Kearns Community Council


Kearns Community Council

Public Meeting // Tuesday September 19, 2006


Members

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


7:10 PM Public Meeting Began

Call To Order---Meeting called to order by Kevin Lundy, Chairman.
Pledge Of Allegiance---Salt Lake County Sheriff Deputy Levi Hughes
Roll Call Of Members---Eight council members in attendance, as listed above.

Minutes---Kevin stated that executive minutes for 9-5-06 and the RDA meeting on
8-24-06 were approved in executive meeting.

Sheriff’s Report---Deputy Levi Hughes introduced Deputy Jason Deherrera as the new roving COP officer for Kearns.
Deputy Herrera explained the POP plan for the area in that Kearns will be divided into grids and each grid will be assigned a case number.
Information will be passed to all deputies so everyone is on the same page. Code enforcement will hopefully be set up the same way.
Each grid will be hit twice a year along with other county services. Kearns and Magna will be the pilot “clean sweep” program for this.
Hopefully it will catch on countywide.

Correspondence Folder---None.

Committee Reports---Treasurer Report—TJ gave final report on financials for Kearns Hometown Night event, as discussed in executive report.

Planning & Zoning---Kevin reported that business Talofa Center was approved to extend hours at the Kearns Planning & Zoning meeting.
They will re-visit it in 6 months to check up on any violations of the conditional use permit.
KP&Z stated that the applicant did comply with the guidelines of the conditional use permit and
that there is no ordinance to do otherwise but approve.
Conditions were placed that they have a least 2 on site security guards and Salt Lake County deputies outside.
Business owner Glade Baldwin stated he could not understand why the extended hours because he does not know anyone that would
take their family out somewhere till 2:00 AM. Al also stated that Dave Price,
4140 West 5415 South Kearns was also approved at the KP&Z meeting without conditions.
Glade Baldwin, owner, Apothecary West, #23169 located at 4188 West 5415 South Kearns,
was in attendance and answered questions from the council and public regarding his request to extend the back of their building and
add on an additional 750 square feet. Nearby business owner of ABC Storage, Ken Jensen, spoke on support of this.
He stated that the space being discussed in now just a mess and has no opposition to allow the expansion.
“In fact, I welcome it”. Glade stated they hope to begin expansion approx. January 07.

***Motion by Al to approve Apothecary West request for expansion without any conditions. 2nd by Charles.
Kevin called for the vote. 8 votes yes, 0 votes no, 0 abstain. Motion passed.

Education---Kelly Colopy, Mayors Office, stated that the after school programs are a success.
They have on average of 20 children attending with about 2/3 staying for the entire time.
Nicholina Womack is the coordinator and can be reached at 541-3528.
Right now it is a pilot program and only includes Kearns Jr. High School. Charles as education chair stated he would follow up on.

UDOT---TJ reported that the 5400 South sidewalk project has finally been started. (Western Hills area)

Unfinished Business---
ZAP KCC Advisory Committee For Skatepark---
Paula stated that there already is an advisory board put in place.
Cathy Harding is the chair and has other committee members on board including youth.
We need to wait till after the election to see if voted for by citizens.
TJ stated he thought that the Rugby guy would be a good one to have on the committee and Rick Leonard because he is involved in soccer.
Council agreed will discuss after November election.

Land Use---Debby stated that this would need to be tabled for now.
The person who wanted to address the council was called away on a family emergency.


New Business---
UTA---
Robin Thomas, 4305 W. 5570 S. Kearns, stated she was one of the oldest residents in Kearns and has a real concern for the bus routes.
A lot of older people depend on the bus. They should not be taking service away and against the re-routing on Misty Way.
She stated one older lady was hit and killed by a car by the post office because she was trying to get to a bus stop to far away.
William Smith, Randy, Gay, and Jennie Pope all spoke to the issue of the buss’s on Misty Way stating that you hear them all night long and
is impossible to get any sleep during the day for a night worker.
Concerns with children crossing the road, to many stops, seven days a week running they don’t stop at the stop signs—only slow down,
and many more negative concerns. UTA personnel stated this is what they wanted to hear and will take these comments into their future plans.
They also stated a program already taking place in another area of offering 15-passenger van to help transport elderly to where they want to go.
They are very interested in coming to the table with the community on this issue.


Announcements
---Kevin stated there would be no council meeting on 10-3-06. Instead there will be a Kearns Meet The Candidate Night
that evening at the Utah Olympic Oval. Other announcements read as on agenda and on back table.



8:35 PM Public Meeting Adjourn