Date:	April 10, 2024

Place:	Enterprise City Council Chambers

Time:	7:00 PM

Present: Mayor Brandon Humphries; Council Members Jared Moody, Ronald Lehm, Roy Adams, Delbert Staheli and Bill Fowler and; City Administrator Adam Bowler, City Recorder Wendy Paine, Orrin Staheli, Kevin Staheli, Cristie Staheli, Yvonne Colby, Brandon Dockstader, Elli Dockstader, Kirsten Truman, Jeri Lehm, Wyatt Banks, Clint Hafen, Jamie Hafen, Jackson Hiatt, Travis Jolley, Trystin Jolley

Welcome: Mayor Brandon Humphries Opening Comments: Mayor Brandon Humphries Pledge: Council Member Delbert Staheli

Approve Agenda: The Council was presented with the agenda. After review a motion was made by Council Member Roy Adams to approve the agenda as presented, the motion was seconded by Council Member Delbert Staheli and unanimously approved.

Approve Minutes: The minutes from the March 27, 2024 City Council Meeting were reviewed. A motion to accept the minutes as presented was made by Council Member Jared Moody, seconded by Council Member Bill Fowler and unanimously approved.

Accounts Payable: The accounts payable for the dates from March 27, 2024 through April 9, 2024 for the amount of $140,515.41 was reviewed by the Council. A motion to approve the accounts payables was made by Council Member Ron Lehm, seconded by Council Member Jared Moody and unanimously approved.

Open Forum: Mayor Humphries opened the meeting to the public for remarks, limiting the time to 3 minutes for each person. Kevin Staheli expressed his concerns over somethings that he heard were discussed in the Planning Commission Meeting held the previous night. The topic was the upcoming construction of the new Carter’s Market. He mentioned that he did not know how much planning had gone into increasing our drainage capabilities. He stated that it will have a major impact on his end of town. He heard that some of the discussion was to have the water run down 420 E to the Cottonwood Wash. That is the street that he lives on and he believes there is no capacity to handle that extra water. After detailing some of his concerns with past flooding, he said he hopes there are plans for handling that run off and would like to be in on those conversations. He is voicing his concerns and looking for some major engineering to be done there. As there were no other remarks made, the Council continued on to the next item on the agenda.

Parks and Recreation – Council Member Roy Adams

Discussion on Fees for Park Facility Users and Recreation Participants – Coby Drake: At first, Mayor Humphries thought he would ask for this agenda item to be tabled, but he wanted to let the Council know where they with this topic. When the Recreation Department’s salaries were increased, the Directors were asked to come up with some ways to generate increased revenue to offset the additional cost. Mr. Drake has had conversations with some of the council members individually about the city’s fee structure for facility use. He would like to see the fees for some of the buildings increased and start charging fees for the use of the facilities that are currently used free of charge. When the park was initially completed the council decided that it would leave determining the fee schedule for the park up to the administration, because the administration was in a position to better understand the balance of fees and costs. At the time, the council decided not to charge for the use of the sports court since so many people had donated time and money to completing the park. Those decisions were made, but a policy was never put into resolution form. This issue does need to come back to the council, but in resolution form for consideration.

Council Member Fowler asked for some clarification on what facilities we were and were not currently charging a fee to use. Council Member Staheli wanted to make sure that there is a method in place to tract that the increase to the recreation department’s salaries was being offset in the manner agreed upon. The mayor stated that it was his understanding that the salary increase was going to be offset with recreation participation fees and not park facility user fees. The community building is not part of the recreation department and those fees will not be used to fund it. The sports court, while it facilitates some of the recreation programs, possible fees associated with it, are not necessarily going to fund the recreation department salary increases. The way that those fees are used will be a council decision. Mr. Bowler stated that he can provide updates to the council on the progress of offsetting those salary increases. Mr. Kevin Staheli stated that leaving fee decisions in the hands of the administration reduces voter oversight and can lead to misuse of funds and fees. The mayor disagreed and stated that the administration answers directly to the elected council and mayor and therefore is also accountable to the voters.

Planning & Zoning – Council Member Jared Moody

Report on April 9, 2024 Planning Commission Meeting – The site plan for Carter’s Market was approved. The drainage was discussed and is in the hands of city engineers and the Carter’s engineers. There was some discussion on the city’s ongoing drainage project and how it will impact the run-off from the new store as well as the rest of the city.

Streets – Council Member Delbert Staheli

Discussion on Upcoming Street Projects and Plans: The mayor asked for this to be put on the agenda. He stated that major street projects have been on hold for quite a while. There are not a lot of private companies that do chip sealing. The cost of the needed equipment is prohibitive. Small cities have historically looked to the county to help with those projects. Our last project was in conjunction with the county in 2018, but since then, the county has changed their policy on helping municipalities with road projects. We are still waiting on a decision from the county commissioners on this year’s project. Whether we use a private company or the county, we need to get the work started. There was some discussion on waiting for better pricing, but some of the streets will not wait much longer. We are planning for a huge chip seal, patching project this summer. There is some crack sealing going on right now and Orrin will get some cold patch tomorrow to work on some of the pot holes around town.

Arts/Culture – Council Member Delbert Staheli

Consideration of Train Art Installation: The City has been offered a piece of art. A train sculpture made out of reclaimed materials named The Dixie Express. It was designed and built by Matt Clark, an artist from Beryl. St George wanted it removed because of the name. Mayor Humphries has received permission from UDOT and from the owners of Lee’s Station to put it along the frontage of the motel on Main Street, in the state’s right of way. He will contact the local metal shop teacher and ask him to bring some students out to help with the installation. The City will need to agree keeping the sculpture past the artist’s lifetime and not to paint over or change the Dixie Express name. Council Member Ron Lehm made a motion to accept the gift of the Dixie Express Train art and accept the conditions of receiving it. The motion was seconded by Council Member Delbert and unanimously approved.

If we can get a good picture of the artist at the installation, we will have it enlarged to hang in the city office.

Personnel – Mayor Brandon Humphries

Consideration of Resolution 2024-003 – Merit/Retention Policy for City Employees

After a brief discussion, Council Member Jared Moody made a motion to approve Res. 2024-003 with the change of using the word “and” in two places instead of the word “or”. The motion was seconded by Council Member Roy Adams and unanimously approved by voice vote.

Newsletter – Anna Balajadia

Items for Upcoming Newsletter – Train Art installation. In front of Lee’s Station. Anna can contact the Mayor or Adam Bowler for details and pictures.

Council Member Delbert Staheli stated that his daughter will create the seed display for the Washington County Fair in 2025. She has a mock up already completed. The oil paint she will be using for the fair display, will not dry in time for this year’s fair. Bill Fowler will let Washington City Councilmember, Kurt Ivie, know about this change. Delbert will bring in the acrylic for the council to see and possibly display.

Next scheduled City Council Meeting April 24, 2024 at 7:00 PM

As there were no other items on the agenda, the meeting was adjourned at 8:03 PM

Respectfully Submitted:

Wendy L. Paine/Enterprise City Recorder