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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1999 11-30 Special --,-------:C /" -~- ...; ROLL CALL: .. . ... MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL AGENDA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1999 6:30 PM CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS x X X X X RON ANDERSON GLENN BENTLEY arrived at 6:50 pm KEITH BIRD CHARLIE ROUNTREE MAYOR ROBERT CORRIE AGENDA EMPLOYEE INSURANCE BENEFIT PACKAGE RECOMMENDATION: APPROVED RECOMMENDATION FROM SEABURY & SMITH PROPOSED LAND PURCHASE FOR FUTURE POLICE STATION: APPROVED PURCHASE OF 10+/- ACRES AT $1.85 PER SQUARE FOOT 1 " 2. . , ~. MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL MEETING NOVEMBER 30.1999 The Special Meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:30 p.m. on November 30,1999 by Mayor Robert Corrie. MEMBERS PRESENT: ROBERT CORRIE, RON ANDERSON, KEITH BIRD. OTHERS PRESENT: GARY SMITH, BILL GIGRAY, TAMMY deWEERD, CHERIE McCANDLESS, BILL GORDON, PAULINE SKEGGS, TRISH COBA. Corrie: I'll open the Meridian City Council on November the 30th, 1999 at 6:30 p.m. Council's going to meet for the following employee benefits package for insurance benefits and possible land purchase. At this time, Pauline, I'll have you start with the employee benefit package. You and Trish can (inaudible). Skaggs: Mayor and Council members, Trish Coba who is our broker from Seabury & Smith is here to do a presentation. She had met with the Benefits Committee in regard to our insurance renewal. We've made some recommendations to you that you should have received a packet which will include the renewal process and also the preferred Blue Provider Book from Blue Cross and a PPO directory from Blue Cross. Trish will go over the renewal with you. Coba: Mayor and City Council, enclosed in your packet are several items. I'll just go through them. Of course, the cover sheet, you have our written recommendation of what we did. We were asked to go out into the marketplace to obtain competitive bids. Of the carriers that we asked to quote, two declined to quote: Primary Health and The Principle. We did get competitive quotes from Blue Cross and Regence Blue Shield. The renewal for Regence came in at 10.7 percent which is underneath the renewal cap that Regence had guaranteed you last year at this time. Blue Cross came in with their renewal and offered several choices to you. One choice is the traditional plan or what we call an indemnity plan with a deductible and co-insurance, and the second option would be their PPO plan. In addition to that, the third option, you had the dual choice. You could accept both plans. In looking at that, we looked at what are the financial advantages to you, the City, in moving over to Blue Cross. Under the traditional plan, the City actually could save quite a bit of money up to about $35,000 a year in just if everybody went to the traditional plan alone which is a substantial savings to you. In addition to that, if you went to just the PPO plan, there was even a greater savings. It was 23 percent or about $80,000. What we recommended that you do is accept a dual option plan, offer both benefits to the City employees and with statistical information and that 50 percent of the enrollment will go to both plans, you still could save quite a bit of money. But, being conservative, one of the things that we wanted to do is tell you what would the worse case scenario if you just took the traditional plan. That. savings, of course, is stated to you in not only the cover letter, but in the exhibits. So if I go Meridian City counclpecial Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 2 , forward into your packet, the first exhibit that you have is where Regence came in with the renewal. That is where the page in there - the comparison. Yeah. Again, that is our traditional indemnity plan, and the rates are at the bottom reflecting the 10.7 percent increase for the renewal. There are no coverage differences there. They're just the straight plan, the same plan renewing. In the second page, we are showing you the traditional plan and the PPO together, combined. Now, these choices are options individually as well as combined. As you can see on the Blue Cross traditional plan design, it's a $500 deductible plan just like what you've got currently with Regence Blue Shield, $1000 out of pocket As you go down that line item, you can see what the monthly premium at $28,000 with your current enrollment with a total annual premium of $346,875 representing a 1.42 percent increase over where you currently are with Regence today. To the right-hand side is Blue Cross' option for the PPO design. The PPO plan has, again, the $500 deductible. The significance of this is that it doesn't have an office co-pay. The office co-pay is a $20 co-pay, and that can be used at the point of service whether you go into a primary care physician or in a specialty physician. Benefits in that were co-paid at 90 percent out of network are penalized at 70 percent. The total monthly premium for that plan design is $24,000 making an annual premium of $291,439 or 14 percent decrease over your current. It's actually a 24 percent savings over the renewal. The next illustration actually demonstrates what the savings potential could be that if the City offered both plans to its employees with enrollment being equally divided between the two plans. Over in the far, right-hand corner, that is illustrated a monthly premium of $26,582 with the annual premium being of $318,985 for a 6.74 percent savings over your current. Questions this far? Anderson: I have one. When you talked about a 50 percent enrollment in each, has that traditionally been what you've seen is that the employees will pretty much split 50/50 on what they want to enroll in? Coba: Over the course of time, yes. Over the course of time, you will see 50 percent enrollment going to both plans. Initially, it might be all the healthy ones going to the PPO because the perceive it as being a health-type plan, and the unhealthy ones stay in the traditional plan. Over the course of time, people generally understand both plans equally, and about 50 percent will go to both plans. Anderson: Then I guess a follow-up question, it would seem to me as much as employees talk back and forth within various departments that it would cause considerable amount of confusion about coverages and benefits and things like that because one guy might be under this plan, and the next might be under that plan, and just the interaction amongst co-workers talking about their plans, it's very difficult, I think, for a lot of the employees to understand their benefit packages as it is. It seems like that would just cause a lot of confusion. Has that Meridian City counclpecial Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 3 . been the experience in - do you know of anybody else that's done these divided plans? Coba: Yeah. Typically what the conversations migrate to are instead of how do you like about our health insurance to are you on the co-pay plan or are you on the deductible. I mean, that's - the first question is which plan are you on, and then after you've qualified that question, then the details come in. We have a dual-option within our own company. Several of my clients have dual-options. They haven't been very popular in this area because, number one, the carriers haven't allowed them to happen in the past. That's happening as we are entering into more and more managed care in our marketplace. It's typical that you see more than one plan in larger companies, which, by the way, you're getting to be large, very large employeL Any other questions? Okay. Behind that are the declinations that we received and the responses that we received because one of the things that we did was that during the process, we went back to Regence Blue Shield and said we did ge~ a competitive quote, and without disclosing what those rates are, we gave them the opportunity to sharpen their pencil. Knowing that they have been with you for a year and the opportunity to renew. The letter that you are seeing in your packet reflects their decision to hold firm on the renewal. In addition to that, you have their renewal rates. Then following that are the declinations from Primary Health and the Principle which are the other lenders that we did ask to quote, but declined to quote because of competitiveness. Now, our other recommendation is that the City has always wanted to implement another benefit, and that has been short-term disability. We have discussed that in detail throughout the year. This is something that's been on the table. With this savings, you could implement that benefit and pay for it from the City savings and still save approximately $1400 a month or $17,000 a year. Bird: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Bird. Bird: Trish, what kind of short-term disability is that? I mean, what's the short- term? Six months? Coba: It goes for 90 days. It integrates with your long-term policy. Bird: What is the benefits on it? Coba: The benefits are illustrated - Let's go to the last page, I believe, in your booklet That - what we were recommending is in the far, right-hand corner, the Unum (sic) policy, Option No.2, which states that it's a 60 percent income replacement Are you finding it? Bird: No. Meridian City counclpecial Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 4 . Corrie: Very last page. Bird: Okay. I got it now. Coba: Okay. So the very far-right column, the Unum option No.2, 60 percent of a weekly benefit income replacement with a maximum weekly benefit of $1,000. So if somebody salary, if they were making more than 60 percent of their weekly salary, would be cut back to $1,000. Benefits start on the 15th day, there is no elimination period of 15 days for both sickness and for accidents or injuries. The duration of the benefit is 11 weeks which immediately after the 11 weeks, your long-term disability starts. The rate guarantee is a two-year rate guarantee. Bird: Thank you, Trish. Coba: Now, the other benefits that we looked at renewal were the employee assistance program, your current vendor, Business lcology (sic), still offers the most competitive quote, and we are recommending to renew with them- The vision, VSP is still offering you the best benefit and cost That benefit has increased, and that will be the part of the process that if you move to Blue Cross, we would have to re-enroll with VSP. Any questions? Corrie: None? Bird: I have none. Anderson: I have one, Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Okay. Mr. Anderson. Anderson: Last year, we had asked for the first year we signed up with Regence, we'd asked them a quote for the second year and a cap on that. Did you do that with Blue Cross? Coba: Yes. We did ask that of Blue Cross, and yes, there is a cap of 12 percent for the second-year renewal. Corrie: Any other questions? Okay. Bird: I have none. Corrie: Trish. Coba: Thank you, Mayor, Council. Meridian City coun~pecial Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 5 . Bird: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Bird. Bird: I have a question for - I see we have one, two, four of you from the Committee. What is your thoughts on which way we should go? Corrie: Did you get that letter to them? They all signed it? Bird: Yes, it's right there, Mayor. Corrie: Oh. Okay. That's - I didn't get it Okay, Anybody that's on the Committee want to - Gary, any (inaudible) what you had on the letter? Okay. Pauline was there. Bird: Any concerns, disagreements, good bad or indifferent? Smith: Mr. Mayor and Council, I think the Committee felt that the proposal as Trish outlined it to you was very acceptable to us as a Committee, and particularly attractive was the addition of the short-term disability. We'd had some discussions about the viability of the sick-leave pool. This would help in that regard to have a short-term disability available. I don't think we had any other comments. Bird: And you like the dual-option program? The Committee did? Smith: Yes, we did. It will give the employees a flexibility to pick one of those, and I believe that Trish mentioned at our meeting that you could, an employee could change once each year if they chose to. Bird: Thank you. Corrie: Trish, I had a question. On the PPO, the 81. Luke's is the hospital of Blue Cross. What if they go to 81. AI's? What's the difference or what do we do if we're on the PPO rather than the preferred Blue? Coba: Okay. Good question. Under the PPO plan design, the preferred hospital is St Luke's. If in fact you go to St Alphonses, it is an out-of-network charge except for trauma. A life-threatening condition or trauma. That is clearly identified by the plan that it is something that is life threatening, taken by air flight, ambulance and life-threatening, going to S1. AI's would be treated as in-patient or in-network. Okay? All right? They will, and I heard your comment that - I want to be real clear is that person will be treated, stabilized and more than likely moved over to Luke's. Meridian City counfspecial Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 6 . Anderson: They have to be transported? We had a case where we had one of our employees drive himself to the hospital having chest pains, and it wasn't a hospital that was under compliance, so that's kind of - want to cover hospital charges because he was close to that hospital, he figured, I'm going to get to the closest hospital, and it didn't turn out to be life threatening. So - it wasn't a trauma. Coba: Yeah. That is a communication thing that has to be clear. We discussed that in the Committee that we vvould be real clear in those circumstances that that vvouldn't be life threatening, and yes, that would be paid out-of-network. Corrie: You all understand what out-of-network means? Bird: No. Explain it to me. Coba: Out-of-network means that it vvould not be paid. It would still be subject to the deductible, but it vvould not be paid at the 90/10 co-insurance. It would be paid at the 70/30. Bird: 70/30. Okay. That's what I thought it was, but I just wanted to hear - no problem. Corrie: Okay. Thank you, Trish. Coba: Thank you, Mayor and Council. The reason that we did it tonight was so we could have time to decide the change. We can do the employees - sign the cards and make sure it goes smoothly the transition. Mr. Rountree. Rountree: Mr. Mayor, I would move that we adopt the health insurance and short-term disability plan as recommended by the Benefits Committee and presume that (inaudible). Bird: Second. Corrie: Okay. Motion has been made and seconded that we accept the plan that was presented with the short-term disability and Blue Cross. Is that with the dual-option? Rountree: With the dual-option, yes. Corrie: Further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say aye. MOTION CARRIED: THREE AYES, ONE NAY Meridian City count Special Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 7 . Corrie: The next item is the land purchase. Chief, do you want to say anything before we - I think we've all discussed this at one time. Council, have any questions in reference to this? Maybe we just make sure (inaudible) - Gordon: We've got Dave Williams, the realtor handling the properties here. Maybe he could - (inaudible). Nothing's changed. Bird: I've got a question on this, and this has been brought up by - Corrie: Okay, Mr. Bird. Bird: -- some Councilmen coming in. What is that zoned out there right now? It's zoned residential, isn't it? Gordon: Single-family residential. Bird: Single-family residential. What does single-family residential selling for now by the acre? Gordon: Oh, I \MJuldn't even want to guess. Dave? Bird: Dave can tell us. Williams: $25,000. Corrie: $25,000 an acre? Okay. Mr. Rountree. Rountree: I really have no questions. I have some comments. Corrie: You have a comment? No questions? Anderson: Did we ever research the cost of going all the way to Locust Grove and we had talked about the possibility of a land exchange for right-of-way with Ada County Highway District? Was that option explored? Gordon: Not with me. Corrie: Let's have Dave come up. Williams: Mayor Corrie, City Council members, my name's Dave Williams of Diamond Properties. I'm a broker for the State of Idaho. I represent Howell Murdoch Development Corporation; they own the 20 acres that consists of the ten acres that Mayor Corrie is interested in for the City Police Department We presently are under platting for the 15 acres contiguous to the west that abuts Stratford, and we're going before City Council, I believe, December ¡th, the final Meridian City count Special Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 8 8 plat approval. Upon that final plat approval, we will, as soon as we receive from the engineers, et cetera, our platting map. We will be extending Water Tower to the east from Stratford to and contiguous to the ten-acre parcel that you folks are interested in. Eventually, that will continue on to Locust Grove. Presently, the ten acres being a part of 20-acre parcel that goes all the way to Locust Grove is not in the city limits; however, the 15 acres we are developing, of course, is in the city limits. We are contiguous, before you develop your portion of that property, if you were to purchase it, you would need to annex it which we would also go ahead and annex the balance of the ten acres. According to Shari Stiles, this area has been indicated to in the new Comp Plan, fall under commercial designation, not an R-G or residential designation. That, of course, is why that land price. We were approached as to whether or not we'd be interested in selling the ten-acre parcel, and offered it at $1.85 a square foot I've been informed that if City doesn't buy it, I'm to put it on the market for $225 a square foot. The 15-acre parcel we will be developing into one-acre lots, and those will be priced at $3.50 a square foot I believe that the $1.85 a square foot is a very fair price. I'm surprised they're willing to sell it at that other than the fact that I do know that they have another place on a residential development that they want to invest these monies. As far as any other questions, I think somebody mentioned something to the effect of a trade on ACHD, and I assume that is a trade to gain easement for the expansion of Locust Grove. Anderson: Let me ask you my original question so you could answer that just straight forward. When we reviewed the piece of property, it looked like it would be a small strip of land left between the piece of property that we would be purchasing and Locust Grove. Our question was what would the price be of that additional section of ground and then just purchase the entire section all the way to Locust Grove and then that way we could possibly trade part of the right-of- way on that to Ada County Highway District and help to get an overpass put over Locust Grove? Williams: I see. I understand your question now. There's - there would be approximately 313 feet to Locust Grove, and it's my understanding that the owner does not want to sell that They wanted that frontage on Locust Grove. I can certainly ask them that question if they would be willing to consider a sale. Bird: 313 by what? Williams: It would be 313 by 430- Bird: 430? Williams: Uh-huh. Bird: Mr. Mayor. Meridian City counc~pecial Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 9 e Corrie: Mr. Bird. Bird: Dave, we'd also discussed at one time, if 'We purchase this, we have talked to Ada County Highway District, and we're going to have to help get some right- of-way there if we want the overpass over Locust Grove which we feel is a very important necessity to get started. If by purchasing this, if we could get them to donate, sell cheap to us or something, 45 feet along the front there. That was what we had also discussed. We thought, Ron said, we'd discussed going on out and getting the whole thing. I can see right now we can't do that There's too many square foot Corrie: They don't (inaudible) not here anyway. Bird: They don't own the properties that go to Locust? Anderson: No. We don't You had discussed extending that - (inaudible) Water Tower all the way through to Locust Grove. If we purchase this parcel of land, what will that do to the future plan and extension of that road? Will that make us responsible for half of that roadway going through there? Williams: That is correct Corrie: 50 the property line will be in the middle of the street? Williams: Middle of the road. And they certainly, in the sale of the ten acres, vvould want an easement or half of the road on your ten-acre parcel. Anderson: And does this developer - when it's his plan for extending this road - Williams: Well, a lot of that will be determined by how quickly the Comp Plan gets put in place, and we are looking at coming in for annexation, and we're reviewing those thoughts and ideas right now. Certainly they would look to develop it very soon, particularly if they sell this ten-acre parcel to you folks. I imagine that we vvould have to enter into some type of agreement on that extension of Water Tower. The Mayor and I have (inaudible) talked about maybe having a time period in mind; something under contract; whereas the owner would extend Water Tower through to Locust Grove at a (inaudible) time. Corrie: Any other questions? Mr. Rountree, you want to make a comment? Rountree: Yeah. One concern I had was the fact that it is zoned single-family residential at this point, then the County - if we were to purchase this county at the present time, we would also have to go through a Comp Plan amendment process or wait until such time as we had our Comp Plan revised and make sure that the Comp Plan would reflect that this area is something other than single- Meridian City coun'special Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 10 8 family residential. First issue. The second issue is just talking about, Ron was talking about, is we don't have anything definite in terms of development of the extension of Water Tower, and we haven't figured into the cost of this particular parcel our cost of providing half of a roadway and our cost of participating in the extension to the sewer and water, so those are additional costs that we would have to factor into this particular purchase. I'm pointing those out so we don't forget these things. I know some people get the impression that I have it out for the police department, but I think that the Chief will reflect back about four years ago when he took me through the current building, my comment was you need a new building, you don't have anyplace to even hang guys on the wall let along have offices for them. I'm sympathetic with the need, but I'm looking at this a little closer because I think we got our track shoes on and got it going on a piece of property for the Fire Department a little too quick over there, and we've got ourselves trapped into some issues that are going to be fairly expensive to deal with. I don't want to get us unknowingly in this situation as this piece of property. I guess the last real issue I have is that in my mind, I'm not sure that this is the right location for community oriented public safety type building. Now I may be wrong, but I don't have any idea what's going to be built around that place. We're going to have one acre subdivision on either side of Water Tower coming up to this particular piece of property, and we're going to have one acre subdivision to the north of it. I guess I'm a bit uneasy of having this facility isolated in what could be a fairly heavy duty and not necessarily very aesthetic or enticing to the public to come to the police station. Just a concern. Something to think about When we get down to the price per square foot, it's a great deal it seems for commercial property. It's not a terrific deal for single-family. Having said that, I don't know if there's any other comments or if anybody else has any thoughts on the property, but I just wanted to point those things out that I'd observed over the weeks of mulling over this particular piece of property and our action this evening or the near future on whether or not we acquire it. Corrie: All right. Anyone else? Anderson: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Anderson. Anderson: I haven't really given much thought to the surrounding development. I've been thinking more about the size of the property and the cost per square foot, so I think maybe I'd like to hear from Chief Gordon on what your thoughts would be and how this would impact your facility if this all turned out to be commercial and warehouse type of businesses around there. Does that have an impact at all upon your facility? Gordon: No. In fact, that's the preferred location is strictly commercial. I think what we're going to see there is what we're already starting to see, and that's Maridian City count Special Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 11 8 Micron to the VIlest, the computer outfit to the south, the Stonebridge is putting in smaller commercial buildings which are not really industrial, but they're more of daytime business type operations. In fact, we Vllere just talking, Tammy wanted to know the same thing, and VIle don't fit in residential areas because we're not really good neighbors. We're pretty noisy. We test sirens all hours of the night, we usually get the clientele after the sun goes down, and the average person doesn't want their neighborhood. The recommended location is in commercial area, and that fits right there. The overpass gives us access, and here again, what you see now is just a field of stubble. In five to ten years, VIIe're going to have access to Franklin off of Stonebridge. We're going to have access off of Locust Grove, we're going to have access across the road, and we're going to have access clear to East First Street Unlike fire departments, we don't need, we don't respond from station, but I think it would be a good location for the services that we are going to provide and the walk-in traffic for law enforcement. There are better locations, I'm sure, but they're a heck of a lot more expensive, too. Ideal location would be - just checking to see if the press is here. I always get my foot in my mouth when they're around, but- Corrie: They're hiding somewhere. Gordon: Martin's here. Is tear the creamery down and Zamzow's and put us right there. That'd be the ideal location. Just build up. I foresee that as a growth area, or the next block over. But how long is it going to take for that to be torn down, cleaned up, and then the cost, you know, nobody even knows what the cost is going to be there. I'm satisfied with the location, and some of the fringe benefits are the Department of Law Enforcement is right there. We do a lot of work with the lab, we do a lot of work with the training facility, and we'd have access to all of that. A lot of police departments now have to put in weight rooms, workout rooms and everything is right there. We've been using it since they went in. So we're getting a lot of benefits of being close. As far as the zoning, I think that'd be up to you guys in the Impact Area. That answer your question - Anderson: Yes. Thank you. Gordon: -- without going too far? Anderson: Just something with the guys named Bill, I guess. Bird: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Bird. Bird: Chief, we would not have to put that road through to start with, put the building in, would VIle ? Meridian City coun'special Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 12 8 Gordon: No, sir. Bird: There would be no - Gordon: Just access through the parking lot would be enough for now. Here again, that would have to be approved through the Council, Planning and Zoning. Bird: (inaudible). I like the price of the land. This is a comment more than anything. I agree with Charlie on a lot of stuff. I don't know if that's the ideal location; I think it is. When Chief approached me, I asked him seeing how I'm not the law enforcement business and don't know where they want to run out of I think that would be his primary place, but I think the price of the land - \N6 can come downtown, I doubt if we can find anything, but by the time we get the dirty dirt cleaned up ready to build, we're probably looking at $12 to $13 a square foot if we can find that much land. We don't need ten acres to start with, but I think that down the road you will need ten acres. One of these days. Probably most of us in the room won't see it, but I think something we can plan ahead for, for once in our lives. In 1987 they thought this building VJOuld last for 50 years, but by having the area, we don't have to worry. We know that land is not going to go down unless there's a real bad fall in the economy, so as long as the police department thinks that is the location, the price of the land is as cheap as we found. Ron and I got real educated on prices of land when we looked for land for the fire station around this area. I think it's a decent buy if you guys - that's just my opinion. Corrie: Any other comments? Anderson: I have one additional comment. Corrie: Okay. Mr. Anderson. Anderson: I, too, think it's a good price in the land and listening to Chief Gordon's explanation; it sounds like it would be a fairly good location, very functional. I guess as kind of a side note, this is a pretty expensive piece of property, and not to get your hopes up too much or to burst your bubble, but there may not be money immediately to build the building, and so I think we are looking ahead, and we're probably going to find in favor of purchasing this land, but it may be a couple of years off before we find enough money to actually build the building, I guess, is in my mind. Gordon: We're on the fringe or on the border of another double-wide trailer, I wouldn't be opposed to putting it out on that farmland, but that's where we're at now. Our double-wide's full again, so - Bird: I don't think 'We can allow that. Meridian City coun~pecial Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 13 8 Gordon: We can put the double-wides out there. Temporary facility. Corrie: Okay. Any other comments? Bird: Did you plan on passing, getting this done? Corrie: Yeah. That's why 'N6 had the meeting. Okay. I'll entertain a motion on the ten-acre site. Bird: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move that 'We purchase ten acres which is for 140,000 square feet at a buck 85 a square foot which comes to about $845,000, I believe. Corrie: $805,860. Bird: For future site of Meridian Police Department. Bentley: Second. Corrie: Okay. Motion to accept the ten acres at $805,860 or $1.85 a square foot on the Water Tower Road between Locust Grove and Stratford Drive. Any other discussion? Hearing none, we'll go roll-call vote on this; Mr. Anderson. Anderson: Aye. Corrie: Mr. Bentley. Bentley: Aye. Corrie: Mr. Bird. Bird: Aye. Corrie: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: Before I cast my vote, I just challenge the future Council people and the President Council people that will be going on in the future to continue to push for the Locust Grove overpass. Bird: We will. Bentley: Most definitely. Meridian City coun'special Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 14 8 Rountree: And the extension of Water Tower as part of the acquisition of this particular piece of property. With that, I vote aye. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES Bird: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Bird. Bird: One reply, you fight hard at the state level. Rountree: I think I got it started already. Corrie: I think it's started already. Okay. That concludes the special meeting of the City Council. I guess, Mr. Gigray, do we need to close this one and open up this for the workshop? Gigray: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, since it's been noticed that way, I suppose you could proceed in that fashion so it's clear under what agenda you're running under. Bird: Mr. Mayor. Corrie: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move that we close the special meeting. Bentley: Second. Corrie: Okay. Motion's made to close this special meeting at 7:15. All those in favor say aye. Meridian City count Special Meeting November 30, 1999 Page 15 MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:15 P.M. 8 (TAPE ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS) APPROVED o<~ " " ATTEST: