Public Hearing For New RDA

Anita Weston, Reporter

Rich Civic Times

GARDEN CITY, Utah. July 13, 2016. The Garden City Redevelopment Agency held their quarterly meeting on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, at 5 p.m.  The meeting was held at the Garden City Lakeview Center.

The minutes of the public hearing of the Redevelopment Agency meeting held on June 9, 2016, were approved.   The minutes of the Redevelopment Agency quarterly meeting held June 9 were also approved.

A discussion was held regarding the creation of a new RDA area.  The Professional Services Agreement between Garden City and RS Contract Management has been drafted and is ready for signatures. 

Randy Sant of RS Contract Management noted that his company is moving forward in creating the project area.  Copies of the Professional Services Agreement between Garden City and RS Contract Management had been sent to the City for their approval.  Garden City will pay $15,000 to Sant to get this new area created and approved.  The City needs to make a contract with the owner of the new RDA area making sure that the owner of that property will pay half of the cost, and the City will be responsible for the remaining half.

After the agreement is signed, a resolution needs to be signed.  The town of Garden City Redevelopment Agency is designating the water’s Edge Development  to be the new Community Development Project Area.   RS Contract Management will be authorized and will direct all necessary actions to complete getting this project completed and accepted.

Garden City Mayor, John Spuhler felt that Legacy PUD should be added to the RDA area.  He asked Sant to add that information to the documents.  Sant indicated that he needed all kinds of budget information from Legacy before he could incorporate that project into the RDA.  He noted that the two areas needed to be joined either by a road or some other way and that it would slow down the process.

Mayor Spuhler noted that going twice to the tax division would not be wise.  To ask for the RDA once would probably all that would be approved.  Sant agreed with Mayor Spuhler and noted that he would get on the matter and include Legacy.  He, however, needs several items prior to being able to finish up the required documents and get the requested RDA approved.

Sant went on to explain that after the resolution is signed, it will take two or three weeks to get the budget ready and the redevelopment plan in place.  A public hearing must be held after the budget and plans are ready.  Originally, he felt that the public hearing could be held in September, but by adding the additional property, he didn’t know how much this would change the time line.

Usually there is a two-year time limit from the signing of the agreement before the RDA begins.  The RDA will be in place for 15 years.  

The Council made a motion, and it passed asking Sant to move forward with the creation of the above noted RDA Area.