HomeMy WebLinkAbout2020-05-19 Work Session Meridian City Council Work Session May 19, 2020.
A Meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 4:31 p.m., Tuesday, May
19, 2020, by Mayor Robert Simison.
Members Present: Robert Simison, Joe Borton, Luke Cavener, Treg Bernt, Jessica
Perreault, Brad Hoaglun and Liz Strader.
Also present: Chris Johnson, Adrienne Weatherly, Bill Nary, Steven Siddoway, Keith
Watts, Dennis Teller and Joe Bongiorno.
Item 1: Join the Meeting at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89365592278
or by calling 253-215-8782, Webinar ID 893 6559 2278
Item 2: Roll-call Attendance:
Liz Strader X Joe Borton
_X_ Brad Hoaglun Treg Bernt
X Jessica Perreault _X Luke Cavener (4:55 pm arrival)
_X_ Mayor Robert E. Simison
Simison: Okay. Well, with that I will call this meeting to order. For the record, it is
Tuesday, May 19th, 2020, at 4:31 p.m. I will begin this meeting with roll call attendance.
Item 3: Adoption of Agenda
Simison: Item 3 is adoption of the agenda.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: I move that we adopt the agenda as published.
Borton: Second.
Simison: I have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda as published. Is there any
discussion on the motion? If not, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed nay.
The ayes have it. The agenda is adopted.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Item 4: Consent Agenda [ Action Item]
A. Hensley Station No. 1 Sanitary Sewer and Water Main
Easement No. 1
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B. Lost Rapids Subdivision Sanitary Sewer and Water
Main Easement No. 3
C. Lost Rapids Subdivision Water Main Easement No. 1
D. Prevail Subdivision No. 1 Water Main Easement No. 3
E. Memorandum of Understanding Between the City of Meridian
and IAFF Local 4627 (Union) Regarding Article 15 of the Current
Collective Agreement - Promotions to Provide for Waivers of
Time In Grade and Probationary Status for Firefighter II
Promotions
F. Third Addendum to Development Agreement for Hill's Century
Farm North (H-2018-0134) with Martin L. Hill, Hill & Hill
Properties, L.P. (Owner/Developer), Located at the Southeast
Corner of S. Eagle Rd. and E. Amity Rd.
G. Resolution No. 20-2211: A Resolution Vacating 5 feet of an
Existing 10-foot Wide Public Utility, Drainage, and Irrigation
PUDI) Easement Located Along the South Property Line of Lot
7, Block 3 of the Tuthill Estates Subdivision No. 1 in the City of
Meridian,Ada County, State of Idaho; and Providing an Effective
Date
H. AP Invoices for Payment - 05/14/20 - $2,830,681.03
Simison: Item No. 4 is the Consent Agenda.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: I move approval of the Consent Agenda and for the Mayor to sign and Clerk to
attest.
Borton: Second.
Simison: I have a motion and a second to approve the Consent Agenda. Is there any
discussion on the motion? If not, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed nay.
The ayes have it.
MOTION CARRIED: FOUR AYES. TWO ABSENT.
Item 5: Items Moved From the Consent Agenda [Action Item]
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Simison: There were no items removed from the Consent Agenda.
Item 6: Community Items / Presentations
A. Meridian Senior Advisory Board Participatory Budget
Discussion
Simison: So, we will go into Item 6, Community Items/Presentations. And, Council, I'm
pleased to introduce Mr. Jim Lucker, who is a member of the Mayor's Senior Advisory
Board, and he is here to discuss their participatory budget item that they have been
working to see if it's something that we would like to proceed with for the remainder of the
year. So, Jim, if you would like to go ahead. We appreciate you being here to provide an
update.
Lucker: Thank you, Mayor Simison. Mayor Simison, Council President Bernt, Council
Members, Borton, Cavener, Hoaglun, Perreault and Strader, my name is Jim Lucker. I'm
the co-chair of the Mayor's Senior Advisory Board. I will reference the Mayor's Senior
Advisory Board in the future as MSAB. I would like to thank you for the opportunity to
present MSAB's 2020 participatory budget process project. In the future I will reference
that is PBR. This is the second PBR MSAB has brought to the Council for approval. The
first, of course, was the floating dock located slightly north of this proposed project. I will
not go into the complete process we followed to get to this point. What I will do, however,
is to thank specific people that helped bring this project to fruition. The members of
MSAB, Michele Anderson, MSAB Co-chair Steve Joyal, Carolyn Sinnard and Julie Vogel,
who worked tirelessly to obtain input from the community and help to finalize what the
end project would look like. Tim Hendrickson, Mayor Simison's liaison to MSAB, who put
the PowerPoint presentation together. Mike Barton, Superintendent of Parks, for carrying
the load to get final bids on equipment and for obtaining free -- yes, free concrete to
support the project, thereby allowing us to purchase more equipment and still be on
budget. The concrete, as you know, was generously donated by ESI. As many thought
of my introduction, it is a suggestion of the MSAB to brand Kleiner Park in Meridian as
the premier senior family-oriented and ADA accessible park in the Treasure Valley. This
proposed project is the second brick in building this concept. The proposal was to create
workout equipment for the community while also allowing for seniors with wheelchair
needs, staying at or under the 20,000 dollar allocated budget within the participatory
budget program and to install equipment in Kleiner Park. Next slide. When you look at
the slide before me, the dock is located to the north of this location. To determine north,
if you look at the black line going from the layout of the -- of the equipment that is pretty
much due north. So, it's actually located right on the perimeter of the -- of the -- of the
pond right off where the proposed location is. Next slide. As you can see there is a
variety of machines to target various muscle groups. The -- the company that make --
manufactures the equipment manufactures and sells these all over the United States.
One of our concerns was that when you see the picture as laid out here where it's in a
grassy area and the sun's out and it's nice and summery looking, they also sell these into
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan and we have received photographs of actual locations
where the -- where the -- the equipment is covered with snow and, then, in the spring
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works again. So, they have a background in being able to utilize these machines four
seasons of the year. Next slide, please. I think this is -- the cost and installation is pretty
well self explanatory. Twenty thousand dollars for six pieces of equipment. Eight
thousand dollars worth of concrete donated by ESI. The Parks and Rec will install the
equipment, as they did with our first PBR project, which was the floating dock, and the
total cost for shipping and equipment. Next slide. These are actual photographs of
machines being used. As you can see on the bottom where it says accessible chest
press, that's a machine that you can use with -- as you can see with a wheelchair and on
the other side a walking person can use it or a person from a wheelchair can actually slide
onto the seat and MPAR would check to ensure that if there were any raised seats used
by ADA person -- people that we are covered as far as the height of the seat is lower than
the standard needed to put cushioning underneath. So, with the concrete slab that ESI
would donate, we are completely covered as far as liability or fall within all the
specifications necessary for ADA. In conclusion, this project would benefit handicapped
and disable -- and abled. The project would be inclusive to community and the project is
at budget. Any questions?
Simison: Thank you, Jim. Council, do you have any questions for Mr. Lucker?
Perreault: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Perreault.
Perreault: Good evening, Mr. Lucker. Thank you for being here with us. I'm curious
about the maintenance on these machines and how that is funded.
Lucker: The maintenance -- when checking with the company that manufactures the
equipment, they -- they literally stand out for years in the -- in the -- in the weather and as
far as maintenance, there doesn't seem to be much maintenance. All the bearings are
sealed. It's -- it's -- they are powder coated. So, it's not like a normal painted surface that
would chip or rust. When it's powder coated that's going to allow it to last for years without
any maintenance.
Simison: And, Mr. Barton, I know you are on the call. Do you have anything you would
like to add since you all would be the recipients of this product to maintain moving
forward?
Barton: Yeah. Good afternoon, Mayor Simison and Council Members. I think Jim really
did a good job in summing up the long-term maintenance. They have a 15 year warranty
on this equipment and, you know, based on the other couple of gyms that we have, the
maintenance is -- is really minor. There aren't -- there aren't any -- you know, it's all rated
for outdoors and with very little parts that -- that can fail on it. So, it's pretty bulletproof.
Simison: Thank you, Mike.
Strader: Mr. Mayor, just a comment.
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Simison: Council Woman Strader.
Strader: Thank you so much for presenting this. It seems like a really wonderful way to
enhance a park that we already have and make it an even better use for the whole
community.
Lucker: If I may?
Simison: Yes, Mr. Lucker.
Lucker: I would like to thank you for that comment and, as I stated earlier, with -- with our
first project being the floating dock, the times I have been in Kleiner Park I have seen a
number of people using it and to have the wheelchair accessible dock within a rock's
throw from the exercise equipment I think really sets the standard for what we are looking
for in Kleiner Park. To take it one step further, under Mayor Simison's guidance, we are
adding new members to the Mayor's Senior Advisory Board and some of those new
members will be going out into the community and one of our plans is to actually introduce
various retirement communities to what we are doing in Kleiner Park. So, if this proposal
goes through and we do get the installation, it's not just a matter of somebody walking by
and finding this there, we are going to tell the community it's there. We are going to tell
them how accessible is to use. Not only that, but the dock. So, thank you for your
comment.
Simison: Jim, there is one thing that -- that maybe to help Mr. Borton, who hasn't asked
a question yet, would you like to give an update on the process you all went through and
who you worked with to come up with this idea?
Lucker: Sure. We basically did what we did the -- the first year. We -- we sat down as a
group and determined who would do what and we went out to the community and spoke
with different organizations, went to the library,just went out on the streets to meet people,
talk to people in our homeowners association. So, we covered what we think is a large
spectrum of the population, maybe a relatively small sampling. To back up, when we first
found out about the PBR program it was based on a program that was done in New York
City and they showed the way that they went out to the community with a set of disabled
at a subway station and tens of thousands of people walked by. Well, needless to say,
we don't do that in Meridian and so we went out in the community and solicited
information. We had a questionnaire that we handed out. We, then, gathered all those
in one of our meetings, went through them -- we had some that we had to discard that
didn't fit the -- the requirements for PBR. We, then, took those that we thought might be
the most viable and we actually voted amongst ourselves as to what would best serve the
community overall. We had some ideas that -- as an example might be a park bench
where somebody could just sit down and rest and that's a good idea, but to put it in a park
bench and put in a covering over that in case of inclement weather, by the time you are
done with everything you are almost as much money as the whole project would be for
the exercise equipment. So, we took-- it took-- it took us a few months to put this program
together and with the help of Mike Barton and a couple of the members on the committee,
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we narrowed it down to a manufacturer that could manufacture equipment that would fill
our needs, not only for ADA compliance, but also for four season weather.
Simison: Thank you. Appreciate that. Council, do you have any questions? There is no
action that is needed to my knowledge on this topic. It is in the budget and it is something
that they are likely to move forward, but I would love to get a -- at least a general
agreement that this is a project that you would like to see installed here in our parks in
this -- you know, hopefully this year. I know timing is always an issue, but I think
construction is still happening out there in our community, so it should be able to move
forward if we can get the equipment in in time.
Borton: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Borton.
Borton: I appreciate the comments, Jim, and that you just -- that you just shared. I'm
supportive of the project going forward and -- and some of the -- well, one of the really
critical components of the PBP process is, in fact, the process itself and what the group
does to gather input, collect options in ways to serve the community that we might not be
recognizing and, then, vetting those amongst your group, using the objective criteria,
then, having what's basically an election on those finalists and, then, bringing forward a
project -- all of that vetting is a critical requirement to make this project -- or this program
work and when we set this up four years ago -- four or five years ago it was always with
the understanding that if those steps are skipped any Council may get to the spring and
decide at this stage it's not a product -- it's not a project we are going to fund, because
the process wasn't utilized right and you described a great-- a great process that met the
needs of the program, but I think that's really a critical part that you guys hit the nail on
the head by doing. I know we will discuss it in June, the --whether or not -- and how PBP
may continue or whether it morphs into something else, but I think you have done a great
job, you and your group, in trying to meet the intent and purpose of the program as
originally designed by vetting it and electing it and narrowing it down to what you believe
to be the best, most appropriate program. So, I appreciate that.
Lucker: Thank you for your comments. I will pass that along to the group.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Yeah. I just appreciate the -- Jim, you bringing this forward from the group and,
you know, we have got several playgrounds that are all accessible for children of all
abilities and -- and, you know, as we get older that -- that may not change for some of us
and for some of us we may change as we get older and having that ability to have that
access to, you know, like things like docks on water and exercise equipment is just a great
opportunity to stay healthy and vital and greatly appreciate you guys thinking that through
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and making sure we have that here in Meridian. That's -- I think it's a great addition to
Kleiner Park. Thank you.
Lucker: Thank you for the comments. Appreciate it.
Simison: Okay. Well, with that, Council, you should be seeing this move forward. We
are working with our Parks Department to get an install and put up as soon as we can.
Hopefully in this budget year, if not by the fall would be my hope. Always subject to how
long that they can get that stuff manufactured and delivered. So, with that thank you, Jim.
Appreciate it very much.
Lucker: Well, I appreciate your allowing us to take the time to present this, but more
importantly thank you for the opportunity to have another PBR. We look forward to
number three.
Simison: All right. Thanks, Jim.
Lucker: I will go ahead and try to get --
Item 7: Department / Commission Reports [Action Item]
A. Meridian Arts Commission: Annual Update
Simison: The clerk's office will help you take care of that. Item No. 7-A is Meridian Arts
Commission annual update. I'm looking to see if we have Leslie with us. I'm going
through the names.
Mauldin: Hello.
Simison: There she is.
Mauldin: Hi.
Simison: Hi, Leslie. Yeah. I will let you go ahead and take it from here.
Mauldin: Okay. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council. So nice to be here for the annual
report. Oh, goodness my -- I have to get out of -- how do I get out of the big screen?
can't see my report now. No. Oh, exit. How do I exit full screen on my computer?
Simison: Right at the top there should be a view option that you can click on that and,
then, click --
Mauldin: On it. I pressed escape.
Simison: That works, too, apparently.
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Mauldin: Okay. I'm so sorry. I'm not great with this kind of stuff. But as you remember
last year as part of our annual report we invited the Idaho Commission on the Arts to
attend the meeting and bring an overview of the statistical study conducted by
independent statisticians and researchers for the Americans for the Arts organization and
as a reminder and an overview of what was presented last year in our annual report, we
have a short video for you from their website. You know, in the arts right now we are
really experimenting with a lot of multimedia and -- you know, concerts and -- oh, here we
go.
(Video played.)
Mauldin: So, we had that last year and I just wanted to kind of get back to that -- that feel
as we go forward, but -- can you -- is everything okay now? Good. Okay. So, let me give
you an overview of our year. It was a year with a lot of changes in 2019. Many changes
throughout the city. We now have a really great team of commissioners. We have
Stephanie Barnes and Randy B-Funk, they both completed their terms in 2019 and
Jennifer Sullivan also hasn't been with us this year because her family moved out of the
city. So, we did gladly welcome new commissioners Lynn Smith, Maria Tzompa and Ginni
Hale and with Logan Cloninger joining as our new youth commissioner. We have a great
team on the commission now combining backgrounds in theater, musical performance,
and the visual arts. Our staff liaison Hillary Blackstone also left in September to pursue
other career dreams and Deputy City Clerk Adrienne filled in in the interim while we
searched for a new -- for a placement and she did a fantastic job. I want to thank her
again for that as we close the year out. We are now fortunate to have -- as our current
arts and culture coordinator. She actually started in January 2020, but I wanted to give
her a big shout out she's doing a great job and we really feel that with her addition and
our new commissioners that we have a very strong seated commission. We have been
busy at work with public art installations and we are really excited to take part in the
selection process for two new public art installations. Champion's Flame by Trademark
in Champion Park and Illuminations by Ken McCall at Renaissance Park. Both pieces
are finished, look fantastic, if you haven't had a chance to go see them take your family
and go look, they are just so much fun. We had the opportunity to lead the selection
process for a third public art installation, which will be the firefighter sculpture by Daniel
Borup and it will be installed at Fire Station No. 6. It's in the fabrication process and will
be installed later this year. All three projects were founded by the Meridian Art in Public
Spaces ordinance or MAPS. We have more --we have more live music this year with the
Concerts on Broadway. We partnered again with WineGlass Entertainment for another
successful year. We couldn't pull it off without our faithful sponsors. Last year they were
Meridian Development Corporation, D.L. Evans Bank, Idaho Power, American -- All
American Insurance and Investment Resources of America. We experimented with
transitioning our series to fall afternoon concerts and enjoyed some aspects of the
change, especially, you know, avoiding the heat and smoke and enjoying the beautiful
Idaho autumn, but we learned that some of our community members prefer the other. So,
we are still continuing to experiment with that concert series, but it is growing and it's very
high energy. We had three bands last year, High Street and Big Wow Band and Kevin
Kirk of Onomatopoeia. They were great. And we -- we also always invite talented
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Meridian students to join us as openers for the concerts and we have great feedback from
the community on this tradition. So, we love highlighting our talented Meridian youth. Art
Week. We hosted the Meridian Art Week 2019 and we focused on a variety of activities
and shows for the attendees. The activities included a promotional concert. The first
annual Tammy de Weerd Award in the arts presentation. Free dance lesson. Live music
in downtown businesses and outdoor venues. Screening of a locally produced film, which
was really fun, and art week scouting, cultural dance demonstrations, performance and
character encounters with Treasure Valley Children's Theater. Our most popular activities
seem to be the art drop, where artists leave their around downtown. It's kind of like just
passers by will happen upon something, that's really fun, and, then, use social media to
tweet it out. We had the chalk art competition. It's really popular. Where high school
students, professionals, and the general public all participate. We, of course, have our
annual year round monthly Initial Point Gallery curated exhibits and we coordinated 12
exhibits, which included 33 artists and organizations this year and it's always a highlight
when we have the West Ada School District's art show in May. We have the privilege of
spotlighting Meridian students from all levels and the winners get their artwork wrapped
on a traffic box and so it reaches out even more into the community. Speaking of traffic
boxes, we installed 14 traffic box art wraps. Five of those box wraps were the student
artwork that I just mentioned and these wraps are made possible because of the
sponsorship of the Meridian Development Corporation. Eight traffic box wraps were
selected from the artwork in our traffic box repository that's maintained by the Arts
Commission and one wrap was sponsored by a local business. This was fun. The
business owner wanted to fund a painting by his mother on a traffic box. So, that was --
that was cool. And outreach. We contributed to the Treasure Valley Children's Theater
productions of several shows and we are always happy to support the efforts in the arts
in education and reaching out to students this way. It's a cause we really strongly believe
in. We, of course, came up with a new strategic plan along with the city. We attained a
grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts to
pay for consultant services to assist in preparing the FY 2020 to 2025 strategic plan and
we completed the strategic plan with many excellent goals and we really have a lot to
look forward to in the next five years, so -- with that in mind let's look at the math behind
for a moment. This year we also want to share what truly makes art human and why
that's important. After all, we are the Arts Commission, so we feel pretty strongly about
it; right? Consider that any color of the rainbow can be created with an algorithm. It's
simple and it's finite and a computer can generate color. What makes color interesting is
our subjective human reaction to that color. Color evokes a human response that is too
advanced to be quantified by an algorithm. So does music. I use a really deeply layered
and complex composition program called Sibelius and it's somewhat intuitive. It has
thousands of embedded devices meant to shape and phrase the sound. However, I still
need to tell it what to do and no matter how good or average an operator is at using the
program, it simply can't seem to capture the nuance of live performance by human beings.
We are the unquantifiable missing link, so to speak. To make this more personal, think
when you meet somebody, when you are younger, even now, you meet another human
being that you are interested in, you want to get to know them better. We usually don't
ask questions like do you have a comprehensive understanding of the algorithms of
business economy in a situation like this. We usually say things like what's your favorite
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color. What kind of music do you listen to. What's your favorite season. Your favorite
sport. It's also entertainment. Great entertainment. What's your favorite book? Your
favorite movie? Your favorite food? All subjective things that when we come together as
human beings in gathering places we talk about things and look at things that make us
laugh, cry, and listen to each other. Even in business meetings there is a space for small
talk and it tends to return a better collaborative result. In general people want to feel
connected in ways that are hard to quantify. The economic impact is simple and clear,
but the more nuanced reason to support the arts has less to do with money and the good
thing is the more we understand that the arts do matter to communities, the more
economic potential they can have. More importantly, they have an effect on how a
community feels, how strongly its citizens connect their unique identity. Art in all its forms
is somewhat like the gathering place at the human mind and heart. It's a bit like a face.
It's hard to describe, but it yields subjective results that are evident in the quality of life
and the general health of communities. You know, it's funny, we tend to think of art as an
accurate measure -- I mean economic quantification as an accurate measure of what is
productive, but I'm a mother, I have often thought of this, that a woman giving birth is
considered nonproductive by the current algorithms utilized by the GDP at the very
moment she is somewhat actively involved in bringing forth what is arguably considered
to be our most valuable asset. We may need to adjust the way we look at what is
productive in some ways to include beautiful uniquely human moments and creative
moments, which are thus far too nuanced for us to quantify, such as our creativity as
human beings and the joy it brings to our lives and the lives of our loved ones. We know
subjectively that these things matter, we just need to have faith that they are important
enough to consider as vital to the ongoing success and happiness of our community. But
I feel like I'm kind of preaching to the choir here, because here I am giving a report as an
arts commissioner, which serves, of course, at the pleasure of the Mayor and the City
Council and we cannot thank you enough for your support and guidance to the arts and
culture in Meridian. That's it. Are there any questions?
Simison: And thank you, Leslie, for that information and viewpoint on why art matters.
Council, any questions for Leslie?
Perreault: Mr. Mayor?
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Perreault.
Perreault: Leslie, thank you so much for that presentation. It was fantastic. As a new
Council Member this is the first arts presentation that I have seen and I really appreciate
it. I love that Meridian makes this a priority and I think it's a really critical part of our town
and what creates, you know, that community that so many people say that they appreciate
here. I'm wondering if the Arts Commission has had any conversations about doing any
events and/or encouraging any -- any -- I don't know how to describe it. Any kind of -- I
guess an event -- I don't know what else to call it. But surrounding the -- the Idaho
women's celebration of -- of suffrage, our one hundred year celebration, I'm wondering if
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the Arts Commission has done anything along those lines. Council Woman Strader and
I had an opportunity to be involved in some events and it's really been something that's
impacted me. So, I'm curious if the commissioners discussed it.
Mauldin: Council Woman Perreault, good to meet you. I -- we haven't met and I am so
glad you bring that up, because we just added three new female commissioners and we
have -- we have been considering new things to bring to Art Week and I'm thinking that
that might be a good place to put it. Thank you so much for bringing that to -- bringing
that out and for being involved. It's important. Thank you.
Perreault: Mr. Mayor, follow up?
Simison: Council Woman Perreault.
Perreault: Absolutely. And, Leslie, if you want to e-mail me at my city address I can
connect you with some individuals that are working on it at the local and the state level
and maybe they can help you with some resources.
Mauldin: That would be wonderful. Thank you so much.
Perreault: You bet.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Yeah. Leslie, thank -- thank you and the other commissioners for your
willingness to serve. It takes a lot of time, energy, but you guys bring a lot of passion and
-- and great ideas and it's -- it's a lot of fun. It just enhances our community so much and
it's -- it's kind of difficult to see what we are in with, you know, what we are doing now,
social distancing and all that and, hopefully, things will continue to improve. What -- what
does that do to things like Concerts on Broadway? Are you guys trying to figure out when
-- when you can hold things and, then, making the assumption, of course, that things will
continue to improve and move through the stages that Governor Little has set out, so
what's the thinking right now?
Mauldin: Yes. Thank you, Councilman Hoaglun. I -- we have discussed it and we have
contractual things that will allow us to take care of the money that way, but that's part of
the reason we didn't move it back further into the -- into the summer months, because
last year, as I mentioned in my report, we did have a little bit of community feedback that,
you know, they really liked the summer concert series and, of course, the year we moved
it forward we didn't have any fires. So, yeah. But for this year we did decide to keep it
and we are starting in August and going through September, but we are -- you know, with
the three shows. We will stop before it's too -- we won't go as far into October as -- we
won't go into October like we did last year. But it's been -- and as you know I'm a live
performer, I just -- I -- my last contract just went away last week and there were summer
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festivals. The Tahoe Music Festival is canceled. There is -- you know, most summer
festivals have canceled. Sun Valley Summer Symphony is -- is canceling. Sun Valley
Writers Conference is canceled. So, I think we are -- we are planning -- we are looking
ahead contractually and hoping that by that time, if everything goes forward as the
governor's planned in his four phases, that we will be safe and feel comfortable having
people. However, we will be putting -- if we are still having some resurgence we will be
managing and putting in social distancing as much as possible, trafficking the space
through production to keep our citizens safe. But it's -- we do live -- as I was watching
that opening video and looking at all the -- the live performances and it's -- it's been a little
heartbreaking from our side, but we have -- we thought about that. Thank you for asking.
Hoaglun: Yes. And, Mr. Mayor, just to follow up. Yeah, Leslie, the performance arts --
I'm sure they feel that impact very very strongly, which is unfortunate, because it is -- it it is a wonderful thing when you can get together and see performances by talented
people and how uplifting that is. I mean we could really -- we could really use that right
now and, hopefully, that will happen as -- as the summer goes on. But, yeah, it's
something that -- that is concerning and we -- we are just glad that you guys are moving
this forward and figuring out a way to make it happen. Thank you.
Mauldin: Thank you.
Strader: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Strader.
Strader: Thanks so much, Leslie, for presenting and I echo Jessica's comments about
being the first presentation from the Arts Commission. It's very exciting. I really like the
idea of arts as a way to do placemaking for cities. If I think about some of the most
successful cities in creating an identity and a sense of place, you know, Austin comes to
mind, places that really embrace the arts and it seems like we come across these, you
know, random opportunities, whether it's like a roundabout or these districts that we might
be looking for where there really is an opportunity coming up for our city to put a sense of
place and an identity on, you know, our whole city. So, I just -- I'm excited for you with
the work ahead and I think -- I hope that we will have more opportunities as a community
to support the arts, because I think it supports a whole community. So, I just wanted to
share my view on that. And, then, I wanted to just ask, you know, do we have an arts
foundation for those patrons in our community and community leaders and corporations
to, you know, contribute to the effort.
Mauldin: Thank you, Council Woman Strader, Mayor Simison. Yes, we do. Meridian Arts
Foundation is alive and well. They have their -- in September they have -- of course, it's
an -- it's an individual nonprofit. It's not connected to the city, but they do function within
the city and they have their -- usually it dovetails with our Art Week. They have their
annual fundraiser. It's called Art Sip and they do give some grants and some different
things. We would like to articulate with them even more. We have -- we have worked
with them in the past and we would like to continue to work --- work with that nonprofit
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organization to develop funding sources and grants and the things that they are working
on. Councilman Borton is -- is involved with that as well. So, yes, Meridian Arts
Foundation.
Strader: Thank you.
Simison: All right. Council, anymore questions? All right. Thank you, Leslie. Appreciate
it very much. And, for the record, Councilman Cavener did join us about ten minutes ago
and I forgot to mention that when I saw his name pop on, but --
Cavener: Leslie was doing -- I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor. Leslie was doing a great job and
didn't want to interrupt. I have got some video issues right now that we are working
through. I will reset my computer during the break, so that I can pop up on video to the
other part of our meeting.
B. Parks and Recreation Department: Annual Report
Simison: Okay. Perfect. Thank you. All right. Item 7-B is our Parks and Recreation
Department annual report. I will turn this over to Mr. Siddoway.
Siddoway: Hello, Mr. Mayor and Members of the Council. It's my pleasure to be before
you today to give our annual update for our Parks and Recreation Department. I want to
start off by thanking the previous two presenters. As you can tell, both the Senior Advisory
Board and the Arts Commission both do things that benefit our mission in Parks and
Recreation in many ways and that's been -- we have been beneficiaries of the work that
they do. One of the things I would note is that the Commission -- the Parks and
Recreation Commission received an update on the Arts Commission's activities last week
and one of the things that stood out to them that they wanted me to share with the Council
is that in the survey that the Arts Commission just did they asked what places people --
citizens would take a visitor to to show them what Meridian is all about and the most
frequent response to that question was parks. So, they, of course, cheated on that and
we are grateful to hear that and wanted me to --to share that. With that I'm going to share
my screen and, hopefully, this will work. Is everybody seeing the Parks and Recreation
update slide? Okay. I'm going to plunge ahead for -- I'm going to start off with a -- an
overview just really quickly, high level, for our new Council Members of our-- our mission,
which focuses on enhancing our community's quality of life through the many myriad
things that we do and. I love that --that bottom phrase of creating lasting memories. That
is one that is important to us. Our vision -- I highlighted the words family focused
opportunities. You know, one of the things that we learned when we were going through
our master planning efforts when we did focus groups of all ages is that as a city as we
have focused on -- on families it becomes a city that is friendly to all and the growing,
changing population that's mentioned at the bottom is one that has expressed gratitude
for this family friendly focus. Our focus areas, quality, community and fun, are what we
strive to -- to be and do. You know, quality parks, activities and events that build
community and at the end of the day providing fun and ways to bring balance to people's
lives. We have been dubbed the department of fun. We aspire to -- to that -- that -- that
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title. Here is a photo of our -- our team and -- from taken -- taken last fall and if I just flip
forward you can see that team on an org chart. There is 38 total positions. That includes
all the part-time positions over at HomeCourt, the recreation positions and the parks
positions. And this is all of the positions, except for the seasonal summer only positions.
It's a lean mean machine, if you will, for the amount of things that we do and I hope to
give you a quick overview of many of those coming up. A quick shout out to our Parks
and Recreation Commission. They are citizen volunteers who advise us directly on the
many things that we do. They meet monthly on the second Wednesday of every month
and they provide recommendations to Council. They provide feedback to us. And their
input is truly invaluable. Just a quick overview of our facilities, particularly for our -- our
new Council Members. Of course our main office is right here at City Hall, but we also
have our park maintenance shop over on Lanark. And, then, two other facilities of note,
our community center in downtown on Idaho and, then, the Meridian HomeCourt, which
is off Franklin Road on Taylor Avenue. So, the bulk of the rest is kind of divided into a
parks focus section and a recreation focus section. So, this is the parks, plazas, open
spaces and pathways. You know, the map's kind of hard to read at this scale, but one of
the things that I love to point out with the map is that I believe as a city we have done a
very good job of spreading out our parks and amenities and not just giving everything to
one part of the city. They really are north, south, east, west and central. The numbers
on this slide -- you know, people always ask how many parks do you have and my
common response is it depends on how you want to count them. So, if you count them
all there are 23 as you can see. If you take -- the first three categories are regional,
community, and neighborhood. Those are the -- those are the parks that most people
think of as the traditional parks. Of those there are 18. So, sometimes you see the -- the
18 number. Those are the more traditional parks with -- with playgrounds, et cetera.
Special use parks are things like Generations Plaza or the plaza out in front of City Hall
and sports parks are things like the fields at Jabil or Heritage Middle School that we
manage. Here is the overall list of all of those parks. You can see the breakdown's on
the right of regional, community, and neighborhood parks and, then, those special use
and sports parks. We have a total of 334 acres of developed park land today and it's
been remarkable for me to see that number grow over the last decade. We also own 97
acres of undeveloped park land that we look forward to seeing developed in the coming
years and there are a total of about 40 miles of pathways in Meridian, most of which are
owned and maintained by HOAs with an easement. We maintain about 14 miles of that
and I have a slide here to talk about that pathway network. So, connectivity is a priority
for us. It's -- actually, the pathways are the top priority of our Parks and Rec Commission.
You can see with the map on the left the Five Mile Creek pathway corridor, which is in --
the one in green. The Ten Mile Creek pathway corridor, which is the one in purple. The
Rail With Trail, which follows the railroad. Not pictured here, but also a priority for us,
looping around the whole thing is a -- what we call the Meridian loop to try and connect it
all. We have a growing path system, but we know we need more. You can see that we
have that growth. You can see for 2020 it's all blue, but 2020 is not over yet and we have
construction projects underway that are going to add lineal feet to the pathway system
this year. And we will talk about some of those here soon. Urban forestry is another
major focus of ours. Elroy Huff, who has been our long term forester and quick shout out
to him for all he's done over the years. Many of you were able to join us for his retirement
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celebration at the beginning of the year. Matt Perkins, our new forester, is also a
wonderful addition to our team. Our city has been a Tree City USA for 18 years. We have
focused on a variety of projects, including all of the trees in our park system, those
downtown tree boxes, our annual Arbor Day celebration and, then, of course, finding that
annual Christmas tree for the tree lighting ceremony. We currently maintain over 5,500
trees in our system and here is a quick overview of that growth. If you go back to 2009,
just over ten years ago, we are at 1 ,690 trees in this public tree network. We currently
have, you know, just shy of 5,600. 1 spent -- I'm not going to spend a lot of time on the
graph on the right, but the important part of this -- it's been a big focus for the last decade
to get the old tree boxes replaced with the new ones and this year we are entering a new
phase where all of the original tree boxes that need to be replaced have been. There are
a handful -- the eight -- the number eight on there are some of those older ones, but that
are still doing fine and we don't want to pull out a good tree just for the sake of it. So,
there is currently with the growth downtown 145 total tree boxes downtown and we are
kind of entering a new maintenance mode and some of those will continue to be replaced
over time, but the annual focus is going from replacement focus to maintenance focus.
Classes, camps, and excursions are another major focus of ours. Our activity guides
come out three times a year. One is a combination for winter and spring. Our summer
activity guide was actually just released last week. Hopefully you have seen a link to that.
We are doing it digitally this year, knowing that things are in constant flux and change,
but our summer activity guide is now out and, then, we anticipate a new activity guide
coming out for the fall. You can see the growth of those activity guides, enrollments
through the years. We know that this year we will be down somewhat. We will have to
wait until next year to see how we are impacted. But as the city grows so does the interest
in the activities, camps, and classes that we were able to provide as a department. Sports
is another major division of what we do. We focus on providing adult sports leagues for
things like basketball, softball, flag football and volleyball. Those have been on hold this
spring due to the COVID-19. We do anticipate those seasons being able to be reactivated
with the beginning of phase three here in June with some social distancing measures in
place and a reduced number of games taking place at a single facility to keep crowd sizes
down. We are looking forward to slowly bringing some of those things back online. Youth
sports we do -- well, we don't run the leagues ourselves, we provide the space for those
through many wonderful partners in the community. You can see for the sports that we
run, the growth of those over the years, and, again, we know that this year will be
impacted, but we are also adapting and I look forward to sharing with you some of the
things that we are doing in response to needing to be creative with some new ideas for
sports that kind of adjust to the new normal and I will have a slide on that coming up soon.
Special events are a particular challenge in -- where we currently are and we are working
very diligently to try and figure out how and when things can fit in an adapted version.
While it's not on this list, because it's not a city sponsored event, I think it's probably worth
mentioning here. The Memorial Day event that the American Legion puts on, we have
found a way to -- to livestream that. So, even though there is not a gathering, if you will,
there is still a way for -- for people to participate and we are happy that we can join with
the Legion to help provide that. For our part we are envisioning that our first real event
of the season will probably be Independence Day on the Fourth of July. While we won't
be doing things like face painting and bounce houses, we do want to see a fireworks show
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that people come out and celebrate the birth of our country. So, we anticipate that moving
forward. The community block party that's usually in early June about now -- or not now,
but coming up soon, will be made -- sorry. It's Gene Kleiner Day that's there. We are
going to combine that with community block party, which falls in the fall in September and
so those will be in September. Movie Night we hope to kick off the week following the
Fourth of July. We are still looking for guidance on large events from the governor's office
and adapting as needed to that. Things like Movie Night, we know that families can and
probably will social distance well, but the large groups of youth and teens that we get at
those will pose a challenge to social distancing. So, trying to weigh all of those things
and what we do. You have already had the update on the Arts Commission, so I don't
need to spend a lot of time here, but I do want to say that the addition of Audrey Belknap
on our staff has been wonderful. She has come in and just really grabbed that bull by the
horns and without a lot of guidance has been able to jump in with both feet and figure
things out and be of great assistance to the commission. We look forward to having a
closer relationship with both the Arts Commission and the Historic Preservation
Commission moving forward. We love our volunteers. We miss our volunteers. We
anticipate the volunteer program will likely be able to start back up beginning in stage
three. They provide a lot of wonderful services to us, including the park ambassador
program in our parks, the City Hall information desk. They also do tours through City Hall.
In addition to those that we have just groups from the community that -- that do things for
us and every year we have many scout projects -- particularly Eagle Scout projects.
These are some of the things I'm most excited to share with you, because this is not just
an update of where we are at today, but some of the things that we have been able to do
as a team over the past year as part of our annual update. I think the big highlight for all
of us this last year was the grand opening of Discovery Park, its first phase in south
Meridian on July 26th. Wonderful new destination park for south Meridian to enjoy. We
have had some great remodel work done at the HomeCourt, including the new restrooms
and Bay 5. We held an open house to celebrate that on Valentine's Day, February 14th.
The art in Renaissance and Champion Park, which is a partnership with the Arts
Commission, is complete. We look forward to being able to celebrate that with a ribbon
cutting sometime this summer with the date to be determined and there is a picture of
Audrey, our new arts and culture position. Last fall in October we dedicated the new
Charlie Rountree Ball Field in Fuller Park. We have also had a partnership with the library
to install memory lane story walk along the loop pathway near where the Senior Advisory
Board is now looking into putting the -- the exercise equipment and we look forward to
having a ribbon cutting with them this summer for that as well. The Fuller Park ADA
repairs were completed. The design work for Heroes Park expansion and design. The
concept planning was done and the -- currently underway is all of the -- the construction
documents and, then, we filled our rec coordinator sports position. Skylar has got some
great ideas that are including some new -- not tournaments, but -- sorry, I'm trying to
remember what I'm -- the word I'm looking for. Leagues. That's the word I'm looking for.
For things like cornhole and spikeball that are able to be done with smaller groups with
social distancing and actually has a lot of interest. This is a quick overview of our
reopening plan. I have e-mailed it out to all of you previously, but I just want to point out
that in stage one we aligned with the governor's order and opened up our youth sports
practices, our park restrooms to support them and any church uses in the park. This last
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weekend we were pleased to be able to reopen our pickleball and tennis courts, our
playgrounds, our outdoor gyms and we anticipate the opening of the main street market
season next -- next week or this -- this coming weekend. I know that their updated
agreement was approved by Council last week. Moving forward we look forward to seeing
even more things able to reopen and as we continue to reopen things in a measured way
as we continue to monitor the curve and make sure we are doing so responsibly. A few
updates. One, the future phases of Discovery Park, it made good progress on the -- the
concept plan for those future phases over the last six to eight months. We were
successful in -- over the winter doing quite a bit of youth outreach on things that youth
would like to see in those future phases. Right now we do not anticipate phase two
moving forward in the coming fiscal year due to things like, you know, roads and
intersections in the area being under improved and the lack of sewer existing to the site.
Wanting more pedestrian connectivity and ongoing coordination with the Williams pipeline
that we continue to work on. Right now we have the phase two currently planned
tentatively and the -- our comprehensive financial plan for FY-22, but even that is pending
those future improvements in the area. A couple of other quick project updates. The new
community center is a really really big one for us. That one's in partnership with the
Galena Development team, as well as the Planning Department and MDC. The Planning
Department and MDC are focused on this block and the formation of an urban renewal
area. The -- for our part, you know, Garrett and I have been conducting remote tours via
Zoom with other centers to gather information and ideas. Currently the group is -- is
investigating multi-use concepts to get more uses than just the community center on the
site. Staffing is going to become a key conversation for us in future presentations to
determine what type of uses we can accommodate there. This one to the right of MPR
fees isn't really a current project, but it seems to have been coming up quite a bit recently
with Council, so I added it as a discussion item to let you know that it's on my radar. I
would like to see a fee review done in partnership with -- with Finance. We need to build
a priority based budgeting cost recovery model that's based on our adopted policies, so
that that's more easily shared with Council as questions come up. The Finance
Department did adopt -- or the Council adopted -- the Finance Department proposed and
Council adopted this new pyramid for fee recoveries and I think this whole thing may
make sense to roll into the upcoming Meridian Parks and Recreation master plan update,
which we will be talking about later. Greenplay has a lot of expertise in cost recovery
models and could help advise us if there is interest in that moving forward. On the horizon
looking out we have a lot of pathway projects underway. East James Court is actually
under construction now. This is -- that's a sidewalk widening project to take it from a five
foot -- five foot sidewalk to a ten foot pathway. We are in constant communication with
both development community, wastewater treatment plant from Public Works and others,
to try and get Five Mile Creek pathway connected through to Ten Mile -- from Ten Mile to
Black Cat. We have a partnership with ACHD for on Ten Mile Road for that trailhead near
Reta Huskey Park and Council just recently approved a CDBG project for the Fairview
Avenue connection that we look forward to being able to see moving forward a little faster
than originally anticipated. Also on the horizon we anticipate this summer seeing new
cornhole and spkeball leagues like from Skyler and a pretty good buzz, particularly
around the cornhole leagues, interesting to see how many people register for that. Our
Pine Avenue pedestrian rest stop for the pathway, which is on Pine Avenue near
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downtown between Meridian and Locust Grove, is -- all the concrete is in and landscaping
is underway. And, then, the Finch Lateral and South Loop Pathway or the one in north
Meridian near Locust Grove and Ustick, that's been an ongoing project for design that
Council has approved and we will be looking forward to going -- taking that to -- into a
construction project hopefully next year. So, you can keep up with all of what we are
doing in many ways on our website, Facebook, Twitter. We love these hashtags,
mymeridian and meridianparks, and with that I thank you for the opportunity to give this
update and will stand for questions.
Simison: Thank you, Steve. I know you were doing your best to be quick with your
comments and to try to keep us on task. Council, any questions for Steve? That's a lot
of information I know.
Borton: No. Great report.
Siddoway: Thank you. We -- we very much appreciate the support of the Council. We
love what we do and that we are able to -- to bring the kind of things that we do to our --
the citizens of our community. So, thank you. Hopefully this provides you a good general
update on many of the accomplishments over the past year and where we are headed
this summer.
Borton: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Borton.
Borton: One quick question. Steve, have you tried to play spikeball? That game is
impossible. If you are over the age of 20.
Siddoway: I have. I actually own a set.
Borton: Young person's game. Good stuff.
Simison: Thank you, Steve. Appreciate it very much.
Siddoway: Thank you.
C. Department of Justice COVID-19 Grant Award
Simison: Item -- next is Item 7-C. I believe these next three items should go fairly quickly.
I will turn this over to Mr. Watts.
Watts: Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Council Members. I'm here this afternoon presenting the
DOJ grant for the COVID PPE supplies. On the 28th of April we received notification that
we were granted this -- or awarded this grant. It has gone through the city's grant
committee. It's been approved by the grant committee. And with this I'm also presenting
the budget amendment for spending authority. The grant was a not to exceed amount of
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65,245 for our PPE gear and the grant period that we are authorized through -- that we
requested is September 30th of this year. With that I will stand for any questions.
D. Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Amendment for Department of
Justice COVID-19 Grant in the Not-to-Exceed Amount of
65,245.00
Simison: Council, any questions for Mr. Watts? Okay. Well, then, I will move on to Item
7-D, fiscal year budget amendment for the Department of Justice COVID-19 grant not to
exceed 65,245. Do I have a motion?
Cavener: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Cavener.
Cavener: I move we approve Item 7-D, budget amendment for FY-2020. It's the
Department of Justice COVID-19 grant for a not to exceed amount of 65,245 dollars.
Hoaglun: Second.
Simison: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 7-D. Is there any discussion on
the motion? If not, clerk will call the roll.
Roll call: Bernt, absent; Borton, yea; Cavener, yea; Hoaglun, yea; Strader, yea; Perreault,
yea.
Simison: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT.
Watts: Thanks, everyone. Nice to see you all again.
E. Budget Amendment in the Amount of $335,559 to
Purchase Additional Water Meters/MXU's Supporting
City Growth
Simison: Item 7-E is a budget amendment for the purchase of additional water meters. I
will turn this over to Mr. Teller for what I assume is a short presentation.
Teller: Yes. Yes. Hopefully we will have a pretty short presentation. So, can everybody
hear me? Yeah? Good. All right. So, good evening, Mayor, Members of Council. Thank
you for your time tonight. Tonight for your consideration I have before you a budget
amendment for the purchase of new water meters. But before I get into the details I would
like to give you a short kind of background of our meter program, our different meter types,
how we budget for them and, basically, how we purchase them. And we are going to
have some technical difficulties here. I can't get the slide to move.
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Johnson: This is Chris. I'm controlling your slides here. Just tell me when to go.
Teller: Oh. Okay. All right. Yeah. You are on slide two. Okay. So, what slide are you
on? Two? One. One more slide up. There you go. Okay. So, our meter program is
divided into two distinct categories. It's basically new installs, which we refer to as new
capital meters, and replacements. Our new capital installs are associated with new
development and are purchased in conjunction with our -- our building permits and,
basically, when our permits are issued we purchase a corresponding meter for that
property. So, it's kind of a one for one pass through for us. The cost of these meters is
funded solely by the new development and, like I said, are a direct pass through. Next
slide. So, when it comes to new meters, just so everybody knows, one size really doesn't
fit all. There is different types of meters for different types of applications and we break
ours into three separate categories and those categories are residential, commercial,
irrigation. Our residential meters, they are basically small. They are three quarter inch
interior diameter in size and they are really good for capturing the low flows of water like
a normal home would have, about 25 gallons or so in less than minute. And, then, our
commercial meters -- they are a little bit larger. They range from one inch to four inch in
size and these meters are a little bit more complicated and, of course, they are more
expensive. But they are really good at capturing both the high and low flows that we are
looking for that a commercial property would -- would typically see. And, then, our third
are irrigation meters and they are larger. They are still like the -- the commercial meters.
However, they are -- they are not very -- very complicated. They are more simpler in
design. But they are really -- really good at capturing the high flows of water. And we
select these meter types based on these three different categories and, basically, the
estimated water demands that each property will use. Next slide. So, in addition to the
meters, we also need to purchase and replace the equipment needed to collect our meter
reads for our billing and this equipment are what we call MXUs is what we use and they
are connected to our meters and they transmit the read data from them to our reading
system. There is basically two types of MXUs. First type is single and these are used
typically for commercial and irrigation services where only one meter is -- is required for
that application. And, then, we have doubles and they are used for -- for residential
services. Typically where two meters are in close proximity and they share an MXU. So,
what does all this cost? Meter prices, they vary by both size and type. As you can imagine
the smaller residential meters are -- are not that expensive, they are about 138 dollars
apiece, but our commercial irrigation meters can be a lot more expensive and some of
them are up to about 3,400 dollars apiece. MXUs are priced based on basically which
type they are, you know, singles or doubles. So, when you think about the 39,000 service
connections that we have, our investment in meters and equipment is significant and it's
critical that we fund the purchase and replacement of this infrastructure to keep up with
our current demands for both growth and our replacement program. Next slide. So, with
our current budget, although it's -- it's in one GL account, it's broken out into two distinct
categories for budget forecasting, like I mentioned before, the replacements and new
capital. So, quantities for replacement meters and MXUs are determined each year by
our -- our meter replacement plan and it's based on a -- our 19 year replacement cycle.
We have got a pretty dedicated plan that takes us out at least the next ten years for that.
And, then, for the new capital meters it's a little bit different. We kind of depend on growth
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trends for that and that's what drives our quantities needed for the next budget year. Next
slide. So, historically we have done our -- our budget forecasting with residential meters
basically with the small meters in mind and that's -- that's generally been what we have
been seeing permit wise and what we have been installing around the city and commercial
growth has been very minimal, so forecasting at that lower -- lower cost for meters has
worked really well for us. However, in 2019 this all kind of changed for us with the large
and sudden swing of commercial and multi-family properties being developed, the mix of
meters changed dramatically with these -- these larger meters. So, overall it -- our meter
costs have gone substantially higher and our budget amount and need has -- has come
along right with that. So, this is a trend that's kind of continued into this budget year and
it's the reason for this budget amendment request. So, with our budget, our original FY
20 budget is 843,000 dollars, which is still a lot of money, but, however, given our growth
that we have already experienced this year -- I mean we have had a little dip this last
month, but it seems to be kind of coming back -- combined with what -- our forecasting
sales revenue through September is -- is appearing to be, it's estimated that we are going
to need an additional 35,000 -- sorry -- 335,000 dollars to cover our new capital meter
expenditures. And so with this I respectfully request a budget amendment for our FY-20
year in the amount of 335,599 dollars. And with that I thank you for your time and stand
for any questions you may have.
Simison: Council, any questions for Dennis? If not, do I have a motion?
Strader: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Strader.
Strader: I move that we approve Item 7-E, a budget amendment in the amount of 335,559
dollars to purchase additional water meters and MXUs to support the growth of our city.
Hoaglun: Second.
Simison: I have a motion and a second to approve the budget amendment. Is there any
discussion on the motion? If not, the clerk will call the roll.
Roll call: Bernt, absent; Borton, yea; Cavener, yea; Hoaglun, yea; Strader, yea; Perreault,
yea.
Simison: All ayes. Motion carries.
MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT.
Item 8: Executive Session per Idaho Code 74-206(d): To consider records
that are exempt from disclosure as provided in chapter 1, title 74,
Idaho Code
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Simison: Sorry, Council, I just closed the stuff that I didn't mean to. Our next item is an
Executive Session, I believe. Do I have a motion?
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: I move that the Council adjourn into Executive Session for Idaho Code 74-206
(d).
Borton: Second.
Simison: I have a motion and a second to adjourn into Executive Session. Is there any
discussion on the motion? If not, clerk will call the roll.
Roll call: Bernt, absent; Borton, yea; Cavener, yea; Hoaglun, yea; Strader, yea; Perreault,
yea.
Simison: All ayes.
MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT.
Simison: We will adjourn into Executive Session.
EXECUTIVE SESSION: (5:44 p.m. to 6:08 p.m.)
Simison: Council, do I have a motion?
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: I move that we come out of Executive Session.
Borton: Second.
Simison: I have a motion and a second to come out of Executive Session. Is there any
discussion on the motion? If not, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed nay.
The ayes have it. And we are out of Executive Session.
MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT.
Simison: We will begin this meeting in two minutes.
Borton: We need to adjourn the meeting.
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Simison: Oh, yes. Sorry. Can I have a motion to adjourn?
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor, I move we adjourn our work session meeting.
Borton: Second.
Simison: I have a motion and a second to adjourn the meeting. Is there any discussion
on the motion? If not, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Those opposed nay. The
ayes have it. We are adjourned.
MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 6:08 P.M.
(AUDIO RECORDING ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS)
6 / 2 / 2020
MAYOR ROBERT E. SIMISON DATE APPROVED
ATTEST:
CHRIS JOHNSON - CITY CLERK
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