Kearns Community Council
Executive Meeting // Tuesday September 15, 2009
6:35 Executive Meeting Began
Call To Order---Kevin Lundy, Chairman
Roll Call Of Members---Nine members in attendance, as listed.
Minutes---Public minutes for 9/1/2009 were approved as read and corrected.
Secretary Pro Tem---Councilwoman Larsen volunteered.
Public Reports---Salt Lake County Mayor’s Office---Megan Hillyard asked council to get word out regarding the Mayors upcoming town meeting in Kearns. She stated the county is hearing concerns regarding the council’s financials and agendas not being posted. Chairman Lundy stated that per KCC bylaws the agendas are to be posted in two public places and that is being done. Posted at Harmons, Cougar Place and the Kearns Library. Financials will be posted shortly. Megan stated that the improvements at Oquirrh Park have begun. Cracar Construction has been awarded the bid for the skate park. They were not the lowest; the low bids did not meet specs, so only phase one will be done. They were hoping to get phase one and two of the skate park done. The mayor is available on 9/28/2009 for a ribbon cutting. Time was set for 4:00 PM. Megan will coordinate with Councilman Taylor to set up ribbon cutting. Megan also reported that the county sanitation has vouchers available now. These are for residents to take loads to the dump and not pay a fee. They are not for the large dumpsters. They must be used within 30 days of being issued. Council’s decisions were to give them out from 10/11/209—11/15/2009 and then again approx. May 2010. Westside Representative---Greg Schulz reported the Westside Township meeting with council chairs will be held 9/22/2009 at 5:30 PM at the Utah Olympic Oval World Record Room. 9/29/2009 will be the ACCT meeting with the county council around 4:30-5 PM. Homeland Security/Emergency Preparedness---Al Britton gave presentation on emergency preparedness for families along with giving his qualifications in this area. He stated the problem in emergencies is there is very little coordination between all the agencies and thus not much planning. He has been working with the sheriff office on a plan to pull all agencies together to come up with neighborhood watch, CERT, schools, plans, information, etc… to coordinate between all of them. They are doing this by dividing Kearns into 4 grid areas. At present the KCPA is also assisting the sheriff by filtering information back to them from their current mobile patrol and future plans. Al stated he has secured and registered four radios with their own clear VHF frequency and the radios have been signed for and used with the night mobile patrol of the KCPA—Barbara Webb. The KCPA owns and operates the radios.
Citizen Input (Allowed by chair)---Roger Snow, Kearns resident and Parkwood Neighborhood Watch invited the council to the Parkwood Neighborhood Watch annual BBQ on Saturday 9/19/2009 at 5:30 PM. This is a fund raiser for this neighborhood watch.
Committee Reports---Parks & Rec---Councilman Taylor reported that he and Rocky Mt. Power will be meeting on 9/16/2009 at Loder Park to see where to plant approx. 10 trees. He also stated that he is creating a history with pictures of the Oquirrh Park construction and improvements. He will do the same for the skate park. Health Fair—Councilman Peterson turned in his report from Andrea on the health fair. He said that he has double checked his figures and they are accurate. Public Safety---Councilman Markus announced that the KCPA is doing graffiti clean up in the community on Saturday 10/3/2009 beginning at 9:00 AM. Meet in KHS parking lot. The Parkwood Neighborhood Watch is joining them in this project. Youth Council---Councilwoman Larrabee stated that the youth council is going forward and applications are being sent to schools. They will be having a meeting on 10/7/09 at 6:30 PM, Kearns Library so the youth involved can vote on their officer’s issues, bylaws, etc… All youth 9th grade through 12th grade are invited to join. No one will be turned away. Red Cross---Andrea Boone reported there will be a mock disaster drill in Tooele on 9/16/2009 and a mock earthquake in the sugarhouse area.
Unfinished Business---Emergency Volunteer Coord---Councilman Markus stated he felt in the absence of Cathy Harding at the meetings, failure to turn in request paperwork to the county, no reports back to the council regarding what is going on that the council needs to seek someone else to fill this position. Megan Hillyard stated that as of today they still had not received the requested paperwork back from Cathy. She stated that this position is a big time commitment with meetings both from the county and UFA being held during the day that perhaps someone that works would not have the time to attend these. Councilwoman Larrabee stated that a few weeks ago at a previous council meeting she had suggested that we look for someone in the community to take on this position that could attend the meetings, put plans in place, etc…. She stated that within the circle there tonight we all have so much that we are doing already that perhaps we should put the word out community wide to find someone. Councilman Peterson suggested that Al Britton take this position given his excellent qualifications to do so and he is already working on parts of this with the sheriff already. Council suggested that Al Britton also have an assistant and that Al can invite other people in the community to work with him, form sub-committees, etc… It was suggested that Andrea Boone with the Red Cross be the assistant. Al Britton spoke and accepted the position stating he had the time to put into it, but would prefer to start training people now with him so that if he is un-available in the future someone can take over for him. Council agreed. He also said he would be fine to have Andrea as his assistant. ***Motion by Councilman Markus to appoint Al Britton to the Emergency Volunteer Coord for Kearns with the UFA and Salt Lake County along with Andrea Boone as his assistant. Also that Al can add more people to assist him as needed. 2nd by Al. 8 yes, 0 no. Kearns Recreation Halloween Carnival---***Motion by Councilman Markus to approve $800.00 for the carnival. 2nd by Marlon. 7 yes, 0 no. Motion passed. Float Maintenance---Councilwoman Larsen stated she is waiting to hear back from Gines Automotive to see if they will go and inspect float engine. When she hears back from Gines she will email council members. KCC Newsletter---Deadline for articles to Tawna Pippin is 10/16/2009 for the KCC newsletter that will come out end of November. Will be out in time for lead article about Holiday Festival—Councilwoman Larrabee will do that article. Other article assignments were given. Chairman Lundy stated he wants to be copied on everything that goes to Tawna so he can monitor and will make sure we see and approve newsletter before it goes to final print. Post Office---Councilwoman Larsen stated that according to KCC surveys (those that are recorded) that the majority of residents don’t have a problem allowing Taylorsville to put their name on the building. Councilman Peterson stated the KCC should state that the zip code to post office should remain 84118 and everything on the west side of Bangerter freeway also remain 84118. Council stated they would like to hear from Taylorsville Mayor Russ Wall again to check on his status of having Taylorsville City all one zip code.
New Business---New Funds Request Form---None. Recurring Funds Request--- Councilman Henderson suggested that we take off the $1000.00 cap on these funds. He felt that projects should be given more funds if that project required additional. Also we have the funding to use. Councilwoman Larsen stated she would like to get an exact accounting of where the funds stand at this point in time. She stated there are still two projects that were awarded $1000.00 each that have not come for the funds yet. ***Motion by Councilman Henderson to eliminate the $1000.00 cap of special funding projects. 2nd by Councilwoman Larrabee. 3 yes, 4 no. Motion does not pass. Chamber West Awards Dinner---Councilman Peterson questioned this stating that he felt using council funds may be an improper use of the funds. Councilman Henderson agreed. Councilman Brennan stated that we should have Kearns representation there. After all it is our chamber of commerce and Chamber West is honoring a Kearns business as business of the year. Council at this time felt that council funds should not be used to pay for members to attend. No motion was given to approve. Chamber West Magazine---Chairman Lundy stated that the chamber will give the council a ˝ page ad in their magazine for $400.00. Need to get info want on it to chamber ASAP. ***Motion by Councilman Markus to approve up to $400.00 for ad in Chamber West magazine. 2nd by Councilman Taylor. 7 yes, 1 no. Motion passed. Chairman Lundy will contact the chamber for exact deadline date. Suggestion Box---Councilman Peterson asked Kevin if there were any suggestions in box from the public meeting. There were none. FOC---Councilman Henderson & Councilman Helsten will get together to set a date for the next meeting.
Announcements---As read and on agenda.
8:50PM Executive Meeting Adjourn