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November 13, 2025 City Council Minutes

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November 13, 2025 07:00 PM

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Orangeville City Council Regular Meeting Minutes November 13, 2025 7:00 P.M. Present at said meeting were: Mayor- Shaun Bell, Council Members- Tracy Addley, Kari Alton, Doug Stilson, Kirk McQuivey and Kevin Butler, City Recorder- Amanda Lake, Treasurer- Dani Tuttle, Zoning Admin.- Seth Manning, Maintenance- Travis Richards Visitors: Lana McQuivey, David McKee, Candace Bell, Michael Jewkes, Brian Jewkes, Bart Cox REGULAR SESSION 1. Introduction: made by Mayor Shaun Bell 2. Prayer: Doug Stilson 3. Pledge of Allegiance: led by Mayor Shaun Bell 4. Approval of Bills and Warrants: Motion: made by Kirk McQuivey Seconded by: Doug Stilson Voting Roll Call: Tracy Addley- Aye, Kari Alton Aye, Doug Stilson- Aye, Kirk McQuivey Aye, Kevin Butler- Aye. Motion passed with 5 affirmative votes. 5. Approval of October 9, 2025 Regular Session Minutes: Motion: Kevin Butler Second: Kari Alton Motion passed with 5 affirmative votes. 6. Public Comments: No Comments 7. Motion to open a special portion of the meeting: Motion: Doug Stilson Second: Kirk McQuivey Motion passed with 5 affirmative votes. 8. Approve Resolution 2025-13: A Resolution of the City Council acting as the Municipal Board of Canvassers conducting and approving the Canvass and Election results for the November 4, 2025 Municipal General Election: Amanda Lake read the results that was given by the County Clerk resulting in a total of 745 total registered voters, 317 ballots cast and with a 42.55% Voter turnout. The results for the Mayor seat are Shaun Kenneth Bell with 269 votes, 2 4-year term seats, Kari Lynn Alton with 233 votes and Kirk C. McQuivey with 247 votes and the 2- two-year seats are Kevin Butler with 256 votes and David William McKee with 195 votes. Motion: Kevin Butler Second: Tracy Addley Motion passed with 5 affirmative votes. 9. Motion to move back into regular session: Motion: Kari Alton Second: Tracy Addley Motion passed with 5 affirmative votes. 10. Approve Utility Connections for Wyatt Payne: Wyatt Payne came into the office and applied for water and sewer hook up to his property. He will be building a home soon. He has turned in the necessary water share for the Culinary at this time. Motion: Kevin Butler Second: Tracy Addley Motion passed with 5 affirmative votes. 11. Approve Utility Connections for Alisa Tennant: Alisa came into the office needing hook ups for the home that she just purchased from Todd Cook. She will only be getting culinary and sewer at this time. Motion: Kirk McQuivey Second: Kari Alton Motion passed with 5 affirmative votes. 12. Approve switching Financial Institutions from Zions Bank to Mountain America: The city's Accountant, Gary Keddington states that he has been looking around at the various city's that he works with and has noticed that we are getting very little interest in our checking accounts. Gary states that Mountain America has some products at a corporate level that they don't advertise for and are specifically for Municipalities. Gary says that they will pay the state PTIF rate on the checking account and also on all savings accounts. Gary says that he has calculated that we would receive $10,000.00- $15,000.00 a year by switching. Gary states that the whole objective is to gain the interest. He states that it will make managing the accounts easier because we will be getting the interest no matter what account its in. The state is limiting how many PTIF accounts you can have and Mountain America does not have any limits. This will allow flexibility when managing the cash revenue. Kevin Butler asks if there are any costs to switching banks. Gary states that there are no fees to move things over. Credit Unions are way less fee oriented than your normal bank institutions. Gary explains that to make deposits on checks Mountain America will provide a check scanner so that they are deposited into the checking account. As far as the cash that would need to be deposited, there are some ways around that and could possibly keep Zions just for that purpose and write a check to ourselves and run it through the scanner so we don't have to drive to price every three days to make a deposit. We will need to find out what fees are associated for having small balances. Gary says that the city would have direct contact with the individuals that will be handling the city's funds. Motion: made by Kari Alton Seconded by: Doug Stilson Voting Roll Call: Tracy Addley- Aye, Kari Alton Aye, Doug Stilson- Aye, Kirk McQuivey Aye, Kevin Butler- Aye. Motion passed with 5 affirmative votes. 13. Approve to continue the agreement with Cottonwood Irrigation Company: Mayor Bell states that last month he was contacted by Craig Johansen who wanted to meet to discuss the agreement they have with the city. Mayor says that back in 2002, the canal company approached the city to figure out how to get the city the amount of water it needed and came up with the agreement. At that time the city has 856 shares of Cottonwood Creek Class A water shares and 48 Class B shares. Mayor Bell explains that right now the city has 998.4 Class A shares and 94 Class B shares. We are still short 89 shares of water. Mayor says that he doesn't think we have a choice but to continue with the contract. Tracy Addley states that he thinks that in order to keep the water usage down that the farmers that use the secondary water come in and state what days they will use it. Kevin asked if we have a record over the past years. The Irrigation Company did not provide those numbers. Mayor states that years ago they have a gentleman's agreement and there is no paperwork. The agreement does not say anything about if we go over that they have to continue to give us water. The city went over per acre feet of water. Mayor Bell suggested that concerned individuals go to the Irrigations Company's meeting and voice their concern because he feels that when they decided to meter or not meter the water from the spill off should be made aware to the citizens that it affects. Motion: made by Doug Stilson Seconded by: Kari Alton Voting Roll Call: Tracy Addley- Aye, Kari Alton Aye, Doug Stilson- Aye, Kirk McQuivey Aye, Kevin Butler- Aye. Motion passed with 5 affirmative votes. 14. Discuss Secondary water being used by resident to water more than half acres: Mayor Bell states that there are 9 individuals that they know of that are using secondary to water fields. Craig Johansen says that this is where our overage is coming from. This usage is being metered on the city side but not for the individual using this amount of water. Craig Johansen suggested that they be metered at the owner's expense. Michael Jewkes states that most of them don't have bigger lines and that they are the same size as the rest of the city. Michael states that it is covering the same amount of land with less pressure and less spigots. Michaels Jewkes also states that if they are going to make the farmers meter secondary then they need to make everyone else have a meter as well. He explains that he has the same number of connections for his 1 acre compares to the 10 connections for homes in that same amount of acreage. Tracy Addley states that secondary is being used for farming and not residential. Doug Stilson states that he is assuming that farmers are allowed to water 24/7 and just move the water up and down the fields. He states that if he waters his lawn then he doesn't have it on 24/7 nor does he leave his water running in his house all of the time, so theoretically he is going to use less than those watering their pastures and fields 24/7. Mayor Bell asked for suggestions to remedy the problem because we are already over 89-acre feet. Mayor Bell says that the Irrigation Company is also suggesting that those wanting to build outside city limits to turn in 3 water shares because of the shortage. The city pays $7,000.00 a year not including taxes to the Irrigation Company. The Mayor states that in the meeting he asked Craig Johansen if they would provide the meters for the individuals they are wanting to meter and he said they would not pay for the meters and that it would be the owners responsibility and that the city has no money to help pay for those. Doug Stilson asks that if anyone has any ideas to please them the Mayor and Council know so that a solution can be explored. They Council states that they are sure if putting restrictions in place is the answer or not. 15. Approve/ Deny: splitting the cost with UDOT for solar speed limit signs: Amanda Lake explains that there has been discussion for a while now on how fast traffic is coming into town on the North end of town and coming in from the East side by Food Ranch. The suggestion is to possibly put up the flashing speed limit signs to make drivers more aware. Amanda states that the solar signs run about $5500.00 and the direct to power signs run around $6,500.00 without power hook-up cost. The cost would come out of B & C road funds. David McKee states that they will patrol that road. The Council states that they have asked the local Sheriff's department and they have told them that it is the UHP's road to patrol. Kirk McQuivey states that the reason it is brought up is because there is a special needs individual that lives on that corner and they come around the corner squealing tires because they are going to fast. They have noticed that it seems like it has started when the coal mine opened back up. Lana McQuivey that there is a big concern because there are children in the area. Doug Stilson made the suggestion to see if the mine would help pay for the signs. Doug also explains that when he has talked with UDOT about the signs they said that the signs may make them aware but they still have to make the choice to slow down or not and that the Deaf and Blind signs may make them slow down more. Doug also suggests that they go and talk with the mine and make sure they are aware of the problem to see if they can influence the workers to slow down. Mayor said he will talk to them. The Council decided to table this item for now and talk with the coal mine to see if that will help. Motion: made by Tracy Addley to table Second: Doug Stilson Motion passed with 5 affirmative votes. 16. Staff Reports: Seth Manning: Seth reports that he has had a few dog calls. He also states that they are working on getting the subdivision streets cleaned up s the snow plows will be able to plow. Travis Richards: Travis reports that they have been getting equipment winterized for the winter. He states that they also have ben working on getting Christmas lights up. Dani Tuttle: Dani reports that she is watching for a couple of other grants to open up and will be looking into those. She states that we have a meeting on Monday to discuss other possible grants. The city is also holding a photo contest to put on the new website. Amanda Lake: Amanda states that we have had our first meeting with Evo.gov about the website and it is coming along well. Amanda also states that we had our audit and it also went very well. 17. Council Reports: Tracy Addley: No Report Kari Alton: Kari reports that she would like to do something for the community for Christmas. They are thinking of handing out donuts and have Santa at the Firehouse so that the kids can drop off their Santa letters. The YCC will be helping with this. Doug Stilson: Doug reports that Planning & Zoning are discussing doing a Moratorium on Short Term Rentals and RV Parks for 6 months. He also states that Wendy Berger has put in an appeal on her mom's house that she wants to convert into a Short-Term Rental. She will be at City Council in December to discuss this. The Planning and Zoning denied because it did not meet the land distance requirement. Kirk McQuivey: Kirk reports that at the EMS meeting the board denied the budget at first but then approved a temporary budget. He also brought up a House Bill about Fire Litigation. He will look into this more but is believed that it refers to the homes and cabins in the mountains. He also was approached by a citizen wondering why flags weren't put up for Veterans Day on main street. Travis explains have a few flags that need to be replaced and fixed so that there will be enough. Kevin Butler: Kevin reports that Orangeville Days planning will start in January. 18. Mayors Report: Mayor Shaun Bell: Mayor Bell reports that he met with the Rec Board and it looks like they have lost a lot of the Mineral Lease funds and won't have as much as they have for funding. 19. Adjourn: Motion: Tracy Addley Second: Kirk McQuivey Motion passed with 5 affirmative votes. ORANGEVILLE CITY ________________________ Amanda Lake- Recorder

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