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Special Service District

Entity

Salt Lake Valley Law Enforcement Service Area

Public Body

Board of Trustees

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Notice Title

Minutes 6-18-2020

Notice Tags

Administrative Procedure

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Meeting

Event Start Date & Time

June 18, 2020 10:00 AM

Event End Date & Time

June 18, 2020 11:00 AM

Event Deadline Date & Time

06/18/20 10:00 AM

Description/Agenda

Date: June 18, 2020 THE SALT LAKE VALLEY LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICE AREA BOARD MET ON THURSDAY, JUNE 18th, 2020 AT THE HOUR OF 8:30 A.M. AT THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE BUILDING, 3365 SOUTH 900 WEST ROOM 115B, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. Present: Excused: Attended Via Phone: TRUSTEE JIM BRADLEY, SALT LAKE COUNTY TRUSTEE STEVE PROKOPIS, MAGNA TRUSTEE CAROLYN KEIGLEY, BRIGHTON TRUSTEE APOLLO PAZELL, COPPERTON TRUSTEE DAVID BREMS, EMIGRATION CANYON TRUSTEE MAX BURDICK, SALT LAKE COUNTY TRUSTEE PAULINA FLINT, WHITE CITY TRUSTEE ALAN PETERSON, KEARNS TRUSTEE SHIREEN GHORBANI, SALT LAKE COUNTY ALSO PRESENT: SHERIFF ROSIE RIVERA, SALT LAKE COUNTY SHERIFF AND SLVLESA CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER CHIEF OF POLICE JASON MAZURAN, UPD CHIEF OF POLICE UNDERSHERIFF JAKE PETERSEN, SALT LAKE COUNTY UNDERSHERIFF FRANK NAKAMURA, SLVLESA DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR/SLVLESA LEGAL COUNSEL LISA DUDLEY, SLVLESA CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER MARCIE KAY, SLVLESA CLERK Item #1-Call to Order. Jim Bradley called the meeting to order. Item #2-Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest Action Requested: Identify Conflicts, if any Discussion: Trustee Bradley asked if there were any conflicts of interest. None were identified. Item #3-Public Comment: Trustee Bradley asked if anyone was present who wished to give public comment to the Board. There were none. Public comment was closed. Item #4-Present monthly expenditures and other financial information. Action Requested: None Discussion: Lisa Dudley presented the check register for the month of May and said most of the checks issued were related to the TRANs. There was also payment for membership fees to the Utah Association of Special Districts and the monthly law enforcement fee to the UPD. She said the total expenditures for May were $1,425,469.52. Trustee Bradley said he had one question and that was if the Association of Special Districts was a onetime fee or not. Lisa Dudley said it was an annual fee. Item #5-Discuss impact of Unified Police Department Fiscal Year 2020-2021 Budget on SLVLESA. Action Requested: None Discussion: Lisa Dudley said the Sheriff presented the tentative budget to the UPD Board at the May meeting. The tentative budget has an overall 10.72% increase to SLVLESA. She said that not all of the increase is for law enforcement services. The increase also includes a $825,000 transfer from fund balance to UPD, specifically to the County-wide fund 72. The costs to individual precincts, depending on their sharing formulas and whether the individual precincts added officers, varies across all the precincts in SLVLESA. Since Kearns is adding an officer and has increased rent, they have an increase of 7.77%. Magna is adding an officer for an increase of 6.89%. Southeast Islands had a decrease of 5.2%. White City had an increase of 4.4%. Copperton had an increase of 5.11%. Emigration Canyon had a decrease of 1.17% and the Southwest islands had an increase of 4.82%. She said besides the changes in the sharing formula, the other changes that the Sheriff's tentative budget included were a 2.75% merit increase for eligible employees who are not topped out and a 2% market increase for all sworn officers. Sheriff Rivera said the finance committee asked them to provide more information to increase the market by 2% additional and that will come up in the UPD Board meeting. Trustee Bradley asked if there were any questions on the budget. Trustee Prokopis asked if they decided to do a market increase above 2%, how would that impact SLVLESA. Lisa Dudley said the next item on the agenda is the property tax increase, so it would either be using up an excess from that property tax increase or dipping into the fund balance. Frank Nakamura said they would have to have many discussions about that and where they go from here, probably in the next two meetings. Lisa said one task that she has on her calendar is to go back to the beginning of SLVLESA and build a history of fund balance like she did with UPD and the fleet fund, so that they can track the movement of that balance. Max Burdick entered the meeting. Item #6-Report by Sheriff Rosie Rivera, SLVLESA Chief Executive Officer. Action Requested: None Discussion: Sheriff Rivera said that yesterday they had their awards ceremony and it was a wonderful event. They were able to recognize all the officers who did outstanding work throughout the year. She said she wanted to thank the Board Members who were able to attend but they understand that some could not. They had it outside because of Covid but it turned out well. Another topic is the protests. She said they have had many questions about what role UPD played in the protests. Under a Mutual Aid Agreement between law enforcement agencies, if there is a law enforcement agency that needs assistance, we go and help. This did turn out to be the longest assistance we have ever done in the history of UPD. We have had to assist Salt Lake City significantly. We are gathering the numbers on the impact to the organization, but it is significant when it comes to how much manpower we had to send over to Salt Lake City. During the protests, it did turn violent and we did have officers who were injured, and we will be looking at the dollar amounts for that, as well as the vehicles we had that were damaged, while parked. It will take us some time to gather all the information concerning damages but she wanted the Board to be aware that is something that they know is going to happen and they put that in their budget to be able to cover overtime for situations like that. She asked if anyone had any questions regarding that issue but there were none. She said they currently do not have any employees who are out with Covid right now. She said we have been very fortunate on the UPD side. She said they are still taking precautions and they do have enough PPE right now but are monitoring that situation very closely. She said that Chaplain Ward served as their Chaplain since we have been UPD and prior to that he was a Chaplain for other agencies and he just retired at 86 years old. She wanted to make sure that they recognized his work. Our Chaplains are an essential part of what we do and we wanted to publicly thank him. Item #7-Consider A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE SALT LAKE VALLEY LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICE AREA (SLVLESA) ADOPTING AN AD VALOREM RATE OF TAX LEVY FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2020 ON PROPERTY MADE TAXABLE BY LAW IN SLVLESA BASED ON SLVLESA'S BUDGETED PROPERTY TAX REVENUE FOR CALENDAR YEAR 2020. Action Required: Motion, Second and Vote. Discussion: Lisa Dudley said as the Board will remember, last fall we published the truth in taxation notices and postcards, which are required for exceeding the certified tax rate. Notices were published on December 5th and 12th, the Board held a public hearing on December 19th and we just received back in the last few days the online certified tax packet, which shows the increased revenue. That brings the proposed certified tax rate to .002254. Trustee Bradley said that 3% increase in budgeted property tax revenues is in line with the five-year plan we have adopted, in terms of looking at inflation and other factors, to maintain stability. This is what we must do each year with a minor tax increase to avoid extremely large ones. He asked if there were any questions from the Board concerning this and there were none. Trustee Bradley asked for a motion to adopt the Resolution. Trustee Brems motioned to adopt the Resolution. Trustee Ghorbani seconded the motion. Frank Nakamura then conducted a roll call vote. Trustee Bradley voted aye. Trustee Brems voted aye. Trustee Burdick voted aye. Trustee Flint voted aye. Trustee Ghorbani voted aye. Trustee Peterson voted aye. Trustee Prokopis voted aye. Trustee Keigley voted aye. Resolution passes unanimously. Item #8-Approval of the minutes for the May 21, 2020 meeting. Action Required: Motion and Vote. Discussion: Trustee Prokopis motioned to approve the minutes. Trustee Keigley seconded the motion. All voted in favor; none opposed. The minutes were approved. Item #9-Adjourn. Trustee Bradley adjourned the meeting.

Notice of Special Accommodations (ADA)

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing special accommodations (including auxiliary communicative aids and services) during this meeting should notify Frank Nakamura 385-468-9671.

Notice of Electronic or Telephone Participation

As provided in an Executive Order issued by Governor Herbert on March 18, 2020, the SLVLESA Board of Trustees will hold an electronic meeting on July 16, 2020 without an anchor location and space and facilities where the public may physically attend and monitor the open portions of the meeting. Members of the public may join the open portions of the meeting via phone by calling 1-669 900-9128 and entering Meeting ID 93444745584# and Password 1#349989#. The public will be allowed to listen to all open portions of the meeting. Public comment will be allowed during the Public Comment portion of the meeting which will start no sooner than 10:00 a.m. Board members will participate in the meeting electronically via Zoom. The audio for the Board member will be amplified so that other Board members and persons present at the meeting will be able to hear all discussions.

Meeting Information

Meeting Location

3365 South 900 West
Salt Lake City, 84119
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Contact Name

Marcie Kay

Contact Email

mkay@unifiedpoliceut.gov

Notice Posting Details

Notice Posted On

July 16, 2020 01:26 PM

Notice Last Edited On

July 16, 2020 01:26 PM

Deadline Date

June 18, 2020 10:00 AM

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