Recap! City Council 5/19/2020

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Here is the agenda for this meeting:

•Coronavirus update: Mayor Jo informed everyone that Governor Gary Herbert has issued another executive order.  This order will expire May 29th.  Additionally, the phased guidelines have been updated, you can see the new document (version 4.4) here and the Governor's order here.  

She also gave some updated information about last week's announcement about the county doing random household testing.  2 communities in Davis County have been chosen, one in south Davis County and one in north Davis County.  Officials will knock on every door in these communities and leave information about where and how to be tested if you are willing to do so.  She also mentioned about the upcoming concert in Kaysville that Mayor Katie Witt has supported to put on.  The council of Kaysville is doing everything in their power to stop this concert.  The health department has said they can not stop the concert from happening, only punish violations that take place at the gathering. 

•Water Service Agreement with Job Corps: The Weber Basin Job Corps has learned they are out of compliance due to failed tests on their water and have been entered into corrective action.  South Weber City has agreed to join together two projects, one for the East Bench Transmission Project Line the city was planning to do and joining it with the Job Corps water line replacement.  Job Corps will reimburse the city fully for all expenses and as an incentive, Job Corps has agreed to pay for all professional services (design and project management) and a 15% administrative fee.  Below is table to demonstrate the proposed agreement.  The agreement passed with unanimous approval.  Donnika Bigelow from Job Corps was available on the call and expressed appreciation to South Weber for being good neighbors and agreeing to help them be able to get back into compliance and protect those that are at their facility. 

•Mutual Aid Agreement for Fire Department: The Fire Department wishes to enter into a mutual aid agreement with Morgan County.   This means our fire department will be called when needed without cost or liability to Morgan County and vice-versa.  The council had some concerns about the fire department being gone from our city during emergencies and therefore needing our mutual aid to cover our cities.  Dave explained that Chief Tolman, as fire chief, is the one who makes the call whether or not to answer calls from other communities knowing his responsibility lies to the citizens of South Weber.  It was also expressed that if we find the agreement is not suiting South Weber well, there is the ability to terminate the agreement.  The agreement passed with unanimous approval.  

•Agreement with Davis Dispatch: Davis dispatch has increased their rates for dispatch calls.  Price per call increased from $30.59 to $31.51 resulting in an increase for South Weber to $802.70.  The agreement passed with unanimous approval. 

New Business

Councilmember Alberts reported that a graduation ceremony is schedule to happen on May 26th at 3:00.  Graduates should meet at the church at 1814 E 7775 S.  Wear your cap and gown and decorate your vehicle.  The Sherriff's department and Fire Department will led the parade.  Details of parade route are in the flyer below:

Reports:

•Mayor Jo reported that she and staff met with Horrock's to work on the latest study for the best feasible route for the Weber Pathways Trail.  They are about half way through the TLC grant we received from the Wasatch Front Regional Council.  She also relayed that the county received $545,000 funds as part as the CARES Act to support Covid-19 supported related fund.  The committee chose these funds to go to the Bountiful Food Pantry and Davis Behavioral Health both for specific services those entities provide.  She also notated that before Covid Davis Behavioral Health had about 240 visits per month.  During Covid, that has increased to over 1100 per month. 

•Councilwoman Alberts reported that the County Fair Days committee met today with regards to upcoming plans CFD and restrictions that will be necessary.  They are working very hard on trying to find out differnt solutions and possibilities and will be deciding shortly if and how this could be possible.  These ladies are trying to pull of something great and I commend them for their persistence and dedication to our city.   Councilmember Winsor said that he wants them to know they have his full support in going forward with a version of CFD and feels that it is something the community needs right now.

•Councilman Winsor reported that the mosquito abatement is in the process of Ariel application via drones.   The mosquito season is expected to be early and strong due to the dry and warmth weather we have been having.  He also report they are looking for a UAV pilot to hire.  

•City Manager David Larsen reported the new development process put in place at the beginning of this year is working very well.  There has been lots of back and forth with the developer of the Lofts Project and is happy with the process of ensuring all code issues has been resolved and addressed before coming to the Planning Commission.  

Recap! City Council 5.12.2020

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As you can see from our agenda there wasn't a lot to discuss and so this meeting was short and sweet.

•Coronavirus update:  Davis County will be implementing random household testing.  Each member of chosen households will be given two tests, a blood test to check for antibodies and a the PCR test (swab into the nostril).  It will help define how many cases and how many asymptotic cases we may have missed.  There will be roughly 8,000 test conducted in two communities.  The health department for Davis County does not anticipate a move to yellow by Friday but is hopeful it will happen by the end of the month.   Numbers for Davis County continue to look very good, we have no active cases in South Weber.

•Tentative Budget: Staff has been working with the tentative budget for the last 4 months.  A public hearing will be held June 9, 2020 to formally adopt the budget for fiscal year 2020-2021.  The tentative budget can be found in the packet.  There were a coupe of clarifications asked by the council, specifically towards a power lift gurney for the paramedic vehicle and future streetlights for existing neighborhoods (currently new neighborhoods will have the streetlights installed at the developer's expense - the city is moving from Rocky Mountain Power to South Weber owning and maintaining the lights).   Installation of lights for the new developments should be coming forth to the council towards the end of this month. 

As far as the public hearing we will have some sort of hearing ready to accommodate for it depending on what happens with restrictions due to Covid-19.  We are also awaiting further suggestions from the state for legal opinions and our options.  

Reports

Jo: Uintah City approached us about our shared boundary.  Uintah approached South Weber City about a piece of property on the east end of the city that is part of the Uintah Business Park but lies on South Weber's side.  Dave, Barry and Jo all met with representatives from Uinta and decided that a committee from both cities will meet together to discuss what should be done.  The reps from SW council will be Blair Halverson and the Planning Commission Chair Rob Osborne.  Wasatch Integrated Waste should have their sorting station to separate out green waste, plastic, paper ect. up an running by August.  It will start with 50% capacity in the beginning and will go to full capacity next year. 

Councilman Halverson:  Public Safety Committee continues to meet weekly.  The CERT program continues to move forwarded spearheaded by citizen Brandyn Bodily and Chief Tolman.   The bid for painting the curb for 2700 E has been created and is getting ready for quotes.

Councilwoman Alberts: Our first town-hall meeting is scheduled for July 7th of this year.  Accommodations for this will also depend on restrictions for Covid-19, more information coming soon.  Councilwoman Petty will be starting our Councilmember Corner in the newsletter for July with each council member taking a month for the rest of the year.  

Councilwoman Petty:  The Parks and Rec committee met and had several discussions.  Among these items was reviewing the rules for the dog park as well as new rules for all of our parks (will come before the council as a discussion later).  Our updates to our city parks are underway with tentative plans to begin work on Cherry Farms this August.  She praised the council's choice to open the parks for families in the city.  She has received a lot of good feedback from mothers who have really appreciated having this asset available to them. 

Dave - City Manager:  He mentioned that Brandon Jones will no longer be attending all the city council meetings unless he is needed.  

And that's a wrap everyone!  Hope you guys are all doing well and good.