HomeMy WebLinkAbout2017-01-03Meridian City Council January 3, 2017
A meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:09 p.m., Tuesday,
January 3, 2017, by Mayor Tammy de Weerd.
Members Present: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, Joe Borton, Genesis Milam, Luke
Cavener, Ty Palmer.
Members Absent: Keith Bird and Anne Little Roberts.
Others Present: Bill Nary, C.Jay Coles, Jaycee Holman, Bruce Chatterton,
Sonya Allen, Clint Doslby, Scott Colaianni, David Jones, Steve Siddoway, Jay
Gibbons, Keith Watts and Dean Willis.
Item 1: Roll-call Attendance:
Roll call.
__ Anne Little Roberts X _ _Joe Borton
X__ Ty Palmer __ Keith Bird
__X__ Genesis Milam __X__ Lucas Cavener
__X Mayor Tammy de Weerd
De Weerd: Okay. I'd like to welcome you to our City Council meeting. Thank
you for being patient and waiting for us to start. For the record it is Tuesday,
January 3rd. It's nine minutes after 6:00. We will start with roll call attendance
after I wish you all a Happy New Year. Mr. 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 Larry Woodard with Ten Mile
Christian Church
De Weerd: Item No. 3 is our community invocation. If you will all join us in our
community invocation or take this as a moment of reflection. I'd like to welcome
Larry Woodard with Ten Mile Christian Church. Thank you for joining us.
Woodard: Thank you. What an evening. Our Dear Heavenly Father, as the
snow falls this evening and Meridian takes on the appearance of the winter
wonderland, we are blessed to live in a beautiful city with good city leaders. I ask
tonight that this, the first Council meeting in 2017, that you give these leaders a
double blessing for all they do for our city. Keep them safe, free of illness, and
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their families doubly blessed for their community service . Tonight my thoughts
are with the many providers of service to our community in weather that is pretty,
but challenging. Keep the road crews and the city employees safe in sometimes
treacherous situations. We live in a world of turmoil, except in our little corner of
Idaho. Some communities this past year were ravaged by fire. Others had over
700 murders and our police and firemen kept us pretty safe. The rise of street
crime caused by drugs is hurting our nation, so I ask for special protection for our
uniformed officers. I could not help but feel sadness last night watching the
Boise policeman who was shot twice by a criminal who had started his spree in
the Meridian-Nampa area. May we not see more examples of this kind of crime
in our city in 2017. Our city is going through some major changes this year. We
will come near or pass a hundred thousand . A number of our streets are under
construction and this brings increased danger to workmen and motorists. Again,
I pray for safety. With more children coming into our area our schools are full.
Help our school leaders to find a way to fund the new construction necessary to
construct this next generation. Our church now has trained security personnel on
Sundays. Having been raised in a small rural church where everybody knew
everybody, I would have never dreamed that a church would need security in
order to worship in safety. We appreciate the training we have received from our
own police. I pray for all city employees from the clerks, to the planners, to the
workers tomorrow who will have to get out in this weather to make things function
well. I would be remiss if we did not pause and ask for good solid leadership at
the state and national levels. May the intensity of this past election settle down
and some changes occur which will benefit all of our nation's citizens . Lastly, I
pray for wisdom as this Council wrestles with the recent order to provide
additional judicial facilities. We know a good and reasonable decision will be
reached. So, tonight keep us all safe as we return home and I thank you for this
city, its Mayor and this Council, in Jesus' name, amen.
De Weerd: Thank you.
Woodard: You bet.
De Weerd: That was a very thorough blessing for our new year. I appreciate
you, Larry.
Woodard: Well, you need a thorough blessing.
Item 4: Adoption of the Agenda
De Weerd: Absolutely. Item No. 4 is adoption of the agenda.
Borton: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
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Borton: There are no questions edits or amendments to the agenda as
published, so I would move that we adopt the agenda as presented.
Cavener: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda. All thos e in favor
say aye. All ayes.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Item 5: Consent Agenda
A. Approve Minutes of December 13, 2016 City Council
Workshop Meeting
B. Intergovernmental Memorandum of Understanding for
Use of Meridian Police Department Canine Holding
Facility
C. Final Plat for Southridge Subdivision No. 3 (H-2016-
0133) by Corey Barton Homes, Inc. Located Southwest
Corner of S. Linder Road and W. Overland Road
D. Final Order for Knightsbridge Subdivision (H-2016-0126)
by Schultz Development Located 3870 E. Victory Road
E. Final Order for Oaks South Subdivision No. 5 (H-2016-
0127) by Thomas Coleman, Coleman Homes, LLC
Located South Side of W. McMillan Road, Approximately
1/4 Mile East of N. Black Cat Road
F. Final Order for Roundtree Place Subdivision (H-2016-
0130) by Trilogy Development Located 755 S. Linder
Road
G. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Movado
Estates Subdivision (H2016-0112) by DevCo, LLC,
Located at the South Side of E. Overland Road Between
S. Topaz Way and S. Cloverdale Road
H. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Black Cat and
Chinden Annexation (H-2016-0120) by Pine Street LLC,
Located at 6280 N. Black Cat Road
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I. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for 43 North
Subdivision (H-20160090) by KGA Development, LLC,
Located at 1318 NE 4th Street
J. Amended Development Agreement for Interstate Center-
Wahooz-Roaring Springs (H-2016-0119) with BlackMor,
LLC and BowDen Properties generally located near the
NW corner of W. Overland Road and S. Meridian Road,
in the South 1/2 of Section 13, Township 3N., Range 1W
K. Murgoitio Limited Partnership Water Main Easement for
S Locust Grove Main
L. L&G Murgoitio LLC Water Main Easement for E. Lake
Hazel Main
M. Agreement to Accept Payment in Lieu of Installing a
Street Light at Walmart Fuel Store #2862
N. Authorization for the Purchasing Manager to sign PO
#17-0139 for the NotTo-Exceed amount of $77,562.00 to
Taser International for Evidence.com License fees for
the current Body Worn Cameras per the current
Agreement approved by Council November 18, 2014
O. Resolution No. 16-1186-A: Approving an amended office
lease to Congressman Raul Labrador
De Weerd: Item 5 is our Consent Agenda.
Borton: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
Borton: I move that we approve the Consent Agenda and for the Mayor to sign
and Clerk to attest on all papers.
Cavener: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the Consent Agenda. If
there is no questions, Mr. Clerk, will you call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, absent; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea;
Little Roberts, absent.
De Weerd: All ayes.
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MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Item 6. Items Moved From the Consent Agenda
De Weerd: There were no items moved from the Consent Agenda.
Item 7: Community Items/Presentations
A. Lakeview Golf Course 2017 Capital Improvement Project
Proposal
De Weerd: So, we will move to Item 7 -A and invite Erik Oaas. Good evening,
Erik. If you will, please, state your name and address for the record.
Oaas: Good evening, Madam Mayor and Members of the City Council. My
name is Erik Oaas. The address is 4200 West Talamore Boulevard in Meridian,
Idaho.
De Weerd: Thank you. Welcome.
Oaas: Thank you. And Happy New Year to all of you.
De Weerd: Happy New Year.
Oaas: We are pleased to -- to appear before you tonight and I appreciate your
time being on the agenda, the first agenda of the year. We had -- we had hoped
to accomplish this before the end of last year, but due to the -- Mother Nature
and all the snow that -- that she blessed us with, we have been busy with other
projects and a couple of these gentlemen who will be up here in a few minutes
have been busy plowing snow. But suffice it to say that we are here to talk to
you about a capital improvement project that we have in mind for this year and
we arrived at -- at this particular project from internal discussions that we have
had at the golf course, but also as a result of a survey that we took and amongst
all of our members, all of our databases, the men's and women's associations
and literally every -- everyone who -- who is included on our multiple hundreds
database that we have and with that I'd like to invite MaryClaire Norman to come
up, who is our marketing director, and talk -- maybe talk a little bit about the -- if
we could slip to the -- the summary of the -- of the survey and we can talk a little
bit about -- maybe answer your questions, but let's flip to Item 8. Item 8 and 9.
And what we did is we -- in this survey we broke it -- broke it down into two
separate areas in the bar and restaurant area and the golf course operations and
although it was brief -- we all get bombarded with surveys and we get mighty
tired of, you know, getting asked the same question multiple times. We made
this brief. It was a one page survey and -- and, essentially, a rating scale from
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one to five. So, with that I'm going to -- I'm going to let MaryClaire talk a little
bit about the results of -- of both -- both parts of the survey.
De Weerd: Thank you. Welcome.
Norman: Thank you. It was -- on the golf side we basically -- the number one
thing that was -- there was a lot of positives on -- on both -- overall we had
positive results from -- we, basically, overall had at least a four on most. It was
out of five, so we had -- the number one thing that they asked for improvements
on was our cart paths and our tee boxes. Those were the -- the two things that
were -- that came up on the comments or most of the surveys, which -- which we
-- we both -- we plan to do both. So, we have been working on the cart path all
year, so -- but in the -- they were pleased with customer service. They were
pleased with staff. On the restaurant side they were pleased with our new menu
and the server staff and we really had, I thought, a really positive feedback from
everybody. We had, you know, little comments that maybe we could do this or
that. It was very positive comments on the survey. So, I was pleased with what
we got back. There were several people that didn't fill out the survey that came
in and gave their opinions and -- or just wrote us a note, didn't necessarily fill out
the survey itself, so -- but I really think that for the most part we had a pretty
positive, you know, response back, so -- I think we were -- we had a really good
-- people are really pleased with the progress that we have made over the last
couple years, so -- that's good. Thank you.
Oaas: Do we have any questions specifically about the survey or the results?
Milam: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Ms. Milam.
Milam: In looking at your survey are -- you sent out hundreds of -- of these to all
of the people on your mailing list and --
Norman: We sent out -- so, there was 1,757 that were e-mailed out and, then,
they were available in the shop as well and -- and we had some on the -- on the
golf carts when we were -- when we had the cart sale.
Milam: So, these numbers on here, are those the ones that were received? So,
out of that many only 23 filled it out?
Oaas: It's interesting, because I think it's -- like I said, we all get bombarded with
surveys and for the most part if we are pretty pleased with -- with the way things
are we don't respond and I know I'm guilty of that. If something is particularly
outstanding I will try and get a response in, but unless I have got a gripe
generally I just toss it in the trash.
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Milam: Unless they are offering you ten bucks or something.
Norman: There was a lot of -- that's -- I think that's what they -- a lot of people
just stop in and say I got your survey, but, you know -- and, then, just offer a
couple of --
Milam: Right.
Norman: -- little -- which is what we were trying to keep track of. You know,
trying to keep track of all the little comments and wh at people have said, so --
Milam: Pretty good survey.
Oaas: Any other questions about the mechanics of the survey or the results?
So, based on -- and we can flip to the -- let's flip to the -- the bar and restaurant if
we can. That’s item eight. And you can see that, you know, out of a score rating
of five -- of one to five, one being not satisfactory, five being, you know, out of
this world, we did pretty darn well and even -- even surprisingly when you ask
people are our prices competitive, it's surprising that the people for the most part
felt we were very competitive, so -- if we can flip -- flip, then, back to the -- to the
proposal -- I think that's item -- let's see. Maybe item six. We can start generally
with -- with that. When we proposed -- or when we had discussions at the last
golf course focus group meeting we talked about projects for the year and, as I
said, this was prior to the time of the survey, but we felt at the time that we really
needed to address the -- the tee boxes and the issues are they are small and
they are just -- they were not constructed properly to begin with and by that I
mean -- and Rich -- Rich can talk more about that, but by that I mean, you know,
the wrong soil composition were put on top and -- you know, with too much clay,
so it -- over the years it just tends to get harder and harder and harder and some
of our poor older lady golfers just, basically, got to the point where they couldn't
even put a tee in -- in the -- in the tee box. So, when you get to that point you
say, okay, we got a problem, we got to fix it. So, we proposed to the golf course
focus group that we -- that we actually redo the -- that we remodel number one
men's and women's tees, number five men's and women's tees, and we said --
we also talked about doing additional work. W ell, once -- once we got the
numbers together, you know, it -- it appears that the -- doing men's and women's
on number one and -- and men's and women's on number five are probably
going to consume all -- all the excess funding we have available to get it -- to
invest in it this year. But I'd like to invite Roy Ahnstedt, our head golf
professional, and Rich Rush, our golf course superintendent, up and we can talk
about what we have in mind and we can go through the aerial photos, so
gentlemen.
De Weerd: Good evening.
Oaas: Start with number four.
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De Weerd: And if you can just state your names, please.
Rush: Richard Rush. I'm the superintendent of Lake View Golf Course.
De Weerd: Thank you.
Ahnstedt: Roy Ahnstedt. Head golf professional.
De Weerd: Thank you.
Oaas: So, why don't you talk about what they are looking at, the red line -- the
red outline and the green outline, Rich, and walk through that.
Rush: All right. Currently we are -- on the screen there is -- the number one --
the large tee box is -- the large area is the number one men's tee box and the
smaller one is the lady's tee box. The current line -- or the current size of the tee
box right now is in the green line area. From a picture up here it -- you know, it
doesn't look like it's very small, but when you actually get out on the tee box itself
it's quote small and it doesn't allow us to really be able to move -- move the tee
markers around in different areas to provide a clean area for them to be hitting off
of. Same with the lady's tee. That's extremely small for the lady's tee box and,
above all, more than anything else, is they are not level, they are not flat, they
are constructed out of material that was, basically, dug out of the ponds, so it's
nice and rocky, very full of clay, very hard to keep grass alive on those things.
But I would say probably the biggest issue with the golfers is the unlevel of the
tee box. They have a tendency to roll from front to back, so they are not -- they
are not flat like this, they go front to back. Plus they also sometimes have a
tendency to go side to side, so they are kind of a big hump, basically , out there.
And it makes it difficult for the golfers to line up and strike the ball properly.
Oaas: Rich, can you give the Council some idea of -- have they ever been rebuilt
or redone?
Rush: No. This -- these are the original designs. When they built the existing
front nine out there right now back in the early '90s -- I'm not sure exactly when --
these are the existing -- these are the original tee boxes. Shapes. Sizes.
Everything.
Oaas: And how long --
De Weerd: Hey, Erik, if you're going to talk you need to do it on the microphone.
Oaas: Okay. And how long would you expect these to -- to do to be
satisfactory?
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Rush: Well, you know, to be honest with you, from a golfer standpoint they are
really not satisfactory as they are right now. It can be hard to find a level spot
and get -- to tee off the ball and hit the ball and from a golfer's stand point -- Roy
can speak of it -- speak on it as the pro -- it just makes it a lot more difficult for
the golfer to enjoy and feel like he's getting comfortable on the tee box when he
goes to tee up.
Ahnstedt: So, that is some of the things that we hear from our -- from our
customers on a regular basis when we are out and we are working the desk or
when I'm -- when I'm socializing or talking to the customer, our clients, is that our
tee boxes aren't -- are hard to get -- find a level spot. It's hard to set up on.
Again, like Erik said early, the tee is getting so compacted and hard that they
can't get a tee in the ground. So, it's -- this is a capital improvement that will
improve the player's experience and in the project that we are working on that we
plan to do now will be added to in the future as we move forward in the next few
years as well. It's kind of been our -- this has kind of been our -- in our ten year
plan, to do a couple now, do a couple in a couple of years later, and as we find
that they meet the -- these are the -- the ones that we have proposed are the
ones that are in the worst shape. Again, the rounding of them, finding a level
spot to set the tee boxes, it's the hardest part and that's some of the customers
complaining it causes them to not hit the ball straight, you know, those kinds of
things.
Oaas: Rich, can you talk a little bit about what the red means and how we are
going to -- to reconstruct these.
Rush: So, as you see on the map there, there is a red line out -- a red outline
larger than the green outline, obviously, and the plan is to enlarge these tee
boxes by that -- that amount on each one. This one and hole number five. The
-- the -- oh, what's the word I'm looking for? The direction we are going to be
going with this is we will be taking a sod cutter and going and cutting all the sod
off the top of the tee box, off the sides, all the way down to the ground -- to the --
to the flat areas of the ground and, then, going in with -- with equipment and
grading out the tee boxes, lowering them down a little bit, spreading them out,
make them a little bit wider, but also making them much more playable, much
flatter, better playing surface.
Oaas: And material on top.
Rush: And with a good topsoil on top of the tee box itself, so we will have a good
growing medium there for the turf.
Oaas: You want to flip ahead to number -- yeah. This is number five.
Rush: This is number five tee box. And it's a par five. It's -- it's really kind of in
the same realm as what number one was. The tee closer towards the bottom of
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the screen is the men's tee box and it is extremely narrow, it's approximately four
and a half to five paces across from side to side, which is not nearly enough
surface to, you know, handle the wear and tear that we get on these tee boxes.
It is an extremely small tee, plus it is very unlevel and along with the lady's tee
box -- the lady's tee box, which is further up the screen, is -- size wise is a
decent size. It still comes into the problem of being very unlevel, very b umpy and
very hard to keep grass growing on it very well because of the soil conditions.
Oaas: Thank you, Rich. We stand open to questions about the construction or
the details -- any further details with regard to the project.
De Weerd: Council, any questions?
Borton: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
Borton: The request form on the previous page, are the two boxes -- is the
request that both boxes will be done, but the rent relief is for the 6,000 dollars for
a single year?
Oaas: That -- Councilman Borton, that's correct.
Borton: Okay. Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
Borton: Because one of the things that you did I found really well with the 18
green was -- you had some skin in the game with regards to the city contributing
some rent forgiveness and you also had some additional expenditures. So, the
two -- both tee boxes -- the one with the dollar figure on it.
Oaas: That's six.
Borton: Okay. So, the request is one and two would be done this fiscal year -- I
guess before October and, then, there would be a request for the one year's rent
relief?
Oaas: No. This -- we would put in -- these -- if Council approves these, then, we
would request Council approve the rent relief upon completion. They will be
done prior to the season starting.
Borton: Okay. Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
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Borton: We are saying the same thing. Rent relief for the October 1 --
Oaas: Correct.
Borton: Okay. That's very helpful. Madam Mayor. Remind me how the golf
course focus group meet and reviews -- I know we created this process. They
meet as a group and do they literally vote on what we are looking at right here,
up or down? How did that come about?
Oaas: That's correct. And at the time we -- because it was more conceptual at
the time of our last golf course focus group meeting, we also had the potential of
doing -- what is it, the men's tee on 14? Is that -- but when we started gathering
our costs together and getting things nailed down and -- in terms of rental and
equipment and labor, we determined that this -- this was as much as we could
afford.
Borton: Okay.
De Weerd: And I will let Mr. Siddoway also weigh in.
Borton: Thank you.
Siddoway: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, Councilman Borton, the golf
course focus group met on Thursday, September 8th, 2016. This was brought
up on their agenda as item five. It was discussed -- various ideas for next year's
rent credit is I think the proper term. But the -- so, it was discussed and it was
recommended and unanimously approved that the tee boxes should be rebuilt.
There were not photographs at the time to -- but their recommendation from the
minutes of the golf course focus group was to rebuild the tees and to make a full
presentation with visuals to Council, with a recommendation for approval.
De Weerd: Thank you. Any further questions from Council?
Palmer: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Palmer.
Palmer: Madam Mayor. Erik, I know nothing about golf. I tried to get into it once
-- I lived in the subdivision there for a little bit when I was a kid. Went to the
driving range and it just didn't work out for me. But -- so I always turned to my
uncle who lives on the golf course there and ask him if he has opinions on one
thing or another and he mentioned that -- that the number one tee box has
recently undergone some work. Is that not the case?
Oaas: Not the number one. We actually -- Councilman Palmer, we -- we
actually -- maybe what he's thinking is we put in a professional golf -- a
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championship -- actually, a men's championship tee box area if -- if we ever
wanted to have a -- basically a championship that required a certain number of
championship greens. We don't use that. Our golf -- our golf course clientele
really are -- are not looking for that kind of -- that kind of play. But that could be
what he's thinking about, but we -- we haven't done any work on the real
workhorses, which is what you're seeing on the aerial.
Palmer: Thanks for the clarification.
Oaas: You bet. And, Councilman Palmer, this gentleman right here is -- is a
heck of a teacher and he will get you interested in the game, I guarantee.
Palmer: Madam Mayor? What happened was my brothers and I, we would go
out to the driving range and because we were quite young we would mess with
each other and -- but I feel like I have matured enough that maybe it's something
I could look at. Thanks.
De Weerd: Maybe in a couple years. I will thank you that you finally gave me a
couple of excuses on at least two holes, so -- until you get him fixed. I think I will
stick to miniature golf. My plug for Wahooz. Any further questions from Council?
Borton: Madam Mayor, just one more.
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
Borton: In light of the survey results, are there new plans for cart path solutions
that have risen to the top of the priority list?
Oaas: Yes, Councilman Borton. We have, actually, done additional work on the
cart paths since the survey.
Borton: Okay.
Oaas: But -- but, no, we have good plans to -- and, in fact, we have got two --
two folks who are going to really work a lot on that, including myself and my
business partner Steve Laney. Just as soon as the ground starts thawing and
getting into a position where we can -- we can apply some more of this man sand
that is just -- it's just a great product and the -- our experience with it so far has
just been incredible.
Borton: Thanks.
De Weerd: Okay. Thank you very much. Mr. Attorney, do we need any kind of
action -- at least directions?
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Nary: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, yes. There is a form there that
requires the Council's action to move to grant the rent relief for that time period in
the amount. Yeah. Right there on that front form there it says staff use only.
That's the portion that Council needs to direct to approve, for then for us to
provide that to Finance for the rent relief for '17.
De Weerd: And the rent relief is effective after completion and the numbers are
in.
Nary: Yes. After completion and inspection and, then, it's for FY-18. So, it's
after October 1st. Because that was -- the one for this year's has already been
granted.
De Weerd: Okay. Just wanted to clarify. Council?
Borton: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
Palmer: I would move that we approve the request for potential rent relief for FY-
18 in an amount not to exceed 6,000 dollars consistent with the completion of the
tee box remodel repair work we have been presented for boxes one and five.
Milam: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Mr. Clerk, will you
call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, absent; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea;
Little Roberts, absent.
De Weerd: All ayes.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
De Weerd: Thank you very much for the information you shar ed and for being
with us tonight.
Oaas: Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you, City Council. Which, hopefully, is
-- from a time perspective is the way that -- that you will see this evening, so that
we are well in advance, we are not behind the eight b all.
De Weerd: That would be awesome.
Oaas: Thank you very much.
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Item 8: Department Reports
A. Mayor’s Office: Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council Update
De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. Okay. Item 8-A is under Department Reports.
We have the Mayor's Youth Advisory Council update. Suzanna, thank you for
sticking around to give your update.
Bradford: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, I'm Suzanna Bradford and I'm
the vice-chair for MYAC and I will be giving our update for the month of
December. So, to start off we had our MYAC Christmas party on the 12th and
we played bonding games. We had a potluck and gift exchange. It's a nice time
to hang out as a group getting ready for the Christmas season and it was a really
good turnout. Our executive council had a Christmas party on the 19th and we
watched a movie together and had a secret Santa gift exchange and it was just
really nice to be able to spend that time with each other before Christmas and get
to hang out as friends and last we had -- this was an event that our opportunities
advisor Jodi St. Martin put on and we got together -- some of us got together as a
group a few days prior to Christmas and we made cookies and treats -- made
over 70 plates of baked goods for members of our community that had to work
on the holiday and they were, then, passed on Christmas Day to promote Do The
Right, our movement of compassion for -- and to just show appreciation for all
that they do for us and for having to work on Christmas and that is all I ha ve, so if
there are any questions?
De Weerd: Thank you, Suzanna. And I will say how much we appreciate you
taking part of your holiday to go out and spread joy and compassion to those that
needed to work. I know that it was appreciated by those that were the recipients
as well. So, thank you for that.
Bradford: Thank you.
De Weerd: Council, any questions or comments?
Cavener: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: I just want to echo that. I think that's really remarkable --
Bradford: Thank you.
Cavener: -- on Christmas to spread a little joy to everybody. As a person who
lived in a family whose parents worked on Christmas it was always kind of a
challenge and the fact that you guys were going to reach out to them is rea lly
awesome.
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Bradford: Thank you.
Cavener: So, good work.
De Weerd: Thank you. Anything further from Council? And MYAC has a very
active calendar ahead of them in the next several months, so you will be hearing
more about that as well. So, thank you for sticking around and joining us.
Bradford: Thank you.
B. Parks and Recreation Department: Resolution No. 16-
1188: Adopting Meridian Parks and Recreation
Commission's 2017 Pathway Priority Task List
De Weerd: Okay. Item 8-B is under our Parks and Recreation Department and,
Jay, thank you for letting us continue this.
Gibbons: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, I appreciate the opportunity to
come before you again. I have two resolutions to discuss with you. The firs t one
-- the first item is Resolution 16-1188, which I ask for your approval to affirm or
ratify the Parks and Recreation Commission's pathway priorities for 2017. We do
this annually. We conducted a workshop -- pathways workshop in November
and, then, come back with their -- their final pathway priorities for the coming
year for adoption by the Commission in December. We did that. I'm before you
tonight to -- to affirm those pathway priorities, which include pathway projects on
Five Mile Creek, the Rail With Trail pathway signage and others. All the
pathways on the priority list are basically -- they are underway as far as in design
process, easement negotiation. We are just about ready to go to bid on at least
two of them. So, the rest of them are in the works. They are under contract.
Being surveyed or designed as we speak. So, with that I will simply ask that the
Council approve Resolution 16-1188 and with that I will stand for questions.
De Weerd: Council, any questions? I don't see any.
Cavener: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Cavener.
Cavener: I move we approve resolution number 16 -1188.
Milam: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 9 -- oops. 8-B. Any
discussion? Mr. Clerk, will you call roll.
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Roll Call: Bird, absent; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea;
Little Roberts, absent.
De Weerd: All ayes.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
C. Parks and Recreation Department: Resolution No. 16-
1189: Adopting 2016 Meridian Pathways Network Map
De Weerd: Okay. Jay, you have Item C as well.
Gibbons: I do. And I appreciate you allowing me to come before you on this.
This one is important and it's a resolution adopting the most recent updates to
the pathways network map. In your -- in your packet it reflects roughly -- there is
18 segments included in this -- in this amendment. Largely these segments
consist of pieces and parts of the pathways that have been constructed by
development in the last 18 months. There is also a couple of realignments to the
pathway segment on the map itself that reflects changes to -- to the last -- or to
the original configuration due to agreements with entitlement process as those
areas have been -- gone through the process to be platted. There are also
alternative routes that are being deleted on this map. One was shown as an
alternative route that actually -- the original route was -- so, it came to us through
the entitlement process, so we don't need the -- the go around. At this point it's
been agreed to. There is also a piece of the Five Mile Creek pathway that was
originally shown basically from Meridian Road to -- to Fairview Road. That was
actually the alternative route is -- or has been -- it has been constructed and used
for a number of years and it's time to -- to take that up to an alternative route --
the long-term route off the plan. Every time that we send information to
COMPASS they question why do you -- why do you want both or what does this
line type mean. So, we are trying to simplify and make -- and make sense as we
go forward. So -- let's see. The Meridian Parks Commission, they, of course,
worked with me on this during the -- during the pathway workshop in November.
They approved -- or accepted the amended map and I am before Council tonight
to ask that you approve resolution 16-1189. This adopted network map will then
be public. It will be utilized by the Planning Department and others through their
work processes as we go forward. With that I will stand for any questions.
De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions?
Milam: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Ms. Milam.
Milam: I move that we approve Resolution No. 16-1189.
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Cavener: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 8-C. Mr. Clerk, will
you call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, absent; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea;
Little Roberts, absent.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Gibbons: Thank you.
D. Public Works Department: Construction Contracts and
Task Orders for the WRRF Liquid Stream Capacity
Expansion Project
E. Award of Bid and Approval of Construction Contract to
JC CONSTRUCTORS, INC. for the “WRRF Liquid Stream
Capacity Expansion” project for a Not-To-Exceed
amount of $35,565,000.00 Approved
F. Approval of Task Order 10601.G to Brown and Caldwell
for the “WRRF CAPACITY EXPANSION SERVICES
DURING CONSTRUCTION” project for a Not-To-Exceed
amount of $1,463,235.00
De Weerd: Thank you. Item 8-D is under our Public Works Department. I will
turn this over to Clint.
Dolsby: Thanks. Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, Item E and F, which
follows D, are both related to the liquid stream capacity expansion project --
De Weerd: Okay.
Dolsby: -- at the wastewater resource recovery facility. If it's okay with you I
would like to present these all as one package and, then, I will take any
questions on anything you might have.
De Weerd: That works.
Dolsby: This project will increase the capacity of the plant to 15 million gallons a
day and is also one of the key projects that will set us up for our upcoming
NPDES permit limits. What I have before you tonight is both the construction
contract and construction services task order for this project. This project bid on
November 4th. We received five bids out of the six prequalified contractors for
the project and JC Constructors was the low bidder by 39,000 dollars, which is
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kind of unheard of to have a bid that close on this big of a project. The funding
for this project is just-in-time finance. It will be programmed over fiscal year '17,
'18 and '19 for both of these contracts, actually. With that I would stand for any
questions you might have.
Palmer: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Palmer.
Palmer: Madam Mayor, given that we are about to discuss and probably
approve the expenditure of over 35 million dollars and there is maybe ten or 12
people in the room that understand the lingo everything you just used and we
have a lot of people in the room that are young and are going to be affected by
the decision we are about to make, I'm wondering if maybe you could break it
down a little bit simpler for -- to help those that are here understand what we are
about to do.
Dolsby: Madam Mayor and Council Member Palmer, I would be happy to. So,
this 35 million dollar project will take the capacity of the wastewater treatment
plant up to 15 million gallons a day. If you think about that, each person uses a
few hundred gallons per day in households -- I mean each household uses a
couple hundred gallons a day, so I mean it's going to significantly increase the
capacity of the plant. Also we have got very strict requirements we are going to
have to meet as a part of the Boise River TMDL, which that sounds kind of
complicated, but, basically, we are going to have to meet some very strict
nutrient limits in the water that we discharge to, that the Environmental Protection
Agency has put on the City of Meridian through the wastewater treatment plant's
permit that we have to comply with. In order to meet those limits we have to
build more structures out at the wastewater treatment plant, add more chemicals,
do more treatment out at the plant, which is a big part of this project as well and
it's not only related to capacity, it's also related to upgrading the plant to meet our
new permit limits that are -- have been handed down by the Environmental
Protection Agency. So, we are going to have to build -- oh, make on the order of
20,000 yards of concrete are in this project, which is kind of a staggering number
to me. We are going to build four new aeration tanks out there. Also four circular
tanks to help us settle out the solids in the wastewater and, then, it will also help
to set us up to meet our future permit limits.
De Weerd: Thank you. If you can simplify that even more, good luck.
Palmer: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Any other questions? Mr. Palmer.
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Palmer: Madam Mayor, so as mentioned earlier that we are approaching a
population of 100,000 here in Meridian, what population would the expansion that
we are about to do facilitate us to?
Dolsby: Just a second. Assuming that our limits don't change -- I mean --
because it kind of predicated on the permit -- the limits you have in your permit.
Right now if we were operating under the permit that we have today, not updated
-- not the permit that we are going to be getting here in the next few months we
anticipate -- I mean we would have a much larger capacity for growth with this
upgrade. Because of some of the low permit limits in the upgrade , some of the
tankage that we are building is not just -- not for capacity, it's to treat down to the
low permit limits. So, it's -- it's a little bit more complicated question than just
saying that, you know, we would build 15 million gallons of capacity for, you
know, 200,000 people.
Palmer: Sure.
Dolsby: It would kind of depend on what the actual -- or what the treatment -- I'm
sorry. I will have to explain this a little, but what the treatment limits are at the
plant, but it would be well over probably 100,000. My guess currently would be
of the -- in the 120,000 range. Thereabouts. Plus or minus. But it kind of
depends. I mean really our permit limits could change in a few years and that
could blow all of this out of the water.
Palmer: Sure. Thanks.
De Weerd: Okay. Any other questions?
Borton: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
Borton: Also in light of the size of the expenditure I see Keith Watts is here. If he
may give some brief comment on the -- or maybe not. But some comment on the
process utilized, the bidding, and the selection of these vendors.
Watts: Thank you, Councilman Borton. Madam Mayor, Members of the Council,
we did a prequalification process on this project, which is I believe the first one
since I have been here that we did an actual prequalification of general
contractors. We advertised it just like you would do a normal bid. We sent it to
all the agencies and the different publications and we set a list of requirements of
the contractors. So, not just anybody is going to be able to bid on, of course, a
35 million dollar projection. We went through that pre-qualification process. It
had extensive qualification requirements and reference checks. We completed
that and I think we only had about -- let's see. We had eight contractors respond
and two were not qualified for various reasons. We communicated that to those
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two contractors and they understood the scoring and how it came out. We, then,
finished the second phase of this bid process and did the bid. Now, when we go
out for bid we don't advertise in the papers or anything, because we have done
that with our prequalification. Only those six contractors are able to participate,
because they met the requirements for the project. We completed that and we
got five bids. We sent it to the six that qualified, only five responded. And like
Clint said, the -- the dollar difference between our first and second bidder was 39
some odd thousand dollars on a 35 million dollar bid, which is -- which is unheard
of, but it was also a good indication that our plans and specs were very tight,
everyone understood them, even I think high to low was a relatively small dollar
amount on this project as well. The contracts before you are -- like Clint said --
are set up to -- with estimated dollar amounts to be expended over the next three
fiscal years, '17, '18 and '19. This year for the construction contract we are
currently asking for a -- a spend authority of 9,500,000 dollars of the 35 million
five eighty-five. And, then, the services during construction, which is our -- our
services from our consultant, who is our designer, is also going to do the services
during construction, that contract is 1,463,235 and we are expecting 491,259 for
fiscal year '17. We estimate our -- we have projections for '18 and '19 and we will
bring those back and come up before you for those expenditures for the next two
years as well as we determine the dollar value that is left and what they are
estimated to expend in those fiscal years. I think that's all I have for you.
Borton: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
Borton: How do the dollar figures compare to the anticipated -- the long-term
capital improvement plan expenditure for this anticipated expansion ? Do they
align or --
Watts: They are in line. This is phase one of this expansion and the phase two ,
which is the headworks portion of this, we anticipate bidding that in the next 30
days or so. That will -- the pre-qualification for that process will go out. Clint has
the budget numbers. He could give you a heads up on that. But we will be going
through the same process. We will be prequalifying and, then, roughly eight to
ten weeks after that we will be going out for bid and be coming before you for the
contracts for the headworks phase of the expansion.
Dolsby: Yeah. Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, Council Member Borton,
we do plan on advertising that for bid probably in the next 30 to 45 days. It will
be a four to six week bid period and, then, we would go through contracting. So,
Keith is probably correct it would probably be a few months before you would see
that headworks contract come to you for approval. That's not going to be as
nearly as big of a number as this, but it's still going to be a really big number to
us, because it will end up being on the order of probably, I don't know, ten million
total cost. That includes some equipment procurement that we are going to do
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as well just for the construction side of it. We have also got design fees and
other fees associated with that project as well.
De Weerd: And those all have been anticipated in the capital improvements
plan.
Dolsby: That's correct. Yes. And they are also in rate modeling and -- yeah.
Borton: Good. Thanks.
Watts: That's correct.
De Weerd: Good question. Any further questions, Council? Okay. Thank you,
Keith. Thank you, Clint.
Watts: Do we need to ask for a motion to approve those two contracts now?
De Weerd: Yes, we do.
Watts: All right.
De Weerd: And we did consider Items D, E and F at the same time, but I would
look for a motion on Item 8-E.
Palmer: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Palmer.
Palmer: By itself?
De Weerd: Yes.
Palmer: Just E? Then comment before I make the motion. Councilman
Cavener, did you have something else?
Cavener: Just prefer that other people talk tonight. That's all.
Palmer: Other than me?
Cavener: No. Other than me.
De Weerd: He keeps making him talk.
Palmer: Then, Madam Mayor, for the -- again, for the young people that are in
the room, there has been over the years some e xtremely wise handling of -- of
the planning of our -- our Public Works facilities over the years and it's just
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awesome that we are able to handle the population that we have and as it grows
and expands it's all with cash. There is absolutely no debt that the city has. And,
again, that's to the credit of those that came before me and before some of us
here to -- to have to put that together in the way that they did to make sure that
we don't have to go into debt for these kind of things and so if -- if you haven't
had a chance -- I don't know how much you think about what happens after you
flush the toilet or after you turn the sink off, but our water -- our treatment facility
is actually a fascinating place to go tour. So, if you haven't had a chance to do it,
I would encourage you to contact our Public Works Department and schedule an
opportunity to go out and to check it out. It -- it may not sound like the most
interesting thing to go do on -- on available time, but I can promise you if you do
you will be glad that you did. And so with that I move that we approve the award
for the construction contract to JC Contractors for the liquid stream capacity
expansion project in an amount not to exceed 35,565,000 dollars.
Borton: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 8 -E. Any discussion?
Mr. Clerk, will you call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, absent; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea;
Little Roberts, absent.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
De Weerd: Okay. Item 8-F.
Palmer: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Palmer.
Palmer: Madam Mayor, I move we approve Task Order 10601.G to Brown and
Caldwell for the capacity expansion services during construction for an amount
not to exceed 1,463,235 dollars.
Borton: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 8-F. If there is no
discussion, Mr. Clerk, will you call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, absent; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea;
Little Roberts, absent.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
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MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Item 9: Action Items
A. Public Hearing for Dorado Subdivision MDA (H-2016-
0131) by Jake Wylie Located 2490 and 2976 E Overland
Road
1. Request for a Modification to the Development
Agreement for Dorado Subdivision to remove the
requirement for a Conditional Use Permit on Lots 1
and 2, Block 1 by Jake Wylie
De Weerd: Item 9-A under our Action Items -- easy for me to say -- is a public
hearing for H-2016-0131. I will open this public hearing with staff comments.
Allen: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. The first application
before you tonight is a request for a development agreement modification . This
site consists of 1.25 acres of land, zoned C-G, located at 2940 and 2976 East
Overland Road. This property was annexed back in 2005 with the requirement of
a development agreement. A conditional use permit for a planned development
was also approved at that time. The Comprehensive Plan future land use map
designation is mixed use regional. The applicant is requesting a modification to
the existing development agreement to remove the requirement for a conditional
use permit for development on Lots 1 and 2, Block 1, of Dorado Subdivision.
When the conditional use permit was approved for this subdivision in 2005, the
city had not yet developed -- excuse me -- adopted standards for design review
and required development to obtain conditional use approval to ensure quality of
design. Since that time the city has adopted standards for building and site
design and no longer requires conditional use approval to ensure quality of
design if the use is a principal permitted use in the zone . For this reason staff
doesn't feel it's necessary to require a conditional use permit, as all future
development is subject to design review. Any uses that require conditional use
approval in the C-G district per the UDC will still be subject to a conditional use
permit. No written testimony has been received on this application and staff is
recommending approval of the applicant's request. Staff will stand for any
questions.
De Weerd: Council, any questions? Is the applicant here? Do you have any
comments? If you will, please, state your name and address for the record.
Wylie: James Wylie. 1464 East Territory Drive, Meridian.
De Weerd: Thank you.
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Wylie: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, thank you for your time tonight.
As you can see, we are proposing a modification to this existing development
agreement. After meeting with city staff they said they would support either the
conditional use permit or this modification. Then after talking with them this is the
route we chose to go. So, basically, all we are asking is to use these two C-G
zoned lots for approved C-G uses and all I ask is your affirmative vote tonight
and I will stand for any questions.
De Weerd: Thank you, Mr. Wylie. Council, any questions? Thank you.
Wylie: Thank you.
De Weerd: This is a public hearing. Is there anyone who wishes to offer
testimony on this item? Okay.
Milam: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: I move that we close the public hearing on Item 9 -A.
Borton: 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: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Milam: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: I move that we approve H-2016-0131.
Borton: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 9-A. Any discussion
from Council? Mr. Clerk.
Roll Call: Bird, absent; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea;
Little Roberts, absent.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
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B. Public Hearing for Una Mas (H-2016-0132) by Chad
Olsen Located Southwest Corner of N. Records Avenue
and E. Tecate Lane
1. Request: Modification to the Development Agreement
(Inst. #106137048 & 2016-106279) to Allow a
Reduced Buffer Width from Twenty-Five (25) to Five
(5) Feet on the C-G Zoned Property to Residential
Units
De Weerd: Item 9-B is a public hearing for H-2016-0132. I will open this public
hearing with staff comments.
Allen: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. The next application
is also a request for a development agreement modification for Una Mas
Subdivision agreement. This property is zoned C-G and is located at the
southwest corner of East Ustick Road and North Records Avenue. This property
was annexed in 2005 with the requirement of a development agreement. The
applicant is requesting a modification to the existing agreement to include a
provision to allow a reduced buffer width on a C-G zoned property to residential
uses. The applicant proposes a reduction from the UDC required 25 feet to five
feet on the C-G zoned property and a five foot wide buffer on the residential
property along the shared property line, for a total of a ten foot wide buffer
between land uses. All of the properties in Una Mas Subdivision are zoned C-G.
The first phase of a multi-family residential project Veraso has developed at the
south end of the subdivision and two additional phases are proposed to the north
that will abut property that is anticipated to develop with commercial uses. In
addition to the proposed ten foot buffer, a 20 foot wide driveway for access to the
residential units is proposed along the north boundary of the residential
development. Twenty foot deep garages are also proposed, which buffers and
separates the living area of the residential units even more from the future
commercial uses. If dense landscaping within the buffer is provided in accord
with UDC standards, staff feels the physical separation and landscaping will
provide an adequate buffer. Written testimony has been received from Chad
Olsen, the applicant, in agreement with the staff report and staff is
recommending approval. Staff will stand for any questions.
De Weerd: Thank you. Council, any questions? Okay. Would the applicant like
to make comment? Good evening.
Olsen: Good evening. Chad Olsen. 12790 West Telemark Street, Boise, Idaho.
83713.
De Weerd: Thank you.
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Olsen: So, this is the third phase of a residential project. Phase two, as called
by Veraso Two, has already been approved and we have began doing the
utilities and getting ready for residential. Veraso Three, we just didn't quite have
enough room and we were already going to be running a road anyway, so it
seemed quite redundant to have all these different setbacks when we were
actually having an access road. We have gone to Ada County Highway District.
They approved that road, that access there off of Records, and, in reality, this is
just a continuation of phase three of the project. There is more than ample
distance and separation between the would be commercial and future
commercial that would be built, as -- as well as the residential and to give it an
adequate buffer between those two uses and I stand for any questi ons you might
have.
De Weerd: Council, any questions? Okay. Thank you, Chad.
Olsen: Thank you.
De Weerd: This is a public hearing. Is there anyone who would like to provide
testimony on this item? You might get extra credit. Just saying. Council, any
further questions for the applicant or staff?
Borton: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
Borton: I move that we close the public hearing on Item 9-B, H-2016-0132.
Milam: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearing on Item 9-
B. All those in favor say aye. All ayes.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Borton: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
Borton: I move that we approve Item 9-B, H-2016-0132.
Milam: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item H-2016-0132. If there
is no discussion, Mr. Clerk, will you call roll.
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Roll Call: Bird, absent; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea;
Little Roberts, absent.
De Weerd: All ayes.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Item 10: Ordinances
A. Ordinance No. 16-1717: An Ordinance Amending
Meridian City Code as Codified at Title 11, Section 3
Entitled the Unified Development Code, of the Meridian
City Code; and Providing for a Waiver of the Reading
Rules; and Providing an Effective Date.
De Weerd: Item 10-A is Ordinance 16-1717. Mr. Clerk, will you, please, read
this ordinance by title.
Coles: Thank you, Madam Mayor. City of Meridian Ordinance No. 16-1717, an
ordinance amending Meridian City Code as codified at Title 11, Section 3,
entitled the Unified Development Code of the Meridian City Code and providing
for a waiver of the reading rules and providing an effective date.
De Weerd: Is there anyone who would like to hear this ordinance read in its
entirety?
Milam: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mrs. Milam.
Milam: I move that we approve Ordinance No. 16-1717 with suspension of rules.
Borton: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 10-A. Mr. Clerk, will
you call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, absent; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea;
Little Roberts, absent.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Item 11: Future Meeting Topics
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De Weerd: Any topics for Item 11? Just upcoming is a week from this Saturday
is the legislative breakfast from -- that's put on by the Mayor's Youth Advisory
Council. Council, if you have any interest in attending we would lo ve to have you
in attendance. This year they will be chatting with our legislators about suicide
prevention topic and some upcoming legislation. So, if you would like to, please,
let me know if you have an interest in joining us. We would love to have you.
Item 12. Executive Session per Idaho State Code 74-206(1)(d) and 74-
206(1)(f). (d): To consider records that are exempt from
disclosure as provided in chapter 1, title 74, Idaho Code; (f):
To communicate with legal counsel for the public agency to
discuss the legal ramifications of and legal options for
pending litigation, or controversies not yet being litigated but
imminently likely to be litigated.
De Weerd: Item 12 is Executive Session. I would entertain a motion.
Borton: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Borton.
Borton: I move that we go into Executive Session pursuant to Idaho Code 74-
2061(1)(d) and (1)(f).
Milam: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to adjourn into Executive Session. Mr.
Clerk, will you call roll.
Roll Call: Bird, absent; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea;
Little Roberts, absent.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
EXECUTIVE SESSION: (7:13 p.m. to 8:20 p.m.)
Borton: I would entertain a motion to come out of Executive Session.
Milam: So moved.
Palmer: Second.
Borton: All in favor say aye.
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MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Borton: I need a motion to adjourn.
Milam: So moved.
Palmer: Second.
Borton: All in favor say aye?
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
MEETING AqJOURNED AT 8:20 P.M.
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ATTEST:
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DATE APPROVED