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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAugust 24, 2004 C/C Minutes Meridian City Council August 24.2004 Page 44 of 48 De Weerd: Okay. It's been moved and seconded to deny the request for Item 17. If there is no further discussion -- hearing none, Mr. Berg. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Wardle, yea; Nary, yea. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 18: Continued Public Hearing from July 6, 2004: Trunk Line Water & Sewer Assessment, Connection and Miscellaneous Fee Proposal: De Weerd: Okay. Item 18 is a continued Public Hearing from July 6, 2004. We will open the Public Hearing on Item 18 with staff comments. Mr. Watson. Watson: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Council Members. I apologize, I just got this memo put together today and if you will allow me, I'll just hand that out to you, if that's okay. If it's okay, I'll just stand up here. It's been a long sit. I'll just briefly describe what has happened since the July 6th hearing. As you recall, Council approved a contract with Environmental Finance Group -- Environmental Financial Group to evaluate my fee proposal. That report was completed and sent to me, actually, yesterday. My memo says today, but I got it yesterday. Attached to this memo -- you can skip by that second page temporarily -- is about a four-page evaluation of the fee system. There is good news and bad news. The good news is that the assessment fee program that we have is right in line with what he's seen in his other cities and utilities around the country. There, evidently, was a mistake in a portion of my methodology where I under valuated the assessment fee, so -- and the assessment fee should be higher than what I calculated. The bad news -- I guess I don't take it as bad news. The good news is he took a good hard shake at the system development fee proposal that I had and he's got a lot of comments on it. If you look at the bottom of page four in his summary, the first sentence seems to very succinctly sum up that part of the proposal. Without wasting a lot of your time tonight, if I could just briefly direct you to the second page. The first column shows what our current fees are. The second column shows what I had previously proposed in May and presented to several different groups at BCA. The third column shows a very quick reevaluation of the assessment fees that I did yesterday afternoon based on his recommendations. The total fees are not -- the total fee on my draft revised proposal is not significantly different than what I had previously proposed as a total fee for both water and sewer. The long and short of it is I would like to continue this for four weeks until September 28th, so that I can, first of all, get this evaluation to the BCA. Second of all, go back through and confirm my calculations. Third, because the complete water and sewer ordinance was proposed to be revised with this and incorporated into it some of these recommendations. That's going to be the tedious work. I need to go back through that and redo the ordinance. There is a third piece of his recommendation that I thought was good news and that is the part of the ordinance revisions that provided for elimination of latecomer agreements. He thought that the system I had developed was sound, although the funding mechanism was a little bit screwy, he thought that we could work with that and these revised assessment fees to make something work, so I'm hopeful that we are getting closer and Meridian City Council August 24.2004 Page 45 of 48 it is very good to have a professional look at this. I feel so much more comfortable now that somebody technical has really shook this hard and I know it's been a long process, but I think we are doing it the right way, getting a lot of input, getting some expert advice, and I'm feeling much better about it, even though it's taking longer than we thought. With that I will entertain any questions. De Weerd: Thank you, Brad. Sometimes it pays off to be cautious and I appreciate you continuing to see this through. Watson: Thank you. And I really appreciate Council approving the contact for this guy to look at this. He's -- just talking with him you can tell he knows what he's talking about. Nary: It just goes out of your raise. Don't worry about it. Watson: That's fine on this one. De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: Madam Mayor. Brad, you talked about a continuance for an additional four weeks? Watson: Yes. Rountree: And we would anticipate that we see this proposal refined, along with the additional amendments to the ordinances at that time, so we can act on it as a package? Watson: Yes. Rountree: Is that my understanding? Watson: Yes, Councilman Rountree. Rountree: Madam Mayor, I'd move, with that understanding, to continue this for four weeks -- De Weerd: Okay. Bird: I'd second -- Rountree: Until September -- Nary: 28th. Bird: 28th he wanted. Meridian City Council August 24.2004 Page 48 of 48 Watson: Actually, I misspoke. It was September 28th. Five weeks. Rountree: September 28th. Five weeks. Bird: Second. De Weerd: Okay. It's been moved and seconded to continue this item until September 28th, 2004. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carries. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Watson: Thank you. Item 19: Ordinance No. 04-1096 : Plumbing Code Ordinance: Item 20: Ordinance No. 04-1097 Amended Ordinance: : Abatement of Dangerous Buildinas De Weerd: Thank you, Brad. Items 19 and 20 are ordinances. Ordinance No. 04-1096 for the Plumbing Code Ordinance and Ordinance No. 04-1097. Mr. Clerk, if you would read these two ordinances by title only. Berg: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. Ordinance No. 04-0196, an Ordinance amending Ordinance 03-1025 of the City of Meridian, Idaho, repealing Chapter 2, Title 10, Plumbing Code and Meridian City Code and reenacting Chapter 2, Title 10, to incorporate the 2003 Uniform Plumbing Code, including Appendices A, B, C, D, E, G, H, I, J and L, excluding F, with exceptions to Section 604.2, not allowing the use of type N copper pipe, and deleting or -- conditional language to Section 218, Section 316.1.6, Section 420.0, Section 421.0, Section 604.1, Section 609.4, Section 609.10, Table 6-4, and Table 8-2, Table 7-3, Section 610.2, Section 611.4, Section 703. Section 703.2, and Section 710.5, Section 704.2, Table 7-5, Section 704,3, Section 707.4, Section 712.1, Section 801.2.3, Section 807.4, Section 908, and Section 1002.3, providing for penalty, severability, conflict, validity, savings clause and an effective date. De Weerd: Thank you, Mr. Berg. Nary: I think Mr. Mills wants that one read in its entirety. I just saw him nod. Rountree: As long as he doesn't miss a section. Berg: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, Ordinance No. 04-1097, an Ordinance amending Section 110-1-2, adoption of the Uniform Code for Abatement of Dangerous Buildings to provide for amendments to Section 301, General, of the Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings and particularly within the definitions with reference to Section 3403 and Section 103, Authorizations and Additions and Repairs to