Work Session
The
Pleasant Grove royalty and Rodeo royalty presented. Invited the Council and
residents to Strawberry Days. They will have a parade, concert in the park,
strawberries and cream, carnival, Huck Finn Days, baby contest, princess party,
and more. Rodeo is June 19-22.
Council Meeting
Public
Comment
Larisa
Powell - Loves the Family Festival and thinks it's a good opportunity for
residents to come together. Her children sell popsicles at parks and at festival.
She is being told now she has to pay $50 to get a booth in order to sell
popsicles at the festival. She feels that bringing in outside vendors makes it
more commercialized and less family friendly. Kids aren't allowed to
participate because they don't have ability to pay vendor fee. They've been
doing this long before festival started. Wants city to bring it back to more of
a family outing and give kids opportunity to sell items and participate.
Dave
Latham - Running in walkway under Canyon Road and neither tunnel is lit. Feels
this is unsafe. Feels that lights should be added.
Consent
Agenda
Minutes
for the April 23, 2013 Council meeting were approved.
City
Reports
CM
Rees - Working on State of the City and need feedback from Council on any items
they want included.
CM
Augustus – Planning Commission meeting this week. Working on renaming of
Clubhouse Drive.
CM
Martinez – Parks, Trails, Beautification and Recreation committee is meeting
this week. Yard of the Month starts in June. YCC applications are due this
week. Tball begins June 4th. Lacrosse starts June 13th. Soccer registrations
are happening now. Family Festival committee doing a fantastic job. 19 kids are
signed up for Lego League. We have 100 volunteers signed up for Family
Festival. Community has really embraced call for volunteerism.
CM
Jackman - LPPSD board met and approved budget, which should have lower cost
than we originally planned on.
CM
Zappala – Utah Valley Dispatch board met and approved budget. Looking at
building a new dispatch facility.
David
Bunker - TSSD not yet able to bring east side processing online. Continuing to
work on this.
Review/Action
on Ordinance Adjusting Earl Property into Pleasant Grove
In
April the Council adopted a resolution the Earl property to be boundary
adjusted into Pleasant Grove. Public hearings were held in both cities and
there were no protests filed. This ordinance was unanimously approved.
Discussion
on Commercial Zone
Blu
Line Designs approached city regarding commercial zone by Walmart. Presented
plans to Planning Commission, which was really receptive to it. Has worked on
large projects in other areas, such as Draper, Herriman, and South Jordan. Has
one of the largest residential communities under development right now in
Daybreak. They are interested in the Smart property and city property. Want to
build a multi-use facility where bottom floor is retail and upper floors are
housing for 55 and older community. Would like to put a movie theater on city
property. Wants to create a family-friendly retail community. Center would have
splash park and gathering area for community. Would need buffer behind movie
theater so as not to affect those residential homes. Would also meet with those
homeowners to talk about ideas for buffer and landscaping. Similar to Gateway
Center in Salt Lake City. There are about 300 residential units. Would like to
start this fall. Start with multi-use building, which would attract businesses
to also build in the same area. Would be a phased approach.
Discussion
on FY 2014 Budget
- Public Works projects for 2014: Street maintenance - estimated costs are above
what is budgeted but we won’t know actuals until bids are received. Sugarloaf,
Ironwood, 3900 West are big projects. Resurfacing Bayhill and parts of
Cottonwood, Ferguson, Harvey, Cedar Run, 4000 West - these portions are smaller
projects.
- There is $30,000 budgeted for a restroom at Mesquite Park, but this is
contingent on receiving grant money to pay for a portion. If the grant is not
received then the amount will do down and the restroom facility will need to be
redesigned to be smaller.
- Funds were not allocated to the Parks and Trails committee, but members of the
Council asked for $3000 to be added into the budget so this committee can
complete some of their requested projects.
- Added in $10,000 for a Decisions Survey to be performed this fiscal year as it
was skipped in 2013.
- Planning Commission funds cut as some committee members have chosen not to be
compensated for serving.
- Training funds were cut from every staff department.
- Library reimbursement was cut by $3,800.
- Golf course maintenance was cut by $20,000 as most of the sand traps that
needed repairs were completed in two years instead of three.
- Legal expenses were cut $35,000 in anticipation of less litigation this year.
If
additional items need to be cut from the budget then staff suggested the cuts
come from the following areas: the State of the City newsletter, Mayor &
Council training, library reimbursements, and the Family Festival.
Review/Action
on Polling Place for 2013 Elections
The
recommendation was made to the Council to have all polling places in one
location and at the Community Recreation Center. This change saves about $450
per election and would allow the City Recorder to be at the voting site during
the election. If we were to change we would use all communication options to
get the word out about new polling places. YCC would be at elementary schools
giving out maps and directing to people to the Community Recreation Center.
Also encourage early voting. There were some concerns about this change. 1) Is
there enough parking at the CoRec to handle this? 2) With having one big room
how are we going to accommodate 5 different lines that may get very long? 3) If the County still requires us to use the schools for non-municipal elections
then this is going to cause confusion and frustration to residents when the
voting location is different every other year. The vote was 3-2 with Rees,
Jackman and Zappala voting nay and Augustus and Martinez voting yea. A new
motion was made to keep polling locations at the schools. This passed 3-2 with Augustus
and Martinez voting nay.
Review/Action
on Contract for Fitness Coordinator
Increase
in pay from $15 per class to $20 per class. Rest of contract will remain the same.
Unanimously approved.
Discussion
on Family Festival
Jerianne
Conroy doing a great job as chair of the volunteer committee. In good shape for
volunteers. Training meeting scheduled for next Tuesday for volunteers. Macey's
and Sammy's will donate treats. Melissa Willie, Michael Stuy, and Angela
Johnson have done a great job assigning volunteers. Michael has also lined up
photographers for each event. Magazine went out this week.
Discussion
on Conditional Use Permit Process
The
current city code requires that conditional use permits go before the Planning
Commission, including items such as business licensing. Staff created a list of
suggestions on what should go before the Planning Commission and what should be
handled solely by staff, such as business licensing and zoning issues. Staff
will work to get input from Planning Commission as well.
Review/Action
on Ordinance Regarding Alcoholic Beverages in Public Parks
Mayor
Gygi feels there is a sharp distinction between a private party event and
allowing alcohol in public parks. Feels Cedar Hills should create a policy that
prohibits alcoholic consumption in parks. CM Zappala looked at ordinances for
other cities and all prohibit alcohol in public parks. This item is being sent
to the Parks, Trails, Beautification, and Recreation Committee for review and
to create a suggested ordinance.
