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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006 01-31 Special Meridian City Council Special Meetina Januarv 31, 2006 The Meridian City Council special meeting was called to order at 5:35 P.M. on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 by Mayor Tammy de Weerd. Members Present: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, Keith Bird, Shaun Wardle and Charlie Rountree. Members Absent: Joe Borton. Staff Present: Ted Baird, Bruce Freckleton, Michael Cole, Anna Canning, Steve Siddoway, Bill Nary and Will Berg. Item 1. Roll-call Attendance: Roll call. X Shaun Wardle X Charlie Rountree X 0 Joe Borton X Keith Bird Mayor Tammy de Weerd Item 2. Adoption of the Agenda: De Weerd: Item No.2, adoption of the agenda. Bird: Madame Mayor. De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we adopt the agenda as published. Rountree: Second. Bird: And the ordinance number will be 06-1212. De Weerd: Okay, there is a motion to approve the agenda as presented. All those in favor say aye. THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED. Item 3. Consent Agenda: A. Tabled from January 24, 2006: Development Agreement: AZ 05-017 Request for Annexation and Zoning Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31, 2006 Page 2 of 15 of 137.96 acres from RUT to R-8 zone for Messina Meadows Subdivision by Tuscany Development, Inc. - on South Eagle Road between East Victory Road and East Amity Road: Approve Bird: Madame Mayor. De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we approve the consent agenda as published. Rountree: Second. De Weerd: Okay, motion to approve the consent agenda. discussion? Hearing none, Mr. Berg would you please call roll. Is there any Berg: Thank you Madame Mayor, members of the Council roll call vote. Bird, aye; Rountree, aye; Wardle, aye; and Borton is absent. De Weerd: Okay thank you. THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED. Tabled from January 24, 2006: Ordinance No. 06-1212 : AZ 05-017 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 137.96 acres from RUT to R-8 zone for Messina Meadows Subdivision by Tuscany Development, Inc. - on South Eagle Road between East Victory Road and East Amity Road: De Weerd: Okay, Item No.4 tabled from the January 24th meeting with Ordinance No. 06-1212. Mr. Berg would you please read by title only. Item 4. Berg: Thank you Madame Mayor, members of the Council. (Inaudible) 06-1212 an Ordinance for Messina Meadows Subdivision for Annexation of property located in the south % section 29, and all of Lot 2, Block 11, of proposed Messina Hills Subdivision No.2 lying in township 3 north, range 1 east, Boise, Meridian, Ada County, Idaho as described in attachment "A" and annexing certain lands and territory, situated in Ada County, Idaho and adjacent and contiguous to the corporate limits of the City of Meridian as requested by the City of Meridian; establishing and determining the land use zoning classification of said lands from RUT (Ada County) to R-8 (medium density) in the Meridian City code; providing that copies of this ordinance shall be filed with the Ada County Assessor, the Ada County Recorder and the Idaho State Tax Commission, as required by law; and Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31, 2006 Page 3 of 15 providing for a summary of the ordinance; and providing for a waiver of the reading rules; and providing an effective date. De Weerd: Thank you. You have heard this ordinance heard by title only. Is there anyone who would like to hear it read in its entirety? Hearing none, Council I would entertain a motion to approve the Ordinance No. 06-1212. Rountree: Madame Mayor. De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: I move we approve Ordinance No. 06-1212. Bird: Second. De Weerd: Okay motion to approve by Councilman Rountree, second by Councilman Bird to approve Item No.4. Mr. Berg will you please call roll. Berg: Thank you Madame Mayor, members of the Council roll call vote. Rountree, aye; Bird, aye; Wardle, aye; and Borton is absent. THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED. Item 5. Executive Session per Idaho State Code 67-2345 (1) (c) & (f): De Weerd: Do I have a motion? Bird: Madame Mayor. De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I ask a question to you and the Council members. Seeing how our famous executive sessions (inaudible--------------------------), item agenda No.6 could go first with your permission or is there a reason it is last? De Weerd: Mr. Bird, yeah, the reason I had - we (inaudible---) behind is we thought by then the Planning and Zoning Commission would be here and then they can hear the report as well. Bird: Okay. Nary: Madame Mayor. De Weerd: Mr. Nary. Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31,2006 Page 4 of 15 Nary: The only thing that I was going to interject was Madame Mayor and Councilman Bird that if for some reason the Executive Session will take longer than 20 minutes or something we can always continue that matter to the end of your other workshop to complete that so you don't have to feel rushed. Bird: I move that we go into Executive Session Idaho State Code 67-2345 (1) (c) & (f). Rountree: Second. De Weerd: Okay, the motion is to move into Executive Session. Mr. Berg will you please call roll? Berg: Thank you Madame Mayor, members of the Council roll call vote. Bird, aye; Rountree, aye; Wardle, aye; and Borton is absent. De Weerd: Thank you. THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED. De Weerd: Okay, I would entertain a motion to come out of Executive Session. Rountree: So moved. Bird: Second. De Weerd: All those in favor say aye. THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED. Item 6. Quarterly Update from Cheryl Brown, Economic Development Coordinator: Brown: I will keep it short. How much time? This front page is really the one I want to focus on. The rest of it if we don't get to it are statistics and graphs for you and some updates that I wanted to give you. This is the plan that I am looking at for this coming year and following this economic development strategic plan. I am going to start with our economic development division, which is the merging businesses, the value of jobs and the downtown revitalization. Going onto the next one is creating city-wide division and synergistic commercial employment areas for all of Meridian. Looking at infrastructure plan, master plan and vision and recruitment plan, focus recruitment initiatives, guidelines and target lists. The downtown coordinating redevelopment efforts with MDC and Meridian identity and marketing strategy and overall branding regional Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31,2006 Page 5 of 15 awareness in downtown revitalization tying in with our overall marketing plan and I would love to hear any comments, any suggestions, any input and you don't need to give that to me tonight, you can come in or email me any comments after you look at this; but I would love your input, any suggestions you have on this that might help. If you go on to the next page, this is just kind of an update of our top ten employers and where they are at right now with employee counts and as you see a lot of them have gone up. Meridian, right now - our unofficial population that I got from COMPASS is at 64,816 people. Ada County added 9,047 jobs just this last year and I don't have some of the current steps that way because they don't come out until June, but a lot of the 9,000 right there is Meridian. De Weerd: Is that gross or net? Brown: Gross. Commerce and Labor does not break it out per city, but it's just by counting. I am still trying to get them to break it out by city. The next page we have got some of our other major employers and where they are at with their employees, with their employee counts. I wanted to go over MDC update. I wanted to add in there that Silverstone right now has 5,200 employees and they are going to be expanding to 9,500. Currently, they have 56 tenants out there at Silverstone. I am still waiting for EI Dorado's numbers. They haven't sent them in yet. Blue Cross, I am working on their expansion right now and their numbers are in there. Meridian Market Place has 30 employees right now, expanding to 50 and they have 14 tenants expanding to 22. I just got that list emailed over to me right before I walked out the door and that is why it is not included in here. I am working on a business packet with all of the tenants, how many employees are out there, total square footage, total value at build-out and what percentage of build-out we are at currently. The MDC update that I got from Clair Bowman - things that MDC has been working on is they have contracted for a master plan effective February 1 st with an RBF consulting group in design studio. The Double D should be moving to their new location at Victory and Meridian Road within the next few days. No date is set for their demolition from the old building yet. MDC has initiated a process attempting to add 20 acres to the city's tax roles. The new Heritage Theatre Company has moved into Yanke's building on Taylor Street. The Gateway project is expected to be started and completed of March '06. This will be constructed at the Main Street and Meridian Road crossing, the artist selection has been approved, the inter op construction of the phase for the base on either side. What I have done with MDC is I have met with Dave Buich on his project. I met with his architect and went over the plans with him. I met with the realtors that will be selling the condos on the top of the building and he is looking at clearing the ground in 30 days and breaking ground in April and I am holding him to it. I met with MDC on another two to five acre project that is wanting to locate in downtown Meridian. They would like shared parking. The response that they got was that they needed to get a realtor. They needed to assemble parcels and I guess I am asking City Council to help me out a little bit here with downtown. Parking structure seems to be - parking seems to be an Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31, 2006 Page 6 of 15 issue with a lot of the companies that I have been talking to about locating in downtown. Where are we going to park? You know, what are we going to do? So, I guess I would like a little clarification from the Council on how you would like me to address the parking with them? That is something you can think about and get back with me on. The next page in here from Commerce and Labor - this is a May and June 2006 issue in Sky Western Magazine that is focusing on Idaho. This is going to be reaching 1.5 million passengers. In addition, Commerce and Labor is going to be using this for promotional purposes. The Idaho inserts will be on the United Express flight on Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco all during the months of May and June. If you turn the page, this shows the map everywhere this is going and I would really like to put a Meridian ad in here. The one I did for Horizon, I would kind of like to shape - I thought about using that one for this one, but I would like to tweak the ad a little bit and there is a sample one in here that I would like to kind of put something like this together and talk more about Meridian. So, you can look that over when you have time and give me your feedback on that. De Weerd: When do you need to know by? Brown: I need to know as soon as possible before March 1st. De Weerd: But how long will it take to (inaudible) the ad? Brown: One week. Actually I already sent this information off to Kristy who is (inaudible) the last design and (inaudible) and I am working on ideas for this. It was a go. I just think it gives Meridian a really good light out there and it's going to go and reach a lot of people all over the United States. Bird: What is the cost of -? Brown: It's all in there. Bird: I see it's on - Brown: The full page is $3,700 and half page is $2,500 and quarter page is $1,700. Bird: And what were you thinking of putting in Cheryl? Brown: I would really like to put half a page in there. Bird: How many people does that get to? Brown: 1.5 million passengers. Bird: That is pretty cheap for an ad. Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31, 2006 Page 7 of 15 Brown: I would love to partner with MDC on this and even get some of MDC's money to split the costs on this and do an ad for Meridian that we can both use for advertising. Bird: If you've got to have it by March 1 st, I wouldn't worry about partnering with MDC. Wardle: Madame Mayor. De Weerd: Mr. Wardle. Wardle: If you get an expenditure that is certainly 5 million, Sky West is a major thorough fare for the business of traveling into the Boise region. If you got it in the budget I would say let's get the ad (inaudible). Brown: And United Express. Wardle: And United Express (inaudible)? Okay, if you need anybody to mouse that layout onto --? Brown: Okay. Bird: I would agree with that. Brown: You have got the map in there and the breakdown and the older layout (inaudible----------) it's very similar to what we did on the Horizon one. Bird: (Inaudible----) anything going on that you can't get on (inaudible--------------- ---------------). Brown: Especially when it is going all across the United States (inaudible---). It's a targeted area. The next maps are the ones that I have been working with on COMPASS and I really like this one and what really helps sell Meridian is population circumference map because it is showing that no other city is going to be able to pull the population, pull the workforce that we can by them locating their business in Meridian. So, I really like this map. In fact, I have passed this one out to some of the realtors as well - the commercial realtors that are pitching Meridian. De Weerd: Cheryl, I don't know what the infringement or if there is infringement or what we need to do to work with the Idaho Statesman, but if we can put the headline that was on the front page of a week or two ago on something like this to really underscore that Meridian really is the center of the population in the Treasure Valley that would just be the frosting on the cake. Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31, 2006 Page 8 of 15 Brown: Okay. I am meeting with Frank tomorrow. He wants to do another square in the Valley Times and we will have him lead in with this. De Weerd: Well, no, I just thought that we could do an overlay where you have the Statesman title where we are the center of the population. Brown: Okay. Wardle: Cheryl, if you are going to use this to create a market piece, I think certainly that it shows that using the Statesman as a title line and also to me it looks a little bit like a bulls eye, so (inaudible) so it might be something to use in a (inaudible--------- ). Brown: The next map is where all the colleges and the higher education facilities where Universities are located, just showing that Meridian being central again. We have access to all of these higher learning institutions - (Inaudible discussion) Brown: And if anybody wants a copy I would be more than happy to make a copy of this for you. The next map is where all the tech companies are located in Meridian. An interesting thing that I was at the 2006 Economics Symposium in Boise all day today and what we have found out is there is a lot more home businesses and it's especially apparent in the tech deals. You can really tell by looking where these tech companies are. They are in subdivisions. So, these are our new upcoming emerging businesses that we can get out and get them into where we want to put them because they are growing. The next map is and these are all questions that I get when I have somebody looking at this area that isn't from Idaho that is from out of state. Where are all the airports? And they are not just wanting to know where the Boise airport is, they are wanting to know where they can fly their executive planes into, their private planes. So, this is a map of all of the airports and how far they are from Meridian and there is way more than I even knew. The next one and it only goes up to 2004 because we didn't have the 2005 numbers yet and Bruce has really helped me chart this as well. This is showing your commercial and your residential. It kind of gives you an idea on the bottom how big your residential is and your commercial, where you are manufacturing, personal land use, transitional farming, utilities on this type of graph. This goes from 2004 and I will have the 2005 done as soon as those numbers come out. The next graph will help kind of get you more into 2005, 2006 with the new commercial permit activity that Bruce has so kindly done and the single-family permit activity and I do have '06 on here where we are so far and here we are. We are up here already. Commercial permit activity. (Inaudible discussion) Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31,2006 Page 9 of 15 Brown: I do have a list that I got a Lee's that has come in for 2004, 2005 from Commerce and Labor and quite frankly I was disappointed in this because they are mostly food processing companies. They are really not - a lot of call centers, a lot of Spanish speaking call centers, (inaudible) call centers. I would like to market higher paying jobs - but, to figure out with going back to this with Meridian identifying where we want to grow and how we want to grow it. So, if there is any questions or not? De Weerd: Council, any questions? (Inaudible discussion) De Weerd: You do have a flow chart that will have an economic strategic plan to it of placing some action items. Councilman Wardle and I can go over some of the materials here so we can seek preferences of better tracking some progress and that sort of thing. As part of the flow chart and economic plan, a market strategy and some associated cost would be tied to that. So, that will also come back to you. As Cheryl has told you in the past, she has gotten funds through private partnerships and those are what are being allocated in a lot of the activities at this point. So, if there are no questions we appreciate your time Cheryl - Brown: Do you want me to talk about site visits? The Mayor and I have also been going out on site visits and meeting with some of the local businesses that are here and I am really trying to get them to stay here and grow here and get them the tools that they need as far as what the State offers in (inaudible) benefits and that type of thing. So, we are still going out and not just concentrating on new businesses, but we are still out there visiting the existing businesses in Meridian. De Weerd: And those are actions and very educational, exciting and it shows the voids and how it can better utilize partnerships with entities like (inaudible) and the MDC and what roles we each need to play and what we need to do well to eliminate (inaudible---------------). Yes, Dave? Zaremba: Madame Mayor, I just had a comment that perhaps you could talk to some of the major developers if they could - Winston Moore, David Turnbull, Ronald Van Auker and see if they might kick in enough to get a whole page ad in some of those because anything Meridian does benefits them. Those are the first three that I thought of. There are probably others. Brown: And there are. I am starting a list (inaudible-------------). De Weerd: Okay, thank you Cheryl. I would entertain a motion to adjourn. Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31, 2006 Page 1 0 of 15 Bird: Madame Mayor, I would move that we continue this to a City Council meeting. Rountree: Second. De Weerd: Okay, the motion is to continue the City Council Special Meeting at the end of our workshop agenda. All those in favor say aye. All those opposed? THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED. RECESSED AT 6:38 P.M. RECONVENE AT 8:49 P.M. Wardle: Okay, I move that we open the continued City Council meeting. Bird: Second. De Weerd: All those in favor say aye. THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED. De Weerd: Let the record note that everyone is present that was earlier and Councilman Borton is still absent. I would entertain a motion to adjourn into Executive Session. Bird: Madame Mayor. De Weerd: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we go into Executive Session as per Idaho State Code 67-2345 (1) (C) and (F). Wardle: Second. De Weerd: Okay Mr. Berg will you call roll? Berg: Thank you Madame Mayor, members of the Council roll call vote. Bird, aye; Rountree, aye; Wardle, aye and Borton is absent. RECONVENE FROM EXECUTIVE SESSION Wardle: I move we go out of Executive Session. Bird: Second. Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31,2006 Page 11 of 15 De Weerd: All those in favor? THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED. De Weerd: Okay, do we adjourn? Bird: I know we had to- De Weerd: How about dates? Berg: How about the special meeting with the City of Kuna? On the 14th (inaudible) wanted them to meet at 5:00 and they called and said they could not meet at 5:00, they could meet at 4:00 or 3:30 or something to that nature just not to meet at 5:00. They also - De Weerd: Do they have a meeting that night? Berg: There is a problem. Planning and Zoning Commission meeting and for some reason they are attending that meeting (inaudible------------------). They meet on the first and third Tuesday nights, so the 21 st - another one of those things, they have a Council meeting at 7:00, so they said well we could meet, but we would have to be leaving close to 6:00 so we could be there in time for the other meeting (inaudible). I know you wanted to get this thing going fast. Wardle: Well, let's look at the 21st. Berg: The 28th is a free night for them, they don't have a meeting. Wardle: Did you say the 21 st is out? Berg: That is a normal meeting for them and they would have to meet early. De Weerd: Could they meet at 5:00 and be out by 6:00? Bird: Tammy, we are not going to get that done in an hour, not if we do it right. Wardle: Okay well let's go to the 28th. Berg: The 28th and what time do you want? Wardle: If we can get done in an hour we can do it at 5:00. Bird: Okay, you and Joe and Charlie are the ones that determine the setup. You know Tammy and I are free. We can come any time. Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31,2006 Page 12 of 15 De Weerd: I am not free. Rountree: The 28th? Berg: We have a Council meeting at 7:00. Bird: We can set the Council meeting back. We could just start our Council meeting at 5:00 and go into Executive Session and come out (inaudible) unless you want to talk (inaudible----) with Kuna. Let's just start our Council meeting at 5:00. Wardle: Good enough. The 28th. (Inaudible discussion) De Weerd: Okay, now Eagle would like to meet with us too and they are proposing a Wednesday. I think we should just (inaudible--------------) as well. I don't know why - why did they think on Wednesday? Berg: I didn't- Wardle: Their Council meetings are on Tuesday as well. De Weerd: Every week? Berg: No, on the first, second and third. (Inaudible discussion) Rountree: So, what is the issue? (Inaudible ---------------) Canning: That area is still in their application to Ada County and (inaudible-----). (Inaudible discussion) Bird: Well, they are not - another thing, you know, we all - the Rural Fire District (inaudible-------------------). So in other words, anything that they take in Eagle, fire gets whether it's our fire district or not. De Weerd: I mean, there is a conflict of interest or not. Rountree: Well, if they (inaudible------------------). Bird: They don't own that Fire District. That is a separate taxing entity. Rountree: So is ours. Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31,2006 Page 13 of 15 Bird: No it isn't. Wardle: They want to meet before March? (Inaudible discussion) Bird: When did Nancy want to meet? De Weerd: Nancy hasn't talked to me. You know, she has been very strange in that - Bird: Who told you that? De Weerd: She had a staff member - (Inaudible discussion) De Weerd: What did she say? Berg: Peggy told me that they wanted to meet on the 15th on a Wednesday. Wardle: Will and I will work on deciding either on the 21st at maybe a 5:00 or 5:30 or if they want to meet after the Commissioners. (Inaudible-----------------). Nary: That is what it sounds like to me. Sounds like they want to be able to go to the Commissioners saying we met with Meridian and this is what we agreed on. That is my take on that. They want to be able to say we agree to "x". (Inaudible----------- ). Canning: I suspect they are looking - and this is purely speculation - De Weerd: They want your agreement that you won't annex outside of any lines that are drawn. They want that agreement before they go - that is my suspicion. (Inaudible discussion) Bird: Yeah, but that is only from Linder west. They are not going to give us the (inaudible----------- ). De Weerd: No. No that would be only based on discussion that we already had with them and then they came back with those two issues of accepting that recommendation from staff and Mayor's based on additional conditions. Wardle: Let's do this. Will and I will get clarification on exactly what they would like to see. Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31, 2006 Page 14 of 15 De Weerd: Well and Shaun I know I am supposed to do that. She hasn't communicated that to me and Peggy was out last week. Shelly suggested that they call the Clerk's Office and give some dates. We called them back and left a message that we would call them back and get them possible dates. So, you guys can meet before they need to meet with the Commission. If you will get some possible dates, we will get their feedback back. We will get their feedback. (Inaudible discussion) Wardle: I am looking at maybe a noon meeting sometime. Something that - Bird: Problem is their Council President is in the legislature - (Inaudible discussion) De Weerd: Can you give us a couple of dates that work for you - both of you that work - (Inaudible discussion) De Weerd: Yeah, it says that Eagle wanted to meet Wednesday at 6:00, Wednesday the 15th at 6:00. It looks like evening is better for them, but I don't know - (Inaudible discussion) Wardle: Okay, we will get- Rountree: Motion to adjourn? Wardle: Second. De Weerd: All those in favor say aye. THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 9:51 P.M. Meridian City Council Special Meeting January 31, 2006 Page 15 of 15 (TAPE ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS) APPROVED: (.MA 2- / ! f-/ 06 EERD, MAYOR DATE APPROVED, ..' O;~ MfJ.;;., ".'to<', "~' ,(..~ '~. "'/ <>,~.\". /'-" '~ <: \.) ,"',-c;?l"(V;,~ ~'¡I' ...... " ,;' ".r- -..,,~ .. i:' ¡,i¡' .:. ~ ~ 0 , , , ATTESTED: ~A~~,~" ~ WILLIAM G. BERG, J ., C-~ Y_G.~,RK . .l> D l -::;;" .' 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