The Sandy City Council held a meeting on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, at 5:15 PM in the Third Floor Multipurpose Room at City Hall. The primary focus was the third workshop in the Community Housing Workshop Series, titled "Building our Future: Identifying and Prioritizing Key Issues." The meeting also included public comment, standing reports, council member business, the mayor's report, and the CAO's report. The council worked to narrow down housing priorities and provide directional guidance to staff.
The council unanimously agreed to adjourn at 7:36 PM.
Okay, everybody we're gonna have to get started. So I'm okay to see. All right. We are going to start tonight's city council meeting. Today is Tuesday, September 2nd. Uh we are conducting this meeting as a um housing workshop, one of the installations in our housing workshop. We will do public comment at the end of this works workshop session. And so if you're in person and would like to make public comment, there are some blue cards on the back table back here. Please fill one out and bring them up to um Dustin or Justin here in the back. Uh if you're online, then we will um take public comment um after we take in-room comment, should there be any. And Lynn Pays is going to be facilitating this meeting, and so I'm gonna turn this over to you now, Lynn. Thank you. Um good to be with you. Um I'm actually excited about our meeting tonight because uh this is the participatory part of the discussion where council members officials get to uh uh weigh in on uh your priorities. And that's our focus tonight. Look, before we get into the details of this, I wanted to have gonna give Dustin some time to walk through these rests that I assume you've all been sent. You all received these. Okay. Um as you know, the first two meetings we had were educational, we got information from various experts, etc. etc. Based upon that those briefings that we had in our first two meetings. Uh a questionnaire was prepared. That questionnaire was then sent out to all of the all eight of the elected officials. And uh because of the way that was set up, it is impossible to determine which response came to so we don't know you don't. So they really are eight anonymous uh responses. We track these responses both in terms of how many votes certain items got. And because everyone was asked to pick their top ten items. And then of those top ten to prioritize them. So on these charts, you will see, and Justin's going to walk through these, but you'll see that we track how many votes an item received. And then we also tracked how those uh items were prioritized by those who voted for it. So you want to look not just at how many votes they got, but how high a priority was it. And that's reflected in the bar graph. So um, so I'm gonna let Dustin walk through that. And then what I want to do with our with our um following his introduction and explanation of the of the data points that we have. And thank you all for throwing those out. We appreciate you taking the time to read through this and I hope provides response. Then I want to then I want to take some time with all of you to walk through and sort of talk about what we can learn from your responses. That makes sense. But Dustin, why don't you go ahead, sure? Thanks, Lynn. Uh so I I'm you guys all saw the six graphs we put together, and then I sent out the kind of raw data sheet as well, which is a little bit more complicated to look at. Taking that data, I think it's turning it into something that's easy to read. And so I'm just gonna walk through those to make sure that everybody understands uh what they say and um how to read them. So there are six graphs. Uh the first one that we're on here. Uh let me walk through it. So a couple commonalities you'll see between the first three graphs. We have not included any of the issues, and the issues are on here A1 through K1. And if you reference the uh uh reference sheet that we provided in the packet, uh you'll be able to see which issue is A1, which issue is K1, and everything in between. But a couple commonalities.