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Council reviews multiple MOUs, easements and RDA items; votes to enter closed session on real property
Summary
Council heard several administrative and interagency items — MOUs for Jordan River patrols and Internet‑crimes response, engineering contracts and a Questar easement — reviewed RDA scholarship renewal and consent agenda items and approved a motion to hold a closed session on real‑property disposition by unanimous roll call.
At the Aug. 12 study session, West Valley City staff presented several non‑legislative but administratively significant items that the council reviewed and (where appropriate) indicated support to move to consent or future agendas.
Chief Jacobs explained resolutions for interagency memoranda: a memorandum of understanding with the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands for supplemental Jordan River trail patrols (JREPS) at $100/hour capped at $40,000, with city shift staffing at $50/hour for planning about 10 shifts per month; and a one‑year, $15,000 memorandum with the attorney general’s office to support Internet crimes against children investigations (primarily overtime, with funds usable for training and equipment).
Engineering staff sought authority to contract with SUE Solutions for subsurface utility‑engineering test holes on the 4000 West design project (intended to reduce construction conflicts and change orders). They also described two resolutions tied to an emergency gated access at 5400 South for the Via West development: a UDOT access agreement to be executed with the city and a developer maintenance agreement shifting maintenance duties to the developer. Staff described a temporary construction easement request from Questar Gas to use the Jordan River Marketplace parcel to prep and fuse pipe for a bore under the river; terms outlined were $3,000 per month for two months with an option to extend.
Redevelopment Agency staff requested renewal of the My Hometown scholarship contribution in partnership with the University of Utah Eccles School of Business Opportunity Scholars program to continue off‑campus housing support and scholarships for West Valley City resident, first‑generation students.
Near the meeting’s end, a council member moved to enter a closed session to discuss disposition of real property and the motion passed on a roll call; the transcript records affirmative votes from the mayor and multiple council members and the council recessed briefly before the closed session.
