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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2005 10-03 Joint ACHD --~ Meridian City Council & ACHD Comm. Joint Workshop October 3. 2005 The Meridian City Council and meeting was called to order at 12:00 P.M. on Monday, October 3,2005 by Mayor Tammy de Weerd. --. Members Present: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, Keith Bird --. --'--AGHÐ~Me~ber~__'=-resent: John Franden, David Bivens, Rebecca Arnold and Carol McKeé~---- -- - Staff Present: Bill Nary, Steve Siddoway and Will Berg. Franden: Well, I would like to welcome Mayor De Weerd and Keith Bird from the City of Meridian on behalf of the Highway District. De Weerd: We apologize for being small in numbers. Franden: But big in stature. Bird: Mighty in voice. Franden: Yeah. Okay. We got the two talkers. I think we all know each other. Why don't we start off then with Item No.1, which is the update on the Downtown Meridian Transportation Management Plan? Madame Mayor? De Weerd: Well, as Steve is coming up I would like to take a moment and I guess it could have been under other, but we have gotten so many other comments on how our city streets are looking and I did want to pass it on to you. They are looking better than they ever have. The seal coating, the sweeping and all of that, I just really appreciate how the Highway District is really working with the city and you are an integral part of what our city looks like and I just wanted to express our thanks and let you know what I have been hearing and certainly the credit is yours. Franden: Well, it's really not ours. It belongs to Errol Morgan and all of his people. De Weerd: Well, I wanted to let you know that it is very much appreciated. Speaker Unknown: I must say that I drove Meridian Road right after it got chipped and I can't believe what a great job they did. They did a wonderful job. Nothing was (inaudible) back at the cars and everybody was happy. A great job. De Weerd: Oh yeah, and the population size. People have even noticed them. Franden: What do they say? How many people? Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 2 of 14 De Weerd: The last projection of 56,108. Franden: Wow. Unbelievable. De Weerd: So, thank you for our (inaudible------------------). Franden: Okay, Steve, presume you are - Item 1. Update on Downtown Meridian Transportation Management Plan (DMTMP): Siddoway: Well (inaudible) and I know we spoke about the downtown Meridian transportation plan on Wednesday. I just wanted to have this on the agenda item for discussion just to make sure that the ACHD Commissioners did receive a copy of the resolution that was passed by the Meridian City Council ~ Resolution No. 05-487. We passed it on the 23rd of August and then it was forwarded onto ACHD with a cover letter from Mayor De Weerd asking that the ACHD Commissioners consider an adoption of the plan as well. (Inaudible-------------) corridor (inaudible---------) and I just wanted to touch base on that process and see we were are at. Franden: Any comments? Staff? I will just review our conversation as best I can remember and (inaudible-------), but I heard no objections from any of our Commissioners as we reviewed it. The biggest thing of course is timing and where we are going to find the dollars and at what point and time. One of the items that came up at the corner of Ustick and Linder is a possible tradeoff. (Inaudible discussion------------------) Franden: Right. Trading that project off right. Eagle did that a few years ago and they wanted to purchase a right-of-way and they postponed doing Floating Feather improvements at that time so that they could get this other project done and so if the City of Meridian and if we are looking at where we could find dollars sooner than later then that improvement of Linder would be one that we drop that we could look at. The intersection at Ustick and Linder and (inaudible--) is moving ahead and I believe right-of-way we purchased in that improvement. (Inaudible--------- ). De Weerd: Well, I guess I was aware of that procession and (inaudible) and that actually the improvement from Franklin to Ustick, I believe, but we wanted two intersections improve. The other intersection improvement would be at Linder and Pine. It is just trying to get that traffic flowing. Those four-way stops (inaudible----------) and especially during when high school is going into session and when coming out of session. Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 3 of 14 Franden: So, it would appear to me that if we wanted to pursue thinking about a trade of some kind that our staff along with Steve could put together something in writing that would be something formally to really think about and to have it down on paper and how much money are we talking about? What timeframes are we thinking about and so on and so forth? If that sounds like something you would like to at least consider exploring, we would be glad to spearhead that and I saw Katie shaking her head in a positive way. De Weerd: And we have on our agenda for tomorrow night the Transportation Task Force priority list, which will start (inaudible) that. So, that could be an item to discuss. Franden: Okay. Any other comments at all? Siddoway: I just have a question (inaudible-------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------) Franden: I don't know how to answer that. (Inaudible discussion---------------------------) Franden: Is it on the agenda? Not yet. So maybe we should do that. Put it on there so we could have a formal discussion about it and a formal acceptance. Siddoway: (Inaudible -----------------) on proposals for (inaudible-------------). Franden: Okay, well, great. It's good to see this really moving along and we got the planning work done and we partnered on that and that is great. Okay, anything on that issue further? No. Okay, thank you, Steve. Item 2. Update on Locust Grove Overpass levihn: I think I am up for that. The locust Grove Overpass is moving right along. We have got a couple more property to finalize acquisition on. (Inaudible- -----------------------------------) and we are currently anticipating (inaudible-------------- -----------) ITD (inaudible--------------------------------) paperwork over to them, it just gets into their system and it usually takes three to four months for them to get through the whole contract process (inaudible------------------------------------) bid in January or February (inaudible-------------------------------) for a portion of the project and (inaudible--------------), which means the Highway District Commission (inaudible----------------------------------------------------). They said they have never not been available. That is where we are. We may have a big construction project and (inaudible--------------------) should have one. We are also revising (inaudible-----------------) you will be seeing this in the next two weeks with the ACHD Commission. Typically, on federal aid projects, we do what is called a Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 4 of 14 (inaudible------------); everything (inaudible------------------------------------------) engineering (inaudible) as an agent for ITD, but because both of his work and then the (inaudible--------) everybody and within their right-of-way and are coming to our Commission (inaudible------------------------------------) turn this over to (inaudible ------------------------------------). But I know they are committed to it (inaudible---------------( . Bird: So, we are looking at 08? levihn: Well, we are looking at starting construction in '06. Bird: Yeah, but your talking about 18 months construction and you will have weather delays and stuff like that. So, if we get it open in the spring of '08, we probably are going to be lucky? levihn: Well, the schedule is more like aiming for the fall of '07, but- De Weerd: I like that better. (Speaker Unknown): (Inaudible-------------------). levihn: ITD has their winter shut down November 1 st to March 1 st, so you won't see any construction before March 1 st and then depending on their workload (inaudible---------------------------). Okay? Bivens: (Inaudible-------------------------). I thought maybe they might (inaudible---- ---- ). (Inaudible discussion) levihn: I can't remember the detail about it. (Inaudible discussion--------------------------------). Franden: So, Katey, design is all done? levihn: Design is all done. Franden: And it will be four lanes? levihn: Four lanes. Franden: And the touchdown on the south side will be five lanes like that portion that has already been constructed on the north side? Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 5 of 14 levihn: Yes (inaudible------------------------) and then on the north side is five lanes and there is a little bit of work realigning (inaudible-------------------) back in there (inaudible-----------) intersection (inaudible------------------) and people can get out (inaudible------------------- ). Bird: Katey, did you say that all but two right-of-ways have been settled? levihn: last I heard was four and five and now three, (inaudible---------------) daily (inaudible------------) and now all but three. So, last week, Thursday, was four or five and now three. So, we got something done there. Franden: Well, part of the whole project, that portion of locust Grove is north of Franklin Road, when will the portion of that improvement start? Do you have any idea? Anybody know? levihn: I am not sure. Franden: So, it will be going into - that will be great. Well, I use that portion of locust Grove whenever I go into COMPASS anymore. It just looks super. That is so nice. Really great. De Weerd: Now, we need to get some vehicles on it. levihn: Yeah, it will be nice - (inaudible-----------------). (Inaudible discussion) Siddoway: (Inaudible-----------------------------------------) bike lanes and pedestrian sidewalks (inaudible----------------------------------). levihn: Yeah, (inaudible---------------------------------) all but (Inaudible discussion) levihn: (Inaudible------------). I don't know where we (inaudible--) but for any other (inaudible--------------) and they do the GARVEE Bond and all the (inaudible- ----------------). They are looking at all the overpasses and make sure they all have sidewalks and bike lanes (inaudible-----------------). So, I know they have taken that to heart. I just don't know when they are going to get all that work scheduled. (Speaker unknown): That means on locust Grove (inaudible--------------) we both actually have that started about the first or second week of January. Franden: Of this next year? Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 6 of 14 (Speaker unknown): Yes. Depends on how quick we can finish up the right-ot- way. If we can finish that up, we want to have that bid before Christmas. De Weerd: Thank you. Bird: Once you take over the overpass - Franden: locust Grove is a great secret to avoid Eagle Road, locust Grove is the best. The other part is how much we appreciate the city's contribution financially to move that project ahead - Meridian and Garden City both have pitched in and it has really helped a lot (inaudible------------------------). So, thanks. (Speaker Unknown): Thank you. I know you have been very diligent in (inaudible) and keeping that on the schedule. That is a difficult task at times. Franden: Okay, anything else on locust Grove? No, okay. Next one we have is the infamous CIP update. We are going to see a lot of Gary over the next months, I think. Gary? Item 3. Status Report on CIP Update Process Insellman: Madame Mayor, Councilman Bird - that's loud. We have started our update to the Capital Improvements Plan. We executed contract with the Transpo Group in August to begin that work. We are just now finalizing our first task of recapping information from last time in evaluating the COMPASS information and the model structure since this will be the first use of the peak hour model for the Capital Improvements Plan. Everything is going well and on target. This week they will begin work on the needs analysis, including finalizing the list of intersections, the study with those and our traffic group over the next few weeks and evaluation of high growth areas. Our staff is going to meet with your staff next Tuesday. We have a meeting scheduled to go over some areas of concern that they had and they forwarded the information to us, which we shared with Transpo to try and address those concerns. We expect to have a draft ready by March of '06, which for review and comment that gives us several months to accept comment and finalize the Capital Improvements Plan; need to adopt the plan by the end of July next summer so we can have the updated impact fee ordinance in place by this time next year. A couple of changes I guess from last time that we will recommend to be run by our Capital Investment Citizens Advisory Committee earlier this year and they have made some recommendations to our Commission, which we will bring forward with this process. One of them is to use an inflation index for our cost estimates, so that we are not waiting for the update to adjust for inflation with the impact fees. So, that would be a change. Well, that is the biggest change. Sorry about that. If there are any specific questions you might have about the process, I would be happy to answer them. Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 7 of 14 De Weerd: Mr. Chairman. Franden: Madame Mayor. De Weerd: I guess I would have a question as we are looking at our transportation priority list. We do know that certain projects have to be added on there that are developer funded, so they can be impact fee eligible. But, we don't want to use up our priority slot to put those projects on there, so how do we start to go about doing that? Insellman: I think I can guess one of the roads. De Weerd: For example like Pine (inaudible------) road through Eagle. Insellman: That is the road that I specifically asked our consultant to study specifically with. The locust Grove improvements timed as they are, that connection would be key to relieving Eagle and allowing the traffic to get to those locust Grove improvements. So, that is going to happen. The need for the two lanes is a given, I believe. We will verify that with the process and then we will through the regular process with the model and that will evaluate the eligibility of going from two to five lanes, but that is being done right now. De Weerd: I guess I still - if we put it on our list, it doesn't matter where it is? I (inaudible----) as you know and I think it has become even more transparent in the Communities in Motion and Blue Prints for Good Growth project, (inaudible--- ----) that it gets the red out campaign because most of the red was in our community. It really finalized the need of our infrastructure because we are the center of the Valley and we do accommodate everyone's traffic. We want to put those high priorities where they make the most sense, while being sensitive to the developer pay for a project - put on there as well to be impact fee eligible. So, we are trying to stay on top (inaudible) to submit our list and balance those. Insellman: I can address part of that. We are having Transpo take a more detailed look at the prioritization of the projects and the Capital Improvements Plan because the current plan, it wasn't specifically based on projected traffic needs at a given timeframe. It was more of how to program the projects to work financially and sequentially. We will do a more of a needs analysis this time as to when the projects need to be built in relation to others in the plan so there will be - it will be less likely that a road like that would be out in your 16 to 20, verses the 5 to 10 timeframe, since it is so close to all the improvements on a missing link. Then we will do that with all the other projects in the plan as well to try and get a better handle on ranking them within the 20-year span; how that falls into the five-year category is Katey's area. Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 8 of 14 levihn: Yeah, thanks Gary. This is kind of a complicated topic. What you need to realize is that the CIP is done on a very need space, model oriented, calculated plan that slots things into five year sections. When you submit your transportation list that does not have any impact on the CIP at aI/. It's what goes into the five year work program and for the five year work program, it should make sense that those projects that are in the beginning of the CIP are done first and it has turned out that way because they have the greatest need and we have seen practically 100 percent concurrence coming from the cities on what those are. So, the CIP process is independent and when they talk about prioritizing they are prioritizing it within the CIP, not within the five-year work program. The CIP being a 20-year program, you know, we take projects from that to slot them into the five-year program as it comes up. Does that help? De Weerd: I think. As long as Steve understands. Siddoway: I think here is how it boils down. The list that will be submitted from the City Council to ACHD by the end of October will be used for the five-year work program, but not for the CIP. So, we need to - the CIP process is independent of that list that we are submitting. They try to make the CIP process more of a technical analysis based largely on the COMPASS model and it was with that knowledge that we recently in the last month looked in detail at the data that that model is based on for Meridian and Brad Hawkins-Clark and I took a detailed look at what was plugged into the TAZ - the Transportation Analysis Zones for both households and employment in the various areas and we have found some things that concerned us where in some instances the 20-30 projections were lower than what we have today and that is where we need to make the corrections for the CIP process to work correctly and when Gary mentioned that we have a meeting next week with Meridian staff and their staff it is specifically to go over some of those issues. We emailed that to them a few weeks ago and they do have that information now, but - so what we have is the transportation priority list that City Council is working on will be fed directly into the five-year work program and the model-based information that we are working on will be fed into the Capital Improvements Plan. Franden: Any questions. I would just like to make a comment on how fortunate you are, I think, to have Steve. (Speaker unknown): Either way it sounds like he understands the whole thing. Franden: He is tops. If everybody had a person like that it would be very helpful. Don't lose him. Okay, anything else on the CIP? Okay. Item 4. Review School to be Built - Discuss Planning for Future Safe Routes to School Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 9 of 14 Franden: Oh, we have got both of us down for this one. Is anybody from our staff planning on making a presentation at all? Gary is again? While Gary is getting going, how important it is to us to be working with the city and the school district and I know there is task force, I believe, or a committee that is put together that is looking for the placement of the new schools for us to be involved so we can do everything we can to get safe routes to the schools in place of new schools and the existing schools as well. De Weerd: But, we are glad to have our representative on that as well. Franden: Yeah, we got caught last time, didn't we? Siddoway: Thank you, Mr. President, looks like we are getting up a map. I did get a map from the school district as part of our -- transportation task force wanted to consider future schools in their recommended priorities and I've been told that the new schools list has been distributed to the Commissioners. I did call the school district and verified the upcoming schools that are part of the recent bond election that passed. The first new school we will see is next year in 2006 called Prospect Elementary. It is on McMillan Road between Meridian and locust Grove in Copper Basin. I don't know if we have a pointer --? So let me orient myself here - it looks like Ustick is at the bottom; McMillan and Chinden; then let's see, Meridian Road is which one? (Speaker unknown): Meridian is right in the middle. Siddoway: Right here? Okay. So, the first elementary school then in 2006 will be this one here. It doesn't sit right on McMillan, but the access is off of McMillan and it sits in Copper Basin and in 2007, you will see the new middle school at the intersection of Meridian Road and Ustick or McMillan, I'm sorry - Meridian Road and McMillan. That same year in '07 will be the Paramount Elementary School, which takes its access off of Linder Road between McMillan and Chinden right in here. Now this area is large because it also has the future high school. That high school is being called Rocky Mountain High School and is scheduled for 2008. So by 2008, we will see a couple of new elementary schools, a new middle school and a new high school all within a mile and a half of each other in that north Meridian area. I also asked them to identify their future plans because they also plan to propose another bond in two years. I guess you could say this is speculation, but nonetheless it's planning at this point. They do plan to look at the next elementary school in perhaps 2009 in Cedar Springs along Ustick. Also one Silverleaf - (Speaker unknown): They purchased that property. Siddoway: Right. This one right here? And that is probably also in 2009 and the next middle school, probably in 2009 we'll also be down in south Meridian, not on Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 10 of 14 this map, but near Amity and Eagle as a new middle school in '09. But, for the next three years this will be a real hot bed of school activity right here with two new elementary schools, a new middle school and a new high school. Okay. Insellman: I would add that - there is the elementary school that opened this year and then the middle school that we have had so many conversations about is right down there. Questions? (Speaker unknown): Gary, I have got two questions. One is of these new schools that you pointed out, how many of them have good sidewalks, bike paths that run from those schools into the neighborhoods of where those young people will be coming from? Then my second question is - Katey might have to answer it is if we have had any further word on the federal safe grounds for schools program? Insellman: I will let Katey take the second part of that. This map includes existing sidewalks as of a few months ago, I believe and show proposed subdivisions. Today, very few of those schools would have many sidewalks at least out on the arterial to get to them. By the time they are built, you know, with the middle school there is subdivisions approved from the church down to the middle school and Paramount Subdivision has the other side of the roads, so eventually there would be sidewalks all up and down Meridian from McMillan to Chinden. Unfortunately on the south side of McMillan both of those corners are undeveloped and I don't believe have development applications pending. They are owned by developers, but they seem to be waiting, so the sidewalks end about there. Along McMillan, again, they are doing a pathway on the north side of the canal along Saguaro Canyon and along the middle school property, but the south side, again, there is a lot of existing homes along here so the only sidewalk would be in Copper Basin along Linder with the high school and elementary we have sidewalks where it has developed - there is development, I believe, proposed for that whole mile, so eventually we would have all of the sidewalks, but we have a few gaps between McMillan and Ustick and then obviously at the intersection of Ustick and then Linder. (Inaudible) corners are privately held, so that will have to come with our project that is under design. De Weerd: Mr. Chair. Franden: Mayor. De Weerd: You know I guess the whole goal would be at least one sidewalk on one side of the road and how we can direct the kids as safely as possible to that sidewalk. That is where the crossing guard is coming and the school district providing those. So, in our - what we can do is work with the development and try and make sure that the phase includes those improvements in that regard and knowing where the schools are placed, would be the first part of that. Council Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 11 of 14 can certainly ask that the landscape setbacks and the sidewalks need to be placed in the first phase so we can get that connectivity and maybe we can ask our staff to start looking at how those are phased and see how we can help influence the development of those prior to. Siddoway: Yes, I just wanted to add the school district and the developer of Paramount, which includes most of the square mile, but goes down to this corner - they have expressed interest in doing a partnership with ACHD to construct road improvements along Meridian Road and this intersection specifically ahead of schedule. Unfortunately, this is an example of a project that doesn't show up in the current CIP. It is not currently eligible for such a partnership and reimbursement through impact fees in the future. If these road projects do show up in the upcoming CIP, it's likely we can get a partnership with the school district and the developer from Paramount to provide some of those road and intersection improvements ahead of schedule to try and get ready for that middle school. Franden: Katey, the second part is anything new on the safe routes to school program? levihn: You can see here I have got a very nice booklet that FHWA put together on what all of the safety lieu funding programs come to and under safe routes to school you know it says in 2005, 54 million, 2006 100 million nationwide, with no state to receive less than a million. ITD at our last inter model working group anticipates that we will be getting about 4 million statewide, but does not know yet if that is the final number. Eligible use of the funds, I will give you just a little bit of this. Obviously, for infrastructure related projects, including planning, design and construction, including sidewalk improvements, traffic calming, speed reduction, pedestrian and bicycle crossing improvements on street bike facilities, off street bike and ped facilities, secure bike parking and traffic diversion improvements in the vicinity of schools within approximately two miles. A couple other interesting things, one is that each state receiving program funds has to use a portion of those funds to fund a full time position coordinator, essentially to administer this and look at what the needs are around the state. Also, you have to set aside not less than 10 and not more than 30 percent of the funds for non- infrastructural related activities, such as public information awareness campaigns, enforcement, so it goes outreach to the press and community leaders, traffic education and enforcement in the vicinity of schools, student sessions on bike and ped safety, health environment training and that kind of thing. So, ITD has had a task force in place for about the last year that looked at supporting this and the broad parameters are now going to set up subsidiary new task force for looking at the implementation and that is all in progress right now. Other than that, I don't have any details. Okay. Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 12 of 14 Franden: Questions? The only question that I have is are there any mention in there of match? levihn: Federal share is 100 percent. Franden: Really, okay. levihn: But, we will have to see how if the 4 million that they believe is coming to Idaho is actually the final formula and then that 4 million statewide, so I don't know how the IT Board is going partition it around the state. Franden: Seems like we might really be in a good place because everyone will have a pedestrian, bike transition plan down here and report in December? levihn: Yes. Franden: So, we will know where our deficiencies are and the other thing that we have been talking about is in our - we have $2.3 million right now that we put into the community programs throughout the county and we have been having conversations about putting, taking more of that money and putting it into pedestrian programs. (Inaudible------------). levihn: That is right and in fact during our work session with the Commission, you know we presented a kind of a five year transition plan where there was roughly - the whole community program is a little over $2.5 million with most of the bulk of it currently in what is called curb, gutter, sidewalk programs and $300,000 set aside for safe routes to school and we are going to be transitioning that over the next five years to switch those pots of money, you know more and more going into the safe routes to help out with that based on the ped, bike transition plan and where the needs are identified. Franden: Anything else? Okay. Thanks Katey. Item 5. Status Report on Meridian's Transportation Task Force Siddoway: Well, it's premature to talk about the list, but I can tell you that the transportation task force did - well, they have been meeting monthly since March this year, actually and last month they did unanimously recommend a proposed priority list to City Council. The City Council has not yet discussed that list. It is on their agenda for tomorrow night. I just wanted to let the Commission know that we are on track to have a City Council adopted list to you before the end of October, which was the request that was made at the last joint meeting. So, I wanted to follow up on that. The Transportation Task Force continues to stay engaged now that they have recommended adoption of that list, I thought that they might like to take a month or two off, but that is not to be. They actually Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 13 of 14 want to as they meet in October next week, they are going to be following an update on the Communities in Motion and Blue Print for Good Growth Processes and then for November they have actually requested Gary Insellman to come and to present an update on the CIP process. They have been working on the five-year work program process and they would like to track the CIP process and get an update if there is a draft five-year work program at that point. So, November they would like to have the presentation to the CIP and move forward. So, we will be discussing the proposed priority list of the Task Force at City Council tomorrow night. We will work to have the final list to you before the end of the month. Franden: Questions or comments? Thanks Steve. Anything else? De Weerd: Mr. Chairman. Franden: Madame Mayor. De Weerd: I guess I just have a question as to the traffic light that was to be installed at Hickory and Fairview and find out - someone might be able to tell me what the timeline is on that? Franden: I know the one thing I read on it is that it turned out to be a little more expensive than we had anticipated. (Inaudible ----------)? (Speaker unknown): The bid was about 13 percent overbid last Wednesday the Commission went ahead and approved that bid and I believe construction is supposed to start either this week or next and then it will last about a month after that. (Inaudible discussion). Bird: You are going to see - like downtown the split corridor? You guys estimated it at 15 to 16. I bet it's 22 to 24 million by the time - for the simple fact that when you start buying property, property is going up a dollar per square foot by the week. You got a lot of right of way to buy? (lnaudible----------------). Basically, the same thing with our new City Hall. The longer it takes the more the property is going to cost. Meridian City Council & ACHD Special Workshop Meeting October 3, 2005 Page 14 of 14 Franden: Contractors and builders are all really busy. If you are not (inaudible -- --------). Okay, anything else? No. Thank you. Item 6. Other (time permitting) MEETING ADJOURNED AT 12:53 P.M. (TAPE ON FilE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS) 1/ /! 5 / tJ 5" DATE APPROVED