HomeMy WebLinkAbout2015-04-21Meridian City Council April 21, 2015
A meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:04 p.m., Tuesday, April 21,
2015, by Mayor Tammy de Weerd.
Members Present: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, Charlie Rountree, Keith Bird, David
Zaremba, Joe Borton, Genesis Milam and Luke Cavener.
Others Present: Bill Nary, Jacy Jones, Calelb Hood, Clint Dolsby, Jeff Lavy, Michae de St.
Germain, David Jones Mollie Mangerich, 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: Thank you for your patience. We are a few minutes past 6:00 o'clock, but we
will go right into our regular meeting. For the record it is Tuesday, April 21st. It's 6:04.
We will start with roll call attendance, Madam Clerk.
Item 2: Pledge of Allegiance
De Weerd: Item No. 2 is the Pledge of Allegiance. If you will all rise and join us in the
pledge to our flag.
(Pledge of Allegiance recited.)
Item 3: Community Invocation by Troy Drake, Lead Pastor, Calvary Chapel
Meridian
De Weerd: Item No. 3 is our community invocation. Tonight we will be led by Pastor
Drake. He is with Calvary Chapel here in Meridian. If you will all join us in the community
invocation or take this as an opportunity for a moment of silence. Thank you again for
joining us.
Drake: Thank you, Mayor Tammy, Council Members. Let us pray. Lord God, we are just
so thankful for the freedoms that we have in this country and which, obviously, falls upon
this city, too, Lord. We have freedom to worship, freedom to live where we want to and
work where we want to. Lord, we just thank you for that, that we have this awesome
place and we pray that you would protect our city tonight, those who serve, as well as
those who live here, God, that you would be over all things that happen and our heart
breaks for those who are needy, God, so we just pray that they could find shelter and a
meal, someone who loves them. God, we know ultimately you do and so we just pray for
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our city, for all those needs, and, God, as it pertains to these people here tonight, you
reminded me today how you care about every little detail that goes on and so you care
about this here and so I just pray for wisdom for these fine people, that they would have
wisdom from you to make these decisions, even the small matters, as they affect all the
residents of this town and all the people that are moving here. So, we just pray over our
city, Lord, and that you would give wisdom to these servants of ours and that you would
bless them, God, and give them much grace. So, we honor you tonight and it's in Jesus'
name we pray, amen. Thank you.
De. Weerd: Thank you. It's always nice to see you.
Item 4: Adoption of the Agenda
De Weerd: Item No. 4 is adoption of the agenda.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: Item 9-A has been requested by staff to continue until April 28th and on Item
10-A, the ordinance number is 15-1642. 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 amended. All those
in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 5: Consent Agenda
A. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Order of Denial: RZ 15-
003 Jayker Village Subdivision by Oak Leaf Development
Company, Inc. Located North Side of Chinden Boulevard; West
of N. Tree Farm Way and N. Tree Haven Way Request: Rezone
26.09 Acres from the C -N and the R-15 Districts to the R-15 (8.48
Acres) and C -C (17.61 Acres) Zoning Districts
B. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Order of Denial: PP 15-
003 Jayker Village Subdivision by Oak Leaf Development
Company, Inc. Located North Side of Chinden Boulevard; West
of N. Tree Farm Way and N. Tree Haven Way Request:
Preliminary Plat Approval Consisting of One (1) Residential Lot,
Three (3) Commercial Lots and Three (3) Common Lots on
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Approximately 23.59 Acres in the Proposed R-15 and C -C Zoning
Districts
C. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Order of Denial: CUP
15-003 Jayker Village Subdivision by Oak Leaf Development
Company, Inc. Located North Side of Chinden Boulevard; West
of N. Tree Farm Way and N. Tree Haven Way Request:
Conditional Use Permit for a Self -Service Storage Facility
Consisting of a Care -Taker's / Office Building and Fifteen (15)
Storage Buildings on Approximately 11.18 Acres of Land in a
Proposed C -C Zoning District
D. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Order of Denial: MDA
15-001 Jayker Village Subdivision by Oak Leaf Development
Company, Inc. Located North Side of Chinden Boulevard, West
of N. Tree Farm Way and N. Tree Haven Request: Development
Agreement Modification to Exclude the Proposed C -C Zoning
Boundary from the Existing Development Agreement
E. Final Order for Approval: FP 15-009 Biltmore Estates Subdivision
No. 2 by Oakwood Estates, LLC Located South of W. Victory
Road and West of S. Meridian Road Request: Final Plat Approval
Consisting of Twenty -Nine (29) Building Lots and Five (5)
Common/Other Lots on 10.62 Acres of Land in the R-4 Zoning
District
F. FP 15-011 Avendale Subdivision by Silver Oaks Apartments, LLC
Located 3800 W. Perugia Street Request: Final Plat Approval
Consisting of Four (4) Building Lots on 24. 61 Acres of Land in
an R-15 Zoning District
G. Water Main Easement for Three Corners Subdivision
H. Approval of Deductive Change Order No. 1 to CIRCLE H
CONSTRUCTION, INC. for the "FIBER OPTIC CONSTRUCTION -
CITY HALL TO WATER & WASTEWATER" project for a Negative
amount of <$3,000.00>.
De Weerd: Item 5 is our Consent Agenda.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we approve the Consent Agenda as published, authorize the Clerk
to attest and the Mayor to sign.
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Bird: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the Consent Agenda. 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.
Item 6: Community Items/Presentations
A. Public Works: Presentation of the City of Meridian
Environmental Excellence Awards
De Weerd: Item 6-A is under our Community Presentations and I will turn this to Mollie.
Magnerich: Thank you, Madam Mayor and City Council. I am so pleased to be here this
evening to bring the Environmental Excellence Awards back to our City Council and very
thankful that Mayor Tammy de Weerd will come down here and present the awards to the
individuals within our community. I'm going to turn this around so that I may speak to our
audience. Isn't that neat? I have to get my notes. The Environmental Excellence Awards
have always been a special moment for us in the Public Works Department, our Mayor
and City Council, and our environmental division. Throughout our community we have a
range of nonprofits. We have businesses, individuals and schools who do fantastic work,
including our employees with environmental sustainability and a strong ethic in mind.
Some very wonderful things happen in our community. So, we take great time and care to
looking through and talking to individuals, then, we get referrals, we find out what people
are doing and we love to be able to bring them to the ceremony tonight. It's a real treat
and we thank you all. This evening I'm first going to start with our city employees. We
have four individuals with us tonight from our city's Wastewater Resource Recovery
Facility and if I may I would read this and, then, each of you will come up, receive your
award from Mayor Tammy and, please, stay up here for the group picture. And, Casey,
thank you very much. And the awards are in order. Let me tell you a little bit about this
really dynamic group that keeps our wastewater treatment plant running soundly, 24 hours
a day, 365 days a year, without a burp. At least that we know of. Managing the operating
performance of our Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility demands a really high degree
of skill, exceptional ability to problem solve and a possession of both mechanical and
scientific aptitude. As our facility becomes more complex to meet new water quality
standards and pollution control regulations, the education and skill requirements of these
individuals also increases from installing and maintaining our electrical power, our
communication system, lighting and control all throughout that plant to operating,
monitoring, and maintaining really a set of diverse industrial equipment that pumps and
sends our complex treatment system throughout the plant, these individuals represent
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some of the best of and always strong and competent workforce. These individuals, Dave
Gassel, wasterwater treatment lead operator; Kevin Stombaugh, lead operator; Tony
Bernard, our maintenance supervisor; Jackson Allen, our journeyman electrician out at
our treatment plant were selected for this award, because they add a value add
component to our organization and to our rate payers by incorporating energy efficiency
throughout our operation these guys really make our dollars stretch and make it of value.
You know, it takes an immense amount of energy to lift, pump, screen, heat, aerate, filter
and disinfect all the wastewater that comes into our facility and they optimize all the
instrumentation within our facility and they are focused and they are on it and they do an
exceptional job and the energy efficiencies is in their brain and they look at ways that they
can save us money and run our plant more effectively and safely. You know, just within
the last five years my spreadsheet shows that throughout the city -- our city has been able
to get incentive payments back of 159,000 dollars that we submit to Idaho Power for
energy efficiency savings and these guys are a large part of it. I'd like to bring you up.
Dave Gassel please come up, followed by Kevin Strombaugh, lead operator. Tony,
please come up. Maintenance supervisor, and Jackson Allen, our journeyman electrician.
De Weerd: Okay. If you will come on over here. I do want to read what these have on
the awards. For identifying and implementing energy efficiency opportunities in the daily
operational control and monitoring of processes at the Wastewater Resource Recovery
Facility -- who renamed that? Thereby avoiding energy costs in a dynamic and growing
environment. We appreciate what you all do on behalf of the city, our citizens, and the
environment that we are passing on to our -- our families, our children, our next
generation. Thank you.
(Award presented.)
De Weerd: And so, Kevin, I won't re -read all of these, but I will tell you that we greatly
appreciate each and every one of you in the role that you play in insuring our future
generation.
(Award presented.)
De Weerd: Okay. Tony, on behalf of the City Council and myself I present this award to
you and with our heartfelt thanks.
(Award presented.)
De Weerd: And Jackson -- oh, these -- these say something different. Oh, gosh, I should
have read them. So, for identify and installing energy efficient -- efficiency lighting at the
Wastewater Resource Recovery Facility -- at the wastewater treatment plant and water
division facilities, thereby realizing an avoided energy cost, we present this to you.
(Award presented.)
Mangerich: May we get a group picture with you and the individuals and --I thank you.
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(Picture taken.)
Mangerich: Our next award this evening is going to go to Mr. Craig Graf. He is vice-
president of manufacturing and Micro 100 Tool Corporation. Craig is receiving the
environmental excellence award this evening on behalf of Micro 100 Tool Corporation,
which is a world class carbide cutting tool manufacturer right here in Meridian. The
company has incorporated waste stream management, energy and water conservation,
as well as a multi -tiered recycling program in its daily operation. In fact, Micro 100 no
longer generates any hazardous waste at all. They have reduced their hazardous waste
by over 7,000 pounds a year. Gone due to the operations and the great work of Mr. Graf
and the support of the owners. In addition, the company has installed equipment and
fixtures that have reduced energy by over 130,000 kilowatt hours per year. Jackson, you
can recognize the scope of that and -- oh, their water use they have conserved by over a
million gallons per year. Micro 100, an Idaho owned business, has an excellent reputation
worldwide. They have gone above and beyond in reducing its environmental footprint all
while growing its business. We are so very happy to have you here as our business
partner. Congratulations. Please come up.
De Weerd: Craig, I want to thank you on behalf of the Council and myself for being here
tonight, along with your wife. We appreciate Micro Tool 100 for not only the corporate
leadership that you provide our community, but the environmental leadership as well.
They improve every single year and, I know, I hear Craig talking about it. He talks about it
with great pride and he takes it very serious. They reached out, they have partnered with
a number of others. You lead by example and we greatly appreciate that. So, this is for
going above and beyond in reducing its environmental footprint through pollution
prevention practices, all while growing your business. Thank you for being here tonight
and to Dale and Cherrie -- Dale, your leadership is appreciated as well.
Newberry: He's the man that did it all.
Graf: Mayor de Weerd and Council Members, I will make it real short.
De Weerd: There is only five pages.
Graf: Just half of one. On behalf of Micro 100 Tool Corporation and the employees I'd
like to thank you for the award and the recognition. It's very important. Thank you to
Meridian city. They are great business partners. This award started 18 years ago, just so
you know the story. It didn't happen yesterday. Special thanks to Steve Maneck,
Meridian Public Works environmental division manager. Great business partner. He's
advised me, answered my questions, led the charge, showed us how to get from A to B, B
to C, C to D. Answered all my questions. Also Dale Newberry, who has always
encouraged me to be forward thinking in consideration of my business practices and
business decisions and, lastly, the Micro 100 team. You don't have much of a company
unless you have great employees and we have -- we have the best. So, thank you very
much.
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Mangerich: In closing this evening I have a really special place in my heart for the next
one. Mr. Steve Eddy. He is receiving an environmental excellent award for their
leadership in water conservation at their Fast Eddy's Car Wash over located on Ten Mile
and Pine Road. Fast Eddy's Car Wash was the first business in Meridian to use the city's
Class A recycled water in their rinse cycle at their car wash. Steve knows that car washes
are a high water usage application and he partnered with the City of Meridian to
demonstrate the use of recycled water in both your landscaping and in your car wash
applications. Over three million gallons of recycled water was used in the last year alone.
That's a tremendous amount of water. For every gallon of Class A recycled water that
Steve uses he conserves our ground water for use as our community's drinking water.
So, thank you, Steve. We have enjoyed and continue our partnership together.
Congratulations.
De Weerd: So, I'm going to add my thanks with a little bit of additional words. The Eddys
have been very patient in helping to refine and improve our recycled water program and
its predictability, perhaps, and your -- your partnership, your willingness to step out into
kind of one of those unknown territories and being trail blazer, not only a trail blazer in our
reuse, but also in just a class facility that we are very proud to have in the City of Meridian.
We appreciate your investment back and, Tracy, the family partnership in our community
and I'm just going to say another little plug. This is an employer that we are thrilled to
have in our community as well, just like Micro Tool 100. They value and reinvest in their
employees and you don't see that a lot and I want to recognize that your investment in our
community in a number of different ways has not gone unnoticed. It is appreciated and on
behalf of the City Council and myself we thank you. We appreciate your partnership.
I'm going to read it. For exemplifying water conservation in its business practice by
applying Meridian's Class A recycled water for both landscape irrigation and car wash use
at his Ten Mile facility, again, thank you.
Eddy: All I want to say is thank you and we love Meridian
Item 7: Items Moved From Consent Agenda
De Weerd: Okay. There were no items moved from the Consent Agenda
Item 8: Action Items
A. FP 15-010 Accommodations Subdivision by Providence
Management, LLC Located South Side of E. Falcon Drive and
East of S. Eagle Road Request: Final Plat Approval Consisting of
Fourteen (14) Single Family Residential Lots and Three (3)
Common Lots on Approximately 4.71 Acres in the R-4 Zoning
District
De Weerd: So, we will move into Item 8-A, which is FP 15-010. 1 will turn this over to
Caleb.
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Hood: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. Before you is a final plat on a
site that is 4.71 acres, currently zoned R-4 in the city. It's located south of East Victory
Road and east of South Eagle Road. The final plat consists of 13 single family residential
building lots and three common lots, which is one less than was approved with the
preliminary plat, but it is in substantial compliance with the approved preliminary plat and
staff is seeking your approval this evening. We do have an e-mail on file that was
submitted by the applicant. It was submitted after our deadline to be on the Consent
Agenda, but they are in agreement with the staff report as presented. And with that I will
stand for any questions.
De Weerd: Thank you, Caleb. Council, any questions?
Bird: I have none.
Milam: None.
De Weerd: Okay. And the applicant has no comments. Council?
Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move we approve FP 15-010.
Zaremba: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 8-A. 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.
Item 9: Department Reports
A. Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Update:
Community Center Facade Improvements
De Weerd: Item 9-A was requested to be continued to April 28th and so we will just put it
on the next agenda.
B. Police Department Report: Discussion Sole Source
Authorization for Purchase of a Records Management System
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(Inform RMS) and Field Based Reporting System (Inform FBR)
from TriTech Software Systems and Discussion of Funding from
the ACCEM Homeland Security Grant
1. Approval of Sole Source Authorization for Purchase
of Inform RMS and Inform FBR from TriTech
Software
2. Approval of the TriTech Subscription License
Agreement
De Weerd: Item 9-B is under our Police Department. I will turn this over to our chief.
Lavy: Madam Mayor and Council, thank you for the time this evening. It looks like I kind
of cleared the room. Madam Mayor and Council, the purpose of this department report
this evening is to, hopefully, get approval for a couple of signatures on some
documentation. But before I ask for that I need to really kind of give you a brief history
and, then, kind of tell you a direction that we are going and why and, then, I'm available for
any questions that you may have as well. Several years ago -- many years ago we joined
in partnership with Ada County Sheriff's Office and Boise Police Department to share an
RMS, records management system. In fact, I believe you just approved the MOU for this
year for that same contract. Well, Ada County has -- operates the CAD system, computer
aided dispatch system for the entire county and it's paid for under Title 31 fees. That
system is currently a Northrop Grumman system and is currently unsupported. It is a very
very old system and it was slotted for replacement. They went out to bid and entered into
a contract to replace that with TriTech and TriTech is just another -- another vendor that
provides computer aided dispatch. Now, the reason why that's important is because Ada
County also held the RMS contract, the records management system contract, with New
World and you have probably heard the New World vendor for several years. We
currently pay a yearly fee toward New World. We pay that to Ada County, not to New
World. That contract was a three year contract, the current contract, and it is expiring in
September of 2015 and Ada County has elected to do a sole source for an integrated
CAD RMS system. and to go with TriTech. Several months ago they went in front of their
commissioners and got that sole source agreement and it's going to an integrated RMS
CAD system for the valley. What does that mean to us? Well, we are part of that New
World contract. That New World contract is expiring in several months and the
significance of that is that that New World -- or that New World RMS system is where we
do our NIBRs, which is the National Incident Base Reporting system, which is a
requirement that we send our current statistics to the Idaho State Police and in return they
send them to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is a mandated federal requirement
that we provide that data. We cannot provide that data without an RMS system. The
current RMS system that we are using is expiring, the new RMS system is TriTech and
would require us to go to that -- that vendor. Now, Ada County was fortunate enough that
they were able to budget for that, because they knew what they were really going to -- or
what they were going to do. Title 31 fees cover the CAD system, but it cannot cover the
records management system. The Title 31 fees are those dollars that -- that accumulate
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from your cell phone and your home phone bill. I think it's a dollar -- dollar fee that we pay
for every land line and every cell phone. That goes into a coffer -- it goes into what we
call Title 31 fees, such as the state code fee that says we can use that for emergency,
dispatch services. We cannot use it legally for records management services. That falls
upon all the agencies. The goal and the push has been for local agencies across the
country to go to a single source information sharing system. We have shared part of our
information with Boise and Ada County under New World, but Garden City wasn't a part of
that. But us converting to TriTech to this integrated system, we are able to share all of our
files with all of law enforcement across the entire Treasure Valley, which is really good
news, but it comes with a cost. I was adamant that we would not use city dollars to
convert to TriTech, so we looked at other resources. We have approximately 300,000
dollars that has set aside for both City of Meridian and the city of Garden City under the
Department of Homeland Security funds. I do not know if this is come in front of ACCM as
a formal approval yet, but it has been approved through TAG. We are going to use that
grant to pay for the up front costs for us to convert to TriTech. But in order to do that I
need several things from you all. I need a sole source agreement approved. It has been
vetted out through legal, it has been vetted out through purchasing, and they have
provided you those documentations today for that approval. It's pretty obvious that it's a
sole source, because it's a proprietary system. It's all integrated. It all goes together.
Ada County is already moving toward it. Our only option is to go to it or go out to bid
ourselves, but I can tell you that from previous experience, based upon the size of our
city, we are probably looking at somewhere between 500,000 and a million dollars for a
records management system if we decide to go on our own. The cost that we are
required to pay is 162,000 dollars up front. That is covered by the grant. That is not any
money out of pocket for the city. So, I'm here to request approval for the sole source and I
also request approval for the statement of work for the RMS and the field base reporting
system and, then, if you're so inclined to approve that, we will have had -- we have had
the sub grant -- Bill, help me with that. The sub grantee lease form I think or license
agreement.
Nary: A license agreement.
Lavy: No. That's a -- it's the sub grantee form. Basically, what happens is the state gives
the money to Ada County under their name, Ada County decides to give it to us. They
want us to sign an agreement that says we will conform to all the grant's requirements.
We have done it in the past, but the one that we have on file is currently expired. That
has been reviewed by legal as well. It's been reviewed by legal this afternoon and they
are prepared to put it on the Consent Agenda for next week. So, that would be the three
documents that I would need approval for. I guess I would stand for any questions right
now. I know that that's very very brief and that's usually not my style, but, hopefully, that
answers your questions. If it didn't I'm here to take any questions you may have.
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree?
Rountree: Madam Mayor. Chief, does this take -- the cost take into account the
resources that may need to be available in IT to support these new systems?
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Lavy: Well, this is the fortunate thing is currently the IT resources that are being used
toward the system are fairly hefty. This has a minimal IT use, because we currently have
some systems that we -- that we have designed and programmed ourself that we
maintain. That's going away. This is going to be to a third -party vendor. So, there is
some current IT resources that are being used to implement this project, but once it's up
online they step out and they do not have to provide as much resources as they have
been for the last couple years.
Rountree: Thank you.
De Weerd: Any other questions from Council?
Bird: I have none.
De Weerd: Okay. Thank you, chief.
Lavy: Thank you.
De Weerd: Okay. Item 9-C is under our public or --
Bird: You got to get it approved.
Milam: You need to make it approved.
De Weerd: We need an approval. Sorry.
Milam: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Yes.
Milam: I move that we approve the sole source authorization for purchase of RMS and
SBR from TriTech software.
Bird: Second.
De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion and a second. Any discussion from Council?
Bird: I have none.
De Weerd: 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.
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MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Milam: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: Move that we approve the TriTech subscription license agreement.
Bird: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 9-B-2. Madam Clerk.
Roll Call: Bird; yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. Thank you, chief.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
C. Public Works: Budget Amendment for FY2015 in the Not -to -
Exceed Amount of $328,576.00 for Water Main Replacement
Projects
De Weerd: Item 9-C is under Public Works.
Dolsby: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, a budget amendment of 328,576 dollars
is being requested in order to replace funding that was not carried forward from fiscal year
2014. So, consequently, since that money wasn't carried forward, the FY -15 budget is not
adequate to fund the water main replacements that we had planned for FY -15. So, this
budget amendment will replace the funding that was previously approved by Council in
FY -14 and should have been carried forward and allow the currently programmed projects
to be executed. And with that I will stand for any questions.
De Weerd: Okay. Thank you, Clint. Any questions from Council? Okay. Hearing none,
do I have a motion?
Zaremba: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Zaremba.
Zaremba: I move we approve the Public Works budget amendment for fiscal year 2015 in
the not to exceed amount of 328,576 dollars for water main replacement projects.
Cavener: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 9-C. Madam Clerk, will you
call roll.
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Roll Call: Bird; yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, absent; Milam, yea; Cavener,
yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT.
D. Fire Department And Legal Department: Memorandum Of
Understanding To Forgo 2015 Engineer Promotional Testing As
Required By The Current Collective Bargaining Agreement
De Weerd: Item No. 9-D is under our Fire Department.
Nary: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council --
De Weerd: Or our legal department.
Nary: I can explain the -- the MOU that's on there -- and if you have questions for Chief
Jones. Basically in our labor agreement -- with our collective agreement with the union,
every year we have testing and we alternate between testing for captains and testing for
engineer positions. 2015 is our time to test for engineers. There are three members
currently on the list for promotion to engineer when a position becomes available. We
held an open -- an open enrollment period to apply to take the current test. The only
applicants that applied -- and the chief might know if they are the only ones eligible, but
the only ones that applied are the same three people. They have agreed to maintain their
same positions on the list. The union has agreed to allow us to forego the cost and the
expense and time of testing, since it's the same three people, since they were in
agreement to maintain their same position on the list. So, this MOU is simply allowing us
the ability skip the testing in this go around because of that and save the expense and
cost and time that it takes to put the test on. So, that's in a nutshell. If you have specific
questions for Chief Jones, I'm sure he can answer those.
De Weerd: And I believe the cost savings is around 15,000.
Jones: Madam Mayor, that's correct.
De Weerd: Okay. Any questions from Council?
Bird: I have none.
De Weerd: Captain, did you have something?
Jones: No.
Bird: Madam Mayor?
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De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: Seeing how Joe isn't here I will take it. I move we approve the memorandum of
understanding to forego 2015 engineer promotional testing as required by current
collective bargaining agreement and agreed to by city and union.
Milam: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 9-D. Any discussion from
Council? 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.
Item 10: Ordinances
A. Ordinance No. # 15-1642: Meridian Art in Public Spaces (MAPS)
Ordinance
De Weerd: Item 9-A is Ordinance 15-1642. Madam Clerk, will you, please, read this by
title only.
Jones: Thank you, Madam Mayor. City of Meridian Ordinance 15-1642, an ordinance of
the City of Meridian amending Meridian City Code, Title 1, Chapter 9, to add Section 4,
establishing the Meridian Art In Public Spaces program regarding purpose of funds, funds
appropriation carry forward and the expenditure of funds, adopting a savings clause and
providing an effective date.
De Weerd: Thank you. You have heard this read by title only. I don't see anyone
showing an interest in hearing it read --
Milam: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: Seeing none, I move that we approve Ordinance No. 15-1642 with suspension of
rules.
Bird: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve 10-A. Madam Clerk, will you call
roll.
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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 11: Future Meeting Topics
De Weerd: Item 11 is future meeting topics. Any items for future agendas?
Item 12: Executive Session Per Idaho State Code 67-2345 (1)(d): (d) To Consider
Records that are Exempt from Disclosure as Provided in Chapter 3,
Title 9, Idaho Code
De Weerd: Okay. Item 12 is Executive Session.
Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move we go into Executive Session as per Idaho State Code 67-2345(1)(d).
Milam: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to adjourn into Executive Session. 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.
EXECUTIVE SESSION: (6:44 p.m. to 7:48 p.m.)
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:48 P.M.
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