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Wow, What a crowd. What a crowd. 00:00:02
How come you've all migrated to the back row? Are you afraid you're going to get asked a question? 00:00:05
I have to be smart enough to think of a question, so I think you're pretty safe. 00:00:17
All right, Stephanie, as soon as you give me the. 00:00:26
OK, Welcome everybody. We'll call the holiday City Council to order on Thursday, May 16th, and we'll start with the pledge. 00:00:30
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 00:00:42
And your Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:48
OK. Thank you. 00:00:57
I won't go into my whole continued public or public hearing thing because I can see who's here. So anybody, anybody to address 00:01:00
that council during public comment. 00:01:05
There being none, we will close public comment and move to item number 4. This is the continued public hearing on proposed 00:01:13
Amendments Title 13. 00:01:17
This is the historical preservation ordinance which which we will discuss in the work meeting to follow anybody here to address 00:01:22
the Council on the historic preservation ordinance. 00:01:27
There being then we will close this public hearing and we will move to item number 5. This is we've got Carrie and Talia. I don't 00:01:35
know if she's on Zoom. And then you'll introduce our our our guest. Yes. Hi, I'm Carrie Cyber, I'm the liaison for Animal 00:01:42
Services. And joining me tonight is Captain Carl Carpenter, our manager over our field. And then Talia was going to jump on 00:01:49
virtually Talia Butler, our director. 00:01:56
She wasn't able to attend in person. She's just recovering from a surgery, but she is available for questions virtually if she's 00:02:04
able to jump on. So I'm here to present your annual report for 2023 and then also to discuss the cost per citizen increase that we 00:02:11
are seeing this year. So I can start with the annual report. 00:02:18
Oh, no worries. 00:02:28
So 2023, that was a big year for us. It was our official 10 year anniversary of being a Nokia Municipal Shelter. This is a huge 00:02:31
feat, especially for municipal shelter. Most of the time you see this with private shelters or rescue organizations. So we wanted 00:02:39
to celebrate this. We launched our Hang 10 Shelter Club riding the wave of no kill for a decade. We have merch and we also wanted 00:02:46
to give out awards. 00:02:53
To 10 community supporters, organizations, individuals that helped us maintain and achieve that status over the 10 years. We had 00:03:01
that award ceremony at our Spake Eddie Gala. So. But we're very proud of that anniversary and we're still striving to maintain our 00:03:07
No Kill status. 00:03:13
And just some interesting highlights and facts that we had for 2023. Our animal control officers responded to over 18,000 calls 00:03:23
across all of our jurisdictions. We have a huge Foster and volunteer program and they provided over 43,000 hours to pets in our 00:03:31
shelter, whether it's through foster homes or coming into the shelter to work with the animals. And then 2600 pets were adopted or 00:03:38
sent to rescues. 00:03:45
And 3500 were sterilized in our in-house clinic. 00:03:53
Some other accomplishments, we won two Nako Achievement Awards, one for our Utah Faces Endowment. This was a 501C3 partner 00:03:58
organization that helped fund many of our No Kill programs as we were working to become a no kill shelter. They when they 00:04:05
dismantled, they did give us an endowment fund which we are continuing to build up and that helps fund many of our programs that 00:04:13
still exist today. 00:04:20
The other achievement award was for our advisory committee, which Holly Smith. 00:04:29
Serves on and that's to help keep everybody that we serve all on the same page. Everybody gets a voice in how we operate. I 00:04:34
offering ideas and we want to be totally transparent and honest with everybody that we serve. So that was one way that we can keep 00:04:43
everybody together and help us support our goals and offer us any feedback that would help assist your community. 00:04:52
And then we did win 15th time best in state. We actually just won again this year, so actually 16th time best in state. 00:05:01
And these are some of our overall stats. This is for all of the jurisdictions that we serve. We brought in just over 6200 animals 00:05:10
into our shelter. You can see we had just over 2200 that were adopted, 600 that were sent to rescues, redemptions where we return 00:05:18
them back to the owner just over 2700 and we did have some euthanasia, but we keep that number very low and we had an outcome 00:05:25
total of just over 6000 animals. 00:05:32
Our live release rate, meaning animals leaving in a positive manner, was 93%. Of those animals again, 673 were sent to rescue and 00:05:42
12181 animals were sent to foster homes. 00:05:49
Holiday specific stats We brought in 125 animals and you can see the breakdown of the types. 00:05:57
As we receive all sorts. 00:06:04
Most commonly. 00:06:07
And the method that we received them, we received the most through animal control officer impounds DOA as well as strays that were 00:06:14
just brought in over the counter. 00:06:20
Field statistics. We did just over 400 calls for service to holiday. Our most popular calls tend to be the animal impound animal 00:06:28
at large. And then we do receive a lot of citizen inquiries where they're calling, asking questions or it could be a follow up on 00:06:34
a case. 00:06:40
For citations and violations, the notice of violations are more of a civil ticket, kind of like a fix it ticket, but we do use it 00:06:49
as an educational tool before we resort to a criminal citation. Depending on the case, sometimes we will just jump to a citation 00:06:56
depending on the severity of the what's going on in that. 00:07:03
Licenses we did 369 sterilized, 54 unsterilized. We did have a large number of senior licenses with just over 300. We do have some 00:07:11
dangerous declared dangerous dogs. So those require a specialized license. So we had two of those and residential permits. 00:07:22
And we always want to highlight our officers workout in the field, three of which stood out last year. So we wanted to highlight 00:07:34
Officer Taylor Turner and Sergeants Lacey Fit and Jose Martinez. Taylor actually assisted in a high profile case that involved 00:07:42
obtaining an individual that was wanted on multiple warrants for a double homicide in another state and it was through her work on 00:07:49
that actually came in as an abandoned dog. 00:07:57
But she was able to make contact with those close to the individual and maintain that contact when other agencies were not able 00:08:05
to. And through her work, we were able to actually get the gentleman arrested and sent back to where he was. So that was a huge, 00:08:13
huge move. She didn't have to do that. It was above and beyond her duties. But we were able to obtain quite a dangerous 00:08:20
individual. And Lacey and Jose, they are sergeants that are out in the field working these cases. 00:08:27
They make sure that all the priorities are handled in a timely manner, dispersing officers to various locations so we have full 00:08:35
coverage across the valley. 00:08:40
And then just to highlight some of our outreach programs, our volunteers, again, we really rely on our volunteers, so they you can 00:08:48
see the breakdown of just a summary of some of the stuff they've done. They've done vast amounts more projects with us, but these 00:08:55
are some of our top ones that they love to do. Obviously spending some time with the shelter pets, our hounds around town field 00:09:01
trips that we actually want Anako Award for that one where volunteers can come in, take an animal out of the shelter, take it out 00:09:08
for a walk. 00:09:14
Go on hikes with it, take it to shops and help advertise their adoption. 00:09:21
They also make treats for our shelter pits to help with our enrichment program. We do have a robust book buddy program where 00:09:27
children can come in read to the animals in the shelter, promotes reading in our youth, but it also provides enrichment and human 00:09:33
contact with the animals in the shelter. And then we also have free grooming appointments with many of the local groomers and they 00:09:40
help transport those animals to get them all prettied up. 00:09:47
And then our other outreach programs, we did 49 hosted or attended events, 95 adoption events. 00:09:56
Citizens educated on programs? That's through our humane education program. 00:10:05
As well as at events where we're explaining what various resources we have that we can offer the citizens. 00:10:10
At Pet Pantry that is another popular program. This helps those struggling financially to feed their pets or if they need 00:10:17
supplies. This is a monthly program that we supply through donations grants. 00:10:24
Chewy offers huge amount of donations to us. People drive up, let us know what kind of animal they have. We load them up with 00:10:32
whatever food they need. If they need a supplies in order to maintain those animals in the home, we don't want them to have to 00:10:38
struggle with that financially while they can focus on other needs in the home. 00:10:44
And then donations. This was just through our outreach department. They raised over 192,000 through other methods as well as 00:10:51
people just coming into the shelter to donate money through licensing, anything like that. We raised over 300,000 last year. 00:11:00
And then some of these have passed. But we do have some free training workshops that are available to the public. These are always 00:11:10
free, There's a variety of them every single month. They can always go online and sign up, but we have anything from building 00:11:16
better behaviours, separation anxiety by prevention, dog to dog aggression, anything that can help train the public so they can 00:11:23
keep the animals in the home. 00:11:30
So this next portion, this will be going over that increase and how we charge. So First off, we do a cost per capita metric and we 00:11:38
do that because it is the most predictable, the most fair. It follows our no kill philosophy. Other methods are some of them 00:11:48
include cost per intake or cost per call. We don't like to follow those methods as it tends to be a bit unpredictable. 00:11:57
If you do cost per intake, one of our goals is to not have the animals come to the shelter. So we don't want to encourage bringing 00:12:07
of animals to the shelter. So and if we do get in a case in your area, say it's a hoarding case where we take in a bunch, you 00:12:15
would see a drastic increase if we went with that metric cost per call. Same thing if we if you have a house in your area that 00:12:22
generates a lot of complaints, you can tend to see an increase that way. 00:12:30
Cost per capita, you know your population, so it's just cost per citizen. Everybody gets the same exact rate across all of our 00:12:38
jurisdictions. So it's fair across the board. If you see an increase in your population, you can expect to see the increase that 00:12:44
way. So it's a little better to plan. 00:12:50
And it does follow most closely with the national average of pets per household, since it also tends to kind of go on population. 00:12:57
Typically, I believe the national average is for every person there's three or four animals or three or four in the household. So 00:13:03
that tends to follow that more. 00:13:10
For this year's increase, as we mentioned in our advisory committee, there's quite a few reasons for it. We do realize it is a bit 00:13:18
of a jump. Some of these are out of our control. The county did raise the minimum wage for anybody in grades 12 or below within 00:13:26
the county pay scale to bring them up to a $15 minimum wage. Most of the shelter, about 80% of the shelter staff fall within those 00:13:34
grades. 00:13:41
So it was one we have to implement it to in order to pay our workers fairly. And so we did see quite an increase with that as many 00:13:50
of our staff were affected and that has been built into the budget for next year. 00:13:57
Our veterinarians that is one of the unique things about our shelter. We do have an on site clinic that can care for all the 00:14:06
medical needs of the animals in our shelter. We do have to have the veterinarians on staff. They're always doing surgeries. We did 00:14:13
have vacancy for a second veterinarian for quite a while. We were finally able to fill that position but to in order to bring it 00:14:19
up to. 00:14:26
A fair market value it is there's a national average or national shortage of veterinarians and it's an extremely competitive 00:14:33
market. So we had to raise the funds or raise the salary on that in order to compete, which also meant increasing our other 00:14:40
veterinarian as well. So there was a jump on their salary adjustment in order to maintain and keep them and be able to hire for 00:14:47
that secondary second veterinary position. 00:14:54
Excuse me, is the veterinarian? 00:15:03
A lot of their work also fee for services or are they just doing free surgeries to animals. Most of the time we do the spay and 00:15:05
neuters and that is we do offer low cost spay and neuter programs as well as some free depending on funding. We do also offer 00:15:13
vaccinations and rabies vaccines a lot. When we were short of veterinarian we weren't able to do that, but now that we are fully 00:15:20
staffed in there, we should be able to be able to provide that. 00:15:28
A primary routine care like spay and neutering and for population control and and other vaccinations. Not talking about fixing car 00:15:36
accident broken bones and such. If we get an animal in the shelter that is injured in some way they they can operate and. 00:15:45
Get the animal stable and care for it. People bringing their pets to get operated on? No, no, that. Then we recommend them to go 00:15:55
to a private organization. But yeah, any animal in the shelter, which we do tend to see quite a bit, or illnesses that enter into 00:16:02
the shelter, they're responsible for maintaining and managing them. 00:16:08
The average length of stay for shelter animals did increase. Previously, we saw animals staying in the shelter about 14 days. It 00:16:16
raised a few days, 18. Even though that's a small it's only a few days. Each day an animal stays in our shelter, it costs money 00:16:23
and so. 00:16:30
When you compound that with how many animals we receive in and the flow of them, and with our shelter being so full, it can add up 00:16:38
pretty quickly. 00:16:42
Also along those lines, the supplies for animals also saw an increase in that market. The cost for medications, supplies, food, 00:16:47
syringes, all that also saw an increase. So in order to be able to supply the needs for those animals, we have to accommodate 00:16:53
those costs. 00:17:00
Sorry, the increased length of stay and that's attributed largely to what would you say, I'm sorry, what the increased length of 00:17:07
stay, the length of stay we're seeing about 18 days now and and what would you attribute that to a lot of it what we did see 00:17:13
during Covic was a lot of people were at home, they got animals at that time. 00:17:19
Now that they're back at work, some of them can't continue to care for them. So we're seeing a huge influx of animals in the 00:17:26
shelter. And then because a lot of people did get the animals, there's not as many homes to adopt out to. So trying to get that 00:17:32
revolving door going, it can be a challenge at times. 00:17:38
And then we did have an audit in 2022. One of the recommendations they had, because our shelter is quite old and does need some 00:17:47
repairs, was to establish a capital projects fund. This fund would fund major repairs. One of which that we are in need of is our 00:17:55
shelter roof replacement as well as HVAC system. In fact, when we had our advisory committee, the exhaust wasn't working in our 00:18:03
kennels, so it got pretty musty around the shelter. 00:18:11
It is a older shelter previous years we had quite a few vacancies minor repairs were able to be covered because we had a lot of 00:18:20
vacancies we were able to fill most of those at this point and we can't rely on other funds to be able to. 00:18:27
Pay for these types of repairs, so there is a 10 year plan on those. 00:18:36
So there's a scheduled progression of these projects with those major ones being the roof and the HVAC. 00:18:42
And then we did see a revenue fund decline since COVID. 00:18:50
We are struggling to get it back up, but we are trying to take measures especially like license sales. We have a brand new online 00:18:56
licensing app that's a little more easier and user friendly. We have seen an increase in licenses since we launched it earlier 00:19:03
this year. I don't have exact numbers for each city yet. I only have a overall, but we have seen an increase in that, so making it 00:19:10
a bit more accessible to the public. 00:19:16
We are trying to launch licensing marketing to our cities. I sent over some marketing materials that we can share or any city can 00:19:24
share to help try to increase that compliance. If everyone licensed, our revenue fund would be. 00:19:32
Astounding, but trying to increase those sales has been a struggle since the pandemic because we did see such a loss. 00:19:41
And then if you want to go to the next slide and this is just a reminder of what the services we offer. We are pretty unique in 00:19:53
the municipalities around the valley, one of which we are on call after hours emergency coverage. We're one of the only ones that 00:20:00
are truly able to provide 24/7 coverage without having to go through police assistance or some other agency. We do work holidays, 00:20:08
nights, weekends. 00:20:16
Our shelter may not be open on some days, but our field is out 365. 00:20:24
Emergency disaster response were one of the only ones that has the equipment and the ability to handle a major disaster. And then 00:20:30
we are able to handle cases where if you recall a while ago we had a hoarder of reptiles where we brought in 200 various types of 00:20:39
reptiles, insects we have. We also had one where we brought in was it 64 Guinea pigs, 64 Guinea pigs in one day. 00:20:49
You never know. You never know what we're going to get in. But we do have the ability to handle those cases. We get very creative 00:21:01
with those. We do have the online licensing and pictures available, again, trying to advertise as much as possible. We even 00:21:07
highlight YouTube videos on our adoptable animals. 00:21:13
Enrichment We are very proud of our enrichment program. We offer dog popsicles. We do behavior training. We have a whole team that 00:21:20
works with animals, especially the more difficult ones, to try and get them at an adoptable level. Many shelters are not able to 00:21:25
accommodate that. 00:21:31
And we're one of the only ones that have that veterinary clinic. Most have to be outsourced ours. We can take care of it right in 00:21:38
house I. 00:21:42
Outreach program. We have many programs that can assist the community, whether it is humane education, taught at schools, our pet 00:21:48
pantry program. We have the free microchip program that's free to all residents. We have events that we can go to. We have our new 00:21:55
mobile unit which we're hoping to feature at the Dog Days event. And we're one of the national leaders in No kill sheltering. We 00:22:03
are recognized by even agencies like Best Friends for our no kill. 00:22:11
Mission, our goals and our philosophy. All the programming that goes with it. It's rare to see that with a municipality. 00:22:18
And that is it. Is there any questions? 00:22:28
Sure, OK. 00:22:34
I'll ask a question everybody was going to ask. So the increase this year is 18 percent, 20%. Where was that number? 00:22:36
I don't know the exact percentage, but I believe it was somewhere around there, yeah, yeah. 00:22:45
So I think what we want to hear is what the justification for that is. I'm assuming that it has to do with you made a statement 00:22:50
about the wage piece and that the 80% of the employees that work there work with you are in that greater below. 00:23:01
So I'm assuming that that's the bulk of the increase is tied to that wage and it's not that you have? 00:23:15
Expanded your staff and so no, no, our staff hasn't expanded. We did fill vacancies, but no, there hasn't been an expansion in 00:23:22
staff. Yeah, the, the wage increase as well as like the veterinarians it was. 00:23:29
Be able to pay them fair market wage and be competitive. That was a pretty big piece as well. 00:23:37
Then where do you know where I was trying to find this in the budget? Is it? 00:23:44
Hold on a second, 112. 00:23:53
Sorry, I just want to look at this room. 00:23:59
Anybody finds it before me? 00:24:13
Well, I got 112, but I don't see the animal. 00:24:18
114. 00:24:29
In Charges for Services, you'll see that total contract amount. 00:24:32
I had projected in the tentative budget an increase from 293 to 308. 00:24:38
And I believe it will be. 00:24:46
It's going to be more sort of 30. 00:24:50
I think that's right. 00:24:54
It was a 20% increase as though it was. 00:24:58
I think it's 19. 00:25:01
19, so it'll be like three, Yeah, 348 as I said. 00:25:03
So it's just strictly a population function if you had any changes in. 00:25:45
In who your constituent cities are or has that been the same? It stayed the same. So far we have received interest from a few 00:25:50
cities that are interested in coming over to us. At the moment, we've been pretty much at capacity, so we're not able to take on 00:25:58
another city at the moment, but we are interested in expanding one of the projects that's actually being funded through one of our 00:26:05
donations funds is we're going to add on an outbuilding. 00:26:12
Overflow kennels. 00:26:21
Because our shelter is just so full right now and it's maintained staying full. So to be able to accommodate and have extra room 00:26:23
for the dogs, again that that building construction is being sourced by donation funds, but that will allow us to potentially 00:26:31
bring on some more cities which would then lower the cost overall. So is your is your budget document a public document? Yes, we 00:26:39
can. We'd be more than happy to share and because you know when when like UPD and UFA come when we have budget season. 00:26:47
They bring that document with them. They show here's how it's allocated to the holiday city and we can see you know last year to 00:26:55
this year and those percentage increases are. 00:27:00
Noted there. Mm-hmm. And you know, it helps us make it, yeah, have feedback and input, and helps prod questions as to you know 00:27:05
why. 00:27:11
Your your request increase request is significantly higher than the rate of inflation. 00:27:18
And because normally we would expect about the rate of inflation. Now you did indicate this wage indicator, this wage situation 00:27:25
which could be higher than inflation. For instance, if most of the staff before this we're at say 9 bucks an hour or 10 bucks an 00:27:32
hour, you know, it's a 50% increase. How many staff is that? Is that the bulk of your, you know, budget? I guess it probably is, 00:27:40
but we're we're sort of guessing. We're having to just take it on faith and we don't like to do that. 00:27:48
Many of them do have their own with their own city. There are some that do contract with others many of them depend on, like 00:28:32
Cottonwood Heights I believe still uses Sandy for sheltering services. 00:28:39
Thank you. 00:29:21
Mayor, I do have a number for the contract for next year, which is 350-1611. So we'll need to add if the council wishes wishes to, 00:29:23
we'll need to add a just over $40,000 to the budget you approve in June. 00:29:33
Yeah, I think you know. A couple notes too, is Holly. I don't know. So how often are you meeting with Animal Services? 00:29:44
Quarterly. So that was something that was added. It's been a few years, right? 00:29:53
Where we were having these meetings, but felt like we were just. 00:29:59
We were just didn't have any input in terms of how the process was going. So a lot of the members that use this service have a 00:30:05
representative on a committee that works with county animal control and at least has some input in terms of how the process is 00:30:12
going. But you know, I think it's. 00:30:19
Obviously do a great job. You guys win a lot of awards every year. 00:30:28
Certainly could probably do it a lot cheaper, but I'm not sure you would get maybe the kind of service that. 00:30:33
Holiday residents might expect, but it does make sense to me, I know. 00:30:40
That there is a real veterinary storage nationwide, just like there are in a lot of public service. 00:30:45
Delivery agencies, you know police is having difficulty. I think air traffic controllers are now. I mean it's just an issue, it's 00:30:52
a challenge that we're having. So I don't, I don't question that that's a real thing and I'm also. 00:30:59
That $15.00 an hour change and the fact that 80% of your employees fall within that range would make a lot of sense and that's 00:31:08
probably where the bulk of the increase is coming from. 00:31:14
OK. 00:31:23
All right. Well, thank you very much. Nice to meet you. 00:31:25
All right. We'll keep moving, moving right along item number six. 00:31:31
OK. We spoke about this earlier. This is simply the approval of the agreement with the county for the TRCC award we received for 00:31:37
the right hand turn lane on 45th on Highland to 45th rather. Any questions from council? 00:31:45
I guess we just need a motion then. 00:31:59
Let's see, which number is this mayor number? 00:32:01
66 Whose district is that? Matt? I think. I think it's mine actually. Or let's see, 45th and Highland is probably mad. That's 00:32:04
mine. 00:32:09
Is the South side, so it's mine, but so is there a. 00:32:15
OK. Mr. Mayor, I move that we ratify interlocal agreement with Salt Lake County for Helen Drive quarter preservation at 4504 S 00:32:19
Highland Drive. I guess there's no number or anything associated with that, right? Just the ratification of the interlocal, right, 00:32:23
There's no. 00:32:27
Resolution or OK. 00:32:32
OK, motion. A second. Council member Brewer. Yes. Councilmember Durham? Yes. Councilmember Fotheringham? Yes. Councilmember Quinn. 00:32:35
Yes. Councilmember Gray. Chair Vote yes. That awards approved. Thanks for the application, Holly. Appreciate it. Item number six 00:32:42
is the text amendment to the C2 zone moving from 35 to 40 feet. Any questions from council or clarifications from staff before we 00:32:49
take a motion on this item? 00:32:57
Was it unanimous for the Planning Commission? 00:33:05
My recollection as it was. 00:33:08
Mr. Mayor, I move approval of Ordinance 20/24/07 amending Title 13.62 Building Heights and Zone C2 going from 35 to 40 feet. 00:33:14
Second OK, motion and a second go to vote. Councilmember Brewer. Yes. Councilmember Durham. Yes. Councilmember Fotheringham. Yes. 00:33:24
Councilmember Quinn. Yes. Councilmember Gray and chair vote Just that text amendment is approved. Thank you. Thanks, John and 00:33:29
staff. 00:33:34
We're going taking us through that process. 00:33:40
Item number seven is simply adding Christian to the list with Gina and Holly for accessing the PTIF fund account. 00:33:44
Honest Merit Move approval of Resolution 2024-17 authorizing certain individuals, including new Finance Director Christian Larson, 00:33:56
to make changes to the city's PTIF fund account. 00:34:02
Second, OK, motion in a second, we'll go to vote Council Member Brewer, yes, Council Member Durham, yes. Council Member 00:34:09
Fotheringham, yes. Council Member Quinn, yes. Council Member Gray, yes, and chair vote Chess. That change is approved. Thank you, 00:34:15
Council. OK the next two items as previously discussed were. 00:34:20
A, a resolution approving agreement with bar X and then secondly a license, separate license and agreement for the right of way 00:34:28
for uses on that. Right away we'll start with. 00:34:34
The resolution with PAR X, any questions on that resolution that's in the packet or the agreement that's in the packet? 00:34:40
Mr. Mayor, I move. 00:34:52
Adoption of resolution 24202418. 00:34:55
Approving an agreement with Bar X Group relating to property commonly known as the cotton cotton bottom in and can we do both 00:34:59
together? I think we'll have to do them separately because they're separate resolutions. 00:35:05
2nd. 00:35:12
OK, we have a motion and 2nd from Council Member Gray and we'll go to vote on this item. Council Member Brewer, yes. Council 00:35:14
Member Durham, yes. Council Member Fotheringham, yes. Council Member Quinn, yes. Council Member Gray, yes. And Chair Vote Chess. 00:35:20
That agreement's approved. Now the license agreement, the separate license agreement, we discussed the details on this as well. 00:35:27
Any questions from council or clarifications from staff before we go to motion? 00:35:33
Take a motion, Mr. Mayor. I motion that we approve Resolution 2024, Dash 19, approving the license and encroachment agreement with 00:35:40
Cotton Bottom Properties LLC. 00:35:45
Second. OK. We have a motion a second from Councilmember Brewer will go in reverse. Councilmember Gray, yes. Councilmember Quinn, 00:35:51
Yes. Councilmember Fotheringham. Councilmember Durham, yes. Councilmember Brewer and Chair Bo Chess. Thank you. Thanks, Todd. 00:35:58
Thanks, Gina. Everybody involved. That's been kind of a long process, but this kind of finalized that issue with. 00:36:06
The Cotton Bottom and its owner. So thank you very much. OK, we are on to the city manager report. 00:36:15
So nothing for me this evening. 00:36:20
Council reports, We'll start with Emily. 00:36:23
Just a couple of things I want to thank John, especially in the aftermath of incident that we had in my district a few weeks ago. 00:36:27
I know he's been instrumental in helping resolve things with residents and work through that process. Lena also I know has worked 00:36:34
with a number of people and I'm really grateful for their help for me getting me the best information and also talking to 00:36:42
residents and help helping some very frustrated people. And I know that that's. 00:36:49
Challenging and I appreciate that. 00:36:57
Thank you. 00:37:00
Yes. 00:37:02
I think if everyone is like me, the bulk of the complaints that we get is about speeding. 00:37:06
And I just want to. 00:37:14
Thank Chief Hoyle and all his officers. We've had in my district a speed study on Olympic Way in front of Todd's house. We've had 00:37:17
a speed study on Splendor Way and recently we had an accident where a car ended up in the canal on Wander Lane. 00:37:27
And through all this, even though there are a lot of complaints, I think, you know, there's always human error, especially when 00:37:38
helped along by substances, but. 00:37:44
The. 00:37:51
I think what I'm trying to say is I feel pretty good about our city, even though a lot of people think people are speeding. When 00:37:53
you're walking next on a road and a car goes by you, it's easy to assume they're speeding because even if they're going. 00:38:02
2025 miles an hour, it seems like really fast. 00:38:10
And so I really appreciate having speed studies. 00:38:14
The little speed stat box clocks everybody that every single car that goes past. 00:38:19
And it's nice to have solid data to show to the people and say, hey, you know, we're really not so bad. Sometimes it makes them 00:38:25
frustrated. But I, I, I feel good about it. So thank you, Chief. 00:38:32
I would just say. 00:38:41
We are not the only city in the county that has this problem. 00:38:44
And it's a wonderful based on based on input I get from other people it's like everybody's speeding on every seat St. in the 00:38:47
county essentially. And if this is our worst problem I'll take holiday any day of the week. It's it. It is a problem. But I I I 00:38:54
know this is your time but I would corroborate that I mean we get a lot of complaints and the Chiefs always. 00:39:02
Takes the call, listens and then. 00:39:10
Puts officers on the spot or puts a speed study in. We try to get back to the residents instead of just. 00:39:13
Waving it off. So thanks and your. 00:39:20
On Monday, the city had an outstanding event hosted by the Arts Council and Historical Commission. 00:39:27
And in fact, our primary host is here, Kim Duffy this event on Monday. 00:39:35
Combined Arts Council event where there were paintings of some of the historic houses throughout the holiday, primarily the estate 00:39:43
district. 00:39:47
But also the Bollinger home in our district. 00:39:53
And. 00:39:58
Combined with, so a bunch of kind of. 00:40:00
Kind of plain air style paintings that were displayed throughout the big common room downstairs and then also a lecture from a 00:40:03
local historian about three of the major estate properties. And you know, normally that's something I might you know. 00:40:12
Go to and think it might be a yawn fest, but Oh my gosh, I was really engaged. That speaker was so engaging in how he drew in 00:40:21
relevant historical elements from world history, American history and how those things resulted in what they've what's come about 00:40:29
in our little tiny town of Holiday. It was really compelling. So I congratulate the Historical Commission and the Arts Council for 00:40:37
putting on a top notch event on Monday. It really was great and it was very well attended. We had to put out extra chairs. 00:40:45
And there was even apple beer and ginger beer. It was delightful. 00:40:54
Anyway, thanks and congratulations for a great event. 00:41:00
I just wanted to mention that last night I attended an event Co hosted by Cottonwood Heights and Holiday. 00:41:05
The Happy Healthy Holiday Coalition to kind of highlight the Big Cottonwood Creek Trail at Knutson Park. 00:41:12
And thank Holly and Meghan Bartley for being there and for representing us and setting things up. We had several volunteers from 00:41:19
our coalition there. 00:41:23
We there was a. 00:41:29
Some swag that we were giving out and we would. 00:41:31
People were pretty proactive about talking to people in the park about opportunities for outdoor recreation, especially with the 00:41:34
trail there. So it was a really good event. It was a great evening and a good opportunity to kind of highlight some of the. 00:41:41
Public health initiatives that we're dealing with with with the Happy Healthy Holiday Coalition. 00:41:48
I'll echo Paul's comments on Monday night's. 00:41:57
The speaker series, David Emmett. Last name. Yeah. And it was it was fantastic. I just prior to that we had the Olympus High 00:42:03
School awards ceremony where we presented 2 scholarships and every time I go to that too I'm just that's it was like Monday night 00:42:11
was just relish my holiday kind of night because I love to see the volunteers that step forward. It's so cool that like so cool to 00:42:18
see these people that. 00:42:25
You're in and you're out. Have these ongoing? 00:42:34
And. 00:43:22
Incidentally, do any of you know how many acres Holiday is? 00:43:23
It's 8 square miles. So yeah, it's like 5400 acres or so and the walkers originally had about 7 or 50 acres is I think what he 00:43:27
said. So anyways just fantastic. It was really, really neat and it those types of things I think help us appreciate our heritage 00:43:33
and the and the and the the place that we hold in history here in holiday. So the other by way of district report, the other thing 00:43:38
I guess I would just comment on is. 00:43:44
We did have the lights and other lighting issue with the skate park lights last night where they stayed on longer than well they 00:43:51
shouldn't have come on to begin with I guess and then they stayed on late again. So another call from a rightfully bothered 00:43:58
resident and so I'm I'm hoping that staff will be extra extra careful working with this contractor to make sure that that whenever 00:44:04
the time comes, which I think is close. 00:44:11
To do that, but it's just done, done right and that we could kind of double check some things. And and my other thought on that 00:44:19
that I just mentioned too is I just want to make sure in deference to our neighbors is that we're a good neighbor and and how we 00:44:26
go about that and everything. And so I'll talk with you more about that Gina back in a few more ideas on that as well so. 00:44:33
I think that's all I've got. Thank you. So it. 00:44:40
I think sometimes we forget how many things are going on in holiday. I mean, if you're listening to the council, this is all just 00:44:46
occurred in the last week. And a lot of times we don't even know what each other are doing and we have somebody in communications 00:44:53
now and we're probably not. We need to remember. And I'm talking to myself because I'm awful at this. I'm just awful. 00:45:01
But I presented at the Cottonwood High School awards banquet or awards ceremony and I should have got a photo. 00:45:09
With our two awardees and you should have got a photo with your two awardees and we should have sent it to Lena and we could have 00:45:18
got a photo at right. We need to probably remember that we have these events going on, and if we remember to shoot a photo, shoot 00:45:25
it to Lena, tell her what it's about and then she can decide whether it's. 00:45:33
Social media worthy or whatever it is we're doing, but I think we haven't had that you know as much of an opportunity to do that. 00:45:42
So we need to kind of remember when we're out doing something that we think that we might benefit from advertising that we're 00:45:49
talking about it to shoot that stuff off to Lena and let her kind of sort through it and see what to do about it. But I. 00:45:56
But I should say I'll embarrass you. But I was at the ceremony and Abigail was is the valedictorian for Cottonwood High School 00:46:05
this year. So congratulations. 00:46:11
To your daughter, but also to your parents that I'm sure you're very proud. 00:46:19
All right. And I think that's it. So we'll take a motion to recess and then we'll we'll move across the hall. Mr. Mayor, we 00:46:27
recess. City Council, we can meet at a work meeting in a few minutes across the hall. 00:46:32
Second, all in favor? Aye, aye. We're recessed. Take a little bit of a break and we'll move across the hall. 00:46:39
Hey, Ty. 00:46:49
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Event transcript
Wow, What a crowd. What a crowd. 00:00:02
How come you've all migrated to the back row? Are you afraid you're going to get asked a question? 00:00:05
I have to be smart enough to think of a question, so I think you're pretty safe. 00:00:17
All right, Stephanie, as soon as you give me the. 00:00:26
OK, Welcome everybody. We'll call the holiday City Council to order on Thursday, May 16th, and we'll start with the pledge. 00:00:30
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 00:00:42
And your Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:00:48
OK. Thank you. 00:00:57
I won't go into my whole continued public or public hearing thing because I can see who's here. So anybody, anybody to address 00:01:00
that council during public comment. 00:01:05
There being none, we will close public comment and move to item number 4. This is the continued public hearing on proposed 00:01:13
Amendments Title 13. 00:01:17
This is the historical preservation ordinance which which we will discuss in the work meeting to follow anybody here to address 00:01:22
the Council on the historic preservation ordinance. 00:01:27
There being then we will close this public hearing and we will move to item number 5. This is we've got Carrie and Talia. I don't 00:01:35
know if she's on Zoom. And then you'll introduce our our our guest. Yes. Hi, I'm Carrie Cyber, I'm the liaison for Animal 00:01:42
Services. And joining me tonight is Captain Carl Carpenter, our manager over our field. And then Talia was going to jump on 00:01:49
virtually Talia Butler, our director. 00:01:56
She wasn't able to attend in person. She's just recovering from a surgery, but she is available for questions virtually if she's 00:02:04
able to jump on. So I'm here to present your annual report for 2023 and then also to discuss the cost per citizen increase that we 00:02:11
are seeing this year. So I can start with the annual report. 00:02:18
Oh, no worries. 00:02:28
So 2023, that was a big year for us. It was our official 10 year anniversary of being a Nokia Municipal Shelter. This is a huge 00:02:31
feat, especially for municipal shelter. Most of the time you see this with private shelters or rescue organizations. So we wanted 00:02:39
to celebrate this. We launched our Hang 10 Shelter Club riding the wave of no kill for a decade. We have merch and we also wanted 00:02:46
to give out awards. 00:02:53
To 10 community supporters, organizations, individuals that helped us maintain and achieve that status over the 10 years. We had 00:03:01
that award ceremony at our Spake Eddie Gala. So. But we're very proud of that anniversary and we're still striving to maintain our 00:03:07
No Kill status. 00:03:13
And just some interesting highlights and facts that we had for 2023. Our animal control officers responded to over 18,000 calls 00:03:23
across all of our jurisdictions. We have a huge Foster and volunteer program and they provided over 43,000 hours to pets in our 00:03:31
shelter, whether it's through foster homes or coming into the shelter to work with the animals. And then 2600 pets were adopted or 00:03:38
sent to rescues. 00:03:45
And 3500 were sterilized in our in-house clinic. 00:03:53
Some other accomplishments, we won two Nako Achievement Awards, one for our Utah Faces Endowment. This was a 501C3 partner 00:03:58
organization that helped fund many of our No Kill programs as we were working to become a no kill shelter. They when they 00:04:05
dismantled, they did give us an endowment fund which we are continuing to build up and that helps fund many of our programs that 00:04:13
still exist today. 00:04:20
The other achievement award was for our advisory committee, which Holly Smith. 00:04:29
Serves on and that's to help keep everybody that we serve all on the same page. Everybody gets a voice in how we operate. I 00:04:34
offering ideas and we want to be totally transparent and honest with everybody that we serve. So that was one way that we can keep 00:04:43
everybody together and help us support our goals and offer us any feedback that would help assist your community. 00:04:52
And then we did win 15th time best in state. We actually just won again this year, so actually 16th time best in state. 00:05:01
And these are some of our overall stats. This is for all of the jurisdictions that we serve. We brought in just over 6200 animals 00:05:10
into our shelter. You can see we had just over 2200 that were adopted, 600 that were sent to rescues, redemptions where we return 00:05:18
them back to the owner just over 2700 and we did have some euthanasia, but we keep that number very low and we had an outcome 00:05:25
total of just over 6000 animals. 00:05:32
Our live release rate, meaning animals leaving in a positive manner, was 93%. Of those animals again, 673 were sent to rescue and 00:05:42
12181 animals were sent to foster homes. 00:05:49
Holiday specific stats We brought in 125 animals and you can see the breakdown of the types. 00:05:57
As we receive all sorts. 00:06:04
Most commonly. 00:06:07
And the method that we received them, we received the most through animal control officer impounds DOA as well as strays that were 00:06:14
just brought in over the counter. 00:06:20
Field statistics. We did just over 400 calls for service to holiday. Our most popular calls tend to be the animal impound animal 00:06:28
at large. And then we do receive a lot of citizen inquiries where they're calling, asking questions or it could be a follow up on 00:06:34
a case. 00:06:40
For citations and violations, the notice of violations are more of a civil ticket, kind of like a fix it ticket, but we do use it 00:06:49
as an educational tool before we resort to a criminal citation. Depending on the case, sometimes we will just jump to a citation 00:06:56
depending on the severity of the what's going on in that. 00:07:03
Licenses we did 369 sterilized, 54 unsterilized. We did have a large number of senior licenses with just over 300. We do have some 00:07:11
dangerous declared dangerous dogs. So those require a specialized license. So we had two of those and residential permits. 00:07:22
And we always want to highlight our officers workout in the field, three of which stood out last year. So we wanted to highlight 00:07:34
Officer Taylor Turner and Sergeants Lacey Fit and Jose Martinez. Taylor actually assisted in a high profile case that involved 00:07:42
obtaining an individual that was wanted on multiple warrants for a double homicide in another state and it was through her work on 00:07:49
that actually came in as an abandoned dog. 00:07:57
But she was able to make contact with those close to the individual and maintain that contact when other agencies were not able 00:08:05
to. And through her work, we were able to actually get the gentleman arrested and sent back to where he was. So that was a huge, 00:08:13
huge move. She didn't have to do that. It was above and beyond her duties. But we were able to obtain quite a dangerous 00:08:20
individual. And Lacey and Jose, they are sergeants that are out in the field working these cases. 00:08:27
They make sure that all the priorities are handled in a timely manner, dispersing officers to various locations so we have full 00:08:35
coverage across the valley. 00:08:40
And then just to highlight some of our outreach programs, our volunteers, again, we really rely on our volunteers, so they you can 00:08:48
see the breakdown of just a summary of some of the stuff they've done. They've done vast amounts more projects with us, but these 00:08:55
are some of our top ones that they love to do. Obviously spending some time with the shelter pets, our hounds around town field 00:09:01
trips that we actually want Anako Award for that one where volunteers can come in, take an animal out of the shelter, take it out 00:09:08
for a walk. 00:09:14
Go on hikes with it, take it to shops and help advertise their adoption. 00:09:21
They also make treats for our shelter pits to help with our enrichment program. We do have a robust book buddy program where 00:09:27
children can come in read to the animals in the shelter, promotes reading in our youth, but it also provides enrichment and human 00:09:33
contact with the animals in the shelter. And then we also have free grooming appointments with many of the local groomers and they 00:09:40
help transport those animals to get them all prettied up. 00:09:47
And then our other outreach programs, we did 49 hosted or attended events, 95 adoption events. 00:09:56
Citizens educated on programs? That's through our humane education program. 00:10:05
As well as at events where we're explaining what various resources we have that we can offer the citizens. 00:10:10
At Pet Pantry that is another popular program. This helps those struggling financially to feed their pets or if they need 00:10:17
supplies. This is a monthly program that we supply through donations grants. 00:10:24
Chewy offers huge amount of donations to us. People drive up, let us know what kind of animal they have. We load them up with 00:10:32
whatever food they need. If they need a supplies in order to maintain those animals in the home, we don't want them to have to 00:10:38
struggle with that financially while they can focus on other needs in the home. 00:10:44
And then donations. This was just through our outreach department. They raised over 192,000 through other methods as well as 00:10:51
people just coming into the shelter to donate money through licensing, anything like that. We raised over 300,000 last year. 00:11:00
And then some of these have passed. But we do have some free training workshops that are available to the public. These are always 00:11:10
free, There's a variety of them every single month. They can always go online and sign up, but we have anything from building 00:11:16
better behaviours, separation anxiety by prevention, dog to dog aggression, anything that can help train the public so they can 00:11:23
keep the animals in the home. 00:11:30
So this next portion, this will be going over that increase and how we charge. So First off, we do a cost per capita metric and we 00:11:38
do that because it is the most predictable, the most fair. It follows our no kill philosophy. Other methods are some of them 00:11:48
include cost per intake or cost per call. We don't like to follow those methods as it tends to be a bit unpredictable. 00:11:57
If you do cost per intake, one of our goals is to not have the animals come to the shelter. So we don't want to encourage bringing 00:12:07
of animals to the shelter. So and if we do get in a case in your area, say it's a hoarding case where we take in a bunch, you 00:12:15
would see a drastic increase if we went with that metric cost per call. Same thing if we if you have a house in your area that 00:12:22
generates a lot of complaints, you can tend to see an increase that way. 00:12:30
Cost per capita, you know your population, so it's just cost per citizen. Everybody gets the same exact rate across all of our 00:12:38
jurisdictions. So it's fair across the board. If you see an increase in your population, you can expect to see the increase that 00:12:44
way. So it's a little better to plan. 00:12:50
And it does follow most closely with the national average of pets per household, since it also tends to kind of go on population. 00:12:57
Typically, I believe the national average is for every person there's three or four animals or three or four in the household. So 00:13:03
that tends to follow that more. 00:13:10
For this year's increase, as we mentioned in our advisory committee, there's quite a few reasons for it. We do realize it is a bit 00:13:18
of a jump. Some of these are out of our control. The county did raise the minimum wage for anybody in grades 12 or below within 00:13:26
the county pay scale to bring them up to a $15 minimum wage. Most of the shelter, about 80% of the shelter staff fall within those 00:13:34
grades. 00:13:41
So it was one we have to implement it to in order to pay our workers fairly. And so we did see quite an increase with that as many 00:13:50
of our staff were affected and that has been built into the budget for next year. 00:13:57
Our veterinarians that is one of the unique things about our shelter. We do have an on site clinic that can care for all the 00:14:06
medical needs of the animals in our shelter. We do have to have the veterinarians on staff. They're always doing surgeries. We did 00:14:13
have vacancy for a second veterinarian for quite a while. We were finally able to fill that position but to in order to bring it 00:14:19
up to. 00:14:26
A fair market value it is there's a national average or national shortage of veterinarians and it's an extremely competitive 00:14:33
market. So we had to raise the funds or raise the salary on that in order to compete, which also meant increasing our other 00:14:40
veterinarian as well. So there was a jump on their salary adjustment in order to maintain and keep them and be able to hire for 00:14:47
that secondary second veterinary position. 00:14:54
Excuse me, is the veterinarian? 00:15:03
A lot of their work also fee for services or are they just doing free surgeries to animals. Most of the time we do the spay and 00:15:05
neuters and that is we do offer low cost spay and neuter programs as well as some free depending on funding. We do also offer 00:15:13
vaccinations and rabies vaccines a lot. When we were short of veterinarian we weren't able to do that, but now that we are fully 00:15:20
staffed in there, we should be able to be able to provide that. 00:15:28
A primary routine care like spay and neutering and for population control and and other vaccinations. Not talking about fixing car 00:15:36
accident broken bones and such. If we get an animal in the shelter that is injured in some way they they can operate and. 00:15:45
Get the animal stable and care for it. People bringing their pets to get operated on? No, no, that. Then we recommend them to go 00:15:55
to a private organization. But yeah, any animal in the shelter, which we do tend to see quite a bit, or illnesses that enter into 00:16:02
the shelter, they're responsible for maintaining and managing them. 00:16:08
The average length of stay for shelter animals did increase. Previously, we saw animals staying in the shelter about 14 days. It 00:16:16
raised a few days, 18. Even though that's a small it's only a few days. Each day an animal stays in our shelter, it costs money 00:16:23
and so. 00:16:30
When you compound that with how many animals we receive in and the flow of them, and with our shelter being so full, it can add up 00:16:38
pretty quickly. 00:16:42
Also along those lines, the supplies for animals also saw an increase in that market. The cost for medications, supplies, food, 00:16:47
syringes, all that also saw an increase. So in order to be able to supply the needs for those animals, we have to accommodate 00:16:53
those costs. 00:17:00
Sorry, the increased length of stay and that's attributed largely to what would you say, I'm sorry, what the increased length of 00:17:07
stay, the length of stay we're seeing about 18 days now and and what would you attribute that to a lot of it what we did see 00:17:13
during Covic was a lot of people were at home, they got animals at that time. 00:17:19
Now that they're back at work, some of them can't continue to care for them. So we're seeing a huge influx of animals in the 00:17:26
shelter. And then because a lot of people did get the animals, there's not as many homes to adopt out to. So trying to get that 00:17:32
revolving door going, it can be a challenge at times. 00:17:38
And then we did have an audit in 2022. One of the recommendations they had, because our shelter is quite old and does need some 00:17:47
repairs, was to establish a capital projects fund. This fund would fund major repairs. One of which that we are in need of is our 00:17:55
shelter roof replacement as well as HVAC system. In fact, when we had our advisory committee, the exhaust wasn't working in our 00:18:03
kennels, so it got pretty musty around the shelter. 00:18:11
It is a older shelter previous years we had quite a few vacancies minor repairs were able to be covered because we had a lot of 00:18:20
vacancies we were able to fill most of those at this point and we can't rely on other funds to be able to. 00:18:27
Pay for these types of repairs, so there is a 10 year plan on those. 00:18:36
So there's a scheduled progression of these projects with those major ones being the roof and the HVAC. 00:18:42
And then we did see a revenue fund decline since COVID. 00:18:50
We are struggling to get it back up, but we are trying to take measures especially like license sales. We have a brand new online 00:18:56
licensing app that's a little more easier and user friendly. We have seen an increase in licenses since we launched it earlier 00:19:03
this year. I don't have exact numbers for each city yet. I only have a overall, but we have seen an increase in that, so making it 00:19:10
a bit more accessible to the public. 00:19:16
We are trying to launch licensing marketing to our cities. I sent over some marketing materials that we can share or any city can 00:19:24
share to help try to increase that compliance. If everyone licensed, our revenue fund would be. 00:19:32
Astounding, but trying to increase those sales has been a struggle since the pandemic because we did see such a loss. 00:19:41
And then if you want to go to the next slide and this is just a reminder of what the services we offer. We are pretty unique in 00:19:53
the municipalities around the valley, one of which we are on call after hours emergency coverage. We're one of the only ones that 00:20:00
are truly able to provide 24/7 coverage without having to go through police assistance or some other agency. We do work holidays, 00:20:08
nights, weekends. 00:20:16
Our shelter may not be open on some days, but our field is out 365. 00:20:24
Emergency disaster response were one of the only ones that has the equipment and the ability to handle a major disaster. And then 00:20:30
we are able to handle cases where if you recall a while ago we had a hoarder of reptiles where we brought in 200 various types of 00:20:39
reptiles, insects we have. We also had one where we brought in was it 64 Guinea pigs, 64 Guinea pigs in one day. 00:20:49
You never know. You never know what we're going to get in. But we do have the ability to handle those cases. We get very creative 00:21:01
with those. We do have the online licensing and pictures available, again, trying to advertise as much as possible. We even 00:21:07
highlight YouTube videos on our adoptable animals. 00:21:13
Enrichment We are very proud of our enrichment program. We offer dog popsicles. We do behavior training. We have a whole team that 00:21:20
works with animals, especially the more difficult ones, to try and get them at an adoptable level. Many shelters are not able to 00:21:25
accommodate that. 00:21:31
And we're one of the only ones that have that veterinary clinic. Most have to be outsourced ours. We can take care of it right in 00:21:38
house I. 00:21:42
Outreach program. We have many programs that can assist the community, whether it is humane education, taught at schools, our pet 00:21:48
pantry program. We have the free microchip program that's free to all residents. We have events that we can go to. We have our new 00:21:55
mobile unit which we're hoping to feature at the Dog Days event. And we're one of the national leaders in No kill sheltering. We 00:22:03
are recognized by even agencies like Best Friends for our no kill. 00:22:11
Mission, our goals and our philosophy. All the programming that goes with it. It's rare to see that with a municipality. 00:22:18
And that is it. Is there any questions? 00:22:28
Sure, OK. 00:22:34
I'll ask a question everybody was going to ask. So the increase this year is 18 percent, 20%. Where was that number? 00:22:36
I don't know the exact percentage, but I believe it was somewhere around there, yeah, yeah. 00:22:45
So I think what we want to hear is what the justification for that is. I'm assuming that it has to do with you made a statement 00:22:50
about the wage piece and that the 80% of the employees that work there work with you are in that greater below. 00:23:01
So I'm assuming that that's the bulk of the increase is tied to that wage and it's not that you have? 00:23:15
Expanded your staff and so no, no, our staff hasn't expanded. We did fill vacancies, but no, there hasn't been an expansion in 00:23:22
staff. Yeah, the, the wage increase as well as like the veterinarians it was. 00:23:29
Be able to pay them fair market wage and be competitive. That was a pretty big piece as well. 00:23:37
Then where do you know where I was trying to find this in the budget? Is it? 00:23:44
Hold on a second, 112. 00:23:53
Sorry, I just want to look at this room. 00:23:59
Anybody finds it before me? 00:24:13
Well, I got 112, but I don't see the animal. 00:24:18
114. 00:24:29
In Charges for Services, you'll see that total contract amount. 00:24:32
I had projected in the tentative budget an increase from 293 to 308. 00:24:38
And I believe it will be. 00:24:46
It's going to be more sort of 30. 00:24:50
I think that's right. 00:24:54
It was a 20% increase as though it was. 00:24:58
I think it's 19. 00:25:01
19, so it'll be like three, Yeah, 348 as I said. 00:25:03
So it's just strictly a population function if you had any changes in. 00:25:45
In who your constituent cities are or has that been the same? It stayed the same. So far we have received interest from a few 00:25:50
cities that are interested in coming over to us. At the moment, we've been pretty much at capacity, so we're not able to take on 00:25:58
another city at the moment, but we are interested in expanding one of the projects that's actually being funded through one of our 00:26:05
donations funds is we're going to add on an outbuilding. 00:26:12
Overflow kennels. 00:26:21
Because our shelter is just so full right now and it's maintained staying full. So to be able to accommodate and have extra room 00:26:23
for the dogs, again that that building construction is being sourced by donation funds, but that will allow us to potentially 00:26:31
bring on some more cities which would then lower the cost overall. So is your is your budget document a public document? Yes, we 00:26:39
can. We'd be more than happy to share and because you know when when like UPD and UFA come when we have budget season. 00:26:47
They bring that document with them. They show here's how it's allocated to the holiday city and we can see you know last year to 00:26:55
this year and those percentage increases are. 00:27:00
Noted there. Mm-hmm. And you know, it helps us make it, yeah, have feedback and input, and helps prod questions as to you know 00:27:05
why. 00:27:11
Your your request increase request is significantly higher than the rate of inflation. 00:27:18
And because normally we would expect about the rate of inflation. Now you did indicate this wage indicator, this wage situation 00:27:25
which could be higher than inflation. For instance, if most of the staff before this we're at say 9 bucks an hour or 10 bucks an 00:27:32
hour, you know, it's a 50% increase. How many staff is that? Is that the bulk of your, you know, budget? I guess it probably is, 00:27:40
but we're we're sort of guessing. We're having to just take it on faith and we don't like to do that. 00:27:48
Many of them do have their own with their own city. There are some that do contract with others many of them depend on, like 00:28:32
Cottonwood Heights I believe still uses Sandy for sheltering services. 00:28:39
Thank you. 00:29:21
Mayor, I do have a number for the contract for next year, which is 350-1611. So we'll need to add if the council wishes wishes to, 00:29:23
we'll need to add a just over $40,000 to the budget you approve in June. 00:29:33
Yeah, I think you know. A couple notes too, is Holly. I don't know. So how often are you meeting with Animal Services? 00:29:44
Quarterly. So that was something that was added. It's been a few years, right? 00:29:53
Where we were having these meetings, but felt like we were just. 00:29:59
We were just didn't have any input in terms of how the process was going. So a lot of the members that use this service have a 00:30:05
representative on a committee that works with county animal control and at least has some input in terms of how the process is 00:30:12
going. But you know, I think it's. 00:30:19
Obviously do a great job. You guys win a lot of awards every year. 00:30:28
Certainly could probably do it a lot cheaper, but I'm not sure you would get maybe the kind of service that. 00:30:33
Holiday residents might expect, but it does make sense to me, I know. 00:30:40
That there is a real veterinary storage nationwide, just like there are in a lot of public service. 00:30:45
Delivery agencies, you know police is having difficulty. I think air traffic controllers are now. I mean it's just an issue, it's 00:30:52
a challenge that we're having. So I don't, I don't question that that's a real thing and I'm also. 00:30:59
That $15.00 an hour change and the fact that 80% of your employees fall within that range would make a lot of sense and that's 00:31:08
probably where the bulk of the increase is coming from. 00:31:14
OK. 00:31:23
All right. Well, thank you very much. Nice to meet you. 00:31:25
All right. We'll keep moving, moving right along item number six. 00:31:31
OK. We spoke about this earlier. This is simply the approval of the agreement with the county for the TRCC award we received for 00:31:37
the right hand turn lane on 45th on Highland to 45th rather. Any questions from council? 00:31:45
I guess we just need a motion then. 00:31:59
Let's see, which number is this mayor number? 00:32:01
66 Whose district is that? Matt? I think. I think it's mine actually. Or let's see, 45th and Highland is probably mad. That's 00:32:04
mine. 00:32:09
Is the South side, so it's mine, but so is there a. 00:32:15
OK. Mr. Mayor, I move that we ratify interlocal agreement with Salt Lake County for Helen Drive quarter preservation at 4504 S 00:32:19
Highland Drive. I guess there's no number or anything associated with that, right? Just the ratification of the interlocal, right, 00:32:23
There's no. 00:32:27
Resolution or OK. 00:32:32
OK, motion. A second. Council member Brewer. Yes. Councilmember Durham? Yes. Councilmember Fotheringham? Yes. Councilmember Quinn. 00:32:35
Yes. Councilmember Gray. Chair Vote yes. That awards approved. Thanks for the application, Holly. Appreciate it. Item number six 00:32:42
is the text amendment to the C2 zone moving from 35 to 40 feet. Any questions from council or clarifications from staff before we 00:32:49
take a motion on this item? 00:32:57
Was it unanimous for the Planning Commission? 00:33:05
My recollection as it was. 00:33:08
Mr. Mayor, I move approval of Ordinance 20/24/07 amending Title 13.62 Building Heights and Zone C2 going from 35 to 40 feet. 00:33:14
Second OK, motion and a second go to vote. Councilmember Brewer. Yes. Councilmember Durham. Yes. Councilmember Fotheringham. Yes. 00:33:24
Councilmember Quinn. Yes. Councilmember Gray and chair vote Just that text amendment is approved. Thank you. Thanks, John and 00:33:29
staff. 00:33:34
We're going taking us through that process. 00:33:40
Item number seven is simply adding Christian to the list with Gina and Holly for accessing the PTIF fund account. 00:33:44
Honest Merit Move approval of Resolution 2024-17 authorizing certain individuals, including new Finance Director Christian Larson, 00:33:56
to make changes to the city's PTIF fund account. 00:34:02
Second, OK, motion in a second, we'll go to vote Council Member Brewer, yes, Council Member Durham, yes. Council Member 00:34:09
Fotheringham, yes. Council Member Quinn, yes. Council Member Gray, yes, and chair vote Chess. That change is approved. Thank you, 00:34:15
Council. OK the next two items as previously discussed were. 00:34:20
A, a resolution approving agreement with bar X and then secondly a license, separate license and agreement for the right of way 00:34:28
for uses on that. Right away we'll start with. 00:34:34
The resolution with PAR X, any questions on that resolution that's in the packet or the agreement that's in the packet? 00:34:40
Mr. Mayor, I move. 00:34:52
Adoption of resolution 24202418. 00:34:55
Approving an agreement with Bar X Group relating to property commonly known as the cotton cotton bottom in and can we do both 00:34:59
together? I think we'll have to do them separately because they're separate resolutions. 00:35:05
2nd. 00:35:12
OK, we have a motion and 2nd from Council Member Gray and we'll go to vote on this item. Council Member Brewer, yes. Council 00:35:14
Member Durham, yes. Council Member Fotheringham, yes. Council Member Quinn, yes. Council Member Gray, yes. And Chair Vote Chess. 00:35:20
That agreement's approved. Now the license agreement, the separate license agreement, we discussed the details on this as well. 00:35:27
Any questions from council or clarifications from staff before we go to motion? 00:35:33
Take a motion, Mr. Mayor. I motion that we approve Resolution 2024, Dash 19, approving the license and encroachment agreement with 00:35:40
Cotton Bottom Properties LLC. 00:35:45
Second. OK. We have a motion a second from Councilmember Brewer will go in reverse. Councilmember Gray, yes. Councilmember Quinn, 00:35:51
Yes. Councilmember Fotheringham. Councilmember Durham, yes. Councilmember Brewer and Chair Bo Chess. Thank you. Thanks, Todd. 00:35:58
Thanks, Gina. Everybody involved. That's been kind of a long process, but this kind of finalized that issue with. 00:36:06
The Cotton Bottom and its owner. So thank you very much. OK, we are on to the city manager report. 00:36:15
So nothing for me this evening. 00:36:20
Council reports, We'll start with Emily. 00:36:23
Just a couple of things I want to thank John, especially in the aftermath of incident that we had in my district a few weeks ago. 00:36:27
I know he's been instrumental in helping resolve things with residents and work through that process. Lena also I know has worked 00:36:34
with a number of people and I'm really grateful for their help for me getting me the best information and also talking to 00:36:42
residents and help helping some very frustrated people. And I know that that's. 00:36:49
Challenging and I appreciate that. 00:36:57
Thank you. 00:37:00
Yes. 00:37:02
I think if everyone is like me, the bulk of the complaints that we get is about speeding. 00:37:06
And I just want to. 00:37:14
Thank Chief Hoyle and all his officers. We've had in my district a speed study on Olympic Way in front of Todd's house. We've had 00:37:17
a speed study on Splendor Way and recently we had an accident where a car ended up in the canal on Wander Lane. 00:37:27
And through all this, even though there are a lot of complaints, I think, you know, there's always human error, especially when 00:37:38
helped along by substances, but. 00:37:44
The. 00:37:51
I think what I'm trying to say is I feel pretty good about our city, even though a lot of people think people are speeding. When 00:37:53
you're walking next on a road and a car goes by you, it's easy to assume they're speeding because even if they're going. 00:38:02
2025 miles an hour, it seems like really fast. 00:38:10
And so I really appreciate having speed studies. 00:38:14
The little speed stat box clocks everybody that every single car that goes past. 00:38:19
And it's nice to have solid data to show to the people and say, hey, you know, we're really not so bad. Sometimes it makes them 00:38:25
frustrated. But I, I, I feel good about it. So thank you, Chief. 00:38:32
I would just say. 00:38:41
We are not the only city in the county that has this problem. 00:38:44
And it's a wonderful based on based on input I get from other people it's like everybody's speeding on every seat St. in the 00:38:47
county essentially. And if this is our worst problem I'll take holiday any day of the week. It's it. It is a problem. But I I I 00:38:54
know this is your time but I would corroborate that I mean we get a lot of complaints and the Chiefs always. 00:39:02
Takes the call, listens and then. 00:39:10
Puts officers on the spot or puts a speed study in. We try to get back to the residents instead of just. 00:39:13
Waving it off. So thanks and your. 00:39:20
On Monday, the city had an outstanding event hosted by the Arts Council and Historical Commission. 00:39:27
And in fact, our primary host is here, Kim Duffy this event on Monday. 00:39:35
Combined Arts Council event where there were paintings of some of the historic houses throughout the holiday, primarily the estate 00:39:43
district. 00:39:47
But also the Bollinger home in our district. 00:39:53
And. 00:39:58
Combined with, so a bunch of kind of. 00:40:00
Kind of plain air style paintings that were displayed throughout the big common room downstairs and then also a lecture from a 00:40:03
local historian about three of the major estate properties. And you know, normally that's something I might you know. 00:40:12
Go to and think it might be a yawn fest, but Oh my gosh, I was really engaged. That speaker was so engaging in how he drew in 00:40:21
relevant historical elements from world history, American history and how those things resulted in what they've what's come about 00:40:29
in our little tiny town of Holiday. It was really compelling. So I congratulate the Historical Commission and the Arts Council for 00:40:37
putting on a top notch event on Monday. It really was great and it was very well attended. We had to put out extra chairs. 00:40:45
And there was even apple beer and ginger beer. It was delightful. 00:40:54
Anyway, thanks and congratulations for a great event. 00:41:00
I just wanted to mention that last night I attended an event Co hosted by Cottonwood Heights and Holiday. 00:41:05
The Happy Healthy Holiday Coalition to kind of highlight the Big Cottonwood Creek Trail at Knutson Park. 00:41:12
And thank Holly and Meghan Bartley for being there and for representing us and setting things up. We had several volunteers from 00:41:19
our coalition there. 00:41:23
We there was a. 00:41:29
Some swag that we were giving out and we would. 00:41:31
People were pretty proactive about talking to people in the park about opportunities for outdoor recreation, especially with the 00:41:34
trail there. So it was a really good event. It was a great evening and a good opportunity to kind of highlight some of the. 00:41:41
Public health initiatives that we're dealing with with with the Happy Healthy Holiday Coalition. 00:41:48
I'll echo Paul's comments on Monday night's. 00:41:57
The speaker series, David Emmett. Last name. Yeah. And it was it was fantastic. I just prior to that we had the Olympus High 00:42:03
School awards ceremony where we presented 2 scholarships and every time I go to that too I'm just that's it was like Monday night 00:42:11
was just relish my holiday kind of night because I love to see the volunteers that step forward. It's so cool that like so cool to 00:42:18
see these people that. 00:42:25
You're in and you're out. Have these ongoing? 00:42:34
And. 00:43:22
Incidentally, do any of you know how many acres Holiday is? 00:43:23
It's 8 square miles. So yeah, it's like 5400 acres or so and the walkers originally had about 7 or 50 acres is I think what he 00:43:27
said. So anyways just fantastic. It was really, really neat and it those types of things I think help us appreciate our heritage 00:43:33
and the and the and the the place that we hold in history here in holiday. So the other by way of district report, the other thing 00:43:38
I guess I would just comment on is. 00:43:44
We did have the lights and other lighting issue with the skate park lights last night where they stayed on longer than well they 00:43:51
shouldn't have come on to begin with I guess and then they stayed on late again. So another call from a rightfully bothered 00:43:58
resident and so I'm I'm hoping that staff will be extra extra careful working with this contractor to make sure that that whenever 00:44:04
the time comes, which I think is close. 00:44:11
To do that, but it's just done, done right and that we could kind of double check some things. And and my other thought on that 00:44:19
that I just mentioned too is I just want to make sure in deference to our neighbors is that we're a good neighbor and and how we 00:44:26
go about that and everything. And so I'll talk with you more about that Gina back in a few more ideas on that as well so. 00:44:33
I think that's all I've got. Thank you. So it. 00:44:40
I think sometimes we forget how many things are going on in holiday. I mean, if you're listening to the council, this is all just 00:44:46
occurred in the last week. And a lot of times we don't even know what each other are doing and we have somebody in communications 00:44:53
now and we're probably not. We need to remember. And I'm talking to myself because I'm awful at this. I'm just awful. 00:45:01
But I presented at the Cottonwood High School awards banquet or awards ceremony and I should have got a photo. 00:45:09
With our two awardees and you should have got a photo with your two awardees and we should have sent it to Lena and we could have 00:45:18
got a photo at right. We need to probably remember that we have these events going on, and if we remember to shoot a photo, shoot 00:45:25
it to Lena, tell her what it's about and then she can decide whether it's. 00:45:33
Social media worthy or whatever it is we're doing, but I think we haven't had that you know as much of an opportunity to do that. 00:45:42
So we need to kind of remember when we're out doing something that we think that we might benefit from advertising that we're 00:45:49
talking about it to shoot that stuff off to Lena and let her kind of sort through it and see what to do about it. But I. 00:45:56
But I should say I'll embarrass you. But I was at the ceremony and Abigail was is the valedictorian for Cottonwood High School 00:46:05
this year. So congratulations. 00:46:11
To your daughter, but also to your parents that I'm sure you're very proud. 00:46:19
All right. And I think that's it. So we'll take a motion to recess and then we'll we'll move across the hall. Mr. Mayor, we 00:46:27
recess. City Council, we can meet at a work meeting in a few minutes across the hall. 00:46:32
Second, all in favor? Aye, aye. We're recessed. Take a little bit of a break and we'll move across the hall. 00:46:39
Hey, Ty. 00:46:49