Last night was Woods Cross City Council meeting. The biggest item was appointing a Justice Court Judge. The city council went into closed session to discuss the character of the two top candidates, Joel Campbell and Bob Peters. After the closed session, the mayor recommended that we appoint Joel Campbell as the Justice Court Judge. Rick Earnshaw made a motion to that effect. Jon Hadlow seconded the motion. Jon and Rick voted for the motion, Tamy Dayley, me and Todd Weiler voted against the motion. The mayor than recommended that we appoint Bob Peters as Justice Court Judge. Todd made a motion to this effect. I seconded the motion and all voted in favor of the motion. Todd, Tamy, and I all felt that if we have somebody inside the city who is qualified to fill the position, we should go with that person.
During the open session, Tamy brought up issues surrounding her feelings about the Youth City Council. We then spent probably close to 45 minutes arguing about those. She expressed three concerns.
1) In the YCC charter, she says that it says that the YCC mayor and other council members are picked by a member of the Woods Cross City Council and the YCC advisor. This year, Vickie chose them on her own without imput from any Woods Cross City Council members. I told Tamy that I believe that this was done because her and Vickie have a personality conflict and Vickie didn't want to have to deal with her. I also told her that I have never seen this YCC charter. She said that she would get me a copy.
2) She is concerned about the YCC being responsible for their budget. I believe that they are being responsible for their budget. She thinks that they should give a quarterly financial report. Gary mentioned that the YCC is handled the same way as other departments. The city has a policy that they can purchase things under $1,000.00 without prior authorization as long as they are within their budget. This is how all the departments in the city are handled.
3) She feels like there need to be changes to the YCC. She said that these changes need to be done through a committee with them making recommendations to the City Council. The problem with this is that Rick Earnshaw has tried to get people to participate in this committee and nobody wants to because he said they all told him that the way the YCC was functioning was fine with them. He also stated that he believes that those who he talked to don't want to be the bad guy. (by making unwanted and possibly un-needed changes.)

I attended the City Planning Commission meeting last night. There was only one issue on the agenda. It was the approval of a site plan and conditional use request for Shamrock Landscape located at 2436 South 1250 West.
A Meet the Candidates night is scheduled for Sept. 30th at City Hall.

No excitement today. I'm learning more and more about Pronto. Today I set up our pronto system so that it will print some documents to a different paper-tray.
Yippee!

Last night I found out that two people are no longer candidates for Woods Cross City Council. Cathy Larrabee dropped out of the race and Troy Gottfredson was not a registered voter. I think we should charge some sort of filing fee. This would help eliminate those who are not truly serious about running a campaign. I think it would require a lot more thought for someone if they had to pay 25 dollars or so.
The three biggest items from City Council meeting last night were:
1. Public Hearing to consider Rezoning of almost 6 acres from I1 - light industrial to R-1-8 single - family residential. The council voted 5 - 0 to rezone this property which is located at about 2300 South 1500 West.
2. Public Hearing to gather input regarding a proposed amdendment to the Zoning Ordinance. The council voted 5 - 0 to adopt the ordinance which changes the minimum distance between a house and an accessory building from 6 feet to 3 feet. This brings our ordinance in-line with the International Building Code.
3. Consideration to amend the Woods Cross City Code of Ordinances to address unauthorized parking of vehicles on private property. The council voted 5 - 0 to adopt this change which will allow a property owner to have a vehicle towed from their property if it is parked there without permission. This change means the police department will not be involved. The property owner will call the towing company directly.
That's all for today.

Our network was hit today by the W32.Welchia Worm. We spent a considerable amount of time running around patching systems and cleaning off the worm.
Tonight is City Council Meeting. There is nothing controversial on the agenda tonight.