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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2017-12-19Meridian City Council December 19, 2017. A meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 19, 2017, by Mayor Tammy de Weerd. Members Present: Tammy De Weerd, Keith Bird, Joe Borton, Genesis Milam, Ty Palmer, Anne Little Roberts and Luke Cavener. Others Present: Bill Nary, C.Jay Coles, Caleb Hood, Kyle Radek, Jeff Lavey, Davis Jones, Hillary Bodnar, Chris Pope, and Dean Willis. Item 1: Roll-call Attendance: Roll call. X__ Anne Little Roberts X _ _Joe Borton X__ Ty Palmer X__ Keith Bird __X___Genesis Milam __X__ Lucas Cavener __X_ Mayor Tammy de Weerd De Weerd: Well, good evening and Merry Christmas. I would like to welcome you to our City Council meeting. For the record it is Tuesday, December 19th. It's 6:00 o'clock. We will start with roll call attendance. 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: I assume that the community vocation will be led by Larry Woodard with the Ten Mile Christian Church. If you will all join us in the community invocation or take this as an opportunity for a moment of reflection. Welcome, Larry. You know, this is the last meeting you can do the invocation with Mr. Bird here. Woodard: I have notes on that. De Weerd: Oh. You know, I would have been surprised I think if you didn't. So, thank you for coming. So, thank you for coming. Woodard: What a relief that will be. Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 2 of 28 Bird: I have appreciated every one of your prayers. They have helped us get through these meetings. Thank you very much. thank you very much, Larry. Wood: You bet. Thank you. Well, let's pray. Our dear Heavenly Father, we come before you tonight to thank you for this Council and its leadership of our city in 2017, but in this Christmas week we thank you even more for sending your son Jesus to offer us an even better life. I pray tonight that in this Christmas season we will all appreciate the men and women of Meridian that protect us and make this such a great place to live and work. The growth of our city continues to amaze with new construction popping up everywhere. I pray that the workers will be protected on these projects. In this next year some real challenges are before us and I pray that this Council continues to exhibit the wisdom needed to keep this city on a path that strengthens families, protects the very young and the very old. I pray for our police as they, along with other agencies, fight the battle against drugs moving through and into our area. It's an epidemic and safety of our officers and our residents is needed. Sooner or later we are going to get our winter snow, even tonight, and I ask for safety of our residents and city staff as the snows settle into Treasure Valley. It's a dangerous time for all. An increase in wrecks, slips on snowy sidewalks, and it's just harder to get around. Tonight may we be a part of a national wave of prayer for our country. The threat of nuclear war is unnerving and we ask for your protection. Be with our young men and women who are in the Armed Services and keep our nation safe. Be with our leaders and may they make good decisions. Our future is built in part on the great memories we have of our early years. May the children and youth of meridian have great memories of their time in this city. Our city continues to attract newcomers from places like California and Seattle. Many come to unite with children who have moved here earlier. May we find that Meridian is a great place to live and may we not lose the small town feel, even when Caldwell, Nampa, Meridian, Star, Eagle and Boise all grow together into one large metro area. And in closing I want to thank you for the years of service by Keith Bird. His example of leadership of this Council will be long remembered. I pray that his years of retirement are enjoyable and of good health and we thank you for him. In Jesus' name. Amen. Bird: Thank you, Larry, very much. Item 4: Adoption of the Agenda De Weerd: Item No. 4 is adoption of the agenda. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: We do on the Consent Agenda have been requested to add a Y, which is award of RFQ and approval of agreement to Rice Fergus Miller, Incorporated, for the Fire Station Six pre-design and programming services project for a not to exceed amount of 93,607 dollars. This is something that we have felt could go on there, because Mark kind of -- he brought us up to speed last week's meeting over that. So, with that I would Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 3 of 28 move -- or wait a minute. I'm sorry. Item 9-C, the applicant requests continuance to January 23rd and with that I move we approve the amended agenda. Borton: I have a motion and a second to approve the agenda as amended. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 5: Future Meeting Topics - Public Forum (Up to 30 Minutes Maximum) Coles: Madam Mayor, there were not sign-ups this evening for Item 5. Item 6: Consent Agenda A. Approve Minutes of September 5, 2017 City Council Special Meeting B. Approve Minutes of December 5, 2017 City Council Special Meeting C. Approve Minutes of December 5, 2017 City Council Regular Meeting D. Paramount Director Subdivision No. 1 Recreational Pathway Easement E. Paramount Director Subdivision No. 1 Sewer and Water Main Easement Partial Release F. Paramount Director Subdivision No. 1 Sewer and Water Main Easement G. Regency Phase 2 At River Valley Sanitary Sewer and Water Main Easement Partial Release H. Regency at River Valley Phase 2 Sanitary Sewer and Water Main Easement I. Dog License Designee Agreement between Settlers Park Veterinary Hospital and City of Meridian J. Dog License Designee Agreement between Meridian Veterinary Hospital and City of Meridian K. Dog License Designee Agreement between Idaho Humane Society and City of Meridian Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 4 of 28 L. Dog License Designee Agreement between Linder Pet Medical Care and City of Meridian M. Final Plat for Kentucky Ridge Estates South (H-2017-0158) by T & M Holdings located east of S. Linder Road and south of W. Victory Road N. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law Revised for Aegean Estates (H-2017-0114) by Premier Investments, LLC located East of N. McDermott Road and South of W. McMillan Road O. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Movado Greens Subdivision (H-2017-0104) by DevCo, LLC located on the south side of E. Overland Road between S. Topaz Way and S. Cloverdale Road P. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Rapid Creek Subdivision (H-2017-0117) by WH Pacific located near the Southwest Corner of W. McMillan Road and N. Black Cat Road Q. Development Agreement for Village Apartments (AZ 15-011, MDA 15-012) with GFI – Meridian Investments, LLC R. Second Amendment To Subrecipient Agreement Between City Of Meridian And Meridian Development Corporation For PY2016 Community Development Block Grant Funds S. Approval of Task Order 10701.b for Professional Services for “SCADA TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES for FY2018” to CH2M Hill Engineers, Inc. for the Not-To-Exceed amount of $50,529.00 T. Approval of Award of Bid WTR-1806-10889 and Purchase Order #18-0166 to E.H. Wachs Company for the WACHS Valve Turning Truck/Equipment for a Not-To-Exceed amount of $66,325 U. Approval of Award of Bid and Agreement to DAHLE CONSTRUCTION, LLC for the WATERMAIN EXTENSION AMITY – LINDER project for a Not-To-Exceed amount of $899,380.00 V. Approval of a Sole Source Purchase for Fire Station Exercise Equipment from Rogue Fitness for the estimated amount of $12,925.00 W. October FY2018 Financial Report Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 5 of 28 X. AP Invoices for Payment - $3,041,853.59 Y. Amended onto agenda: Award of RFQ and Approval of Agreement to Rice, Fergus, Miller, Inc. for the “Fire Station 6 Pre-Design & Programming Services” project for a Not-To- Exceed amount of $93,607.00 De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. Item 6 is our Consent Agenda. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: As the Consent -- as I noted earlier we had an addition, Item I, which was a reward of RFQ and approval of agreement with Rice Fergus Miller, Incorporated, and with that I move we approve the amended Consent Agenda and for the Mayor to sign and the Clerk to attest. Cavener: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the Consent Agenda. If there is no discussion, Mr. Clerk, will you call roll. Roll call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea; Little Roberts, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 7: Items Moved From the Consent Agenda De Weerd: There were no items moved from the Consent Agenda. Item 8: Community Items/Presentations A. Republic Services and SWAC Updated Report on Changing Market Conditions for Recycling Mixed Plastics De Weerd: So, we will move into our Community Presentations. Item 8-A is under Republic Services and our SWAC updated report and Steve Cory talked with us a couple of weeks ago and back to give an update. Cory: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I do want to take this opportunity to specifically thank Councilman Bird for his advice and all the support over the years. We very much appreciated it. At your request I'm Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 6 of 28 back here with Konrad to go ahead and talk about the recyclable markets and some changes that we are going to have to implement. Recyclable markets have not improved since my last presentation and, in fact, there is a development I will have to discuss after we go through the plastics portion. Plastics recycling will change January 1st, 2018. Republic will continue to accept current materials through the first quarter of 2018, while they are educating customers, but from that point what they are going to be making clear is the only acceptable plastics will be milk jugs, pop and soda bottles, fruit juice bottles and jugs and detergent jugs. Republic has worked with Meridian utility billing to determine service addresses, as opposed to billing addresses. Their current planned outreach is to send a postcard out to each of the service addresses announcing the changes and showing what is allowed to go into the recycle carts and what should be thrown away or recycled elsewhere. Second, they will have an updated municipal trash and recycling brochure and a decal -- a new decal for the recycling materials bins to identify what is acceptable and that will be sent to each of the service households early in 2018. Thursday we will have an updated oops card. The oops card is a hard card that the drivers leave on the recycling carts when the cart contains unacceptable materials. The new cards will have the updated list of acceptable plastics and our new outreach protocol. If the driver sees unacceptable plastics going into their trucks, there is really nothing they are going to -- the first time they are going to see it is when the cart's being dumped into the truck. They will get out of their truck and leave a card to say that there was a problem with that pick up. The next time they come to pick up recycled materials at that address they will actually get out and look into the cart to see if the material is correct and if it is not they will leave a card there telling the -- the person that the materials are not correct and that they need to go ahead and clean up the materials that are being left in their cart. If there are still plastics not accepted in the program -- let's see. Well, let's see. Going ahead here. They will be asking the customer to pull the unacceptable plastics out and Republic has offered that they will send a truck back to collect the unacceptable materials once notified by the customer that the cart is ready to go and, then, furthermore, in every outreach piece Republic will be thanking the customers for their patience and Republic is moving quickly to respond to the global market conditions. Republic has committed that all of the developed materials will be sent to the Meridian utility billing and to SWAC for a final review before they go out and we certainly stand ready to forward those additionally if there are other people who want to see the material and see what's being developed. Now, as I mentioned -- well, I should say that commercial recycling program changes will be coming soon and the change that I was alluding to at the start of this is mixed paper is tenuous at this point. This week the buyer for mixed paper revoked their contracts to Western Recycling and so Western Recycling has been storing mixed paper at their facility over on Cole Road. They will run out of room to be able to store mixed paper at the end of this week. So, there may have to be a change to this outreach program in association with mixed paper. Republic has indicated that based on conversations with Western at this point, if we lose mixed paper Western may be able to run the recycled materials across the first portion of their sorting facility over there , but they will invert what they were doing. Whereas in the past they were just pulling out trash, now they are going to pull out the aluminum cans, tin cans, the plastic threaded bottles and cardboard, the stuff that we can get money for and, then, the rest of the material would Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 7 of 28 be going up to Hidden Hollow or the north ravine landfill area and with that that is the current situation and a review of the education plan that we are looking at and we certainly stand for any questions or recommendations or comments that you may have at this time. De Weerd: Thank you, Steve. Council, any questions for Steve or Konrad? Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: What a nightmare. What -- when do we have more idea about the mixed paper? My concern is really sending them -- getting a message out there to the people and, then, changing the message shortly thereafter. As part of the first half, that -- the flipside if Western is going to sort through anyway, then, why are we removing plastics at all, why aren't we including that in whatever they are going to take out? Cory: As to your first question on the mixed paper, basically, unless there is some kind of a magical intervention this week, then, that will have to be addressed. So, that's going to happen before this education campaign comes together and I would imagine it will be included in the education campaign if there isn't an immediate improvement in the mixed paper situation and I would tend to say at that point -- to your second point, I think you probably stated it better than I did, which is that this will change, that basically what can go in the bins will be in the education campaign and as soon as the public responds over the course of this quarter that will definitely be the norm by the end -- by March 31st. The sooner the better. And, basically, what's going to be happening at Western is they are going to be pulling out the remaining materials that have value, rather than what they were doing the last couple of months pulling out the stuff that was waste. Milam: Madam Mayor, follow up. So, in the education about the plastics, you're going to also include the education about the paper. We are not going to have this in two separate cycles; is that correct? McDannel: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, correct. By the time it's printed we will have a -- and approved by SWAC, approved by utility billing. We will have a more clear idea on whether or not -- on where we stand with mixed paper at that time and the goal is always do it right the first time. Milam: Exactly. Okay. Thank you. De Weerd: Any other questions from Council? Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 8 of 28 Cavener: Steve or Konrad, give me some I guess thoughts on -- this is a -- we talked about this the last time you were here. This is a pretty substantial shift in how we are operating our program and I appreciate the outreach efforts Republic is making. Is there a plan, then, from SWAC to come and provide us an update maybe at the three month or the six month mark? I guess what is Republic's plans to address any questions, comments, concerns that our public is going to face in response. It's one thing to leave it here is an important piece of information so you know you're not doing it right, to people saying, well, they believe they are doing it right, since that's the way they have been doing it forever and I'm not saying that they should always be able to do things the way they want, but I know that in the past we have found -- as an organization we think we need to do X. After going through X amount of time we find out Y is actually maybe a better route. So, can you -- has Republic contemplated any of that? Is there a plan to provide us an update at the three months or the six month mark and I appreciate what you're doing to the city, but your plans to come back to Council will also be appreciated. McDannel: Madam Mayor, Councilman Cavener, thank you for the question. Yes, there will be a period between now and, as Steve mentioned, the end of March where it will be an education process and I -- just as an example, my aunt is a die-hard recycler and I told her a few weeks ago, please, hold off on your plastics. It's actually contamination for everything else that's good for recycling at the moment and she -- she can't let plastics go, so she -- she continues to recycle that. My point is during those first 90 days, three months, we will be continuing to outreach with communities and educating them on, please, just threated neck bottles, hard container bottles, ones and twos. At this moment that's -- that's the best route for recycling. As Steve mentioned, mixed paper is at risk and that's due to too many low quality plastics in the stream. So, it's creating contamination for mixed waste paper and so the education will be if we -- if we could get rid -- or not -- if we can get the material that's not wanted in the recycle stream we will be able to save the rest of the recycling and that's -- I think that's the point we really want to drive home. And so the first three months it will be an education process, because we have been recycling plastics for so long now that muscle memory hits. It's going to take some time. Cavener: Madam Mayor, follow up if I may. De Weerd: Uh-huh. Cavener: Konrad, I guess, then, to that point, does Republic have a benchmark or a goal, a hope that after 30 days that you're going to reduce the amount of plastics by X amount percent and by 60 days X extent? Can you share with us that and kind of where you're hoping you would -- where that finish would at least be after 90 days? McDannel: Mayor, Councilman Cavener, thank you. I have not heard of a target goal other than we need to get the plastics three through seven and the nonthreaded plastics out of there as soon as possible and the less we have in the stream the better we will Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 9 of 28 be. I have not heard of a -- of a goal line. Steve, has SWAC discussed that or Ada county? Cory: Councilman Cavener, thank you for that input on this. No, I have not heard anyone present it, but I think it's a very good idea that we need to have regular statuses of how things are cleaning up and I'm more than happy to deliver that information to the council as we get it. Cavener: Great. Thank you. De Weerd: Okay. Anything further? Cavener: Merry Christmas. Milam: Thank you. Yeah. De Weerd: That's what Konrad said coming in. This is probably not the best subject right before Christmas, but, you know, I guess what SWAC and Republic Services find themselves looking at is either we change our recycling habits or whatever we put in the bins gets put in the landfill, so -- and if we are going to recycle we want to recycle correctly. So, we appreciate the information and coming back with a marketing plan and best how to help our citizens know that a change is underway and to be good stewards how we can continue to make sure what we throw in our recycling bins actually gets recycled. Thank you. McDannel: Thank you. Cory: Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you, Council. And we will keep you informed. De Weerd: Okay. Thank you. Bird: Thank you, Steve, for all your work. B. Meridian Mural Update 1. Budget Amendment not-to-exceed $16,000; 2. Master Agreement for Professional Services with Sector Seventeen LLC: Mural Design, Installation, and Maintenance; 3. Task Order for Mural Design: 611 N. Main Street for an amount not to exceed $3,000 De Weerd: Okay. Item 8-B is under our Meridian Arts Commission and here is Hillary to talk about the mural update. We are excited to see what it looks like. Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 10 of 28 Bodnar: Yeah. I'm not showing you what it looks like today. De Weerd: Oh. Bodnar: There is still one more step. I'm sorry. De Weerd: But it's Christmas. Bodnar: It's Christmas. That would be such a nice present for everyone. We are not quite there yet. So, before we can get a design we need to really get that master agreement in place and, then, a task order in place for that. I neglected at the last time that I was before you to also have a formal budget amendment for that contribution from MDC, so I am before you today to ask for that funding allocation, so that we have spending authority for those 16,000 dollars that MDC has agreed to contribute for the mural. Pending your approval of that budget amendment I just wanted to share with you that process that we are going to go through for contracting with the artist, which is extending them the master agreement and, then, underneath that master agreement extending them task orders as those tasks are completed and as they are meeting the needs of all the stakeholders involved, that being the city, the Zamzows, and MDC. Keeping it short for you guys. Milam: Council, questions? Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: Thanks for keeping it short, Hillary. But we still wanted the pictures. I know. Have we not approved the budget amendment? Bodnar: You approved the agreement. Milam: The agreement. Bodnar: But I needed to have a formal budget amendment and request. Milam: Is that the only thing that you need today is a budget amendment approval? Bodnar: Well -- and the approval for us to release those -- those agreements. You will see the agreements again once they are signed by the artist, but I just wanted to let you know that process that we are going through. So, if you're not happy with it you could tell me no. De Weerd: Okay. Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 11 of 28 Palmer: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Palmer. Palmer: Hillary, nothing against you or the mural, but just like the federal government's got debt, so I have a hard time voting for CDBG stuff, MDC's got debt. They are spending money on art. They need to be paying off their debt before they go spending money on things like this. De Weerd: Any questions for Hillary? Okay. Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Maybe not a question for Hillary, maybe for our two MDC board members. How much debt does MDC currently have; do you know? De Weerd: We did get an update. Just off the top of my head just cannot recall, but art has been part of their plan and they do dedicate a small amount to that and in honoring that plan. Bird: I'm like Tammy, Luke, I don't -- I can't remember what the -- what the debt is, but I will tell you that we stayed under budget. We -- we -- the debt was in -- taken out when we want -- and which we hope will start driving downtown revitalization, so -- but I can't tell you right off my head whether it's a dollar or whether it's a million dollars or ten million dollars or what, but I guarantee you it isn't that, so -- De Weerd: I think when the board gets a COMPASS VRT building that was built into their budget through the -- the term of the loan, so -- and they are on schedule. I just don't know what the outstanding balance is. Bird: And we did do our budget -- we did the Pine -- Locust Grove to Main Street on Pine and we come in with, what, 35,000 savings from what our budget was. So, we are -- and, in fact, Luke, we just got our audit and Kevin said it was one of the finest audits that they do and they do do the city's, too. Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Question for you, Hillary. How pressing is getting this budget amendment approved this evening versus giving counsel an opportunity to at least tear what the current debt is for MDC? Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 12 of 28 Bodnar: I think that's really up to the -- the Council. We would like -- the sooner that the budget amendment is approved the sooner that we can move forward with the project. That being said, the installation for the project can't take place in December and January, so it would likely be spring. But at the November meeting that I was here you did accept that agreement with MDC for their contribution. So, this is just the spending authority for that allocation. Cavener: Madam Mayor, just -- just a comment, then. Obviously, I wasn't aware that -- if this a new debt or different debt. It sounds like that at least for me there is still some questions that are up in the air about it and see -- I don't want to get in the way of Council moving things forward, but I would feel more comfortable at least knowing what that number was before I would be on board with being supportive of -- I am -- Madam Mayor, Council Member Milam, me this is new information that I wasn't pretty to and that's what caused my -- at least change. I'm not opposed to it by any means. I just would like to have that question answered before I would be comfortable being supportive of a vote. De Weerd: Well, Mr. Cavener, it's -- it's nothing new, since you served on MDC. It's the same loan that they had at that time. So, it is not new. This is the only debt that they have had, if that helps. Cavener: Madam Mayor, that is helpful. Thank you. De Weerd: Okay. Any -- anything further from Council? Milam: Madam Mayor? Bird: Have a motion. De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: I move that we approve the budget amendment for spending authority not to exceed 16,000 dollars for the mural. Little Roberts: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Mr. Clerk, will you call roll. Roll call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, nay; Palme r, nay; Little Roberts, yea. De Weerd: Okay. The ayes have it. MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO NAYS. De Weerd: Thank you, Hillary. Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 13 of 28 Milam: Madam Mayor, was there something else you needed included in that or is that -- Bodnar: No. Just as long as you guys are comfortable with us pursuing the master agreement and task order as we have lined out. And those will come back to you for your approval. Milam: Thank you, Hillary. Bodnar: Thank you. Item 9: Action Items A. Appointment of Cameron Arial as Community Development Director De Weerd: Under Action Items, Item No. 9, Item A is the appointment of Cameron Ariel as the Community Development director. Council, we have a summary of the interview process and the number of applicants that we had, what they were narrowed down to after the first set of screening, which was a telephone interview, and those names that moved forward into the official interview process, which had a community presentation, two panels, one employee and public based and the other one private and the partners and, then, we moved into the second phase of interviews, moving three candidates forward and had a second day of interviews starting with a discussion with the Community Development director -- or department and followed up with interviews and one-on-ones with the direct reports of the planning and the building side, as well as myself and, then, a one-on-one with me last week. I did -- you got a memo form and the name that you have in front of you, Cameron, has a very deep resume in terms of how he can bring talents and his educational experience to the department to the benefit of the city and his most recent role as the development director at Athlos Academies where he spent the last two years going through land acquisition, development and through entitlement processes in other states and cities, as well as our neighboring city, bringing the experiences that he had in that realm, as well as in his academics with his planning background and his breadth of knowledge in the public sector. So, I'm honored to bring Cameron Aerial as my appointment as the Community Development director and would stand for any questions. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: Not a question, but I would also like to state in 20 years and a whole bunch of department heads, this is the first time the City Council has had a chance to interview a candidate. I believe you took it way above and beyond the duties. Thank you. Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 14 of 28 De Weerd: Thank you, Mr. Bird. Any questions or comments? If not, I would entertain a motion. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. I would move for the appointment of Cameron Ariel as Community Development director. Milam: Second. Little Roberts: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the appointment of Cameron Ariel as the Community Development director. Is there any discussion? Mr. Clerk, will you call roll. Roll call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea; Little Roberts, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. De Weerd: Thank you, Council and I know you have already heard from Mr. Ariel and you will be certainly hearing from him again. I know he's anxious to sit down, get your -- your perspective, your vision and any ideas -- as he works with his team to move forward. So, his starting date is January 16th and we look forward to having them on board and I see Mr. Jorgenson sitting in the audience. Thank you for your participation on our panel. B. Final Plat for Castlecreek Subdivision (H-2017-0150) by Northwest Ventures, LLC located at 2432 E. Amity Rd De Weerd: So, with that I will move to the next item, Item 9-B, the final plat for Castlecreek Subdivision. The applicant requests to continue to January 23rd. This -- Caleb, is there a reason that was stated for this request? Hood: Yeah. Madam Mayor, the applicant ran into a PI water source issue and so they are trying to figure that out and hoping that it doesn't affect the layout of their plat, but they did run into a source water issue for their pressurized irrigation system. So, that's the reason. De Weerd: Thank you. Council, I would entertain a motion. Milam: Madam Mayor? Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 15 of 28 De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: I move that we continue H-2017-0150 to January 23rd, 2018. Bird: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to continue H-2017-0150 to January 23rd, 2018. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. C. Public Hearing for Community Development Block Grant Program Year 2016 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER) 1. Resolution No. 17-2053: A resolution approving submission and adoption of the Community Development Block Grant Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report for Program Year 2016 to United States Department of Housing and Urban Development; Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute and attest the same on behalf of the City of Meridian; and providing an effective date. De Weerd: Item 9-C is a public hearing for our Community Development Block Grant program and I will turn this over to Chris. Pope: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, I thought we could get this a little more exciting for our crowd here today by revisiting our discussion from last week on slum and blight if you all are okay with that. No? No? Okay. We won't go that way. We will -- we will do the much less exciting thing today and we will review what we talked about a couple weeks ago with the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report for this last program year in 2016. Just to remind everybody what this is, in case there is anybody here who wants to give up and comment today, this -- this CAPER is what we call it is, essentially, an evaluation of the performance of -- of the Community Development -- Community Development Block Grant or CDBG program here at the city over the last year in relation to the strategic plan, the consolidated plan that was put into place back in 2012. This also is, essentially, here to account for the use of financial funds and other resources, including time, a review of the programs, procedures and processes, examination of timelines and the effectiveness of the programs to look at the decisions that were made in the program over the year and, then, any accomplishments or goals that were met or not met during this last program year and, again, just to give you a reference between October 1st of 2016 to -- or September 30th of this year is what we are talking about. So, anything that's happened since September 30th is not up for discussion. There -- there is a lot that has happened and that we have talked about and we will discuss that moving forward, but that's not part of this particular report. Just to give a brief review of the financial accounting, there is a comma in the Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 16 of 28 wrong place. That should say $369,250.60 of CDBG funds have been expended throughout this last program year, focused on public services, public facilities and other projects to some of the usual suspects, like the Median Food Bank, the Boys and Girls Club, but also to new subrecipients, like Jesse Tree for their homelessness prevention program, to MDC focusing on sidewalks through the city, working with contractors to -- to work on developing new streetlights in certain areas where there are none, as well as providing ADA accessibility upgrades to the Storey Park restroom and expanding some facilities at the elementary school and, then, obviously, there are a couple of plans in the consolidated plan and the slum and blight plan that were completed this year in addition to program administration expenses, the creation and distribution of the senior resource guide through the Mayor's office and, then, also the Ada County Housing Authority Neighborhood Works Boise home buyer's assistance programs, which were both funded this year. And, again, this is just an accounting for the amount of money that was spent during this program year and not what has been accounted or what has been allotted during the program year. Just a quick review of the accomplishments. Over 81 percent of the funds went directly to LMI residents of the community, serving over 80,000 of -- 80,000 people, both in Meridian and throughout the county, helping five new families being able to -- with affordable housing, allowing 22 families and children to have access to the Boys and Girls Club's programs. Preventing homelessness for another five families. Providing information and resources for over 900 seniors. Food access for over 7,000 people over the span of just one quarter of this year. Three new plans that will hopefully increase the effectiveness and the efficiency of the program and how we utilize these funds moving forward and the development and completion of at least one new public facility over this time, with many more to come. And how that relates to our consolidated goals or our strategic goals for the last five years, we more than doubled every goal that we set with the funds that we utilized, which I think is -- is good in terms of our accounting to the federal government for using these funds in a way that really makes a difference. In addition, just to highlight some other activities that are going to this report that the CDBG program is involved in the Ada county continuum of care, the housing and homelessness roundtables, the Idaho fair housing forum and other local, regional and state groups and activities that focus on trying to understand, identify, and meet some of the needs that Meridian residents are facing, particularly around the issues of housing, homelessness, affordable housing and any -- any services or help that is -- or issues that face particularly the LMI group. For those who don't know, LMI, just to make sure that I'm clear here, is low and moderate income residents of the community. So, with that I would invite Madam Mayor and the Council to open the public hearing to consider any comments. I would say before so, just a reminder, that this is a report that is a reflection on what has been accomplished. It does not propose anything moving into the future. It is not planning or offering any suggestions about the effectiveness of the program moving into future program years. Just what happened and what we accomplished. But I would offer -- I would invite you to open the hearing at this time. De Weerd: Thank you, Chris. Council, any questions? Milam: Madam Mayor? Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 17 of 28 De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: On the slide that had all those boxes with the numbers on it, were those -- are these the Meridian numbers? Are these Ada county numbers? What were these? Because -- Pope: So, all of the numbers, except for the 85,000, is a Meridian number. Milam: Okay. Pope: Eighty-five thousand is a pretty complex conversation in terms of how it's counted in the system that the federal government runs. There can be crossover or, for example, if -- if there is one family who goes to the food bank multiple times over the span of the program year they are accounted each time that they visit. In addition, the food bank does a lot of services, particularly with residents outside of Meridian. They don't turn anybody away. It's part of their mission. Those numbers also come into this conversation in terms of what is reported in that 85,000 number. All of the other ones are specifically from Meridian residents. Milam: So, you 7,000 in a different box? Pope: Yes. So, 7,000 in a different box. In terms of -- we have -- this number -- we are getting into -- I get really excited about this. So, I will try not to get too deep into this, but the 7,000 number is looking specifically at Meridian residents who are LMI who received funding during the three months in which the Meridian Food Bank was utilizing our funds. Because Meridian Food Bank, they are really efficient, they are really good at utilizing the money, they generally have one quarter of work and, then, they don't report on anything else. That's 7,000 in Meridian residents during that period of time. But the organization also has to offer up numbers in terms of their annual reports, how many people did this organization help. HUD wants to see where the money went specifically, but also what do HUD-funded organizations through CDBG also do to help the community and that's where you see this 85 number start to look at more of the annual group of people and also the recidivism of individuals who keep -- or who receive services on multiple occasions. So, that's kind of the variance there. Milam: Okay. Pope: Does that answer your question, Council Member Milam? Milam: Thank you. Pope: Okay. De Weerd: On the Mayor's Senior Advisory Board, the resource guide, are those numbers in there? Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 18 of 28 Pope: So, the way that this is counted -- again, this is the federal government system that we are working with. We produced -- I think if I remember correctly -- 950 reports. Those were all intended to be -- as far as I understood from the Mayor's office, they were all handed out to particular stakeholders throughout the community at different locations they were made available. With this information being made available, we were able to count every single resource guide going -- assuming that it would all go to one person, one resource guide per person, those numbers come into here. If that makes sense. So, if there is 900 -- De Weerd: Yes. I wondered about that. And, certainly, the locations that those went out to -- I know our senior board members, they did distribute it to LMI eligible facilities, but they also have access to it online and so you don't count any of those touches. Pope: And that's where it gets more difficult. I can -- or Madam Mayor, Members of Council, I can reach out to IT to see if we can get some more information on specific paging. De Weerd: I just wondered how you were tracking it. Pope: Yeah. And I haven't even considered that. So, thank you for bringing that up. That's something we can definitely look at in terms of our reporting and accounting. De Weerd: And I do know we give it to our places of worship and they have been very appreciative, because while they like the senior blue book, this does make it specific to Meridian and they use it for their congregates. So, thank you. Pope: Yeah. Madam Mayor -- and I would just like to add that -- and I think this extends beyond these numbers, that we have 900 resource guides that we hope it gets beyond 900 seniors who find this information and these resources. It becomes much more difficult to count and, then, report, but at the very minimum we are happy to help 900 folks as much as we can with this information and that extends to some of our other services and programs as well through this program. De Weerd: Thank you. Any further questions from Council? Okay. Thank you, Chris. So, this is a public hearing. Is there anyone who wishes to testify on this item? Yes, Ralph. If you will, please, state your name and address for the record. Chappell: Ralph Chappell. 1899 South Swan in Meridian. De Weerd: I knew you knew the routine. Chappell: You bet. I definitely against it, as you know, and since we have a bunch of young kids in here, we will let them know that this money they are talking about, 369,000 dollars plus, it's not free. It's coming from the federal government. So, who is Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 19 of 28 going to pay this money back? You guys are. You and your kids are going to pay all that money back over your time, all the time you -- De Weerd: You need to speak into the microphone. Chappell: All the time you're going to work you're going to be paying for this bill. It's not something that we really need. You just raised taxes three percent here in the city. If you can't go building sidewalks or what have you with the money you do have, but you're going to go to the federal government who is 20 trillion dollars in debt plus, take that money and come in here -- no. So far as I know this is one of the programs that President Trump is going to eliminate and the sooner the better. And that's all I have to -- they need to know that they are going to pay for it. I will be gone. De Weerd: Thank you, Ralph. Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Ralph, would you be open to a question? Chappell: I sure am. Cavener: The items that we are going to be paying for with CDBG funds, would you be supportive of the city using property tax dollars for those same programs? Chappell: If we need them, yes. Cavener: Thank you. De Weerd: Is there anyone else who would like to offer testimony? Okay. Seeing none, Council, we do have an open public hearing. If you have nothing further for Chris or any of our public that are here, I would entertain a motion to close the public hearing. Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: I move we close the public hearing on the 2016 CAPER. Palmer: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearing. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 20 of 28 Pope: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, I would like to add to Ralph's comments that after today the federal budget is now up another 1.5 trillion over the next ten years. I just want to make that point and in addition to what Ralph said. Totally irrelevant. But in general I'd like to move -- or invite you all to consider the action item to approve and adopt resolution 17-2053. That gives me the authority to send this report to the federal government. Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: Unless there is any comments, I would move that we approve resolution 17- 2053. Palmer: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 9-C. Any discussion from Council? Palmer: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Palmer. Palmer: Just so that Ralph doesn't smack me, the resolution is to approve the report of what was done. We are not approving expenditure of any funds. So, I'm all for reporting. Pope: It's mostly about giving me the authority to actually send this in the mail, more than anything. De Weerd: Thank you. Thank you, Santa Claus. Mr. Clark, will you call roll. Roll call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea; Little Roberts, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 10: Ordinances A. Ordinance No. 17-1755A: An Amended Ordinance (H-2017-0114 Aegean, Subdivision) For Annexation Of A Portion Of The NW ¼ Of Section 33, Township 4 North, Range 1 West, Boise Meridian, Ada County, Idaho, As Described In Attachment “A” Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 21 of 28 And Annexing Certain Lands And Territory, 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 65.29 Acres Of Land From Rut To R-4 (Medium Low Density Residential District)(25.79 Acres) And R- 8 (Medium Density Residential District)(36.50 Acres) In The Meridian City Code; Providing That Copies Of This Ordinance Shall Be Filed With The Ada County Assessor, The Ada County Recorder, And The Idaho State Tax Commission, As Required By Law; And Providing For A Summary Of The Ordinance; And Providing For A Waiver Of The Reading Rules; And Providing An Effective Date. De Weerd: Thank you, Chris. Item 10-A Ordinance 17-1755A. Mr. Clerk, will you, please, read this by title. Coles: Thank you, Madam Mayor. City of Meridian Ordinance No. 17-1755A, an amended Ordinance, file H-2017-0114, Aegean Subdivision for annexation of a portion of the NW ¼ of Section 33, Township 4 North, Range 1 West, Boise meridian, Ada County, Idaho, as described in Attachment “A” and annexing certain lands and territory, 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 65.29 acres of land from RUT to R-4 (Medium Low Density Residential District)(25.79 Acres) and R- 8 (Medium Density Residential District)(36.50 Acres) in the Meridian City Code; providing that copies of this Ordinance shall be filed with the Ada County Assessor, the Ada County Recorder, and the Idaho State Tax Commission, as required by law; and providing for a summary of the ordinance; and providing for a waiver of the reading rules; and providing an effective date. De Weerd: You have heard this ordinance read by title. Is there anyone who would like to hear it read in its entirety? The entire one is even more exciting than the title. Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: Seeing none, I move that we approve Ordinance No. 17-1755A with suspension of rules. Cavener: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve ordinance under 10-A. If there is no discussion, Mr. Clerk, will you call roll. Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 22 of 28 Roll call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea; Little Roberts, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. B. Ordinance No. 17-1758: An Ordinance Of The City Of Meridian In Ada County, Idaho, Amending Meridian City Code Section 5- 4-10, Regarding Public Fireworks Display; Adopting A Savings Clause; And Providing An Effective Date. De Weerd: Ordinance 10-B is Ordinance 17-1758. Mr. Clerk, will you, please, read this by title. Coles: Thank you, Madam Mayor. City of Meridian Ordinance No. 17-1758, and ordinance of the City of Meridian in Ada County, Idaho, amending Meridian City Code Section 5-4-10, regarding Public Fireworks Display; adopting a savings clause; and providing and effective date. De Weerd: Thank you, Mr. Clerk. And I think Mr. Bird might need some more pins. You have heard this read by title. If there is no questions, Council? Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. De Weerd: I move that we approve Ordinance No. 17-1758 with suspension of rules. Little Roberts: Second. Cavener: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 10-B. Mr. Clerk. Roll call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea; Little Roberts, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. C. Ordinance No. 17-1759: An Ordinance Of The City Of Meridian In Ada County, Idaho, Repealing And Replacing Title 4, Chapter 2, Meridian City Code, Regarding Nuisances, Specifically: Definitions; Responsible Party; Procedures And Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 23 of 28 Penalties For Abatable Nuisances; Procedures And Penalties For General Nuisances; Hindering Authorized Person; Adopting A Savings Clause; And Providing An Effective Date. De Weerd: Item 10-C is Ordinance 17-1759. Mr. Clerk. Coles: Thank you, Madam Mayor. City of Meridian Ordinance No. 17-1759, an ordinance of the City of Meridian in Ada county, Idaho, repealing and replacing Title 4, Chapter 2, Meridian City Code, regarding nuisances, specifically: definitions; responsible party; procedures and penalties for abatable nuisances; procedures and penalties for general nuisances; hindering authorized person; adopting a savings clause; and providing an effective date. De Weerd: You have heard this read by title. Seeing no one in the audience who would like to hear it read further, Council. Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: I move that we approve Ordinance No. 17-1759 with suspension of rules. Cavener: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 10-C. Mr. Clerk, will you call roll. Roll call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea; Little Roberts, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. D. Ordinance No. 17-1760: An Ordinance (AZ 15-012 Village Apartments) For Annexation And Rezone Of A Parcel Of Land Located In The SW ¼ Of The NW ¼ Of Section 4, Township 3 North, Range 1 East, Boise Meridian, Ada County, Idaho, As Described In Attachment “A” And Annexing Certain Lands And Territory, 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 C-G (General Retail And Service Commercial District) In The Meridian City Code; Providing That Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 24 of 28 Copies Of This Ordinance Shall Be Filed With The Ada County Assessor, The Ada County Recorder, And The Idaho State Tax Commission, As Required By Law; And Providing For A Summary Of The Ordinance; And Providing For A Waiver Of The Reading Rules; And Providing An Effective Date. De Weerd: Item 10-D is Ordinance 17-1760. Mr. Clerk. Coles: Thank you, Madam Mayor. City of Meridian Ordinance No. 17-1760, an ordinance file AZ 15-012, Village Apartments, for annexation and rezone of a parcel of land located in the SW ¼ of the NW ¼ of Section 4, Township 3 North, Range 1 East, Boise meridian, Ada county, Idaho, as described in Attachment “A” and annexing certain lands and territory, 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 C-G (General Retail and Service Commercial District) in the Meridian City Code; providing that copies of this ordinance shall be filed with the Ada County Assessor, the Ada County Recorder, and the Idaho State Tax Commission, as required by law; and providing for a summary of the ordinance; and providing for a waiver of the reading rules; and providing an effective date. De Weerd: Thank you. You have heard this read by title. Council, do I have a motion? Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: I move that we approve Ordinance No. 17-1760 with suspension of rules. Little Roberts: Second. De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve 10-D. Mr. Clerk. Roll call: Bird, yea; Borton, yea; Milam, yea; Cavener, yea; Palmer, yea; Little Roberts, yea. De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. De Weerd: Council, I do see the appointment we confirmed earlier, Cameron Arial. Cameron, would you like to say anything? Not to put you on the spot, but, yes, to put you on the spot. Arial: Put me on the spot. Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, it's -- it is, indeed, a pleasure to be with you. Apologize. I'm just rolling into town from Lewiston where I had Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 25 of 28 a bond closing up there. But glad to be here in one piece. But I just wanted to say thank you. I just learned you have already voted, so I just wanted to say thank you for that vote of confidence and just express my appreciation for the process. I think to all involved, Crystal, Madam Mayor, others that worked hard to put all of those things together and I thoroughly enjoyed that. I think it will make me a better director by going through that process and I just look forward to rolling up my sleeves and partnering with all of you to move the city forward in a positive way. So, thank you very much. De Weerd: Thank you, Cameron. Congratulations. Item 11: Future Meeting Topics De Weerd: Council, under our Future Meeting Topics, we did open bids today for our south Meridian park. This will be put on our January 9th workshop and we will bring back the results and any add alternative that we might be able to include in the project. So, I do know Council asked for a couple of moments to make remarks and so open it up -- this is open mic. End of the year. Bird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I just want to thank all you guys for serving with me. Doing a great job. Tammy, 18 years, it went fast and now your back won't probably hurt as much, because you won't be having to carry me. De Weerd: Or vice-versa. Bird: I -- I can't say enough about you, young lady. This community -- and I'm repeating myself. This community is so blessed to have had you and Jan decide to make it your home and, then, for you to get involved, because you have done way, way more for this community than people ever will know and I thank you from the bottom of my heart. De Weerd: Well, Mr. Bird, I had a great role model and mentor and certainly while we might not have always seen eye to eye and sometimes I didn't even like you, but I have always loved you. Bird: If looks could kill I would have been dead. De Weerd: But it's been an honor to serve and I think you have left a huge legacy, not just in what you have done in the city by advocating for business parks, like El Dorado and Silverstone or transportation projects, like the Locust Grove overpass, that goes a little ways back, or Ten Mile and Meridian interchange. Your heart for downtown and your advocacy for parks, but more -- more so is for your advocacy for use. I think that there is not very many kids who have not enjoyed athletic programs in this community Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 26 of 28 that don't understand that they are enjoying that because of the groundwork that you laid and like Mr. Borton said in his comments, my kids, too, have been recipients of your generosity and your support of our youth and I owe you a great deal of gratitude for all that you have done. Bird: Thank you. De Weerd: So, thank you so much. Little Roberts: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Little Roberts. When Councilman Borton suggested that we all say a few words, I think we have all been so blessed that -- I keep thinking there is not much left to say that has been covered, but I learned tonight the legacy that he leaves, even deeper than I realized it went, and we are just so blessed that our kids and grandkids will be blessed by the legacy that Councilman Bird has left Meridian and I have been very blessed personally. He's always been right there -- sometimes with a -- sometimes with a kind word, but has been just -- just really a great role model and a wealth of knowledge that this Council is definitely going to miss and just from the bottom of my heart thank you. De Weerd: Thank you. Bird: Thank you, Anne. Appreciate it. Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: Appreciated the opportunity to -- to thank you, Councilman Bird, on the public record. You are a mentor to me. I could probably summarize it best the way you taught how to lead and you have shared the sentiment with me, nobody is better than you and you're better than nobody. Appreciate that. Always will. Bird: Thank you very much, Joe. Palmer: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Palmer. Palmer: Madam Mayor. Councilman Bird, the thing that always stood out to me the most about you is your -- you epitomize Meridian's family values by -- you demonstrate it by our sincere concern for others and their families. It's easy to exchange pleasantries, hey, how are you, how is your family, but there is nobody who has asked me that, but, then, has gone through and asked how each of my children were by their names and confirming their ages. Didn't even have to ask how old he now. It's, okay, Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 27 of 28 now Reagan's two; right? Or four now or -- whatever. I don't even remember how old he is. And I have always really appreciated that and have looked for opportunities to drop by Council early to study from here, because I knew how often you were going to be here and the things I would be able to learn from you while you were here. So, appreciate it. Bird: Thank you, Ty, very much. You young bucks have got to be the leaders. Milam: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mrs. Milam. Milam: All right, Keith, I wrote you a poem. I don't know if I’m going to be able to read this. And I'm not a poet, okay, so -- but I wanted to say something to you that -- so, anyway, it's called: Thank you. An ode to Councilman Keith Bird. Thank you for creating sports leagues for our children to play. Thank you for bringing more parks for our families to enjoy. Thank you for guiding the growth of our city for the benefit of all. Thank you for your selfless dedication to our community. Thank you for believing in me and your constant encouragement. Thank you for 20 years of continual service on the Council. Thank you for always caring and asking about me and my family. Thank you for helping me grow to be a better Council Member. Thank you, Keith Bird, for being godfather to Meridian. Cavener: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Cavener. Cavener: It's very rare that I can't find words and it's fitting that when we decided we were going to do this, I have been struggling -- Marge wants to know when's dinner. I will be quick. Bird: Go ahead. Borton: Okay. No. That was perfect. Like the rest of Council, the word thanks, Keith, just don't seem to do your service justice. I'm thankful, though, for the impact you have made on my family, myself included. 1985 when I played Optimist baseball for the Optimists. All the other teams would be Yankees, the Giants, but we were the Optimists. Big chicken. Ugly jersey. And what I love is the legacy and that gutter plate and baby and -- and Lincoln. I can't even imagine the sports that are going to resonate from that seed that you planted and had me thinking of, you know -- I will be real honest, I'm very lucky that I got to work with Keith in a number of different capacities and when I started here at the city as an employee -- and I'm glad I'm putting this on the record -- Keith Bird intimidated the hell out of me. I wish I could say that's changed, but Keith Bird still intimidates the hell out of me. But what I noticed as an employee is that having Keith Bird on the council meant there was always an advocate for employees. Always wanted to make sure the employees felt like they were taken care of. If they Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 28 of 28 had a concern, if they had a question, or they wanted to find out how to be more involved in our community, Keith was always there for them and as an employee I always valued that. I noticed that Keith Bird is this giant, great oak tree of our community and what I didn't notice at the time, but I notice now today is that as that oak tree has grown it has bared fruit and that fruit has fallen and been planted in the ground and when you look at Meridian there are new trees that are growing, they are all as a result of this giant mighty oak that we have had in our community and that's fruit for our families, it's is fruit for our employment sector, it's fruit for Council, it's fruit for Meridian. The biggest thing that I want to thank Keith for -- it's not for the wisdom, for the guidance, for slapping me upside the head or for intimidating me or holding me accountable, those are -- all those things that Keith did really, really well, but Keith planted -- my favorite seed that Keith planted that I will hold dear is that no matter how big Meridian gets, we will never be a city, we will always be a community and is there is anybody that was a beacon that we always have and always will be as a community. So, on behalf of a community that has benefited in more ways than we can ever count and even though the words do not do it justice, thank you, Keith Bird, for all you have done for our community. Bird: Thank you very much. Thank all of you very, very much for the kind words. As I have said before, I have received a lot more from this community and you guys demonstrate that. I know the city is in great hands. We are going -- we are going to go forward probably be better. Treg will get on here and do a great job. Joe's leadership. Tammy's. It's -- and you guys all work hard. I just appreciate it. I -- words -- as you said, Luke, words can't describe the feelings I have had over the last year since a young lady told me that they were naming a park in my honor, I just -- it's unreal. De Weerd: Well, Keith, you will live on in our Council meetings. Your words will ring in our heads and I wanted to throw my pen -- I know. And with that I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Bird: So moved. Milam: Second. De Weerd: All those in favor say aye. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:10 P.M. (AUDIO RECORDING ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS) _______________________________ ______/______/______ MAYOR TAMMY DE WEERD DATE APPROVED Meridian City Council December 19, 2017 Page 29 of 29 De Weerd: All those in favor say aye. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:10 P.M. 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