City Council Minutes 2-7-23

TREMONTON CITY CORPORATION
CITY COUNCIL MEETING
FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Members Present:
Connie Archibald
Wes Estep
Bret Rohde
Rick Seamons
Lyle Vance
Lyle Holmgren, Mayor
Shawn Warnke, City Manager
Marc Christensen, Assistant City Manager
Cynthia Nelson, Deputy Recorder

CITY COUNCIL WORKSHOP

Mayor Holmgren called the February 7, 2023 City Council Workshop to order at 5:03 p.m. The meeting was held in the City Council Meeting Room at 102 South Tremont Street, Tremonton, Utah. Those in attendance were Mayor Holmgren, Councilmembers Archibald, Estep, Rohde, Seamons, and Vance, City Manager Warnke, Assistant City Manager Christensen, and Deputy Recorder Nelson. Also in attendance were: Finance Director Curtis Roberts and City Engineer Chris Breinholt.

Motion by Councilmember Estep to move into closed session. Motion seconded by Councilmember Archibald. Vote: Councilmember Archibald – aye, Councilmember Estep – aye, Councilmember Rohde – aye, Councilmember Seamons – aye, Councilmember Vance – aye. Motion approved.

The Council moved into a closed session at 5:03 p.m.

1. CLOSED SESSIONS:

a. Strategy session to discuss the purchase of real property when public discussion of the transaction would disclose the appraisal or estimated value of the property under consideration or prevent the public body from completing the transaction on the best possible terms; and/or
b. Strategy session to discuss the character, professional competence or physical or mental health of an individual; and/or
c. Strategy sessions to discuss pending or reasonably imminent litigation; and/or
d. Discussions regarding security personnel, devices or systems

Motion by Councilmember Vance to return to open session. Motion seconded by Councilmember Estep. Vote: Councilmember Archibald – aye, Councilmember Estep – aye, Councilmember Rohde – aye, Councilmember Seamons – aye, Councilmember Vance – aye. Motion approved.

The Council returned to open session at 5:46 p.m.

2. Discussion of the hydrology of the Cedar Ridge Well and the effectiveness of an Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) in the Cedar Ridge Aquifer and Well – John Files, Cascade Water Resources, Richard Emerson

Mayor Holmgren said this Cedar Ridge Well was supposed to produce well, but never really did. This could become a capture area to store water. We have all this water going into the Bear River from springs and is lost. This would reverse that and pump the water from the springs into this well during the off season. The water would be stored and accessed during high demand. We would basically reverse the process. The pipe is already there, we would just have to add about 250 feet of 12-inch line. We have applied for a grant to help with the cost.

Mr. Emerson said last year I did the hydraulic study to find targets for a well and it was quickly apparent that there is not a lot out there. What stuck out quickly was the draw down on the Cedar Ridge area. Brigham City has done a program like this that has been successful and we would expect similar results here. When asked about cost, Mayor Holmgren said we hope to have the CBDG grant to cover about $250,000. Councilmember Vance asked if it is a lot of money to pump that water on an annual basis, for operations. Manager Warnke said the idea is Director Fulgham would watch the levels to see how much is rising. When that stops, he would shut it off. Assistant City Manager Christensen said we have spent $84,600 in the Water Fund pumping water and the budget is $140,000 for all water. Mr. Emerson asked about the injection rate and said I calculated that at 300 injection. Mayor Holmgren said this is one way of capturing high quality water and saves it to use during high demand in a relatively inexpensive way.

When asked if there were other areas to capture water, Mr. Emerson said I mostly look on the fault zone on the bench, but the concern is that you start pulling water from the bedrock aquifer, which is likely feeding all the springs. You run into potential impairment issues that could impact other users. The Cedar Ridge Aquifer stood out as unique. It is a small aquifer that is not getting a lot of recharge even though the well produces, if we can get more water into that, it is your best bet. The Council thanked him for his time. Mayor Holmgren said we hope to move forward with it this summer.

3. Discussion of the Bear River Canal Company’s (BRCC) requirement for equalization basins and BRCC’s application for PL83- 566 Grant Funds- Trevor Nielson, General Manager for Bear River Canal Company & Randy Udy, Assistant GM @ BRCC

Mr. Nielson gave a history on the Bear River Canal Company. He said Tremonton City is one of our larger shareholders. We do a headgate turn schedule and every single share is scheduled down to the minute, each week on how much water is given. The City is unique in that they have full-time headgates with on demand extraction for the secondary system. There are different water stations throughout the City. Service Area 9 is planned, but we run into issues with the bylaws of the canal company. You are required to use your water within your scheduled limits (time or flow). As good stewards of the water, your citizens water at night more than in the day. Without a storage facility the issue is you are using everything you can in the night and then in the day the rest is just going downstream. City management has done a good job of utilizing the resources you have, but you have to supplement because it is use or lose without a storage pond. If you could capture and hold that water, you would have plenty to hit your peak. Most of the time the City is in compliance, but regularly you are exceeding your extractions. The Jeanie Stevens area is more prominent—26% of the time the City is not compliant with the bylaws. Director Fulgham and I have worked together to make some adjustments. The big issue is the school and the park irrigating at the same time. Having them rotate days helps. On the whole, the City has not violated its overall allocation, but each of the stations need to show they are not peaking over the allowed amount. For the City to continue to grow and have sufficient shares, the pond on the Central Canal needs to be built. If you want to install that additional pump station on the east you will need to put a pond on the East Canal, too. That would free up some of the shares that are being used and allow you to do volume instead of flow. The advantage to storage is that the canal runs steady. We try to minimize issues and we have technology to help with that. We are taking preparations ourselves and obtaining grants to help us develop this system. They then watched a video explaining that system. Mr. Nielson said this is a $7 to $9 million investment and we are well on our way to getting that done. Installing the pond on the Central Canal would help with operations. We think it is a good political move for both organizations. There are learning curves with this, but we want to be good neighbors and work through this with you. We encourage you to make those investments. We will have to have one pond for each canal, but timing is based on growth.

Councilmember Vance said you talked about adjustments being made to make this work, can we still continue to do that to save money and not put another holding pond in? Mr. Nielson said technically last year the City was in violation. The one pump was only 3% of the time, but another was 26% of the time so that needs to be adjusted. We have worked on rearranging the shares and doing things with the school, but if the operational adjustments do not work then pump station 2 will be in violation of the bylaws again. My reasonable estimation is unless you purchase a significant block of shares you will not have enough for 2024 without the basin for storage.

Mr. Nielson discussed a program that could help the City fund these types of projects. We will be able to install ours after 2025. As fast as the City is growing, I do not see us being able to service the City’s needs with the number of shares you have beyond the 2023 season. We were hopeful the central and east canal ponds could be installed with these funds. We are willing to honor our commitment we made that you could wait until 2025 if that is was what the City needed. However, we cannot approve another pump station on the east side of the Malad River until there is reason to believe there will be more shares and the existing system is operating in the constraints of the bylaws. The holding ponds are required in accordance with the motions made by the Board of Directors. Manager Warnke said when you violate your peak use, as an administrative penalty they lock you out for a week and that is something we want to avoid. We want to be good neighbors, too. We do have the equalization basin on the Central Canal engineered and it is to a point where we can put it out to bid. We think we can move forward and are trying to get it under construction this season. The Council thanked them for their time.

4. Review of the agenda items identified on 7:00 p.m. City Council Agenda

The meeting adjourned at 6:54 p.m. by consensus of the Council.

CITY COUNCIL MEETING

Mayor Holmgren called the February 7, 2023 City Council Meeting to order at 6:59 p.m. The meeting was held in the Tremonton City Council Meeting Room at 102 South Tremont Street, Tremonton, Utah. Those in attendance were Mayor Holmgren, Councilmembers Archibald, Estep, Rohde, Seamons, and Vance, City Manager Warnke, Assistant City Manager Christensen, and Deputy Recorder Nelson. The following Department Heads were also present: Interim Fire Chief Chris Scothern, Police Chief Dustin Cordova, Parks and Recreation Director Zach LeFevre, Treasurer Sharri Oyler, and Social Media Manager Sara Mohrman. Also in attendance were: Finance Director Curtis Roberts, City Engineer Chris Breinholt and City Attorney Dustin Ericson.

1. Opening Ceremony:

Mayor Holmgren informed the audience that he had received no written or oral request to participate in the Opening Ceremony. He asked anyone who may be offended by listening to a prayer to step out into the lobby for this portion of the meeting. The prayer was offered by Mayor Holmgren and the Pledge of Allegiance was led by Former Mayor Roger Fridal.

2. Introduction of guests: Mayor Holmgren welcomed those in attendance, including a group of students.

3. Declaration of Conflict of Interest: None.

4. Approval of Agenda:

Motion by Councilmember Archibald to approve the agenda of February 7, 2023 with items 11. a. 3 and 11. b. 1 being moved before the Public Comment period. Motion seconded by Councilmember Seamons. Vote: Councilmember Archibald – aye, Councilmember Estep – aye, Councilmember Rohde – aye, Councilmember Seamons – aye, Councilmember Vance – aye. Motion approved.

5. Approval of minutes – January 24, 2023

Motion by Councilmember Estep to approve the minutes of January 24, 2023. Motion seconded by Councilmember Rohde. Vote: Councilmember Archibald – aye, Councilmember Estep – aye, Councilmember Rohde – aye, Councilmember Seamons – aye, Councilmember Vance – aye. Motion approved.

6. Presentation

a. Tremonton City Citizenship Award to Elementary and Intermediate Students

Mayor Holmgren said we started this a few months ago to recognize students from our local schools for their desire to be good citizens and examples. I would like to recognize Councilmembers Estep and Archibald for this idea. They have done a great job of working with the schools. Thank you to the principals for showing interest. He then read those students’ names, gave them a gift card and took a picture.

b. Fiscal Year 2022 Audited Financial Statements- Curtis Roberts, Finance Director, Auditors Mike Kidman and Andy Hernandez

Auditors Mike Kidman and Andy Hernandez presented. Mr. Kidman said the audit went well. We appreciate those who helped us work through the documents. He then reviewed the different sections of the report. The financial statements are presented correctly. We have looked at controls and compliance to make sure we get the correct process and understand how things come together. We did not find any material weaknesses in the controls structure. Nor did we find any major compliance issues. The next one emphasizes State laws and regulations. This is a pass fail, showing whether you comply or not. We did not find any weaknesses or errors with your compliance efforts in regards to the State issues. This last one was done because there was so much federal money with the COVID Relief Funds. Finance Director Roberts did a good job directing us in this option to be focused and efficient in testing the COVID dollars. It was short and to the point. The City did a good job documenting that so we could see the compliance was met. There is also the standard management letter, required communications, accounting policies and practices. Tremonton is very well run. Your people do a good job. This is a clean report that you should be happy with.

Director Roberts explained that he learned in school the importance of painting a picture for an entity based on words and numbers. What they look like, how they are functioning and what is making them work. That is what financial statements do. It needs to paint a picture of what this government looks like and what direction it is going and where it has been. He reviewed the populations of Tremonton and how it has grown over the years. He also compared the financial statements and balances from previous years to show how the City has evolved. We have come a long way. The City Council and administration said we are not sure we like the picture we are painting we think we can do better and be better stewards with City funds. A conscious effort was made to stop leasing and start paying for things as we go and to save money. Where the city is now is thanks to the inspired leadership of the Council, the hard work and tons of hours by City staff. We can report the General Fund is very solid and where it needs to be. There are still improvements we can make and a vision out there to make it stronger. Now, when something breaks down we are not scrambling to see who will loan us money. You have the ability to direct projects you want to do and not just handling emergencies. The biggest things I want to present is this vision was caught 10 to 15 years ago. We are moving into budget season and we need the Council to say this was 10 years ago what do you want to see in 10 years from now? What is the picture you want to paint and what numbers can we start putting together? I am super excited about this financial report and the legacy it has presented over the years. The Council and City staff have monitored their spending and been stewards of the City’s funds to create a fantastic place where we are at. Mayor Holmgren said we appreciate this report and your way of telling us about it. It makes me feel good about our direction. We are in a transition and this is a good time to start thinking about what we want things to look like.

7. Years of Service Award

a. Blair Westergard, Fire Department – 40 years
b. Mary Ann Andersen, Senior Center – 10 Years
c. Zach LeFevre, Parks & Recreation – 10 Years

Mayor Holmgren thanked them for their years of service. Interim Fire Chief Scothern read through Mr. Westergard’s bio and experience for his 40 years of sacrifice. Mayor Holmgren then read through Mrs. Andersen’s bio and experience for her time at the Senior Center. Assistant City Manager Christensen read a bio for Mr. LeFevre explaining his time with Parks and Rec. Mayor Holmgren said we appreciate all our employees.

Items 11. b. 1. and 11. a. 3. were discussed next. Manager Warnke said back in December 2021 the Council approved a zoning ordinance—an annexation and zoning ordinance for Rivers Edge. That was a legislative decision, which is done through ordinances. At this point, City staff is reviewing land use applications to make sure it complies with the Code. Approval of the subdivision is an administrative decision that is done by the Development Review Committee. The River’s Edge group has been working toward getting their first phase of this development. They have submitted construction plans and we are in the final stages of reviewing those for compliance. We are also working on a development agreement, which formalizes all the requirements and conditions. That will be recorded and run with the property. An engineer’s estimate also accompanies that development agreement, which is used to secure public improvements associated with approval. A unique element of this is a phased development agreement between Tremonton City, the developer, and the Utah Department of Transportation. A traffic study was required and reviewed by UDOT. It was determined that after the first phase, before or in conjunction with the second phase, they will need to install a traffic light. That agreement is forthcoming. In future phases, there is an outlet to SR-13 through property that is currently owned by the Canal Company. The developer is in the final stages of securing the expansion of their property to accommodate all the turning movements at that intersection. Part of the pre-annexation agreement requires they dedicate to the City a pump station site along with easements. Those are in the process of being dedicated, along with the park and water shares. Those are all forthcoming. Through the public comment process came the need for a traffic light at the Crossroads. Based upon that, the City reached out to UDOT and has worked with them to do a traffic study. Since then we have continued to evaluate and find solutions. UDOT is proposing a traditional intersection, but there will not be dedicated lanes for each traffic movement in all directions. That should be constructed in 2024.

8. Public comments:

Resident Capree Austin said Lookout Point 234, Spring Hollow 41, Spring Acres 53, Edgewood 226, Matheson 304, Holmgren East 17, Tremonton Place 28, Aspen Ridge 150, Hansen 418, River Valley 32, and I did not get numbers for Envision Estates, Bear River Meadows, Harvest Village and Archibald Estates. So, we are around 3,200 units. I am disheartened to see the amount of growth and not the infrastructure to support it. As a resident I try to shop here, but Main Street is a mess. There are businesses I want to support, but Kents is a mess, Ridley’s is a mess and people shop outside. There have been comments of let us sell the City. When we look at the numbers, we are growing too fast. A survey was done with about 350 people, which is not even 1% of the residents who live here and 83% of them think we are growing too fast. That is why I am here. I think we are moving too fast. I cannot even pull out of my neighborhood. I work outside of this community because in order to afford my house I cannot work here. Rather than keep building and pushing people here, let us provide jobs for them, infrastructure and bring businesses people want to support. We keep talking about affordable housing. We have the State on this and we are going to get penalties, but the State has never penalized anyone for not having affordable housing. They have a process that is broken. I think we should progress and we have to, but in order to do that we have to have affordable housing and call it what it is. How do you regulate what a contractor builds or what homes are selling for? You cannot do that. A contractor can come in and say these are affordable, but $500,000 is not affordable. Our median income in Tremonton is $60,000 and in order to afford a $500,000 home, which is what these are selling for, you would have to have an income of $113,000 with 20% down, which is $100,000. The majority of the residents cannot do that. As far as the stoplight goes that sounds like a great idea. On my way home it was a half a mile long. It went way past the storage units. A traffic light is perfect, but one with turning lanes. Thank you.

Resident Kristy Bowcutt said I read the state of the City, which I appreciate. Some thing that caught my attention is the citizens are worried about water and after listening to the previous meeting we should all be worried about the water, as well as road congestion and services. I have had a few ambulance rides and I wonder how stretched our EMTs are. They are such a vital part of our community. Are we stretching them too thin by adding more and more people? Our numbers have doubled since 2020. That is not in any way the values that a lot of you ran on for office. The future land use map, shows what the City can handle, but if we do not have water why are we allowing people to continue to build? That is a big concern of mine. River’s Edge is back on. Why apartments? Resident and Planning Commission Member Paul Fowler asked the same question and this answer was given to him by Manager Warnke, who said, I love to see a variety of housing in Box Elder County. We do not need any more apartments we need affordable housing. I look at my kids and they cannot afford things. It is scary. We need to really take a step back and look at our services. We do not have enough water and our sewer is the pits. Try to get a doctor’s appointment. I had an emergency and was told the end of January you can see your doctor the end of February. I said I cannot wait so I went in and they said you have to take care of this, but we cannot take care of it for two weeks. Everything adds up, line upon line and precept upon precept. If the services are not there, we cannot keep pushing these housing districts. Somewhere someone needs to pull the strings back. There is a huge project that has been projected up on Radio hill, too. Step back and look at the town.

Resident Tasha Speas said why are we starting this subdivision if we cannot even get a stoplight until 2024 and adding more homes. Manager Warnke said when River’s Edge complies with the requirements, they can record. They are planning to construct this spring. Once they record, they have a year to start improvements. Mrs. Speas said so UDOT is requiring the light around Phase 2, but you said it might be after Phase 2 has started? The road has never been finished to connect 775 East so when you say they might have to put that in with Phase 2 is it a for sure thing? Manager Warnke said the road you are talking about will be done with Phase 1. When they record the development, they have one year to start the improvements. The Main Street light is not required during Phase 1. I have not seen the complete agreement, but a certain number of lots is what would trigger that. It could be half way through Phase 2, but I will know more when I see it in writing.

9. New Council Business:

a. Discussion and consideration of adopting Resolution No. 23-09 approving a consultant agreement between Hemmco, LCC, and Tremonton City for lobbying services on state and local government relations and appropriations with the Utah Legislature and State Government agencies

Manager Warnke said this would be Tremonton City working with a group of individuals to help us secure a water grant ($1 million to $2 million). We feel we have a good chance of obtaining them based on the process we are proposing. Mayor Holmgren said we are considering using this ARPA funding to construct Service Area 4. Manager Warnke said Senator Scott Sandall introduced us to these individuals and we feel it is a good fit to help us secure these funds. Mayor Holmgren said we are being asked to come up with $100,000, which can be paid over the two budget periods over 10 months. We did quite a bit of research on these people and many Utah cities have used them and they came back highly recommended. We are feeling good about this. Manager Warnke said they have a 100% success rate, but I would say there is always risk with any water development. There is no sure thing in water.

Motion by Councilmember Vance to adopt the resolution. Motion seconded by Councilmember Estep. Roll Call Vote: Councilmember Archibald – aye, Councilmember Estep – aye, Councilmember Rohde – aye, Councilmember Seamons – aye, Councilmember Vance – aye. Motion approved.

b. Discussion and consideration of adopting Resolution No. 23-10, a resolution of the City Council of Tremonton City, Utah declaring its intention to reimburse itself for expenditures incurred in connection with financing all or a portion of the costs of the acquisition of property and construction of improvements and to the issuer’s water system and all related improvements, with proceeds of bonds that it intends to issue; and related matters.

Manager Warnke said Councilmember Vance asked City staff to look into the possibility of getting reimbursed from future bond proceeds for expenses we would be making now. We were trying to acquire property for the equalization basin on the East Canal. Historically, the City has bonded for the build out of secondary water. I reached out to our bond council and Zions Bank, and the municipal advisor told us of a path forward, which is called a reimbursement resolution. There are certain rules as it relates to using those bond proceeds since they are tax exempt. You need to declare ahead of your expense or you have 60 days. This opens the gate and time period into the future. Our bond council put that resolution together. They looked at what it would take to build out service areas 4 and 9 (about $6 million). It does require that you put an amount in that resolution that you think you might want to be reimbursed. I used that as the parameters. This essentially allows you to spend up to $6 million now or anytime into the future. Then if you elected to go through and bond for improvements then you can reimburse yourself from those bond proceeds. This is specific to water system improvements, but it is pretty broadly defined to allow us as much flexibility as possible. It does not apply to wastewater. This gives us more options in the future and is the mechanism to do that.

Manager Warnke said you also requested cost estimates for various improvements and those are detailed here in these pages. Cost is $250,000 for the equalization basin and site improvements, but that does not include the cost of the land. Director Roberts reviewed their financials. The water fund has $4.4 million. Nearly $1.6 was left over from the bond proceeds, we spent that for improvements, but the $4 million is sitting there. We have $2.5 million that could comfortably be used for water improvements. We have flexibility and been able to build this up. We could invest that into the water system. This fund had a large amount of impact fees that were sitting there. When the City adopted a new impact fee ordinance last year, the ordinance allowed for the recovery of impact fees against secondary water improvements. We made that cash available for water projects and released all the restrictions on it. It was very strategic. Manager Warnke said one of the issues with impact fees is if you are not issuing a lot of building permits then you do not have a lot of impact fees to collect. We have talked about growth and that in part has opened up the resources to acquire those impact fees all at once to do some of these projects.

Motion by Councilmember Archibald to adopt the resolution. Motion seconded by Councilmember Vance. Roll Call Vote: Councilmember Archibald – aye, Councilmember Estep – aye, Councilmember Rohde – aye, Councilmember Seamons – aye, Councilmember Vance – aye. Motion approved.

c. Discussion and consideration of adopting Resolution No. 23-04 amending the Tremonton City Annual Implementation Budget 2022-2023 (General Fund, Capital Fund(s), Enterprise Fund(s), and Special Funds),” for the period commencing July 1, 2022, and ending June 30, 2023

Assistant City Manager Christensen said this is a continuation of the discussion we had in January. These are budget amendments for this current fiscal year. We do this a few times a year for unforeseen things. Personnel is ongoing, but these others are one-time purchases we can absorb with fund balances. One of the recommendations from our previous fire chief was to hire three shift captains so they have 24-hour coverage with four people on a shift instead of three. This would allow them to have two different crews running without having on-call. This total annually is $330,000 about $110,000 for each captain, which includes benefits and salaries. We had an ambulance scheduled to purchase this year, but it will not be available. If we were to hire those three people this year it would be about 25% for the last quarter. That is where we get $71,900 (one quarter for three captains). Councilmember Rohde said I see the need, but we also need police officers and other things. I cannot see the whole picture. If we pass this now then we get hit with something else. I want to know the total picture. Councilmember Estep asked about the five-year plans from department heads. Assistant City Manager Christensen said I have received all that. At the next fiscal year budget, I will come with the personnel issues for the whole City. Councilmember Rohde said I would be more comfortable if I could see that. We will have to prioritize, but it would be nice to know. They reviewed what they have for Fire and EMS funds and where that could be pulled in the future. Director Roberts said this is a base line level of service. You have to have firefighters ready to respond. This is what we are committing to have, a good solid fire force and make sure the fund stays healthy. You have to look at ongoing costs and revenues, but I am comfortable with the ongoing costs. Councilmember Rohde said if the fund is covering itself then I am fine with that. The firefighters need to know we are in total support of them. They are vital. Councilmember Vance said we do need to see the whole picture so we do not feel strong armed into voting for stuff. We need to know what is going on before we get to that point. Assistant City Manager Christensen said I have a pretty good draft budget. We will be a month or two ahead of where we were last year. We are working on getting it together for the whole picture.

Motion by Councilmember Rohde to adopt the resolution as written and discussed. Motion seconded by Councilmember Estep. Roll Call Vote: Councilmember Archibald – aye, Councilmember Estep – aye, Councilmember Rohde – aye, Councilmember Seamons – aye, Councilmember Vance – aye. Motion approved.

d. Discussion and consideration of disposing of a 1996 Ford ambulance

Chief Cordova said we do not need it and it is taking up space. It was given to us and we have not used it. There are other options so we want to get rid of it. There is a market for them and people have contacted us about it.

Motion by Councilmember Estep to dispose of the ambulance and put the money into the General Fund. Motion seconded by Councilmembers Archibald and Rohde. Vote: Councilmember Archibald – aye, Councilmember Estep – aye, Councilmember Rohde – aye, Councilmember Seamons – aye, Councilmember Vance – aye. Motion approved.

10. Calendar Items and Previous Assignment

a. Review of calendar: None.
b. Unfinished Business/Action Items: None.
c. Branding Implementation update: None.

11. Reports & Comments:

a. City Administration Reports and Comments

1. UTOPIA Fiber Subscriber Report: Not at this time.
2. Box Elder County Ordinance Text Amendment on Annexation Policy

Manager Warnke said Councilmember Vance and others have asked how we can work with the County and health department on growth patterns that do not inhibit our ability to provide services as the City continues to annex. The County recently approved an ordinance and the language is in your packet. It requires that any development being proposed in the County within our declared annexation areas would come to the City first for annexation. They would need to make a petition to be annexed and the City would evaluate the ability to provide services. We will continue to work with the health department to get ordinances in place to deal with septic tanks.

3. Traffic signal at the intersection of SR 102 (Main Street) and SR 13

This item was discussed before the Public Comment.

4. Water Capital Improvement Plan associated with the Water Rate Study being performed by Zions Bank Public Finance: Not at this time.
5. Preparation of request for bids for chip seal project: Not at this time.

b. Development Review Committee Report

1. Rivers Edge, Phase 1 Final Plat Approval

This item was discussed before the Public Comment.

2. Townhomes on 400 West: Not at this time.

c. City Department Head Reports and Comments

Interim Fire Chief Scothern said we got the exhaust system installed and running. It seems to be working well. All of our ambulances now have powerlifts.

Police Chief Cordova said I talked to Manager Warnke about some updates to discuss in close session. I commend Interim Fire Chief Scothern for doing the radios. That was quite a bit of money and hopefully we can figure that out soon.

Social Media Manager Mohrman said Mardi Gras is soon and will be held at Midland Square. People are excited and it is something different from what we normally offer.

Animal Shelter Technician Beagley said the new program with our dogs and cats is working. We had 13 animals that came into the shelter. Five were returned to their owners, one was put into rescue, and two were put in foster homes. We still have five at the shelter and some updates are pending. The good news is none have been euthanized.

d. City Council Reports and Comments

Councilmember Estep said if your neighbor’s car is parked on the road during a snow storm ask them to move it. We had 10 cars that have not been moved since last summer and we have been plowing around them. Chief Cordova will take care of those.

Mayor Holmgren said you did a great job of clearing the streets, we appreciate your efforts and what you are doing. This is a great City to be a part of and I love watching all the good things going on. I wish our people making public comments would stay and listen to the rest of the meeting, they would have got a lot better feeling of where this City is going. People have been complaining about how we are not being responsible with our growth, but I think that is not true. We are being very responsible in how we are doing things.

12. CLOSED SESSIONS: No closed session held at this time.

13. Adjournment.

Motion by Councilmember Seamons to adjourn the meeting. Motion seconded by consensus of the Council. Vote: Councilmember Archibald – aye, Councilmember Estep – aye, Councilmember Rohde – aye, Councilmember Seamons – aye, Councilmember Vance – aye. Motion approved.

The meeting adjourned at 9:26 p.m.

The undersigned duly acting and appointed Recorder for Tremonton City Corporation hereby certifies that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the minutes for the City Council Meeting held on the above referenced date. Minutes were prepared by Jessica Tanner.

Dated this 7th day of March, 2023.

Linsey Nessen, City Recorder

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