Salt Lake City 2022 City Council and RDA Board Meetings, 29 Aug 2022

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From YouTube: Salt Lake City Limited Formal Meeting - 08/29/2022

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Amy, how are you guys doing here as well, good good.

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Good evening salt lake city and welcome to the 29 august 2022 special limited formal meeting, a special limited, funnel meeting means this is not a standard, formal meeting agenda tonight. The council needs to consider action on the final steps in the annual budget process for the city's continued truth and taxation. Hearing a public hearing required by the state a truth and taxation hearing happens when any of the following takes place. The city raises property taxes, property tax, stabilization judgment levy this year. The city used all three of those tools.

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Although the hearing is a formal step required by the state, the council is always interested in hearing from the public feedback from the public helps the council make decisions in future budgets or even amend to this budget's year's budget.

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Now, if you receive your property tax assessment and wish to protest, please contact salt lake county or visit its appeals website.

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We welcome the public meeting. Rules is number two. If you would like to give public comments today, we are accepting comments in person online on webex or via phone for those who only option is to call in before we begin moving through the agenda. I want to mention and review our rules of decorum.

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The city council always has the guidelines in place to ensure our meetings are orderly, civil and efficient. The guidelines help everyone feel comfortable, sharing their comments without feeling intimidated to achieve these. Our rules of decorum take effect. The moment you arrive. We respect all points of view and welcome. New insights, please be respectful, while sharing your comments avoid yelling using profanity, making racial slurs or obscene or defamatory remarks you violate this rule. We will mute your line or ask you to stop. You feel the need to use such language to express your opinion.

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You can email, the council members or leave a message on our 24-hour comment line. Additionally, our staff will request your name during the webex registration process to limit disruptions. Your name cannot include a message or violate our rules at the quorum. Your name doesn't comply with our staff, we'll let you know for those joined on webex. Please watch your chat window in case we try to reach you.

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Scott corpeny from our staff will moderate our webex and we'll message you with any questions about your registration staff, has handled many tasks. So please limit messages to technical issues and minimal information updates. If you'd like to send a comment, feel free to email or mail us at po box, 145, 476, salt lake city, utah, 84114, emailing, us at council, dot comments at slcgov.com or call us at 801-535-7655.

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Now, on to uh item number b, the public hearing, we now begin our truth and taxation public hearing for the fiscal year, 2022-23 taylor hill from our staff will be calling names for those who wish to comment and wish to call the names of people on webex and person in on the order of registration or receiving comment cards.

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Once we open the public comment, taylor announced three names at a time so that people can have some notice and prepare to speak when it's your turn to speak. Taylor announces your name you're on webex, your line will be unmuted and you begin if you are here in person, please step up to the podium to make your comments. Once taylor announces your name, please begin to state your name and your two minute. Timer will start it's two minute.

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Mark staff will announce time, you're unable to finish your comments, please send the rest via email, mail or call us our office. You no longer wish to speak either message our staff or when the staff state your name. Let us know when you're here to listen. Our public hearing is item b1 the truth and taxation hearing for fiscal year, 2022-23.

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And before we take any comments, I'm going to turn the time over to jen bruno, I had to give a short introduction.

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Thank you, mr chair. I think you covered the basics that the city is holding this hearing to comply with state code, which states that if the council sets a property tax budget higher than the previous year, we should go through a truth and taxation process. So that's what the council is doing right now at the conclusion of that hearing, you can decide whether to adjust or adopt the budget that you adopted in june that set that property tax budget.

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Thank you, jen and taylor, open up for public comments.

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Thank you, council chair, it looks like there are three people here to speak tonight. The first will be rusty cannon, followed by george chapman and then michael bills.

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Rusty. You are unmuted.

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Thank you. Can you hear me? Okay? Yes, we can hear you great. Thank you. uh Yes, rusty cannon, I'm the president of the utah taxpayers association just wanted to make a couple of brief comments. Tonight.

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We appreciate the time that the mayor's staff spent with us in going over the budget. As we reviewed what's going on this this year, we did want to make one comment going forward. So if you look at the tax rates website that the property tax division of the state tax commission puts together, you can see what the auditor certified revenue is for this year for salt lake city, um 91 million 226 891 your budget revenue is 97 million. 582 and 22. Excuse me 22.

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So that's a tax hike of 6 million 355 131, so we've been a little bit frustrated that in some materials the tax hack has been expressed as 4 million in change, but there's really no way around the fact that you are raising revenue by 6.3 million and we just appreciate that number being used in materials going forward or discussions going forward, and we look forward to working on this in the future. So this doesn't happen again but happy to answer any questions. Thank you.

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Thank you, rusty.

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Next we'll hear from george chapman, followed by michael bills: george, you are unmuted mute off.

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Yes, am I am, I unmuted you mute.

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You're on george you're.

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Unmuted george.

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Oh, I couldn't hear anything. Okay um um in the last 10 years, there's been about a 16 increase in the circuit breaker, while the typical property taxes have gone up about 300 plus percent. So don't blame the legislature. You are increasing the taxes and you shouldn't expect the legislature to cover your actions.

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You have a fun balance after last year's budget. That is double the best ever fund balance. I think it was 17 around rocky's time. So why do you need more money to spend check the city budget for the last five years? If this goes through disabled veterans, low income, fixed incomes, seniors all will be hurt. Please don't increase the property taxes.

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This taxes increases slap in the pace, especially towards those people. I urge you to close the publication and reject the property tax increase and you can do that if you are half as good as I think you are, and I think that I noticed that the council's agenda page was not updated at least 24 hours before the meeting, with the notice of the meeting just heads up thanks for listening.

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Thanks george.

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Next, we'll hear from michael bills, followed by sandra chacon.

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Michael you're unmuted.

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Never want to hear me.

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We can hear you but you're faint.

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Is that any better.

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All right well yeah, so my name is michael bills and I am a resident of the west side of salt lake city.

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I wanted to come out and comment in favor of the projects that are being supported by the both the go bond and the revenue bond, but I think that these involve a lot of much overdue attention being paid to projects on the west side with new glendale water park, development improvements along the jordan river trail fisher mansion money. I think these are all long overdue, that citizens of the west side have been paying for trails and parks on the east side and getting very little to show for it.

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So no one likes an increase in taxes, but I think those of us on the west side would really like to see something in return for our taxes, and there is a lot of good projects on the ballot with these two bonds. Thank you for your time.

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Thank you michael.

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And next is sandra chakum sandra. You are now unmuted hi.

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uh Yes, I am sandra chacon.

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um I have uh the reason I I attend the meeting, sometimes the classroom meetings and the reason I'm attending the media specifically today is because um I I have a private practice, I'm a mental counselor and I want to open, uh like I, my practice used to be in farmington, but I want to bring it to salt lake city because most of my clientele, it's from salt lake city area, especially like downtown west valley.

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So my question is um I never done with commercial like loans and stuff, so it's everything is new to me and I found appropriately work great for the clinic um that I'm planning to like expand, and so um I know I need to get a meeting with the drt. I need to get a drc meeting, so do I. I have emailed henry o'connor, but I haven't heard from him.

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um I have had some time situations where I email the city and I don't get answers from anybody. So my question is how what is the potential from a property that is uh sona's mu, which means mix, use or residential commercial uh to be okay to be used uh for commercial?

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Only like I understand I need to have the drt meeting in order to meet with all the departments, law enforcement departments to get approval.

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Sander, we won't be answering your question this evening, but if you would just stay on the line and taylor will get you the the right contact and you can email her or leave your message with her to get to the right uh person with the admin or the council side.

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And that was our final comment registered comment.

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And no comments from the council I'd look for a motion, mr chair.

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I move that the council closed the public hearing and adopted an ordinance establishing the final rate of tax levy, including the final levy for the library fund upon all rail and personal property within salt lake city made taxable by law for for fiscal year, 2022 through 23 and ratified the budget, as adopted by the council in june and I'll just note that there's an error in the motion sheet. So the years are actually 22 to 3..

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Have a motion from councilman mano a second from councilman wharton, any discussion on this item seeing the discussions I will roll call this council member fowler.

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Yes, councilmember.

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Father morris.

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Yes, yes, yes, yes and I'm a yes. That motion passes seven to zero in council. That closes this special limited formal meeting, and we will move on to the second special limited forum meeting in uh approximately three minutes so that we can.

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Pause, the recording pause, the.

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Recording and start a new recording, so select city will be back in three minutes.

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