Tooele City Council on Wednesday approved a package of routine and capital items including changes to library code, a fencing contract at the Tooele Valley Museum and three contracts for the 2025 roadway maintenance program, while tabling a proposed nuisance-abatement ordinance for further refinement.

The council voted 5-0 to adopt ordinance 2025-08 revising Tooele City Code chapter 2-1 to clarify library governance. Chase Randall, Tooele City Library director, told the council that much of the library code dated from the 1960s–1980s and used terminology that did not reflect current practice. "The administrative authority for policy setting ... rests with the mayor, not with the library board," Randall said, summarizing the revisions as code cleanups that make the library board an advisory body rather than a board of directors.

The council also approved Resolution 2025-15, awarding a contract to Mountain States Fence to extend fencing and install an automated gate at the Tooele Valley Museum property west of the historic depot. Darwin Cook, Parks and Recreation director, said the work will remove an existing fence between a city warehouse and Vine Street, extend the fence around the rest of the city-owned parcel and add an automatic, programmable opener so the gate can match museum hours. The contract is funded in the current fiscal year general fund budget; the council voted 5-0 to approve the agreement.

Public works director Jamie Grand Prix presented three separate awards for the city's annual roadway maintenance program (resolutions 2025-16, -17 and -18), dividing work into Schedule A (slurry), Schedule B (chip seal) and Schedule C (mill-and-overlay). The council approved all three schedules.

- Schedule A (slurry): asphalt preservation was awarded Schedule A at a bid of $190,000 with a $9,500 contingency. Grand Prix noted a portion of the work is developer-funded; he said about $103,000 is held in escrow for developer-funded segments, leaving roughly $87,000 from the road budget for the city-funded slurry work. The council voted 5-0 to approve Resolution 2025-16.

- Schedule B (chip seal): Staker and Parsons was awarded Schedule B at $917,608.50 with a contingency of $46,000. Grand Prix explained the chip-seal package covers several major corridors that need a wear surface, naming 2000 North and Pine Canyon among the more heavily traveled segments included. He said chip seal is used to provide a wear surface that can protect new asphalt and estimated, depending on site conditions and contractor work, that chip seal can last "between 7 to 10 years." The council voted 5-0 to approve Resolution 2025-17.

- Schedule C (mill-and-overlay): the council approved a mill-and-overlay package for three areas including Southwest Drive, a section off Utah Avenue at Thousand West and a short segment on Baysinus. Grand Prix said Southwest Drive has been crumbling and that storm-drain repairs done last year made the street a higher priority for mill-and-overlay. The bid discussed in the staff presentation was approximately $308,250 with a $15,000 contingency; the council approved Resolution 2025-18.

Other council actions included a 5-0 vote to approve Resolution 2025-19 authorizing the purchasing agent to dispose of surplus personal property (three animal carriers from the police department), approval of invoices and purchase orders including a UDOT traffic-signal invoice and 702 garbage cans from Rarig Pacific Company, and approval of minutes from the March 5, 2025 meeting.

The only item the council postponed was Ordinance 2025-06, which would amend Tooele City Code §8-4-4 on nuisance and weeds enforcement. Andrew Agard, community development director, summarized proposed changes to remove a 6-inch height requirement, add enforcement for excessive height and visual obstructions in the public right-of-way, reduce the minimum parcel size for enforcement from five acres to one acre, and add language about weeds that create fire hazards or nesting conditions for vermin. After a brief discussion and in light of clarifications needed for commercial properties, Councilwoman Manzion moved to table Ordinance 2025-06; the council voted 5-0 to table the item and requested minor clarifications be returned to a future meeting.

Discussion during the meeting focused on technical details and impacts rather than policy controversy. Council members asked staff about contractor selection, equipment and expected durations: Grand Prix described the chip-seal process (emulsion, chips, cleanup, fog coat), noted that some chip-seal lanes can be opened to local traffic while work proceeds on the other half of the road, and said mill-and-overlay work generally carries the largest short-term disruption (milling, then overlay), estimating some projects could require a few weeks of work in affected areas. No votes failed and no motions to amend contracts or awards were recorded.