Work at City Hall

Here is a drawing of the work to be completed by UTA….

Hope this will be a great improvement to the City complex.

Weber County Property Tax Increase

If you did not have the opportunity to attend the meeting or read some of the information in the paper, you are missing a key issue.
First off… It is expensive to provide the necessary services to the residents within the City and within the County.
… with that being said, here is the big issue.  Our lovely City of Pleasant View has its own Police Department to the cost of over 1.1 million dollars per year.  Yes, it cost that much, no way around it really.  Now…. there are several Cities within the County that do not have their own Police Department and contract with the County for Sheriff services, however, the minimal amount they pay for the contract causes the GENERAL FUND to subsidize that by 5.2 million dollars…

Bottom line is… you and I are paying that subsidy along with the other Cities who also have their own Police Departments.  This has to stop, those Cities need to pay their FULL cost of police protection and not put that burden on us other Cities!

This is why us Cities who have our own Police Departments will be drafting a letter to the County insisting this STOP.

Please understand, it is our requirement to pay our portion of the Jail personnel along with the bailiff services for the courts.  Yes, along with some of the raises are for County personnel, that we use, however, should be be paying for other personnel (as a resident explained to me) that does not benefit Pleasant View, last time he checked, they did not give us any funding to pay our employees.  Interesting point!

I would encourage you to call or email the Commission..  their information can be found in this link…
http://www.webercountyutah.gov/commission


Sincerely,
Mayor Mileski

Increased Costs

Due to issues at the Weber County Transfer Station, our tipping fee of $32.00 per ton for garbage and 0$ for recycling will be going up.
The estimated price will be $36.50 for both! Garbage and recycling.  What does this mean to you??
This will increase your monthly bill, yet again.  This could mean an increase anywhere from $1.00 to $1.50 per month.
Not much more is known at this point other than this could be on your October water bill.  I anticipate that the County will approve this increase sometime in September and pass the increase along to us almost immediately.

On instagram...

I have created an instagram account, to take photos and share items as I see them through out the City.  You can follow me at @ mayortobymileski

Activity in Pleasant View.. not the good type

Here is a map of some of the recent criminal activity in Pleasant View in the last 120 days.

More Staffing Changes in Pleasant View

Just recently our Assistant City Adminstrator / City Planner hired by Mayor Clifford turned in her notice and left.

This left us shorted staffed and many things unfinished.  Unfortunately the website upgrade was one of them. I am trying super hard just to get the online bill pay up and going.

I do not intent to refill that exact position at that high pay level, instead, split the position. We have and will have an increased need for a City Planner and we still have a need for staffing to work the projects, coordinate and follow up on other necessary city business.

Yes, this will be an additional cost to the budget, however, I am willing to do that in order to get the work done (I will list just a few below).  Fortunately, a majority of the Council agrees with me. Councilmembers Boehme, Burns and Gibson agreed.  Councilmembers Hansen (In a conversation with Councilman Hansen, he stated that is not that he is opposed, to splitting it or the added expense, it was that he wanted to make sure everyone one is doing the job they were hired for first, I added this to help explain his position) and Urry did not.  In the July meeting Councilwoman Urry was in favor of refilling the high level Adminstrative position created by Mayor Clifford.

Here are a few of the projects coming to, needed and on the work list right now, many of which will bring NEEDED revenue to the City, also provide and strengthen our employment base which will help foster economic development in the City, it is my thought that if we are not properly staffed and have the water and storm water capacity to go when they come in, they will go elsewhere.  Thankfully Councilmen Boehme, Burns and Gibson recognize that.... Thank you guys!!

Update the Water Capital Facilities Plan (will need to increase the impact fees to avoid such HIGH increases in water rates to the residents).
Complete the Weber Basin water purchase into our system (in process) property purchase and pump house construction
Update the Storm Sewer Capital Facilities Plan to foster development along 2700 N (right now there is no more development due to capacity issues with UDOT).  Which we have a large employment development in the works right now
CSM Subdivision
CSM expansion
Rulon White Road extension to the North into Parkland Drive.
2700 N joint CDA with Farr West City development.... Have inquiries and no staff to process anything right now
Deer Crest subdivision phase 3
Jensen Estates
Two other developments ready to go
Shady Lane Park bathroom project
Parkland business park building
Ogden Clinic expansion - currently going
Admiral Beverage expansion - currently going
New reservoir property purchase and construction
Website completion and maintenance...

Hope this helps to give you idea of what we have going on.  Things are starting to move in the right direction.

Thank you for your support,
Mayor Toby Mileski

Property Tax Increase - Weber County & North View Fire District

HUGE property tax increases are coming to your tax bill.

Weber County is proposing a 25% increase for 'mainly' Sheriff Department wages.  This increase is over $8,000,000.  Is it all for the Sheriff's Department?

The Clerk/Auditor stated $1.2 million is for capital improvements?  Where?  Rural Weber County maybe?  If so, why are us Cities paying for their infrastructure?

In regards to the increase.  We should only be paying for an increase in the Courts and Jail for the Sheriff's department, not the part for law enforcement in the field, we have our Police Department, and those Cities who contract with the Sheriffs department for law enforcement should be paying the increase (on their contracts), not us.  We have a contract for CSI and SWAT, which should an increase as well.

The meeting is this Monday (August 15th. at 6 PM.)  I hope you can attend.

North View Fire Department is also increase our property tax within the City.

I do not have all the details at the moment, I will provide more once I have them.

Their meeting is this Tuesday (August 16th. at 6 PM.)  Your week is already getting busy!

See you there!

Mayor Toby Mileski

Now this is a story from the Standard worth sharing… Thank you Loretta Park

Weber 911 dispatch center will expand at its current location

TUESDAY , AUGUST 02, 2016 - 4:35 PM

Image by: Supplied rendering/Tina Mathieu

An artist's rendering illustrates the new addition of the Weber Area Dispatch 911 and Emergency Services building to the Francom Public Safety Center.

Loretta Park

Reporter

     

OGDEN —  After eight years of studies, negotiations and meetings, the Weber Area Dispatch 911 and Emergency Services will get a new building and remodel its space at its current location, county and city officials said.

Weber County Commission gave its approval on Tuesday, Aug. 2,  to a resolution authorizing the Weber Area Dispatch 911 and Emergency Services District to create a local building authority, said Pleasant View City Mayor Toby Mileski.

Mileski is also the chairman of Weber Area 911 and Emergency Services District Board. 

By creating a local building authority, the Weber area dispatch board will be able to bond to pay for a new building and the remodel of the current space at 2186 Lincoln Ave., Mileski said.

The new addition and the remodel of the current space will cost about $5 million, Mileski said. 

Groundbreaking for the two-story 8,600-square-foot addition to Ogden’s Francom Public Safety Building  is expected to happen the first part of October, said Tina Mathieu, executive director of the Weber Area Dispatch 911 and Emergency Services District.

 Wadman Corporation will do the construction of the addition, and the new center is expected to be completed by late spring of 2017, she said.

After the new addition is built, Mathieu said, the 911 center and employees will move in and Wadman employees will gut the existing 3,300 square feet of the current center and remodel it. The remodeling work is expected to be completed by midsummer. 

Ogden city is in the process of working out details to donate the building space the 911 center is currently using as well as the land next to the Francom building for the addition, said Ogden Management Services Director Gregg Buxton.

The 911 center has leased the space it currently uses since the building opened, said Weber County Commissioner James Ebert. 

Having the space and land donated is what “sealed the deal,” Mathieu said. 

“We get to stay where we are and we have the extra security we need, with the police officers and firefighters,” Mathieu said. “We are so appreciative to Ogden city.” 

Mathieu said the current dispatch center is too small for the 75 employees who work there. Several offices have three people squished inside, and dispatchers sit so close to each other that there are times when a dispatcher handles a 911 call that “bleeds” over into the radio of another dispatcher talking to police officers or firefighters. 

In February, the Weber-Morgan Health Board had considered leasing a portion of the health department’s building space to the Weber area 911 dispatch service.

• RELATED: Weber 911 dispatch center moves hinges on negotiations

Ebert said on Tuesday that as officials reviewed what was needed to move the 911 center to the second floor of the health department’s annex building, they were confronted with several problems. 

First of all, much of the  parking at the health department was already dedicated to clients of the health department’s Women, Infants & Children Program, Ebert said. Also, the health department made an agreement with Ogden city to allow businesses in the area to use the parking lot as well, Ebert said. The 911 center needs a secure parking lot. 

The second problem was the cost of upgrading the building to meet the code for an emergency dispatch center, Ebert said.

As officials evaluated the possible move, they realized it would cost as much to upgrade the health department building to meet the needs of a dispatch center as it would to build an addition at its current site, plus do a remodel, Ebert said.

The new addition is expected to last 20 to 30 years, Ebert said. 

You can reach reporter Loretta Park at lpark@standard.net or at 801-625-4252. Follow her on Twitter@LorettaPark SE or like her on Facebook.

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