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Elwood

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Elwood Town

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Elwood Town Council Meeting Mins

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Event Start Date & Time

November 8, 2022 07:00 PM

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Elwood Town Council Meeting Nov 8, 2022 The Elwood Town Council met at the Elwood Town Hall, 5235 West 8800 North, Elwood, Utah, at 7:00, Nov 8, 2022. The following members were present consisting of a quorum. Keenan Nelson Mayor Scott Goodliffe Councilmember Mark Lay Councilmember Lynn Hardy Councilmember Staff present at this meeting Gina Marble Town Clerk Steve Woerner Public Works Others present at this meeting Britton Hayden Devere Hansen Amy Hugie Shane Taggart Steve Schneringer William Call WELCOME ADMINISTRATION Councilmember Lay gave the prayer Pledge of allegiances Councilmember Pace was absent Mayor Nelson welcomed everyone to the meeting. Minutes for the October 11, 2022 town council meetings were presented for approval. Councilmember Goodliffe made a motion to approve the minutes for Oct 11, 2022. Councilmember Lay seconded the motion. The voting was unanimous in favor of the motion. Item#1 Box Elder Mosquito Abatement District Tax increase-Mayor Nelson, Mayor Nelson reported that the mosquito abatement district is proposing a tax increase. On a $404,000 residence would increase from $35.55 to $44.44 which is $8.89 per year. Tax on a $404,000 business would increase from $64.64 to $80.80, which is $16.16 per year. If the proposed budget is approved, the mosquito abatement district would increase its property tax budgeted revenue by 25% above last year's property tax budgeted revenue. They are having a public hearing tonight. Councilmember Goodliffe stated they are always great to work with and they spray for the mosquito's if you call they do a great job. The Council agreed. Item#2 Ordinance 2022-010 Elwood Town codifying ordinances- Amy Hugie reported to the council, we have all the re codifying done and it's on the American legion website. We done the legal review and had the public hearing and the planning commission recommended it to the council. Councilmember Hardy made a motion to adopt ordinance 2022-010. Councilmember Lay seconded the motion. The voting was in favor of the motion. Item#3 River Bend preliminary subdivision-Bret Cummings- Bret was not present. Steve Woerner stated he and Shane met with them regarding the subdivision. They were going to adjust some things on the plans and get them back to us. The council tabled the preliminary plan for the next meeting. Item#4 Advertising for public hearings-Gina Marble, Gina stated that we advertise in the Tremonton leader for all of our notices. Amy asked to put this on the agenda to see if you want to continue to post in the paper or just on the website, window and state website. The problem we have is the paper only comes out once a week, we have to give the notice to the paper about 2 weeks in advance. Gina stated that there will be some notices we will have to put in the paper like tax increase and rezones things like that. The council stated that a lot of people don't take the paper anymore and agree to post items that we need to in the paper the rest on the website, window at town hall and the state website. Item#5 Planning Commission Report-William Call reported to the council, Riverbend subdivision has submitted the preliminary paperwork and they are addressing all the issues like the turnaround, sewer, retention pound, and the road. We should have everything back to us by next month. William Call reported that Elwood Crossing lot 8 it's a commercial lot they are going to start working with Shane, they are putting a building on the lot. William also reported that the General Plan committee has been formed the members are Mark Lay form Town Council, Dakota Nelson form the planning commission, Britton Hayden, Zack Pali and Stevi Sherman. Item#6 Sheriff's Department Report-Officer was not present. Item#7 Animal Control Report- nothing to report. Item#8 Elwood Town Planning Zoning Map-Amy reported to the council, she stated that there is a lot wrong with this map legally. Amy stated she was not involved with the map and we had it noticed up as the whole town changing zoning. No property owners were notified regarding the zone change. The way this map is we could have a hugh taking issues with the residents property. The thing we need to do now is vote against this map, we cannot approve this map. Amy explained we have 2 maps the zoning is what is sitting on the ground right now and the general plan map is for the future zoning of Elwood how you want Elwood years in the future. The zoning map is current law, the map of general plan is the land use and that's for future. Amy stated the map they are presenting to you to pass is so illegal in so many ways you just can't pass it. Amy explained the town needs both maps not a hybrid map that mixes the 2 maps together. Councilmember Hardy asked Amy what we needed to do, Amy stated you need 2 maps we need to amend the current zoning map to show what exist right now. We need to work on the general plan map that's the future map that should be 30 years out. Councilmember Goodliffe stated in Sam's defense he had justification in titling the map. Councilmember Hardy stated the planning commission has worked hard on the map. Councilmember Goodliffe stated that GP-5 map is misleading we need to slash the general plan. Shane Taggart stated there has been a lot of confusion, all the components are there we do have an updated land use map. Shane stated that he will take the zoning map and update it to what is already existing so it's the here and now map. Amy stated that we need to get the maps done asap, we need the maps so we can move forward with the impact fee study. Amy recommends that when Shane updates the map we don't split parcels and we don't have the mpc zone. Mayor Nelson asked Amy to work on an ordinance to allow 1/4 area parcels in the sewer district. Amy stated we would work on it and talk to the planning commission. The council agreed to have Amy work on the ordinance. Amy stated that we will allow for 1/4 lots on the land use map. Councilmember Hardy stated that the RD2 is creating a problem with water and the future. William Call stated that the RD1 is created for the developer to help them have smaller lots with big open space. Councilmember Hardy made a motion to not approve or adopt the zoning map we will send it back to the planning commission. Councilmember Goodliffe seconded the motion. The voting was in favor of the motion. WATER Steve Woerner reported the state changed the copper and lead rules and it's going to require a lot of stuff to do. We are looking into a GIS system that will help with some of the requirements. The state has money to help the homeowners if they need to replace old lead pipes. SEWER Steve Woerner had nothing to report. PARKS AND RECREATION Nothing to report. ROADS Nothing to report. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS Nothing to report. OTHER Mayor Nelson stated that the Christmas dinner will be on December 14 @ 6:00 at Maddox. Councilmember Hardy stated that the trees on 8000 North have been cut down and it's a lot safer to the public. Councilmember Hardy stated the bill was $6000, Mayor Nelson stated we could pay $3,000 for public safety. Councilmember Hardy thinks that's too much we should pay $2000 of the $6000 the council agreed. Councilmember Hardy made a motion to adjourn, Councilmember Lay seconded the motion, and the remaining council agreed. The meeting was adjourned at 8:20 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 Town Council meeting minutes held on the 8th day of November 2022. Dated this the 13th day of December 2022. ________________________________ Gina R Marble, Elwood Town Clerk

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5235 W 8800 N
Elwood , UT 84337
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Gina Marble

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elwood@elwoodtown.com

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(435)257-5518

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December 13, 2022 08:19 PM

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