Did you not want to build a substantial thing?

Yeah.

Okay.

Like it's pretty.

Oh new.

I have a lot of though.

I don't know if it was not.

Oh, or take one.

All right.

Is there a one basin?

I don't know if you have that.

They're doing their masks up.

Well, I mean, I think I think rain.

Yeah, and voice under the case.

Yeah, that's good.

Okay.

We ready to go?

Yeah.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm gonna call this meeting to order.

This is the Syracuse City uh business meeting for July.

Uh the first thing that we're gonna do, I would asked uh councilman uh Julie here to say the opening prayer, and I'm asking Abe if you will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

We'll go that far.

Our father in heaven, we thank thee for the opportunity to gather in service to our community tonight, and we are thankful for this special place that we get to call home.

We ask thee to bless this council tonight with wisdom and unity and understanding as we make decisions that affect the lives of uh of uh of others and our citizens and residents.

Help us to act with fairness and compassion for all, and we ask for thy guidance and protection over our city and our residents, and we do so in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Oh Rice.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the public which it stands one nation under God indivisible liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, the we are gonna start.

Uh can I get an motion to adopt our agenda as written?

So moved.

Second, moved and seconded.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

So passes.

Now our first item is always public comment.

This is a chance for the public to uh share with us a concern that may not be on our agenda, and we will have to talk about it a later date.

Um is there anybody here that would like to share a public comment?

Okay, um just tell you that it's limited to three minutes.

Please state your name and address for the record, and you're welcome to share that with us.

Come forward to the mic.

Uh Pete Petrowski, 3235 South for Kill Lane.

Um, not really sure why I'm here.

I've been in contact with UTA, you dot and you guys about the truck stop across from dozens of houses.

And the noise is terrible.

It's not for I mean, I don't know why I have to even come here and complain about the noise.

I was in contact with I forget her name.

She told me to come here tonight and let you know.

I mean, it's terrible, but I mean bottom line is that's public land, it's not used, not supposed to be used for commercial use.

And I'm wondering why this is taking so long.

I mean, everybody's been agreement.

UTO, nope, can't be parking there.

You die was even harder on that.

They volunteered to give you guys signs and everything to take care of the problem.

And here I go.

4 15 Saturday morning.

I'm awakening by somebody starting controller or two o'clock in the morning.

Here comes some jet break on.

I mean, it's it's non-stop.

Okay, sir.

Let me just clarify for you.

We don't have a truck stop in this city.

So what are you talking about?

The parking ride, ride share.

You don't think you have a uh truck cloud, but you do.

I mean, they've taken it over.

They buy wash trains to come in and wash their trucks in our in that lot.

I mean, it's ridiculous.

I wouldn't I put it right behind them parked in the spot.

He asked me to move because I was in the spot.

Nobody has a spot there, sir.

So that's his spot.

He was real nice about it, and I told him I wasn't going to do him because he wasn't supposed to park there, but I mean, you can get a good night's sleep.

I mean, it's not striped, and all his ideals, oh, we can't do it because of this.

We can't do it because of this.

Um, why not?

There's five of these on 177.

There's no trucks ever in the finding tool.

It's too small, but the two in Syracuse are overrun.

I don't care about the other one.

I don't rule over by there.

I care about going at my house.

I'd like to get a good night's sleep bill to relax in my home, something.

I don't get with everybody's been on board.

Yeah, yeah, they're not supposed to be parking there.

So what's the problem?

Uh I apologize if you thought this was a response.

I did it for asking for clarification.

This is not a debate.

We can't answer your questions.

Okay.

Well, I'm here to tell you it's it's unbearable.

It's it's not supposed to be used commercially.

I mean, if you go with UDOT and they're real hard on stuff, they say they lease it to you.

They were more to help you guys out, give you signs, whatever you need to get this resolved, then it just keeps seems to be getting pushed back and pushed back.

Somebody was supposed to call me, heard that three times, never got called.

Okay, your time is expired.

Uh this is not a question and answer.

I can clarify for the record, we do not lease that from uh UDOT.

We have are in the process of taking it over.

At which point, when it becomes ours, we can regulate it.

And that has been on our agendas in the in previous agendas.

It'll get resolved as soon as all of the legal matters are resolved.

And any idea on that?

How long that's gonna take?

No.

You can't send somebody over so it's not a discussion.

I'm clarifying for the record because you've said some things that are inaccurate, meaning we lease it, which is not true.

So I want to.

Well, that's the information I got from you.

Okay, this is not a discussion, sir.

Your time has expired.

We appreciate you coming in.

Mayor, may I?

Yes, go ahead.

It is on our agenda tonight.

I think it's item number 10.

There are park and ride regulations that you will consider later this evening, based on discussion that we had in a previous work meeting.

So tonight might actually is on our agenda, so we can talk about it.

All right, so it will be item number 10 tonight.

If you'd like to stay through that, you'll hear discussion and you'll hear us resolve what our next steps are.

It's been on previous agendas, and uh it has to be on the agenda for us to discuss it with anyone.

Okay, well, I'm on clear already because you dot made it perfectly clear that you guys lease it from well, that would be inaccurate because that is not we've never leased anything from UDOT.

Well, whatever, whatever agreement you have with them because I was hoping you dot because they are crystal clear that yeah, I am supposed to.

I mean, I got you got people living in there right now.

Sir, I'm gonna be clear.

Well, this is not the time for debate.

This is public comment.

So there will be discussion about it when we get to item number 10.

All right, whatever that means.

Is there anyone else here that has anything to bring forward?

Okay, seeing none.

Cassie, I hear there are two that were uh emailed in.

Will you read those into the record?

Yes, the first one says, Dare Mayor Mann and members of the Syracuse City Council.

I would like to thank the council and city staff for the continued transparency shown throughout recent meetings.

Has someone who has been following many of the discussions over the past several months.

I appreciate the time taken to explain the reasoning behind proposed ordinances and policies and to consider public input.

After reviewing the July 14th meeting packet, I support the city's vision of creating a walkable and attractive town center.

Investing in quality design can benefit Syracuse for many years.

At the same time, I encourage the council to maintain flexibility in the implementation of the town center overlay standards so that design requirements do not unintentionally discourage investment or make it unnecessarily difficult for businesses to locate in Syracuse.

Finding the right balance between high quality development and economic practicality will be important.

I also appreciate the effort to revisit the city's recruitment and retention policy with an emphasis on long-term affordability.

Maintaining competitive compensation while recognizing the city's long-term financial responsibilities appears to be a thoughtful approach.

Regarding the proposed purchase of the Paisley property and the discussion of selling city-owned property, I encourage the city to continue providing clear communication about the long-term vision for those properties and to ensure that all transactions involving public assets remain transparent and demonstrate good stewardship of taxpayer resources.

Thank you again for your willingness to engage with residents and for your continued service to our community.

Respectfully, Eric Willison.

Okay, and then the second one says, good evening.

This is a two-fold statement on the correction and the correction of number one may correct number two.

Number one is speeding along 2000 West between the roundabout of Parkview Drive and Trailside Park is unchecked and creating safety concerns and noise pollution in this residential neighborhood.

There is a new school that opened last year in this section, as well as another school set to open its doors next month.

Also, the new park is adjacent to this as well, along with hundreds of people and small children that play nearby.

As I was leaving for work the other day and getting into my vehicle, I heard a loud noise and turned around to see if all things a police vehicle speeding down the street.

Not that there was an emergency since he wasn't in code three status.

I worked in law enforcement in the military, and I have been trained on the use of radar guns and visual estimation of vehicle speeds.

Also, in all fairness, I don't believe this vehicle was a Syracuse City police vehicle, rather a highway patrol vehicle.

I have already reached out to the mayor on this issue, and he informed me speed bumps are not allowed in Syracuse.

I reached out to the police department and they said in effect that before the roundabout, people used to drive even faster through there.

The police department always offers the same solution of increasing patrols in the area.

This has led me seeing the police department stay near the freeway entrance, but then after a few days, they leave and it is back to business as usual, and the issue persists.

I understand that I'm required to pay out of pocket to do a speed survey, which I think would be a bargain if it actually corrected the issue.

However, if I pay for the survey, corrective actions still need to be taken by the city regardless uh to change the situation.

The police department has also put out a radar trailer multiple times, which has no lasting effect.

I'm not suggesting the police stay at this location 24-7.

Rather, I would like to see traffic abatement measures be implemented.

Some suggestions are another roundabout at the park, the park and ride entrance to the highway, a traffic light at the freeway intersection.

I understand this is UDOT, and per them, they are not installing a signal in this area as it wouldn't be warranted at the intersection unless there is significant queuing on the northbound or southbound off-ramps or significant delays in queuing for the left-turn movements onto the on-ramps.

Chicane curves, center islands, permanent speed feedback signs, getaway treatments like pavement uh modify modifications and reducing the speed limit in the area.

Number two, at all hours of the day and night, vehicles create excessive noise as they drive down this section.

Syracuse has a regulation that caps the noise of vehicles within the speed limit of 80 decibels.

This limit is exceeded routinely.

I would like to request that this regulation be enforced.

The people of Syracuse deserve a quiet and safe neighborhood to raise their families in, and measures can be taken to accommodate the residents of this town and keep them safe.

Thank you for your consideration.

And that is from Eric Shaw.

Okay, thank you.

With that, I will close public comment and we're going to move into our item number three, which is recognition.

The first one I have on our list is the Utah Supervisory Fire Officer designation.

Uh, Chief, if you'll come forward and handle that.

Thank you.

Council Mayor.

Thanks for uh letting out a little bit of time on your agenda tonight to recognize one of our members for the fire department.

If I could have Captain Colt Cottrell come up.

Uh Captain Colt Cottrell has been awarded the Utah Supervisory Fire Officer designation as outlined by the International Association of Fire Chiefs and adopted by the Utah Commission on Fire Officer Designation.

He has combined hundreds of hours of training, education, and experience to meet the requirements for this designation.

His hard work and commitment to this process shows dedication not only to the Utah State Fire Service, but also to Syracuse City and our department.

We uh our department, I'm just super proud of our department.

We've got a lot of supervising fire officer designations uh throughout the state.

This program uh started several years ago, and we were kind of leading the way along with a couple other departments here in Davis County, and we still continue to do so even as the program grows.

So I'm super proud of our team and super proud for uh Captain Cottrell today for getting us.

So he did uh they did send a nice frame certificate, and then there's a pen that he can run on his uniform.

Um so we're gonna give this to him and please join me in congratulating on him.

Recite message.

Thank you.

Uh we're gonna skip item B.

Uh, that's gonna have to be rescheduled.

The next item is item number four, where we have um approval of minutes.

We have minutes from June 9th of our regular city council business meeting, June 9th, special redevelopment agency meeting, uh, June 9th, special municipal building authority meeting.

Uh June 23rd, the Syracuse City Council work session, and June 29th, the special city council business meeting that we held to deal with the governor's order on fireworks.

Does anybody have any corrections to those meeting notes?

Seeing none, I'll take a motion to approve those minutes.

I move that we approve the minutes as outlined in agenda item number four.

Second.

Moved and seconded.

All in favor?

Okay.

Any opposed?

Motion passes unanimously.

The next item on our list is our consent agenda items.

These are items that have been discussed over many meetings, and we have come to uh agreement on.

So unless uh now just uh for procedure, if any council member wishes to take them off of the consent agenda, we can do that and immediately discuss them.

But without any uh interjection, we will uh consent to proposed ordinance 2026-13, amending section 8.10.170 of the municipal municipal Syracuse Municipal Code pertaining to issuance of building permits, proposed ordinance 2026-14, amending section 4.5.10 and 4.5.22 and 10.92.40 of the Syracuse Municipal Code to adopt single stream recycling program for multifamily residential communities.

Item C is authorized administration to execute 2026 local inner interlocal uh cooperation agreement between Davis County Cities and Davis County Stormwater Coalition.

Um then item number D is proposed resolution R26-29 proclaiming commitment to volunteerism in Syracuse City.

Does anybody have a reason to pull any of those off?

Seeing none, I will take a motion to adopt all of those by consent.

So moved.

Second.

Moved and seconded.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

Those pass.

The next item is a public hearing.

So this will be an open discussion.

The proposed resolution is R26-30 authorizing the adoption of the 2026 water or stormwater management program for Syracuse City.

Is there anything that we need to discuss on this from our previous meetings before we go into open discussion?

Okay, we're good.

We've covered it quite thoroughly.

All right.

So uh seeing no further uh changes to what we've discussed previously, I will open this for public hearing.

If you're here to comment on this, this would be the time.

Seeing none, I will close the public hearing.

Council, do you have any further discussion for this proposed authorization for the stormwater management program?

Seeing none, I'll take a motion.

I move that we approve pro proposed ordinance 2026-15, amending section 10.100 of the Syracuse municipal code pertaining.

Oh, sorry, I skipped.

I move that we approve proposed resolution R26-30, authorizing the adoption of the 2026 stormwater management program for Syracuse City.

Second.

Moved and seconded.

All in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

Okay.

Uh we will move on to item number eight, which is proposed ordinance 2026-16, amending section 10.20.90 of the Syracuse Municipal Code pertaining to site plan review.

Is there anything new you'd like to bring forward from what we discussed last time?

Okay.

Does anybody have any questions?

Did you skip number seven?

Did I skip?

Oh, we'll come back to that.

We'll we'll finish number eight while we're there.

Does anybody have any questions to the site plan review process?

Any discussion?

If not, I'll take a motion and then we'll go back to seven.

I move that we approve proposed ordinance 2026-16 amending section 10.20.090 of the Syracuse Municipal Code pertaining to the site plan review.

Second second.

Moved and seconded.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

That passes unanimously.

We'll go back to number seven.

I apologize for the skip.

This is proposed ordinance 2026-15 amendance amending section 10.100 of the Syracuse municipal code pertaining to town center overlay zone.

Is there anything new on this one?

Is anybody have any questions for NOAA since we last discussed this in a work session?

Sorry, I do have one question.

Okay.

So this would not prohibit a drive uh like a drive-through restaurant, but they could not have that drive-through in between the building and the sidewalk, correct?

Correct.

Only if they're on a corner.

Um, well, and I'm thinking of that vacant lot on 2000, which is yeah, which is right there.

So um, and they do have to have a front entrance facing that corner, whatever goes there, correct?

With these or a window, yeah.

Yeah.

Good.

Yeah, the the purpose of this is just public safety.

We want to make sure that they route the driveway somewhere other than up against the sidewalk.

Um that protects kind of our walkable town center.

Does anybody else have any comments on this or clarifications?

Okay, I'll take a motion.

Motion that we adopt the proposed ordinance 2026-15 amending section 10.100 to the Syracuse Municipal uh pertaining to the town center overlay.

Okay.

Moved and seconded.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed.

That motion passes unanimously.

Item number nine is proposed resolution R26-31 adopting an amended Syracuse City recruitment and retention policy.

We have discussed this over many meetings.

Brody, was there something you'd like to clarify before we go into?

Yes, go ahead.

Yes.

Uh there's a couple of issues that um just need to be nailed down.

Um they were in the packet.

One was uh the idea of capping the merit increases.

So uh the increase, what we've done in the last few years, um, it's a percentage of what the sales tax growth rate is for the city.

Um the merit increase is where and is how an employee moves through their wage scale.

Um basically it's 30% of whatever the city's sales tax growth rate is, right?

Because that number can be very volatile from one year to another, we felt like it would be best to have a cap so that we if we have an anomaly year, it's not super high.

And then the following year, so we funded all these increases, and now we have to try to fund it again the following year, and our sales tax rate isn't a lot lower.

Um, so we felt like it should be capped.

And so the proposal right now, and this makes it more predictable, easier to budget, uh, keep it affordable.

Um, so in a normal year, the cap would be at three percent at the very max.

And just for math purposes, that would require, I think, something like a like a 12 or 13 percent increase in sales tax.

Uh the last several years, the most we've had is around seven or eight.

Um, so that'd be pretty high year to be to reach three.

Um, and then if we have a constrained budget year in uh the policy, the cap would be at two and a half percent.

So that's one issue.

The other issue was the definition of what a quote significant tax increase is.

So if as you recall in the policy, um we benchmark at different levels depending on if we have a normal year or a constrained year or severely constrained year, and that's determined if we've had any significant tax increases in the previous budget years, but that's not really defined.

And so there is uh the proposal that's in there is anything above nine percent would be considered significant.

Now, why nine percent?

Why is that number in there?

A couple of things um uh are related to that.

One is that covers any of the historic inflation that the city uh typically has to cover in holding the rate.

Um we've talked about several times in the past how the current truth and taxation law does not allow cities to uh capture anything for inflation.

Um, so which means typically on a given year, if the city council does nothing, then the property tax rate for the city actually goes down.

Um so the last two years, the property tax rate in Syracuse, um, the certified tax rate has actually gone down.

Um this allows you to do a hold the rate so it doesn't go down, you know, or anything like that uh to capture things like inflation, um, and not consider a significant tax increase.

This is totally up to your discretion, but that's the proposal and the reasoning from a dollar perspective to give you an idea.

And this was this was in the packet, nine percent uh in this year's dollars.

Um the average uh homeowner nine percent increase would be five dollars, roughly five dollars and twenty-five cents a month.

So if it's more than five dollars, um then it's considered significant uh five dollars a month um for the year.

So that's that's the basis in the and the proposals.

Just wanted to get that out there before we vote on it and make sure it's uh so we don't have to debate this and not up the next four or five upcoming budget seasons.

Okay.

So hearing that, council, does that raise any questions that you'd like clarification on or discussion that you'd like to have?

When you say five dollars, what is the price of that house?

Uh that's based on the average or the median uh value in Syracuse, um, which I think is around 660,000, uh something like that.

But that's still not enacted unless we uh unless the council votes to have that increase.

To me, this is part to me.

This is kind of fine-tuning what we've already agreed to in concept, but it's putting some limitations or some definitions on what we need to enact the the compensation plan that we've all kind of agreed to that's going to hopefully greatly reduce that deficit between you know what our um what our cost for labor and what we're bringing in is.

So for me, this makes sense because it it it just defines some of those things that are kind of left open-ended, so I don't have any issues.

Mayor, if I could make one correction.

Um my numbers were mixed up.

The average tax bill is $660.

Um, I think the value was in maybe the high 500s.

540 something or something like that.

Yeah, sorry about that.

Noted.

Any other discussion or points to raise?

Again, a lot of this is about putting forth something that's just defined rather than undefined.

Um, I I appreciate staff going to the effort to make sure that we clarify these things.

The more we know, the easier it will be to administer.

Any other questions or comments?

Seeing none, I will ask for a motion on resolution R26-31.

I move that we approve proposed resolution R26-31 adopting an amended Syracuse City recruitment and retention policy.

Okay.

Moved and seconded.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

Okay, that passes unanimously.

Item number 10.

This would be proposed art ordinance 2026-17, amending the Syracuse City Code, section 11.20.60, and adopting Syracuse City Code, section 11.20.75 pertaining to parking regulations at park and ride lots.

There's been a lot of effort that's gone into this to prepare this, and we do finally own the property, I assume at this point.

Almost it has been a long journey getting this into our hands instead of in the hands of you dots.

So this is preparatory so that we could administer and actually hold people accountable for what happens there.

Uh we have to become the authority, and we have to have an ordinance that we can hold people to.

Is there any discussion amongst council on this proposed ordinance?

I just would like to make a note just based on the public comment that we had earlier that we are proactively cognizant of our community and the frustrations that our community feels towards the excessive use by commercial vehicles in the park and rides is something that the council agrees with, and that's why we put forward this ordinance together and worked on it and have been discussing it in preparatory for us to receive that property, and staff has done a lot of work.

And that's why we put forward this ordinance together and worked on it and have been discussing it in preparatory for us to receive that property and staff has done a lot of work.

And so um I just wanted to make that note and uh hope that the gentleman got a copy of the ordinance that we're putting in place that will restrict the restrictions that he was asking for that we hear you and we do care.

So and all of this was in the packet, so it was available to anyone uh prior to the meeting.

Any other questions or comments?

Yeah.

Um just sort of clear on ownership management, all of that stuff.

Uh the city does not have title to the property yet, but we do have an agreement that you dot will turn it over to us.

Um it just has to go through their central office and that sort of thing.

Um, but they have given over the authority to enforce and manage the the properties.

So as of our vote on this ordinance, we would then have authority whether we are the owner or not at this point.

By state law, mayor, as you know, ordinances go into effect approximately 10 days after you approve them.

So if you approve it tonight, there will be the approximately 10-day waiting period before it actually goes into effect.

Okay.

I appreciate that clarification.

So again, yes, we have to file these and they have to be cleared.

So any other questions or comments on this before we take a vote.

Would it be good just to review kind of the main points of this?

Yep.

Just for the public.

Who would like to do that?

I'd love to do that, but I gave my copy to the gentleman with the comments.

So if someone else has it in front of them, that would be great.

Okay.

So the first change that we'll see there is a change to the existing parking ordinance.

Currently, our parking ordinance says you can't park a large commercial vehicle on the street for more than two hours.

Pursuant to discussion we had a couple of weeks ago.

We are proposing that we change that.

You can't park it for longer than two hours unless you're actively loading or unloading.

That would accommodate a moving van that's gonna fill a house full of furniture.

They're not gonna get that done in two hours.

Then you go down to the park and ride lots.

Um, the prohibitions are in paragraphs B, C and so forth.

Nothing won't more than 26,000 pounds at any time, nothing more than 24 feet at any time.

So that should take care of those large trailers that are always parked there.

Um recreational vehicles, no boats, no trailers, no construction equipment.

You can't stand or park in a parking lot in a parking ride lot for more than 48 hours, regardless of what type of vehicle you have and no overnight camping or sleeping.

Okay.

And just for the record, we went over this in multiple meetings to make sure we captured all of those possible violations so that we would be able to enforce them.

Is there any other that anybody wants to throw in there before we conclude with this round of this ordinance?

Is that good enough?

24 feet.

24 feet.

That takes care of big rigs.

Yeah.

So are 22 feet and then they can camp over.

No, no, no.

So my my trailer that I camp in is 43 feet long.

24 feet would be a small trailer, like a small vehicle trailer or no mobile trailer.

Very small, which would be recreational, which we don't allow.

The big commercial trailers that you see there now are 45 foot trailers.

The smaller pup trailers are still 29 feet.

So this will capture all of those commercial ones, especially the ones with the reefers on the front.

Other clarifications.

Okay.

Uh seeing none, I will take a motion uh on this ordinance.

I move that we approve proposed ordinance 2026-17, amending Syracuse Missile Code Section 11.20.060 and the doc and adopting municipal code section 11.20.075 pertaining to the parking regulations for park and ride lots.

Moved and seconded.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed?

That passes unanimously.

So that one is done.

Item number 11 is discussion regarding process for selling property at four or 546 west, 2525 south.

Uh Steve's out of town.

So uh I just want to bring forward why we're having this discussion.

We had the other discussion, which was the 508 property.

Um, we agreed to leave it open for a month, and we found people did not want to wait a month.

They wanted to make an offer and have us respond to offers.

So we feel like we have to handle this one differently.

It's probably not going to be as popular as this other one, but we want to open discussion on what we can do to facilitate uh the moving of this property.

It was purchased so that we could modify the property for road expansion.

Now that it's been modified, we need to get it off the city books.

We are not in the business of holding property.

So that's kind of the history of this one and where we're at.

Roadie, you're gonna fill in for some of the discussion.

Yeah, just so the council is aware that there isn't state law this year.

But uh we do have to there's a meeting period before we can go to settlement um from when we first advertised it.

So there is still that time for to go to to go to closing.

But the idea here or the issue here is we've had buyers come through and Chrissy Young, she's our realtor, she's actually here today.

If we have any uh in-depth questions for her on the market and that sort of thing, feel free to invite her up.

Um, but uh we've had people come interested, willing to make the offer, but their time frame did not match the 30 days, so they walk.

And um, the the input we're getting from our our professionals uh marketing the houses is that if if we can just capture the buyers as they come, we can actually possibly get the best price out of it rather than having this waiting period before we entertain any offers.

So the the the question on the table is for the second house.

Um can we do it that way?

Yeah.

So does that make sense to everybody what we're talking about?

We probably should have handled the other one differently, but we didn't.

We're moving on.

So um, any other questions on realtors, so we are not.

I think it makes sense because if you're looking at a residential real estate transaction, people are want to know.

And if they can't find out for 30 days, they're gonna move on to the next one.

And our real estate agent probably has the ability to take multiple offers and issue a uh have them submit their highest and best offer if we get into a multiple bidding situation anyway.

I I think it makes sense to agree.

Quicker.

Okay.

Anyone disagree with that philosophy?

Okay, seeing done this is not up for a vote because we don't actually have to take a vote on this.

Uh we just need to have a general consensus that we're gonna handle it differently.

Um, because we we're kind of stuck, we announced a different process.

We kind of had to stick by it on the other house.

So unless somebody's got an objection, I am going to go ahead and say rule that we are in agreement with moving forward with this process.

I will say on the first house, we still think we're gonna get a price that's above the appraised value or close to it.

Right.

Yeah, we did not suffer from that.

We just couldn't move as fast as some of the people wanted to move.

That's really it.

Okay.

So seeing none, I'm gonna go ahead and direct that.

We've got agreements to change our policy on the second property.

Um at this time, I'm going to adjourn us from this meeting for just a minute because we have one more business item to uh handle.

So I'm gonna adjourn us from this meeting and call to order a special redevelopment agency meeting.

Uh, we only have one item on this agenda.

Um, we do need to adopt the agenda.

Can I get a motion to adopt the agenda?

We certainly adopt the agenda.

Second second.

All in favor.

I okay.

The item before us, well, there's two uh items, but they're to the same issue.

Uh authorized Mayor Mon to execute real estate purchase contract, Rep C for a property located approximately 2500 west and 1650 south that we've designated by code name the Paisley, because that helps us all understand because there's several parcel IDs involved in this.

Um, we agreed in uh principle to purchase this property so that we can do what we've done in some of our other key business properties in the city, and we just need to take an official vote so that we can go ahead and finish that purchase.

Does anybody have anything more?

We did have a comment during public comment that regarded that.

Does anybody else have anything to say about this before we sorry?

I do have a couple questions.

Right, and we probably talked about it, but I can't remember, so you have to remind me.

So if we're using the RDA funds, yes.

Um, when this property is sold, those proceeds have to reimburse that RDA.

So with the funds that we're using to purchase this, what does that leave our balance?

We're actually going to use uh we we believe that this affects two RDAs.

So we're gonna use funds from two different from two different and um it will leave them in different positions.

So we can review RDAs.

We'll have we won't jeopardize anything that we have on the docket, is what we're I'm trying to figure out.

I can't remember exactly where our funds are, but um so uh the cash available is around three million.

Um this was two of the three, one of the RDAs is generating a half a million a year.

Okay, so it's it's replenishing fairly quickly, and then this would, and then once this property we do what the RDA is gonna try to do some economic development with it.

Yes, sell the property, the funds go back to the RDA.

Okay.

Any other questions?

Again, I'm very excited about this one based on what happened with the last property we were involved in.

We came out pretty good on the city side.

So uh all right, so can I get a motion to authorize the mayor to execute the purchase contract?

So moved second, moved and seconded.

All in favor?

Aye, any opposed.

Okay, the second would be proposed resolution RDA 2602, adopting bylaws for the Syracuse City Redevelopment Agency, and this is because we missed doing this earlier, or reminds me.

And a few months back, several months back, you asked me to prepare some, and it just took me forever to get to it.

Okay, yeah.

So we are solving something that just wasn't previously done.

Anybody have any questions about that?

It's consistent with our other RDAs.

This is not new.

The the significant difference between the RDA and the city council is in the city council.

The mayor generally does not vote except in limited situations under the RDA statutes.

The mayor is a voting member.

So instead of five voting members in city council, you will have six voting members for the RDA.

Everything else is pretty standard.

Complicates it so much more.

All right, seems like we almost always are unanimous on these RDA issues.

All right.

Does anybody have uh can I get a motion on RDA 26-02?

So moved.

Second.

Moved and seconded.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Any opposed?

Okay, I will adjourn us from the RDA meeting and we will resume uh our Syracuse business meeting.

At this point in time, we have our second motion for public comment.

If anybody has a public comment, the same rules apply.

We are probably the only city that allow people to comment before and after our business, but we continue to do that in fair transparency.

Seeing none, I will close public comment and move into mayor and council announcements.

We'll start down on your end tonight, Brett.

Do you have anything to bring before us?

No, nothing for me.

Thanks.

Andrea.

Uh youth court is getting excited to take applications.

So any high school age kids that are excited to serve the committee, look on the website for youth work and apply.

Great.

Paul.

I don't have any announcements.

Julie.

I'll give you a mosquito report.

Mosquitoes are out there.

But surprisingly, the service requests have gone down 30% last month.

That's actually good.

And Syracuse hasn't um, you know, it's it's affected every every city.

They're not calling in as much.

So the mosquito abatement district wanted me to pass on that.

Please call them.

They love to spray.

Okay.

Abe.

Nothing.

Okay.

I have two quick uh announcements.

One would be if you have the chance, come see Wizard of Oz at the high school this week, Wednesday through Saturday.

There will be multiple performances.

Really excited for that production.

Uh they are doing some amazing things where they will actually do live action black and white.

You'll have to come see that for the first part of the show.

I think it's a phenomenal effort that they figured that out.

The other thing would be um, I just did get a report this last week from the recycling group.

And Syracuse once again has the highest recyclables of any city in the county.

And we are recapturing uh according to their process of measurement, we are capturing over 70% recyclables from the stuff that we throw away, which is phenomenal.

And I think that's great.

Well, it'll we'll do even better now that we've got multi-family options.

So that's my only uh things to bring forward.

Does anybody uh have any last comments before I take a motion to adjourn?

I'll take a motion to adjourn then.

I move that we adjourn.

Second.

All in favor?

We are adjourned.

Thank you.

The short one problem.

Surprisingly we're done my own questions because I'll be there.

It's not based on exactly yeah there you go.

At least my excuse me left with the shield the other side of the recently measured