on the region's transportation plan. So this is where projects are built, and also how we help identify funding. But you can think of every mode of transportation. Go to the next slide. Um, and it's a four-year process. We're um in the third year where we're starting to prioritize, but we're still refining the package of projects, which we call the preferred scenario. And we want to engage you as much as you're willing to be engaged as a community. Go to the next one. So it's roads, transit, and trails. You've had a chance. We just had a workshop that included Riverton Council and Planning Commission. And uh, but we can give you that that link and invite additional comment as you need to, but hopefully you've had plenty of opportunity to do that. Now, I realized that I failed in my introduction to mention that Mayor Barrocker is serving on one of our key committees, the Wasatch Front Economic Development District, and Councilmember Perucci is going to serve on what's called the joint policy advisory committee, which is a statewide committee. So your city is engaged directly in the sort of governance, if you will, of Wasatch Front Regional Council.