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Madam Chair, we're ready when you're ready.

All right.

I'd like to welcome everyone to the Sandy City Council meeting for today, Tuesday, February 24th.

We are lucky enough to be joined tonight by Scout Troop 5202.

So thanks to Scott Tasker as the troop leader and the and all of the boys for joining us today.

And we've given you special tasks to perform in our city council meeting tonight.

We appreciate your taking that on and we appreciate your being here.

Let's go ahead and go into our normal procedures, and that starts with a prayer.

And I understand that Andy is going to be leading us in a prayer.

Would Andy like to come down to the podium?

And Andy, just come down to the podium, pull one of those microphones close to you, and lead us in prayer, and we will appreciate you doing that for us tonight.

This opportunity to be here and please us that we can have safety here and please rest that the mayor can please bless that the city council and please bless the city council.

Please rest that we can make good decisions for our community and thank thee for everything we have.

Thank you, Andy.

That was Andy Denzer, you guys.

Um and Strider is gonna join us in the presentation of the colors.

And you will lead us also in the Pledge of Allegiance.

So you ready to do that for us?

Come on down and uh and lead us in the pledge.

Audience, please rise.

Those not in uniform, please praise your right hand over your heart.

Car guard.

Car guard forward march.

Please recite the Padge of Allegiance.

I brought your allegiance to the flag of the United States of America into the Republic for worship states.

Do you car guard post the flag of the United States of America?

The colors.

If you need more, just let us know.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

We appreciate you, Troop 5202.

And they're gonna stick with us guys, so we're gonna have them throughout our meeting.

All right, let's do introductions.

Mr.

Fratto, would you like to start?

Of course.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Uh, my name is 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 Terriel.

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

Chris Edwards with the council office.

Chris Nichols, Sandy City Council, District Three.

Cindy Sharkey at large.

Brooke DeSouza at large.

Erin DeKaiser at large.

And online.

Would you guys go ahead and introduce yourselves, please?

Brooke Christensen, District One.

Allison Stroud, District Two.

Marcy Houseman, District 4.

Mayor Monica Zeltanski.

I'm Shane Case, City Administrator.

Jeff Robinson sitting in for Lynn Pace.

All right.

Thank you, everyone.

All right.

We have a fairly short agenda tonight.

Two information items, a consent item, and then as usual, we will take general citizen comment at or as close to 6 p.m.

as we can fit it into our agenda.

Our first item is an information item on the Sandy Amphitheater.

And we are lucky enough to have Birthday Boy Merle Marsh doing our presentation.

Happy birthday, Merle.

Thank you very much.

I was kind of hoping there'd be donuts or cake or something, but I guess I had to bring that myself.

Is that how that goes?

Okay.

I'll remember that next time.

Hey, thank you for having us here.

It's actually been a while since we've been able to present.

We are we normally do it every year, but we actually didn't get new last year.

So this is kind of a wrap-up of 2024 and 2025.

And just as it shows on the screen there, we are very proud to say we are, you know, four time winners of the best of state award.

Twice for the best entertainment venue and twice for the best performance venue in the public realm.

So very excited about that and proud of it.

We've got a great team that does a lot of great work.

I also want to make sure we introduce uh Nicole Atkinson who's here with us.

She is our venue manager and one of the great members of our team that helps make this all possible.

So here's just a quick rundown of some of the numbers to give you an idea of where we're at.

Um our average attendance per show over the last two years has been 2355 out of a venue of 27.5.

That's pretty darn good.

Uh we were happy to say that we sold out every in house production, meaning that any show that we produced over the last two years, we sold them out every time.

That's uh that's a good record for us.

We're happy to uh be able to accomplish that.

Our social media presence is climbing like crazy.

We're around 34,000 followers right now.

And we've got about 15,000 individuals on our email list.

Now, to be on the email list, you have to say, I want to be on your email list, right?

This is for the people that are looking for an opportunity to take advantage of the pre-sales.

So 15,000 on this, and by the way, the Sandy Arts Guild has about 14,000 and some on theirs.

So we have a lot of people that are following us very closely.

Um, exciting too about the Google rating increase.

Uh out of five stars, we went from four and a half to four point seven eight.

That's really climbing.

We're working very hard to make sure that we're providing great experiences for people.

And overall, the total number of reviews, not just five star reviews, but overall reviews has climbed.

So we're uh proud of what we've been able to accomplish.

Uh a sample of some of the reviews that we get online.

Um I love being that guy that reads for you, but just quickly, you can see that people have enjoyed it very, very much.

Um, from the sound to the staff to the experience they've had.

I enjoy the reference here about the Sandy Amp services red carpet.

And that's true.

We work very, very hard.

Every training session with the volunteers, when we have staff meetings, we talk about how do we make the experience better for the people that are coming to the amphitheater.

So that's just a sample of some of the reviews we've received.

Love to tell you what's coming.

There are some things that are already on sale.

I can run down them for you.

Metric is on sale, nitty-gritty dirt bands on sale.

You can also see the diverse programming that we're doing.

Uh the Dead South, which is sold out already, uh, just unbelievably popular.

We had them two years ago.

Jimmy Eat World, which is a very big deal that we got that.

That also is nearly sold.

We're working very hard to see if we can get a second night out of them.

Uh the Brothers Osborne is just announced uh yesterday.

Death Cab for Cutie, that's one of those that sold so fast that it was hard to have anything left for the public to go on sale because the artist sale was so big.

I had people calling me that you know, one of those like, oh, didn't we go to high school together?

Can you get me tickets?

So it's uh a challenge to do that.

And so we worked really hard and managed to get a second night out of death cab for cutie.

And just to give you an idea how complicated that is.

The problem was when they're traveling from like Denver to Utah and then to I don't know, the Bay Area or something as they're doing that.

Because of the tight turnaround, it required two overnight drives.

So to be able to do a second night at Sandy, they're gonna have to fly in extra drivers for the buses and the trucks to finish the tour out because they can't have the same drivers do those back-to-back drives.

So it's a really big deal when they have to figure out how can we squeeze in a second night.

But that gives you an idea of how how excited people are that they're gonna be here.

I think that's also one that you might see on the secondary market, some ridiculously high priced tickets.

It's important to understand we don't control the secondary market.

Utah is very strong about hey, if you bought the ticket, it's your property and you want to sell it, you can sell it.

So anyway, that's a challenge.

But I will say there are many scalpers that when the second night got announced, went, oh no, because now there were another 2700 tickets available at face value.

Anyway, so that's really good for Death Cab for Cutie, a Librice OAR, those have been announced.

So it's still coming to be announced, Mount West Ballet.

I think they're doing Capellia this year.

We'll be in the snow sometimes in May.

The high school Jazz Band Fest, the American West Symphony Chorus, and the Moving the Park, three of our free events we'll be doing at the amphitheater.

We still have 11 dates that have been confirmed, we just can't announce them yet.

When you have national tours like this, the artist is in control of when they announce that they're coming.

And so we can't even go, oh, you know, he looks like or anything.

I just we have to give that to them.

And then we also have 12 other artists that have dates on hold that are looking to come that haven't confirmed yet.

We hope that they can get them here, and a few uh venue rentals uh also.

So it's a big season, we're kind of excited about what's coming.

Now, what are we trying to do to make it better at the amphitheater, right?

One of the things we're working on now is uh the idea of premium experiences.

Um, this has been happening at many venues, not just the amphitheater, many places around, trying to find a way to say how do we take what we have to offer and sweeten it?

How do we make it uh even more?

And so the goal we have here is to try to start working on some suites at the Sandy Amphitheater.

The good news is where we're trying to put them right now does not involve removing any other seats.

This is not reducing capacity in any way, um, any seats that already exist.

This is moving in and around some spaces that we have available.

Um, the idea about what can come with some of the premium suites are things like uh premium access and parking, reserve parking, special entrances.

Um, your tickets are reserved, a concessions and merchandise concierge, which is great, like in seat service uh from the suites, and then the a premium lounge that'll be part of have a full service bar as part of it.

You may remember we just did some new expansions at the amphitheater, and we have that upper plaza level above the new concession space, and then there is an opportunity to put that lounge.

And it is true it might be reserved for suites some of the time, but it might be open to everybody other times.

It kind of depends upon what the demand and use on the suites is about.

As far as the impact, like I say, we won't replace any existing inventory.

Um, there will be some additional staffing requirements, but fortunately, none of those will be city staff.

That's going to be the catering team and the merchandise team that work with us that are partners at the amphitheater.

So our goal is to raise the venue's profile and to raise some additional revenue.

Just quickly on the personal seat license, so it kind of understands what that is.

That's kind of like being able to go, I want to buy first right of refusal on that chair.

And then that means that you can buy the ticket in that chair.

If you choose not to, then it's available to somebody else.

But it gives you the first right of refusal to buy that ticket.

So it's a way of reserving a spec a specific seat.

So again, it doesn't take anything out of the inventory, but makes it possible for people to go, like, that's my favorite chair in row F, whatever it might be, right?

Okay.

So what is possible to do?

Right now, uh, but you can see here this is an overhead of the amphitheater.

And those areas that look like swimming pools, we think maybe putting a swimming pool, but the little blue areas there, that's where the current light poles are.

There's that those two giant light poles, I think you're familiar with them that are right in the middle of the venue.

That's there.

And the plan right now is to just put seating in and around those light poles.

Um, in the past, they put some captain's chairs and some things like that there, but this dickle here will be something much better, much more elevated that will be in that space.

And then that space behind can serve as kind of an extended area of that.

That's available right now without us having to do any construction or anything.

That's only furnishing it with the uh furniture that would be required to make that happen.

As we move forward, hopefully by next season, the area in pink there is what is called the sound bunker.

Now, we built this amphitheater long, long ago.

In that box there, you had to have a lot of equipment and gear that was functioning for the building.

But as times change and and needs are different, right now that's basically an empty chamber inside there.

And so if we take the roof off of it, we can do two levels of seating that can go in there and create suites in that space.

Um, boy, Dead Center, Prime, Prime, Prime, those would be the first to go, I'm sure.

But anyway, so those that'll be a really fantastic facility in there.

And then our other goal is eventually to take out the light poles.

And if we take out the light poles and replace them with other needs because the ability to find people that are willing to make that climb to do the spotlight work is becoming harder and harder.

So, in a way, those poles just aren't functioning as they were originally designed to, so there's better use of that space.

So we're uh if we take out those light poles, then you can flesh that out more.

And the blue space behind it that you see there, you can actually put tiered levels in there that will provide other seating and additional suites in that space.

So how are we going to do it?

Um the good news is we don't have to do any money up front.

Um, our programming partner, Postfontaine has offered to do the cost of the construction and the furnishing of the space, and then we will be able to work out uh over five to ten years of payback on that that will come from the revenue generated by the suites.

So again, it won't come from our coffers, it'll come from the gross revenue that's generated by the suites.

There'll be a portion of it that will go first there, and then we'll be able to reap some other benefits from that.

So furnishings, construction costs all covered by postfontaine.

The gross revenues will help cover that investment.

Any additional expenses from staff and materials would come out of that, and then there's a team that works with Postfonne that has done this at venues all across the country.

They're actually like the premium experience team is kind of what they're called.

So they will take a percentage of the first year again out of the gross, and then a much smaller percentage, and over time they will take no more percentage.

But it's gonna be their job to sell it.

They're begging us to hurry and get going because they've got people going.

Um I want I want in, I want in, right?

So we're doing our best to get moving on that.

So there is a team that will get some money out of that, and then what's left from that, the net revenue, will be divided based upon who produces the show.

So these suites will be available for the shows that we produce also.

So those five to six shows that we produce during the year, we will be able to keep 100% of the net revenue from that show when it's our turn, right?

So that's a way that we're going to be able to generate uh additional revenue at the venue, be able to get more out of the venue and create uh high-end experience at the amphitheater.

So I'm not Briton Mahoney or Peach Pitt, but if you have a question for me there, uh please uh I'm happy to ask answer any questions you got, or if you got some for Nicole, she'll be happy to answer also.

Miss Nickel.

So, how many total suites are you thinking?

And are they going to be phased together?

To write right now to start with because of construction, it'll be two suites with a uh kind of an elevated experience behind that's available.

Um, over time, we're hoping to have those two suites plus one, two, three, four.

Let's see, one, two, three, four, five others, so seven with the bunkers, and then back behind two each.

So uh nine to ten.

We will also work out either at the ADA seating that exists or a space just on the east side that they can uh have flat access to an ADA suite.

Okay, awesome.

And but we're just planning on two for this season, or we can do two now without having to do any major construction.

The light pole bases, correct.

And just like do some roping around.

They'll put like a wood table sort of around the base, right?

And turn it into a space.

Um, if it turns out we can pull some miracle off, right, and get them out, but I mean right now we're planning on just those around the pole.

Okay, and then personal seat licenses.

Admittedly, I think those will sell last.

Uh the suites are much more desirable, but we can also start the personal seat licenses right away because that also requires no construction.

So the uh the private uh suites or whatever they're called, they're gonna be varying in size, like maybe from eight to fifteen people or sixteen.

It might be four seats in one, six in another, yep.

Okay, exactly.

Are there sponsorship opportunities to like name those suites maybe?

Probably not naming them.

There you really have to be careful when you're in a concert venue because you you rarely have named sponsors inside the venue because then it looks like the artist is supporting Sprite or whatever, right?

So normally uh naming things happen outside the venue or the name of the whole venue.

But one of just as an FYI, one of the companies that was looking about removing the poles, as soon as they knew what it was for, they said, We want to buy the suite.

Right.

So he was ready to say I'll take it right now.

Very cool.

Yeah, I know that Red Butte has some opportunities like this, but it's not it's not really infrastructure, they just rope off, they'll lay the white seats out, you know, and you can sit there.

Yeah, and those seem to sell out pretty good.

Yeah.

Does it take any way anything away from the amphitheater experience of just being you know, grass seeding, that type of thing?

I I mean I personally don't think so.

I think it elevates the experience, right?

Um, it's not in front of anybody going like, well, now I can't see because that guy's in the suite in front of me.

Um, and uh, like I said, we're not reducing capacity at all.

So the way we're working very hard to design it is it will just be an addition, not in any way subtracting from what we're trying to do.

And all the interior renovations were made, like green room, those things to bring us up to where artists want to come to the venue and that type of thing.

We have some more plans.

There's never enough storage.

Does anybody have enough storage in their world?

And then there's never enough storage.

We have some more plans about what we want to try to do, but we're just doing it piecemeal as we can raise the revenue and do it.

Okay, thank you.

Yeah, welcome.

Miss D'Souza.

Thank you.

Um, you guys are doing an amazing job, and I love I'm on the email list and I see the social media, and I did miss the opportunity to purchase the first metric or um cap for cutie show, but I was excited when there was another show announced because I did get tickets to that one.

Um, and I'll be at metric, so I'm excited.

My bank account maybe um isn't as excited, but um, but I have a question.

Uh a little while ago we had talked about the need to um maybe repaint the stripes for the stairs and the numbers because the the paint was fading and it wasn't reflective and it was hard for people to see in the in the later season shows because it gets darker earlier.

And I'm just wondering if any of that um is coming up, if we're able to consider that.

I believe so.

I mean, we'll we coordinate with facilities all the time, and so when those things get to that point, we uh we try to bring them back up to you know spec.

So we'll be working with facilities on that.

Okay, sounds good.

That was my only question.

But good job, keep it up.

Thank you so much.

Thank you, madam chair.

Uh yeah, I just want to say I love this.

Uh there's no bigger fan than me of taking out the light poles.

So that's super exciting.

Um I didn't know, Councilmember D'Souza was ho hip going to the metric show and Death Cab, which I thought you were going there, but I'm going to, I'm putting dibs on that ticket, just so you know if it's available, Chris.

Um but I'm not too familiar with the history of the provider.

Um, if you work with post Montain or the administration does how that goes down, but I just want to say, as an avid concert goer, uh I actually returned from a festival this last weekend in Tempe, and I I know that they are putting up some of the best acts around.

Yeah.

And so kudos to whoever's working with them.

Great job contracting with such an amazing provider.

They're doing an excellent job.

Thank you.

And uh appreciate all the work you're doing.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

And Miss Houseman has a question.

Not exactly a question, Madam Chair, but thank you for for the opportunity.

Just adding on to what's already been shared.

Uh thank you for this update.

Uh, thank you for the vision that you continue to bring, Merle.

It's it's even though I know you said you you've not been able to present to us, um, you put you pack such a punch when you do.

I love I love when you come.

Um, I love what you share.

I especially want to just acknowledge publicly um some conversations you and I've had as as a result of um last season and just some feedback that was shared.

You and I were able to visit, you really shared the depth of um behind every key decision that's been made with the renovation, and just you've always been very responsive, and uh it's it's exciting to see you empowering people and and the fact that this kind of um new addition is is being done through a partnership effort.

I I you know I'm just a big fan of collaboration and getting things done through partnerships.

So thank you for your leadership for your vision for just always looking for the best programming, the best user experience, um, all of the above.

Thank you for all you do, and and for the team.

I again our volunteers are phenomenal, and none of this happens without them.

So please pass that on to them as well.

We'll do that.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.

So, Merle, I just have a question about the contract with Postfontaine.

Yes.

So, what does this mean?

If they are making an investment in infrastructure in our facility, and over time there's going to be a payback in terms of a revenue share with them.

Do we go out to RFP for this service?

And is uh okay.

Right, we're currently in the last RFP, and to do this with this expansion, we would recommend expanding the length of that uh contract that we have now.

It's usually five years at a time, but we'll see if we can get it out, you know, another to eight or ten years to work out the payback, and also because we're really starting to work so well together that it's if we can just keep building on this.

It sounds like it's been a good arrangement.

I just wondered what did it mean.

So we won't we'll have to we'll do an extension rather than another RFP.

This is what you're foreseeing.

We're working on uh the deal points now to say what does that mean, right?

Because this is a big enough change, it would it would uh provide the opportunity to look at the contract again.

So that means the length of time that we'll have that we'll have a partnership with them, we'll go with this extension that you're talking about.

How many more years with postfontaine before we go out to RFP?

I'd say potentially ten, but we're like we're in the second year already, so eight more.

Do you know what I mean?

Just because right now it's five.

But if we do a really short, you know, extension, then the payback's bigger, right?

Uh what you're taking out of the gross revenue, whereas we can spread that out over a little bit more.

And then it also helps us maximize the uh infrastructure changes that they're making so they don't necessarily do all the investment and then see uh you know what I mean.

So we'd love to be able to let them help uh keep working uh in partnership with us to make those improvements.

And the contracts lock in the prices to the extent that even with a longer, you know, a longer relationship with them, we won't be at it, we'll we won't be at a disadvantage.

No, in fact, we actually don't pay them any money for this partnership.

We earn revenue with them on the partnership.

Um the things that can change, for example, um uh the rental fee for the venue, they pay that for each show that they produce, and over time, as we've been doing some work on that, that has changed, and so that becomes part of the contract.

So if anything, the cost for them have increased over the time working with us.

Okay.

All right.

Any more questions, council?

I don't see anything else.

May I just say quickly?

I know I'm being a bit of the brass section here, tooting our own horn, but really it's about staff.

The team is so amazing.

Um Nicole does great work as our venue manager, Kelly Molinari, our house manager.

Uh Elise George working on all the social media that you saw.

We did it's a great team, and we're so grateful for the support we receive from you.

Since we're all customers as well, we know what you're talking about.

We see it ourselves, and we so thank you, Nicole, and thank you for being here too.

And I I must say with Marcy, the volunteers.

It's do you ever have a shortage of volunteers there?

No, in fact, that's the problem is like how many want to volunteer.

There's actually waiting lists.

Yeah, yeah.

Thank you for all the work.

We we really appreciate it.

And this presentation tonight.

Thank you.

Great, thank you.

Thank you very much.

All right.

Next item on the agenda is council reviewing our draft city council budget priorities.

And Mr.

Fratto, you're gonna present for us on this.

Yes, and in case I need to pull up, pull it up.

I hope you guys don't mind if I just stay over here.

Sorry for those of you who are who are online, but you'll just have to listen to me instead of see me if that's okay, madam chair.

Um I I don't have a lot to present.

Uh we did our best as staff to take uh Justin and I furiously furiously took notes during the the budget priorities workshop.

We took photos of all the sticker exercises that were done, and then we came back and we sat down and put our heads together and came up with uh what we hope uh captures the conversation that you all had during the budget priorities workshop.

So this is a draft.

Uh we provided you with a red line of last year's budget priorities, so that you could kind of see what's changing.

And then I also included a um clean version uh so you can read through it and see exactly what we're actually proposing.

Like last year, we separated it into three uh separate color-coded sections so that anyone who's reading it kind of has an understanding of what we mean by each section of each priority.

And so, really, what we're looking for this evening is just your feedback.

Did we get it right?

Is there something that we missed?

Uh is there something you'd like to remove, add, change?

And um we'd like that feedback tonight, and then once uh we have it, we'll go ahead and make those changes.

We'll put this on a consent calendar uh next week or two weeks from now, or you know, as soon as we can with a resolution to get them adopted.

When we bring it back, we'll also have a one-pager, an infographic that will we'll do our best to encompass uh what we've outlined in the uh actual uh priorities document, and that one pager will be will go inside of the budget document for the upcoming fiscal year.

And so with that, um I just turn it back over to you for any conversation questions or uh recommended changes.

So, council, any comments, changes, questions, Ms.

Nickel.

I did notice one thing you guys didn't get in there.

Dog park.

Okay.

I don't expect it to be in there, but yes, saying dog park.

I would be happy to put that in if the council wants it in there.

I think it could fit somewhere.

Just saying.

Thank you.

Any feedback for staff, guys?

We're good.

Ms.

DeSouza, go ahead.

I was just gonna verbally say I feel like this is representative of the conversation that we had.

So Ms.

Stroud, go ahead.

Um I was just and I think I brought it up a little bit during the meeting, but um gonna pull it up, kind of switching back and forth between the screens.

Uh but looking at um, you know, the priority where we have the fiscal health component to it.

No, and now it went away, of course it did.

Uh, but adding in where and we combined the uh the employee um pull it back up, uh you know, where we were at the employee satisfaction.

And I thought that we would have a little more of a blended um, you know, with that fiscal health, you know, I primarily because 75 to 80 percent of our expenses are employee related, but I think you know, keeping in you know competitive wages, uh, including professional development, retention strategies.

I thought that was going to be a little more in there, unless I'm missing that, but you know, I I guess I'm hoping to have that put back in there, um, you know, reinforcing with our employees that they are a priority of ours, uh, and to make sure that that they are well compensated, uh, fairly compensated, and that we are invested in their professional development.

I thought that was maybe a little bit of a discussion that we had, but maybe I'm wrong.

There's a phrase in there.

Are you looking for more?

See that phrase that says investing in our human capital is essential to long-term efficiency and stability.

Were you looking for more?

Yes.

Okay, yeah.

You know, that I I guess a little more, you know, we we had we elaborated a little bit more last year.

Um, and that's I mean, it does a great job of kind of summing it up, but um, you know, it was we had a a lot of discussion over the past couple of years of um maintaining competitive wages, and I don't want that to be um just assumed, you know, with that language, you know.

I do want to make sure that we are um you know, remaining uh cognizant of that.

Do you have any questions surrounding that?

Uh you know, we're happy to try to go back and I'm I'm gonna use a really a really technical word here, pump that up uh to talk about employee satisfaction a little bit more if that's what the council would like us to do.

Or maybe use something from last year if we've edited it out.

Yeah, my my understanding from the conversation was hey, let's try to kind of take that and spread it.

And so there are a few statements, a couple of statements uh throughout that that mention personnel, right?

And community safety, we also note that um providing well-trained personnel is important.

Um, and so we we it was clear to me that the council felt that that was still a priority, but didn't necessarily need to list it as its own priority, and we were supposed to try and find other places to locate it uh within uh the priorities that you did identify.

So, like I said, I'm happy to go back and add a little bit more onto that and fiscal help help if you'd like me to.

Um, I've heard council member Stroud's recommendations.

I don't know if anyone else has thoughts on if anything's missing there on that specific item, Dustin?

Yeah, sorry, madam chair.

Yes, on that topic.

Looks like not, but we have a commitment to wordsmith a little bit, Miss Stroud.

So let's see what what they come up with.

Ms.

Houseman.

Uh thank you.

I I don't have feedback specifically, uh, especially in terms of like wordsmithing.

I I agree.

I feel like it very much captures our discussion and really emphasizes perhaps what is uniquely our focus this year, which I think is is something that's valuable.

Um, what I do have in the form of um, I guess an ad to that, uh, but I don't know if now's the right time, so so I'll ask you, Mr.

Frato.

I I I have thought through something I'd like to share tonight that I feel like actually um is an initiative that hits across, like would advance four of these five priorities, and I'd like to just sort of share it as a as an example.

Like why why does it help for us as a council to think through our budget priorities?

It helps us to then also be thinking of initiatives that could potentially be funded or or recommended for funding, and then as we receive the tentative budget, then of course this becomes the lens through which we are evaluating um budget requests that come to us.

priorities and I'd like to just sort of share it as a as an example like why why why does it help for us as a council to think through our budget priorities it helps us to then also be thinking of initiatives that could potentially be funded or or recommended for funding and then as we receive the tentative budget then of course this becomes the lens through which we are evaluating um budget requests that come to us but I think there's also an opportunity as the budget authority to lead out on indicating um some things that we we are hoping to see um in form the the tentative budget again it's not we that is the mayor's role to define the budget but any time we can signal some things that we are thinking of I think it's is helpful and and then we can obviously discuss that when we receive the budget and and ultimately adopt the budget that we feel is best aligned to our priorities so um I don't know if that's if it's if it's appropriate to share an initiative I've been um really thinking about working on for for quite some time I feel like it aligns beautifully or if that is if tonight's goal is to just give you feedback on this document um and then when it comes back to us for you know some type of formal adoption to then also share uh an initiative that that I feel like is a great example of alignment initiatives that align to these priorities that we've indicated are um ours you know uh the voice of the council so to speak so that's more of the feedback I'm looking for as far as sharing an initiative I am seeing this agenda item tonight as consolidation of this document that's going to be used for the budget rollout um happy to hear your ideas maybe when it comes back giving some examples of how we want to see this sort of woven into the budget presentation might be a really good time to do that so okay sounds like what all right any more input council members for Mr.

Fratto and staff I don't see any more so we're gonna am I is it right am I right in assuming that Ms.

Stroud and Miss Christensen are going to drop off at six is that our no I canceled conferences for parents until 6 30 so I'm 6 30 okay all right well I think you'll be able to last through the whole meeting if it keeps going this way all right thank you for doing that all right we do have one a consent calendar item and that's approval of the draft minutes from January 20th do I have a motion to adopt the consent calendar so moved all right all in favor say aye aye and I oppose none all right um let's go ahead and do standing reports um are you ready Mr.

Fratto to start with um standing reports on behalf of the council office yeah sure madam chair uh I'm I'm gonna skip the agenda planning calendar this week though we will send that out on Friday uh I just wanted to give you a a really quick kind of update on the public utilities management study just a really brief overview so uh it's it's going really well by all accounts so far I've spoken with Justin who's leading out on this from our staff he's working with Tom and his team and I've heard nothing but positive feedback from everyone so far.

Last week public utilities was able to complete the uh data collection phase of the study which was a by all accounts a really big lift and I Tom thank you so much to your team for doing that despite the fact that we're in the middle of working on budgets and everything.

That was a big lift and uh a big milestone for the study so we really appreciated that and then currently uh Matrix who's our consultant is working on kind of sorting through analyzing that information and then they are currently they've currently provided us with a set of comparison cities they've done a whole analysis of the cities in the valley and outside of the valley and which ones match up to us best and they're currently speaking with Justin and the public utilities team to narrow down that list and come up with the right set of comparison cities for that comparative assessment.

And so I'm gonna try to give you this kind of update every couple of weeks moving forward but that is kind of what's happened over the last few weeks and with with that I'm I'm gonna end my report madam chair thank you.

And I also wanted to make sure that I got everything in here.

I I heard Zach when he told me that the committee wanted a little bit more meet when with their council member reports.

So I did create some documents.

I think Katie's creating a time and space for both council and the ambassadors to speak freely.

And that was that on that.

Uh legislature is um hot and heavy.

I think that Cindy will update you on a couple.

I'll take a couple of them myself.

There are some land use ones.

It looks like uh Senate Bill 284 and House Bill 477 may get merged in at some point, but House Bill 77 is specific to land use and addresses planning commissioners.

And uh, we've we've really had a history of putting good planning commissioners who are specialized in the area of uh real estate and planning, and it's there have been some instances where planning commissioners have taken it amongst themselves to rally the public to come in and protest about a specific item.

We can't have planning commissioners showing biased in any way, shape, or form.

So I think that it's it's I think our planning commissioners probably need to retouch on training and know that they can't know what they legislate and what they don't.

It's not the way they feel, it's what the code says and the interpretation of the code.

So that's just something that I'm kind of worried about.

So and Cindy will probably update you on some others.

I know Ryan will have a full docket to report on.

I do I I do want to thank uh Ryan, Shane, um, ULCT.

There was a call out from our legislators today, kind of in a panic saying how how do you feel about HB 501 and how would you what kind of how how would you like us to uh vote on this?

And so I thank everyone for speaking about it really quickly, getting together as quickly as possible and getting that question answered.

Did it ever get uncircled, Ryan?

Or did it get okay?

All right.

All right, um, we'll we'll find out more about that one.

Ms.

D'Souza, do you have anything?

Nothing, Mr.

DeKaiser, no trip reports or anything like that.

All right.

Do we have a mayor's report tonight?

Marcy.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Thank Mim Mayor, if you can hold on just a second, we'll get to Marcy.

Thank you.

Miss Housman, go ahead.

Uh, before I saw I saw Ms.

Stroud's hand up before mine, so I missed both of them.

So thank you.

I'll I will be brief.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Um, just a quick thank you to Katie.

She's been hard at work organizing the working group.

I appreciate the opportunity to be a part of that.

Uh, there will be a meeting tomorrow afternoon where we will receive an update on how we are continuing to assess the safety needs at the intersection by Alta High School.

Um, so I'm grateful for that.

Also grateful for staff and um Ben for organizing um a like small group tours of the recreation center, getting an opportunity to visit the construction site.

I've not yet things have never quite aligned with my schedule to be able to do any of that, including uh visiting the new fire station.

So I I'm grateful to our department heads who continue to to watch out for me and know that with with my busy complicated schedule.

Um the uh tours or the visits that have been organized for others have have not yet worked out, but they continue to reach out to me to try to make this work so that I can get um get a visit.

So I'm looking forward to those upcoming visits at the fire station, uh fire station 31, and also um the construction area for the recenter.

It's it's an exciting time, and I look forward to those visits.

So that's all I had.

And um, I wouldn't was not able to hold Baby Jane uh during this meeting, but that's why I'm here virtually is I'm in North Carolina visiting my son and his family, and um baby Jane has been an absolute delight.

So thank you for allowing me to join Virgil tonight.

That's all I had, Madam Chair.

Thank you.

Ms.

Stroud, go ahead.

Thank you, madam chair.

Um, you know, a couple couple things happened last week that I was able to attend.

Um, you know, one of them was also not attending Alta Canyon uh with Marcy.

We were doing that legislative update, so hopefully we've got that on the schedule moving forward, looking forward to that as well.

Uh CDBG uh had a had their monthly meeting.

Um the window is has was open and closed for applicants.

The committee is now reviewing those applications.

Um, we'll be giving them a score, and then moving forward.

The the federal government has not yet released the amount of funds that Sandy will receive, uh, but hopefully it'll be you know somewhere in the ballpark that we got last year, uh, which was an increase from the year before.

Uh we had um, and I'm sure uh you know, Madam Mayor will probably talk about this as well.

Um, you know, a promotion within the police departments, you know.

So we had Officer Byrd, and he is now Sergeant Bird.

I think we all are uh familiar with Ryan and you know appreciate what he does, you know, in communicating with the council and uh you know in the department, and then also uh Trevor Leslie, who has been with um uh with the animal control and been out on self-right alongs with him with uh our new director, so over animal services.

That was a kind of an exciting um swearing in and or a promotion ceremony.

Um last night we had you know, I think it was brought up by Mr.

Pace last week, um, the uh ICAC, so internet uh crimes against children.

You know, quite a few people attended that and uh you know had a presentation with uh the attorney general's office with uh a lot of information, um you know, things that you know, I think can alert all of us within a community um you know to keep our eye out of what's online and what our kids are looking at.

So, you know, very successful presentation and uh you know very much appreciated.

You know, so you know, I know that that's kind of a a series of what they're looking at.

You know, last month um, you know, over in Historic Sandy, so and now this uh you know with this ICAC presentation.

So, you know, liking that that uh push on community outreach.

And that is all, madam chair.

Thank you.

All right, thank you.

Back to Madam Mayor for the mayor's report.

Thanks.

So it's been a busy week on the administrative side.

I want to thank the Utah Attorney General's office for coming last night to present uh the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.

Uh presented a lot of valuable information about how to keep uh children safe and how to keep uh vulnerable people who are online safe from fraud, and I've looked forward to um spreading that message and working with the uh Sandy Police Department to host more of those.

It's such valuable information.

The technology advances so quickly, and there's so much that parents and guardians need to know about how to keep young children safe from online predators.

Um weekly every Friday.

They um will there's tax preparers there.

It is by appointment, so please call the senior center.

You'll receive a kit with instructions of all your documents to bring, but it's no cost preparation assistance.

It's not income qualified, it's not age qualified, it's available to everyone.

But of course, um uh it's helpful to our seniors because they have real live people to help prepare the tax forms.

They can't do complicated tax uh returns, but the standard 1040s, um, 1040 easy forms.

It is a great service through AARP and it's free of charge.

So please call the Sandy Senior Center to set your appointment.

Congratulations to our police promotion, Sergeant Ryan Byrd promoted he's a not only an experienced uh police officer, but a longtime Sandy residence with resident with expertise in firearms training and experience in both patrol and investigations.

And our new animal services director was sworn in last week, Trevor Leslie.

He's also Sandy native and has worked for the city since 2017 and earned many certifications uh on animal training through uh his work here at Animal Services.

And then a big congratulations uh to our Sandy Police Explorers Post 9550 for taking first place at the 2026 national competition exCon, that is Explorers Convention in Las Vegas, and they took first place in the honor guard competition.

Uh was happy to um attend their meeting with council member Stroud last week and congratulate them, delivered some donuts and um some praise and would love for them to come to City Council so the council and the city could recognize their accomplishments.

They've competed uh the last three years and this year uh brought home first place, so they've shown a lot of growth in their program and so much um uh the the video their um advisor showed it's just something that the whole city should see and be proud of.

So we'd love to have them come in to present um their good work.

Attended the meeting of the South Valley Interfaith Council.

This um quarter's meeting is uh many faiths prepare for um for Easter, for for Lent, for Easter, Ramadan, um, Passover.

This is a time when faith communities are very active in in our city, and we're so fortunate to have so many communities of faith.

And I did want to mention how troubled we were as elected officials about the news of the shooting last night in Sandy at 700 West and 9,000 South.

And I want to thank the council for joining in a statement asking our residents to please, if you have any information about the incident, contact the Sandy Police Department.

8017993000.

The Sandy Police are actively investigating this and pursuing every lead.

And we are especially concerned about the individual who was the victim of this because he is the Imam at the Mosque in what in West Jordan.

And we can't not recognize that this person at this time of year during Ramadan.

There may be a connection there that our police are investigating that and wherever the facts will take them.

So want to uh reach out to all our residents to encourage anybody with information to please report it to the Sandy Police.

Thank you.

Thank you.

CAO report.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Just a few things.

First of all, the health and safety fair for employees is tomorrow from 9 to 12 in the multi-purpose room.

So if you have a chance to come over, that'd be great.

The employee luncheon at Willow Creek Country Club is March 18th from 11 to 2.

Yeah, of course, that's always just that's done completely by Willow Creek Country Club, and it's a it's a gift by them to our employees.

Over the last uh 40 years, Sandy has uh provided water into to the unincorporated areas of of the granted area, and during that time uh we required annexation.

Um sometimes those those requesting water couldn't annex because they weren't contiguous to the city in each of those cases as a requirement uh for the water uh requested of them to sign uh a consent letter that they would annex in when they became contiguous.

Well, we've had a number of annexations over the last five years, and so um I asked the public utilities department uh to do um an audit of that, and we have at this point about 50 parcels that are now contiguous and can be annexed.

Um we didn't uh see the need to do it uh initially until um until uh Monday when we received a copy of the draft feasibility study for the incorporation of granite.

Um surprisingly that study came back positive for incorporation.

Um we have we have an extensive amount of concerns about how that the feasibility study was uh put together, but because of that we feel the need at this point now to move forward on those annexations of those properties that sign uh consent forms to Anic.

And so tomorrow morning we'll request from the council chair um to uh put it on the consent calendar all the properties that we have that we know have already signed letters of consent to Annex.

Um that will start the process for them.

Uh so once that starts, then we will of course notify them by letter.

We'll also notify them by posting post it on their property of the potential annexation.

We'll then notify them of the planning commission meeting and the city council meeting where they can come and make comment on it.

Um but it's important uh uh to move forward with these sooner than later because there will be a point where they will be locked into uh that incorporation uh process and um we feel it's important to get you know the only reason why we provided water in the county areas was because um the intent that it would eventually annex into Sandy, and most of it has and so uh from our perspective um it's important for us to move forward on those on those uh properties where they've signed the uh annexation petition uh before they get locked into that thing.

And so I just want to make sure you're aware of that.

We'll keep you updated as we go along.

Um doubtly uh once we start this process, you will get some phone calls from people that you know who live in those areas.

We'll get a we'll get a we anticipate just you know a spattering of reactions, and everyone from oh, I thought we were gonna get annexed in anyway, so I'm not concerned, to others saying I don't want to be annexed in to others that you know, but we we definitely have a legal right to do this and to um move forward with these.

Um we definitely have a legal right to do this and to um move forward with these.

So just to be clear, we're gonna be moving forward with properties that in the past already signed a consent to annex, and we were unable to annex them at that time.

Yes, that's correct, because they were not contiguous now, they are contiguous.

So everything will play out in the normal fashion.

It'll start with the typical intent to annex and then move through the normal annexation process.

That's correct.

Um I know I don't have a question.

Um, and as we start getting calls, um I think I asked you this before, but I don't remember what the answer was.

Um, what will be the deadline on this in if granite chooses to incorporate because they have to have do they have to have a vote on this now?

Is that the process?

So, what will happen is that they uh they will have a public hearing based on the draft.

Um they will finalize that that draft and then they will hold a second public hearing to um move uh to lock the boundary and move forward with a future vote.

It's when that second public hearing occurs and they take that formal action is when the boundaries are locked in.

And we don't know yet when that date is that day is not set, no.

Do we can we even anticipate?

No.

Right now they're in a 30-day period on the draft after that period, then they have to schedule up that public hearing and then a second, yeah.

Okay.

Have the boundaries been set?

I mean, is there a map in available?

Yes, there is in the feasibility study, and we will make sure that all the council gets a copy of that feasibility study.

We'll send it to um Dustin tonight and he'll get it out to all of you.

Thanks.

Thank you, madam chair.

Thank you.

Recreation center update.

Hello.

Um this last week we had a bunch of steel delivered to the site.

So for several weeks now we've had several still beams uh vertically in the ground, and now they are connecting those horizontally up high, which is really fun to see.

Um actually looks like it's gonna be a building someday soon.

Um because they're up there with a a very big crane swinging very big pieces of metal around.

They did have a couple of weather delays last week with the wind and the snow, but nothing that should affect their schedule overall.

So that's great.

Um this week they did have to uh drain the swimming pool a little bit.

Um there is some new connections, uh new lines that are going from the new mechanical room to the swimming pool.

So just reconnecting those.

Um they have to get the pool down to a specific level so that they're not connecting lines that have water running through them.

Um, and then they'll fill the pool back up with water when they're done.

So uh the naming survey is out.

We are getting several responses from that, so that's been great.

Um we'll continue to keep that open until March 11th.

So please feel free to keep sharing it.

Um, when people do share it, it goes out in newsletters or social media posts.

That's when we see a little bit of an influx in responses.

So and then we are excited to have several of you up to the center in the next the next week or so.

Um, but as always, if there's a time, you know, and not a time that works with your schedule, Marcy specifically.

Like if Alison, if it doesn't work, just let us know.

Um, we're happy to arrange a time for any of you to come up really at any time.

Um just reach out to me or to Ben and we'll make it happen.

I just had a question, Jenny.

Are you aware of the petition on change.org that's going around tonight?

Okay, that's didn't make the list, but kudos to him.

Yeah, all right, thank you.

And Mr.

Meekham, legislative report.

Thank you very much, and good evening.

Um, we're down to two weeks.

Uh so this week and next week, and just a special thank you to every single one of you, including those of you online.

Everybody at this point has participated in either uh the legislative policy committee or in our Thursday afternoon catch-up sessions.

So just uh thank you for your interest and participation feedback every time we've asked for something, it's been immediately uh responded to.

So thank you very much.

Also, special thank you to Mayor.

I know that Lynn's not here, but uh but to Luna De Shane for also uh helping participate in this as well.

So uh number of updates.

Um didn't have a chance.

Uh Mayor and I did have a chance to uh talk with uh Senator Cullemore, he's our majority leader.

We had a chance to update him on things that were going on in the city and uh talk about some of the things that he had helped us with in the past that he was not aware of.

So, you know, the upgrades to Monroe, for example.

So we had a great time kind of bringing them up to speed on different things that uh happened uh within the city.

A really special thing to note in the sense that in in the past, and in my experience with Sandy, we've had two Senate presidents and a speaker.

So, you know, we meterhauser, Al Mansell, and Greg Curtis have all been integral parts to what we do as a city, and so to have a majority leader uh represent a part of Sandy is very fortuitous for us.

So it's been um uh good relationship.

Okay, let's talk about some bills and some issues going on.

Let's start with homelessness, and this is um uh this is something that we haven't talked about a lot because a lot of moving pieces have been going on.

But this earlier this week, House Bill 596, which is called homelessness amendments.

This is done by uh Representative Eelison, who also represents Sandy.

And uh there's a number of things in this bill.

Um one of the one of the items that is in the current version is it preempts land use on conditional use permits.

Now, this does not particularly affect us because we're a non-congregate center, meaning that that even if they did uh take away the limits on the conditional use, the number of people that can be there, there are no services to provide to those additional people, as opposed to say Salt Lake City or South Salt Lake or West Valley that are congregate centers, meaning that they can raise the number of people according to the fire code who can be there, and um uh so that is in the bill, it's very concerning because it's uh basically the state saying that uh we are going to preempt the uh local land use for this purpose.

Um now, Representative Yieldison, to be fair, he is trying to accomplish uh a goal.

He's trying to make it so that that um that the existing infrastructure is big enough to be able to absorb uh any uh uh additional influx.

And so I understand you know, from a policy perspective, what he's trying to do, the way that he's going about it, I think is considered uh uh concerning for cities.

Another piece that's in there is is called the uh annual local contribution.

Now, this is what we've been dealing with for some time.

Before we hosted the um MVP center here in Sandy, we used to also contribute to this local fund.

Uh, we don't since we've had uh that uh uh uh facility in our city, but basically what this would do is it would increase the limit.

And so this would uh for this next year would increase about 15% for the purpose of being able to help West Valley City, who's had a uh facility that really has been uh used year-round, but they haven't been treated as such, meaning that they have not received enough money to offset the additional law enforcement and uh EMS services they've had to provide by hosting that in their city.

So this additional money would help to compensate them.

So right now, the way that it looks for us, at worst it's neutral.

At best, there may be a little bit more money to offset some of our expenses for hosting, but um it's uh to be determined.

Now, the kicker in there is the next provision says that the following year in 2027, instead of going up 15%, it would go up closer to 50%.

And the reason that's in there is to bring people to the table because different cities have different interests in this, and this is all about the local contribution.

In other words, the state is not saying we're gonna step in and provide additional funding, but if you need additional funding within that system, the cities have to get together and figure this out.

And so uh the uh, and if and if we don't figure something else out, then the existing provision of state law will be to increase that by like I said, by about 50% of what it is uh today.

So uh right now it's 275,000, that would increase the 500,000 or a percentage of budget, whichever one's higher.

Okay, um uh let's see.

Uh one piece of good news, we do have uh House Bill 457.

This is a municipal annexation amendments.

The the the bulk of the text doesn't really have anything to do with us except for we were able to get an amendment in there that deals with some of our past annexations that we'll be able to, well, I should say passed in future because part of state law is uh we will there will be a number of islands that will be coming into Sandy according to you know law that was passed about a year ago.

We'll we we will be able to do that simpler now uh with this amendment.

So it was uh it'll help us in that process.

All right, uh Senate Bill 284.

This is local land use modifications.

This is a Senator Fillmore bill.

Um basically what it it requires, this part we already do, but requires every city to post regulations, our fees, our land use applications on our website.

And now that doesn't sound like a big deal, but in fact, there are some municipalities in the state of Utah that don't have a website or that don't have an active website, and so this will be a bit of a lift for them.

Um it it deals a lot with planning commission.

Uh Councilmember Nickel was talking about this a minute ago.

The the planning commission, if it's not timely, uh then the um uh the legislative body can take the item from the planning commission, even if a planning commission hasn't made a decision about it.

So it all has to do with timeliness.

If they're simply not making a decision, the legislative body can go and do that, which it cannot right now.

Then in the substitute that is coming up, um, then we can also remove a planning commissioner who's acting with the intent to influence a land use decision.

So this was directly what council member Nichols just talking about, that if a planning commissioner decides to take sides, and the you know the case study that was presented is if uh the person goes gets residents to oppose something that's going on, uh that's uh not what a planning commissioner should be doing since they're acting in really kind of a quasi-judicial uh role.

All right, one thing that we're uh very excited about that the league has been working with developers and others uh is House Bill 492.

This is about transportation infrastructure and housing.

Uh one of the big things that's held back a lot of development is lack of uh lack of infrastructure.

One example that comes up over and over and over again is Harriman has recently um decided not to proceed in uh certain um uh uh applications to bring them online because they don't have they have water rights, but they don't have water tanks, and so they need tanks in order to store the water to be able to bring on about 7500 additional units.

And so what this bill does is in Salt Lake County, it creates 140 it bonds for 140 million dollars that is grants that can be used within Salt Lake County, and then outside of that, there's statewide a hundred million dollar loan fund that can be used for infrastructure for drinking water, wastewater, sewer, storm water, and drainage.

And it has a provision in there to prioritize uh owner-occupied housing.

So if you're applying for the grant, if you're applying for the loan and you're doing it for the purpose of owner-occupied housing, then your application goes up, is kind of the way that works.

Last one I'll hit on is uh taxation.

This is a truth in taxation.

We've talked about this a number of times, uh, but it's morphed also quite a bit uh since we last spoke.

So House Bill 236, this is about truth and taxation.

So if the if a city uh wants to adopt a higher tax rate than uh what what the the prior bill said that we had to basically have two budgets, the the lower one without the tax increase and a higher one with the tax increase.

Now it just contemplates one budget with the higher amount, but that we would need to keep funds separate.

In other words, we would need to segregate any additional funds for the additional amount that command.

What they're trying to do is they're trying to make the city if you're gonna approve a higher budget, they don't want you spending that higher budget until the truth in taxation process, which happens in August, actually takes place.

And so the underlying concern is that um how it's been done in the past, uh people are coming up and saying, hey, I've got this, uh I don't want you to do this uh tax increase, but we've already, you know, we've already have been spending the money in our case, you know, from July 1 till about mid-August when we have the uh when we have the hearing.

So it would uh uh make uh the cities keep those funds separate so that um uh that when people come for a truth and taxation hearing, we're not living as if though we were on a budget as if though we already had that money.

And uh additionally, it would provide there's a the provision in there that would have a um kind of a one-page well that's sorry, it doesn't have to be one page, but a notice that explains the difference between what is the uh uh you know what is the underlying without the tax increase and then what does the tax increase do, and specifically what problems would that tax increase solve.

And so we would need to prepare that so that every time that we had a meeting that talked about the budget between uh the time that the either the budget officer or in our case the mayor's budget comes out uh until uh one is eventually passed.

We need to uh bring that out and make that available to people.

All right, I will stop there, even though I could go on quite a bit longer.

But as always, if there's any questions, please don't feel free.

Feel free to uh reach out and uh we will talk more.

All right, thank you.

Appreciate that.

Circling back to general citizen comment.

I have two cards in the room.

Daniel, come on down.

I'll be brief.

Uh Daniel Kovach, 1364 East 11205 South and Sandy.

Um here with a couple scouts, my son, Jackson, my daughter, Maisie and Ben from Troop 411 and Sandy.

Um, usually here in a different capacity, so I don't get to speak.

So I'm taking this opportunity very briefly.

Umphitheater.

I love that we're doing this through a revenue revenue sharing model.

I think that uh as residents, we've been bonded out the butt.

We're done being bonded, um, not just city, but county school districts.

So to hear that we're doing that through a revenue sharing uh agreement is very exciting.

Umward, I love Mr.

Marsh's presentation.

I love what he's considering.

Kind of taking us to that next echelon.

However, I I implore that we don't forget uh the events that take place there that make this special, the movie nights, um, the free concerts, the patriotic stuff.

My wife and I attended our personal favorites, Pat Benatar, um Bruce Hornsby, those very inexpensive things that make you sit in those grass seats and look around and say, holy cow, I live here.

This is available to me.

They are moderately priced.

Um they make the community buy into something that is special and say that this is my sandy, this is where I live.

These are the priorities that me and my council and my mayor and my community have set.

Uh so as we're as we're thinking about echeloning up, let's also consider those those moderately priced items and what we are bringing to those citizens who might not be going to OAR or uh deathcab, but are considering those those items that are like wow, you know, I'll skip coffee for a few weeks and I'll go to these things because we can't afford the mammoth, we can't afford the jazz, we can't afford uh the bees at this point.

So those items here right in our community are very, very important.

They make us feel connected, they make us feel important, and they make us feel proud to be here, and then we go tell our friends and they tell their friends, and we're like, wow, Sandy's a pretty awesome place.

So as we're thinking about echelining up, let's consider and remind ourselves that that those are the kind of events that make Sandy a special place to be and a special place to live.

So thank you.

Thank you.

All right, Nick.

Hi.

I get to actually talk to you as uh somebody else other than you're asking for my computer help.

Um I am we do that too.

I'm here uh representing the Salt Lake Off-Road Expo.

I volunteer uh with them and I have for the last 11 years.

Um it's what what it we uh I want to invite all of you to the expo.

We are um big land advocates.

Um we partner, I don't know if you guys have heard of the Blue Ribbon Coalition, they're one of our biggest partners.

Um, and we advocate for uh keeping land open and keeping uh land uh clean and and usable.

Um this last weekend we uh for the first our first annual um cleanup at Five Mile Pass.

We went out to Five Mile Pass and cleaned up uh two large dumpsters full of uh debris and garbage, and on in addition to that, another 63 tires that we pulled out of there.

Um, another thing that we were starting on an annual tradition of this year is um what we're calling the Sparks program, and it is um highlighting new and innovative products into the off-road and outdoor industry.

Um and we're we're present, we're want we're gonna be presenting them with awards and uh showcase.

Um and there's kind of there's exciting things, and I have a little fire for you guys.

I'll give the dust in.

But I wanted to invite all of you out and uh hope to see you there.

Thanks.

Thank you.

And Dustin, I don't have any more blue cards.

Can you invite anyone online who'd like to make a comment to do so?

Happy to, madam chair, and I'll just say I'm gonna take the opportunity to express major appreciation to Nick.

He would not, the meetings would not happen without Nick.

He's so great, best IT professional I've ever worked with.

And I think everybody all of you guys probably agree with me on that.

So I had to take that opportunity.

Uh yes, if you are joining us virtually and you'd like to comment on any city business, just go ahead and click the uh raise hand button on your screen now, and I'll call your name in the order in which you raised your hand, and you'll have three minutes not seeing any hands raised, madam chair.

All right, thank you.

We'll close general citizen comment and that closes our agenda.

Do I have a motion?

Move to adjourn.

Second.

All right.

All in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

No.

Thanks.

Good night, everyone.

Thank you.

Yeah, yeah.