Tooele City Council approves library-code changes, museum fencing and three road contracts; tables nuisance ordinance

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…