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MEETING AGENDA
AMENDED AGENDA
City Council Chambers
33 East Broadway Avenue
Meridian, Idaho
Tuesday, February 03, 2015 at 6:00 PM
1. Roll -Call Attendance
X David Zaremba X Joe Borton
X Charlie Rountree X Keith Bird
X Genesis Milam X Luke Cavener
X Mayor Tammy de Weerd
2. Pledge of Allegiance by Scout Troop 419
3. Community Invocation by Stephanie Moore, Ten Mile Christian
4. Adoption of the Agenda Adopted
5. Proclamation
A. Skills USA Proclamation
6. Consent Agenda Approved (Pg 5-7)
A. Approve Minutes of January 27, 2015 City Council Regular Meeting
B. Approve Minutes of the December 30, 2014 Special City Council Meeting
C. Award of Bid and Approval of Agreement to CIRCLE H CONSTRUCTION,
INC. for the "FIBER OPTIC CONSTRUCTION- CITY HALL TO WATER &
WASTEWATER" project for a Not -To -Exceed amount of $229,111.13.
D. Approval of Purchase of Pierce Arrow Fire Engine from Hughes Fire
Equipment for the Not -To -Exceed Amount of $520,000.00 and Authorize the
Purchasing Manager to Issue and Sign a Purchase Order.
E. Sanitary Sewer and Water Main Easement for Linder Springs
F. Water Easement with C4 Land, LLC for Citadel 2
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G. Pedestrian Pathway Easement Between C4 Land LLC and the City of
Meridian Regarding Citadel 2 Mini Storage Development
H. Development Agreement for Approval: MDA 14-004 Kinsley by DL Evans
Bank Located Northeast Corner of N. Ten Mile Road and W. Pine Avenue
Request: Amend the Recorded Development Agreement (Inst. #1051844653
and #108101151) for the Purpose of Excluding the Property AND Creating a
New Development Agreement to Include the Project Boundary and Site
Plan Proposed with Kinsley Subdivision
Final Order for Approval: TEC 14-007 Baraya Subdivision by Matt Schultz
Located 3935 W. Franklin Road and S. Black Cat Road Request: Two (2)
Year Time Extension on the Preliminary Plat in Order to Obtain the City
Engineer's on the Final Plat
J. Final Order for Approval: FP 14-044 Irvine No. 2 by Trilogy Idaho Located
Southeast Corner of W. Chinden Boulevard and N. Ten Mile Road Request:
Final Plat Approval Consisting of Forty (4) Single -Family Residential
Building Lots and Six (6) Common Lots on Approximately 12.41 Acres in an
R-8 Zoning District
K. Final Order for Approval: FP 14-045 Hill's Century Farm Subdivision No. 1
by Brighton Investments, LLC Located 5340 S. Eagle Road Request: Final
Plat Approval Consisting of Eighty (80) Buildable Lots and Eight (8)
Common/Other Lots on 28.38 Acres of Land in the R-8 Zoning District
7. Items Moved From Consent Agenda None (Pg 7)
8. Department Reports
A. Mayor's Office: Mayor's Youth Advisory Council (MYAC) Update (Pg 7-10)
B. Mayor's Office: Resolution No. 15-1047: Appointing Jo D Greer to the
Meridian Parks and Recreation Commission Approved (Pg 10-11)
C. Community Development: Final Presentation of Findings: Multipurpose
and Event Center Project Development Plan (Pg 11-23)
D. Public Works: Budget Amendment for Old City Hall Tenant Improvements
for 2015 for the Not -to -Exceed Amount of $69,390.00 Approved (Pg 23-24)
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9. Action Items
A. Public Hearing: VAC 15-001 Denison Vacation by Tealey's Land Surveying
Located 3244 W. Salix Drive Request: Vacate a Portion of the 5 -Foot Wide
Public Utility, Drainage and Irrigation (PUDI) Easement Along the South
Boundary Lot 17, Block 11 Platted with Jayker Subdivision No. 1 Approved
(Pg 25-30)
B. FP 15-001 McLinder Subdivision No. 2 by TS Development, LLC Located at
4650 N. Linder Road and 1437 W. McMillan Road Request: Final Plat
Approval Consisting of Seven (7) Building Lots on 5.37 Acres of Land in
the C -N Zoning District Approved (Pg 30-31)
10. Ordinances
A. Ordinance No. 15-1637: An Ordinance (RZ 14-003 — Kinsley) For The Re -
Zone Of A Tract Of Land Situated In The Southwest One Quarter Of The
Northwest One Quarter Of Section 11, Township 3 North, Range 1 West,
Boise Meridian, City Of Meridian, Ada County Idaho; Establishing And
Determining The Land Use Zoning Classification Of L -O (Limited Office
District) And R-15 (Medium -High Density Residential) Zoning District To C-
C (Community Business) Zoning District; And Providing An Effective Date
Approved (Pg 31-32)
11. Future Meeting Topics None (Pg 33)
Adjourned at 7:41 p.m.
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Meridian City Council February 3, 2015
A meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday,
February 3, 2015, by Mayor Tammy de Weerd.
Members Present: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, Keith Bird, Joe Borton, David Zaremba,
Charlie Rountree, Genesis Milam and Luke Cavener.
Others Present: Bill Nary, Jaycee Holman, Bruce Chatterton, Bill Parsons, Warren
Stewart, Jamie Leslie, Perry Palmer, Ken Corder, Steve Siddoway and Dean Willis.
Item 1: Roll -call Attendance:
Roll call.
X David Zaremba X Joe Borton
X Charlie Rountree X Keith Bird
X Genesis Milam _X Lucas Cavener
X Mayor Tammy de Weerd
De Weerd: I'd like to welcome everyone to the Meridian City Council meeting. Thank you
for joining us. It's always nice to first see our youth in our Council chambers. Our Boy
Scouts that we get to see on a regular basis as they earn their citizenship merit badge and
certainly we always love to see our Skills USA students. So, thank you for joining us.
And that doesn't mean that you're all chopped liver. We love to see our business
community, our development community, and our citizens. So, thank you all for joining
us. For the record it is Tuesday, February 3rd. It's 6:00 p.m. We will start with roll call
attendance, Madam Clerk.
Item 2: Pledge of Allegiance by Scout Troop 419
De Weerd: Item No. 2 is our Pledge of Allegiance. And tonight we will be led in the
pledge by Troop -- Scout Troop No. 419. If they will, please, come forward and I will ask
the rest of us to all rise.
(Pledge of Allegiance recited.)
De Weerd: If I could ask the scout troop to step forward, I'd like to offer you a City of
Meridian pin for leading us and thank you for joining us tonight. Thank you.
Item 3: Community Invocation by Stephanie Moore, Ten Mile Christian
De Weerd: Okay. Item No. 3 is our community invocation. Tonight we will led by
Stephanie Moore. She is with Ten Mile Christian Church and usually I say Cherry Lane
Christian. Creature of old habits. But if you will all join us in the community invocation or
take this as an opportunity for a moment of reflection. Thank you.
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Moore: Will you pray with me. Our God, we are so grateful for this evening and that we
have, first of all, a community that cares about honoring one another and what's best for
the community as a whole and I thank you that your meetings are overseen by people
who generally want what's best and also by people who our committed to contributing
their desires and hopes for our -- the future of our town and I -- I ask that, because you
care about the things that are going on in our lives, large and small, the things that are in
the community, that you would guide this meeting this evening, that you would honor
people and bless them for committing to be here and have their voices heard and to
oversee the things that are going on and, God, we thank you for your continued blessing
and the fact that you turn your attention toward us and we love you and honor you in
return, in Jesus' name I pray, amen.
De Weerd: Thank you, Stephanie. I look forward to seeing your dad tomorrow
Item 4: Adoption of the Agenda
De Weerd: Okay. Item No. 4 is adoption of the agenda
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: Item 8, the resolution number is 15-1047. On item 10-A the ordinance number
is 15-1637. And with those additions, Madam Mayor, I move that we approve the agenda.
Bird: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda as read. All those in
favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 5: Proclamation
A. Skills USA Proclamation
De Weerd: Item No. 5 is a proclamation and I'm going to move down to our podium, so I
will pick it up back there. I'm going to ask you all to come and stand behind me as I read
this proclamation. Every year we are very privileged to have the Skills USA students join
us for the reading of a proclamation, but also it gives us an opportunity to be introduced to
each of them, so I don't know if your teacher had told you this -- Mr. Enger told you this or
not, but you get to each introduce yourself and tell us what year in school, what school
you go to, and what your competition is when you go to the -- in the Skills USA
competition. So, after I read this I'm going to turn this over to your teacher and, then, he
will have you introduce yourself. So, whereas the City of Meridian is proud to recognize
deserving citizens of the community, especially students who accomplish great things on
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behalf of their community, and whereas Skills USA Team Renaissance willingly performed
numerous hours in planning and constructing a home within one school year in Frazier
Place Subdivision where students work during class time and weekends for a deserving
family and whereas Skills USA Team Renaissance has demonstrated their willingness to
educate not only citizens of Meridian, but also state and federal legislative officials about
the meaning of Skills USA and whereas Skills USA Team Renaissance has reached out
to other community organizations, such as the Lion's Club and the City of Meridian to build
and install free little libraries, which will promote literacy among students and adults alike
and whereas Skills USA Team Renaissance has demonstrated their construction skills to
build a school district storage facility scheduled to be used by Willow Creek Elementary to
be completed this school year and whereas Skills USA Team Renaissance has
consistently achieved. a national rating of the top ten in the nation in their national
competition at Skills USA and whereas Meridian acknowledges Skills USA and Team
Renaissance and the efforts of their classmates in Mr. Enger's and Mr. Grover's
residential construction classes in achieving their many accomplishments, therefore, I,
Tammy de Weerd, Mayor of the City of Meridian, do hereby proclaim February 6th as
Skills USA Team Renaissance Day here in the City of Meridian and I do ask that all of the
people in the Treasure Valley celebrate the accomplishments of these amazing individuals
and what they have been able to achieve as Skills USA Team Renaissance. So, I'm
going to turn this over to Mark and ask you make a couple of remarks and, then, introduce
your students and I do have this proclamation for your scrapbooks and a letter to also
include in that as well. So, I will present this to you with my congratulations and
appreciation.
Enger: Thank you, Mayor de Weerd, as well as the City Council members here. It's
always a pleasure to find our way here every single year, which was extremely grateful on
your part to invite us in and I appreciate it to no end, as well as so do the students. I'm not
much of a person to get in public speaking per se. My students will probably disagree on
that issue during the lectures in class, but -- oh, well. The kids do a terrific job. They are
out there day after day working on either the storage facility for the school district, which
will save countless dollars for the public or the particular home that we are building for
Habitat For Humanity. It happens to be the 16th home in 16 years. It's a great
partnership. Another adventure we took on this year was the free little libraries, which is a
combination of several groups coming together and promoting literacy. We wanted to,
obviously, help out in any manner whatsoever to, obviously, promote reading among all,
young and old alike. So, hopefully, with all these accomplishments that these kids have
done -- it's not me. Please understand that. It's not Mr. Grove. It's not other faculty
members. It's the students and it's really quite nice to see their accomplishments at the
end of the school year. So, with that I would have each particular student introduce
themselves, because I am terrible with names. They already know that. And they will
discuss, obviously, which high school they are from and what their competition at Skills
will be and, hopefully, we will make it to the next level, which would be the national
competition in Louisville, Kentucky, which would be a great opportunity. We do have one
Skills member here who happens to be a gold medal winner from last year. He has his
metal with him, which is very impressive, something that I, myself, personally have never
had an opportunity to even get in close to and he has an opportunity to go back to back
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gold medal winner for the state of Idaho and, obviously, Team Renaissance, as well as
the City of Meridian and West Ada School District. So, with that we will start to the right
and we will go from there. Thank you.
Walters: My name is Marissa Walters and I go to Meridian High School and I am working
on the 16th home, residential construction.
Cuenca: Hello. My name is Brian Medina Cuenca. I am currently in the building and
residential construction year two and I am participating in the building construction.
Adams: My name is Taylor Adams and I am in the -- I go to Mountain View High School,
but I -- but I do -- I'm in residential construction year one and I will be presenting -- or
demonstrating a job skill demo for how to install a window. Yeah. With energy efficiency.
Vasquez: My name is Ricardo Vasquez and I go to Mountain View High School and I am
participating in community service.
Quinn: Hi. My name is Josephine Quinn. I go to Renaissance High School. I am a
member of Skills USA and also president. I am a member in the building construction
level one this year and in Skills USA I'm a participant in community service where we are
building the little free libraries.
Reeder: My name is Nate Reeder. I go to Centennial High School. I'm in the digital
home technology integration class year three and this year I'm competing in the residential
systems integration -- installation and maintenance and it will be my second year
competing.
Cortez: I'm Peter Cortez. I am a year two in DHGI and I will be competing in -- the same
thing as Nathan Reeder.
Eldridge: I'm Carly Eldridge and I am in the first year of construction and we are doing
American spirit, which is -- has three parts to and it's patriotism, the duty to your
community, and community service, which is the free libraries.
Curtis: I'm Emily Curtis. I go to Centennial High School and the same thing as Carly,
helping out with free little libraries, community service, and for America spirit.
Lott: My name is Alex Lott. I'm a junior at Centennial High School and I'm participating in
related technical mass.
Nelson: My name is Jared Nelson. I am currently in residential construction three and my
skills competition is carpentry where we build a mock up as a house with a floor, two
different types of walls and common rafter framing.
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De Weerd: I'm not going to introduce myself or my school. But I would like to ask that
you join me in congratulating these young leaders and the accomplishments they have
achieved thus far. Yes. You don't have to stay for the rest of the -- only if you want to.
Item 6: Consent Agenda
A. Approve Minutes of January 27, 2015 City Council Regular
Meeting
B. Approve Minutes of the December 30, 2014 Special City Council
Meeting
C. Award of Bid and Approval of Agreement to CIRCLE H
CONSTRUCTION, INC. for the "FIBER OPTIC CONSTRUCTION -
CITY HALL TO WATER & WASTEWATER" project for a Not -To -
Exceed amount of $229,111.13.
D. Approval of Purchase of Pierce Arrow Fire Engine from Hughes
Fire Equipment for the Not -To -Exceed Amount of $520,000.00
and Authorize the Purchasing Manager to Issue and Sign a
Purchase Order.
E. Sanitary Sewer and Water Main Easement for Linder Springs
F. Water Easement with C4 Land, LLC for Citadel 2
G. Pedestrian Pathway Easement Between C4 Land LLC and the
City of Meridian Regarding Citadel 2 Mini Storage Development
H. Development Agreement for Approval: MDA 14-004 Kinsley by
DL Evans Bank Located Northeast Corner of N. Ten Mile Road
and W. Pine Avenue Request: Amend the Recorded
Development Agreement (Inst. #1051844653 and #108101151) for
the Purpose of Excluding the Property AND Creating a New
Development Agreement to Include the Project Boundary and
Site Plan Proposed with Kinsley Subdivision
Final Order for Approval: TEC 14-007 Baraya Subdivision by Matt
Schultz Located 3935 W. Franklin Road and S. Black Cat Road
Request: Two (2) Year Time Extension on the Preliminary Plat in
Order to Obtain the City Engineer's on the Final Plat
J. Final Order for Approval: FP 14-044 Irvine No. 2 by Trilogy Idaho
Located Southeast Corner of W. Chinden Boulevard and N. Ten
Mile Road Request: Final Plat Approval Consisting of Forty (4)
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Single -Family Residential Building Lots and Six (6) Common
Lots on Approximately 12.41 Acres in an R-8 Zoning District
K. Final Order for Approval: FP 14-045 Hill's Century Farm
Subdivision No. 1 by Brighton Invest G. Pedestrian Pathway
Easement Between C4 Land LLC and the City of
Meridian Regarding Citadel 2 Mini Storage Development
H. Development Agreement for Approval: MDA 14-004 Kinsley by
DL Evans Bank Located Northeast Corner of N. Ten Mile Road
and W. Pine Avenue Request: Amend the Recorded
Development Agreement (Inst. #1051844653 and #108101151) for
the Purpose of Excluding the Property AND Creating a New
Development Agreement to Include the Project Boundary and
Site Plan Proposed with Kinsley Subdivision
I. Final Order for Approval: TEC 14-007 Baraya Subdivision by Matt
Schultz Located 3935 W. Franklin Road and S. Black Cat Road
Request: Two (2) Year Time Extension on the Preliminary Plat in
Order to Obtain the City Engineer's on the Final Plat
J. Final Order for Approval: FP 14-044 Irvine No. 2 by Trilogy Idaho
Located Southeast Corner of W. Chinden Boulevard and N. Ten
Mile Road Request: Final Plat Approval Consisting of Forty (4)
Single -Family Residential Building Lots and Six (6) Common
Lots on Approximately 12.41 Acres in an R-8 Zoning District
K. Final Order for Approval: FP 14-045 Hill's Century Farm
Subdivision No. 1 by Brighton Investments, LLC Located 5340 S.
Eagle Road Request: Final Plat Approval Consisting of Eighty
(80) Buildable Lots and Eight (8) Common/Other Lots on 28.38
Acres of Land in the R-8 Zoning Districtments, LLC Located 5340
S. Eagle Road Request: Final Plat Approval Consisting of Eighty
(80) Buildable Lots and Eight (8)Common/Other Lots on 28.38
Acres of Land in the R-8 Zoning District
De Weerd: Item No. 6 is our Consent Agenda.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I'm move that we approve the Consent Agenda, authorize the clerk to attest
and the Mayor to sign.
Bird: Second.
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De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the Consent Agenda. If there is no
discussion, Madam Clerk, you will call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 7: Items Moved From Consent Agenda
De Weerd: There were no item moved from the Consent Agenda.
Item 8: Department Reports
A. Mayor's Office: Mayor's Youth Advisory Council (MYAC) Update
De Weerd: So, we will move into our Department Reports. We get to kick off tonight with
an enthusiastic and energetic report from Mackenzie and she is going to tell you what the
Mayor's Youth Advisory Council has been up to and give you an overview of the exciting
day they have had as well. So, come on forward.
Lawrence: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, my name is Mackenzie Lawrence
and I'm the vice -chair for the Mayor's Youth Advisory Council and today I'm going to be
presenting on what was accomplished this month in January. This is our third update for
you. So, to begin I'm going to talk about the legislative town hall that we were able to
present at. We kind of used this as an opportunity to present on our seatbelt legislation.
We got to use that as a sort of sounding board. We got a lot of very helpful feedback and
we were able to answer questions and consider things that had never thought about when
moving forward into our next event, which was our legislative breakfast. We held that on
January 17th and we hosted six Idaho senators and legislators and representatives and
we had a presentation where we presented the statistics about seatbelt use in Idaho,
specifically regarding teens and car crashes are the number one killer of teens in Idaho
and we have created a legislation -- a piece of legislation to make seatbelts a primary -- a
primary law for all the state of Idaho for 19 or younger and we presented our legislation,
along with statistics and are asked for a hearing in the house and the senate and we were
able to secure two sponsorships from Senator Winder and Senator den Hartog. Following
that we have been granted a hearing in the senate and in the house for the Idaho
legislature and we had great success and a great learning opportunity at the legislative
breakfast. It was amazing to speak with our legislators and hear their feedback and them
to give us their support going into the next chapter of our -- of our kind of goal for the
legislation. So, following that we aired our iClip video, which is a PSA that students from
the youth council were able to put together and this was viewed statewide. So, we are
going to show you the video, actually.
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(Video played.)
Lawrence: So, that was another one of our advocacy pieces that we have done in
conjunction with our various youth summits and different activities. So, following the airing
of that we got to participate in Youth Lobby Day where about 20 of our students got to go
to the state capital building and we met with over 27 legislators and we got to talk to them
about the importance of physical education in schools and proper nutrition and how that
affects children and affects teens going into adulthood. So, that was a really fun day and
a great experience. We got to sit on a house session and kind of see our state legislature
in action and we had a really amazing time and we met a lot of really amazing people and
we got to interact with other youth councils from Nampa and Caldwell, I believe, and share
ideas and kind of see what they are doing and what we are doing and how we can help
each other. So, immediately after that, actually, we got to go to the Ada County Highway
District and present our legislation once again in hopes of gaining them as a partner,
because we could have not -- we could not have gotten as far as we have and had as
much success as we have without our amazing sponsors, like the Idaho Transportation
Department, Buckle Up For Bobby, the City of Meridian and we got unanimous support
from the ACHD committee in full support of our legislation and we gained the support of
their lobbyists and that was a really great opportunity for us to gain another big partner in
moving forward with the legislation. So, after that we hold a monthly teen activity and this
month just happened to be at Super Drome where everyone got to go to the roller drome
and bring a friend and they dressed like their favorite super hero. We like to have events
where students don't just have to come and plan things and, you know, do serious things,
like talking with legislators, we like to create an environment where they can just have fun,
be with other teens that also just want to have fun in a safe environment and everyone
likes to dress up every now and then. And so after that -- today, actually, we got to
partner again with the American Heart Association, as well as Dutch Bros and we were
able to teach almost a thousand people today how to do hands only CPR. Dutch Bros
was an amazing partner and they gave everyone who was listening to our demonstration
and talked with us a dollar off their drink and we spent seven hours in the rain, but it was
totally worth it and we were able to talk to a lot of people and it was a really amazing event
with some really great kids. And I think that's just all we have done in January.
De Weerd: Now, just -- not just. Mackenzie, you have pulled me aside and told me
something. In our youth council meetings we also share examples of the Meridian Way
and she shared a couple of examples about the Meridian Way acts of kindness today.
You might want to share at least one of those stories.
Lawrence: Sure. So, today while I was standing in the rain with my fellow council
members a lady offered to buy us drinks for all our hard work and while Dutch Bros was
supplying us with as much coffee as we could possibly drink, I thought it was really
heartwarming, actually, that she, you know, cared about not only what we were showing
her, but also that we were taking time out of our day to kind of, you know, share this with
our community and how to make it a safer place, so I think that was a really good -- it just
struck me as a really amazing example of Meridian Way that she was willing to do that for
us, because we were trying to help our community and also a lady was paying for her
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drink and they accidentally gave her too much money and she ended up coming back a
few hours later I guess when she realized and she gave Dutch Bros back the money that
she owed them for her drink and I thought that was also another amazing example of how
people in our community go out of their way to help local businesses and to help everyone
just kind of keep on going.
De Weerd: Thank you, Mackenzie. Council, any questions or comments?
Cavener: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: Mackinzie, I'm exhausted just listening to everything that you guys
accomplished in the past month and it's really incredible and it's fascinating to hear. I
appreciate you coming and giving us a presentation. I'm hoping you might be able to
share with me why do you do this. Why do you participate in youth council? Why do you
stand out in the rain for -- for seven hours? What is it about it that gets you excited?
Lawrence: I think at first when I first went on the council it was a little bit because my
friends were doing it and I was interested and also a little bit because, wow, this looks so
great, you know, I was a junior last year, but I think I stayed because, first of all, our
advisors, the Mayor and Ken, they are amazing. I mean they inspire us so much just how
to go out and do the best that we possibly can and the people that -- I have met some
amazing people and I have made great friendships and the stuff that we are doing in our
community I think is really having a positive effect. You know, I was a debater, I did that
for a few years and I really liked it, but it never really did anything. But me talking to
legislators, like actually passing a bill, that's doing something that makes a difference and
I think that's why I keep doing it, why I stand in the rain for seven hours.
Cavener: Thank you very much. Keep up the good work.
Lawrence: Thank you.
De Weerd: Anything further from Council members?
Rountree: Thanks for what you do and I wish you well in your effort with the seatbelts.
Having worked on that particular issue a number of times in the past it's -- it's going to be
an uphill battle, but it sounds like you have got a pretty good in right now, so good job and
keep it up.
Lawrence: We are battling. We are ready.
De Weerd: It's all in the timing; right?
Lawrence: Very true.
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De Weerd: Well -- and the passion of our students and we have some very passionate
young leaders and it's always Ken and I's honor to see these young leaders just blossom
right in front of our eyes and this is one of those. So, thank you for joining us this evening
and for giving the report and -- and I can assure you, Councilman Cavener, it is
exhausting. That's why Ken has gray in his beard. Thank you.
Lawrence: Thank you.
B. Mayor's Office: Resolution No. 15-1047: Appointing Jo D Greer
to the Meridian Parks and Recreation Commission
De Weerd: So, Item 8-13 is Resolution 15-1047. Council, in front of you I do have a
recommendation to appoint Jo Greer to the Meridian Parks and Recreation Commission.
Council -- or the commission chair and I took time to interview a number of individuals and
I can tell you that Jo is going to bring a lot of passion, a lot of talent to the commission. I
will brag on Jo for a moment, because she did design the staging at the Winter Lights
Parade this year and I just thought it was fabulous and so I do want to give her kudos for
that, because she did have her way and so I saw that as great initiative and I can tell you
that our commission chair agreed with me and Matt Stoll was our chair this year and he
was very exited about bringing Jo's name forward as well. So, we would ask if you have
any questions and if there aren't any I would ask for your confirmation of this appointment.
Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move we approve Resolution No. 15-1047.
Rountree: Second.
Bird: That's good. We are done.
De Weerd: I have a motion and an enthusiastic second to approve the appointment of Jo
Greer. Any discussion? Madam Clerk, will you call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
De Weerd: And I'd like to introduce you to Jo Greer. Jo, if you would like to say a few
words, please, come on forward. And I hope I didn't embarrass you about your
accomplishments, but you added great energy and talent to our event.
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Greer: Well, thank you. I appreciate it. You know, honestly, when you do something like
that you don't really expect kudos, so I guess it's a little humbling to have you say
something and thank you for voting me into the parks and rec commission. I'm very
excited to be a part of the team and be a part of the City of Meridian in the future. I am a
resident. I have a child that's in the school district. My husband would be here, but he
has the flu, but we are very excited about the opportunity, so thank you very much. It's a
great community to be a part. I'm honored.
De Weerd: Well, thank you, Jo, for joining us tonight and welcome on board. We look
forward to working more directly with you.
Greer: Yes. And another parade. Thank you.
C. Community Development: Final Presentation of Findings:
Multipurpose and Event Center Project Development Plan
De Weerd: Okay. Item 6-C is under our Community Development Department and I will
ask -- I will turn the mike over to Bruce Chatterton and he will introduce Sean, who is
becoming a regular here.
Chatterton: Yes. he is.
De Weerd: I think you need to move to Meridian, by the way. There you go.
Chatterton: Mayor and Council Members, he's going to do most of the heavy lifting
tonight, as usual, but I'm really happy to cue up this final presentation for the project
development plan. As you remember, the -- our economic development strategy identified
several catalyst projects, so the work that was done by Sean and his team at Pegasus
focused on a couple of those key projects for this -- this current effort. We have made
some real progress on those projects and you have had just a taste of that about two
weeks ago. We have not only demonstrated that there is a demand for these projects --
and that's both antidotal and in terms of data, but we also have some very intriguing
concepts that have been developed further since you last saw this. Perhaps most
importantly we have a better idea of who some of our key partners might be if we move
forward with these projects and I'm really gratified tonight to see representatives from the
Chamber, from MDC, and from the arts community here tonight. So, if we do all this right
-- we don't know exactly how this is going to turn out. You never do in an effort like this,
which is complex and requires a broad based partnership -- set of partnerships, but if we
do this right, we might be able to provide Meridian with some much needed conference
space, attract a hotel developer, meet the needs of the performing arts community for a
small to mid size indoor venue and maybe even redevelop two blocks or more of our
downtown core, creating new vitality and energy for not just the downtown, but the entire
city. And that's -- having set expectations high, I'm going to turn it over to Sean.
De Weerd: Thank you, Bruce.
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Garretson: Thanks, Bruce. Good evening, Mayor and Council Members. It is good to be
back again. In fact, as Bruce knows, my girlfriend was with me over the weekend and we
are actually looking at places in the region to potentially relocate.
De Weerd: You -- now wait a minute. You said region?
Garretson: I did say region. I keeping my options open. Moving on. So, you know, as
you know sometimes these economic presentations can be a little bit boring and dry, but I
tried to pick up on a theme and have a little bit of fun with it. So, to be or not to be. A
destination. That is the question. Our final recommendations really are recommending a
performing arts center and a hotel conference, both in the downtown -- downtown
Meridian. Both are definitely going to jump start downtown revitalization and have a
tremendous impact -- economic impact on the entire city. The presentation topics -- you
know, on the last discussion, the last presentation, we spent a lot of time reviewing some
of the data. I'm going to breeze through some of that, but we will still review some of the
findings, talk mostly, though, about the recommendations and the economic impacts of
those recommendations, next steps, and, then, have some time for discussion. These are
those key findings. We have reviewed some of these before, but just to reiterate, there is
a lot of stakeholder interest in a new performing arts center. I think there are a lot of folks
here in the room and if they want to raise their hands behind me that I think have been
involved in this project on the performing arts center side -- a lot of folks from the
Chamber of Commerce and the Meridian Development Corporation. We have had a lot of
meetings with a lot those folks. There is a lack of a higher end hotel in Meridian, lack of a
conference center and meeting space in Meridian. No meeting space or hotels in the
downtown area and, excuse me, existing local meeting space is controlled privately. So,
for the Chamber or MDC or the city to have functions, you are at the will of a private entity.
And, of course, you do have land and assets owned in the downtown by the city and MDC
that could be used for leverage and reiterating what Bruce said, you know, not every client
of mine implements all the recommendations and I just really want to applaud you in
moving forward. I know the agenda item after this is also about the new Ventures Lab,
but this project is also about one of the catalyst projects in the economic development
strategy, the conference center. So, we talked about this already. I'm not going to
reiterate this. There is a lot of stakeholder input that went into this. Interviews. Focus
groups. Presentations. Business surveys. Site visits. A lot of city staff has been
involved, as well as MDC board, Chamber board, and I really want to thank them all for
their input throughout the whole project. It's been about three months since we started
this. Reiterating just the -- the data side of things, Meridian is definitely underserved in
terms of meeting space. There is about a million square feet of conference and meeting
center space in the region. You occupy three percent of that. You only have 13 percent
of the space of what Nampa has and the majority of the meeting space in the region is
definitely away from downtown Meridian. When we look at your population and what it's
projected to look at -- or to grow at, excuse me, by 2025, you will easily, just be looking at
the current ratio of square foot of meeting space per capita and projecting that out to the
population, you would have a demand for 18,000 square feet of space, which is exactly
what we are recommending. So, on the performing arts center side of things -- and I did
take some liberty -- Autumn, you're in the back of the room. That is a picture off of your
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website and you're noted at the very end of this presentation, but thank you for letting me
borrow that. So, users that we have been analyzing throughout this project are all on the
right bullets. All have expressed interest. Autumn has done a great job in working with
the -- in this performing arts committee and having monthly meetings and I know a lot of
folks at the Chamber and MDC and the city have been involved in that, too. But there is
definitely an interest and a need among all those performing arts groups, continue even
as of this weekend meeting with some of those and talking more about their interests and
their opportunities. The Boise performing arts space is not sufficient for several of the
Boise based groups. All prefer to definitely be in downtown Meridian and they all have
kind of common interests and common needs and those are -- those are illustrated at the
bottom. In turning to the hotel market in Meridian, you know, the occupancy rate has
definitely increased significantly, especially in Meridian. You have one of the highest
occupancy rates of any of the markets -- hotel markets in the valley at 66 percent. I think
that's even higher now. Your rates -- your nightly room rates have increased substantially
and, you know, again, just to reiterate, we will talk about it a little bit later, but a lot of the
hotels that are in Meridian, especially those east of Eagle Road, they are currently in the
Boise Auditorium District. I have a slide specifically on that a little bit later. So, there are
three concepts -- you know, again, we started off with a -- with a wide range of potential
uses, even including sports complex facilities, but they have been narrowed down to three
concepts. Concept A is a performing arts center. Concept B1 is a conference center, no
hotel, and Concept B2 is a hotel and conference center. All of those concepts -- all those
parameters that go into that were based on, again, a data and stakeholder input. So,
these are the two sites that we ended up looking at after a lot of different sites. You're
familiar with these, we have looked at these already. The first one is pretty much the
entire Harvest Church on State, with Pine on one side and Meridian and Main and, then,
Idaho on the other side. And, then, the second site, B, for both B1 and B2, is the old city
hall block where the city owns currently the old city hall and, then, MDC owns the two --
those two sites on the -- down over there. So, the first site in terms of its overview, again,
almost all of it is owned by the Harvest Church, except for this area -- oops. This area
here and these buildings. All of the rest of that is owned by Harvest Church and the
facility itself, again, if you haven't been in that, already has about 850 seats. We had --
since our last presentation we had ESI go in there and analyze that, we got the Harvest
Church site plan, the building plans, we had the performing arts groups go in and analyze
that, give me a lot of feedback in terms of what would need to happen in order to get that
up to speed. ESI, then, took that information and generated -- did this on their -- on pro
bono, which is very nice of them, but generated very detailed cost estimates for
renovations for that facility based on exactly the needs and interests of the performing arts
groups. The old city hall site, again, all of it is owned by the -- the city or MDC, except for
those parcels. So, again, this is the old city hall. These are the MDC sites. I know
Venture Lab you are all talking about is going into here and that should continue. Again,
this site would be for both B1 and B2. So, after all that is said and done, you know, the --
excuse me -- the report details recommendations for the performing arts center, which is
A, and, then, just a conference center, which is B1 and, then, a hotel/conference center,
which is B2. Our recommendations are move forward with A and B2. It doesn't make
sense to just stop short of the conference center when there is a demand for a hotel and
there is an opportunity to put that into downtown. So, my -- the rest of my presentation is
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going to be mostly focused on the hotel conference center and not just a hotel. So, this is
the site for -- the site plan -- again, Brian McClure with the city did this for us, really thank
him for that. For A and B2. So, both the performing arts center and the hotel/conference
center. I'm going to talk in details now about each one of those. Again, these renderings
were also done by Brian. He's quite a talent, guys. So, the concept here is convert the
whole Harvest Church site into a shared performing arts center. The renovation cost --
construction cost estimates will be about 4.5 million. It does not include the purchase of
that facility, but it does include 22,000 square feet in the main floor, 5,500 square feet in
the basement offices, and, then, an additional 5,000 square feet, which is the old -- old
library I think -- maybe originally the old prison and, then, the old library and -- and so a
total of about 32,000, 33,000 square feet. Where you're looking at right here is from the
old city hall site, looking this direction and, again, if you remember this site plan has the
connection going from that potential entrance over -- over to where the old city hall is and
where the new hotel/conference center would be. So, the hotel conference center in that
site -- again, that concept is redevelop the old city hall parcel to accommodate a two story
conference center and a 150 room hotel. So, the hotel itself would go on -- on this
location where the -- where the existing city hall is and the conference center could be
here. This is a massing diagram that was developed again by Brian, that illustrates -- the
red is where the existing hall is and, then, you can see where the conference center would
be located here and, then, the hotel here and, then, the performing arts center here. So,
you know, all said and done, you would generate an incredible amount of activity in your
downtown, really help to revitalize a lot of the other areas in the downtown, bring a lot of
activity into the downtown as well. So, this cost estimate is about 31 million for the
hotel/conference center itself, separate from the cost of the -- of the performing arts
center. So, one of the things that we did for you all was we -- we looked at what are the --
what are going to be the economic impacts of both of these facilities and so not to get into
all the detail, unless you want me to, but on the performing arts center side, first of all, in
that case we anticipated that it would be not privately owned, although we will talk about it
in a second, that is an option, so we didn't look at property tax or anything like that from it,
but just looking at the construction, renovation of it, you can see that with a total
renovation cost of 4.5 million, the economic impact -- and this is -- those of you who
understand this -- we only did a primary, we did not do secondary impact. All the -- all the
assumptions for that are in the appendix. I won't bore the rest of the folks who don't like
this kind of stuff with that detail. But the bottom line is it's a very conservative economic
impact analysis, so the total economic impact of just during construction is an additional
four million dollars and would generate about 49 jobs just during the construction phase
and renovation sale -- or, excuse me, renovation. In terms of annual revenues -- and that
for everything down below that, you can see on the -- I will get to the bottom figure, about
2.8 million in total economic impact and 17 jobs and part of that is, you know, for those
patrons that come and -- come to it, we are going to need retail sales downtown, we were
very conservative in that and said of ten percent of the patrons they would spend 30
dollars downtown. I think that's very conservative. In talking to some of the other folks in
theater and performing arts, I think you would see more of that kind of an impact. On the
-- on the conference center side of things with a hotel, again, the construction cost, 31.2
million, that economic impact is very significant. You're buying a lot of goods and
materials, you have a lot of jobs, so you have about 340 jobs that are created just during
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the construction phase of that. Now, again, I have friends in Austin that they develop
these small scale grocers. Their best locations are where you're doing a lot of
construction activity. So, this did not really factor in all of the retail spending that -- those
construction workers would have downtown. It's really looking at on the goods and
services, what that impact would be. So, you're looking at about a 27 million dollar
economic impact just generated from that. Three hundred and forty jobs created during
construction. When you look at the annual revenue, again, we didn't -- this one doesn't
factor in property tax, sales taxes, strictly just the amount of retail sales, the amount of
conference bookings, amount of hotel revenue and that total brings you down to about 6.8
million in annual economic impacts, with the job creation of about 43 jobs. What this does
not factor in is -- if you remember Brenda Sherwood has been suggesting from the very
beginning to look at the Kirkwood, Iowa, model and in that model they use students from
their local community college in the operation of the kitchen and that facility and so I do
think this continues to be a very good example to look at for you all. So, there is that
whole other economic impact of helping students with very real world jobs in their training
for culinary, as well as other things. On the auditorium district, I wanted to just mention
this. I know this has been something we have asked -- we have been asked to take a
look at. So, this red line on the -- or this red graph over here is the Boise auditorium
district. You all probably know and I mentioned it earlier, that many of your hotels on the
east side of Meridian Road -- so, essentially, all these over here on this side are in the
Boise Auditorium District. Now, those could be de -annexed. That is an opportunity. That
is a possibility. But what we did is we just did some -- some calculations looking at a five
percent auditorium tax on annual sales and if you go down to this area right here, I'm
going to just focus on this for just a second. So, right now in Meridian you have 929,000
that could be potentially generated from an auditorium district. Those -- so right -- of that
-- of that amount about -- oh, about 180,000 is actually generated currently for the Boise
Auditorium District. So, if you were to apply an auditorium district right now on those
hotels that are in Meridian, but outside of the Boise Auditorium District, you would
generate about 730,000 a year. Now, if you include the proposed hotel with 150 rooms on
top of that, that would -- excuse me. On top of that, that total amount would be about
870,000. So, my point in this is if you look at adding all the hotels that are currently in the
auditorium district and those that are -- excuse me. Let me just rephrase that. If you are
including all the hotels that are in the city limits of Meridian and add to that the hotels that
would be generated from a new hotel, you would be looking at close to one million in
annual revenue from an auditorium district. Okay? So, what we are recommending in
terms of next steps in terms of a performing arts district is although a lot of the performing
arts groups have been involved, you know, they still I think need to gather and reach
some consensus on a project concept, the space needs, really identifying what funding
they have, other issues that they might have, finalize their preliminary performa for
purchase and operations. Potentially submit a -- at least a contract for purchase or an
option contract on the church site, including the land and the buildings. I do think, though,
that you can begin leasing -- and I say you -- performing arts groups can begin leasing
right now for their short-term needs. The Harvest Church has not used that -- the
performing arts center -- or their -- their facility on a regular basis, and so there are
opportunities now for that. And, then, you know, finalize a design and kind of move
forward. I do encourage looking at trying to encourage the redevelopment of the multi-
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family property adjacent to the church and, then, you can see some of the other things -- a
third party assisting with planning development, definitely a third party for ownership and
management and operations. You're going to need an objective third party. You know,
whether or not a performing arts or -- you have a lot of folks that are involved in something
like that and it's like herding cats type of an operation, so you need on objective third party
for that type of thing. And, then, work -- definitely work to assure that there is that
pedestrian connection between the performing arts center and the conference center and
Main Street. For the hotel/conference center I do encourage you to move forward with the
improvements for the new Ventures Lab in the existing city hall -- or the old city hall. And,
then, you know, begin more discussions -- although we have involved some developers
and hotel operators to kind of look at our work and give us feedback, but continue to
involve them, looking at potential private partners, do a little bit more analysis in terms of
reaching out to event planners, get some better estimates on the exact types of
conferences that could be booked, the amount of revenue that could be generated.
Interview some of those cities that have those conference centers and public/private
centers and, then, again, move -- move forward with the relocation of Venture Labs in the
second story. So, overall, though, next steps, what I would recommend is a joint
approach and I'm not harking back to the '60s on that comment. I'm recommending that
you develop a request for proposal for both sites, that you send out a request proposal to
developers saying we want to redevelop both of these sites, we want to see your
proposals. In the develop what the community benefits would be in terms of what was
needed -- what would be needed in each of those proposals, developing a scoring criteria,
so that would allow the city to objectively score each of the proposals and, then, move
forward with soliciting developer proposals from across the country. I know there are folks
in this area and region that are interested in this. I have talked to folks in the Austin metro
area that are interested in this. So, there is not for a lack of interest. The other thing is I
think it's very critical to develop a sources list, meaning what skin in the game does the
city and the Meridian Development Corporation have, meaning, first and foremost, the
properties that, you know, you may, for example, contribute those as part of a
development deal. So, a developer, when they are going to look at this, they are,
obviously, going to develop their own performa and if they can look at what the values of
the land are and that would be listed in the RFP with probably appraisals of both of those
sites, they can -- they can do that. There are also interests among at least one, but
probably two or three philanthropists in the region to contribute some funds to that. I think
it's important to take that next step and develop a letter of intent with those philanthropists
to know exactly what amount of monies those might be. You don't have to list them, name
them in the RFP, but, again, I think listing that out as potential sources in the RFP I think
is a good idea. So, with that being said, I'm going to pause there. I'm sure you have
some questions and comments, but thank you very much for allowing me to work on this.
It's been a fun project and, again, thank you for those in the room that have participated.
De Weerd: Thank you, Sean. Council, any questions? Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: Madam Mayor. Sean, this is great. You know, I think for a lot of the community
you hope and you wonder what types of facilities like this can play a part in our community
and I really appreciate you providing a lot of data that says, no, there is a demand for this
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and there are some huge opportunities. But one of my questions, though, really goes
back to the number that you identified with ticket sales.
De Weerd: You want to pull that --
Cavener: Sorry. Am I not loud enough? Sorry. But my question was -- one of my
questions really was the ticket sales. Where is that number coming from and is that an
assumption at the one year mark, the three year mark, the ten year mark? I mean it's a
fascinating number to me, but I -- I'm having some -- I'm struggling to try and figure out
where that came from.
Garretson: Sure. So, we had a list -- and I can go through this a little bit right now. So,
we have a list in the very back that includes all of the assumptions and I'm going to -- I'm
just going to get to it, because I'm going to forget a couple of things. But -- okay. So, it
includes basically beginning in operations, that's year one, and we are assuming 85
percent seat occupancy for a 1,000 seat facility over 25 weekends a year and at ticket
sales of 30 dollars per seat, which I think is an average ticket sale price when you look at
what maybe this Treasure Valley Children's Theater might charge versus something like a
ballet. And, again, I think those are very conservative assumptions. Does that answer
your question?
Cavener: It does. Was there any -- and I guess I will make an assumption and you can
correct me if I'm wrong.
Garretson: Yeah.
Cavener: Was that price for tickets -- I mean compared with what the -- like the Nampa
Civic Center charges for their stuff and is that above or below? Was any part of your
analysis taken with what other similar facilities are charging around the area?
Garretson: It was, but we really asked specifically of operators and we looked at what the
existing sales prices are for those users that are in here and I think we are pretty close to
that amount -- that price.
Cavener: Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate that
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: Sean, you mentioned towards the last of your presentation that there is interest
in this both locally, as well as you mention Austin, Texas. What does that mean?
Quantify that for me.
Garretson: So, developers actually do like to bid on projects where the city has land and
-- and is maybe contributing that, because it lowers their overall costs of -- of entering a
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market. Now, we had -- you know, one of the local larger development companies who
has done work here in Meridian and in the region, we have had several discussions with
them and they were -- they gave us some very specific feedback on it, such as, shocker,
you need an auditorium district. You know, they want to see that there are some other
revenue sources that would help them make that work and I -- for somebody who does
development I totally understand that. For the folks in Austin, last week I met with two
different developers, both of whom do hotels and I laid out everything for them and they
both expressed interest and wanted to be included in the request for proposals. In talking
to Bruce and Brenda earlier today, they brain stormed several ideas. There are -- both in
the state, in the northwest, and throughout the United States there are several
organizations. I'm not going to remember all of them, Bruce, that you mentioned, but
Urban Land Institute, for example, is another one where there are developers that are --
that are participant members and they look for these types of things. Did that fully answer
your question?
Rountree: Yes. Follow up. How elaborate does the RFP have to be? Where do we go
from here in terms of cost to prepare such a document? Are we near? Is there another
step -- another professional that will do that?
Garretson: Well, honestly, I think your -- your -- so, your question was -- I will just repeat
it. In terms of the RFP process, what's required and what's next. I think your staff here
could definitely do that. I have been involved with that in other cities and I think the first
step in that really is identifying the meat that's going to go in that and so finalizing what the
concepts are, finalizing the approach, if you're going to do a joint thing and, then, also
laying up very specifically what the community benefits are that must be achieved and,
then, the other aspect is develop a scoring criteria and, Bruce, do you want to mention
anything on that?
Chatterton: Well, Mayor, Council Member Rountree, we -- if you like the direction tonight
-- that you hear tonight, one of the things we would do is begin to talk to our partners and
to some of the folks that we have already engaged in the development community and
talk about what would be attractive, what would you want to see in an RFP that -- if you
would be interested in responding to. And I think we can do much of that at the staff level.
There might be some areas of expertise that we would need to pull in. Sean and his
company or perhaps some others. We really need to take a look at that and -- but beyond
the basis of the conversations with the folks that we would hope would respond to -- to an
RFP like this. And, again, the approach of the RFP would be to say there might be some
things -- some knowns -- an auditorium district. That's maybe more of an assumption than
a known. The availability of some publicly owned land and perhaps, as Sean mentioned,
it's sort of an earmark for a philanthropic contribution and what can then say to the
developer is what do you need? What's the gap? You know, in order to meet all these
goals is there anything else you need. And so you would need any other contribution by
the city, by MDC, by anyone else really as that last bit, what is that gap and I think we can
come up with an RFP that does that mostly at the staff level, but I think that, you know,
certainly it would be good to have advice and counsel from -- from Sean and others.
Does that answer the question?
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Rountree: Yes. Thank you.
Cavener: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: Maybe a follow up to something that kind of Bruce talked about related to an
auditorium district tax and something that you're not recommending, which I appreciate
that. My curiosity is what's the reason for you not recommending that? Is that -- there is
just not enough hotels in Meridian and, if so, in your opinion what's that number?
Garretson: Sure. So, to clarify, I'm not recommending that be the first think you do out of
the gate.
Cavener: Fair.
Garretson: Because, you know, we -- Pocatello is a really good example, you know, they
came out, worked on an auditorium district, probably isn't going to happen, and they
generated a lot of energy, activity, and -- and it looks like it might die. So, my
recommendation is to not come right of the gate with that, but that's why I looked at the
numbers that -- and it's significant. I mean you could see close to a million dollars in
annual revenue, five percent coming back. So, you know, I forget the terminology that
Bruce said, but it -- you know, sometimes when you have one of those things right out the
gate it becomes the sole focus. There is so much more work that needs to be done
before that happens. It doesn't mean that it couldn't be a concurrent track if that's -- if
that's the approach that Council wants to take.
Chatterton: And, Madam Mayor and Council Member Cavener, I think the other thing we
wanted to emphasize is that the Greater Boise Auditorium District had, if you want to call
it, the luxury of several years of having their auditorium district taxes build up and that's, of
course, the reason they are able to -- to do the -- the major expansion in downtown Boise
that they are doing right now that's underway. We didn't want to oversell that as
something that we could immediately tap into. But it is I think a part of the funding puzzle.
De Weerd: Any further questions from Council?
Borton: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Will you, please, move your -- yes.
Borton: Sean, on the economic impacts, I presume that's Treasure Valley -- the data is
Treasure Valley wide, it's not a Meridian specific; is that right?
Garretson: Yes. That's correct. Yes. That's correct.
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De Weerd: Okay. Anything further from Council?
Milam: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: So, the next steps following the joint approach, what do you see as a time frame
on your crystal ball?
Garretson: Do you want to talk about your crystal ball or mine?
Chatterton: Well, they are probably the same.
Garretson: Probably the same.
Chatterton: Yeah. Madam Mayor, Council Member Milam, we want to -- we want to
develop a schedule from here on out. We didn't do that on purpose, because we didn't
know if you would like this approach overall. I mean now you have seen the whole thing,
the secret sauce, you know all the ingredients and some of the directions. That is part of
the plan that really -- really needs to be developed, along with the RFP. A lot of that --
and I don't want to -- I don't want to get squirrelly on this, but there is -- there is so many
discussions that we still `need to have in order to get this right and I don't -- I don't want to
over promise on that, but I would expect to come back to you in the very near future with
an overall project schedule.
Milam: Thank you.
De Weerd: Okay. Any other questions? Any final comments, Sean?
Garretson: I just wanted to add, Council Member Borton, page 34 has all of our economic
impact assumptions. You can take a look at that. And, then, even prior to that it has a list
of sort of all the multipliers and everything else we used. I figured you might be at least
one of the ones on Council that would want to dig into that part.
De Weerd: Okay. While we have you here, I would like to take a moment and thank the
members of the steering committee. They have been awesome and after getting our
economic audit really picking this up and starting to roll up their sleeves and get to work
on a number of the -- the findings that Sean brought to us in the original economic audit
and you would be amazed at how much they have actually been able to accomplish in
moving this forward. Certainly Brenda and Bruce have been leaders to this, but have
appreciated the MDC, the Chamber, Rob McCarvel, who has been chairing the steering
committee and, lastly, probably would like to give kudos to Autumn as she's convened a
number of the stakeholder groups and has added a lot of passion and energy and tenacity
and I don't know if someone said herding cats, but there is -- there is a lot of different
players and stakeholders that have been involved. Some of them have been deeply
involved in our community for some time, like our Meridian Arts Foundation and our
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Meridian Arts Commission. So, our thanks to all of you who have just kind of joined arm
to arm and have really gotten your arms around the possibilities and opportunities and just
to preface before we have anyone think that any piece of property has been committed or
anything, these are possibilities and opportunities and certainly they are worth some
further investigation in how we can build a downtown that becomes that true destination
and there is work to be done, but this is exciting work that has happened up to this point
and we appreciate that.
Chatterton: So, Madam Mayor and Council Members, if you would help me sum up my
marching orders. First, we want to -- with your approval go ahead and convey the Mayor
and Council's support for this -- this direction for further development of the ideas you
have heard tonight to others, including the partners we already have with the Chamber,
MDC and, then, the arts community. And, then, develop an overall schedule and, if
necessary, the cost for developing request for proposal for the combined hotel/conference
center and performing arts. Does that sum it up or --
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: Bruce, that sounds great to me, to make sure we get all the parties involved, get us
a cost, find out what we are going to require in the RFP and go forward with it and
definitely let it be known that this isn't dye in the wool done. We are still exploring. That
there has been nothing offered on any property or anything like that, like some of the
rumors was out, so -- I'm for hitting it just like you said. You can come back in a couple of
weeks I take it.
De Weerd: That's a couple of weeks. Just a nod.
Chatterton: Madam Mayor, Council Member Bird, I -- I would like to withdraw my nod right
there.
De Weerd: No. For the record that nod was on it.
Bird: That's what I took it. No. We know. Take your time and get it done right
Chatterton: Thank you. I appreciate that.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Well, you can bring it back in a couple weeks with a timeline that would be
anticipated to getting you that information. Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I concur with what has been said with respect to the three deliverables yet to
come. I'm encouraged for not the first time, but the first in a long time of a plan that
actually has some substance to it, as opposed to concept and desire. We have seen way
too many of those in the past and been really excited about them, only to see them sit idle
again on a shelf. So, I see this as an opportunity to -- to move forward and actually
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attempt to do something and it may actually come to pass. So, I support it. I agree that
we need to have our support. I appreciate the idea of a schedule, but take your time to do
it right. It doesn't matter if it's two weeks or two and a half weeks, just get her done.
De Weerd: Two and a half weeks. You have some latitude.
Rountree: And develop the scope and the cost for the RFP, so we can have a sense of
what it's going to be with the detail and input from -- from all the participants in that
particular element. I think it's going to be important that we have complete and total -- not
necessarily buy in, but knowledge of our community of what that thing is going to contain,
so we can have an open and honest discussion about how we move forward.
Chatterton: And, Madam Mayor and Council Member Rountree, I'd agreed completely
that having those conversations -- completing those conversations is key, because as you
know there are several directions that we looked at and did not think were a good idea to
pursue. The idea, for instance, of a -- of an outdoor sporting and concert venue is one of
them. So, it's important to know what doesn't fly as well.
Rountree: And my thanks again to everybody that's participated. I appreciate the time. I
know the time it takes and I believe it's been time well spent from what I'm seeing, so
thank you.
De Weerd: So, we are excited about the stakeholders that are at the table and it seems
like the stakeholders' urgency matches several of the Council members we have heard
from tonight. So, it's all encouraging. Thank you so much, Sean. We appreciate -- we
appreciate the delay in the final delivery of this report, because you wanted to tighten up
the information you got and close the loop on a number of conversations. So, we have
appreciated the guidance and the process up to this point and look forward to continuing
it.
Borton: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
Borton: Can I -- I just wanted to add to that and from my perspective it might be even
more urgent than -- than needs to be that we move on this type of project. It seems to be
a somewhat rare opportunity to drive this forward -- not rush by any sense, but quickly.
When I look in the audience I know who participated in the work and the study that was
done and we have got folks from the Shakespeare Festival and the Arts Foundation and
Arts Commission and Urban Renewal Agency and Chamber of Commerce and a lot of
other community leaders here who have participated and I think what I have heard some
of the -- maybe it's the elephant in the room is how strong a stand and commitment does
the city have truly to lead it. A lot of these projects -- at least I tried to do some research
on some other communities is they can get lost if people kind of, you know, kind of point
at each other and hope for someone else to be the champion of the cause and -- from a
funding perspective or -- or otherwise. I think this is an opportunity where the city needs
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to commit and express to yourself and to all of those other stakeholders that we are willing
to step up and lead. What that particularly means we can't say now, but the general
perception needs to be clarified. From my perspective it's clearly the proper role for the
city in this context to lead and to make it known to all of the other partners that we are
committed to doing so. They are willing to step up and share in that process, but -- and if
there is anyone on the Council or the Mayor that thinks otherwise, it's totally fine, but
people need to know that. I presume that's not the case and if it's not, great, you can go
forward knowing that we are all rowing the same direction, but I thought it was important
to share. This is -- it's exciting. Move quick.
Chatterton: So, a sense of urgency, but not undue panic. Got it.
De Weerd: So, two and a half weeks. So, you can -- you can celebrate when you leave
the Council chambers. So, thank you again for being here.
Chatterton: I'm lingering for a reason here
Bird: He's got another deal.
Rountree: You're next.
Chatterton: The next item.
D. Public Works: Budget Amendment for Old City Hall Tenant
Improvements for 2015 for the Not -to -Exceed Amount of
$69,390.00
De Weerd: You can still take a deep breath and celebrate your success. Okay. Item 8-D
is our next item on the agenda.
Chatterton: Yes. Madam Mayor, Council Members, Public Works felt that this was a
relatively simple construction project, therefore, they could trust me to present it to you.
We talk about the -- the big three in terms of our hopes and dreams for our downtown and
for economic development. The three of them, of course, were conference center,
performing arts, and the New Ventures laboratory, the idea of having a co -work space to -
- to really -- it's a big part of what we talked about during the economic development
strategy and audit, we talked about economic gardening, that's really what -- what this is
all about. But by far this is -- at this first step for the New Ventures lab, tenant
improvements for the old city hall building are by far the smallest piece costwise of those
big three. So, this is -- this is really important. We hope to get a lot of bang for this buck.
Really the amendment amount is based on some preliminary values. We are going to be
pursuing complete agreement values. The funding, of course, comes from the -- the
General Fund, the general building fund improvement fund and as I mentioned this aligns
with our five year economic development strategy for the city. So, we are asking today for
a budget amendment for the old city hall tenant improvement in the amount of 69,390
dollars and it's primarily for carpet and for finishes. Again this -- these would -- this would
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be a cost that would be necessary no matter who would occupying this building, even if it
weren't the new Venture Lab. Be happy to answer any questions.
De Weerd: Council, any questions? Okay. I do need to have a motion to approve this
budget amendment.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we approve Item 8-D for the tenant improvements in the old city
hall for the amount of 69,390 dollars.
Cavener: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 8-D. Any discussion from
Council?
Rountree: Bruce, I hope if they ddvelop nano robot technology that maybe they can build
a 150 room hotel as a -- as a class activity, so --
Chatterton: That will be the -- I will tell Rick Ritter.
Rountree: Okay.
Chatterton: I think that will be the first order of business.
Rountree: Rick could do it.
De Weerd: No pressure. I do have a motion -- did I have a second?
Rountree: Yes, I had a second.
De Weerd: Okay. Hearing no further discussion, Madam Clerk.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
De Weerd: Thank you, Bruce.
Chatterton: Thank you.
Item 9: Action Items
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A. Public Hearing: VAC 15-001 Denison Vacation by Tealey's Land
Surveying Located 3244 W. Salix Drive Request: Vacate a
Portion of the 5 -Foot Wide Public Utility, Drainage and Irrigation
(PUDI) Easement Along the SouthBoundary Lot 17, Block 11
Platted with Jayker Subdivision No. 1
De Weerd: Item 9-A under Action Items is a public hearing on VAC 15-001. 1 will open
this with staff comments.
Parsons: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. The next item on the
agenda this evening is the Denison Vacation. This property is located at 3244 West Salix
Drive. It's actually a residential zoned lot within the Jaykers Subdivision which was platted
back in 2007. Since that time the city has processed several applications off of the
surrounding properties and through the property boundary adjustment this property has
actually been reconfigured into what you see here as Parcel C on this graphic on the two
other adjacent properties approved with that record of survey are Parcel A and Parcel B.
At the time that that property boundary adjustment was -- was approved by staff new utility
easements were not created with that record of survey, nor did the applicant vacate any
easements and that's pretty typical. Within the UDC a record of survey does not vacate
any platted utility easements and that's why we are here tonight discussing the applicant's
proposal. So, the next graphic here shows what area of easement is being proposed to
be vacated and what staff is recommending as part of creating a new easement. As I
mentioned in the staff report there is a single family residence currently being constructed
on the property here and the foundation for that residents is located within the utility
easement shown here in this graphic -- in this representation. In order for the homeowner
to get occupancy for the -- that home a portion of this easement will need to be vacated.
During my review of this staff did receive the letters from all the applicable utility providers.
They do support the relinquishment of that easement. However, we did receive
comments from United Water who currently have a 20 foot existing easement along the
southern boundary of Parcel C and they have requested only a portion of that easement
to vacate, which is approximately 224 square feet. So, this red line that you see here is
what United Water has agreed to vacate. The remaining utility easement would remain
only for the benefit of United Water. All other utility providers do not see a need for the
easement, as said they do not wish to have any rights to that easement. So, I as
mentioned to you, typically with a boundary -- property boundary adjustment we do not get
new easements with that process and so my recommendation as part of the vacation
application this evening is staff has put a condition on this vacation that prior to you
approving the resolution that the applicant create new public utilities and drainage
easements along the south boundary of the north -- northwest property lot and the
northern property lot as I have shown here in this exhibit. Staff has conferred this
requirement with the city engineer and he is sticking -- he also supports staffs
recommendation for establishing a new easement. Just for some background for Council,
this is a pretty typical practice that we do for our subdivision approvals. Anytime
somebody brings forth a subdivision or plat city staff does require that they plat
easements along the property lines for utility providers, even though they may not have
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any utilities in them we still want to have those easements in place. A typical width for
those easements would be five feet, so staff is not asking for anything extraordinary than
what we get from a plat or a final plat. Again, these are typical easements and it's
important to note that there is a home on this lot and we need to make sure that our
ordinance also requires that drainage remain on the lot, so we have got to make sure that
there is adequate setback around the building to make sure that drainage is being
maintained on this property. A few months ago you acted on a similar vacation
application for the property north of this site where they vacated these utility easements in
this area and staff recommendation in that vacation application also required the
developer or property owner to dedicate the other five feet on the north boundary of this
property, so we would get that ten feet moving forward. The applicant's representative did
submit written testimony on this application and he's asking that you basically strike that
condition as staff has stated in the staff report. We are recommending approval. This
concludes my presentation and I'd stand for any questions you may have.
De Weerd: Thank you, Bill. Council, any questions at this point?
Bird: Not at this time.
De Weerd: Okay. Would the applicant like to make comment? Good evening. If you will,
please, state your name and address for the record.
Tealey: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, my name is Pat Tealey. Office address
12594 Explorer in Boise.
De Weerd: Thank you.
Tealey: And I'm here representing the -- the applicant Mr. Kevin Denison. We agree with
the staff report as far as the vacation of the easement along the south property line. We
did have quite an onerous discussion I guess with -- with United Water to get this to
happen and in so doing they agreed to vacate just a portion of it as staff indicated. The
five foot easement will -- except for the orange parcel we will be -- remain in effect for
United Water only. All the other utilities that were contacted, the public utilities, expressed
that they had no interest in -- in this easement. Just to go back and sort of review how
these easements are established, they are established by a plat. There is typically
needed for utilities to essentially loop their utility. For example, a -- a gas line to go from
the front property line to the back, a telephone line to go from the front to the back. They
are made to loop the utilities where ever they may need it. Now, they are very, very, very
seldom used and you can see that in this instance where they are vacating the one along
the south property line and none of the easements -- or, excuse me, utilities that we
contacted expressed an interest in having an additional easement along that north
property line of the subject parcel. The original plat only dedicated public utility
easements along the side lot lines. What the city is asking for is something a little bit
different. It's asking for a public utility drainage and irrigation. This will be the only side lot
line in the subdivision to have anything outside of a public utilities easement. It would be
very -- very sort of special I guess. Note ten in the -- in the plat -- on the plat, again, just
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dedicated specifically public utilities and none of the public utilities wish to retain an
easement along that line. Now, in the plat of Jaykers where there was a drainage
easement needed, there was a specific easement granted in -- in the -- they were called --
the public utilities were called PUE easements. They were specific DE or drainage
easements and there were specific IE -- IRR that were granted. These were notes on the
plat again where drainage and irrigation were needed, specific easements were granted
and there is only a couple instances where the drainage was needed and, basically, it was
for the North Slough to have their ditch across the property. So, again, the city is asking
for something that really is special to only one lot. The utilities that service all these lots
go along the front lot line of all the lots in what they call a common trench. All of the public
utilities of water, gas, telephone, power go in this common trench, so that's why none of
these sideline easements really aren't needed, unless there is a loop from front to back
and that is not the instance in this case. If this easement were to be granted by -- for
drainage, the only benefit -- benefactor of that easement would be the property to the
north to allow him to move his drainage over onto this lot and that's one of the main
reasons that we don't want this easement there. I mean you're supposed to, as stated by
staff, in the building permit process you retain all your water, your drainage, on your lot.
You're not supposed to migrate across property lines. So, we don't see the benefit or the
use of a drainage easement at all. One of the other things is how do you grant this
easement? All the other easements along these lot lines were granted by the plat. That's
a simple deal. You record the plat and there is an easement in fact. We would have to
create a specific document at some expense involving lawyers and I just don't feel that
this is a -- the easement isn't needed and the expense isn't needed either. Other than that
if you have questions I would be glad to stand for them.
De Weerd: Thank you, Pat. Council, any questions?
Bird: Not of Pat.
De Weerd: Okay. Thank you.
Tealey: Thank you.
De Weerd: This is a public hearing. Is there anyone else who would like to provide
testimony on this item. Okay. Seeing none.
Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: Bill, on this easement that we are requesting, it's a -- a drainage easement. Is that
something that we normally do? I mean I have -- and what is the reason for it? Maybe
Warren can answer.
Parsons: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, Councilman Bird, I would defer to
Warren on that.
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Bird: Okay.
Stewart: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, Councilman Bird, yeah, most of these
easements are set up as public utilities and drainage easements. That's common
terminology. Essentially, the desire here was to reestablish -- as you can see from the
previous lot line adjustment that was done there used to be a five foot utility easement on
that piece of the property line before. When it was moved that easement doesn't move
with it. This is really an effort to just reestablish the same easement or very similar
easement to one that was there previously that's on every lot and every side lot in an
entire subdivision. In fact, we are not trying to do something special here, we are trying to
do the same thing that's been done and we are not treating this lot as special, just,
essentially, reestablishing the easement that was there in the first place before the lot line
was adjusted.
Bird: Follow up?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: We -- we took that easement out when Parcel B come forward, if I remember right.
Is that not right? And moved it up, so we didn't feel we needed it at that time at that
location. I -- I mean I would -- why would -- I just can't figure out why we have a -- and
let's face the facts, it's strictly for drainage. You're not going to get any utilities or
anything. The utility companies have already said they are not interested in having an
easement there, as I understand from what Pat just testified; is that right?
Stewart: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council -- and I will let Bill speak to this as well.
I do believe that the lot -- the easement that you saw vacated -- the one up there -- right
there, that the portion of -- that five foot portion of that easement was moved down to the
southern property line, so on the other side of this property you have a five foot easement.
So, we are, essentially, trying to establish the very same thing on the south side of that
property line, so it looks exactly like it would have in the first place. It is true that at this
time I don't think any utilities have expressed an interest in that. The City of Meridian
doesn't foresee any immediate need, but those lot lines exist -- those same kind of
easements exist on lot lines throughout the subdivision, because they may or may not be
needed now, but they might be needed in the future for other types of utilities and so on
and so forth. This is not -- you know, a lot of those never are used. That's -- that's sure.
That's true.
Bird: Tell me about it.
Stewart: But we are just, essentially, trying to apply the same rules and the same
easements that existed on the lot lines prior to the adjustment of the -- of the property
boundary.
De Weerd: Any other questions from Council?
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Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: Bill, what's the -- what's the building setback in this -- in this zone?
Parsons: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, Councilman Rountree, this property is
zoned R-2 and if I remember correctly it's a single story home, so it's seven and a half feet
from the property boundary.
Rountree: So, easement or not, they couldn't build on that piece anyway.
Bird: No.
De Weerd: Anything further from Council?
Rountree: Madam Mayor, just a comment. This -- this is the third or fourth time we have
seen these three lots in various fashions. It seems to me that the appropriate thing that
should have been done is they all should have been done together and replatted together.
These are the kinds of things that happen when we don't do that and I would suggest in
the future we not do that piecemeal approach. I have a hard time saying we really need it
if we are going to catch it now, as opposed to catching it before and it should have been
stated in previous actions that all lots as a result of this resubdivision will meet all
subdivision criteria and any owner should have been notified and they should have had an
opportunity to -- I mean they all had opportunity to come and testify. Probably weren't
dealing with the owners of this lot at that particular time. So, I just struggle with doing it
this way and that coupled with the fact that they can't build or do anything of any
substantive nature in that seven and a have feet there, by virtue of our zoning
requirements, in effect, you have an easement if, in fact, something were needed and if
it's primarily for drainage I suspect everybody is going to be concerned about where the
drainage is going to go and take care of it adequately as they do their landscaping and
grading. So, I have a tough time with the additional easement, if you will, to the north.
The green easement. I support the vacation or the smaller piece, the red piece, but it
doesn't make any sense to me. Why not vacate the whole thing. It's unusable.
Bird: I agree.
De Weerd: Anything further from Council? Does the applicant's representative have any
further comment? I think, Mr. -- Councilman Rountree said it for you, so --
Rountree: This will be the first time in a long time Pat and I agreed on anything.
Tealey: Yeah. That's probably right. That's probably right. There is no benefit to -- for
this easement. The only benefit for the easement is the utilities and they have already
expressed that they don't want it. You know, you give an easement to somebody it's like
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giving the land away. It's not just this thing that sits there, there is -- there is a use
associated with that that the landowner can't use. As I stated earlier, these easements
are -- and as the city has said they are very, very seldom used and in this case they won't
be used for the public utilities portion of the easement that is similar to every lot that's in
this subdivision. What the city is asking for is something that the utilities don't want and,
then, placing a further restriction on it for drainage and irrigation. The drainage and
irrigation portion of it was never granted by the plat on any of the lots in the subdivision.
So, the only thing to consider in my mind is the public utilities portion of it. Stand for any
questions. Thank you.
De Weerd: Thank you. Council, if there is nothing further I would entertain a motion to
close this public hearing.
Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move we close the public hearing on VAC 15-001.
Milam: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearing on Item 9-A. All
those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move we approve VAC 15-001 and eliminate Exhibit B of the staff report.
Rountree: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve this item with the notation as stated.
Any further discussion from Council? Madam Clerk.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
B. FP 15-001 McLinder Subdivision No. 2 by TS Development, LLC
Located at 4650 N. Linder Road and 1437 W. McMillan Road
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Request: Final Plat Approval Consisting of Seven (7) Building
Lots on 5.37 Acres of Land in the C -N Zoning District
De Weerd: Item 9-B is FP 15-001. 1 will ask for staff comments.
Parsons: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. Next item is McLinder
Subdivision. This is the second phase of the preliminary plat that was in front of you and
right now currently the first phase consisted of the multi -family development here to the
south and the applicant is just coming forward and final platting their commercial lots that
were approved with their preliminary plat. Staff has done their evaluation. The proposed
final plat this evening does comply with the approved preliminary plat. The applicant
wasn't able to get their comments to you within the time frame to keep this on the Consent
Agenda, but staff did receive written testimony from the applicant and they are in
agreement with all conditions of approval. So, staff and the applicant are here this
evening asking for your approval and with that I would stand for any questions you may
have.
De Weerd: Thank you, Bill. Council, any questions?
Bird: I have none.
Rountree: I have none.
De Weerd: Okay. Any comment from the applicant? Do I have a motion?
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move we approve Item 9-13, final plat 15-001.
Bird: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 9-B. If there is no discussion,
Madam Clerk, will you call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea.
eyes.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 10: Ordinances
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A. Ordinance No. 15-1637: An Ordinance (RZ 14-003 — Kinsley) For
The Re- Zone Of A Tract Of Land Situated In The Southwest One
Quarter Of The Northwest One Quarter Of Section 11, Township
3 North, Range 1 West, Boise Meridian, City Of Meridian, Ada
County Idaho; Establishing And Determining The Land Use
Zoning Classification Of L -O (Limited Office District) And R-15
(Medium -High Density Residential) Zoning District To CC
(Community Business) Zoning District; And Providing An
Effective Date
De Weerd: Item 10-A is ordinance number 15-1637. Madam Clerk, will you, please, read
this ordinance by title only.
Holman: Thank you, Madam Mayor. City of Meridian Ordinance No. 15-1637: An
Ordinance (RZ 14-003 — Kinsley) for the re -zone of a tract of land situated in the
southwest one quarter of the northwest one quarter of Section 11, Township 3 North,
Range 1 West, Boise Meridian, City of Meridian, Ada County Idaho; establishing and
determining the land use zoning classification of L -O (Limited Office District) and R-15
(Medium -High Density Residential) Zoning District to C -C (Community Business) Zoning
District in the Meridian City Code. Providing that copies of this ordinance shall be filed
with the Ada County Assessor, the Ada County Recorder, and the Idaho State Tax
Commission as required by law and providing for a summary of the ordinance and
providing for a waiver of the reading rules and providing an effective date.
De Weerd: You have heard this ordinance read by title only. Is there anyone who would
like to hear it read in its entire? Seeing none --
Milam: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: I move that we approve Ordinance 15-1637 with suspension of rules.
Bird: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 10-A. Madam Clerk, will you
call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea.
eyes.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 11: Future Meeting Topics
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De Weerd: Item 11. Are there any topics to consider for future meeting agendas?
Bird: I don't have any at this time.
De Weerd: Council, I do know we are trying to come up with some dates, so if you can
get back to my office we are trying to set up joint meetings with Ada County Highway
District and Ada County Commission, so if you can kind of touch base with Peggy that
would be awesome. I would entertain a motion to adjourn.
Rountree: So moved.
Bird: Second.
De Weerd: All those in favor say aye. All ayes.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:41 P.M.
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