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We went, we did a few days. 00:00:02
Not to be children, they just go for fun. Or did you pick up the? 00:00:06
Unless we have somebody else. 00:00:22
Do a camp trip in there, something like that. 00:00:25
Some friends who have traveled all over the place and fruits like. 00:00:31
There's there's one couple is their favorite place. Yeah. 00:00:34
Good evening everybody. 00:00:42
It is just after 6:00, so I'm going to call to order the City of Holiday Council meeting on May 1st and ask everybody to please 00:00:46
rise. 00:00:50
Or the pledge. 00:00:53
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 00:00:55
And the Republic for which it stands. 00:01:03
Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:01:06
Thank you. Okay, inner. 00:01:14
Previous meeting we were trying to decide if we were going to bump the agenda depending on how many. 00:01:17
We have here to speak. 00:01:22
On the feasibility issue, could you just raise your hand if you intend to address the Council tonight regarding the feasibility 00:01:24
study? 00:01:28
OK. That's not overwhelming. So we're just going to stay with our agenda the way it is and we'll kind of take it from there. 00:01:34
Before we get into that, well, a couple of things. We do have one public hearing tonight. 00:01:42
Umm, so if you're here to talk about Code 2 amendments. 00:01:48
Wait for that public hearing, which I'm sure. 00:01:53
There's probably quite a few of you. 00:01:56
That's a joke. 00:01:58
Anyway, just let me just make a brief comment before I open up public comment about. 00:02:01
The feasibility study and the district split, we had a. 00:02:07
Hey, what I would consider a really large crowd. 00:02:11
At our last. 00:02:14
Our last council meeting. 00:02:17
Umm, since that time. 00:02:20
I just want to kind of let you know what what's happened with our council or some members of our council. 00:02:24
Since those last since citizens addressed our Council at the last meeting. 00:02:30
So we did put together a meeting with, I believe it was 8. 00:02:35
Representatives. Umm. 00:02:41
Taylor Davis is here and Laura Pinnick, who are kind of leading that out and and six other members of the community came and. 00:02:44
I was joined by council members Brewer, Durham, Matt and Ty. 00:02:52
Across the hall here we spent about an hour and 45 minutes. I thought we had. 00:02:56
Healthy exchange, I thought. I thought we got a really good understanding of. 00:03:01
What the concerns are of the residents? 00:03:05
A lot is being generated, we know, by this boundary study and the possibility that some schools are going to close. Quite likely a 00:03:08
couple of schools are going to close one or two. 00:03:13
Three, I'm not sure. 00:03:17
But we wanted to make sure that. 00:03:19
Those residents know that we. 00:03:24
Are willing to listen and sit down and hear what their concerns are so. 00:03:26
We spent about an hour and a half during that meeting hour and 45 minutes. 00:03:30
Subsequently, myself, I reached out to the mayor of South Salt Lake, Sheree Wood. 00:03:35
And had a conversation with her and her position on this and I communicated that in the subsequent call with Taylor. 00:03:40
And at least at this point, at least she is opposed to the district split. I don't need to go into all the details. 00:03:47
But South Salt Lake is not on board with that and also talked to Mayor Silvestre to understand there are quite a few people 00:03:55
showing showed up Monday and. 00:03:59
Wanted to get his take, so I wanted to connect with him and kind of see where Bill Creek and City Council are. 00:04:03
And also had. 00:04:09
A follow up conversation with Julie Jackson, who kind of represents this area. 00:04:13
On the Granite School District board. 00:04:17
And also with Clark Nelson who represents more of the West side and Clark really hasn't had any contact, just FYI. 00:04:19
Taylor, since you're out there, ICU. 00:04:27
He has not heard from anybody from your group, so I didn't get much feedback from him. 00:04:30
So. 00:04:35
We've received, some of us have received emails and the bottom line, I just want to tell you we are familiar with this issue, 00:04:37
we're engaged with this issue. 00:04:42
And we'll kind of see how it goes. 00:04:47
From there, but I just wanted to let you know what has happened since our last council meeting. 00:04:50
As it relates to me personally and and a number of the members of the council who have also been in contact with residents from 00:04:55
their district as it relates to. 00:04:59
This. 00:05:04
Districts and specifically the feasibility study. 00:05:05
OK. 00:05:09
So we're going to open up public comment. I'll just repeat that. If you want to speak on behalf of the group, that's great. You 00:05:11
can take up to 5 minutes. If you do, just give us an idea of who you're speaking for and raise your hand or stand up so we can get 00:05:15
a sense of how many people. 00:05:20
We need your name and address please before you speak. 00:05:26
And for individuals, try to keep it to 3 minutes or less if you don't mind. And before I forget, Stephanie. 00:05:29
For those that are here especially for this district issue. 00:05:36
If you make sure you sign in, there's a sign in sheet out at the back door, Stephanie, right? 00:05:40
When you leave, would you please sign? We want to get a sense of who's here and where they live and make sure we're properly 00:05:46
tracking them. 00:05:49
So Trudy will be coming up from the library to show you how it's done. And with that, we'll open up public comment. 00:05:54
Hi I'm Trudy from the library. 00:06:04
I just wanted to let you know that this month. 00:06:06
On Mondays we're adding an extra story time, so there is still story time at Tuesday on the branch, but. 00:06:09
On Mondays, it's going to be in the gazebo right out here in the park. 00:06:15
So that should be a lot of fun. And this is the last month of school, so this is when all of the continued program, we're going to 00:06:19
still have teen time every Thursday. 00:06:23
It'll get a little more. 00:06:27
Loops in the summer, but for now it's all just regular stuff. 00:06:28
We're starting another RPG game for teens and adults that's on Saturdays starting on the 17th. 00:06:32
The game they're going to be playing this time is Blades in the Dark. 00:06:37
And I have no idea so. 00:06:41
But the really fun and cool thing that I get to tell you about is that if you go look at our property. 00:06:43
The lawn in the front on the northwest corner. 00:06:49
You'll see a little. 00:06:52
It's only you, it's. 00:06:53
Little Douglas Fir. 00:06:55
And it's an astronaut. It's a moon tree that we were granted from NASA. 00:06:58
So it has been. It was on the Artemis mission and it orbited the moon and we, the library wrote some grants and got. 00:07:03
Got this tree There will be a big. 00:07:12
Fancy grants today, a little bit later, but we had to get it in the ground within 48 hours per NASA's instructions, and so that 00:07:14
wasn't much time to plan a party. 00:07:19
So, you know, tentatively a June 5th ish kind of thing. Invitations will be coming. 00:07:23
But you know, if you have a chance to go look at it, you can't miss it. It's a really small Douglas Fern. It's got a lot of 00:07:29
fencing around it. 00:07:32
But it's really super cool. 00:07:36
So that's what's happening at the library. Did you have any questions for me? 00:07:38
Anything for Trudy? 00:07:44
We just are so great for all that you do. Thank you so much. Thanks for you. 00:07:46
Getting ready for a busy summer, huh? 00:07:50
All right, we don't have a. 00:07:54
Cruising, a lot of cities will have a sign up sheet or have will have stacks of paper. Who's going next? We don't have that. 00:07:56
It's just open mic. 00:08:02
And just come on up and again, give us your name and address and try to keep it to 3 minutes or less unless you're speaking on 00:08:04
behalf of. 00:08:07
A group. Hi, my name is Barbara Faust. Throughout my life street address. 00:08:11
Other than Holiday, oh, I live at 2110 Crest Hill Drive. 00:08:16
I'm an empty nester, all my children. 00:08:21
Attended attended holiday elementary and then when that closed they went to Drinks elementary. 00:08:24
Attended Olympus Junior and Olympus High School. 00:08:30
And I just want to let my support to a feasibility study to look at the school district. 00:08:33
Thank you very much. Thank you. 00:08:40
Hello, my name is Emily Davis. I live at 2007 E Lincoln Circle, just right by Crestview Elementary. 00:08:46
I went to Continental Elementary. I went to Olympus Junior High, where I met my husband. We went to Olympus High. 00:08:54
And we specifically chose the area where we live. We have six children and we specifically chose our home because of the 00:09:00
walkability to Crestview Elementary. It is a thriving center of children and families and activities. 00:09:07
We have Art night last night and there were hundreds of people there enjoying games and learning about Picasso. 00:09:13
And one of the dads built this giant cougar out of cardboard, and it's just so healthy and so fun and so vibrant. 00:09:20
To live somewhere that's so alive and that's so. 00:09:27
Surrounded by children and learning. 00:09:31
I think also the same as Barbara, when I'm an empty nester, I want families, I want children, I want vitality. That's what we look 00:09:34
for where we live. 00:09:37
Sorry, I have mom brains, so I'm going to look at my phone because I you know. 00:09:43
I support the feasibility study. I see it, you know, Granite District services 60,000 students, which is incredible. It's 00:09:47
incredible that they can do that. 00:09:51
The average size is 5000 children and I fear if I was looking after 60,000 children a lot would get lost. 00:09:56
So I support the feasibility study because I think a more efficient smaller run parent supported parent run parent represented 00:10:04
family represented district. 00:10:09
Would greatly all. 00:10:15
All of us and anyone who doesn't even know about this yet. 00:10:16
My thought is why wouldn't we investigate that? Something that could benefit the city, something that could benefit Mill Creek, 00:10:20
something that could benefit. 00:10:23
Every single person who lives in our area, I don't know why we wouldn't even investigate that. 00:10:27
And as the feasibility came back saying this is terrible, great. 00:10:32
It's terrible, we don't do it, but if it's a good thing, which has been for every single other district split. 00:10:36
Which I've looked at the Alpine Districts, Murray, everybody loves it, everybody supports it. 00:10:41
I don't know why we wouldn't look into something that has been proven to be great for communities. 00:10:47
And and then lastly, just we have three of our kids attending the elementary schools. We'll have our 4th entering kindergarten 00:10:51
next year. 00:10:55
There's been lots of, you know, surveys sent to parents and things like that about, you know, when school starts. 00:10:59
When the brakes should be and. 00:11:04
At least all of my friends. Everyone I've ever talked to has not felt supported by granted. 00:11:07
We feel like we have not been listened to, so I support the feasibility study to have. 00:11:12
Proper representation of our families and our children. So thank you for your time. I really appreciate all your hard work and 00:11:17
your listening ears. 00:11:21
Thank you. 00:11:24
I always have a baby on my head. That's just where we're at. My name is Emmy Lowe. I live at 4295 Lynn Lane. I was here last time. 00:11:31
And I spoke to you guys because I am for this information, but most importantly, I wanted to take a second and. 00:11:38
Tell you that when this whole thing started and this whole conversation started, from my understanding, my own feelings, we didn't 00:11:45
want to do this alone. 00:11:48
We wanted a city involved with us. 00:11:52
We want you guys to be a part of this with us. We don't want this to be just. 00:11:54
Us coming to you and banging on your door saying give us a piece of, you know, we want you to be involved, we want you to want 00:11:58
this. 00:12:00
It feels important for us for this to be a collaborative effort of these parents. 00:12:03
And then also the people represented us. 00:12:07
For you guys to see that it's important and that it feels big for us. 00:12:10
I think just feels really important. I wanted to make sure to notate that. And with that said, thank you for giving the time you 00:12:13
have the people. 00:12:17
To listen to us because I think that's important as well. If you haven't written, written us off, you've taken the time. Matt 00:12:21
Durham I know that Betsy sent an e-mail about to me. 00:12:25
We're planning on having you to get together and talk to you with a few different parents that don't have the opportunity to be 00:12:30
here tonight in different times. And with that said, I just wanted to read something really quick if it's okay. 00:12:35
I'm in a group text with moms and I'm constantly sending messages. Come here, come here, let's show our support. 00:12:41
And one of them said today, these meetings are just happening at a pinnacle busy time of the evening and time of the year for 00:12:46
parents. 00:12:49
I regret it. I couldn't make it to any of the last few. 00:12:52
Having to be three other places at the same time for kids activities. 00:12:55
I'm sure there are so many more parents who would be there if we could. I don't know if that's worth mentioning. 00:12:58
There was 10 likes on that one simple comment that someone put in a group of over 30 women in the text I'm in. 00:13:03
So I hope you know that while you see these people here, and we do care, they care too. 00:13:09
We just have so many responsibilities. My husband is an attorney, so he works late night like I'm sober with four kids. 00:13:14
I'm lucky tonight that someone could take my little girl and I could bring my three boys with me, but that's not the reality for a 00:13:21
lot of us. You're getting some help, so it's just important to know that like, while you see us here, there's so much more who 00:13:26
care. 00:13:30
Talker This is just who I am as a person. I talk to people every single day about business. Become my new personality. 00:13:35
Whether it's the PTA board or being on the preschool board that I'm on as well and then showing up here, this matters. 00:13:41
I care about this for my kids, and I see that you do too with the conversations we're having. 00:13:48
But I just want you to know it's not about us saying let's do a new school district today. 00:13:53
We don't want that. 00:13:58
All we want is to investigate it. We just want to know that we did our part to see that we did the best thing for our kids. 00:13:59
And if we walked away from this and we didn't have the opportunity, it would cut me. 00:14:06
Because honestly thinking about. 00:14:11
What am I doing at this point in my life, right? I'm almost 40 and all that I'm doing right now is living for my kids. I got to be 00:14:14
honest with you, whether it's a baseball game, going to tennis practice, all the things. That's all I'm doing and that's why I'm 00:14:18
here because I want you to know. 00:14:22
It matters to the court for me. 00:14:27
I know the school closures are going to happen. It is what it is. It's where we're at. I know the conversation has been this isn't 00:14:29
going to hit the ballot till 2026 and I'm OK with that. 00:14:33
I know that things are going to happen. It makes them sad because I wish we had more of a conversation in it. I wish we could 00:14:37
delay it here so that we had more of a state of grounded school district of let us be on a board to talk about this. 00:14:43
Because like, while Julie is representing Crestview, she's also representing all the other schools. 00:14:49
And I know Clark also represent has a little bit of a stake in the game with press view, but at the same time. 00:14:54
I don't know who's representing me there, and I know I'm not. 00:14:59
So I know the importance of doing this, the changes, but I also know the importance of having representation and thus saying, you 00:15:02
know what, not 27.25 kids in the class. 00:15:07
22 kids in a class, that's what's important to our district. 00:15:12
On when they get out of school on a Thursday don't get us out at 1:15. They only get out early on Fridays. These things matter 00:15:15
because your parents who plan on that for Fridays but like today we got out at 1:15. That's granite choices that they make that 00:15:21
but even if there's an early out day that we get out. 00:15:26
I know that might sound random and simple, but it's little things like that that we need representation with our kids and in our 00:15:32
areas. 00:15:35
So I'll be done, but thank you. Really. I'm in a Jamie's in that text group and she's like, get him like on my way here I come. 00:15:39
But really, I appreciate you guys. This has been an honor to be able to fight for my kids. Not fight. I hate that word. 00:15:46
Do what I can, do the best for my children because it means something and I know it'll mean something then 20 years from now. 00:15:54
And the last thing I want to say and I'm done. I'll walk away. 00:16:01
They were saying that this is new. It's not. This has been a conversation for a long time, and I've had this conversation, Betsy 00:16:04
Vandenberg multiple times. 00:16:07
This has been a conversation for a long time. It's just that we're now seeing. 00:16:12
That we need to really go for it. And you're right. Why didn't it happen two years ago? Is it just because the boundary study came 00:16:17
up? 00:16:20
In my opinion, it just was coincidence that that's what happened. But I think this should be handled no matter what or addressed 00:16:23
no matter what, whether it was the here or next year, it's something we need to investigate and see if it's best for our kids. 00:16:30
Thank you so much. 00:16:37
She did forward that text, by the way, and said, Dad, they're coming for you. 00:16:40
Hey, thank you so much for letting us speak again, and I'll try and be brief. I know you've heard from me enough. 00:16:46
But I'm Betsy Vandenberg. I live. 00:16:52
On Cumberland Rd. 00:16:54
Umm, we're empty nesters and. 00:16:56
I don't think any of my kids love being able to afford to move here and I, you know, but I, I am appreciative of this group that 00:17:00
we're working with. 00:17:04
Which encompasses all age ranges and especially, you know, and I think it was even clearer than Mill Creek meeting. 00:17:07
That our group also represents all sorts of different political alignments. 00:17:15
All sorts of different religious viewpoints and single parents, large families, and that's why I have loved working with these 00:17:21
kinds of people for 20 years that we've been discussing small districts. 00:17:27
And I actually, I mean, I don't like it when I don't like school closures, but but I do like that it it. 00:17:34
You know, my priority is small districts. That's why we formed the Small Districts Coalition. It consisted of people from South 00:17:41
Salt Lake. 00:17:45
Including some of the city councilors there. The small districts coalition had some Holiday E Mill Creek people, but a driving 00:17:48
force for people from West Valley City. It was all Granite School District patrons who did not fill. 00:17:55
Well represented and we wanted a smaller district. So this was back in like 2007 or so. 00:18:03
And, umm. 00:18:09
I support small districts because, you know, even the Bill and Linda Gates. 00:18:11
Foundation before they got divorced they were way into small schools because smaller districts create smaller schools create 00:18:16
smaller class sizes. 00:18:20
Create higher, higher academic achievement. It's just a better, much better arrangement for the children involved. As I think I 00:18:24
said previously, you get over like 10,020 thousand students and then the economies of scale disappears and it becomes more of a 00:18:30
bloated bureaucracy where you. 00:18:36
Where the money is not quite going into the classes of the teacher salary, so I know that. 00:18:42
Cities are afraid of losing. They're afraid of losing special programs. 00:18:48
Special this, special that. 00:18:52
But I, I, I can. And that's something the feasibility study can, you know, can look at, but almost across the board, smaller 00:18:54
districts are able to use their funding. 00:19:00
Better for the school, better for the lower class sizes, better for the paraprofessionals. 00:19:06
They get smaller districts. Can also combine with other districts. 00:19:10
And you know you can, just as the city uses other programs and they don't do everything themselves. 00:19:14
It's not as complicated as it sounds and I don't think we would be losing. I think we would be gaining, but at least the 00:19:21
feasibility study could show us that. 00:19:25
Um, larger districts do tend to. 00:19:30
Closed down schools a lot more often than smaller districts that find ways of like. 00:19:33
I don't know of saying. 00:19:38
Our school doesn't have to have. 00:19:39
35 kids per class. 00:19:41
A school doesn't have to be 600 students. We don't have to build high schools the size of entire shopping malls. 00:19:43
They have different priorities and I think it would, you know, behoove us to look at those priorities, how our money gets spent. I 00:19:51
think people know where the money goes a lot better in a smaller district. 00:19:56
So my rah rah here today is not necessarily for, you know. 00:20:02
The the big winds of school closure that are coming. Although I appreciated it, it gets people involved. 00:20:07
But I've been doing this, I've been working with people for 20 years and yeah, I'm really happy for Jordan. School district there, 00:20:13
Jordan, the West side of Jordan is really happy they split. Cottonwood or Canyons is happy they split. Now it's a rapper wants to 00:20:19
be its own I. You know, I'm happy for Alpine going three ways. 00:20:24
You know, I just like our community to consider it. It really did. 00:20:31
The bill came about, you know, 20 years ago from people involved here and in the Granite School District. And it would be great if 00:20:35
if our city would help us just explore what this would look like. So thank you so much. I really appreciate your time and 00:20:41
attention. 00:20:46
Thank you. 00:20:52
Hi Lisa Bagley, I live at Honeycutt Rd. Full disclosure, I'm a Mill Creek resident and the Vandenbergs came and supported us on 00:21:03
Monday night at the Mill Creek City Council. So. 00:21:09
Came tonight to support them and we are. We're empty nesters. 00:21:15
Had graduated from Olympus. Three of our four daughters graduated from Olympus. 00:21:20
And if you'll just remember 2016 Mill Creek, 2/3 of Mill Creek City residents voted. 00:21:25
To become a city. 00:21:33
Because they felt that they weren't listened to by Salt Lake County. 00:21:35
And so 2/3 of the residents voted to become a city because they wanted local control, autonomy and representation. 00:21:39
And I was I had a doctor's appointment on Monday morning and I drove over from Mill Creek over here to holiday. 00:21:46
And I drove back past Crestview Elementary and it was such a beautiful sight. The sun was coming up. 00:21:53
The kids were walking to school, They had their backpacks on. They were walking with their parents, their best friends. 00:21:59
On the corner of the stop sign where you all know where that is, I was coming back and waiting and there was a mom. 00:22:05
That was a crossing guard with her daughter and her little daughter was, you know, doing the dance. And I just thought what a what 00:22:13
a beautiful thing the the local Community School is the heart of the community. 00:22:19
And I think that's all we're asking here is a feasibility study for Mill Creek and holiday in South Salt Lake. 00:22:24
To have that local control, that autonomy and that representation. 00:22:32
Thank you. 00:22:37
Thank you. 00:22:38
Thanks for letting Mill Creek Scab come in here. 00:22:43
I live on 2490 E Lamphorn Ave. in Mill Creek. 00:22:48
I just wanted to thanks for having us and thanks for the dialogue. I, I really do appreciate it and I open up to any of you and I, 00:22:52
I tell everybody if, if I ever say anything wrong. 00:22:57
Or something amiss or you have a question. I'll try my best answer. If I don't know what I'll say no, but. 00:23:01
I love that and. 00:23:08
So. 00:23:10
The way I get started in this was actually two years ago. I got into this because of the Spring Lane Mill Creek closures and I 00:23:12
went to the meeting. 00:23:16
And I saw, I listened to everything they talked about and I saw this slide and it hasn't changed. 00:23:20
This is a slide that shows us who decides what schools closed. This is this. I didn't doctor. This is directly from Granite. And I 00:23:26
don't think I've met with Ben, by the way, and Hogan and the chief of staff. I don't think they're bad people. I generally don't. 00:23:32
I, you know, Ben multiple times this week. 00:23:37
But this slide tells me who decides. 00:23:43
The future of our schools. 00:23:46
And it has 20 boxes and one of them is community engagement. 00:23:48
I'm not going to bore you by reading all the other ones. 00:23:54
But umm. 00:23:56
It became very clear to me as I sat there. It's the reason I actually met with Mayor Dali 2 years ago is I just, I wanted to know 00:23:58
his position on the schools and, and I don't blame him that the approach is kind of like granite does their thing. 00:24:03
But it was a little alarming to me because schools I think are kind of sacred. They're they're like a little biological entity and 00:24:08
I to me. 00:24:12
I'll do everything I can to keep that little puppy alive. 00:24:17
And I went to those meetings and I was kind of surprised and I actually, I actually followed boundary study last year on the West 00:24:20
side and I went to meetings at Granger because I just want to see how it went and kind of how it worked. 00:24:25
And I just, there wasn't that community touch, there wasn't that feel, there wasn't that it was missing. And and that's when I 00:24:30
started studying the size of the schools and the size of the districts and. 00:24:35
Reading and talking to people and talking to people at different districts and and I realize there's so many ways to do schools. 00:24:40
Whenever someone says this is the way I go red light. 00:24:44
There's like thousands of ways. 00:24:49
And and the only one that can really decide what we want for our future. And this is what excites me. I mean, there's the brakes 00:24:51
part of let's keep the status quo. I don't think Grant is bad. I went to Granite Schools. They're great. 00:24:56
I turned out OK. 00:25:02
But I think what excites me is the future. I hope that you'll get the vision on reverse of. 00:25:05
There's some big decisions coming up. So there's the school closures now. We've already talked, I think. 00:25:11
The time the season has passed, that's going to happen. 00:25:17
That disappoints some people. 00:25:20
But I look at the junior highs and I'm meeting with Ben. 00:25:21
I mean, Bonneville has 400 kids at it. Well, who? So so I go, I live in that neighborhood and I go. 00:25:25
What's going to happen to Bonneville? 00:25:30
Well, who cares what I think? I don't live in that neighborhood. 00:25:33
Why don't the people in Bonneville's neighborhood decide what happens to Bonneville? 00:25:35
Does it wait? What happens to the boundaries? Does it get closed? Does it get rebuilt? Do we put a special program in there? 00:25:39
Let them decide right now. 00:25:45
That Clark one meeting with next week I like umm. 00:25:47
It covers an area of 10 schools. 00:25:51
And so it's really hard for him to fight for Bonneville. He can try, but he's got a way that against a lot of other things. I 00:25:54
think it would be way more fun if there's a representative of a Bonneville that covers just Bonneville in two elementaries. 00:25:59
And can go. 00:26:05
Here's what Here's what's happening in Bonneville. Here's what's important in Bonneville. Here's what Bonneville needs. 00:26:06
There's a million in your eyes all over the country, that 400 kids in them. 00:26:10
Granted, as a paradigm, they'll say Bonneville needs to close. It doesn't have enough kids. 00:26:14
Is that it? We're just going to give up on bonded. I go into Bonneville and I spend time there and I think what a cool elementary. 00:26:19
I mean, what a cool junior high. I don't have a lot of exposure there, but when we're there. And so I just what I'm trying to get 00:26:23
at is. 00:26:27
I believe in the model. I believe in the model. You've you've I lived in holiday before, holiday with the city, and I lived in 00:26:32
holiday after, and it wasn't a hell world before. 00:26:36
No one, no one thought it was this horrible place. 00:26:42
But the potential that was unlocked by becoming a city and having a group like you come in every day and say how can we make this 00:26:44
place great? That's our focus. 00:26:49
Made all the difference and how cool has it been to see it grow? 00:26:54
I hope you'll catch the vision of the potential with that. 00:26:58
The feasibility study will unlock that. I said it to many of you before if it comes out bad. 00:27:00
Done with. 00:27:05
I'm done. I'll tell you right now, my wife would be relieved because I'd be home at night and I put my kids to bed and I'd be sort 00:27:06
of relieved. 00:27:09
But if it comes out well, we have more funds. 00:27:12
To unlock things like smaller classes, better teacher paid, rebuilding some of our schools, maybe not rebuilding some of our 00:27:16
schools. 00:27:19
But we could decide with a board of seven, an executive committee that wakes up every day and says, how do we make this area 00:27:23
great? 00:27:26
And I think that I, I genuinely believe that is exciting, and I think that's exciting for every section of the city. 00:27:30
The way representative government works, it's not like here we have 4 representatives up in the Cove. 00:27:36
And none anywhere else. It's by population, so every group will get an increase about a 4X increase in representation. 00:27:41
And as I've said to you before. 00:27:47
I've never been in a scenario where I thought I wish I had less representation. 00:27:49
And that doesn't mean Julie's bad. And that doesn't mean Clark is bad. And that doesn't mean Ben is bad. 00:27:54
It's just the nature of a giant beast. 00:27:59
And it's been, my last thought is it's been one month since our meeting and all of you have run campaigns. 00:28:01
And I think we're doing pretty good and we're gonna keep going and we are gonna. 00:28:07
We we are reaching out. We're having some growth actually in the Twin Peaks Spring Lane area. It's been fun to get some people on 00:28:11
there. 00:28:13
And I'm meeting with Mayor Wood in a week. 00:28:16
And we're going to keep on going, but I hope, I hope you'll catch that vision because I think you already do it. 00:28:18
And so let's get the study. I mean, I just did a quick estimation. It's. 00:28:23
Based on percentages of the district, it's about $240 million a year just based on. 00:28:28
The 15,000 kids that would be in our area, I think it would be well worth spending. 00:28:34
100,000 bucks to see where that 240 million goes. 00:28:38
And if it doesn't recount? 00:28:43
You never have to have this crew coming again because they'll go be playing soccer again. So thank you. 00:28:45
Very soon. 00:28:50
I'm Jed Vandenberg, 4206 Cumberland Rd. 00:28:57
I've lived in Holiday for over 35 years and love it here. 00:29:01
And agree with the magnificent. 00:29:05
Miracle. That's Holiday City. 00:29:11
Going is self incorporated, being being directed by itself. 00:29:14
I did not grow up in holiday. I grew up in South Salt Lake. I went to Lincoln Elementary, Granite Park Junior High. 00:29:19
And Granite High School. 00:29:26
Those schools do not exist anymore. 00:29:28
When I was growing up. 00:29:31
Granite and South Salt Lake was a community that was very comparable to Murray. 00:29:33
Murray is just 5 miles down South. 00:29:39
On State Street. 00:29:42
But when Granite closed, when Granite Park Junior High closed and when Lincoln Elementary was. 00:29:44
Down and the students were moved to Granite Park Junior High and it was called Lincoln Elementary. It changed that community. 00:29:51
And that community has struggled ever since. I know people that still live there. 00:29:59
And they grew the day and regret what happened to their community in their schools. 00:30:05
And I contrast that in my mind to Murray. 00:30:10
Murray has a single It's a small city like this, but it has its own district. 00:30:14
That includes Murray High School, two junior highs and several elementaries. And they're thriving. People love Murray. They love 00:30:20
Murray School District. 00:30:25
And they long to move in there and go there. 00:30:30
I think having local control has been so good for Holiday City. 00:30:33
And I would. 00:30:40
Agree and believe that it would be so good to have local control in your school districts. And it would be. 00:30:43
And maintenance and a strength for this community that would last forever. 00:30:50
So thank you. 00:30:56
Thank you. 00:30:57
I I spoke with you last time as well. I'm Marissa Skinner. I live at 1800. 00:31:02
North Woodside Dr. 00:31:08
Azjab Singh, he lived here for 35 years. I was kind of going through and my family has been in both Mill Creek and Holiday for 00:31:12
over 120 years, which is crazy to me. 00:31:18
And one of the things that I love about Holiday and Mill Creek and that my family has been, and my perspective is a little 00:31:25
different than everyone else's, I think. 00:31:29
Is the entrepreneurial spirit. 00:31:34
That exists in this community and I think that some of you up here are entrepreneurs and you run your own businesses and the thing 00:31:37
that we do. 00:31:40
Every every month we run through our reports, right? We're saying what's working and what's not working. 00:31:44
And I think that this is one of those times where we need to say, is this working? 00:31:50
And find out. I think that that's what the feasibility study does for us. It allows us to have the information and the data to 00:31:55
say, are we making good decisions for our community. 00:31:59
We might be making great at making great. 00:32:04
Decisions for the community. 00:32:07
But it's always worth looking at the reports. 00:32:09
And I think that you guys are awesome. Thank you for listening to everybody and. 00:32:12
Hope you have a good night. 00:32:16
Thank you. 00:32:17
Hi, my name is Katie Knudsen. I actually live in Mill Creek but I have kids that go to Olympus and even to Cottonwood to do the 00:32:26
Academy of Finance, which is amazing at Cottonwood. 00:32:32
And then I have one of my kids that will be going to Skyline for woodworking. I say that because it felt like it points out how 00:32:38
integrated our community is. I think it's really unique. 00:32:43
That there's not really a clear holiday or holiday. Mill Creek, like we all kind of mesh. Skyline, Olympus, Cottonwood, everybody 00:32:49
kind of knows each other and is very integrated together, which is what makes our community so amazing. 00:32:57
I got involved with. 00:33:06
Wanting to do a feasibility study and have a potential create a new district two years ago. 00:33:09
I have kids at William Penn and we were involved with Mill Creek being closed and then being moved to our school. We love those 00:33:15
kids that are at our school, but it was very clear in all of those meetings that we don't have a voice. 00:33:22
Yes, they come and listen to us, but no, we don't have a voice. They already have made the decisions, unfortunately. 00:33:29
And through that process, it kind of stirred that. 00:33:36
Desire in my heart to have more of a say in what's happening in our schools. 00:33:40
I have kids in elementary, junior high and high school, and so I'm seeing it across the board, all the different things happening 00:33:46
and I as a parent would love to have a lot more say in those things. They're taking the teachers and putting them in the district. 00:33:54
The things that are happening with technology, I mean, the list could go on and on, but I've pursued many of those things and just 00:34:02
don't feel like we have much of A voice. 00:34:07
And I think I realized through that process that it's really the local representation, right, that vote. And like many others have 00:34:12
said, I realized that. 00:34:16
So we have two board members that cover what we're proposing for the. 00:34:22
Mill Creek Quality and South Salt Lake. So we have two state board members or sorry, grounded board members that vote for our 00:34:29
area. 00:34:33
In turn, we have 5 for each of those three cities, right? We have the mayor and then the four district members. So that's 15 00:34:38
people that are representing that area versus the 2. 00:34:44
And I just feel like our biggest opportunity here is to. 00:34:50
Do the feasibility study, see if it's worth doing and if it would be something that. 00:34:55
Would be good for our area and then if it comes out well and it is, I think this is an opportunity for us to. 00:35:01
Just make our cities even better than they already are. Like people have talked about unincorporated Salt Lake before and then 00:35:09
Mill Creek and and Holiday are so much better off with having. 00:35:16
Our local representation and I think that we if we all come together and do this could have the best district in the state of Utah 00:35:23
and I think it would be absolutely amazing people would want to come here and I think it would just. 00:35:29
Make our communities and our cities all the better. 00:35:36
Thank you. 00:35:39
Thank you. 00:35:40
My name is Ryan Reynolds. I live on 5230 S Warner Lane. 00:35:47
So I've grown up in holiday my whole life my family's lived in holidays. 00:35:51
Generations. 00:35:56
I currently have a daughter that goes to Common elementary, another daughter who will be there in a couple years. I went to 00:35:58
Cottonwood elementary Olympus Junior. 00:36:02
Went through Olympus high school. 00:36:06
I am in full support of the feasibility study in hopes that it would come out. 00:36:08
Well, obviously. 00:36:13
But just, I'm a very sentimental person with with stuff like this, like you know how cool it is to go back to elementary and go 00:36:15
into a classroom? 00:36:19
Prepare these conferences the same classroom that I went to that my daughter is now in. 00:36:23
I think it's pretty cool. I want to talk. 00:36:27
To you more about from like a resource standpoint, so. 00:36:29
Currently I coach. I coach football up at Olympus High School. 00:36:32
And there's been so many instances with Grant School District where we've needed new equipment or wanted to do something better 00:36:35
for our football team. 00:36:39
And things like that, but we're not able to because. 00:36:43
It's it's not fair to a school like Cyprus or Hunter or Grange or some other school itself. We do something with our school. 00:36:47
It has to go. 00:36:55
You know, to another school in the district, no matter, no matter where it is. 00:36:57
I think having a smaller school district would be great and more effective in allocating funds. 00:37:00
You know that we all contribute to to be able to, you know, to pay teacher better wages, to get better education. You know better. 00:37:05
Facilities Better equipment for for sports and athletics. 00:37:12
And things of that nature, I just think of being all around smarter, better decision that we're able to consolidate it into a 00:37:16
smaller district. 00:37:19
For our kids, so allocate funds and things that would better enrich the lives of our children and things for generations to come 00:37:23
so. 00:37:26
Thank you. 00:37:30
Thank you. 00:37:32
I promise to be brief. I mean, Mayor Silverstream did a timer on this. You had to be done at 2 minutes, so. 00:37:39
That was that was hard to get some some things in, but I just I my name is Tracy Walker. I live just over on 2341 Edgemore Dr. 00:37:46
just right over here. So I had the pleasure of meeting with you, Mayor Dali the other day and I just wanted to thank you publicly 00:37:52
for that meeting. I thought it was just a wonderful time for us to. 00:37:58
To meet and to kind of share different perspectives, you know, perspective of a mother and a perspective of Joe McAllister. You 00:38:04
know, he's who he works really closely with Granite and. 00:38:10
Lots of us were able to share our our perspectives and I felt like you really listened and I really appreciate that, I feel like. 00:38:15
We even maybe left friends so I like that. 00:38:22
But I just wanted to publicly say that I am in complete support of this feasibility study. 00:38:25
And like I had told you the other day, I've been in this district for over 17 years now with six children and. 00:38:31
And you know, one thing that the mayor said to us the other day was that. 00:38:38
He just doesn't really feel like there's that concern in the district or the community that our schools are full and everybody's 00:38:42
happy. And I tried to express that, you know? 00:38:47
That's true that our schools are full, but what's happened is like when I first moved in, our elementary school was only ranked by 00:38:52
three. 00:38:55
Lots of our neighbors take their schools private, their children privately because our school is struggling. 00:38:59
That privately, they homeschool, they go to charter schools, different things like that. 00:39:06
And I contemplated, what am I going to do with my kids? I can't take them to an elementary school that's ranked to three. 00:39:10
And so I looked at Oakridge, I looked at some, you know, Cardin different things, and I said, no, you know what? I believe in the 00:39:15
public school system. 00:39:18
I'm going to take my heels in and I am going to make this school better. And so we rally together as parents and as a community. 00:39:22
And we did things and we raised money for an incredible art teacher with who I just found out today is leaving to go to the West 00:39:28
side to the new STEM junior high, Brock Bank Junior high. Things are are are struggling now at our school, but it has been ranked 00:39:33
one of the top schools in the district. 00:39:39
And that's because of our blood, sweat and tears. And just like what this gentleman said, you know, we've raised money and made 00:39:44
us. We've made nonprofits to raise money up at Skyline High School for new batting cages. Granite tells us no. 00:39:50
That we can't do it even though we raised $100,000. Joe McAllister and I raised $68,000 to do a new playground because our 00:39:57
children are getting stitches every day on those rocks. It's not handicapped accessible. 00:40:02
Granite tells us no. Granite is constantly telling us no. 00:40:08
And so the schools are full. Yes, people want to go to these schools, but it's not because of Granite, it's because of us. It's 00:40:13
because of our amazing culture and community and everyone's going. We want a good education. We want our schools to be better. 00:40:19
And I just think giving us this chance as I was walking into your building. 00:40:26
I saw a little street signs that say shape our future. I'm not sure what campaign that is. 00:40:31
And that that really lit up to me because you have that opportunity Mary Silverstream has. 00:40:35
That opportunity to shape our children's future. 00:40:40
And not only on the East side. It's not about east versus West. I actually own a dance studio in Taylorsville with 400 children. 00:40:44
And they go to all schools. We have all different schools. And they agree that Granite is just too big. I think Granite could be 00:40:51
an amazing district. 00:40:55
The and those schools deserve it. 00:41:00
And our schools deserve it. We deserve representation. 00:41:02
And I think what a hero you guys could be for the entire valley. I'm I'm here speaking on behalf of. 00:41:05
Every child in grammar school district because they all deserve a better way of doing things and they deserve a yes. 00:41:11
Instead of a number. 00:41:19
And so I just really appreciate your time and I appreciate you shaping our future and. 00:41:20
Just giving us a chance. I just think it's such a small amount of financial. 00:41:27
Umm, obligation for three cities to split? 00:41:32
And as far as you're concerned about the community support, I started a private group me about two days ago, I believe just in my 00:41:36
neighborhood school and I already have about 40 members on there in just two days. 00:41:42
And so I know that they all like the young mother was talking about, about they all want to be here tonight, that they have 00:41:48
obligations and things like that. So I think you'll be receiving some emails. 00:41:53
But just know our community really is on board with this. We really feel strong and passionate about it. 00:41:59
Of all ages, and we just. 00:42:05
Please for your help. So thank you again for your help and your time and I really appreciate it. 00:42:07
Thank you. 00:42:12
Hello, Paul. 00:42:19
Don't miss your father again since he was 3. 00:42:21
And I was 4. 00:42:24
Good to be here. 00:42:26
I'm a Mill Creek resident at Bagley is my name and I live on. 00:42:28
3387 Honeycutt Rd. 00:42:32
Just over the cemetery, which I see your old house about every day when we go through there, so. 00:42:36
I just wanted to. 00:42:45
Talk a little bit about how. 00:42:47
And we all grew up. 00:42:49
With Granite School District and. 00:42:51
To the to the you know what our knowledge was during high school years, I'm not sure. 00:42:54
But we knew there were schools we went to and then there was sort of some other kind of groups that we were. 00:43:00
Part of Oregon subject to in some way. 00:43:06
And I thought that so it was everywhere. When we moved to Cincinnati, we were there for. 00:43:11
Four years. 00:43:17
And one of the things people told us when we moved in, they said. 00:43:18
You're going to love being here because anywhere you go to, schools are fantastic. 00:43:22
And that seemed to be the case. 00:43:28
And. 00:43:31
I was asking somebody at one point, you know, we'd been living there for a little while. Why is it this way? 00:43:33
And they said it's because the districts ladder up to 1 high school. 00:43:40
All of them are their own districts that serve like Jeff said. 00:43:46
There's a, you know, junior highs. 00:43:50
And elementaries that feed up to high school. 00:43:53
But that allows each of those high schools to have a specialty of some sort. 00:43:56
There were ones that were really great at final arts, there were others athletics, there are others you know. 00:44:02
You know, just. 00:44:08
Almost specialties. You couldn't go wrong if that's where you wanted to be as a family. 00:44:10
And what that did to the neighborhoods is. 00:44:17
You know people would look for. 00:44:20
What they wanted and go there and so each of the neighborhoods will really. 00:44:23
Vibrant. 00:44:29
Umm, and the The thing is, that was what was great about that was there wasn't some. 00:44:31
Sort of giant overlord. 00:44:38
Thing it was all. 00:44:41
Very. 00:44:44
At another word, it's just kind of happened spontaneously. 00:44:46
And those school districts, certainly they collaborated. 00:44:51
You know, for economies of scale, bought books together and things like that. 00:44:57
But nobody told them what they needed to be about. 00:45:03
And what their specialty? 00:45:06
Was it was it was a fantastic place. 00:45:07
Of your kids. 00:45:11
So. 00:45:13
I just close with. 00:45:15
When we came back. 00:45:19
From Cincinnati was when they were thinking of closing Wasatch Junior. 00:45:21
And all that kind of a kerfuffle. 00:45:26
And our neighbor across the street was a guy named Bryce Bertelsen, who had been the he was. 00:45:30
He was in his 90s at this point, but he had been the. 00:45:36
The. 00:45:43
Of Murray. 00:45:45
All right. And I asked him. 00:45:49
About the idea of this. 00:45:53
Very large. 00:45:55
Districts versus a single district. 00:45:58
He didn't want to get into anything controversial, but he sat there for a moment. He said, well, I'll tell you what. 00:46:01
All my leadership began as we were at all the football games. 00:46:08
All my, all my leadership. 00:46:12
We're at the football, we're at every football game. 00:46:14
I think that says something. 00:46:17
So leave it at that if I do. 00:46:20
I bring all this this up just because I think. 00:46:24
We should at least look into this and get the data. 00:46:27
Thank you. 00:46:31
Thank you. 00:46:32
My name is Mindy often and I just wanted to read a quote. This comes from a man named Tracy Cowdell. 00:46:45
And he was a board member of Jordan School District. And at the time when Jordan School District was looking to split, he was very 00:46:51
against the split. He had a father that. 00:46:57
Had worked for the district for 35 years. His wife. 00:47:04
Also, umm. 00:47:08
Was a Jordan School District teacher and he was very opposed and worked to make sure that it did not get split and yet it did. 00:47:09
And this is his quote now, he said. Looking back, I realized I would vote differently regarding the division of the Jordan School 00:47:17
District. 00:47:21
I was wrong. The Canyon School District has thrived and the Jordan District has continued to flourish. 00:47:24
Both districts now have the ability to focus on more localized needs in ways a larger organization simply could not. 00:47:32
Thank you. 00:47:39
Thank you. 00:47:41
OK. Oh. 00:47:51
I wasn't planning on this, but I felt very strongly that I needed to get up here and say something. My name is Katia Borden, I 00:47:57
live at 2096 E. 00:48:01
Country pine cone. 00:48:06
I have lived in holiday for. 00:48:08
Almost 20 years, I'd say 19. 00:48:11
We have eight children. 00:48:15
And they have all. 00:48:19
And students at Granite School District. 00:48:23
Our oldest son. 00:48:27
Just graduated as a graduate. 00:48:29
At the law school at BYU. 00:48:32
And our youngest is. 00:48:35
Playing. 00:48:39
Right now we love. 00:48:41
The opportunities that are in. 00:48:43
Holiday umm. 00:48:46
It's it's wonderful. 00:48:47
It's absolutely wonderful. 00:48:51
Umm. 00:48:53
I remember my husband telling me the stories of his childhood because he grew up. 00:48:58
In holiday as well he was. 00:49:05
Class president at Olympus High School and that's one of the reasons we moved to Utah. Sorry, not to Utah, but to Holiday. 00:49:07
Was so that we could raise our children. 00:49:16
In the same environment that he grew up in. 00:49:19
And it's been really a wonderful experience to have. 00:49:23
Our children part of the same environment. 00:49:27
That he had and. 00:49:31
To have the same opportunities, it's been really enriching. 00:49:34
And to have smaller class sizes. 00:49:39
As the children were growing up, the smaller class sizes. 00:49:42
Were really profoundly. 00:49:46
Important to me and to them, and if they've gotten. 00:49:48
As it's gotten closer to our youngest. 00:49:53
Giving to where he's, you know, the younger. 00:49:58
The younger student that we have. 00:50:02
His class size is a lot bigger. 00:50:05
And it's made a big difference in his. 00:50:08
Education. 00:50:11
It's affected him. 00:50:13
Profoundly. 00:50:15
And I've we've had to really work with the district. 00:50:17
We've tried to work with the teachers. 00:50:21
He tried to get really involved. 00:50:23
And we've been involved all the way around throughout all of the kids education and even more so. 00:50:25
At this point in time and so. 00:50:33
I just want to voice my support. 00:50:37
For this feasibility study. 00:50:40
I think it's a great opportunity for. 00:50:43
Holiday city to. 00:50:47
Make a difference in the education. 00:50:49
For the upcoming. 00:50:52
Population. 00:50:57
I think it's a great opportunity for you to make a difference in the lives of the children. 00:50:59
Of the future. 00:51:04
Thank you. Thank you. 00:51:06
Hi, I'm Lindsay Skinner. I live at 3956 S, 2000 E. 00:51:15
I'm not from here. I feel like I'm not part of the community. Sometimes I do feel like I'm part of the community. There's so many 00:51:19
people that stay here. 00:51:23
That I love. I'm actually from Castro. My husband's from Payson. 00:51:27
But what we love about we've lived in Mill Creek and Holiday, what we love about this area is the small community field. 00:51:30
And that's something that we love, that our kids have. 00:51:38
That the community truly feels like it cares about each other. 00:51:42
And I'm supporting this feasibility study because I feel like. 00:51:45
We would have more of a say and I just wanted to look this to get looked at. 00:51:49
But I feel like it were to happen, which I think we all hope it would, that we could create a smaller district. 00:51:53
That we would have more of a say for our kids. So that's it. Thank you. 00:51:58
Thank you. 00:52:02
So, you know, I don't know a lot about a lot, but I do know. 00:52:14
Give us your name and address. My name is Mary Farrington and I live at 5114 Laura Del Drive. 00:52:18
And Ty's lovely wife taught me how to swim, so you know, I come from the hood here. I love it. This place is amazing. 00:52:25
I think people. 00:52:33
Loved the small community felt. 00:52:35
I'm one of twelve children and we all went to Memphis High School. My older siblings went to the elementary school here in this 00:52:37
building. 00:52:41
I went to Cottonwood, but. 00:52:46
I guess I don't know a ton about all of this. 00:52:49
But it seems like just simple common sense to do a feasible study because I feel like why wouldn't we want to know if we were able 00:52:52
to? 00:52:57
Make it work. 00:53:01
Work. And I think there's a lot of people that actually feel the same way. 00:53:03
I was in private school. I have five children. I was in private school at Cardin. 00:53:07
With them for years. 00:53:12
Mostly because when I started putting kids into the public school system, we would have been going to. 00:53:15
Help me out with the school over. 00:53:23
In Mill Creek that has a Spanish immersion someone. 00:53:26
William Penn. 00:53:29
I served a Spanish speaking mission and I don't speak a little Spanish, so I wasn't going to put my kids in the school where I 00:53:30
couldn't help them with. 00:53:34
Spanish classes. 00:53:37
So we went to card and thankfully we were able to do that. 00:53:39
But I just recently transferred forward my children back to Grant school District because I have three that have learning 00:53:43
disabilities. 00:53:46
And Cardin could not help me with those. 00:53:49
I had to bring in a private tutor into Cardin. 00:53:53
Four times a week to pay on top of school. Anyways, Long story short, I'm telling you I've experienced private, I've experienced 00:53:56
public. 00:54:00
And I see a lot of benefits. There's benefits on both sides. I am truly grateful that the public school is able to. 00:54:06
Create an IEP program for my children. Help me. 00:54:14
With their learning disabilities. 00:54:17
And not have to pay. 00:54:19
$100,000 a year in private tutoring and private education. 00:54:21
I just don't understand why this would even be an issue if money's not the issue and we could have so many benefits. 00:54:25
By having you. 00:54:35
Our own public school system. 00:54:37
I I don't know. 00:54:39
I don't understand that and there's a ton where people that go this way and I will get 50 more people here next time. 00:54:42
Like you need to know it's not just 5/10/15. 00:54:49
So. 00:54:53
If you want to hold me to that, I would love to do that. 00:54:54
But I think that this is a no brainer. 00:54:57
Personally. 00:55:00
And with someone that has five children here. 00:55:01
I would hope that you would listen to the people that it actually effects. 00:55:04
I know Ty has children. I love Ty's family. 00:55:08
I don't know the rest of you, but I'm sure you're fabulous. I don't know if you have children in the public school system, but. 00:55:11
This is something that is near and dear to my heart, so I've been in the private. 00:55:18
And not in the public. And there's a lot of benefits in the public. 00:55:22
But part of me is. 00:55:25
My child is now one. There's a lot that goes into it and I understand some of it is at a state level. 00:55:28
And so that's something that could be changed if we did have our own school district. 00:55:35
But I would just hope that you guys would. 00:55:41
Maybe. 00:55:43
Listen to all of us. 00:55:44
Hey there. Maybe. Thank you. 00:55:45
Wait, we already heard from you. You did. But I'm speaking for my daughter, Becca Bagley Herron, who texted me. She was at our 00:55:57
meeting. She lives on 30 nights out. 00:56:02
11th days and they are silver straining and Mill Creek City Council was very interested in hearing voices West of 13th East. She 00:56:07
lives West of 13th East. 00:56:12
Her daughter sick, she was not able to be here. 00:56:18
But she wanted to. 00:56:20
To put in her support for feasibility study because. 00:56:22
Her daughter, my granddaughter, would have gone to Mill Creek Elementary and I shared this with. 00:56:26
Mayor Cilla St. 00:56:32
That my biggest regret that night, Monday night, was that two years ago. 00:56:34
I was not forefront and fighting for the Mill Creek Elementary to not be close, so I'm just putting my two cents in for my 00:56:39
daughter. Thank you. 00:56:43
Thanks. 00:56:47
Hi, my name is Ruth Tinney. I live at 2134 E Sahara Dr. where we're renting there. I don't know if that's information you wanted 00:56:55
them. 00:57:01
I just wanted to get up and share my support for the feasibility study as well. 00:57:06
I just have one little girl and she's 2 so obviously this doesn't affect me right now but it will in the future. We plan to stay. 00:57:11
And I'm really passionate about. 00:57:18
Her education and what she can get from it, and I think that. 00:57:21
A smaller district with more attention to each school would be really. 00:57:25
Helpful and. 00:57:30
Yeah, I think it's a privilege to be able to go to school around people that you live by and so anything that we can do to. 00:57:33
Umm, make it a better system I'm all for. 00:57:40
Thank you so much. 00:57:45
My name is Ashley McIntosh. I live at 1895 E El Dorado Drive. 00:57:57
I was not planning on getting up here but I feel impressed that I need to. 00:58:03
Feels like a testimony meeting, I'm not gonna lie. 00:58:07
I just wanted to say I have 4 kids. I have one at the high school Olympus. 00:58:13
I have two at the junior high, Olympus Junior, and I have one at Crestview Elementary. 00:58:21
And, umm. 00:58:25
I have had. 00:58:28
The best experiences. 00:58:30
With teachers to hurt my kids. 00:58:32
And sorry. 00:58:35
And I am very passionate on education. 00:58:37
For my kids and for my community. 00:58:42
My neighbors kids are like my kids. 00:58:45
And. 00:58:49
This year in my daughter's second grade class, um. 00:58:52
There are two full second grade classes. 00:58:56
And one, that's a second, third split. 00:58:59
There is not enough money to have more teachers. 00:59:04
So these classes are gigantic. 00:59:08
And. 00:59:11
I'm at the beginning of the year. 00:59:14
It was very evident that this second grade class was going to be very tricky. 00:59:16
It's a phenomenal teacher. She's amazing. 00:59:21
But she does not have the support that she needs. 00:59:25
And I went in and I had a meeting with the principal and with the teacher and I said I am here to support you. 00:59:29
I will do whatever I can to help you. 00:59:38
And so my husband and I and a few other parents take turns and we rotate coming in and healthy the teacher. 00:59:40
She has some very tricky children. 00:59:49
In her class. 00:59:52
That's very large, and I contemplated actually pulling her out and putting her somewhere else. 00:59:54
And I didn't want to do that because I love my community. 01:00:02
I'm cool. 01:00:12
I love Arthur tears. 01:00:15
And I think we deserve everything that we can give them. 01:00:18
To support them, to educate our children. 01:00:23
The next generation that's going to lead this community. 01:00:26
And are we? It's our, it's our obligation to give everything that we can give to help them. 01:00:32
They need a voice and we are their voice and you are their voice. So I plead with you to please. 01:00:41
Except everyone. 01:00:51
Comments And let's do this. Let's do this together. Let's at least look at this feasibility study to give our teachers. 01:00:53
And our students the best. 01:01:02
Best outcome possible for our community now and for the future. 01:01:05
Thank you. 01:01:10
Thank you. 01:01:11
So we are John and Abby McBride. 01:01:18
We live on. 01:01:20
4215 S Cumberland Rd. in Holiday. We previously lived on 234 Sahara where the teenies lived. 01:01:22
Live, I should say. 01:01:31
So we are just all in favor of exploring this option. I think if. 01:01:34
If the financials come back and it's looking like this district split is not in our favor. 01:01:40
We're totally fine not putting the district, but again, the numbers are concerning to us with how large this district is. If you 01:01:47
look at the numbers, it looks like. 01:01:51
Alpine School District, it was the highest in Utah. They've now. 01:01:57
Agreed to split their district. Then it was Davis County where John is from. Their numbers are super high. Then it's Granite 01:02:02
school district with what 60,000 students? 01:02:06
And if you try to. 01:02:13
Research what an optimal number is for a school district. They say anywhere from like 10,000 to 40,000 so. 01:02:15
I think it just makes sense to at least explore this option. 01:02:23
I know that when I was in high school or junior high, I remember when they closed. 01:02:27
The Granite School District and how heartbreaking that was even for me. 01:02:32
To know that we weren't able to keep up with numbers, to keep that open. 01:02:38
I also just. I can't imagine what it could. 01:02:44
The city of Holiday could be like. 01:02:47
As certain schools were shut down and what those things, what those schools would look like. 01:02:50
So yeah, I would just say that we're totally in favor of exploring this study and figuring out if this is even something that's 01:02:56
feasible. 01:03:01
The only thing I would add is we have 6 kids. 01:03:07
And our oldest is just in 6th grade at Evergreen Junior High, so we have a lot of kids. 01:03:11
To go through the school system. 01:03:17
I think it's a pretty small cost to do feasibility studies so that we know the impact. I think the impact. 01:03:19
By stepping aside and not exploring it would be more impactful. 01:03:26
Negatively than putting up the 50,000 bucks or how much it costs to do the feasibility study and I know that. 01:03:33
Many in this room have contributed to already. 01:03:40
Financially to making this happen and so if I I heard from you, Mayor Dolly, that the money is not an issue. 01:03:44
If it is an issue, I know many people will stand behind that and. 01:03:52
Come up with that if needed. So thank you. 01:03:56
Hi, my name is Lauren Reynolds. I live at 5230 S Wonder Lane. 01:04:07
I'm also in favor of the feasibility study. 01:04:11
I my husband is Ryan. He's already talked, but we have a daughter that's in second grade at Cottonwood and we're going to have two 01:04:15
more that will hopefully eventually go there. 01:04:20
And with the feasibility study, I think? 01:04:26
I don't know much about funding and how much the city has and how it's used and all of that, but I do think. 01:04:31
This is a top priority. 01:04:37
I mean the tree initiative and. 01:04:42
Where we the free trees and the skate park that just got put in stuff. I think they're all great. I'm not I never I wasn't opposed 01:04:44
to them, but I just think that. 01:04:49
This is a high priority for. 01:04:53
And for even people that don't have element or. 01:04:56
Kids that are still in school. 01:05:02
And I know that the numbers are low. 01:05:06
But I can't imagine that the numbers are going to go up. 01:05:09
Of younger families moving in. 01:05:13
With if we have to close schools and keeping the same district. 01:05:15
I would think that having more neighborhood schools is going to bring more families in. 01:05:21
So. 01:05:26
Anyways, thank you for. 01:05:27
All of your help. 01:05:29
Thanks. 01:05:30
Hi Karen Brantzig, I was on 3036 E Castro and Holiday. 01:05:38
And we moved to holiday about maybe a couple years back. 01:05:43
I grew up in Dallas, TX and after that we lived in Seattle so I have. 01:05:48
I am familiar with bigger districts and what. 01:05:53
That causes when we do close down schools. I am in favor of the study I would love to see. 01:05:56
You know, I, well, I'm invested. I have a second year old also at Cottonwood. I'm expecting one. 01:06:02
As well so we really want to I would my husband and I would really love to see that happen what the possibility is and just to. 01:06:09
Umm, you know, it's been great hearing everybody and seeing how our community is invested. 01:06:17
And I'm just dipping my toes and all of this and getting familiar and trying to educate myself. So I really appreciate you guys 01:06:23
listening to us and for all the information that. 01:06:28
Everyone has shared so thank you. 01:06:34
Thanks. 01:06:36
OK. Well, thank you everybody for coming out and and as always for your civility. We know how. 01:06:46
Passionate. Everybody is about their kids and their schools. As I mentioned in our prior meeting, all of our kids went to the 01:06:53
local public schools here, attended all of them. 01:06:57
So we understand that. 01:07:01
Going through a boundary study and the potential of school closing is an emotional thing for. 01:07:04
Our residents, so we appreciate you coming out. Before I close public comment, I did get that text. I don't know if Emily's still 01:07:11
here, but. 01:07:14
My daughter forwarded it to me but. 01:07:18
There was mention about. 01:07:21
Some parents that. 01:07:22
Have kids in soccer and the difficult timing. 01:07:24
I'm, I think I'm the oldest one on the council, so I have a little bit more free time, but if you know, pass it around to your 01:07:28
friends and neighbors if they want to reach out to me. 01:07:32
Somebody said my e-mail wasn't on the website which shocked me. I don't, I mean it's on the website, as is my cell number. But if 01:07:37
they want to reach out to me I'm happy to accommodate if their council Rep can't meet with them. 01:07:42
I'm happy to meet with them and Justice talk about where things are at at a time of that's more convenient for them. I don't want 01:07:49
anybody to feel like they're shut out of the process, that this is their only opportunity to. 01:07:54
To engage elected officials and so. 01:08:00
Anyway, just feel free to reach out to me if. 01:08:03
If they want to meet and discuss it and. 01:08:06
Anyway. Well. 01:08:09
This process will continue to move forward and we appreciate that. Again, we appreciate the civil input from everybody. 01:08:11
And with that, we'll close public comment. 01:08:18
Probably take a minute break unless you guys want to stick around for. 01:08:22
Utah recycling. Now you're going to hurt their feelings, the people that are here when you leave. 01:08:27
Thanks everybody. 01:08:36
Thanks, Taylor. 01:08:37
That they're making way out. You can you guys can come up. We are on item number 4. 01:08:40
This items in the packet, it's on the Utah Cycling Alliance. I think we have Robbie and Jason. 01:08:45
Come on up. Or whoever who's ever going to present so. 01:08:51
Yeah, I'm Robbie Everson with Utah Recycling Alliance, or URA. Give us yeah, one second. 01:08:53
Oh, for those that are leaving, don't forget to sign in back there please. 01:09:01
Is there a pen back there? 01:09:08
Let's let them head out and then we'll close the door. 01:09:14
So that we can hear what you're saying, but. 01:09:17
While they're, while they're going out, Is it Robbie? Robbie. 01:09:20
Robbie. 01:09:23
So in the packet there was what you had provided that we've looked through in terms of the. 01:09:24
The big event we had at Prophet Elias, which I understand was very successful. Yeah, it was. Yeah. All was there. Yeah. Yeah. 01:09:30
Council member Quinn was there as well. Yeah. And then spoke people, you know, Elena was there as well. 01:09:37
Yeah. OK, perfect. So yeah, Robbie Overson with Utah Recycling Alliance or URA, our event is called CHARM. That's an acronym for 01:09:43
Collection of Hard to Recycle Material. 01:09:49
And we just want to first of all, just say thank you for allowing us to come into your city for the donation for the event because 01:09:55
it does. There is a cost associated with. 01:10:01
Being able to recycle this material, but some of these things. 01:10:06
Right, this material, I don't know if whoever's. 01:10:10
Controlling this can go up a little bit, so here's pictures of your. 01:10:14
Other people. 01:10:18
And there's a graph on there, if you can go to that. 01:10:20
That one, that'd be great. 01:10:22
Really the point of our of this event is to, well, part of it is we want to, we're partnering more and more with different cities 01:10:24
and communities. We partnered with Hogle Zoo. 01:10:29
Around Earth Day, we just had one with. 01:10:34
I you know if I see at the Inc location? 01:10:37
The point really is to reach out to communities. 01:10:41
Because there's a lot of material that is technically highly recyclable. 01:10:46
It's just difficult to recycle because it's not available to our curbside program. 01:10:51
So if we can do a pop up event once or twice a year inside of a community, then now we can. And what we did was so we had 163 01:10:56
vehicles specifically or for this event 53% of those were. 01:11:03
Tracked by a zip code. 01:11:11
From uh. 01:11:15
Holiday zip codes. 01:11:16
And then, you know, we, we post things and then the point is really to get our, the word out there a lot more because in our 01:11:19
experience, when we go into a community and when we go to events and anybody who volunteered at the event can say the same thing. 01:11:26
Everybody wants this event. People want to know where, where am I supposed to take a mattress? 01:11:34
Where do I take this right? Where do I take tires? Where do I take batteries or e-waste? 01:11:39
If you look at like the e-waste. 01:11:45
There was. 01:11:46
You know, almost 4000 lbs. 01:11:48
Of just e-waste that's one of the most popular items because people have old laptops and. 01:11:51
Old computers they just have no idea what to do with. 01:11:57
Mattresses. You know, like tires. Like I said, you can see the list here. 01:12:00
You know, metal is a big one. 01:12:04
And the point really is supporting your community doing this multiple times per year. 01:12:07
We did one in Cottonwood Heights. That's how we were introduced to. 01:12:14
Holiday and now because we did one here, we now have the opportunity to, we've been introduced to Mill Creek. 01:12:18
And then we're just working with a lot of different cities to. 01:12:26
Really make the biggest impact that we can to reduce our, you know, our footprint. 01:12:29
Help your community members. 01:12:34
As best we can to reduce. 01:12:37
Our impact and you know, just responsibly recycle a lot of this material that's. 01:12:39
Again, it's. 01:12:46
Technically highly recyclable, just. 01:12:47
Not easy to to do because. 01:12:49
We provide one location, bring it to us. 01:12:51
Will manage it. 01:12:54
Any questions or anything you want? 01:12:59
Well, I think the one thing and then I'll let Paul comment, but did you want to say something about the budget piece? 01:13:01
I mean, one thing I notice is it's a $1500 per event. But look, I wasn't there so I'll let Paula. But from what I understand it 01:13:09
was very successful. 01:13:14
Yeah, I think it's a great opportunity to bring that to our citizens. And from a budget standpoint, I think, yeah, it's a, it's a 01:13:19
no brainer. From a budget standpoint, it's it's pocket change. 01:13:24
But relative particularly to. 01:13:31
The impact? 01:13:34
And it was very popular. People were delighted to be driving through. I was volunteering but I brought a car load. 01:13:37
What's that? Me too. I did too. I live in Carroll Knights and. 01:13:43
And I'm looking to, I'm thinking maybe we need a new mattress coming up and I don't know what it would do with what I've got. So, 01:13:46
so if I already know that within the next six months I've got an event somewhere in the city, whether it's the Greek church, some 01:13:51
other location. 01:13:55
Yeah, I think. 01:14:01
Making this a tradition. 01:14:02
Where our residents can count on it. 01:14:04
Exactly, and then they'll be less likely to. 01:14:07
Put the waste in there in their bin. And so if we engage both public education with a reliable schedule, I think we can. 01:14:10
Have this great event be even greater. Yep, and 1500 bucks. 01:14:20
Yeah, bargain. And part of it is, you know this. 01:14:24
A real test for us, right? We're just making it more efficient and we're constantly looking out for more material that we can that 01:14:28
we can add to the list to recycle because there's a lot of things that are just a matter of. 01:14:34
You know, putting those relationships together. 01:14:40
It was a great event since you know, you should be very proud. This was probably the best event we've ever had. 01:14:42
In terms of volume? 01:14:48
In terms of material, also in terms of volume and number of. 01:14:49
Vehicles who showed up. 01:14:55
It was an awesome event and also in terms of volunteers, everybody came from. 01:14:57
Who works for the city? 01:15:02
Is awesome. 01:15:03
So you should you should rub that in Cottonwood height space and also Mildred when that time comes. 01:15:05
Do that. 01:15:11
I'm just curious how long did? 01:15:14
And do you see, have you done multiple events that some of it sounds like you're relatively new, is that right? Well, I. 01:15:18
Utah Recycling Alliance has been around for several years. The charm event has been around for. 01:15:25
Maybe 4? 01:15:31
I've been in charge of charm for basically the last year and a half and my job is basically to. 01:15:32
Make the event more efficient so that we can add more material and go to different cities and communities so that we can have 01:15:40
these events on a regular basis, once or twice a year. 01:15:45
And you see, fascinating to me that we were one of the highest, whatever volume and whatever. 01:15:50
I I suspect that once in place on an ongoing basis, that. 01:15:57
Gonna get bigger, is it? That's gonna get bigger? Yeah, absolutely. So 2024, we were somewhere between. 01:16:02
75 to 100 vehicles per event. We have 5 events. 01:16:08
We've had. 01:16:13
5 events already this year and we're averaging over 125 to 150 vehicles. 01:16:14
So statistically, we're increasing. You know, you had 163. That's the most we've ever had. 01:16:21
And what we're anticipating is that. 01:16:28
Like what Paul was saying is that once we actually have established the presence, people will now know to save material. They know 01:16:32
what's available. We have every event. We always have people say, oh, I didn't know you could take this. I didn't know you could 01:16:37
take that. People will either run home and they're like, I just got rid of that. And so the point is. 01:16:42
Like you were saying, let's get the message out there. Let's do this on a regular basis. 01:16:48
Will collect more material and then people will start to save more of that material. And we just anticipate that it's just going 01:16:53
to increase, you know, significantly. And so it sounds like that 1500 would be underfunding that. So do you do you receive public 01:16:58
funds elsewhere or is it private donation of the funding part is what we're trying to dial in to be honest, right. So we're 01:17:03
looking for. 01:17:09
Corporate sponsors. 01:17:15
Like for different types of products because. 01:17:17
So it's a good thing we're not overwhelmed yet. So we're anticipating that with the increase in volume will become increase in 01:17:21
cost and we'll have to find a way to. 01:17:26
To help subsidized that by having cities donate and having sponsors. 01:17:30
For particular types of material. 01:17:35
That's part of the point is making this sustainable. 01:17:37
Does that answer your question? Williams sponsor your mattress collection? 01:17:41
Yeah, give me a number. 01:17:47
Yeah. So maybe that tire guy that was dumping tires, yeah. 01:17:50
We have a perfect place to dump them, bring them back. We like your place better than where they come. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. 01:17:56
And that's the point, right? Get the word out. People will now go again. I have that. I'll keep that until next year or they're 01:18:01
going to hear that it's a milk creeper, Cottonwood high. It's a Murray or whatever. So it's a great. 01:18:07
Yeah, I think we all collect electronics and paint and all the types of stuff. We don't know what to do with this. So just. 01:18:12
It just sit there, sits there or. 01:18:18
Probably sometimes ends up in your trash can where it shouldn't. 01:18:20
Yeah, exactly. And again, if people can be educated and they know what to expect for future events and we can help to educate them 01:18:23
and they're they're like listening for the business, the kind of these events are gonna happen on a regular basis. 01:18:29
And what material we're accepting. People will collect material and then they'll bring it to us. 01:18:35
Well, I guess we'll. 01:18:41
Note that when Gina makes her budget presentation here shortly, Tentative budget presentation. You're the best, Gina. We'll plug 01:18:42
it. 01:18:46
Yeah. All right. OK. Robbie and Jason, thank you for your patience. And Lindsay. 01:18:52
We never know how long these public periods are going to go through. Appreciate you. We appreciate. 01:18:57
Your willingness to participate. 01:19:04
And your donation, really. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. 01:19:07
OK, only about 6 people raise their hand, right? Yeah. So we're going to we're going to come. 01:19:10
But anyway, people get. 01:19:19
Motivated. 01:19:22
Anyway. 01:19:23
Lindsay era and you met with Emily, so I'm going to let you and Emily both kind of. 01:19:24
Tag team on this one. 01:19:30
Excellent. 01:19:32
Well, good evening Council. Thank you so much for having me here to talk to you about the Central Massage Commission. As you may 01:19:34
know, the Central Wasatch Commission has invited Holiday City to join as a. 01:19:40
As a member of the CWC enjoying eight other jurisdictions, who are your neighbors? 01:19:46
As we collectively. 01:19:53
Try and tackle the issues that we see happening in the central West Ash Mountains, which are right outside our door here. 01:19:56
OK, so as I said, my name is Lindsay Neilson. I'm the Executive Director of the CWC. It's a great honor to be able to lead the 01:20:03
organization I've been there for. 01:20:08
Seven years. 01:20:14
The long time so I'm I. 01:20:15
I stayed at the CWC for so many years because I'm passionate about these mountains and I truly believe in the work of the CWC. So 01:20:19
I'm going to take some time and tell you about it now, OK? 01:20:24
So the CWC, the Central Wasatch Commission, was created in 2017 by interlocal agreement. It is. 01:20:33
In interlocal governmental entity, which means it's composed of other governments. I'm sure you all know it is an outgrowth of the 01:20:40
Mountain Accord initiative, which you may know of. It was a community collaborative. 01:20:46
Response to. 01:20:53
Observations about from community members, elected officials at the time they're Ralph Becker Mayor Ben McAdams at Salt Lake 01:20:55
County. We're noticing that decisions. 01:21:00
Impacting specific systems. 01:21:06
Of these mountains were happening piece meal and kind of and decisions make it happening in one system where having downstream 01:21:09
impacts on other systems and those four systems that the CWC. 01:21:16
Uses as our guideposts when we are doing our work are of course. 01:21:24
The economy system of the Central Wasatch that's composed of the world renowned Cottonwood Canyon ski resorts and the small 01:21:28
businesses that we have that we're lucky enough to have in in the Cottonwood Canyons here. 01:21:35
The transportation system of the central asset. So that's how people get to the mountains and how they're traveling around the 01:21:42
mountains once they get there, the recreation system and so that I'm sure I don't have to tell you folks that that we have. 01:21:49
World renowned year round recreational opportunities afforded to us because these mountains are so so close and so. 01:21:56
Majestic and then the the environment system. So the environment, the land, the water, the wildlife, the system that underpins the 01:22:05
other 3. 01:22:10
So the mountain accord that was in a very short, in a very brief nutshell, what the mountain accord was, the goal of the mountain 01:22:15
accord was to devise. 01:22:19
Plans working together with representatives from each of those four systems in the community to sustain these mountains for years 01:22:25
and years to come so we don't end up loving our mountains to death. 01:22:31
And what the Mountain Accord folks were able to, well, let me say the mountain apart. 01:22:38
Process was a work of it was a work of art. It was studying what those folks were able to pull off. 01:22:45
And what they saw happening is each of those four systems I mentioned working interdependently, OK. 01:22:51
And so anything that is impacting one of the systems are of course in. 01:22:56
Impacting the other 3. 01:23:01
And so the what came out of the mountain, the court process, it was a three-year process culminating in 2015. And what came out 01:23:04
was a signed charter signed by over 100 stakeholders, including then Governor Gary Herbert, all four GM's of the Hutton Canyon ski 01:23:10
resorts. 01:23:16
Folks like Ralph Becker signed it and so on and so forth, and what that charter cooked for were many things to happen. OK, so it 01:23:22
called for. 01:23:27
It is essentially translated into a piece of federal legislation, congressional legislation that I can, that I'll get to talk to 01:23:33
you about a little bit in more in depth later. But another thing that the Mountain Accord charter called for was the creation of a 01:23:40
government entity to carry out the plans that were devised by those experts during the mountain of court years. And that 01:23:46
government entity is the Central Effect Commission. 01:23:52
OK. So Fast forward from 2015 when the charter was signed to 2017 when the intervocal agreement was signed to create the CWC to 01:23:59
2018 when the first staff were hired, I was hired. 01:24:05
As communications director, then Ralph Becker, former mayor of Salt Lake City, was the first executive director. And we've been. 01:24:11
Uh, working hard ever since. 01:24:19
Hey, so. 01:24:22
We are a unique effort. We are locally elected officials operating by consensus and that in and of itself I think is a pretty 01:24:23
unique effort. 01:24:28
Working, trying to work together all in stewardship of 1 unified goal, which is stewarding those four systems that we see working 01:24:34
together in the central Wasatch. 01:24:39
We facilitate conflict resolution, we convene, which is one of the most important. 01:24:45
Things that the CWC achieves, in my opinion. We bring folks from all walks of life together to talk to each other. 01:24:51
And consider ideas about what to do in the mountains. 01:24:58
Yeah, and then we assist the state as it works to figure out what it needs to do to solve the issues that the central Wasatch 01:25:02
brings to all of us. 01:25:06
Next slide. 01:25:10
Can you go back wait, is this the next slide? 01:25:19
OK, excellent. 01:25:21
So Phil composes the CWC you're seeing here that we have. 01:25:23
Your neighbor jurisdiction Sandy, Summit County, Cottonwood Heights, Brighton Town, Park City, Mill Creek, Salt Lake City, Town of 01:25:28
Alta as our voting member jurisdictions. OK. 01:25:34
We have two ex officio members, UTA and Metro Water and we have two special advisor board, board members represented by Save Our 01:25:40
Canyons representing the environment system of the Central Wasatch and Solitude Mountain representing the economy system of the 01:25:46
mountains. 01:25:52
OK. And so why join the CWC? What does Holiday purport to get out of joining the CWC? 01:26:00
I mentioned it's a consensus driven organization and so we approach. 01:26:07
Our land and watershed watershed protection decision making through consensus and. 01:26:12
When I was meeting with Emily. Emily. I'm sorry, Councilmember Gray. 01:26:18
Asked me a really excellent question. 01:26:23
So I walked her through this presentation as well. She asked. 01:26:26
That would the representative, would the commissioner from Holiday have less of a voice than someone who is more seasoned on the 01:26:31
CWC? And who's? 01:26:35
Perhaps even contributing more as a member fee to the CWC. And that the answer is absolutely no. All commissioners have equal 01:26:40
footing and equal voice. 01:26:45
OK, yeah. And then this gets into we are consensus based transportation approach as well. This also gets into our many interesting 01:26:50
and wonderful projects that I'm very proud of our short term projects grant program or Simplex Central Waffle Symposium. 01:26:58
I don't know if any of you had a chance to attend. It was the first one we hosted in January. Terry Tempest Williams gave a 01:27:07
keynote address we heard from. 01:27:11
Whole bunch of folks. It was amazing, our central Wasatch dashboard and then our regional stakeholder and youth involvement. 01:27:15
So I mentioned our regional stakeholder involvement. This is the demographics of our stakeholders Council. It is a 35 member 01:27:25
citizens advisory group. So I mentioned in 2017, the CWC was created by interlocal agreement. In that interlocal agreement, it 01:27:33
also called for the creation of a citizen's advisory group and that is the stakeholders council that you're looking at here. So as 01:27:40
you can see, we endeavor on our stakeholders council. 01:27:48
To have good representation from each of the four focus areas that I've mentioned, economy. 01:27:55
Recreation, environment and transportation, and then of course, unaffiliated private residents who. 01:28:01
Love these mountains, play in these mountains, care deeply about what happens to them, and so we endeavored to give those folks a 01:28:08
voice to. 01:28:12
Oh, and youth council, this is one of my favorite things. This is new. We just started this. This is essentially the stakeholders 01:28:19
council, but for young people. So what I was seeing happening at the youth council or at the stakeholders council rather, is it 01:28:25
was excellent. People are bringing years and depths of knowledge of these mountains and expertise that I just, it's just so 01:28:31
impressive. But what was happening is not allowing young people were there. 01:28:37
And I said, hey, that we got to fix that, so let's start a youth council. And that's what we've done. They've been. 01:28:44
I'm just, I'm just blown away by the young people. So they're so impressive, they're so smart, they're so passionate. Very lucky 01:28:50
to have the young people involved in our youth council that we do. 01:28:55
I mentioned so this presentation is also it's giving you a broad overview of who the CWC is and what we do. So I can go into any 01:29:03
of this in more depth if you would like, but this is a broad overview. So I mentioned our short term project grant program. It's a 01:29:09
small grants program where every year we. 01:29:16
Release the call for ideas to the community. 01:29:23
Asking us for project ideas where the community needs help to get their projects that are either already in motion or have not yet 01:29:26
been started over the finish line with just a little bit more monetary support. It, it was started in 2020. It was my baby. I 01:29:33
started it. It was, of course, with a coalition, with a team of my staff, but it was. 01:29:40
Incredible. And over these past six years, we've funded some pretty. 01:29:47
Amazing projects. We pretty consistently fund ski shuttle programs, trail shuttle programs. 01:29:52
We funded the construction of Beaver Dam analogs up at Silver Lake IN. 01:30:00
Impeccable Kiernan Beaver Dam, analoger man made Beaver dams that encourage the reintroduction of that keystone species of Beaver 01:30:08
back to the ecosystem. Silver Lake, it's been highly successful. So on and so forth. There's many, many amazing projects. 01:30:15
Just try to keep the Beavers up there though if you can. 01:30:24
So this, I admit, is a ton of a ton of words on one slide, and I could have opted to make it 2 slides, but I opted to keep the 01:30:30
presentation shorter. So you've got tiny, tiny words. 01:30:37
These are some of, not all of, but some of the CWC's lead transit and transportation projects over the years. 01:30:45
The Big Cottonwood Kenya Mobility Action Plan. 01:30:53
Was released in 2023. We, as I mentioned, we've funded shuttle programs over the years Our mountain transportation system project 01:30:58
was incredible to to witness being done in 2020 and then our ski bus priority access program, which many of you might know of it's 01:31:04
a. 01:31:09
It's a wildly successful program where we. 01:31:16
Were like OK there There is a massive issue on a pow day on Wasatch Blvd. with people trying to get up these canyons and in the 01:31:19
interim between in the time that U dot and other transportation agencies. 01:31:27
Are taking to really be mindful about what kind of transportation solutions they want to implement. 01:31:34
We were like, how can we get creative and. 01:31:40
Pitching and time zone gap and this, the Ski Bus priority access program is the idea that came out of that creative brainstorming. 01:31:44
And essentially what it is, is it's a prioritization of the ski bus. 01:31:50
In partnership. 01:31:56
UTA and Sandy City PD and Cottonwood Heights PD where the police. 01:31:58
Move the single occupant vehicles to the shoulder of the road and allow the free movement and the prioritization of the UTA ski 01:32:06
bus. So it increases safety and it has allowed. 01:32:12
The free movement of. 01:32:20
Of commuter traffic before many people in homes on powder days could not even get out of their their driveways and, and having to 01:32:23
knock on doors and be like, please move so I can take my kids to school. Yeah. So this, this project, this program is ongoing. 01:32:29
It's been very successful. It's one of our transportation projects. 01:32:36
OK, you may have heard of this. 01:32:47
The Central Wasatch National Conservation and Recreation Area Act. I mentioned the Mountain Accord Charter. The Mountain Accord 01:32:50
Charter was essentially the first iteration, the first draft of this piece of congressional legislation. This congressional 01:32:57
legislation proposes to do many things in the in this region for the Tricanions and Parley's. 01:33:04
Regular, including place permanent protections on the land, the water, the resources for years to come. Make sure we don't lose 01:33:12
the natural beauty and nature of these mountains as they are. 01:33:18
It proposes to. 01:33:26
Steward the year round recreational access that we have on our trails and it also proposes to sustain the economy of these canyons 01:33:29
to it. So it's a it's a really. 01:33:35
Dynamic still that that aims to do a lot. It's not just one thing and I would say it is the flagship project at the Central 01:33:42
Massage Commission. 01:33:46
In addition to all of our all of our smaller. 01:33:51
But still. 01:33:56
Hugely important project work. 01:33:57
Yes, our visitor. You study. I will. 01:34:00
I will be quicker moving through these legs. The visitor you study was commissioned to see how many users we are having. We have 01:34:04
doing various activities in these mountains. 01:34:09
It was we worked with Utah State University to complete that study. It was amazing, the data, The study is available on the CWC's 01:34:14
website if you're interested in learning. It's actually, it's got an amazing amount of data and information in there. It's also 01:34:20
available on our environmental staff. 01:34:25
Which is the next slide. 01:34:31
Yeah. So our environmental dashboard, this is an incredible educational tool if you are interested in learning about. 01:34:33
What kind of snake you almost ran over on your mountain bike? You can figure it out. You can find it on this dashboard. I'm 01:34:42
speaking from experience. 01:34:46
You can also you can also see live webcams of what the traffic is like and what the what the air quality is like at various 01:34:52
monitoring stations like Our Lady of Snows. 01:34:58
At Alpha Ski area etc. 01:35:06
There's much more, I'm giving you this. 01:35:08
Reader's Digest version, OK. And then so the brass text. So this is so each of our member jurisdictions including our Exorcistio 01:35:10
members do contribute. 01:35:16
We remember, we remember jurisdiction funded at the Central Wasatch Commission in addition to. 01:35:22
Yearly appropriation from the state of Utah, OK, which we're very grateful for. So we have broken down our member fees into 3 01:35:28
tiers, Tier 1-2 and three. 01:35:34
The and you can see the larger tier is tier 3, medium tier is Tier 2, and Tier 1 is the smaller tier for the smaller 01:35:41
jurisdictions. And what's gone into this council is. 01:35:47
Yeah, like population size, tax revenue and geographic location generally. 01:35:54
Yeah, it's not a perfect science, but. 01:36:01
Are you sure that you counted Perk City's tax revenue accurately? 01:36:03
It's not a perfect sign. 01:36:08
OK. And that is it. Thank you for your attention. Thank you so much. Any questions? 01:36:12
If you don't mind, is that OK? 01:36:17
This is great. 01:36:23
I appreciate. And so just to be clear though, it's really there's no legislative component or anything that you kind of back in an 01:36:24
advisory role and and then in a way for cities primarily that those are the decision makers that you know these, these. 01:36:30
Who are the? 01:36:36
The you've got the Advisory Board is one thing, which is rather large. It looks like 30 ish or something like that or 40 out of 01:36:37
what the number was right. And then and then you're just a. 01:36:42
Providing the platform in a place where cities can get together. 01:36:48
And coordinate amongst themselves to help keep the cameos nice, essentially, is that right? Excellent question and summary. Yes. 01:36:51
So the Central Washington Commission is not a legislative. 01:36:56
Body, We're not the land manager, the road manager. We can't tax, we can't condemn. 01:37:02
Umm, the goal of the CWC is to convene to bring folks together, to put heads together and funds together, to try and collectively 01:37:08
tackle the issues together, which it's the. 01:37:14
Umm, motivating. I think it's the motivating ethos that the CWC is. We're Better Together. Yeah. But yes, you're right, it's a 01:37:21
recommending body, not a legislating body. We. 01:37:26
As an example, the Central Wasatch Commission released a resolution in opposition to the Parleys mine. 01:37:32
Because the board was able to, through consensus, decide that the Carly's mine proposal pretty clearly was in opposition to the 01:37:40
mission of the CWC. So that's an example of a of a resolution, but it was just a resolution, right? 01:37:47
Yeah. 01:37:55
I just want to thank you so much for coming and I enjoyed meeting with you. I. 01:37:58
I just think that what you're doing is all of the things that need to be done to protect the central Wasatch. I think it hits on 01:38:04
all of the key components and it's trying to get all of the stakeholders. 01:38:10
Involved. 01:38:15
Just looking over this, I have about a million questions about all of my new. 01:38:17
That I'm interested in. I'm like, oh, your intro has all these things, but that's. 01:38:22
Not for this meeting. 01:38:25
But no, I just want to say thank you for coming in. And I just really think these kind of collaborative efforts are what really 01:38:28
help. 01:38:31
Solve problems and I didn't know that you're behind that UTA this, the bus option prioritization that that. 01:38:35
Has been such a game changer. I mean, there's still problems that working through, but it really like like those kind of seeing 01:38:42
those kind of solutions come from this. 01:38:47
Makes me optimistic that even though you're not a legislative body, you really are. 01:38:52
Able to move more nimbly than say like the UTA is, which I think is helpful in some of these situations. So I'm. 01:38:57
Glad to see that. Thank you, Councilmember Gray. Yes, I guess when I first started into. 01:39:04
Starting a government entity from the ground up is not for the faint of heart, I will say. 01:39:09
When I first started, I joked when people were like, yeah, tell me about your job, I said. Well, we. 01:39:15
We have the pace of a startup, but we have all the trappings of government, which is kind of true. We're more nimble than a big 01:39:22
government, but we do, you know, we're a government entity. We. 01:39:27
Umm, we adhere to the Open and Public Meetings Act. You know, we've held public. 01:39:32
Comment periods etc. 01:39:38
Right. But we are number, we move fast, we do a lot with not a lot, so. 01:39:39
Yeah, Lindsay, I know our first. 01:39:43
Meeting was kind of informal and. 01:39:47
We were talking about. 01:39:49
Holiday may be entering into this, but we wanted to make sure we had somebody. 01:39:51
That was fully engaged in which Emily I think is passionate about this plus her district abuts. 01:39:54
Big Cottonwood Canyon, which is one of the main issues that we're trying to deal with in terms mostly of transportation during the 01:40:01
winter and summer months, but. 01:40:05
We were talking about the fee. 01:40:10
Has that been discussed at all? We were talking about how much the initial fee would be. 01:40:13
What do? Is there a number? 01:40:18
Yeah. So we discussed $25,000 for a fee for a holiday city, if that sounds fine. And that would put you right around, right in the 01:40:20
middle of tier one and two, if that works for you, just based on everything that we went over for the what goes into the 01:40:26
formulation of these tiers. 01:40:32
And if it, yeah, it should have been more clear. So if it wasn't clear, the reason that we've invited Holiday City is because 01:40:38
you're right here. You're right here in the middle of these issues. The mountains are right here. It's never really made sense to 01:40:45
me why Holiday City hasn't been at the table. I think it's a gap in the voice. 01:40:51
In the perspective, and I think it's really. 01:40:58
Yeah, it's just such an honor that Councilmember Gray has an interest in joining. Yeah, we just. 01:41:01
Starting the budget process tonight. And so we need to know exactly what number to plug in there and then we talked earlier about 01:41:08
if the budget is approved in March with that number in there. 01:41:13
Then we would you would go through whatever your process is or whatever you need to do. 01:41:18
Have us do to appoint a member to represent the city of Holiday, which will obviously be Councilmember Gray so yeah, yeah, so. 01:41:23
If you if $25,000. 01:41:32
Works for the city of holiday. Excellent. That's wonderful for the CWC too. So you go through your process and what we would do is 01:41:35
we would add Council Member Gray as a formal commissioner during our June 23rd meeting. 01:41:42
And then we would. 01:41:50
Send and we've run on a fiscal year which I'm it's not, it looks like you do as well. So we would send in a member. 01:41:52
Invoice starting in July. 01:41:59
Mayor, do you mind if I ask a process question? Would we need to join the party to the interlocal agreement? Is that what would 01:42:03
happen? 01:42:08
So we would do that in June. 01:42:13
For the start of the new fiscal year, it's an excellent question, Gina. So how it works is we would have to amend the CWC's 01:42:17
interlocal agreement to add the city of Holiday and then it's a pretty tedious. 01:42:24
Process, but it's, you know, it's government. So what would then have to happen is each of our member jurisdictions would then 01:42:30
also have to approve the newly amended interlocal agreement that adds the city of holiday. So that would be that would include 01:42:37
holiday as well, right. So that can happen after June 23rd. 01:42:43
So June, if you have a meeting at the end of June or July, it's fine. 01:42:49
Yeah, good question. 01:42:54
Was Draper on there? 01:42:57
Paper is not on there. Oh. 01:42:58
And also, Stephanie let me get a copy of this too. It wasn't recorded. 01:43:02
Yeah, yeah. 01:43:05
Yes, those are a member jurisdictions. 01:43:07
Solitude and save our canyons representing 2 of the four systems. 01:43:11
So Sandy. Oh, Sandy. So it's really the only. 01:43:15
Holiday and drink were really the ones along the last edge front here. 01:43:19
Yeah, hauling it so. 01:43:22
Holiday was not involved in the Mountain Accord process. I can't recall, but Draper was. 01:43:25
And Mayor Walker. 01:43:32
We have conversations with Mayor Walker, but I think, yeah, just not the focus right now for them. 01:43:35
OK. Thank you. 01:43:45
Thanks, Lindsey. Cheers. Appreciate it. Thanks so much. 01:43:47
OK. 01:43:53
We are on item number 5 now. This is the public hearing on Title 2 code update. Any questions? 01:43:56
Edit comments on what is in the packet before we open the public hearing. 01:44:03
There being then we'll open up the public hearing. Anybody here to address the council on? 01:44:10
Title 2, there being none, will close the public hearing. 01:44:14
And move on to item number six, consideration of Ordinance 2025-06. This is the fireworks. 01:44:17
Restriction and use of personal fireworks, which we discussed at the last Council meeting. 01:44:24
And in the pre meeting. 01:44:28
Any questions or comments? 01:44:30
Before we take a motion. 01:44:35
Mayor, I move adoption of ordinance #2025. 01:44:39
Dash 06. 01:44:43
Regarding fireworks. 01:44:44
Second motion. In a second, we'll go to vote. Councilmember Brewer, Councilmember Durham. Yes, Councilmember Fotheringham. 01:44:47
I'll just take a moment. 01:44:54
This this I think. 01:44:57
Will replicate last year. I don't believe that this. 01:45:00
Ordinance deserves a unanimous vote, so like last year, I'm going to vote no. 01:45:05
In support of future considerations for returning to. 01:45:10
Not having personal fireworks in the holiday. We are not in a. 01:45:15
A drought as severe as we were, but we're still in a more longer term drought cycle I believe and. 01:45:20
And so although I'm not going to throw a fit about it, I just don't think this deserves A unanimous vote. So as a. 01:45:26
Current vice Chair of USA. 01:45:32
And in support of that organization, I'm going to vote no. 01:45:35
Katherine Mcbray, Yes. 01:45:40
And shareable, yes, so the motion passes with four eyes. 01:45:42
Thanks. OK. Item number 7 is OK. I'm not getting ahead of myself, OK. 01:45:47
Held a budget. 01:45:55
In your packet and we'll turn this one over to Gina. Great. Thank you, Mayor, Council, I'll be brief. 01:45:57
So this is everyone's favorite night of the year of state law prescribes that at your first regularly scheduled meeting in May, 01:46:04
you presented with and approve a tentative budget and then you have the next six weeks or so prior to June 30th. 01:46:12
So I guess it's 8 weeks now. 01:46:20
To consider a budget and adopt for the new fiscal year that starts in July. 01:46:23
We have over the past several years. 01:46:31
Implemented as a plan for financial sustainability and infrastructure improvement in the city. 01:46:35
And our recent pond that was issued 3 years ago really allowed us to make significant improvements in our neighborhood streets and 01:46:41
stormwater infrastructure. 01:46:46
And, umm. 01:46:51
Throughout this summer, you'll see many of those stormwater infrastructure projects completed, creating a much more robust system. 01:46:52
Over the past several years, you've identified several goals, and the budget this year really is supportive of those goals. 01:47:00
That includes a safe community, excellent public assets in infrastructure. 01:47:09
Responsive, efficient and sustainable city government. Responsible development that enhances community. 01:47:15
And a great place to live. 01:47:21
With those priorities in mind. 01:47:24
We've developed this budget along with our partner agencies. 01:47:27
And. 01:47:30
This budget really prioritizes our employees as well. So we have provided a cost of living adjustment for our staff as well as 01:47:32
some targeted market increases to make sure that holiday tracks and routines. 01:47:39
High quality staff that best serve our residents and help you meet those goals. 01:47:47
As we talked about a couple of weeks ago, sales tax, which is about a third of our overall general fund revenue, has really 01:47:52
stagnated. 01:47:58
And so we're projecting basically a flat sales tax budget. 01:48:04
This budget does not propose a property tax increase. 01:48:10
Your decision last year to implement a inflationary property tax increase has allowed us to smooth out any potential. 01:48:15
Increases will show a small contribution to fund balance this year. 01:48:26
Which means, fingers crossed, we can avert a property tax increase for hopefully another two years. 01:48:31
Recognizing that both that we're not going to see much in the way of sales tax growth, this budget does not include new positions 01:48:40
or significant new programming, although it does analyze the cost of two part-time positions that you approved in a budget 01:48:47
amendment a month or so ago. 01:48:53
Umm, really? The component of growth in this budget reflects inflationary increases. 01:49:01
Among our own programming and then with our partner agencies. 01:49:08
The largest of which, as it has been for the last several years, is from Unified Police Department. 01:49:13
And we'll have more of an opportunity to get more in depth with those. 01:49:20
Changes in the coming weeks. 01:49:25
So with that. 01:49:30
I am looking forward to having continued conversations with you over the next six weeks or so prior to budget adoption. 01:49:33
We have a schedule, as we have in over the past several years, that breaks up the budget by department. 01:49:40
Next week will be capital programs. 01:49:48
Parks and public services and stormwater. 01:49:51
So with that, um. 01:49:55
I'm happy to answer any questions. 01:50:01
Gina, I sent you a couple of notes. Sorry. 01:50:04
Thank you. OK, Yeah, I think I've just. 01:50:09
Say, I think it's always helpful and I don't know what Christians situation is going to be. I understand he is. 01:50:13
Maybe going to stagger? 01:50:20
His parental leave. And so I don't know, but I think if you want to schedule something, it will be directly with Gina. Yeah, I 01:50:22
think that's probably the best way to do it. And then Christian and I will hope that he'll be. 01:50:29
Working. 01:50:36
Hybrid schedule for the next couple of weeks at least and so we can hopefully find a time where both of us can meet. 01:50:38
Yeah. But I think it's always helpful to, you know, go through this when you have time and make your notes and. 01:50:45
Umm, if there are. 01:50:53
You know, small specific things you want to answer to schedule time with Gina to kind of go through and get some of your questions 01:50:55
answered, and then we handle the big stuff. 01:50:59
You know when we meet on the 8th and the 15th and the. 01:51:03
5th I believe. 01:51:07
OK. 01:51:10
Thank you. Thanks, Gina, and thanks to Christian for this. 01:51:12
94 page budget. 01:51:15
Well, I don't know if I want to. 01:51:22
No, I don't. Never mind. 01:51:27
Strayer where you look emotion. 01:51:30
Yes, I am. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move approval of Resolution 25, National 9. 01:51:34
Acknowledging receipt of and adopting the tentative 202526 fiscal year budgets. 01:51:39
And setting a public hearing for June 4th. 01:51:45
2nd. 01:51:49
OK Motion is second. Council member Brewer, Council member Durham. Council member Fotheringham. 01:51:51
Yes. 01:51:58
Council Member Gray Yes. 01:52:00
And tenant budgets passed. Thank you. 01:52:04
Gina and Christian and whoever was involved. 01:52:06
Anything on city manager reports. 01:52:10
Council reports Kate will start with you. 01:52:14
Let's see two things with it being made first, right? Yeah. Kicking off the month with the Historical Commissions. Maya's 01:52:18
preservation month for holiday. 01:52:22
And this is where they have the signs that have gone up, historical signs throughout the city. 01:52:28
QR codes. 01:52:32
Though they're in front of some of the historic homes and and, and different places, one here in front of. 01:52:34
In front of the building here. 01:52:40
Where people can go and get a greater appreciation for these historical sites. 01:52:42
And then also on Monday, May 12th at 7:00 PM. 01:52:47
Marty Bradley. I forget what her. 01:52:52
She has an additional. 01:52:55
Name now is Marty Bradley before Evan any relation Natalie? 01:52:57
She will be speaking that night on. 01:53:02
And she's. 01:53:05
It should should be great. I'll get the one at this high school. 01:53:06
Scholarship. 01:53:09
Night so I won't be with you there but it should be a great night she's. 01:53:11
PC and and and. 01:53:15
Specializes in history and that kind of explicitly well done. 01:53:17
And. 01:53:21
I did just want to make one comment and probably should have said this during on fireworks piece but. 01:53:23
I I appreciate. 01:53:28
Paul and and and what he said and I just I hope. 01:53:31
That somehow if a. 01:53:35
Lena, in the PR that we do and the work that we do as it relates to these fireworks and as a community, I hope that we can police 01:53:37
ourselves well. 01:53:41
And that we can really try to develop and encourage a culture of respect for these boundaries that are set because it's a big, 01:53:46
it's a big deal. 01:53:50
A very big deal and if you look. 01:53:55
For example, we received letters from. 01:53:57
Like up in Hughes Canyon and some other areas and. 01:54:00
Along the waterways and that. 01:54:03
Umm, it's it's important that umm. 01:54:06
We try to. 01:54:09
Trying to push that and increase. 01:54:10
Resident citizen respect for this law so. 01:54:13
Hopefully we have a very safe. 01:54:16
Season like this. 01:54:18
And that, but the people can also enjoy themselves so. 01:54:19
Forgotten. 01:54:23
Yeah, last Friday we had a really successful Arbor Day event at Cottonwood Elementary. 01:54:25
The tree committee was there. 01:54:33
Representatives of the district Councilmember Fotheringham came, which was Gray. 01:54:35
We planted 3 trees. I understand they've been named Sunny. 01:54:40
Debbie and Popcorn. 01:54:44
Yeah. 01:54:47
Umm, And there were some poetry was read by some of the kids, and it was just a really, really great event arborist that they had. 01:54:50
Were really good about engaging with the kids and answering questions and stuff like that. 01:54:58
So the two committee worked really hard on that and how important just to acknowledge them and thank them for that. 01:55:04
And then of course, the tree giveaways coming up on May 17. 01:55:10
That will be from 9:00 to noon out here. 01:55:15
On Holiday Blvd. behind Vic. 01:55:18
Hines City Hall. 01:55:20
I understand. 01:55:22
We'll have some of our police officers there helping, which is great. Thank you. 01:55:23
And I think that will be a great event. I think they're giving out about 240 or 250 trees. They're still. 01:55:27
30 medium sized trees available. 01:55:34
If you need a medium sized tree. 01:55:37
You can sign up. 01:55:39
That's all OK, I've got 3 items first. 01:55:41
The Arts Council is hosting another art show downstairs. 01:55:46
Next week it's a nature based art event. 01:55:50
Will be hanging art. 01:55:54
I think starting on the 5th and then the show goes Tuesday through Saturday or something like that. But it's next week. So another 01:55:57
art show downstairs. Our art shows are always fabulous. This is a new one. 01:56:03
This year with this new theme. 01:56:09
So look forward to that. So next week we can. 01:56:12
I'll be out of town for half of that, but. 01:56:15
Go downstairs and enjoy some new artwork downstairs. 01:56:18
Next, the same Arts Council news is you'll. 01:56:23
I don't think it's too soon to announce that the Blue Moon Festival is going to have undergo a fair bit of change. 01:56:28
This upcoming year, it'll be later. It won't be the last summer concert week of the year. 01:56:35
That will go through August 23rd, but then Blue Moon will be. 01:56:40
September 13th. 01:56:44
And it would be on the Plaza. 01:56:46
As opposed to being just a larger version of a summer concert on the park back here beyond the Plaza. 01:56:49
So I have a slightly different format. 01:56:56
Um, different, um. 01:56:59
By them, perhaps, but as the Arts Council flushes that out, there will be more news to come. 01:57:03
Then there's a characterization. Holly Lena. 01:57:09
OK. 01:57:13
And then lastly, USA has their annual banquet coming up this weekend. 01:57:16
As the vice chair I've been invited to 5 minutes so I've pre screened one joke with Captain Dan and another one with Emily that 01:57:21
I'll report back next time. 01:57:26
How that goes? 01:57:32
That's all I have. 01:57:34
I have a couple of things. First, the principal at Cottonwood High School is moving into the administration of Granite District, 01:57:38
and so they're getting a new principal. 01:57:43
He's vice principal at Brighton currently. 01:57:48
I don't have not met him yet, but we're hearing a lot of good things and I think it will be it will be a good change for 01:57:52
Cottonwood. 01:57:56
Bigger news Was it front waste recycling? 01:58:01
The board voted this week to move to monthly billing starting in February of 2026, so you should be getting information in all of 01:58:05
your bills. 01:58:10
About that, that's going to be moving for rather than quarterly to monthly billing. 01:58:16
Umm, they're also as. 01:58:21
Concurrent with this, they are also. 01:58:24
Doing a strong push to. 01:58:27
Strongly encourage everybody to be signed up for E billing rather than paper billing. 01:58:30
Umm, so umm, so those things will be changing. You should be hearing a lot about that. 01:58:35
In the upcoming months. 01:58:42
And then the last news from us that Trump waste and recycling is Pam Roberts, the general manager at Wasatch Front is. 01:58:44
Announced her intention to retire. I know, I know. 01:58:52
Yeah. 01:58:56
Yeah, she's phenomenal. 01:58:58
She is, she is ready to retire. Her wife is already retired and they are ready to go motorcycle riding a lot. But if you know Pam, 01:59:02
you know she is a wonderful leader of the organization and so. 01:59:08
Boards going to be starting the process of. 01:59:14
Looking for, I don't know if we can replace Pam, but looking for somebody that can take that position. So that's going to be. 01:59:17
Something that we're going to be working on over the next few months. 01:59:25
Yes, yes, the very tolerance she has. 01:59:29
She's phenomenal. She's amazing. That's what I have. 01:59:32
Very quick. I'm not going to repeat everything I said across the hall, but I did. 01:59:36
I want to remind everybody that Public Safety Appreciation Week starts and Holly, I'm going to look at you. 01:59:41
Next Monday. 01:59:47
The 5th. 01:59:49
And we won't have the banners of individuals, but did we ever get? 01:59:51
Like we know we've got like regular banners going up in the. 01:59:56
Of like thank you. 02:00:04
Going up in front of the fire station and we're going up in front of the Prestige. 02:00:06
And then a couple of banners advertising the pancake breakfast. 02:00:11
In front of State Hall and then in the Plaza. OK. But we didn't do any like light pole. 02:00:15
Banners. So did we get anything in the journal in terms of the pancake breakfast and so have the pancake breakfast on the 10th and 02:00:21
then? 02:00:26
I'll go hit the shift changes. 02:00:31
Dan, did I get the dates on the ship what we're doing with shift changes with? 02:00:34
OK. And we've got the buckets again from Megaplex, I think. 02:00:39
That we're going to hand to each of the individuals and just kind of a very small token of our appreciation. But I think they 02:00:45
appreciate more the gesture than maybe, you know, the movie that we that that the staff goes to the work and the community goes to 02:00:49
the work to. 02:00:54
Recognize how much we appreciate all of our first responders out in the community so that will. 02:00:58
Start uh. 02:01:03
Next week. 02:01:04
And this is just more of a note, but you know. 02:01:07
John sent me a text I think it was last week, John, and did he see I think CC Cheney, but. 02:01:10
You know, I've listened to a lot of the community comments and one of the regardless how you feel about the feasibility study, one 02:01:18
thing that kind of shines through is how much people love. 02:01:23
Living in this community and the fact that our incorporation has been a big benefit to the people that live here in creating the 02:01:29
sense of community and. 02:01:34
A lot of times I think as elected officials, we and staff too. 02:01:39
People are very happy to express when they're upset about something and so you just never hear really about the good stuff that 02:01:44
happens, right? 02:01:48
And so John shot me this text and he said. 02:01:51
I will pull it up, but essentially it was. 02:01:56
I just walked outside, must have been leaving work. 02:01:58
At whatever end. 02:02:01
That if it was John, it's probably like 630 or 7, but. 02:02:04
That, he said. You know, the skate parks full, the ball diamonds are full. 02:02:09
People are playing soccer on the field. 02:02:14
The Playgrounds. 02:02:16
Full. And I mean it's just like. 02:02:18
And, you know, and I drive by Knudsen Park quite often, and that parking lot will be full. And there's people, the kids on the 02:02:22
playground or they're on the field. 02:02:26
Under the pavilion. 02:02:31
All of that stuff has. 02:02:33
Has happened. 02:02:35
A lot with this council or prior councils and I think it's that sense of community that people really, really appreciate so. 02:02:37
I hope every once in a while our staff and our council takes a minute to think, you know? 02:02:46
We've, I think we've. 02:02:52
Tried to make our city better. 02:02:55
And I think in many regards we have. So anyway, I just thought that was nice to get that text. John that you. 02:02:56
Notice that you took time to actually send it because it means you looked out there and said. 02:03:04
Oh wow. 02:03:09
I've done some pretty good stuff while I've been here anyway. 02:03:11
Motion. What did Forrest help say? That's all I want to say about that. 02:03:17
All right, and, and we will adjourn and then we'll I'll pass the baton, move to adjourn City Council and reconvene an RDA board 02:03:22
meeting. 02:03:27
Second all in favor. Aye, aye, OK. 02:03:32
OK. 02:03:39
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We went, we did a few days. 00:00:02
Not to be children, they just go for fun. Or did you pick up the? 00:00:06
Unless we have somebody else. 00:00:22
Do a camp trip in there, something like that. 00:00:25
Some friends who have traveled all over the place and fruits like. 00:00:31
There's there's one couple is their favorite place. Yeah. 00:00:34
Good evening everybody. 00:00:42
It is just after 6:00, so I'm going to call to order the City of Holiday Council meeting on May 1st and ask everybody to please 00:00:46
rise. 00:00:50
Or the pledge. 00:00:53
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. 00:00:55
And the Republic for which it stands. 00:01:03
Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 00:01:06
Thank you. Okay, inner. 00:01:14
Previous meeting we were trying to decide if we were going to bump the agenda depending on how many. 00:01:17
We have here to speak. 00:01:22
On the feasibility issue, could you just raise your hand if you intend to address the Council tonight regarding the feasibility 00:01:24
study? 00:01:28
OK. That's not overwhelming. So we're just going to stay with our agenda the way it is and we'll kind of take it from there. 00:01:34
Before we get into that, well, a couple of things. We do have one public hearing tonight. 00:01:42
Umm, so if you're here to talk about Code 2 amendments. 00:01:48
Wait for that public hearing, which I'm sure. 00:01:53
There's probably quite a few of you. 00:01:56
That's a joke. 00:01:58
Anyway, just let me just make a brief comment before I open up public comment about. 00:02:01
The feasibility study and the district split, we had a. 00:02:07
Hey, what I would consider a really large crowd. 00:02:11
At our last. 00:02:14
Our last council meeting. 00:02:17
Umm, since that time. 00:02:20
I just want to kind of let you know what what's happened with our council or some members of our council. 00:02:24
Since those last since citizens addressed our Council at the last meeting. 00:02:30
So we did put together a meeting with, I believe it was 8. 00:02:35
Representatives. Umm. 00:02:41
Taylor Davis is here and Laura Pinnick, who are kind of leading that out and and six other members of the community came and. 00:02:44
I was joined by council members Brewer, Durham, Matt and Ty. 00:02:52
Across the hall here we spent about an hour and 45 minutes. I thought we had. 00:02:56
Healthy exchange, I thought. I thought we got a really good understanding of. 00:03:01
What the concerns are of the residents? 00:03:05
A lot is being generated, we know, by this boundary study and the possibility that some schools are going to close. Quite likely a 00:03:08
couple of schools are going to close one or two. 00:03:13
Three, I'm not sure. 00:03:17
But we wanted to make sure that. 00:03:19
Those residents know that we. 00:03:24
Are willing to listen and sit down and hear what their concerns are so. 00:03:26
We spent about an hour and a half during that meeting hour and 45 minutes. 00:03:30
Subsequently, myself, I reached out to the mayor of South Salt Lake, Sheree Wood. 00:03:35
And had a conversation with her and her position on this and I communicated that in the subsequent call with Taylor. 00:03:40
And at least at this point, at least she is opposed to the district split. I don't need to go into all the details. 00:03:47
But South Salt Lake is not on board with that and also talked to Mayor Silvestre to understand there are quite a few people 00:03:55
showing showed up Monday and. 00:03:59
Wanted to get his take, so I wanted to connect with him and kind of see where Bill Creek and City Council are. 00:04:03
And also had. 00:04:09
A follow up conversation with Julie Jackson, who kind of represents this area. 00:04:13
On the Granite School District board. 00:04:17
And also with Clark Nelson who represents more of the West side and Clark really hasn't had any contact, just FYI. 00:04:19
Taylor, since you're out there, ICU. 00:04:27
He has not heard from anybody from your group, so I didn't get much feedback from him. 00:04:30
So. 00:04:35
We've received, some of us have received emails and the bottom line, I just want to tell you we are familiar with this issue, 00:04:37
we're engaged with this issue. 00:04:42
And we'll kind of see how it goes. 00:04:47
From there, but I just wanted to let you know what has happened since our last council meeting. 00:04:50
As it relates to me personally and and a number of the members of the council who have also been in contact with residents from 00:04:55
their district as it relates to. 00:04:59
This. 00:05:04
Districts and specifically the feasibility study. 00:05:05
OK. 00:05:09
So we're going to open up public comment. I'll just repeat that. If you want to speak on behalf of the group, that's great. You 00:05:11
can take up to 5 minutes. If you do, just give us an idea of who you're speaking for and raise your hand or stand up so we can get 00:05:15
a sense of how many people. 00:05:20
We need your name and address please before you speak. 00:05:26
And for individuals, try to keep it to 3 minutes or less if you don't mind. And before I forget, Stephanie. 00:05:29
For those that are here especially for this district issue. 00:05:36
If you make sure you sign in, there's a sign in sheet out at the back door, Stephanie, right? 00:05:40
When you leave, would you please sign? We want to get a sense of who's here and where they live and make sure we're properly 00:05:46
tracking them. 00:05:49
So Trudy will be coming up from the library to show you how it's done. And with that, we'll open up public comment. 00:05:54
Hi I'm Trudy from the library. 00:06:04
I just wanted to let you know that this month. 00:06:06
On Mondays we're adding an extra story time, so there is still story time at Tuesday on the branch, but. 00:06:09
On Mondays, it's going to be in the gazebo right out here in the park. 00:06:15
So that should be a lot of fun. And this is the last month of school, so this is when all of the continued program, we're going to 00:06:19
still have teen time every Thursday. 00:06:23
It'll get a little more. 00:06:27
Loops in the summer, but for now it's all just regular stuff. 00:06:28
We're starting another RPG game for teens and adults that's on Saturdays starting on the 17th. 00:06:32
The game they're going to be playing this time is Blades in the Dark. 00:06:37
And I have no idea so. 00:06:41
But the really fun and cool thing that I get to tell you about is that if you go look at our property. 00:06:43
The lawn in the front on the northwest corner. 00:06:49
You'll see a little. 00:06:52
It's only you, it's. 00:06:53
Little Douglas Fir. 00:06:55
And it's an astronaut. It's a moon tree that we were granted from NASA. 00:06:58
So it has been. It was on the Artemis mission and it orbited the moon and we, the library wrote some grants and got. 00:07:03
Got this tree There will be a big. 00:07:12
Fancy grants today, a little bit later, but we had to get it in the ground within 48 hours per NASA's instructions, and so that 00:07:14
wasn't much time to plan a party. 00:07:19
So, you know, tentatively a June 5th ish kind of thing. Invitations will be coming. 00:07:23
But you know, if you have a chance to go look at it, you can't miss it. It's a really small Douglas Fern. It's got a lot of 00:07:29
fencing around it. 00:07:32
But it's really super cool. 00:07:36
So that's what's happening at the library. Did you have any questions for me? 00:07:38
Anything for Trudy? 00:07:44
We just are so great for all that you do. Thank you so much. Thanks for you. 00:07:46
Getting ready for a busy summer, huh? 00:07:50
All right, we don't have a. 00:07:54
Cruising, a lot of cities will have a sign up sheet or have will have stacks of paper. Who's going next? We don't have that. 00:07:56
It's just open mic. 00:08:02
And just come on up and again, give us your name and address and try to keep it to 3 minutes or less unless you're speaking on 00:08:04
behalf of. 00:08:07
A group. Hi, my name is Barbara Faust. Throughout my life street address. 00:08:11
Other than Holiday, oh, I live at 2110 Crest Hill Drive. 00:08:16
I'm an empty nester, all my children. 00:08:21
Attended attended holiday elementary and then when that closed they went to Drinks elementary. 00:08:24
Attended Olympus Junior and Olympus High School. 00:08:30
And I just want to let my support to a feasibility study to look at the school district. 00:08:33
Thank you very much. Thank you. 00:08:40
Hello, my name is Emily Davis. I live at 2007 E Lincoln Circle, just right by Crestview Elementary. 00:08:46
I went to Continental Elementary. I went to Olympus Junior High, where I met my husband. We went to Olympus High. 00:08:54
And we specifically chose the area where we live. We have six children and we specifically chose our home because of the 00:09:00
walkability to Crestview Elementary. It is a thriving center of children and families and activities. 00:09:07
We have Art night last night and there were hundreds of people there enjoying games and learning about Picasso. 00:09:13
And one of the dads built this giant cougar out of cardboard, and it's just so healthy and so fun and so vibrant. 00:09:20
To live somewhere that's so alive and that's so. 00:09:27
Surrounded by children and learning. 00:09:31
I think also the same as Barbara, when I'm an empty nester, I want families, I want children, I want vitality. That's what we look 00:09:34
for where we live. 00:09:37
Sorry, I have mom brains, so I'm going to look at my phone because I you know. 00:09:43
I support the feasibility study. I see it, you know, Granite District services 60,000 students, which is incredible. It's 00:09:47
incredible that they can do that. 00:09:51
The average size is 5000 children and I fear if I was looking after 60,000 children a lot would get lost. 00:09:56
So I support the feasibility study because I think a more efficient smaller run parent supported parent run parent represented 00:10:04
family represented district. 00:10:09
Would greatly all. 00:10:15
All of us and anyone who doesn't even know about this yet. 00:10:16
My thought is why wouldn't we investigate that? Something that could benefit the city, something that could benefit Mill Creek, 00:10:20
something that could benefit. 00:10:23
Every single person who lives in our area, I don't know why we wouldn't even investigate that. 00:10:27
And as the feasibility came back saying this is terrible, great. 00:10:32
It's terrible, we don't do it, but if it's a good thing, which has been for every single other district split. 00:10:36
Which I've looked at the Alpine Districts, Murray, everybody loves it, everybody supports it. 00:10:41
I don't know why we wouldn't look into something that has been proven to be great for communities. 00:10:47
And and then lastly, just we have three of our kids attending the elementary schools. We'll have our 4th entering kindergarten 00:10:51
next year. 00:10:55
There's been lots of, you know, surveys sent to parents and things like that about, you know, when school starts. 00:10:59
When the brakes should be and. 00:11:04
At least all of my friends. Everyone I've ever talked to has not felt supported by granted. 00:11:07
We feel like we have not been listened to, so I support the feasibility study to have. 00:11:12
Proper representation of our families and our children. So thank you for your time. I really appreciate all your hard work and 00:11:17
your listening ears. 00:11:21
Thank you. 00:11:24
I always have a baby on my head. That's just where we're at. My name is Emmy Lowe. I live at 4295 Lynn Lane. I was here last time. 00:11:31
And I spoke to you guys because I am for this information, but most importantly, I wanted to take a second and. 00:11:38
Tell you that when this whole thing started and this whole conversation started, from my understanding, my own feelings, we didn't 00:11:45
want to do this alone. 00:11:48
We wanted a city involved with us. 00:11:52
We want you guys to be a part of this with us. We don't want this to be just. 00:11:54
Us coming to you and banging on your door saying give us a piece of, you know, we want you to be involved, we want you to want 00:11:58
this. 00:12:00
It feels important for us for this to be a collaborative effort of these parents. 00:12:03
And then also the people represented us. 00:12:07
For you guys to see that it's important and that it feels big for us. 00:12:10
I think just feels really important. I wanted to make sure to notate that. And with that said, thank you for giving the time you 00:12:13
have the people. 00:12:17
To listen to us because I think that's important as well. If you haven't written, written us off, you've taken the time. Matt 00:12:21
Durham I know that Betsy sent an e-mail about to me. 00:12:25
We're planning on having you to get together and talk to you with a few different parents that don't have the opportunity to be 00:12:30
here tonight in different times. And with that said, I just wanted to read something really quick if it's okay. 00:12:35
I'm in a group text with moms and I'm constantly sending messages. Come here, come here, let's show our support. 00:12:41
And one of them said today, these meetings are just happening at a pinnacle busy time of the evening and time of the year for 00:12:46
parents. 00:12:49
I regret it. I couldn't make it to any of the last few. 00:12:52
Having to be three other places at the same time for kids activities. 00:12:55
I'm sure there are so many more parents who would be there if we could. I don't know if that's worth mentioning. 00:12:58
There was 10 likes on that one simple comment that someone put in a group of over 30 women in the text I'm in. 00:13:03
So I hope you know that while you see these people here, and we do care, they care too. 00:13:09
We just have so many responsibilities. My husband is an attorney, so he works late night like I'm sober with four kids. 00:13:14
I'm lucky tonight that someone could take my little girl and I could bring my three boys with me, but that's not the reality for a 00:13:21
lot of us. You're getting some help, so it's just important to know that like, while you see us here, there's so much more who 00:13:26
care. 00:13:30
Talker This is just who I am as a person. I talk to people every single day about business. Become my new personality. 00:13:35
Whether it's the PTA board or being on the preschool board that I'm on as well and then showing up here, this matters. 00:13:41
I care about this for my kids, and I see that you do too with the conversations we're having. 00:13:48
But I just want you to know it's not about us saying let's do a new school district today. 00:13:53
We don't want that. 00:13:58
All we want is to investigate it. We just want to know that we did our part to see that we did the best thing for our kids. 00:13:59
And if we walked away from this and we didn't have the opportunity, it would cut me. 00:14:06
Because honestly thinking about. 00:14:11
What am I doing at this point in my life, right? I'm almost 40 and all that I'm doing right now is living for my kids. I got to be 00:14:14
honest with you, whether it's a baseball game, going to tennis practice, all the things. That's all I'm doing and that's why I'm 00:14:18
here because I want you to know. 00:14:22
It matters to the court for me. 00:14:27
I know the school closures are going to happen. It is what it is. It's where we're at. I know the conversation has been this isn't 00:14:29
going to hit the ballot till 2026 and I'm OK with that. 00:14:33
I know that things are going to happen. It makes them sad because I wish we had more of a conversation in it. I wish we could 00:14:37
delay it here so that we had more of a state of grounded school district of let us be on a board to talk about this. 00:14:43
Because like, while Julie is representing Crestview, she's also representing all the other schools. 00:14:49
And I know Clark also represent has a little bit of a stake in the game with press view, but at the same time. 00:14:54
I don't know who's representing me there, and I know I'm not. 00:14:59
So I know the importance of doing this, the changes, but I also know the importance of having representation and thus saying, you 00:15:02
know what, not 27.25 kids in the class. 00:15:07
22 kids in a class, that's what's important to our district. 00:15:12
On when they get out of school on a Thursday don't get us out at 1:15. They only get out early on Fridays. These things matter 00:15:15
because your parents who plan on that for Fridays but like today we got out at 1:15. That's granite choices that they make that 00:15:21
but even if there's an early out day that we get out. 00:15:26
I know that might sound random and simple, but it's little things like that that we need representation with our kids and in our 00:15:32
areas. 00:15:35
So I'll be done, but thank you. Really. I'm in a Jamie's in that text group and she's like, get him like on my way here I come. 00:15:39
But really, I appreciate you guys. This has been an honor to be able to fight for my kids. Not fight. I hate that word. 00:15:46
Do what I can, do the best for my children because it means something and I know it'll mean something then 20 years from now. 00:15:54
And the last thing I want to say and I'm done. I'll walk away. 00:16:01
They were saying that this is new. It's not. This has been a conversation for a long time, and I've had this conversation, Betsy 00:16:04
Vandenberg multiple times. 00:16:07
This has been a conversation for a long time. It's just that we're now seeing. 00:16:12
That we need to really go for it. And you're right. Why didn't it happen two years ago? Is it just because the boundary study came 00:16:17
up? 00:16:20
In my opinion, it just was coincidence that that's what happened. But I think this should be handled no matter what or addressed 00:16:23
no matter what, whether it was the here or next year, it's something we need to investigate and see if it's best for our kids. 00:16:30
Thank you so much. 00:16:37
She did forward that text, by the way, and said, Dad, they're coming for you. 00:16:40
Hey, thank you so much for letting us speak again, and I'll try and be brief. I know you've heard from me enough. 00:16:46
But I'm Betsy Vandenberg. I live. 00:16:52
On Cumberland Rd. 00:16:54
Umm, we're empty nesters and. 00:16:56
I don't think any of my kids love being able to afford to move here and I, you know, but I, I am appreciative of this group that 00:17:00
we're working with. 00:17:04
Which encompasses all age ranges and especially, you know, and I think it was even clearer than Mill Creek meeting. 00:17:07
That our group also represents all sorts of different political alignments. 00:17:15
All sorts of different religious viewpoints and single parents, large families, and that's why I have loved working with these 00:17:21
kinds of people for 20 years that we've been discussing small districts. 00:17:27
And I actually, I mean, I don't like it when I don't like school closures, but but I do like that it it. 00:17:34
You know, my priority is small districts. That's why we formed the Small Districts Coalition. It consisted of people from South 00:17:41
Salt Lake. 00:17:45
Including some of the city councilors there. The small districts coalition had some Holiday E Mill Creek people, but a driving 00:17:48
force for people from West Valley City. It was all Granite School District patrons who did not fill. 00:17:55
Well represented and we wanted a smaller district. So this was back in like 2007 or so. 00:18:03
And, umm. 00:18:09
I support small districts because, you know, even the Bill and Linda Gates. 00:18:11
Foundation before they got divorced they were way into small schools because smaller districts create smaller schools create 00:18:16
smaller class sizes. 00:18:20
Create higher, higher academic achievement. It's just a better, much better arrangement for the children involved. As I think I 00:18:24
said previously, you get over like 10,020 thousand students and then the economies of scale disappears and it becomes more of a 00:18:30
bloated bureaucracy where you. 00:18:36
Where the money is not quite going into the classes of the teacher salary, so I know that. 00:18:42
Cities are afraid of losing. They're afraid of losing special programs. 00:18:48
Special this, special that. 00:18:52
But I, I, I can. And that's something the feasibility study can, you know, can look at, but almost across the board, smaller 00:18:54
districts are able to use their funding. 00:19:00
Better for the school, better for the lower class sizes, better for the paraprofessionals. 00:19:06
They get smaller districts. Can also combine with other districts. 00:19:10
And you know you can, just as the city uses other programs and they don't do everything themselves. 00:19:14
It's not as complicated as it sounds and I don't think we would be losing. I think we would be gaining, but at least the 00:19:21
feasibility study could show us that. 00:19:25
Um, larger districts do tend to. 00:19:30
Closed down schools a lot more often than smaller districts that find ways of like. 00:19:33
I don't know of saying. 00:19:38
Our school doesn't have to have. 00:19:39
35 kids per class. 00:19:41
A school doesn't have to be 600 students. We don't have to build high schools the size of entire shopping malls. 00:19:43
They have different priorities and I think it would, you know, behoove us to look at those priorities, how our money gets spent. I 00:19:51
think people know where the money goes a lot better in a smaller district. 00:19:56
So my rah rah here today is not necessarily for, you know. 00:20:02
The the big winds of school closure that are coming. Although I appreciated it, it gets people involved. 00:20:07
But I've been doing this, I've been working with people for 20 years and yeah, I'm really happy for Jordan. School district there, 00:20:13
Jordan, the West side of Jordan is really happy they split. Cottonwood or Canyons is happy they split. Now it's a rapper wants to 00:20:19
be its own I. You know, I'm happy for Alpine going three ways. 00:20:24
You know, I just like our community to consider it. It really did. 00:20:31
The bill came about, you know, 20 years ago from people involved here and in the Granite School District. And it would be great if 00:20:35
if our city would help us just explore what this would look like. So thank you so much. I really appreciate your time and 00:20:41
attention. 00:20:46
Thank you. 00:20:52
Hi Lisa Bagley, I live at Honeycutt Rd. Full disclosure, I'm a Mill Creek resident and the Vandenbergs came and supported us on 00:21:03
Monday night at the Mill Creek City Council. So. 00:21:09
Came tonight to support them and we are. We're empty nesters. 00:21:15
Had graduated from Olympus. Three of our four daughters graduated from Olympus. 00:21:20
And if you'll just remember 2016 Mill Creek, 2/3 of Mill Creek City residents voted. 00:21:25
To become a city. 00:21:33
Because they felt that they weren't listened to by Salt Lake County. 00:21:35
And so 2/3 of the residents voted to become a city because they wanted local control, autonomy and representation. 00:21:39
And I was I had a doctor's appointment on Monday morning and I drove over from Mill Creek over here to holiday. 00:21:46
And I drove back past Crestview Elementary and it was such a beautiful sight. The sun was coming up. 00:21:53
The kids were walking to school, They had their backpacks on. They were walking with their parents, their best friends. 00:21:59
On the corner of the stop sign where you all know where that is, I was coming back and waiting and there was a mom. 00:22:05
That was a crossing guard with her daughter and her little daughter was, you know, doing the dance. And I just thought what a what 00:22:13
a beautiful thing the the local Community School is the heart of the community. 00:22:19
And I think that's all we're asking here is a feasibility study for Mill Creek and holiday in South Salt Lake. 00:22:24
To have that local control, that autonomy and that representation. 00:22:32
Thank you. 00:22:37
Thank you. 00:22:38
Thanks for letting Mill Creek Scab come in here. 00:22:43
I live on 2490 E Lamphorn Ave. in Mill Creek. 00:22:48
I just wanted to thanks for having us and thanks for the dialogue. I, I really do appreciate it and I open up to any of you and I, 00:22:52
I tell everybody if, if I ever say anything wrong. 00:22:57
Or something amiss or you have a question. I'll try my best answer. If I don't know what I'll say no, but. 00:23:01
I love that and. 00:23:08
So. 00:23:10
The way I get started in this was actually two years ago. I got into this because of the Spring Lane Mill Creek closures and I 00:23:12
went to the meeting. 00:23:16
And I saw, I listened to everything they talked about and I saw this slide and it hasn't changed. 00:23:20
This is a slide that shows us who decides what schools closed. This is this. I didn't doctor. This is directly from Granite. And I 00:23:26
don't think I've met with Ben, by the way, and Hogan and the chief of staff. I don't think they're bad people. I generally don't. 00:23:32
I, you know, Ben multiple times this week. 00:23:37
But this slide tells me who decides. 00:23:43
The future of our schools. 00:23:46
And it has 20 boxes and one of them is community engagement. 00:23:48
I'm not going to bore you by reading all the other ones. 00:23:54
But umm. 00:23:56
It became very clear to me as I sat there. It's the reason I actually met with Mayor Dali 2 years ago is I just, I wanted to know 00:23:58
his position on the schools and, and I don't blame him that the approach is kind of like granite does their thing. 00:24:03
But it was a little alarming to me because schools I think are kind of sacred. They're they're like a little biological entity and 00:24:08
I to me. 00:24:12
I'll do everything I can to keep that little puppy alive. 00:24:17
And I went to those meetings and I was kind of surprised and I actually, I actually followed boundary study last year on the West 00:24:20
side and I went to meetings at Granger because I just want to see how it went and kind of how it worked. 00:24:25
And I just, there wasn't that community touch, there wasn't that feel, there wasn't that it was missing. And and that's when I 00:24:30
started studying the size of the schools and the size of the districts and. 00:24:35
Reading and talking to people and talking to people at different districts and and I realize there's so many ways to do schools. 00:24:40
Whenever someone says this is the way I go red light. 00:24:44
There's like thousands of ways. 00:24:49
And and the only one that can really decide what we want for our future. And this is what excites me. I mean, there's the brakes 00:24:51
part of let's keep the status quo. I don't think Grant is bad. I went to Granite Schools. They're great. 00:24:56
I turned out OK. 00:25:02
But I think what excites me is the future. I hope that you'll get the vision on reverse of. 00:25:05
There's some big decisions coming up. So there's the school closures now. We've already talked, I think. 00:25:11
The time the season has passed, that's going to happen. 00:25:17
That disappoints some people. 00:25:20
But I look at the junior highs and I'm meeting with Ben. 00:25:21
I mean, Bonneville has 400 kids at it. Well, who? So so I go, I live in that neighborhood and I go. 00:25:25
What's going to happen to Bonneville? 00:25:30
Well, who cares what I think? I don't live in that neighborhood. 00:25:33
Why don't the people in Bonneville's neighborhood decide what happens to Bonneville? 00:25:35
Does it wait? What happens to the boundaries? Does it get closed? Does it get rebuilt? Do we put a special program in there? 00:25:39
Let them decide right now. 00:25:45
That Clark one meeting with next week I like umm. 00:25:47
It covers an area of 10 schools. 00:25:51
And so it's really hard for him to fight for Bonneville. He can try, but he's got a way that against a lot of other things. I 00:25:54
think it would be way more fun if there's a representative of a Bonneville that covers just Bonneville in two elementaries. 00:25:59
And can go. 00:26:05
Here's what Here's what's happening in Bonneville. Here's what's important in Bonneville. Here's what Bonneville needs. 00:26:06
There's a million in your eyes all over the country, that 400 kids in them. 00:26:10
Granted, as a paradigm, they'll say Bonneville needs to close. It doesn't have enough kids. 00:26:14
Is that it? We're just going to give up on bonded. I go into Bonneville and I spend time there and I think what a cool elementary. 00:26:19
I mean, what a cool junior high. I don't have a lot of exposure there, but when we're there. And so I just what I'm trying to get 00:26:23
at is. 00:26:27
I believe in the model. I believe in the model. You've you've I lived in holiday before, holiday with the city, and I lived in 00:26:32
holiday after, and it wasn't a hell world before. 00:26:36
No one, no one thought it was this horrible place. 00:26:42
But the potential that was unlocked by becoming a city and having a group like you come in every day and say how can we make this 00:26:44
place great? That's our focus. 00:26:49
Made all the difference and how cool has it been to see it grow? 00:26:54
I hope you'll catch the vision of the potential with that. 00:26:58
The feasibility study will unlock that. I said it to many of you before if it comes out bad. 00:27:00
Done with. 00:27:05
I'm done. I'll tell you right now, my wife would be relieved because I'd be home at night and I put my kids to bed and I'd be sort 00:27:06
of relieved. 00:27:09
But if it comes out well, we have more funds. 00:27:12
To unlock things like smaller classes, better teacher paid, rebuilding some of our schools, maybe not rebuilding some of our 00:27:16
schools. 00:27:19
But we could decide with a board of seven, an executive committee that wakes up every day and says, how do we make this area 00:27:23
great? 00:27:26
And I think that I, I genuinely believe that is exciting, and I think that's exciting for every section of the city. 00:27:30
The way representative government works, it's not like here we have 4 representatives up in the Cove. 00:27:36
And none anywhere else. It's by population, so every group will get an increase about a 4X increase in representation. 00:27:41
And as I've said to you before. 00:27:47
I've never been in a scenario where I thought I wish I had less representation. 00:27:49
And that doesn't mean Julie's bad. And that doesn't mean Clark is bad. And that doesn't mean Ben is bad. 00:27:54
It's just the nature of a giant beast. 00:27:59
And it's been, my last thought is it's been one month since our meeting and all of you have run campaigns. 00:28:01
And I think we're doing pretty good and we're gonna keep going and we are gonna. 00:28:07
We we are reaching out. We're having some growth actually in the Twin Peaks Spring Lane area. It's been fun to get some people on 00:28:11
there. 00:28:13
And I'm meeting with Mayor Wood in a week. 00:28:16
And we're going to keep on going, but I hope, I hope you'll catch that vision because I think you already do it. 00:28:18
And so let's get the study. I mean, I just did a quick estimation. It's. 00:28:23
Based on percentages of the district, it's about $240 million a year just based on. 00:28:28
The 15,000 kids that would be in our area, I think it would be well worth spending. 00:28:34
100,000 bucks to see where that 240 million goes. 00:28:38
And if it doesn't recount? 00:28:43
You never have to have this crew coming again because they'll go be playing soccer again. So thank you. 00:28:45
Very soon. 00:28:50
I'm Jed Vandenberg, 4206 Cumberland Rd. 00:28:57
I've lived in Holiday for over 35 years and love it here. 00:29:01
And agree with the magnificent. 00:29:05
Miracle. That's Holiday City. 00:29:11
Going is self incorporated, being being directed by itself. 00:29:14
I did not grow up in holiday. I grew up in South Salt Lake. I went to Lincoln Elementary, Granite Park Junior High. 00:29:19
And Granite High School. 00:29:26
Those schools do not exist anymore. 00:29:28
When I was growing up. 00:29:31
Granite and South Salt Lake was a community that was very comparable to Murray. 00:29:33
Murray is just 5 miles down South. 00:29:39
On State Street. 00:29:42
But when Granite closed, when Granite Park Junior High closed and when Lincoln Elementary was. 00:29:44
Down and the students were moved to Granite Park Junior High and it was called Lincoln Elementary. It changed that community. 00:29:51
And that community has struggled ever since. I know people that still live there. 00:29:59
And they grew the day and regret what happened to their community in their schools. 00:30:05
And I contrast that in my mind to Murray. 00:30:10
Murray has a single It's a small city like this, but it has its own district. 00:30:14
That includes Murray High School, two junior highs and several elementaries. And they're thriving. People love Murray. They love 00:30:20
Murray School District. 00:30:25
And they long to move in there and go there. 00:30:30
I think having local control has been so good for Holiday City. 00:30:33
And I would. 00:30:40
Agree and believe that it would be so good to have local control in your school districts. And it would be. 00:30:43
And maintenance and a strength for this community that would last forever. 00:30:50
So thank you. 00:30:56
Thank you. 00:30:57
I I spoke with you last time as well. I'm Marissa Skinner. I live at 1800. 00:31:02
North Woodside Dr. 00:31:08
Azjab Singh, he lived here for 35 years. I was kind of going through and my family has been in both Mill Creek and Holiday for 00:31:12
over 120 years, which is crazy to me. 00:31:18
And one of the things that I love about Holiday and Mill Creek and that my family has been, and my perspective is a little 00:31:25
different than everyone else's, I think. 00:31:29
Is the entrepreneurial spirit. 00:31:34
That exists in this community and I think that some of you up here are entrepreneurs and you run your own businesses and the thing 00:31:37
that we do. 00:31:40
Every every month we run through our reports, right? We're saying what's working and what's not working. 00:31:44
And I think that this is one of those times where we need to say, is this working? 00:31:50
And find out. I think that that's what the feasibility study does for us. It allows us to have the information and the data to 00:31:55
say, are we making good decisions for our community. 00:31:59
We might be making great at making great. 00:32:04
Decisions for the community. 00:32:07
But it's always worth looking at the reports. 00:32:09
And I think that you guys are awesome. Thank you for listening to everybody and. 00:32:12
Hope you have a good night. 00:32:16
Thank you. 00:32:17
Hi, my name is Katie Knudsen. I actually live in Mill Creek but I have kids that go to Olympus and even to Cottonwood to do the 00:32:26
Academy of Finance, which is amazing at Cottonwood. 00:32:32
And then I have one of my kids that will be going to Skyline for woodworking. I say that because it felt like it points out how 00:32:38
integrated our community is. I think it's really unique. 00:32:43
That there's not really a clear holiday or holiday. Mill Creek, like we all kind of mesh. Skyline, Olympus, Cottonwood, everybody 00:32:49
kind of knows each other and is very integrated together, which is what makes our community so amazing. 00:32:57
I got involved with. 00:33:06
Wanting to do a feasibility study and have a potential create a new district two years ago. 00:33:09
I have kids at William Penn and we were involved with Mill Creek being closed and then being moved to our school. We love those 00:33:15
kids that are at our school, but it was very clear in all of those meetings that we don't have a voice. 00:33:22
Yes, they come and listen to us, but no, we don't have a voice. They already have made the decisions, unfortunately. 00:33:29
And through that process, it kind of stirred that. 00:33:36
Desire in my heart to have more of a say in what's happening in our schools. 00:33:40
I have kids in elementary, junior high and high school, and so I'm seeing it across the board, all the different things happening 00:33:46
and I as a parent would love to have a lot more say in those things. They're taking the teachers and putting them in the district. 00:33:54
The things that are happening with technology, I mean, the list could go on and on, but I've pursued many of those things and just 00:34:02
don't feel like we have much of A voice. 00:34:07
And I think I realized through that process that it's really the local representation, right, that vote. And like many others have 00:34:12
said, I realized that. 00:34:16
So we have two board members that cover what we're proposing for the. 00:34:22
Mill Creek Quality and South Salt Lake. So we have two state board members or sorry, grounded board members that vote for our 00:34:29
area. 00:34:33
In turn, we have 5 for each of those three cities, right? We have the mayor and then the four district members. So that's 15 00:34:38
people that are representing that area versus the 2. 00:34:44
And I just feel like our biggest opportunity here is to. 00:34:50
Do the feasibility study, see if it's worth doing and if it would be something that. 00:34:55
Would be good for our area and then if it comes out well and it is, I think this is an opportunity for us to. 00:35:01
Just make our cities even better than they already are. Like people have talked about unincorporated Salt Lake before and then 00:35:09
Mill Creek and and Holiday are so much better off with having. 00:35:16
Our local representation and I think that we if we all come together and do this could have the best district in the state of Utah 00:35:23
and I think it would be absolutely amazing people would want to come here and I think it would just. 00:35:29
Make our communities and our cities all the better. 00:35:36
Thank you. 00:35:39
Thank you. 00:35:40
My name is Ryan Reynolds. I live on 5230 S Warner Lane. 00:35:47
So I've grown up in holiday my whole life my family's lived in holidays. 00:35:51
Generations. 00:35:56
I currently have a daughter that goes to Common elementary, another daughter who will be there in a couple years. I went to 00:35:58
Cottonwood elementary Olympus Junior. 00:36:02
Went through Olympus high school. 00:36:06
I am in full support of the feasibility study in hopes that it would come out. 00:36:08
Well, obviously. 00:36:13
But just, I'm a very sentimental person with with stuff like this, like you know how cool it is to go back to elementary and go 00:36:15
into a classroom? 00:36:19
Prepare these conferences the same classroom that I went to that my daughter is now in. 00:36:23
I think it's pretty cool. I want to talk. 00:36:27
To you more about from like a resource standpoint, so. 00:36:29
Currently I coach. I coach football up at Olympus High School. 00:36:32
And there's been so many instances with Grant School District where we've needed new equipment or wanted to do something better 00:36:35
for our football team. 00:36:39
And things like that, but we're not able to because. 00:36:43
It's it's not fair to a school like Cyprus or Hunter or Grange or some other school itself. We do something with our school. 00:36:47
It has to go. 00:36:55
You know, to another school in the district, no matter, no matter where it is. 00:36:57
I think having a smaller school district would be great and more effective in allocating funds. 00:37:00
You know that we all contribute to to be able to, you know, to pay teacher better wages, to get better education. You know better. 00:37:05
Facilities Better equipment for for sports and athletics. 00:37:12
And things of that nature, I just think of being all around smarter, better decision that we're able to consolidate it into a 00:37:16
smaller district. 00:37:19
For our kids, so allocate funds and things that would better enrich the lives of our children and things for generations to come 00:37:23
so. 00:37:26
Thank you. 00:37:30
Thank you. 00:37:32
I promise to be brief. I mean, Mayor Silverstream did a timer on this. You had to be done at 2 minutes, so. 00:37:39
That was that was hard to get some some things in, but I just I my name is Tracy Walker. I live just over on 2341 Edgemore Dr. 00:37:46
just right over here. So I had the pleasure of meeting with you, Mayor Dali the other day and I just wanted to thank you publicly 00:37:52
for that meeting. I thought it was just a wonderful time for us to. 00:37:58
To meet and to kind of share different perspectives, you know, perspective of a mother and a perspective of Joe McAllister. You 00:38:04
know, he's who he works really closely with Granite and. 00:38:10
Lots of us were able to share our our perspectives and I felt like you really listened and I really appreciate that, I feel like. 00:38:15
We even maybe left friends so I like that. 00:38:22
But I just wanted to publicly say that I am in complete support of this feasibility study. 00:38:25
And like I had told you the other day, I've been in this district for over 17 years now with six children and. 00:38:31
And you know, one thing that the mayor said to us the other day was that. 00:38:38
He just doesn't really feel like there's that concern in the district or the community that our schools are full and everybody's 00:38:42
happy. And I tried to express that, you know? 00:38:47
That's true that our schools are full, but what's happened is like when I first moved in, our elementary school was only ranked by 00:38:52
three. 00:38:55
Lots of our neighbors take their schools private, their children privately because our school is struggling. 00:38:59
That privately, they homeschool, they go to charter schools, different things like that. 00:39:06
And I contemplated, what am I going to do with my kids? I can't take them to an elementary school that's ranked to three. 00:39:10
And so I looked at Oakridge, I looked at some, you know, Cardin different things, and I said, no, you know what? I believe in the 00:39:15
public school system. 00:39:18
I'm going to take my heels in and I am going to make this school better. And so we rally together as parents and as a community. 00:39:22
And we did things and we raised money for an incredible art teacher with who I just found out today is leaving to go to the West 00:39:28
side to the new STEM junior high, Brock Bank Junior high. Things are are are struggling now at our school, but it has been ranked 00:39:33
one of the top schools in the district. 00:39:39
And that's because of our blood, sweat and tears. And just like what this gentleman said, you know, we've raised money and made 00:39:44
us. We've made nonprofits to raise money up at Skyline High School for new batting cages. Granite tells us no. 00:39:50
That we can't do it even though we raised $100,000. Joe McAllister and I raised $68,000 to do a new playground because our 00:39:57
children are getting stitches every day on those rocks. It's not handicapped accessible. 00:40:02
Granite tells us no. Granite is constantly telling us no. 00:40:08
And so the schools are full. Yes, people want to go to these schools, but it's not because of Granite, it's because of us. It's 00:40:13
because of our amazing culture and community and everyone's going. We want a good education. We want our schools to be better. 00:40:19
And I just think giving us this chance as I was walking into your building. 00:40:26
I saw a little street signs that say shape our future. I'm not sure what campaign that is. 00:40:31
And that that really lit up to me because you have that opportunity Mary Silverstream has. 00:40:35
That opportunity to shape our children's future. 00:40:40
And not only on the East side. It's not about east versus West. I actually own a dance studio in Taylorsville with 400 children. 00:40:44
And they go to all schools. We have all different schools. And they agree that Granite is just too big. I think Granite could be 00:40:51
an amazing district. 00:40:55
The and those schools deserve it. 00:41:00
And our schools deserve it. We deserve representation. 00:41:02
And I think what a hero you guys could be for the entire valley. I'm I'm here speaking on behalf of. 00:41:05
Every child in grammar school district because they all deserve a better way of doing things and they deserve a yes. 00:41:11
Instead of a number. 00:41:19
And so I just really appreciate your time and I appreciate you shaping our future and. 00:41:20
Just giving us a chance. I just think it's such a small amount of financial. 00:41:27
Umm, obligation for three cities to split? 00:41:32
And as far as you're concerned about the community support, I started a private group me about two days ago, I believe just in my 00:41:36
neighborhood school and I already have about 40 members on there in just two days. 00:41:42
And so I know that they all like the young mother was talking about, about they all want to be here tonight, that they have 00:41:48
obligations and things like that. So I think you'll be receiving some emails. 00:41:53
But just know our community really is on board with this. We really feel strong and passionate about it. 00:41:59
Of all ages, and we just. 00:42:05
Please for your help. So thank you again for your help and your time and I really appreciate it. 00:42:07
Thank you. 00:42:12
Hello, Paul. 00:42:19
Don't miss your father again since he was 3. 00:42:21
And I was 4. 00:42:24
Good to be here. 00:42:26
I'm a Mill Creek resident at Bagley is my name and I live on. 00:42:28
3387 Honeycutt Rd. 00:42:32
Just over the cemetery, which I see your old house about every day when we go through there, so. 00:42:36
I just wanted to. 00:42:45
Talk a little bit about how. 00:42:47
And we all grew up. 00:42:49
With Granite School District and. 00:42:51
To the to the you know what our knowledge was during high school years, I'm not sure. 00:42:54
But we knew there were schools we went to and then there was sort of some other kind of groups that we were. 00:43:00
Part of Oregon subject to in some way. 00:43:06
And I thought that so it was everywhere. When we moved to Cincinnati, we were there for. 00:43:11
Four years. 00:43:17
And one of the things people told us when we moved in, they said. 00:43:18
You're going to love being here because anywhere you go to, schools are fantastic. 00:43:22
And that seemed to be the case. 00:43:28
And. 00:43:31
I was asking somebody at one point, you know, we'd been living there for a little while. Why is it this way? 00:43:33
And they said it's because the districts ladder up to 1 high school. 00:43:40
All of them are their own districts that serve like Jeff said. 00:43:46
There's a, you know, junior highs. 00:43:50
And elementaries that feed up to high school. 00:43:53
But that allows each of those high schools to have a specialty of some sort. 00:43:56
There were ones that were really great at final arts, there were others athletics, there are others you know. 00:44:02
You know, just. 00:44:08
Almost specialties. You couldn't go wrong if that's where you wanted to be as a family. 00:44:10
And what that did to the neighborhoods is. 00:44:17
You know people would look for. 00:44:20
What they wanted and go there and so each of the neighborhoods will really. 00:44:23
Vibrant. 00:44:29
Umm, and the The thing is, that was what was great about that was there wasn't some. 00:44:31
Sort of giant overlord. 00:44:38
Thing it was all. 00:44:41
Very. 00:44:44
At another word, it's just kind of happened spontaneously. 00:44:46
And those school districts, certainly they collaborated. 00:44:51
You know, for economies of scale, bought books together and things like that. 00:44:57
But nobody told them what they needed to be about. 00:45:03
And what their specialty? 00:45:06
Was it was it was a fantastic place. 00:45:07
Of your kids. 00:45:11
So. 00:45:13
I just close with. 00:45:15
When we came back. 00:45:19
From Cincinnati was when they were thinking of closing Wasatch Junior. 00:45:21
And all that kind of a kerfuffle. 00:45:26
And our neighbor across the street was a guy named Bryce Bertelsen, who had been the he was. 00:45:30
He was in his 90s at this point, but he had been the. 00:45:36
The. 00:45:43
Of Murray. 00:45:45
All right. And I asked him. 00:45:49
About the idea of this. 00:45:53
Very large. 00:45:55
Districts versus a single district. 00:45:58
He didn't want to get into anything controversial, but he sat there for a moment. He said, well, I'll tell you what. 00:46:01
All my leadership began as we were at all the football games. 00:46:08
All my, all my leadership. 00:46:12
We're at the football, we're at every football game. 00:46:14
I think that says something. 00:46:17
So leave it at that if I do. 00:46:20
I bring all this this up just because I think. 00:46:24
We should at least look into this and get the data. 00:46:27
Thank you. 00:46:31
Thank you. 00:46:32
My name is Mindy often and I just wanted to read a quote. This comes from a man named Tracy Cowdell. 00:46:45
And he was a board member of Jordan School District. And at the time when Jordan School District was looking to split, he was very 00:46:51
against the split. He had a father that. 00:46:57
Had worked for the district for 35 years. His wife. 00:47:04
Also, umm. 00:47:08
Was a Jordan School District teacher and he was very opposed and worked to make sure that it did not get split and yet it did. 00:47:09
And this is his quote now, he said. Looking back, I realized I would vote differently regarding the division of the Jordan School 00:47:17
District. 00:47:21
I was wrong. The Canyon School District has thrived and the Jordan District has continued to flourish. 00:47:24
Both districts now have the ability to focus on more localized needs in ways a larger organization simply could not. 00:47:32
Thank you. 00:47:39
Thank you. 00:47:41
OK. Oh. 00:47:51
I wasn't planning on this, but I felt very strongly that I needed to get up here and say something. My name is Katia Borden, I 00:47:57
live at 2096 E. 00:48:01
Country pine cone. 00:48:06
I have lived in holiday for. 00:48:08
Almost 20 years, I'd say 19. 00:48:11
We have eight children. 00:48:15
And they have all. 00:48:19
And students at Granite School District. 00:48:23
Our oldest son. 00:48:27
Just graduated as a graduate. 00:48:29
At the law school at BYU. 00:48:32
And our youngest is. 00:48:35
Playing. 00:48:39
Right now we love. 00:48:41
The opportunities that are in. 00:48:43
Holiday umm. 00:48:46
It's it's wonderful. 00:48:47
It's absolutely wonderful. 00:48:51
Umm. 00:48:53
I remember my husband telling me the stories of his childhood because he grew up. 00:48:58
In holiday as well he was. 00:49:05
Class president at Olympus High School and that's one of the reasons we moved to Utah. Sorry, not to Utah, but to Holiday. 00:49:07
Was so that we could raise our children. 00:49:16
In the same environment that he grew up in. 00:49:19
And it's been really a wonderful experience to have. 00:49:23
Our children part of the same environment. 00:49:27
That he had and. 00:49:31
To have the same opportunities, it's been really enriching. 00:49:34
And to have smaller class sizes. 00:49:39
As the children were growing up, the smaller class sizes. 00:49:42
Were really profoundly. 00:49:46
Important to me and to them, and if they've gotten. 00:49:48
As it's gotten closer to our youngest. 00:49:53
Giving to where he's, you know, the younger. 00:49:58
The younger student that we have. 00:50:02
His class size is a lot bigger. 00:50:05
And it's made a big difference in his. 00:50:08
Education. 00:50:11
It's affected him. 00:50:13
Profoundly. 00:50:15
And I've we've had to really work with the district. 00:50:17
We've tried to work with the teachers. 00:50:21
He tried to get really involved. 00:50:23
And we've been involved all the way around throughout all of the kids education and even more so. 00:50:25
At this point in time and so. 00:50:33
I just want to voice my support. 00:50:37
For this feasibility study. 00:50:40
I think it's a great opportunity for. 00:50:43
Holiday city to. 00:50:47
Make a difference in the education. 00:50:49
For the upcoming. 00:50:52
Population. 00:50:57
I think it's a great opportunity for you to make a difference in the lives of the children. 00:50:59
Of the future. 00:51:04
Thank you. Thank you. 00:51:06
Hi, I'm Lindsay Skinner. I live at 3956 S, 2000 E. 00:51:15
I'm not from here. I feel like I'm not part of the community. Sometimes I do feel like I'm part of the community. There's so many 00:51:19
people that stay here. 00:51:23
That I love. I'm actually from Castro. My husband's from Payson. 00:51:27
But what we love about we've lived in Mill Creek and Holiday, what we love about this area is the small community field. 00:51:30
And that's something that we love, that our kids have. 00:51:38
That the community truly feels like it cares about each other. 00:51:42
And I'm supporting this feasibility study because I feel like. 00:51:45
We would have more of a say and I just wanted to look this to get looked at. 00:51:49
But I feel like it were to happen, which I think we all hope it would, that we could create a smaller district. 00:51:53
That we would have more of a say for our kids. So that's it. Thank you. 00:51:58
Thank you. 00:52:02
So, you know, I don't know a lot about a lot, but I do know. 00:52:14
Give us your name and address. My name is Mary Farrington and I live at 5114 Laura Del Drive. 00:52:18
And Ty's lovely wife taught me how to swim, so you know, I come from the hood here. I love it. This place is amazing. 00:52:25
I think people. 00:52:33
Loved the small community felt. 00:52:35
I'm one of twelve children and we all went to Memphis High School. My older siblings went to the elementary school here in this 00:52:37
building. 00:52:41
I went to Cottonwood, but. 00:52:46
I guess I don't know a ton about all of this. 00:52:49
But it seems like just simple common sense to do a feasible study because I feel like why wouldn't we want to know if we were able 00:52:52
to? 00:52:57
Make it work. 00:53:01
Work. And I think there's a lot of people that actually feel the same way. 00:53:03
I was in private school. I have five children. I was in private school at Cardin. 00:53:07
With them for years. 00:53:12
Mostly because when I started putting kids into the public school system, we would have been going to. 00:53:15
Help me out with the school over. 00:53:23
In Mill Creek that has a Spanish immersion someone. 00:53:26
William Penn. 00:53:29
I served a Spanish speaking mission and I don't speak a little Spanish, so I wasn't going to put my kids in the school where I 00:53:30
couldn't help them with. 00:53:34
Spanish classes. 00:53:37
So we went to card and thankfully we were able to do that. 00:53:39
But I just recently transferred forward my children back to Grant school District because I have three that have learning 00:53:43
disabilities. 00:53:46
And Cardin could not help me with those. 00:53:49
I had to bring in a private tutor into Cardin. 00:53:53
Four times a week to pay on top of school. Anyways, Long story short, I'm telling you I've experienced private, I've experienced 00:53:56
public. 00:54:00
And I see a lot of benefits. There's benefits on both sides. I am truly grateful that the public school is able to. 00:54:06
Create an IEP program for my children. Help me. 00:54:14
With their learning disabilities. 00:54:17
And not have to pay. 00:54:19
$100,000 a year in private tutoring and private education. 00:54:21
I just don't understand why this would even be an issue if money's not the issue and we could have so many benefits. 00:54:25
By having you. 00:54:35
Our own public school system. 00:54:37
I I don't know. 00:54:39
I don't understand that and there's a ton where people that go this way and I will get 50 more people here next time. 00:54:42
Like you need to know it's not just 5/10/15. 00:54:49
So. 00:54:53
If you want to hold me to that, I would love to do that. 00:54:54
But I think that this is a no brainer. 00:54:57
Personally. 00:55:00
And with someone that has five children here. 00:55:01
I would hope that you would listen to the people that it actually effects. 00:55:04
I know Ty has children. I love Ty's family. 00:55:08
I don't know the rest of you, but I'm sure you're fabulous. I don't know if you have children in the public school system, but. 00:55:11
This is something that is near and dear to my heart, so I've been in the private. 00:55:18
And not in the public. And there's a lot of benefits in the public. 00:55:22
But part of me is. 00:55:25
My child is now one. There's a lot that goes into it and I understand some of it is at a state level. 00:55:28
And so that's something that could be changed if we did have our own school district. 00:55:35
But I would just hope that you guys would. 00:55:41
Maybe. 00:55:43
Listen to all of us. 00:55:44
Hey there. Maybe. Thank you. 00:55:45
Wait, we already heard from you. You did. But I'm speaking for my daughter, Becca Bagley Herron, who texted me. She was at our 00:55:57
meeting. She lives on 30 nights out. 00:56:02
11th days and they are silver straining and Mill Creek City Council was very interested in hearing voices West of 13th East. She 00:56:07
lives West of 13th East. 00:56:12
Her daughter sick, she was not able to be here. 00:56:18
But she wanted to. 00:56:20
To put in her support for feasibility study because. 00:56:22
Her daughter, my granddaughter, would have gone to Mill Creek Elementary and I shared this with. 00:56:26
Mayor Cilla St. 00:56:32
That my biggest regret that night, Monday night, was that two years ago. 00:56:34
I was not forefront and fighting for the Mill Creek Elementary to not be close, so I'm just putting my two cents in for my 00:56:39
daughter. Thank you. 00:56:43
Thanks. 00:56:47
Hi, my name is Ruth Tinney. I live at 2134 E Sahara Dr. where we're renting there. I don't know if that's information you wanted 00:56:55
them. 00:57:01
I just wanted to get up and share my support for the feasibility study as well. 00:57:06
I just have one little girl and she's 2 so obviously this doesn't affect me right now but it will in the future. We plan to stay. 00:57:11
And I'm really passionate about. 00:57:18
Her education and what she can get from it, and I think that. 00:57:21
A smaller district with more attention to each school would be really. 00:57:25
Helpful and. 00:57:30
Yeah, I think it's a privilege to be able to go to school around people that you live by and so anything that we can do to. 00:57:33
Umm, make it a better system I'm all for. 00:57:40
Thank you so much. 00:57:45
My name is Ashley McIntosh. I live at 1895 E El Dorado Drive. 00:57:57
I was not planning on getting up here but I feel impressed that I need to. 00:58:03
Feels like a testimony meeting, I'm not gonna lie. 00:58:07
I just wanted to say I have 4 kids. I have one at the high school Olympus. 00:58:13
I have two at the junior high, Olympus Junior, and I have one at Crestview Elementary. 00:58:21
And, umm. 00:58:25
I have had. 00:58:28
The best experiences. 00:58:30
With teachers to hurt my kids. 00:58:32
And sorry. 00:58:35
And I am very passionate on education. 00:58:37
For my kids and for my community. 00:58:42
My neighbors kids are like my kids. 00:58:45
And. 00:58:49
This year in my daughter's second grade class, um. 00:58:52
There are two full second grade classes. 00:58:56
And one, that's a second, third split. 00:58:59
There is not enough money to have more teachers. 00:59:04
So these classes are gigantic. 00:59:08
And. 00:59:11
I'm at the beginning of the year. 00:59:14
It was very evident that this second grade class was going to be very tricky. 00:59:16
It's a phenomenal teacher. She's amazing. 00:59:21
But she does not have the support that she needs. 00:59:25
And I went in and I had a meeting with the principal and with the teacher and I said I am here to support you. 00:59:29
I will do whatever I can to help you. 00:59:38
And so my husband and I and a few other parents take turns and we rotate coming in and healthy the teacher. 00:59:40
She has some very tricky children. 00:59:49
In her class. 00:59:52
That's very large, and I contemplated actually pulling her out and putting her somewhere else. 00:59:54
And I didn't want to do that because I love my community. 01:00:02
I'm cool. 01:00:12
I love Arthur tears. 01:00:15
And I think we deserve everything that we can give them. 01:00:18
To support them, to educate our children. 01:00:23
The next generation that's going to lead this community. 01:00:26
And are we? It's our, it's our obligation to give everything that we can give to help them. 01:00:32
They need a voice and we are their voice and you are their voice. So I plead with you to please. 01:00:41
Except everyone. 01:00:51
Comments And let's do this. Let's do this together. Let's at least look at this feasibility study to give our teachers. 01:00:53
And our students the best. 01:01:02
Best outcome possible for our community now and for the future. 01:01:05
Thank you. 01:01:10
Thank you. 01:01:11
So we are John and Abby McBride. 01:01:18
We live on. 01:01:20
4215 S Cumberland Rd. in Holiday. We previously lived on 234 Sahara where the teenies lived. 01:01:22
Live, I should say. 01:01:31
So we are just all in favor of exploring this option. I think if. 01:01:34
If the financials come back and it's looking like this district split is not in our favor. 01:01:40
We're totally fine not putting the district, but again, the numbers are concerning to us with how large this district is. If you 01:01:47
look at the numbers, it looks like. 01:01:51
Alpine School District, it was the highest in Utah. They've now. 01:01:57
Agreed to split their district. Then it was Davis County where John is from. Their numbers are super high. Then it's Granite 01:02:02
school district with what 60,000 students? 01:02:06
And if you try to. 01:02:13
Research what an optimal number is for a school district. They say anywhere from like 10,000 to 40,000 so. 01:02:15
I think it just makes sense to at least explore this option. 01:02:23
I know that when I was in high school or junior high, I remember when they closed. 01:02:27
The Granite School District and how heartbreaking that was even for me. 01:02:32
To know that we weren't able to keep up with numbers, to keep that open. 01:02:38
I also just. I can't imagine what it could. 01:02:44
The city of Holiday could be like. 01:02:47
As certain schools were shut down and what those things, what those schools would look like. 01:02:50
So yeah, I would just say that we're totally in favor of exploring this study and figuring out if this is even something that's 01:02:56
feasible. 01:03:01
The only thing I would add is we have 6 kids. 01:03:07
And our oldest is just in 6th grade at Evergreen Junior High, so we have a lot of kids. 01:03:11
To go through the school system. 01:03:17
I think it's a pretty small cost to do feasibility studies so that we know the impact. I think the impact. 01:03:19
By stepping aside and not exploring it would be more impactful. 01:03:26
Negatively than putting up the 50,000 bucks or how much it costs to do the feasibility study and I know that. 01:03:33
Many in this room have contributed to already. 01:03:40
Financially to making this happen and so if I I heard from you, Mayor Dolly, that the money is not an issue. 01:03:44
If it is an issue, I know many people will stand behind that and. 01:03:52
Come up with that if needed. So thank you. 01:03:56
Hi, my name is Lauren Reynolds. I live at 5230 S Wonder Lane. 01:04:07
I'm also in favor of the feasibility study. 01:04:11
I my husband is Ryan. He's already talked, but we have a daughter that's in second grade at Cottonwood and we're going to have two 01:04:15
more that will hopefully eventually go there. 01:04:20
And with the feasibility study, I think? 01:04:26
I don't know much about funding and how much the city has and how it's used and all of that, but I do think. 01:04:31
This is a top priority. 01:04:37
I mean the tree initiative and. 01:04:42
Where we the free trees and the skate park that just got put in stuff. I think they're all great. I'm not I never I wasn't opposed 01:04:44
to them, but I just think that. 01:04:49
This is a high priority for. 01:04:53
And for even people that don't have element or. 01:04:56
Kids that are still in school. 01:05:02
And I know that the numbers are low. 01:05:06
But I can't imagine that the numbers are going to go up. 01:05:09
Of younger families moving in. 01:05:13
With if we have to close schools and keeping the same district. 01:05:15
I would think that having more neighborhood schools is going to bring more families in. 01:05:21
So. 01:05:26
Anyways, thank you for. 01:05:27
All of your help. 01:05:29
Thanks. 01:05:30
Hi Karen Brantzig, I was on 3036 E Castro and Holiday. 01:05:38
And we moved to holiday about maybe a couple years back. 01:05:43
I grew up in Dallas, TX and after that we lived in Seattle so I have. 01:05:48
I am familiar with bigger districts and what. 01:05:53
That causes when we do close down schools. I am in favor of the study I would love to see. 01:05:56
You know, I, well, I'm invested. I have a second year old also at Cottonwood. I'm expecting one. 01:06:02
As well so we really want to I would my husband and I would really love to see that happen what the possibility is and just to. 01:06:09
Umm, you know, it's been great hearing everybody and seeing how our community is invested. 01:06:17
And I'm just dipping my toes and all of this and getting familiar and trying to educate myself. So I really appreciate you guys 01:06:23
listening to us and for all the information that. 01:06:28
Everyone has shared so thank you. 01:06:34
Thanks. 01:06:36
OK. Well, thank you everybody for coming out and and as always for your civility. We know how. 01:06:46
Passionate. Everybody is about their kids and their schools. As I mentioned in our prior meeting, all of our kids went to the 01:06:53
local public schools here, attended all of them. 01:06:57
So we understand that. 01:07:01
Going through a boundary study and the potential of school closing is an emotional thing for. 01:07:04
Our residents, so we appreciate you coming out. Before I close public comment, I did get that text. I don't know if Emily's still 01:07:11
here, but. 01:07:14
My daughter forwarded it to me but. 01:07:18
There was mention about. 01:07:21
Some parents that. 01:07:22
Have kids in soccer and the difficult timing. 01:07:24
I'm, I think I'm the oldest one on the council, so I have a little bit more free time, but if you know, pass it around to your 01:07:28
friends and neighbors if they want to reach out to me. 01:07:32
Somebody said my e-mail wasn't on the website which shocked me. I don't, I mean it's on the website, as is my cell number. But if 01:07:37
they want to reach out to me I'm happy to accommodate if their council Rep can't meet with them. 01:07:42
I'm happy to meet with them and Justice talk about where things are at at a time of that's more convenient for them. I don't want 01:07:49
anybody to feel like they're shut out of the process, that this is their only opportunity to. 01:07:54
To engage elected officials and so. 01:08:00
Anyway, just feel free to reach out to me if. 01:08:03
If they want to meet and discuss it and. 01:08:06
Anyway. Well. 01:08:09
This process will continue to move forward and we appreciate that. Again, we appreciate the civil input from everybody. 01:08:11
And with that, we'll close public comment. 01:08:18
Probably take a minute break unless you guys want to stick around for. 01:08:22
Utah recycling. Now you're going to hurt their feelings, the people that are here when you leave. 01:08:27
Thanks everybody. 01:08:36
Thanks, Taylor. 01:08:37
That they're making way out. You can you guys can come up. We are on item number 4. 01:08:40
This items in the packet, it's on the Utah Cycling Alliance. I think we have Robbie and Jason. 01:08:45
Come on up. Or whoever who's ever going to present so. 01:08:51
Yeah, I'm Robbie Everson with Utah Recycling Alliance, or URA. Give us yeah, one second. 01:08:53
Oh, for those that are leaving, don't forget to sign in back there please. 01:09:01
Is there a pen back there? 01:09:08
Let's let them head out and then we'll close the door. 01:09:14
So that we can hear what you're saying, but. 01:09:17
While they're, while they're going out, Is it Robbie? Robbie. 01:09:20
Robbie. 01:09:23
So in the packet there was what you had provided that we've looked through in terms of the. 01:09:24
The big event we had at Prophet Elias, which I understand was very successful. Yeah, it was. Yeah. All was there. Yeah. Yeah. 01:09:30
Council member Quinn was there as well. Yeah. And then spoke people, you know, Elena was there as well. 01:09:37
Yeah. OK, perfect. So yeah, Robbie Overson with Utah Recycling Alliance or URA, our event is called CHARM. That's an acronym for 01:09:43
Collection of Hard to Recycle Material. 01:09:49
And we just want to first of all, just say thank you for allowing us to come into your city for the donation for the event because 01:09:55
it does. There is a cost associated with. 01:10:01
Being able to recycle this material, but some of these things. 01:10:06
Right, this material, I don't know if whoever's. 01:10:10
Controlling this can go up a little bit, so here's pictures of your. 01:10:14
Other people. 01:10:18
And there's a graph on there, if you can go to that. 01:10:20
That one, that'd be great. 01:10:22
Really the point of our of this event is to, well, part of it is we want to, we're partnering more and more with different cities 01:10:24
and communities. We partnered with Hogle Zoo. 01:10:29
Around Earth Day, we just had one with. 01:10:34
I you know if I see at the Inc location? 01:10:37
The point really is to reach out to communities. 01:10:41
Because there's a lot of material that is technically highly recyclable. 01:10:46
It's just difficult to recycle because it's not available to our curbside program. 01:10:51
So if we can do a pop up event once or twice a year inside of a community, then now we can. And what we did was so we had 163 01:10:56
vehicles specifically or for this event 53% of those were. 01:11:03
Tracked by a zip code. 01:11:11
From uh. 01:11:15
Holiday zip codes. 01:11:16
And then, you know, we, we post things and then the point is really to get our, the word out there a lot more because in our 01:11:19
experience, when we go into a community and when we go to events and anybody who volunteered at the event can say the same thing. 01:11:26
Everybody wants this event. People want to know where, where am I supposed to take a mattress? 01:11:34
Where do I take this right? Where do I take tires? Where do I take batteries or e-waste? 01:11:39
If you look at like the e-waste. 01:11:45
There was. 01:11:46
You know, almost 4000 lbs. 01:11:48
Of just e-waste that's one of the most popular items because people have old laptops and. 01:11:51
Old computers they just have no idea what to do with. 01:11:57
Mattresses. You know, like tires. Like I said, you can see the list here. 01:12:00
You know, metal is a big one. 01:12:04
And the point really is supporting your community doing this multiple times per year. 01:12:07
We did one in Cottonwood Heights. That's how we were introduced to. 01:12:14
Holiday and now because we did one here, we now have the opportunity to, we've been introduced to Mill Creek. 01:12:18
And then we're just working with a lot of different cities to. 01:12:26
Really make the biggest impact that we can to reduce our, you know, our footprint. 01:12:29
Help your community members. 01:12:34
As best we can to reduce. 01:12:37
Our impact and you know, just responsibly recycle a lot of this material that's. 01:12:39
Again, it's. 01:12:46
Technically highly recyclable, just. 01:12:47
Not easy to to do because. 01:12:49
We provide one location, bring it to us. 01:12:51
Will manage it. 01:12:54
Any questions or anything you want? 01:12:59
Well, I think the one thing and then I'll let Paul comment, but did you want to say something about the budget piece? 01:13:01
I mean, one thing I notice is it's a $1500 per event. But look, I wasn't there so I'll let Paula. But from what I understand it 01:13:09
was very successful. 01:13:14
Yeah, I think it's a great opportunity to bring that to our citizens. And from a budget standpoint, I think, yeah, it's a, it's a 01:13:19
no brainer. From a budget standpoint, it's it's pocket change. 01:13:24
But relative particularly to. 01:13:31
The impact? 01:13:34
And it was very popular. People were delighted to be driving through. I was volunteering but I brought a car load. 01:13:37
What's that? Me too. I did too. I live in Carroll Knights and. 01:13:43
And I'm looking to, I'm thinking maybe we need a new mattress coming up and I don't know what it would do with what I've got. So, 01:13:46
so if I already know that within the next six months I've got an event somewhere in the city, whether it's the Greek church, some 01:13:51
other location. 01:13:55
Yeah, I think. 01:14:01
Making this a tradition. 01:14:02
Where our residents can count on it. 01:14:04
Exactly, and then they'll be less likely to. 01:14:07
Put the waste in there in their bin. And so if we engage both public education with a reliable schedule, I think we can. 01:14:10
Have this great event be even greater. Yep, and 1500 bucks. 01:14:20
Yeah, bargain. And part of it is, you know this. 01:14:24
A real test for us, right? We're just making it more efficient and we're constantly looking out for more material that we can that 01:14:28
we can add to the list to recycle because there's a lot of things that are just a matter of. 01:14:34
You know, putting those relationships together. 01:14:40
It was a great event since you know, you should be very proud. This was probably the best event we've ever had. 01:14:42
In terms of volume? 01:14:48
In terms of material, also in terms of volume and number of. 01:14:49
Vehicles who showed up. 01:14:55
It was an awesome event and also in terms of volunteers, everybody came from. 01:14:57
Who works for the city? 01:15:02
Is awesome. 01:15:03
So you should you should rub that in Cottonwood height space and also Mildred when that time comes. 01:15:05
Do that. 01:15:11
I'm just curious how long did? 01:15:14
And do you see, have you done multiple events that some of it sounds like you're relatively new, is that right? Well, I. 01:15:18
Utah Recycling Alliance has been around for several years. The charm event has been around for. 01:15:25
Maybe 4? 01:15:31
I've been in charge of charm for basically the last year and a half and my job is basically to. 01:15:32
Make the event more efficient so that we can add more material and go to different cities and communities so that we can have 01:15:40
these events on a regular basis, once or twice a year. 01:15:45
And you see, fascinating to me that we were one of the highest, whatever volume and whatever. 01:15:50
I I suspect that once in place on an ongoing basis, that. 01:15:57
Gonna get bigger, is it? That's gonna get bigger? Yeah, absolutely. So 2024, we were somewhere between. 01:16:02
75 to 100 vehicles per event. We have 5 events. 01:16:08
We've had. 01:16:13
5 events already this year and we're averaging over 125 to 150 vehicles. 01:16:14
So statistically, we're increasing. You know, you had 163. That's the most we've ever had. 01:16:21
And what we're anticipating is that. 01:16:28
Like what Paul was saying is that once we actually have established the presence, people will now know to save material. They know 01:16:32
what's available. We have every event. We always have people say, oh, I didn't know you could take this. I didn't know you could 01:16:37
take that. People will either run home and they're like, I just got rid of that. And so the point is. 01:16:42
Like you were saying, let's get the message out there. Let's do this on a regular basis. 01:16:48
Will collect more material and then people will start to save more of that material. And we just anticipate that it's just going 01:16:53
to increase, you know, significantly. And so it sounds like that 1500 would be underfunding that. So do you do you receive public 01:16:58
funds elsewhere or is it private donation of the funding part is what we're trying to dial in to be honest, right. So we're 01:17:03
looking for. 01:17:09
Corporate sponsors. 01:17:15
Like for different types of products because. 01:17:17
So it's a good thing we're not overwhelmed yet. So we're anticipating that with the increase in volume will become increase in 01:17:21
cost and we'll have to find a way to. 01:17:26
To help subsidized that by having cities donate and having sponsors. 01:17:30
For particular types of material. 01:17:35
That's part of the point is making this sustainable. 01:17:37
Does that answer your question? Williams sponsor your mattress collection? 01:17:41
Yeah, give me a number. 01:17:47
Yeah. So maybe that tire guy that was dumping tires, yeah. 01:17:50
We have a perfect place to dump them, bring them back. We like your place better than where they come. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. 01:17:56
And that's the point, right? Get the word out. People will now go again. I have that. I'll keep that until next year or they're 01:18:01
going to hear that it's a milk creeper, Cottonwood high. It's a Murray or whatever. So it's a great. 01:18:07
Yeah, I think we all collect electronics and paint and all the types of stuff. We don't know what to do with this. So just. 01:18:12
It just sit there, sits there or. 01:18:18
Probably sometimes ends up in your trash can where it shouldn't. 01:18:20
Yeah, exactly. And again, if people can be educated and they know what to expect for future events and we can help to educate them 01:18:23
and they're they're like listening for the business, the kind of these events are gonna happen on a regular basis. 01:18:29
And what material we're accepting. People will collect material and then they'll bring it to us. 01:18:35
Well, I guess we'll. 01:18:41
Note that when Gina makes her budget presentation here shortly, Tentative budget presentation. You're the best, Gina. We'll plug 01:18:42
it. 01:18:46
Yeah. All right. OK. Robbie and Jason, thank you for your patience. And Lindsay. 01:18:52
We never know how long these public periods are going to go through. Appreciate you. We appreciate. 01:18:57
Your willingness to participate. 01:19:04
And your donation, really. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. 01:19:07
OK, only about 6 people raise their hand, right? Yeah. So we're going to we're going to come. 01:19:10
But anyway, people get. 01:19:19
Motivated. 01:19:22
Anyway. 01:19:23
Lindsay era and you met with Emily, so I'm going to let you and Emily both kind of. 01:19:24
Tag team on this one. 01:19:30
Excellent. 01:19:32
Well, good evening Council. Thank you so much for having me here to talk to you about the Central Massage Commission. As you may 01:19:34
know, the Central Wasatch Commission has invited Holiday City to join as a. 01:19:40
As a member of the CWC enjoying eight other jurisdictions, who are your neighbors? 01:19:46
As we collectively. 01:19:53
Try and tackle the issues that we see happening in the central West Ash Mountains, which are right outside our door here. 01:19:56
OK, so as I said, my name is Lindsay Neilson. I'm the Executive Director of the CWC. It's a great honor to be able to lead the 01:20:03
organization I've been there for. 01:20:08
Seven years. 01:20:14
The long time so I'm I. 01:20:15
I stayed at the CWC for so many years because I'm passionate about these mountains and I truly believe in the work of the CWC. So 01:20:19
I'm going to take some time and tell you about it now, OK? 01:20:24
So the CWC, the Central Wasatch Commission, was created in 2017 by interlocal agreement. It is. 01:20:33
In interlocal governmental entity, which means it's composed of other governments. I'm sure you all know it is an outgrowth of the 01:20:40
Mountain Accord initiative, which you may know of. It was a community collaborative. 01:20:46
Response to. 01:20:53
Observations about from community members, elected officials at the time they're Ralph Becker Mayor Ben McAdams at Salt Lake 01:20:55
County. We're noticing that decisions. 01:21:00
Impacting specific systems. 01:21:06
Of these mountains were happening piece meal and kind of and decisions make it happening in one system where having downstream 01:21:09
impacts on other systems and those four systems that the CWC. 01:21:16
Uses as our guideposts when we are doing our work are of course. 01:21:24
The economy system of the Central Wasatch that's composed of the world renowned Cottonwood Canyon ski resorts and the small 01:21:28
businesses that we have that we're lucky enough to have in in the Cottonwood Canyons here. 01:21:35
The transportation system of the central asset. So that's how people get to the mountains and how they're traveling around the 01:21:42
mountains once they get there, the recreation system and so that I'm sure I don't have to tell you folks that that we have. 01:21:49
World renowned year round recreational opportunities afforded to us because these mountains are so so close and so. 01:21:56
Majestic and then the the environment system. So the environment, the land, the water, the wildlife, the system that underpins the 01:22:05
other 3. 01:22:10
So the mountain accord that was in a very short, in a very brief nutshell, what the mountain accord was, the goal of the mountain 01:22:15
accord was to devise. 01:22:19
Plans working together with representatives from each of those four systems in the community to sustain these mountains for years 01:22:25
and years to come so we don't end up loving our mountains to death. 01:22:31
And what the Mountain Accord folks were able to, well, let me say the mountain apart. 01:22:38
Process was a work of it was a work of art. It was studying what those folks were able to pull off. 01:22:45
And what they saw happening is each of those four systems I mentioned working interdependently, OK. 01:22:51
And so anything that is impacting one of the systems are of course in. 01:22:56
Impacting the other 3. 01:23:01
And so the what came out of the mountain, the court process, it was a three-year process culminating in 2015. And what came out 01:23:04
was a signed charter signed by over 100 stakeholders, including then Governor Gary Herbert, all four GM's of the Hutton Canyon ski 01:23:10
resorts. 01:23:16
Folks like Ralph Becker signed it and so on and so forth, and what that charter cooked for were many things to happen. OK, so it 01:23:22
called for. 01:23:27
It is essentially translated into a piece of federal legislation, congressional legislation that I can, that I'll get to talk to 01:23:33
you about a little bit in more in depth later. But another thing that the Mountain Accord charter called for was the creation of a 01:23:40
government entity to carry out the plans that were devised by those experts during the mountain of court years. And that 01:23:46
government entity is the Central Effect Commission. 01:23:52
OK. So Fast forward from 2015 when the charter was signed to 2017 when the intervocal agreement was signed to create the CWC to 01:23:59
2018 when the first staff were hired, I was hired. 01:24:05
As communications director, then Ralph Becker, former mayor of Salt Lake City, was the first executive director. And we've been. 01:24:11
Uh, working hard ever since. 01:24:19
Hey, so. 01:24:22
We are a unique effort. We are locally elected officials operating by consensus and that in and of itself I think is a pretty 01:24:23
unique effort. 01:24:28
Working, trying to work together all in stewardship of 1 unified goal, which is stewarding those four systems that we see working 01:24:34
together in the central Wasatch. 01:24:39
We facilitate conflict resolution, we convene, which is one of the most important. 01:24:45
Things that the CWC achieves, in my opinion. We bring folks from all walks of life together to talk to each other. 01:24:51
And consider ideas about what to do in the mountains. 01:24:58
Yeah, and then we assist the state as it works to figure out what it needs to do to solve the issues that the central Wasatch 01:25:02
brings to all of us. 01:25:06
Next slide. 01:25:10
Can you go back wait, is this the next slide? 01:25:19
OK, excellent. 01:25:21
So Phil composes the CWC you're seeing here that we have. 01:25:23
Your neighbor jurisdiction Sandy, Summit County, Cottonwood Heights, Brighton Town, Park City, Mill Creek, Salt Lake City, Town of 01:25:28
Alta as our voting member jurisdictions. OK. 01:25:34
We have two ex officio members, UTA and Metro Water and we have two special advisor board, board members represented by Save Our 01:25:40
Canyons representing the environment system of the Central Wasatch and Solitude Mountain representing the economy system of the 01:25:46
mountains. 01:25:52
OK. And so why join the CWC? What does Holiday purport to get out of joining the CWC? 01:26:00
I mentioned it's a consensus driven organization and so we approach. 01:26:07
Our land and watershed watershed protection decision making through consensus and. 01:26:12
When I was meeting with Emily. Emily. I'm sorry, Councilmember Gray. 01:26:18
Asked me a really excellent question. 01:26:23
So I walked her through this presentation as well. She asked. 01:26:26
That would the representative, would the commissioner from Holiday have less of a voice than someone who is more seasoned on the 01:26:31
CWC? And who's? 01:26:35
Perhaps even contributing more as a member fee to the CWC. And that the answer is absolutely no. All commissioners have equal 01:26:40
footing and equal voice. 01:26:45
OK, yeah. And then this gets into we are consensus based transportation approach as well. This also gets into our many interesting 01:26:50
and wonderful projects that I'm very proud of our short term projects grant program or Simplex Central Waffle Symposium. 01:26:58
I don't know if any of you had a chance to attend. It was the first one we hosted in January. Terry Tempest Williams gave a 01:27:07
keynote address we heard from. 01:27:11
Whole bunch of folks. It was amazing, our central Wasatch dashboard and then our regional stakeholder and youth involvement. 01:27:15
So I mentioned our regional stakeholder involvement. This is the demographics of our stakeholders Council. It is a 35 member 01:27:25
citizens advisory group. So I mentioned in 2017, the CWC was created by interlocal agreement. In that interlocal agreement, it 01:27:33
also called for the creation of a citizen's advisory group and that is the stakeholders council that you're looking at here. So as 01:27:40
you can see, we endeavor on our stakeholders council. 01:27:48
To have good representation from each of the four focus areas that I've mentioned, economy. 01:27:55
Recreation, environment and transportation, and then of course, unaffiliated private residents who. 01:28:01
Love these mountains, play in these mountains, care deeply about what happens to them, and so we endeavored to give those folks a 01:28:08
voice to. 01:28:12
Oh, and youth council, this is one of my favorite things. This is new. We just started this. This is essentially the stakeholders 01:28:19
council, but for young people. So what I was seeing happening at the youth council or at the stakeholders council rather, is it 01:28:25
was excellent. People are bringing years and depths of knowledge of these mountains and expertise that I just, it's just so 01:28:31
impressive. But what was happening is not allowing young people were there. 01:28:37
And I said, hey, that we got to fix that, so let's start a youth council. And that's what we've done. They've been. 01:28:44
I'm just, I'm just blown away by the young people. So they're so impressive, they're so smart, they're so passionate. Very lucky 01:28:50
to have the young people involved in our youth council that we do. 01:28:55
I mentioned so this presentation is also it's giving you a broad overview of who the CWC is and what we do. So I can go into any 01:29:03
of this in more depth if you would like, but this is a broad overview. So I mentioned our short term project grant program. It's a 01:29:09
small grants program where every year we. 01:29:16
Release the call for ideas to the community. 01:29:23
Asking us for project ideas where the community needs help to get their projects that are either already in motion or have not yet 01:29:26
been started over the finish line with just a little bit more monetary support. It, it was started in 2020. It was my baby. I 01:29:33
started it. It was, of course, with a coalition, with a team of my staff, but it was. 01:29:40
Incredible. And over these past six years, we've funded some pretty. 01:29:47
Amazing projects. We pretty consistently fund ski shuttle programs, trail shuttle programs. 01:29:52
We funded the construction of Beaver Dam analogs up at Silver Lake IN. 01:30:00
Impeccable Kiernan Beaver Dam, analoger man made Beaver dams that encourage the reintroduction of that keystone species of Beaver 01:30:08
back to the ecosystem. Silver Lake, it's been highly successful. So on and so forth. There's many, many amazing projects. 01:30:15
Just try to keep the Beavers up there though if you can. 01:30:24
So this, I admit, is a ton of a ton of words on one slide, and I could have opted to make it 2 slides, but I opted to keep the 01:30:30
presentation shorter. So you've got tiny, tiny words. 01:30:37
These are some of, not all of, but some of the CWC's lead transit and transportation projects over the years. 01:30:45
The Big Cottonwood Kenya Mobility Action Plan. 01:30:53
Was released in 2023. We, as I mentioned, we've funded shuttle programs over the years Our mountain transportation system project 01:30:58
was incredible to to witness being done in 2020 and then our ski bus priority access program, which many of you might know of it's 01:31:04
a. 01:31:09
It's a wildly successful program where we. 01:31:16
Were like OK there There is a massive issue on a pow day on Wasatch Blvd. with people trying to get up these canyons and in the 01:31:19
interim between in the time that U dot and other transportation agencies. 01:31:27
Are taking to really be mindful about what kind of transportation solutions they want to implement. 01:31:34
We were like, how can we get creative and. 01:31:40
Pitching and time zone gap and this, the Ski Bus priority access program is the idea that came out of that creative brainstorming. 01:31:44
And essentially what it is, is it's a prioritization of the ski bus. 01:31:50
In partnership. 01:31:56
UTA and Sandy City PD and Cottonwood Heights PD where the police. 01:31:58
Move the single occupant vehicles to the shoulder of the road and allow the free movement and the prioritization of the UTA ski 01:32:06
bus. So it increases safety and it has allowed. 01:32:12
The free movement of. 01:32:20
Of commuter traffic before many people in homes on powder days could not even get out of their their driveways and, and having to 01:32:23
knock on doors and be like, please move so I can take my kids to school. Yeah. So this, this project, this program is ongoing. 01:32:29
It's been very successful. It's one of our transportation projects. 01:32:36
OK, you may have heard of this. 01:32:47
The Central Wasatch National Conservation and Recreation Area Act. I mentioned the Mountain Accord Charter. The Mountain Accord 01:32:50
Charter was essentially the first iteration, the first draft of this piece of congressional legislation. This congressional 01:32:57
legislation proposes to do many things in the in this region for the Tricanions and Parley's. 01:33:04
Regular, including place permanent protections on the land, the water, the resources for years to come. Make sure we don't lose 01:33:12
the natural beauty and nature of these mountains as they are. 01:33:18
It proposes to. 01:33:26
Steward the year round recreational access that we have on our trails and it also proposes to sustain the economy of these canyons 01:33:29
to it. So it's a it's a really. 01:33:35
Dynamic still that that aims to do a lot. It's not just one thing and I would say it is the flagship project at the Central 01:33:42
Massage Commission. 01:33:46
In addition to all of our all of our smaller. 01:33:51
But still. 01:33:56
Hugely important project work. 01:33:57
Yes, our visitor. You study. I will. 01:34:00
I will be quicker moving through these legs. The visitor you study was commissioned to see how many users we are having. We have 01:34:04
doing various activities in these mountains. 01:34:09
It was we worked with Utah State University to complete that study. It was amazing, the data, The study is available on the CWC's 01:34:14
website if you're interested in learning. It's actually, it's got an amazing amount of data and information in there. It's also 01:34:20
available on our environmental staff. 01:34:25
Which is the next slide. 01:34:31
Yeah. So our environmental dashboard, this is an incredible educational tool if you are interested in learning about. 01:34:33
What kind of snake you almost ran over on your mountain bike? You can figure it out. You can find it on this dashboard. I'm 01:34:42
speaking from experience. 01:34:46
You can also you can also see live webcams of what the traffic is like and what the what the air quality is like at various 01:34:52
monitoring stations like Our Lady of Snows. 01:34:58
At Alpha Ski area etc. 01:35:06
There's much more, I'm giving you this. 01:35:08
Reader's Digest version, OK. And then so the brass text. So this is so each of our member jurisdictions including our Exorcistio 01:35:10
members do contribute. 01:35:16
We remember, we remember jurisdiction funded at the Central Wasatch Commission in addition to. 01:35:22
Yearly appropriation from the state of Utah, OK, which we're very grateful for. So we have broken down our member fees into 3 01:35:28
tiers, Tier 1-2 and three. 01:35:34
The and you can see the larger tier is tier 3, medium tier is Tier 2, and Tier 1 is the smaller tier for the smaller 01:35:41
jurisdictions. And what's gone into this council is. 01:35:47
Yeah, like population size, tax revenue and geographic location generally. 01:35:54
Yeah, it's not a perfect science, but. 01:36:01
Are you sure that you counted Perk City's tax revenue accurately? 01:36:03
It's not a perfect sign. 01:36:08
OK. And that is it. Thank you for your attention. Thank you so much. Any questions? 01:36:12
If you don't mind, is that OK? 01:36:17
This is great. 01:36:23
I appreciate. And so just to be clear though, it's really there's no legislative component or anything that you kind of back in an 01:36:24
advisory role and and then in a way for cities primarily that those are the decision makers that you know these, these. 01:36:30
Who are the? 01:36:36
The you've got the Advisory Board is one thing, which is rather large. It looks like 30 ish or something like that or 40 out of 01:36:37
what the number was right. And then and then you're just a. 01:36:42
Providing the platform in a place where cities can get together. 01:36:48
And coordinate amongst themselves to help keep the cameos nice, essentially, is that right? Excellent question and summary. Yes. 01:36:51
So the Central Washington Commission is not a legislative. 01:36:56
Body, We're not the land manager, the road manager. We can't tax, we can't condemn. 01:37:02
Umm, the goal of the CWC is to convene to bring folks together, to put heads together and funds together, to try and collectively 01:37:08
tackle the issues together, which it's the. 01:37:14
Umm, motivating. I think it's the motivating ethos that the CWC is. We're Better Together. Yeah. But yes, you're right, it's a 01:37:21
recommending body, not a legislating body. We. 01:37:26
As an example, the Central Wasatch Commission released a resolution in opposition to the Parleys mine. 01:37:32
Because the board was able to, through consensus, decide that the Carly's mine proposal pretty clearly was in opposition to the 01:37:40
mission of the CWC. So that's an example of a of a resolution, but it was just a resolution, right? 01:37:47
Yeah. 01:37:55
I just want to thank you so much for coming and I enjoyed meeting with you. I. 01:37:58
I just think that what you're doing is all of the things that need to be done to protect the central Wasatch. I think it hits on 01:38:04
all of the key components and it's trying to get all of the stakeholders. 01:38:10
Involved. 01:38:15
Just looking over this, I have about a million questions about all of my new. 01:38:17
That I'm interested in. I'm like, oh, your intro has all these things, but that's. 01:38:22
Not for this meeting. 01:38:25
But no, I just want to say thank you for coming in. And I just really think these kind of collaborative efforts are what really 01:38:28
help. 01:38:31
Solve problems and I didn't know that you're behind that UTA this, the bus option prioritization that that. 01:38:35
Has been such a game changer. I mean, there's still problems that working through, but it really like like those kind of seeing 01:38:42
those kind of solutions come from this. 01:38:47
Makes me optimistic that even though you're not a legislative body, you really are. 01:38:52
Able to move more nimbly than say like the UTA is, which I think is helpful in some of these situations. So I'm. 01:38:57
Glad to see that. Thank you, Councilmember Gray. Yes, I guess when I first started into. 01:39:04
Starting a government entity from the ground up is not for the faint of heart, I will say. 01:39:09
When I first started, I joked when people were like, yeah, tell me about your job, I said. Well, we. 01:39:15
We have the pace of a startup, but we have all the trappings of government, which is kind of true. We're more nimble than a big 01:39:22
government, but we do, you know, we're a government entity. We. 01:39:27
Umm, we adhere to the Open and Public Meetings Act. You know, we've held public. 01:39:32
Comment periods etc. 01:39:38
Right. But we are number, we move fast, we do a lot with not a lot, so. 01:39:39
Yeah, Lindsay, I know our first. 01:39:43
Meeting was kind of informal and. 01:39:47
We were talking about. 01:39:49
Holiday may be entering into this, but we wanted to make sure we had somebody. 01:39:51
That was fully engaged in which Emily I think is passionate about this plus her district abuts. 01:39:54
Big Cottonwood Canyon, which is one of the main issues that we're trying to deal with in terms mostly of transportation during the 01:40:01
winter and summer months, but. 01:40:05
We were talking about the fee. 01:40:10
Has that been discussed at all? We were talking about how much the initial fee would be. 01:40:13
What do? Is there a number? 01:40:18
Yeah. So we discussed $25,000 for a fee for a holiday city, if that sounds fine. And that would put you right around, right in the 01:40:20
middle of tier one and two, if that works for you, just based on everything that we went over for the what goes into the 01:40:26
formulation of these tiers. 01:40:32
And if it, yeah, it should have been more clear. So if it wasn't clear, the reason that we've invited Holiday City is because 01:40:38
you're right here. You're right here in the middle of these issues. The mountains are right here. It's never really made sense to 01:40:45
me why Holiday City hasn't been at the table. I think it's a gap in the voice. 01:40:51
In the perspective, and I think it's really. 01:40:58
Yeah, it's just such an honor that Councilmember Gray has an interest in joining. Yeah, we just. 01:41:01
Starting the budget process tonight. And so we need to know exactly what number to plug in there and then we talked earlier about 01:41:08
if the budget is approved in March with that number in there. 01:41:13
Then we would you would go through whatever your process is or whatever you need to do. 01:41:18
Have us do to appoint a member to represent the city of Holiday, which will obviously be Councilmember Gray so yeah, yeah, so. 01:41:23
If you if $25,000. 01:41:32
Works for the city of holiday. Excellent. That's wonderful for the CWC too. So you go through your process and what we would do is 01:41:35
we would add Council Member Gray as a formal commissioner during our June 23rd meeting. 01:41:42
And then we would. 01:41:50
Send and we've run on a fiscal year which I'm it's not, it looks like you do as well. So we would send in a member. 01:41:52
Invoice starting in July. 01:41:59
Mayor, do you mind if I ask a process question? Would we need to join the party to the interlocal agreement? Is that what would 01:42:03
happen? 01:42:08
So we would do that in June. 01:42:13
For the start of the new fiscal year, it's an excellent question, Gina. So how it works is we would have to amend the CWC's 01:42:17
interlocal agreement to add the city of Holiday and then it's a pretty tedious. 01:42:24
Process, but it's, you know, it's government. So what would then have to happen is each of our member jurisdictions would then 01:42:30
also have to approve the newly amended interlocal agreement that adds the city of holiday. So that would be that would include 01:42:37
holiday as well, right. So that can happen after June 23rd. 01:42:43
So June, if you have a meeting at the end of June or July, it's fine. 01:42:49
Yeah, good question. 01:42:54
Was Draper on there? 01:42:57
Paper is not on there. Oh. 01:42:58
And also, Stephanie let me get a copy of this too. It wasn't recorded. 01:43:02
Yeah, yeah. 01:43:05
Yes, those are a member jurisdictions. 01:43:07
Solitude and save our canyons representing 2 of the four systems. 01:43:11
So Sandy. Oh, Sandy. So it's really the only. 01:43:15
Holiday and drink were really the ones along the last edge front here. 01:43:19
Yeah, hauling it so. 01:43:22
Holiday was not involved in the Mountain Accord process. I can't recall, but Draper was. 01:43:25
And Mayor Walker. 01:43:32
We have conversations with Mayor Walker, but I think, yeah, just not the focus right now for them. 01:43:35
OK. Thank you. 01:43:45
Thanks, Lindsey. Cheers. Appreciate it. Thanks so much. 01:43:47
OK. 01:43:53
We are on item number 5 now. This is the public hearing on Title 2 code update. Any questions? 01:43:56
Edit comments on what is in the packet before we open the public hearing. 01:44:03
There being then we'll open up the public hearing. Anybody here to address the council on? 01:44:10
Title 2, there being none, will close the public hearing. 01:44:14
And move on to item number six, consideration of Ordinance 2025-06. This is the fireworks. 01:44:17
Restriction and use of personal fireworks, which we discussed at the last Council meeting. 01:44:24
And in the pre meeting. 01:44:28
Any questions or comments? 01:44:30
Before we take a motion. 01:44:35
Mayor, I move adoption of ordinance #2025. 01:44:39
Dash 06. 01:44:43
Regarding fireworks. 01:44:44
Second motion. In a second, we'll go to vote. Councilmember Brewer, Councilmember Durham. Yes, Councilmember Fotheringham. 01:44:47
I'll just take a moment. 01:44:54
This this I think. 01:44:57
Will replicate last year. I don't believe that this. 01:45:00
Ordinance deserves a unanimous vote, so like last year, I'm going to vote no. 01:45:05
In support of future considerations for returning to. 01:45:10
Not having personal fireworks in the holiday. We are not in a. 01:45:15
A drought as severe as we were, but we're still in a more longer term drought cycle I believe and. 01:45:20
And so although I'm not going to throw a fit about it, I just don't think this deserves A unanimous vote. So as a. 01:45:26
Current vice Chair of USA. 01:45:32
And in support of that organization, I'm going to vote no. 01:45:35
Katherine Mcbray, Yes. 01:45:40
And shareable, yes, so the motion passes with four eyes. 01:45:42
Thanks. OK. Item number 7 is OK. I'm not getting ahead of myself, OK. 01:45:47
Held a budget. 01:45:55
In your packet and we'll turn this one over to Gina. Great. Thank you, Mayor, Council, I'll be brief. 01:45:57
So this is everyone's favorite night of the year of state law prescribes that at your first regularly scheduled meeting in May, 01:46:04
you presented with and approve a tentative budget and then you have the next six weeks or so prior to June 30th. 01:46:12
So I guess it's 8 weeks now. 01:46:20
To consider a budget and adopt for the new fiscal year that starts in July. 01:46:23
We have over the past several years. 01:46:31
Implemented as a plan for financial sustainability and infrastructure improvement in the city. 01:46:35
And our recent pond that was issued 3 years ago really allowed us to make significant improvements in our neighborhood streets and 01:46:41
stormwater infrastructure. 01:46:46
And, umm. 01:46:51
Throughout this summer, you'll see many of those stormwater infrastructure projects completed, creating a much more robust system. 01:46:52
Over the past several years, you've identified several goals, and the budget this year really is supportive of those goals. 01:47:00
That includes a safe community, excellent public assets in infrastructure. 01:47:09
Responsive, efficient and sustainable city government. Responsible development that enhances community. 01:47:15
And a great place to live. 01:47:21
With those priorities in mind. 01:47:24
We've developed this budget along with our partner agencies. 01:47:27
And. 01:47:30
This budget really prioritizes our employees as well. So we have provided a cost of living adjustment for our staff as well as 01:47:32
some targeted market increases to make sure that holiday tracks and routines. 01:47:39
High quality staff that best serve our residents and help you meet those goals. 01:47:47
As we talked about a couple of weeks ago, sales tax, which is about a third of our overall general fund revenue, has really 01:47:52
stagnated. 01:47:58
And so we're projecting basically a flat sales tax budget. 01:48:04
This budget does not propose a property tax increase. 01:48:10
Your decision last year to implement a inflationary property tax increase has allowed us to smooth out any potential. 01:48:15
Increases will show a small contribution to fund balance this year. 01:48:26
Which means, fingers crossed, we can avert a property tax increase for hopefully another two years. 01:48:31
Recognizing that both that we're not going to see much in the way of sales tax growth, this budget does not include new positions 01:48:40
or significant new programming, although it does analyze the cost of two part-time positions that you approved in a budget 01:48:47
amendment a month or so ago. 01:48:53
Umm, really? The component of growth in this budget reflects inflationary increases. 01:49:01
Among our own programming and then with our partner agencies. 01:49:08
The largest of which, as it has been for the last several years, is from Unified Police Department. 01:49:13
And we'll have more of an opportunity to get more in depth with those. 01:49:20
Changes in the coming weeks. 01:49:25
So with that. 01:49:30
I am looking forward to having continued conversations with you over the next six weeks or so prior to budget adoption. 01:49:33
We have a schedule, as we have in over the past several years, that breaks up the budget by department. 01:49:40
Next week will be capital programs. 01:49:48
Parks and public services and stormwater. 01:49:51
So with that, um. 01:49:55
I'm happy to answer any questions. 01:50:01
Gina, I sent you a couple of notes. Sorry. 01:50:04
Thank you. OK, Yeah, I think I've just. 01:50:09
Say, I think it's always helpful and I don't know what Christians situation is going to be. I understand he is. 01:50:13
Maybe going to stagger? 01:50:20
His parental leave. And so I don't know, but I think if you want to schedule something, it will be directly with Gina. Yeah, I 01:50:22
think that's probably the best way to do it. And then Christian and I will hope that he'll be. 01:50:29
Working. 01:50:36
Hybrid schedule for the next couple of weeks at least and so we can hopefully find a time where both of us can meet. 01:50:38
Yeah. But I think it's always helpful to, you know, go through this when you have time and make your notes and. 01:50:45
Umm, if there are. 01:50:53
You know, small specific things you want to answer to schedule time with Gina to kind of go through and get some of your questions 01:50:55
answered, and then we handle the big stuff. 01:50:59
You know when we meet on the 8th and the 15th and the. 01:51:03
5th I believe. 01:51:07
OK. 01:51:10
Thank you. Thanks, Gina, and thanks to Christian for this. 01:51:12
94 page budget. 01:51:15
Well, I don't know if I want to. 01:51:22
No, I don't. Never mind. 01:51:27
Strayer where you look emotion. 01:51:30
Yes, I am. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move approval of Resolution 25, National 9. 01:51:34
Acknowledging receipt of and adopting the tentative 202526 fiscal year budgets. 01:51:39
And setting a public hearing for June 4th. 01:51:45
2nd. 01:51:49
OK Motion is second. Council member Brewer, Council member Durham. Council member Fotheringham. 01:51:51
Yes. 01:51:58
Council Member Gray Yes. 01:52:00
And tenant budgets passed. Thank you. 01:52:04
Gina and Christian and whoever was involved. 01:52:06
Anything on city manager reports. 01:52:10
Council reports Kate will start with you. 01:52:14
Let's see two things with it being made first, right? Yeah. Kicking off the month with the Historical Commissions. Maya's 01:52:18
preservation month for holiday. 01:52:22
And this is where they have the signs that have gone up, historical signs throughout the city. 01:52:28
QR codes. 01:52:32
Though they're in front of some of the historic homes and and, and different places, one here in front of. 01:52:34
In front of the building here. 01:52:40
Where people can go and get a greater appreciation for these historical sites. 01:52:42
And then also on Monday, May 12th at 7:00 PM. 01:52:47
Marty Bradley. I forget what her. 01:52:52
She has an additional. 01:52:55
Name now is Marty Bradley before Evan any relation Natalie? 01:52:57
She will be speaking that night on. 01:53:02
And she's. 01:53:05
It should should be great. I'll get the one at this high school. 01:53:06
Scholarship. 01:53:09
Night so I won't be with you there but it should be a great night she's. 01:53:11
PC and and and. 01:53:15
Specializes in history and that kind of explicitly well done. 01:53:17
And. 01:53:21
I did just want to make one comment and probably should have said this during on fireworks piece but. 01:53:23
I I appreciate. 01:53:28
Paul and and and what he said and I just I hope. 01:53:31
That somehow if a. 01:53:35
Lena, in the PR that we do and the work that we do as it relates to these fireworks and as a community, I hope that we can police 01:53:37
ourselves well. 01:53:41
And that we can really try to develop and encourage a culture of respect for these boundaries that are set because it's a big, 01:53:46
it's a big deal. 01:53:50
A very big deal and if you look. 01:53:55
For example, we received letters from. 01:53:57
Like up in Hughes Canyon and some other areas and. 01:54:00
Along the waterways and that. 01:54:03
Umm, it's it's important that umm. 01:54:06
We try to. 01:54:09
Trying to push that and increase. 01:54:10
Resident citizen respect for this law so. 01:54:13
Hopefully we have a very safe. 01:54:16
Season like this. 01:54:18
And that, but the people can also enjoy themselves so. 01:54:19
Forgotten. 01:54:23
Yeah, last Friday we had a really successful Arbor Day event at Cottonwood Elementary. 01:54:25
The tree committee was there. 01:54:33
Representatives of the district Councilmember Fotheringham came, which was Gray. 01:54:35
We planted 3 trees. I understand they've been named Sunny. 01:54:40
Debbie and Popcorn. 01:54:44
Yeah. 01:54:47
Umm, And there were some poetry was read by some of the kids, and it was just a really, really great event arborist that they had. 01:54:50
Were really good about engaging with the kids and answering questions and stuff like that. 01:54:58
So the two committee worked really hard on that and how important just to acknowledge them and thank them for that. 01:55:04
And then of course, the tree giveaways coming up on May 17. 01:55:10
That will be from 9:00 to noon out here. 01:55:15
On Holiday Blvd. behind Vic. 01:55:18
Hines City Hall. 01:55:20
I understand. 01:55:22
We'll have some of our police officers there helping, which is great. Thank you. 01:55:23
And I think that will be a great event. I think they're giving out about 240 or 250 trees. They're still. 01:55:27
30 medium sized trees available. 01:55:34
If you need a medium sized tree. 01:55:37
You can sign up. 01:55:39
That's all OK, I've got 3 items first. 01:55:41
The Arts Council is hosting another art show downstairs. 01:55:46
Next week it's a nature based art event. 01:55:50
Will be hanging art. 01:55:54
I think starting on the 5th and then the show goes Tuesday through Saturday or something like that. But it's next week. So another 01:55:57
art show downstairs. Our art shows are always fabulous. This is a new one. 01:56:03
This year with this new theme. 01:56:09
So look forward to that. So next week we can. 01:56:12
I'll be out of town for half of that, but. 01:56:15
Go downstairs and enjoy some new artwork downstairs. 01:56:18
Next, the same Arts Council news is you'll. 01:56:23
I don't think it's too soon to announce that the Blue Moon Festival is going to have undergo a fair bit of change. 01:56:28
This upcoming year, it'll be later. It won't be the last summer concert week of the year. 01:56:35
That will go through August 23rd, but then Blue Moon will be. 01:56:40
September 13th. 01:56:44
And it would be on the Plaza. 01:56:46
As opposed to being just a larger version of a summer concert on the park back here beyond the Plaza. 01:56:49
So I have a slightly different format. 01:56:56
Um, different, um. 01:56:59
By them, perhaps, but as the Arts Council flushes that out, there will be more news to come. 01:57:03
Then there's a characterization. Holly Lena. 01:57:09
OK. 01:57:13
And then lastly, USA has their annual banquet coming up this weekend. 01:57:16
As the vice chair I've been invited to 5 minutes so I've pre screened one joke with Captain Dan and another one with Emily that 01:57:21
I'll report back next time. 01:57:26
How that goes? 01:57:32
That's all I have. 01:57:34
I have a couple of things. First, the principal at Cottonwood High School is moving into the administration of Granite District, 01:57:38
and so they're getting a new principal. 01:57:43
He's vice principal at Brighton currently. 01:57:48
I don't have not met him yet, but we're hearing a lot of good things and I think it will be it will be a good change for 01:57:52
Cottonwood. 01:57:56
Bigger news Was it front waste recycling? 01:58:01
The board voted this week to move to monthly billing starting in February of 2026, so you should be getting information in all of 01:58:05
your bills. 01:58:10
About that, that's going to be moving for rather than quarterly to monthly billing. 01:58:16
Umm, they're also as. 01:58:21
Concurrent with this, they are also. 01:58:24
Doing a strong push to. 01:58:27
Strongly encourage everybody to be signed up for E billing rather than paper billing. 01:58:30
Umm, so umm, so those things will be changing. You should be hearing a lot about that. 01:58:35
In the upcoming months. 01:58:42
And then the last news from us that Trump waste and recycling is Pam Roberts, the general manager at Wasatch Front is. 01:58:44
Announced her intention to retire. I know, I know. 01:58:52
Yeah. 01:58:56
Yeah, she's phenomenal. 01:58:58
She is, she is ready to retire. Her wife is already retired and they are ready to go motorcycle riding a lot. But if you know Pam, 01:59:02
you know she is a wonderful leader of the organization and so. 01:59:08
Boards going to be starting the process of. 01:59:14
Looking for, I don't know if we can replace Pam, but looking for somebody that can take that position. So that's going to be. 01:59:17
Something that we're going to be working on over the next few months. 01:59:25
Yes, yes, the very tolerance she has. 01:59:29
She's phenomenal. She's amazing. That's what I have. 01:59:32
Very quick. I'm not going to repeat everything I said across the hall, but I did. 01:59:36
I want to remind everybody that Public Safety Appreciation Week starts and Holly, I'm going to look at you. 01:59:41
Next Monday. 01:59:47
The 5th. 01:59:49
And we won't have the banners of individuals, but did we ever get? 01:59:51
Like we know we've got like regular banners going up in the. 01:59:56
Of like thank you. 02:00:04
Going up in front of the fire station and we're going up in front of the Prestige. 02:00:06
And then a couple of banners advertising the pancake breakfast. 02:00:11
In front of State Hall and then in the Plaza. OK. But we didn't do any like light pole. 02:00:15
Banners. So did we get anything in the journal in terms of the pancake breakfast and so have the pancake breakfast on the 10th and 02:00:21
then? 02:00:26
I'll go hit the shift changes. 02:00:31
Dan, did I get the dates on the ship what we're doing with shift changes with? 02:00:34
OK. And we've got the buckets again from Megaplex, I think. 02:00:39
That we're going to hand to each of the individuals and just kind of a very small token of our appreciation. But I think they 02:00:45
appreciate more the gesture than maybe, you know, the movie that we that that the staff goes to the work and the community goes to 02:00:49
the work to. 02:00:54
Recognize how much we appreciate all of our first responders out in the community so that will. 02:00:58
Start uh. 02:01:03
Next week. 02:01:04
And this is just more of a note, but you know. 02:01:07
John sent me a text I think it was last week, John, and did he see I think CC Cheney, but. 02:01:10
You know, I've listened to a lot of the community comments and one of the regardless how you feel about the feasibility study, one 02:01:18
thing that kind of shines through is how much people love. 02:01:23
Living in this community and the fact that our incorporation has been a big benefit to the people that live here in creating the 02:01:29
sense of community and. 02:01:34
A lot of times I think as elected officials, we and staff too. 02:01:39
People are very happy to express when they're upset about something and so you just never hear really about the good stuff that 02:01:44
happens, right? 02:01:48
And so John shot me this text and he said. 02:01:51
I will pull it up, but essentially it was. 02:01:56
I just walked outside, must have been leaving work. 02:01:58
At whatever end. 02:02:01
That if it was John, it's probably like 630 or 7, but. 02:02:04
That, he said. You know, the skate parks full, the ball diamonds are full. 02:02:09
People are playing soccer on the field. 02:02:14
The Playgrounds. 02:02:16
Full. And I mean it's just like. 02:02:18
And, you know, and I drive by Knudsen Park quite often, and that parking lot will be full. And there's people, the kids on the 02:02:22
playground or they're on the field. 02:02:26
Under the pavilion. 02:02:31
All of that stuff has. 02:02:33
Has happened. 02:02:35
A lot with this council or prior councils and I think it's that sense of community that people really, really appreciate so. 02:02:37
I hope every once in a while our staff and our council takes a minute to think, you know? 02:02:46
We've, I think we've. 02:02:52
Tried to make our city better. 02:02:55
And I think in many regards we have. So anyway, I just thought that was nice to get that text. John that you. 02:02:56
Notice that you took time to actually send it because it means you looked out there and said. 02:03:04
Oh wow. 02:03:09
I've done some pretty good stuff while I've been here anyway. 02:03:11
Motion. What did Forrest help say? That's all I want to say about that. 02:03:17
All right, and, and we will adjourn and then we'll I'll pass the baton, move to adjourn City Council and reconvene an RDA board 02:03:22
meeting. 02:03:27
Second all in favor. Aye, aye, OK. 02:03:32
OK. 02:03:39