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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSeptember 11, 2007 CC MinutesMeridian City Council September 11, 2007 Page 11 of 50 De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to continue Item No. 10 to September 18th. All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried.. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. De Weerd..: Item 11 has been requested to continue. Bird: No. Rountree: Thirteen. Item 13; , Public Hearing: VAR 07-016 Request for a Variance to UDC 11-4-3- 43.1..2 that requires communication towers to be set back from all publicly owned right-of-way a minimum of two times the height of the tower to be installed, to allow a 50 foot setback instead of a 100 foot setback as required, by T-Mobile - 3100 E. Florence Street: Request to be Continued to October 2, 2007 De Weerd: No. Thirteen. Sorry about that. Bird: Been a long day. Rountree: Want to do 13? Open it. De Weerd: You want to go ahead and -- Rountree: Go ahead and open it and we will continue it. De Weerd: I will open the Public Hearing on VAR 07-016 and ask for a motion to continue this Public Hearing. Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: I move that we continue the Public Hearing on Item 13, VAR 07-016. Bird: Second. De Weerd: I -- Rountree: To 10/2. Meridian City Council September 11, 2007 Page 12 of 50 Bird: To 10/2. Second agrees. De Weerd.: I have a motion and a second to continue Item 13, the Public Hearing on VAR 07-016, to October 2nd. All those in favor? All ayes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Baird: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Baird. Baird: I don't see any reason why we couldn't go ahead with the -- Item No. 12. That would probably take about the same amount of time that it looks like is going to get that plat going. Item 12: Public Hearing: .Proposed Fee Increases for Solid Waste Collections by Sanitary Services Company: De Weerd: That's an excellent idea, Mr. Baird. I will go ahead and skip to Item 12. It's a Public Hearing for proposed fee increase for the solid waste collection by Sanitary Services Company and I will open this Public Hearing and ask Mr. Sedlecek to come forward.. Sedlecek: Thank you very much, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. Just a point of -- to respond to one of your comments earlier. We do have a book of projects being prepared for the recycling funds, where we have spent them. Jaycee Holman from MOBS and Symantha Miller from our office are putting that together. I'm not sure exactly what the status of it is. I know they have purchased all of the items for that. Anyway, moving on to the Public Hearing at hand. We have presented a -- our annual rate increase to you in a memorandum dated August 6th. This is a two-part increase. The first part -- well, I'm not sure which part is first, but the two parts are the fact that the Ada County Landfill fees, which is the landfill all of our waste goes, are going up 67 percent and., then, we have a normal CPI increase for the cost that Sanitary Services incurs in increased fuel prices and other things. And that is a much smaller percentage at about -- oh, it's 2.74 percent. So, I'm not sure if you want me to go through all the rate changes. The residential rates, which are currently 11 and a quarter, will be rising to 12.70. So, that is a dollar and -- see if I can do my math here. $1.45 a month. So, of that $1.45, $1.20 of that is attributable to the landfill and 25 cents goes to Sanitary Services. And it's pretty normal for us to receive every year about a 25 cent rate increase. It's, you know, somewhere between two and a half and four percent, typically, a CPI adjustment. And that just keeps pace with the rising cost of operating our fleet. So, I don't know, do you have any questions for me? Or would you like me to go into this in more depth?