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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1991 01-15 REV I SED AGE N D A MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL JANUARY l5, 1991 CTEM : MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING HELD JANUARY 2, 1991: (APPROVED) 1. PROCLAMATION: SUPPORT MERIDIAN ORCHESTRA WEEK: (READ) 2. DEPARTMENT REPORTS MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL JANUARY IS, 1991 The Regular Meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order by Acting Mayor Ron Tolsma at 7:30 P.M.: Members Present: Bob Giesler, Bert Myers, Max Yerrington: Members Absent: Mayor Grant Kingsford: Others Present: Kevin Jones, Anna Gray, Tom Hammond, Bill Gordon, Gary Smith, Wayne Crookston, Marty Waters: MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING HELD JANUARY 2, 1991: The Motion was made by Giesler and seconded by Myers to approve of the Minutes of the previous Meeting held January 2, 1991 as written: Motion Carried: All Yea: ITEM*l: PROCLAMATION: SUPPORT MERIDIAN ORCHESTRA WEEK: Tolsma: Read Proclamation declaring the week of January 14-18, 1991 as Support Meridian Orchestra Week. Gave official Proclamation to Anna Gray. Tom Hammond: Presented Anna with a Certificate of Appreciation from the Chamber for all the work done. ITEM*2: DEPARTMENT REPORTS: Eng. Smith: I've got three items to cover tonight. The first being Well *l2, I've retained an engineer from Toothman-0rton Engineers to assist in the specification for the pump and the piping that will go into the well and I've also retained an electrical engineer that's doing the electrical work for the control system and the other electrical apparratus that will be inside the well house. They are meeting me here tomorrow and we will review the preliminary selections that the pump engineers made, and the electrical engineer will have some preliminary work that he needs to do as far as looking at our existing control system and so forth. I've got the plans basically done on the pump house its-self and the specification for rough draft so I would expect that, we'll have it out for bid immediately after the electrical engineer is done. Within fifteen days we can have bids back in here so I would expect the third week in February we should have a contractor ready to go. Tolsma: Is this whole thing going to eliminate the surge system, similar to what we have in Settlers Village. Smith: Yes. We'll either have a pump control valve that will be a by-pass valve on the start up and shut down on the purnpor we'll have a pump selected that will have a flat enough curve so that when it starts up it will start up pressure is not alot greater that the actual running pressure involved so you won't see that surge. The other item that I would like you to consider, as you mayor may not know the u.s. Environmental Protection Agency is implementing phases of the safe water drinking act amendment that was passed in 1986 and the implementation of those new rules and regulations is basically going to be done by the State, but the enforcement of those rules and regulations can come about two ways. It can either be handled by the State Health & Welfare Department - Division of Environment or it would be handled by EPA. MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL JANUARY IS, 1991 PAGE *2 In order for the State to handle that they have to create what they call a state primacy, which means that the State is the primary agency responsible for administering and enforcing those rules and regulations. Right now the State of Idaho does have primacy for enforcement of the drinking water act in the State. As these new rules come into effect it creates more and more of a work load for the State of Idaho so they have asked each of the municipalities to contact their legislators and ask them to support increase in funding for the State Health and Welfare Department for the Division of Environment. In order to maintain the primacy we're going to have to, the State will have to write a plan telling the Fed's how they are going to do it and what kind of manpower they have and so forth and if they can't do that then the state will loose it's primacy. The enforcement and administration of those rules will go back to u.s. EPA and we will loose out in that basis because number one, right now EPA has one person for the State of Idaho, the enforcement isn't a real problem but being able to have an agency that you can work with when you have a problem that will help you solve your problem then that becomes the issue. EPA won't do that, they'll just write you up and say your in violation get it fixed. I would suggest if you can contact your Legislator and talk about this problem. The last item I needto talk to you about concerns Meridian Road. k3 yeLl kn:::w M<ri.dian Road has been under a design process for rebuilding that section from Cherry Lane Road north to Ustick Road, on the wall is a strip map that shows that roadway that's to be rebuilt. Explains the map to the Council. The issue that we have to deal with concerns water and sewer. As you know once a roadway improvement is made the Highway District is very difficult to deal with when it comes time to cut that roadway for a period of five years unless it is an emergency. The Design Engineer for the Highway District had a design hearing here at City Hall and invited each of the property owners adjacent to this project to come down and look at the project. One of the biggest outcry from the group was we need sewer service, because almost everyone that lives on the east side of Meridian Road is having septic tank drain field problems. Not everyone but there are five or six who are having problems. The thing that we needed to consider is whether or not we can put sewer down that road and whether or not we can serve them. Explained pipes, drawings I etc. Most of the properties that need sewer service are outside the City limits except for Hosac's place, Mr. Bales and Mr. Larkin. If we don't do something now it would be five years before we could do anything. I have put together a cost estimate and the bottom line is it would be about $50,000.00 to $55,000.00 to put this line in. As far as getting it constructed I think the Highway District would include it as part of the bid documents for the roadway itsself. Whatever the cost was then the Highway District would bill us for reimbursement for that part of it. Tolsma: Spoke of charging people a proportionate share of cost. Smith: I have spoke with the Mayor and it is his feeling that we should approach the people that live there and tell them what we have in mind to do and also express to them that we need some assistance, financial assistance to do this. We talked about $3500.00 per residence per connection. Giesler: How soon is this supposed to start? Smith: They are wanting to go right away. Crookston: Is the eight inch line in Meridian feasible for future planning.? Is that a large enough line? MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL JANUARY 15, 1991 PAGE #3 Smi th: Yes. Tolsma: How long would it take to get the people out there contacted. Smith: Jack and I were going to split them up and start calling. I think we could probably do it in pretty short order. Discussion. (TAPE ON FILE) We've got some water line we need to run there also. We are probably talking about 1,000 feet of 10" line, about $30,000.00 depending on where we put it. Explained where water line could be run. Tolsma: Are these people that are wanting sewer also be receptive to City water at the same time? Smith: A couple of them indicated they would. their water they probably won't want the water. the contact with the people out there. If there isn't anything wrong with Jack and I will go ahead and make The Motion was made by Myers and seconded by Giesler to proceed with the Meridian Road water and sewer project. Motion Carried: All Yea: Crookston: I think you need to consider the Late-Comers and you need to authorize that. The Motion was made by Myers and seconded by yerrington to add the Latecomers Fee to the Meridian Road water and sewer project. Motion Carried: All Yea: Clerk Niemann: Reminded Council of the Special Meeting to be held the 29th on the downtown project to approve the final grant application. Another item I have is on the City gas tank, the church is wanting to do something, we've got to decide what we want to do about it. We've been thinking about moving it down by the Public Works Department. Skip is getting information on an above ground tank. The other item is the Health Insurance, whether we want to change from $100.00 to $500.00 deductible. The only difference would be is the PCS Card would be $5.00 instead of $3.00. The Motion was made by Myers and seconded by Yerrington to approve of the $500.00 deductible with the City funding the $400.00 over the $100.00 deductible. Motion Carried: All Yea: Niemann: Dr. Fender is having a ribbon cutting in his new building Thursday from 4:00 to 7:00 open house and ribbon cutting at 4:00 P.M., the Mayor asked that someone stand in for him. Crookston: I would ask the Council to move to go into Executive Session, under 67-2345F Idaho Code to consider pending litigation. The Motion was made by Yerrington and seconded by Myers to go into Executive Session at 8:15 P.M.: Motion Carried: All Yea: MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL JANUARY 15, 1991 PAGE #4 The Meeting was called back to order by Acting Mayor Ron Tolsma at 9:30 P.M.: We've dicussed litigation and have directed the attorney to proceed as discussed in Executive Session. The Motion was made by Myers and seconded by Yerrington to adjourn at 9:33 P.M.: Motion Carried: All Yea: APPROVED: ~,~~ 1{W' ATTEST: pc: & Council,. P & Z Members, Atty., Bldg., Eng., Police, Gass, Stuart, Ward, Fire, Valley News, Statesman, ACHD, NMID, Settlers, CDH, Hallett, File (l)