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Public Works and council members said a valve maintenance schedule is needed to prevent failures that could cause major street flooding. One councilmember said the current suggestion that valves be exercised every five years is insufficient: \"I'd like to see it more than every 5,\" the councilmember said, recommending a two-to-three-year cycle for exercising valves and testing PRVs. Staff said the work was typically contracted (one vendor named in the meeting was Claybald) and that they would seek a regular maintenance contract and a confirmed schedule.

On the capital improvement plan, staff walked the council through short- and medium-term items. The council and staff noted that top-priority projects (described in the CIP packet as already underway) would remain in the near term, while medium-term items — including drum-screen replacement and controls at the sewer plant, Main Street lighting and piping, and the gas regulator work along Main Street — would require prioritization and budget decisions. Staff asked councilmembers to individually rank CIP items and return them to staff so the council could hold a follow-up work session to set a formal priority list.

Councilmembers also discussed code-enforcement fix-it notices. Staff said one nuisance case on Main Street had been filed with the courts as a misdemeanor and that other complaints were still in the 30-day compliance window. A councilmember volunteered to speak with a property owner in one active case before escalating enforcement and asked staff to coordinate next steps with the city attorney and with Alicia (code enforcement staff).

Other small items covered during the session included a scheduled park pavilion expansion (plans and estimate provided) and tabling a valve-maintenance agenda item because the staff lead was absent. No formal votes were recorded on CIP priorities or enforcement actions; staff will collect council priorities and return with a focused work session.

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Jonathan (staff/consultant) presented a draft report from Sunrise that reviewed supply options — a new well, use of the city well, and reclaimed wastewater — but, he and council members said, did not sufficiently detail how a distribution system within town would be built. Jonathan said, “they really haven't addressed kinda how we would build a a system within town,” and asked Sunrise to flesh out distribution alternatives such as trunk lines, connections to existing irrigation systems, and how reuse might be routed through a municipal distribution system.

Council members and staff discussed reuse and grant funding as key enablers. A councilmember observed that the cost “becomes feasible if we can get one of those 75% grants,” leaving the city responsible for roughly 25 percent of capital costs. Shay (staff) reported that a state metering grant pool recently reopened for a short period and that “there is grant funding available right now,” and she said the program window is limited; she offered to send details to staff. Meeting participants discussed a roughly $10 million-sized metering funding pool referenced in the session, but did not finalize which grant programs the city would apply for.

The council also asked Sunrise to analyze options to capture treated culinary-water overflow from the recently constructed city tank. Council members noted that overflow currently runs to the ground and into Mona Reservoir and suggested staff investigate whether the overflow could be collected for secondary uses or stored in an existing out-of-service pond near the Jarrett property. One councilmember suggested consulting Randy Brooks, the landowner of a disused pond and piping, as a possible storage option; staff said they would examine the feasibility.

Officials discussed the interaction between the water-study results and a forthcoming Conditional Use Permit (CUP) review: Roger (CUP representative) will be invited to a future work session, and councilmembers expected a two-hour session to coordinate the CUP and the water study. Staff also noted that financing models in the report — including example per-home acre-foot costs — change significantly if large grants are secured and if the city reaches the development scale assumed in cost models.

No formal action or vote was taken. Directions recorded in the session included asking Sunrise to return with more detailed distribution scenarios, requesting an engineering feasibility analysis of capturing tank overflow for secondary uses, and taking steps to assemble grant applications during the study’s next phase.

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The issue arose during the work session item on Planning and Zoning regarding a billboard proposed on Main Street in a combined-use zone. A Councilmember (unnamed) opened the discussion saying, “this billboard is in a combined use zone, does not meet the ordinance,” and stressing the need to apply the code consistently.

City planning staff said the structure as installed exceeds the sign-size limits in the city code. Planning staff estimated the billboard to be “over 480 square feet, all 3 sides,” while the existing sign standard in city code is 36 square feet, and noted CU2 language adopted in 2015 left ambiguities. Planning staff told the council the CU2 provision that would allow large billboards was effectively a placeholder and had never been properly implemented on the zoning map; staff recommended deleting the CU2 provision and tightening the code.

Planning Commission member Dennis said the applicant did not have a permit and that the application had been tabled by Planning and Zoning. Staff advised that if an application meets the city’s code, the city cannot deny it; conversely, if it does not meet code, the city can reject or require changes. Planning staff said one route for the property owner to keep the sign would be to bring it into conformance, but that a variance would likely be rejected because the city attorney has advised against granting variances in similar cases.

Council members and planners discussed possible ordinance fixes including removing the CU2 placeholder, limiting billboard placement to commercial or industrial zones rather than combined-use or residential areas, restricting materials (for example, prohibiting plywood and requiring metal framing), and specifying maximum area and height for signs in each zone. Planning staff said a public hearing on proposed code language will be held by Planning and Zoning the following Wednesday and then forwarded to the council.

The council and planning staff discussed next steps: staff will communicate the city’s position to the applicant (identified in the meeting as Mr. Linton) and asked whether the council wanted staff to place the matter on a future council agenda; one councilmember said the item should be placed on the council agenda and that the city attorney should be consulted on the appropriate path forward. Planning staff also said that if the applicant brings the sign dimensions and materials into compliance with the code, staff could approve it; if not, the application should be rejected or referred back to the council for final action.

No formal vote was recorded during the work session. The Planning and Zoning public hearing and revised code language are the next formal steps identified by staff.

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Mona council reviews CIP priorities, presses for more frequent valve maintenance and follows up on fix-it notices

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Mona council, planning staff say Linton billboard does not meet code; seek ordinance fixes and compliance