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Meridian City Council Work Session November 17, 2020.
A Meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday,
November 17, 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, Bill Nary, Bruce Freckleton, Shawn Harper, Brian Caldwell,
Joe Bongiorno, Scott Warren, Charlie Butterfield and Dean Willis.
ROLL-CALL ATTENDANCE
Liz Strader _X_ Joe Borton
_X_ Brad Hoaglun _X_Treg Bernt
X Jessica Perreault _X Luke Cavener
_X_ Mayor Robert E. Simison
Simison: Council, I will call this meeting to order. For the record it is November 17, 2020,
at 4:30 p.m. We will begin this afternoon's meeting with roll call attendance.
ADOPTION OF AGENDA
Simison: Next item is the adoption of the agenda.
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: I move that we adopt the agenda as published.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor, I second the motion.
Simison: Motion and second to adopt the agenda as published. Any discussion on the
motion? If not, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed nay. The ayes have it
and the agenda is adopted.
MOTION CARRIED: ALLAYES.
CONSENT AGENDA [Action Item]
1. Approve Minutes of the October 27, 2020 City Council Work Session
2. Approve Minutes of the October 27, 2020 City Council Regular Meeting
3. Approve Minutes of the November 4, 2020 City Council Regular
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Meeting
4. Cherry Blossom Place Sanitary Sewer Easement No. 1
5. Cherry Blossom Place Sanitary Sewer Easement No. 2
6. Cherry Blossom Place Sanitary Sewer Easement No. 3
7. Gem Prep Meridian Water Main Easement No. 1
8. Inglewood Place Subdivision No. 1 Sanitary Sewer and Water Main
Easement No. 1
9. Stapleton No. 1 Pedestrian Pathway Easement
10. Stokesberry Subdivision No. 2 Water Main Easement
11. Final Plat for Linder Village (FP-2020-0004) by CSHQA, Located at 1407
W. Chinden Blvd.
12. Final Order for Edington Commons No. 1 (FP-2020-0005) by Conger
Group, Generally Located on the East Side of N. Linder Rd., North of
W. Ustick Rd.
13. Final Order for Movado No. 9 (H-2020-0006) by DevCo, LLC, Located
Approximately '/4 Mile South of E. Overland Rd. on the West Side of S.
Cloverdale Rd.
14. Final Order for Quartet Northeast No. 1 (FP-2020-0003) by Kody Daffer
of Brighton Development, Located on the East Side of N. Black Cat
Rd., 114 Mile South of W. McMillan Rd.
15. Final Order for Shelburne South No. 1 (FP-2020-0001) by Ian Connair
of KimleyHorn & Associates, Located on the North Side of E. Amity
Rd. Midway Between S. Eagle Rd. and S. Cloverdale Rd.
16. Final Order for Shelburne South No. 2 (FP-2020-0002) by Ian Connair
of KimleyHorn & Associates, Located on the North Side of E. Amity
Rd. Midway Between S. Eagle Rd. and S. Cloverdale Rd.
17. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for East Ridge (H-2020-0096) by
Devco Development, LLC, Located North of E. Lake Hazel Rd. Between
S. Locust Grove Rd. and S. Eagle Rd.
18. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Gateway at 10 Mile (H-2020-
0046) by GFI-Meridian Investments III, LLC, Located at the Northeast
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Corner of N. Ten Mile Rd. and W. Franklin Rd.
19. Development Agreement Between the City of Meridian and Clint
Hansen and Vincent Blommer (Owners) and Land Solutions
(Developer) for 1625 E. Bentley Dr.
20. Irrigation Crossing Agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation at the
Jamison Lateral For The Ada County Highway District-Amity/Ten Mile
Water Main Extension Project
21. License Agreement Between City of Meridian and ProBuild, LLC for
Meridian Police Department K9 Training
22. Temporary Construction Easement Granted from City of Meridian to
Ada County Highway District (ACHD) for City Property Located at
Locust Grove and Time Zone Road
Simison: Next item is our Consent Agenda.
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: I move that we approve the Consent Agenda, for the Mayor to sign and for the
Clerk to attest.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor, I second the motion.
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 and the Consent Agenda is agreed to.
MOTION CARRIED: ALLAYES.
ITEMS MOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA [Action Item]
Simison: There are no items removed from the Consent Agenda.
DEPARTMENT / COMMISSION REPORTS [Action Item]
23. Parks and Recreation Department: Fiscal Year 2021 Net-Zero Budget
Amendment Regarding Lakeview Golf Course Master Plan, Irrigation
Audit, and Water Rights
Simison: So, we will move into our Department/Commission Reports. The first item up
is from our Parks and Recreation Department, which is the fiscal year 2020 budget
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amendment regarding Lakeview Golf Course. I will turn this over to Mr. Barton.
Barton: Good afternoon, Mayor, Council Members. We are bringing forward a budget
amendment for 65,000 dollars that will fund a master plan for operations, an irrigation
audit, and some water right research for Lakeview Golf Course. This amount has -- will
be fully reimbursed by the Western Ada Recreation District according to the agreement
that was signed in August and I will stay for any questions if you have them.
Simison: Thank you, Mr. Barton. Council, any questions? If not, do I have a motion?
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor, is the resolution supposed to be on here or -- it shows the Item 23
in presentation, but we don't have the resolution.
Nary: It should just be the document that's --
Hoaglun: Okay. So, we are good then. Yes. Mr. Mayor, I have a motion.
Simison: Okay. Councilman Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor, I move approval of the Parks and Recreation Department fiscal year
2021 net zero budget amendment regarding our Lakeview Golf Course master plan,
irrigation audit, and water rights.
Strader: Second.
Simison: I have a motion and a second. Do we need to state the dollar figure, even
though it is net zero what the actual spending authority is?
Nary: Mr. Mayor, you probably should do that, yes.
Simison: Okay.
Hoaglun: The actual spending authority on this item is 65,000. Was there any change in
that? I don't have that up right here. I will pull it up real --
Barton: Mr. Mayor and Council Members, 65,000 is the correct amount.
Simison: There is no change on it? It's a flat 65,000?
Hoaglun: Okay. Mr. Mayor, included in my motion is that it is in the amount of 65,000
dollars.
Simison: Does second concur?
Strader: Agreed.
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Simison: Okay. We have a motion and a second to approve the budget amendment in
the amount of 65,000 dollars. Is there any discussion on the motion? If not, Clerk will
call the roll.
Roll call: Bernt, yea; Borton, yea; Cavener, yea; Hoaglun, yea; Strader, yea; Perreault,
yea.
Simison: All ayes and the item is agreed to.
MOTION CARRIED: ALLAYES.
Simison: Mr. Mayor, before we move on --
Simison: Yes, Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: I just wanted to make a quick announcement, since we are on Lakeview Golf
Course. Tomorrow at noon there will be a virtual town hall to discuss and Q&A different
things in regard to Lakeview and that transition. So, anyone out there listening know that
tomorrow at noon there is a virtual town hall and the link can be found on our city website.
Thank you.
24. Fire Department: Citizen Recognition for Brieana Petersen and
Presentation of Donation to Meridian Food Bank
Simison: Thank you, Councilman Bernt. Next item on the agenda, Item 24, is the Fire
Department citizen recognition for Brieana Petersen. With that I'm going to turn this over
to Deputy Chief Joe Bongiorno.
Bongiorno: Mayor and City Council. Can you guys hear me today? Awesome. So, we
are here today to honor this young lady that's sitting here behind me, Brieana. We have
an award that we are going to give her tonight, the making a difference in the community
award. In September of 2020 Meridian Fire Engine 32 was out finishing up some in
industry training and noticed a young girl sitting on the side of the street with her dog.
This ten year old's name was Brieana Petersen. She had set up a small lemonade stand.
After Engine 32 was done with their training they circled back around to find Brieana is
still -- still there. They decided to stop and get a cookie and a cup of lemonade from her.
When talking with her she said that she was trying to earn some money to save up for a
few things that she wanted to buy and that all of her tips that she was getting was going
to go to the homeless. Around this time one of the Ada County Sheriff's officers was
returning home from work and he, too, stopped to buy a cookie and some lemonade from
Brieana. Engine 32's crew was really touched as to why she was selling lemonade and
cookies. Amidst all the crazy things going on right now, she had the compassion to not
only show dedication in trying to earn some money, but to think about others and wanting
to help the homeless. It is people like this that do great things in our community, state
and nation. She showed -- she showed selflessness and love to others as she set out to
-- to help earn money for a stranger that had nothing. She might have had made -- she
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might have made even a few firefighters and police officer's day with some refreshing
lemonade and cookies. She set an example to many in such a small and simple way.
What a big heart she has. So, with that I would like to ask Captain Warren to come
forward and he's going to present Brieana with her award.
Warren: Mayor, Council. Brieana. We have got a couple of things here for you. I just
want to let you know that we were very touched when you were selling your lemonade
and your cookies and it really meant a lot to us and just your thought of wanting to help
the homeless and be there was really -- really meant a lot. So, it just shows that even
somebody can make a big difference in the world, even at -- you're ten; right? Eleven?
Petersen: Eleven.
Warren: Eleven years old. Okay. So, we want to give you this right here, making a
difference community service award, with your name on it from the Meridian Fire
Department. It's a little certificate there. And, then, in addition to we have a nice little
plaque that you can hang -- or you can put into your room with your name on it and from
the City of Meridian as well. There you go.
Petersen: Thank you.
Warren: You're welcome.
Bongiorno: Mayor, Council, in addition to the things that we have seen with -- with
Brieana, we as a union and as Local 467 were -- were touched with that story as well,
and because Brieana showed some dedication even at her young age and wanted to help
those within our community, we, too, wanted to show our gratitude towards our community
as well. Grateful for Brieana showing that example, we also want to do a presentation.
So, I will have Dan from the Meridian Food Bank, if you wouldn't mind coming up here
and on -- on behalf of the Meridian Local 467 -- and my understanding is Brieana has
actually helped at the food bank quite a bit in the past and showed some -- some -- some
awesome characteristics of just being a great person there -- Local 467 would like to
present the Meridian Food Bank with a thousand dollar check to help our community,
because we know that during this time of the year, with the holidays, with Thanksgiving,
with Christmas and with our COVID and some of the pandemic that's going on, that there
has been -- been definitely a need that's out there and so we hope that this will help at
least a little bit with you guys and so we appreciate that.
Clark: Thank you.
Simison: Council, all I can say is wow on both -- on both accounts, about what our
employees and our community members do to help one another and during this time of
the year with everything going on with COVID, that's nice to see the positive news that
we often don't see reported in the media. So, with this I will say thank you to everybody,
including Brieana. Council -- I don't know if anyone on Council has any statements they
would like to make. I'm sure they do.
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Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: Brieana, congratulations and I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for just
your big heart and your contrite spirit and for everything that you are doing in your life
right now to prepare you for -- for your awesome future. These little acts of kindness that
you have shown that prepare you and others just -- and help others and -- and we are so
grateful for -- for that and -- and grateful for your mom that's here. I assume that's your
sister or your friend. Great job and thank you for all you do.
Simison: All right.
Strader: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Strader.
Strader: I just want to say I think kids show us the way sometimes and what an inspiration
you are, Brieana. Thank you.
Simison: Councilman Cavener, I see you are unmuted. I don't know if you want to --
Cavener: Oh, sure. Thanks, Mr. Mayor. I want to echo what my colleagues said.
Brieana, talk about setting a catalyst and kind of a big snowball for our community moving
forward and, you know, as Meridian gets bigger people always hear -- and I heard this
this week is I -- I miss the Meridian that I knew as a kid and I knew the Meridian in the
past. Well, what we saw today was that same spirit of Meridian from the past, the present,
and, hopefully, the future of someone who cares about serving, helping others, stepping
up that causes another group to step up and serve and so thanks for leading the way and
it has really been a great example of our community. It makes me proud.
Simison: All right. Thank you very much. Brieana, you are welcome to stay for the rest
of this meeting if you are so inclined or-- however you would like to spend the rest of your
afternoon is okay with us. Thank you.
25. Fire Department Annual Report
Simison: Okay. Next item on the agenda is our Fire Department annual report and with
that I will turn this back over deputy chief.
Bongiorno: Okay. We will wait for Chris to come back and put my presentation up. He's
running all over the place.
Borton: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Mr. Borton.
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Borton: Just -- just real briefly, Joe -- before Joe begins. Hats off to you, Joe, and our
department for recognizing that, too. We appreciate you taking the time -- not only to stop
by and buy some lemonade and cookies, because you got big hearts, but also to know
how important it is to take the time to do what you are doing, to come forward and bring
this young adult here to be celebrated. So, it just shows us that the department still has
the eye on the important stuff and -- and just really appreciate you taking the time to -- to
share this story with us and with everyone who might be watching online. Don't ever stop
recognizing the folks that go the extra mile in our community. So, thanks for doing that.
Bongiorno: Yeah. Not a problem. It was -- Mr. Mayor and Councilman Borton, it was
totally the engine company that -- that brought this to our attention and Captain Warren
definitely gets kudos for that one. But one hundred percent agree with -- with everything
you just said. And with that I will go ahead and start. So, I got tapped to do the annual
report for the Fire Department. So, we will run through this real quick. Maybe. We are
working on it here. There we go. All right. Oh, look, Lieutenant Harper is here. How
convenient. So, some quick glances of what we are going to cover tonight. We will cover
operations, prevention, public education. We will talk about -- a little bit about the city
survey cards that we get back. We will talk about our social media and our public
outreach. A little bit on EMS. A little bit on logistics and, then, we will talk about the future
with the Fire Department. Some numbers, because we all love numbers. So, for our last
year average emergent response times per station -- and that's chute time and travel time
combined. So, Station One was six minutes and 24 seconds. Station Two was six
minutes and 12 seconds. Station Three was six minutes and six seconds. Station Four
seven minutes and two seconds. Station Five was six minutes and 34 seconds. And
Station Six was six minutes and 18 seconds. Those are our average times for each fire
station for a total response time. What the responses -- we had over 7,700 total
responses and out of those 60 percent of the calls were EMS calls and 40 percent were
fire related of some sort. Looking at the days of the week, usually Monday at around 5.00
o'clock, 6:00 o'clock is the worst time to be out anywhere and that seems to be when most
of our calls come in is that time of the day -- and day. A lot of people think that firefighters
just sleep all night and this graph proves that from midnight to 6:00 o'clock in the morning
we are still running calls. So, that one has been proved false. Our personnel report for
our go around -- so, this last go around we had -- we hired one new lateral firefighter
medic, Firefighter Schlepmo. He's been a great addition to the department. He's been
doing great work, great things for the department, and we are pretty proud of him. We
have had three promotions. We promoted J.D. to division chief of EMS. We had one
promotion to captain, one promotion to engineer. And, then, looking at our staff, we had
a lot of service recognitions this year. We had five -- or two -- two employees that at five
years, four employees at ten years, 11 employees at 15 years, two employees at 20 and
one employee that had 25 years of service. So, we are pretty proud of -- of the longevity
that we have with our employees. I believe Kenny Bowers still holds the record for the
longest serving with the department at the moment. On the prevention side, looking at
inspections, obviously, with COVID this year our inspection numbers are down. We only
accomplished 2,687 inspections. We had almost 3,000 last year. So, we are down about
585 inspections. When we were doing the inspections we found we had 1 ,173 violations.
The most common were sprinkler systems that were out of compliance, housekeeping
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issues, and exit signs not working. So, the bulk of those have been resolved. Along with
that I also do solar panel reviews. Solar -- the solar business has been very popular
lately. I'm actually at 191 plan reviews for this year doing solar panel installs throughout
the city. With compliance engine is where we get a lot of our information on sprinkler
systems, fire alarm systems, and fire pumps. We had 2,409 submitted reports from all of
our sprinkler companies in the valley. Eighty-six percent of those that came in were
compliant. We do have some cost recovery built into that that we did a couple years ago.
To date we have had $23,829.30 as part of our cost recovery and that cost recovery was
going to help fund the third inspector that we are -- we are waiting on. On the fire
inspections -- fire investigation side, fires were down this year. We investigated 40 fires
last year and we only had 28 this year and that could either be a vehicle fire or a house
fire. On pub ed we all know Pam Orr does an awesome job running our pub ed division,
along with Christie and Judy and the other gals up in the office that helped with her -- help
her and also Herb. Car seat inspections. They have done 200 -- they did 222 last year.
We provided 36 car seats to people that could not afford them. On the hands only CPR
classes, we did 13, with 530 attendees. And, then, the big one is our safety classes.
They did 234 safety classes with 20,413 attendees. Obviously, a lot of these were done
before COVID, so we had a lot of people that were able to attend and we did a lot of
online stuff as well. Home -- homes visited for smoke alarms. We visited 552 homes and
we had eight CPR classes where they were certified with 54 attendees that were certified.
So, despite the challenges that were given out with COVID, the pub ed division is still
trying to do what they can with training. So, they are still working hard on doing CPR
classes. We have been thinking way outside the box of how we can still help our citizens
and get CPR out there to each other -- to the citizens and help also with our -- our smoke
detector programs as well. So, it's been a little bit of a challenge. The public has been
trying to get, you know, us to help with events and stuff and, obviously, we can't, but what
Pam has been doing has been putting together packets to send out to celebratory events
and stuff. So, Pam has been very busy during this COVID time, again, looking outside
the box, trying to figure out how we can still reach the citizens. One of those ways with
-- with all the stuff that we have been doing out -- reaching out to everybody, we have
been getting a lot of feedback from the citizens. On our cards that have been coming
back on the operation side a hundred percent met -- met expectations, 86 percent
exceeded expectations. On the prevention side, with the inspections we -- we at least
met expectations and 75 percent of them exceeded expectations and, then, with the
public education programs almost all of them met expectations at least, but at least 88
percent of them succeeded expectations. So, we have had a lot of comment cards
returned. As a matter of fact, I just found one in my inbox today. Pam went out on her
day off and changed somebody's smoke detector batteries for them. She went above
and beyond what was called to help this person out on her day off. So, really proud of
her and her program what she's been doing. With public outreach, our website and
Facebook, very popular. So, we have been working with Stephanie on how we can reach
out to the public and, again, that's part of the stepping outside the box, seeing what we
can do to get our message out to the public and so we have our Facebook, we have 7,524
followers and, then, on Twitter we have 1,700 people following on Twitter. And, then, as
we all know Meridian has a huge NextDoor following as well. So, we get a lot of data
through NextDoor also. And, then, Stephanie has been working a lot with myself and with
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Pam on public outreach with news stories. So, we have been working with Channel 2,
KTVB, Daily Dispatch, whoever to work with getting earned media stories. So, we had
12 stories that Meridian Fire Department pitched to the media and they ran our stories for
us. So, pretty proud of that. One of the big ones -- I'm kind of right in the middle of the
picture there. That was the Fourth of July when we were talking about firework safety.
That was a joint effort we did with Boise Fire Department. So, again, we try and join
forces whenever we can with all the other departments in the valley to try and get one
general message out to everybody. COVID, obviously, is -- is high on everyone's mind.
J.D. has been working hard on that, along with myself. Collaboration. Collaboration.
Collaboration. Hundreds of hours of meetings attended with our access partner agencies.
They developed the countywide infectious disease program and countywide guidance on
PPE usage while on emergency scene. You can see the spikes that we are in right now.
The -- the media's been -- been talking about it. The Mayor has been talking about it in
his messages. So, this is nothing new here. But one thing that we are proud of is that
PPE shows that it works. So, to date we have had more than 18,000 cases in Ada county.
Our EMS partners and the Fire Department has had thousands of interactions with
COVID positive patients and to date we have only had two known cases of EMTs or
paramedics becoming infected, so as a -- as a result of patient interaction and I know one
of them, they weren't wearing proper PPE. So, all the other cases our masks, our gloves,
and everything that we are doing is working and so -- so that's a good -- a good point.
Our logistics division has been very busy. Justin's in charge of all of our apparatus, fire
stations, and everything that goes on in them and around them. Some logistics --
significant events this year. Station Six was completed and opened under budget. We
were about 176,000 dollars under budget when it opened. Stations One and -- One, Two
and Three all received new flooring. We took out carpet and put in hard -- you know, hard
surface floors that also helps with the spread of disease, you know, that might get trapped
in the carpets and stuff like that. We have the apparatus bay at Station Two was
repainted. The training tower roof fixed. We bought some -- replaced some heavy lifting
equipment -- airbags on -- on the truck. Replaced all the Knox box that's the -- the key
holders in the fleet. We had a rash of about six months where they all just started to fail,
one after another, so we had to end up replacing them all. They completed 28,000 feet
of fire hose testing, 679 feet of ladders, and 50 SCBA, 80 SCBA regulators and they hydro
-- hydro tested 157 SCBA bottles. So, Justin's crew was very busy. One of the big things
that we -- that he accomplished also was the spec for the new ladder truck and I have a
picture of it here in a second. We purchased and placed into service a new public
education vehicle. Very thankful for that. Annual pump testing of the fleet new apparatus
and check system called Check It, all electronic, you use an iPad to do the daily inspection
of the vehicles. Works really awesome. We will talk about the ladder truck again. We
are starting in on the design of Station Seven and Eight. We are going to be looking at
new flooring in Stations Four and Five. We are converting all the exterior lighting, which
has the old mercury vapor lights, to LED at fire stations. Doing some burn room tile
repairs. And, then, add 911 status monitors to all the stations. So, this is a -- the blueprint
of what the new truck will look like. The cost was roughly 1.3 million dollars. That's a
hundred foot platform, similar to what we have. The estimated completion date for that
will be November of 2021. Coming down to the end. Obviously, one of the biggest things
for me to talk about as a fire marshal is strategic growth. I know City Council, as you all
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know, growth is happening in our -- in our little city. When I got here Eagle Road was two
lanes and there were stop signs on it everywhere. So, in my time here we have changed
considerably. So, this is a screenshot that I took just as of last week and, obviously, you
can see in the north -- northwest area along Chinden, Highway 16 area, we have a lot of
growth going on. Same in the southeast area out there at Amity, Lake Hazel, and Victory
area. We have a lot of growth going on out there. So, with those, if we look at our current
response areas, with Stations One through Six, each station is a color and, then, if you
look at our reliability rating is one of the other things that we look at when we are doing
this growth, Station One has a reliability of 70 percent. Station 32 has a reliability of 85
percent. Station Three has a reliability of 78. Station Four, 78. Station Five is 84. And
Station 36, which this is the first time we have had data for 36, their reliability rating right
now is 87 percent. So, as this growth continues, the reliability rating is going to be
dropping. Our big concerns are, obviously, those two areas that I mentioned before, the
northwest and the southeast. Because 34 -- they are stretched pretty thin. They have a
very large area that they are covering and on top of it Boise Engine Station 14, which is
their teammate, if you want to call it, their reliability rating is just the same as 34's. So,
when you have two fire stations that are right next to each other with the same reliability
rating, that leaves a pretty big hole in that area. So, with that if we look at our response
areas when we get Station Seven and Eight built, you can see those areas would be
covered. So, the pink area up in the top left would be Station Seven or Eight, depending
on how Council decides to go with -- move forward, but that area would be definitely
covered. I happen to live in that pink area or I will here come March and my house sits
outside the five minute response time area. So, I'm going to go buy myself a firetruck and
park in my front yard. And, then, the mint green on the bottom of the photo is where
Station Eight would be covering and, obviously, out there -- The Keep is a beautiful area.
The plans are starting to come in for those houses. We are looking at so far six to ten
thousand square foot houses being built out there. So, yes, there is water out there, but
just houses that big is a -- is a big concern, not to mention all the other growth that wants
to go on out there. So, our ask is to continue with Station Seven and Eight to be continued
to be planned and move forward because the growth isn't stopping. I just got the plans
for the southeast--southeast corner-- no, southwest corner of Franklin and Ten Mile and,
again, it's huge -- huge developments, not to mention the --the one that Brighton is going
to be doing as well. So, we have a lot of very large developments coming and we are
going to need the help. With that I will end my presentation and I'm open for any
questions.
Simison: Thank you, Deputy Chief. Council, any questions? And just so you are aware,
I did not speak to him before he gave his presentation. So, that was all their own doing.
Bongiorno: No, we did not.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor, I was just trying to remember --
Simison: Councilman Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: -- Chief Bongiorno, adding the 911 status monitor to all those stations, what --
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what did that entail? What -- what benefit does that give us?
Bongiorno: The status monitors was -- that was just a -- it's a big television screen with
a little thumb computer in them and that allows the --the captains to see what's happening
in the city with just a quick look.
Hoaglun: Okay.
Bongiorno: So, that's what the -- they are monitoring for. They were very inexpensive to
-- to put into the stations.
Hoaglun: Thank you.
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: Thanks, chief. I appreciate your presentation. One question. Refresh my
memory. I don't remember. What station is getting the new ladder truck?
Bongiorno: This -- the ladder truck that has been ordered is a replacement. Our current
ladder truck I believe is 14 years old. So, it's going to replace the current one that we
have. I believe in the ten year CIP we have an additional truck company that we will be
looking for I think in -- I want to say three or four years.
Hoaglun: And follow up.
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: What are we going to do with the old one? Was it just going to be like a backup
or --
Bongiorno: It will be reserve. Sorry. Council -- Mayor and Council Member Bernt, yes,
that will be used as a backup and we actually get credit on our insurance rating having a
backup apparatus for a truck. So, it will help us with our rating with the city.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: To point out to Councilman Bernt, that the chief did mention that he was going
to park a fire truck in his --
Bongiorno- There you go.
Hoaglun: -- yard, so there you go.
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Bongiorno: Yes. Park it right out in front of my house.
Bernt: That's a big garage, chief.
Bongiorno: Yes. I need a bigger garage for sure.
Perreault: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Perreault.
Perreault: Joe, thank you so much for your presentation this evening. I -- I'm very happy
to hear that the number of responses to fires has gone down this year. Just curious your
thoughts on that and, actually, somewhat surprised to hear that, considering more people
were home and -- and a lot of house fires are caused from cooking and things like that.
So, just wondering your thoughts on why we have had a decrease and how we can keep
it that way.
Bongiorno: Mr. Mayor, Council Woman Perreault, that's -- that's a good question. I can't
explain why there has been a drop. Very thankful that we have for sure. As the -- as the
fire marshal my job is to prevent fires and to keep our crews safe from having to go into
these fires, but, yes, people are being more safe and I think it's just going to be the point
of pushing our message out to everybody about being safe. We are coming into turkey
season and I know Stephanie has been working on turkey fryer fire education. Same
thing the first couple years that those things really became popular, man, we had like six
or seven of those fires and since we have been working with educating people those fires
have pretty much dropped to nothing. So, I think it's -- it's a combination of education and
people being home to actually notice if something's going on in their house. We get a lot
of smoke scare calls, because they are home and they know that something is going on.
So, I think that's part of it also is because they are home they are catching things before
they turn into major catastrophes.
Strader: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Strader.
Strader: Thank you so much, Deputy Chief, for coming in. I guess a question I have --
Station Four feels like a pain point; right? It has the longest response time. Has reliability
under 80 percent. I realize we are going to work on building a new fire station. We are a
couple years out. Are there things that we are considering to help mitigate that? Can we
staff that station up more? Would that help? Or just give me a flavor for how we are
trying to adapt, you know, at that station to the challenge.
Bongiorno: Mr. Mayor, Council Woman Strader, I know we have -- we have been looking
at doing the alternate response vehicle -- staffing some sort of an alternate response
vehicle. Again in the future that was on our CIP to go along with -- mainly we are looking
at Station One, because their reliability rating is the worst out of all of them. But that
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vehicle could also be utilized to roam the neighborhood. So, if 34 was going out for
training, they can go into that area and cover that area if needed. So, I know Chief
Butterfield -- I'm not sure if he is on. I know he has been working on some -- some things
that we can look at -- oh, there he is right there. There is Charlie. So, I will let Charlie
jump in and see if he can't help answer that a little better than I can.
Simison: And, chief, before we -- you do that, if you could maybe talk to how Station Six
has impacted that station as well over this first six months, if you have had any real data
to show that. Chief Butterfield, go ahead.
Butterfield: Yeah. Good evening, everybody. Can you hear me okay? Okay. Great.
Yes, I -- Station Six. I don't have the data in front of me, but we have had a great deal of
improvement, especially in the reliability rate of Station One with the addition of Station
Six. Station One, as Chief Bongiorno did mention, we did have a low reliability rate for a
while -- it was getting I think down into the high 70s and Station Six has improved that
immensely, allowing that ability for that apparatus at Station One to be in service more
often for the calls that it needs to go on. Councilman Strader, for your comments on
Station Four, it is a busy station. We are recognizing it is becoming more and more busy,
especially with some of the extended living facilities in that particular area. Touchmark,
for example, Station Four does go to Touchmark quite a bit. So, we are trying to look at
reasons why that call volume is so high at Station Four, particularly in the assisted living
facilities that do add up to that and so we are reaching out to the assisted living facilities
that are increasing some of that call volume and seeing what we can do as partners with
them in our community to lessen some of our responses from the fire service to those
particular care centers and -- and by doing that we have -- we have really -- again, as
partners in our community we have been -- we have been able to lessen some of our
responses, keeping that fire apparatus in service for the more -- more critical responses
that it needs to go to and so we will continue to evaluate, look at the data, look at the call
places that that particular apparatus is going to and see if we can, through some
preventative measures, lower the response times and lower the reliability rate and keep
it in service more often.
Strader: Mr. Mayor, quick follow up.
Simison: Council Woman Strader.
Strader: I guess I would be interested to hear -- perhaps in a future meeting, but how this
alternate response vehicle might help with that situation and what the cost would be and
how we could talk about that as an interim solution. Or what all the options are. It sounds
like maybe we have a specific segment of the community that's causing a longer response
time in that area, so --
Butterfield: That particular area, yes.
Strader: -- so, appreciate the follow up to try to figure out if -- if it's not a fire and it's
something else, how we can respond. Thank you.
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Simison: And if I could add, I think, you know, the data, chief, probably a year's look at
data with a six month Station Six in service roughly.
Bongiorno: Yes.
Simison: And I think if we get a full year's worth of data from Station Six that maybe gives
us even a better understanding about where all these stations truly are. I know you
typically like to report -- our poll probably on an annual basis, but I would suggest maybe
the fire department should poll after Station Six has been open for a year and look at what
those response times and reliability is for that last year of service to have a -- at least a
good benchmark, because if it's six months for one and a year for the others, six months
can't pull those numbers down entirely, but they have, obviously, made an impact.
Bongiorno: Yeah. Mr. Mayor and Council, the numbers that I showed you earlier for
Station Six were from opening until September. So, that was actually three months worth
of data that we have gotten. So, the Mayor is one hundred percent correct.
Cavener: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Cavener.
Cavener: Thanks, Mr. Mayor. Deputy Chief, appreciate having you in front of us tonight
and always enjoy having you on the City Council meetings. I really appreciate your insight
and added information you share with us on our land use applications. I did have a
question about your-- your presentation about past due inspections and I noticed that we
had 500 and something that we are past due on and I'm just trying to wrap my head
around what's -- what's causing that and if -- if the department has a recommendation to
address that and resolve it and, then, one more question -- I recognize I'm throwing a lot
at you. What those delays are doing impacting related to land use applications or that's
slowing this down in any way else.
Bongiorno: Okay. Mr. Mayor and Councilman Cavener, as far as the inspections go,
what -- what -- obviously, the big answer is COVID is why we are behind. The other
reason that we are behind is staffing. I had requested a -- an inspector, which was
approved, but, unfortunately, at this time we have not been able to fill it. So, once I get
that other inspector and we can get the COVID numbers to help cooperate, we will be
able to get out and do more inspections. We have been kind of keeping a tight leash on
my inspectors, because we don't want them going out and, you know, getting themselves
exposed and, then, at the same time there has been some -- obviously retirement homes,
St. Luke's Hospital, we can't get into them because of the COVID and their own
requirements that won't allow us in there. So, that's probably the biggest reason why.
But since I took over as the fire marshal we have had a need for another inspector,
because we have been behind and so with the growth that's coming we are -- we will --
once we get that position filled next year I hope to come back with some way better
numbers. And, then, as far as -- go ahead. I'm sorry.
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Cavener: No. I was going to say, yeah, it's -- it's -- it's definitely caused an eyebrow raise
-- I mean where you have got ten percent less inspections this year from last year, but we
are about 30 something percent behind. So, look forward to hearing the -- the positive
results from that. Joe, how -- on average how past due are these? I mean is it -- have
you just had to hit pause because of COVID or is it they are not past due, they are just
behind schedule?
Bongiorno: Some are past due. I think the farthest I have that's out past us is maybe a
year or two and, then, some of them we have had to hit the pause button, because we
just couldn't get in there for one reason or another. And, then, obviously, some of our
higher risk stuff we are still -- that -- that's -- that was my top priority was our high risk
stuff, our hotels, churches, and stuff like that. It's still number one on my list, but some of
the businesses we have had to just put the wait button on until we get some better COVID
numbers or they will allow us in them. So, in the meantime I'm -- we are using the
compliance engine to track some of the businesses to make sure that they are at least
keeping up with their sprinkler systems and their fire alarm systems to keep their
occupants and employees safe, because those I can look at the reports, make a couple
phone calls, and I can write a violation without even having to step foot in their building.
So, that -- that helps as well and I have actually been doing that for the last week.
Cavener: Thanks, chief.
Bongiorno: And, then, I'm sorry, you are going to have to ask the other half of your
question.
Cavener: Well, it just-- and I will kind of give you the -- I'm trying to wrap my head around
about the delays and -- and if that is impacting businesses from being able to move
forward in any way, shape, or form. It doesn't sound like that's the case.
Bongiorno: Oh. Sorry. Mr. Mayor and Councilman Cavener, that is not the case. We
are not -- we are not holding anybody up with anything. If somebody calls and has a
need, we will go out and we will take care of it. Obviously, working with our partners and
-- in the building department, you know, we were able to get Costco up and running in the
middle of this pandemic. So, nothing has been held back, nothing's being delayed. What
we have -- a couple of them with -- like our daycares, for example, what we ended up
doing is, obviously, we didn't want to be there when there is 50 kids running around, so
what we did is I modified the hours of my inspectors and they -- they have been going in
either before they open in the morning or after they close at night to do the inspections,
so that way we are lessening the impacts on the public and our inspectors themselves.
Simison: And, Councilman Cavener, just --just to put a finer point, one of our inspectors
was very high risk during COVID, which was not able to go out and actually perform
inspections for a significant amount of time.
Bongiorno: Yes. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
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Cavener: Mr. Mayor. One, first, apology, it wasn't following good parliamentary procedure
for me to step on your toes there.
Simison: No. You're good.
Cavener: And, two, I appreciate you providing that -- that perspective. I -- I think we are
all in agreement, the health and safety of our employees are paramount and that's what
I was trying to kind of wrap my head around, what -- what was slowing things down. So,
I appreciate you putting that finer point on that.
Simison: Council, any further questions? Okay.
Bongiorno: Thank you, everybody. It was great to stand up here and see you all. Now
I will go see you from my desk.
26. Partnership Agreement Between Meridian Police Department and
Washington State University
Simison: Thank you, deputy chief. Next up is Item 26, partnership agreement between
Meridian Police Department and Washington State University. I will turn this over to
Lieutenant Caldwell.
Caldwell: Mr. Mayor, Members of Council, good evening. So, we at the Police
Department are looking to enter into a partnership with Washington State University
Criminal Justice Department. Dr. David Makin and his team are conducting research in
how police departments can best utilize officer body camera recordings to ensure that we
are doing the best job possible and when they are talking about this, the approach that
they are looking at is more of a holistic one. Not only are our officers doing the best job
possible on calls, but is our training being as effective as possible. So, with this program
we get to set the parameters of what they are looking for in our videos and we get to
choose which videos we send them as well and so what we are really focusing on at this
point in time is communication, on how are our officers communicating with our citizens
here in Meridian. Now, I believe we do a great job communicating with our citizens and I
believe we have a great relationship with them. We are always looking for ways to
improve and do better. So, with that being said, the videos that we are going to send to
WSU, if this partnership is approved, will be our use of force and traffic stop videos and
so when they look at this they are going to be looking for certain parameters that we give
them on how well that we are communicating with people in good situations and bad
situations and in innocuous traffic stops where everything's happy and also an arrest and
use of force situations where things aren't so happy. This is not going to be any cost to
the city. It's a partnership in that we provide the video and they provide the research and
they get to use the research they get for their papers at the university and with that I will
stand for any questions.
Simison: Thank you, lieutenant. And, Council, this is scheduled to be -- I think on next
week's agenda, an agreement, and we just wanted to give you a heads up about that
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agreement before you saw, in case you had any questions either now or felt it necessary
to follow up with the Police Department before that agreement comes forward. Are there
any questions for lieutenant? Council Woman Strader?
Strader: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Will --will we be able to see the research or the outcomes
of the study?
Caldwell: Mr. Mayor, Council -- Council Woman Strader, yes, we will get copies of all the
research and the results of said research prior to any publication and we also have the
right to -- they won't use us as a city or our department in this without our express
permission. The short answer to your question is, yes, we will get the results.
Strader: Thank you.
27. Mayor's Office: CARES Act Municipal Small Business Grant Program
Update
Simison: Council, any further questions? Okay. Thank you very much. Appreciate it.
Next item on the agenda is an update from the Mayor's office regarding CARES Act for
Municipal Small Business Grant Program. Turn this over to Mr. Miles.
Miles: Good evening, Mayor and Council. Happy to be here with you. I will keep it brief.
I know you have got some other things on the agenda. Share my screen here real quick
with some information that I sent out yesterday as well. I have got the CARES Act Small
Business Grants action item recommendation in front of you. As you will recall about,
let's see, back in mid September the Council approved a million dollar allocate for the
small business grant. I will give a little overview of the CARES Act funding to date,
because I know there is -- it's always good to update on that and, then, look at the small
business grants as well. As you see across the top there you can see that to date about
1.6 million dollars of CARES Act funding has been earmarked for expense by the city,
leaving approximately 1.8 million dollars of funds aside. That 1.6 million dollars of
earmarked funds includes the million dollars that Council approved for the small business
grant program and that program in and of itself makes up roughly 60 percent of the
CARES Act funding to date. You can see over on the left -- or, excuse me, on the right
the business support programs, about a million dollars to the small business grant
program, and the remainder of that to the Keeping Meridian Healthy initiative that's in
partnership with the Meridian Chamber. So, that's a quick overview of the CARES Act
funding in general and, then, the small business grant program, you can see the
application, funding, and the number of applications at the bottom. As an update we
received a total of 65 applications thus far. In fact, I think I saw three more that come in
last night, up around 68 City of Meridian. The staff and the team have approved 37 of
those. Seventeen of them are pending. Of those 37 that Meridian has approved, 25 of
those have been approved by the state with 12 of them pending and, really, what we are
seeing is a little bit of lag time between when the city team looks at an application,
approves it, and gets it over to the state. The state is also taking some time to review
those and approve them as well in alignment with the documentation that we provide. As
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you can see on the bottom right, Meridian has approved roughly 320,000 dollars of that
one million dollars funding and the state has approved 218,000 of that amount with about
a hundred thousand dollars in delay between the states review -- just pending review at
the state level. So, the recommendation before you and the discussion point before you
is in order to maximize the program allocated funding of a million dollars in a timely
manner to get these funds to the businesses that need them through the December 30th
deadline of the program, I am recommending that we change the per grant allocation from
10,000 dollars up to 15,000 dollars and also allow those that have applied once already,
a chance to reapply for any new expenses that they have incurred since the time of their
original application. Generally, for your information, what we are seeing is a lot of the
requests are coming for rent and utility expenses and because it's a reimbursement
program we have seen people apply up through about October's worth of expenses and
we suspect that people will still have -- businesses will still have a need for reimbursement
or expense needs through the calendar year, which the program does afford and so that's
a little bit of the logic as to why we recommend increasing from ten thousand to fifteen
thousand and allow existing businesses that have applied to come back and apply for
that addition 5,000 dollars. A little bit more information for you. All of the -- nearly all of
the applications had requested the full ten thousand dollar amount. Through review and
examination of the applications, based on the allowable expenses, not all of them
qualified for the full 10,000 dollars. So, some do qualify for the full 10,000, some do not,
and that's a little bit of the delta in the dollar amounts as well. So, maybe I will stop there
with the recommendation that -- before you to consider increasing from 10,000 to 15,000
dollars and allow existing applicants as well to reapply and open it up for any questions
that you might have or discussion.
Cavener: Council, any questions or comments?
Cavener: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Cavener.
Cavener: Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Dave, I tracked with you kind of the rationalization
behind kind of the opening up the second round. I didn't quite hear -- maybe I just missed
it -- the rational -- rationalization, excuse me, about increasing it from ten -- from ten to
fifteen thousand.
Miles: Sure. Mr. Mayor, Councilman Cavener, really what we are seeing is that a lot of
the applications, because the program is required to reimburse expenses incurred -- in
other words, when we started this program back in -- I think it was September -- late
September, early October, businesses could apply for expenses that they incurred up until
that point. We would not reimburse them for future expenses through mid October,
November and December. So, that ten thousand dollars was mainly attributable for most
applications for about three months worth of rent or 10,000 dollars max and what we
suspect is that there is still a need in the business community for continued coverage if
the opportunity is available for those expenses that will occur mid October, November
and December.
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Perreault: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Perreault.
Perreault: Dave, thank you so much for your time this evening. Wondering about whether
the small business grant program is still ending at the end of December and also what is
happening at the state level with an extension of opportunity to apply for these and is
there a -- I mean are applications still permitted in January and February for expenses
that were incurred in December or how is that working?
Miles: Yeah. Mr. Mayor and Council -- Council Woman Perreault. Those are great
questions. From a CARES Act perspective we have not heard any update on the program
being extended beyond December 30th. Now, I know with new administrations at the
federal level there will be lots of conversations around CARES Act funding and what to
do with the program or what new programs may come out. We have not heard that this
program will extend beyond December 30th. In fact, the state continues to communicate
with us that the applications for CARES Act funding has to be to the state by December
11th, with approvals moving forward and, then, expenditures can happen past the
December 30th, but the commitment of funds has to be made before that December 30
deadline. So, at this point there is no indication that it will carry longer and so I think that
addresses your question, but if you have got additional ones --
Simison: Council, any additional comments or questions?
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Just a quick comment on the extension. I'm certainly in favor of doing that,
allowing them to reapply for reimbursement of additional 5,000 dollars.
Miles: I'm sorry, Councilman Hoaglun, I didn't catch that question.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor and Dave, just a comment that, yes, I'm -- I'm in favor of moving
forward with allowing those businesses that ask for reimbursement of the 10,000 to also
ask for additional five once those expenses are incurred. This is going on a long time and
there are certainly going to be difficulties in the days ahead as we are experiencing now,
so we will just have to help them out the best we can.
Cavener: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Cavener.
Cavener: Just for clarification, it's possible that a business, once this is all said and done
with their applications all being successfully approved, that they could receive up to
25,000 dollars total, ten from the first round and, then, 15 in the second?
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Miles: I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor and Councilman Cavener, no, they would receive a total of
15,000.
Cavener: Got it.
Miles: So, only -- only the delta between what they got and up to 15,000.
Cavener: Okay. Mr. Mayor? Apologies if I wasn't tracking correctly. That makes a lot
more sense.
Borton: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Borton.
Borton: One quick question, Dave. Is the 5,000 dollars did you come to that figure kind
of forecasting the number of interested parties and the remaining available funds? Is the
5,000 intended to hopefully exhaust the remaining funds based upon existing demand?
Miles: Mr. Mayor, Councilman Borton, there is a little bit of that sort of predictive analysis
that we did try to use. A lot of it also -- we stuck closely to what the state's program had,
as well as what other communities were doing. So, Boise, Nampa and Eagle, they all
had thresholds up to 15,000 dollars as well and if-- it's a little difficult to run the numbers,
because some businesses will qualify for up to the 10,000 or up to the 15,000, some only
qualify for a few thousand dollars, just based on what they are requesting expenses for.
But we did look at that and that's the goal is really to -- if the Council approved up to a
million dollars for the program, try to maximize that full amount for businesses.
Simison: And, Councilman Borton, just to Mr. Miles' point, there is a big debate about --
early on whether to ask Council for 10,000 or 15,000, but we want to try to make sure we
open it up to all businesses, so we kept it a little lower on the front end in case we had a
lot more than we could handle and it didn't just go to those. So, this -- this was the
approach that we thought we might come back with when the timing was appropriate and
the numbers are bearing that out, because it's now opened to all businesses. There is
no restriction. And we have kind of seen where our numbers are right now.
Borton: Okay. Thank you.
Strader: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Strader.
Strader: Thank you, Dave. You know, one thing I think would be great would be to --with
the CARES Act funding in general, you know, show Council a variety of options to help
the community and just kind of keeping various options open for us. I'm supportive of the
change here. I think it makes a lot of sense to keep helping our businesses, but I think it
would be good for us to continue brainstorming if there are things that make sense,
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whether it's, you know, providing disposable masks to larger businesses, particularly
grocery stores that aren't handing them, that there are things we can do with food and
security, if we have an acute need there and I know we looked at childcare and we couldn't
find it way -- if there was a way if we could look at that. So, I just appreciate, you know,
continuing to stay in front of us. With options as the -- as the funding may run out.
Miles: Mr. Mayor, Council Woman Strader, we can certainly look at -- look at and keep
you up to date and certainly I extend it to you as well, if you have ideas or thoughts that
come across your mind, send it our way we will analyze it and take a look at it.
Strader: Will do.
Simison: Well, Council, I have heard from two that they are in favor of moving it forward.
It's like I have got three, four -- okay. We got to make --we will make those modifications
and share it with those who have applied and generally to make that update. Thank you.
Mr. Milles, anything else on this topic?
Miles: That's it. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Appreciate it.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
28. Per Idaho Code 74-206A(1)(a) To deliberate on a labor contract offer or
to formulate a counter offer, 74-206(1)(a) To consider hiring a public
officer, employee, staff member or individual agent, and 74-206(1)(f)
to communicate with legal counsel for the public agency to discuss
the legal ramifications of and legal options for pending litigation, or
controversies not yet being litigated but imminently likely to be
litigated.
Simison: Okay. Thank you. So, with that we are to Item 28 on the agenda.
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: I move that we -- Mr. Mayor, I move that we go into Executive Session per Idaho
Code 74-206A(1)(a), 74-206(1)(a) and 74-206(1)(f).
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor, I second the motion.
Simison: I have a motion and second to go into Executive Session. Is there any
discussion? If not, Clerk will call the roll.
Roll call: Bernt, yea; Borton, yea; Cavener, yea; Hoaglun, yea; Strader, yea; Perreault,
yea.
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Simison: All ayes. We adjourn into Executive Session.
MOTION CARRIED: ALLAYES.
EXECUTIVE SESSION: (5:35 p.m. to 6:01 p.m.)
Simison: Do I have a motion?
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: I move that we come out of Executive Session.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor, I second the motion.
Simison: There is a motion and a second to come out of Executive Session. All those in
favor signify by saying aye.
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Opposed Nay. The ayes have it.
MOTION CARRIED: ALLAYES.
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: I move that we adjourn the meeting.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor, I second the motion.
Simison: I have a motion and a second to adjourn the meeting. All those in favor signify
by saying aye. Opposed nay. The ayes have it. We are adjourned.
MOTION CARRIED: ALLAYES.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 6:01 P.M.
(AUDIO RECORDING ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS)
12 01 2020
MAYOR ROBERT E. SIMISON DATE APPROVED
ATTEST:
CHRIS JOHNSON - CITY CLERK
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