Hey everybody, we've still got about two minutes left, but I'm gonna go ahead and get the recording started so that we can get going.

Madam Chair, I think whenever you're ready to get going, we're good to go.

If everybody wants to quiet down, please.

Hello everyone.

Uh it's now 5 15, so I'd like to welcome everybody to our Sandy City Council meeting this evening, August 26, 2025.

We're going to go ahead and begin the evening with a prayer and a pledge.

The prayer will be given by Colin Rasmussen of the Sandy Youth Council.

And then following that, the pledge will be given by Theron Nurandron from the Sandy Youth Court.

So Colin, if you'd like to come up to the podium, we're ready for you.

Oh gracious, gracious God.

Let us pray for those who are here today to wish the best of luck to our incoming youth council and court members.

Whether they are beginning their journey or returning once again for a remarkable year.

Give them strength, courage, wisdom, as they fulfill their roles and responsibilities, helping unite all various communities together in our blessed Sandy, the heart of the Wasatch.

We say this in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Amen.

And Theron, if you'd like to come up and lead us in the pledge.

Uh we're gonna hurry and jump into introductions really quick, and so we'll go ahead and start with our council executive director over here.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

My name's Dustin Fratto.

I'm with the City Council office.

Uh another council staff member Justin Sorensen is in the back of the room, and Liz Terriot is wandering around over here somewhere.

Uh Tracy.

I'm Tracy, I'm legal counsel for the council.

Chris Edwards with the council office.

Right.

Ryan at Meekham, District One.

Marcy Houseman, District Four.

Brooke D'Souza at large.

Cindy Sharky at large.

Do the council members online want to go?

I'm Zach Robinson, District Three.

Alison Stroud, District 2.

Hi, I'm Sandy Mayor Monica Zoltanski.

I'm Shane Pay, City Administrator.

Jeff Robinson sitting in for Lynn Base.

Thank you.

And Councilmember DeKaiser is excused this evening.

I just want to quickly recognize that the general citizen comment period will happen after 6 p.m.

not before an appropriate time where we have a break that we can come back to that after 6.

And so that brings us to the first item on our agenda, which is a special recognition, the installation of the 2025-26 Sandy Youth Council and Sandy Youth Court.

I want to welcome the Sandy Youth Council and Sandy Youth Court members, parents, and program advisors to this evening's installation.

I also want to thank Susan Edwards for her support from the Canyon School District in being here this evening.

This evening we begin a new tradition here at the city where we're bringing together both of the two youth programs for a joint installation for their 2025-26 program year.

I would like to begin with the Sandy Youth Council.

This year's youth council has 39 members, high school age sophomores through seniors.

We welcome back our returning Sandy Youth Council members and also our 26 new youth council members.

Our youth council members are all Sandy City residents representing nine different high schools across the valley.

The Sandy Youth Council program is sponsored by the City Council, and we are so proud of our involvement in this program.

Last year they completed over 650 service hours at city events and with our different community partners.

We have one of the most active youth councils in the valley, and we really look forward to working with them again this year.

We will begin with the installation of the Sandy Youth Council.

I would like to now invite the youth council members to the front of the dais here for the installation of the 2025-26 program year.

And then I would also like to invite Judge Paul Farr uh to administer the oath to the Sandy Youth Council.

So youth council members, if you'd like to come and face the crowd up here.

And then if you'll repeat after me, I and then say your name.

I'm do solemnly swear.

That I will represent and serve and serve Sandy City.

Sandy City.

To the best of my ability.

To the best of my ability.

Faithfully perform.

Faithfully perform.

The duties as a member.

The duties as a member.

Of the Sandy Youth Council.

And I will abide by.

The code of ethics.

The code of ethics.

Goals and mission.

Goals and missions.

Set forth in the youth council.

In the youth council.

Policy guide.

Congratulations to all of you.

Thank you, Judge Farr and the Youth Council.

You can go ahead and take your seats, and we'll now move into the installation of the Sandy Youth Court for the 2025 26 program year.

I'd like to invite the youth courts program advisors to the podium.

Aubrey McKnight, Detective Dane Peterson, and Anya Christensen.

Hello, and thanks for having us tonight.

We are so happy to be here.

A little bit about youth court.

We are a diversion program that is.

Could you just could you just put the mic, like kind of eat the mic a little bit?

Okay, I am so sorry.

Can everybody hear me?

Okay.

Apologies.

So the Sandy Youth Court, we are a diversion program that is sponsored by the Sandy City Police Department.

We take cases that involve youth who commit their very first minor criminal offense.

So a class B misdemeanor or lower.

To successfully complete the program, they have to attend two court hearings, an initial hearing and a return hearing, and they have a youth mentor that mentors them throughout the program.

Our courtroom is run by our youth volunteers who are not between ninth and twelfth grade that attend school or live in Sandy.

This year we have 14 youth volunteers that represent six different schools, and I'd like to invite them up now to administer to get the oath and have Judge Barr come back up and administer the oath to our youth court panel members.

All right, and if I can get all of you to raise your right hand and repeat after me.

I and then state your name.

Swear to uphold.

The Constitution of the United States.

And the state of Utah.

And the state of Utah.

To apply the law equally.

To all who come before this court.

To all who come before this court.

With due consideration.

With due consideration.

To the importance of fairness.

In the administration of justice.

Blind to the fears.

And pressures of public sentiment.

Of the public sentiments.

And mindful.

And mindful.

Of the responsibility.

Of the responsibility.

To the principles of liberty.

And Justice for All.

And Justice for All.

Congratulations.

I want to thank everyone for coming this evening.

And on behalf of the council and the administration, we congratulate our youth council and youth court members.

Let's give them one more round of applause.

All right, you were all now excused from the meeting, and please head out to the West Steps for a few more pictures.

Thank you so much.

That concludes agenda item number one.

We'll wait just a moment for the room to clear, and then we'll go into agenda item number two.

All right, thank you everyone.

So we are now on our item number two, which is an information item.

The City Council is interviewing Mark M.

Taylor to serve as a regular member of the Sandy City Historic Preservation Committee.

Councilmember Stroud, are you available to introduce this item?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Yes, so uh Dustin had sent out his resume earlier.

Hopefully, you guys had a chance to be able to look at it.

Um and if you haven't had a chance to talk with Mark, highly suggest it.

Um he is very passionate um about historic committee and uh the historic mile of Sandy.

It's been on the uh the committee in the past, and I am looking forward to working with him as a liaison to the historic committee.

So thank you, Councilmember Stroud.

Uh Mr.

Taylor, if you'd like to come up to the podium and if you have some words that you'd like to share with us before we get into our questions, that would be great.

Um not really.

Um I just think the historic Sandy is incredible.

And when we look at the history of Historic Sandy, um, particularly the fact that we had 14 sloans at the time, and then we moved on from that and uh got rid of the quote unquote unsavory elements that's uh and incorporated, and then um we've moved to have a wonderful functioning city.

I think that helping to preserve the historic nature of our community and more importantly, like learn from those individuals who already serve on the community, like Sandra, who the other day was at the Dimpledell um the Dimpledel orchard taking out trees with her saws all.

Um, you know, what a what an incredible opportunity to learn from those who are are greats and who know Sandy history the most.

So well, thank you.

Um I want to open it up to the council and those members online if there are any questions for Mr.

Taylor and his interest.

Councilmember Housman.

Thank you.

Uh first I just want to um express appreciation.

You have like jumped in with both feeds.

You've you've you're you're not what I love about the engagement we've had with you so far is you've identified um an opportunity to transform something and you come to us with recommendations.

Hey, I've identified this, I think it could be improved by this.

Here's some really like I mean, you have an action plan, you come with an action plan.

So it has been so impressive just to watch you engage and and like lead out with solutions-oriented thinking.

So I appreciate that.

What do you think that will look like as you bring that skill set to this committee?

You know, what do you envision um doing as as part of your action plan?

Yeah, I think um as a committee member and also a resident of Historic Sandy, the biggest thing for me is really to provide my own opinion as a resident, and more importantly, to um be able to work with other groups and entities to be able to encourage that historic preservation.

I used to live in Pittsburgh, that's where I got my master's degree, and one of the biggest differences that you can see between Sandy City and kind of Pittsburgh is that Pittsburgh had a lot of community coalitions to help it along the way.

Um and in Sandy, since we're 200 years younger than them, we don't necessarily have those same coalitions.

So, as a member on that committee, I want to help grow that ecosystem to ensure that we have a really strong and robust um community involvement, whereas, and and then that it's I don't know why it's that way, but in Utah that seems to be the case.

But being able to to do that and you know work with the council and create that engagement through other groups is something I care very deeply about.

Can I do a follow-up?

Um so you just saw some impressive youth uh tonight.

One of my favorite evenings is you can you can tell that they are ready to serve.

So as you build that ecosystem, which by the way is one of my favorite words for a lot of reasons.

So I love that you use that.

Um as you build that ecosystem and and expand the footprint of those who are engaging in historic preservation and championing the history of our incredible city, where do you see the youth fitting into that?

Specifically, you know, our our youth city council.

Have you thought about that?

Yeah, definitely.

Um when we look at the future of Sandy, it's essential to include as many stakeholder groups as possible.

Um a quick story, uh the Sacramento Um City Cemetery had one of the best rose gardens in the country.

And then what happened was um those individuals behind the cemetery decided to remove it.

But one of the things that helped the historic preservation and helped to keep it alive so long was they had so many stakeholder groups.

When we look at the youth council, for example, um, not only do we have incredible volunteers and an incredible, like an unrivaled um kind of spirit of volunteerism in Utah in Sandy, um looking at that, like that's how we build the preservation of these sites.

It's really the youth, their involvement, um, you know, and and kind of teaching them all the funky things about Sandy City history that is is once again incredibly unique in Utah.

So thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Housman, Councilmember Meekham.

Thank you.

Mark, as a as a resident of Historic Sandy, what can you uh what would you like to tell us as a city about what we need to pay more attention to or be more cognizant of things that directly affect Historic Sandy that may not be as applicable in other areas of the city.

What would you have us know?

Um I think that probably that a lot of the issues that historic Sandy faces, for example, I showed you the climate change charts where Historic Sandy is on target to enter menopause here and have a hot flash in a couple years, just based on based on our grid system.

Um that a lot of the solutions to that, the solution to crime that we unfortunately have due to the proximity to Midvell, the a lot of those solutions are through enriching the community and creating more community spirit and cohesion.

That we often think, oh, we just need to put more police there, we need to do that.

Um, like vacant law remediation will go further to solving crime than any more policing, and so really creating that community, creating that spirit and creating pride within Sandy.

We used to call it Sandy Pride, not Sandy beautification, but I understand why.

Um, but like that is really essential.

It's that culture and creating that backbone.

And so the historic preservation committee is that genesis.

Thank you.

Councilmember Sharkey.

I'm looking forward to you being on this committee.

You're an idea guy, and I I really like that.

So you're talking about we've seen from you ideas about how to make improvements.

You've talked about something tonight, you've given us some data in the past.

Um how about that aspect of encouraging community engagement?

That is a really defined community with certain needs that you know, as council member Meekham said, can be different from the rest of the city.

So, how do you have any ideas about how to encourage the community engagement so that your voice really amplifies the voice of the residents there?

Yeah, so there are two, um, once again returning to the ecosystem that um uh council member uh Housman really enjoyed.

Two of the biggest um kind of missing pieces that I see.

Um is to have kind of a voter organized group around Sandy City history, right?

We have the council, the council works great, um, and the council is a vehicle of the city.

The issue is you also need the voters' voice.

Um, the Utah Foundation does an excellent job of that for the state of Utah.

Similarly, it would be great to create um just like honestly, just a group of people to survey to get like, hey, this is the goal, this is the vision that happens.

The other thing is one of Utah has this incredible history of faith, and it's not just um solely some people might think it's the LDS church or the Catholic church.

When you look at Historic Sandy, there are an incredible amount of churches and shrines, and there is such a wonderful interfaith group that really could be organized and help to um to really provide feedback and provide encouragement to make it an even more welcoming place, and it's already very welcoming.

So thank you, Councilmember Robinson.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh I appreciate the opportunity to chime in.

And Mark, I appreciate you uh willing to step up into this role.

Um first off, my hat is off to you.

Um, with your strong research and technical background, um I'm curious how you think um the research component of your experience will help you serving on this committee and help your colleagues a little bit.

Can you just expand on that just a touch?

Um, yeah, one of the things that I'm very um used to is doing your research, whether it be data or super nerdy or um just historical research, um, we have incredible resources here through um through different people like Roxy Rich in the past who have written histories of Sandy, or um we also have all the newspaper clippings and the Sandy History Museum is remarkable.

I I don't know how else to say that it's a gem in Utah.

Um the fact that they have a test bomb from Dougway is the weirdest, coolest thing, and they have a bag from the Pony Express.

And so when we look at that, some of the things that I can do is help to digitize some of those collections, but more importantly, I think it's really providing that data-driven decision making for the rest of the council to highlight different histories.

I'm a Rose Freak, and so one of my favorite things is that the expansion in Sandy was actually largely a part of Utah Roses Inc.

Sandy was I've mentioned this before, but it had one of the largest rose nurseries in the history of the country.

And when you look at the tax base for that expansion, which was generated off of sales tax, it was responsible for over 10% of that.

So the city's roads, the city's different things like that.

And that's an aspect of Sandy history that you know I didn't even know before I went into the research.

So that's one thing that I think I can do.

I'm also, you know, a member of the council, so I'm not like a leading force.

It's really a chance for me to learn from others and to gain insight of what makes things most effective.

Thank you, Councilmember Stroud.

There we go.

Um I I just I I wanted to really emphasize how much I appreciate your enthusiasm.

Um, and how you have stepped into this role even before coming through this process.

I, you know, a couple of weeks ago we had the Ascendy Museum, and they were doing their car show.

And Mark walked in, and Sherry Sla just lit up, you know, talked about oh, there's the Rose Guy, and you know, how that connection has been built.

So we have a couple of residents that um have made that that bond and that want you know what's best for the historic area of Sandy, and that's just you know what a refreshing um from an outside perspective with you know seeing that that interaction.

So I really appreciate that.

And then uh a couple of weeks ago, he was already in the you know, watching when the historic committee was meeting and actively engaged and involved.

So, you know, I I'm looking forward to seeing where you're gonna be able to take this and bringing that enthusiasm to you know just so many aspects in so many different areas.

So, you know, not really a question, but just you know, wanted to emphasize that and hearing other council members and their comments, um, you know, just reflecting on that and you know appreciating it as well.

So, you know, looking forward to seeing this moving forward.

Thank you, Councilmember Straud.

Oh, sorry, because I still hear thunder.

No, you are totally fine.

Thank you, Councilmember Stroud.

Councilmember Housman has a follow-up, and you were totally fine.

Um, mostly just uh uh an add upon um you with your zeal for roses and and that little tidbit of history that you've shared.

Um, I feel like you're sort of advocating for our own rose parade, like New Year's, or you know, we need to have a Sandy Rose parade that where all the floats are made, right?

Because yeah, oh yeah, that would be awesome.

We'll we'll work on that, right?

Yeah.

One of the things that I've had an opportunity to do is um I went to the World Federation of Rose Societies conference in Japan earlier this year, and um I always have this idea kicking around in the back of my head that, like, oh well, like we should host it, and um the Utah Rose Society has previously hosted it, and then like they had a princess there, like a Japanese princess, and I was like, oh, well, maybe we can do some work.

So um, yeah, I would love that.

Um, and yeah, definitely.

Well, thank you to my colleagues.

Um, for the most part, everybody, all of my colleagues have kind of asked questions that I had had in my mind, so I don't know that I have anything other than um, you know, I appreciate again your interest and enthusiasm for this.

Uh I appreciate your knowledge of the saloons that existed once upon a time.

I had my first tour of Historic Sandy um in 2017 by our um council attorney's father, Mr.

Scott Cadell.

Oh, okay, and he was very knowledgeable and formative, and you sound like the next generation of Sandy historians.

So I think that's you you seem to be right on target and a good fit for you know how I view the uh preservation, the historic preservation committee.

So thank you so much for your time tonight.

Yes, and we will uh consider the appointment at our next regularly scheduled council meeting.

So that concludes agenda item number two and takes us into item number three, which is a public hearing, the Kershaw Annexation R18 zone.

This is a public hearing and also a voting item.

So Brian, uh, Mr.

Brian McCusson, our assistant development director will be presenting this item.

Go ahead.

Hey, thank you, Chair, and good evening, everybody.

It's a pleasure to be here.

This is the first of two annexations we have on the agenda tonight.

I think someone's gonna pull up the slide to show.

So uh the first one is the Kershaw annexation, and you can see on the map that this these are homes located along 1350 east, which is a little private street, as well as 1380 and 1400 east, just south of 9400 south.

So this is about nine acres of property.

We have 24 parcels, and 16 of the 24 owners have signed a consent form.

So we're at 67 percent uh for this annexation.

The planning commission reviewed this on August 7th, and they are forwarding a unanimous decision to for the council to approve the annexation along with the R18 zone that they already have in the county and will assume that same R18 zoning into Sandy City.

Um Miss Janice Kershaw is here tonight if you have any questions for her, uh, but I'm available to answer any questions for staff.

Thank you, Mr.

McHuston.

Council, are there any questions for Ms.

Kershaw or staff?

I don't see any, and so I would entertain a motion, Madam Chair.

This is a public hearing we should maybe take comment on the item.

That sounds like a great plan.

Let's do that.

Mr.

Fraddo, will you go ahead and give those directions?

Of course.

Uh if you are uh here in person and you'd like to comment during the public hearing uh for item number three on tonight's agenda.

Go ahead and fill out a blue card in the back.

You can bring it up to me.

If you are joining us virtually this evening via Zoom and you'd like to comment during this public hearing, go ahead and click the raise hand button on your screen now.

Madam Chair, I don't have any blue cards for this item.

Okay.

I don't see any online hands either.

So madam chair.

Okay, we'll go ahead and close the public hearing and bring it back to the council.

Um council member meekham.

I move that we adopt ordinance number 25-21 Kershaw annexation.

Second, thank you.

We have a motion and a second.

Is there any discussion on that?

All right, Madam Chair.

I may just say thanks to Miss Kershaw for doing this for your neighborhood.

I'm sure they appreciate your effort on this, and we are so pleased to welcome you and your neighborhood into Sandy.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Sharky, and yes, agreed.

Uh Ms.

Edwards, if you'll go ahead with the roll call vote.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Mr.

Meekcom?

Yes.

Ms.

Houseman, yes.

Ms.

Sharkey, yes.

Ms.

DeSusa, yes.

Ms.

Stroud.

Yes.

Mr.

Robinson.

Yes.

Madam Chair, that motion carried six to zero.

Thank you.

And that moves us into item four, which is the Jameson Point annexation.

And again, um, Mr.

McHuston will lead that.

Thank you.

Okay, thanks.

This is uh, as you mentioned, the Jameson Point.

This is property located near the intersection of Little Cottwood Road and Wasatz Boulevard.

It could includes the five properties within the Jameson Point Cul-de-sac, as well as a couple of other adjoining property owners.

Um most of them have single family homes.

There are two parcels that are vacant.

One is a small little triangle there at the intersection that's kind of hard to tell, and then the other one at 9820 South Wasatz Boulevard.

Um, this is just over five acres.

We have 10 parcels, eight out of the ten property owners have signed the consent forms.

And again, the planning commission reviewed this on August 7th and is forwarding a positive recommendation on the zoning and annexation.

Thank you.

Again, are there any questions about this particular annexation?

Okay, this is a public hearing, so we'll go ahead and take public comment on that.

I don't have any blue cards for this, and so if you want to introduce the online sure, of course, madam chair.

Uh, if you're joining us virtually and you'd like to comment on the uh public hearing item number four, go ahead and click the raise hand button on your screen now, and I'll call your name in the order in which you raise your hands.

No raised hands, madam chair.

Thank you.

We'll go ahead and close the public hearing for this particular item and bring it back to the council.

Council member houseman.

Yep.

Uh make a motion to adopt ordinance number 25-20, the Jameson Point annexation.

Second.

Thank you.

Motion and a second.

Is there any discussion on that?

All right.

Miss Edwards, if you'll go ahead with that vote.

Ms.

Houseman.

Yes.

Mr.

Meekham.

Yes.

Ms.

DeSouza.

Yes.

Ms.

Stroud.

Yes.

Mr.

Robinson.

Yes.

Ms.

Sharkey.

Yes.

Madam Chair.

That motion carried six to zero.

Thank you, Ms.

Edwards.

Just one second.

All right.

So that takes us to items five, six, seven, eight, and nine on our consent calendar.

The five items this evening are uh the approval of the July 15th, 22nd, 29th, and August 5th draft meeting minutes, as well as an intent to annex homes on 8564 South 10th East and 8590 South 10th East to set a hearing date.

Do I have a motion?

Go ahead.

Move that we adopt the consent calendar.

Second.

Great, thank you.

Motion and a second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

All right.

That motion passes passes and takes us into item number 10, our council voting item.

We have the community development department requesting city council action regarding the empowering you rezone application.

And I have uh Jake Warner, our long-range planning manager, presenting the item this evening.

It was already presented, and so I don't know if you have any new new to add or maybe a quick summary you can share.

Yeah, quick summary.

Uh this item was presented to the planning commission as required by state law for a public hearing on July 17th.

Uh they recommended they forwarded a recommendation to the city council.

Uh a positive recommendation to the city council was presented as was mentioned to the city council as an informational item on August 5th.

Um the application is now before you for decision uh regarding the application.

Uh this is a rezone application submitted by Winslow Burton.

Winslow, yeah, Winslow Burton on behalf of Empowering You for property located at 11339 South 700 East, approximately 2.1 acres.

Uh they are requesting a change of zone from the CVC or community's commercial zone to the PO or professional office zone.

And uh again, with that it's before you tonight for for action on this application.

Thank you, Mr.

Warner.

Are there any questions for staff on this item?

Okay, I don't see any, so we'll go ahead as again.

This is a voting item and open up public comment for this.

I again don't have any blue cards presently, um, but if you want to go ahead and address online, that would be great.

Of course, madam chair.

Uh again, if you're joining us virtually and you'd like to comment this evening on item number uh 10 on tonight's agenda.

Go ahead and click the raise hand button on your screen now and call your name in the order in which you raised your hand.

And there are no raised hands, madam chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Fratto.

We'll close the public comment portion of this agenda item and bring it back to the council if there's any council member houseman.

Thank you.

I'll make a motion to adopt ordinance 25-19, the empowering you rezone.

Second, thank you.

Is there any discussion on that motion?

All right, Miss Edwards, we'll go for that roll call vote now.

Ms.

Houseman, yes, Mr.

Meekham.

Yes, Ms.

DeSouza, yes.

Ms.

Stroud.

Yes.

Mr.

Robinson.

Yes.

Ms.

Sharkey.

Yes.

Madam Chair, that motion carried six to zero.

Thank you, Ms.

Edwards.

And that concludes agenda item number 10 and brings us to agenda item 11, which is the Sandy City Council acting as the Sandy Board of Municipal Canvassers.

Meeting to canvas the returns for the Sandy 2025 primary election.

We have Wendy Downs, our city recorder, to present this item tonight.

And I'll go ahead and turn that over to you, Wendy, when you're ready.

And Wendy, we have documents ready.

We can poll up if you need anything pulled up.

Just let us know and then give us a moment to get it up on the screen.

Okay.

Um, pull up the results page.

Um which one of the results, page do you need Wendy?

You can just do the one that's the Sandy final results.

Okay, great.

That works.

Okay.

Thank you, Board of Canvassers, for having me.

Wendy Downs, City Recorder.

We got these results a little bit earlier today, and I'm glad they got us to them other than at 4 o'clock that they've done in the past.

So that's really nice.

So I'm going to read the numbers of the results here.

So for the mayor contest, Monica Zoltanski received 10,517 votes.

Cindy Sharkey received 5,120 votes.

Alison Stroud received 2,387.

Roger Downward received 265.

And Justin Hilgendorf received 111.

The two candidates moving on to the general will be Monica Zoltanski and Cindy Sharkey.

For the Council District 3 race.

Iva Williams received 1,158 votes.

Perry Harrison received 1,098 votes.

And Matthew Ostrander received 767 votes.

The two candidates moving on to the general are Chris Nickel and Iva Williams.

So we had a pretty good voter turnout for a primary.

We had 32.9% voter turnout.

The last mayoral election that was a traditional election was in 2017, and we had a 31% turnout.

So we even beat that one.

So that's good.

As of the day before the election day, we had 50 56,098 active voters in Sandy.

18,200 ballots were from being mailed in or from a drop box.

There were 23 ballots that were returned electronically for the overseas military or citizens or those that are disabled and can't get to get a physical ballot in.

So the challenged and uncounted ballots, which means the signatures weren't couldn't be verified.

Or the ballot may have been destroyed.

And this so they're trying to contact those voters to get them to be able to make sure that they do get their ballot and and it counted.

So there were 149 of those where the signature did not match the voter's signature.

Three were not signed, which is pretty awesome for 18,000 votes, I think.

There were 16 that were challenged for other curable reasons, which is that it's not clear what the voters' intent was when they were filling out the bubble.

Maybe two of them were similar and they didn't know what they wanted.

And then 306 is the total number that were challenged, cured and not cured combined.

And then they were able to cure 168 of those.

So that was 325 that were not in their possession.

One of them was rejected for non-curable reason, which means they probably couldn't get a hold of the person.

And so there were a hundred a total of 326 that were rejected.

Um that they were not able to count.

Of there were actually four provisional ballots issued, but only three of them were counted because one of them had already voted.

So there was two in there for them.

Um I know there were some questions, and I had some questions on this as well.

That if you look at the reporting on the website, it shows that we're not a hundred percent um voted with our precincts.

So the mayor race is is reporting of 87 of 102 precincts, and district three was 25 of 29 precincts.

And there's two reasons why that these didn't have any and weren't reported.

Um, one of them is many of them don't have any active or registered voters.

And if they did have active voters register, it was minimal and they didn't vote.

So that's why we have so many that were not reported for.

Um that is all I have.

Questions?

Council, are there questions for Wendy?

I had one question.

Yeah.

I was just curious on the uh section three where it has the percentage of ballot ballots that were returned as under deliverable is three.

Is that part of the 32% voter turnout, or does the voter turnout only represent those ballots that were counted, cast and counted?

Wait, tell me which one you were looking at.

Well, I'm just the of the total percentage of voter turnout, which I think was like 32 something, um, and then the section number three where it says three percent is the percent of ballots that were returned as un undeliverable, like they um were passed the postmark deadline.

Um actually uh maybe I'm reading that wrong, but I guess my question is does the total percentage 32 percent represent all like the the cured uncured the um returned after the postmark deadline, or is the 32 percent simply voters that ballots were counted?

I believe it is of the ballots counted.

Okay, I didn't do the math with those numbers.

What?

I know that was like the one thing that I didn't prepare for, and I'm sorry.

It's okay.

Um but I believe it is of the ballots that were able to be counted.

Okay, I was just curious on the total voter participation.

If I'm wrong, I will let you guys know.

Like the possibility for even more voter participation had these ballots been um eligible for counting.

So um my guess is yes, they probably could have.

Okay, and then I see council member Robinson has a question.

Yes.

Thank you, madam chair.

Just a quick one.

Um line to E, the 168 number of curable that were cured.

Does that my brain's telling me that seems a little high?

Is that high to you, or is that about average?

Um I would say it's about average.

We always they always have um those that they're not able to get cured from the active voters that they don't because they've got to find them and reach out to them and tell them that they've need to sign their thing again, or and you know, me trying to reach out to people sometimes, they don't always respond when you need them to.

So um I feel that's a pretty average number for the total of votes ballots that we did get that that's that's average.

Okay, thank you so much, Wendy.

There aren't any other questions, and so I believe that we're ready for Chris Edwards to do a board of canvasers vote.

I'm sorry, I missed the question.

Mr.

Cadell was over here just to yeah, so I would make a motion to accept the results initially and then vote on that motion.

We only do this once every two years, and yeah.

Is there a motion?

I I move that we adopt the results.

Second, all right.

Motion and a second is there any discussion on that?

Okay, go ahead, Miss Edwards.

Thank you, madam chair.

Mr.

Meekham.

Yes, Ms.

House Smith.

Yes, Ms.

Sharkey, yes, Mr.

Sousa, yes, Ms.

Stroud, Mr.

Yes.

Madam Chair.

Oh, that motion carries.

And the mayor's some voting number.

Sorry, I have it here too.

Mayor Soltanski.

Yes.

Madam Chair, that motion carried six to zero.

Thank you for that.

So that and concludes agenda item number 11, and we are just after 6 p.m.

So we can come back to our general citizen comment period.

I have one blue card right here from Mr.

Doug Weismer.

Wismer, apologies.

That's good enough.

Okay.

You will be given three minutes to make your public remarks.

And thank you.

So Dustin, can I give these to you to pass off?

So folks, those are just some talking points that I have.

I'm here to support the gondola, like I was the last time when I came here.

If you want to take a look at those, some of those are some of the pictures we see all the time.

Backups in the winter, backups where we just adjacent some sandy properties.

You know, I I just think the gondola is a good thing.

I know it's become very political, which is a shame.

It's an infrastructure project, it's something for the community.

Um, I I don't play hockey, you don't follow hockey, but we now have a hockey facility here, and I honestly I think that's actually great.

I really do, because it will generate tax revenue businesses, um, as would a gondola base station where folks could um congregate before they went up skiing, where they could have a coffee, where they could dress their children for skiing instead of on the side of a road.

So for the folks who will eventually see those pictures, like I said, a lot of those pictures are the are the winter pictures we see, the accidents.

I I don't have to keep showing you those, but the rest of the pictures, the summer pictures, I was the photographer.

I took those pictures.

I took those pictures three days ago.

And the I I moved here in 1996, and what I saw over the last week in that canyon because of the construction, and by the way, how much construction do we think widening the roads, avalanche sheds will cost?

That backup for that construction went from Tanner's flat all the way down through Seven Sisters to the top of the quarry trail access.

I think that's like two miles, and that's what it was when I moved here in 96 for winter traffic.

We all know what happens now.

So I I don't want to get into the politics, although it's become very political.

Um, but I I really hope that um the mayor and this council can reverse course, give up the lawsuits, and the reason that UDOT is not moving forward is because of the lawsuits.

They don't know what to do.

Because everybody comes out of everywhere with these new ideas that haven't even been talked about.

I saw somebody decided on a train or thought a train was a good idea.

We build ski lifts around here, we don't build trains.

So I I again please reverse course, let's build that gondola, and let's make Sandy like a really cool place to live instead of traffic jam.

Thank you, Mr.

Whismer.

I don't have any other in-person comment cards if you oh that's okay.

Go ahead and come up, and then if you're when you're done, if you wouldn't mind going to the back, filling out a card and giving it over to Dustin so that we have a record for our minutes.

Okay, you'll have three minutes as well.

Thank you.

Am I able to have things out to you guys?

You can hand them to Mr.

Fraddo.

Thank you.

Hi, I'm so nervous.

Thank you so much for for your time.

Um, and for giving me a chance to speak.

So I am here on behalf of my family and also four different homes in our neighborhood who are being negatively affected by the lack of residential city code in Zandy.

Um, my next door neighbor's property has fallen into complete disrepair.

The backyard, which is clearly visible from our deck and a couple other neighbors, is filled with junk and garbage, old tires, filing cabinets, chemical barrels, gas cans, broken lawn equipment, and you name it.

It's also home to numerous barrel cats that like to also make our backyard their home.

His fence is broken and leaning, and it's held up with bungee cords that he's wrapped around the tree in his backyard.

We've offered to help clean up his yard, install a new fence, and re-home the cats, but he is not interested in our help.

Um, the front of his house, there's broken windows, a garage door that's falling off the tracks, and Christmas decorations that haven't come down in years.

70% of his roof has no shingles, and there are two cars that have broken down in his driveway that haven't been driven in three years.

There's no longer any grass in his yard, it's all weeds, it's all brown, it's all dry.

But the worst issue that we're having is an odor coming from his property.

The strong smell, we think maybe cat urine or possibly dead animals in his backyard, but unfortunately, nobody knows what the smell is.

Um, but it is preventing us from being able to enjoy our yard.

It's so strong that for the past year we haven't been able to have dinner out on our deck.

We haven't been able to have coffee on our balcony, um, and our kids often have to be taken inside because the smell is so horrendous.

Even neighbors two houses down can smell it most days.

Um it's just really devastating because we bought this home and it's our first family home, and we can't even enjoy the backyard, and that was the main reason we bought the property.

Um, three of the homes surrounding this property have young kids and babies and toddlers, including our own.

We are scared of the fire hazards that are created by the backyard junk and also the lack of roof.

But most importantly, we're worried about how the odor is affecting our health, and importantly, most importantly, our children's.

We contacted the health department who referred us to Sandy City, who said that there are no codes in place to be able to enforce any of the issues that we're having with our neighbor.

Um, some of the neighbors, including us are thinking about selling our home, but a realtor told us that we could lose up to 20% of our value because we live next to a deteriorating home, which is very difficult for us to accept.

So, what makes it really frustrating is that there are a lot of surrounded surrounding cities that do enforce a lot of these codes, like Harriman, South Jordan, and Midville.

Um, and on that handout, it shows just a really brief overview of some of the cities and what they are offering their residents.

Um, Sandy's residents deserve to have the same protections, and I hope that maybe you'll consider looking at our current resident code and seeing if there's any improvements that can be made to protect our children, our health, and also our financial investments.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Appreciate that.

And then, yeah, if you could just fill out that blue card in the very back and hand it up here, that would be very helpful.

Thank you.

And I don't have any other blue cards for in-room commenters.

If you would like to make a public comment, go ahead and um let me know and fill out a blue card.

If you are online, uh, please raise your hand and you will be called upon in the order that you raised your hand.

Okay, I don't see any online commenters, so we'll go ahead and close the public comment, general citizen comment portion of this meeting and bring it back to the agenda.

Presently, we are at the very bottom of the agenda.

Let's see.

With our standing report, so we'll go ahead and start with Mr.

Fratto for the agenda planning calendar with you.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um, not a lot to report today.

Uh, just a reminder that next week, next Tuesday, we're holding the uh third of our community housing workshop series.

Thank you all for participating in the questionnaire.

It's gonna help us to as staff to create kind of a baseline of information to show you on Tuesday.

Uh Lynn will be uh moderating next week's discussion, and next week's discussion really is kind of the first uh real discussion.

The last two is as you're well aware were more informational.

Uh but the intention next week is to uh come to an agreement and understanding of which which of the uh major issues uh the eight of you feel are the most important for us to consider addressing.

And so we're hoping to uh have an answer to that question by the end of next meeting.

It's our lofty goal.

Um I'm I'm confident we can do it though.

Uh other than that, I don't have anything else to report right now, madam chair.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Councilmember business.

Councilmember Housman.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh, just a couple of items for this evening.

First, I was able to attend the Wasatch Front Waste and Recycling District Board meeting.

Um, it was kind of a big deal.

I guess you could say we welcomed the newly named general manager.

So, as I've shared before, Pam is uh retiring after many incredible years of service.

There were a few tears shed today.

She still has um another, I believe it is six weeks where they are uh spending some parallel time so she can support him with onboarding.

But Evan Tyrell, I had to think clearly about how to pronounce his name because it's anyway, is the new general manager, and we were able to meet with him and it's you know public on the public record now, so I can speak about him.

Um he is already doing a great job of jumping in, um building relationships, etc.

etc.

So that was um a great part of the meeting.

Some additional pieces of conversation um were relative to things that um we've also talked about um regarding waste and recycling, in particular the district's approach to bulk waste, which is of course a little different than ours, um, but looking for ways to establish some efficiencies while continuing to provide um diverse services.

So really great meeting, and I'm excited to get to know the general manager.

Uh the only other thing I I want to share as part of my update is I do I do actually want to um share something in response to the public comment.

The the the decision to join the lawsuit against UDOT was made unilaterally by the mayor.

So the city council did not have any um awareness of of the fact that the lawsuit was being joined by Sandy.

So I just wanted to make sure that as you were continuing to chat about this that you recognize the mayor made that decision, and it when you hear Sandy City has joined the lawsuit.

So you you your your plea was hey, city council, you know, we'd I'd like you to consider changing course.

Um I wanted to make sure that I put it on the record that the city council was not a part of that decision.

I do understand that.

Thank you.

Um it's mostly I just wanted to share as part of my update.

Thank you.

That's all I had.

Thank you.

Councilmember Robinson.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and uh I appreciate the accommodation to allow me to chime in from home tonight.

I didn't I don't want to sit next to Ryan and Chris and get everybody not feeling good.

So I appreciate that.

Uh just a couple of quick things for me.

Um I I want to express my appreciation, and I I hope Dan's in the room.

Um, if not, maybe Martin or Shane can pass this on.

Like the way that the end of the summer stuff went for Alta Canyon went really, really well.

Um my family and I were able to go a couple of those last few days, and it was really cool to see the pool like full and staff was in uh a really good mood, and just those last like 72 hours were were really great, you know, from the from the um time the the big event was.

I think it was Wednesday and then you know, Saturday and or excuse me, Friday and Saturday being those last couple days.

So if Dan you're in the room, please pass that on to Lois or Shane.

I don't know if Martin's there or not, I can't tell, but um, just please make sure that you know the staff that was in charge of that knows that from a from a resident perspective it really well.

So I wanted to express that.

And then I also wanted to just uh express that myself and Ms.

Houseman were able to participate with both of our public safety chiefs um in the chamber golf tournament over this past uh week of last Friday.

There was actually two teams from Sandy represented.

I thought we did really well.

The mayor and her team won, or excuse me, they took second place.

Uh while our team, uh our team carried the middle of the pack, but that's okay.

I was still had a blast.

But um it was really cool to get out and not only spend time with you know council colleagues but other administrative colleagues as well, but also you know, local business owners.

I thought that was really cool.

I felt everybody was really um it was just a fun positive day, and all of the businesses that the chamber brought to the event were really gracious to be there and and just it was just a cool event, and it was held right in Sandy City at um River Oaks, and so I just wanted to make sure that you know our community knew that our city not only represented for local businesses but had good representation from the city as well there.

So other than that, I hope I'm back with you next week.

I better be if not, I'm gonna be really grumpy, but um, other than that, thanks for giving me the opportunity, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'll quickly jump in with my um council member business.

I just want to express appreciation to our uh police and fire departments for their participation in the autism first responder community event.

Uh this was the third year that it was held.

I think that uh Amy Bryant and the police department and the fire staff did an amazing job in planning this event this year.

I know that I I hope to see that participation grow even more than it has with the continuation of the event in a you know at regular intervals.

I think that that's ultimately helpful to uh growing the the event in um ensuring that it's consistent.

Um it's a really important event for I think our entire community to learn from each other and uh really improve um interactions in in a way that benefits all parties, and so I appreciate your participation and um I just want to say that.

So thank you.

It was another great event.

My daughter looks forward to it every year, as do her friends, and I think that every year they get a little bit more comfortable in their in furthering those interactions and deepening those relationships.

So, and um also the ability for the first responders to have maybe a like a physical recognition of those community members.

I think ultimately it's helpful as you're out doing your daily work.

So thank you.

Uh I also attended the Trans-Jordan Landfill event on Sunday where we got to tour the new transfer station out on approximately 90th South and 7th West next to our public works department.

Uh I think it's going to be an asset to our city.

I I am very hopeful that all of the uh mitigations put in place are um work very well to ensure that it is an asset to our city.

Uh and I don't have to go out to Bacchus Highway anymore when I miss bulk waste pickup, or I have an item that I inevitably forgot to put in the bulk waste pickup pile a day late.

So uh anyway, that was a great event.

Councilmember Sharkey.

Thank you, madam chair.

Uh, we had an in-person uh ULCT legislative policy committee meeting yesterday, and they're getting us ready and geared up for a new legislative season coming up.

Um, and there were some kind of consequential and important things that were discussed, and that we should expect in the next legislative session.

Uh, one of which is that there are at least at this point in time, and this is only August, there are two legislators working on external ADU bills, and we expect that there will be more.

So we have reasonable expectation that this will be coming our way, and that there will be preemptions placed on us related to things like lot sizes and parking and setbacks and things like that.

So we are all ULCT is already working with legislators and with uh um with the housing state housing group to try to place um logical and sensible rules around this and to leave as much as possible in the hands of the cities in order to make good decisions.

We're assuming that we these will be allowed by right and not by conditional use permits.

So it's a matter of working with the legislators and finding a place where we can live and um accept the conditions that we assume will be placed upon us.

But that's something we'll be watching very very closely.

And by the way, if you see the new acronym, DADU.

So DADU, so DADU, uh detached accessory dwelling unit.

So that's the new acronym for that.

Um there was also another uh kind of concern.

There was a presentation by the division of drinking water, and um so we know that there will be um the federal government has pulled funding from drinking water providers, eroding budgets of us and others, and so with the um regulations that have been put in place.

Um the states the Utah Division of Drinking Water is gonna need to recover something in the order of about 5.8 million dollars that is the expected budget shortfall.

And while they're doing some budget cuts to try to to try to equalize that a little bit, we were given the heads up that we will be passing on those expenses to our water users.

So heads up, council.

We've been hearing from our own public utilities advisory board and from our public utilities department that there will be there may be a proposal for increased water rates.

But there also will be others placed upon us potentially by the state as well.

This is this is a worrisome situation coming at us.

I don't know about you guys, but just anecdotally for me.

I probably hear as many complaints from residents about their water bills as I do about their property tax bills.

Not an overstatement.

And so if more is coming our way and we're gonna have to deal with it, this is you know, this is not something we're going to relish coming our way.

So we'll continue to watch that.

We've we provided some feedback, asking simple questions like why can't you guys bill for this?

Why do we have to be the bad guys, right?

And so I think it's a sensible question.

They, you know, they've they talked about the bill as though it wasn't, they had no play in it, Senate Bill 80.

Well, this is how the law is written, it's passed along this way.

Well, maybe we need to make a change there.

Um, but anyway, those are a couple of things that we discussed.

We think that we'll also be having some new MIHP strategies, so maybe some new moderate income housing strategies to add to the list that we already are using.

And some more discussion about compliance penalties.

We feel we may be getting toward that phase in the future, and we're trying to dial back on state transportation funds being the mode of penalty for non-compliance and look for another avenue.

But these are some of the things that we discussed yesterday in preparation for a new session coming down.

Thank you, madam chair.

Thank you.

We'll now go to the mayor for the mayor's report.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Well, uh first most importantly, our I just want to express our condolences to our uh sister cities in Tremont and Garland and Northern Utah.

Our hearts are heavy with the loss of our two law enforcement officers who lost their lives in the line of duty, and the sheriff's deputy, Fox Elder County County Sheriff's Deputy, and Canine Officer who were injured in the call the response to domestic violence call on Sunday, August 17th.

Grateful to our police department, our officers, our motors, and our officers who attended the procession, returning the remains of the office of the fallen officers to their homes, and grateful for their representation at the funerals coming up this week.

Such a serious loss for all of us, and I want to express on behalf of the all the residents of Sandy and the employees of Sandy how deeply we feel that loss and how profound that is for all of us.

We honor our brave law enforcement officers, our public safety officers, police and fire, everyone who wears the badge at any capacity in representing our cities and towns and governments in Utah.

They have a very dangerous and serious job, and we honor their service.

Next tomorrow is the open house of the Trans Jordan Transfer Station that has been mentioned.

I'll give you the address that's 8813 South 700 West, and that will run from 11 a.m.

to 2 p.m.

So if you like operations, if you like big trucks, if you like to see how waste is handled, this is uh an unbelievable expansive facility, and we are so fortunate to have this in Sandy.

What does this mean to the Sandy taxpayer?

Well, it saves the wear and tear on our vehicles, it's gonna save a lot of mileage on our vehicles, as council member D'SUSE noted.

Um commute is a lot shorter to 700 West than out to uh the dump that's almost a magna in West Jordan.

And we uh as co-owners of this new facility of the in the Trans Jordan our interlocal agreement.

Not only does this save us in the short term, but in the long term, we have a plan for managing our waste as the Trans Jordan landfill fills up, which is about eight years from hitting its capacity.

There's already a new location identified and started in Utah County.

So please come learn about this important service that cities all across the Wasatch Front will now have a much easier, more convenient location to assemble there to assemble the waste.

And it's just uh well, I don't know how it's gonna be once it's operational, but it's never gonna be as clean as this week, so this is definitely the week that you want to come and see it and bring the kids.

So hope to see everybody there tomorrow afternoon.

Um last week is back to school week, and uh thanks to our police for bringing all of the safety issues to our attention.

Thanks to our patrol officers for enforcing speed and crossing uh crosswalk safety, assisting our cross crossing guards, our schools and students.

Uh back to school week is a big week for public safety in Sandy.

There's so many moving parts to make sure that our students arrive and return our after school and return home safely.

Uh I was pleased to join Councilmember Allison Stroud for the recognition of one of our um most beloved popular crossing guards who retired after 15 years of service.

Uh Richard Allen retired on uh this year after being a crossing guard for 15 years at Sandy Elementary.

Um thank you also to Deputy Mayor Kimberly Bell and Susan Wood for attending that back to school night at Sandy Elementary and seeing Mr.

Allen honored with his family and the teachers and administrators and most of all his um darling students who love him so much.

So crossing guards are representatives of the Sandy Police Department, they're not just volunteers, um, they take their jobs very seriously, they deserve our recognition, our respect on the road, and definitely our deference when they say stop or slow down.

Uh please make eye contact with your crossing guards and know the crossing guard rules.

When it's a striped zebra stripe or piano key crosswalk, you have to wait until the entire crosswalk is clear, and the crossing guard gives the nod before you can proceed, even if it's on the opposite side of your travel.

Um so welcome back to school students, and it was wonderful to see the youth council and the youth court here tonight.

It's uh we really have a great depth of youth resources in the city, and it's so encouraging and inspiring and heartening to see our young people get involved.

Uh today we put out a call for the riders who want to wish to sign up for the Heritage Festival and Horse Parade.

There's a new link that's online now as of today.

So please, uh, horseback riders uh sign up and with um with that comes some good news from uh local business partner, Rocky Mountain Power, who has donated $10,000 for the support of two events in the city, the Heritage Festival and Horse Parade and our light up the Cairns event.

So that's $10,000 from our generous sponsors, Rocky Mountain Power.

So we're going to be recognizing them with those events, but I want council to know their generous gift to the city.

Um the other items have been mentioned.

Um Councilmember D'SUSA, thank you for being the catalyst for the autism awareness event.

It I agree it continues to grow in popularity and awareness and helps us build understanding and strengthening relationships in our community between the city and our uh families with autism and I had several conversations that uh got right to the point of the the event, as including a young woman who said, I'm here to get over my fear of police officers.

And so it's credit to our first responders, credit to our community that were willing to have these bridge building events, and thank you for spearheading the effort.

Thank you.

Go ahead, Mr.

Pay, CAO report.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um we have three new uh announced retirements, uh, two in public uh utilities and one in public works.

Ted Kenton is retiring uh this month, so is Ryan Grigla, both over 30 years of service with the city, and also Rhonda Hempel from Public Works is also retiring, and she also I believe has 30 years.

Okay, 29.

Sorry.

Um some of them are not having uh get together.

Uh Ryan's a little shy, so um uh we'll let you know about the other ones.

And then we have one uh a uh 10-wheel dump truck was approved in this last year's budget, but something has come up, and Ryan would like to change that priority to um um paper machine, so I'll have him come up and explain that uh to you really quick why he needs to do that.

Thank you, Shane and Council.

Uh as you recall from the budget process, we had three 10-wheel dumps approved uh through different budget sources, but the end result is through new trucks.

We were asking for trucks because we're trying to rotate the fleet.

We received 12 trucks in 2017, and we don't want to replace 12 at once.

An issue came up with our paper, which is a smaller paper, and it is currently in fleet right now, being repaired for the third time this summer.

It's undersized for the use that we're putting it through and the tonnage we're putting it through, and it keeps breaking the track and the teeth in it.

Does anybody have any questions for Mr.

Crump on this?

Go ahead, Councilmember Truckie.

Does that does the 10-wheel truck cover the entire cost of the paper?

Yeah, the truck is budgeted at 325, and the paver we have a quote on is 290.

Thank you.

All right, is that the end of your report?

Yes, thank you.

All right, thank you.

Uh we are ready for Mr.

Meekham.

Move to adjourn.

Second.

All in favor, aye.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Good night.

Yeah.

I don't know.