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MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL
AGENDA
TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 1999-7:30 P.M.
CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS
ROLL CALL: X RON ANDERSON X CHARLIE ROUNTREE
X GLENN BENTLEY X KEITH BIRD
X MAYOR ROBERT CORRIE
CONSENT AGENDA
A. APPROVE BILLS: (APPROVE)
B. APPROVE MINUTES FROM PREVIOUS MEETING HELD MARCH 16, 1999:
(APPROVE)
D. APPROVE MINUTES FROM SPECIAL MEETING HELD MARCH 30, 1999:
(APPROVE)
E. NOTICE TO ADA COUNTY CLERK OF BUDGET HEARING DATE:
F. ELECTIONEERING POLICY RESOLUTION: (APPROVE)
REGULAR AGENDA
APPOINTMENT OF PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSIONER: (APPROVE
THOMAS E. BARBEIRO)
FAIR HOUSING MONTH PROCLAMATION: (READ BY MAYOR)
APPOINTMENT OF AD HOC DAYCARE COMMITTEE: (APPROVE)
1. REQUEST TO HOOK UP TO CITY SEWER BY YMC, INC: (TABLE UNTIL
APRIL 20, 1999 MEETING)
2. REQUEST TO HOOK UP TO CITY SEWER BY IDAHO TRUCKING
SPECIALTIES: (APPROVE)
3. TABLED 2/16/99: FINAL PLAT FOR VILLAS AT THE LAKES SUBDIVISION
BY STEINER DEVELOPMENT LLC - NW OF CHERRY LANE VILLAGE NO.1:
(APPROVE WITH STAFF CONDITIONS)
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4. TABLED 3/16/99: DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR THOUSAND SPRINGS
VILLAGE SUBDIVISION: (TABLE UNTIL APRIL 20TH MEETING)
5. TABLED 3/16/99: ORDINANCE # - ANNEXATION AND ZONING OF
THOUSAND SPRINGS VILLAGE SUBDIVISION: (TABLE UNTIL APRIL 20TH
MEETING)
6. TABLED 3/16/99: DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR 8.51 ACRES BY JOHN
GOADE (SOUTH OF TROUTNER BUSINESS PARK BETWEEN WALTMAN
LANE AND TEN MILE): (TABLE UNTIL APRIL 20TH MEETING)
7. TABLED 3/16/99: ORDINANCE # - ANNEXATION AND ZONING OF
8.51 ACRES BY JOHN GOAD: (TABLE UNTIL APRIL 20TH MEETING)
8. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR CONDITIONAL USE
PERMIT FOR A SIX LOT SUBDIVISION CONTAINING TWO DUPLEXES AND
FOUR 4-PLEX UNITS FOR PROPOSED MERIDIAN ACRES SUBDIVISION BY
MIKE STIPA - NORTH OF BROADWAY, SOUTH OF PINE AVENUE, WEST OF
WEST 4TH STREET: (ATTORNEY TO PREPARE FINDINGS)
9. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY PLAT FOR
MERIDIAN ACRES SUBDIVISION BY MIKE STIPA - NORTH OF
BROADWAY, SOUTH OF PINE AVENUE, WEST OF WEST 4TH STREET:
(APPROVE WITH STAFF CONDITIONS)
10. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR A CONDITIONAL USE
PERMIT FOR A HOME SALON BY TINA SAYKO - 310 E. BROADWAY:
(ATTORNEY TO PREPARE FINDINGS)
11. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR ANNEXATION AND
ZONING OF 9.14 ACRES BY PAUL A. HOFFMAN (PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH) - SW CORNER OF MERIDIAN RD., AND USTICK RD: (ATTORNEY
TO PREPARE FINDINGS)
12. PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR ANNEXATION & ZONING OF 40.55
ACRES BY MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.2 - EAST SIDE OF LOCUST
GROVE ROAD, BETWEEN USTICK AND MCMILLAN ROAD JUST NORTH OF
SUMMERFIELD SUB: (ATTORNEY TO PREPARE FINDINGS)
13. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR ANNEXATION & ZONING
OF 10.02 FOR PROPOSED YUKON SUBDIVISION BY JAMES AND KAREN
HOLLISTER -.. EAST SIDE OF LOCUST GROVE ROAD, BETWEEN USTICK
AND MCMILLAN ROAD JUST NORTH OF SUMMERFIELD SUB: (ATTORNEY
TO PREPARE FINDINGS AND DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT)
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14. PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR REZONE OF 0.578 ACRES FROM R-15 &
R-4 TO L-Q FOR MERIDIAN FIRE STATION BY CITY OF MERIDIAN - WEST
OF NORTH TEN MILE, BETWEEN TETER & MUIRFIELD: (ATTORNEY TO
PREPARE FINDINGS)
15. PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR REZONE OF 1.936 ACRES FROM I-L TO
L-Q FOR MERIDIAN FIRE STATION BY CITY OF MERIDIAN - NORTH OF
FRANKLIN RDt BETWEEN 5TH AVE & BALTIC PLACE: (ATTORNEY TO
PREPARE FINDINGS)
16. PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR VACATION OF INGRESS/EGRESS &
UTILITIES EASEMENTS FOR ROARING SPRINGS WATER PARK BY REED
BOWEN, JR.- NORTH OF OVERLAND RD, EAST OF BLUE MARLIN LN:
(ATTORNEY TO PREPARE FINDINGS)
17. FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW: REQUEST FOR
CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR STORAGE OF ENTERTAINMENT
EQUIPMENT IN A PORTION OF THE GARAGE AND 2 TRAILERS IN
BACKYARD BY ROBIN WALKER D/B/A JUKEBOX PARTY EXPRESS - 821
E. WILLOWBROOK: (APPROVE FINDINGS - DENY REQUEST)
18. FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW: REQUEST FOR
ANNEXATION OF .53 ACRES AND REZONE OF 55.79 ACRES TO I-L BY
WILLIAM A. HON (JABIL) - NORTH OF 1-84, SOUTH OF STATE OF IDAHO
LAW ENFORCEMENT FACILITY, WEST OF LOCUST GROVE RD: (APPROVE
FINDINGS WITH CHANGES)
19. DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR WILLIAM A. HON (JABIL): (APPROVE)
20. ORDINANCE #818 -- ANNEXATION FOR WilliAM A. HON (JABIL):
(APPROVE)
21. ORDINANCE #819 -- REZONE FOR WILLIAM A. HON (JABIL): (APPROVE)
22. FINAL PLAT FOR OLIASON PARK SUBDIVISION BY TONY HICKEY - 603 E.
PINE: (APPROVE)
23. APPEAL OF PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION'S DENIAL OF
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT BY PINNACLE ENGINEERS: (DENY
APPEAL)
24. AMENDED ORDINANCE #_ -- ADD ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF: (TABLE
UNTIL APRIL 20TH MEETING)
25. WATER I SEWER I TRASH DELINQUENCIES: (APPROVE)
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26~ DEPARTMENT REPORTS:
A~ TOM KUNTZ:
1~ DISCUSSION OF REVISIONS TO PARKS AND RECREATION
COMMISSION ORDINANCE~ (DISCUSSED)
2. PENNIES FOR PARKS. (VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION ON
UTILITY BILL) (ATTORNEY TO PREPARE RESOLUTION)
3~ RFP FOR PARKS AND RECREATION COMPREHENSIVE
SYSTEM PLAN. (APPROVE)
4. GENERATIONS PLAZA RIBBON CUTTING JUNE 18TH AT 4:00
P.M.
B. GARY SMITH:
1. JOE SIMUNICH - SEWER LINE PROBLEM. (WORK WITH
ATTORNEY)
2. GRANT OF EASEMENT I BRIGHTON CORPORATION~ (CHECK
WITH OTHER CONDITIONS)
C. MAYOR CORRIE:
1. FUTURE FOUNDATION.
2. PUBLIC HEARING DATE FOR BUDGET. (SEPTEMBER 2ND AT
6:30 P.M.)
D. CHARLIE ROUNTREE:
1. HOUSEHOLD HAZARD WASTE CLEAN UP DAY MAY 8TH.
2. MAYOR I FULL TIME MANAGER. (EXECUTIVE SESSION 4/20/99
AT 7:00 P.M.)
E. RON ANDERSON:
1. COST ESTIMATE FOR NEW FIRE STATION.
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MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING
APRIL 6. 1999
The regular meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 7:30 p.m. on
April 6, 1999 by Mayor Corrie.
MEMBERS PRESENT: Ron Anderson, Keith Bird, Glenn Bentley, Charlie Rountree.
OTHERS PRESENT: Mayor Bob Corrie, Will Berg, Bill Gigray, Bill Musser, Gary Smith,
Kenny Bowers, Shari Stiles.
Corrie: The consent agenda tonight is A through F. Is there anyone of the items that
you want to have pulled and discussed at a later time?
Rountree: Mr. Mayor, I would recommend that we move item E off the consent agenda
and discuss that under departments reports for the Mayor.
Corrie: Okay any other pulls? Okay, hearing that the consent agenda consists of items
A, B, C, D and F. E will be pulled off until the Mayor's report at the end of the meeting.
Bird: Mr. Mayor I move that we approve consent agenda items A, B, C, D and F.
Anderson: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and second to approve the consent agenda with E going to the
last of the reports. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the
motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Corrie: On the regular agenda, I would appreciate it if anybody happens to have any
cell phones on that they would kindly turn them off. We had a little bit of a problem in
the last meeting and also beepers. It just makes it easier for the people standing up
there. They might be nervous enough as it is to have the beeper go off, so I would
certainly appreciate your cooperation on that.
APPOINTMENT OF PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSIONER:
Corrie: The first item on the regular agenda is the appointment of Planning and Zoning
Commissioner. Council at this time I would like to enter the name of Thomas E.
Barbeiro as replacement for the vacant seat on the Planning and Zoning Commission.
Do you have any questions that you would like to ask at this time?
Bird: I have none.
Bentley: None.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor I guess the only question I would have would be for Tom if he
knows what he's getting in for?
Corrie: Tom, would you like to say a few words? I think I have an idea what you're
going to say.
Barbeiro: When you say, "Do I know what I'm getting in for", did you? I come from a
family, my brother is the Mayor of a small town in California. My father was the Mayor
of a neighboring town in San Francisco. I grew up this whole political system around
me where you had so many decisions and no matter what you did, there was always
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going to be an unpopular decision from one side or the other. That along with the two
Los Angeles telephone books, the stack of material that Will gave me today, I think I got
plenty of reading to do. Of course that really is kind of cutting into my cartoon time. Do
you have any questions that you wanted to ask of me?
Bird: I have none.
Bentley: None.
Rountree: No.
Corrie: Thank you Tom.
Bird: Mr. Mayor I move that we approve the appointment of Tom Barbeiro to the
Planning and Zoning Commission.
Rountree: Second.
Corrie: Motion's been second on having Thomas E. Barbeiro as the new Planning and
Zoning Commissioner. Any further discussion?
Rountree: Mr. Mayor are we assigning seats to those yet?
Corrie: Will, do you know - Malcolm do you know what seat that is the number?
(Inaudible)
Rountree: We were trying to track these appointments.
Corrie: I've got the agenda what the appointment date is. If you would like to have it, I'll
get that for you.
Rountree: I just want to make sure that we've got that in order.
Corrie: Yeah, it is. Hearing any other discussion? All those in favor of the motion say
aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
FAIR HOUSING MONTH PROCLAMATION:
Corrie: The second item is fair housing month proclamation. I was out at the state
house this morning with Dirk Kempthorne and the other Mayors in the area and I'll read
his proclamation that was also read by Governor Kempthorne.
WHEREAS, April 1999 marks the 31 st anniversary of the passage of Title VIII of
the Civil Rights Act of 1968, popularly known as the Federal Fair Housing Act; and
WHEREAS, The Idaho Human Rights Commission Act has prohibited
discrimination in housing since 1969; and
WHEREAS, equal opportunity for all - regardless of race, color, religion, sex,
disability, familial status or national origin - is a fundamental goal of our nation and
state; and
WHEREAS, access to housing of an individual's choice is an important
component of this goal, and because housing is such a critical, quality of life issue, the
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right to choose where we live is as important as the right to equal education and
employment opportunity; and
WHEREAS, where we live determines where our children go to school, where
our friends are, and cultural benefits we enjoy, the extent of our exposure to crime and
drugs, and the quality of health care we receive in emergencies; and
WHEREAS, the laws of this nation, our state and city seek to ensure such
equality of choice for all transactions involving housing; and
WHEREAS, only with the cooperation, commitment and support of all residents
of the state can barriers to this and other aspects of equality of opportunity for all be
removed;
NOW, THEREFORE, I Robert D. Corrie, Mayor of the City of Meridian, Idaho do
hereby proclaim the month of April 1999 to be FAIR HOUSING MONTH
in the City of Meridian, and I request that every citizen of our great state support and
endorse the practice of fair housing and ask all to join in reaffirming the obligation and
commitment of fair housing opportunities for all.
APPOINTMENT OF AD HOC DAYCARE COMMITTEE:
Corrie: Council I have the following people that would like to work on this committee
and I have appointed them the ad hoc group here is Tammy Taylor, Kim and Dean
Ehlert, Cheryl Seal, Mali Reynolds, Elaine Estacio, Rhonda Williamson, Sue Peck and
the City Council member Glenn Bentley. Are those folks here tonight? Some of them
are. Okay.
Unidentified: We would also like to add Lori on from Prime Time because she has
expertise both in Boise and Meridian to get more of an idea so that we have somebody
within the daycare (inaudible) giving us a voice of what they'd like to see in areas that
need help.
Corrie: Okay, what is her name?
Unidentified: (Inaudible)
Corrie: Okay so we have eight and then the City Councilman. Thank you. Council
have any questions as far as this ad hoc committee for the daycare center?
Bird: I have none.
Rountree: None. Mr. Mayor do we need a motion to _
Corrie: Yes.
Rountree: Okay, I would move we approve the list with the addition of Lori Roy to form
the ad hoc group to consider and provide recommendations to the City on daycare.
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Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and second to approve the list as read with the addition of Lori
Roy added to that list. Any further discussion?
Bird: I have none.
Corrie: Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Corrie: We'll be getting with you within the week and Councilman Bentley will be the
liaison with the Council and we're well on our way and good luck. I have got a lot of
material for you and we'll be giving that to Councilman Bentley and we can go with it.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor is Lori here?
Rountree: Yeah, she's here.
Bentley: I need your phone number. I will be contacting you during the week and we'll
set up our first meeting and we'll go from there. The meeting will either be here or in the
Mayor's chambers depending on which is available. Thank you.
1. REQUEST TO HOOK UP TO CITY SEWER BY YMC, INC:
Corrie: Yes, sir.
Swigg: We are here. We'd like to hook up to the new sewer line that's _
Bird: Name.
Swigg: Dan Swigg. Hook up to the new line that's running down Lanark Street. It
appears that it's almost completed and we're in the process of getting our paperwork for
the annexation and zoning change right now. We don't have that at this point, so I have
to ask for permission to hook up to it.
Bird: Gary, can we ask-
Smith: Thank you Mr. Mayor, Councilmen, Councilman Bird. Did I talk to you on the
telephone? Okay, he had called and asked about connecting to the sewer and I
directed him to send a letter to you for approval since they are outside the city limits.
The Public Works Department doesn't have a problem with their request. They have
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agreed in their letter as you can probably see to begin the annexation process for the
property so that it is part of the City of Meridian. Of course that does two things. One is
it helps us as far as our ordinances are concerned and secondly it relieves them of the
double assessment charge for being outside the city limits. We didn't talk about water,
so I don't know what your status is with water, your situation with water, but-
Swigg: When we talked, we talked about if we hook up we would I guess you bill the
sewer off the water or a flat rate.
Smith: Right.
Swigg: Until we get to that point I guess.
Corrie: Do you know what point you're at? Are you ready to go to water?
Swigg: Not yet.
Bird: Is water by there Gary? On Lanark?
Smith: It's down in front of the Wheel City where they - they're just east of you or
across the street from you?
Swigg: Across the street.
Smith: To the east a little. It's at that point.
Bird: It's up to Van Auker's office, isn't it?
Smith: Yeah, it's past Van Auker's to the west I think it's been extended across in front
of Wheel City.
Bird: 100 yards or so from YMC.
Swigg: Yeah, I don't have a clue where that is.
Smith: I know one of the things I think was discussed some time ago and I couldn't be
sure of this, but there was a fire protection issue that was talked about years ago with
YMC, and I don't know. It almost seemed like that they were required to provide fire
service within a certain length of time, but I don't have the particulars on that, and I
guess that is something that we should research a little bit with the fire department.
Swigg: There is a new fire hydrant right across the street that was put in this spring.
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Smith: Okay. Kenny is here and maybe he could - the minute he walks in. We were
just talking about YMC Kenny and about fire protection. Was there an agreement some
time ago about them providing fire protection at a certain time period?
Bowers: Mayor Corrie and Council. When YMC first wanted to expand out there, they
did come to the Rural Commissioners and signed an agreement with the Rural
Commissioners that they would have water I believe within two or three years. That
really expanded out because there just was not any water available and they are finally
doing it now; is this correct?
Swigg: Yes, there is a fire hydrant on the other side of the street from the main office.
Bowers: And Mayor Corrie and City Council, what was the question other than that?
Corrie: I guess fire protection.
Bowers: They need to hook up to a sprinkler system. Is that the next question?
Corrie: We just wanted to see if they were going to put on the water as well as the
sewer line if they were going to hook up to water, we were just wondering if the water is
out that far. So evidently it is with the fire hydrant right across the street.
Bowers: I'm not sure if that fire hydrant will be enough water for their building. I'm not
sure. They might have to put another one in.
Anderson: Gary thought also Kenny that there might be an agreement with the fire
department that when water was available that they would hook up or reassess the
hydrant needs, so it's probably something that we need to revisit their flow requirements
and occupancies and see where they're meeting the code at this time.
Bowers: Mayor Corrie and Councilman Anderson, that agreement was possibly
somewhere around ten years ago, so I don't really know for sure what it says at time.
But we can sure dig it out and go through that, but I know as soon as water was
available, they were suppose to assess it and put in fire hydrants at that time for water
flow. I don't know if there was any plans at that time with the fire marshal, YMC and the
Rural Commissioners to put how many hydrants to put in or not. I'm not sure on that.
Bird: Mr. Mayor I had a question for Fire Chief Bowers. Kenny, why is there so hard to
fire I mean for the fire, why do they have to have such stringent things? I mean it's a
metal concrete tilled up building with a bunch of steel machinery in it.
Bowers: By the Uniform Fire Code, there's a couple of different codes that are a little
different in there, and I'm not sure if this building fits that or not. I don't know Keith. I'm
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kind of caught off guard here. But the size of the building has a lot to do with it. The
water flow that we have out in that area or Gary Smith is able to supply us out in that
area has a lot to do with it. Also if they do any welding or with torches or cutting that
factors in a lot of things too.
Bird: Okay you answered by question.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, it would be my recommendation that
you might consider and I would defer to Gary on his opinion as to whether or not it might
not be a bad idea to table this for one meeting, allow us to staff this to determine
whether or not this should include a request for extension of water in addition to sewer
and then we can explore whether we would do an agreement as we've done in other
cases for the extension of water and sewer outside of the city limits to assure that the
property owner agrees to annexation and be governed under the city ordinances as it
affects its water and sewer system as we characteristically do, have that all packaged
and put together so that the council can consider it at the next meeting because it looks
like there may be some issues here with water as well as with sewer that we may not
have all the answers to right now.
Corrie: Gary, do you concur with that one?
Smith: (Inaudible)
Corrie: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I just had a question to the applicant if that was something that was
acceptable to them and are you under a particular deadline to get this hookup?
Swigg: Well our sewer system we have now is an above ground sand mound and it's in
pretty bad shape, and so we're just trying to get this through a little faster than the rest
of the stuff just for that reason alone.
Anderson: Another two weeks isn't going to make a significant impact.
Bird: How far is the sewer along? It looks like they were closing it up.
Swigg: Yeah, they're still working right there at Eagle Road and Lanark.
Bird: And they're coming down.
Swigg: It's been brought up.
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Bird: That's what I thought. It's closed up. I don't know why we have to wait two weeks
myself.
Corrie: You could request -
Rountree: Question to Gary Smith. Can you give us a status of the line and whether or
not it would be operational in the next few weeks or months.
Smith: Mayor and Council, I'm not sure of the exact status of that line. I know they've
been out there testing. In fact today they were pressure testing some of the line on the
other side of Eagle, the piece heading toward the middle school site. Typically we don't
discharge any sewer into the system until it's finished totally so that we don't have to
deal with pieces of the system having raw sewage in it and other pieces still being
tested particularly downstream pieces. But I think it will be a little while and two weeks
maybe even short to tell you that the sewer will be finished and ready for connection by
then.
Swigg: Right, we just want to have all this ready to go when it's done.
Smith: Right.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor given that I would move that we table this item and direct the
applicant to work with staff on the issue of hooking up to water and potential fire
requirements and look at this at our next regularly scheduled meeting which would be
April 20th.
Anderson: I would second that.
Corrie: We have a motion on the floor with a second to table this until the April 20th
meeting. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say
aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
2. REQUEST TO HOOK UP TO CITY SEWER BY IDAHO TRUCKING
SPECIAL TIES:
Corrie: A representative here. You've got the yellow Harley.
Duncan: Yes, sir.
Corrie: Nice bike.
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Duncan: Thank you. My name is Dan Duncan. I'm the owner of Idaho Trucking
Specialties and similar to YMC, I'd like to have permission to hook up to the sewer with
it's running right down the front of us on Eagle Road. We do have fire. Currently we're
running off of Albertson's Fire Systems. Again our building is all metal. (Inaudible) We
do have a fire hydrant right in front of our building that is working and operational. I
don't believe we have water at this time. We did put in we were forced to put in a brand
new well last year, so I would prefer to run off it for a while if that would be possible and
go on a flat rate. I've already because they were running right down in front of Eagle
Road and right in front of our place I did contact the owner who is putting in the sewer,
Ron Van Auker and we did get permission to go ahead and stub in and so we did go
ahead and while they were digging it through, we stubbed in and ran it up underneath
our fence so if it was allowed we could go ahead and hook in. Similar we are on an
above ground septic system that's been there for about ten years since the building was
built. It seems to be working fine. It's more of an eye sore than anything. They put it
right on Eagle Road and it's kind of an eye sore, so I would like to remove it and hook
into the sewer.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, what are your plans for annexation?
Duncan: I plan to. We've already been talking to Cheryl with the City of Meridian. She
talked to us about the double assessment fees. I guess we kind of left it that if we
needed to get annexed into the city, we definitely would. If we didn't I'm not really sure
what the preference is there.
Bentley: I have a question for Gary. Gary, on the well and the water situation at this
site, what is our policy state for the metering?
Smith: Well the ordinance says that if public services are within 300 feet of a property
that's in the city limits, they are required to hook up within 15 days. We have had
properties outside of the city limits that wanted to connect to either sewer or water
because of a failing system that they had on site and in the past I believe the Council
has allowed them to connect that particular service for that reason. There have been
other instances where the Council has required that they also connect to water so that
the service can be more accurately measured, sewer service. With the water, it's not a
problem because it is measured and we can bill directly what's used, but with the sewer
we have to just use the flat rate and figure out what a typical or we base it on our typical
residential unit for sewage during the winter and so we just - and we have a few of
those presently.
Bentley: Are those commercial or residential?
Smith: The ones that I can think of are residential.
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Bentley: That's what I thought. Okay thank you.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, just as advice from your City Attorney in
any of these requests it would be my standing advice that we enter into - if you choose
to grant these applications, we have kind of a standard form agreement that we propose
for the extension of sewer and/or water depending on the action that you take that if you
do approve it, we can do this administratively and you can give the Mayor and Clerk
authority to go ahead and sign them once they've been approved and signed and
approved by staff. The point of this is that at least from my perspective and advice is
that a sewer system are proprietary systems. They're governed under the ordinances
of the City. Those ordinances protect the use and management of those systems.
When you get to areas which are outside of the city limits, your city ordinances no
longer apply. And then we have to get into a contract provisions with regards to the
severance of service or enforcement actions and so on and so forth, and we try to
provide in the agreement that they agree that those ordinances are terms and
conditions of the providence of the water and sewer to help protect the system and also
provides a continuing permission on the part of the property owner to annexation when
it is appropriate.
Corrie: Okay, anybody else have anything they'd like to - okay, all right.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor, I would move that we enter into an agreement with Idaho Truck
Specialties approving the hook up to Meridian Sewer System with the assessment of a
double fee.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and second that we enter into an agreement to hook up to the city
sewer system with a double hookup fee to Idaho Trucking Specialties. Any further
discussion?
Bentley: Mr. Mayor are we making this contingent like the rest that upon the annexation
that he can -
Rountree: Not at this point.
Bentley: Okay.
Corrie: Any further discussion? All those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Duncan: Thank you gentlemen.
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3. TABLED 2/16/99: FINAL PLAT FOR VILLAS AT THE LAKES SUBDIVISION
BY STEINER DEVELOPMENT LLC - NW OF CHERRY LANE VILLAGE NO.1:
Corrie: Mr. Bradbury you're up.
Bradbury: Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, my name is Steve Bradbury. I'm
representing Steiner Development. I think that we've got everything worked out with
staff now. Although I suppose we're about to find out whether or not I'm right. We've
thought we've had it and we've had a couple of toe stubbers along the way, but I think
we're there now. I don't have any presentation to make. I'd be pleased to respond to
any questions you may have although if they're very hard, I probably don't know the
answer so take your best shot.
Corrie: I believe we were having some additional information clarifications. Shari, do
you have any word on this one then for clarification that we were looking at?
Stiles: Mr. Mayor and Council, I did receive the house layout plan. We received this
yesterday from the applicant. It appears to be acceptable. I would just like to make
sure that if the developer sells this off to somebody else and they're developing it, to
make sure that the City is not going to look favorably on any variances for these
setbacks.
Corrie: Council, questions?
Rountree: I have none.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, thank you. Just for purposes of
clarification if you take final action tonight on this final plat, I just need for purposes of
drafting the Order of Approval, I assume subject to conditions. Are there any conditions
as a result of this delay that we've had that are not specified that it would be staff
conditions that are in the staff report, because I know there's a reference here to or will
that take care of it is my question.
Rountree: I think the staff report should do it.
Gigray: Okay.
Corrie: I would think so.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor I move that we approve the final plat for the Villas at the Lakes
Subdivision subject to conditions of staff.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and second to approve the final plat for Villas at the Lakes
Subdivision by Steiner Development with the conditions of staff. Any further
discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
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4. TABLED 3/16/99: DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR THOUSAND SPRINGS
VILLAGE SUBDIVISION:
Corrie: Shari, how does that - development agreement been done now?
Stiles: I believe the City Clerk would have that information whether it had been returned
signed.
Corrie: Has it been signed Mr. Clerk?
Berg: Mr. Mayor and members of the Council I do not have a signed development
agreement.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, I spoke with members of the Clerk's
office earlier today. There is some question with regards to the parties that are
designated in the development agreement as to why they were included. Those are the
persons that were listed as the property owners according to the files and records that I
have. There's some indication that maybe one of them is no longer alive or whatever.
That may pose some proof of transfer of ownership or whatever, and I assume they are
in the process of trying to determine who the property owners are at this point. I did go
to Alliance Title to try to see if there was any new information, didn't find any, so I
believe the development agreement has been prepared properly at this point, but we'll
try to work with the developer to get this straightened out before the next council
meeting. If this has not been signed, and I would recommend that you not pass an
ordinance of annexation until the development agreement is signed, and I think that's
item number five.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I move that we table the development agreement for Thousand
Springs Village Subdivision until the meeting on 4/20.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion's been made and second that we table item number four of the
development agreement for Thousand Springs Village Subdivision until April 20th, 1999
meeting. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say
aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
5. TABLED 3/16/99: ORDINANCE #818 -ANNEXATION AND ZONING OF
THOUSAND SPRINGS VILLAGE SUBDIVISION:
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I move we table the annexation ordinance #818 for Thousand
Springs until 4/20/99.
Bird: Second.
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Corrie: Motion is made and second that we table item number 5 the ordinance #818
annexation and zoning of Thousand Springs Village Subdivision until April 20, 1999
meeting. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say
aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
6. TABLED 3/16/99: DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR 8.51 ACRES BY JOHN
GOADE (SOUTH OF TROUTNER BUSINESS PARK BETWEEN WALTMAN
LANE AND TEN MILE):
7. TABLED 3/16/99: ORDINANCE #819 -ANNEXATION AND ZONING OF 8.51
ACRES BY JOHN GOAD:
Corrie: Is this one not signed either? Okay, I think there was also a legal that had to
come in on that one. Mr. Rountree?
Rountree: If we can't identify that this development agreement has been signed, Mr.
Mayor I would move that we table items 6 and 7 until April 20th.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Okay. Motion is made that we table item number six and seven which is also
the annexation and zoning until 4/20/99. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all
those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor just a point of reference I think to the Council and myself is what's
the difficulty in getting these signed? Are the developers and owners not liking the
development agreements or are they just not getting them back to us or what's the
situation?
Stiles: We have changed the way we got the signatures on these development
agreements. They are going through the City Clerk's office. I believe he sends them
out. Maybe Will could address it more if he's getting any response once they're sent
out. I don't exactly know what the process is any more on it.
Berg: Mr. Mayor and members of the Council I was under the impression that the City
Attorney was in correspondence with the developer on these new development
agreements since the development agreements themselves come out of the City
Attorney's office. Before we had the developer preparing the development agreement
and we were checking them off the template as to the specific items. When we get
them there is a copy sent to the developer but any correspondence with their
disagreement to the development agreement goes to either city attorney or to the
Planning and Zoning Department because those are the issues that attach Findings of
Fact and Conclusions of Law and our conditions on that development agreement we
usually don't have any response to them or ways of changing that or ways of explaining
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ramifications of changing it, so after they are sent to them, we are waiting for their
signature and they shouldn't be put even on the agenda unless we have the signature.
Bird: So in other words they're coming out of the attorney's office to planning and
zoning to you or just to you?
Berg: I don't know if Shari gets a copy at all.
Bird: They are originating out of the attorney's office, right? After we pass the motion or
the deal then the attorneys write the development agreement up and that goes to you to
be sent out to be signed?
Berg: Yes, I believe so. That's the correct procedure. I don't believe the attorney's
office sends them out to -
Bird: And when they sign them, do they come back to you, the city clerk's office?
Berg: Yes, they come back to me.
Bird: Okay well if they don't come back and get them signed, we shouldn't have them
on the agenda then.
Rountree: If that's the process, then we've got that documented, I would make that
suggestion that we don't have them on the agenda until we have them signed.
Bird: Until the City Clerk's office has got a signed agreement.
Corrie: Okay.
Rountree: Mr. Gigray has got more instructions for us.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, I agree with the City Clerk. That is
how it is done. We prepare these and then route them to the Clerk's office because
they're the keepers of the record. And in this particular instance we had a property
description problem and we couldn't even complete the annexation ordinance until that
was approved by the Public Works Department and I believe we got that corrected
information since this meeting was last so that's straightened out. We prepared a new
exhibit to the development agreement with the proper legal, so I think we're just
awaiting their signature on it is really the hold up on this one.
Corrie: Okay. I will make sure that that's done before it's presented to me, Mr. Clerk.
Berg: Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, I have a question to Mr. Gigray. Is it
then proper just to have them directly ask you any questions or disagreements they
have with the development agreement or should I funnel it some other directions?
Gigray: No, excuse me. Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, Mr. Clerk, that's fine
and I think that's what your office has been handling those and I appreciate it.
Berg: Thank you.
Corrie: Okay, any other questions?
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8. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR CONDITIONAL USE
PERMIT FOR A SIX LOT SUBDIVISION CONTAINING TWO DUPLEXES AND
FOUR 4-PLEX UNITS FOR PROPOSED MERIDIAN ACRES SUBDIVISION BY
MIKE STIPA - NORTH OF BROADWAY, SOUTH OF PINE AVENUE, WEST OF
WEST 4TH STREET:
Corrie: At this time I will open the public hearing and since this was a continued public
hearing, Shari why don't you give us the run down of what it is and then we'll have the
developer or representative here.
Stiles: Mr. Mayor and Council, this was one of the public hearing that was not heard
last meeting because of the lateness of the hour. This is for a subdivision at the end of
Idaho Street. It is bounded mostly by apartments. There is a little property to the west
that is not yet subdivided. They have complied with all of our conditions, have supplied
a landscape plan that hopefully is in your packet and staff recommends approval of this
subdivision.
Corrie: Okay.
Stipa: Good evening. I'm Mike Stipa, the owner and developer of the property here in
front of us. I'd like to address my comments to items 8 and 9 at the same time since
they be virtually the same. As Shari mentioned to you the property is here at the end of
Idaho which would be about 4th Street directly west of here. It consists of six lots and
the property is zoned R-15. It's vacant land at the present time. Four units that are four
plexes and two duplexes, the ingress and egress into each unit can be done in a
forward manner by the vehicles. I've tried to work with Shari and the staff here
extensively over the last year to accommodate something that would work here on the
property. The units themselves would be higher end type units that I have in mind.
They all have garages. That's something similar to the elevation that I intend being
higher end of garages for each unit. Two bedroom, primarily the duplexes will be three
bedroom. There is one issue of the water supply for irrigation purposes and you're
familiar with this project to a certain extent. It's adjacent to the Seabury Subdivision that
was brought in front of you by Becky of Briggs Engineering and I was here at the
meeting on the 16th of February I believe it was and it was left with the water supply was
there an issue too for irrigation purposes and the three conditions were left there were
either domestic water, Nampa Meridian Irrigation or a shallow well and I'm still working
with Nampa Meridian and looking into the other two issues also the other two
possibilities at this time. I would request those conditions would apply too if possible.
That's about alii have. If you have any questions.
Corrie: Any questions?
Bird: I have none.
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Corrie: Thank you. Anyone from the public who would like to issue testimony in favor
of this preliminary plat? Anyone opposed to the preliminary plat? Anyone have no
opinion? Neutral I should say. Council any questions on the preliminary plat? I'm sorry
conditional use. I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing.
Rountree: So moved.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion is made and seconded to close the public hearing. All those in favor of
the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor, I move that we instruct the City Attorney to prepare Findings of
Fact and Conclusions of Law and Decision of Order that would indicate approval of the
conditional use permit for this application, Meridian Acres Subdivision.
Bentley: Second.
Corrie: Motion is made and second that we order the attorney to draw up the Findings
of Fact and Conclusions of Law for the conditional use permit. Any further discussion?
Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
9. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR PRELIMINARY PLAT FOR
MERIDIAN ACRES SUBDIVISION BY MIKE STIPA - NORTH OF
BROADWAY, SOUTH OF PINE AVENUE, WEST OF WEST 4TH STREET:
Corrie: So I'll open the public hearing on the request for preliminary plat. Shari?
Stiles: Mr. Mayor and Council the applicant has responded to all of our comments. The
Planning and Zoning Department recommends approval of the preliminary plat. I don't
know if Gary may have some issues. Gary indicates he has no issues with this
preliminary plat.
Corrie: Since this is a public hearing, I will entertain the developer if you want to have
anything to say. Any other person would like to enter testimony on this public hearing
for the preliminary plat? Hearing none, Council questions?
Bird: I have none.
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Bentley: I have none.
Corrie: Okay I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing.
Bird: So moved.
Anderson: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and second to close the public hearing on item number 9. All
those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Corrie: I'll entertain a motion for request for preliminary plat.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I move that we approve the preliminary plat for Meridian Acres
Subdivision.
Bird: Second, is that subject to conditions?
Bentley: Yes, subject to staff conditions and have the attorney prepare the order.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Okay motion is made and second to approve the plat, the city attorney to
prepare the order subject to staff conditions. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all
those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
10. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR A CONDITIONAL USE
PERMIT FOR A HOME SALON BY TINA SAVKO - 310 E. BROADWAY:
Corrie: At this time I will open the public hearing and invite staff's comments.
Stiles: Mr. Mayor and Council this is for a one person home salon (End of Tape)
Stiles: .. .just across from the BMC West, is that what it is? There was an issue as far
as the ramping to provide handicapped access. I don't know if the applicant has
considered other ways of maybe providing access to people with disabilities. It doesn't
seem real feasible to be able to provide a ramp at least with the way it's presented
constructed. It would kind of destroy aesthetics of the home and I don't believe there is
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probably enough room from the front of the house to the roadway to provide that
ramping but she should explore the possibility of that with the building department and
see if there's some kind of reasonable accommodation she can make to meet those
requirements. There was the issue previously that she had no off street parking
available. Her only option would have been to access through the alley and pave a
good portion of her backyard. We had met with her and talked about the possibility of
being able to use some of BMC's parking and she does have a letter here tonight that
they will allow her two parking spaces on their property which would meet the
requirements for off street parking. So I guess she has met the requirement on the
recommendation to the City Council on page 3 that she would work with BMC West and
she has received permission and that the handicapped access meet with the building
department's approval.
Corrie: Since this is a public hearing would the representative for the conditional use
permit like to come forward?
Sayko: I'm Tina Sayko. I live at 310 E. Broadway and she said it all. I just want you to
waive the off street parking requirement and I will make a portable handicapped ramp
like you had suggested before. I just have to get with the building and see how they
want me to build it. And you want the letter from the parking thing?
Bird: I don't think that's introduced in the record.
Corrie: It will be introduced by the Clerk stamp it. Any questions at this point?
Bentley: I have none.
Bird: I have none.
Corrie: Okay, thank you Tina. Anyone else from the public who would like to issue
testimony on this request for conditional use permit? Hearing none any discussion of
the Council on this? I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing.
Bentley: So moved.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and second that we close the public hearing for the request for
conditional use permit for the home salon. All those in favor say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
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Rountree: Mr. Mayor I move that we instruct the City Attorney to prepare Findings of
Fact and Conclusions of Law and Decision Order that would support the request for
conditional use for the home salon.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and second that we have the attorney do the Findings of Fact and
Conclusions of Law in support of the conditional use permit. Any further discussion?
Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
11. CONTINUED PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR ANNEXATION AND
ZONING OF 9.14 ACRES BY PAUL A. HOFFMAN (PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH) - SW CORNER OF MERIDIAN RD., AND USTICK RD:
Corrie: I'll open the public hearing and staff report, Shari, Gary.
Stiles: Mr. Mayor and Council, I believe the reason this was tabled last time was so
they would give the applicant an opportunity to meet with staff and discuss some of the
issues as relates to the ordinance requirements. We reached kind of an empass at that
meeting that we really don't feel it's a staff decision to negotiate on terms of the
ordinance particularly as regards the pedestrian walkways for the requirement for a
sidewalk and the tiling of the ditches. Those are ordinance requirements and it would
be up to the Council if they want to entertain a waiver of either one of those
requirements. The sidewalk I can understand that Ada County Highway District is a
little hesitant to require that at this time, because it will require the removal of the
existing house, which was a recommendation of the Planning and Zoning Department
as a condition of annexation. Our main issue is still with the sidewalk, that is going to
be a high pedestrian traffic way with the park going across the street and also it's been
obsetved on Sundays that their parking doesn't appear to meet their need, and there
have been occasions where people are parked up and down Ustick Road with no
walkway. I think that is a safety hazard. As far as the tiling of ditches, anybody else
that comes in, they are required to relocate the existing ditches out of the right-at-way
out of future right-af-way and relocate those on to their own property. So I guess our
meeting didn't result in anything new and it's up to Council to what they deem to be in
the best interest of the city.
Corrie: Okay since this is a public hearing I invite Mr. Hoffman or his representative of
the church here tonight.
Hoffman: Mayor, Councilmen, Paul Hoffman, Boise, Idaho. I hope we haven't worn out
our welcome. As Shari indicated we attempted to resolve a couple of these issues.
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There was a suggestion at the last meeting. I believe Mr. Rountree you suggested or
asked the question would the church consider bonding the cost of tiling the ditch. And
the answer is yes. In speaking to the leadership in the church, their only concern is with
the bond language it's still not absolutely clear to us as to who is ultimately responsible
for that, but they would be willing to bond for whatever the full value of that is, that work.
As long as you know there's some kind of clarification or stipulation that if it's
determined that they're not responsible that that cost would be borne by those who are
responsible. The ditch is a tough issue because its need seems to be diminishing over
time. I submit to you that there are some fields to the east to us and slightly south that
once those are improved that ditch, its need may disappear. The part that serves that
comes in there at the intersection of Meridian and Ustick Road, it only serves run off
drainage from the fields to the north. So it's difficult to shallow the expense of putting in
an 18 inch pipe for 1 ,000 feet when five years from now, it's need could more or less
disappear. So anyway that's one consideration. As far as the sidewalks, I think I've
shared with you that the church has paid or actually the former owner prior owner of the
property posted a - I don't know if bond is the correct term with ACHD. They had a
program where you pay for the cost of the sidewalk and they hold it until such time as
the road improvements came along, so that remains in place and as far as the original
staff recommendations from 3/16, I think we were in agreement to hookup to the water
system for the existing two dwellings and I don't believe there were really any other
issues other than the sidewalk and the ditch.
Corrie: Shari, excuse me, Paul. Did you say they have a development agreement in
working or have they not - that was one of the recommendations from Planning and
Zoning Commission.
Stiles: Mr. Mayor a development agreement has not been developed for this project.
Corrie: Council questions?
Bird: I have none.
Rountree: I have a question, but I'm not sure anybody here tonight can answer it as it
relates to the sidewalks and the posting of the bond or prepayment to ACHD for future
development. I'm sure Paul can't answer anything as it relates to that. I don't know if
Shari or Gary can enlighten us a bit on that at this point. Can we ask ACHD to put the
sidewalks in since they've been paid for?
Stiles: I suppose we can ask. Typically if they're - we've reached an agreement with
Ada County Highway District that if they don't have this section of road within a five year
plan a funded five year plan, they will okay the construction of the sidewalk at this time.
This is not part of a five year funded project. Their main concern is the responsibility to
move the house, which they have some kind of strange agreement that they will do that,
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that they will move the house even though it's already in the right-of-way. It's in the
existing right-af-way. So I think that's their main problem, but they are going to have to
deal with the issue sooner or later and I just don't understand why they want to put it
later.
Hoffman: May I interject? While I was visiting with Shari, we did call Larry Sale at
ACHD. I asked the question, can we request and receive those funds for the sidewalk
and his answer was yes. I would submit to you that the church probably would be
willing to do that with the caveat that the house stays. In other words the sidewalk is not
going to be able to go all the way to the corner. There's abaut I don't know 40 or 50 feet
there that wouldn't be installed, but we could put in the remainder.
(Inaudible)
Hoffman: We put a door and the building and walk right through it.
Corrie: Any other questions of Paul?
Bird: Would somebody explain the house deal? Why is - what is the problem with the
house at the end and -
Hoffman: There's two dwellings on that corner lot. The house that we call the rental
house is a smaller building. It extends approximately seven feet into the existing 33 foot
right-af-way. When Robert Strausser, the former owner, subdivided the land creating
Strausser Farms Subdivision No.2, he entered into an agreement with ACHD and the
agreement is very - well it's vague in one sense and it's rather concise in another. It
just says the ACHD agrees to bear the expense of moving the house and that's all it
says, moving the house that's currently in the right-af-way when the road is improved.
Now does that mean moving it to the dump? Moving it to somewhere else on our site?
You know whatever, it just means moving it. It doesn't even suggest that they have to
pay for a new foundation or a new utilities, it just says move it and I'm sure they would
interpret it very -
Bird: Just very little.
Hoffman: Right and I think that the folks at the church understand that. They made a
gamble that they thought that the road improvements probably wouldn't happen for a
number of years and so anyway they were banking on that agreement.
Rountree: Well knowing Bob, his intent was probably just to have it moved on his
property somewhere.
Corrie: Any other questions?
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Hoffman: By the way if it is zoned R-4 and maybe I don't understand the zoning, but it
could be moved to another location on the same lot and still be legal.
Corrie: Thank you Paul.
Hoffman: Thank you.
Corrie: Anyone else would like to enter testimony on this request for annexation and
zoning? Okay. Hearing none, Council discussion?
Bird: I have none.
Corrie: Let me ask a question Counselor. Do we close the public hearing even though
they want to have testimony from the Councilor is the Council part of after we close it
they can still discuss it? They just can't ask questions of the people of the public.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor, that's correct. The public hearing is for the purpose of (inaudible)
evidence. Once you close the public hearing, then you're into deliberation for decision.
Corrie: Okay, I'll entertain a motion to close the public hearing.
Bird: So moved.
Bentley: Second.
Corrie: Motion is made and second to close the public hearing on the request for
annexation and zoning. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the
motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Corrie: Discussion?
Rountree: Where do we go now? Mr. Mayor, it seems to me before we go forward with
the annexation and zoning request that we probably ought to fashion a development
agreement. I'm sure that's Mr. Gigray's advice to us, and I would throw that's the
direction we go that we direct the preparation of a development agreement. That
development agreement should reflect certain conditions. In my opinion it should reflect
the applicant to seek reimbursement for previously paid monies to ACHD to be directed
towards the building and completion of the sidewalks on the site and that the applicant
be responsible for bonding for tiling of the ditch at a minimum. I don't have a good
solution for the house, but it seems to me that if we could direct the applicant to at least
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negotiate with ACHD on moving the house at this point in time at their expense as
they've agreed to, it would probably cost them less to do it today then it will ten or fifteen
years from now when they do intersection improvements there, so they may be open to
that suggestion as well. Whatever happens there in my opinion the sidewalk should be
continuous around that property, and have continuity with the City and the new city park
that's going to be developed hopefully in the near future across the street. Those are
my thoughts.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I would agree. I would like to see the sidewalks go in and hopefully
they get told the proper grades so we don't wind up like we do with so many of these
other ones, but wind up a low street grade, and I agree too on the bonding for the
ditches. Thank you.
Corrie: Any other comments?
Bird: I have none.
Smith: Mr. Mayor, may I ask a question? On the recommendation of the bonding, is
there a time limit that could be tied to that, and I don't know when you say bonding,
typically we ask for letters of credit rather than a bond, and if the letter of credit is your
intention then there is a time expiration date that's attached to that letter of credit.
Bird: That's right and there's a difference between a letter of credit and a bond.
Smith: Yes, sir. I know that what Mr. Hoffman's argument is very rational, but the
timing of all of that is like the word temporary, it's kind of unknown. I just don't want to
want this thing to get lost and I'm afraid that's will happen over a period of time,
because I don't think that's going to happen, the development of that property to the
east is not going to happen in the very near future. I don't mean to complicate the
issue, but I really feel like it should have some kind of a time schedule put on it and
perhaps if a time was attached to that letter of credit, then that time could be extended
at the time that that letter of credit comes due. Thank you.
Corrie: (Inaudible)
(Inaudible)
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I move we reopen the public hearing.
Bird: I second it.
Corrie: Motion made and second that we reopen the public hearing. All those in favor
say aye.
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MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Corrie: Okay, reopen the public hearing. Paul, you heard the comments.
Bentley: Before that Mr. Mayor question for Counselor. Do we have to move to have
Gary's comments entered into the public hearing?
Gigray: I think it would be in good form to do so.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I move that we receive Gary Smith's testimony on the ditches into
the public hearing for record.
Rountree: Second.
Corrie: Okay the motion is to enter Gary Smith's comments into the public record. All
in favor say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Corrie: Okay Paul.
Hoffman: I would be interested in hearing Mr. Gigray's opinions about the differences
between a bond and a letter of credit. Personally I'm not sure I understand in fact I
know I don't understand what those differences are. I have a somewhat rudimentary
understanding about what a bond is. In fact I was involved with some developments
that had a bond set aside for improvements similar to this. I believe it had a three year
duration so if somebody has some expertise so that I can share that with the owners.
Corrie: Do you want the long version or the short version?
Hoffman: The short version is fine.
Corrie: (Inaudible) No offense taken Bill. Mr. Gigray I'll let you answer this one.
Gigray: There's a difference.
Corrie: Does that help you out Paul? Okay we have a - moderate then Mr. Gigray.
Gigray: A letter of credit is based on funds that the church would have at the bank.
Those funds could be drawn upon by the City if there was a failure on the part of the
developer to meet the conditions. If it's a bond, it is written on an insurance company.
The insurance company bonds itself up to a certain amount. It will require the church to
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provide it with probably evidence of assets sufficient to cover the bonding company for
any payment it might have to make. It's more difficult to collect because you go through
kind of an established procedure to collect on bonds, and I would agree with Gary that
letters of credit are preferable because they do, they pay right away.
Hoffman: But if I understand you correctly in essence let's say we're talking about a
$20,000 worth of improvements. You have to set aside $20,000 and you can't touch
that. In other words, it's like you've got to hold that aside you can't do anything with it.
Is that what I am hearing?
Gigray: Mr. Mayor and members of the Council if you wish me to answer that question,
that would be a matter of which one would have to negotiate with the bank upon
conditions of which it would issue a letter of credit. My experience with banks which
have done this in the past and it's been on numerous occasions is that they usually will
provide this kind of opportunity to their customers who have sufficient assets or
business with the bank they're willing to do that. It is a vehicle available particularly to
those who have funds in banks which are on deposit regularly who have them for
investment purposes or otherwise, and they just as long as the fund aren't drawn on,
they're getting interest on their money.
Hoffman: Weill certainly can share that if that's a stipulation. We discussed specifically
bonding the word. If the Council sees fit that they would prefer a letter of credit, I can
share that with the leaders of the church and see how they want to proceed. Thank
you.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I move we close the public hearing.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion is made and second that we close the public hearing. All those in favor
of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Corrie: Anyone ready to tackle this one?
Bentley: Mr. Mayor point of discussion. Since Mr. Hoffman needs to go back and
check with his people on this, do we want to go ahead and move this procedure forward
and just hold on to it once we get the development agreement established or do we just
want to table this until we get some response back to Mr. Hoffman?
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Rountree: Mr. Mayor, I would suggest that let's move forward with the development
agreement. He'll then have that language to discuss with his clients and we can move it
on getting some lip service down there, and findings.
Corrie: I'll entertain a motion to that effect.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, I move that we instruct the City Attorney to prepare Findings of Fact
and Conclusions of Law on the annexation and zoning for the Presbyterian Church and
Mr. Paul Hoffman and prepare the development agreement.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and second that we instruct the attorney to draw up the Findings
of Fact and Conclusions of Law on the annexation and zoning and prepare the
development agreement with the Presbyterian Church and Paul A. Hoffman. Any
further discussion?
Gigray: Point of clarification if I might Mr. Mayor. Does that include in the conditions as
were outlined by Councilman Rountree with the letter of credit?
Bentley: Yes.
Bird: Yes.
Corrie: I would think so. Do we all agree on that one Council?
Bird: Yes.
Corrie: Any further discussion? All those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Corrie: Thank you Paul.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I move we take a ten minute break.
Bird: I second it.
Corrie: All those in favor say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
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12. PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR ANNEXATION & ZONING OF 40.55
ACRES BY MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT NO.2 - EAST SIDE OF LOCUST
GROVE ROAD, BETWEEN USTICK AND MCMILLAN ROAD JUST NORTH OF
SUMMERFIELD SUB:
Corrie: At this time I will open the public hearing and invite staff comments first. Shari
or Gary.
Stiles: Mr. Mayor and Council this is for a property north of Summerfield Subdivision
and east of Locust Grove Road. The Meridian School District would like to build a
charter high school. There has been a little bit of misunderstanding with the public as
the Comprehensive Plan does identify a technical school, but this charter high school
was not even thought about at that time. The legislation was not in effect when the
Meridian Comprehensive Plan was developed. The technical school that is referred to
in the Comprehensive Plan is being constructed in Boise City and that was the motor
repair more of a auto repair, welding, that kind of a school. This school is going to be a
professional - more geared towards professional business as far as computers, web
site design. I'm sure they'll explain that more to you. The application, the public
hearing just after this is the property that is currently contiguous to the City of Meridian.
So as a condition of this request for annexation, the Council will need to first approve
the annexation of the property just south of this property. But with that we have
reviewed the requirements with the applicant, and they have indicated that they will
comply with all our ordinance requirements and they can give their presentation.
Donnell: Mr. Mayor and Council, I'm Christine Donnell, Superintendent of the Meridian
School District, and staff has very clearly defined what our request is for annexation.
Based on our desire to construct a charter high school on that property, we have
proceeded through the planning and zoning process, and have received approval. We
did hold a public hearing at their request as we realized neighbors were concerned
about what we were doing on that property. We have been sensitive to the neighbors'
requests in terms of landscape, berming and lights on that property and we really urge
your consideration of this property as we are under a very tight time line. We'd like to
open this by the fall of - this fall, '99. So we are under a very tight time line. We have
with us tonight our architect who would be happy to share with you the building design
and any other issues that you might have, questions, and we also have two members of
our design team for the charter school that can more clearly articulate what this school
is about so with that we'd be happy to answer any questions. If you'd like I'll turn it over
to Wayne Thowless of Leatham and Krohn to talk about and show you the plan design.
Thowless: Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, the request before you is
annexation of approximately 40 acres on the east side of Locust Grove. The School
District's plans for the property in the immediate are construction of one approximately
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16,000 square foot charter school building. The long range plan for the property is
additional buildings on the site to create a small campus as the school grows and as
programs are added to the school. I'd be happy to answer any questions about the
design, but on the site plan up there, I realize it's kind of small. The first building that
will be constructed is shown there in the southwest corner. It's the building that's
shaded and you can see other buildings that may follow in the future shown also.
That's the proposed design of the initial building and site plan of that approximately
three and half, four acres in the extreme southwest corner where that first phase
building will go. I do have two questions or need for clarification with regard to two of
the conditions of approval that I'm in receipt of. And would appreciate some clarification
on these as well as any questions or comments that you may have regarding the project
or the design. Under conditions of approval, item number 1.4 talks about tiling of
ditches that are on the property. Along the north property line of the site is a ditch which
serves properties further to the west on the west side of Locust Grove. I'm going to go
back and change to the site plan to the entire site. The ditch runs the entire length of
that north property line which is the property line at the top of the site on that drawing,
and of course one of the city's standard requirements is that ditches be tiled on property
that's developed. As I mentioned earlier the School District's initial plans for
development are just several acres in the extreme southwest corner and for the
foreseeable future, the intent to continue to lease as pasture or farm land the most of
the balance of the property so the School District would respectfully request that the
requirement for tiling that ditch on the north property line be deferred until further more
extensive development of the property where students and other uses are in closer
contact with that ditch and that farming or grazing on that property has been suspended.
The second request for clarification has to do with requirement 1.6 which states that
well number 18 needs to be on line prior to any more development in the subject
pressure zone of which this property is a part as we understand. As Christine Donnell
just mentioned, the School District is on quite a tight time frame with this project and we
would actually like to be applying for a building permit early next month on this property,
subject to some approvals from the state and ACHD. The building will not be occupied
until at the earliest September of this year. In conversation with Gary Smith, he
indicates that it's anticipated that well 18 will be on line by around the first of August. So
the question is will the City permit this project prior to that well being on line since it will
not be occupied until after the well is due to be on line. So those are the two areas that
the School District needs some clarification and I would stand for any questions you
might have.
Bird: Mr. Mayor, I got two questions. How much of that Wayne outside of the site that
you're going to build right now, how much of that is going to be left to be farmed and
everything even in your site development program you said four or five years before
they go on before you start developing the other buildings or how much more will that
be not - will be left in farm ground and whatever? Not just the east side but how much
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of the north end from the new school? How much of that site right now are you going to
develop?
Thowless: Just this quarter right here.
Bird: And the rest of it is going to stay farm ground so that ditch has nothing to do with
it.
Thowless: That's correct. The District does not have a specific build out time frame on
further development of the property.
Bird: And there is an existing well on that property now, isn't there a water well?
Thowless: I can't recall to be honest.
Bird: For fire, I'm thinking about the permits down the line here in a month. I know what
we're going to run up against there if they don't have some water on the site. Maybe
Gary can answer that.
Smith: Mr. Mayor, Council members, Councilman Bird, water line has been extended in
the Summerfield project to the northwest corner of that subdivision which is the
southwest corner of this phase of development. I was just speaking to Fire Chief
Bowers and it may be necessary for the School District to install a fire hydrant at that
corner in order to facilitate their construction.
Thowless: Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, our engineer is working on a water
line extension which will provide water to a fire hydrant on the site and that is underway
as the design of that is underway as we speak.
Bird: I just don't want you to have any problems when you come in and get a permit.
Corrie: Any other questions?
Thowless: Thank you.
Corrie: Anyone else would like to issue testimony on this annexation and zoning
request?
Donahue: Beverly Donahue, 3775 N. Locust Grove. I'll be right across the street from
this school. I was never invited to this meeting that everyone had, so this is new to me
today. I went down to kind of get some information, and a few concerns I have with the
school is I wanted to know how close it was going to be to the road, and then I also
wanted to know where the entrance way was going to be so the driveway is not hitting
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my house when the kids are coming and going from the school, but they said 300 feet
so I'm trying to get a picture of this.
Bird: Can we see the site plan again?
Thowless: The building will sit back approximately 250 feet from the property line on
the east side of Locust Grove.
Donahue: So is that on the side of the berm? Behind the berm?
Thowless: Behind the berm 250 feet.
Donahue: Okay.
Thowless: We have been in intense negotiations the last couple of weeks with ACHD
over the position of what will ultimately be two to three driveway entrances to the
property over time as further development occurs where those driveways will occur.
ACHD requires that either the driveways be aligned with driveways across the street or
be offset by a certain distance based on the speed limit. Based on where this first
phase building is going, our current thinking is that it should be at this location as shown
on this plan which is across the street from your driveway. The option would be further
up Locust Grove which I gather would be your preference.
Donahue: Well yeah our neighbors, they have Summerfield Subdivision and all the
exits go straight into their living room. They can't even watch T.V. which you know they
were there first. So nothing has been set in stone where the driveways are going to go
yet with ACHD?
Thowless: We're still in the process of negotiating that.
Donahue: Okay, can I also be invited to those meetings just to have my voice in it?
Thowless: Their hearing on the matter already occurred. They've stipulated their
perimeters and at this point their perimeters to the School District and us as the
architect is either to align with driveways across the street or to offset by their required
distances. Beyond that, they're not taking a position on it. They're giving us those two
options, so we would be happy to entertain your concerns and discuss the matter with
you further.
Donahue: Well you know I'm looking for future if this school goes to 1200 kids, and they
all leave the school, that's 1200 cars I could have aimed right at my house twice a day
and that is a major concern where (live and for my safety. Also my other concern was
when we built Summeriield there were a lot of things that were promised that never
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happened and my concern is now we're moving down farther with the School District.
We were suppose to have sidewalks which we do have put in, but we never had the
bike lanes put in and if the School District is only going to go in shifts, how about the
kids that are coming from the north? There's no bike lanes, no sidewalks. How are
those kids that are 9th grade or 10th grade going to be able to get access to that school
walking on the side of the road? And I know it's probably another concern with ACHD
because our kids safety should come first, because I can't even walk down the side of
my road. Thank you.
Corrie: Thank you. Anyone else would like to issue testimony? Yes, sir?
Davis: My name is Tom Davis and I live at 2740 E. Ustick Road, Meridian. I own the
property that is east of the School District's and also Hollister's and also Summerfield
Subdivision, and I testified at the last one, and the school they recommended two
different fencing. I asked for a six foot chain link fence to keep some of the building
construction and stuff because when they built Summerfield, we've been picking up
building material and plastic bags and everything else out of our agriculture fields for
three years and nobody has ever offered to help, and I got to keep it out of there
because I have a grade A dairy and anyway they gave him two alternatives and the one
on the property line is the one I prefer between the school property land and my land,
and they wouldn't let me testify when Mr. Hollister came up the first time and anyway
that all hooks together and we were requesting a chain link fence from the corner of
Summerfield all the way back to the north property line of the School District. If you
have any questions, I'd be glad to try to answer them. Any questions?
Bird: I'd like to see him point out on the site the site where his place is and what he's
talking about. I think I know, but I'd like to know definite. Are you talking about the
northern boundary there where the ditch runs?
Davis: This line here is my property line and then Mr. Hollister's is right here and
Summerfield is right here. I requested a six foot chain link fence across here and in
those recommendations there, they gave him an alternative I believe of putting a chain
link fence some place here; wasn't it? Then over to Mr. Hollister. I would prefer to have
the fence on the property line, because like they said later this piece of ground here
may turn into a soccer field or a park or something and from the building site the people
that come to work the construction come to work and stuff with their lunches and
everything, the wind comes from the west and like I said we've been trying to keep
building material and plastics and tinfoil and everything else out of there.
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Davis: ... if you go out there right now, there is an (Inaudible) there and there is plastic
bags all over that infield right now.
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Bird: They haven't even started any construction that is coming from Summerfield?
Davis: Well, I don't know where it's coming from right now. Summerfield is pretty well
built. It's slowed down. I-we don't have to pick up as much stuff now. I suppose it
does come when the wind blows that way. I don't know where that comes from right
now.
Bird: I have no other questions.
Corrie: All right, thank you Tom. Anyone else like to issue testimony? Okay, would you
like to answer that question about the six foot fence on the north or the east side
property?
Thowless: As I understand the way the two options were written in the staff report as
conditions of approval. The first option was that fencing be required from the northeast
corner of the property to this southeast corner along this property line dividing the
schools property from the bulk of Mr. Hollisters and then from this property corner down
to this southeast corner of the school site, so these three legs of the property. The
alternative given was to negotiate with Mr. Hollister to run the six foot chain link fence
from here to here and then the length of his east property line that is contiguous with Mr.
Davis's. We have not entered in to any negotiations with Mr. Hollister regarding fencing
behind his property at this time. We don't see any need to do that, unless it would be
strongly felt that that would be preferable. We believe that we can meet the
requirement set by P & Z by fencing on our own property.
Corrie: Okay, since there is no other from the public who would like to testify, I'll
entertain a motion to adjourn the public hearing.
Bird: I'll move that.
Corrie: Motion is moved, do I hear a second?
Bentley: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded that we close the public hearing on Item No. 12.
All those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
Corrie: Discussions?
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, question for staff. Gary, have you got a firm date on Well 18?
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Smith: They are finishing up the drilling clean up right now on the site. The contractor
is poised and ready to get started on the well house, they're anticipating somewhere
around 120 days to complete that project, so that puts it at the middle of August.
Bentley: Thank you.
Corrie: Other discussion?
Bird: I have none.
Corrie: Recommendation to the City Council from the Planning and Zoning, how do you
wish to...
Rountree: There is a couple parts of this recommendation that I think need to be
cleared up. One was pointed out by the applicant on page 2, item 1.4 talking about the
tiling of the ditch. I can understand their desire to keep that open for some point in time,
we need to come up with some kind of a factor that would accommodate that. I don't
know if its until such time is the development is complete, or until such time as 50% of
the development has gone forward. That's something that we need to discuss and
modify. The other thing item 1.8 on page, I guess it's page 4, 1.8A. It's very unclear to
me what that says (Inaudible) testimony that the applicant gave. I would suggest that
we strike the first part of that first paragraph because it seems to me that it's unclear
that or there is two options in the first option. One would be to fence phase A or the first
building or permanently fence the property and then the other option of 1.88, so I think
that point needs to be clarified. My preference would be to have a permanent fence
established on the property line at this point, for discussion. Clarification for me from
city attorney that we would need findings and ordinance and are we looking at a
development agreement for this? I don't think we need one.
Corrie: Mr. Gigray?
Gigray: That's a matter of your discretion. I didn't see any requirement or request by
the Planning and Zoning Commission for development agreement either as far as
articulating a reference point by which would precipitate tiling of the ditch, as a matter of
council to the mayor and council. I would recommend that you might consider
development on a certain portion of the parcel so that we know when it applies and
when it doesn't apply. It would appear to me looking at the site plan that if you could
draw a line through the middle of the parcel if there were development on the north half
of the parcel, that would be development that would be in closer proximity to that ditch
that might effect that and if they develop on the south side, wouldn't require it. That
would be easy to write as a condition.
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Corrie: Discussion on the question Mr. Rountree?
Rountree: I guess a procedural point then. Would we then need to modify these
recommendations made by P & Z and then incorporate those into the finding?
Gigray: We will prepare new findings for your consideration. It will incorporate these
conditions and if you direct me to modify certain conditions, I will do so and then you will
have the findings as well as the ordinance of annexation for your consideration at the
next meeting.
Bentley: I've got a question for Charlie. On your fencing, are you talking-your
preference is to fence the entire property?
Bird: No, no.
Rountree: The eastern side that abuts the Davis property.
Bird: You are not going to include the Hollister side, back on that corner?
Rountree: I would call that the east side of the property line (Inaudible).
Bird: North of Hollister and the east side of Hollister?
Rountree: Um-hmm.
Bird: You are counting the little jog?
Rountree: The zigzag or jog, or whatever you want to call it that would constitute the
entire eastern boundary of that property would be chain link fence to the height of six
feet.
Bird: Northern (Inaudible) boundary too of Hollisters.
Rountree: But that's Hollisters property. I'm talking about the school district's property.
Bird: Okay, east end of the school districts property.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I also would be in agreement that we draw a line as the city
attorney stated on the tiling of the ditch, draw a line to the middle of the property then
proceed north and then the tiling begins.
Rountree: I move that we instruct the city attorney to prepare Findings of Fact and
Conclusions of Law to incorporate the recommendations of Planning and Zoning with
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the modifications of item 1.4 as it relates to irrigation ditch tiling and align the
established approximate center on a west-east basis that any development north of that
line would require the tiling of the ditches any development south of that line ditch tiling
would be deferred and that item 1.8A be modified and it be clear that the option is the
fencing of the entire eastern boundary of the school district property.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made by Mr. Rountree seconded by Mr. Bird to direct the city attorney to
draw up the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law with the modifications stated on
record. Any further discussion on the motion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the
motion as stated?
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
ITEM NO. 13: REQUEST FOR ANNEXATION & ZONING OF 10.02 FOR PROPOSED
YUKON SUBDIVISION BY JAMES AND KAREN HOLLISTER:
Corrie: So we will have item no. 13 as a continued public hearing. 1 will open the public
hearing back for the continued public hearing and Shari do you want to give us the run
down real quickly and then Mr. Hollister or Mrs. Hollister, either one.
Stiles: Mr. Mayor and council you have heard quite a bit about this property already, as
a condition of this annexation I think that we should include that the east property
boundary of this property also be fenced prior to any construction on any of the schools
property. We have received a letter from Mr. Hollister and I would like to clarify for the
record that the City of Meridian did not request this annexation, it was required in order
for the school district to be contiguous to the City of Meridian, but just to make sure that
everybody understands that the City of Meridian did not request this annexation to be
submitted. Other than that, there are no plans for a subdivision, it was a little confusing
because it has been advertised as the Yukon Subdivision, it is only a request for
annexation and zoning, there is no subdivision request at this time. I believe the name
Yukon Subdivision was part of a previous application in the county for some kind of a
subdivision of the property, but no plans have been submitted for any subdivision and I
guess I'll let the applicant or his representative make any presentation that they have.
STILLMAN ANDERSON, LEATHAM & KROHN.
Anderson: The Hollisters are requesting clarification on item 1.5 of the
recommendations that are on page 4. As they are not planning on a subdivision or
doing any development at this time, their concern is do they have to tile any of the
ditches or drainage that crosses their property? Also, under Planning and Zoning
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strip along their (Inaudible) in access of 1500 foot private driveway. They feel that the
reason that was requested by some of the residents of Summerfield Subdivision was
that they were quite concerned with what the school property was going to be
developed into, what the school is going to look like. They were concerned that they
would not have a say. So they felt that if they could get some landscaping between
their property and the school district property then they would not have to look at
whatever is there. That is one reason that it was requested that their annexation be
after the schools so that it could be pointed out that between the south property line of
the school district property and the building, there are three lines of landscaping. To put
another requirement for the Hollisters to have landscaping along their driveway they feel
is in excess. I'm sure that Mr. Hollister will have something to say about a six foot fence
along his eastern property, but as that was not part of the information presented to us,
that was not discussed with him prior to this meeting.
Corrie: Any questions? Anyone else like to issue testimony?
TOM DAVIS, 2740 EAST USTICK ROAD, MERIDIAN, ID.
Davis: I have the property as I was just up here-east of the Hollister property. We filed
the letter with Planning and Zoning Commission requesting a fence at that time, so I
think he has, he did know that we were requesting a fence. An R-4 means to me
anyway, means that it could have houses on it. That was one of the reason if the
school fence comes down to his property line, I urge you to have him put the fence on
from the schools property line to Summerfields so we will have a way to block the
building refuge and stuff from the school or any other papers and stuff. That's all.
Corrie: Anyone else like to issue testimony at this time? Hearing none. I'll entertain a
motion to close the public hearing.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor, I have a question that we may want the answer in the record
before you move to close the hearing. It's a question for council, it may not need to be
on the record, but I need-the suggested change from the applicant about the five foot
minimum buffer planting strip that is included in the recommendation from P & Z. If we
were to entertain removing that recommendation, would that constitute a significant
change as the result of the previous public hearing. I don't see any of those folks here
this evening and I don't know if they are working on the presumption that that is a done
deal. They are going to have a five foot buffer and if we were to do something this
evening that would change that are we procedurally in error? We do-we are having a
public hearing tonight to receive that testimony. Where are we with that?
Gigray: In my opinion it's not a major change, if you were to reject the recommendation
of the Planning and Zoning Commission and say that you want a zone that something
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else, rather than what they have recommended, I would say absolutely, you would
have to-you are not changing the application.
Rountree: Okay.
Gigray: I think you would be in your (Inaudible) to do that.
Rountree: Thank you. Mr. Mayor I move that we close the public hearing.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded to close the public hearing. All those in favor say
aye.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor, as the applicant indicated, they would like some immediate relief
from tiling ditches with this annexation I would suggest that we could put it in language
that would defer that until such time as development occurred. Per the other suggestion
that was made by the applicant on Item 1.8, the buffer planting strip-I have a hard time
saying what advantage that is going to be to anyone other than it's going to be-it
could be more of a detriment than a positive statement if it's not maintained for that
many feet by one private individual, and that could very well happen, so I would be
inclined to strike that particular provision.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, I would concur, I don't see the use of that planting strip at this time.
I think if something needs to be addressed later, when they come back with some form
of development then we could address it at that time. I also agree with putting off of
tiling ditches until come forth with a plan.
Corrie: (Inaudible) condition on this later?
Bentley: That's correct.
Gigray: I would advise-the council has a good question by Councilman Rountree, I
was just telling Councilman Bird that since this particular applicant is not in the process
of any particular development, if you were going to impose any conditions upon
annexation I think we would need a development agreement in this matter, otherwise
it's just zoned and they are off and running and I would prepare a development
agreement with those changes.
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Bird: I move that we instruct counsel to Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and
Decision of Order and a development agreement for the Yukon Subdivision by James
and Karen Hollister for annexation and zoning of 10.02 acres.
Rountree: Second.
Corrie: Okay, motion made by Mr. Bird, seconded by Mr. Rountree to direct the
attorney to draw up Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law with order for the
annexation and zoning of the Yukon Subdivision. Is there any further discussion?
Hearing none. All those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
Gigray: A point of information, with that motion I am not including a lands-a buffer and
the tiling, until development otherwise occurs on that property.
Corrie: Along with a development agreement.
ITEM NO. 14: PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR REZONE OF .578 ACRES FORM
R-15 AND R-4 TO L-Q BY THE CITY OF MERIDIAN:
Corrie: Open the public hearing for item no. 14.
KENNY BOWERS, 33 E IDAHO, MERIDIAN, ID.
Bowers: Mayor Corrie and City Council, by our Comprehensive Plan a fire station does
not fit into this area that was zoned. So we discussed it with Shari and she suggested
that we go L-O in this area for rezoning. This is the property on Ten Mile that was
donated to us by Mr. Teeter. We've looked through all the comments and we don't
have any problems at all with any of the comments. This is the property that we want
to build a substation on that the building will look like a house on one end with an
oversized garage on the other end. Are there any other questions?
Anderson: How are you coming on getting the water and sewer stubbed to that
property before they overlay Ten Mile Road?
Bowers: I've got one bid in today, I'm waiting for the other bids so we should be able
to-as soon as we get the bids in probably be able to do that at the end of this month,
bring in the water and the sewer.
Bird: Is it going to come across the street for water and sewer?
Rountree: It's in the street.
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Anderson: It's in the street.
Bird: That's what I thought.
Anderson: If we don't get it done now we're...
Bird: I misunderstood you, I thought you said under the street, I'm going I thought it was
in the middle of the street.
Corrie: 15 there anyone else from the public who would like to issue testimony on item
no. 14 for the rezone of the Meridian Fire Station for the City of Meridian? Okay,
hearing none.
Bird: Have you had any questions asked...
Gigray: Point of information, I would suggest that you might get clarification from staff
regarding a comment about the Comprehensive Plan because you can't zone unless
there is a consistency of the zone with the camp plan and I think that the chiefs
comments were probably more directed toward the prior zoning and the potential use
rather than the camp plan, but I think that would get that cleared up.
Corrie: Staff? Shari?
Stiles: Yes, it was the zone that didn't permit pubic uses, even with the conditional use
permit. As the fire station sites are in a generalized location only, as far as the
(Inaudible) purposes, there is a proposed fire station shown just a quarter of a mile
north of this site. So it is in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan.
Bird: Thank you.
Corrie: Thank you Mr. Gigray, my oversight
Bird: Do you want us to close?
Corrie: Yes.
Bird: Mr. Mayor I move that we close the public hearing.
Rountree: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded that we close the public hearing. Any discussion?
Hearing none, all those in favor say aye.
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MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
Anderson: I would make a motion that we approve the rezone for the .578 acres for the
fire station on North Ten Mile.
Bird: Second.
Anderson: And direct the city attorney to prepare the Findings of Fact and Conclusions
of Law and the decision of order.
Rountree: Second.
Corrie: Motion is made and seconded that we approve the rezone request and have the
attorney draw up the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and the proper order.
Any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
ITEM NO. 15: REQUEST FOR REZONE OF 1.936 ACRES FROM I-L TO L-Q FOR
THE MERIDIAN FIRE STATION BY THE CITY OF MERIDIAN:
Corrie: I'll open the public hearing and have staffs comments first
Stiles: They didn't want to give you a chance to screw it up this time Ken. As you
know this is for the property on Franklin Road, there are some extensive requirements
of Ada County Highway District that they are making on this project. I believe Kenny
has a proposal here to make the hunter lateral an amenity and provided that all other
ordinance requirements are met, it is shown as an existing urban area and they meet
the public safety goal within the Comprehensive Plan. That's all.
Corrie: Now public like to issue testimony on item no. 15, Chief Bowers.
KENNY BOWERS, 33 E IDAHO, MERIDIAN, ID.
Bowers: I did learn something tonight, thank you Shari. I said the same thing at P & Z
and they didn't catch me. Malcolm didn't catch it, so we learned something. This is the
lot next to ArchTech east of it, right by the cemetery. I learned something tonight talking
with Shari and Gary that I was kind of concerned what we were going to do about the
sidewalks also. Were we going to have to put them in now or if we were going to have
to do the letter of credit also, or what was going to happen there.
Bird: We can get a letter of credit.
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Bowers: Shari believes that it's in the minutes that Winston Moore is supposed to be
putting in sidewalks. Gary said that, excuse me, I'm putting Gary on the spot, that
Winston Moore was supposed to be putting the sidewalks as the lots develop. I don't
know quite where we are at-this is new tonight on that part for us.
Bird: We'll take it.
Bowers: We'll take it, you bet. I don't want to put Gary in the hot spot though. Also we
have been discussing the possibility of the City Council allowing us to landscape the
Hunter Lateral that goes through there. I do have a drawing tonight and I got this at
7:30 tonight, so I haven't looked at it either, Shari has not looked at it to approve it.
Basically the trees, the shrubs, the creeping red fescue (sic), the earth berms that they
have put into this thing. I think it looks pretty attractive. This is the same gentleman
that is doing Jabil's landscaping on the Hunter Lateral through there. That's our whole
lot there yes. I'm not quite sure...
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Bowers: So like I said, Shari hasn't got to see this either, Ron Anderson has not got to
see this either.
Bird: How far does that represent? How many feet does that represent, is that the ditch
there and then all the landscape we are going to have (Inaudible)?
Bowers: The blue stuff is water.
Bird: Yeah, I realize that. Some of us have got to be on our tax property don't it?
Bowers: All this stuff here will be on our tax property.
Bird: Yeah, has Holly agreed to-turn that around and look at their site deal. They are
showing trees and stuff over on his side.
Bowers: This is his tree I believe is what they are showing.
Bird: Is that existing now Kenny?
Bowers: Yes, yes.
Bird: Okay, that's what I was asking.
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Rountree: That's a good holding spot for Salmon so you can have live salmon
barbecue.
Bowers: Live salmon barbecue. Councilman Rountree you had another question, I
seen your eyes light up a little bit.
Rountree: I guess, just a comment that from my perspective you guys get a golden star
for turning that into an amenity and getting away from the need to tile. It's also a
potential site I assume to do some training as it relates to irrigation facilities and
drowning victims and pumping and all that kind of stuff.
Bowers: Correct, we would be able to just push the water right back into the ditch, so
we are not wasting any of it, or taking any other farmers ditch water. One of the other
comments that was in here and I did not get to talk to Shari about it, was that the Ada
County Highway District was not going to charge us anything for permits for another
station for the impact fees. Now what...
Bird: Did you get that in writing?
Bowers: Malcolm did that. My question was one of the articles in here stated that we
needed to sell back part of that property to Ada County Highway District. If they are not
going to charge us for impact fees are we legal to charge them back for that property
that they will be taking for the highway district or. . .
Bird: You bet we are.
Rountree: You bet.
Bird: Why can't we? They didn't donate anything (Inaudible)...
Bowers: I didn't know on that part. I need to talk to Shari a little bit about that article in
here, it explains it a little bit.
Stiles: Looks like it's about 70 feet in landscaping.
Bird: Are we that far off the ditch? I was going to say Jimminy Christmas, that's the
building. Are we open air or what?
Bowers: He probably did that this afternoon also.
Bird: What are you going to do put some sleeping bags out there where the guys
asleep under the trees.
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Bentley: Have you contacted the parks department to see if they have enough man
power to mow it?
Bird: The firemen can mow it.
Bowers: Tom said there would be no problem what so ever.
Corrie: Shari, does that require a variance for that?
Rountree: We can waive it.
Stiles: It's the same one that Jabil got a waiver on. Winston had previously applied for
a variance on this and it was denied. We've change how we do those. If they make it
an amenity and council says it's in the best interest ot the city.
Corrie: Okay, I just want to make sure that we aiL..
Bowers: Mayor Corrie and City Council the question that I had was 1.9 adopting the
Ada County Highway District recommendations as followed. It said in there basically
that we needed to submit a letter of application to the impact fee administrator prior to
breaking ground in that section, so. I did not get to talk to Shari about that this
afternoon.
Stiles: The city has worked out an agreement with the Ada County Highway District
where you would actually go to them first and get your plan stamped before you even
applied for a building permit. So that would all be taken care of. Usually they can turn
around those plans in two to three days and then you would-just to make sure that you
are compensated for that additional right-at-way.
Bird: Mr. Mayor, am I reading the right thing here? Adopt Ada County District's 1.9,
"City shall dedicate 40 feet (Inaudible) of right-of-way from the section line of Ten Mile
Road and we are talking about the one on Franklin?
Bowers: We get the wrong the road. I'm sorry, we get...
Bird: Is this the one that was supposed to go with the prior one?
Stiles: No.
Bird: Because if we have to dedicate 48 feet out there we are in big trouble.
Corrie: I think you got miscued here on the streets.
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Bowers: That needs to be changed in there.
Stiles: It is still 48 feet from the section line on Franklin.
Bird: On Franklin Road, but not Ten Mile.
Stiles: They messed up.
Bowers: Good catching that Keith.
Bird: I couldn't believe it.
Bowers: Mayor Corrie and City Council, it does state the same thing for the Ten Mile
one too. 1.10, I know we are going backwards, but number 14 here.
Rountree: From the center line.
Bird: Is that from the center line Charlie?
Rountree: Yeah.
Bowers: From the center line.
Rountree: I think that's what 1.9 should read on Franklin as well.
Bird: It says section line, section line is considered, that isn't a center line is it?
Rountree: I don't know where the section line is, but I think it should be center line.
Corrie: . ..1 think it should say center line.
Gigray: If it's referring to road, it should be center line.
Bird: I was going to say what is a section line? That's not the center line of the road is
it?
Gigray: That would be the meridian.
Bird: That's what I was going to say, that's the section line.
Smith: (Inaudible) is the only one that is not around here that I know of, but it should
say center line.
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Bird: Center line Gary?
Bowers: Mayor and council, was there any other questions on the Franklin one from
you guys?
Bentley: No.
Corrie: Thank you Kenny. Is there anybody else from the public who would like to
issue testimony on item no. 15 request for rezone?
Bentley: Move we close the public hearing.
Bird: Second it.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded to close the public hearing, any further discussion?
Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
Corrie: Discussion any questions? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion.
Anderson: Mr. Mayor, I would make a motion that we approve the rezone of the 1.936
acres for the fire station and modify the staff comments of 1.9 to read center line of
Franklin Road instead of section line of Ten Mile Road, delete 1.10 on the construction
of the five foot wide concrete sidewalk and direct the city attorney to prepare the
Findings of Facts.
(I naud ible)
Anderson: I'm not sure we need to waive that because our ordinance says you either
tile it or make it an amenity, so we are not (Inaudible) and instruct city attorney to
prepare the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and prepare the Order of
Decision.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made by Mr. Anderson and seconded by Mr. Bird to instruct the attorney
to draw up the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law with a modification to stay with
the (Inaudible) and also to have the proper order made. Any further discussions?
Hearing none. All those in favor of the motion stated say aye. All opposed no.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
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ITEM NO. 16: PUBLIC HEARING: REQUEST FOR VACATION OF
INGRESS/EGRESS OF UTILITIES EASEMENT FOR ROARING SPRINGS WATER
PARK BY REED BOWEN JR:
Stiles: Mr. Mayor and council this is just a clean up item on the interstate center
subdivision. They originally platted it with a loop road, a private loop road running
through the property with utility easements on each side of that loop road and now since
Roaring Springs has taken up the rest of the property this is just a clean up item to
vacate that ingress/egress and those utilities easements.
Corrie: I'll open it up to the public to issue testimony on item no. 16.
Bird: Shari there is no other-Roaring Springs owns that complete ground, there is no
other entity that owns any part of that now.
Stiles: I was just told today that they purchased the remaining eleven acres and they
will take the rest of it.
Bird: So they took it right up to the office building and to the Sandman?
Stiles: Yeah.
Bird: Okay. Shari is there any public interest in keeping the ingress/egress roadway?
Stiles: No.
Bird: Okay.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, I move that we close the public hearing.
Bird: You don't have any more questions? Second.
Bentley: Don't pick on me.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded to close the public hearing. Further discussion?
Hearing none, all those in favor say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
Corrie: Further discussion and comments. Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion for the
request for vacation of the ingress/egress of the utilities easement for Roaring Springs
Water Park.
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Bentley: Mr. Mayor I move that we approve the recommendation to vacate the
ingress/egress utility easements at Roaring Springs Water Park and instruct the city
attorney to prepare the proper documents.
Corrie: Okay, do I hear a second.
Rountree: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded to approve the request for vacation of
ingress/egress of the utility easement for Roaring Springs Water Park and have the
attorney draw up the proper form. All those-any other discussion? All those in favor of
the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
ITEM NO. 17: REQUEST FOR CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT FOR STORAGE OF
ENTERTAINMENT EQUIPMENT IN A PORTION OF THE GARAGE AND 2 TRAILERS
IN BACKYARD BY ROBIN WALKER D/B/A JUKEBOX PARTY EXPRESS-821 E.
WILLOWBROOK:
Corrie: Council you have the findings of that? What is your pleasure on the Findings of
Fact and Conclusions of Law?
Gigray: Mr. Mayor and members of the council, just for purposes of the record I would
like to draw the councils attention and the preparation of these Findings of Fact and
Conclusions of Law and Order which you have had I believeJ in your packets so you
could review. We have included a Comprehensive Plan Analysis in these findings that
was not included in the recommendations from the Planning and Zoning Commission.
As these findings and conclusions are drafted and order of decision of which comports
with your action of denial, it is my opinion and you have taken notice of your own
Comprehensive Plan that there is considerable support for your action in the
Comprehensive Plan, so I have included that analysis in these findings. I just want to
make sure for the record that it reflected that the council has had an opportunity to
review that and does in fact adopt that if it should choose to do so since there wasn't
any other specific discussion other than the fact that it is included as part of the record.
Bird: Be part of the record.
Gigray: Oh yeah, I just want to draw your attention to the fact that it's there and
(Inaudible).
Corrie: Mr. Gigray is dotting all the I's and crossing all the T's.
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Bird: I just-when you make the motion do you have to note that or...
Gigray: I'm just doing it and I can do it since I'm the counsel for the council and mayor
and directed to prepare this and I'm just drawing it to your attention that it was included
in there because conditional use permits have to be in compliance with your
Comprehensive Plan.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, I would move that we approve the Findings of Fact and
Conclusions of Law for the conditional use permit for Robin Walker and the Order of
Decision of denial.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and second to approve the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of
Law and the decision of denial.
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ROLL CALL: Councilman Bird- yea, Anderson-yea, Rountree-yea, Bentley-yea.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor, I guess for expediency I would suggest we open up the next four
items all at once and then for discussion and consideration so we can move forward,
18-21.
Bird: 18-21, I don't have any problem with it.
ITEM NO. 18: FINDINGS OF FACT & CONCLUSIONS OF LAW: REQUEST FOR
ANNEXATION OF .53 ACRES & REZONE OF 55.79 ACRES TO I-l BY WILLIAM A.
HON (JABIL) - NORTH OF 1-84, SOUTH OF STATE OF IDAHO LAW
ENFORCEMENT FACiliTY, WEST OF LOCUST GROVE RD:
ITEM NO. 19: DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT FOR WILLIAM A. HON (JABll):
ITEM NO. 20: ORDINANCE #818-ANNEXATION FOR WilliAM A. HON (JABll):
ITEM NO. 21: ORDINANCE #819-REZONE FOR WilliAM A. HON (JABll):
Corrie: Point of order Mr. Attorney, do we need to read the ordinances by their title
only?
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Rountree: Mr. Mayor, I've gotten a verbal cue here from the city clerk that the
ordinance numbers may need to be changed.
Corrie: Mr. Clerk, if you will read the ordinances and then put the proper numbers on
them and then read them by title only. How's that one?
Berg: Thank you Mr. Mayor, because you tabled some previous ordinances on this
agenda, we want to keep them following the sequence, so Ordinance #820 on your
agenda will be #818, an ordinance finding that certain land lies contiguous and adjacent
to the city limits of the City of Meridian, County of Ada, State of Idaho and finding that
the owner has made a request for annexation in writing to the council and that said land
be annexed to the City of Meridian and zoning designated light industrial (I-L) and
declaring that the said land by proper legal description as described below be a part of
the City of Meridian, County of Ada, State of Idaho repealing all ordinances, resolutions,
orders or parts thereof in conflict herewith and directing the city attorney to add set
property to official maps of the City of Meridian, Idaho and directing the clerk of the City
of Meridian to file a certified copy of the ordinance and map of the areas to be annexed
with the Ada County Recorder/AuditorlTreasurer/Assessor and the State Tax
Commission of the State of Idaho pursuant to Idaho Code section 50-223 and section
63-2215, be it ordained by the mayor and council of the City of Meridian, County of Ada,
State of Idaho.
Corrie: You have heard the reading of the Ordinance #818 by title only, is there
anyone from the public who would like to have Ordinance #818 read in it's entirety?
Hearing none. Ordinance #821, I guess it would be #819 now.
Stiles: Mr. Mayor, I just had a question about this development agreement, I wanted to
be assured that we are protected that there is not going to be asphalt and concrete
plants developed there. I think my recommendation was that they work together with
me to insure that some of the permitted uses in that light industrial zone were not ever
going to be permitted in that zone, but just to protect the-does the way this read Bill, is
that they can only develop it as they have already presented and represented to the City
Council, or will they be able to sell it off to somebody else that can develop it in any
manor that they want to as long as it's within the light industrial zone?
Gigray: Excuse me just a minute. I believe this development agreement was drafted in
accordance with the recommendations that were submitted at the time of the hearing
and as it does state here, it would be in compliance with the zoning ordinance so I don't
know if it is tight enough to answer your question.
Stiles: but they have already signed this applic-this development agreement? I was
working with Becky Bowcutt, I didn't know that they had already signed it. That was my
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main concern is that we would have a problem like we had in a similar situation at Ten
Mile-at Overland and Linder where they represented one project and then turned it into
a gravel pit. There is so many different provisions in this, I didn't know if we were
protected at all from that.
Gigray: Yeah, there were some-Mayor and members of the council, I included some
conditions particularly there was a lot of concern regarding Locust Grove and access to
the site and we provided in 5.6 the access to the site, instruct all drivers to observe
speed laws and the applicant is to work with ACHD on appropriate maintenance of said
road required by the road usage and access for construction because there was a lot of
focus in the public hearing on that particular aspect and then there was focus on the
public hearing with regards-I believe there were some concern by neighbors of the
view of the parking lot, but they were satisfied with the berming that was going to be
provided and it's-the uses are specified in accordance with the city's zone is the way
it's written.
Stiles: (Inaudible) biggest problem I have with that. I'm sorry, I didn't realize that they
had already signed it because I was talking with Becky Bowcutt and she was aware of
my concern that it didn't seem to preclude any of the more nasty permitted uses in that
zone. Solid Waste Transfer Stations, asphalt, concrete, but with the length of this
document I wasn't sure if somewhere contained in there it meant that they could only
develop it as it had been represented to the city but apparently it doesn't give us that.
Berg: Mr. Mayor and members of council, this is a very much of a concern that I have
just with the process itself. If Shari needs to look at the development agreement before
it gets passed on to the developer to sign, maybe we should incorporate that little twist
in there. I know that she looks for certain things rather than what I look for and maybe
rather than what our city attorney looks for. I'm just concerned that we would get it to
the developer and have him sign it and we think it's just okay and I just want to make
sure that everything is in proper order or that the concerns are justified before we sign
the agreement. Thank you.'
Gigray: Mr. Mayor and members of the council, one of the things that I hope we are
going to be able to eventually get to is a situation wherein we can focus in these public
hearings upon the recommendations the Planning and Zoning Commission and if those
need to be changed in such a way we have that articulated so that we know and you
can make a motion at that point including whatever conditions you want to have in it.
Otherwise, I have to wait till there is an entire transcript prepared of this, we have to
produce these development agreements and get them to the clerks office so they are
out in time for signature in preparation for the following meeting. I think it puts a strain
on probably the entire staff, because by the time Shari has an opportunity to read it or
anybody else then if there is additional comment that is going to come in, do we reopen
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where we have input coming in outside of the public hearing. That doesn't mean that
her review would be inappropriate, I don't mean to say that. We will do whatever you
want to do and the processing of these things. My hope is that at some point if we can
focus on written recommendations then we can have written proposals with regards to
how those are, then we know what we are talking about always and we have those
down and we include them, but in terms of the question that was asked here, it says
what it says. It's pretty clear that it talks about what is allowed in the zone.
Bird: It probably wasn't in the facts and conclusion of law. The development agreement
is usually written-excuse me Mr. Mayor, I've got a question to ask now. When we
okay and get ready to go to a development agreement all those objections and stuff
have been done and that's when it should be raised is then, so that it is clear what is
going in. If we want to change something that is in the zoning, we ought to be doing it in
our staff comments which most of the time we do and the attorneys draft that to reflect
in the development agreement, am I not right?
Gigray: You are correct.
Bird: So I just think it's something that we need to make sure we get it in the staff
comments and in our motion on the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. I'm like
Mr. Gigray, I mean in two weeks to get this drawn up, get it signed, and get it back here
to us is pushing it if we have to have three or four different people look it over.
Stiles: My comment is incorporated in the development agreement, but it says the
applicant shall enter into a development agreement with the city, the content of which
should be negotiated and determined between staff and the applicant. That was my
intent on making that comment, was that we could agree to what their proposed uses
were for that property so that it didn't hinder them unnecessarily if they want to put a
restaurant or other things, but also if something happened to the chip industry and they
decided they had to just off load it, we wouldn't get stuck with something that was very
unsightly there.
Bird: I see where you are going like an asphalt plant or something like that down there,
I agree with you, with the existing zoning they could probably do that. Wouldn't it-they
wouldn't have to come in for a conditional use permit would they?
Stiles: No.
Bird: You've got a real problem-you've got a good point there.
Gigray: Weill mean, if you don't want to approve the development agreement then you
don't approve it.
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Bird: How do you do that? You've already sent it out for them to sign and they have
signed it, they have agreed to it.
Rountree: We haven't.
Bird: We haven't, but we have instructed, we have made it our point now to have our
council draw it up. We passed it with the specifics of the Findings of Fact and
Conclusions of Law.
Rountree: We didn't pass it and pass it on to them, we passed it what was prepared
and sent to them, they signed it and it's been brought back to us to agree with.
Bird: Yeah, but our people took off of what we passed on conclusion of law and going
through all the process, that's how he wrote the development agreement which we
passed.
Bentley: No, we haven't passed it.
Bird: We haven't passed the development agreement but we've passed the point of
getting to the development agreement.
Rountree: Yeah.
Bird: I would not vote to change the development agreement after we are the ones that
sent it out to them.
Rountree: You could stipulate that condition in the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of
Law as it relates to the annexation, could you not? Could we modify that this evening
and include that in there and protect ourselves?
(Inaudible)
Corrie: Could you answer that? Can we do that in the Findings of Facts?
Gigray: The advantage of the development agreement is that it's the one that has the
hold on the zoning itself. We-I mean the one hold you have is if they develop the site
as proposed, they are going to have a considerable (Inaudible) in there and it would be
a very costly mistake if they used it for some other purpose. You may want to move
on-do you have any other items and I can look back through here to see what
happens and I can come back to this.
Bird: Did you answer Charlie's?
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Rountree: Mr. Mayor my question for counsel is could we not put a paragraph in the
Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and Order of Decision that would cover that
since the development agreement incorporates Findings of Fact? Or if that's not
possible, could we not modify the ordinance, the annexation ordinance to stipulate that
any other use other than that that is being proposed would be subject to further
negotiation with the city.
Bird: If you go back to the...
Gigray: Kind of like a conditional zone. I don't know if our ordinance allows us to do
that. We could do it in the findings. You could put it in the findings, that you can do all
day long.
Corrie: Is that sufficient protection?
Gigray: It's more than nothing.
Bird: Do we have to open up the public to change the findings?
Gigray: No, you are still in deliberation until you sign these.
Corrie: (Inaudible).
Bentley: Let's just go back and take them one at a time, start with the findings and he
can look up what he needs to look up.
Corrie: Okay then you want to go to 18 and just go right down the line and we still have
to read Ordinance #819.
Bird: I think so.
Corrie: I'll entertain a motion on the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law with the
amendments that you want to put on that one.
(Inaudible)
Rountree: I move that we approve the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law for the
William A. Hon property with the addition in the Findings of Fact and Conclusions that
we enumerate-that we are only approving the requested industrial use that any other
use that would be proposed for this site either by the current owner or future owners
would be subject to negotiation with the city of Meridian.
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Rountree: Did that help?
Corrie: This one you handed to me Will, that's going to have to have the
amendments-you're going to do that on-you've got it on that one? Okay, the motion
is to approve the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law with the amendments as
stated by Councilman Rountree, any further discussion?
ROLL CALL: Bird-yea, Anderson-yea, Rountree-yea, Bentley-yea.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
Corrie: Ordinance #818 was read by title only of annexation for the William A. Hon,
excuse me I'm back to the development agreement. Is he still working on that one, we
can skip that one and come back to it.
Gigray: You just go through all the other parts...
Rountree: We just took care of it.
Corrie: Then we are on item no. 19. Development agreement for William A. Hon.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor, I move that we approve the development agreement with William
A. Hon authorize the mayor to sign and the clerk to attest and that on exhibit B which is
not yet completed the condition that was just added to the Findings of Fact and
Conclusions of Law certainly be included in exhibit B.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made by Mr. Rountree, seconded by Mr. Bird to approve the
development agreement for William A. Hen and Jabil with the exhibit B to be approve as
directed. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion as
mentioned, say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
Corrie: Ordinance #818 was read and we need to have the ordinance motion.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, I move we approve Ordinance #818 with suspension of rules.
Bird: Second.
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Corrie: Motion made and seconded that we approve Ordinance #818 with the
suspension of rules.
ROLL CALL: Bird-yea, Bentley-yea, Rountree-yea, Anderson-yea.
MOTION CARRIED: All aye.
Gigray: Excuse me Mr. Mayor and members of the council, trying to get back to
Councilman Rountree, I'll tie your amendment to the finding to finding 4.9 because that
does reference that the applicant proposes to develop the subject property in the
following manner construct and operate a high tech manufacturing facility that is in
these findings and I'll just tie it back to the...
Corrie: Ordinance #821, Mr. Clerk would you read the ordinance by title only please,
#819, sorry.
Berg: #821 has changed to #819 an ordinance finding that the owner of the certain real
property has made a written request for rezone of the zoning classification for real
property that lies within the boundary of the City of Meridian from C-G, general retail
and service commercial zoning district to I-L, light industrial as defined under 11-2-
408814 of the municipal code of the City of Meridian repealing all ordinances,
resolutions, orders or parts there of in conflict herewith and directing the city engineer to
add said rezoning designation to official maps of the City of Meridian, Idaho.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, I move that we approve Ordinance #819 with suspension of rules.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded that we approve Ordinance #819 with suspension
of rules. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
Corrie: I assume there was nobody from the public who wanted to hear the whole thing
read. All right.
ITEM NO. 22: FINAL PLAT FOR OLIASON PARK SUBDIVISION BY TONY HICKEY -
603 E. PINE:
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, question for Shari. You received a response on your site specific,
are the responses appropriate?
Stiles: Yes we did.
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Bentley: Thank you.
Corrie: Okay, any other questions for staff. Since Mr. Hickey is not here, can't talk to
him. Now I'll entertain a motion on the final plat of Oliason Park Subdivision.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, move we approve the final plat for Oliason Park Subdivision by
Tony Hickey.
Bird~ Second.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded that we approve the final plat for Oliason Park
Subdivision by Tony Hickey, any further discussion. Hearing none, all those in favor of
the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
ITEM NO. 23: APPEAL OF PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION'S DENIAL OF
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT BY PINNACLE ENGINEERS:
Corrie: Since they are not here, I recommend that we table that.
Bird: I move that we table the appeal of Planning and Zoning Commission denial of
Comprehensive Plan Amendment by Pinnacle Engineers till April 20, 1999.
Corrie: I've got a motion, do I hear a second?
Bentley: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded that we table Item No. 23 till 4-20-99. Any further
discussion?
Rountree: Mr. Mayor, I would assume that these folks knew this was going on, if they
are not here, I don't see any reason why we can't take action on this unless there is
great amount of discussion on the part of the council. My recommendation would be to
take action on it this evening and get it over with, unless we need some more input, it
seems pretty clear in here what has gone on. We've got a (Inaudible) conclusion from
our city attorney and a basis for the denial.
Bentley: I agree.
Bird: I'll go with that.
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Rountree: Mr. Counselor can we do that?
Gigray: Mayor and members of the council, I assume tonight they were given notice
that tonight was the night set for hearing of the appeal and they have the duty of
prosecuting that appeal if they requested a continuance and there had been approval
that such continuance would be given then I would say continue it. Otherwise, I think
you could move forward with it.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor, the City Clerk has indicated that he's made a telephone call to
Mr. Unger on the 5th of April. I guess the question for the city clerk is was a message
left or was there contact made?
Berg: Mr. Mayor and member of the council, the staff calls each applicant when their
packet is ready and either leaves a message or talks to them personally saying the
packet is ready for a certain meeting, so I'm sure Mr. Unger was left either a message
or he was talked to in person, I don't have that indicated on my report, but he does work
for Pinnacle Engineering so I'm sure there was something left on the 5th (Inaudible) this
was ready to be brought before the City Council tonight.
Corrie: Okay, does that change your mind Mr. Gigray at all?
Gigray: No.
Corrie: Rather than going through the table of motion, if you would like to (Inaudible).
Bird: I never had a second.
Corrie: Yeah we did.
Bird: Oh we did? I'll withdraw my motion.
Bentley: I'll withdraw the second.
Corrie: Okay, I'll entertain another motion to appeal to the Planning and Zoning
Commission's denial of the Comprehensive Plan Amendment by Pinnacle Engineers.
Bentley: I move that we deny the appeal of the Planning and Zoning Commission's
denial of the Comprehensive Plan Amendment by Pinnacle Engineers.
Bird: I'll second that.
Corrie: Motion made that we denial the appeal denial. Any further discussion? Hearing
none, all those in favor of the motion to refuse the appeal say aye.
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MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, question for the clerk, would it be possible when you notify these
people to put a footnote on the coversheet the date they were notified.
Berg: Mr. Mayor, Councilman Bentley, on the copy-the original copy that I have after
we have made the packets and distributed them to the councilmen, we write down that
we made the phone call and when we made the phone call on our original sheet,
because we sometimes can't do that until Monday morning after the packets are
sometimes down late Friday.
Bentley: So was that noted on yours?
Berg: Yes it is.
Bentley: All right, that's alii wanted to know.
Berg: That's how communicate that. So we do it on the original packet, unfortunately
it's not copied on yours.
Bentley: Just so we have a record somewhere.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor and members of the council, I'll prepare appropriate order of denial
on this appeal for your signature.
ITEM NO. 24: AMENDED ORDINANCE # --ADD ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF:
Bird: I'll bet it's #820.
Corrie: I'll bet it is too. Do we have it?
Bentley: Well, we've got a blank assistant chief.
Corrie: All right, Kenny?
Bowers: Mayor Corrie and City Council this ordinance stated that members of the
Meridian Fire Department was the Fire Chief, full time firefighters, and the volunteer pay
call people. We have changed that and we are going to hire an assistant chief, so we
need to get the assistant chief in there and also the fire marshal, we need to get him in
there as members of the fire department. Also, this ordinance stated that we would only
hire within our volunteer ranks when we hired full time firefighters and possibly this next
time around we might have to hire nine firefighters at one time so we are going to have
to go and open this up to outsiders also. Also this ordinance we wanted to make sure
we get in the readings and the language Human Resource Officer in the ordinance, we
did not have her in there and that's probably most of the changes.
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Bentley: Mr. Mayor, Kenny on this assistant fire chief side, have we put the proper
information and background and job description in so it shows this is an exempt
position?
Bowers: Mayor Corrie and Councilman Bentley, City Council, yes it is he will not be a
member of the union.
Bentley: Just so we've got it in his job description so that we don't run into...
Bowers: I'm not sure if it strictly says that in his job description, but from day one with
Councilman Anderson and the rural commissioners and Mayor Corrie, we said that's
this position would not be a member of the union.
Bentley: Thank you.
(Inaudible)
Anderson: Question, I guess this is more for legal counsel. When it comes to listing the
members I don't understand the logic in why we need to list each position and if you add
any position, if you add a training instructor or you had a secretarial position you've got
to come back every time and change your city ordinance because you hire somebody?
It would seem more appropriate just like what you list with full time employee
firefighters and non employee volunteers that you could just list administration instead
of listing out each individual position.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor, Councilman Anderson, members of council, yeah you can do it
either way, we are just working historically with an existing ordinance and within the
framework of the requests that were made to change it.
Bird: Mr. Mayor, if we are going to go to the bother of changing it, why don't we change
it to like Mr. Councilman Anderson said, not be specific on listing the chief, the assistant
chief and the fire marshal and the paid volunteer-or the firefighters and stuff, why don't
we while we are at it, draw it up and get it done right. What do you think on that
council?
Gigray: Mr. Mayor, Councilman Bird, members of the council. I would defer to the fire
chief as to what his prerogative and preferences are and I'm sure he is probably like me
working with an existing ordinance that has been around a long time, but we are
certainly willing to do what the council directs. If you want to have this rethought, I
would have you ask the chief what his time table is and any emergencies he may have
and we would certainly be willing to work with the chief and maybe with Councilman
Anderson or if you've got a point person and we can look at some ways of putting this
together. I foresee that we are going to redo a lot of these ordinances that deal with the
formation of various departments. We are looking at one for the police department and
some others that will probably be significantly revised. So this is a matter of your
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Bird: I would like to-personally let Kenny-I would like to see us, while we spend the
time to do it right and something that will last, that will be generic enough that every time
we hire a new person, we are not out changing the ordinance. If we are, like Ron said a
secretary or something like that.
Rountree: I really see nothing in this ordinance that ought to be an ordinance. I see
some material that is procedural and ought to be in a procedural manual for the fire
department. The rest of it, if there is any significance to it at all is already included in
the union contract. I guess my recommendation is that we repeal the existing
ordinance, that gets Kenny's problem taken away and those things that are important
procedurally in here being included in a department memorandum or procedural manual
for the fire department as opposed to trying to do it by ordinance and resolution. Then
we adopt the manual.
Bowers: Yeah, Mayor Corrie, City Council, Councilman Rountree, that would be
something that we could work with that way I don't have to come back like you said and
changing this time and time again. I would have to go through the rest of the ordinance
and just make sure that we could do that. Put it in a policy manual.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor, Councilman Rountree and councilmen, I think it's a good idea and
quite frankly if we are going to do this, we are going to repeal this, we can just take a
quick look at the whole department ordinance setup and just see if we can't do a fix on
this that you are comfortable with. Do we have a point person would we work with
Councilman Anderson as-to get a, as well as the chief a review on this to see if we can
get it put together and submitted to you at the next council meeting?
Anderson: I'm sure you've got a lot of time.
Gigray: I'm sure he is in a mess, I think it would be good to have it reviewed so we
don't get into discussion have the chief up here next time and we decide we need to
change it again.
Corrie: Okay, lets just table it.
Rountree: Do we want to repeal the existing ordinance so...
Gigray: I would have to draft an ordinance to do that anyway. I think it would be just as
easy to do this right and we get it back to you in the next two weeks and do those things
that you wanted.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, so would the proper procedure just be to remove this from the...
Gigray: Yeah, or if you table it, you would just-we would just substitute it as the
ordinance at the next council meeting and we would have it as an agenda item. Either
way, however you want to do it.
Corrie: Probably the simplest way.
Bird: You mean you can't remove an ordinance with a motion?
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Bird: I would like to-personally let Kenny-I would like to see us, while we spend the
time to do it right and something that will last, that will be generic enough that every time
we hire a new person, we are not out changing the ordinance. If we are, like Ron said a
secretary or something like that.
Rountree: I really see nothing in this ordinance that ought to be an ordinance. I see
some material that is procedural and ought to be in a procedural manual for the fire
department. The rest of it, if there is any significance to it at all is already included in
the union contract. I guess my recommendation is that we repeal the existing
ordinance, that gets Kenny's problem taken away and those things that are important
procedurally in here being included in a department memorandum or procedural manual
for the fire department as opposed to trying to do it by ordinance and resolution. Then
we adopt the manual.
Bowers: Yeah, Mayor Corrie, City Council, Councilman Rountree, that would be
something that we could work with that way I don't have to come back like you said and
changing this time and time again. I would have to go through the rest of the ordinance
and just make sure that we could do that. Put it in a policy manual.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor, Councilman Rountree and councilmen, I think it's a good idea and
quite frankly if we are going to do this, we are going to repeal this, we can just take a
quick look at the whole department ordinance setup and just see if we can't do a fix on
this that you are comfortable with. Do we have a point person would we work with
Councilman Anderson as-to get 8, as well as the chief a review on this to see if we can
get it put together and submitted to you at the next council meeting?
Anderson: I'm sure you've got a lot of time.
Gigray: I'm sure he is in a mess, I think it would be good to have it reviewed so we
don't get into discussion have the chief up here next time and we decide we need to
change it again.
Corrie: Okay, lets just table it.
Rountree: Do we want to repeal the existing ordinance so...
Gigray: I would have to draft an ordinance to do that anyway. I think it would be just as
easy to do this right and we get it back to you in the next two weeks and do those things
that you wanted.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, so would the proper procedure just be to remove this from the...
Gigray: Yeah, or if you table it, you would just-we would just substitute it as the
ordinance at the next council meeting and we would have it as an agenda item. Either
way, however you want to do it.
Corrie: Probably the simplest way.
Bird: You mean you can't remove an ordinance with a motion?
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Gigray: We would have to notify the codifier to pull it out and we would have to have it
in written form.
Bentley: I make a motion that we table Ordinance #820, amended ordinance, the
proposed amended ordinance #820 until 4-20-99.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded that we table item no. 24 amended ordinance #820
until 4-20-99. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion
say aye. Do that in your waking hours Ron.
ITEM NO. 25: WATER / SEWER / TRASH DELINQUENCIES:
Corrie: This is in the form being writing, if you choose to have the right to a
predetermined hearing at 7:30 P.M. Tuesday April the 6th before the mayor and City
Council to appear in person to be judged on the facts and defend the claims made by
the city that your water, sewer, and trash bill is delinquent. You may retain council, the
service will be discontinued on April the 14, 1999 unless payment is received in full. Is
there anyone present who wishes to contest their water, sewer, and trash delinquency.
You are hereby informed that you may appeal to have the decision the city reviewed by
the fourth traditional district court pursuant to Idaho Code. Even though you do appealJ
your water will be shut off. The amount of the turn off list is $26,613.63. I'll entertain a
motion to turn off delinquency list.
Bentley: I move that we approve the water, sewer, delinquency and trash turn off list.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded that we approve the water, sewer, and trash
delinquency turn off list. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the
motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: All ayes.
ITEM NO. 26 A1: DISCUSSION OF REVISIONS TO PARKS AND RECREATION
COMMISSION ORDINANCE:
Kuntz: Would you like me at the podium or is this okay?
Corrie: Right there is fine.
Kuntz: The first item you should find in your packet is amended ordinance #733 and I'm
here on behalf of the parks and recreation commission with revisions to that ordinance
as recommended by the parks and recreation commission in their March meeting. I
plan on, the city attorney's office did not have time to put this into the new format that
will be used for all ordinances. So what I'm asking for tonight is direction on changes
and revisions that you would like to see in addition to the parks and recreation changes
or comments on the changes that they are recommending and then I will take that to the
city attorney and bring that back for your consideration in two weeks. I will call to your
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attention on page number 4, paragraph number 3, the commission has outlined two
options under supervision of recreation areas. You'll note option A, would read the
parks recreation commission shall advise the A, mayor and City Council on the conduct
of operations, so forth and so on. Option B, is the parks and recreation commission
shall advise the mayor City Council and Parks and Recreation Director on the conduct
of operation, etc.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor, question for director Kuntz on that particular paragraph, on those
particular options, what does that mean to you?
Kuntz: I guess what it means to me is that if we are talking practical terms that B is
more what we use on a day to day, week to week basis, in a practicality sense. If you
are talking more of the abstract where you have a commission of citizens that is
advising the mayor and City Council, I guess it's not quite as accurate as what I see as
a day to day operational basis.
Bentley: My preference would be that we hired a Parks and Rec. Director and I think
that all the things that come through the committee needs to go through him and up to
us also.
Bird: Mr. Mayor, Tom can you tell me right off hand how Boise and Nampa and them do
with their parks and recreation, don't they advise council and mayor? I see the parks
and recreation as being like a planning and zoning only not legally binding, you know
like that. So my preference is number A.
Corrie: I guess my question is why do we want to take the Parks and Rec. Director out
of the loop, whenever he is involved in it. I think he should be included in it myself.
He's part of the city staff.
Bird: I don't think we are taking him out, Mayor.
Corrie: Well, you do if he just says they shall advise the mayor and council, I think that
you should also have them advising the Parks and Rec. Director to keep in that loop.
Bird: The Parks and Recreation Director is a part of this commission as an official.
Corrie: Yeah, but he's also the director too, he needs to know what's going on.
Bird: I have no-oh well he would know. I mean...
Corrie: According to here it doesn't put him in the loop. What does the other council
think about it? Do we need to (Inaudible)....
Rountree: Mr. Mayor I just struggle with the words and try to see what the difference is.
It seems to me that the intent of the Parks and Recreation commission was to advise
the city as they buy whether they advise the mayor or the council or the park director or
all three on anyone particular item, or any item they feel they need to advise a
particular group about, for instance, if they want to advise the mayor about an issue,
they can come to council and advise the mayor. If they want to advise the Parks and
Recreation Director about say the summer recreation program, they can advise the
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Parks and Recreation Director. Likewise with the council, if they want to advise the
council that they think the council ought to spend more money for certain programs,
they can come before the council and do that. Is that an improper interpretation of that
language? I would think that would expand their ability to advise various city activities
as opposed to hinder it. That's how I read it. If that's not the intent of the language,
then I would like to hear otherwise.
Bentley: The only thing that I'm trying to avoid is that there isn't an end run on things. I
don't think any department head wants somebody running around them, running up the
ladder. We have established a procedure in all our other departments that you go
through your director before you come forth with this. I just don't see the clarity here.
Corrie: Actually I think they can advise all three myself.
Anderson: I kind of agree with you in the concept that you know, I think the Parks and
Recreation Commission was originally established to advise the mayor and council. I
guess I disagree with what Councilman Bentley is saying. This would give them or stop
them from having the ability to do in and around because I see this as kind of you
mentioned, even if you use the language in B, it says they can advise the mayor, City
Council and Parks and Recreation Director and I think everybody needs to be informed
in that loop. There shouldn't be any in and around, but they should still have the
avenue if they disagree with the Parks and Recreation Director, they should be able to
come to us with their comments and their concerns. I mean, that's why we appointed
them in the first place is to be an advisory group to us. I still want them to have the
ability to do that, even if we do add the language of Parks and Recreation Director.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, in clarification of what I was saying, I'm not saying that they go to
him and it stops there, that's not my point. They have the right to go to all of them, but I
think he needs to know hey, we are going to go and make a presentation to the council
whether he agrees or disagrees is immaterial, I still feel the director needs to know what
is going on.
Rountree: I guess the point that maybe clears all this up and it's the original language
of this is number 6 is that the commission is to be advisory to the director, mayor, and
City Council. To me this one sentence in B just restates that and again it's advisory at
all those levels.
Bentley: That's correct.
Rountree: It isn't you've got to do one before the other or anybody's precluded. It
seems to me like it just clarifies that they have an expanded opportunity to advise the
parks and recreation as well as the City Council and the mayor on issues. I don't think it
takes anything away and that's how I view the intent. I don't have a problem with 8, in
that interpretation. Again, if there is some other interpretation out there that precludes
that, then...
Corrie: I think 6 does it exactly right.
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Bentley: Well that's, Mr. Mayor if I may, if everybody is in agreement that that's what 6
does, there is no reason to have A up in number 3.
Corrie: Just advise the mayor, City Council and Parks and Ree. Director.
Rountree: No, because then in 6 it puts the director back in anyway. That was the
original language.
Bentley: The point was when we drew this up, we didn't have a Parks and Ree.
Director.
Rountree: No, but we didn't anticipate having one.
Bird: The reason it was started was because we wanted a (Inaudible).
Corrie: Anything else in here?
Kuntz: So do I have some clear direction on number 3 what the councils pleasure is.
Corrie: Just leave it at the A, mayor and City Councilor B, just put Parks and Rec.
Commission shall advise the mayor, City Council and Park and Rec. Director on the
conduct of the operation...
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Corrie: ... City Council and Parks and Rec. Director without the underline.
Kuntz: Okay. The other item -
Bird: Mr. Mayor is that the consensus of the whole Council? B as the consensus? It's
not on mine. I'm for A.
Anderson: It is of mine with the clarification that it's not a chain of command thing that
they can advise any three of those groups.
Rountree: Mr. Gigray has got a solution for us.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor and members of the Council, just for purposes of providing
information to you a statutory construction of the way this is drafter would be an
affirmative duty on the part of the Parks and Rec. Commission in part three to advise all
three. I think that would be an affirmative duty and that affirmative duty would include
the specific items that are listed in this section. Item six simply clarifies the position of
the Commission as being advisory only and it doesn't have any authority to enact
things, so these two sections do have a different purpose in mind, and they are fine to
have both.
Bird: Yeah, they're different.
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Corrie: Okay, how many think it should be Parks and Ree. Commission on advise the
Mayor and City Council and the Parks and Rec. Director on the conduct of the
operation?
Bird: We're looking at number three.
Corrie: Three. Option B, Mr. Rountree?
Rountree: Given the clarification from the City Attorney if it were written in that form, I
would go in that form which I think is a spin off of option B.
Anderson: I would agree.
Bentley: Go with B.
Bird: I'm the oddball.
Kuntz: Mayor, the other item is on page number 5, all of number 7.
Corrie: Oh, yeah.
Bird: It isn't legal.
Corrie: I think the City Clerk sent us a letter on that. Okay, this is -
Kuntz: ... information that City Clerk, Will Berg, compiled and the comments by Bill
Gigray. My recommendation is that number 7 be - I'm not sure the appropriate term
repealed, dropped, deleted -
Gigray: Strike it.
Kuntz: And those are the only two items that I needed a clarification, but I certainly
would like to hear any other additions, deletions, subtractions, so that I can bring this
back for your final review in two weeks.
Corrie: Any other comments from Council on the draft?
Bentley: Question for City Council. Item C, I can't remember Charlie if we ever
discussed time limit to be living in the city when we did the original one.
Rountree: Well the original language is right there so if it's not there.
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Bentley: Okay.
Rountree: I don't think we did.
Bentley: Yeah, I don't think we did either.
Bird: Can we give this to Mr. Gigray and he rewrite it and we vote on it?
(Inaudible)
Corrie: This is just a discussion what you think we'll see.
Bentley: That's alii had.
Corrie: Anything else?
2. PENNIES FOR PARKS. (VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION ON
UTILITY BILL)
Kuntz: The second item I have is a memo in regards to a new program called Pennies
for Parks. I'm not sure what form the authorization should take, what needs to be a
resolution, ordinance, but what I would like tonight is authorization to start a program
effective October 1 st, 1999 that would allow citizens of Meridian to round up their utility
bill which would be sewer, water and trash to the nearest dollar. It would be
implemented at the same time that the new MUSS billing software is put on line.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I spoke with Tom on this on his memo he created here, it says give
the residents the option of rounding up their utilities. We need to be sure we stress it's
the city utilities so that they don't start rounding up Idaho Power and some of the other,
phone bills and the rest of them.
Corrie: I think they already have one.
(Inaudible)
Bentley: Yeah, but I think we just need to make sure that if we adopt this that it's
explained thoroughly in the mail out we do.
Bird: How come we're waiting so long until October 1st? Waiting for the software to get
in?
Kuntz: A couple of reasons. One is by that time the existing utility bills the blanks will
have been used up and so they'll have to reorder new blanks and that will be our
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opportunity to print on there the box to check off. That's one reason. Two is the new
software will be in place and all the training will have been implemented at that point.
So that was a recommended implementation date by Leslie Howard and then Janice
Smith also and it is a new fiscal year also.
Corrie: I think you can do that by resolution; is that correct?
Gigray: Yeah, we'll prepare a resolution.
Corrie: That's the best way to do it. I think if it meets with the Council's approval, we
have the resolution drawn up for the next meeting. Any objections?
Rountree: Mr. Mayor I would move that we instruct the City Attorney to prepare a
resolution that would encompass the Pennies for Parks program.
Bentley: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and second to have the City Attorney draw up the resolution for
the next Council meeting of April 20th. All those in favor say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor I might note that we can coin this as the resolution that makes cents
for parks.
Corrie: You do that well.
Bentley: I like that coin part too.
Gigray: I'm sorry.
3. RFP FOR PARKS AND RECREATION COMPREHENSIVE
SYSTEM PLAN.
Kuntz: The last item you have is a result of a small subcommittee from the Parks and
Recreation Commission and myself working to condense a 14 page request for
proposal into a one page request for proposal as recommended by two members of the
Commission who deal with this on a daily basis and what I'm requesting tonight is
approval to advertise for request for proposals by direct mailing and through the
newspaper. Attorney Gigray only had today to look it over because he was on
vacation. He made some minor suggestions that we will implement in the final version
of this.
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Bentley: Mr. Gigray, what are these?
Gigray: Mr. Mayor, Councilman Bentley, I just recommended changes so that we can
comply with the statute that deals with the selection of professional engineering,
architectural landscape architectural services. This proposal might require the hiring of
that kind of expertise and rather than avoid the potential problem later on, I just
recommended there be just certain statements made in here relative to qualification and
performance status that that statute requires. You go through a ranking process and
then you state that you're going to first negotiate with the highest ranking one for the
appropriate contract and then if you can't negotiate with that one, you go to the next
highest one and that this notice specifically state that it's anticipated will be less than
$25,000 not at $25,000 because it hits a different segment of that code section. Also
trying to work with Gary Smith on making sure that his department is at least on the loop
and he's got a copy of this because this involves his department involves the hiring of
this kind of profession all the time and we want to standardize these things as much as
possible.
Kuntz: And I appreciate that because in the next two weeks, I'll be bringing you a
request for proposals for the design of our 56 acre park so by streamlining this _
Bird: I think this is in your budget. Do we have to approve an RFP? I mean this is
something - he's just showing us this tonight to go on with it. We don't have to approve
it or anything Tom.
Kuntz: I wasn't sure what the process was so I wanted to bring it before you.
Bird: It's part of your budget. Nobody has ever asked. I think that's great.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, I'd recommend your approval of this and I
think it's quite appropriate that Tom would bring this before you because it fits the
statute and it will be - this would solidify that the City Council has designated these
standards for the selection of these professionals and there's a provision in the statute
that says you either follow A through G or you follow other provisions established by
Council, and I think this gives us a double protection on that.
Bird: You want a thing established for all the RFP's or just when we have to go after
professional -
Gigray: He's just asking on this particular-
Bird: But I think we ought to have a standardized RFP format and you fill in the blanks
what department you want to do it at.
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Gigray: And I would recommend that we work with Gary Smith's office on developing
that criteria and I think we've already got that started. It's on the list of numerous items.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I move we approve the request for proposals for Parks and
Recreation Comprehensive Plan.
Bird: I'll second it.
Corrie: Motion made and second that we approve the request for proposals for the
Parks and Recreation Comprehensive Plan. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all
those in favor say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Kuntz: Mayor, I do have one last item that's not on there. Just a heads up for your
calendars. We're planning to do the ribbon cutting ceremony for Generations Plaza on
Friday, June 18th at approximately 4:00 in the afternoon and that will be followed by the
Dairy Days Parade at 6:00. I want to plan that this far out so that we can make sure
that the girl scouts and everybody are notified and that we start on the plan for the
celebration now.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I just let everybody know we lost our oil well.
Bird: It went away. Mr. Mayor can I mention one thing? On the dedication of the clock,
Lila Hill will - I don't know if you knew that, but she will take care of that.
Bentley: No other point. Everybody knows the traffic box is sitting in a rather
precarious place. I did talk to ACHD and if we decide we want it moved, it's going to
cost $10,000.
Corrie: Can somebody hit that when they're drinking some night?
Bentley: Don't hit the clock.
Rountree: I think you need to talk to Councilman Anderson about the night life.
Smith: There's a story behind that I'm sure we'd like to hear.
Corrie: Yes, Mr. Smith, there is a story behind that and I don't think Mr. Anderson wants
to talk about it at this point. Mr. Smith.
B. GARY SMITH:
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Smith: Mr. Mayor and Council members, the first item I have deals with Mr. Joe
Simunich. Joe and his wife have a residence on Ustick Road, and he's just west of - I
can't think of the little lane that runs down from Ustick down into Waterbury Subdivision.
Venable Lane, right. Thank you. In 1992 the City of Meridian constructed a sewer
interceptor across a portion of his property that ultimately went on to the east and
crossed under Meridian Road and continued on and eventually crossed under Locust
Grove and in the process of constructing that sewer, it appears that the compaction of
the back fill over the sewer pipe on the portion of the sewer line that is in a north/south
direction, created a dam effect to the flow of the ground water and the ground water is
flowing from east to west and this compaction of the back fill above the sewer pipe
creating this dam caused the ground water to elevate on the east side of the trench and
after the situation was brought to our attention, we did drill some test holes out there
and we monitored the level of the ground water and we did find that there was a higher
water level on the east side than there is on the west side of that sewer line trench.
Several years went by and we felt that as the property to the east of Mr. Simunich's
property developed that this problem would probably dissipate, but it hasn't completely
dissipated. There is still a problem there and Mr. Simunich is kind of pressing the issue
and justifiably so. He has not been able to farm the ground as he has the rest of his
ground. He's had at times bring equipment in there to pull farming equipment out of the
area because it was too soft. He has said that his crop yield has been less in certain
areas to the east side of this trench than to the other side. So in light of that I had the
design engineer Keller Associates and then I placed that responsibility on them to
resolve the issue, come up with some kind of proposal and they hired a soils engineer
and went there and did some more digging and scratching around, decided that they
could probably solve the problem with no guarantees by building several trenches
across the sewer line trench that would allow the ground water to flow from east to west.
These trenches would be drain rock filled, filter fabric lined, and it would be a
conveyance of the ground water. But there was no guarantee that this would work. So
we put the proposal to Mr. Simunich and his wife, and the cost of these drain pipes was
estimated to be $4500 and we told him that we would either offer him the $4500 and he
could take care of it however he wanted to or we would build the trenches with no
guarantees that it would solve the problem and he came back to us and said that he
would take the $4500 if he could also get permission to connect to the city sewer at
some future time if his septic tank and drain field at his home on Ustick Road failed.
Well that means that he's out of the city limits and I told him that approval to make that
sort of connection would have to come from the City Council. He's obviously wanting
that connection at no cost. He would build the line from his existing drain field to the city
sewer.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, Gary if we give him the money and he just puts it in his pocket,
what happens when somebody else takes over that property and has the same
problem? Are they going to come back on us too?
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Smith: I don't know.
Bentley: Because if I went out and bought that land, and he'd already pocketed the
money and I found out the City's trunk line going through there was causing me
problems, I'd be down here beating on the door too.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor, Councilman Bentley, members of the Council, Gary, I guess I would
have some questions about this. First of all I don't know when the construction
occurred. It would appear that if he was going to make a claim, is he going to make a
claim for inverse condemnation as a result of the injury and use of the property and if 50
the statute of limitations for inverse condemnation is four years from the date that the
taking occurred. If it's tort claim, then he's got to file tort claim within 180 days of when
the damage occurred. If we are going to resolve this dispute and if the numbers that
are being discussed by Gary, certainly that would be less than any litigation. Although
we'd want to make sure that with our insurance carrier that we're not getting into some
problem by settling claims on our own that might result in a loss of our insurance
coverage on other potential claims that might result in that area. And I wouldn't
recommend that you do this without getting a full and complete release of any and all
claims regarding that matter. I think we could do that as long as we got all the real
property owners to sign, and we could probably even have a memorandum of the
agreement recorded so that it was clear that any future property owner would buy with
notice that any claim regarding that has already been settled, and it would appear
based on Gary's report, it would be my recommendation that you might - if you wish to
pursue with this I guess first what is Gary's recommendation to do this and if so I'd be
willing to work with him to try to bring this to a conclusion that would protect the City's
interest, but at a minimum you need a complete and final release. I do see a problem
with allowing and I'll be the bad guy here, allowing someone to hook up without paying
fees because you've got a proprietary fund here that's financially somebody else
outside of the city paying a potential liability claim and I see some problems there. I
don't know how much damage has gone on and when it's gone on and how many years
that's gone by that the guy's claim, -- if it's been more than four years since the first
construction has gone on before that water first manifesting, he may not have a claim at
all.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor I will add another if to this scenario and only if Mr. Simunich
agrees to give us an easement on our proposed pathway so we can get that project
under way. Without that, I don't think he has a claim and I don't think we need to bother
with him. It's been how many years since that sewer line was put through there? Six,
seven, eight?
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Corrie: Were you sitting in the office when his wife in there one time or was that Mayor
Kingsford and I were sitting there and she made the comment overhead her dead body,
but I think Mr. Rountree has a good point.
Smith: For the easement?
Rountree: For those who don't know -
Gigray: I would caution against that if her dead body was a requirement.
Corrie: Anyway I think maybe if the Council agrees, maybe have Gary and the City
Attorney work with Mr. Simunich and see what we can do also with the recommendation
of Mr. Rountree. Anybody have any problem with that?
Bird: I have no problem at all.
Corrie: I like your idea.
Rountree: I think at least that way we get something out of the deal.
Corrie: Okay.
2. GRANT OF EASEMENT I BRIGHTON CORPORATION.
Smith: The Ashford Greens Subdivisions No. 3 and 4 are the two little cul-de-sacs that
more or less parallel Black Cat Road and the golf course property, there is need for a
drainage pond to accept the street run off from those two cul-de-sacs and in light of that
there's a request for the City of Meridian to grant an easement to Brighton Corporation
for these drainage ponds. I don't know do you have any questions concerning that
grant of easement form?
Rountree: Mr. Mayor I don't have any problems as it relates to the form, but I still am
not sure about us granting that easement to Brighton until we know we've got all our
issues with the golf course that they're related with resolved. I know there's some
issues as it relates to interconnectability of the ponds on the golf course with respect to
their development and the movement of water and the draining of water on to and off of
the golf course. I'd like to see all of that stuff done before we accept or agree to do
anything more with Brighton. It's going to go on. It's going to be a - it's not a legacy I
want to leave to somebody else to have to deal with.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor I would agree. It's time to get this thing closed up and if this is the
vehicle we got to use then we need to use it.
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Bird: I agree with Charlie on it. I also thing that there's some things in the agreement
that Brighton and Ashford Greens hasn't lived through on their part like bringing
easements and bringing the utilities down into the site of the new subdivision.
Rountree: For the clubhouse? It's there.
Bird: Yeah, Wally paid for it is what I was told. Anyway I agree with the guys.
(Inaudible)
Gigray: The other thing we'll need to check is to make sure we're in compliance with
our lease agreement because this is subject to a lease and we don't want to be in
violation of our lease agreement by granting an easement over property that we've
leased.
Bentley: (Inaudible)
Bird: It's a mess.
Corrie: They've got to get a conditional use -
(Inaudible)
Corrie: Did he answer your question then Gary?
Smith: Yes, sir.
Corrie: Okay.
Smith: Can I ask one more quick question?
Corrie: You sure can.
Smith: We're dealing with property owners for easements on water and sewer line
extensions, and I'm finding more and more that the property owners are not willing to
grant us an easement for $1 and other valuable and so forth considerations. What they
are wanting is other monetary considerations, and I don't know whether any of you have
any ideas as to how I should proceed on this or if you want me to bring these back to
you individually or how you would like me to proceed. I mean I can negotiate these
things on what I feel are the best terms we can get. But I don't know where this ultimate
decision lays. If it's at my door, that's fine, or if you want me to bring it back to you for
your input. I guess I throw that out for some direction, and I don't even know what I'm
talking about in terms of dollars.
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Rountree: I guess it would seem to me if there's a negotiated amount or a tentative
amount, unless it's a line item budget for negotiated fees for rights-af-way, I would think
that you would have to bring that before the Council for approval. If you get to a point
where you can't negotiate a reasonable fee, or something that may exceed the fair
market value, then I guess you bring that before the Council to see if we can get into a
condemnation situation. But the one thing I would caution against is protracted
negotiation. Set a time line, say if I can't do this in 30 days, take it to the Council and
have them either approve condemnation proceedings start and usually once that
happens that scares people for settling for a reasonable amount, and if they don't that's
the only way you are going to get it anyway so there's no sense in spending three or
four months trying to get it. So I guess that would be my thought on it is that it probably
would be something that you'd be advised to come to the Council with.
Corrie: Be on the safe side. Any other comments?
Bird: I agree with Charlie on it. I think it's going to get worse Gary.
Smith: Right.
Bird: It's definitely going to get worse. I think you've got to give an offer. I think we
need to find when you start going after like the trunk sewers and stuff like that you hire
professional people to do it. I think the best thing you can do is go over and sit down
with the City of Boise staff and find out how they do it.
Smith: Well I know how they do it. They go right after the appraised or they get an
estimate of the value and they right out and offer that to the property owner.
Bird: That's the way you got to do it, but you need to get an appraised value. You don't
go out and throw something off the hip that's twice as high as somebody's paying for it.
Smith: Well right now, my budget is not set up for that kind of expenditure. I mean if
we're talking about $2 a square foot and you've got a piece of water line that's 700, 500
feet long and 20 foot wide easement, there's what 10,000 square foot at $2 a foot,
there's $20,000 for an easement.
Bird: That's where you have to - your trunk fees and stuff that's the way you got to get
that stuff in and going on it.
Smith: Right. Thank you.
Corrie: You can read this brochure. This is the Future Foundations. This is a public
(inaudible) deal that they're giving strategic plan for the infrastructure. This shows the
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cities and the corporations that have given some money to it. Garden City just gave I
think $1,000 to theirs again so read it. You got any questions, ask me and then I can
give it to him and then we can discuss it at the next meeting. We got one other item yet
we took off the consent agenda this was about the notice of city clerk budget hearing
date. Will, do you want to bring in this one what you need?
Berg: Sure, thank you Mayor. The legislators passed a new legislation that requires
this municipalities, actually taxing districts to notify the county assessor of public hearing
dates for these taxing districts, and we're required to give that particular date by the end
of April to the county assessor. In the past, we have done several things. We have had
our public hearing for our budget the Tuesday prior to our regular scheduled meeting.
Then we've also had it Wednesday after our regular scheduled meeting in the first week
or first part of September, and we usually seem to have that should I say the last straw
because we seem to have meetings throughout the summer dealing with the budget
issues, so we need to set that up and give us enough time to meet the requirements of
notification after we approve a tentative budget to have that public hearing, and I've kind
of passed out some of the things we need to outline just to keep in mind. So if you have
some questions, I'm sure our City Attorney is familiar with the statute also, and if
there's anything else that he may want to add to that, I sure welcome his input.
Gigray: The only thing I would add is that you're suppose to notify them where you're
going to have the meeting and when as the clerk mentioned, and then you want to
make sure that that date is set at a time for which the budget can be certified for tax
collection because if you miss that date, you lose your - you just can't do that, and I
think Mayor you have those dates don't you in front of you so that the Council could be
advised of when you can't go passed. In other words you have to have that public
hearing prior to that date.
Corrie: You can't go past the last day of September 11th for budget approval so I guess
Charlie, do you have any recommendation when you would like to have that public
hearing for budget approval dates?
Rountree: It would be nice to have it like on the 2nd. That way if we had some things
we had to change or adjust, we could notice another meeting and take care of it the
following week before the 11th. Or maybe we could even have it as part of the regular
City Council meeting and at least we'd have more people show up for a budget hearing
than we ever have. It's just as incidentals.
Bird: That would be the 6th Charlie if we did it on the Council meeting, the 2nd if you do it
on the - it will be a Thursday.
Bentley: The 7th is Council meeting.
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Rountree: 7th is the Council meeting. So I guess I would contemplate that the latest
date we probably ought to be looking at would September 2nd.
Bird: I agree.
Rountree: It gives us some cushion.
Corrie: You could do it the 2nd if you want.
Rountree: Well I just put the question to the City Clerk based on our previous
performance was that a reasonable time and backing it up into August, do we have
sufficient time to get through the preliminary budget process?
Gigray: The Tuesday prior would be the 31st of August.
Bird: That would probably be a workshop night.
Rountree: Well actually the 24th probably would be.
Bird: 24th or 31 st.
Berg: (Inaudible)
Rountree: But what's the date that you have to publish is the date we're going to
approve the budget. Correct?
Gigray: It's the date you're going to have the public hearing because the idea of the
statute is to give notice to tax payers.
Rountree: Not on the tentative, on the final budget.
Gigray: Correct.
Rountree: And two weeks prior to that we have to approve the tentative budget.
Gigray: Right. I think this has to do with the public hearing on the approval of the final.
Rountree: Right.
Bentley: So what dates did we use last year?
Bird: (Inaudible)
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Bentley: But I mean the dates that we did the preliminary work.
Rountree: We can have the tentative on the 18th.
Berg: Excuse me, Mr. Mayor the date of September 11th, was that something that you
got from AIC or - if you are looking at what was on this first page that I handed out to
you, this was from last year because Ale at this time doesn't have their printed
materials to tell us some dates. Usually-
Gigray: I can look it up in the statute. I think you have certify is it the second Tuesday
of the month of September or something like that. I could go peek at the statute.
Berg: It's usually on a Monday that you have to have it the county, which means the
Tuesday is their certification day.
Gigray: Well the second Monday would be the 13th.
Berg: Correct and that's what I was kind of looking at on this calendar with Charlie was
that the 13th was probably going to be the date that you would have to have it to the
county, which like you said Tuesday would be the certification. Talking with Charlie on
the calendar in August, if you're looking at having a workshop for approval of a tentative
budget on the 19th of August, that would give us plenty of time to notice it two weeks for
two notices and have the hearing on the 2nd. That's on a Thursday, the 2nd if that's what
you tentative suggested.
Corrie: Have your first hearing?
Berg: Have you public hearing for your budget, special meeting.
Bentley: What's the final?
Rountree: On the 2nd of September.
Corrie: It's probably going to be a lot easier for you the new set up they're going to get
on this.
(I naud ible)
Corrie: And the projected budgets 1, 3, and 5 they're going to be (inaudible).
Rountree: Question for Will, are you going to have more specifics as to when the drop
dead dates are in September or before our next meeting?
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Gigray: I can go look it up right now. Are those rooms open? It's in the statute.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor I've got two things. One is Sanitary Services as you recall we
have kind of an advisory group working and I happened to miss the last meeting, and I
apologize for that, but one thing that they're moving very quickly on is the household
hazardous waste clean up day, May 8th. They've got Ada County and whoever the
hazmat group is that's collecting that information for that material for Ada County to be
in Meridian. Ada County is going to donate the landfill fee. sse is going to pay for the
clean up team. ACHD is going to provide funding for the advertising which will be
submitted I believe with this month's utility billing. It seems like it's a go. Everything is
falling together at this point. It's not going to cost the city anything other than probably
going to ask for some volunteers on that Saturday. I think it's going to run from like
noon until seven on May 8th. A good opportunity to meet your constituents and take
home an extra gallon of paint. The other item as it relates to what was on the news this
week and what we discussed a bit in our planning session. We talked about Mayor
going full time. It was brought up the idea of well if we're going to do that, then do we
want to talk about Mayor or Mayor versus City Manager. If we really want to do that, we
need to make some decisions. We're not on a real short fuse at this point. As I recall
there's a sixty day requirement before the election in an election year that you would
have to have a special election if we decide to do something other than a Mayor
situation. As far as full time Mayor, I believe all that requires is an ordinance change; is
that not correct?
Corrie: Sixty days, yeah.
Rountree: Same thing with the salaries and the same thing with the salaries for
Council, so we've got some time but -
Corrie: The ordinance has to be in and passed 60 days ahead of time.
Rountree: Right, so we've got a few months here to deal with that, but you want more
time to think about it?
Bird: I want to have a public hearing the 27th like we set up.
Rountree: Well we talked about that, but that in a planning meeting and we really can't
make decisions in that planning meeting. Do you want to -
Bird: I want to have a public one afterwards. I want to have a public one and get it over
with, but I do want some input from the public. I know how I feel, but I would like to
listen to some other people.
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Anderson: I think also Will brought up a good point after the meeting, you know
(inaudible - blank)
Rountree: ... very big difference.
Anderson: And they are very different, so I don't know. I think it would be good to
discuss it amongst ourselves a little more prior to going to the public hearing.
Rountree: Do you want to make that an agenda item for our next planning session and
Bentley: I thought we already talked about making that an agenda - or making that a
public hearing the 27th.
Rountree: Well we talked about that, but we can't make that - we got to make that
decision here.
Bentley: Weill understand, but why don't we just if we want to do an Executive Session
on our next Council meeting.
Bird: Yeah, let's do it the 20th and then we can have the public on the 27th.
Rountree: If in fact that's what we come out of Executive Session and want to do.
Okay. That's fine with me. I mean we talked about it. I think we need to talk about it
some more and make a decision. I mean that's what I tried to get across to the news
media and they just couldn't understand that we hadn't made a decision.
Bentley: And that would give Will enough time to notice that meeting. Is it a full public
meeting?
(Inaudible)
Berg: It depends on how extensive you want me to notice. I can notice a meeting, but if
you want a public hearing, we need to get it out in the paper and nothing to it to get to
the news media or the radio stations.
Bird: Yeah, I don't think you'll have any problem with that.
Berg: But in the newspaper, Tuesday, our normal deadline is Monday night and they
put the paper together Tuesday and it's published Wednesday morning.
Rountree: And I guess in my opinion it doesn't have to be a formal public hearing. It's a
public input process. You know we could just advertise that we're wanting to hear from
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the public. You know, what are your thoughts? We're contemplating a significant
change in the city government. Whether it's just part time to full time and in my mind
that's a significant change.
Bentley: Well I don't think it took Martin very long to get it in the paper.
Bird: We can get front page on it. There's no problem there.
Rountree: We can get front page top -
Bentley: All we have to mention is Y2K.
Bird: Or A-K15 or something.
Rountree: Anyway let's go with that then if that's agreeable with you guys. Let's set up
an Executive Session and talk about personnel issues and (inaudible) issues and then
we can come out of that and make a decision on the 20th.
Bentley: Shall we do it before the meeting?
Bird: Yeah, let's do it early.
Bentley: That way we can announce it -
Bird: Wait a minute, we already got 6:30 -
Corrie: meeting at the 20th.
Rountree: Oh, that's right.
Corrie: You can come at 5:30.
Bird: Yeah.
Berg: Shouldn't have gotten that notice out.
Rountree: Well the other thing I thought Arden wanted to do was talk to us at our
planning session not our Council meeting.
Corrie: No, we set it up 6:30 on (End of Tape)
Bentley: What was suppose to be at the front of the planning meeting then?
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Bird: We just have a planning session from 6:30 to 7:30 and then open up for the public
afterwards.
Bentley: Okay.
Bird: Oh, JUS was going to come back.
Rountree: JUS's coming back on the 27th.
Bentley: Yeah, I knew somebody was coming in to talk to us.
Bird: And they're going to come back with a trunk line fee and the whole works.
Rountree: Anyway that's all I've got. That's alii want. Bill, have you got any?
Corrie: Okay so what is it that you want to do now so we can get it out and let the
public know what's happening there. So the 20th, you want to have an Executive
Session?
Rountree: Yes.
Corrie: All right and then the 27th -
Rountree: Depending on the results of the Executive Session, we may not even have
anything.
Corrie: Okay. We'll notify the Executive Session on the 20th and make your decision.
Bentley: Do we know how long Arden needs?
Corrie: He probably could do it in 30 minutes if we want him to.
Rountree: Let's set it up at 7:00 then. Executive Session at 7:00.
Bird: Half hour can take care of it.
Rountree: I think so.
Bird: We can at least decide if we want to go on with the 27th.
Bentley: And maybe we could have the attorney in the meantime spell out the
difference on how it works between the Mayor form and City Manager form.
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Rountree: I'd recommend that you get a copy of the state code and read it. It's pretty
straight fOlWard.
(Inaudible)
Rountree: Will will get us copies of that.
Bentley: So that everybody is reading the same thing.
Bird: Well there's a difference between the city manager and a city administrator.
Rountree: The city administrator is just another employee.
(Inaudible)
Bentley: So if Will could do that, then everybody is reading the same thing is what I was
getting at.
Rountree: Yeah, he'll get you copies of that.
Corrie: (Inaudible)
Anderson: Keith, did you get a copy of that cost estimate the other night?
Bird: Yeah.
Anderson: I just wanted to bring that forward to you guys. This is the first cost estimate
dollar figures that have been put together by the architect for us on the new fire station
and you can read the last page and the bottom line dollar figure back there 1.6 some
million. That also includes land cost that we had already paid for and things like and
there are also some options that we're still looking at depending on metal roof versus
asphalt roof. We can save close to $26,000 and some other things like that, but I want
to give you guys a heads up on what the initial cost estimate has come back now. We
originally had budgeted in the neighborhood of $950,000. $800,000 in this year and
then we took $150,000 from last year and applied towards the land, so the other thing
that's significantly different is that we were anticipating this all coming due this budget
year that it would be built before October. That's not going to happen, so we actually
are going to have another budget year in there to budget whatever the difference may
be too. I just need to know from you guys your direction if that's too high whether we
need to go back and tell them to start scaling things down, whether we proceed, what
you want to do. It's basically and we can provide more detailed drawings and stuff, but
it's basically 11,700 square foot building, three bays wide, two deep, so it's six bay
station with living quarters on one side, administrative offices on the other. It has three
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administrative offices with a classroom and a reception area and then the living quarters
on the other side of it. So it's a pretty basic design and I think it's a good design. It's a
nice looking building and the picture that I showed you here the exterior what the
building might look like, but we need to know from you guys how you want to proceed
and again keep in mind that the rural district is paying approximately 300/0 of the cost of
whatever that building is too.
Corrie: What does the rural think of the cost so far?
Anderson: We have our meeting with them next Tuesday night and we had one of the
rural commissioners has been on the committee and he figured it would be somewhere
around there anyway. So we haven't got the gut reaction from them. We'll get that next
Tuesday night.
Bentley: You say this 1.6 includes the land?
Bird: Yeah.
Anderson: on that back page $175,000 ---
Bird: That's your total cost. That's your engineering and -
Corrie: (Inaudible)
Anderson: Right, and the estimate, the architect has indicated that he was kind of a
little high on most of the things that he's estimating he would rather be high than be low
and have us be totally shocked when we went out for bid, so it may be less than the
dollar figure that you see here. We won't know that until we get out to bid for it.
Bird: It's going to depend on when it gets out to bid too. I think it's going to determine
some of the cost, how busy people are, how many you get to bid it. The more to get to
bid it, the cheaper your bids are going to be. I don't know when it plans on going out
now, but that isn't a bad square footage cost.
Bentley: Well the thing too -
Bird: It's not an extravagant building. It's a very practical building. It's looks very nice.
Bentley: I think you're' in line.
Anderson: It's like $105 a square foot or something like that is where we're at on
dollars.
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Bird: That's cheap. Wait until we give you a new police station at $125.
Anderson: That cost also - he's got costs in there for actually even furnishing the
building and that so he's figuring basically everything a complete building at that price,
and we also got some I think there's almost $40,000 or $39,000 in just fill cost to bring
that up so we don't have such a slope coming up to Franklin and we may be able to
come up with some fill material from some of the other projects around and save some
money there too.
Corrie: If we get some trucks, we can go down to the Flying Wye and get some of the
good dirt.
Anderson: That's right.
Corrie: I think you're on the right track.
Bentley: I do too.
Gigray: The second Monday in September, the County has to certify to -
Rountree: That's the 13th. So I think the 2nd is the day. If we want any wiggle room.
Corrie: Yeah, you're right, and like I say I think we're going to have a little easier time
this time fellows.
Rountree: What's the status of that not that I want to keep us here until tomorrow?
Corrie: The status of the -
Rountree: The budget forms and preparation.
Corrie: (Inaudible)
Rountree: What time do you want to have that hearing for the budget?
(Inaudible)
Bird: 6:30 what day?
Rountree: 2nd of September.
Bird: Oh, we'll have a lot of meetings before then.
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Corrie: 1'1) entertain a motion to adjourn.
Bird: I so move.
Corrie: All in favor say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 11 :59 P.M.
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NOTICE TQ ADA COUNTY CLERK OF BUDGET HEARING DATE:
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ELECTIONEERING POLlCYRESOLUTION: t:I??nYv.e
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2. REQUEST TO HOOK UP TO CITY SEWER BY IDAHO TRUCKING
SPECIALTIES: ~vze,-
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BY STEINER DEVELOPMENT LLC - NW OF CHERRY LANE VILLAGE NO.1:
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CHURCH) - SW CORNER OF MERIDI~N RD., AND USTICK RD:
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PUBL'i'C HEARING': REQUEST FOR ANNEXATION & ZONING OF 40.55
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RESOLUTION NO. Z20
EMPLOYMENT POLICY
SUBJECT: ELECTIONEERING
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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN
REPEALING SUB-PARAGRAPH 6 OF SUB-SECTION C [PROHIBITED
WORI<PLACE CONDUCT] OF SECTION III [RULES OF EMPLOYEE CONDUCT]
OF THE PERSONNEL POLICY MANUAL AND ENACTING A NEW SUB-
PARAGRAPH 6 A. THROUGH E. OF SUB-SECTION C OF SECTION III
PRESCRIBING PROHIBITED CONDUCT FOR ELECTIONEERING.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN,
IDAHO:
SECTION I: That sub-paragraph 6 of sub-section C of Section III of the Personnel Policy
Manual is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2: That there is hereby added to Section III of the Personnel Policy Manual a
new sub-paragraph 6 A. through E. of sub-section C to read as follows:
A. It is in the best interest of the City, in the administration of its duties and
responsibilities, that City employees maintain at all times a neutrality regarding any election,
whether it is federal, state, municipal or any government subdivision of the State of Idaho
during their working hours, and at all other times the City employee is on active duty, and/or
is wearing a City uniform.
B. In order to insure that City employees maintain neutrality regarding
elections it is found that a personnel policy is needed to prohibit electioneering, and to
prescribe enforcement action for violations.
C. No City employee shall engage in any electioneering during worldng
hours or at any other time the City employee is on active duty, anellor responding to a call,
and/or is wearing a City uniform but not including on call at such time as the employee is off
City premises, regarding any election whether federal, state, municipal or any government
subdivision of the State of Idaho. This prohibition shall include, but is not limited to,
telephone calls and/or personal conversations, faxes, or E-Mail, and/or any other
communications, which includes the circulation of cards or handbills of any k.ind, and/or the
soliciting of signatures to any ldnd of petition for candidacy or election question and/or the
use of City vehicles for the placement thereon or in of any bumper stick.ers or placards or
signs.
RESOLUTION - I
D. This policy shall not be interpreted to include activity of providing
information regarding City elections to the public pertaining to bond issues or other elections
which are revenue elections submitted by the City to the voters, nor does this policy
appertain to prescribed duties of City employees in the conduct of any City election.
E. Violation and Penalty:
Any City employee who violates this policy shall be subject to discipline by the
appropriate supervisor, which discipline shall include at the minimum a written warning,
which shall be noted in the employee's personnel file, suspension and/or termination. Each
violation shall be considered a separate violation and each violation shall be subject to
penalty herein prescribed.
APPROVED BY THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO, this 6~day of
~ ,1999.
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MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING:
APRIL 6, 1999
APPLICANT: CONSENT AGENDA
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:L
REQUEST: ELECTIONEERING POLICY RESOLUTION
AGENCY
COMMENTS
CITY CLERK:
SEE ATTACHED RESOLUTION
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY:
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CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUILDING DEPT:
CITY WATER DEPT:
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CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH:
NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION:
SETTLERS IRRIGATION:
US WEST:
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION:
OTHER:
All Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian.
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CERTIFICATE OF CLERI(
OF
THE CITY OF MERIDIAN
I, the undersigned, do hereby certify:
I. That I am the duly appointed and elected CIerI, of the City of Meridian, a
duly incorporated City operating under the laws of the State of Idaho, with its principal
office at 33 East Idaho, Meridian, Idaho.
2. That as the City Clerk of this C~, I am the custodian of its records and
minutes and do hereby certify that on the 6 - day of ~ ' 1999, the
following action has been tal,en and authorized:
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN
REPEALING SUB-PARAGRAPH 6 OF SUB-SECTION C [PROHIBITED
WORI<PLACE CONDUCT] OF SECTION III [RULES OF EMPLOYEE CONDUCT]
OF THE PERSONNEL POLICY MANUAL AND ENACTING A NEW SUB-
PARAGRAPH 6 A. THROUGH E. OF SUB-SECTION C OF SECTION III
PRESCRIBING PROHIBITED CONDUCT FOR ELECTIONEERING.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN,
IDAHO:
SECTION I: That sub-paragraph 6 of sub-section C of Section III of the Personnel Policy
Manual is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2: That there is hereby added to Section III of the Personnel Policy Manual a
new sub-paragraph 6 A. through E. of sub-section C to read as follows:
A. It is in the best interest of the City, in the administration of its duties and
responsibilities, that City employees maintain at all times a neutrality regarding any election,
whether it is federal, state, municipal or any government subdivision of the State of Idaho
during their working hours, and at all other times the City employee is on active duty, and/or
is wearing a City uniform.
B. In order to insure that City employees maintain neutrality regarding
elections it is found that a personnel policy is needed to prohibit electioneering, and to
prescribe enforcement action for violations.
C. No City employee shall engage in any electioneering during working
hours or at any other time the City employee is on active duty, and/or responding to a call,
and/or is wearing a City uniform but not including on call at such time as the employee is off
City premises, regarding any election whether federal, state, municipal or any government
subdivision of the State of Idaho. This prohibition shall include, but is not limited to,
telephone calls and/or personal conversations, faxes, or E-Mail, and/or any other
communications, which includes the circulation of cards or handbills of any kind, and/or the
soliciting of signatures to any land of petition for candidacy or election question and/or the
use of City vehicles for the placement thereon or in of any bumper sticlcers or placards or
sign s.
D. This policy shall not be interpreted to include activity of providing
information regarding City elections to the public pertaining to bond issues or other elections
which are revenue elections submitted by the City to the voters, nor does this policy
appertain to prescribed duties of City employees in the conduct of any City election.
E. Violation and Penalty:
Any City employee who violates this policy shall be subject to discipline by the
appropriate supervisor, which discipline shall include at the minimum a written warning,
which shall be noted in the employee's personnel file, suspension and/or termination. Each
violation shall be cons~~r#dlf}J?J~Earate viqlation and each violation shall be subject to
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CITY OF MERIDIAN
Re: ELECTIONEERING POLICY RESOLUTION AND
CERTIFICATE OF CLERI( OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN
Dear Will:
Regarding the above referenced lnatter, please find enclosed the original of
the ELECTIONEERING POLICY RESOLUTION and CERTIFICATE OF CLERIC OF
THE CITY OF MERIDIAN. I have attached the memo from Pauline Sl(eggs addressing
the fact that Mayor Corrie has reviewed and approved the Resolution, and that it can
now be placed upon the City Council agenda for April 6th.
If you have any questions, please give me a call.
Very truly yours,
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I have reviewed the last draft of the electioneering policy and it looks good. I have
discussed it with the Mayor and he has approved it for submission to the City Clerk for
City Council's review and approval.
If you have any questions, please give me a call.
cc: Robert Corrie, Mayor
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MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING
APRIL 6, 1999
PAGE 8
Bird: That's what I thought. It's closed up. I don't know why we have to wait two weeks
myself.
Corrie: You could request-
Rountree: Question to Gary Smith. Can you give us a status of the line and whether or
not it would be operational in the next few weeks or months.
Smith: Mayor and Council, I'm not sure of the exact status of that line. I know they've
been out there testing. In fact today they were pressure testing some of the line on the
other side of Eagle, the piece heading toward the middle school site. Typically we don't
discharge any sewer into the system until it's finished totally so that we don't have to
deal with pieces of the system having raw sewage in it and other pieces still being
tested particularly downstream pieces. But I think it will be a little while and two weeks
maybe even short to tell you that the sewer will be finished and ready for connection by
then.
Swigg: Right, we just want to have all this ready to go when it's done.
Smith: Right.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor given that J would move that we table this item and direct the
applicant to work with staff on the issue of hooking up to water and potential fire
requirements and look at this at our next regularly scheduled meeting which would be
April 20th.
Anderson: I would second that.
Corrie: We have a motion on the floor with a second to table this until the April 20th
meeting. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all those in favor of the motion say
aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
2. REQUEST TO HOOK UP TO CITY SEWER BY IDAHO TRUCKING
SPECIAL TIES:
Corrie: A representative here. You've got the yellow Harley.
Duncan: Yes, sir.
Corrie: Nice bike.
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MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING
APRIL 6, 1999
PAGE 9
Duncan: Thank you. My name is Dan Duncan. I'm the owner of Idaho Trucking
Specialties and similar to YMCJ I'd like to have permission to hook up to the sewer with
it's running right down the front of us on Eagle Road. We do have fire. Currently we're
running off of Albertson's Fire Systems. Again our building is all metal. (Inaudible) We
do have a fire hydrant right in front of our building that is working and operational. I
don't believe we have water at this time. We did put in we were forced to put in a brand
new well last year, so I would prefer to run off it for a while if that would be possible and
go on a flat rate. I've already because they were running right down in front of Eagle
Road and right in front of our place I did contact the owner who is putting in the sewer,
Ron Van Auker and we did get permission to go ahead and stub in and so we did go
ahead and while they were digging it through, we stubbed in and ran it up underneath
our fence so if it was allowed we could go ahead and hook in. Similar we are on an
above ground septic system that's been there for about ten years since the building was
built. It seems to be working fine. It's more of an eye sore than anything. They put it
right on Eagle Road and it's kind of an eye sore, so I would like to remove it and hook
into the sewer.
Bentley: Mr. Mayor, what are your plans for annexation?
Duncan: I plan to. We've already been talking to Cheryl with the City of Meridian. She
talked to us about the double assessment fees. I guess we kind of left it that if we
needed to get annexed into the city, we definitely would. If we didn't I'm not really sure
what the preference is there.
Bentley: I have a question for Gary. Gary, on the well and the water situation at this
site, what is our policy state for the metering?
Smith: Well the ordinance says that if public services are within 300 feet of a property
that's in the city limits, they are required to hook up within 15 days. We have had
properties outside of the city limits that wanted to connect to either sewer or water
because of a failing system that they had on site and in the past I believe the Council
has allowed them to connect that particular service for that reason. There have been
other instances where the Council has required that they also connect to water so that
the service can be more accurately measured, sewer service. With the water, it's not a
problem because it is measured and we can bill directly what's used, but with the sewer
we have to just use the flat rate and figure out what a typical or we base it on our typical
residential unit for sewage during the winter and so we just - and we have a few of
those presently.
Bentley: Are those commercial or residential?
Smith: The ones that I can think of are residential.
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APRIL 6, 1999
PAGE 10
Bentley: That's what I thought. Okay thank you.
Gigray: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, just as advice from your City Attorney in
any of these requests it would be my standing advice that we enter into - if you choose
to grant these applications, we have kind of a standard form agreement that we propose
for the extension of sewer and/or water depending on the action that you take that if you
do approve it, we can do this administratively and you can give the Mayor and Clerk
authority to go ahead and sign them once they've been approved and signed and
approved by staff. The point of this is that at least from my perspective and advice is
that a sewer system are proprietary systems. They're governed under the ordinances
of the City. Those ordinances protect the use and management of those systems.
When you get to areas which are outside of the city limits, your city ordinances no
longer apply. And then we have to get into a contract provisions with regards to the
severance of service or enforcement actions and so on and so forth, and we try to
provide in the agreement that they agree that those ordinances are terms and
conditions of the providence of the water and sewer to help protect the system and also
provides a continuing permission on the part of the property owner to annexation when
it is appropriate.
Corrie: Okay, anybody else have anything they'd like to - okay, all right.
Rountree: Mr. Mayor, I would move that we enter into an agreement with Idaho Truck
Specialties approving the hook up to Meridian Sewer System with the assessment of a
double fee.
Bird: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and second that we enter into an agreement to hook up to the city
sewer system with a double hookup fee to Idaho Trucking Specialties. Any further
discussion?
Bentley: Mr. Mayor are we making this contingent like the rest that upon the annexation
that he can -
Rountree: Not at this point.
Bentley: Okay.
Corrie: Any further discussion? All those in favor of the motion say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Duncan: Thank you gentlemen.
RESOLUTION NO 22/
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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF MERIDIAN, SETTING FORTH CERTAIN FINDINGS
AND PURPOSES; AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO
ENTER INTO, ON BEHALF OF SAID MUNICIPALITY,
AN AGREEMENT ENTITLED ('DEVELOPMENT
AGREEMENT", DATED THE G-t'i DAY OF
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OF MERIDIAN AND WILLIAM A. HON, ROLAND L.
HON AND WILLIAM E. NORRIS.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO:
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the City of Meridian to enter into an
agreement with WILLIAM A. HON, ROLAND L. HON and WILLIAM E. NORRIS,
denoted as "DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT" a copy of which is attached hereto
marked as Exhibit "A" to this Resolution, the reasons and authority for which are as
set forth in said Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COUNCIL as follows:
1. The Mayor and Clerk are hereby authorized to enter into and on behalf
of the City of Meridian that certain agreement with WILLIAM A. HON, ROLAND
L. HON and WILLIAM E. NORRIS, entitled "DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT"
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, AUTHORIZING
CERTAIN FINDINGS AND PURPOSES, AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR
TO ENTER INTO A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT WITH
WILLIAM A. HON, ROLAND L. RON, and WILLIAM E. NORRIS / JABIL CIRCUITS, INC.
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William A. Hon, Roland L. Hon and William E. Norris, a copy of which is attached
hereto marked as Exhibit "A" to this Resolution and to bind this City to its terms
and conditions.
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APPROVED BY THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN, IDAHO, this 6fJ-
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CERTIFICATE OF CLERI(
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THE CITY OF MERIDIAN
I, the undersigned, do hereby certify:
1. That I am the duly appointed and elected Clerk of the City of Meridian,
a duly incorporated City operating under the laws of the State of Idaho, with its
principal office at 33 East Idaho, Meridian, Idaho.
2. That as the City Clerk of this Ci~ I am the custodi~n of its records and
minutes and do hereby certify that on the [; - day of ~ ' 1999, the
following action has been taken and authorized:
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MERIDIAN,
SETIING FORTH CERTAIN FINDINGS AND PURPOSES; AUTHORIZING
THE MAYOR TO ENTER INTO, ON BEHALF OF SAID MUNICIPALITY, AN
AGREEMENT EED "DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT", DATED THE
611.. DAY OF ' , 1 999, BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF
MERIDIAN AN WILLIAM A. HON, ROLAND L. HON AND WILLIAM E.
NORRIS.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
MERIDIAN, IDAHO:
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the City of Meridian to enter into an
agreement with WILLIAM A. HON, ROLAND L. RON and WILLIAM E. NORRIS,
denoted as "DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT" a copy of which is attached hereto
marl(ed as Exhibit "A" to this Resolution, the reasons and authority for which are as
set forth in said Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY
COUNCIL as follows:
1. The Mayor and ClerIc are hereby authorized to enter into and on behalf
of the City of Meridian that certain agreement with WILLIAM A. RON, ROLAND
CERTIFICATE OF CLERK OF THE
CITY OF MERIDIAN
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dated the 6111 day of ~. , 1999, by and between the City of Meridian and
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APRIL 6, 1999
APPLICANT: DEPARTMENT REPORTS
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: 26A2
REQUEST: TOM KUNTZ - PENNIES FOR PARKS
AGENCY
COMMENTS
CITY CLERK:
SEE ATTACHED MEMO FROM TOM KUNTZ
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY:
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUILDING DEPT:
CITY WATER DEPT:
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MERIDIAN PARKS & RECREATION
Memorandum
To: Mayor Come and Council
From: Tom Kuntz ~t(.
CC:
Date: 4/2/99
Re: Pennies for Parks
Approximately six weeks ago the Parks Department received your verbal approval to pursue a
program that would give residents the option of rounding their utilities up to the nearest dollar,
with the revenue dedicated to Park projects. The Parks and Recreation Commission passed a
motion at their March 15 meeting to support this program. I am requesting authorization to
initiate the new program which will be called Pennies for Parks, starting October 1,1999.
The start up date will coincide with the implementation of the new MUBS billing software
and was recommended and agreed upon by Janice Smith and Leslie Howard.
From The Desk Of. . .
TOM KUNlZ
11 W Bower St.
Meridian, ID 83642
(208) 888-3579
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MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING:
APRil 6, 1999
APPLICANT: DEPARTMENT REPORTS
REQUEST: GARY SMITH - JOE SIMUNICH SEWER liNE PROBLEM
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AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:~Le 8 - I
AGENCY
COMMENTS
CITY CLERK:
SEE ATTACHED MEMO
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY:
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUILDING DEPT:
CITY WATER DEPT:
MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
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BUREAU OF RECLAMATION:
OTHER:
All Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian.
Interoffice Memo
Date: March 23,1999
To: MAYOR & COUNCIL
Cc: file
From: GARY D. SMITH, PE
RE: Joe Simunich - Sewer Line Problem
RECEIVED
MAR 2 4 1999
CITY OF MERIDIAN
Mayor & Council: In 1992 the South Slough Sewer Interceptor was constructed to provide sewer
service north of Five Mile Creek and east of Linder and Meridian Roads. The beginning of this sewer
interceptor crosses the Joe Simunich property. Since the construction of this interceptor, Mr. Simunich
has experienced a high water table in a pornon of his property adjacent to the interceptor, making it
difficult for his fanning operations. We initially fett that when the property to the east of Mr. Simunich
developed the water level would drop and the problem would be resolved. This didn't happen and
some areas still exist with a high water table.
Apparently when the sewer line was constructed the compacted trench backfill caused an earth dam
impeding the progress of the flowing groundwater causing the water level to raise. The design
engineer investigated the situation and brought forward a possible solution of installing some pipes,
encased in drain rock and fitter fabric, across several areas of the sewer trench to facilitate the flow of
the ground water. Unfortunately, the design engineer would not say whether or not this proposal would
actually resolve the problem.
Because of the uncertainty of the cross pipes resolving the problem and in order to settle this issue I
offered Mr. Simunich the cost of installing these cross-drain pipes ($4500.00) and he could either
continue to live with the problem or take the money and construct the pipe crossings or some other
solution that he may have in mind.
Mr. Simunich said he would accept this offer if the City of Meridian would also allow him to connect his
home on Ustick Road to this sewer if he ever developed septic tank/drain field problems. He has
requested this connection be made at no charge. He would need to pump his Sewage to this
interceptor line to make the connection. Mr. Simunich's property is outside the city limits and so I told
him the City Council would need to approve of his request.
I would appreciate this item be placed on the next available City Council agenda for discussion.
Thank you,
Gary
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APRIL 6, 1999
APPLICANT: CONSENT AGENDA
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: E
REQUEST: NOTICE TO COUNTY CLERK
AGENCY
COMMENTS
CITY CLERK:
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY:
SEE ATTACHED MEMO
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUILDING DEPT:
CITY WATER DEPT:
MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT:
ADA COUNTY STREET NAME COMMITTEE:
CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH:
NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION:
SETTLERS IRRIGATION:
IDAHO POWER:
US WEST:
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION:
OTHER:
All Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian.
JUSTIN P. A TI..SWORTH
JULIE KLEIN FISCHER
WM. F. GiGRA Y, In
D. SAMUEL JOHNSON
WILLIAM A. f.,rfORROW
CHRISTOPHER S. NYE
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MEMORANDUM
Robert Corrie, Mayor, City of
Wm. F. Gigray, III
SB 1 024
March 1 7, 1 999
Information: You are probably aware that Senate Bill 1 024 will require that
tax assessment notices provide the public with budget hearing information for the
various taxing districts and a statement of estimated taxes. A copy of the Bill is
enclosed for your information. This will require the City of Meridian to notice the
County Clerl( of the budget hearing not later than April 30th of each year.
Recommended Action: Now that this has passed and been signed into law,
you should request the Council to establish the budget hearing date at the first
regular Council meeting in April. That would give you time to report to the County
Clerl( this information before April 30th. I also recommend that you consider the
Council establishing a regular date that it will have budget hearings so we could have
a standing notice of the budget hearing date with the County Clerl(. Possibly the first
Tuesday in September of each year if that is in time to certify the budget to the
County Clerl(. At a minimum you should place this request on your calendar for the
first Council meeting of April each year until the statute is changed again.
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LEGISLATURE OF TIlE STATE OF IDAHO
First Regular Session. 1999
IN THE SENATE
SENATE BILL NO. 1024
BY LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND TAXATION COMMITTEE
AN ACT
RELATING TO BUDGET HEARINGS; AMENDING CHAPTER 8, TITLE 63, IDAHO COnE, BY THE
ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 63-802A, IDAHO CODE, TO REQUIRE NOTIFICATION OF
THE COUNTY CLERK OF THE DATE AND LOCATION OF BUDGET HEARINGS; AND PROVID-
ING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
SECTION 1. That Chapter 8, Title 63, Idaho Code, be, and the same is
hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEW SECTION, to be known and des-
ignated as Section 63-B02A, Idaho Code, and to read as follows:
63-802A. NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING. Not later than April 30 of each year,
each taxing district shall set and notify the county clerk of the dat~ and
location set for the budget hearing of the district. If no budget hearing will
be held, che county clerk shall be so notified.
SECTION 2. This act shall be in full force and effect on and after Janu-
ary 1, 1999.
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MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING:
APRIL 6, 1999
APPLICANT: DEPARTMENT REPORTS
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: 26A3
REQUEST: TOM KUNTZ -- RFP FOR PARKS AND RECREATION COMPREHENSIVE SYSTEM PLAN
AGENCY
COMMENTS
CITY CLERK:
SEE ATTACHED PROPOSAL FROM TOM KUNTZ
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY:
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUILDING DEPT:
CITY WATER DEPT:
MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT:
ADA COUNTY STREET NAME COMMIITEE:
CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH:
NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION:
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IDAHO POWER:
US WEST:
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION:
OTHER:
All Materials presented af public meetings sholl become property of the City of Meridian.
ROBERT D. CORRIE
Mayor
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CITY OF MERIDIAN
PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT
11 W. Bower 51.. Meridian, ID 83642
Phone (208) 888-3579 · Fax 208-898-5501
COUNCIL MEMBERS
CHARLES ROUNTREE
GLENN BENTLEY
RON ANDERSON
KEITH BIRD
TOM KUNTZ
Parks & Recreation Director
REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
to provide
A Comprehensive Parks & Recreation System Plan
The City of Meridian is requesting proposals for professional services to prepare a
Comprehensive Parks & Recreation System Plan.
The Comprehensive Plan is intended to serve as a planning and implementation guide for the
newly established Parks & Recreation Department. The plan will assess the City's parks,
community center, and other recreation facility needs. It will also identify and prioritize future
park sites, establish park design standards, recommend maintenance service levels and funding
strategies to implement the plan. Developing funding strategies will include reviewing the City's
Impact Fee Ordinance and recommending revisions.
Proposals will be accepted at the Meridian Parks & Recreation office, 11 W. Bower St.
Meridian, ID 83642 until 2:00 p.m. on Friday, May 7,1999. One signed original and four copies
of the proposal shall be submitted. Proposals shall not exceed 15 pages.
The budget for this project will not exceed $25,000.00.
Questions related to the scope of work on RFP submittal requirements may be directed to Tom
Kuntz, Parks & Recreation Director, (208) 888-3579.
At minimum each proposal must include the following information:
1) Project Approach: This would include proposed scope of services including a time line for
completion and cost oreak down of each phase of service.
2) Management Approach: This would include the qualifications and experience of the key
personnel assigned to the proj ect.
3) Relevant Experience: This item would include completed projects of similar type and
magnitude including funding experience. References with phone numbers should be
included.
The City may select a firm on the basis of written proposal or may request oral presentations
from the highest rated fIrmS. The City of Meridian reserves the right to accept or reject
proposals and to modify project requirements after review ofRFP replies.
MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING:
APRIL 6, 1999
APPLICANT: DEPARTMENT REPORTS
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER:~ - .2.
REQUEST: GARY SMITH - GRANT OF EASEMENT I BRIGHTON CORPORATION
AGENCY
COMMENTS
CITY CLERK:
SEE ATTACHED MEMO
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY:
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUILDING DEPT:
CITY WATER DEPT:
MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT:
ADA COUNTY STREET NAME COMMITTEE:
IDAHO POWER:
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CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH:
NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION:
SETTLERS IRRIGATION:
US WEST:
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION:
OTHER:
All Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian.
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Interoffice Menlo
Date: April 1 J 1999
To: MAYORCORRJE
Cc: file I Angel Sims
From: GARY D. SMITH, PE
RE: GRANT OF EASEMENT - BRIGHTON CORPORATION TO CITY OF MERIDIAN
Mayor: Here is a "Grant of Easement" fonn that we discussed via telephone today. This is the
easement that we have been trying to obtain from Brighton Corporation to complete the drain line from
the city golf course ponds at Black Cat Road.
Thank you for placing this item on the April 6th City Council agenda. By copy I am transmitting this
information to Angel Sims.
Gary
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GRANT OF EASEMENT
The undersigned Grantor(s) for an in consideration of Dollars ($ ) and other good
and valuable consideration, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, does hereby grant and convey unto
BRIGfITON CORPORATION, hereinafter referred to as "~Grantecs"', whose address is 12426 W. E,,--ploler Drive)
Suite 220, Boise~ Idaho 83713, its successors:> assigns, lessees. licensees and agents a perpemal easement for ingress
and egress to the Grantees property and to construct, rcconstruct, operaLc, maiIttain and repair such stonn drainage
facilities to include pipelines and appwtcnances, from time to time, as G.lantee may require upon, over, under and
across the following described land situated in the County of Ada., Sbte of Idaho., wbich the Grantor owns or in
which the Grdlllor bas any interest, to wit:
SEE EXHIBIT t"A" ATI AC.HED HERETO AND BY THIS REFERENCE MADE APART THEREOF.
Grantor further conveys to Grnntee the following incidental rights:
(1) A temporary right-of-way as descri~d in Exhibit A until such time as final approval of Ashford Greens
Subdivision No. 3 is issued by the City of McridiaIl
(2) Gnmlee shall indelnnify Grantor for all damage caused to Grantor as a result of Grantee '5 negligent
exercise of the rights <lnd privileges herein granted
(3) Grantor reserves the rights to occupy) use., landscape and develop easement for all puIpOses not inconsislent
with the rights herein granted
(4) Grantee hereby covenants that no building structure of obstruction mll be construcle~ erected, built or
permitted on said easement area.
The rigb.~ conditions and provisions of this easement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the heirs,
executors) administrators, successors and assigns of the respective parties hereto.
IT JS EXPRESSLY UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED, by and bct'\leen the parties hereto, that the Grantee, in
making future repairs, will ~~ently replace and restore the premises to a condition comparable to that existing
prior to UIldertaking such repairs and replacement Hov:evCt'l the Grantee will not be responsible for repairing.
replacing or restoring any buil cling, structure, tree or above ground obstruction placed within the area described in
this casement.
Dated this _ day of
:> 1999.
GRANTOR
CITY OF MERIDIAN, a municipality and
Political subdi,;sjon of the State of Idabo
By:
By:
STATE OF IDAI-IO
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COUNTY OF ADA
On this lIayof ~ 1999, before me) the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for Silid
State, persOIlDlly appeared and ~ kno'\\iIl or identi1ied to me
to be the and of the CITY OF Iv1ERIDIAN, Idaho and \lor"ho
executed the 'Within instrumc::nt., and acknowledged to m that the City 0 f Mcridi6I'\ executed the same.
IN wrfNESS Wl-IEREOF~ 1 have ht:reunto set my hand and affi.xed my official seal the day and year firSt above
written.
Notary Public for Idaho
Residing in
My C ollunission c':\.-pircs:
MAR 30 '99 16:49
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ASHFORD GREENS
DRAINAGE POND EASEMENT
GOLF COURSE PARCEL
A drainage easement located in the SW1/4 of the NE1/4 of Section 3, T.3N.. R. 1W..
8.M., Ada County. Idaho. more particularly described 8S follows: Commencing at the 1/4
comer common to Section 4 and the said Section 3, as same is identified in CP&F
Instrument No. 7852146, records of Ada County. Idaho, thence North ooa3B'27'1 East,
1170.78 feet; thence South 89"21'33" East. ~.OO f~ttD the REAL POINT OF BEGrNNING.
Thence continuing South 890211331 East. 85.00 feet;
thence South 00038'27" West 178,,61 feet;
thence North 89D21~3J West, 85.00 feet;
thence North 00.38'27h East. 178.61 feet to the Point of Beginning.
AND ALSO:
A temporary construction easBlmBnt rocated In the SW114 of the NE1/4 of Section ~.
T .3N., R.1W., 8.M..' Ada County, Idaho. more parlia.alaJ1y described 8S fellows:
COmmencing at the 1/4 comer common to Section 4 and the said Section 3, as BaIne is
identified In CP&F Instrument No. 7852146, reoords of Ada Comity, Idaho. thence Nortfl
00-38'21" East, 1170.78 feet; 1hence South 89"21'3311 East, 150.00 feetro the REAL POINT
OF BEGINNING..
Thence continuing South 89~1 '33" East. 19.94 feef;
thence South 00038'27" West. 233..59 feet;
thence Nor1t149013-43" West, 85.30 feet
thence South B9~1'33" East, 45.28 feet;
thence North 00"3B'27" East,. 178.61 feet to the Point of Beginning.
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MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING:
APRIL 6, 1999
APPLJCANT: DEPARTMENT REPORTS
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: 26A 1
REQUEST: REVISIONS TO PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION ORDINANCE
AGENCY
COMMENTS
CITY CLERK:
SEE ATTACHED DRAFT FROM TOM KUNTZ
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY:
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUilDING DEPT:
CITY WATER DEPT:
MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH:
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ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT:
ADA COUNTY STREET NAME COMMITTEE:
NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION:
SETTLERS IRRIGATION:
IDAHO POWER:
US WEST:
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION:
OTHER:
All Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian.
PARKS AND RECREA liON COMMISSION
1. ESTABLISHED; MEMBERSHIP; TERM OF OFFICE; VACANCIES:
A. There is hereby established a Meridian Parks and Recreation
Commission of the City of Meridian.
B. This Commission shall consist of nine (9) seven (7) members who
shall receive no salary. ,^JI members not appointed by the M3yor
and 3pprO\/ed by the City Council, 'wA.'hich :ire members of the belo\AI
mentioned entities, shall be nomin3ted by the belo'wAw' mentioned
entities. The other Members of the Commission shall be appointed
by the mayor and approved by the City Council on a vote of one-
half (1/2) plus one of the Council members, and Commission
members may, in like manner, be removed.
C. One member shall be the City P3rks 3nd Recre3tion Commissioner
who is a Meridian City Councilm3n. The follo\A'ing entities sh311
e3ch name one Commissioner: 1) Trustee of the Joint School
District No. 2. ,^~d3 and C3nyon Counties or its designee, 'wAw'ho sh311
be an employee of the Joint School District No.2.; 2) 'w^lestern J\d3
Recre:Jtion ,^~ssoci:Jtion, Inc., or its designee; 3) Meridian ,^jhletic
/\ssoci3tion, Inc., or its designee; 1) Cherry Lane Golf Course, or
its designee. J\nother member Sh311 be from the City of Meridi3n
Planning :Jnd Zoning Commission or its designee, :Jnd three
3dditional members sh311 be 3ppointed by the Mayor and appro'Jed
by the City Council 35 3bo'v'8 st3ted in paragraph B. Parks 3nd
Recre3tion members of the Commission sh:JlI be residents of the
area of impact of the City of Meridian. The term of office sh311 be
on 3 rotating basis.
C. Citizens who reside within the Meridian City Limits, or area of
impact and are a minimum of 18 years of aoe are elioible to serve
on the Commission , at least one but not more than 3 members
may be appointed from residents of the City Impact Area, outside
the corporate limits.
When an openino occurs, interested citizens will submit a letter of
interest or resume to the Mayor within an advertised time period.
A subcommittee of three individuals from the Parks & Recreation
Commission will review the application, and submit a
recommendation to the Mayor. Equal representation based upon
areas population will be oiven strano consideration.
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One member of the Meridian City Council. Meridian School District
#2 Administration, and the Parks and Recreation Director shall
serve as ex officio members with no vote.
Each Commissioner shall serve a term of three (3) years.
Commissioners wishino to serve additional terms must submit a
letter of interest 30 days prior to the first term expirino.
Reappointments are at the discretion of the Mayor, with
confirmation by the City Council.
Startino dates of terms were staQoered at the inception of the Parks
& Recreation Commission so that three Commissioner's terms
expire each year startino in January 2001.
The Commission, 3t the first meeting, shall decide the length e3ch
member shall sef\'e in the initi31 term. One set of three members
shall initially ser\'e from the date of confirm3tion to the 1st -d3Y of
October, 1998, one set of three members shall serve from the d3te
of confirmation to the 1st d3Y of October, 1999, and the 13st set of
three members sh311 ser\'e from the date of confirmation to the 1st
day of October, 2,000. /\fter the initi31 term, e3ch Commissioner's
term shall be for a term of three (3) years.
D. Tho first Commission shall be nomin3ted \A.'ithin tvJenty one (21)
days 3fter the p3ssage of this Ordinance; 63Ch Commissioner not
3ppointed by 3n entit}' shall be confirmed 'l.'ithin t\\'ent}' one (21)
days ::1fter his nomination on ::1 '.'ote of one half (1/2) plus one of the
Council members.
E. Vacancies in Commissioners from the four (1) entities named in
P3r::1graph 1.C. shall be filled by those entities for the rem3ining of
the unexpired term. '/3cancies in the other fi'Je (5) Commissioners
occurring otherv.'ise than by expiration of the term shall be filled by
nomination of the Mayor, '.~.'ith the confirm3tion of City Council on 3
\'otc of one half (1/2) plus one of the Council members, for the
remaining unexpired term.
2. ORGANIZATION AND DUTIE:
At the first meeting each fiscal year, the members of the Parks and
Recreation Commission shall meet and organize by electing one of their
members President and such other officers as may be necessary. The City
Parks and Recreation director staff shall provide be 3n ex officio member
aM secret31)' of the Commission 'Nith no '.'ote. Secretarial service for the
commission.
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The Parks and Recreation Commission shall adopt bylaws, rules and
Regulations for the proper conduct of the Parks and Recreation
Commission in and for the City and the Area of Impact. The bylaws
Rules and regulation are subject to the approval of the Mayor and City
Council after enactment by the Commission, unless there is 3 tie in the
'late of the other Commissioners.
3. SUPERVISION OF RECREA liON AREAS: The Parks and Recreation
Commission shall advise the A. Mayor and City Council, or B. Mayor, City
Council, and Parks and Recreation Director on the conduct of, operation of,
and the supervision of, public parks and public playgrounds, athletic fields,
recreational facilities and other recreation activities on any of the properties
owned or controlled by the City, or other properties in the Area of Impact upon
which recreational activities are conducted. 'lJith the consent of the o\vners
and occupants thereof. The Commission sh:lIl 'l/ithin sixty (60) d3YS after
this ordinance passed and during the month of May of each ye3r thereafter,
submit to the City Council 3n 3d'.'isof)' proposed recreation program and
budget for tho next fiscal year '.vhich shall be only ad'Jisory and in no \A.'ay
binding.
Each year durino the preliminary staoes of budoet preparation the
Commission shall assist in prioritizina proiects and expenditures for the next
fiscal year. and review the budaet prior to submittal to the City Council.
4. MEETINGS: The Commission shall meet regularly each month at a
time and place determined by the Commission. All meetings shall be open to
the public and the first meeting notice shall be publicized: regul3r meeting
there:Jfter shall not be publicized since they '.'"ill be regular meetings; the
Commission shall allow and promote public participation in the decisions of
the Commission.
5. REPORTS: The Parks and Recreation City Council Commissioner Director
shall Make full and complete monthly and :Jnnu31 reports to the Mayor and
City Council, and other reports from time to time as requested by the Mayor
and the City Council. The Parks & Recreation Commission President will
submit an annual report to the Mayor and Council.
6. ADVISORY STATUS: The Parks and Recreation Commission shall RGt-be
deemed to be anything other than an advisory committee to advise the Parks
and Recreation Director, the Mayor and City Council.
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7. MERIDIAN PARKS AND RECREATION FUND:
A. There is hereby established with the City of Meridian a fund which
shall be known and cited as The Meridian Parks and Recreation
Fund. The Levy or appropriation to such fund shall not exceed in
the aggregate, in anyone year, more than six-hundredths of one
percent (.06%) of the market value for assessment purposes on all
taxable property within the limits of the City of Meridian in that year.
The total amount of such fund shall never exceed in the aggregate
six-hundredths of one percent (.060/0) of the market value for
assessment purposes of the City of Meridian. The fund shall not be
subject to the provisions of ~50-1 014 of the Idaho Code, which
provides that the City Council may transfer an unexpended balance
in one fund to the credit of another fund.
B. The purposes for which the Meridian Parks and Recreation
funds may be used as follows:
1. The acquisition of land for public parks and/or recreational
Facilities.
2. The construction of public facilities for parks and/or recreational
activities.
3. The improvement of Meridian public parks and recreational
facilities.
C. None of such funds shall be expended unless specifically
appropriated by the City Council pursuant to 9S50-1001
Through 50-1003, both inclusive, of the Idaho Code.
PARKS AND RECREATION COMMISSION
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SECTION 2:
EFFECTIVE DATE:
\!\.'HERE,^~S, there is an
emergency therefor, 'l/hich emergency is hereby decl3red to exist, this
This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage,
Approval and publication according to law.
PASSED AND APPROVED THIS 6TH DAY OF JANUARY, 1998
CITY OF MERIDIAN
Robert D. Corrie - Mayor
ATTEST:
William G. Berg, JR - CITY CLERK
4Park-Rec - Changes and Final 1-13-98
Revised 3/25/99
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Office
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City Attorney
200 E. Carlton Ave. Suite 31
PO Box 1150
Meridian 10 83680-1150
Phone: 288-2499 Fax: 288-2501
E-mail: wfg@wppmg.com
To: Will Berg, City Clerk
Tom Kuntz
Janice Smith
cc Mayor Corrie
From: Bill Gigray, City Attorney
Re: Amended Ordinance # 733
Date: March 13, 1999
Response to memo to Tom Kuntz from Will Berg dated February 18,1999.
Because of the limitations of Idaho Code Section 63-802 City's are limited in the
dollar amount of property taxes that it can certify for its annual budget. That limit of
increase is 3 % dollar amount with additional funds for dollar added value of new
construction and annexations. If you designate a levy in an ordinance for a certain fund
you m.ay limit the ability of the Council to appropriate ad valorem tax funds.
Recommended Action: I recommend that a meeting should be set with the City
Treasurer to determine the impact and purpose of this ordinance it may need to be
repealed prior to the adoption of next years budget.
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MEMORANDUM
To: Tom Kuntz
From: William G. Berg, Jr., City Clerk
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Date: Thursday, February 18, 1999
RE: Amended Ordinance #733
Attached to this memo is information, correspondence, and fax confirmations that
I have collected in trying to implement this ordinance. I was under the
assumption that this ordinance was written to give the City of Meridian new tax
monies. That is not what it does nor do we have the authority to do so. This
ordinance is self governing allowing the City to set aside a percentage of the
already generated revenues into a Parks and Recreation Fund. This is not new
money To create new tax monies, we 'would have to create a new taxing district
for recreation and have Western Ada Recreation District de-annex the city limits
area. In conclusion, what I understood the City Council wanted at that time was
to create a new source of revenue, not to tie their hands for more regulations or
restrictions. If you need anymore information, please contact me. Thank you for
your cooperation.
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MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING:
APRIL 6, 1999
APPLICANT:
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER: ~ 5
REQUEST: WATER I SEWER I TRASH DELINQUENCIES
AGENCY
COMMENTS
CITY CLERK:
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY:
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUILDING DEPT:
CITY WATER DEPT:
MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT:
ADA COUNTY STREET NAME COMMITTEE:
CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH:
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SETTLERS IRRIGATION:
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INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
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