Elwood Town Council Meeting
November 10, 2020
The Elwood Town Council met at the Elwood Town Hall, 5235 West 8800 North, Elwood, Utah, at 7:00, November 10, 2020. The following members were present consisting of a quorum.
Keenan Nelson Mayor Scott Goodliffe Councilmember
Mike Pace Councilmember Mark Lay Councilmember
Jon Howard Councilmember
Staff present at this meeting
Gina Marble Town Clerk
Others present at this meeting
Devere Hansen Hagen Gardner
WELCOME
ADMINISTRATION
Councilmember Goodliffe gave the opening prayer.
Mayor Nelson welcomed everyone to the meeting
Minutes for the October 13, 2020 town council meeting was presented for approval.
Councilmember Pace made a motion to approve the minutes for Oct 13, 2020. Councilmember Howard seconded the motion. The voting was unanimous in favor of the motion.
Item#1 Ordinance 2020-004-Revising and amending the town subdivision making changes to chapter 11.01- Mayor Nelson stated that the planning commission, Amy Hugie and Gil Miller have been working on the ordinance, they recommended it to the town council to adopt.
Councilmember Lay made a motion to adopt ordinance 2020-004. Councilmember Goodliffe seconded the motion. The voting was unanimous in favor of the motion.
Item#2 Ordinance 2020-005- Revising and amending the town subdivision making changes to chapter 11.12- Mayor Nelson stated that the planning commission, Amy Hugie and Gil Miller have been working on the ordinance, they recommended it to the town council to adopt. Councilmember Goodliffe stated that the old ordinance had 3 options I liked the bond option it gave the developer one more option and Chris made recommendations to take that option out. Mayor Nelson stated they can do a letter of credit, it's a line of credit. Amy stated that the bond doesn't do anything for the town and it's hard to get the money for a bond, she don't like the bond idea it's not a good deal for the town. Councilmember Pace stated that it don't do anything for us but give them an option. Councilmember Goodliffe stated the word bond is throughout the document. If we pass it that needs to be updated.
Councilmember Pace made a motion to adopt ordinance 2020-005 with removing the word bond from the document. Councilmember Lay seconded the motion. The voting was unanimous in favor of the motion.
Item#3 Elwood Town policies & procedures manual-Mayor Nelson stated it was his job to talk to the employees and do one on one meetings. Amy put together this document its standard and what other cities are using. Councilmember Goodliffe stated he thinks some of the language can be tweaked and a few things need to be fixed. Mayor Nelson asked Councilmember Goodliffe if he would work on it and we will table it for now.
Item#4 Sewer expansion-Mayor Nelson sated we need to get a plan for next month's meeting. Mayor Nelson asked the council to be thinking of how they would like to expand the system. Mayor Nelson stated that he would like to pick up the commercial district. We need to start working on it and get the information back to Amy to get it in a plan to collect the impact fees. Mayor Nelson stated that we may have to give the impact fees for the sewer back to Marc Allred in Elwood Crossing. Mayor Nelson reported that he told Gina to charge all the impact fees including the sewer impact fee and if we need to give them back then we will reimburse them. We have had some engineering work done to see if it feasible to extend the sewer. Councilmember Pace asked if we are looking to build up our sewer plant. Mayor Nelson stated no just where the lines would go to add them in the sewer plan and we will be okay to collect the impact fees.
Item#8 Planning Commission- Councilmember Lay reported that the planning commission held a public hearing on the ordinance and no public comment was made. He reported that there was a lot of discussion regarding secondary water system Amy recommended we get a committee together to look at the issues and the drainage issues. Councilmember Goodliffe asked who is going to put together the committee, Mayor Nelson stated we would put it together.
Item#9 Sheriff's Department Report- Officer Cluff was not present.
Item#10 Animal Control Report- Hagen reported he had a few dog calls.
WATER
Nothing to report.
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SEWER
Nothing to report.
PARKS AND RECREATION
Nothing to report.
ROADS
Mayor Nelson stated that Steve had done some shoulder work
EMERGENCY PREPARDNESS
Councilmember Howard had nothing to report.
OTHER
Mayor Nelson reminded everyone that the Christmas dinner is on Dec 16 @ 7:00 at Maddox.
Councilmember Goodliffe made a motion to adjourn, Councilmember Pace seconded the motion and the remaining council agreed. Meeting was adjourned at 8:36 p.m.
The undersigned duly acting and appointed clerk for Elwood Town Corporation hereby certifies that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the minutes of the Town Council meeting held on the 10th day of November 2020. Dated this the 8th day of December 2020.
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Gina R Marble, Elwood Town Clerk