And I didn't want to drop my sandwich to be fair.

Like I was drawing priorities, I understand.

All right, good evening, everyone.

It's 5 15, and I'd like to welcome everyone to our city council meeting this evening, September 9th, 2025.

We are going to begin the meeting with a prayer and the pledge.

Is there anybody that would like to volunteer to give us the prayer?

Mr.

Pace, go ahead, please.

Our Father in Heaven, we come before thee this evening.

Uh we're grateful for our wonderful community.

We're grateful for the rich blessings we enjoy here.

We're thankful for our elected officials and for their desires to do what's best for our community.

We're thankful for our residents and for their participation in our community.

And tonight we're grateful for the opportunity to gather and discuss the business of this city.

We pray that that would be with us tonight, and we say this in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Thank you.

If you'll rise, we'll repeat the pledge together.

I pledge allegiance to the fly of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

Thank you, everyone.

We'll go ahead and start with introductions.

Mr.

Fratto Thank you, Madam Chair.

My name's Dustin Fratto.

I'm with the City Council Office.

There are a couple other council staff members in the back of the room, Justin Sorensen and Liz Terriot.

I'm Tracy, I'm counsel for the Council.

Hi, Chris Edwards with the Council Office.

I'm Zach Robinson, District 3.

Marcy Housman, District 4.

Brooke D'Souza at large.

Alison Stroud, District 2.

Aaron DeKeiser at large.

Cindy Sharkey at large.

I'm Chase Shane Pace, City Administrator.

Mayor Zoltanski's outside, or they're about to start uh putting up flags.

Lynn Payce, City Attorney.

All right, everyone, thanks again.

Uh the I just wanted to address the general citizen comment period really quick.

So per council policy, we won't take general citizen comments until at least 6 p.m.

And so when there is a break in the agenda that's appropriate, we'll come after 6 p.m.

We'll come back and do general citizen comment.

If you are in the room or online in the room, fill out a blue card and bring it up to Mr.

Fratto here.

Um and then online when we get to the online portion, you can raise your virtual hand and you will be called on in the order that you raised your hand.

And we will go ahead and move into item number one, which is the emergency management division presenting the Salt Lake County Municipal Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan to the City Council.

And battalion chief David Larson will be presenting this item.

So Mr.

Larson, I'll go ahead and turn it over to you.

Perfect.

Thank you.

Thank you, Council, City Staff.

I appreciate the opportunity to present this in front of you.

Every five years, FEMA and the state requires that every jurisdiction has a multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan.

What that plan is is that it is required under the Robert T.

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.

Um help all of the different municipalities to be under one plan, uh which I think is great for cooperation and um just continuity of services and emergency help during a disaster.

And so what they've put together that meets the requirements for FEMA is the multi-jurisdictional plan that has two separate volumes.

One is the overall general volume, and then each individual municipality had an annex, and so Sandy had their own annex.

I hope that you guys got the packet that had the information on it, and also had the executive summary.

A couple of the cities had some things that they wanted to clarify.

This was something that the state and FEMA would have liked to have had done back in March, but with everything going on with FEMA, things have been a little slow.

And so they have asked the county has asked us, and the state has asked us to present these resolutions.

Some of the different cities have already done this a little while ago.

Are there any questions that you guys may have?

Are there any questions right now?

You are planning on running through more of the presentation, right?

If you'd like that, I I wasn't going to.

Oh, okay.

If you would like me to hit on specific things, it would I it would probably be helpful if you were able to hit on some of those.

It was a very large packet, and I just want to make sure that everybody has an idea from an executive standpoint summary standpoint.

Sure, you bet.

So the reason that this is coming before the city council, and if you're okay, I'll just read this.

Um, by adopting the 2025 Salt Lake County Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan Volume 1 and the 2025 Salt Lake County Volume 2 Sandy City Annex.

The city actively recognizes the hazards in Salt Lake County and local municipalities as well as proactively demonstrating its commitment to fulfilling the goals and objectives of the plan.

Following Sandy City's adoption, the local jurisdictions have one year to adopt the plan to be included.

Final step for approval from the state of Utah and FEMA involves submitting evidence of adoption through the resolution.

This updates using the 2019 plan as a base that was adopted in May of 2019, and the plan will be adopted adopted five years from now.

The 2025 multi-jurisdictional hazard mitigation plan serves as a strategic planning document for Saltley County, and it's 26 participating entities, including 23 cities, towns, two school districts, and the Salt Lake Community College.

It supports community planners, emergency managers, elected officials, and the public in making informed decisions about land use, infrastructure, emergency preparedness, and resource allocation.

So what this does is following FEMA and the Utah Division of Emergency Management Guidelines, the Salt Lake County EM planning team identified and assessed 19 hazards, both natural and human caused, using historical data, risk modeling tools, and local expertise to understand potential impacts and hazards across Salt Lake County.

Planning team conducted a comprehensive risk and vulnerability assessment for each hazard identified in the plan.

It also included analyzing likelihood of future hazardous events, reviewing past occurrences and evaluating the exposure and vulnerability of people, property, infrastructure, and critical services.

And so we always hope that there is never anything that happens that would rise to that level.

But obviously, we want to make sure that we've done everything that we need to do to make sure that those funds are available for reimbursement if we do have a disaster.

Thank you, Mr.

Pace.

David, could you could you describe the Sandy Annex?

Sure.

Some of the contents of the Sandy Annex.

I think that would be helpful to the council.

Flip through here a little bit.

Sorry.

So what we did is we went through and did those 19 different specific hazard assessments, and we assigned them different risk factors.

One of the things that I found interesting was is that we had done a survey right prior to me being hired that asked the residents what their concerns were or what they felt were the biggest hazards and risks in Sandy, and our risk assessment with the county actually mirrored that almost exactly.

Obviously, we have several waterways that come out of the mountains that go right through our city, and so that is a big concern.

So it goes through and assigns different risk factors and how they could affect Sandy and our residents.

Sorry.

So this goes through through and covers everything from avalanche droughts, earthquakes, heat or cold, uh, extreme heat or cold, flooding, heavy rain, all the way down to things like radon.

Um so it was a pretty comprehensive list of potential issues that affect not only Saltley County, but in particular Sandy.

Um and so this also gives me a tool uh as well as the city to look at different hazards to see what we need to prioritize, what we maybe need to make some adjustments to to some different plans that we have so that in the event of a disaster or one of those incidences that we can better be prepared to a mitigate them before they happen, but also respond to them if they have there any questions, council?

Councilmember Sharkey.

Thank you, Chief.

Who who wrote this annex for Sandy?

Who took it?

So this was information that was gathered by um myself, Chief Bullock, uh, was part of that prior to to me being brought on.

This process has been going on since early last year.

Uh like I said, their intent, they wanted it to be finalized by March, and that did not happen.

But this is this is um information that we've gathered from different departments here in the city from the emergency management, and then Salt Lake County has helped quite a bit with some of the infrastructure things that are county owned or county run that still deal with Sandy, like some of the dams at the canyon, stuff like that.

It's really good.

I read the Draper and the Mill Creek ones too, Mill Creek, right?

Yep.

I just I thought ours was really really good.

I just wondered whether we had written it in-house or whether we hired a consultant to do it.

No, no, no.

And I'm so happy to hear that we did it in-house.

It's it's re it's really great.

Um I was curious in reading it.

Um, the number one hazard.

I know we're confined to these, we're confined to the this kind of process of ranking things, but the number one hazard, even above wildfire, is earthquake.

And that surprised me.

I guess because maybe an earthquake could be more devastating, but also much less likely, right?

And so the second one.

I'm sorry to interrupt you, please go ahead.

The second one is wildfire, and I was just kind of wondering what are we preparing the most for?

So it it falls down to probable probability of the risk and probability of it actually happening.

So things like earthquakes have a high risk and a high dollar value to them.

But we don't really know.

Is it is the big one going to happen next year?

Is it going to happen a hundred years from now?

We don't know.

So there's a high risk, but where's the probability?

Whereas the wildfire, high risk, high probability.

And and part of the reason that that risk factor was higher is because of the potential monetary value of infrastructure and things like that.

So would you say we are preparing more for wildfire than for earthquake?

So when I look at things for preparing for the city, I have to balance both of those of risk versus probability.

And for me personally, um, I believe that the risk and probability of a wildfire incident is more than an earthquake.

I mean, both both are very high potential problems, but I think wildfire is I think we feel the same way, which is why when I saw that ranking, I thought I so those are it's based monetarily.

It gave it a bump because of the added um the added cost that a major earthquake would do to actual critical infrastructure, water, sewer, things of that nature.

There was also something in here about flooding and the floodplain insurance.

I'm scrolling through trying to find it.

I had it there, but and it said something about 46 property.

Oh, there it is.

National flood insurance program overview for Sandy.

Number of losses had have been nine.

Active policies, 45.

So does that mean out of all the properties in Sandy that qualify for being in the national flood insurance program, only 45 have actually have active policies?

As of when the data was collected, that is correct.

And how many properties do you think would qualify for having more than 45?

I I don't have that number.

We do in our Be Ready Sandy meetings where we talk about different um different potential hazards and things that we need to do.

That is one of the things that I really hit on hard was that a lot of people do not carry that insurance.

It's available to be carried, and unfortunately, most home home homeowners do not get it.

I think we're also changing the maps though, aren't we?

I the floodplain maps.

So that so things will can and will change.

Constantly, yeah.

So when will we no?

When will we have new maps?

I don't know.

Do you have a comment for that?

It there are things that are constantly updated on, just like our wildland maps, things like that.

Yeah, David's correct, and that's an ongoing process.

Uh one of the elements that your flood control department does, we look at homes that are in that area of risk, and we actually some of our projects.

If you remember when Tyler Shelley was before you with our consolidated um stormwater management plan, there was a floodplain element, and that's looking at projects where we saw houses that we thought the risk was higher than normal, and we could do something about that.

So we're some of our money goes towards that, and when we do those, we do a uh a map revision for that home.

The state and FEMA will do a like a countywide map update um like every 10 years or so.

But as we do improvements, we will do those individual ones.

Um and I think one of the misnomers or thoughts that people say is if I'm not in the floodplain, I won't flood.

Not true, but we do look at those.

That's our local flooding um, you know, program.

And one element to be think to think of in terms of flood insurance, that's a national program.

Our utility, your utility, the one that we have set up for our residents, and under the state no fault policy, we go in often and solve problems and mitigate, which we aren't required to do because it's we find that it's one it it feels right, two, it's actually less costly for the city of Sandy to be solving problems than litigating that it's not our fault, sort of thing.

So maybe a little bit TMI, but we're we're watching that, and um, I would agree wholeheartedly on the the wildfire uh you know the flooding, you kind of know where that's gonna happen.

The wildfire could go anywhere, sort of thing.

I was just wondering from the homeowner's point of view if we're gonna let them know whether they exist in the floodplain or not, there's an eligibility issue here, right?

They are required to get that notification when they get a loan, and when they get the purchase, it comes back on the title documents that you were in the floodplain.

And if we happen to change the floodplain and a house that wasn't in gets put into the floodplain, we they become notified by I think it's by federal law, but we we would notify them.

Change not is that too.

So when they every 10 years when PIMA does redoes those maps, they notify everybody if the if they've been put into floodplain.

So we start getting calls.

People get taken out too, don't they?

People get taken out too, yeah.

Every yeah, I did talk to someone in my neighborhood who had been taken out.

Um I've never been notified one way or the other, so I guess that means I'm not in.

Um, if I might for uh those that may know Councilmember Sharkey's near little Cotland Creek after the floods of the was it the 90s or whatever, Salt Lake County went in and deepened that channel, and it can move almost twice as much water.

So that floodplain went from where we go throughout near around your house, now it stays in the channel under the hundred-year event or what we would call the point two percent probability event, as David mentioned.

It doesn't mean it can't happen twice in a hundred years, it's just it's like going and getting your locket lottery ticket that you didn't want to get.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Are there any other questions from the council?

All right.

Then um, thank you very much.

Oh, Mr.

Pace, sorry, that's right.

Thank you.

I appreciate that, Madam Chair.

Um, you know, when we first started doing these, uh, earthquake was always the top one, and we and we spent many years practicing uh for earthquakes.

But is the as the California fire started to occur out in California, that's changed over time, and uh we spend more time looking at uh at uh wildfires.

But the interesting thing also is that the insurance has also changed.

We actually have residents uh up on the east bench now that are having their insurance canceled because they're in those areas where they're most vulnerable, whereas 20 years ago they wouldn't have the insurance companies wouldn't have even considered that.

Well, thank you very much, and thank you for the um comprehensive plan that our city has.

We appreciate that, and it sounds like this is gonna come back for a future potential adoption, right?

Yeah, we are gonna try to get that back to you next week.

Okay, so uh we will get out the draft resolution for you.

All right, sounds good.

Thank you so much.

That concludes agenda item number one and takes us to item number two, which is a voting item.

Uh, the council review and consideration of the public utilities department management study draft RFP.

Uh Justin Sor Sorensen, the council office assistant director will be presenting this item.

And I will turn it over to you, Justin.

Thank you.

Thank you, and good evening.

Uh in this week's packet, you found a draft document that is the RFP for a management study of our public utilities department.

If you recall back in 2023, the council passed a policy to fund these periodic management studies of our departments.

And the rationale behind that was so that the council body would have ample information, adequate information to make policy and budgetary decisions to ensure that a third party could take a look and make sure our departments have the resources they need, the facilities, etc.

And after that policy was passed, the council adopted a 10-year schedule of departments, and for fiscal year 26, it's our public utilities department.

So to kick off this process, um, we solicited feedback from each of you from our public utilities leadership, from administration, um, from our purchasing department, and also from the public utilities advisory board members.

Uh we took a template RFP from our purchasing department and then incorporated all of that feedback into this draft RFP.

Um there is a timeline in there that follows the policy that was laid out in 2023.

Some of those exact dates and times might change just as we're coordinating schedules and whatnot.

Um but we are on schedule actually ahead of schedule to get this going.

And so tonight um I'm here to answer any questions, take any comments, and hopefully get uh direction that we can move forward with this RFP.

Thank you, Justin.

Are there go ahead, Councilmember Housman?

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um several questions, but just preface with thank you, you know, for for clearly all of the pre-work that went into this into shaping the RFP to really get after you know what we're looking for.

I have just a few questions, mostly um, because of how valuable we found the fire management study to be.

I sort of want to replicate that impact.

And so um I would love to hear you just elaborate on a few things.

Okay, and if it's not yet, if we don't yet have clarity, maybe that's something that is coming.

Um so what one of the things I loved about the fire management study was kind of their prioritized, like when they provided recommendations, they prioritized them, they provided a recommended timeline and even did some analysis around cost and um you know pacing of those costs.

Will is that the is that clarity or expectation is that in the RFP, or is that gonna be more of the process of selection and interviewing?

Yeah, I I feel like it is in there.

If you if you go to the section under deliverables, we kept it very similar to what we were asking for the first management study for that exact reason.

And so the deliverables section hasn't really changed what we're asking to get back from the consultant to be hired.

But if there's anything in there specific that you didn't see or that you'd like to see, we can certainly add it in there.

And then there are numerous meetings prior to the work beginning where if there was something specific or a clarification that we needed to make, I'm I'm certain we could make that.

But what we're asking for is nearly identical to what we asked for with the fire study.

Um excellent.

And then you you already touched on some of my other questions.

Um the I guess the other question I have is around kind of integration.

Whereas the fire department, I feel like the recommendations which were excellent, were very much focused on the fire department.

Public utilities is connected in many ways to a lot of other departments.

So will there be some inherent like crossover?

Will they will they look as they're making recommendations and connect them to yes, this is a public utilities, a recommendation for public utilities, but here's how that investment could ultimately impact other.

I'm always looking for, you know, back to my my priority-based budgeting, where uh which we've never fully adopted, but I'm always looking for ways to think about the connectivity of our investments.

Sure.

So looking for some synergy there, is that what we're going for?

Great word.

So I'm not sure, just clarify, are you are you referencing other departments like parks, public works, or are you are you referencing like the divisions within public utilities, water, stormwater street light?

Either or I'm I'm open to both.

Like I just I'm curious if and it may not be inherent in the RFP itself, but are we open?

Maybe it's a question for my colleagues as well, but are we open to providing some guidance that they are that they are thinking through this analysis with where else does public utilities touch our city?

Sure, you know, yeah.

And to cover that, I I feel like in the in the fire example, we did a really good job uh involving the whole city in the in the process.

And what I mean by that is you know in our kickoff meeting with uh public utilities, there was a representative from every division.

Um and then also you know, Shane was there, and and I believe as those things come up, if if there's something that's recommended for public utilities that could also be a benefit for parks, you know, I have full faith in in Shane and Martin that they would communicate that, they'd bring that up, they'd raise that issue.

Um at the moment we don't really have plans to involve that many people in the process beyond public utilities just because it's not something that um I had thought of previously, but it it could become maybe too many cooks in the kitchen for that.

But we do have representatives from administration.

Like I said, I I do have confidence in them that if there was some opportunity or recommendation that could be of benefit for an additional department that that that would get passed along.

I don't know if Shane has any comments on that.

Yeah, that uh that's gonna be a natural consequence of what we're doing because um, for instance, a good example is it will um there will be a tie to public works because where are all the water lines?

Well, they're in the roads, and um all of our utilities are in the roads or in the park strip, and so uh yeah, I I see that happening quite naturally, uh tying multiple departments in because of that re for that exact reason.

Yeah, and I think that's more what I was getting at, not necessarily um applying these recommendations to others more thinking about the investment that is recommended.

This obviously is a recommendation for public utilities, and we are seeing a connection between this investment and the improvement it could bring with public works infrastructure, or here's a recommendation, but some things that you need to think about and dig into would be the potential unintended consequence for your parks recognition, you know, that kind of a thing.

But I agree, too many cooks in the kitchen is not what I'm after.

Um, and we're already having these kinds of conversations, but I want to make sure our consultants are I guess at least given the given the um guidance that as you're thinking about the recommendations, we would love to see some ecosystem impact, like what are the connections they could make for us.

Yeah, but I agree.

Yeah, we don't want to.

No, I think that's a great thought, and it's something that we'll we'll keep in mind uh during the fire process.

We had meetings with them throughout the process, and it's something we can make sure they're you know keenly aware of that we have infrastructure in the streets, we have infrastructure in our parks, and need to keep keep those departments in mind as we work through it.

That's all I have, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Sharkey.

In the um facilities, equipment and technology section three.

It's got that boldened asterisk line that says an in-depth review and analysis of fleet policies and procedures is not required.

Was that true of the fire department management study too?

Yes.

Did we have that same footnote in there?

Yes, we did, and I and I believe that's because we already have uh a separate.

Correct me if I'm wrong, Dustin, but don't we already have a separate fleet study that was recently?

Yeah, the reason we didn't include that in the fire study and why we didn't think we needed it in this study was because uh as a fire didn't necessarily run its own fleet, right?

We have a fleet manager that tracked all that information.

FIRE met with fleet.

I was at the meeting when we met with the fleet manager and the consultant, and they still presented it and spoke about it.

But what we're saying is we don't need you guys to look at our entire city fleet and analyze it.

Um you can still look at uh fleet required for public utilities just like they did for fire, but we don't need a complete fleet analysis for the whole city.

Okay.

And okay, so it does talk about providing a detailed review and analysis of facilities, vehicles, and equipment needs prioritizations, um, and to provide a review and analysis of personnel equipment needs.

I so but it's we're not saying like in-depth review and analysis of our policies and procedures, and that tells me like we don't need you to analyze like our policies regarding buy versus lease or when the equipment is turned over, had its life, you know, it's end of life, whatever.

Is that is that correct?

I I I would say not no.

We did get some of that information related to fire apparatus and fire fleet, and I would expect we'll get the same information.

Again, I think it's what we're saying is we don't need a consultant to come in and holistically uh give us recommendations on our citywide fleet policies.

If they want to give us recommendations on uh fleet related to public public utilities, that's great.

Okay, but we don't need them look at the policies and procedures citywide.

Okay that was the intention with the fire study.

I would say this is the same intention.

Good.

I'm glad we still received a lot of recommendations on fleet uh during the fire study, and I would expect the same this go around.

Good to know.

And remind me, we don't know how much this is gonna cost, and we won't until we got to RFP.

Um, how much do we have set aside for this today right now?

We we had uh 50,000 from our prior year and then 25,000 additional was appropriated in this fiscal year.

Okay, and we're talking about a bid award the end of November contract start no later than January 15th of 26.

So if we needed more money to fund it, there's still an opportunity to do that and carry over.

Okay.

Yeah, correct.

All right, okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, Councilmember Sharkey.

Uh I don't have any questions either, and I believe that the council office is looking for us to take a vote on this tonight to get to allow you guys to get issue that right.

Yeah, just to give us direction to move forward with it.

Okay, is there um I guess it is a voting item, so we need to take public comment on that.

So if I don't have any current cards up here currently for that, if there's anybody in the audience here that would like to make public comment on item number two, which is the uh public utilities department management study, please get those up here.

Um otherwise we'll go ahead and go to online.

Thanks, madam chair.

Let me if if you're joining us virtually via Zoom and you'd like to comment this evening on item number two on tonight's agenda, just go ahead and click the raise hand button on your screen now.

All right, thank you, Dustin.

Since there were no um online commenters and I don't have any cards for this particular item, we'll go ahead and close that out, bring it back to the council.

Um does anybody have a motion ready?

Councilmember Houseman?

I do, and and we don't just clarify we don't have a specific resolution for this because it falls under the resolution we've already adopted.

So yeah, there's no there's no resolution necessary.

You we're just asking for direction from the council.

We've you've already passed a policy that says this needs to happen.

We wanted to put the RFP in front of you to make sure we're on the right track.

And so we're just looking for a motion to issue the RFP.

I will make a motion to issue the RFP per what was presented this evening.

Second.

Thank you.

We have a motion in a second.

Is there any discussion on that?

All right, Miss Edwards.

Ms.

Houseman, yes.

Mr.

Robinson.

Yes, Ms.

Sharkey, yes.

Ms.

Tasusa, yes.

Mr.

DeKaiser.

Yes.

Ms.

Stroud.

Yes.

Madam Chair, that motion carries six to zero.

Thank you, Ms.

Edwards.

Uh that concludes agenda item number two and takes us into item three, which is um we're calling it a second reading for council members Stroud and Robinson recommending the establishment of the Sandy City Count Council Civic Engagement Award Program.

And so if one of you would like to go ahead and present on this, that would be great.

Councilmember Robinson.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and I will invite uh councilmember Stroud to jump in um at her leisure.

So uh thank you so much for allowing us to bring this back.

Um this is hopefully the the last step to formalize this process for us as a council for this council and future councils to recognize uh one of our esteemed residents during the Noel Bateman award process.

So since the council has uh over overseen uh since our council now oversees the council office now oversees the noel Bateman award, uh we felt like this was a great opportunity to expand that program a little bit to continue to recognize residents.

And so um so as we have mentioned uh when we um discussed earlier regarding uh Mr.

Gertie and the recognition he received in the spring, it was mentioned during that time that we want to do an establish an award.

And so a huge shout out to Chris Edwards in the council office who has really helped.

Actually, she's she's done the work.

I'm just gonna be honest here.

Like, she's done a lot of this heavy lift.

She gets a tremendous amount of credit in conjunction with the direction that the Noel Abateman Committee has provided.

But uh Chris gets a tremendous amount of of credit on this for actually establishing um some criteria for future councils to evaluate our residents and select the resident to move forward.

So uh I know there's been a little bit of conversation around the name.

Uh we we did land on a more city council related name.

Um, but we are gonna propose the initial recipient as mentioned in the spring, and that is formalized in the resolution that I hope we do adopt tonight.

But um we we have also how we got to this point was we did check with the Noel Bateman committee and got some feedback from those committee members.

They were if I'm okay to say overwhelmingly supportive of something like this and and building on that program.

There was actually a lot of enthusiasm when we approached approach the committee.

Uh Chris has spent a lot of time envisioning the process for how this will work for future councils.

Um it's a little late to do it now, so I hope we don't torpedo everything, but uh the um the process will be clearly outlined for this body in whatever form and whoever's sitting in these seats to select somebody.

Um and then you know, tonight we really are just asking for formal adoption, and that's why we wanted to bring it back as a second reading.

The Noel Bateman uh dinner is coming up very quickly, and we need to provide a little bit of direction to council staff to just finalize a few of those last second themes.

So that's kind of where we are today.

Um I would ask council member Stroud, who's who's been a part of this, and and how we both got involved here was we're both the um liaisons to the CDBG committee.

That's where this conversation started.

We talked and felt like it was a good idea to come to the body with uh um a little bit more of a formal process.

That's how the Noel Bateman committee got involved as well.

So, Mr.

I don't know if there's anything you would add to what I just mentioned there.

I think you did it, I think you did a great job just kind of summarizing it, um, and then just reminding, you know, we kind of reached out and um there was that initial concern, you know, just looking at the name, but this is something that can be enduring and is you know at reflective of the council and the council's selecting an individual.

So you know, you've got uh the information in your packet, kind of that criteria, but if there's anything that you have questions on or you'd like to add, um, but yeah, I think we're looking just to uh move this forward and get this done pretty quickly since it is right on our doorstep.

And you have nobody to blame but me for how long or how late this is coming back to the group.

So and uh madam chair, if you're okay, I I would ask uh Mr.

Cadell who represents the Null Bateman committee, just if there's anything you would add if you're okay with that.

Thank you, Madam Chair, thank you.

Councilman Robinson.

I think um so we uh approached the Null Bateman committee with this idea.

Um and obviously it was your idea, but we wanted to see how they might feel about sharing their night, right?

And um, and there was overwhelmingly positive uh feedback.

In fact, several of the Null Bateman committee uh members were former employees here with the city, and they remember they have these fond memories of how uh awards used to be issued when they worked here many years ago, and how the council had a really involved um you know role in being involved in picking certain awards.

Shane will of course remember that better than anybody, and so they they remembered that with fondness and thought it was a good idea.

Um it got a little awkward is when some of the people didn't know certain things and thought that there was a couple there's some confusion about whether why we were changing the name of the Null Bateman Committee, but once we worked through worked through some of those issues, it it just had to do with the age of some of the people in the room, you know.

But they were really happy about having another award, and and I might just say um, madam chair and members of the council is Don.

I knew Don really well, you know, and his family uh were really great.

His sister was a law professor of mine down at J Rubin Clark, and so they're just um he was on the CDB, he became a member of the C D BG committee about the time I was leaving of the C D BG committee, and that was you know, that was when I was a law school, and so it was a lot, and then he stayed continually on that committee.

But the thing about Don uh Gertie was that he volunteered at the elementary school too.

He volunteer volunteered at the city, he volunteered at the elementary school, he volunteered in other organizations, and he was also a very cerebral person.

He had a PhD.

Um just a really smart, cerebral, good human being, and I think that your recommendation is a fabulous one.

I love the idea of the council giving an award, and I love the idea that really Chris had, which is to make it flexible for you to decide who you think should get an award.

And it makes sense for you to decide that because you know things that none of the rest of us know about people, and so I I strongly, as a person who's an advocate for you, I think it's a fabulous idea.

I hope you'll pass it.

Thank you, Mr.

Cadell.

And with that, you know, we just asked that the council formally adopt this, get this process in place.

As mentioned, we we have recommended an initial recipient in the resolution, but this will establish process for this body in the future to move forward with additional recipients and additional recognition.

So that's all we're asking for tonight.

I'm happy to answer any questions.

I hope we've covered everything, but uh that's where we're at.

We're asking for a little bit of support.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Are there any questions?

I have I have a quick question, can I ask?

Um, and and maybe this is more a question for Chris.

So um either way, I know you're kind of like um this is kind of a larger vision right now, and with some with some structure.

Is there a time frame for nominations and um the selection process that you have in mind going forward?

Will it kind of mimic the null Bateman time frame or yes?

So, since we already have the program and the dinner and the award, the idea was building on our existing program, not recreating a new program for the council.

So, in building on it, we add this award, which is uh recommended and chosen by the council, so we won't take public um applications or nominations for this award.

It will then be given out annually each year at our Null Bateman dinner because we're already gathered together already.

We're already doing a special recognition with the dinner and then at the council meeting.

And so we're just adding one award that's you know, that the council has full jurisdiction over to nominate and select someone that's near and dear to the council, who you feel um you know, signifies you know, civic engagement and um all the qualities that you would like to recognize in an individual.

Okay, go ahead.

Just to add on to that too, madam chair, like on the resolution that we hope to adopt tonight under number three, the second bullet point outlines the time frame of which this body will be asked to select a nominee.

So uh what I'm making an assumption there is there will be some sort of communication to the council members well ahead of that first council meeting in August when this body, because of the adoption of this resolution will now be bound to selecting the recipient that early on.

Thank you.

That's helpful.

It was stuck in my uh I don't know, paper clip kind of area.

Anyway, that answers my question.

Um overall, I think this is a great idea and a great program.

I look forward to being part of that process and being able to recognize more of our fantastic um constituents.

So council member Housman had a question.

Uh thank you, Madam Chair.

Um before I ask my question, I I agree.

I think this is just an incredible idea.

Um clarify one clarifying question and then one recommendation.

Clarifying question.

When when we adopt this, we are saying move forward with the upcoming, like let's recognize Don Gertie in this next.

I mean on the 16th.

Okay.

That's which is what I want.

Yes.

I just want to make sure I understood that um that we were adopting that the first recipient would be Don Gertie, and we're recognizing him next week.

Okay.

That's my clarifying question.

Thank you.

Um, and then my other, like just sort of recommendation.

Um, I love that it there are so much flexibility.

Um, I just love that because we're gonna be able to really think broadly about those who serve and and impact our community.

Um, the leadership piece, of course, something I get really excited about.

Um, I wonder if as we move forward and are thinking down the road, if we could think about definitions of leadership, because there are quiet leaders who go about impacting and leading without like uh uh an official title, without their name in the paper, without like they are just quietly serving as everyday leaders.

Um, and so I want to just make sure we're open to those who are quiet leaders, they don't have to be big and bold.

Just a recommendation.

Go ahead and I have a couple couple comments there.

And I think that's um that was really a lot of us are our intention is um the potential nominees will be brought by council members.

So uh if you are aware of somebody that maybe I'm not aware of, then you're able to to nominate that person and bring that individual forward, and then it also you know, kind of a I guess you know, enlightens our world to people that um residents or you know, connections that you have um developed a relationship with, and you've been able to see that.

So that's I think really you know a strong um you know uh an accolade to this here is saying that this is brought forward by a council member, um you know, so that gives us that that flexibility with it, you know.

But it also, as with anything that is new, um there may be some refinements, you know, next year or the year after, once we go through this a couple of cycles and say, you know what, we'd actually like to modify um you know this component to it, and that'll be up to the council at that point.

But you know, I there's nothing here that says, Oh, nope, this is it, we're done, we're not touching it.

Um, you know, there's there's always those refinement issues.

So I I would wholeheartedly agree with that.

Um, and and the process does call for a close session to actually dialogue amongst you all.

I'm kind of sad.

I will not get to participate in this process, but I think it sounds really great.

Like it it allows you all again.

The flexibility was the term we actually used it when Chris was trying to extract this idea out of our brains.

We wanted the we wanted to establish a process that allowed for some flexibility.

The closed session will do that.

You'll all be able to get together and dialogue and actually land on somebody uh as a body and then you know formally adopt it through this process.

So I do think to your point there is a ton of flexibility here.

Uh, and and yeah, there's gonna be a lot of dialogue amongst you all and whoever else is sitting at this table for the future to actually recognize people, and then the other point I just wanted to bring up, I'm glad you're enthused with it, because we can't leave here until we say yes or no to this, because I don't think Chris will let us leave.

Like she needs to know tonight.

I know because we have the um the award uh the we have we have the engraver like on hold basically, and if we don't tell them tomorrow, it's not gonna happen.

So that's why we're a little bit urgent and pushing for adoption tonight.

Um so so uh because of it's my fault again.

I delayed this too much.

So that's where we're at.

Thank you for that.

Um the only other recommendation I have is just more of an idea, and if it's not a good idea, I'm okay with that.

Have we considered inviting the Noel Bateman winner and this new civic engagement winner to join us on the ULCT day where we're taking the youth council up to the Capitol and have them at the table with the youth council, engaging with our legislators?

Um sort of a multi-generational engagement.

Like we've got our youth council just starting their civic engagement and mentors at the table who have been recognized for long-term engagement or whatever.

Just an idea.

We don't have to, but with that, I'm happy to make a motion.

I just want to plant a little seed in addition before I made my motion.

Are you okay with the motion?

Let me just see if there's any other questions.

Are there any other questions?

All right, we do have to take public comments.

Okay, I'll wait then.

Okay, I'll come right back to you then.

Again, I don't have any in-room cards on this particular item right now.

Uh so if you'll go ahead and address our online audience, Mr.

Fratto, that would be helpful.

Of course, thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh, if you're joining us via Zoom and you'd like to comment on item number three on tonight's agenda, go ahead and click the raise hand button on your screen now, and I'll call your name in the order in which you raised your hand.

All right, thank you, Mr.

Fratto.

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

Um, ready when you are Miss Housing.

Uh thank you, Madam Chair.

I'd like to make a motion to adopt resolution number 25-43C, a resolution establishing the Sandy City Council Civic Engagement Award.

Second.

Thank you.

I have a motion and a second.

Is there any discussion on that?

All right, Ms.

Edwards are ready for a vote.

Ms.

Houseman.

Yes.

Ms.

Stroud.

Yes.

Mr.

Robinson.

Yep.

Yes.

Sorry.

Miss Sharkey.

Uh-huh.

Thanks for going now.

Ms.

Tassa, yes.

Mr.

DeKaiser.

Yes.

Madam Chair, that motion carries six to zero.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Um, that takes us to the end of that item, and it's a little after six, so we will come back to our general citizen comment period.

I do have a card.

Mr.

Mr.

Steve Andris.

Um you've been approved for additional time, four minutes.

So please make your public comment.

Good evening.

I'm Steve Andrus.

I've lived in Sandy for 16 years now, just off of 9400 South between 2300 East and 2500 East.

The traffic and noise there are an ever increasing nuisance and a major problem.

And over the past 12 years, my complaints and suggestions have gone unanswered or unresolved.

As the situation has only gotten worse, the time to act is now.

As a Sandy City resident and taxpayer, I expect and demand that action.

I've not only outlined issues but offered solutions as well.

Number one, excessive speeding is leading to an unsafe traffic and unhealthy noise levels.

Speeds are often in excess of 60 miles an hour, and noise levels taken from my patio frequently exceed 95 decibels in several instances every single day.

For your information, noise levels over 85 decibels can cause hearing damage.

The worst offenders are mostly motorcycles, supercars, and anything with a bad or custom exhaust system.

Please enforce the law.

Post an officer at the top of the hill to deter or to catch and to find the violators.

I specified the top of the hill as opposed to the bottom, since noise is more relevant speeding up the hill.

Additionally, the more excessive speeding can even be constituted as a class B misdemeanor.

Enforcing the limit with costly enough fines will send a message to the violators, plus seeing the officers alone will be a deterrent.

Number two, the postage speed limit is 40 miles an hour.

However, that is too fast.

The hill can easily be navigated at much lower speeds.

Furthermore, the sign is currently posted just beyond the 2300 east traffic light at the beginning of the hill where no one is typically at their speed.

Lower the speed limit to 30 or 35 miles an hour and move the sign to midway up the hill where it is more visible and where the majority of offenses are occurring.

Number three, the two eastbound lanes following 2300 east merge into one lane near the top of the hill on a 500-foot stretch of road, creating a drag style raceway where speeders compete for the lead at the merge point.

This occurs at a minimum every five minutes and as often as every two minutes and not just at peak traffic times.

I have countless hours of recorded audio and video of the deafening races on each day and at various times and durations, with only a minimal cost of new paint and a new sign.

I propose the lanes be redrawn to merge west of 2300 east, lower the speed limit, relocate the speed limit sign halfway up the hill, as well as regularly posting officers on that stretch of road.

City and state funds can easily be recuperated through fines, and the cost of an unnecessary traffic study will also be mitigated.

These changes may even save a life.

Number four, jake breaks should not be permitted in residential areas.

Maybe they aren't.

Obviously, the biggest offenders come from semis and construction vehicles.

These engine brakes are an obnoxiously loud and startling addition to an already deafening road.

Speeding down the hill is also a problem of which I've witnessed Sandy City, UTA and U.T.

vehicles violating as well.

Please fix these issues ASAP.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

I have a more extensive written proposal that I am happy to supply a copy of as well as other relevant materials.

Thank you.

Thank you, Mr.

Andrus.

I don't have any additional cards in the room for a general citizen comment period.

If you'll go ahead and address our online audience once more.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

If you are joining us virtually this evening, and you'd like to comment on any city business, now's the time.

Go ahead and click the raise hand button on your screen.

I'll call your name in the order in which you raised your hand, and you'll have three minutes.

And Madam Chair, we do have uh one attendee with their hand raised, uh, Dave Eaglen.

Dave, I'm gonna allow you to begin speaking.

Please remember to unmute yourself and you'll have three minutes.

Thank you, Dustin.

Um very great discussion tonight, and I just wanted to let the council know how grateful I am as a Sandy citizen to have David Larson working as our emergency manager for the city, and what a wonderful job he is doing.

Uh having been attending for a couple of years now, resumed attending, I should say.

Um, he is putting a lot of effort into the meetings, and there is a lot of information that every single Sandy resident, and even outside of Sandy would benefit from, but especially inside of Sandy, the information that he is providing.

So listening tonight, and some of the questions and some of the responses from Mr.

Larson, um, I just wanted to be short and say very nicely that everyone in the council chambers uh should be attending uh these meetings because you will leave with new information, be edified and uh to realize ways to be preparing yourselves.

I've never met anyone who's a hundred percent prepared.

So not only that, but you know, having council members and everybody there attending uh would also show all of our communities how important it is, and so that would be um just really edifying uh Dave David Larson.

So uh it's kind of would be weird for maybe a Sandy resident to invite everybody in the room to attend those, but I just want to tell you how the wonderful and wealth of information and the effort that he is putting into it and the progress that he is making is was a wonderful decision to hire him, and we can all benefit.

So just wanted to mention that and uh listening to what he prepared tonight, also just another great thing that he's doing.

So that's all, and everybody have a good evening.

I don't see any other raise hands, madam chair.

Thank you, Mr.

Fratto.

We'll go ahead and close out the general citizen comment period for this meeting and bring it back to our agenda.

Uh right now we are at standing reports.

So, Mr.

Fratto, if you would like to start, that would be great.

I was going to be when you're ready.

Thank you.

I've got my timer reminder who always sits to my left, and when he doesn't attend the meeting, the timer beeps a lot.

So just really quickly, I just wanted to remind everybody uh, as you're all aware from the uh item, uh our last agenda item, the Nol Bateman dinner, and uh now I the joint dinner uh will be next uh Tuesday.

It uh will start at 4 p.m.

And so if you're available and able to come a little early next Tuesday, that would be fantastic.

Um if you can't come right at four o'clock, just as soon as you're able to get here.

And if you can't make it all the way till five, then that's kind of where we're at.

But please try to attend if you can.

Uh we'll do that dinner and then we'll start the meeting at the normal time where we'll have the uh the awards uh given out then.

And uh that's the only thing that I want to report tonight, madam chair.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Council member business, council member Robinson.

Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um, I actually was gonna comment on the the email that we did receive from Mr.

Andris.

Um so I I got that.

So I just want to make sure our replies got back to you.

Both our police chief emailed you back, and our public works emailed you back with just some additional content on your concerns.

I forwarded your message over to the people that can actually do a lot of the work.

And so just know that that your email was distributed.

So I was gonna make mention of of that and actually say thank you to Mr.

Ryan Cump and then Chief Severson as well for weighing back in because you did spend a lot of time and and put together a really great message.

To me, yeah, you sent it to me specifically, and I forwarded it over to some other you know, folks that can help with the issue.

And council members, if you want that context, I'm more than happy to forward over that string of emails to you just so you so you have that.

I'll do that before we leave here tonight.

I'll just forward it all to everybody.

So um, because I do think a lot of the solutions that were posed are actually gonna be it's gonna take a minute to get there.

And so I think you know, having the context for for all of you, I think would be a really good thing moving forward.

So I'll make sure and forward your com your your issues, Ryan's response, Chief Sieverson's response all to the body, so everybody will have it.

Shane's got a copy as well, so administration will have he's got the entire conversation in addition to.

So I just wanted to say thank you.

I'm glad you came tonight.

But specifically thanks to to Ryan and Chief Sieverson for helping, you know, add a little context to that.

So thank you.

I understand it's an interagency thing, so you dot would be a great involver in this.

And and I think Ryan did do that.

So Mr.

Comp, who's our public works director, actually did do that or has some thoughts on that.

So it's all in the replies that should be in your inbox.

If you don't see them, reach back out to me and I'll forward them over to you because I'm added to them all.

So no problem.

That's all.

Thank you, Councilmember Housman.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um so tonight I just kind of want to do a little highlight from the department briefs.

I think it's sometimes um we receive those, you know, such so so consistently.

And I know department heads and team members spend a lot of time compiling that and um we read them, but but I just felt like highlighting just a few things to celebrate.

Um, there's a lot of great things happening in our in our city.

I I love that our wildland crews were praised as a go-to team.

Um specialized for saw work.

I thought that was really interesting.

So our Sandy firefighters continue to make a name statewide.

So acknowledging that, appreciating that.

It was it was sort of alluded to earlier, but uh appreciate all that goes into our healing fields that are going up as we speak.

Um, and especially to the members of our community who support that effort.

We could not make the healing fields happen without the large numbers of volunteers who help us not only put those flags up but also watch over them, you know, sustain them and then help take them down, um, including a lot of volunteers within our our our um employees and staff.

So thank you for that.

Um a lot of uh things happening with with our um Cairns district.

The thank you for all of the work that has gone into the HRTZ HTRZ, I always play.

You know, um submission.

Um right.

Um hopefully hoping for good news on that.

Um and then just highlighting the water education outreach that was happening um across multiple events.

I thought that was a brilliant way to kind of capture instead of asking people to come to us, go where the people are.

I just I love that.

So if you could pass that accolade on, um, really helping our residents um become more aware of of water saving strategies.

Um and then I want to thank um you're getting a lot of buzz tonight, Mr.

Cump.

Um, thank you for the heads up uh not just to us but the different communication outreach that we've done to make sure people are aware.

I don't know um how we made sure it was in the news, but it was in the news, so thank you for that.

Um, but making sure our public is aware of um the impact of the repairs that are happening to um 900 south tracks crossing being done by UTA.

Um and I know there will be a lot of impact on our uh members of our team.

So they will be fielding.

So we appreciate all proactively.

So we appreciate all proactively, we know what's coming, and we appreciate their efforts uh to be responsive and and patient because even though we put word out, people will still come upon this and go, what is happening?

I'm gonna be late for work, you know, we're gonna hear those things.

So thank you for the proactive communication, um, but also the time that will be spent fielding those phone calls and questions, and we'll do our best to support you with that.

Um, and I think that yeah, that's all I had.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Councilmember Stroud.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um, you know, I I think just because you brought up you know the HTRZ, you know, I had a chance uh last Tuesday night to um learn a little bit more and uh both Casey and Rob just you know an extensive amount of knowledge, you know, and then uh a subsequent meeting later last week, you know, just you know, the professionalism and the depth of knowledge that you have.

So, you know, I appreciate every opportunity I can get to to sit down with you and to learn more about these things, um, you know, the HTRZ or RDA areas.

Um I mean it's just a it's always so appreciated.

So thank you for doing that.

Um, you know, and then we also brought up, you know, and uh we had Chief Larson up here.

Uh he will be presenting to the youth council, which will be their first meeting of this school year.

Um, you know, it kind of runs a little differently because we have them with the school year, but he'll be uh presenting to them next week.

So you know, that'll be a great opportunity for them to have that uh those questions.

Um, as our our young kids, you know, they're you know eager to learn and uh to be a part of the city.

So, you know, and uh Chief Larson has done an outstanding job since his he's been uh able to step into this role, you know, those monthly meetings, they really are informative and uh much appreciated.

Uh healing fields, so it looks like we've got them being set up right now.

I was able to step out right before our council meeting.

We've got some of the pilots that are out there um helping to set up those flags.

I know uh police and fire, you know, set up you know on this side of Centennial, and they're now setting up the 3,000 other flags on the other side.

So, you know, hopefully you'll be able to go out, take a look at that and um you know, and and remember our past.

You know, that's we better prepare better plan for the future and can prepare for the future is just uh to acknowledge our past, and this is something that that we've done every year and Sandy being the first healing fields ever, you know.

So we've had this for several years.

Um, we had uh Councilmember De Kaiser showed up as well, so the road EO, the rodeo with uh public works, you know, it's uh great to get out and see, you know, how they're able to maneuver those vehicles, you know, Mr.

Cump, you know, a great department over there, you know, the always appreciative, um you know, the employees are so welcoming you know, and willing to you know to talk to us and you know and let us know about their challenges and and to thank us.

So we're laying that once again you'll thank you, you know, on from them to the council for uh the fleet building, you know, of getting that you know accomplished, and that was a big hurdle for them.

They're very appreciative of that.

Um and then also wanted to relay a message, you know, Mr.

Cump uh with Britney Ward.

She is just so responsive and so thorough on her emails.

Um I I mean, you know, anything that any questions, you know, I've had you know, questions come from residents, come from uh businesses, come from the school district asking about different things, and she's just you know in incredible with her thoroughness in uh in her responses.

So, you know.

Oh well, thank you for she is online.

Thank you, Brittany, you're amazing.

Um, and then uh you know, the last thing we had, so uh uh Captain Arnold, you know, it um you know this last weekend we had the uh police canine trials that Sandy City helps sponsor with that in memory of uh of Officer Taylor who was a canine officer who died a couple years ago with with cancer.

Um and every time that there's whether it's a multi-agency op, you know, whether it's a a training opportunity or whether it's a four-day canine trial competition, I am in awe with with your officers, um, you know, being patrol captain.

These officers are incredible, and there were probably around 20 different departments coming as far from far as Las Vegas.

We had um, you know, uh natural resources, we had UTA, there were, you know, and then many of the surrounding departments, but the professionalism, the knowledge, the skill, the drive of Sandy officers surpasses not that any other department is I'm not diminishing their department in any way, but um the skill that our officers have is exceptional and it exceeds what I can see and compare to other departments.

And I know that that starts with leadership coming from Chief Sieversome, coming from yourself, and uh and then of course coming from from Lieutenant Smith as well.

So, you know, thank you for setting that that high bar and that high standard because this is often officers are dealing with people when bad things happen in their life, and the way that they are able to present themselves is just exemplary.

So I wanted to pass that along as well.

Thank you, thank you, Councilmember de Kaiser.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Yes, the uh Public Works Rodeo and awards luncheon was a great event.

Uh it's always nice to be at the luncheons where the city rewards safe driving.

I think it's a really cool thing we do as a city.

Um more buzz to Mr.

Cump, though.

I want to just ask real quick.

Did we get a new winner or is it someone who had previously won?

So we have a new winner.

I know it wasn't Councilmember Stroud, she was getting a lot of grief for her time.

Um I'm excited about participating next year.

I actually my phone's been uh being terrible with me, so I talked to Martin about it.

Uh and it was kind of like, oh yeah, maybe you can do something, maybe not uh, but now that I know you can like get in and do it, I am coming for the winner.

So tell your department.

Um that it that was such a fun uh activity, and just the the camaraderie of your department is is is super great.

Um and also to communicate additional message from the place, they are excited and hopeful for an eventual phase three.

So that'll be something that the council uh will continue to discuss.

Similarly, uh bulk waste pickup started at my house yesterday, and uh for 10 years at my home, I've gone out every year and watched because it's fun to watch those vehicles.

Um I'm excited to drive one next year at the rodeo, but I've really noticed uh huge improvements in the program.

Um, and I don't know if that's because of your leadership, um, but it seems way more efficient.

The trucks are lined up much better.

Um communication to residents, I think is better.

We're still working on improving that, but it was super super slick on Monday, and uh I I really appreciate that program, and someday um look forward to having our green ways separated.

Um I just wanted to make sure everyone knew I I got this in my mail, Canyons District.

I think we talked about this last uh meeting, but they're talking about boundary changes.

So there's a meeting on October 30th at uh their district offices at 7 o'clock, and also there's a meeting um for the central region.

This is on their website at Granite Elementary on October 15th at 6 p.m.

So that's uh important stuff for residents to be aware of.

Just wanted to put that out there.

And finally, uh Mr.

Andris, I just want to say I appreciate your comments.

Last August, I had um Salt Lake City Transportation Director John Larson come and present on Vision Zero, which, if you're not familiar, is a nationwide uh movement uh to get people to slow down and and ensure better safety in our communities alliance with a lot of principles you talk about.

Um so I look forward to connecting with you also.

Zach, please uh be sure to include me on that.

And um I it's probably in the email chain, but we just recently received a study on 9400 South.

So if you haven't gotten that yet, uh we'll be sure to get that to you.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Council Member Sharkey.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um I was able to attend the National Day of Service on Saturday morning honoring our first responders.

It was another very nice event.

We did get rained on, it was kind of appropriate for the mood.

Um it's kind of somber.

Um I just want to thank um, you know, we've come to uh expect to see our service ambassadors there, and you guys are always there.

We we know we can always count on you to attend those kind of events, but you know who doesn't get the recognition they deserve for coming out on a Saturday morning is our department heads who also come out on a Saturday morning to attend these kind of city events.

I appreciate seeing you guys there as well, too.

It's a good showing for Sandy, and I appreciate it.

Was it it was a very nice event, prayer at the Utah Pipe Band, um comments by our two chiefs, and um we had some dignitaries there too.

Congressman Owens was there, um, our state representative Tracy Miller was there, county council member, mayor of another city was there.

It was a really nice event.

So thank you everyone for attending.

Um it's funny that we were bringing up this subject that Mr.

Andrus came tonight, and I'd like to see what the potential solutions are for 94th.

Um I'd just been collecting the very same kind of complaint about the uphill on Wasatch.

Um, same conditions, different set.

If there's a solution that's suggested and it has to do with road design or something like that, it'd be different.

But I just keep getting this from Wasatch on the uphill at about starting at about 2250 or something like that.

It's so odd.

The uphill racing, super loud decibels, sounds like motorcycles.

I don't know what we can do.

I live about a mile and a half from that corner intersection, and when I sleep with my windows open, it sounds like it's right next to my house.

It's that loud, it's intolerable.

It's unacceptable.

I you know, on the decibel side of it, I just wonder I was I it feels like a mistake when the legislature took away the safety testing.

If we could I'd be happy to reinstitute that if what we could do on safety testing was do that check to make sure that there aren't illegal mufflers and stuff like that.

It's it's a bad situation.

It happens late at night when people are trying to sleep.

It does it needs a fix.

And uh so I'd like to see what the recommendations were for that.

But the same conditions, John, if by any chance we could send out a patrol office, just watch that and issue tickets.

It's so loud over there, and those poor people that have to put up with that, it's terrible.

And we thank you for coming in and sharing your story with us.

It's it's an issue.

Thank you.

Thank you.

CAO reports you've quite covered most of the issues.

I do want to say um after the ceremony on Saturday, there was a large service project at Alta High School that was put together uh by six different faiths in our uh community and outside our community, actually, which included 14 LDS stakes.

There were about 500 people who showed up.

They had uh they had 2,000 bags to fill, and they filled those in a half hour and filled another 1,500, uh, but then they just ran out of um all the resources that have been uh uh uh donated over the last number of weeks in preparation for the activity of extremely successful.

And uh some of those some of those resources will actually go to this uh to a couple of the churches who participated in the activity so that they can be given out to uh some of their uh members who are uh new immigrants in the community.

So it was a really successful project.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I'm gonna quickly come back to Council Member Stroud.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

I just with the National Day of Service, um, I wanted to give a huge shout out to Kim Bell.

She does the organization for this, and it is the amount of work and the time that goes into it is incredible.

Um, you know, I she's been working on this for several weeks, you know, and that's in having these external agencies and organizations that are assisting with it, but she is the one that is spearheading this, and she does an outstanding job.

I was reminded of that on Sunday by a department head, you know.

So um you can relay that, I will as well.

But um, you know, I even I mean our department heads see that and know.

So, you know, thank you, Deputy Mayor Bell.

Um, and I will let her know, but Mr.

Bates, if you could relay that to her as well.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I will entertain a motion to adjourn at this point.

I will move to adjourn.

Oh, we all move to adjourn.

Okay, great.

Uh all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Thank you.

Good night.