Garden City Council Business

Anita Weston, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

GARDEN CITY, Utah.  May 12, 2016. Clea’s Nifty Gifts 1, requested a business license to conduct a retail store at 55 West Logan Road.  Dean and Tina Bolton will be running this business.  The request was approved.

KB Management, L.L.C., made a request to conduct a real estate financial service business at 29 West Tamarind Way.  Approval was given.

Let’s Get Away Properties, L.L.C., requested to conduct a property management company at 100 West Season’s Lane.  Sam Goodell will be conducting this business.  The request was approved.

There were two requests for short term rentals.  Granger Properties, L.L.C., owns a home at 929 North Harbor Village East Drive, # 114.  Bear Lake Lodging will be handling this rental.  Approval was given.

The second property is owned by Mark and Kathy Hislop.  The rental property is located at 35 West 150 South.  Bear Lake Project Management, L.L.C. will be the rental company handling this property.  Approval was given.

Lance Bourne has been operating a company called Bear Lake Water Adventures located on the lake shore below The Garden City Park.  He decided he no longer wanted to run this company.  It was put out to bid.  Leo Spuhler won the bid and will take over this business this summer.  Leo Spuhler asked to be given a business license and a  concessionaire license and showed that he had the required insurance for this business.  He will also have to obtain a boat license.  The Council granted the city business license for a one-year time period and renewed the concessionaire’s license.

A discussion and approval was granted for the Garden City Park Trail Project.  This trail will be built to allow individuals who park at the 350 South parking lot on the east side of Bear Lake Blvd. to walk a bit further east and get on the trail that the City’s is building.  It will run south into the park. The individuals using this trail will then be able to continue across the bottom part of the park to get to the roadway leading to the walkway to the beach. 

Norm Mecham asked the City to terminate the covenant to run with the land listed on the agenda.  These lots are part of the Eagle Feather Subdivision in Shundahi.  This will allow the lots that have sold and buildings are being built on them to be released and allow for deeds of private ownership to be granted.

The Council was then asked to make a covenant to run with the land encumbering the lots listed on the Agenda.  These lots are in the Eagle Feather Subdivision which is part of Shundahi.  These lots will be treated as one property until additional lots are sold and built on.  At that time, the request to terminate the covenant to run with the land will again be requested.

Riley Argyle, Public Works Supervisor, noted that a change of use for Swan Creek Canal shares has been made.  The agricultural water will now be used for culinary purposes.  The Council was pleased with this action.

The Garden City Ordinance #16-03 is an ordinance updating the parking restrictions in City Parking Lots.  It was determined that when a large vehicle or car with trailer etc. parks across several parking stalls, a ticket shall be given.  There should be enough extra long parking stalls that these vehicles can pull through thereby using only one parking stall even though the vehicle is long.  The Council approved this addition to this ordinance.

Resolution #R16-01 updates the administrative code infraction fine schedule to add a fine for overnight parking in City Parking Lots.  The Council passed this resolution.

After a discussion, approval of the Certification of Delinquency of Assessments and charges for the Buttercup Special Improvement District was made.

A review of the budget for the current fiscal year, July 1, 2015, through June 30, 2016, was carried out.  It was noted that the Parks budget needed to be opened and transfers made.  Each member of the Board was asked to look over all of the changes from the previous year because the new budget will be passed at next month’s meeting.

Attention was called to a new item on next year’s budget—advertising money.  Money has been put into this category to do some marketing to draw more tourists into the Garden City.  Currently the City is working with the Aggie Sports area to get more visibility for Garden City at their fall sports events.  The campaign would begin in the fall emphasizing winter activities available in Garden City. Winter is the off season and would help businesses here in the City to bring in more people during that time period.   The proposed budget has $15,000 set aside for this fund.

A review was made of the proposed fiscal year July 1, 2016, through June 30, 2017.  Budget funds include the general fund, Buttercup special improvement district fund, capital projects fund, beach access fund, and the enterprise (water) fund. Approval by the Council was given.

The Council also approved the Utah Retirement rates for the fiscal year July 2, 2016, through June 30, 2017.

Anita Weston was appointed to serve on the City’s Appeal Authority Board.  She was thanked for accepting this responsibility.