Call To Order:  Chair Stephen Sanders, Invocation by Invitation; Pledge of Allegiance

Approval of Minutes:  Commission may approve the minutes of the August 12, 2009 regular meeting.

Approval of Agenda:

Reports:  Beautification Committee, Economic Development Committee, Trails Committee, Director of Operations - will present updates on meetings and activities.

Public Hearings and Possible Action:

New Business:

Unfinished Business:
General Plan Update: Planning Commission may review and update the General Plan.

Adjourn:  

Present: Chair Pro Tem Anna Andregg, Commissioners Dan Howard, Michael Hinckley, Joe Webb, Allen Bice; Staff: Derek Imlay, June Jeffery, Kyle Gubler; Public: Ray Justice

Chair Stephen Sanders and Alternate Robert Holland were not in attendance.

Call To Order:  Chair Pro Tem Anna Andregg at 6:01 p.m. Invocation and Pledge of Allegiance by Kyle Gubler.

Approval of Minutes: Motion by Commissioner Bice to approve the minutes of the August 12, 2009 regular meeting as written, second by Commissioner Webb. Motion carried 5-0 with Hinckley, Webb, Bice, Andregg, and Howard voting yes.

Approval of Agenda: Motion by Commissioner Bice to approve the agenda, second by Commissioner Webb. Motion carried 5-0 with Hinckley, Webb, Bice, Andregg, and Howard voting yes. 

Reports: 
Beautification Committee: Allen Bice reported that the committee is moving forward with preparations to win the Eastern Washington County Beautification Contest that will be judged in October. They are focusing on cleaning up State Street and have divided it into 8 parcels to be assigned to the 8 ecclesiastical groups in the community. They will do the clean up on October 17, the Saturday before the judging, and will have prize money for the group that has the most attendees. They will also plant trees in the driveway to the pavilion in the park as part of the beautification campaign.

Economic Development Committee: Kyle Gubler reported that Doug Beecher, Derek Imlay, and he had been meeting with Interstate Rock concerning property that the company owns at the end of Main Street. Exploration is being done for a technology park to locate there. This is not manufacturing light industrial, but more like wireless type business. There needs to be some definition to what will be preferred in the technology park. There is exploration for customer base to put business there.

Director of Operations: Derek Imlay explained the irrigation break that happened under State Street by the Mountain Bible Church. It has been successfully repaired by core drilling under, and running a pipe through. There is still work to valve and finish, but the reconnect should be done tomorrow. There is a section of the west side of town that is without irrigation because of pressure problems in this looped system. It is expected to be running by the weekend.  

Unfinished Business:
General Plan Update: Anna Andregg stated that she thought about some of the changes that were suggested at the last meeting, especially the removal of acknowledgments and the removal of reference to Pah Tempe in Chapter 1. There was a good committee that worked on the General Plan for several months and it is seldom that those volunteers and staff members receive credit or recognition of the work that they do. Since this isn’t a rewrite of the General Plan, those acknowledgements should stay with a note that the five year update was done as stated in the last meeting. Joe Webb felt that keeping the acknowledgements intact would also give historical perspective to the document.

As far as the reference to Pah Tempe in the second paragraph on page 8, there is history that ties LaVerkin to the springs as they were once called the LaVerkin Hot Springs. There was discussion as to the verbiage. The Hurricane Fault is also an important location identifier, and geographical and topographical part of the area. It was decided that the first phrase “Resources extracted within the region include sand and gravel, scoria (volcanic cinder), clays and geothermal heat.” should be included in the paragraph at 1.6. The remainder of the paragraph should state that “LaVerkin is bordered by Pah Tempe Hot Springs, which are located along the Virgin River at the Hurricane Fault. This resource has provided ...”

Michael Hinckley read beginning at 1.6 Geology
1.7: With over 10 inches “of rain” to the first paragraph page 9;

1.7: Add “Fahrenheit” to the temperature figures at the end of the first paragraph on page 9 and add Celsius figures in parentheses. 

1.8: Remove “Current estimates show a 2000 population of 3,392”- as the projections for 2005 are in the last paragraph and are probably the best updated figures until the 2010 Census is done.

No changes to the tables.

Discussion about how to format for review. Commissioners would like to see the document showing the changes through an email, but want to see it in clean printed format at the next meeting. June will send those as soon as possible. Discussion about Public Hearing timing. There will be no regular meetings in November as the Planning Commission meeting falls on Veteran’s Day holiday and the meeting has never been posted. The fourth week would be the eve to Thanksgiving Day. The board could hold a special meeting if there is business and the Commission decides to meet.

Will set the public hearing for the December meeting.

Adjourn:  Motion by Commissioner Howard, second by Commissioner Webb. Motion carried 5-0 with Hinckley, Webb, Bice, Andregg, and Howard voting yes.  6:45 p.m.


Minutes taken by June Jeffery

                                              

Planning Commission Chair, Stephen Sanders

 

 

Date Approved, October 14, 2009