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A
We
are
now
convening
a
limited,
formal
meeting,
which
means
this
is
not
a
standard
form
of
meeting
agenda
tonight.
You
know
which
we're
going
to
continue
after
this
meeting
is
over
tonight.
The
council
needs
to
consider
an
action
on
the
final
as
the
final
step
in
the
annual
budget
process
for
the
city,
truth
and
taxation.
A
Hearing
a
public
hearing
required
by
state
law,
a
truth
and
taxation
hearing
happens
when
any
of
the
following
take
place.
The
city
raises
property
taxes,
property
tax,
stabilization
or
a
judgment
levy
this
year.
The
city
use
all
three
of
those
tools.
Although
the
hearing
is
a
formal
step
required
by
state
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
amendments
to
this
year's
budget.
A
However,
if
you
are,
if
you
have
received
your
property
tax
assessment
and
wish
to
protest,
please
contact
the
salt
lake
county
or
visit
its
appeals
webpage.
Now
we're
going
to
move
to
item
2
welcome
the
public
meeting
rules.
If
you
would
like
to
be
to
give
public
comment
today,
we
are
accepting
comments
in
person
and
online
and
be
of
via
telephone
line.
A
Before
we
begin
moving
through
the
agenda,
I
want
to
mention
and
review
our
rules
of
decorum.
The
city
council
has
always
had
guidelines
in
place
to
ensure
our
meetings
are
orderly,
civil
and
efficient.
The
guidelines
help
everybody
feel
comfortable,
sharing
their
comments
without
feeling
intimidated
to
achieve
these
a
rule
of
rules
of
decorum
take
effect.
The
moment
you
arrive,
we
respect
all
points
of
view
and
welcome.
Your
new
insights
please
be
respectful,
while
sharing
your
comments
avoid
yelling
using
profanity,
making
racial
slurs
or
seeing
or
defamatory
remarks.
A
If
you
violate
these
rules,
we'll
mutual
mute,
your
line
and
ask
you
to
stop.
If
you
feel
the
need
to
use
such
language
to
express
your
opinion,
you
might
email,
console
members
or
leave
a
message
in
our
24-hour
command
line.
Additionally,
our
staff
will
request
your
name
during
the
webex
registration
process
to
limit
disruption.
Your
name
cannot
include
a
message
or
violate
our
rules
of
decorum.
A
If
your
name
doesn't
comply,
our
staff
will
let
you
know
for
those
joining
through
webex.
Please
watch
your
chat
window
in
case
we
try
to
reach
you.
Scott
corpany
from
our
staff
will
moderate
our
webex
and
will
message
you
with
any
questions
about
your
registration
staff
is
handling
many
tasks.
So
please
limit
messages
to
technical
issues
and
minimal
information
updates.
A
A
A
If
you
are
here
in
person,
please
step
up
to
the
podium
and
make
your
comment
once
taylor
announces
your
name
to
begin.
Please
state
your
name
and
your
two
minute.
Timer
will
start
at
the
two
minute.
Mark
staff
will
announce
time
if
you
are
unable
to
finish
your
comment,
please
send
us
the
rest
via
email,
mail
or
through
call
in
our
office.
Our
contact
information
is
available
in
our
meeting
room
and
in
the
chat
and
through
webex.
If
you
no
longer
wish
to
speak,
please
either
message
our
staff
or
when
staff
states
your
name.
A
B
B
More
information
on
that
can
be
found
at
tinyurl.com
forward.
Slash
slc
fy23,
just
as
a
piece
of
information
because
of
a
noticing
issue
on
one
piece
of
the
advertising
required
by
state
law
staff
is
recommending
that
the
council
continue
the
public
hearing
tonight,
rather
than
adopt
just
to
rectify
that
noticing
issue
we're
recommending
that
you
continue
to
august
29th
at
6
pm,
so
that
that
noticing
issue
can
be
addressed.
So
that's
it.
C
E
Specifically
utah
has
a
food
tax
that
all
of
you
on
the
council
have
argued
against
to
removing
the
food
tax
for
a
typical
person
who
buys
300
worth
of
groceries
a
week
would
save
273
annually.
So
I
hope
you
understand
that
your
arguments
against
the
food
tax
are
actually
the
best
arguments
against
this
property.
Tax
increase
not
just
hypocritical
and
disrespectful,
but
also
on
equitable,
due
to
the
lack
of
increased
circuit
breaker,
so
the
poorest
homeowners
are
most
impacted
by
a
tax
increase.
E
You
want
a
city
where
everyone
can
live
affordably
that
was
in
your
presentation
this
afternoon.
Remember
those
are
you,
but
if
you
pass
this
tax
increase,
you're
flushing
that
claim
down
the
toilet,
you
don't
have
an
effective
way
to
keep
lower
income
or
fixed
income
citizens
in
their
home
you're,
going
to
be
effectively
requiring
all
homeowners
to
be
rich
and
you're,
pushing
lower
income
people
into
apartments
which
will
make
them
poorer.
E
So,
despite
studies
that
you
have
agreed
with
that
show
that
mixed
income
communities
are
best
at
ensuring
an
equitable
and
respectful
citizenry
you're
you're,
throwing
that
out
the
window.
I
urge
you
to
close
a
public
hearing
and
vote
against
the
blue
tax.
Obviously
you're
going
to
continue
it
and
again
encouraging
public
engagement
with
web
options.
It's
actually
very,
very
right
now.
Thank
you.
F
I'm
the
current
president
of
the
friends
of
the
salt
lake
cemetery,
an
all-volunteer
non-profit
organization,
formed
to
help
support
the
cemetery
by
organizing
community
engagement
activities
such
as
the
recent
post-memorial
day,
cleanup
that
drew
200,
volunteers
and
fundraising
for
non-infrastructure
items
such
as
trees,
benches
and
signage,
but,
more
importantly,
I'm
a
resident
of
salt
lake
city.
During
the
10
years
I've
been
here,
the
value
of
my
house
has
increased
beyond
any
reasonable
expectation,
but
my
top
property
taxes
have
remained
flat.
F
So
thank
you
and
your
predecessors
for
doing
a
good
job
in
keeping
our
taxes
low.
We
appreciate
that.
However,
I
I
participated
in
the
cip
process
this
year
for
some
repairs
at
the
cemetery
and
many,
if
not
most,
of
the
constituents
initiated.
Projects
for
public
lands
were
also
repairs
for
needed.
Existing
parks
and
facilities,
keeping
our
taxes
low
does
put
a
burden
on
the
parks
that
we
all
enjoy.
F
In
late
2020,
the
city
council
approved
the
master
plan
for
the
cemetery,
which
identified
tens
of
millions
of
dollars
of
needed
upgrades.
The
cemetery
is
the
largest
municipal
cemetery
in
the
country.
It's
a
unique
cultural
and
historical
resource
and
as
well
as
a
vital,
open
space
in
our
area,
but
funding
is
necessary
to
maintain
the
resource
now
and
into
the
future
bonding,
for
the
upgrade
seems
to
be
the
most
fiscally
prudent
way
to
accomplish
these
needs
for
the
cemetery,
as
well
as
for
the
other
parks
and
areas.
F
To
summarize
I'll
quote
from
the
late
mark
smith,
the
former
sexton,
after
whom
the
cemetery's
arboretum
is
named,
the
salt
lake
city
cemetery
is
not
just
a
resting
place
for
the
dead,
nor
solely
a
historic
site.
The
cemetery
is
one
of
salt
lake
city's,
most
significant
green
spaces,
open
to
the
public
365
days
a
year
free
of
charge.
C
G
G
G
A
H
My
name
is
john
gardner.
I
live
in
salt
lake
city
in
the
84108
district
and
I
own
and
operate
a
small
family-owned,
real
estate
development
company
in
salt
lake
city.
Our
company
was
one
of
the
first
people
to
build
housing
in
the
sugar
house
area.
We
owned
three
apartment
projects,
two
in
sugar
house
and
one
downtown.
I
was
shocked
when
I
opened
the
tax
notice
of
this
year
to
find
out
that
for
one
project
I
have
a
thirty
seven
thousand
dollar
a
year.
Tax
increase
the
second
one:
twenty
nine
thousand,
the
third
project.
H
Nineteen
thousand
dollar
tax
increase.
That's
an
eighty
five
thousand
dollar
per
year.
Tax
increase.
This
is
an
enormous
burden,
our
business,
it's
incomprehensible
that
a
city
in
a
county
would
impose
this
type
of
increase
in
one
year,
partly
increases
the
tax
rate
adjustment.
Part
of
it
is
evaluation
adjustment
by
increasing
the
tax
rate.
You
are
doing
it
at
the
wrong
time
because
we're
all
suffering
a
valuation
increase.
H
H
I
guess
the
really
sad
part
of
this
is
that
I
have
no
choice
but
to
pass
this
on
to
our
renters.
We
care
about
our
renters.
We
try
to
keep
our
rents
reasonable,
there's
a
limit
as
to
what
we
can
do
in
this
case,
we're
going
to
pass
it
along
to
the
renters
and
tell
them
that
salt
lake
city
is
demanding
more
money.
Therefore,
we
have
to
raise
your
rent.
H
I
The
city
speaks
a
lot
about
affordability
and
I
work
for
a
developer
that
builds
affordable
housing.
We
just
built
an
affordable
housing
complex
at
kimball
junction,
and
we
have
a
proposal
in
front
of
park
city
to
build
180
units
with
that
said,
I've
also
set
a
proposal
to
you
guys
on
ideas
I
have
in
this
city,
but
I
don't
think
you
guys
are
genuine
in
your
in
your
sayings
of
about
affordability,
because
what
this
tax
says
is
that
you
guys
support
gentrification
the
definition
of
gentrification.
I
Is
the
process
whereby
the
character
of
an
area
is
changed
by
wealthier
people
moving
in
typically
to
spacing
displacing
current
inhabitants?
That's
what's
happening
on
my
street
on
blaine
avenue
and
in
sugar
house.
I
don't
recognize
my
neighborhood
anymore.
I
bought
my
house
a
couple
years
after
I
graduated
from
college,
and
I
met
my
wife
in
church
at
our
singles
warden.
Now
we're
raising
our
daughter
and
I'm
facing
the
dilemma
of
having
to
move,
because
this
proposed
tax
hike
now
makes
my
property
taxes
the
equivalent
of
just
more
than
two
of
my
mortgage
payments.
I
I
I
I
There's
been
a
lot
in
the
news
about
gentrification
and
we
want
to
focus
on
the
brown
and
black
people,
but
it's
happening
to
everyone,
whether
it's
in
sugarhouse
or
in
west
valley,
and
your
guys
is
your
guys's
policies
are
100
related.
There's
a
direct
correlation
to
that.
If
you
vote
to
do
this,
you're
voting
for
gentrification.
J
I
do
not
support
the
tax
rate
increase
as
a
young
family,
we're
living
in
our
first
home,
and
we
have
just
tried
to
make
it
a
beautiful
place
to
live
and
to
really
bring
up
our
neighborhood
and
now
salt
lake
has
become
an
affordable
and
we
might
have
to
move
and
that
just
breaks
my
heart
because
we
love
this
city
and
this
tax
rate
increase
is
not
fair
to
homeowners.
Like
us.
We
just
really
can't.
J
C
A
A
A
23
budget,
sorry
about
that,
and
if
you
have
questions
about
finding
this
link,
please
please
let
us
help.
You
find
the
link.
There
is
a
lot
of
very
good
information
there,
I'm
going
to
call
the
question
council
member
wharton:
yes,
council,
member
dugan;
yes,
yes,
yes,
council,
member,
peter
ashler,
yes,
council,
member,
fowler,.