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Oak City

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Oak City Town Council

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February 15, 2018 01:00 AM

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Minutes of Oak City Town Board Regular Meeting held February 15, 2018 The meeting was held at the Oak City Town Hall at 7:30 p.m. in the conference room. The following were in attendance: TOWN OFFICIALS Mayor Kenneth Christensen Council member Dave Steele Council member Craig Dutson Council member Warren Rogers Town Clerk Karen K. Lovell Council member Monica Niles was not in attendance. The following agenda items were considered: OTHERS Doug Hunter, UAMPS Nathan Nielson Dailene Anderson Linda Lee Shipley Dwight and Frances Day Hans, Gabe, and Hiette Lovell Patrick and Lafe Finlinson Mike Miller, NuScale A. Invocation. Dave gave the invocation. B. Adopt Agenda. Craig moved, seconded by Dave, to adopt the agenda as written. Roll Call Vote: Mayor Christensen-Aye. Dave-Aye. Craig-Aye. Warren-Aye. C. Adopt Minutes of Town Board Regular Meeting and Executive Session held January 18, 2018. Warren moved, seconded by Craig, to adopt the Minutes of Town Board Regular Meeting and Executive Session held January 18, 2018 as written. Roll Call Vote: Mayor Christensen-Aye. Dave-Aye. Craig-Aye. Warren-Aye. D. Carbon Free Power Project Informational Presentation and Consideration of Power Sales Contract/Doug Hunter, Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS). Dwight Day explained a little about what UAMPS is and the types of projects they are involved in. Dwight is the Oak City Town UAMPS representative. He explained that UAMPS looks at different power projects and what might help the communities involved in UAMPS. He explained that Doug Hunter is the UAMPS general manager. They were in attendance to explain about the Carbon Free Power Project that UAMPS is proposing Oak City be involved in. At this time, the Mayor thanked Dwight for representing the Town. It is a very valuable service for the Town. Doug Hunter started the presentation explaining what the Carbon Free Project is, why they are recommending participation, and how things are progressing. The Nuclear units will be green power which is good for Oak City as the Intermountain Power Plant is a coal-fire plant and will be shutting down and going to a natural gas plant. The power from this project should also be reasonably priced. Mike of NuScale Power, the company that is building the Units and the Plant, took over the presentation. He explained how the units are built, work, and went over what safety systems are in place. He explained where they are in the building process. NuScale works in conjunction with Flour, Energy Northwest, the Department of Energy (NRC), UAMPS, and the Tennessee Valley Authority. At this time, 34 of the 46 UAMPS participants are looking at the possibility of participating in this project. They are looking at many issues such as: making sure they don't build in a seismic-active area, water issues, and if it will be price competitive. After the licensing phase is done, about 2020, all participants will have the option to opt into the project or opt out. If do opt out, the Town would need to find someone to participate in its place due to budget issues. After that phase, they will come to another Town Board Meeting and make a presentation, much like this one, to inform the Council where things are at. This ended the presentation. They would be willing to come again if desired. Dave stated that he has seen the modules and he is very excited about the project. The Town's participation amount would be about .08% or 500 KW. They are anticipating being on line by about 2026 or 2027. McKay Christensen arrived at this time. He asked Doug a couple of questions which he answered. The Mayor asked if there are any test sights set up. Mike said that there are some models set up that are testing different aspects of the project. On March 8th and 9th, there will be a site tour. The Town Council members are invited to this. E. Oak City Days Discussion/Dailene Anderson and Linda Lee Shipley Co-Chairs. Dailene went over a couple of things they would like the do this year including having a band from the Provo area. The Council was okay with spending a little more this year since it is the sesquicentennial. Dailene suggested two ideas for grand marshals for the parade. The Council was okay with either of the ideas. The Mayor heard that there might be a quilt display. They will consider this. He suggested having an art display of local artist. Maybe not this year as it might be too late to get it put together but maybe next year. Possibly a memories of Oak City art display or something. Some of the items could be permanently displayed at the Hall. Karen asked the Council about the idea of having an Oak City 150 year birthday cake displayed and then having cakes donated for the dessert. The Council felt purchasing cookies, like last year, would be easier and less messy. The Council liked the idea of having a cake displayed, however; either a real cake or a fake one. It was suggested that the Oak City Days flags be put up again. Nathan Nielson will see what shape the flags are in as some of them were pretty worn. Sharla Anderson made the original flags. She might be willing to repair the old ones or make new ones. It would be nice to have a 150 years banner also. The Mayor mentioned that he would like to see some rules placed on those doing booths such as no large food items. Will come up with a list of rules that need to be followed by those doing booths. F. Oak City Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Discussion/Janet Lindquist. Janet was not able to attend and asked Karen, Oak City CERT Team commander, to lead this discussion. Karen reported that the Millard County CERT Association is aware that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints just came up with a Stake Emergency Preparedness Plan. She asked Craig and Ken, bishops of the Oak City First and Second Wards, if they are aware of the Plan, and asked them to keep in mind that Oak City CERT would be willing to help with this Plan in any way they can. She also encouraged the Council members to participate in the upcoming new member training being held in Delta and asked everyone to encourage citizens to take the training. The Oak City CERT team used to be a large team but they are down to about six members now. G. Tree Mapping Project. The Mayor stated that the Town had Daniel Allen of the Division of Forestry, Fire, and State Lands come and talk to the Council about trees that should be replaced and what kinds of trees to plant. He said he would come and map the location of trees and tree health if the Council desired so the Mayor had him come do this. He came with a partner and they did the mapping. The Mayor received the info, electronically, today. He will make this information available as soon as possible. Mckay and Nathan Nielson, Oak City Town Employee, went around with Daniel while they were here and he quickly went over some of the things that they found and did. McKay stated that they put together software on the tree mapping and that is available now to the Town. About 15% of the Town's trees are in poor condition. About 60 trees are dangerous and about 6 are immediate hazard. Mckay and Felecia have volunteered to chair a tree committee. They will also be doing an awareness campaign. These are things that are required to become a Tree USA City. The Mayor stated that Daniel mentioned that there is an arborist class that can be taken so someone might want to take this class. Daniel has also mentioned several types of trees that would be good for Oak City, mostly slow-growing hard woods. As part of the Tree USA requirements, the Town needs to put $1,600 for tree work in an account or do tree improvement work up to this amount. It can be a combination of both. The Mayor suggested Mckay get the committee together and have Daniel come back and talk to the committee. He would probably come back in the Winter and help also. The Mayor stated that the Town needs to set up a process of removing several trees a year and replacing those as things go along. Whoever removes trees needs to have insurance. The Town might be able to have professionals top the trees and the Town remove the stumps on City trees. The Town could put forth a little money to put in street trees but would need to have citizens that would commit to taking care of the trees. A good idea for Town Clean up day would be to get some trees to plant and clean up the areas where they will be planted, then plant the trees. The only problem Warren had with Tree USA monies is that they come from the federal government. According to the Constitution, the federal government shouldn't fund this kind of thing. Dave agreed with that but this is the way it is done now. In order to change this, someone would have to go back and change the way things are done now and in the past. The Mayor gave Mckay copy of a sample tree ordinance. H. Public Comments. There was no public comment. I. Financial Report. The Financial Report was read and approved by Board Action. J. Departmental Reports. Dave Steele. President Trump's proposed budget would privatize federal power marketing administrations, such as the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) which operates the Colorado River Storage Project. This would cause power costs to soar as they are adjusted to market-based rates. The power marketing administrations were originally organized to help rural areas develop power systems and keep costs lower with long-term power contracts. Of course, Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) and the American Public Power Association (APPA) are against these changes. Will watch how things go on this. Purchased a NET Meter to put on Gordon Shipley's house to register his solar power. It doesn't seem to be working properly. Will need to purchase some kind of a programming device for the meter. Once this meter is working properly, Dave will purchase the same meter and programming for Crandall Nielson's meter and will have a couple on hand in case someone else goes to solar. Had some damage done, due to a vehicle accident, on a power pole located on main street. Got a letter from the County attorney referring to this and asking if the Town wanted to file a claim. Dave will file a claim. He will get a bid from Flowell Electric on how much the repairs will cost. Received an e-mail on the Utah Outdoor Recreation Grant. It is a 50-50 grant with the Town having to come up with half the money in cash or in kind. The deadline is March to April so probably won't be able to get something together this soon but it is an annual grant. It doesn't necessarily have to be a Town project. A private party or citizen could start something like a trail-ride service or something. Dave did a survey for the Rural Planning Group. It addressed grants and other issues. It asked about how well informed Council members are on current bills, laws, and changes. Dave felt that the Council members need to stay up on current regulations and laws but it is hard as there are so many changes. It also looked at how local governments are complying with the Open Meeting and Standards Act. The Mayor mentioned that it is about time the Council members need to take that training again. There is a proposed resolution that UAMPS needs the Town to consider and adopt within the next couple of months. It will adopt the Power Sales Contract for the Nuclear Project and would commit the Town to participate in the study. The Mayor asked how the Council felt about the Project. The Council was fine with it. Dave will get a copy of the Resolution to all the Council members so everyone can go over it. This will be placed on the agenda for next month. Craig Dutson. Been working with the County to get a snow plow at a good price. Should be able to get it within the next few weeks. The Council was okay with paying up to about $4,000 for it if necessary. Warren Rogers. Warren has registered for the Rural Water conference. Will get with Jeff Lyman, past Councilman, to go over cemetery issues and anything else needed. Monica Niles. Monica was not in attendance and had left no report. K. Miscellaneous. Mayor Christensen. One of the Mayor's goals this year is to organize the Hall Office by scanning important files onto the computer. He would also like to get a file holder set up for maps. Next month, the Mayor would like to have an agenda item for a discussion on business licenses. A law being proposed is a change to home-based business licenses and is very controversial. The proposed law states that home-based businesses don't have to have a license unless the business causes so much extra traffic that it causes the Town to monitor traffic. Then the Town could charge the business for a license. It is hard to police home-based businesses anyway. Will see if this law passes. L. Adjournment. Craig moved, seconded by Warren, to adjourn. Roll Call Vote: Mayor Christensen-Aye. Dave-Aye. Craig-Aye. Warren-Aye. The meeting adjourned at 10:47 p.m. Respectfully Submitted, ______________________________________ Karen K. Lovell, Oak City Town Clerk Approved by: _________________________________ Kenneth Christensen-Mayor

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