Recap! City Council April 2021

What’s up my peeps?! This month has flown by and I just realized I missed our first meeting on the month’s recap. So hold on to your hats, we are going to cover both meetings in one post! It’s gonna get all crazy in here (as crazy as municipal government gets that is). You can find all the information by checking out the April 8th packet and the April 27th packet.

•City Parks: The Parks and Rec committee met and to present changes made to all the parks. These rules greatly needed to be updated and the committee exchanged just a few lines of code for 2 pages. There were some changes that needed to take place which were approved in the following council meeting. •Dog Park: The Parks and Rec committee also created new rules for the dog park, which will open at the end of this month (don’t miss our grand opening on May 28th – time TBA!). These rules were approved by the council and will be posted at the dog park. •RV Park: The RV park came back requesting some amendments to their development agreement. This is a continuation of a meeting last week where the council was in favor of part of the agreement (adding a concrete barrier wall alongside I84) but wanted more information on the landscaping changes. The proposed changes to landscaping were quite a drastic change from the original plan and the owner was pressed on why so many changes were taking place. The property owner did not have all the information he needed to review at that time and so the council agreed to allow him to come back when he has the information, before we vote on allowing those changes. •Cross hatch properties and Poll Property Proposal: The council was able to discuss once again the properties on the general plan that have cross hatch marks. The council deliberated at length the best way to move forward on these properties. Additionally, a development agreement was brought forward for the Poll Property regarding the proposal that was presented last month. The committee was not able to review this development agreement before it came forth in the packet and considering the new information of council member’s thoughts - that meeting was imperative before continuing. The discussion was postponed until the committee could meet and discuss the development agreement. In the days following this meeting, the committee recommended to only allow the highest density (R7) for the portion that is residential and added bonuses of density. When the developers learned of this new provision, they backed out of the process. Procedures and Policies: The admin and finance committee spent a lot of time reviewing and making any changes necessary to our policies and procedures. You can view all these changes in the packet. The changes were approved unanimously. •Budget: The budget for our next fiscal year begins this summer which means the admin and finance committee have been working very hard on our next budget. This budget was just for review of the council. On May 11th, the council will approve the tentative budget as presented. Following a 2-week period for the public to review the budget, there will be a public hearing on May 25th and final adoption of the budget will be happening in August. There is a lot happening here with the budget, and I encourage everyone to review councilman Winsor’s post on it (I will link it below). We will be working on getting this information out to the public through many different means, so keep an eye out for it! REPORTS: •Mayor Jo reported the council spent a few days down in St. George for the ULCT convention. UDOT has approved $60 million dollars to expand Highway 89 to 3 lanes and redo the bridge over the Weber River. The construction for the areas in Uintah is expected to take place in 5-8 years. The Davis County Sewer will be doing a rate increase of 24% over the next 5 years. •Councilman Halverson reported the RAB meeting will be happening virtually in regard to the contamination in our area from Hill Air Force Base. •Councilwoman Alberts reported the PR Committee will be meeting next week to work on our new website as well as start working on getting information to the public regarding the budget and a truth in taxation that will take place for the paramedic services. •Councilman Winsor reported that he met with a representative from Rocky Mountain Power and was able to make headway on getting our new streetlights hooked up. He has also been working on high-speed internet options and will be working with the PR committee to disseminate the information. Woot Woot! If you have read all of this, pat yourself on the back. Not everyone can be so cool as to ready about city government on a Friday night. :D

April 8th meeting


April 27th meeting


April 8th packet: http://southwebercity.com/file/2016/11/0-CC-2021-04-08-Packet-.pdf April 27th packet: http://southwebercity.com/file/2016/11/0-CC-2021-04-27-Packet.pdf April 8th meeting: https://youtu.be/FbbX--nE3pM April 27th meeting: https://youtu.be/o0bd3vlk4Q8