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MINUTES OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF WEBER COUNTY
Tuesday, September 12, 2006 - 10:00 a.m.
Commission Chambers, Weber Center, Ogden, Utah

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Commissioners Present: Craig L. Dearden, Chair; Camille T. Cain; and Kenneth A. Bischoff.

Others Present: Linda G. Lunceford, Clerk/Auditor; Monette Hurtado, Deputy County Attorney; Fátima
Fernelius, Clerk/Auditor’s Office, took minutes.

A. Welcome - Chair Dearden
B. Pledge of Allegiance - Jim Gentry
C. Thought of the Day - Chair Dearden

D. Consent Items:
1. Purchase Orders in the amount of $94,335.76
2. Warrants #217455 - #217640 in the amount of $1,976,365.23
3. Minutes for meeting held on September 5, 2006
4. Set date of October 3, 2006, 6 p.m. to take input on the proposed issuance on the Business
Development Bonds Series 2006 (Swanson Foundation Project)
Commissioner Bischoff moved to approve the consent items; Commissioner Cain seconded, all
voting aye.

E. Recognition of Reed Richards as Utah State Advocate of the Year

Chair Dearden stated that Mr. Richards had been recognized in Salt Lake City last week for his
great work on behalf of child abuse victims. For over 20 years his vision, compassion, courage
and fortitude has raised the consciousness in our State to new levels about the victims and more
victims started to come forward because it was finally safer to speak up. Among other things, he
started the first victim advocate program in Weber County, obtained a building, rent-free, and
established the Weber County Children’s Justice Center in 1990, and played a key role in
establishing Children’s Justice Centers throughout Utah and nationally. Chair Dearden
congratulated Mr. Richards recognizing the value of having him in our community and the
beneficial impact of his work. Mr. Richards said that Craig Dearden had started work on this
program. He noted that the program model established here had been used throughout the State,
this country and others, and now there were over 500 centers. The model takes children out of the
police station, prosecutor’s office, doctor’s and psychiatric facilities and brings these professionals
to them in a Justice Center that is set up to be friendly to children. The first medical facility onsite
was also started in Weber County

F. Presentation on Cooperative Fire Agreement

Blaine Hamp, with Forestry, Fire and State Lands, introduced Dave Vickers who had been hired
as a consultant for the State of Utah, Division of Forestry, to help counties with implementation
of what is known as House Bill 146 passed two years ago. Counties now wishing continued
financial State assistance need to adopt minimum standards by September 2006 and Mr. Vickers
offered his assistance in helping the county transition into the new requirements. He presented
a letter from the Division allowing counties, desiring to continue the cooperative agreement with
the
State, to request in writing an extension if they could not meet the deadline. Mr. Vickers strongly
recommended that the county develop and enforce this code because it is a
tool to help protect homeowners’ properties during an incident and increases safety for firefighters.
Staff training sessions will be held in October. The goal is to reduce the risk of wildfire to Utah’s
communities and one of the first things the county needs to do is identify the wild and urban
interface zones. Once the code is adopted, an informational packet should be prepared to be given
to homeowners who build in these areas. The commissioners asked that Mr. Vickers work with
Monette Hurtado, Deputy County Attorney, and other county departments, such as Emergency
Management and Operations on this issue. Mr. Vickers addressed Commissioner Cain’s questions
stating that a county could obtain his assistance for the ordinance, receive the training, etc.,
regardless of having a cooperative agreement with the State. Commissioner Cain noted that the
county had done a fair amount of work in some areas related to the wild and urban fire interface.

Chief Austin, Weber Fire District, noted that the county currently had a cooperative agreement
with the State. He stated that it was important that the county separate the agreement and the
suppression fund. They really are two different issues. Chief Austin stated that the county had not
entered into the suppression portion and explained that with a suppression fund, up to 100% of the
cost of a wildland fire could be funded by the State. With the cooperative agreement that the
county currently has with the State the county would receive a 50/50 share of a wildland fire cost
with the State. To continue the current cooperative agreement that the county has with the State,
it would require that the county adopt at the minimum, the Utah Urban/Wildand Interface Code.
Even if the county does not choose to enter into an agreement for the Suppression Fund.

G. Action Items:

1. Appointing a member to the RAMP Board

Chair Dearden noted that this item had been held from last week in order to allow more time to
review the many applications that had been received. The commissioners indicated that there were
many well qualified candidates. Candadai Seshachari, RAMP Tax Advisory Board Chair, asked
that the Commission clarify if this appointment was to the Tax Advisory Board or to one of the
committees. This member’s term is for three years.
Commissioner Cain moved to appoint Durk Bailey to the RAMP Tax Advisory Board and to the
Recreation and Parks Committee; Commissioner Bischoff seconded, all voting aye.

2. Request for Approval of Lease Agreement with Ogden Nordic Alliance for RAMP
funded Snowcat with Tiller

Reed Richards, Deputy County Attorney, said that the RAMP Board had a concern about not
having control over this equipment in the event the Alliance resold it and used the money or used
the equipment outside the county. Thus, the RAMP Committee had suggested that the Alliance
be allotted the money but that the county buy the equipment and then lease it to the Alliance for
$1/year for the life of the equipment. Mr. Richards said that this RAMP agreement should be for
the life of the equipment for insurance purposes. He asked that the agreement be held for one
week to make sure it contained his final amendments. Commissioner Cain addressed a public
question by Connie Chandler regarding the function of Ogden Nordic Alliance, a non-profit
organization with volunteers who groom trails for cross-country skiing at the North Fork Park.

3. Request for consideration to act as Body Politic for Timmon Property located
near 2900 E. 4700 N. in the Liberty Area

Curtis Christensen, County Engineer, noted that the Commission had heard this item last week.
He showed area maps, pointing out this property’s location which is about ½ mile north of the
North Ogden Divide area. He said that the developer owned quite a bit of ground to the east and
that is where the development would take place. The developer would like to install a treatment
plant on the lower part of the property very similar to the one approved in the Radford Hills area.
A body politic is necessary to comply with State requirements.

Mr. Christensen stated that this would be a treatment facility with a common drainfield and the
effluent would be treated for re-use in the summer time. Chair Dearden emphasized that the
county would accept the responsibility as the body politic only as an interim position and expected
to move out of the body politic position as soon as it was possible, and Mr. Christensen said that
the developer was aware that there would be agreements to be signed that would help facilitate the
county leaving those responsibilities to a district or another body politic.
Commissioner Bischoff moved that the county act as Body Politic for the Timmon Property
located near 2900 E. 4700 N. in the Liberty Area ; Commissioner Cain seconded, all voting aye.

4. Contract with Central Weber Sewer for Waste Water Treatment - Contract
C2006-148

Curtis Christensen, County Engineer, stated that Lance Wood, Central Weber Sewer District
(District), had drafted this agreement. The District recently completed construction of a main
sewer outfall line (the West Weber Outfall) through unincorporated areas in western Weber
County and the District is willing to accept connections to bring properties into compliance with
the county ordinance. The county is willing to bill and collect from customers in unincorporated
Weber County who connect to the West Weber Outfall and to act as a “retail” service provider.
Thus, the District will no longer be the retail agency and will no longer do the billings for
individuals that have connected into their lines; the county will take over those responsibilities.
The District had been doing billings and maintenance and the county also had been handling
billings and maintenance on some collection lines. This agreement formalizes that the county
owns those lines, unless they are trunk lines for the District, and the county will handle the billings.

Mr. Christensen addressed Commissioner Bischoff’s questions stating that the county would only
be billing for those connections that had come in as a result of the West Haven project.
Commissioner Bischoff noted that a number of people had not connected as required by the
ordinance and asked about enforcement. Mr. Christensen said this was somewhat defaulted to the
Health Department. Commissioner Bischoff then asked how that was accomplished and Mr.
Christensen responded that he would research it, however, correspondence had been sent to those
individuals, but with little success. Commissioner Bischoff wanted regulations in place to make
enforcement possible. Chair Dearden asked what labor/manpower would be necessary to handle
this contract and Mr. Christensen replied that there would be some additional work but it was
mostly clerical, however, Bona Vista Water, which had been billing for Central Weber, would
handle a lot of these billings. This will come back before the commission in a separate agreement.
Commissioner Bischoff moved to approve Contract C2006-148 by and between Weber County
and Central Weber Sewer Improvement District for wastewater treatment; Commissioner Cain
seconded, all voting aye.

5. Contract with Utah State Department of Community Development to extend
existing contract term for Ogden/Weber Community Partnership - Contract
C2006-149

Dennis Richardson, County Engineering Department, stated that this was the second extension
request on this project of housing for the disabled. The contract is for the purchase of an elevator
and some fixed appliances. If these are installed by the end of the year, this grant can be closed.
Mr. Richardson addressed the commissioners’ questions regarding whether the State would extend
this contract stating he had been in contact with the State, which would close this out if they had
purchased the appliances and had them stored. The OWCP is aware of the urgency for completion
by the end of this year.
Commissioner Cain moved to approve Contract C2006-149 with the Utah State Department of
Community Development to extend the existing contract term for the Ogden/Weber Community
Partnership; Commissioner Bischoff seconded, all voting aye.

H. Public Hearing:

Commissioner Bischoff moved to adjourn the public meeting and convene the public hearing;
Commissioner Cain seconded, all voting aye.1.

2. Public hearing to take input on the proposed issuance and sale of not more than
$8,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Sales Tax Revenue Bonds, Series 2006, of
Weber County, Utah, for the purpose of financing all or a portion of the costs of
acquiring, constructing, equipping and furnishing a county library and renovating
and remodeling existing county buildings

Dan Olsen, County Comptroller, stated that Requests for Proposals for construction will be going
out soon and the bonds were expected to be issued around November 1. The parameters
resolution, adopted a couple of weeks ago, set the limits of $8,000,000, an interest rate of 6% and
a term of 21 years, but it is anticipated that all the limits will be lower. Alan Westenskow, county
financial advisor, had said yesterday that the rates had been decreasing for the last of couple weeks.

The parameters resolution includes remodeling of an existing county building–the former Standard
Examiner building where the Children’s Tree House Museum had been recently housed. At this
time it is not known what will become of that building and it was added to the resolution in case
some major project will need to be done. Mr. Olsen explained that as they go through the budget
process in the next couple of weeks they will have more accurate figures. He did not anticipate
that any bonding would be included for that building.

Chair Dearden invited public comments. Connie Chandler asked for clarification on the
“buildings” referred to in the resolution and Mr. Olsen replied it was only referring to the former
Standard Examiner building.

Commissioner Cain moved to adjourn the public hearing and reconvene the public meeting;
Commissioner Bischoff seconded, all voting aye.3.

4. Action on public hearing:

H.2. - Public hearing on the issuance/sale of not more than $8,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of Sales Tax Revenue Bonds, Series 2006

No action was needed on this item. It was held only to take public input.

I. Assign Pledge of Allegiance& Thought of the Day for Tues., September 19, 2006, 10 a.m.

J. Public Comments: None

K. Adjourn
Commissioner Bischoff moved to adjourn at 11:00 a.m.; Commissioner Cain seconded, all voting
aye.

Craig L. Dearden, Chair
Weber County Commission

Linda G. Lunceford, CPO
Weber County Clerk/Auditor