HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-06-14Meridian City Council Workshop June 14, 2016
A meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 3:00 p.m., Tuesday,
June 14, 2016, by Mayor Tammy de Weerd.
Members Present: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, Keith Bird, Ty Palmer, Anne Little
Roberts and Luke Cavener (Telephone).
Members Absent: Joe Borton and Genesis Milam.
Others Present: Bill Nary, Jacy Jones, Bruce Chatterton, Warren Stewart, Jeff
Lavey, Perry Palmer, and Dean Willis.
Item 1: Roll-call Attendance:
Roll call.
X_ Anne Little Roberts _ _ Joe Borton
X__ Ty Palmer X_ Keith Bird
_____ Genesis Milam __X__ Lucas Cavener
_X Mayor Tammy de Weerd
De Weerd: Okay. I would like to welcome all of you to our City Council meeting.
For the record it is Tuesday, June 14th. We will start with roll call attendance,
Madam Clerk.
Item 2: Pledge of Allegiance
De Weerd: Thank you. And Councilman Cavener is joining us via the telephone,
so if you don't see him up here, he really is present. 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: Adoption of the Agenda
De Weerd: Item No. 3 is adoption of the agenda.
Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: On Item 7-A this will be sent up to Item 6-A-1 and the proposed budget on
Item 7-B -- or ordinance is 16-1696. With that I move we approve the amended
agenda.
Little Roberts: Second.
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De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda as amended.
All those in favor say aye. All ayes? All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Item 4: Consent Agenda
A. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Granton
Square Subdivision No. 2 (H-2016-0034) by Granton
Square Properties, LLC Located 1714 E. Challis Street
B. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Howry Lane
Subdivision (H-2016-0030) by M3 Acquisition, LLC
Located 5220 S. Howry Lane
C. Final Order for Approval for Falconer's Place
Subdivision (H-2016-0049) by Summit Equity, LLC
Located East Side of Eagle Road and South of Victory
Road
D. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Fairview Lakes
(H-2016-0044) by Grace at Fairview Lakes Located North
Side of E. Fairview Avenue, Midway Between N. Meridian
Road and N. Locust Grove Road
E. Development Agreement for Whiteacre Subdivision (H-
2016-0019) by Providence Properties, LLC Located at
the SWC of N. Meridian Rd and West McMillan Rd.
F. First Addendum to Purchase Agreement for Fabrication
and Installation of Vinyl Traffic Box Wraps
G. Professional Service Agreement for Artwork for Traffic
Box Community Art Project - Deb Pence
H. Professional Service Agreement for Artwork for Traffic
Box Community Art Project - Dwight Williams
I. Professional Service Agreement for Artwork for Traffic
Box Community Art Project - Barbara Williams
J. Professional Service Agreement for Artwork for Traffic
Box Community Art Project - Morgan McCullough c/o
Kelly McCullough
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K. Professional Service Agreement for Artwork for Traffic
Box Community Art Project - Roza German c/o Yelena
German
L. Water Main Easement between the City of Meridian and
Creekstone Meridian, LLC within Creekstone
Subdivision
De Weerd: Thank you. Item 4 is our Consent Agenda.
Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move we approve the Consent Agenda as published and for the Mayor to
sign and the Clerk to attest.
Little Roberts: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the Consent Agenda.
Madam Clerk, will you, please, call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Borton, absent; Milam, absent; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea;
Little Roberts, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Item 5: Items Moved From the Consent Agenda
De Weerd: There were no items moved from the Consent Agenda.
Item 6: Action Items
1-A. Second Reading of Ordinance No. 16-1695: An
Ordinance Of The City Council Of The City Of Meridian,
Approving The Urban Renewal Plan For The Ten Mile
Road Urban Renewal Project, Which Plan Includes
Revenue Allocation Financing Provisions; Authorizing
The City Clerk To Transmit A Copy Of This Ordinance
And Other Required Information To The County And
State Officials; And Providing An Effective Date.
De Weerd: So, we will move to Item 6-1-A and that's the second reading of
Ordinance 16-1695.
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Jones: Luke?
Cavener: Yes.
Jones: Do you have the ability to mute your phone when you are not speaking?
We are picking up lot of background noise.
Cavener: I can do that.
Jones: Sorry.
Cavener: Not a problem. Thanks. I will do it right now.
Jones: Thank you.
De Weerd: Thank you.
Jones: Thank you, Madam Mayor. Ordinance No. 16-1695, an ordinance of the
City Council of the City of Meridian approving the urban renewal plan for the Ten
Mile Road Urban Renewal Project, which plan includes revenue allocation
financing provisions, authorizing the City Clerk to transmit a copy of this
ordinance and other required information to the county that affect the taxing
entities and state officials, approving the summary of the ordinance and providing
an effect date.
De Weerd: Thank you. You have heard the second reading. We will have the
third reading next week.
2-A. Public hearing to consider the Urban Renewal Plan for
the Ten Mile Road Urban Renewal Project of the
Meridian Development Corporation
De Weerd: Our next item is 6-A-2, a public hearing to consider the urban
renewal plan for the Ten Mile Urban Renewal District and I'll turn this over to
Bruce. I was going to send -- or turn it over the Warren, but --
Chatterton: Madam Mayor, Council Members, I think Warren is chomping at the
bit to --
De Weerd: I could tell that.
Chatterton: Every time we use the word infrastructure, which will be quite a bit
during this presentation, his ears will perk up as the city engineer. Very happy to
be here. I'm not -- this is going to be the briefest of introductions and Phil has
promised to keep his presentation very brief as well. We know that Council
Member Cavener is on the phone and has significant hard stops, so we will be
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respectful of that. We want to have primarily the time that's available to us to
chew up discussion, question and answers. We also have several of the affected
property owners in the room, who also may wish to participate in this public
hearing. Before I let Phil take you through this briefly, I don't want to go through
the history, but I think just underscoring what to me, in my profession, my roll
here with the city is a very important thing. We have a Community Development
Department, but ninety percent of what we do is reactive to the things that come
our way. It's regulatory. It's the application process. This effort, a new urban
renewal district for the city, is an opportunity to be proactive. It's an opportunity
to create of fabric, a district, if you will, of the city, not just an urban renewal
district, which advances a lot of things that we have been working for years, at
least since 2007 for this area of the city. And it's an opportunity to -- to have one
or more employment centers with all that entails in terms of family wage jobs,
spin off development -- we could talk a lot about that. That's my personal and
professional interest in this. Very, very excited to be at this -- at this watershed
development here, for this opportunity. Do we want to take the opportunity is
really the question before you all. So, I'm going to let Phil Kushlan do a brief
presentation and, then, we will move on with the public hearing.
De Weerd: Thank you, Bruce. Welcome, Phil. If you will, please, state your
name and address for the record.
Kushlan: Thank you, Your Honor. My name is Phil Kushlan and the address is
Post Office 8463, Boise. 83707. Your Honor and Council Members, as Bruce
indicated, I will be brief, understanding the time constraints that you have. But
we will walk you through briefly where we have been and kind of where we are
and, then, be happy to turn this over -- the proceedings for your question or
comments from the audience. We are going to talk a little bit about the history,
the process we have been through and, then, where we are now. As Bruce
indicated, early on the agency was created, the urban renewal agency back in
2002 by the city. Another issue that led to our conversations was the
establishment of the Ten Mile Interchange Specific Area Plan that was adopted
by the city in '07 and, then, in 2015 the city, in collaboration with the MDC,
initiated the process to consider an urban renewal district for the area. You
know, why are we doing this? I think one of the issues that is important is looking
at this area as an opportunity to create family wage jobs that may be a unique
opportunity in the community that the city chose for themselves when they
adopted the specific area plan. It requires probably a higher level of
development and other similar situated areas. It integrates a variety, a vibrant
mix of commercial and residential uses and basically it provides for above
average level of community amenities. Implementation of the -- of this goal, the
level of development requires incentives from private investment. The only
mechanism that exists in the state of Idaho to provide these incentives is through
the Urban Renewal Law and the Economic Development Act. Chapter 29, Title
50 of Idaho Code specifically provides that these tools can be used for economic
development. Often we think about urban renewal as being the classic slum and
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blight, but in 1988 when the revenue allocation statute was brought in it was
specifically concentrating -- in fact, it is named the Economic Development Act.
The process we have gone through, you have created the eligibility report, which
was the first step that was approved by the MDC board in November. City
Council considered that in February and in May the -- a formal plan was brought
back and that was approved by MDC. You received it and sent it to P&Z. They
looked at it and had a finding that it was, in fact, consistent with the
Comprehensive Plan. Was sent to the affected taxing entities as required by
statute for their comment and, again, where we are is that through this process
we have gone through, we have determined that the urban renewal area as
proposed meets the eligibility requirements in the statute, that the assessed
value of the district combined with the base value of the downtown district is less
than ten percent of the total valuation of the city, which is a maximum amount in
law. I think you like get three percent, so you have got a long way between
where you are and the maximum. The plan meets the requirements of state law.
The plan is economically feasible as we have looked at the -- the economic
aspects and the plan is consistent with the city's Comprehensive Plan. The
agricultural property owners have consented to be included in the district. Those
have all been received. Public notices have been published as required. The
plan has been submitted to the taxing and implementation does require the
revenue allocation aspect of the law as -- as provided in the ordinance. So, the
purpose of this meeting is to conduct a hearing and receive input from the public.
Consider those comments and other information that you have or need for
decision making and, then, upon closing of the hearing the matter is before you
at your discretion and you can act either now or at some other time you feel
appropriate. So, with that I hope that wasn't too quick to summarize 120 pages,
but be happy to answer the questions that you may have or after you have some
comments from the public, respond at that time as well. So, I'm at your disposal.
De Weerd: Thank you, Phil. Council, any questions at this time?
Bird: I have none.
De Weerd: Okay. Thank you.
Kushlan: Okay. Thank you.
De Weerd: This is a public hearing. I did have one person sign up on the sign-
up sheet. Ryan Armbruster signed up for.
Armbruster: Thank you, Mayor and Council. For the record, my name is Ryan
Armbruster, I'm an attorney with the law firm of Elam & Burke, P.O. Box 1539,
Boise, Idaho. 83701. Elam & Burke represents the interests of Treasure Valley
Investments, who owns several of the parcels under consideration for the Ten
Mile Road Urban Renewal Plan. We have worked with your MDC folks and with
Phil and we are here in support of the plan and urge you to adopt the plan as
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presented to you today. We did submit a letter to the -- to the city that we hope is
part of the public record. I would be happy to stand for any questions. But,
again, we support the plan and hope that you adopt it as is. Thank you.
De Weerd: Thank you. This is a public hearing. Is there anyone who would like
to provide testimony that did not sign on the sheet? Good afternoon.
Turnbull: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, David Turnbull, 12601 West
Explorer Drive in Boise. Bruce, could you pull that up? I just wanted to just give
a little bit of a background. We were approached over a year ago by the city
wondering what -- wondering if an urban renewal to the mechanism would help
stimulate the growth and enhance the quality of the type of development we
could do in this Ten Mile Area Specific Plan and that was something that really
was meaningful to us, because as you may know, we have owned this property
for ten years, we have been struggling with that, what do we do, you know,
what's going to make sense, how can we developed this most effectively and
there are a number of challenges in that area. The graphs you see here on your
site represents three different property owners. Overlaying that is a road of
connective -- a network of connective roads that on its own as individual
development entities or property owners is virtually -- or I wouldn't say
impossible, just very difficult to make this happen and that overlay plan is the key
to making this whole area become active and come alive and the urban renewal
tool is about the only tool that we have in this county that can make that happen.
So, where we invest those dollars, but, then, we are able to -- be able to get a
return on that, so that's probably the biggest key. And, then, as we went through
this discussion over the last years and we got excited about the idea that we can
actually get in there and afford to make some of these investments, what should
the nature of that be, because we have looked at everything from a retail center
on our properties to employment centers and, you know, the easy route would
have been just to deal with some of the big box retailers and get in and get out
and -- but that's never been I think the vision for the city and it's never been the
one that we favor doing, so as we had this tool being proposed by the city and it
went through all of the processes of the MDC hearings and City Council hearings
and anticipating this was going to come to pass, we went to work and we have
been working diligently on this for the last year, probably most heavily in the last
six months, to come up with a first class employment center on this property that
fronts on the interchange, which is I think one of the visions that the city
expressed to us from the very beginning going back to 2007. So, if you would go
to the next slide, Bruce. This is some of the working concepts that we have for
the project now. Our -- I don't know how to point with this, Bruce. So, that -- if
you just take your cursor down a little lower. Up until about two months ago I
was anticipating -- our company is kind of bursting at the seams in our current
office space now and we were looking at doing a major remodel on our existing
building, but I got excited about this project and figured we needed to be here on
site. So, we have designed this four story office building that would be located
right on the freeway off-ramp there. We think it would be a highly visible, highly
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desirable project. So, this is the kind of thing that we are able to do now. The
cheapest route for us to do is, obviously, to just do a remodel in an existing
building, but if you would go to the next couple of slides it will give you a little
more emphasis on the character and these are just early schematics, but we are
hoping to be under construction on this headquarters building for us sometime in
August and, then, there is one more slide, Bruce, if you could advance to that.
That's just a different view of it. And if we could -- yeah. This just gives you a
little bit more of a character of what we are planning for that area. Typically when
-- well, all of the developments that you see along Ten Mile Creek or some of the
Eight Mile creeks, we tend to turn our back to those facilities and we tend to just
close them off, fence them off and this is something we have been talking to you
about for a long time, how can we improve and enhance that corridor, so just as
late as last week I have expressed this to a couple of you, we have been meeting
with a restauranteur of -- a well-known restauranteur here in town. They were
planning on putting a restaurant on that creek, having patio dining and kind of
activating that whole area as well. So, these are the kind of things that we are
going to be able to do to step up the quality of the types of developments we are
going to be able to do, because of this URD being in place. So, you know, the
risk is on us. We are the ones that are proposing to make these investments.
You know, we are excited to do that. We are willing to do that, but this is a tool
that's really imperative to make this all happen and make this work. So, with that
I guess our goal, too, in answer to some questions I have heard is we want to get
in and get out of this as soon as possible, we want to create the tax base that
can pay off the investment as quickly as possible and start creating jobs for this
community and tax revenue for this community that will enhance the overall
fabric of the City of Meridian. So, with that I will stand for any questions. Thank
you.
De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Okay.
Turnbull: Thanks.
De Weerd: Any further testimony? Okay.
Palmer: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Palmer.
Palmer: I have just a few questions, then. Probably for Phil. I'm not sure who
might want to tackle them. I had met with Mr. Turnbull and we discussed a lot
about the project as anyone involved in it's probably very aware, I have been
adamantly opposed to it since first hearing about it. But after meeting with Mr.
Turnbull he answered a lot of the questions that were a lot of I don't knows or we
don't know untils and we can't figure it out until we pass it, Pelosi kind of things,
that were kind of driving me crazy, but Mr. Turnbull was able to answer a lot of
those questions, made me feel a lot better about it, assuming we are able to put
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a couple of side bars that are my major concerns into -- into the ordinance before
we approve it or into the contract later, however it would need to be, as long as
they are assured that it will take place, one of them being, you know, the sunset,
you know, it's really easy in the sales pitch to say we want to get in, get it down
and get out, but I have no concerns about the property owners wanting that. My
concern is us as government want to find a reason to keep whatever we might
additionally employ for it in the job or any kind of a reason under the sun to keep
an urban renewal district in existence and so I want to ensure that there is some
way that when the second to the last dollar is paid back for the reimbursement of
the infrastructure that the urban renewal district ceases to exist, that there is no
way for us to continue it without recreating it. Is that built into the ordinance or
how is that handled?
Kushlan: Council Members, Council Member Palmer, the statute by definition
creates that 20-year maximum life and so the study that we have done basically
ran it out to its full term, assuming some fairly conservative estimates in terms of
revenue production and cost. We believe that this is going to produce revenues
in excess of what we talked about, so that will move that closure date forward. I
think they -- the date that we have showed in the plan as it's written out is 16
years and I think that is still long. So, I think just the operation of it will shorten it
up. The -- I assume that you could create a sunset in the adoption of the plan
that is less than 20 years, if you choose to. that's a discretionary issue on the
part of the City Council -- again, I'm giving legal advice without benefit of a bar
license, but people know that I do that a lot anyway. But you can, in fact, limit
this to something other than ten years. The risk associated with that, though, is if
for some reason -- if there is another economic downturn or a recession, then,
that limits the amount of money that can be available to reimburse the people
who have actually made the investment. So, as a practical matter, given the way
this thing is envisioned, the infrastructure will be fully improved through the plan
that's there. We don't envision anything else to be required for investment out
there, so we are not seeing anything else that can be provided, you can't take
resources from the district here and spend it anywhere else. It would have to be
spent here and the plan as we have put it together is specific -- fairly specific in
terms of the infrastructure that is defined. So, if you were to do something else,
then, that would have to come back to the City Council, the MDC for a formal
plan amendment to do X, Y or Z. Can that be precluded from a future council
doing that? Under the current arrangement the answer is no. Even if you put a
ten year or a 15 year or a 16 year maximum life on it, this one could be -- in fact,
it's -- the timing of what we are doing could be extended out to the 20 years. So,
I'm not sure there is a way to put an iron clad box around this for a short period of
time that I think they are looking for. Clearly you have the elected
representatives of people here who are going to make those decisions out in the
future, but generally, as a practical matter, there is really not much else to do out
there once this level or work has been done. So, I wish I could give you a better,
more satisfactory answer, but I think that's the real one.
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De Weerd: But, Phil, is the plan specific enough that it limits what the
reimbursables are that can help narrow and focus and keep that time frame short
in terms of the qualifying projects and the public infrastructure piece to it?
Kushlan: Your Honor, yes, the specific list of projects that we have listed here in
the colored map are the things that the -- the city and the MDC are committing to
build or reimburse the -- the developers for building and that's it. Anything
beyond that would take a formal plan amendment.
Palmer: Madam Mayor, follow up?
De Weerd: Uh-huh.
Palmer: And so I wasn't I guess concerned so much about how long it takes to
understand that's going to, you know, one year we may be at a pace that, you
know, it's going to have no time there, whereas the next year things may slow
down and that can adjust, I understand. What I'm more concerned about is that
there is an amount that's, you know, calculated, decided, whatnot that once that's
paid we find no other reason for the -- that the government finds no other reason
for the district to continue to exist. It's purpose in the beginning was to allow the
developer to build all the infrastructure at his cost and, then, we reimburse them
for it and, then, it's done. There is not another reason we are like, okay, well,
now that we are 16 years down the road we want to start replacing some of that,
so we are going to keep the district alive to start replacing here, you know, the
different pieces of infrastructure I assume would be turned over to the different
entities that usually take them over to maintain them and, then, they will maintain
them at their regular schedule, not the district replacement -- replacing or
maintaining and finding a reason to continue to exist.
Kushlan: Your Honor, if I may. The plan calls for once the infrastructure is
installed it would be deeded over, if you will, to the -- the operating entity. The
streets would go to the highway district, the water system would come to the city,
the sewer system would come to the city. So, those would move off to the entity,
so the urban renewal agency wouldn't have any ongoing maintenance obligation
there, because they wouldn't have anything to maintain.
Palmer: Okay. Perfect. Follow up with some other questions?
De Weerd: Uh-huh.
Palmer: And another thing that Mr. Turnbull and I had discussed is we had just
gone through our budget workshops and in an attempt not to have to increase
everyone's taxes there are some public safety items that have been left off of the
budget that may -- off the -- I guess the draft budget, you know, we are working
on, hopefully being able to find a way to put it back in and this is a large piece of
property it appears will have a lot of construction going on it simultaneously and
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so I assume there would be people that will enter the property that shouldn't be
there and maybe vandalize -- do any number of things that they shouldn't be
doing and will require emergency services, police namely, to -- to be there to
patrol it on occasion, to deal with people that are there that shouldn't be there,
while not reimbursing it for -- you know, you mentioned 16 -- however many
years it may take and so one thing that we discussed that -- that I would like to
see is that portion of -- of whatever funds come in for the property taxes that
would then be reimbursed -- actually be held to help offset the cost of the
emergency services that will be provided to the property. I don't know if that's
something that had been discussed. I had e-mailed the Mayor and --
Kushlan: Your Honor, Councilman Palmer, I was asked to look at that issue and
this isn't the first time this has come up over the years in a variety of the
communities. Essentially, the urban renewal law and the Economic
Development Act is a vehicle for capital finance. It's not a vehicle for operational
subsidy. I think as a practical matter, again, if we looked at various ways to
access those revenue allocation money for operational purposes you would,
then, I think get the opportunity to discuss that issue with the highway district and
the library district and the county, who are also foregoing revenue as an
investment over a period of time and basically getting your urban renewal
dividend, if you will, at the end of the project. It may be possible to fund capital
items associated with police or fire. Again, my experience in discussing these
issues with the legislature, they start thinking that it is a version of the -- the three
percent cap and they look scant at that. I think possibly you could legally do that,
but, again, from my position that's an issue that opens a whole Pandor's Box that
could be a problem for yourselves and your folks, your people at the AIC who
have to deal with that in the legislature. But that's just my opinion.
Palmer: Madam Mayor, another question.
De Weerd: Uh-huh.
Palmer: What -- do we know what our costs would be to administer the -- the
district and where do those funds come from?
Kushlan: Your Honor, Councilman, in the cash flow analysis that you will see
attached to the plan we assumed a reservation in the cash flow of ten percent of
the revenue allocation proceeds per year up to a maximum cap of 50,000 dollars
a year. That basically would fund the record keeping, the -- whoever manages
this, because once you get the process done, this is, basically, a financing tool,
so you're not going to have ongoing operational obligations associated with the
district, just basically the servicing of the owner participation agreement in
making sure that the resources are receipted and paid over to the recipient
through the OPA, so you got some legal expenses, you have some reporting
requirements of -- required by law and so forth. So, the active administration of
this is fairly limited. I did provide a memorandum that was requested of what the
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management options might be available to the MDC. They have not made any
decision about that, but, again, the -- the obligations associated with the
maintenance of this is fairly -- fairly limited over the long haul because of the way
that we have got it structured.
Palmer: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Uh-huh.
Palmer: So, we are not anticipating -- if we anticipate I guess any increase in --
in cost to staff, you know, and create -- in running a district -- or we are not
anticipating any or --
Kushlan: Your Honor, Councilman Palmer, no, again, we have reserved some
resources at the discretion of MDC to -- to operate themselves, but, then, the
operating assumption was a maximum of 50,000 dollars fixed over the life of the
district.
Palmer: Okay. Thanks.
De Weerd: Thank you. Other questions? Thank you, Phil.
Kushlan: Thank you.
De Weerd: Okay. Any other comments? Mr. Cavener, do you have any
questions?
Cavener: Sorry. I was muted. No. My questions have been answered. Thank
you.
De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. Okay. Council, this is the second reading. The
third reading would be next week. We can keep this open -- public hearing open
until then or you can choose to close it, whichever you would prefer.
Palmer: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Palmer.
Palmer: I think it's important that we have an additional public hearing at our
normal evening council meeting next week or whenever, you know, the Council
determines would be a good time to do it. To give an opportunity for people that
are working that would have an interest in -- in testifying an opportunity to show
up and share what they have to say and, then, also to be able to have all the
Council present as we vote on it.
De Weerd: Okay.
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Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I think that's a very, very good idea to continue it on. If Councilwoman
Roberts and Councilman Cavener agree, I would make a motion that we
continue this public hearing until June 21st, 2016.
Palmer: Second.
De Weerd: Okay. I have a motion and a second to continue this public hearing
until the 22nd. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
De Weerd: Well, thank you all for being here this afternoon. Almost said
evening. And the third reading will be next week, the continued public hearing,
and we appreciate you joining us.
Item 7: Ordinances
B. Ordinance No. ____________________: An Ordinance
(H-2016-0019 – Whiteacre Subdivision) For Annexation
And Rezone Of A Parcel Of Land Located In The SE ¼ Of
The NE ¼ Of Section 36, Township 4 North, Range 1
West, Boise Meridian ; Establishing And Determining
The Land Use Zoning Classification Of Said Lands From
Rut To R-8 (Medium Density Residential) District In The
Meridian City Code
De Weerd: Item 7-B is Ordinance 16-1696. Madam Clerk, will you, please, read
this ordinance by title only.
Jones: Thank you, Madam Mayor. An Ordinance H-2016-0019, Whiteacre
Subdivision for annexation and rezone of a parcel of land located in the SE ¼ of
the NE ¼ of Section 36, Township 4 North, Range 1 West, Boise Meridian ;
Ada County, Idaho, as described in Attachment A and annexing certain land and
territories situated in Ada County, Idaho, and adjacent and contiguous to the
corporate limits of the City of Meridian as requested by the City of Meridian,
establishing and determining the land use zoning classification of said lands from
RUT to R-8, Medium Density Residential 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
requested by law and providing for a summary of the ordinance and providing for
a waiver of the reading rules and providing an effective date.
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De Weerd: Thank you. You have heard this ordinance read by title only. Is
there anyone who would like to hear it read in its entirety? I'm sure it will be
riveting.
Bird: Seeing none -- Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move we approve Ordinance No. 16-1696, with suspension of rules.
Little Roberts: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 7-B. If there is no
discussion, Madam Clerk, will you call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, yea; Borton, absent; Milam, absent; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea;
Little Roberts, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Item 8: Future Meeting Topics
De Weerd: Item 8 is asking if there is any future meeting topics for future
meeting agendas?
Bird: I have none.
De Weerd: Hearing none, I would entertain a motion to adjourn.
Bird: So moved.
Little Roberts: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second adjourn. All those in favor say aye. All
ayes.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 3:36 P.M.
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