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Meridian City Council Work Session July 13, 2021.
A Meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, July
13, 2021, 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, Crystal Ritchie, Cameron Arial, Caleb Hood, Bruce
Freckleton, Ted Brandvold, Brian Caldwell, Joe Bongiorno and Dean Willis.
ROLL-CALL ATTENDANCE
Liz Strader _X_ Joe Borton
_X_ Brad Hoaglun _X_Treg Bernt
X Jessica Perreault _X Luke Cavener (a:ao p.m.)
_X_ Mayor Robert E. Simison
Simison: Council, we will call the meeting to order. For the record it is July 13th, 2021,
at 4:30. We will begin this afternoon's work session with roll call attendance.
ADOPTION OF AGENDA
Simison: Next item is adoption of the agenda.
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: It's my distinct privilege to make a motion to adopt the agenda -- Mr. Mayor, it's
my distinct privilege this afternoon to make a motion to adopt the agenda as published.
Bernt: Mr. Mayor, I will second the motion.
Simison: I have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda as published -- published.
Is there any discussion? If not, all in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed nay. The ayes
have it and the agenda is published.
MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT.
CONSENT AGENDA [Action Item]
1. Approve Minutes of the June 29, 2021 Budget Workshop and Work
Session Special Meeting
2. Approve Minutes of the June 29, 2021 City Council Special Meeting
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3. Paramount Point Subdivision Pedestrian Pathway Easement
4. Final Plat for Apex Northwest No. 2 (FP-2021-0038) by Brighton
Development, Located at 6575 S. Locust Grove Rd.
5. Final Plat for Oaks North Subdivision No. 11(FP-2021-0039) by Toll
Southwest, LLC, Generally Located at 5685 N. Black Cat Rd.
Simison: Next up is our Consent Agenda.
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: It is my distinct honor this -- this afternoon to make a motion to approve the
Consent Agenda, for the Clerk to -- for the Mayor to sign and for the Clerk to attest.
Hoaglun: 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 in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed nay. The
ayes have it and the Consent Agenda is agreed to.
MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT.
ITEMS MOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA [Action Item]
Simison: There were no items moved from the Consent Agenda.
DEPARTMENT / COMMISSION REPORTS [Action Item]
6. Human Resources Department: Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Amendment
in the Amount of $123,000.00 for Citywide Compensation Market
Studies
Simison: So, we will go into Department and Commission Reports. Our first item up is
the Human Resource Department Fiscal Year 2021 Budget Amendment in the amount of
123,000 dollars for citywide compensation market studies. Turn this over to Director
Ritchie.
Ritchie: Can everyone hear me? Dean? Okay. So, Mr. Mayor, Members of Council,
thank you so much for your time this afternoon. I stand here in front of you today on
behalf of the city's compensation committee requesting a budget amendment, as Mayor
Simison just mentioned, in the amount of 123,000 dollars, so that the city can engage
with Gallagher's compensation consultant division to conduct a comprehensive market
analysis on approximately 225 positions covering our general employee population and
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in addition to that help us develop for your future consideration an updated and new
compensation program for general employees. With that I will stand for any of your
questions.
Simison: Council, any questions?
Borton: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Borton.
Borton: A couple of questions from the -- the proposal that it's part of the contract. It had
a -- a minimum and a maximum and one of the variables was that -- I forget how it was
referred to -- like a phase two add on questionnaire to employees.
Ritchie: Uh-huh.
Borton: Is the intent that that's certainly going to occur?
Ritchie: Yes. So, what -- Council Member Borton, what you are referring to is called a
position description questionnaire --
Borton: Bingo.
Ritchie: -- where we engaged with the employee to accurately assess the functions of
their current positions today to ensure that we have updated and accurately reflected the
job descriptions and so phase B is to include that into the process.
Borton: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Borton.
Borton: A follow up on the -- the second prong of what they are being tasked to do is
provide, what, examples of alternate mechanisms for compensation structure citywide?
Is it based -- is it -- is it compensation only? I mean it's not addressing benefit type
package things, just compensation.
Ritchie: That is correct, Council Member Borton. It is solely focused on the compensation
aspects of the city's pay program.
Borton: Okay. And I guess the last follow up on that would be is the finished product
something to the effect of here is -- here is data using your current comp system or merit
based system that we have now, here is proposed adjustments and, then, option two is
here is a totally different way to do compensation and option three is a different way and
here is a menu of three different ways you can do it. Is it something like that? Are they
going to say here is three ways. We recommend you choose door number three.
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Ritchie: So, we are reaching out to them to provide us compensation expertise in helping
us develop a compensation program that is going to fit the city, be market competitive,
and move us positively forward in the future. The program that we currently have in place
today, which you are referencing, was implemented back in 2013. So, it's several years
old and what we want to do is make sure that we have a comp program that's market
focused, that provides a market competitive wage, or it keeps us at least in the ability to
be competitive to attract and retain the talent we need to move our city forward.
Borton: And Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Borton.
Borton: I might not have parsed the answer out of that.
Ritchie: Sorry.
Borton: That's all right. I'm just trying to get a sense of-- is it -- is the end result a -- here
is a merit based program -- or your current program adjustments, but here is a different
way to do compensation.
Ritchie: Correct. So, two phases -- two projects, if you will, under this contract. One will
be the full market study of all of our individual positions for what is considered market
value for each of our positions that we have here at the city under our general employee
plan. It's not looking at it compared to the current compensation program that we have
in place today, it's looking at the market value for the job and making recommendations
that we will bring back for consideration. The second piece to that is to look at other
options for a compensation program that we would bring forward to the Council for
consideration and adoption for a future fiscal year.
Borton: That's helpful. I thought that's what the gist was, options to consider, kind of --
yeah, just different -- different manners in which you might want to do compensation.
Ritchie: Different considerations for a different --
Borton: For a future date.
Ritchie: Yes. We will be back in front of you with those conversations and
recommendations.
Borton: Okay.
Ritchie: Yes.
Simison: And the ability to fund those recommendations or not.
Borton: Got it.
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Ritchie: Correct. Thank you.
Borton: Thank you.
Simison: Council, any additional questions? If not, do I have a motion?
Perreault: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Perreault.
Perreault: I move that we approve Human Resources Department Fiscal Year 2021
Budget Amendment in the amount of 123,000 for citywide compensation market studies.
Borton: Second.
Simison: I have a motion and a second to approve the budget amendment. Is there any
discussion? If not, Clerk will call the roll.
Roll call: Borton, yea; Cavener, absent; Bernt, yea; Perreault, yea; Hoaglun, yea; Strader,
yea.
Simison: All ayes. Motion carries and the item is agreed to. Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED: FIVE AYES. ONE ABSENT.
Ritchie: Thank you.
7. Solid Waste Advisory Commission: Community Recycling Fund
Program and Update
Simison: Next item is Item 7, which is the Solid Waste Commission community recycle
fund program and updates. I will turn this over to Mr. Cory.
Cory: Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Members of the Council. I am Steve Cory, chairman of the
Solid Waste Advisory Commission, and I stand here in front of you representing the
members of that commission. The community recycling fund program is a spot where
after recyclable materials are collected within the city, if, when they go to market, we get
some revenue from that, they go into this fund and traditionally, up until a couple of years
ago, we went ahead and opened up a window in the start of a fiscal year to release grants
to individuals in the city that would have a project which either promoted recycling or used
recycled materials and it would maybe finance something up to 5,000 dollars and, then,
go ahead and pay half of -- or supply half the cost of something that was over 5,000
dollars, but up -- a couple of years ago -- two or three years ago the revenue stream from
recycled materials dried up and the account has basically just sat idle since then. But if
you would remember from my annual report earlier this year where we started the year
was at about just under 39,000 dollars and this year we have been accumulating about
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1,000 dollars a month. The account balance now is at 48,000 dollars, though we do have
about 2,200 of that that's reserved for a plastic bottle recycling effort that's going well out
at the transfer station. But being as we are getting to a significant amount, also part of a
couple of years ago the direction we had was this is not a savings account, that it is
something that is to benefit our citizens and to go ahead and encourage them to recycle,
the commission felt like maybe it was time to go ahead and consider opening the account
for some kind of an effort. Just as a quick discussion, things like establishing some kind
of a contest for recycling efforts or maybe recognizing good practices within that or maybe
just the traditional version that we had. But, anyway, the commission set up a
subcommittee to go ahead and start flushing out what we were thinking of and we are
going to start that discussion at this coming meeting, if it's consistent with what Council's
thoughts are, but we felt like it was appropriate for us to come before Council before we
started this effort and find out if there was any direction that Council had for us that we
needed to consider and with that I would stand for questions.
Simison: Thank you, Steve. Council, any questions? Or thoughts? And, for the record,
Councilman Cavener joined us at 4:40.
Cavener: Thank you. Mr. Mayor, a quick question maybe.
Simison: Councilman Cavener.
Cavener: Steve, when would you like to get those recommendations by? Do you need
those today? The next week? Before the next SWAC meeting?
Cory: No. As I indicated we would -- traditionally what we would do is we -- we would
open advertisement for whatever was going on on October 1 st and receive application
say in November, make a decision in December and allow someone to start something in
January. So, there is -- yeah, it's not immediate, but we would love to have the sense of
the Council within the next month or so.
Strader: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Strader.
Strader: Steve, I think it's great to open it up to the community and folks for suggestions
and, then, I was curious on Council's feedback would be if they wanted to like vote on
giving suggestions that come forward or if they -- kind of how they wanted to handle that.
I don't know if in previous years Council voted on those options or if, you know, SWAC
went ahead and just picked one and moved forward. But I guess maybe you would need
feedback on that as well.
Simison: Council, any further questions or comments or would you just like to get those
to Mr. Cory over the next month?
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor?
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Simison: Councilman Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Just -- just a thought that, you know, I think, Steve, as you guys go forward
develop them, get the input and different things like that, I think, then, to follow the process
of SWAC deliberating, discussing, is about the same thing and, then, just come forward
to the Council and make a recommendation and say, okay, here is -- here is what we
looked at and here is what we think would be the best direction to go and, then, we can
make that informed decision from there, so -- you guys do a good job with that stuff,
so --
Cory: Thank you.
Simison: All right. Thank you, Steve.
Cory: Thank you.
8. Mayor and City Council Compensation Committee: Report and
Recommendation
Simison: Mr. Nary, is our next item --
Nary: Mr. Mayor, Members of the Council, so I -- I sent out a draft to the committee of
what their recommendations were on this item on the Mayor and Council compensate --
Simison: Do we want to wait? Are you expecting someone else to show up?
Nary: Yes, sir. So, I -- Mr. Evarts from the committee was going to do the presentation.
I haven't heard back from him, so I have reached out to him today to verify. So, if we
could either put this at the end of your next agenda for the regular meeting for a discussion
item, if we could do that, so that way -- I don't know if he thought it was 6.00 o'clock and
not 4:30 -- so I apologize.
Simison: Could we just go to number nine and see if we hear back from him in the next
half hour?
Nary: Certainly.
Simison: Does that work?
Nary: Absolutely.
9. Community Development Department: Orchard Park Certificate of
Occupancy Approval Process
Simison: Okay. So, we will skip number eight and we will go to number nine. So, we will
ask our Community Development Department to come talk about the Orchard Park
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certificate of occupancy approval process. I will turn this over to Director Arial.
Arial: Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Members of Council. Really grateful to be with you this
afternoon, evening, to talk through your report on the Orchard Park development process.
And I think what we will do is we will break it up into three parts. So, first we will have
Caleb kind of talk about the transportation planning elements. Bruce and Ted will discuss
kind of some -- some terms and maybe -- maybe more of a -- a little bit of an educational
piece on the development process, construction, and occupancy and how that -- how that
works in general and, then, we will turn some time over to Bill to talk through the -- the
DA specific items, so --
Dorton: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Borton.
Borton: At the outset and whether Cameron or Bill can answer this question -- at the end
of the information we are going to gather -- I have reviewed everything, but is there a
specific ask of Council to -- is it informative or are we being requested to take a course of
action of some sort?
Nary: Mr. Mayor, Members of the Council, I think in our discussions from the staff's
perspective I think it was more informational based on the information we received a few
weeks ago how the process worked, but it wasn't a revision of the current process. That
could be done certainly at another time, if that's what -- but we were really focusing on
this project.
Borton: Okay. Great. Thank you.
Arial: Appreciate that. Yeah. And just really take the opportunity to express the gratitude
to take a deeper dive into our process. This is not every day that we get this request. So,
we are -- we are excited about the opportunity to really showcase what we do throughout
the process and I will add just my -- how proud I am of our team, tip to tail. You will see
that and -- and we will discuss that a little bit more and particularly the focus on, you know,
public safety and our focus on making sure that, you know, things are built right and that
they are occupied safely to the community. Also take just a moment -- really excited about
having Ted Brandvold on board with us. Take the opportunity to introduce him as our new
commercial projects manager. You know, Ted is a former mayor himself, as well as an
architect -- a professional architect and he's really adding a lot of value and so grateful to
have him on in this particular project as well, just the value he immediately added to help
facilitate, move it along and make things happen. So, with that I'm going to turn the
presentation over to Caleb.
Johnson: Mr. Mayor. Caleb, will you bring the other microphone to the center as well.
Both are fine. So, we will make sure it gets you.
Hood: Mayor, Council, pleasure to be in front of you. I don't know how much of a
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presentation this is, just more of a discussion and as Cameron mentioned maybe a peek
into how we --the process works and using Orchard Park as -- as that example. Cameron
mentioned transportation elements. I'm kind of -- I'm definitely going to weave that into
my part of this, but also just talk about how planning, legal, the applicant -- you know, kind
of how the sausage is made really, going from the hearing, to a development agreement
and, then, making sure that those development agreements -- provisions are carried
through throughout the process. Councilman Borton just mentioned that he reviewed the
record. There is a long record on this project; right? I mean it was at the P&Z three, four
times, continued, remanded back. An extensive record there. At the end of the day,
though, motions are very important. I guess that's what I kind of want to lead with. There
is a lot of things that were discussed on this project, but what makes it into the findings
and the development agreement is what's most important, not what was talked about
during the hearing and maybe what I thought was going to happen, but making the motion
clear and we try to do that as staff sometime is to prod you a little bit -- did you mean this
when you said that in your motion or can you clarify. Is -- is traffic calming a requirement
or is that you hope to see it or how -- you know. So, sometimes we try to prod you, but
that is very important and you kind of see that a little bit in this project. There were some
things discussed through those multiple hearings that a lot of it made it into the findings
and the development agreement, some of it may not have and maybe you thought that
they were there or should be there. So, I just want to kind of lead with that a little bit.
Timing also was important in this case in that when Council heard this project the STARS
agreement was not yet done with ITD. Hadn't been executed yet. There was discussions,
but Council actually acted on this project two days before that was executed with ITD.
So, I'm sure that the applicant knew generally what the terms were going to be, because,
again, it was executed just a couple of days later, but we did not have that. We as the
city, we as the public, we didn't know what -- what all the terms were going to be in that
STARS agreement for a couple days later and so phasing I guess is where I want to start,
with Chinden, because there was a lot of talk about what the applicant was proposing to
do to Chinden and that was both on site or their frontage improvements in that first mile
from Linder back to Meridian and, then, Meridian to Locust Grove and they had committed
to do both of those and, in fact, in some of their presentation even they had some of the
draft phasing plan, do this now, future improvements out to Locust Grove. Nothing that I
found in that record -- and I will be honest I didn't read every word from all seven hearings
that happened but I did go through a lot of it and found their presentation and there is
exhibits that show, you know, that they are -- they are going to do this with first phase
prior to occupancy and this is a future phase. We are committed to do it, but it won't be
done day one. So, that's kind of how the development agreement reads, if you have
looked at that, is -- you know, they are -- they are committing to do that and that -- that
needs to be done, but within the time frames as required by ITD and ACHD for those
improvements. That also applies to some of the traffic calming I mentioned earlier, like at
Plaza, Bergman, Bacall, as allowed by ACHD and fire. The other thing that I want to just
draw your attention to, because I don't know how much of this you understand, but we do
have in our -- in our code we do allow projects -- certain elements of projects, non-life
safety elements of projects -- so, fencing, landscaping, amenities to be bonded for -- a
surety provided to the city guaranteeing that they will go in and we can grant them
occupancy up to 180 days -- roughly six months to open a project, to occupy a building
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up to that amount of time and not have those improvements on the ground and that's
something that's both in the development agreement and, again, in city code in this
instance. Sometimes weather, you know, prohibits somebody from installing some
landscaping and we will do a 60 day, okay, you provide us 110 percent of whatever your
landscape contractor says it's going to cost to put those in and give them a certain amount
of time, hoping that the weather will turn, they could put them in. Afew years ago fencing,
you couldn't find a fencing contractor and so we recognize that and we want to get these
businesses or even homes occupied. So, those are some of the things -- and I'm largely
here to answer any questions you may have about that process, but planning's role in
this, again, starts with the hearings, write the staff report, work with legal on the findings
and the development agreement terms, that, then, come back to you roughly two or three
weeks later and, then, when we get called to do a final inspection, to help -- you are
missing these trees or whatever, the applicant, you know, can post a surety for some of
those types of things and we can still work with our building official and recommend that
they issue a temporary certificate of occupancy or a final CO, if we have a surety even
with that guarantee that those improvements will be completed later on. So, we are not
-- as staff I guess I would kind of put it this way, you know, when you are going through
these hearings, you know, you assume -- I do that all those things get completed before
occupancy, but sometimes circumstances arise and we work with an applicant to make
sure, again, first and foremost life safety is not compromised, but if there are some certain
improvements that aren't yet installed and there is a comfort level that they will be. We
can and we will -- we have, anyways, worked with them to provide a financial surety that
guarantees that those improvements will go in in a timely manner and that's the case with
this project. We had that both in the development agreement that Section 12 talks about
install or bond these things and that's -- that's what we did in this case and recognize that
there is still some landscaping that's done in the STARS agreement, but we had heard
from both the highway district and ITD that they were okay with WinCo opening, that they
were satisfied with the phase one improvements for roadway improvement. So, again, I
can stand for questions, if you want to get more specific on any concerns you have with
how things played out here. I don't know if you want to hear from Bruce or Ted first. I can
hang out, but that's generally how projects work is -- is we do inspections, we work with
our building official, to let them know, yep, everything's done and complete and we don't
have any concerns or, hey, these things are still outstanding, but they are non-life safety
and we are okay -- if you are okay, building official, with issuing an occupancy out there,
so -- that's, again, what happened in this case.
Strader: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Strader.
Strader: So, I will repeat a little bit of the -- I had a conversation with Caleb earlier today,
but I don't doubt that staff followed like the proper process and procedure. I think there
might be some elements we can work on. I think there was a little bit of a disconnect
where maybe Council thought that issuance of a CO or TCO was like the hammer or the
enforcement mechanism that we had to make sure that the road was completed and I
mean that in a very broad sense. When, in truth, these other agencies determine when
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the road was substantially completed; right? And so we didn't really have control over
that determination and maybe that wasn't the right, you know, kind of mechanism to use
to ensure that that happened. My concern is just going forward. If Council intends for
something big to happen that's outside of our control and we have a lot of public input
and some things that are not going to happen the way that we thought or is not going to
happen at all, I just think on those files we need a way to have a project update, so the
public can understand more detail. For example, I think on June 1 st the discussion was
more along the lines of in all likelihood we issue a TCO for them to stock the store, we
will likely issue another one so they can open the store, because these two agencies that
determine that the roadwork is substantially complete and here the items that are not
complete and why we think that's okay, therefore -- if we have an update more like that,
then, I think that just helps the public's expectation be in further alignment with our
expectation to be in alignment with the project. So, my concerns are not about our own
process, my concerns are mainly like communication oriented around a project that has
a lot of eyes on it when it's the hot potato and we think we are going to get a lot of
feedback, that we have a way to get updates on the record for people.
Simison: Mr. Hood, did you have any response to that or comment? Not asking you to,
just wondered if you did.
Hood: Yeah. Mr. Mayor, Council Woman Strader, I appreciate the comments and, yes,
communication is -- is key. You know, we weren't -- as a staff we weren't trying to hide
anything from Council. You know, we even talked about, you know, the scope of that
June 1 st meeting was -- was talking about the use of that building and not getting too far
off track from what was noticed for the hearing at that meeting, but knowing that they
weren't going to have -- knowing that for the WinCo project not a hundred percent of that
was going to be complete before they wanted to stock the shelves and open -- open the
store. We had had communications with them and we -- we were working towards that
to say, okay, but you need to have these things done if you even want to temporarily be
in there, because these are the -- the key things from our standpoint and the things and
how-- again within the framework of the development agreement and the conditions. So,
your point is well taken about communication and I guess why I had the quick sidebar
there, Owyhee High School we are not -- I'm not proposing to give you that
communication update just now, but -- but a little bit. That's coming. When that was
approved by Council there were many roadway improvements that were required to be
done before occupancy of that school. They are not going to be done. Do we not issue
a TCO out there? That was -- that was the intent. That's what we wanted to happen and
the intent was good. The school district couldn't get anybody to bid on the roadway
projects. So, do we now not have a school year out there? And I'm saying that somewhat
facetiously, but we are working with them, too; right? I mean there is this expectation and
there was -- that's -- that's a real issue that was talked about out there. But what do you
do when you get to this point when the high school is 99 percent done and school starts
next month, but there is a DA provision in here that says that -- that intersection needs to
be improved. If it isn't do you grant occupancy? Sorry.
Simison: I mean a valid question and balance the needs and expectations of Council and
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the community and those that are receiving the benefit of becoming open and how do you
effectively manage that when you see -- I mean we visibly see the work is being
completed, but may not be completed on a specific date and what is the impact of that
decision. We have seen some businesses -- Costco was a great example that had every
intention of doing an opening on a certain day and we said no, you know, and -- and they
knew they couldn't meet that as well and so they reset their date, because they couldn't
meet the -- was the DA provisions at that point in time that caused that reset? I know that
there was those elements. So, what is that balancing act? Because it's not one hundred
percent clear where that line should always be, intention versus prescriptive.
Hood: And, Mr. Mayor, if I can just -- and to Council Woman Strader's point again, it does
make it even more difficult when there is a provision put in the development agreement
that is on a third party agency or something we don't even really control and when they
say that it's substantially complete, you know, what maybe -- we don't even know really
what's outstanding there. Sometimes. So, it is difficult and it's something we are having
internal discussions, how can we tighten that up a little bit more to make it clear, even
when we are working through this, what was the intent of Council and how can we work
with our partner agencies and is that even the best place to put something, because,
again, we can't necessarily enforce that anyways. If we don't get anything from ACHD
saying it's complete how are we supposed to check that off? And we can't make them
tell us that it's complete or not. They work with us well, but it is difficult -- again, to her
question, you know, how do we avoid this in the future and communicate and understand
and what are the appropriate places. Just one more final -- we don't have any hammers.
When you get to this point in the process occupancy is it. I can't think of anything else
we can do as a stick or, you know, anything to withhold or not issue or however you want
to couch that, that -- again I think the city is protected and that we hold a financial surety
for those things and we don't let anybody out of anything, maybe delayed longer than
what their original intention was, but no one's getting away or out of making those
improvements, they still have to be done, it just may not have been done in the sequence
and the timing that most everyone envisioned when the conditions were instituted in the
first place.
Nary: Mr. Mayor?
Perreault: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Perreault.
Perreault: Thank you, Caleb, for your presentation. Good to see you. You know, I feel
like we are not talking about the applicant's role in all of this and, you know, in my opinion
the applicant needs to be pushing the cart in regard to getting all of the agencies to be
responding. If I'm the applicant I'm actively contacting any of the other transportation
agencies to find out what they would consider complete, where their stance is in providing
that information to the city if necessary. If I have a deadline to meet I'm doing that and
I'm involved in the process actively. So, I'm curious if the planning department is not
seeing that happen. I really don't feel like it's necessarily the city's responsibility to be
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calling all the other departments to make sure that those portions of the project are -- I
may be way off on that. The second thing I would say is if you are -- if we have a project
that's -- that's as substantial as Owyhee High School, for example -- and I know we are
not making a decision on that this evening, but I feel like if they want to -- if they want to
proceed with an occupancy certificate and there is something not completed, like an
intersection -- we are not talking about landscaping, we are not talking about -- then they
don't need to come and apply for a DA modification, if that's permissible, which, again,
that's not going to probably be processed before the school year starts, but I'm not
comfortable with allowing for something that significant to not have -- not happen. Now,
again, we are back to the conversation in the planning department's judgment when do
they recommend that to the applicant or when don't they. So, I would also agree that if
we could give any guidance to that that would be helpful, but it's -- it is so much of a case-
by-case basis, but I can say for -- you know, for myself -- and I'm sure I'm hoping for my
fellow Council Members that, you know, if the Planning Department needs to come to the
Mayor and Council President and have that conversation about what about this one
particular application, maybe that's the route that we go when we have something that's
bumping up against a deadline.
Hood: So, Mr. Mayor, Council Woman Perreault, I'm going to let Ted and I think Bruce --
back to Orchard Park. We are very involved. So, the first part-- your first question I think
they could probably tackle the best. The second one -- and sometimes we know,
sometimes we don't. Sometimes we just call -- get called for inspection or they say, hey,
we are trying to open up, you know, it's Friday at 4:30 and we want to have our ribbon
cutting tomorrow, can you come give us occupancy. Oh, by the way, we don't have our
landscaping done. So, sometimes we get surprised, sometimes we know. Again, both of
the projects we have been talking about just now -- WinCo was in fairly early
communication with us and communicating and -- and good -- good communication lines,
at least from my standpoint -- and I will let these gentlemen talk a little bit more about that.
And same thing with Owyhee; right? They haven't asked for that, but they know that they
aren't going to be there. The stars aren't aligning where they are going to have everything
done, so they have been in communication with us, too. But, again, that's not always the
case and just, by the way, I tend to agree with you, that's a -- that's a big deal, not having
intersections done, because that was a lot of what was talked about at the public hearings
and making sure that at least this minimum level of roadway improvements were out there
beforehand. And I will just say I have talked to the WinCo folks and that's why June 1 st
it kind of was this convoluted -- well, should you ask for a DA mod just to clear it up, just
because, you know, that seems to be cleanest. It's transparent for everybody. Here is
where we are at with our process. We are not trying to get out of doing the improvements,
but, man, they aren't going to be done prior to occupancy. Is that okay, Council?
Sometimes you don't have that three or four weeks, though, to notice a development
agreement modification. So, we are trying to -- again, internally we are trying to improve
that process. We are not trying to hide the ball from anybody. We can -- you know, we
will work on those lines of communication even with Council on what -- you know, when
that's appropriate to bring to you, but we do a surety for some of these improvements
and, again, I will just -- before I turn -- you know, if there is something you really want to
see done before occupancy is done on a project just make that clear in the motion, in the,
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you know, development agreement or whatever. This isn't -- don't let them bond for this.
This needs to be done, a hundred percent signed off, completed, before occupancy,
because we would have a pretty -- a template that we have with legal that basically says
unless you bond for it put it in. If you don't want that to happen, then, please make that
explicit going forward, so --
Freckleton: Good afternoon, Mayor and Council. Caleb teed that up really well. We refer
to those Fridays as hair on fire Fridays and it usually always happens at 4:30 on a Friday,
somebody's got a grand opening and they come in and they want occupancy and they
have still got inspections that haven't happened. So, typically, in our department
everybody drops what they are doing and we try and make it happen for them. But in this
particular case with WinCo, the WinCo representatives were very engaged with our staff.
They saw the writing on the wall, you know, they knew that they had a proposed grand
opening date, they knew the status of the improvements, because they stayed very
plugged in with -- with the developer's representatives on site. One of the -- one of the
greatest benefits we had on this project was the addition of the commercial project's
manager bringing Ted Brandvold onboard. Ted was -- was very engaged with -- with
those folks. He was -- I don't know how many meetings he went to, but he was there
probably three times a week in their job trailers talking with them, talking about status of
the roadway improvements. We -- you know, we issued this permit for WinCo based on
the -- the allowance from Council and Mayor. When the plat came through you allowed
one building permit prior to the recordation of the plat. So, they -- they started their
construction while the development was still under-- under construction and that's always
a risky move, you know, and in this case there were some delays that happened with
Linder Village. Unfortunately, everything kind of came together right at the end. So, we
did -- I mean our staff found ourselves in the position of having to kind of thread the
needle. As Cameron mentioned, you know, our greatest concern is life safety. We are
not going to proceed with allowing people to occupy a building, either temporarily or
permanently, unless we have one hundred percent life safety concerns addressed and
signed off and so that was the case with -- with this building. That building was -- was
one hundred percent signed off by everybody. We, unfortunately, had improvements with
Chinden that were not to the point where we could allow full occupancy and so through
this process we did issue three separate temporary C of O's. Each one of those had very
specific criteria. This is what you are allowed to do and it had an expiration date and
those expiration dates were coordinated with the applicant and their contractors on certain
milestones that they were -- they were shooting for. You know, it was X, Y and Z
improvement function and, then, will be done by the state. So, we set an expiration date
and there is a check-in point. Where are you at, you know, and, then, we move forward.
So, Ted does have a couple of slides to show you to kind of talk about the CO and TCO
process and what they are used for and I think with that I will turn it over to him.
Perreault: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Yes, Council Woman Perreault.
Perreault: I had a difficult time hearing Bruce there about halfway through when he was
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sharing -- I don't know if it's a microphone issue or not.
Simison: It's Bruce being a little taller than the microphones and not getting down low,
so -- make sure you can hear yourself in the room.
Brandvold: Thank you. Actually, I can press the arrow there. Good evening, Mr. Mayor,
Council Members. Pleasure to be here with you this evening. I was asked to give you a
little bit of information in regards to the difference between a TCO or temporary certificate
-- certificate of occupancy and a certificate of occupancy. I don't know if you have had a
chance to look at this. I can -- I can do a deep dive or I can get to the -- get to the heart
of it if you would like. Really what -- there is not much difference between the two and
really -- let's see. If you look at the fourth page there. Let me see if I can get to it. Right
here, actually. The notes at the bottom really. The TCO -- both the TCO and the CO
require all life safety requirements to be met and -- and operational. The project
construction is substantially complete and this means that the building is able to be used
for its intended purpose. So, both of them have the same requirements there. What the
TCO allows us to do is actually allow for items that are not complete, that are not life
safety issues, that allows for occupancy still. So, then, the next page would actually take
this -- and I know I'm really abbreviating this and if you have any questions on any of the
other stuff we can get to it, but the next page has some possible improvement measures
that we could look at here and we should probably -- we should look at moving from a
practice of TCO issuance to a -- more of a focus on getting to the full certificate of
occupancy on these projects. Certificate of occupancy should actually only be initiated in
extraordinary situations and we should be, again, pushing for the full certificate --
certificate of occupancy. Development agreements actually tend to be a little bit of a
problem. I think Caleb had gotten into this a little bit. When we start embedding things
into our development agreements, such as requirements for roadway completions and
landscape and things like that, it gets a little difficult and TCOs were never really meant
for that. It's really a life safety issue for the building and within the perimeters of that
building. So, what we -- what we should be doing is really tying anything in regards to
improvements that still need to be done into the surety process or bonding process for
the projects and making sure that we have --we have got a strong process in that regards.
But I think it would help tremendously. As was said, we are looking at a very similar
situation here in Owyhee -- Owyhee right now for the high school and we have got to --
we have got to get some kids into a high school with -- with roadways that probably aren't
going to be complete. But any -- any questions I can answer from anybody I would be
happy to do so, but --
Borton: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Borton.
Borton: Ted, great to meet you.
Brandvold: Yes.
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Borton: It sounds like there is -- there is two different paths that we are talking about -- or
are two different concerns. One concern would be whether or not a Council's motion
accurately reflects the requirements that have to be done and if we might miss in a motion
that they -- you know, an application shall do X by Y date and that goes in the DA and if
we miss it, then, we lack the potential hammer to require it to be done. So, that's one
area that I think we are talking about. Whether or not a certain component of a project is
required or can be bonded for is really nothing that we ever genuinely address in our
motions. But the second path is one that I have heard highlighted where there may be a
provision in a DA that they shall do X by Y date, but there is some disconnect in when
and if the city is going to enforce it and take the -- the nuclear option to never grant a CO,
because it's not been done. Not allow a school to be open, for example. So, are we
talking today about making sure Council motions include DA provisions that allow you to
-- drop the hammer is not the correct way, but allow the city to really hold an application's
feet to the fire or are we talking about scenarios where we have the ability to hold the
application's feet to the fire, but there is some disconnect and how early in that process
we are made aware of, hey, they are behind. They are supposed to do X by this date.
It's in the DA, but they are not going to make it, what do you want to do? I see two different
concerns being raised. Is that an accurate summary?
Brandvold: It's an accurate summary of what you have got -- what -- but what -- or how
do I go about this? Two factors here is a lot of time -- is really the clarity of what the
Council's motion is and what the Council expects and whether that is actually fully and
accurately portrayed in the development agreement; right? That's one --that's one issue.
But -- but -- but we are also -- as Caleb touched on, we also shouldn't be as a city
necessarily embedding a lot of -- like the ACHD and -- and ITD requirements in that DA.
I mean we have no enforcement arm against them and we can't necessarily make that
happen. The potential you have there as a Council -- I don't know if I'm -- I'm going off a
little bit. But the -- the potential you have there as a -- as a Council here is setting up
something that -- that can't be met developers are going to realize that and -- and by
setting some of these -- these conditions into the DA is -- is actually hindering developer's
desire or -- to do projects.
Borton: So -- Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Borton.
Borton: To that point, though, if-- if the developer says I can't open -- or we say, hey, you
can't open for this particular reason until that intersection is done, you just -- you can't.
We -- we are not going to approve an annexation, because that issue is critical and the
developer says I get it. I agree. I cannot open. And it gets put into a DA and it's a
voluntary agreement that I am forever hamstrung, even if it's a third-party agency and
there is factors outside my control, it seems like those -- those scenarios where that
occurs -- it's eyes wide open, city understands and the city approves it, because it --
because it might be a denial, for example, if that condition isn't included, but because of
that condition, understanding their strings, the -- the applicant is in agreement that it is
clear, but it's the second prong that I was talking about and now it's where we are in the
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process where the city would ultimately enforce that provision and say in this example
you don't get a CO and if -- and if that third-party agency is delayed 20 years, you don't
get a CO for 20 years unless you come apply to modify the DA, articulate the reasons
why these circumstances are different -- it seems like we got a mechanism to do it, but --
Brandvold: I mean you -- to some degree -- I mean, yes, you can take that hard line and
say, okay, you are not going to open, but had -- say, for instance -- let's just take WinCo.
All right? As a -- as an example here. Had we take -- if we take the hard line in a DA that
-- do you want me to go there? That isn't necessarily clear, all right, WinCo is going to
come at us and say, you know what, I am substantially complete, I deserve a full certificate
of occupancy -- excuse me -- certificate of occupancy, because they -- again, the TCO
and CO are basically the perimeters of that building and that's it and so we have got
somebody there -- sitting there that's going to come after us, because they can't open
because we are enforcing, you know, a provision in the DA that says the roadway has got
to be complete. And I'm not saying that's a situation, because I think in this particular DA
there was some ambiguity.
Simison: Maybe I'm -- maybe I'm Captain Obvious, the one that's just kind of making this
connection, but the DA and the TCO don't always apply to the same entity and that's what
occurred in this situation is WinCo was not subject to -- to my knowledge WinCo didn't
sign the DA.
Brandvold: No. It was developer of the site -- of the --
Simison: Yeah. So, they are not -- they are not beholden to this. The developer is the
one that is being held -- have to be held accountable compared to the individual that's
there and --
Brandvold: Which adds another layer is, yes.
Simison: Which is another layer and, quite frankly, Caleb kind of mentioned this before,
it's almost by approving something to take -- to start developing first before the process
had an -- you know, we got out under our skis by approving one building early to a certain
extent. I mean if you didn't approve that one building early you may or may not get there,
but the off-site improvements are always going to be a separate element. So, even for
Council do you want us -- and for staff motion, do you want them to say that the road
improvements will be substantially complete as determined by the roadway and you will
see -- do you want that clarity in your motions if you are going to tie road improvements
to projects. That at least gets it to the point where we understand what that means in
theory, even though it only matters where -- whoever you talk to at ACHD what
substantially complete means -- I don't know if they got a definition, to my knowledge. Am
I -- am I missing -- is that -- at least we understand the difference. Do we agree on that
point? That DA's and TCO's may not even go to the -- be applying to the same group.
Nary: So, Mr. Mayor, I could probably add a little bit to that, because I -- I agree with you.
I mean, again, you hit it right on the head. I mean, again, the applicant and the DA here
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is the developer of the shopping center, not WinCo. Now, WinCo might be paying for
some of it, but they are not -- they don't have any control over the project itself -- of the
roadways. In this particular development agreement we actually did tie the certificate of
occupancy to the substantial completion of the roadway. It isn't always that way. You
have to remember a development area is merely a contract. So, we only have an
enforcement tool through either a contract by basically suing them to enforce the
agreement or by de-annexing the property and that's really our choices in the contract.
So, we don't have the same level of hammer -- unless we put it in there and we actually
did here in this case, but not to make it more confusing, because I know it sounds pretty
confusing already. I reviewed the minutes of the hearing that approved this project. No
one talked about Meridian to Locust Grove in this discussion. All of the conversation
regarding Chinden was accessed from Chinden into the site, because of trying to take
access off of Fox Run off of Linder as the primary entrance into this facility. They were
asking for a variance to allow them access. We tied it to the similar approval we did for
Costco two miles down the road or a mile down the road and no one was talking about
that as a whole. Now, as Caleb said, there were a number of hearings, so I understand
that the bigger discussion of Chinden --and this is a subset of that discussion, but it wasn't
a specific requirement here. In this particular one it was a little -- a little different in how
the motion was made, because Council Member Palmer actually brought up some --
some talking points of what he felt was important. There was further discussion. He
made a motion to approve based on what he said ten minutes ago, asked me -- he looked
at me and said do you have it. I did. At least I think I did. I repeated it back, like I think
these are the points. Everybody went, yep, that's right and, then, we voted. So, we do
as the staff -- as Cameron and Caleb and Bruce said, we try very hard to make sure we
catch your points, but, again, we -- we review Dean's minutes. We review the tape. We
go back and look to make the findings and, then, again, the last step is it comes back to
you. So, we do try to get all those points, but this particular one we tied it to the
occupancy, but, again, it was -- the completion as determined by the road agencies who
were the authority over the road and they did give us the approval that to their -- to their
expertise the roads were safe for use to use for this project. So, that is the only -- we
don't have road engineers. We don't have a way to supersede that. So, if the road agency
says the roads are safe and acceptable to us, they are safe and acceptable. I mean that's
-- that's the only way we really can do that.
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: I think the ultimate goal of this evening is just to provide some transparency to --
to some folks and to ourselves who are -- who are interested in this process and why it
quite wasn't where we thought it was as a Council and so I appreciate the dialogue and
appreciate the clarity. But just to confirm, though -- so, what you are saying is in
Councilman Palmer's final motion there was no -- there was nothing in that motion that
said that the DA or the CO to WinCo is tied to the completion of Chinden from Linder to
Meridian or Locust Grove. Either one.
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Nary: It was not.
Cavener: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Cavener.
Cavener: I think Bill brings up some -- some good points. You know, we continued that
Linder Village hearing --
Bernt: Right.
Cavener: -- to only talk about a particular piece of the road, which is I think why we didn't
have a lot of discussion in it and I -- like Mr. Nary I went back and I -- I read the minutes
and I said, ah, I don't remember some of that, so I watched it and get even a different feel
watching it than reading it and I think, you know, this has been a really really good
conversation, but I do think there is some opportunities for us to improve our processes
coming out of that. One, I think we are already doing a really good job of. We are not
going late at night anymore on City Council meetings. I think we were -- it was another
late night, after a series of late nights, and I know those are when those things tend to fall
off and we think things are captured in a motion and maybe they are not. A suggestion
would be --and maybe, Mayor, this is a question maybe for you or even Council President,
staff, to consider. I think particularly coming off of contentious public hearings when the
Council has made a motion, perhaps adjacent to the findings that we approve a Council
Member should be able to maybe request an executive memo that outlines the highlights
of what is captured within those findings. I like that for a couple of reasons. One, it allows
us to come back after the meeting and review and make sure, hey, what I thought made
sense up here in my head is actually captured here. Two, I think it makes it easier for our
public to understand that. While I know we have got a lot of great engineers and planners
and attorneys who live in the City of Meridian, that's ultimately who we are working for is
the public and I think making this easy for the public to understand the actions that are
happening up here can give them greater confidence in decisions that we are doing. I
don't think we need to do it after every land use application. I think if there is one that's
contentious and the Mayor or the Council feel like, boy, we would like to capture that for
the public, that we could request it and do it. So, that's something, Mr. Mayor, I would
encourage you and your staff to talk about if that's something that is feasible, isn't
overbearing on staff's time, I think it also would allow us as Council to make sure, yep,
what I thought we approved on Tuesday night is actually what we approved. So, just
some thoughts.
Simison: Thank you, Councilman Cavener. I will refer that to Bill on that element about
what makes sense. I mean if -- and I would suggest to that point Council include that in
your motion of an expectation, because I don't want to be the one to determine what's
contentious and what's not contentious. I would rather Council agree.
Cavener: I agree.
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Simison: -- if it's contentious enough and big enough, honestly, what you are asking for
doesn't seem like to be that much more, because they are already doing the work.
Nary: Yeah. Mr. Mayor, Members of the Council, maybe to add to what Council Member
Cavener said, we do that a lot internally. I mean we have a lot of conversations of did
they say this, do we add this, do we bring it back, do we get clarification. So, if it's on
your radar as well that would help us, because we do that a lot between the planning staff
and my department and, like I said, we go back and listen to the tape or we watch the
video and say, yeah, they said this, they didn't say that, but it might have been something
that was said an hour in and an hour later. It was still part of the essence of what we are
talking about, but it wasn't specific. So, we just want to get it right and, again, I think we
could -- we have been told many times what we need to bring it back, but, again, if it's on
your folks radar to say we would like to see this again before we get to the findings,
please, just make sure you tell us that.
Cavener: And, Mr. Mayor, if I --
Simison: Councilman Cavener.
Cavener: And, Cameron, your staff work really really hard and it is a really really
challenging job trying to translate to the Council and, then, decipher what the Council has
said in maybe a long motion or conversation to be captured. At the same time we are
also trying to, you know, provide good customer service to the applicant and also great
customer service to our citizens. I recognize -- I hope you don't feel like this is a Monday
morning quarterback situation. I just think that this was a big scenario that shined a light
on areas of like get -- I think you are taking some good feedback the way that staff can
better support the Council and the public and the way that Council can do a better job of
making sure that we are providing clarity to make it easier for you guys as well.
Arial- Mr. Mayor. I -- I do appreciate that, Councilman Cavener, that, you know, you are
conscientious of staff time. I mean if we were having to do this level of review on every
application that's -- that's an undue burden, but we -- we support the idea of making sure
we get these motions right up front, so that we can, then, implement them and execute
them, you know, to everyone's expectation on the long run.
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Strader: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: I just wanted to say thank you to staff as well for, you know, bringing clarity to this
-- to this topic. I -- and I agree and I want to echo the words of Council -- Councilman
Cavener and say this wasn't -- we didn't want to make this be a gotcha moment for sure,
we just wanted to be as transparent as possible and to bring clarity to this situation. It
was a big -- it was a big application that went a long time and had many different layers
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to it. So, thank you and it looks like, you know, we need to do a better job on our end to
be more clear on our motions and so going forward we will do a better job with that.
Simison: Council Woman Strader.
Strader: Yeah. You know, I appreciate planning staff's time on this. Going to go through
it and trying to figure out -- it's always going to improve, right, and, then, we -- we as
Council have a lot of work to do it sounds like in clarifying our motions and -- but one thing
I want to say -- if you have a situation like Owyhee High School and it's pretty clear in
your judgment that what Council intended and what the public heard versus what is going
to happen that there is a big disconnect, it's not just about managing the planning process,
we have manage the political process of making sure the public is informed about
something that may not meet what they expected originally and so I think it needs to come
back before us either as an update or following our approvals the way we normally do,
but there needs to be some way for that to get on the record and provide everybody with
an update in my opinion.
Simison: Council Woman Strader, I would agree and I think there is a difference between
what is -- you know, I think Owyhee High School -- you know, I heard about this the first
time yesterday about this popping up and I think we need to have an understanding about
what is our process moving forward with this, either through this process or otherwise.
So, I'm going to -- I'm going to task you all to, please, come up with a plan by tomorrow.
If we have to have public hearings, if we have to do specific things to make it legal, but
think from a general standpoint I hope what you heard is we stay within the legal confines.
I don't know that there has been anything that I'm aware of that has ever been approved
that has been outside the approval of our process and otherwise. Whether or not people
thought that's what was approved, that's -- that's a different issue and that's always going
to be hard to Monday morning quarterback, for lack of a better term. But I hope you don't
take away from this that we are approving stuff outside of what has been approved in the
DA and signed off on by parties. That is not the case. But the Owyhee High School is
one that is a little bit now different that we are going to have to figure out what is the
appropriateness of what decision needs to be make and we need to make that quickly,
so --
Perreault: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Council Woman Perreault.
Perreault: A question for Mr. Nary. If there was a situation in which the staff and legal
didn't -- didn't really truly feel like they could get a grasp of Council's intentions, would
that, then, be put back on the agenda for the following week and discussed and clarify --
clarifying questions be asked or how would that work?
Nary: So, Mr. Mayor, Members of the Council, Council Member Perreault, absolutely. I
mean if we -- again, we review it the next day and as they are trying to craft the findings
Planning will reach out to my department to ask does this make sense, is this what
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happened. Usually -- I'm usually the one here, so I'm usually the one that says, no, they
didn't say that. But, yes, if we are not clear in the slightest we would bring it back. If we
are not clear, but we think we are, we are going to make sure when the findings come out
we are going to highlight them, pull it off the agenda and say this is how we wrote them,
is this right. So, if we are not even sure how to write them we would bring it back before
that. If we think we are and we have looked at the video, we are pretty comfortable, but
we still want to be sure, yes, we will absolutely ask, because, again, we are just trying to
get it right.
Perreault: Thank you.
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: Are we -- Mr. Mayor, are we finished with this discussion?
Simison: To my knowledge, unless there is anything else. Thank you, Cameron and
Caleb and everybody.
8. Mayor and City Council Compensation Committee: Report and
Recommendation
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: There is an item on the -- on the agenda. It was Item 8. Unfortunately, some
things happened that weren't foreseen and the presenter or presenters aren't available
for this evening. So, I would like to amend the agenda and strike Item 8 and we can put
this on either next week's agenda or the week after.
Hoaglun: Mr. Mayor. Was that a motion?
Bernt: That was a motion.
Hoaglun: I will second the motion.
Simison: Have a motion and a second to strike Item 8. Is there any discussion? If not,
all in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed nay? The ayes have it and the item is stricken
from the record.
MOTION CARRIED: ALLAYES.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
10. Per Idaho Code 74-206(1)(a) To consider hiring a public officer,
employee, staff member or individual agent, wherein the respective
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qualities of individuals are to be evaluated in order to fill a particular
vacancy or need; and (d) To consider records that are exempt from
disclosure as provided in chapter 1, title 74, Idaho Code.
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
Bernt: At this time, Mr. Mayor, I move that we go into Executive Session per Idaho Code
74-206(1)(a).
Hoaglun: Second the motion.
Bernt: It looks like -- do we need (d), too?
Hoaglun: I will second that motion. Yes. With (a) and (d).
Simison: I have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? If not, Clerk will call
the roll.
Roll call: Borton, yea; Cavener, yea; Bernt, yea; Perreault, yea; Hoaglun, yea; Strader,
yea.
Simison: All ayes. And we will go into Executive Session.
MOTION CARRIED: ALLAYES.
(EXECUTIVE SESSION: 5.36 p.m. to 5:48 p.m.)
Simison: Council, do I have a motion?
Bernt: Mr. Mayor, I move that we come out of Executive Session.
Hoaglun: Second the motion.
Simison: I have a motion and a second to come out of Executive Session. Is there any
discussion? If not all in favor signify by saying aye. Opposed nay.
Bernt: Mr. Mayor?
Simison: The ayes have it.
MOTION CARRIED: ALLAYES.
Simison: Councilman Bernt.
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Bernt: Move that we adjourn the meeting.
Hoaglun: Second the motion.
Simison: Have a motion and a second to adjourn the meeting. All in favor signify by
saying aye. Opposed nay. The ayes have it. We are adjourned.
MOTION CARRIED: ALLAYES.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 5:48 P.M.
(AUDIO RECORDING ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS)
7 / 27 / 2021
MAYOR ROBERT E. SIMISON DATE APPROVED
ATTEST:
CHRIS JOHNSON - CITY CLERK
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