The City Council met in Work Session on Tuesday, June 12, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. in Room 326, City Council Office, City County Building, 451 South State Street.
In Attendance: Council Members Carlton Christensen, Søren Simonsen, Luke Garrott, Jill Remington Love, Kyle LaMalfa, Stan Penfold and Charlie Luke.
Also In Attendance: Cindy Gust-Jenson, Executive Council Director; Gina Chamness, Budget Director; David Everitt, Mayor’s Chief of Staff; Jennifer Bruno, Council Deputy Director; Lehua Weaver, Council Budget Policy Analyst; Russell Weeks, Council Senior Policy Analyst; Karen Halladay, Council Budget Policy Analyst; Frank Gray, Community and Economic Development Director; Jason Mathis, Downtown Alliance; Rick Graham, Public Services Director; Emy Maloutas, Parks and Public Lands Director; David Terry, Golf Enterprise Fund Manager; LuAnn Clark, Housing and Neighborhood Development Director; and Beverly Jones, Deputy City Recorder.
Councilmember Simonsen presided at and conducted the meeting.
The meeting was called to order at 2:09 p.m.
AGENDA ITEMS
#1. 2:09:11 PM REPORT OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, INCLUDING A REVIEW OF COUNCIL INFORMATION ITEMS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS. View Attachments
See File M 12-5 for Announcements.
#2. 2:13:04 PM REPORT OF THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR, INCLUDING AN UPDATE ON COUNCIL INTEREST ITEMS AND A REPORT ON MEETINGS WITH THE CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR OF VARIOUS CITY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
Councilmember Simonsen asked if the Council wanted to hold a discussion on the transparency resolution scheduled for adoption on the formal meeting. A discussion was held on the resolution. Council Members Love and Garrott wanted to discuss resolutions at the Council’s Retreat in August. Councilmember Simonsen said he would schedule a discussion on resolutions at the retreat.
#3. RECEIVE A BRIEFING ON ITEMS RELATED TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2012-2013 ANNUAL BUDGET. THE BRIEFINGS INCLUDE BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR DEPARTMENTS, SEPARATE FUNDS AND OTHER BUDGET RELATED ITEMS. (ITEMS C 3a THRU C 3O. View Attachments
a) 2:19:46 PM CONTINUE A DISCUSSION WITH COUNCIL STAFF REGARDING UNRESOLVED ISSUES RELATING TO THE RECOMMENDED BUDGET FOR SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012-2013, INCLUDING POTENTIAL CHANGES TO THE RECOMMENDED SALT LAKE CITY LIBRARY BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012-2013 AND RECEIVE AN UPDATE REGARDING THE LEGISLATIVE INTENT STATEMENTS FROM LAST FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012 AND DISCUSS POSSIBLE STATEMENTS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2012-2013. View Attachments
Gina Chamness, David Everitt, Jennifer Bruno, Lehua Weaver, Russell Weeks, Karen Halladay, Frank Gray, Jason Mathis, Rick Graham, Emy Maloutas and David Terry briefed the Council. Councilmember Luke wanted to combine revenue estimates from the County’s property tax and the judgment levy this year to keep parking as it currently stood. He said that would be a 6:00 p.m. time limit, keep rates at $1.50 an hour and maintain free Saturday and holiday parking.
Councilmember Penfold said he wanted additional funding for the Parks Department but also wanted to look at restoration of some services cut by the City over the last five years. He said he wanted to look at investments to the CIP.
Councilmember Luke said it was hard to find parking downtown and there was no short term parking. He said he felt the Administration had brought this issue to the Council as a solution to the parking problem. He said it was not about raising revenue, it was about a better parking experience. He said changing the culture was endemic to how the City was going to solve the problem looking 10 years into the future. He said he wanted to propose 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., $2 an hour, roll back Saturdays and holidays to where it was before and increase parking rates to $2 an hour. He said he wanted to double the amount of funding for education and technology. He said he wanted to use some of the money on proposals on how to ingrate parking City-wide.
Councilmember Christensen said he had a difficult time budgeting ongoing items with one-time revenue. He said judgment levies were one-time only revenue. He said the need for parking was not any different on a Saturday than a weekday. He said there were ongoing needs in parks and other items needed to be addressed. He said he felt the Council was not going to be ready in six months to implement street lighting. He said he wanted to use some of the one-time money for this.
Councilmember Garrott said parking enforcement was important but they should not enforce draconian enforcement policies. He said that would hurt the City more than raising the rates $.50 an hour. He said he was focusing on the Public Engagement part of the budget. He said the new Civic Engagement position should not be controlled by the Mayor. He said they needed to discuss this position.
Councilmember Simonsen asked for straw polls on the following:
•Additional enforcement of parking until 8:00 p.m. All Council Members were in favor except Councilmember Luke who was opposed.
•Elimination of free holiday parking. All Council Members were in favor except Councilmember Luke who was opposed.
•Metering or fare collection on Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Council Members were not in favor.
•Parking rate increase from $1.50 to $2. All Council Members were in favor except Councilmember Luke who was opposed.
•$50,000 with a $50,000 match for education. Council Members were not in favor.
•$100,000 for education. A majority of Council Members were in favor.
Straw polls were taken on the following items:
•$50,000 for detective training and technology. All Council Members were in favor.
•IMS/SLC TV for $20,136. All Council Members were in favor.
•Safer Grant restoration. Council Members were not in favor of setting aside funding at this time.
•$29,000 from CIP for the Council Office. A majority of the Council was in favor.
5:07:41 PM LEGISLATIVE INTENT STATEMENTS AND CONTINGENT APPROPRIATIONS.
Lehua Weaver, Gina Chamness and Edwin Rutan briefed the Council from the attachments.
Straw Polls were taken on the following:
•Recommendation to move forward with the discussion about closing the Jordan Par 3 Golf Course. Council Members were in favor.
•$20,000 to start a Naming and Asset Evaluation for Parks. All Council Members were in favor.
•Make sure all dedicated CIP fees being charged were properly budgeted and accounted for and then appropriated - $1 per nine
•hole rounds. It is further the intent of the Council that receipt and expenditures of these funds be independently audited each year. All Council Members were in favor.
6:13:05 PM LIBRARY BUDGET
Russell Weeks briefed the Council from the attachments.
b) 9:12:24 PM MAYOR’S RECOMMENDED BUDGET RELATING TO THE CITY’S CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM (CIP) FOR FISCAL YEAR 2012-2013. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS INVOLVE THE CONSTRUCTION, PURCHASE OR RENOVATION OF BUILDINGS, PARKS, STREETS OR OTHER PHYSICAL STRUCTURES. GENERALLY, PROJECTS HAVE A USEFUL LIFE OF FIVE OR MORE YEARS AND COST $50,000 OR MORE. View Attachments
This item was held in the Council Chambers.
Karen Halladay and LuAnn Clark briefed the Council from the attachments.
Straw polls taken:
•Move forward on three time sensitive items: debt service, Engineering Study and 700 South. The majority of the Council was in favor.
•The Council would look at the original funding and the Council would allocate it once they went through all the projects. Council Members were in favor.
#4. 6:16:57 PM INTERVIEW THOMAS BRENNAN, CHARLES SHEPHERD AND WAYNE BAKER PRIOR TO CONSIDERATION OF THEIR APPOINTMENT TO THE HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION.
Wayne Baker was not present for the interview.
Councilmember Simonsen said Mr. Brennan’s and Mr. Shepherd’s names would be forwarded to the Consent Agenda for formal approval.
ITEM NOS. 5 THRU 9 ARE SCHEDULED DURING THE FORMAL MEETING THIS EVENING AND ARE LISTED HERE AS TENTATIVE ITEMS, BECAUSE THE COUNCIL MAY HOLD A DISCUSSION IF NEEDED PRIOR TO THE 7:00 P.M. FORMAL MEETING.
#5. 9:11:24 PM & 9:24:19 PM RECEIVE A FOLLOW-UP BRIEFING REGARDING A PROPOSED RESOLUTION TO AUTHORIZE MAYOR RALPH BECKER TO SIGN AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT THAT WOULD REQUIRE PEOPLE WHO RIDE BUSES IN THE DOWNTOWN FREE FARE ZONE TO PAY FARES. View Attachments
This item was held in the Council Chambers.
Russell Weeks, David Everitt and Edwin Rutan briefed the Council from the attachments. Councilmember Garrott asked if the Council felt comfortable moving forward with the deal points offered by UTA and negotiated with the Administration. He asked if the Council wanted to move ahead with a public benefit study. Council Members were not in favor.
#6. HOLD A DISCUSSION TO REVIEW A DRAFT PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT ON “SUSTAINABILITY.” THE COUNCIL MET IN JANUARY TO DISCUSS PRIORITY FOCUS AREAS AND REQUESTED THAT STAFF PROVIDE DRAFT PHILOSOPHY STATEMENTS FOR REVIEW AND REFINEMENT BY THE PUBLIC. THE SEVEN PRIORITY AREAS ARE: ECONOMIC HEALTH OF THE CITY, ARTS AND CULTURE, NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE, TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY, PARKS AND OPEN SPACE, SUSTAINABILITY AND EDUCATION. View Attachments
This item was not held.
#7. RECEIVE A FOLLOW-UP BRIEFING REGARDING BUDGET AMENDMENT NO. 6 FOR FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012 ADOPTING AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SALT LAKE CITY ORDINANCE 50 OF 2011 WHICH ADOPTED THE FINAL BUDGET OF SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING JULY 1, 2011 AND ENDING JUNE 30, 2012. BUDGET AMENDMENT NO. 6 CONTAINS A NUMBER OF PROPOSED ADJUSTMENTS TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012 BUDGET, INCLUDING THE PROCESSING OF A NUMBER OF GRANTS RELATING TO ALTERNATIVE ENERGY, REIMBURSEMENTS FOR OVERTIME EXPENSES IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, REIMBURSEMENTS FOR GREATER-THAN-ANTICIPATED COSTS TO MAINTAIN THE CITY’S FLEET AND A REQUEST TO FUND AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF NEEDED CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE GOLF FUND. View Attachments
This item was not held.
#8. HOLD A FOLLOW-UP DISCUSSION TO REVIEW A DRAFT PHILOSOPHY STATEMENT ON “TRANSPORTATION & MOBILITY.” THE COUNCIL MET IN JANUARY TO DISCUSS PRIORITY FOCUS AREAS AND REQUESTED THAT STAFF PROVIDE DRAFT PHILOSOPHY STATEMENTS FOR REVIEW AND REFINEMENT BY THE PUBLIC. THE SEVEN PRIORITY AREAS ARE: ECONOMIC HEALTH OF THE CITY, ARTS AND CULTURE, NEIGHBORHOOD QUALITY OF LIFE, TRANSPORTATION AND MOBILITY, PARKS AND OPEN SPACE, SUSTAINABILITY AND EDUCATION. View Attachments
This item was not held.
#9. RECEIVE A FOLLOW-UP BRIEFING FROM THE ADMINISTRATION ON AMENDING SALT LAKE CITY CODE TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF CIVIL FINES FOR
VEHICLES THAT ARE NOT BUSES OR TAXICABS BUT ARE PARKED AT BUS STOPS OR TAXICAB STANDS. View Attachments
This item was not held.
#10. (TENTATIVE) RECEIVE A BRIEFING FROM THE PLANNING DIVISION ON A REQUEST THAT THE COUNCIL CONSIDER AMENDMENTS TO 21A.46.020.B, TITLED DEFINED TERMS, AND 21A.46.070.X TITLED ELECTRONIC SIGNS. THE SECTIONS ARE PARTS OF AN ORDINANCE FIRST CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IN JANUARY OF 2012. (Petition No. PLNPCM2010-00032 and Petition No. PLNPCM2010-00717) View Attachments
This item was not held.
#11. 6:40:49 PM (TENTATIVE) CONSIDER A MOTION TO ENTER INTO CLOSED SESSION, IN KEEPING WITH UTAH CODE §52-4-204, FOR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING PURPOSES: a) DISCUSSION OF THE CHARACTER, PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE, OR PHYSICAL OR MENTAL HEALTH OF AN INDIVIDUAL PURSUANT TO UTAH CODE §52-4-205(1)(a); b) A STRATEGY SESSION TO DISCUSS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PURSUANT TO UTAH CODE §52-4-205(1)(b); c) A STRATEGY SESSION TO DISCUSS THE PURCHASE, EXCHANGE OR LEASE OF REAL PROPERTY (INCLUDING ANY FORM OF WATER RIGHT OR WATER SHARES) WHEN PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF THE TRANSACTION WOULD DISCLOSE THE APPRAISAL OR ESTIMATED VALUE OF THE PROPERTY UNDER CONSIDERATION OR PREVENT THE CITY FROM COMPLETING THE TRANSACTION ON THE BEST POSSIBLE TERMS PURSUANT TO UTAH CODE §52-4-205(1)(d); d) A STRATEGY SESSION TO DISCUSS PENDING OR REASONABLY IMMINENT LITIGATION PURSUANT TO UTAH CODE §52-4-205(1)(c); e) A STRATEGY SESSION TO DISCUSS THE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY (INCLUDING ANY FORM OF WATER RIGHT OR WATER SHARES) IF (1) PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF THE TRANSACTION WOULD DISCLOSE THE APPRAISAL OR ESTIMATED VALUE OF THE PROPERTY UNDER CONSIDERATION OR PREVENT THE CITY FROM COMPLETING THE TRANSACTION ON THE BEST POSSIBLE TERMS, (2) THE CITY PREVIOUSLY GAVE NOTICE THAT THE PROPERTY WOULD BE OFFERED FOR SALE, AND (3) THE TERMS OF THE SALE ARE PUBLICLY DISCLOSED BEFORE THE CITY APPROVES THE SALE; f) FOR ATTORNEY-CLIENT MATTERS THAT ARE PRIVILEGED PURSUANT TO UTAH CODE §78B-1-137, g) A STRATEGY SESSION TO DISCUSS DEPLOYMENT OF SECURITY PERSONNEL, DEVICES OR SYSTEMS PURSUANT TO UTAH CODE §52-4-205(1)(f); AND h) A SESSION TO INVESTIGATE PROCEEDINGS REGARDING ALLEGATIONS OF CRIMINAL MISCONDUCT PURSUANT TO UTAH CODE §52-4-205(1)(g).
Councilmember Christensen moved and Councilmember Luke seconded to enter into Closed Session for attorney/client privilege items and purchase and acquisition of real property, which motion carried. A roll call vote was taken with Council Members Christensen, Penfold, LaMalfa, Luke, Love, Garrott and Simonsen voting aye.
The meeting adjourned at 9:51 p.m.
This document along with the digital recording constitute the official minutes of the City Council Work Session meeting held June 12, 2012.
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