Votes at a glance: Santaquin City Council actions — April 1, 2025

Key actions taken by the Santaquin City Council and the City’s Redevelopment/Community Development Agency (CDRA) on April 1, 2025:

- Resolution: Interlocal agreement with Utah County for administration of the 2025 municipal elections — Approved by roll call. - Resolution/Acceptance: Division of Water Resources funding agreement to accept grant funds for the water element of the general plan — Approved by roll call. - Resolution: Community initiative cooperation agreement (My Hometown) with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — Approved by roll call (see separate article). - Ordinance: Updates to City utility services code (water, sewer, pressurized irrigation) — Approved by roll call; staff described the ordinance as revised language and clarifications to align the code with city policy. - Ordinance 402: Clean-up changes to asphalt/dedicated roads code to align with state code (no change to minimum asphalt width) — Approved by roll call. - Ordinance 403: Amendments related to minimum unit size reductions in Main Street residential/commercial areas as part of moderate-income housing strategies — Approved by roll call. - Equipment purchase: Purchase of rodeo bucking chutes from Powder River Company (budgeted) — Approved by roll call; planned installation before the city’s summer event contingent on scheduling. - Elections procedure (fast-cast voting): Council voted to decline local implementation of “fast cast” early-voting staffing for City Hall (county clerk proposal); motion to not approve implementation carried by roll call after staff/legal recommended against the proposal. - CDRA: Ratification of Rocky Mountain Power agreement to extend primary power to the Summit Ridge / Santaquim Peaks subdivision — Ratified by the board. - CDRA: Addendum 2 to the purchase agreement for C. C. Callaway (allows a different fence style for Lot 4) — Approved by the board. - Procedural: Council convened the CDRA for the two items above and later adjourned the CDRA; council later approved a closed session for personnel/security matters.

Votes and roll-call notes For each action listed above, the meeting transcript records roll-call votes. Where the roll call appears in the record, the following names were recorded voting “Aye” on the listed items (items listed together below share the same recorded roll-call pattern in the transcript for that vote):

- Items where votes were recorded as Aye by Bridal, Art, Jeff, Lynn, Travis: consent agenda; interlocal election agreement; ordinance 402; ordinance 403; CDRA Callaway addendum; and other consent items as noted in the transcript. - Items where votes were recorded as Aye by Jeff, Travis, Lynn, Art, Brian: Division of Water Resources funding agreement; purchase of rodeo bucking chutes. - CDRA Rocky Mountain Power agreement recorded as Aye by Travis, Lynn, Jeff, Art, Ryan. - The motion to decline the county clerk’s fast-cast voting proposal was carried by roll call (roll-call names recorded in the transcript included Art, Jeff, Lynn, Travis; the audio record concluded the motion passed).

What the votes mean - Interlocal election agreement: authorizes the county to administer Santaquin’s municipal election processes for 2025 (primary and general) under the terms discussed; this allows the city to use county administration for ballot handling and polling locations. - Division of Water Resources funding: city accepted awarded funds to support the water element of its general plan and the related contract to receive the grant. - Ordinances 401/402/403: code cleanups and targeted changes to utility and land-use code, including moderate-income housing measures, were approved; staff said some changes are reformatting and alignment with state law rather than substantive changes to dimensional standards. - Fast-cast voting: the county clerk’s request that City Hall serve as an early-voting “fast cast” center staffed by city personnel was declined; city staff and legal counsel advised against adopting the proposal because of staffing bandwidth, chain-of-custody and financial concerns.

Provenance The actions above are recorded in the meeting transcript between the consent-agenda vote (around the 4:28 mark of the recording) and the council’s motion to go into closed session near the end of the meeting. Specific discussion segments for each vote are in the official transcript.

Ending Councilmembers and staff identified follow-up steps where needed (tracking grant contracts, scheduling installation for purchased equipment, coordination with county election officials and follow-up legal review on cooperation agreements). The city also scheduled internal budget-planning work and other routine items for future meetings.