Kearns Community Council

Kearns Community Council

Executive Meeting // Tuesday May 2, 2006


Members

Samantha Anderson, Debra Conner, Thomas “TJ” Dubach
Charles Henderson, Kathy Larrabee—Excused, Paula Larsen
Kevin Lundy, Chuck McDowell, Al Peterson


6:20 PM Executive Meeting Began

Call To Order---Meeting called to order by Kevin Lundy, Chairman

Roll Call Of Members---Eight council members in attendance, one excused, as listed above.

Minutes---Kevin stated that since minutes were previously sent out, through email to all council members for review,
if there were any objections or corrections for the 4/18/06 executive and public minutes. There were none on the executive minutes.
The public minutes for 4/4 reviewed / accepted without any changes and 4/18 executive minutes were corrected on one spelling error
and corrected name of a Kearns resident. No other objections or corrections were made.
Therefore the 4/18/06 executive and public minutes stand approved as corrected.
3/7 Executive minutes still not available and tabled to next session

Correspondence Folder--Reviewed by council members.


Unfinished Business
---Financial Oversite CommitteeKevin stated that no other council has this so why do we need it?
Chuck replied “because of the past 18 months”, and to restore the public’s trust.
We promised Salt Lake County an oversight committee as one of the financial controls and we should keep our promises.”
Charles stated the financial overset committee could possibly start to reinstate trust if need be. May not need for a year or so, indefinitely.
Nominations for members of the council to sit on this committee were Charles, Kathy, Debby, and Al. Will be voted on in public meeting.
Al stated vote to adopt report—audit. This will relieve the treasurer of all responsibility after reported.
Guidelines for oversight committee were reviewed and wording changes were given and accepted by a vote of the Council
(see separate attachment with that wording).

Taste of Kearns—tabled to public meeting if time permits. Follow Up United Fire Authority—tabled to public meeting if time permits.

501C3— Chuck state the council may need to get a 501C3 in order to apply for grants.
Further discussion tabled till the public meeting if time permitted.

THE WORDING TO FOLLOW SHOULD BE PART OF THE PUBLIC MINUTES WHEN THIS CAME UP AGAIN.

Jackie Murphy mentioned that she did not think we could lobby if we had our 501C3.
Chuck responded that if that was true that ACCT could lobby in our behalf. Jackie agreed.
Kevin Lundy asked if we might want to consider having a 3rd party like a foundation formed by a group of Kearns Citizens
when they did not think the County would allow the new Council to apply for 501C3 status of administer grant money.
Name of that Foundation??? Chuck asked who was on the board of that Foundation and
Kevin Lundy mentioned that two members were himself and Lawrence Geisler.
Jackie Murphy also mentioned that we could apply for grants through “Utah Neighborhoods”.
Further discussion tabled till June 6th meeting.

Business Cards and Stationary—Debby stated her son in law will be able to give us a good price on what we want.
Kevin suggested that we get prices from him on about 500 cards each. He thinks that is the price brake. Debby will follow up on.
Absentee Member Policy- (it was suggested by Chuck that this be tabled to a future executive meeting on 5/16….
Sam mentioned that she would like to be present for the discussion and could not be at the 5/16 meeting.
The council discussed and agreed to move this to the public session if time permitted to allow Sam to participate)

THE WORDING TO FOLLOW SHOULD BE PART OF THE PUBLIC MINUTES WHEN THIS CAME UP AGAIN.


Chuck asked for the parliamentarian (Alan Peterson) to give a formal opinion of the bylaws.
Alan Peterson read the bylaws and stated that if a member misses more than 50% of the meetings that they are automatically subject to dismissal. Discussion around that wording and whether “excused” status qualified as part of the percentage. Opinions offered by several council members and Samantha mentioned that she did not realize before the election that the Council would be meeting more than once a month.
Kevin asked Jackie Murphy if all Councils met twice a month. Jackie mentioned that some did and some only met once.
Paula mentioned that it was not Samantha’s fault that she had miss some meetings because she had a work conflict.
Samantha responded that she would be able to attend at least once a month moving forward.
Chuck mentioned that he saw this as a non-issue regarding Sam given that she would be able to attend at least once a month going forward.

Discussion was tabled for further analysis at later date.


New Business

KCC Legal Fund—Tabled to public meeting if time permits. Community Council Capital Improvement---Tabled to public meeting if time permits.
RDA Drive Around---Chuck stated that he has been in contact with Dale Carpenter of Salt Lake County about re-development funds for Kearns.
After having a discussion with him about the areas in Kearns that could use this a drive around will be held 5/9/06 at 3:30 PM to review the Kearns area. This will be with Dale Carpenter, Chuck and anyone who would be interested. They will meet in the west parking lot of Kearns High School.

Kearns Improvement District—Chuck stated that Pam Gill of KID would be at our 5/16/06 meeting for a presentation.
Transportation Theme---Chuck stated this should take place at our 5-16-06 meeting and to save on time it should encompass only the Mountain View corridor.


Announcements---As listed on the agenda and notices on back table.


6:55 PM Adjourn