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Town Council Meeting Approved Work Meeting Minutes March 18, 24

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Event Start Date & Time

March 18, 2024 02:00 PM

Event End Date & Time

March 18, 2024 05:41 PM

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Laketown Town Council Work Meeting Minutes Meeting Minutes March 18, 2024 Laketown City Office 10 North 200 East Laketown, Utah Mayor Burdette Weston welcomed those present and called the meeting to order at 2:00pm on Monday, March 18, 2024. Those present are as follows: Mayor Burdette Weston, Council Members Thad Willis, Brandon Willis, Kris Hodges, Delora Wight and Clerk Alice Jackson. OPENING CEREMONY: Mayor conducted the opening ceremony and Brandon led the pledge of allegiance. ACTION: Mayor called for the agenda to be approved. Motion made by Delora seconded by Brandon. The motion carried unanimously. ACTION: Meeting Minutes: Mayor asked for a motion to approve Town Council Meeting Minutes from March 06th and the Closed Session Minutes from the same date. These will be approved in the April Town Council Meeting ITEMS OF BUSINESS: - Conex Ordinance. No comments. * Action Item-Alice to ask Duane if this is final 'modified' - Camp Trailers-Laketown residents are living in a trailer which is against Laketown Code. Delora noted that we have sent attorney letters before. What is the next action. *Action Item-Brandon to ask Justin how to handle this. - Cross Contamination Policy. Delora is still working on this. *Action Item-Alice to research what to call the water superintendent in our Code. Mayor suggests Delora send it to Ben Harker. Delora provided an update on when all the water reports are due. - Calling Tree-Delora spoke to Cathy Rasmussen about this. Delora to follow-up on this - Laketown Fraud Hotline Policy-Approved - Laketown Cash Receipting and Deposit Policy-Approved - Consolidated Fee Schedule Exhibit o Specific Fees. The quarterly late fee of $10 will be raised to $25.00. Discussion took place regarding raising the $48.00/ 50,000 gallons. The mayor referenced the water budget. Question about what depreciation schedule is the bond on? * Action Item-Alice to ask Gary how he calculates the depreciation. Discussion took place on what Laketown's current water fees are both the monthly service rate $48.99 for 50,000 gallons and the water usage overage $2.50 for 1,000 gallons. The mayor called Scott Archibald for his input. Mayor put him on speaker so the board could hear his input. Scott suggests we should increase to 5%. The board feels that 5% is too high. *Action Item-Alice to add changing the water fees to the April agenda ($54 and 3%) Mayor spoke to Scott regarding when we built the tank in 2017. The tank gave us the ability to add 70 hook ups. There are approximately 18-20 new hook ups in the proposed Oldham Farms Subdivision. *Brandon requests that we ask Scott for some data on why the above increases are the right thing to do. There was a discussion on the water impact fee that Laketown currently charges ($16,333) and this fee is difficult for younger families to afford. This figure was based on a 20 year growth plan which was 1-2 home per year. Brandon stated that Laketown is the highest in the state. Scott shared that this fee was based on putting the costs on future users. This fee is so high because we need to drill a well and very few users. We are a small community that has a big need. Laketown is trying to catch up now. This figure is probably 30% lower than it should be at this point in time. This figure was broken down into 4 different projects. The well was the biggest cost. *Action Item-Alice to send to Scott meter readings over the last year. This year and last year water budgets. Plus annual payment on the loan. * Action Item-Brandon to send Scott all the information that the building inspector has for Safe Harbor. Mayor asked Scott what the cost of a water share should be about $4,000. This is usually equated with an acre of ground. - Open the Budget. The mayor discussed where the budget needs adjusting. This will be done in our April meeting. - Brandon Letter to Last Chance Residence (pressure reducing valve) o Water Violation Letter to residence and drinking water district. Delora discussed whether a letter needs to be sent to the Laketown residence. Should we wait until the testing will be done. The decision was made that the letter will be posted not sent to the residence. Brandon to write letter that will be sent to Jon Carver and he can send to his HOA residence. - Brandon to work with Justin on a 5 year plan for pre-paid water o Brandon did draft Ordinance based on his conversation with Justin and shared with the board. The Ordinance details was word smithed live. - Mayor to take a picture of the tank to reduce points - Codes to be updated-take off the agenda - Mayor to speak to Scott about the price of a water share-See above. Board decided between 9-10k. This needs to be added to the Exhibit * Action Item-Alice see 8.1.8 #3-This language needs to be word smithed. - Mayor to call the owner of Roadside Caf -not done - Road Chipping-* Alice to ask Clerks - Rodeo Sponsor letters o Kris has found a company called simpletix that will work with our current Square. Alice and Kris to meet offline to determine a time to meet about the letters - Impact Fees * Action Item Alice to re-discuss with Seth - *Action Item Alice to work with Pelorus on developing general ledger for subcategories for the $16k - Action Items From Previous Meeting - Kris & Alice to contact Eventbrite regarding digitizing rodeo tickets - Sponsor letters for the Rodeo need to get out with when their money is due ADJOURN Brandon made a motion to adjourn. Thad seconded. The motion passed unanimously.5:41pm meeting ended.

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Meeting Location

10 North 200 East
P.O. Box 118
Laketown, UT 84038
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Amber Droesbeke

Contact Email

clerk@laketownutah.com

Contact Phone

(435)946-9000

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April 09, 2024 09:58 AM

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