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CITY COUNCIL SPECIAL
MEETING /WORKSHOP
AGENDA
City Council Chambers
33 East Idaho Avenue, Meridian, Idaho
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 6:00 p.m.
David Zaremba ~ Joe Borton
Charlie Rountree ~C Keith Bird
_~ Mayor Tammy de Weerd
Item Agenda Item ~ Presenter Action Needed Time
1 ROLL CALL ATTENDANCE City Clerk -
2 ADOPTION OF AGENDA City Council Approval a.~ ~ ~
3 COMMUNITY ITEMS /
PRESENTATIONS:
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(a) Police Indoor Firearm Jeff Lavey - 15 min
Range MPD
(b) Family Advocacy Center Kevin ~iy'e l~ow~ 20 min
and Education Services McTeague
Presentation
(c) Water Hook Up to Doyle Bundy - Cross Connection 15 min
Irrigation Request citizen Request Policy
(d) Discussion of Coalition for Matt Ellsworth 20 min
Regional Public -Planning
Transportation's Legislative Dept
Proposal with Valley Regional ~?~i..r~'f ~~~
Transit & COMPASS
(e) Update on New City Hall Petra Inc. & 15 min
Building Construction LCA
Architects
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the FEMA program Kyle Radek -
Public Works ~7r~~, 15 min
4 CITY POLICY REVIEW:
(a) Ada County Use of City Ted Baird Direction 5 min
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5 CITY ORDINANCE REVIEW: None None None
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NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING /WORKSHOP
MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL
MayorTammy de Weerd
City Council Members:
Keith Bird
Joe Borton
Charles Rountree
David Zaremba
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Meridian
will hold a Special Meeting /Workshop in the City Council Chambers at Meridian
City Hall, 33 East Idaho Avenue, Meridian, Idaho, on Tuesday, November 13th,
2007 at 6:00 pm. The Meridian City Council will be discussion the following
following agenda items:
Police Indoor Firearm Range by Jeff Lavey of MPD:
Family Advocacy Center and Education Services Presentation by
Kevin McTeague:
Water Hook Up to Irrigation Request by Doyle Bundy
Discussion of Coalition for Regional Public Transportation's
Legislative Proposal with Valley Regional Transit ~ COMPASS by
Matt Ellsworth
Update on New City Hall Building Construction by Petra, Inc. 8~
LCA Architects
Findings on State of the FEMA Program by Kyle Radek
Ada County Use of City Property
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MayorTammy de Weerd
City Council Members:
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Charles Rountree
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NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING /WORKSHOP
MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Meridian
will hold a Special Meeting /Workshop in the City Council Chambers at Meridian
City Hall, 33 East Idaho Avenue, Meridian, Idaho, on Tuesday, November 13th,
2007 at 6:00 pm. The Meridian City Council will be discussion the following
following agenda items:
Police Indoor Firearm Range by Jeff Lavey of MPD:
Family Advocacy Center and Education Services Presentation by
Kevin McTeague:
Water Hook Up to Irrigation Request by Doyle Bundy
Discussion of Coalition for Regional Public Transportation's
Legislative Proposal with Valley Regional Transit 8~ COMPASS by
Matt Ellsworth
Update on New City Hall Building Construction by Petra, Inc. 8~
LCA Architects
Findings on State of the FEMA Program by Kyle Radek
Ada County Use of City Property
The public is welcome to attend.
DATED this 9th day of October, 2007.
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Will Berg
From: Tara Green
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:35 PM
To: (rountreecm@msn.com); David Zaremba (zarembad@meridiancity.org); Joe Borton
(jwborton@foleyfreeman.com); Keith Bird (E-mail); Tammy de Weerd (E-mail); Will Berg (E-mail)
Subject: November 13, 2007 Meeting
Reminder that the meeting tonight starts at 6:00 and there will be no food.....SORRY!!
Will is requesting to add an approval of a beer, wine liquor license transfer for Meridian
Mulligan. Are there any problems with that?
Thanks,
Tara
Tara Green
Deputy City Clerk
City of Meridian City Clerk's Office
208-888-4433 Ext. 210
11/13/2007
Meridian City Council Special Workshop Meeting November 13, 2007
A meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday,
November 13, 2007, by President Joe Borton.
Members Present: Keith Bird, Charlie Rountree David Zaremba, and Joe Borton.
Members Absent: Mayor Tammy de Weerd.
Others Present: Ted Baird, Will Berg, Ann Canning, Jeff Lavey, Joe Silva, Len Grady,
Keith Watts, Matt Ellsworth, Rick Clinton, Kyle Radek, Tracy Basterrechea, and Dean
Willis.
Item 1: Roll-call Attendance:
Roll call.
X David Zaremba X Joe Borton
X Charlie Rountree X Keith Bird
0 Mayor Tammy de Weerd
Borton: Good evening, everybody. We will go ahead and begin tonight's City Council
Special Meeting Workshop. Begin tonight's meeting with roll call attendance.
Item 2: Adoption of the Agenda:
Borton: Thank you. Item No. 2, adoption of the agenda.
Bird: Mr. President?
Borton: Mr. Bird.
Bird: We have a request to add Item 6, transfer of license, beer, wine, and liquor, for
Mulligan's. And with that I'd move that we approve the revised agenda.
Rountree: Second.
Borton: It's been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda as amended. All those in
favor say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
(b) PROCLAMATION:
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Borton: Thank you. Item 2B -- not on the agenda, but very fitting to read. A
proclamation today from the Office of the Mayor, in light of Meridian High School's
undefeated season and their soon celebration on Friday at the state championship
game. We are all very hopeful. So, if I may take the liberty to read this proclamation.
Whereas, the City of Meridian commends the Meridian High School varsity football team
for having an outstanding season this year and whereas the team has compiled an
undefeated season record with 11 wins and whereas the team will be competing for the
state 5A high school championship on Friday night at Bronco stadium and whereas the
Mayor and City Council of the City of Meridian acknowledges the accomplishments and
efforts of this team, the school, and their supporters. Therefore, I, Joe Borton, President
of the City Council of the City of Meridian and acting Mayor do hereby proclaim Friday,
November 16th, 2007, a Warrior day in the City of Meridian in recognition for their
successful football season and urge all citizens of this community to acknowledge and
support them on this day. Dated November 13th -- 13th day of November 2007.
Hopefully, everybody can get a chance to get to Bronco stadium and cheer on the
warriors. 6:00 Keith?
Bird: 7:00.
Borton: 7:00. And tickets are on sale that day?
Bird: Tickets on sale at the high school right now.
Borton: High school.
Zaremba: And congratulations to them.
Item 3: COMMUNITY ITEMS /PRESENTATIONS:
(a) Police Indoor Firearm Range -Jeff Lavey - MPD
Borton: Fantastic. We'll get good news next week. That brings us to the community
items and presentations. We will begin Item 3A, police indoor firing range, and Jeff
Lavey, I'll turn it over to you.
Lavey: Mr. President, Councilmen, some time ago I came in front of the Council to
discuss the -- the concept of an indoor range here in Meridian for the police department
and during that time frame we actually discussed several different things as far as a
needs assessment, a business plan, and a potential partnership with other groups in the
community. Since that time I have been working with Shaun Wardle with MDC, who,
basically, promised to assist with the business plan while he was a councilman and he's
held to that promise and he's here today. But we also formed a committee working with
members of the police department and other members of different groups here in the
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City of Meridian, to include the Department of Fish and Game, the Idaho POST, police
academy, and the Meridian Optimist Club. And I have invited members of that
committee here today and in the audience we have Tom McKinstry, who has been with
us and he's representing the Optimists and Shaun is in the audience. And, then, also
TRS Range Services is a consulting company that's been helping us and Grant Elwell is
in the audience as well. So, if we have any questions I can't answer, they can help.
Basically, we have a lot of interest in forming some partnerships with these groups.
They like the concept, they want to move forward on it, but there is some reluctancy on
how much of a bite are they going to take or how much this is going to cost and we
have been playing with rough, rough, rough figures for quite some time now and I
believe it's time that we finalize some of those figures. And the way to do that is to do
some conceptual drawings, some CAD drawings, and some pricing and I have also
included Councilman Rountree in our latest meeting and he was present to ask those
pertinent questions and so I'm here today to propose to Council a scope of work
proposed by TRS Range Services to develop some conceptual drawings on CAD, some
elevations, give us some price estimates based on what we think our current needs are
dealing with those groups and I have placed that scope of work in front of the desk in
front of everybody and I believe it includes 35 lanes, restrooms, a classroom, and that
sort. So, the question is how do I pay for that and -- which leads me to a second item
that is not on the agenda, but is closely related to it is a scope of work for the expansion
of the police department. If Council will recall, during the budget workshops a capital
budget item was approved for designing and consulting a future expansion of the police
department and 30,000 dollars was -- was approved at that time. The scope of work for
the building expansion comes in at 20,000 dollars and with the excess 10,000 dollars, I
would like to request the use of that monies to do the conceptual drawings for the indoor
range. With that I will either offer to my committee members if they want to say
something or take questions from Council.
Borton: Thank you, Jeff. Council, any questions?
Bird: Mr. President?
Borton: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I would think that this 4,000 would be part of the 30,000 that was in the budget. It
is -- after all, it is looking into the police department, which was what that 30,000 was
set aside for. So, I don't see where we have a budgetary problem with the 4,000 and I
think it's right in there right along with the 20,000. That's -- that's my take on it. I don't
know about the rest of you guys.
Rountree: Mr. President?
Borton: Mr. Rountree.
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Rountree: Reflecting on the meeting that we did have with the group that Jeff indicated,
it was a very positive meeting. I think everybody was opened with their concerns about
a partnership, open to the idea of -- of making a partnership and by the time we were
through with the meeting I think everybody had expressed an idea of what it was they
felt they needed and there was a great amount of comfort in the room, I think, of all the
participants that we could make this happen. The one caveat, obviously, is what is it
going to cost and depending on the cost is really -- the issue is is it going to happen if
it's at a level that even the city can't bite. So, I think this recommendation on the part of
Jeff to move forward with a concept and get some pricing done utilizing monies that
have already budgeted is a great idea and if there is no further discussion, I would move
that we move forward with this recommendation.
Bird: Second.
Borton: Any additional comment?
Zaremba: Maybe not.
Borton: Mr. Wardle, McKinstry, either of you want to derail this one?
Bird: Just get your checkbooks out.
Borton: Seeing none, it's been moved and seconded to approve the use of the --
approval of the not to exceed 4,000 for the TRS preliminary site design.
Bird: Mr. President?
Borton: Mr. Bird.
Bird: The maker of the motion, did you -- you include for the President to sign and the
Clerk to attest the deal with the TRS Range Services, the scope of work?
Rountree: Certainly if it's prepared at this point, either the President or the Mayor.
Bird: Yeah.
Borton: Thank you. Mr. Berg.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Borton, yea.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
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Lavey: One of the other things that I don't know if that motion included -- and I don't
know if it's appropriate to talk about the scope of work on the building itself. Did we
need anything from Council on that?
Borton: Nothing other than what's -- what you had presented -- represented to you.
Lavey: Thank you.
Borton: The only question would be if that's sufficient design, capacity-wise, that you
feel comfortable with.
Lavey: The actual scope of work would include a needs assessment and interviews
and everything else, so I think we are well covered on that.
Borton: Okay.
Lavey: Thank you.
(b) Family Advocacy Center and Education Services Presentation -
Kevin McTeague
Borton: Thanks. Item B, Kevin McTeague with the Family Advocacy Center and
Education Services. Go ahead and state your name and -- appreciate you coming out.
Bower: Members of the Council, my name is Greg Bower. I'm the Ada County
Prosecuting Attorney. Thank you for allowing me to come here and speak with you this
evening. My purpose here is to acquaint you with Faces and to ask for your financial
support in the next fiscal year. We are going from city to city in Ada County asking each
city to provide us with 25 cents per resident to help run our Faces program. Before
Faces was initiated and started, I came and visited with your chief of police and I came
and visited with your Mayor, who I'm sad to see is not present here today. And both of
them encouraged me to go ahead with our plan for Faces. Faces is a place where all
components of our criminal justice system come together to provide seamless
assistants to a certain group of victims. In Faces now we have -- we have a building
where our Cares unit, which is our third-party interviewer of all child victims that's run by
St. Luke's Hospital, resides. We have got about 13 staff there now, including a
physician, and -- and your police agency here and all of our police agencies in this
county and several counties around Ada County, bring victims for third-party interviews.
That has been a -- one of the secrets -- one of the keys to our success in child abuse
cases for the last 20 years is that police don't interview victims, nurses interview those
victims. They are tape recorded, they are done in a manner that creates great
confidence in the veracity of these victims and so we think it's an excellent model. The
part that makes Faces different is it's -- is it's what's generically called around the
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country a victim advocacy center or a justice center. This wasn't a new idea, it's not an
idea that I thought of, it's an idea that I have watched other prosecutors, other justice
systems, other cities and communities around the country develop. I visited my first one
in 1978 and have watched them grow and mature in other parts of the country
throughout the years. The good news for us is that we have had excellent support from
our community and from our cities and particularly from the board of county
commissioners, who have purchased and constructed for us a five million dollar facility
and who provide a couple hundred thousand dollars a year worth of basic infrastructure.
Heat, lights, security, those kinds of things are provided by the commissioners.
Presently the Department of Health and Welfare resides there. They have several of
their caseworkers. Boise city, Ada County, and Meridian have dedicated officers.
There is a place for your officers and I have been speaking with your chief and when
you appoint a new chief I will be knocking on his door to determine how we are going to
interface with Meridian. We have an excellent relationship with your police, your
detectives do a wonderful job for us, and we need eventually to migrate one of them to
Faces. I'm going to let Kevin talk about the numbers here and let you meet Kevin. This
is a stand-alone corporation that is run by a board and you can see who the board is
here and we are in the process of expanding that board as we get more partners. Kevin
is the executive director of this organization and has been with us now for a year and
four months and he knows all the details. Thank you.
Borton: Thank you, Greg.
McTeague: So, my name is Kevin McTeague. I'm executive director of the Family
Advocacy Center Education Services, commonly known as Faces. As Greg was
saying, really, the idea with Faces is to bring together in one location all the services for
investigation, prosecution, and, then, treatment of child abuse, domestic violence, and
sexual assault crimes. I sometimes jokingly say we bring together cops, and
prosecutors, and social workers. But the idea, really, is to have this one place where a
victim can come and access all those services, that they don't have to go all over town
and try to get help in their period of crisis or trauma and so we are trying to make a
system that lessens the trauma on victims. But it also makes the system work better,
because we think that through this cooperation, coordination with all these different
agencies for the victim, that we are also improving the quality of the investigation,
improving the quality of the prosecution. So, we make the system work better and we
make it a better experience for the victim in a very difficult time for them. Let me just
talk a little bit -- I have given you -- I brought a PowerPoint, but I see you have a lot of
PowerPoint stuff tonight, so I'm just going to keep it to the handouts and really avoid the
embellishments. Let me talk about the scope of -- scope of the crimes in our community
-- and I have numbers from 2005 and you can see here that St. Luke's Children At Risk
program, that's the CARES program, they evaluated 966 children for child abuse,
sexual abuse, and foster care placement and most of foster care placements are for
kids that have been abused. Ada County prosecutor's office filed 386 domestic violence
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and 77 sexual assault charges and, then, the Boise city attorney's office filed another
485 domestic violence charges. And, then, the Women and Children's Alliance fielded
over 5,000 calls to their crisis line for their rape crisis and domestic violence crisis line.
But I think what's really more telling in all of this is -- is all of these charges, all of these
crimes, occurred across multiple jurisdictions where we had four law enforcement
jurisdictions involved, three hospital emergency rooms, three persecution jurisdictions
and, then, more than ten medical, legal, and social service agencies. So, again, these
are happening across a wide variety of jurisdictions and disciplines. So, through Faces
we are trying to address that, not only multi-jurisdictional, but also multi-discipline work.
We bring together at Faces -- I have got a list here of all the agencies that we have
brought into Faces. I think a few of them really stand out. We have sort of as an
anchor tenant at Faces, the St. Luke's CARES program. This is their child abuse risk
evaluation unit. They are really the service center for all the law enforcement
jurisdictions within Ada County. They have seen -- I pulled some numbers up just from
our database system here a couple hours ago to see what kind of, you know, work they
are doing with Meridian victims in Meridian law enforcement and about nine percent of
the kids that they have seen in this last year since January were from Meridian, brought
here through Meridian police department. So, we have a real close working relationship
with Meridian police department and detectives. We also have the St. Luke's and St.
Alphonsus joint program for the sexual assault forensic examiners. That's their Safe
program and we are -- we have set up at Faces a -- one exam room for sexual assault
examinations. We have done 30 of those since the middle of May when we
implemented that program. About 70 percent of the Safe exams in Ada County are now
being done at Faces. So, we have moved most of that work out of the emergency
rooms and moved it into Faces. In fact -- and some of those have been Meridian cases.
We also have -- Boise police department now has two detectives and a victim witness
coordinator working out of Faces. We are about to bring in a sheriffs detective from
Ada County sheriffs office and Garden City has placed a detective into Faces, so these
folks are based from Faces doing their work there. And, then, we have brought in
Women and Children's Alliance, they have a case manager working from our center and
now we are working with Catholic Charities to get them involved as well and have a
stronger presence there. And particularly working with the Hispanic community and
bringing in some staff with bilingual skills. And, then, the -- we have also brought in
Idaho Crime Victims Compensation Program and, then, our most recent partner that
has joined us has been the Boise city, Ada County Housing Authority and we worked
with them to obtain some federal funding to provide some transitional housing for
victims that are fleeing domestic violence and sexual assault crimes. And that includes
some case management money. The structure of Faces, we -- we are a service spinoff
from Ada County and the prosecutor's office. We have incorporated as a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit, so we have an independent board of directors. The list of folks is on this
letterhead. Jerry Hershfeldt, who could not make it here today, is the administrator of
the Children's Hospital with St. Luke's and he is the chairman of the board. We have a
pretty broad group of folks on this board of directors and they are very involved in
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management and, you know, developing this center. Currently, the board of directors
contracts with Ada County prosecuting attorney's office to provide the management
services, which is myself and our client services coordinator for the center. Our plan is
we are working to -- to spin this off entirely as a, you know, fully independent nonprofit
where the employees, myself and others, are actually employed directly by the nonprofit
itself, so we don't have that contract relationship with the prosecutor's office. The facility
itself is the -- we are located down at -- it's next to Dunkley's Music near Bobo. It's the
old John Deere farm dealership building and the county purchased that, rehab'd it, and
turned it into a state of the art facility. We actually have a really great facility. People
come and see that and the building almost sells itself, at least to get our partners to
move in and, you know, be part of this process. Our operating budget for Faces itself is
about 140,000 dollars a year and, then, Ada County is paying for the janitorial, our
security, our utilities, our maintenance of the building, and our information tech support
and that's running -- it's an estimated cost of about 200,000 dollars a year. This is a
really big building, so it costs a lot to heat. So, the electric and gas for that building is
not a small item. With the security -- we actually have a security officer in the building
from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. We have frequent call-outs to the building, so we will have
a law enforcement victim witness coordinator for multiple jurisdictions. Meridian has
been there at the various hours as well in bringing in victims to begin investigation to do
either a child abuse exam or doing a sexual assault exam with a victim there. And so
we have a security guard on site to meet, greet, and, then, do some crowd control if
victims or others bring family members with them, other folks. So, we have some
security there for that. Our major sponsors -- Idaho -- Emergency Medicine of Idaho,
which is the physician group that staffs the emergency room for all of the St. Luke's
hospitals, is a major contributor. They have committed 75,000 dollars to us over three
years. They have actually paid 50 of it already. St. Luke's Medical Center has given us
30,000. St. Alphonsus Medical Center has given us 30,000. We have a grant from the
Washington Group Foundation, the Langroise Advice Fund, Wells Fargo, United Way,
Idaho Community Foundation with their Southwest Idaho Fund, Target store and, then,
the Fraternal Order of Police have all given us funding. We have also gotten a lot of
support from local service clubs, the Kiwanis Club, Exchange Club, Soroptimist Club.
They have all been involved in helping us provide clothing for victims of sexual assaults.
When they leave the facility they often have to leave their clothes as evidence. We are
able to give them other clothes to take with them to wear out. They have stocked our
snack bar that we have for victims when they come in, so they can have coffee or
snacks. So, some of these service clubs have been helping us with these smaller
items. Let me just talk a little bit about the return on investment. I think that's really
important for what we are doing. The National Children's Alliance, which is a group that
oversees all the child abuse centers throughout the nation, conducted a cost benefit
analysis in 2004, I think it was, and through that analysis they showed that -- that
traditional child maltreatment systems were about 36 percent more expensive than
conducting an investigation through this multidisciplinary approach and that's important
to us, because what we are doing in Faces with sexual assault and domestic violence
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crimes is really based on this child advocacy multidisciplinary system. Within the sexual
assault arena we know right now that we are doing about 70 percent now that -- I have
67 percent. That number has actually gone up and I think it will grow. Of those sexual
assault exams that are being done at Faces and we know, just from talking to law
enforcement, that it takes about half as much time for them to do the work, to do that
investigation from Faces than it does in an emergency room. And, then, on the other
end of it, we are not utilizing those emergency room resources, so we are saving the
hospitals and the emergency groups money, too, which is partly why they are a major
contributor to what we are doing, because it makes good financial sense for them. But
we are saving the police departments money as well. But I think the other more
important thing is that it works better for the victims. They can come to a -- essentially a
less chaotic, a more nurturing environment, they have more privacy, and that it does
take less time. So, it's less of an ordeal for them. Within the domestic violence arena I
think it's a little too early for us to tell what the return on that investment that we are
making is. We think that the multidisciplinary response will be more cost effective, but
we don't have that data yet. So, we are working with Boise State University to do -- to
begin some outcome evaluation and look at our system and begin to look at how we are
running these and whether this is saving us money and more effective. But I will say
that the victim response to the work we have done has been overwhelmingly positive.
We are getting a lot of good feedback from victims that this is how they want to do it.
And, then, lastly, our resource generation -- we have already secured over 600,000
dollars of new federal money to support our partner agencies. So, we have gone out --
we are not only trying to, you know, take care of our own budget as a nonprofit and
meet our basic operating costs, but we are trying to attract new resources to the
community to address these issues. And so we have brought in two new federal grants,
one which will pay for a new full-time Ada County sheriff's detective to be based at
Faces, that will pay for some Boise city attorney's office staff to provide prosecution
services for misdemeanor crimes from Faces. It also has brought in some significant
training money for the Women and Children's Alliance to work with local law
enforcement on their response to domestic violence and sexual assault crimes. And,
then, we have worked very closely with the housing authority to help them obtain a
federal grant, which will provide the transitional housing and case management for
victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. We are also now looking at a number
of other funding avenues that we can, again, bring more resources into the community,
so we are not just taking care of ourselves, but we are really trying to build the whole
system and add to the resources and services that we offer from Faces. And that
concludes my presentation and we stand ready for any questions if you have them.
Borton: Thank you, Kevin. It sounds as though there is a -- from the start at least a
financial request that you want to make or you need to make or planning to make.
McTeague: Yes. We are in the process of going around to the various city councils
throughout Ada County and asking the city councils to share in the cost of operating
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Faces. We'd like to eventually raise in fiscal year 2009 -- that would be our fiscal year
2009 is a January to December fiscal year -- we are trying to raise a total of about
70,000 dollars from Boise city, Meridian, Kuna, Eagle, and Garden City and so we are
going to each of the city councils and asking them to pick up a share of the cost of
Faces for helping to meet that budget shortfall and factually -- I have put together a --
essentially athree year budget forecast to show folks where we are at. The current
year that we have in here is covered. Next year we are looking at about a 44,000 dollar
deficit in our budget. We are very -- working very hard now to raise that money from
foundations, but, eventually, our work with the foundations is going to end, because
they want to fund new programs, they want to fund startups, and as we get two or three
years into this, they are looking to us and saying, okay, how are you bringing in other
more sustainable longer term funding sources? And so part of what we are doing now
is going out to the various communities that we serve, frankly, and help to, you know,
improve services with these agencies. We are looking to them to help make a -- to help
participate in funding Faces. We don't expect the cities to pay for all of it, clearly. But
we hope that we can get some dollars put into this center and help to sustain it.
Borton: Council, any questions?
Bird: I have none.
Rountree: I have none.
Zaremba: Mr. President?
Borton: Mr. Zaremba.
Zaremba: I may have missed it and I realize you focus on victims, but does this also
help prosecutions be more successful to have everything done in one place? It would
seem to me that there is benefit both directions.
McTeague: I'll let Mr. Bower answer that.
Bower: Well, yes, this -- anytime that we can make this process less painful for victims,
they will stick with us better. You know, 20 years ago -- 30 years ago we didn't
prosecute very many child abuse cases, because we didn't have a support system to
get parents and kids through it. And today it's a totally different world, utterly different
landscape. Everything from Faces to victim coordinators, to my three specialists that do
child sexual abuse, are all ten to 20 year prosecutors who are pros at what they do and
I have to tell you the first one of these cases I did 33 years ago, I didn't have a clue on
how to talk to a child and today we have got this down. I mean we have got this to the
point where women and children who are assaulted and who are treated well, and who
are supported in the process, both by their police and by their prosecutor and by their
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judge, will stick with us and stay with us through the -- for the duration and they will
report this crime and we have more and more people -- kids and women raising their
hands to report crimes that 30 years ago didn't get reported.
Borton: Thank you, Greg. It sounds like -- and I know the program and know what you
guys have done with this, it's fantastic. It seems appropriate, at least to me, that in light
of the request and the need, that if there is some way to come up with a formula and
perhaps it's as arbitrary as, you know, the city's percentage of population of the total
area -- we know that these issues don't stop at borders -- city or county borders. If there
is some way to try and pin down what the request might be and how that would relate to
Eagle, Kuna, Boise --
McTeague: We actually have that. I didn't bring that. I wasn't expecting to ask you for
money tonight, but I think, you know, our intent is to try to get into your fiscal year 2009
-- your next budget cycle and we wanted to start that tonight, but I would be happy to
send that out and very detailed give you exactly what the formula looks like.
Essentially, what we are -- what we have pegged it at is 25 cents for -- per resident in
incorporated cities. So, with the city of Boise that's about 48,000. I think with the City of
Meridian I'm thinking that's around 15,000. I can't remember the exact figure. But I can
pull that out and send that right away to you.
Borton: Could be like a gas meter in Meridian, though.
McTeague: Yeah.
Borton: Slowly turning. So, we want that -- that number quick. Please submit it to all of
us and let us get a chance to review it and keep it alive.
McTeague: Okay.
Borton: Okay.
McTeague: Thank you for your time.
Rountree: Thank you for the early notification.
Zaremba: Mr. President, I would just make a further comment for our future discussion
that on the same logic that it's saving the emergency rooms money, I suspect it's saving
our police money as well if these are being processed in half the time, we are saving
money. So, certainly would be willing to listen to their presentation on cost.
Borton: Want to make sure it gets out to the Mayor and Council to take a look at it and
be ready for the next year's budget.
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Rountree: Mr. President, my only question is where do we put this on the interim, so it
doesn't fall off our radar screen in September? City clerk keep a file on these kinds of
requests?
Berg: Mr. President, Members of the Council, I think we need to have it for July, so we
will put it on our radar screen so it's put in at least as an item.
Rountree: Consideration. Yeah.
Berg: And when we get the final figures we can add that to it and if we need further
information, maybe in April, May, we can have another presentation.
Rountree: Sure. Great.
(c) Water Hook Up to Irrigation Request -Doyle Bundy -citizen
Borton: That's a good idea. Item No. 3-C is a water hook-up and irrigation request by
Mr. Doyle Bundy. What -- I think for lack of any other formal structure to this, we have
got 15 minutes allocated. We have reviewed -- the Council's all been provided some of
the written history from Rick Clinton, as well as Mr. Bundy and his request. What I'd like
to do is have -- Rick, if you want to give us five minutes of the history as far as you know
and the basis for your decision and, then, Mr. Bundy -- . We will go ahead and give you
the remaining ten minutes or I guess eight to discuss your position and the Council can
give some guidance on which way to go.
Clinton: Mr. President, Members of the Council, earlier this summer Mr. Bundy made
contact with the water department and made a request to us to disconnect his irrigation
system from the pressurized irrigation system in his subdivision. He communicated to
us that we had concerns that the water quality in the irrigation system was -- was
contaminated and that he wanted to be able to use potable water to irrigate his lawn
with. In researching the ordinances, we come up with a couple different ordinances that
-- or sections of ordinance that very clearly prohibit that activity. I communicated to Mr.
Bundy that probably for over a decade we have tried to encourage water conservation
through the utilization of surface water wherever possible through the pressurized
irrigation systems to protect -- or to conserve water and, in addition to that, we also
have a very significant concern about the potential cross-contamination between our
drinking water system and that -- the canal water, that I agree with Mr. Bundy it's
certainly not safe to drink. He sat down and visited with Chip and I -- Chip Hudson, the
assistant superintendent and I, for the better part of a couple hours. I advised him that I
would issue him a written letter outlining the sections of the ordinance that -- that very
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Borton: Thank you, Rick. And I appreciate you and Chip doing this. I've had a chance
to talk to Mr. Bundy a bit and it sounds like everyone's gone to great lengths to try and
explain and perhaps resolve the situation, but I know Mr. Bundy wanted a chance,
nonetheless, to come before Council and say his piece on the issue. So, Mr. Bundy,
come on forward and we will have you use the mike up here and make sure we get you
on the record.
Bundy: I have had experience with irrigation water in this area and about the worst
irrigation water I have seen is right there in that area. I think that little creek there has
been running for quite some time and probably all kinds of irrigation dump have been in
there. I don't believe it probably ever has been dredged. A guy got approval for, you
know, building houses there. The guy that owned it, I guess he sold it to a developer,
probably a couple years ago, and in about two years houses have been built in there.
They claim that area and put it underground, but that area is really messing there where
it comes out of that residential area there right out at the end of Blue Field -- or, no, I
guess it's Blue Herring and that it -- especially on the south side of Blue Herring -- I
mean there has always been oil in there, there has always been all kinds of yuk in there
and it's never been cleaned and the grass grows and they have -- you have Ed Meeks
there, I'm quite sure he probably has dumped in there for a long time. And it's really in
bad shape and it's not taken care of by Nampa-Meridian Irrigation District and I have run
my sprinklers and I got a 30 mesh filter and the thing -- well, I water once a day for
about 20 minutes each station and I don't get past a week and that filter is plugged up.
And the whole area there stinks like I don't know what. And the guy right behind me
waters sometimes three and four times a day, because he's trying to grow grass that
doesn't have anything to it to grow and he's trying to grow it when it gets real hot in the
summertime and I mean he -- his is really messy and stinky. And that water is
absolutely not healthy and it's not good for the people -- especially children and animals
and things like that and it's -- a lot of the houses are in a confined area and it sprays all
over the place, the wind blows, and it's just -- just unhealthy. And even in the rivers
around here, as you know, there are parasites in the water. They recommend you don't
do this and you don't do that. The runoffs, you know, the animals -- up at Cascade Lake
and I've had experience with fungus already. I have been here living in this area for
about 12 years and I was going over to Foxtail every morning about 9:00 o'clock in the
morning and practicing golf until about 12:00 o'clock and I was there on that range and
they didn't keep their grass too short and I very seldom wear shorts, but I was wearing
them because it was in July, pretty hot. It was in '01 July. And I know this is -- these
are long, boring stories, but this happened. And I ended up getting a fungus on my legs
-- I got scars on my legs right now. I tried to -- I tried to get rid of it and you touch a real
bad fungus and you can spread it to others parts of your body. I got it on my crotch and
I'd like to never gotten rid of that thing. I went to a doctor -- the only doctor I have ever
gone to in probably the last 15 or 20 years was a dermatologist down right across from
the St. AI's Hospital and he couldn't touch it with anything. Finally he started -- he gave
me some steroids and says just use this lightly, brush it across when it flares up and,
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really, he couldn't treat it. He couldn't heal it and I got some health food stuff. It was a
real expensive, highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide and you put a -- you put about a
capful or so in your bath, you let it pour in slowly, and through the -- through that and
that and, then, getting my immune system built back up, because my immune system
was really low, that's the reason why I had the problem -- and this is where the problem
comes in. Young children and elderly, sometimes their immune systems are
compromised and there is elderly area that has the same water right there on Blue Field
on Meridian Road, the same irrigation water goes there, and they walk up and down
right there on East Woodberry and that area and they walk through that water spraying
all over the place -- I mean it's absolutely unhealthy and that's a fact and I'd stake
anything on it and all you got to do is just test it and find out. I mean I'm here and --
you know, presenting this sort of crudely, but it's the truth. And I happen to have
sprinklers, they are sort of a commercial-type sprinkler and they spray the water when
they spray it. I got the Toro -- actually, there is not really -- but it sort of acts like a
commercial grade sprayer. In other words, it doesn't spray real gentle down low and --
and that water -- and you can't -- you can't do -- have any activity on site. I wouldn't let
my grandkids back there in that backyard, you know, I can't enjoy my grandkids over in
my house, in my backyard, never have been able to and -- you know, I mean I can
understand wanting to conserve water and -- you know, because the population is
growing, houses being built, and, you know, there is not too much groundwater, but
there are certain people that a compromise should be made on and I have problems
with my immune system and that's the reason why it doesn't affect a lot of people,
because that's what your immune system's for in your body, is if you keep a good
immune system your body fights it off naturally. God's gift to man. But if they -- if you
abuse yourself and you don't take care of yourself, eventually that thing sort of goes,
then, you can catch degenerative diseases and all kinds of things. How much time do
have left?
Borton: Mr. Berg?
Berg: Minute and a half.
Bundy: I didn't want to run over time. You guys -- City Council is very nice and I can tell
you're -- you know, you're being compassionate and -- but that's my -- you know, my
point on the thing. There may be regulations and laws and all of that, but aguy -- the
people across the street have city water, it's just on my side of the street and, then, up
in that residential area.
Borton: Okay.
Bundy: And I want to stay healthy. Igo to great lengths to stay healthy and I study it
and I understand it and I keep myself built up to where I don't have to go to doctors for
this and that and that and this and so -- all right. Well, that's it. Thank you very much.
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Borton: Thank you. Appreciate you coming and sharing that.
Bundy: Are you going to make a decision tonight?
Borton: Yeah. You can always stay.
Bundy: Are you going to make a decision tonight or what?
Borton: I believe so, if that's the Council's -- if that's the Council's desire to do so. Rick,
do you have any last summary comments? The decision, as I understand it, is whether
or not a cross connection with the city water is appropriate or not and your
recommendation is that it's not.
Clinton: Mr. President, I stand by my recommendation that we adhere to the ordinance.
Again, two real key issues. I think the very most important issue is trying to minimize
the cross-connections between nonpotable water and potable water and we have --
through the ordinances we allow for a single potable cross-connection to provide pre
and post season water to these irrigation systems with one back flow device that serves
a number of homes and there is good reason for that.
Borton: Thank you. Doyle, hang on one second. Just -- and the reason that we put
some structure on it, otherwise -- because I know we have had lots of conversations
and we've had lots of conversations with the department and we could probably be here
all night and we are never going to agree and that's okay, that happens sometimes, that
people might disagree and as long as we have got complete information and
understand the situation, I'd turn it over to the Council if they have any particular
questions, otherwise --
Grady: Mr. President?
Borton: Yes.
Grady: Just a few quick comments. Sorry. It may be appropriate -- and I think the city
could offer this service, to go out and at least work with DEQ and see -- you know, help
them test the water. It really is an irrigation slash DEQ or irrigation -Central District
Health and I think the city is willing to help out and see if we can expedite that. And the
second point is I will -- just a reminder that we are required by several of the state
agencies and federal agencies to continue to conserve water. Water rights are getting
harder and harder to come by and so this issue is going to be more and more critical as
time goes on. But, again, the city is willing to help out a little bit there if you desire.
Borton: Thanks, Len. Council?
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Rountree: Mr. President?
Borton: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: Nampa-Meridian runs an awful lot of water through the City of Meridian and I
don't know that we have ever had an issue, but I don't know that it's ever been
addressed as an issue. Given Len's comments, I would suggest that you do that hand
in hand with Nampa-Meridian and Settlers, John Anderson or somebody in that
organization with Nampa-Meridian -- and I don't know who is in Settlers -- and any other
water provider in the community and maybe address some of these questions.
Certainly -- I know all about having to change your filter every time you run your
sprinkler system, but I do it and finally figured out how I don't have to do it, but the water
is not necessarily the cleanest in the world, but I've never had any hesitancy about
utilizing water provided by Nampa-Meridian.
Borton: Okay.
Rountree: And I'd like to see that done before we consider it further.
Borton: Mr. Bundy, come on up to the mike.
Bundy: One more thing. I would be willing to have anything done that anyone would
want to be -- have done to that irrigation system so it could never be hooked up at that
address again.
Borton: Here is --
Bundy: And I would even put forth money out of my own pocket to contribute towards it.
That's how serious -- and that's how -- that's how sure I am of what I'm saying. I have
been living there for a long time and I study things, I have been retired, and I absolutely
know that's unhealthy for me and it will -- it just takes -- takes away from -- from, you
know, the pursuit of living well and living healthy.
Borton: We appreciate --
Bundy: And that's the way I'd put it. And so there would be no problem with across-
connect or anything. That irrigation water would not get into the city water system. No
way. Besides, I'm mechanical anyway, I was a plumber, ran a plumbing business in
California.
Borton: All right. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bundy. It's -- sometimes it's difficult to --
to make these decisions, because you want to try and make things work out. I can tell
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you from my perspective the quick answer is to deny the request and support the
decision of the water department and not allow the cross connection. I do think -- and
as Councilman Rountree highlighted, what Len has talked about, if there is a way that
we can assist, you know, poking the right people to get some testing done or, really,
what you think, Len, we could do to help that out -- I don't think there is a -- clearly not a
direct obligation that we are required to do. It doesn't mean that we can't take
measures to try to help out, but rather than kind of dance on the issue, my perspective
is to be crystal clear, just so you know that as of right now (wouldn't -- wouldn't support
the request. But I think we can try and help out in other ways. I don't know if --
Bird: I agree with you -- I agree a hundred percent with you, Joe.
Zaremba: Mr. President?
Borton: Mr. Zaremba.
Zaremba: I would add that I'm not ready to open the door to what could become a
series of people feeling that this water is not adequate. If there is a way to improve the
water or otherwise help, like the others, I have to clean my filter at least once a week
and for some reason I don't notice it, but my wife thinks the water stinks and reminds
me of it every time I have walked through it and come back into the house, so it's -- and
the unfortunate thing is that I think one case would breed many more cases and if we
can approach it through seeing if we can help improve the water, that would be the
better choice.
Borton: I don't think there needs to be a formal motion. I think that the consensus of
the Council is to deny the particular request, support the reasoning set forth by Rick on
the record. We appreciate you presenting your side, Mr. Bundy, both in writing and
here today. It's the rare request that -- to have you come before Council, but we
appreciate you taking the time tonight to do so. And, then, Len, we will follow up with
you and see if there is -- if there is something that we can do to try and assist in another
way, let's do that.
Grady: We'll do.
(d) Discussion of Coalition for Regional Public Transportation's
Legislative Proposal with Valley Regional Transit & COMPASS -
Matt Ellsworth -Planning Dept.
Borton: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Bundy. Item 3-D on the agenda, the discussion of
the coalition for regional public transit. Matt Ellsworth. How are you doing, Matt? He's
here to present --
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Ellsworth: Thank you, Mr. President, Members of the Council. And I'm really doing
more of an introduction this evening than I am a presentation. A brief little bit of
background. The coalition for regional public transportation publication is a group of
business -- business interests representatives, elected officials, and so forth that have
been meeting over the course of the past several years to identify potential funding
solutions and revenue strategies to increase the level of public transportation services
throughout the Treasure Valley. I'm sure you recall last year they approached the
legislature with a proposal to allow local jurisdictions, local action taxing authority to do
exactly that. The bill was introduced to the revenue and taxation committee where it
subsequently ended up -- ended up dying prior to receiving a hearing on the floor.
Since, then, Valley Transit Regional and Community Planning Association have been in
conversations with both the coalition, elected officials, stake holders, and so forth and
they have drafted an update to that proposed legislation that incorporates some
interesting changes and so forth that they have been sort of shopping around to
constituent jurisdictions, highway districts, cities, the counties, and so forth, in an
attempt to gauge support and field suggestions that jurisdictions may have prior to
approaching the legislature this spring. The ultimate direction that this is -- that this is
going in is to, again, hear your comments, concerns, and so forth about the proposed
legislation for consideration in finalizing the draft they are going to bring forward this
spring and ultimately Compass and Valley Regional Transit would like to request a
resolution to the effect of supporting that bill prior to moving it forward to the legislature.
So, understanding the direction that this is going with that, Matt Stoll, the executive
director for Community Planning Association is here with us this evening and I'll turn it
over to Matt to go over some of the ins and outs of the proposed legislation.
Borton: Thank you. Thank you, Matt, for coming here tonight.
Stoll: Mr. President, Council Members, thank you for the opportunity. I'm not sure if you
got all the handouts. Let me give you some additional ones, because --
Borton: I heard you and Kelli on KBOI. It was actually some time ago now.
Rountree: Is this different?
Stoll: I'm not sure what Matt handed out, whether he got you just the legislation or if it
includes the bullet points that we have there.
Rountree: It's the same.
Stoll: Same stuff. Yeah. My apologies. What we have lined out in the legislation is
something that we believe is relatively innovative for the state of Idaho. It is not
innovative for the rest of the nation. If we look at models that are present across the
country, we can look to the state of Arizona, Nevada, Colorado and, then, also Salt
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Lake City, that have a local option taxing authority to fund their transportation systems.
As succinctly put, we have looked at a different strategy that has moved away from just
funding public transportation. As you're aware, the City of Meridian is a member of
Compass and we have done a long-range transportation plan that looks at the
transportation system as a whole in the two counties and we have identified that we
have a 1.7 billion dollar shortfall in revenue for the transportation systems. So, both
transit and also the roadways and as we can all but -- all of us that live in Meridian can
experience, there is congestion at any point in time. We are moving, because of
flattening revenue, both at the federal and state level, to a point of operation and
maintenance of the existing system -- of roadway system and also the transit system,
because we do not have adequate revenue. And other states across the country are
experiencing that same challenge. They are looking at innovative techniques to deal
with enhancing their revenue stream and one of the most common ones is taking to the
citizens and getting a vote of the citizens to approve a local option sales tax. And it's
the truest form of democracy where you're asking the citizens are you willing to tax
yourself to fund a particular need for society? So, to briefly run through what the
legislation has -- and this is just a brief bullet point summary and the legislation is a lot
more detailed and I believe your attorney has a copy of it, I hope. You all have a copy
of it? The legislation takes the existing regional Public Transportation Authority Act that
exists in the Idaho code and reestablished the Act as a regional transportation authority
and so existing regional transportation -- public transportation authorities, signature of
the governor that this legislation would become regional transportation authorities and
for areas unlike the Ada County and Canyon County area and also Idaho Falls, that
would like to enact that legislation, can take it to a vote of the citizens to get their
approval of it. There is still the requirement that you have to take it to a vote of the
public the enactment of the tax itself and that would require a simple majority vote -- not
a simple. I wish it was a simple majority. Super majority vote of the citizens and that's
rooted in public policy in Idaho regarding the imposition of taxes that deal with property
tax and we have been told by the chairman of the House tax and rev committee that to
get it out of his committee or out of his drawer, that it has to be a super majority vote of
the citizens. And so we are not going to tackle that issue, because we want to get it out
of his drawer and have a fair hearing. We have also heard what the chairman had to
say and we have consolidated the four -- the four dates for voting on special tax -- taxes
like this to two dates, May and November. So, any primary or general election of any
given year. And, then, also we have been told that we need to have the legislation so
that only elected officials can sit on the board of any regional transportation authority.
Currently with Compass and with Valley Regional Transit there is the opportunity for an
agency or an organization like yours to appoint a staff person to sit on that. That would
be specifically prohibited in this legislation, because the legislature wants the citizens to
have somebody that they can hold directly accountable for the imposition of the tax and
also hold responsible in completing the program that's been identified. The Regional
Transportation Authority would be charged with two primary items. One would be the
creation or the -- I'm sorry. The construction, operation, and maintenance of the public
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transportation system. So, transit, buses, rail, whatever gets envisioned to happen.
And, then, also the funding of the shortfall for roadways. It's not -- the purpose of this
agency is not to operate, maintain, build, construct roadways, it is only intended to be a
funding mechanism to fund Idaho Transportation Department and also Ada County
Highway District in Ada County, and, then, the highway districts in Canyon County and
the cities in Canyon County for their roadway needs. The maintenance and building of
those roadways would be done by those entities that are already charged with it and
from our opinion are doing it successfully. The tie for this local option tax would be a
regional long-range transportation plan that would be a 20 year vision at least of what
the needs are of the area and so it takes into account the changing population for the
region, but also takes into account the economics of the region. We already have that
being created by the Community Planning Association, so an inherent part of this
legislation is that any area that has a metropolitan planning organization like Compass
and a transit authority like Valley Regional Transit Authority, would devolve those two
organizations to form a regional transportation authority. So, effectively, what you do is
instead of having two separate boards that have the same elected officials sitting on it,
you have one board and those staff are merged together as one agency. We believe
that that will result in a lot of efficiencies from the use of elected officials' time, but also
will be a much more efficient use of the taxpayer's dollars. The voting structure that we
have identified is intended to try to promote regional collaboration amongst our
particular area, Ada and Canyon counties, so that you value the individual agencies that
are sitting around the table, but also value the population center of the two counties.
So, what we have structured is that each entity will get one seat at the table. The City
of Meridian would have one seat at the table. The City of Boise would have one seat at
the table. The Ada County Commission would have one seat at the table. Ada County
Highway District would have one seat at the table. So, you end up with the six cities in
Ada County having a seat, the highway district, and the county and, then, in Canyon
County you have the eight cities, the four highway districts would have one
representative, and, then, also the county. That leaves 18 seats at the table. The Idaho
Transportation Department would also have a seat. This current version we have the
Idaho Transportation Department's board members sitting at the table. So, instead of
the 29 members that Valley Regional Transit currently has and the 38 members that I
currently have, we narrow that down to 19 individuals sitting around the table. Each
vote is subjected to two tests. The first test is a simple majority of those 18 votes and if
it passes that first test, then, we move onto the second test and we take the votes in the
affirmative for that first vote and apply for the cities and the unincorporated portions of
the counties their population weight. Excluded from that vote would be the highway
districts and also the transportation department. And if any motion passes those two
tests, then, it moves forward as being passed. The only items that would be subjected
to that test would be development of the transportation financing plan or the regional
long-range transportation. The transportation improvement program, the levying of the
tax that would be taken to the voters and also the annual budget for the agency. What
would be taken to the citizens is a complete detailing of what corridors over the next 20
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years would be improved, right-of-way that would be purchased, and if there are any
administrative costs or operation maintenance costs, specificity would be provided to
that. It would be put onto a ballot initiative, identifying, again, what would be
accomplished and subjected to a vote of the people on any May or November time
period that's adopted -- picked by that board. If it passes that super majority vote, then,
the tax would be implemented we believe the following quarter. We have to check that.
After the successful pass of the vote of the citizens. And, basically, once that's passed
by the citizens it cannot be changed unless there is a subsequent vote of the citizens to
change that transportation plan or the financing plan. It is required that you follow
through on that. There is a 20 year horizon with the tax, so that after 20 years it
sunsets, unless it's being reauthorized by the citizens. And that's a model that we
identified from the state of Arizona that has been successful -- if you have been down
into the Phoenix metropolitan area, back in 1985 they did the same thing for their loop
road system and 20 years later they had successfully completed it. They did some
public polling and found that if they wanted that reauthorized they needed to add transit
into their transportation system plan and so they have added light rail to that and they
are -- and it was reauthorized by the citizens and they are in the process of building
their light rail and also the additional roadway portions of their transportation system.
So, it will -- by the year 2025, will have 40 years of utilizing local option sales tax as a
successful measure. The city of Salt Lake has had a local option sales tax since the
1970s, the mid '70s, and they have been building their -- their transit system and also
the roadway system using that financing tool. Corporate powers that are associated
with this agency would include eminent domain, that is an unsavory tool in Idaho, but it
is a necessary tool to have available to any local government that needs to preserve
right-of-way for its transportation system. It is not one that I anticipate being used on a
routine basis, but is one that needs to be available to deal with the growth of this area
as we anticipate the population doubling over the next 20 years. The initial ballot
question would be brought to the citizens -- . Oh, sorry. The other corporate power that
that has -- sorry -- is bonding authority that would be subject to a vote of the people.
So, on any particular ballot initiative you could have the levying of the tax, which would
be on a rate of .1 percent to .75 percent upon the initial offering and, then, a subsequent
request to the population could go up to a maximum of one percent. There is a one
percent cap that could be had on this local option tax. That will levy approximately 54
million to 78 million dollars per year for the two counties, which is a fairly substantial
dollar amount that would be available. It also has the bonding authority that would be
subject to a vote of the people and that is also at a super majority level that would be
required. If at the end of 20 years the citizens decided to decline reauthorizing that local
option sales tax, the local option sales tax would continue until any bond indebtedness
has been paid off. So, if they had voted previously to bond and it carries five years
beyond that vote, it would be necessary for the sales tax to continue until that bond
indebtedness had been paid off. With that, I will think of some -- try to summarize what
the bill is. We have also done a statewide poll regarding -- from public policy standpoint
regarding funding mechanisms for transportation in the state of Idaho. We have
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provided you a summary of that. We will be summarizing that at the Compass board
meeting. Basically, what you can take away with it is people want their transportation
system. They don't want to pay for it. Unfortunately, we haven't found a mechanism to
make that happen. The reality is we will need to be able to ask the citizens whether
they are willing to support a local option sales tax and that is all we are asking as part of
this legislation is the ability to ask the citizens whether they are willing to tax
themselves. At the end of the day we are hoping to have a recrafted piece of legislation
based upon our member agencies' comments that we would unveil on November 29th
of this month and so we would welcome any comments that you have. I know that
Councilman Rountree has provided some comments to Kelli Fairless from Valley
Regional Transit and the sooner you can get us your comments the earlier we can get
working on things, but we do intend to have something to unveil to the coalition on the
29th and something that we can start working with legislators on. And we hope to have
resolutions from each of our member agencies supporting this legislation, so that we --
when we go to the capitol we can speak with authority that local governments want this
tool. With that I'll stand for any questions.
Borton: Thank you, Matt. Council, any questions at this point?
Bird: I have none.
Borton: Matt, did I -- did I hear you right that the first time when they are at the ballot
box they would be voting up or down on the imposition of a tax? Are they also voting in
a separate measure up or down on the particular plan or --
Stoll: The inherent part on the tax is that you have to have aplan -- a transportation
financing plan to show the citizens what they would be taxing themselves for. So, it's
one and the same.
Borton: Okay.
Stoll: So, you would have the example of here are the capital improvements, the
maintenance programs that would be associated with it, so that they can make an
educated decision on whether they want to vote on --
Borton: I got you. Is that different than the earlier proposal, that joinder of the specific
plan with the authorization?
Stoll: We have gotten more specific with it.
Borton: Okay.
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Stoll: Yes. Based upon the models that we have looked at across the -- particularly in
the west and what they have done in Arizona and Colorado.
Borton: And, then, on the -- just real quickly on the -- I think it's also new about the
funding provided for road -- some construction?
Stoll: Yeah. This is -- that is completely new.
Borton: Is the mechanism of that, you know, X dollars that are raised -- or allocated for
that portion of the plan are simply turned over to ACHD, by way of example, to, then, fall
within their prioritization list or --
Stoll: No. It would be a situation where prior to going to a vote of the citizens, the board
of RTA and the staff of the RTA would be working with the implementing agencies, like
ACHD or ITD and identifying the particular corridors that would be eligible for this local
option taxing authority. Quite frankly, with all of our transportation needs in the valley,
we are not going to be able to fund every corridor with the 54 million. It will require
partnerships with ACHD and ITD to build roadways. Case in point would be U.S. 20-26.
That is a 200 million dollar project and there is no way that we could get that
accomplished in a reasonable time frame and still have to deal with the transportation
needs across the valley. So, there will be partnerships and working with folks on
identifying what's going to go -- what projects would be funded. From there, once the
citizens approve it, it would be a granting program, very similar to how they already deal
with ITD on projects and that there would be agreements that would be developed on
here is how much we will fund the building of this particular project, we will provide this
amount of money to you on an annual basis to complete this project and to build it.
Borton: Okay.
Stoll: And, then, there would be accountability back to the citizens on an annual basis
of what's being accomplished.
Borton: Great. Good. Council, any questions of this point?
Rountree: Just a comment on that last -- last piece and that's one of the comments that
I made to Kelli is that the intent is as I believe Matt stated, the language really doesn't
go there. It's pretty weak in that arena and it's one of the things I think that will be
addressed in the comments and redrafting of this bill. And I guess all fairness to the
Council, I was at a growth summit, as well as Dave, the first part of -- or the end of last
week, I believe, and our partners at ACHD are not at all pleased with this. So, I don't -- I
really wasn't sure what their issues were, other than I think they misread a lot of stuff in
here or were misinformed, but there yet are some issues that need to be resolved.
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Stoll: That's true.
Borton: So, Matt, do you anticipate -- I guess get some comments, whatever you can
from us, before the 29th, the unveiling at that point, do you expect -- do you or someone
with the group coming back in December to request a formal resolution?
Stoll: We can do it one of two ways. We can send you a draft resolution that you would
tailor to meet your particular needs for your individual city. And we certainly would be
available to come to do a presentation on the current legislation that's been redrafted
and the status of the coalition and I anticipate the coalition will be renamed and there
will be a broader cross-section across the state on supporting it. What we'd like to have
is the -- are the resolutions passed prior to the start of the legislative session in January.
Borton: Okay.
Rountree: Mr. President, Ihave aquestion --
Borton: Yes.
Rountree: -- for Matt. Matt, what's your sense or what are you hearing from
commentors around the state?
Stoll: We just had a briefing session with the transit providers today and --
Rountree: One of the ITD sponsored sessions? Video conference?
Stoll: They provided the video conferencing facilities.
Rountree: Okay.
Stoll: We can talk about that part --
Rountree: Yeah.
Stoll: -- about the lack of sponsorship.
Rountree: I would assume that.
Stoll: Anyway -- I need enlightenment on that. Anyhow, we had Pocatello there, Idaho
Falls, folks from Lewiston participated in the process. And the general sense I got was
after we had answered some of their questions and concerns that they had -- and it was
rooted in not reading the legislation and some reading old legislation and also some
suspicion on what the intent was, they have realized that, number one, it may not be
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ideal, but it does seem like it has some legs and it's the only tool that's being offered to
help fund transit and to meet the transportation needs across the state for individual
regions and also, quite frankly, it may not -- for some of them may not be a tool that they
want to use now, but it's a tool that they want available to them five, ten years from now.
So, it sounds like they are going to be supporting us on it. And I was particularly
pleased and surprised on Mr. Bingley's stance.
Rountree: Oh, really?
Stoll: Exactly.
Rountree: Good.
Borton: Well, Matt --
Zaremba: Mr. President?
Borton: Oh. Go ahead. Mr. Zaremba.
Zaremba: A comment, I guess. I understand the compromises that have to go into
getting this to happen and to me it seems like a lot of thought has gone into it and the
solutions to those compromises. I think I can buy into it and support, along with what
Councilman Rountree said, we do need to make an effort to get ACHD on board and I
did talk to a couple of those commissioners -- their first instinct to everything is that
everybody is trying to chip away at ACHD. This has been going on for years and years
and it's not pointed directly at this legislation necessarily, but they feel that there have
been so many people that have been trying to either disassemble them or remodify
them or take over their thing, that they are internally afraid that this is another one of
those. And there does need to be some networking or whatever you would call it to -- to
get their support. I think the issue that doesn't get across is that this is not an authority
instead of their authority, that it isn't chipping away at this and this is incremental, that
their current taxing structure and income structure, plans for their long-range capital
improvements, are not really affected by this. This is supplemental. And I don't feel that
they are understanding that piece of it or even though they hear us say it, they are
suspicious. You used that word. And they are suspicious that down the road it isn't
going to come out that way and I -- my feeling is we need -- we need to get them on
board in focusing on having the legislature give us the right to ask if there will be a local
option taxing. We don't need to have all the details -- we will have to have all the details
to go to our local voters, but I would rather see legislation be as general and nonspecific
as possible. And maybe there are some requirements in it. But I don't think the
legislation should include the plan. And, yes, the sales tax piece of it -- I mean when we
go to the voters with a ballot measure, that does have to include the plan, because they
have to approve -- the legislation can specify that there be a plan, but I think ACHD
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conceptually can support local option taxes, they are worried about the details and if
there is a way to get less detail to the legislature, knowing that the detail has to be there
when we actually put it on the ballot, we may get more support out of them. That's just
a comment.
Stoll: Mr. President, Councilman Zaremba, there is a fine balance that we have to
provide, because we have to give the legislature some of the things that they want, so
that they will give us the local option taxing authority. And they have been very clear
that they want a transportation plan or a financing plan that the voters will know what
they are going to get and that will identify which corridors will be improved and that it's
locked in. So, there are things that we can work on and there are some things that our
advisors have told us and also some legislators have told us that if you don't have it,
don't even bother coming to us, and I think everybody that's part of this -- and
particularly in Ada and Canyon counties, is going to have to realize that we all need to
give up a little something, so that we can get a significant revenue stream of -- made
available to us and have the ability to ask the citizens what they want. One of the things
certainly Kelli and I are working on -- working with ACHD in trying to identify what their
needs are and we have encouraged them to submit comments. We met with them for
close to two or three hours last Wednesday about this particular legislation. We have
made available since October -- I believe it was October 5th we -- October 4th we
initially met with their senior management staff about this legislation and we provided
copies of the legislation to get their comments and get their input on it. Last
Wednesday was the first time I heard a negative comment about it from them and we
could use support and help from local elected officials in talking to the commissioners
and talking about what their issues are, but also talking about the importance of it from
your standpoint on needing this to meet our needs. Our purpose is not to chip away at
their authority or to take away any of their authority, it is to be a partner to help them
build projects, because I have certainly sat in board meetings where I have listened to --
particularly Meridian, but also other cities, get frustrated when they hear that ACHD or
ITD is asking for a local contribution towards a project when you don't have a funding
mechanism to be made available. This legislation provides a certain amount of skin in
the game, so that you can contribute to help out ACRD or ITD on projects that are
critical to you and force or encourage some partnership between the cities and the
implementing agencies.
Zaremba: I agree that it's help -- we need to convince ACHD that it's help.
Stoll: I'll take any help you can get.
Borton: I appreciate you bringing this here. I think what might be best -- give us some
more time to digest the specific legislation that you want submitted, the proposed
resolution you'd like us to consider, with a time frame that fits your needs, when you'd
like us to act on it and, then, in the meantime get questions I guess directly back to you?
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Stoll: Yeah. Myself or Kelli Fairless.
Borton: Okay.
Stoll: Either one of us will work. And we will forward it to our various Councils that are
helping us out with this.
Borton: Okay.
Stoll: In terms of the resolution, I'll get something drafted up as soon as possible and,
then, quite frankly, the sooner the better that you can do it, whenever it fits into your
particular Council schedules.
Borton: Sounds great.
Stoll: Thank you for the opportunity.
(e) Update on New City Hall Building Construction -Petra Inc. & LCA
Architects
Borton: You bet. Thanks, Matt. Item 3-E -- 3-E, update on the new City Hall building
construction. Petra here. We have got Wes, Gene, and team. You're up.
Bettis: Thank you. Council President Borton, esteemed members of the Council and
city staff, for the record, my name is Wesley Bettis, Petra, Incorporated, 1097 North
Rosario here in Meridian. Over the next ten, 15 minutes what we would like to do is
give you a quick update on work in progress. John Anderson, our general
superintendent for the project, will be providing that. We will also look at an update of
the contract schedule and the contract budget, so that all of us are talking the same
language when we are discussing this project and we really do appreciate having this
opportunity to come before you. Also in attendance tonight we have Adam Johnson,
who is our project LEED coordinator, if you have any questions specifically regarding
LEED. And we have Gene Bennett, our senior project director, who is trying to keep
this posse all under control. Always able to answer questions very pertinent and very
specific to your needs. While John addresses the work in progress, I'll hand out the
updates on the schedule and the budget.
Anderson: My name is John Anderson, President, Council Members. As Wes hands
out the schedule, where we are at with work in progress to date, we have the second
floor slab cast, which has turned up in all the first floor, as well as the basement, for all
the trade rough-ins. So, the trades have pretty much invaded, for lack of a better term,
all of the second floor, along with our framing contractor for the metal stubs. The critical
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path, which you -- I believe Wes -- yeah, you printed those in color -- is in the red and
blue is a noncritical path item. Now, that we have structure going up and will be
continuing to go up through the weather, the focus for myself and my people are on the
interior of the building, finishing the interior. And to do that with the trades, is to finish
our partition walls -- I should say the full height walls inside the building and from there
we start the under slab -- I'm sorry, under floor HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems.
From there we actually will put the computer floor down and, then, put the partition walls
-- the different offices and areas on top of that. The whole time that is going on, the
exterior framing has started. We will actually start standing the exterior metal stubs on
the south portion of the building, I believe, Thursday. So, there is quite a bit of activity
on the first floor itself. We will cast the third floor slab directly after the holiday, which
will turn the second floor open for all the mechanical rough-ins and full height wall
rough- ins as well. We are progressing at a -- at a healthy pace. The roof is anticipated
to start by the end of the month on the south portion of the building, moving to the
center section of the building. From there, once the roof is started -- the roof will
actually start and be put on prior to our computer floor going down. One item that was
not addressed on the schedule, the under floor rough-ins, which is actually activity
number 30, we have actually pulled that ahead by three weeks to make sure that we get
the first section ready to go for the computer floor that is showing up the first -- the
middle of December, excuse me, on the first delivery. So, the first section of the interior
partition walls will actually be coming back to the first of January as well. So, critical
path for the building is from the inside coming out, as far as the progress in our
structure. From there we have site utilities, site improvements, we have power into
building, conduits into the building. We will be able to pull our feeders the next couple
of weeks. Our actual water line to the building fire suppression will go in this week as
well and the end of next week and, then, the following week, which will be the last
weekend in November, we will actually be tying the sewer together. So, the site utilities
are wrapping up, with anticipation of our mason starting the 1st of December. So,
progress right now is moving very -- at a very quick pace.
Borton: That's great. Thanks, John. Any questions, Council?
Rountree: Keep up the good work.
Bettis: Thank you, John. I wish I could say everything was always rosy, but we do have
three problem children right now that we have addressed. The first one is our steel
fabricator. Our steel erection crew has been doing a marvelous job with what they
have. They have been working on average nine hour days, five days a week, and at
least every other Saturday a half day -- several of those Saturdays have been
consecutive. So, they have been making good progress, but we have been missing
some of our structural steel components of the steel fabricator and erector, which is
Rule Steel out of Middleton -- has been put on official notice that if they fail to meet their
scheduled deadline that they will be assessed damages in accordance with their
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contract and Idaho Department of Public Works contracting statutes. The second
problem child was Simplex-Grinnell, our fire sprinkler contractor. They only required
one notice and that seemed to motivate them. They are on site and John has them
under a very tight schedule to get their work caught up, so that they do not slow down
and they will not slow down the work. Our third problem child is one that we have not
been able to control and that is our weather. From the last week in September through
the end of October we had 15 and a half weather affected working days in a period of
36 calendar days. It did have a profound effect on our ability to complete some of
critical areas of work. It did impact our critical path. Fortunately, we had two very, very
good and productive weeks the last two weeks up through last Saturday, which enabled
us to close off some critical areas and allow John to shift the critical scope of work to the
inside of the building and we will literally be building this structure from the inside out
now and he will keep after the structural steel to see that it finishes out as a subcritical
item now. If you want to look at the second page of the handout that I have given you,
that is our project budget. We are currently sitting at -- with the building improvements,
along with the site plaza and landscaping at 19.7 million. This includes some very good
value engineering on the part of our trades. They are coming together. Some of the
decisions that were made early in this process, like raising the building four foot, has
actually resulted in a credit to this project of over 126,000 dollars. Additionally, now that
we have our team on board and they are working very well as a team under John's
leadership, our electrician came forward and said, hey, I have got a better way to bring
our power into the building and secure the critical nature of what is called a 200 percent
neutral bus duct. That has resulted in a 13,000 dollar savings to this project that has
been blessed by the electrical engineer and the design -- rest of the design team. So,
the team is coming together, they are bringing together their ideas, their experience and
helping us pull this project together tighter and as you noticed from your schedule, we
are still on schedule to be complete and have you in this building by the end of August
2008. So, the additional items that we are looking at right now, Mr. Baird has put me in
touch with the group that has taken control of the Idaho Trust or will take control of the
Idaho Trust property and we start discussions about alternatives for both short-term and
long-term parking to supplement City Hall. As well Mr. Baird and I are looking at two
other options that we are pursuing to find the best opportunities for the city. And that is
about all I have at this point. We will stand for any questions that you have of any one
of us.
Borton: Thank you, Wes. Council, any questions from what we have before us? Adam
-- I don't know who Adam -- Adam, I don't think I have met you before, but if you would
come forward and just give us a quick update on the LEED status and infamous binder
collection.
Johnson: President Borton, Members of the Council, LEED status, we are getting the
documents prepared, getting our templates set up. I don't know if you guys remember
the templates we passed out, getting those custom-built to our project. Going through
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the process of starting the photo documentation. We already implemented the
recycling, which has been going since we started. So, that's where we sit right now.
Borton: Everything seems to be on pace?
Johnson: Yeah.
Bird: Okay.
Johnson: A lot of photos and documentation and logs.
Borton: Okay.
Johnson: So, quite a lengthy process, so --
Borton: Great. Thanks, Adam. Council, any other questions on --
Rountree: I have no questions.
Bird: I have none.
Borton: None. Keep it going. Thanks for coming and giving us this information.
Bettis: And, again, thank you, gentlemen, for inviting us. We like having this
opportunity to come before you on a regular basis and keep you in the loop. I would like
to invite any of you to come out to either get with Mr. Berg or Mr. Watts, set up an
appointment and we will be more than happy to give you a tour of the facility. We have
had the Mayor out on site a couple of times. We have had Mr. Berg and Mr. Watts and
several of the city staff at various times touring the facility and it's really fun to watch it
come together right now. So, we encourage you to come out and see it as well. Thank
you.
Borton: All right. Thank you. Wes? Real quick you talk about giving updates. Do you
want to either set now or think about -- is it monthly, every other month, just have a
standing -- show up on the second every month, the second Tuesday.
Bettis: We'd like it to be every month, Mr. President. It just will fit better and just make
that astandard --
Borton: That will be great. Every second Tuesday, something like this?
Bettis: Yeah.
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Borton: Okay.
Bettis: That would be great.
Bird: When are we bidding the plaza?
C~
Bettis: Oh, thank you, Mr. Bird. Mr. President, Mr. Bird, the plaza is out to bid, along
with the site landscaping and streetscapes and that bid is November 29th at 2:00 p.m.
Bird: Good. That's what I -- that's why it would be nice to have it on every second,
because we will have a better idea on what the total cost is right there.
Bettis: Yeah. We will have a budget update the next meeting.
Borton: Super.
Bettis: Thank you.
Rountree: Thanks.
Berg: Mr. President, Icould --just so the Council knows that we have a staff meeting
every -- right now it's just once a month, the first Monday, just to keep things on board
with the staff and the architect and the construction manager. And that's on an ongoing
basis. We used to do it every other week, but now we have gone to once a month and
if it needs to be changed, we will change it, but the Mayor is updated, as well as Keith
Bird and members of the staff.
(fl Findings on the state of the FEMA program -Kyle Radek -Public
Works
Borton: Thanks, Will. 3-F. Getting down there. Kyle, you're up. Findings on the state
of the FEMA program. You have all got materials passed out.
Radek: Mr. President, Council members, the concept here is just to give you a brief
rundown on what's going on with the FEMA floodplain administration in Meridian. We
have a few things going on and we will probably follow on this presentation with more
specifics in the future. I want to basically go over some background of the National
Flood Insurance Program, some basics on the floodplain itself. Give you the status of
some current problem areas we have and the current program and, then, talk about
some initiatives that we have that we are undertaking at this time. The National Flood
Insurance Program, the NFIP, is, essentially, an agreement between the federal
government and local jurisdictions, the community, in exchange for adopting a flood
damage prevention ordinance, the citizens of our community have access to federally
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backed flood insurance and it's the only reasonably priced flood insurance they will be
able to find. Meridian entered the program in 1992. The City of Meridian's
responsibilities under the program, essentially, are to uphold the agreement with the
federal government. We had to pass an ordinance to meet the minimum requirements
of FEMA. We have to manage the floodplain according to those rules that we passed.
And we accomplish that through the community's floodplain administrator, which is me.
This is just a laundry list of the floodplain administrator's duties, mostly so that you know
that floodplain administration isn't a super simple task. There are a lot of things that
have to happen. Number one being to understand regulations and as you will find out in
subsequent slides, we didn't always understand the regulations fully. Next slide, please.
Some basics on floodplain. We talk about the base flood, we are talking about the
hundred year flood event and that's a flood that has a one percent chance of occurring
every year -- occurring or being equal -- or exceeded I mean. And the base flood
elevation is the elevation that that flood is expected to reach. So, here is a graphic for
you. Essentially, there is the normal stream channel and here comes the base flood,
hundred year flood, and inundates a certain area and that area is what we -- what we
designate as the floodplain, the hundred year floodplain. And that's the base flood
elevation right there. There is the hundred year floodplain. Then, inevitably, we have
development that appears in the floodplain and it's my job to regulate the development
that happens in that floodplain. So, for example, we fill on one side and you notice that
the water level rises up as it's being squeezed and, then, the other side gets filled -- the
other side gets filled and so the water level rises up again and that's just a natural
phenomenon and it's one of the -- the reason for one of the tools that -- that FEMA
developed when they mapped our floodplains and one of our floodplains in particular
and they generally have a rule that the -- the sum of all development that occurs in a
floodplain should result in no more than a one foot rise in the base flood. If you hit the
down arrow again, you get the base flood elevation, plus one, and that is also
delineated by the floodway -- what we call the floodway where no development is
supposed to occur to allow that raise -- is it working? There we go. There is the
floodway. And hit it one more time and show us the base flood elevation plus one. So,
the floodway is what needs to be preserved in order to keep that base flood from raising
up more than a foot. So, we don't have floodways in all our map floodplains, but we
have one. And the same kind of concept is -- is used to regulate development in -- in all
the floodplains, regardless of whether they have them at the floodway or not. So, just
for fun let's look at the next slide and say, for an example, what could happen in say a
neighboring community if -- if we didn't quite pay attention to things as the floodplain
developed, we would have fill coming in one side -- there is the floodplain. There is the
base flood elevation. We have the developer coming in filling one side and he submits
a letter to FEMA and says, hey, I'm not in the floodplain anymore, take me out of the
floodplain. So, FEMA says, yeah, that's cool, let's map the floodplain, we are going to
put the floodplain there. It's also called a special flood hazard area. Now, the developer
says I want to develop this piece of ground, I'm not in the floodplain anymore, I don't
have to play by the rules, so I can build this house that I want to put in at whatever level
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I want, I don't have to build it at the base flood elevation plus one, which is very
common for -- our ordinance, for example, says you have to have a finished flood --
base flood elevation plus one. So, he builds his house. There it is. And he's -- he's not
quite to base flood elevation, but it doesn't matter, because he's not in the floodplain.
So, who wants to guess what happens next? The guy across the river develops his
area and we have seen examples of this last summer where somebody said, well, I
don't live in the floodplain, why do I have water in my backyard? So, that's just an
example of the kind of things that happen and we have a -- one of the initiatives we
have is a -- in our code is -- is to say that all the areas that were in the floodplain and
were removed from the floodplain by fill, are still subject to at least the same standards
at areas in the floodplain, to void that having lower standards in areas that aren't in the
floodplain. The next slide, please. We have three types of regulated floodplains in
Meridian and depending on how deep the flood insurance study was that delineated
them, and the development rules are a little different for each type of area, the goals
being the same and that one foot concept being spread out in different ways. In
development it's important to understand the development includes more than building
houses, it includes any kind of activity that affects the flood characteristics, such as
grading, fill, dredging, storing materials, things like that. So, I want to talk about the
current problem areas we have identified when we have, you know, really dug into this
FEMA program and got it on its feet. We have one actual case with FEMA, which we
are working on. It's two areas of town, Nine Mile Creek and Creekside Arbor. And,
then, other areas we have found, partially when working on one of those cases, and,
then, just -- just through our own reconnaissance, Badley Culvert, Silverstone and
Silverstone Campus, and Meridian Park and Sheri Lynn Subdivision areas. Nine Mile
Creek is -- like I said, it's a FEMA case, it's one part of a FEMA case. Let me start from
the bottom on this and go up. The circled area is an undocumented stream channel
alteration and that's something that we are supposed to --
Rountree: Kyle, let me interrupt you if you would. Could you explain the term FEMA
case, so we all know where you're coming from?
Radek: Yes, sir. Mr. President, Councilman Rountree, Councilmen, it's a -- it's just a -- I
guess I don't know how --
Grady: Kyle, maybe I could help out. We actually received a letter from FEMA and it
has a case number assigned to it, so it's a very official document.
Rountree: So, it's a regulatory action?
Grady: It is.
Rountree: Okay.
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Grady: Now, it's not -- it's not at a point now where we are in violation yet, but it's one of
those if we don't get it corrected or we can't correct it, then, I believe we are --
Rountree: We are on official notice.
Grady: We are.
Rountree: Okay.
Radek: Yeah. So, this was something that came up when an engineer studied this --
this Jabil -- Jabil Circuit property and sent in a letter of map revision to FEMA and FEMA
said, hey, we didn't know about this. So, we have a stream alteration where the -- the
stream was moved from where the FEMA map shows it, to right here. And when we do
that, of course, we are supposed to have a permit and we are supposed to notify
adjacent property owners and all this kind of thing and that stuff didn't happen. We also
have a culvert that was put in in -- whoa. We have a culvert that was put in without any
kind of a permit, but it turns out that -- if we can get the right -- there we go. Turns out
that that culvert was actually larger than the previous culvert and that has also been
resolved in this case and what we are left with is the -- another undersized culvert that
was put in right here and although it's still in place, it's still undersized, it still doesn't
pass the base flood base. We have satisfied FEMA with the plan of action that as
development occurs in that area we are going to have development solve that problem.
The next area -- the next area on the -- in that FEMA case is the Creekside Arbor
Apartments, which is the hatched area you see and that is an area in the floodway and
as I explained that the floodway is the area that needs to be reserved, which means no
development is supposed to occur in the floodway. And you can see that -- that
hatched area includes not only fill, but includes apartments. So, we were -- we were --
we brought on an engineering firm to help us study that and try to solve it and during
that work we identified another problem upstream from that location, which is an
undersized culvert and when I say an undersized culvert, it means a culvert that doesn't
pass the base flood without causing a rise in the flood elevation. And when you -- this is
a map of the floodway and so when you put anything in the map floodway, you can't
cause a rise in base flood elevation. And so when we found that out we decided to take
a little different approach, instead of hiring an engineer to -- to investigate and help us
with the solution, we went to the engineers that -- that -- the engineer that worked for
the -- that put this culvert in and I'm happy to say JUB's working with us to help resolve
the issue to, among other things, study the hydraulics and hydrology of the flood
insurance study to see if we can somehow, you know, mitigate that situation we have
there. And Silverstone and Silverstone Campus, we have a series of three culverts that
are -- I hate to use the word undersized again, but they are undersized and they cause
a rise of more than a foot in the base flood elevation and, likewise, with these we have
contacted the different engineers that were involved in these projects, we have had
limited success with having them step up and help us work on these problems.
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Borton: Kyle? Is that a contact that says, hey, he screwed up, come fix it or --
Radek: No. Mr. President, Council members, I -- as a professional engineer I have to
be careful about saying things like that to other professional engineers and so we
present it as we have -- we have an issue with -- with our floodplain and it's -- whether
you did something wrong or not, it's a problem, so can you come to the table and help
us solve this problem. And so, so far on these projects I have not had a response like
the JUB response, which was, yeah, we will help you look at that problem and try to
solve it.
Grady: Mr. President, in the future we will -- we will probably be back with guidance on
how to proceed, because some engineers are responding, some aren't, and I guess
those that are we will keep -- keep working through those. Some that aren't we will be
coming back with -- asking for some guidance on how to proceed. Again, Kyle and I are
somewhat limited in -- in dealing with other professional engineers, so --
Borton: Okay.
Bird: Mr. President?
Borton: Yes, Mr. Bird.
Bird: Before we go on, I believe most of these are probably something that has come
through the Council and we probably approved the size of these, so I don't think we are
a hundred percent in the clear. I mean -- you know, I don't think it's all on the
engineering. They probably came forward and said we were going to put a 48 inch or --
Grady: Yeah. Mr. President, I would tend to agree. However, I think the engineers
have a certain due diligence, they need to require -- they are required to do that study,
so --
Bird: I don't disagree with that, but --
Brady: We feel we are willing to help out and negotiate with these and see if we can
come to some common ground on that how to get it solved, so --
Borton: Thanks, Len. Thanks, Kyle.
Kyle: Yeah. So, the next slide. The -- the last one is one that you can see there are
houses in the floodway again there. This one is a little different. This was -- the existing
situation when FEMA commissioned Toothman-Orton to map the floodplain and
floodway in 1989, they finished the study 1991, I believe, and those houses already
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showed up there. So, this is -- this is not something that's anybody's fault. The
opportunity here is you can see the red line up there, the diagonal is a culvert that
sends that Five Mile Creek underneath Linder Road and Ustick Road and ACRD --
provided that they get their funding and keep their projects on track, they have an
intersection project scheduled for I believe 2009 and so we have an opportunity to
oversize that culvert and perhaps get rid of some of this backwater and what we are
going to do right now is we are working with ACHD already. It's going to be oversized at
least a little bit, but we need them to do a hydrology study anyway as part of the
floodplain development permit they need and we are going to work with those property
owners that have all that floodway in their property and I think they might want to
participate with us in putting in a bigger culvert and getting some -- some floodway off of
their property and restudying the area, so -- and the current program -- we have an
awesome program, because we have an awesome floodplain manager, of course. We
are -- we are enforcing our code through communication, monitoring, permitting, and
inspecting and some initiatives. We pretty much have our bases covered right now.
We are not going to let things like I just showed you happen anymore. Our current
initiatives, we have a code revision that's just about ready to put the finishing touches
on. We have not sent legal to review yet, but just pretty much ready to do that. We
have a stream alterations inventory that we just completed this summer. We are
looking at some mitigation projects and we are looking at getting into the community
rating system. My goal is to have that by the end of 2008 and I'll explain to you in a
couple slides. The code revision, some highlights of the code revision are that we are
going to raise -- we are going to propose raising building elevation standards.
Apparently our standard is base flood elevation plus one foot for finished floor and as
you can see by the graphic I showed you, that's really a minimum, because that's what
you expect a base flood elevation to get to by the time all development happens. So,
we want to go a little higher and that's consistent with what some other communities in
the area have done, too. We want to require the development of base flood elevations
where we don't have any. That means when somebody comes in to -- to develop a
floodplain area that doesn't have that information, we are going to require them to get a
hydraulics engineer and establish that information so we know what we are doing with
the floodplain. We want to like, I -- I talked to you about that fill area, we want to require
building to special flood hazard standards regardless of whether they filled and got out
of the -- got out of the floodplain. We also want to implement a no rise requirement for
all stream alterations, not just those in a mapped floodway. We completed a stream
alterations inventory this summer and so now we know exactly what's out there. This
guy standing on the culvert's name is John Klemmer. He came from Duluth, Minnesota,
moved out here just so he could do this for us. Actually, he was -- you know, he was --
he's got a lot of different jobs. He's GIS oriented and we had a GIS intern position, but
he was the perfect guy for this. He actually walked every foot of every stream and we
have four of them in our community and he even walked every foot of one of them that's
not in our community, just in case we might eventually annex into it. He measured
every alteration, took a picture of every alteration out there, every bridge, culvert, outfall,
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area crossing, irrigation structure, and we have this currently mapped on our GPS -- or
GIS. We have a GPS position for every one of these structures with a hot link on it, so
you can see the structure. So, it's kind of neat. We can -- I put all these pictures
together without ever leaving my office, so -- so we really know what we have out there.
We are doing some mitigation initiatives. We -- like I said, we are contacting engineers
to participate in solutions to the problems we have. We have the options of
reconstructing some of the alterations some places where it's not necessarily a problem
that we caused in the recent past, like the Linder crossing I showed you. We also have
the option of re-studying flood modeling that the flood insurance study established and
we think there are some opportunities for not only looking at the flood insurance study
with a -- with some different eyes, but also even cooperating with Nampa-Meridian
Irrigation District and possibly doing some flood routing and some flood control, too, so
-- and we also are looking at Five Mile Creek project and I'm going to have more
information on the Five Mile Creek project -- I will probably be back talking to you again
in a few weeks on that. We are trying to work with Nampa-Meridian on that and get a --
get aproject which, from my perspective as the floodplain administrator, will preserve
some floodplain, so we don't have to wait for things to develop, we are going to develop
it and, then, people will have to leave it alone. The community rating symptom is a
program that FEMA has put in place and it provides reduced insurance rates for
residents in jurisdictions that go beyond FEMA's minimums. So, you know, we are
currently FEMA's minimum for elevation standard is base flood elevation, so we are
currently above FEMA's standard. We are base flood elevation plus one. But we have
a lot of other things that we are going to be doing and we are going to be -- really being
proactive in our floodplain management and I think after we get all these things in place
we will go to FEMA and say, hey, look at us, we are doing a great job and we need to
give our residents a break on flood insurance. I think that's something everybody will
appreciate, especially because around here people don't understand that anything will
ever flood, so when they find out that they are in a floodplain they are kind of irate about
it. They don't like paying flood insurance when they live in a desert. So, if we can give
them a break on that, then, they will appreciate that. In summary, previous programs
that we have for administering the floodplain have not always met all the expectations of
the National Flood Insurance Program. We have identified problem areas and are
trying to work with the engineers and developers to find solutions to those problem
areas. If we don't find willing partners, the city may need to consider other strategies to
resolve those problems and we are now meeting and exceeding the expectations of the
National Flood Insurance Program. Are there any questions?
Rountree: Very good.
Bird: Just thank you very much.
Borton: Kyle, that's great.
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Rountree: Yeah. Would agree with the --
Borton: Kyle, you made reference to ordinance amendments. Is there a schedule to
not lose site of that? One of the things we are doing; every one of these workshops is
talking about ordinance revisions. Is that -- is it a January or April time to bring it back
and start looking at some of these proposed changes?
Radek: Mr. President, Council members, Idon't -- I wanted to have something in front
of you guys in October, but I think that the timing -- we needed to get this presentation
to you before and so now you're prepped and now I can put the finishing touches on our
proposal with Len, get it to legal and the other thing Iwanted -- I think we might want to
do before we pass a new ordinance is to find out which direction -- maybe we have
already found out which direction we are going with the possible annexation down by
the Boise River. Well, we'd kind of like to have a little information on whether we should
put anything about that in the new ordinance or not and, then -- whether that's -- that's
going to be of value or not, then, you know, we are ready to go in as little as a month
and a half, two months.
Borton: What probably would happen is there would be some draft language that we
would review in a workshop type setting, not necessarily taking action on an
amendment at that time, but I guess with that discussion we can have -- get you some
more information.
Radek: Yes, sir. We could -- we could schedule tha
any time, but I guess it's -- it's sort of -- Mr. President,
calendar for sometime in December, I will put it
December or --
Borton: How about the second Tuesday in January?
Radek: Second Tuesday in January. Yes, sir.
Baird: And Mr. President?
Borton: Yes.
t -- I'm ready to schedule that at
if you'd like me to put that on the
on the calendar for the end of
Baird: If I could just give some additional direction following up on your decision of what
to include. I wouldn't want to have anything in your draft that would presume an
annexation action. That's what Anna was getting at. So, just put that aside and we can
bring it back as a subsequent amendment.
Radek: Okay.
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Borton: Thanks, Ted. Any other questions?
Rountree: No. Thanks.
Item 4: CITY POLICY REVIEW:
(a) Ada County Use of City Property -Ted Baird.
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Borton: 4-A. Ada County use of city property. City Attorney Ted Baird.
Baird: Mr. President, Members of the Council. Thank you. This is an item that Bill
wanted me just to raise with you and let you know what we are doing. It has to do with
the Ada County's use of the top of the water tower for their communication devices,
devices that admittedly may help our community, as well as the county in general, but
the issue has to do with our ability to control our city property and people who enter it
and who take actions that affect our existing facilities. In the last six months or so there
have been three incidents where Ada County personnel have gotten access to the top
of the water tower through some sources that probably shouldn't have given them
access. Apparent authority from city actors and various departments, so what we are
trying to do is put together an MOU that requires a single point of contact with the IT
department, so that when they enter their actions are monitored, that they are
indemnifying us for any damage that they'd do, sort of a license type agreement that we
are working on and I think what -- all that we are asking you for is to give us direction
that that's a policy that you'd like to see brought back before you.
Rountree: Mr. President?
Borton: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: In terms of a policy statement,
water facility of the City of Meridian, I don't
about the rest of you guys?
yes. In terms of somebody getting into a
agree that we allow it. Period. So -- how
Zaremba: I would lean that direction, but perhaps not go that far. I would suggest that it
may be useful for them to have their equipment on the top of our tower, but anytime
they are there it should be in the presence of one of our people accompanying, not just
give them a key and have a key back and record that they did. I think one of our
responsible people should go with them.
Bird: Mr. --
Borton: Mr. Bird.
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Bird: Mr. President, I agree with both what Councilman Zaremba and Rountree have
said and I believe that -- I'm like -- if we are going to allow anybody in there, somebody
from the water department or Public Works is going to be there, not IT or not legal or not
anybody like that that -- that these guys are the ones that know the facility and are,
basically, in charge of it. So, I don't mind them using -- being on top of us -- on top of
the tower, but I agree if they are going in there -- if we are going to allow them in there --
if we are going to allow them in there they go in with a qualified person from our Public
Works or water department.
Zaremba: And some release of liability in case they fall off.
Bird: Well -- yeah. That would -- I think an MOU would take care of that.
Zaremba: Absolutely.
Borton: Do you envision this to be more global, fill in the blank that says you -- you
know, blank entity who uses any city facility property for any blank purpose, has these
obligations, so it's not specific to the water tower?
Baird: Mr. President, Members of the Council, I -- this was brought up to address this
particular situation. It's probably -- from a drafting perspective, start out with the
specifics to this, but be able to modify it so that it could morph into something that could
be used for other facilities, because we are sharing them. I wasn't aware -- well, the
way it was told to me that the people that were having the problem with the access was
our IT department, that what's been made clear to me tonight is we have definite water -
- we have two different entities. Would there be any objection if we are going to have
monitored access to have someone from both the water and the IT, because it's the IT
stuff that gets -- you know, we get knocked off line when somebody else goes up there,
so that -- IT wants to know -- so, if we address both concerns, is that going to be --
Bird: I have no problem with that myself.
Zaremba: I agree.
Bird: But I just believe that somebody from the Public Works water is the ones that
should be leading the group and if IT wants to send somebody out or something, I don't
see anything wrong with that.
Baird: Well, Mr. President, I will take that direction, Members of the Council, and we will
bring something back that tries to take in as much of that direction as possible.
Borton: Thank you, Ted.
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Item 5: CITY ORDINANCE REVIEW: -NONE
Borton: There is no city ordinance review on the agenda.
Item 6: Liquor License Transfer -Meridian Mulligan's:
Borton: But there is an Item 6 that was added, which I have got to dig out here. The
liquor license transfer.
Berg: Mr. President, do you want me to address that?
Borton: Yes.
Berg: Because I was the one that was trying to do good customer service and help a
business that didn't know all the rules and came to our office thinking that it was just a
sign license and issue it to them. This is just a transfer, so it's not like a brand new
license. Basically, the license holder that -- for Mason's, is transferring the liquor and
beer license to Meridian Mulligan's is the name of the business, even though it's a
different corporation. It's just a transfer. We have had sign offs from the police and the
fire and also the planning director, so it seems like the big categories have been okay.
They were planning and advertising for a grand opening on Friday, didn't realize that it
wasn't like -- they said Boise city was just bring in their state and county and it gets
signed, since it is approval by the Council. We stated that they were really disappointed
and I said that since it was a transfer, it wasn't a new license, since things could be
checked by the departments, if all those things fell into place, that the Council might
consider approving it. So, even though I'm the one that really hates to add things to the
agenda -- and I hope the Mayor reads the minutes, so that my PAD is very good
documented customer service, I'm the one that brought it and I really hated to bring it,
but I think it's not a real big concern, since it's a transfer and the state has already done
the background check and the county has signed off and our departments have all
signed off.
Borton: Thank you, Will.
Bird: Mr. President?
Borton: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move we approve the transfer of the liquor license for Meridian Mulligan's, 601
South Main Street.
Rountree: Second.
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Borton: It's been moved and seconded to approve the liquor license transfer, Meridian
Mulligan's. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Borton: That brings us to the end of the workshop agenda.
Rountree: Move to adjourn.
Bird: Second.
Borton: All those in favor?
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
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MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING
APPLICANT
REQUEST Proclamation for Warrior Day for MHS
November 13, 2007
ITEM NO. 2-A
AGENCY COMMENTS
CITY CLERK:
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUILDING DEPT:
CITY WATER DEPT:
CITY SEWER DEPT:
CITY PARKS DEPT:
MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT:
SANITARY SERVICE COMPANY
CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH:
NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION:
SETTLERS IRRIGATION:
IDAHO POWER:
US WEST:
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
OTHER:
Contacted: Date: Phone:
Emailed: Staff Initials:
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'1Nhereas, the City of Meridian commends the Meridian High School Varsity Football
Team for having an outstanding season this year; and
'1Nhereas, this team has compiled an undefeated season record with 11 wins; and
"bV/iereas, this team will be competing for the state 5A high school championship on
Friday night at Bronco Stadium; and
1Nfiereas, the Mayor and City Council of the City of Meridian acknowledges
the accomplishments and efforts of this team, school and their supporters;
~ierefore, 1, Joe Borton, President of the City Council of the City of Meridian and
acting Mayor, do hereby proclaim Friday, November 16th, 2007, as
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in the City of Meridian in recognition for their successful football season and urge
all citizens of this community to acknowledge and support them on this day.
Dated this 13th day of November, 2007.
Joe Borton, City Council President
Keith Bird, City Council
Charlie Rountree, City Council
David Zaremba, City Council
Tammy de Weerd, Mayor
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November 9, 2007
MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING November 13, 2007
APPLICANT ITEM NO. 3-A
REQUEST Police Indoor Firearm Range
AGENCY COMMENTS
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CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY
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INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
OTHER:
Contacted: Date: Phone: _
Emailed: Staff Initials:
Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian.
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Certified 8(a) Small Business
TR$ RANGE $ERV/CES
NOVEMBER 1, 2007
Cpt. Jeff Lavey
Interim Chief
Meridian Police Department
1401 E. Watertower
Meridian, ID 83642
RE: Preliminary Site Design and Budget Estimation
Dear Cpt. Lavey;
TRS Range Services, LLC (TRS) is pleased to provide you with the following cost proposal to
complete the identified scope of services for an indoor small arms firing range to be located
adjacent to the existing Meridian Police Department facility. The following summarizes the Scope
of Services that TRS will provide as part of this project:
Preliminary Site Design
The following products will be delivered for the cost listed below:
• Preliminary conceptual design of a 50-yard indoor firing range with 35 firing positions,
range observation area, storage, office space and restroom and classroom facilities.
Deliverables will be conceptual drawings and electronic files showing plan and elevation
views of the range.
Preliminary cost estimate for construction of the range.
Cost
TRS will provide the labor, material and equipment for the scope of work summarized above for a
fixed price of $4,000.00.
The costs are based on award of the project within 30 days of the proposal date. Payment is
required within 20 days of the invoice date. Attached is a copy of TRS standard terms and
Conditions that are incorporated into this proposal. If the conditions are acceptable, please
forward the Project Authorization or City Purchase Order to:
Noreen Powers
TRS Range Services
1739 Maybank Hwy, Ste B
Box 326
Charleston, SC 29412
Or fax to:
843.795.2144
If you have any questions, please contact me at 843-795-3860. Your contact for the design work
is Brandt Elwell at 208-949-4244.
Sincerely,
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TRS RANGE SERVICES
TRS RANGE SERVICES, LLC
228 E. Plaza St Ste 8211 Eagle, Idaho 83616 • 208-938-2891 • 208-938-2892 fax
1739 Maybank Hwy, Ste B Box 326 Charleston, South Carolina 29412 •843-795-3860 • 843-795-2144 fax
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Certified 8(a) Small Business
TR$ RANGE SERV/CES
TRS RANGE SERVICES, LLC (TRS) STANDARD CONDITIONS
1. SERVICES. TRS shall provide professional services in accordance with the agreed upon scope of work.
2. EXECUTION. This Agreement becomes effective upon signatures by authorized representatives of the Client and TRS and
upon receipt by TRS of a signed original or facsimile transmittal If facsimile transmittal is initially sent to TRS, Client will provide
TRS with a signed original for record as soon as practicable.
3. INITIATION. TRS is authorized to proceed with services upon receipt of an executed Agreement or written Notice to
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4. COMPLETION/TERMINATION. This Agreement shall remain in force until completion and acceptance of the services or
until terminated. The Client and/or TRS may terminate this contract upon ] 0 days written notice. In the event of such termination,
TRS will be paid the portion of the compensation (and fixed fee, if applicable) for services performed in accordance with the scope of
services under the terms of this Agreement to the date of termination together with all costs arising out of such termination.
Continuing Service Agreements shall be reviewed annually for rates and shall remain in force until terminated in writing by either
party, or otherwise stipulated contractually.
5. STANDARD OF CARE. Services provided by TRS under this Agreement will be performed in a manner consistent with that
degree of care and skill ordinarily exercised by members of the same profession currently practicing under similar circumstances.
TRS makes no warranty or guaranty, either express or implied.
6. INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT. TRS is and shall be at all times during the term of this Agreement an independent
consultant and not an employee or agent of the Client.
7. COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS. TRS will endeavor to comply with Federal, State, and local laws and ordinances applicable
to the services to be provided under this Agreement.
8. COLLECTION COSTS. In the event legal action is necessary to enforce the payment provisions of this Agreement if Client
fails to make payment within sixty (60) days of the invoice date, TRS shall be entitled to collect from the Client any judgment or
settlement sums due, reasonable attorneys' fees, court costs and expenses incurred by TRS in connection therewith and, in addition,
the reasonable value of TRS's time and expenses spent in connection with such collection action, computed at TRS's prevailing fee
schedule and expense policies.
9. OWNERSHIP OF DOCUMENTS. Drawings, specifications, reports, programs, manuals, or other documents, including all
documents on electronic media, prepared under this Agreement are instruments of service and are, and shall remain, the property of
TRS. TRS will retain all cornrnon law, statutory, and other reserved rights, including the copyright thereto. TRS shall not be held
liable for reuse of documents or modifications thereof by the Client or its representatives for any purpose other than the original intent
of this Agreement, without written authorization of and appropriate compensation to TRS
10. SITE VISITS/OBSERVATION. If included in the Scope of Work, TRS shall visit the project and/or construction site at
appropriate intervals to become generally familiar with the progress, quality of work (contractors' work), and to determine if the work
is proceeding in general accordance with the Contract Documents. Visits to the project site and observations made by TRS as part of
services during construction under Agreement shall not make TRS responsible for, nor relieve the construction contractor(s) of the
obligation to conduct comprehensive monitoring of the work sufficient to ensure conformance with the intent of the Contract
Documents, and shall not make TRS responsible for, nor relieve the construction contractor(s) of the full responsibility for all
construction means, methods, tectuliques, sequences, and procedures necessary for coordinating and completing all portions of the
work under the construction contract(s) and for all safety precautions incidental thereto.
11. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT. TRS will comply with federal regulations pertaining to Equal Opportunity
Employment. TRS is in compliance with applicable local, state, and federal regulations concerning minority hiring. It is TRS's policy
to ensure that applicants and employees are treated equally without regard to race, creed, sex, age, color, religion, veteran status,
ancestry, citizenship status, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, or disability. TRS expressly assures all employees,
applicants for employment, and the community of its continuous commitment to equal opportunity and fair employment practices.
TRS's equal opportunity employment policy applies to all phases of employment, including recruiting hiring, job assignment,
supervision, training, upgrading transfer, compensation, benefits, promotion, education, recreation, layoff and termination.
12. INSURANCE. TRS will maintain the following levels of insurance during the term of this Agreement.
a. Worker's Compensation (and Employer's Liability Insurance) - as required by applicable state statute.
b. Commercial General Liability $1,000,000 per occurrence for bodily injury, including death and property damage, and
$2,000,000 in the aggregate.
c. Professional Liabilit~(E&O) and Professional Pollution Liability and Contractors' Pollution Liability
13. INDEMNIFICATION/HOLD HARMLESS. To the fullest extent permitted by law, TRS shall indemnify and hold harmless
Client, Client's officers, directors, partners, employees and agents from and against any and all claims for bodily injury and for
damage to tangible property caused solely by the negligent acts or omissions of TRS or TRS' officers, directors, partners,
employees, agents and TRS consultants in the performance and funrishing of TRS services under this Agreement. Any
indemnification shall be limited to the teens and amounts of coverage of TRS insurance policy.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Client shall indemnify and hold harmless TRS, TRS officers, directors, partners,
employees, and agents and TRS consultants from and against any and all claims for bodily injury and for damage to tangible
property caused solely by the negligent acts or omissions of Client or Client's officers, directors, partners, employees, agents,
and Client's consultants with respect to this Agreement on this Project.
In addition to the indernruty provided under this section, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, Client shall indemnify and hold
harmless TRS and its officers, directors, partners, employees, and agents and consultants from and against all claims, costs, losses, and
damages (including but not limited to all fees and charges of engineers, architects, attorneys, and other professionals and all court or
arbitration or other dispute resolution costs) caused by, arising out of, or relating to the presence, discharge, release, or escape of
asbestos, PCBs, petroleum, hazardous waste, or radioactive material at, on, under or from the Project site.
TRS RANGE SERVICES, LLC
228 E. Plaza St Ste 8211 Eagle, Idaho 83616 •208-938-2891 •208-938-2892 fax
1739 Maybank Hwy, Ste B Box 326 Charleston, South Carolina 29412 • 843-795-3860 • 843-795-2144 fax
• Ce ified 8(a) Small Business
TR$ RANGE $ERV/CES
14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. hr recognition of the relative risks and benefits of the project to both the Client and TRS, the
risks have been allocated such that the Client agrees, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to limit the liability of TRS and its
subconsultants to the Client and to all construction contractors and subcontractors on the project for any and all claims, losses, costs,
damages of any nature whatsoever or claims expenses from any cause or causes, so that the total aggregate liability of TRS and its
subconsultants to all those named shall not exceed $50,000 or the amount of TRS's total Fee paid by the Client for services under this
Agreement, whichever is the less. Such claims and causes include, but are not limited to neg-igence, professional errors or omissions,
strict liability, breach of contract or warranty.
15. DISPUTES. Mediation is an express condition precedent to the filing of any legal action. Unless the parties agree otherwise,
the mediation shall be conducted pursuant to the Construction Mediation Rules of the American Arbitration Association.
16. ATTORNEY FEES. Should there be any suit or action instituted to enforce any right granted in this contract, the substantially
prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its costs, disbursements and reasonable attorney fees from the other party. The party who
is awarded a net recovery against the other shall be deemed the substantially prevailing party unless such other party has previously
made a bona fide offer of payment in settlement and the amount of recovery is the same or less than the amount offered in settlement.
Reasonable attorney fees may be recovered regardless of the forum in which the dispute is heard, including an appeal.
17. FORCE MAJEURE. The Consultant shall not be responsible for delays caused by the Client's failure to furnish necessary
information or to approve or disapprove the Consultant's work promptly as requested or for delays resulting from late, slow, or faulty
performance by the Client, other contractors or consultants of the Client, or government agencies whose performance of work is
precedent to or concurrent with the perfotrrrance of the Consultant's work. The Consultant shall also not be responsible for any delays
in the performance of the work by reasons of strikes, lockouts, accidents, acts of God, or other causes beyond the Consultant's
reasonable control.
18. WARRANTY. Consultant waranty that the services to be rendered pursuant to this Agreement shall be performed in
accordance with the standards customarily provided by an experienced and competent professional organization rendering the same or
similar services. It is further expressly provided that Consultant does not warrant against and shall have no liability for the effects of
corrosion, erosion, or wear and tear of equipment and materials or failure of equipment and materials due to faulty operations by
Client or conditions of service more severe than specified in the design of the equipment and materials. Except as hereinafter
provided in respect of personal injury or property damage, the foregoing are Consultant's entire responsibilities and Client's exclusive
remedies for services rendered or to be rendered hereunder, and no other warranties, guarantees, liabilities or obligations are to be
implied.
Consultant shall use its best efforts to negotiate on Client's behalf express guarantees, warranties and patent indemnity undertakings,
to the extent availab-e from vendors and manufacturers, and Consultant's sole responsibility with respect to equipment and materials
procured or funushed by Consultant is expressly limited to assisting Client at Client's written request and expense, in enforcing such
express guarantees, warranties and undertakings.
I have read and fully understand and agree to the standard terms provided. The proposal
dated r ,~'-~- /'-~ 'f is incorporated into this agreement.
Initials
Name/Tit -~'
Date
~~-! 3-r?
TRS MANGE SERVICES, LLC
228 E. Plaza St Ste B211 Eagle, Idaho 83616 • 208-938-2891 • 208-938-2892 fax
1739 Maybank Hwy, Ste B Box 326 Charleston, South Carolina 29412 • 843-795-3860 • 843-795-2144 fax
• • Page 1 of 1
Tara Green
From: Jeff Lavey
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:51 PM
To: Will Berg
Cc: Tara Green
Subject: Pre-Council on Nov 13th
Importance: High
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Green
Will,
Charlie Rountree asked me to get on the pre-council agenda for Nov. 13 to
discuss the Police indoor firearms range. I will need ten minutes. If this is a
workshop night then can I get on the agenda as early as possible.
Let me know.
Jeff
)ef f ~. L.ave~ - eapta~w
Interim Chief of Police
Meridian Police Department
1401 E. Watertower St.
Meridian, Id 83642
(208) 846-7310
(208) 846-7366 Fax
laveyj~imeridiancity.org
PRIVILEGED%CC~NFIDENTIAL INFORMATIONmay~ be contained in this message. The
information in this e-mail correspondence is intended for the use of the indi~ idual or entity to c~hom it
is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that an y disclosure,
duplication, distribution, or the taking of any action in reliance of this correspondence is strictly
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11 /9/2007
~~ AGE HER!//CES
NOVEMBER 1, 2007
Cpt. Jeff Lavey
Interim Chief
Meridian Police Department
1401 E. Watertower
Meridian, ID 83642
RE: Preliminary Site Design and Budget Estimation
Dear Cpt. Lavey;
Certified 8(a) Small Business
~~CEIti'~
Gov a 3 zoo?
;ity of Meric'. i ~~.~
'ity Clerk C>i+ic~
TRS Range Services, LLC (TRS) is pleased to provide-you with the following cost proposal to
complete the identified scope of services for an indoor small arms firing range to be located
adjacent to the existing Meridian Police Department facility. The following summarizes the Scope
of Services that TRS will provide as part of this project:
Preliminary Site Design
The following products will be delivered for the cost listed below:
• Preliminary conceptual design of a 50-yard indoor firing range with 35 firing positions,
range observation area, storage, office space and restroom and classroom facilities.
Deliverables will be conceptual drawings and electronic files showing plan and elevation
views of the range.
• Preliminary cost estimate for construction of the range.
Cost
TRS will provide the labor, material and equipment for the scope of work summarized above for a
fixed price of $4,000.00.
The costs are based on award of the project within 30 days of the proposal date. Payment is
required within 20 days of the invoice date. Attached is a copy of TRS standard terms and
Conditions that are incorporated into this proposal. If the conditions are acceptable, please
forward the Project Authorization or City Purchase Order to:
Noreen Powers
TRS Range Services
1739 Maybank Hwy, Ste B
Box 326
Charleston, SC 29412
Or fax to:
843.795.2144
If you have any questions, please contact me at 843-795-3860. Your contact for the design work
is Brandt Elwell at 208-949-4244.
Sincerely,
` ~' 16't.t-.tit. ~ ~.~„n,'°,. -..
Noreen Powers
TRS RANGE SERVICES
TRS RarvGe SERwces, LLC
228 E. Plaza St Ste B211 Eagle, Idaho 83616 • 208-938-2891 • 208-938-2892 fax
1739 Maybank Hwy, Ste B Box 326 Charleston, South Carolina 29412 •843-795-3860 • 843-795-2144 fax
S ~9GE SER4~/CES
Certified 8(al Small Business
TRS RANGE SERVICES, LLC (TRS) STANDARD CONDITIONS
1. SERVICES. TRS shall provide professional services in accordance with the agreed upon scope of work.
2. EXECUTION. This Agreement becomes effective upon signatures by authorized representatives of the Client and TRS and
upon receipt by TRS of a signed original or facsimile transmittal. If facsimile transmittal is initially sent to TRS, Client will provide
TRS with a signed original for record as soon as practicable.
3. INITIATION. TRS is authorized to proceed with services upon receipt of an executed Agreement or written Notice to
Proceed.
4. COMPLETION/TERNIINATION. This Agreement shall remain in force until completion and acceptance of the services or
until terminated. The Client and/or TRS may terminate this contract upon 10 days written notice. In the event of such termination,
TRS will be paid the portion of the compensation (and fixed fee, if applicable) for services performed in accordance with the scope of
services under the terms of this Agreement to the date of termination together with all costs arising out of such termination.
Continuing Service Agreements shall be reviewed annually for rates and shall remain in force until terminated in writing by either
party, or otherwise stipulated contractually.
5. STANDARD OF CARE. Services provided by TRS under this Agreement will be performed in a manner consistent with that
degree of care and skill ordinarily exercised by members of the same profession currently practicing under similaz circumstances.
TRS makes no warranty or guaranty, either express or implied.
6. INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT. TRS is and shall be at all times during the term of this Agreement an independent
consultant and not an employee or agent of the Client.
7. COMPLLINCE WITH LAWS. TRS will endeavor to comply with Federal, State, and local laws and ordinances applicable
to the services to be provided under this Agreement.
8. COLLECTION COSTS. In the event legal action is necessary to enforce the payment provisions of this Agreement if Client
fails to make payment within sixty (60) days of the invoice date, TRS shall be entitled to collect from the Client any judgment or
settlement sums due, reasonable attorneys' fees, court costs and expenses incurred by TRS in connection therewith and, in addition,
the reasonable value of TRS's time and expenses spent in connection with such collection action, computed at TRS's prevailing fee
schedule and expense policies.
9. OWNERSHIP OF DOCUMENTS. Drawings, specifications, reports, programs, manuals, or other documents, including all
documents on electronic media, prepared under this Agreement aze instruments of service and aze, and shall remain, the properly of
TRS. TRS will retain all common law, statutory, and other reserved rights, including the copyright thereto. TRS shall not be held
liable for reuse of documents or modifications thereof by the Client or its representatives for any purpose other than the original intent
of this Agreement, without written authorization of and appropriate compensation to TRS
10. SITE VISITS/OBSERVATION. If included in the Scope of Work, TRS shall visit the project and/or construction site at
appropriate intervals to become generally familiar with the progress, quality of work (contractors' work), and to determine if the work
is proceeding in general accordance with the Contract Documents. Visits to the project site and observations made by TRS as part of
services during construction under Agreement shall not make TRS responsible for, nor relieve the construction contractor(s) of the
obligation to conduct comprehensive monitoring of the work sufficient to ensure conformance with the intent of the Contract
Documents, and shall not make TRS responsible for, nor relieve the construction contractor(s) of the full responsibility for all
construction means, methods, techniques, sequences, and procedures necessary for coordinating and completing all portions of the
work under the construction contract(s) and for all safety precautions incidental thereto.
11. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT. TRS will comply with federal regulations pertaining to Equal Opportunity
Employment. TRS is in compliance with applicable local, state, and federal regulations concerning minority hiring. It is TRS's policy
to ensure that applicants and employees are treated equally without regazd to race, creed, sex, age, color, religion, veteran status,
ancestry, citizenship status, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, or disability. TRS expressly assures all employees,
applicants for employment, and the community of its continuous commitment to equal opportunity and fair employment practices.
TRS's equal opportunity employment policy applies to all phases of employment, including recruiting, hiring, job assignment,
supervision, training, upgrading, transfer, compensation, benefits, promotion, education, recreation, layoff and termination.
12. INSURANCE. TRS will maintain the following levels of insurance during the term of this Agreement.
a. Worker's Compensation (and Employer's Liability Insurance) - as required by applicable state statute.
b. Commercial General Liability - $1,000,000 per occurrence for bodily injury, including death and property damage, and
$2,000,000 in the aggregate.
c. Professional Liability (E&Ol and Professional Pollution Liability and Contractors' Pollution Liability -.
13. INDEMNIFICATION/HOLD HARMLESS. To the fullest extent permitted by law, TRS shall indemnify and hold harmless
Client, Client's officers, directors, partners, employees and agents from and against any and all claims for bodily injury and for
damage to tangible property caused solely by the negligent acts or omissions of TRS or TRS' officers, directors, partners,
employees, agents and TRS consultants in the performance and furnishing of TRS services under this Agreement. Any
indemnification shall be limited to the terms and amounts of coverage of TRS insurance policy.
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Client shall indemnify and hold harmless TRS, TRS officers, directors, partners,
employees, and agents and TRS consultants from and against any and all claims for bodily injury and for damage to tangible
property caused solely by the negligent acts or omissions of Client or Client's officers, directors, partners, employees, agents,
and Client's consultants with respect to this Agreement on this Project.
In addition to the indemnity provided under this section, and to the fullest extent permitted by law, Client shall indemnify and hold
harmless TRS and its officers, directors, partners, employees, and agents and consultants from and against all claims, costs, losses, and
damages (including but not limited to all fees and charges of engineers, architects, attorneys, and other professionals and all court or
arbitration or other dispute resolution costs) caused by, arising out of, or relating to the presence, discharge, release, or escape of
asbestos, PCBs, petroleum, hazardous waste, or radioactive material at, on, under or from the Project site.
TRS MANGE SERVICES, LLC
228 E. Plaza St Ste B211 Eagle, Idaho 83616 • 208-938-2891 • 208-938-2892 fax
1739 Maybank Hwy, Ste B Box 326 Charleston, South Carolina 29412 • 843-795-3860 • 843-795-2144 fax
Certified 8(a) Small Business
~~~ ~~~ ~~~VICE$
14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. In recognition of the relative risks and benefits of the project to both the Client and TRS, the
risks have been allocated such that the Client agrees, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to limit the liability of TRS and its
subconsultants to the Client and to all construction contractors and subcontractors on the project for any and all claims, losses, costs,
damages of any nature whatsoever or claims expenses from any cause or causes, so that the total aggregate liability of TRS and its
subconsultants to all those named shall not exceed $50,000 or the amount of TRS's total fee paid by the Client for services under this
Agreement, whichever is the less. Such claims and causes include, but are not limited to negligence, professional errors or omissions,
strict liability, breach of contract or warranty.
15. DISPUTES. Mediation is an express condition precedent to the filing of any legal action. Unless the parties agree otherwise,
the mediation shall be conducted pursuant to the Construction Mediation Rules of the American Arbitration Association.
16. ATTORNEY FEES. Should there be any suit or action instituted to enforce any right granted in this contract, the substantially
prevailing party shall be entit]ed to recover its costs, disbursements and reasonable attorney fees from the other party. The pazty who
is awarded a net recovery against the other shall be deemed the substantially prevailing party unless such other party has previously
made a bona fide offer of payment in settlement and the amount of recovery is the same or less than the amount offered in settlement.
Reasonable attorney fees may be recovered regardless of the forum in which the dispute is heazd, including an appeal.
17. FORCE NIAJEURE. The Consultant shall not be responsible for delays caused by the Client's failure to furnish necessary
information or to approve or disapprove the Consultant's work promptly as requested or for delays resulting from late, slow, or faulty
performance by the Client, other contractors or consultants of the Client, or government agencies whose performance of work is
precedent to or concurrent with the performance of the Consultant's work. The Consultant shall also not be responsible for any delays
in the performance of the work by reasons of strikes, lockouts, accidents, acts of God, or other causes beyond the Consultant's
reasonable control.
18. WARRANTY. Consultant warrants that the services to be rendered pursuant to this Agreement shall be performed in
accordance with the standazds customazily provided by an experienced and competent professional organization rendering the same or
similar services. It is further expressly provided that Consultant does not warrant against and shall have no liability for the effects of
corrosion, erosion, or wear and tear of equipment and materials or failure of equipment and materials due to faulty operations by
Client or conditions of service more severe than specified in the design of the equipment and materials. Except as hereinafter
provided in respect of personal injury or property damage, the foregoing are Consultant's entire responsibilities and Client's exclusive
remedies for services rendered or to be rendered hereunder, and no other warranties, guarantees, liabilities or obligations are to be
implied.
Consultant shall use its best efforts to negotiate on Client's behalf express guarantees, warranties and patent indemnity undertakings,
to the extent available from vendors and manufacturers, and Consultant's sole responsibility with respect to equipment and materials
procured or furnished by Consultant is expressly limited to assisting Client at Client's written request and expense, in enforcing such
express guarantees, warranties and undertakings.
I have read and fully understand and agree to the standard terms provided. The proposal
dated is incorporated into this agreement.
Initials
Name/Title
Date
TRS RANGE SERVICES, LLC
228 E. Plaza St Ste 6211 Eagle, Idaho 83616 • 208-938-2891 • 208-938-2892 fax
1739 Maybank Hwy, Ste B Box 326 Charleston, South Carolina 29412 •843-795-3860 • 843-795-2144 fax
October 31, 2007
Mr. Jeff Lavey, Captain
Meridian Police Department
1401 E. Watertower St.
Meridian, Idaho 83642
RE: Meridian Police Facility Expansion
Planning and Concept Design
Dear Jeff:
~~QV t ~ z~
City ofMeric
Thank you for allowing LCA Architects the opportunity to propose on assisting you with investigating
possible options for expanding your facility to serve the growing needs of the Police Department.
Our team is prepared to perform the following tasks:
Task 1-Program Verification and Department Interviews
We will conduct interviews in order to secure necessary space programming information relative to the
specific area requirements for existing and proposed personnel and special facilities required. Specifically,
we will analyze and determine the space needs for the proposed departments that need expanded.
Task 2 -Develop Functional Concepts
Based on the final approved programmatic data and input from the staff charette, LCA will prepare a
conceptual plan and elevations for study and discussion. Building circulation paths will be determined and
security barriers defined. These concepts will be reviewed and refined with the planning committee.
Task 3-Refine Facilities Plan
Schematic space plans will be refined and prepared for final approval by the building committee. Building
elevation studies will be presented for discussion and refinement. Building materials will be reviewed and
evaluated.
Task 4-Determine Project Cost:
We will provide approximate construction and furnishings cost for the expansion of the facility.
Proaosed Fees
We propose providing the services outlined above for a fixed fee of $20,000.00 plus normal reimbursable
expenses.
Typical reimbursable expenses include authorized out of town travel; in~louse blueprinting and other
reproduction expenses; postage/shipping costs; long distance phone/fax; and mileage for travel at IRS
standard mileage rate. Reimbursable expenses will be billed at cost.
Should you have any questions or would like to meet to review and/or discuss the scope of work, please
call. We are looking forward to working with you on this project and once again express our appreciation
for selecting LCA Architects, P.A.
Sincerely,
LCA ARCHITECTS, P.A.
Russell B. Moorhead, AIA
Vice President
Cc: Steve Simmons
Meridian Police Expansion 103107 RMss
• •
November 9, 2007
MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING November 13, 2007
APPLICANT ITEM NO. 3-B
REQUEST Family Advocacy Center and Education Services Presentation
AGENCY COMMENTS
CITY CLERK: See aftached Email
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUILDING DEPT: `"
CITY WATER DEPT:
CITY SEWER DEPT: yY~/ ~
CITY PARKS DEPT:
MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT:
SANITARY SERVICE COMPANY
CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH:
NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION:
SETTLERS IRRIGATION:
IDAHO POWER:
US WEST:
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
OTHER:
Contacted: Date: Phone:
Emailed: Staff Initials:
Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian.
• • Page 1 of 1
Will Berg
From: Joe Borton [jwborton@foleyfreeman.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:30 AM
To: Will Berg
Subject: RE: FACES Presentation to Meridian City Council
Yup. How about this for a first draft
Jeff Lavey first - 15 min
These guys second: 20 min
Doyle third: 15 min
Is ACHD coming for this one re funding, or in December? December may be better since the Mayor will be here
then.
From: Will Berg [mailto:bergw@meridiancity.org]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:31 AM
To: )oe Borton
Subject: FW: FACES Presentation to Meridian City Council
Need 20 -30 minutes for presentation -November 13th workshop?
From: Kevin McTeague [mailto:kmcteague@adaweb.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:24 AM
To: Will Berg
Subject: FACES Presentation to Meridian City Council
Hi,
I spoke with Mayor de Weerd this week and she asked that FACES get on the agenda for City Council in the near
future to make a presentation. I was hoping we could schedule something after the election. Ada County
Prosecuting Attorney Greg Bower and Dr. Jerry Hirschfeld of St. Luke's will participate in the presentation. Could
you let me know what dates and times might be available so I can coordinate with Bower and Hirschfeld.
Thank you,
Kevin McTeague, Executive Director
FACES -Family Advocacy Center and Education Services
417 S. 6th St.
Boise, Idaho 83702
Phone: 208-577-4411
FAX: 577-4419
www.adacountyfaces.com
10/25/2007
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FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER & EDUCATION SERVICES
"How come no one ever thought to do it this way
before? This really helps"- commented a victim
~~,~ ~~: ~I~c~~~;£:, recently seen at FACES.
Jerry Hirschfeld, MD., Chaire°~s~x
Administrator,
Children's Hospital, Mission: "FACES provides proactive, team-oriented, victim-centered
St. Luke's Regional Medir_al Cen~c_~
services to those affected by child abuse, domestic violence and sexual
Greg sower, TreasUr¢':n° assault in a dignified and respectful environment."
Ada County Prosecutor
Sue Felten, Secretary
Executive Director,
Vision: FACES is a place where vulnerable and fragile crime victims can
Idaho Coalition Agains± find the care, support and resources they need during difficult times, a
Sexual & Domestic Vle!;r,
place where the criminal justice system, health care system and social
Cary Colaianni
Boise city Attu,-,. y services stem oin to meet communit needs and a lace our communit
y ~ y ~ p y
can be proud to embrace and support.
Karen Hodg~*
Director,
Women's and c,:~ ~ ~ >,
,'
~ Scope of these crimes in our community - in 2005:
i _ . -;
Saint Alphonsus Reg a ~
,
• The St. Luke's Children at Risk Evaluation Service (CARES)
Mike Masterson
Boise city chief of PoiiC
evaluated 966 children from throughout Ada and surrounding counties
for child neglect, sexual abuse, and foster care placement.
Gary Raney
Ada County s~-.~_. irf • Ada County Prosecutor's Office filed 386 domestic violence and 77
Steve Sparks sexual assault charges.
Program Man`;`"` • Boise City Attorney's Office filed 485 domestic violence charges
Region IV, Health and We;fa~c .
• The Women and Children's Alliance fielded 5,000 crisis line calls.
Paul Woods
Ada County Commissio: ~.
EXECUTIVE DIRE%~T~3t{ Need for a coordinated system. These cases often cross over:
Kevin McTeague • Four law enforcement jurisdictions
cl_x~rv~r sF6~~It 1-:~, ~:=~c~r~ra~~aAT c°,~~ • Three hospital emergency rooms
• Three prosecution jurisdictions
• More than 10 medical, legal, and social service agencies
FACES brings together in one location staff and/or services from these agencies:
• St. Luke's CARES Program • Saint Alphonsus and St. Luke's SAFE Program
• Health & Welfare Child Protective Services • Idaho Legal Aid
• Boise-Ada County Victim Witness Coordinators • Boise City Attorney's Office
• Ada County Prosecutor's Office • Women and Children's Alliance
• Catholic Charities of Idaho • Idaho Crime Victims Compensation Program
• Boise Police, Garden City Police, Meridian Police Boise City/Ada County Housing Authority
and Ada County Sheriff's Office
Phone: 208.577.4400 * FAX: 208.577.4419 * 417 South. 6th Street Boise, Idaho 83702 * www.adacountyfaces.com
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Organizational Structure
• FACES is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.
• Board of Directors is drawn from leadership of the partner agencies.
• Board of Directors contracts with the Ada County Prosecuting Attorney to provide an
Executive Director and Client Services Coordinator.
State of the Art Facility
• Remodeled 18,000 Sq. Ft. facility is owned and maintained by Ada County
• Janitorial, security, utilities, maintenance, and IT support provided by Ada County at an
estimated cost of over $200,000 per year.
• FACES Operating budget for staff and office costs is $140,000 per year.
Major Sponsors
• Emergency Medicine of Idaho:
• St. Luke's Regional Medical Center:
• St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center:
• Washington Group Foundation:
• Langroise Advised Fund -Idaho Community Foundation:
• Wells Fargo Foundation
• United Way of Treasure Valley:
Idaho Community Foundation
Target Store
Fraternal Order of Police
Return on Investment
$75,000 (over three years)
$30,000
$30,000
$20,000 (over three years)
$15,000
$10,000
$ 7,500 (onetime seed grant)
$ 3,500
$ 1,000
$ 1,000
Child Abuse
• ACost-Benefit Analysis conducted by the National Children's Alliance showed that
traditional child maltreatment investigations were 36% more expensive than investigations
conducted through multi-disciplinary systems, such as FACES.
Sexual Assault
• Almost 67% of sexual assault exams in Ada County are now handled at FACES.
Law enforcement reports that sexual assault responses at FACES take about 50% less time to
complete than those done in an emergency room.
Domestic Violence
It's too early to tell. We think amulti-disciplinary response to domestic violence will be
more cost effective, but we don't have the data show that yet.
o BSU will conduct outcome evaluation to address this question
Victim response has been overwhelmingly positive, however.
Resource Generation
Secured over $600,000 of new federal money to support our partner agencies work at
FACES, including Boise City Attorney's Office.
Phone: 208.577.4400 * FAX: 208.577.4419 * 417 South. 6`h Street Boise, Idaho 83702 * www.adacountyfaces.com
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Organizational Structure
• FACES is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.
• Board of Directors is drawn from leadership of the partner agencies.
• Board of Directors contracts with the Ada County Prosecuting Attorney to provide an
Executive Director and Client Services Coordinator.
State of the Art Facility
• Remodeled 18,000 Sq. Ft. facility is owned and maintained by Ada County
• Janitorial, security, utilities, maintenance, and IT support provided by Ada County at an
estimated cost of over $200,000 per year.
• FACES Operating budget for staff and office costs is $140,000 per year.
Major Sponsors
• Emergency Medicine of Idaho:
• St. Luke's Regional Medical Center:
• St. Alphonsus Regional Medical Center:
• Washington Group Foundation:
• Langroise Advised Fund -Idaho Community Foundation:
• Wells Fargo Foundation
• United Way of Treasure Valley:
• Idaho Community Foundation
• Target Store
• Fraternal Order of Police
Return on Investment
Child Abuse
$75,000 (over three years)
$30,000
$30,000
$20,000 (over three years)
$15,000
$10,000
$ 7,500 (onetime seed grant)
$ 3,500
$ 1,000
$ 1,000
• ACost-Benefit Analysis conducted by the National Children's Alliance showed that
traditional child maltreatment investigations were 36% more expensive than investigations
conducted through multi-disciplinary systems, such as FACES.
Sexual Assault
• Almost 67% of sexual assault exams in Ada County are now handled at FACES.
• Law enforcement reports that sexual assault responses at FACES take about 50% less time to
complete than those done in an emergency room.
Domestic Violence
• It's too early to tell. We think amulti-disciplinary response to domestic violence will be
more cost effective, but we don't have the data show that yet.
o BSU will conduct outcome evaluation to address this question
• Victim response has been overwhelmingly positive, however.
Resource Generation
• Secured over $600,000 of new federal money to support our partner agencies work at
FACES, including Boise City Attorney's Office.
Phone: 208.577.4400 * FAX: 208.577.4419 * 417 South. 6th Street Boise, Idaho 83702 * www.adacountyfaces.com
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Family Advocacy Center and Education Services
Three-Year Budget Forecast
FY 2007 - FY 2009
CURRENT FY 2008 FY 2009
Income (Commited Funds 8~ Solid Projections)
Prior Year Carry Over 34,767 -
City Funding: Boise, Meridian, Garden City, Eagle, Kuna - -
Federal Grants 5,908 22,123 28,050
Foundation Grants 30,000 12,500 7,500
Hospital Grants 30,000 30,000 30,000
Corporate Contributions 25,000 25,000 -
Individual Donations -Projection 3,154 5,000 6,000
United Way -One Time Seed Grant 3,333 - -
Totallncome 132,162 94,623 71,550
Expense
Salary/Benefits: Director 8~ Client Serv. & MDT Coord. 118,000 116,000 120,000
Office Costs 7,046 9,500 9,500
Conference Travel and Registration 3,600 4,400 4,400
Other: Accounting, Insurance, msc. 3,515 9,100 10,600
Total Expense 132,161 139,000 144,500
Net Operating Income 1 (44,378) (72,950)
Ada County Building Costs
IT Support 15,000 15,300 15,606
Parking 12,000 12,000 12,000
Night-time Security Officer (365 days, 5pm - 8 am) 80,000 81,600 83,232
Janitorial Contract 25,500 26,010 26,530
Utilities 50,500 51,510 52,540
Grounds Keeping Contract 9,000 9,180 9,364
Maintenance Staff 13,800 14,076 14,358
Total Ada County Building Costs 205,800 209,676 213,629
11 /13/2007
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November 9, 2007
MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING November 13, 2007
APPLICANT ITEM NO. 3-C
REQUEST Water Hook Up to Irrigation Request for Doyle Bundy
AGENCY
CITY CLERK:
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUILDING DEPT:
CITY WATER DEPT:
CITY SEWER DEPT:
CITY PARKS DEPT:
MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT:
SANITARY SERVICE COMPANY
CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH:
NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION:
SETTLERS IRRIGATION:
IDAHO POWER:
US WEST:
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
OTHER:
Contacted:
COMMENTS
See attached
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Date:
Phone:
Emailed: Staff Initials:
Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian.
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October 30, 2007
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MayorTammy de Weerd
City Council Members:
Keith Bird
Joe Borton
Charles Rountree
David Zaremba
RECEIVED
OCT 3 0 2007
MEMORANDUM
T'O: City Clerk
FROM:
Rick Clinton o
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RE: Doyle Bundy
City Of Meridian
City Clerk Of3~ice
I have been advised by Councilman Borton that Mr. Bundy will be on the City Council
agenda for the November 13`" meeting to appeal my denial of his request to disconnect
his sprinkler system from the existing pressurized irrigation system in his subdivision and
reconnect it to our municipal water system.
Please distribute copies of the attached letter to the Mayor and City Council in their
packets for the meeting on the 13`".
c: Councilman Borton
Mayor DeWeerd
Ted Baird
Water Department .2235 NW 8th Street, Meridian, ID 83646
Phone 208-888-5242 Fax 208-884-1159 . www.meridiancity.org
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MAYOR
Tammy de weerd You have made a request of the City of Meridian Public Works
Department; Water Division to disconnect your home from the
CrrY CouNCII. MEMSERS existing pressurized irrigation system located in Fothergill subdivision
Keith Bird and connect it to the City of Meridian drinking water system. Assistant
Joseph w. Burton Superintendent Hudson and I met with you recently to discuss your
Charles M. Rountree concerns. You advised us that you were concerned that the surface
David Zaremba
water was contaminated with parasites, micro toxins and bacteria and
was simply not safe to use on your lawn.
CITY DEPARTMENTS
I agree with you that irrigation water is unsafe to drink, but disagree
City Attorney/HR
703 Main street with your opinion regarding the safety of using it for irrigation
898-5506 (City Attorney) purposes. I advised you that our practice of utilizing surface water
898-5503 (HR) whenever available allows us to conserve on the quantity of water we
Fax 884-8723 must pump from our aquifer, which is endorsed by the both the Idaho
Department of Environmental Quality (IDEA) and the Idaho
Fire
540 E. Franklin Road Department of Water Resources (IDWR).
888-1234/fax 895-0390
Pursuant to Meridian City Code 9-3-3 the City has diligently strived in
Parks ~ Recreation the last few years to limit cross connection contamination from the
11 w. Bower street pressurized irrigation system into our drinking water system. We
888-3579/fax 898-5501
therefore do not encourage additional cross-connections that are
Planning unnecessary. Your request falls into that category. All cross
660 E. Watertower Lane connections increase the City's responsibility to monitor the annual
suite 202 testing of backflow prevention devices, and in the event of a failure
884-5533/fax 888-6854
significantly increases the risk of contamination of our drinking water.
Police
7.401 E. Watertower Lane
888-6678 /fax 846-7366 You have not provided any additional information that would cause
Public works me to find this connection to be necessary for health or water quality
66o E. watertower Lane issues that is greater than the risk that granting it would pose to our
suite 20o drinking water system. I am declining your request based on the
898-5500 /fax 898-9551 information that I have outlined.
- Building
66o E. watertower Lane
If you disagree with my decision you may discuss it further with the
suite lso Interim Director of Public Works, Len Grady. The office number is
887-2211 /fax 887-1297 #$J$-55~~.
- Wastewater
3401 N. Ten Mile Road
888-2191 /fax 884-0744
- Water Sincerely,
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2235 N.W. 8th Street
888-5242/fax 884-1159
cc: Len Grady, P.E., Interim Public Works Director
File
CITY HALL 33 EAST IDAHO AVENUE MERIDIAN, IDAHO 83642 (208) 888-4433
CITY CLERK -FAX 885-42]8 FINANCE & UTILITY 61LLING -FAX 887-4813 MAYOR'S OFFICE -FAX 834-8719
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Will Berg
From: Joe Borton [jwborton@foleyfreeman.com]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 11:29 PM
To: Rick Clinton
Cc: Tammy de Weerd; Will Berg
Subject: Doyle Bundy
Rick -
Doyle is coming to have his time before council on Nov 13; can you be there or at least re-provide (is that a
word?)your written response to all council and the Mayor before Nov 13; thanks!
Joe Borton
From: Rick Clinton [mailto:clintonr@meridiancity.org]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:39 AM
To: Joe Borton
Subject: FW: Letter Format
Good morning Joe,
I have not received a response from Bill yet, but If you have any edits please let me know. I hope to be able to
sign the final draft tomorrow morning if possible, as I will be off all of next week on vacation.
I have a draft email addressed to Mayor and Council ready to attach the final version, then send it.
Thanks,
Rick
From: Rick Clinton
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 9:01 AM
To: Bill Nary
Subject: Letter Format
Good morning Bill,
It has bee a while since I verified alignment on a letter format. Will you take a quick look at this and offer
comments as applicable. Council Borton has asked me to write this letter to Doyle Bundy, as he intends to appeal
my decision to the Mayor and City Council.
Thanks,
Rick
10/30/2007
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November 9, 2007
MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING November 13, 2007
APPLICANT ITEM NO. 3-D
REQUEST Discussion of Coalition for Regional Public Transportation's Legislative
Proposal with Valley Regional Transit 8~ COMPASS
AGENCY COMMENTS
CITY CLERK: See attached
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY POLICE DEPT: /' ~,
CITY FIRE DEPT: ~1~'J
CITY BUILDING DEPT:
CITY WATER DEPT: ~~~j 5
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MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT:
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NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION:
SETTLERS IRRIGATION:
IDAHO POWER:
US WEST:
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
OTHER:
Contacted: Date: Phone:
Emailed: Staff Initials:
Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian.
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Tara Green
From: Will Berg
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 12:29 PM
To: Tara Green
Subject: FW: November 13 Council Workshop
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Green
From: Joe Borton [mailto:jwborton@foleyfreeman.com]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:53 AM
To: Sharon Smith; Will Berg
Subject: RE: November 13 Council Workshop
Nov 13 looks good for this discussion
From: Sharon Smith [mailto:smiths@meridiancity.org]
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 11:04 AM
To: Will Berg; Joe Borton
Cc: Tara Green; Matthew Ellsworth; Peter Friedman
Subject: FW: November 13 Council Workshop
Will & Joe,
I printed this for Friday's agenda meeting. Thank you!
Sharon
From: Matthew Ellsworth
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 10:44 AM
To: Sharon Smith; Tara Green
Cc: Peter Friedman; kfairless@valleyregionaltransit.org
Subject: November 13 Council Workshop
Sharon and Tara,
Will Council's schedule allow a discussion of the Coalition for Regional Pubic Transportation's legislative proposal
at the November 13 workshop? VRT and COMPASS have draft legislation that they are looking for local
feedback on prior to bringing it forward this spring. The Coalition has requested local input by November 23 to
allow time for final revisions, and to make sure everyone is on the same page, before this legislative session.
The agenda wording would be something to the effect of:
Legislative Update: Coalition for Regional Public Transportation -Local Option Taxing Authority proposal.
Is this at all a possibility? Should I contact Bill, Will, Councilman Borton, and the Mayor to request the time, or are
you guys handling workshop agendas? If November 13 will work, can this be the first agenda item (VRT and
COMPASS have a lot of related meetings/presentations to schedule and coordinate)?
11 /9/2007
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Thanks for your help,
Matt Ellsworth
Associate City Planner
Meridian Planning Department
660 E. Watertower, Suite 202
Meridian, ID 83642
208.884.5533
11 /9/2007
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TO: Mark Carnopis
FROM: Bob Moore and Kelly Middendorff
RE: Idaho Voters and Transportation Issues
This memo contains results of a statewide telephone survey conducted by Moore
Information, Inc. The survey was conducted among a representative sample of 600 voters
in Idaho on September 11-13, 2007. The potential sampling error is plus or minus 4% at
the 95% confidence level.
Overview
Transportation is a major issue concern among voters in the Treasure Valley, but voters
elsewhere in the state are much less concerned.
Not surprisingly, tax increases are not popular anywhere in the state -the survey finds only
a slim majority of voters statewide would support an increase in rental car taxes and
development impact fees to fund transportation improvements, but majorities oppose a
local sales tax, an increase in vehicle registration fees and a fuel tax increase.
However a majority of voters in the state are willing to consider a local sales tax to fund
transportation improvements of three quarters of a cent or less, and support increases
steadily as the tax rate decreases. Specifically;
• A three quarters of one cent sales tax is favored by a margin of 52-46%
• A one half cent sales tax was is favored 57-41%
• A quarter of one cent sales tax is favored 61-38%
These sales tax proposals are more popular in Ada County than elsewhere in the state, but
even in Ada County, fewer than two-in-three voters currently support a quarter of one cent
sales tax.
Use of local government property tax revenues to fund transportation improvements is
opposed by a majority of Treasure Valley voters (55-40%).
There is plurality support statewide for continuing GARVEE funding - 49% favor
continuation, while 34% are opposed and 18% have no opinion. This program is
significantly more popular in the Treasure Valley than elsewhere in the state.
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When it comes to voters' willingness to utilize public transportation, the survey finds fully
53% of voters statewide would likely consider using a local public transportation system, if a
reliable system were available in their community.
o Ada County voters are more willing to consider public transit than voters elsewhere
in the state
o Willingness to consider public transit increases with the price of gas; at $4 per gallon
gas, 58% would consider transit (vs. 53% at today's prices), at $6 per gallon, 70%
are willing to consider public transit
A majority of voters (58%) are more likely to support a dedicated funding source for public
transportation in Idaho after hearing that most states do
A majority of voters statewide (55%) support using tax dollars to buy future transportation
corridors, and in the Treasure Valley 65% support this type of plan.
More detailed findings follow.
Po/itical Environment
The mood in Idaho is optimistic today. Indeed, by a margin of nearly two-to-one, Idahoans
say things in their state are generally headed in the "right direction" (55%) as opposed to
being off on the "wrong track" (30%). The remaining 16% has no opinion. The mood in
Idaho has been optimistic for the past five years, although the margin of right direction has
widened in the past two years.
As is typical, Idaho voters affiliated with the party in power are more optimistic than the out
of power party -and Republican voters are widely positive (72% right direction, 17% wrong
track), while Democrats are pessimistic and Independents are only marginally positive in
their outlook.
The °mood" of the electorate is a key barometer for the tolerance for ~~change" -typically,
an optimistic electorate is more content with the status quo, and less likely to be seeking
change at the ballot box. Conversely, pessimistic voters are more likely to have an ax to
grind, and tend to turn out to vote in disproportionately higher numbers to express their
discontent. Generally speaking, voters who are optimistic are more likely to support tax
increases.
Turning to issues, education and schools tops the list when voters are asked which of six
major issues voters are most concerned about (for 27%). Health care and the
economy/jobs are a close second and third (21% and 20% respectively), and voters are
less concerned about taxes (12%). Transportation is the leading concern for only 10% of
voters today. Another 5% say the environment is the leading concern, while 3% are
concerned about some "other" issue and 2% have no opinion.
There are, however, some major differences in issue concerns by region and area of the
state. In the Treasure Valley (Ada and Canyon Counties), transportation is one of the
leading issue concerns, and a much higher concern than it is elsewhere in the state.
Specifically, in Ada County, transportation is mentioned by 23%, and in Canyon it is
mentioned by 21%. Elsewhere, only 3% say transportation is the leading issue concern.
Furthermore, among voters who reside in suburban areas, 21% say transportation is the
Idaho Voters
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leading concern, while in urban, rural and rural/suburban communities, transportation is
mentioned by no more than 10%.
Funding Transportation Improvements
Idahoans are not overly impressed with the job Idaho is doing funding the state's
transportation system -only 10% give the state an "excellent" or "above average" rating,
while 40% say the state is doing an ~~average" job in this area, and 41% give the state a
below average/poor rating. The remaining 9% have no opinion. Here, too, we see notable
differences of opinion along party lines -Republicans are less critical of the state's efforts to
fund transportation (11% excellent/above average, 43% average and 35% below
average/poor), than Independents 13%/38%/42%) and Democrats are largely unimpressed
In exploring reactions to potential funding options to pay for transportation improvements in
the state, we find voters most receptive to an increase in rental car taxes and impact fees
on commercial residential and industrial development. However, there is majority
opposition today to three other potential funding options, including a local sales tax, an
increase in vehicle registration fees, and a fuel tax increase. The following table illustrates
voters' reactions to each of these five potential funding options.
Potential Funding Options
__ _ __ Support Oppose __Net__s_upPort _
An increase in the tax on rental cars 54% 33% +21%
Impact fees on commercial, residential
and industrial development
54% 36% +18%
A local sales tax approved by voters
An increase in vehicle registration fees
A fuel tax increase
41% 55% -14%
36% 61% -25%
15% 84% -69%
Impact fees find majority support throughout the state; however, Ada County voters are
most likely to favor this mechanism. In suburban and rural changing to suburban areas,
impact fees are widely popular, however, there is only marginal support for this option in
urban areas, and in rural communities, voters are divided about impact fees on commercial,
residential and industrial development. By party, we find Democrats widely supportive of
impact fees, but Republicans and Independents are only marginally supportive of this
option.
Rental car tax increases also find majority support throughout the state. However, by area,
again we find this option more popular in suburban and rural changing to suburban
communities. Voters in rural and urban areas are less enthused about rental car tax
increases. Democrats are more supportive of rental car tax increases than Republicans or
Independents.
As previously mentioned, the concept of an increase in the state gas tax as a means of
funding transportation improvements in the state generates majority opposition today (55%
oppose, 41% support). However, in further discussion about the gas tax, we find voter
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opposition is quick to rise upon learning a few key facts about this form of taxation. For
example;
0 78% of Idaho voters are less likely to support an increase in the state gas tax when they
learn "Idaho has the 12th highest gas tax in the nation"
0 63% are less likely to support a gas tax increase upon learning "the state fuel tax on a
gallon of gasoline is currently 25 cents and has not been increased since 1996"
o Voters are divided when they hear "38% of the tax revenues generated by Idaho's gas
tax go to local governments to fund road improvements" (47% more likely, 48% less
likely)
Similarly, voters were also widely opposed to a possible increase in vehicle registration fees
(36% support, 61% oppose), and after learning the average state vehicle registration fee in
the state is $46 per year, the 30th highest in the nation, 64% are less likely to support this
option for funding transportation projects, while 34% are more likely and 2% have no
opinion.
When it comes to arguing the merits of higher taxes, the survey finds increasing taxes to
reduce "traffic congestion" is as equally unpopular as higher taxes to "reduce air pollution."
Indeed, 35% support and 60% oppose higher taxes to reduce traffic congestion, while 36%
support and 59% oppose higher taxes to reduce air pollution. However, there are some
major difference of opinion by region and area of the state. Most notably, in Ada County,
reactions to higher taxes to reduce traffic congestion are mixed (47% support, 52%
oppose), and Ada County voters are much more likely to support higher taxes to reduce air
pollution (59% support, 38% oppose). In the rest of the state, there is majority opposition
to higher taxes for either purpose.
Local Sa/es Tax for Transportation Improvements
A proposal to change Idaho state law to allow voters in urban or more densely populated
areas to impose a local sales tax for transportation improvements finds 46% support and
47% opposition today with 7% having no opinion. This reaction is less negative than results
of the previously discussed question when voters were asked whether they support or
oppose simply "a local sales tax approved by voters" (41% support, 55% oppose), with no
mention of limits to urban centers. Regionally, a local sales tax in urban or more densely
populated areas finds support from a majority of Ada County voters (52% support, 42%
oppose) but voters in Canyon County are opposed by nearly atwo-to-one margin (36% to
61%), and elsewhere sentiment is divided. Note: In both Treasure Valley Counties (Ada
and Canyon) 47% support and 47% oppose allowing voters in urban areas to impose a local
sales tax for transportation improvements. Voters in urban areas of the state are
marginally supportive of this proposal (51% to 41%), but voters in suburban and rural
areas are divided.
In terms of voters' priorities for potential funds generated by a local sales tax, Idaho voters
are most supportive of using local sales tax dollars to fund road improvements (68%
support, 29% oppose), and nearly as many are favor using such funds to fund a
"combination of public transportation and road improvements" (63% support, 34% oppose),
A majority still supports, but the margin is more narrow, using local sales tax revenues to
pay for "public transportation improvements" (56% support, 40% oppose).
Today, cone-quarter of one-cent tax local sales tax to fund transportation improvements is
the most viable of four potential options tested in the survey. Using a "stair-step" battery
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of questions, starting with cone-cent local sales tax, the survey find voters are divided
(48% for, 49% against). When voters who were undecided or opposed to this proposal are
asked whether they would vote for or against athree-quarters of one cent sales tax,
support widens to a 52% for, 46% against margin. The gap widens further when the dollar
amount is dropped to one-half of one percent (57% to 41%), and finally, cone-quarter of
one-cent sales tax finds 61% support and 38% opposition today.
In looking at support for the one-quarter of one-cent sales tax proposal, we find majority
support throughout the state; however, the widest margin comes from voters inside Ada
County (65% for, 34% against). Further, this proposal finds majority support in urban,
suburban and rural communities, and while Democrats are more supportive (68% to 32%)
than both Republicans (57% to 41%) and Independents (62% to 38%), there is majority
support across the partisan spectrum.
In terms of impacting support for a local sales tax to fund transportation improvements, the
commonality of goals of the Treasure Valley Air Quality Council's plan to improve the quality
of public transportation as part of their plan to improve air quality in the region does not
improve support for a local sales tax proposal. After hearing the TVAQC's plan to improve
air quality includes improving public transportation, 42% are more likely, but 47% are less
likely to support a local option sales tax for transportation improvements. Voters in Ada
County have a positive reaction to this information, but sentiment is divided in Canyon
County and elsewhere in the state, the reaction is a net negative. Likewise, in urban areas
reaction is divided, while in suburban areas there is a positive reaction to hearing about the
TVAQC's plan from a plurality. In the state's rural communities, the reaction is negative.
Using local property tax revenues to improve and expand public transportation services in
the Treasure Valley finds majority opposition from Ada and Canyon County voters - 40%
would support government use of property tax revenues to improve and expand public
transportation services, while 55% are opposed and 5% have no opinion.
GARVEE
Idaho voters are generally positive about the GARVEE program after hearing the following
description:
"There is a new transportation funding mechanism being utilized in the state of Idaho called
Grant Anticipated Revenue Vehicle, or GARVEE This program is also known as the
Connecting Idaho Plan. This program borrows against future federal transportation money
coming to the state in an effort to get more projects completed in a shorter time frame and
decreasing the inflationary costs of these projects.
Based on this information, 49% of voters statewide believe the program should be
continued, while 34% would discontinue GARVEE and 18% have no opinion. Continuation of
GARVEE finds majority support in Ada and Canyon Counties, but outside the Treasure Valley
region, sentiment about GARVEE is divided. By party, Democrats favor continuation of
GARVEE (57% continue, 27% discontinue), but Independents are divided and a plurality of
Republicans would continue the program (46% continue, 35% discontinue).
Information Sources
When it comes to transportation funding issues, Idahoans do not put a great deal of trust in
any of the six individuals and organizations that might have something to say on the
subject. In fact, none of the six groups or individuals was deemed credible by more than
three-in-ten voters. The following table illustrates the perceived credibility of each of the
groups tested in the survey.
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Your local elected officials 29% 66% -37%
Idaho Transportation Department 28% 62% -34%
Governor Butch Otter 27% 67% -40%
Your local state legislators 25% 68% -43%
The Idaho State Legislature 19% 75% -56%
Your regional transportation planning 19% 62% -43%
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Loca/ Public Transportation Services
Nearly half (46%) of Idaho voters believe their local community has some form of public
transportation service -this sentiment is most pronounced among voters who describe their
community as "urban" (72%) or "suburban" (62%), although 22% of those in rural and
46% of those in rural changing to suburban areas say their community offers public
transportation. For the most part, those who say their community does offer public
transportation are not overly impressed with those offerings -just 12% give their local
public transportation system an "excellent/above average" rating, while 41% give it an
"average" rating and 35% say the public transportation system in their area is "below
average/poor." Likewise, looking to the future, the vast majority (72%) of voters in the
state who believe their community currently offers public transportation believe that system
will need improvements in the near future. Just 24% say current public transportation in
their community is adequate to meet future needs and 4% are unsure.
In looking at the potential use of alternative forms of transportation, from a list of nine
options, "driving alone in a car" is the most popular of the nine options tested (for 37%),
distantly followed by carpooling with a family member (19%), taking the bus (10%), light
rail (8%), carpooling with anon-family member (7%), biking (6%), bus rapid transit (4%),
walking (3%) or vanpool (2%). For residents of rural and rural/changing to suburban
communities, driving alone is the most popular alternate form of transportation, and while
this is also the leading option in urban and suburban communities, it is less popular in these
areas. By party, Democrats are less likely to choose driving alone than Independents or
Republicans.
When asked specifically about their willingness to use public transportation if a reliable
system were available in their area, one-in-four (26%) say they are "very" likely to do so,
and another 27% are "fairly" likely. For purposes of predicting future behavior, those who
indicate they are "very" likely are most likely to actually do so. Willingness to use public
transportation is highest in Ada County, however, there is a major difference of opinion
among Canyon County residents (64% are willing in Ada County, compared to just 45% in
Canyon County). Elsewhere in the state, fewer than half are wiling to use public
transportation. Again we find significant differences by partisanship -Democrats are willing
to use public transportation by a nearly two-to-one margin (64% likely, 35% not likely), as
are a majority of Independents (58%/42%). Among Republicans, however, the majority
(52%) say they are not likely to use public transportation, but still, another 45% are likely.
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Rising gas prices do appear to be a motivating factor in voters' willingness to explore public
transportation options. If gas prices were to reach $4 per gallon, 58% of Idaho voters say
they would likely consider using public transportation, and if gas prices reach $5 per gallon,
this percentage jumps to 65%. At $6 per gallon, fully 70% would consider public
transportation.
Dedicated Funding for Pub/ic Transportation
Knowledge that Idaho is only one-of-four states in the nation that does not provide state
funding or a dedicated local funding source for public transportation is effective in prompting
58% of Idaho voters to support such a dedicated funding source. Just 32% are less likely
to support a dedicated funding source and 10% have no opinion. Reaction to this
information is positive throughout the state; however, residents of Ada and Canyon
Counties are most positive (66% more likely, 26% less likely). By party, majorities of
Republicans, Independents and Democrats alike are more likely to support a dedicated local
funding source for public transportation, but this sentiment is most pronounced among
Democrats.
Purchasing Future Transportation Corridors
Today, 55% support, while 36% oppose governmental entities and transportation planning
organizations using tax dollars to purchase land for future planned roadways and/or pubic
transit. The remaining 10% are undecided. Regionally, there is majority support for this
proposal among residents of both Ada and Canyon Counties, as well as other Boise TV
market counties, but voters residing in the Twin Falls TV market counties are divided, and
support in the rest of the state is only marginal. There is also majority support among
Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike, but Democrats are most likely to feel this
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REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY ACT -LOCAL OPTION SALES TAX
- The legislation is an amendment to the existing Regional Public Transportation Authority Act
(RPTA) that re-establishes the act as the Regional Transportation Authority Act (RTA).
- With a 66-2/3 approval by voters within the RTA's service boundaries, the RTA Board of
Directors may levy a local option sales tax for two purposes: (1) to finance the construction and
maintenance of highways under the jurisdiction of counties, cities, highway districts & the
Idaho Transportation Department within the geographic boundaries of the Authority in amounts
above and beyond all other existing sources of financing available to such governmental units,
and;(2) to finance, construct, operate and maintain public transportation systems.
- The RTA Board of Directors are required to develop along-range transportation financing plan
that must be approved by voters within the RTA's service boundaries in any election where
voters decide whether to allow for the imposition of a local option sales tax.
- 100% of the sales tax revenue collected can only be allocated by the RTA Board of Directors to
counties, cities, highway districts and the Idaho Transportation Department based upon the
transportation financing plan.
- The RTA Board of Directors consists of only elected public officials from the cities, counties and
highway districts located within the service boundaries of any RTA and shall serve as the
Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for those areas of the state so designated pursuant
to federal law. The member of the Idaho Transportation Department Board within whose
district the RTA exists shall also serve on the RTA Board of Directors.
- Decisions of the RTA Board of Directors to adopt the transportation financing plan, set budgets,
allocate sales tax revenues and establish sales tax rates must be made by a majority of
Directors present and voting as well as such Directors who represent counties and cities
collectively that includes at least a majority of the population within the region (county
population not included within city populations).
- 'Public Transportation Systems" include systems and services designed to transport customers
on local and regional routes, including buses, vanpools, demand response services, rail, rail
corridor, park and ride and so forth, which are compatible with adopted state, regional or local
transportation plans.
- The corporate powers have been expanded to provide the power and authority to accomplish
the types of transactions contemplated by the statute. Those transactions include levying the
tax, entering into the financial agreements necessary to build and operate an integrated
transportation system that includes highways and public transportation and issuing bonds.
- The ballot question to levy such a sales tax can only be on the ballot at an election in May or
November of any year. The legislation authorizes a sales tax of not less than 0.1 percent or
more than .75 percent in the initial election. The tax may be imposed in amounts necessary to
finance the transportation funding plan and related budgets. The maximum tax authorized may
not exceed 1.00 percent.
- The safes tax sunsets after 20 years unless it is reauthorized by a subsequent 66-2/3 voter
approval. The sales tax collections may continue until existing bonded indebtedness is retired.
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When asked what single issue is of greatest concern, the results were:
Education 27%
Health Care 21%
Economy 20%
Taxes 12%
Transportation 10%
Environment 5%
However, in the Treasure Valley, transportation ranked near the top:
Ada 23%
Canyon 21%
When asked their views on potential transportation funding options:
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Tax on rental cars 54% 33%
Impact fees on commercial, residential and
industrial develo ment 54% 36%
A local sales tax a roved b voters 41% 55%
An increase in vehicle re istration fees 36% 61%
A fuel tax increase 15% 84%
When told that Idaho is one of four states without a state or local funding
source for public transportation, respondents were more likely to support a
local option tax for public transportation:
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Statewide 58 % 32
Ada and Can on 66 % 26
Survey conducted Sept. 11-13, 2007, by Moore Information. Sample of 600 likely voters.
The potential sampling error is f/- 4 % at the 95% confidence /eve%
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REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY ACT -LOCAL OPTION SALES TAX
- The legislation is an amendment to the existing Regional Public Transportation Authority Act
(RPTA) that re-establishes the act as the Regional Transportation Authority Act (RTA).
With a 66-2/3 approval by voters within the RTA's service boundaries, the RTA Board of
Directors may levy a local option sales tax for two purposes: (1) to finance the construction and
maintenance of highways under the jurisdiction of counties, cities, highway districts & the
Idaho Transportation Department within the geographic boundaries of the Authority in amounts
above and beyond all other existing sources of financing available to such governmental units,
and;(2) to finance, construct, operate and maintain public transportation systems.
- The RTA Board of Directors are required to develop along-range transportation financing plan
that must be approved by voters within the RTA's service boundaries in any election where
voters decide whether to allow for the imposition of a local option sales tax.
- 100% of the sales tax revenue collected can only be allocated by the RTA Board of Directors to
counties, cities, highway districts and the Idaho Transportation Department based upon the
transportation financing plan.
- The RTA Board of Directors consists of only elected public officials from the cities, counties and
highway districts located within the service boundaries of any RTA and shall serve as the
Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for those areas of the state so designated pursuant
to federal law. The member of the Idaho Transportation Department Board within whose
district the RTA exists shall also serve on the RTA Board of Directors.
- Decisions of the RTA Board of Directors to adopt the transportation financing plan, set budgets,
allocate sales tax revenues and establish sales tax rates must be made by a majority of
Directors present and voting as well as such Directors who represent counties and cities
collectively that includes at least a majority of the population within the region (county
population not included within city populations).
- "Public Transportation Systems" include systems and services designed to transport customers
on local and regional routes, including buses, vanpools, demand response services, rail, rail
corridor, park and ride and so forth, which are compatible with adopted state, regional or local
transportation plans.
- The corporate powers have been expanded to provide the power and authority to accomplish
the types of transactions contemplated by the statute. Those transactions include levying the
tax, entering into the financial agreements necessary to build and operate an integrated
transportation system that includes highways and public transportation and issuing bonds.
- The ballot question to levy such a sales tax can only be on the ballot at an election in May or
November of any year. The legislation authorizes a sales tax of not less than 0.1 percent or
more than .75 percent in the initial election. The tax may be imposed in amounts necessary to
finance the transportation funding plan and related budgets. The maximum tax authorized may
not exceed 1.00 percent.
- The sales tax sunsets after 20 years unless it is reauthorized by a subsequent 66-2/3 voter
approval. The sales tax collections may continue until existing bonded indebtedness is retired.
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-- LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO
Fifty-ninth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2008
IN THE
BILL N0.
BY
1 AN ACT
2 RELATING TO THE REGIONAL PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY ACT;
3 AMENDING SECTION 40-2103, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE THE
4 DEFINITIONS OF "AUTHORITY", "BOARD" AND "COMMISSION," TO
5 DEFINE "CITY HIGHWAY SYSTEM," "CONSTRUCT" OR "CONSTRUCTION,"
6 "COUNTY HIGHWAY SYSTEM," "HIGHWAY DISTRICT COMMISSION,"
7 "HIGHWAY DISTRICT SYSTEM," "PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM,"
8 "REVENUES," "STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM," AND "TRANSPORTATION
9 FINANCING PLAN" AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING
10 SECTION 40-2104, IDAHO CODE, TO REVISE THE PURPOSE OF AN
11 AUTHORITY AND TO PROVIDE FOR DESIGNATING A REGIONAL
12 TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY AS THE METROPOLITAN PLANNING
13 ORGANIZATION; AMENDING SECTION 40-2105, IDAHO CODE, TO
14 PROVIDE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE BALLOT
15 QUESTION FOR THE CREATION OF A REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION
16 AUTHORITY SHALL IDENTIFY HIGHWAY DISTRICTS THAT WILL BE
17 LOCATED EITHER WHOLLY OR PARTIALLX WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF
18 THE AUTHORITY; REPEALING SECTION 40-2106, IDAHO CODE,
19 RELATING TO AUTHORITY OF A BOARD; AMENDING CHAPTER. 21, TITLE
20 40, IDAHO CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF SECTION 40-2106, IDAHO
21 CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT AND COMPOSITION OF A
22 REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY BOARD AND TO PROVIDE FOR
23 TRANSACTING BUSINESS OF THE AUTHORITY; AMENDING SECTION
24 40--2108, IDAHO CODE, TO EXPAND THE CORPORATE POWERS OF AN
25 AUTHORITY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION
26 40-2109, IDAHO CODE, TO REQUIRE THE BOARD TO ADOPT A
27 TRANSPORTATION FINANCING PLAN AND TO SPECIFY PROVISIONS OF
2$ THE PLAN, TO PROVIDE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY, TO AUTHORIZE
29 TRANSPORTATION SERVICES BETWEEN SPECIFIED SITES TO INCLUDE
30 COLLEGES, TO REVISE THE DATE BY WHICH THE ANNUAL AUDIT IS DUE
31 AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 40-2111,
32 IDAHO CODE, TO DELETE PROVISIONS AUTHORIZING ISSUANCE OF
33 REVENUE BONDS AND TO PROVIDE AUTHORITY FOR A LOCAL SALES AND
34 USE TAX; AMENDING CHAPTER 21, TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, BY THE
35 ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 40-2112, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE
36 GENERAL PROVISIONS OF LOCAL SALES AND USE TAX ELECTIONS;
37 AMENDING CHAPTER 21, TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF
38 A NEW SECTION 40-2113, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR COLLECTION
39 AND ADMINISTRATION OF AN AUTHORIZED LOCAL SALES AND USE TAX
40 BY THE STATE TAX COMMISSION AND TO PROVIDE FOR DISTRIBUTION
41 OF REVENUES; AMENDING CHAPTER 21, TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, BY
42 THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 40-2114, IDAHO CODE, TO
43 ESTABLISH THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES FUND AND TO
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1 PROVIDE FOR DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE FUND; AMENDING CHAPTER 21,
2 TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION
3 40-2115, IDAHO CODE, TO AUTHORIZE BOND ISSUES; AMENDING
4 CHAPTER 21, TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW
5 SECTION 40-2116, IDAHO CODE, TO SPECIFY TERMS AND CONDITIONS
6 FOR ISSUANCE OF BONDS BY A REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITX;
7 AMENDING CHAPTER 21, TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF
$ A NEW SECTION 40-2117, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THE PROCEDURE
9 FOR INITIATING AND CONDUCTING A BOND ELECTION; AMENDING
10 CHAPTER 21, TITLE 40, 1DAH0 CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW
11 SECTION 40-2118, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL POWERS TO
12 AN AUTHORITY FOR SECURING PAYMENT OF BONDS; AMENDING CHAPTER
13 21, TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION
14 40-2119, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE A LIMITATION ON THE AMOUNT OF
15 BONDS AND REVENUES PLEDGED; AMENDING CHAPTER 21, TITLE 40,
16 IDAHO CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 40-2120, IDAHO
17 CODE, TO PROVIDE RIGHTS OF OBLIGEES; AMENDING CHAPTER 21,
1$ TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION
19 90-2121, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE AUTHORITY FOR SWAPS; AMENDING
20 CHAPTER 21, TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW
21 SECTION 40-2122, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR TERMINATION OF
22 TAX REVENUES; AMENDING CHAPTER 21, TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, BY
23 THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 40-2123, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE
24 FOR CONTEST OF A LOCAL SALES AND USE TAX OR BOND ELECTION
25 HELD PURSUANT TO THIS CHAPTER; AMENDING SECTION 40-2112,
26 IDAHO CODE, TO REDESIGNATE THE SECTION AND TO PROVIDE CORRECT
27 TERMINOLOGY; AMENDING SECTION 40-2113r IDAHO CODE, Tfl
28 REDESIGNATE THE SECTION, TO PROVIDE A CODE REFERENCE, TO
29 PROVIDE CORRECT TERMINOLOGY AND TO MAKE TECHNICAL
30 CORRECTIONS; AMENDING SECTION 40-2114, IDAHO CODE, TO
31 REDESIGNATE THE SECTION AND TO MAKE A TECHNICAL CORRECTION;
32 AND AMENDING CHAPTER 21, TITLE 40, IDAHO CODE, BY THE
33 ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION 40-2127, IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE A
34 SAVINGS CLAUSE AND TO PROVIDE INTENT.
35 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:
36 SECTION 1. That the Heading for Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho
37 Code, be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
38 CHAPTER 21
39 REGIONAL PHBL~E TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY
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41 SECTION 2. That Section 40-2101, Idaho Code, be, and the
42 same is hereby amended to read as follows:
43 40-2101. SHORT TITLE. This chapter may be known and cited as
44 the "Regional Petb~ie Transportation Authority Act."
45 SECTION 3. That Section 40-2102, Idaho Code, be, and the
46 same is hereby amended to read as follows:
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1 40-2102. POhICY OF STATE. It is hereby recognized by the
2 legislature of the state of Idaho that, as the population and
3 economy of areas of this state grow, the total needs for mobility
4 of commerce and people ee:nnet m~ be met aole~p with ~
5 combination of reaiona~public trans rtation and highway and
6 road systems; that motor vehicle congestion and air quality
7 problems result which may adversely affect health and safety;
8 that there are a variety of persons who are elderly, who have
9 disabilities, who live in rural areas or who otherwise require
10 public transportation services for their general welfare; and
11 that prosperous commerce and industry depend upon effective
12 regional systems of transportation. It is therefore declared to
13 be the policy of the state to maintain a state commitment to
14 improve public transportation; to increase the use of
l5 transportation alternatives to single occupancy motor vehicles;
l6 to promote cooperative agreements among governmental entities in
17 providing regional public transportation aervtce' ~v~tems an
18 highway and road syste_m_s; and to attain greater efficiency in the
19 use of pab}re transportation funds in a manner consistent with
20 the needs, health, safety and general welfare of the people of
21 Idaho.
22 SECTION 4. That Section 40-2103, Idaho Code, be, and the
23 same is hereby amended to read as follows:
24 40-2103. DEFINITIONS. {1) "Authority" means the ~ regional
25 pttblte transportation authority created ursuant to this cha er.
26 (2) "Board" means the governing body of the regional pe~blte
27 transportation authority.
28 (3) "City" means an incorporated city. sec i n
29 (4) "Gifu highway, sy,stem." ( ee "City system."
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34 (SF) "Con truct" or onstruction" me ns the la_nnina.
35 ~~ic~ninq. engineering. a auisiti n. inst llati n n r i n
36 or recor~rruction of public transA r i n m
37 ( 7 ) "County highway., system. " ( See "County highway sv~t~m .~~
38 i n 4 -1 4 I h
39 "Hi h i ri mmi i n" m n h r f
40 ~ mmissioner of a single counh,~y-wide highway district or in
41 counties with more han_one (1) highly distri h r f
42 ~ mmissioners of ea h hiahw v district within the county:
43 (9) "Highway district syst m." (See "Highway distr~
44 gy,gtem." se d o 40-109, Idaho Code)
45 (10) "Public transportation service" means, without
46 limitation, fixed transit routes; scheduled or unscheduled
47 transit service provided by motor vehicle, bus, rail, van, aerial
48 tramway and other modes of public conveyance; paratransit service
49 for the elderly and disabled; shuttle and commuter service
50 between cities, counties, health care facilities, employment
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transportation programs and coordinate both public and private
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centers, educational institutions or park-and-ride locations;
subscription van and eecr-poolt~ig ~poo~,ina service; and
L_~....,-..,.-ko~-;nn corvirwa i~rliClu~ t0 SO~~lal service programs.
SECTION 5. That Section 40-2104, Idaho Code, be, and the
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SECTION 6. That Section 40-2105, Idaho Code, be, and the
same is hereby amended to read as follows:
40-2105. CREATION OF AUTHORITY -- VOTER APPROVAL -- NA~•
Authorities may be established in one (1) of the following ways:
(1) (a) County-wide authorities. A city or commission by
resolution may call for an election to establish a regional
pttb~~e transportation authority in the county to carry out
the purposes of this chapter. The entire geographical area of
the county must be included within the jurisdiction of an
authority created pursuant to this subsection.
(b) The ballot question shall seek voter approval of the
establishment of the authority.
(2) (a) Regional authorities. A city or commission may adapt
a resolution proposing to establish an authority which
contains contiguous parts of one (1) or more counties. The
resolutions shall include a legal description of a contiguous
region encompassed by the proposed authority and specifically
name each city, county and highway district wholly or
partially included therein. Boundaries of the proposed
authority shall conform insofar as possible to existing
boundaries dividing voting precincts.
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approve without alteration or reject the resolution proposing
the establishment of an authority and transmit a certified
copy to the clerk or recorder of the initiating city or
commission. If a city or county fails to act upon the
resolution proposing the establishment of an authority within
sixty (60) days after receipt of the certified copy, the city
or county is deemed to have rejected the resolution.
(d) If the city councils and county commissions of all
cities and counties wholly or partially included in the
proposed region approve the resolution proposing the
establishment of an authority, the question shall be
submitted for voter approval. The ballot question shall
generally describe the area which is proposed to be included
in the authority, identify each city, and county end highway
~,istrict,-which will be located either wholly or partially
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1 establishment of the authority.
2 (3) Authorization to esta~bl~.sh a regional pttbltc
3 transportation authority may be made only by the registered
4 voters of the region at an election held at least sixty (60) days
5 after the final resolution is adopted and in conformity with
6 section 34-106, Idaho Code. A simples majority of votes cast on
7 the question shall be necessary to erstablish the authority.
g (4) An authority created pursuant to this act shall be named
9 the ".... (name of authority) REGIONAL PETHHTe TRANSPORTATION
10 AUTHORITY.".In the event two (2) ar more authorities should by
11 cooperative agreement merge theix• services the name may be
12 appropriately changed by a majority vote of the board of each
13 authority.
l4 SECTION 7. That Section 40-2106, Idaho Code, be, and the
15 same is hereby repealed.
16 SECTION 8. That Chapter 21, Tittle 40, Idaho Code, be, and
17 the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a
lg E TI N, to be known and designated as Section 40-2106, Idaho
19 Code, and to read as follows:
20 40-2106. AUTHORITY BOARD. (1) Each authority shall have a
21 board appointed by and serving at the pleasure of the governing
22 bodies of counties, cities, highway districts and the Idaho
23 transportation department.
24 (2) The board shall be composed of voting members as
25 follows: one (1) member representing each board of county
26 commissioners of each county wholly or partially contained within
27 the region; one (1) member representing each city council of each
28 city wholly or partially contained within the region; one (1)
29 member representing any county-wide highway district wholly or
30 partially contained within the region; one (1) member
31 representing all highway districts in any county wholly or
32 partially contained within the region that has more than a single
33 highway district; and one (1) member from the Idaho
34 transportation board representing the Idaho transportation
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36 (3) The board shall appoint a chairman and a vice-chairman
37 from among its voting membership.
38 (4) A majority of the voting members shall constitute a
39 quorum for the transaction of businE~ss.
40 (5) Decisions of the board sha]_1 require a quorum and shall
41 be in accordance with voting procedures established by the board;
42 provided however, that each voting member of the board shall have
43 one (1) vote, with no fractional voting allowed, and decisions
44 shall be made as follows:
45 (a) Decisions concerning adoption of the transportation
46 financing plan, adoption of any regional long-range
47 transportation plan, adoption of any transportation
48 improvement program, adoption of any budget, and
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(ii) Such members present and voting in the affirmative
shall be representatives of counties and cities that
collectively include at least a majority of the
population within the region at the time of the vote.
For purposes of this paragraph (5)(a)(ii), the
population of counties and cities within the region
shall be the population as determined by the most
recently-preceding population estimates conducted by the
authority, and county population shall not include
population within a city.
(b) All other decisions of the board shall require only the
affirmative vote of a majority of the voting members of the
board present and voting.
(6) Board members shall be appointed by resolution of the
appointing agency and shall serve at the pleasure of the
appointing agency. Voting board members shall be elected
officials of the appointing agency except for the one (1) voting
board member from the Idaho transportation board.
(7) Ex officio members may be appointed to the board by any
city or commission, by the Idaho transportation board and by the
board itself, and shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing
agency. Ex officio members shall not be entitled to vote.
(8) Berard members shall not be compensated either for the
actual performance of duties or for expenses.
(9) The authority shall be liable and responsible far the
actions of the board members and employees of the authority when
the board members and employees are performing their duties on
behalf of the authority.
SECTION 9. That Section 40-2108, Idaho Code, be, and the
same is hereby amended to read as follows:
40-210$. CORPORATE POWERS OF AN AUTHORITY. A regional pttb~re
transportation authority has power:
(1) To sue and be sued;
(2) To raise and expend funds as provided in this chapter;
(3) To issue redenr~e bonds ~~ Arovide~ in this chaA~er;
(4) Ta adopt and use an official seal;
(5} To purchase and hold lands, make contracts, purchase and
hold personal property as may be necessary or convenient for the
purposes of this nct h r, and to sell and exchange real and
personal property. The board shall first adopt a resolution
finding that the property to be sold or exchanged is no longer
needed by or useful to the d~atrrct oath ro itv; that a public
hearing is to be held, of which hearing notice shall be published
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40-2109. POWERS AND DUTIES OI' BOARD. (1) Only one (1)
regional pnblsc transportation authority shall exist within a
eo~tntp region ands when established pursuant to this chapters the
authority will have exclusive jurisdiction overi
1a) Ae~ll publicly funded ar publicly subsidized
transportation services acid programs except those
transportation services and programs under the jurisdiction
of public school districts and l.aw enforcement agencies, and
(bl The colle~^tion and distribution of r~yenues grQvid~~ for
(2) The authority may provide public transportation services
on fixed or unfixed routes; public transportation services on
fixed or unfixed schedules; paratransit services for the elderly
and people with disabilities as defined in the Americans with
disabilities act; special services to accommodate community
celebrations, sporting events and entertainment open to the
public; public transportation services between cities, rural
areas, park-and-ride facilities, employment centers, health care
facilities, universities and colleges, and commercial and
shopping areas; commuter services between communities; ~ van or
cnr-pooh cargo~l programs.
(3) The authority shall fix by resolution the fares and fees
to be charged those who use its public transportation services.
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SECTION 10. That Section 40--2109, Idaho Code, be, and the
same is hereby amended to read as follows:
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Prior to adopting any such resolution, the board shall publish
proposed fares and fees in at least one (1) issue of a newspaper
having general circulation in the region and shall hold at least
one (1) public hearing on the proposed fares and fees.
(4) The authority may establish, fund, control and operate
the administrative, equipment maintenance, servicing, storage,
fueling, and other facilities required to support a safe and
efficient public transportation system. In carrying out the
purposes of this chapter, the authority may employ personnel,
contract for services with public and private agencies and retain
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necessary, for carrying out the purposes of this chapter and
discharging all powers and duties conferred to the authority
pursuant to this chapter.
(6Z) The authority shall have an annual audit made of the
financial affairs of the authority as required in section
67-450H, Idaho Code, bp-the-ftrat-detp-of-Hecember-~ollowtng-the
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(7Q) The authority may enter into cooperative agreements
with the state, other authorities, counties, cities and highway
districts under the provisions of section 67-2328, Idaho Code,,
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40-2111. lSSt3ANEE-9g-R~E2dHE-f}E~NDS AUTHORITX FOR LOCAL _SALES
AIVD U`.~TA)C. A-regtenel-public-trensportetton-authority-map-issue
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40-2112. GENERAL PROVISIONS OF LOCAL SALES AND USE TAX
ELECTIONS. (1) In an initial local sales and use tax election,
the question presented to the qualified electors of the region
shall:
(a) Provide a description and general explanation of the
local sales and use tax to be approved;
(b) State that the initial rate of the local sales and use
tax to be assessed shall be e,et by the authority, and that
the initial rate shall be at least one-tenth of one percent
(0.10) but not more than three-quarters of one percent
(0.75) of the sales price of ar.~ item subject to taxation;
(c) State that the revenues derived from the local sales and
use tax shall be used only for purposes specified in the
transportation financing plan;
(d) State the initial term of the local sales and use tax,
which shall not be in excess of twenty (20) years; and
(e) Include a copy o£ the transportation financing plan
adopted by the board with respect to the local sales and use
tax in question.
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SECTION 11. That Section 40-21:L1, Idaho Code, be, and the
same is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 12. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Code, be, and
the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NE
E TI N, to be known and designated as Section 40-2112, Idaho
Code, and to read as follows:
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1 (2) Upon voter approval of the local sales and use tax, the
2 board shall provide by zesolution the methods for reporting and
3 collecting the taxes due. Such resolution shall also state the
4 initial rate to be assessed, established as follows:
5 (a) The board, pursuant to an estimate based upon the budget
6 adopted, the transportation financing plan and anticipated
7 reserve or other monetary zequirements, shall impose an
g initial local sales and use tax of at least one-tenth of one
g percent (0.100 but not mote than three-quarters of one
10 percent (0.750 of the sales price of an item subject to
11 taxation.
12 (b) In subsequent peziods, the board may increase the rate
13 of the sales and use tax over the initial rate established in
14 paragraph (a) of this subsection (2), but only if the rate
15 increase is authorized at a reauthorization election held for
16 the purpose as provided in subsection (4)(a) of this section.
17 (c) The board may provide by resolution for an increase or
lg decrease of the rate of the local sales and use tax, but only
19 as shall be within the range established, that being the
20 range between one-tenth of one, percent (0.100 aand subse uent
21 initially established or as increased by q
22 reauthorization election held as provided in subsection
23 (4)(a) of this section.
24 The board shall comply with the filing and recording requirements
25 of section 63-215, Idaho Code, and shall cause a copy of any
26 resolution, or amendment thereto, to be forwarded to the state
27 treasurer, the chairman of the state tax commission and the
28 chairman of the state board of tax appeals.
29 (3) Taxes collected shall constitute revenue of the
30 authority available for purposes of financing, constructing,
31 opezating or maintaining the region's public transportation
32 system. Tax collection shall commence on a date set forth in the
33 resolution, but not earlier than the next quarter that commences
34 at least sixty (60) days after the date of the election.
35 (4) Reauthorization elections may be held to increase the
36 zate of the local sales and use tax then in effect, or to extend
37 the term of the local sales and use tax then in effect, or to
38 both increase the rate and to extend the term of the local sales
39 and use tax then in effect, under the following conditions:
40 (a) The rate of the tax may be increased, but only if
41 approved by two-thirds (2/3) of all votes cast by the
42 qualified electors voting in a reauthorization election
43 conducted for the purpose, if such election is held on the
44 fourth Tuesday in May in any year or on the Tuesday after the
45 first Monday in November in any year, and if a copy of the
46 transportation financing plan adopted by the board with
47 respect to the local sales and use tax increase in question
48 is included. No reauthorized local sales and use tax rate
49 shall ever exceed a maximum rate of one percent (1.0~).
50 (b) The term of the local sales and use ofxallyvatesxcasteby
51 but only if approved by two-thirds (2/3)
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1 conducted for the purpose. A reauthorization election may be
2 held in any year prior to expiration of the term of the local
3 sales and use tax then in effect. Any such election shall
4 only be held on the fourth Tuesday in May or on the Tofesdhe
5 after the first Monday in November, and a copy
6 transportation financing plan adopted by the board with
7 respect to the extension of the term of the local sales and
$ use tax in question shall be included. If the extension of
g the term of the local sales and use tax is not reauthorized
10 by the qualified electors of the region, the provisions of
11 section 40-2122, Idaho Code, shall automatically apply.
12 (5)(a) If the rate of a sales and use tax changes, or if the
13 boundaries of the region change, any such change shall become
14 effective at the beginning of the next quarter that commences
15 at least sixty (60) days after a copy °ovidedbotod theolstate
16 authorizing the change has been p
17 controller, the chairman of the state tax commission, the
18 chairman of the state board of tax appeals and each county
19 tax collector in all counties in. which the region is located.
20 Any change in region boundaries shall also require board
21 compliance with the filing a.nd recording requirements of
22 section 63-215, Idaho Code.
23 (b) A copy of the board resolution authorizing an extension
24 of the term of the local sales and use tax shall be provided
25 to the state treasurer, the chairman of the state tax
26 commission, the chairman of t:he state board of tax appeals
27 and each county tax collector ire all counties in which the
28 region is located.
2g SECTION 13. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Code, be, and
30 the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NE
31 ,SECT Q, to be known and designated as Section 40-2113, Idaho
32 Code, and to read as follows:
33 40-2113. COLLECTION AND ADD4INISTRATION OF REGIONAL
34 TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY' LOCAL SALES AND USE TAXES BY THE STATE
35 TAX COMMISSION -- DISTRIBUTION. (1) Any regional transportation
36 authority which has levied a local sales and use tax pursuant to
37 this chapter shall contract with the state tax commission for the
38 collection and administration of such taxes in like manner and
39 under definitions and rules of the state tax commission for the
40 collection and administration of thE~ state sales and use tax
41 under chapter 36, title 63, Idaho (:ode. The state tax commission
42 is authorized to adopt additional rules as may be necessary for
43 efficient and effective tax collection and administration under
44 this chapter, including, without limitation, destination-based
45 sourcing rules as are compatible wii:.h chapter 36, title 63, Idaho
46 Code, and use tax credit rules as are compatible with section 1.
47 of article V of section 63-3701, Idaho Code.
48 (2) The authority shall coni~ract with the state tax
49 commission for registration, collection and return and money
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1 compliance or legal representation, may be contracted with the
2 state tax commission as determined appropriate by the board. The
3 costs of any such contracted services shall be paid from the tax
4 receipts, subject to subsection (3)(b) of this section.
5 (3) All revenues collected by the state tax commission
6 pursuant to section 40-2112, Idaho Code, shall be distributed as
7 follows:
8 (a) An amount of money shall be distributed to the state
g refund fund sufficient to pay current refund claims. All
10 refunds authorized by the state tax commission to be paid
11 shall be paid through the state refund fund and those moneys
12 are continuously appropriated.
13 (b) An amount of money shall be distributed to the state tax
14 commission equal to such fee as may be agreed upon between
15 the state tax commission and such authority for the actual
16 cost of the collection and administration of the local sales
17 and use tax. The amount retained by the state tax commission
18 shall not exceed the amount authorized to be expended by
19 appropriation by the legislature. Any unencumbered balance in
20 excess of the actual cost at the end of each fiscal year
21 shall be distributed as provided in subsection (3)(c) of this
22 section.
23 (c) All remaining moneys shall be placed in the regional
24 transportation authorities fund established in section
25 40--2114, Idaho Code, and distributed as provided in that
26 section to the appropriate board of the authority levying
27 such local sales and use tax.
28 SECTION 14. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Code, be, and
29 the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a N„~E
30 E TI N, to be known and designated as Section 40-2114, Idaho
31 Code, and to read as follows:
32 40-2114. REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITIES FUND
33 ESTABLISHED - DISTRIBUTION OF MONEYS. (1) There is hereby
34 established in the state treasury a fund known as the "Regional
35 Transportation Authorities Fund," which shall be referred to as
36 the RTA fund, to which shall be credited moneys as provided by
37 section 40-2113(3)(c), Idaho Code.
38 (2) Interest earned on the investment of idle moneys in the
39 RTA fund shall be paid to the RTA fund.
40 (3) Distributions from the fund shall be made to the
41 appropriate board, upon demand of the board, to be spent, pledged
42 or accumulated for any purpose in furtherance of each element of
43 the transportation financing plan.
44 SECTION 15. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Code, be, and
45 the same is hereby amended by the addition thereta of a NEE
46 E TI , to be known and designated as Section 40-2115, Idaho
47 Code, and to read as follows:
48 40-2115. BOND ISSUES. (1) An authority shall have power to
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corporate purposes. An authority shall alsa ~nVeop°retirin bonds
refunding bonds for the purpose of p y g g
previously issued by it. In order to carry out the purposes of
this chapter, an authority may issue, upon proper resolution,
bonds on which the principal and interest are payable solely out
of all or a specified portion of the revenues as designated by
the board.
(2) Any such bonds may be additionally secured by a pledge
of any revenues, moneys or property of the authority. Any pledge
made by the authority shall be valid and binding from the time
when the pledge is made and recorded; the revenues, moneys or
property so pledged and thereafter received by the authority
shall immediately be subject to the lien of the pledge without
any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any
such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties
having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against
the authority, irrespective of whether the parties have notice
thereof.
(3) Neither the board of any authority nor any person
executing the bands shall be liable personally on the bands by
reason of the issuance thereof. The bonds and other obligations
of an authority shall state on their face khat:
(a) They shall not be a debt of the county, the state or any
political subdivision thereof;
(b) None of the county, the state or any political
subdivision thereof shall be liable thereon; and
(c) In no event shall such bands or obligations be payable
out of any funds other than those of the authority. Bonds of
an authority are declared to be issued for an essential
public and governmental purpose and to be public
instrumentalities and, together with interest thereon and
income therefrom, shall be exempt from taxation.
34 SECTION 16. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Code, be, and
35 the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a N~
36 E T N, to be known and designated as Section 40-2116, Idaho
37 Code, and to read as follows:
38 40-2116. ISSUANCE OF BOND5 -- TERMS -- NEGOTIABLE -- ACTIONS
39 TO TEST VALIDITY -- CONCLUSIVE PRESUMPTIONS. (1) Bonds of an
40 authority shall be authorized by resolution of its board and may
41 be issued in one (1) or more series and shall bear such date or
42 dates, mature at such time or times not exceeding thirty (30)
43 years, bear interest at such rage or rates as the board shall
44 approve, be in such denomination or denominations, be in such
95 form, either coupon or registerErd, carry such conversion or
46 registration privileges, have such rank or priority, be executed
47 in such manner, be payable in such medium of payment, at such
48 place or places, and be subject to such terms of redemption, with
49 or without premium as such resolution, its trust indenture, or
50 the bonds so issued, may provide.
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1 (2) The bonds may be sold at public or private sale at such
2 price or prices, in such manner, and at such times as determined
3 by the board, and the board may pay all fees, expenses, and
4 commissions that it deems necessary or advantageous in connection
5 with the sale of the bonds.
6 (3) In case any of the board members or officers of the
7 authority whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons shall
g cease to be a board member or officer before the bellvvalidf sand
9 bonds, such signatures shall, nevertheless,
10 sufficient for all purposes, the same as if such board member or
ll officer had remained in office until such delivery. Any provision
12 of any law to the contrary notwithstanding, any bonds issued
13 pursuant to this chapter shall be fully negotiable.
14 (4) In any suit, action or proceeding involving the validity
15 or enforceability of any bond of an authority or the security
16 thereof, any such bond, reciting, in substance, that it has been
17 issued by the authority for purposes of financing the region's
18 public transportation system, shall be conclusively deemed to
19 have been issued for such purposes in accordance with the
20 provisions of this chapter.
be, and
21 SECTION 17. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Code,
22 the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a NEE
23 ~~;~QN- to be known and designated as Section 40-2117, Idaho
24 Code, and to read as follows:
25 40-2117. RESOLUTION -- ELECTION. (1) Whenever the board
26 shall deem it advisable to issue the bonds of the authority, the
27 board shall provide for the same by resolution, which shall
28 specify and set forth all the purposes and objects of such bonds.
2g The resolution shall also provide for holding an election at a
30 time specified in section 34--106, Idaho Code, for which thirty
31 (30) days' notice shall be given in the official newspaper of
32 each county within the boundaries of the region. The voting at
33 such elections shall be by ballot, and the ballot used shall be
34 substantially as follows: "In favor of issuing bonds to the
35 amount of dollars for the purpose stated in resolution no.
36 ...," and•"Against issuing bands to the amount of ... dollars
37 for the purpose stated in resolution no. ..... .
38 (2) If two-thirds (2/3) of the qualified electors voting at
39 such election assent to the issuing of such bonds and the
40 incurring of the indebtedness thereby created for the purpose
41 aforesaid, such bonds shall be issued in the manner provided in
42 this chapter.
43 SECTION 18. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Code, be, and
44 the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a N~
45 F T N, to be known and designated as Section 40-2118, Idaho
46 Code, and to read as follows:
47 40-2118. POWERS `I'O SECURE PAYMENT Off' BONDS. In connection
48 with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of obligations under
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obligations, an authority, in additaion to its other powers, shall
have power to:
(1) Pledge all or any part of its revenues to which its
right then exists, or may thereafter come into existence.
(2) Mortgage all or any part: of its real or personal
property then owned or thereafter acquired.
(3) Covenant against pledging all or any part of its
revenues, or against permitting or suffering any lien on such
revenues or property; to covenant w:Lth respect to limitations on
its right to sell, lease or otherwise dispose of any project or
any part thereof; and to covenant as to what other, or additional
debts or obligations may be incurred by it.
(4) Covenant as to the bends to be issued and as to the
issuance of such bands in escrow oi- otherwise, and as to the use
and disposition of the proceeds thereof; to provide for the
replacement of lost, destroyed or mutilated bonds; to covenant
against extending the time for thE~ payment of its bonds or
interest thereon; and to redeem t:he bonds, and to covenant for
the redemption and to provide the terms and conditions thereof.
(5) Covenant, subject to the limitations contained in this
chapter, as to the revenues to be received by the authority and
as to the use and disposition to be made thereof; to create or to
authorize the creation of special funds for moneys held for
construction or operating costs, debt service, reserves or other
purposes; and to covenant as to the use and disposition of the
moneys held in such funds.
(6) Prescribe the procedure, if any, by which the terms of
any contract with bondholders may bE~ amended or abrogated, the
amount of bonds the holders of whick~ must consent thereto and the
manner in which such consent may be given.
(7) Covenant as to the use of any or all of its real or
personal property; and to covenant as to the maintenance of its
real and personal property, the replacement thereof, the
insurance to be carried thereon and the use and disposition of
insurance moneys.
(8) Covenant as to the rights, liabilities, powers and
duties arising upon the breach by it: of any covenant, condition
or obligation; and to covenant and prescribe as to default and
terms and conditions upon which any or all of its bonds or
obligations shall become or may be declared due before maturity,
and to the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and
its consequences may be waived.
(9) Vest, in trustee or trustees or the holders of bonds or
any portion of them, the right to enforce the payment of the
bands or any covenants securing or relating to the bonds; to vest
in a trustee or trustees the right,• in the event of a default by
said authority, to take possession of any project ar part
thereof:, and, so long as said authority shall continue in
default, to retain such possession and use, to operate and manage
said project, and to collect the rents and revenues arising
therefrom and to dispose of such moneys in accordance with the
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2 powers and duties of a trustee ar trustees and to limit the
3 liabilities thereof; and to provide the terms and conditions upon
4 which the trustee or trustees or the holders of bonds or any
5 portion of them, may enforce any covenant or rights securing or
6 relating to the bonds.
7 (10) Exercise all or any part or combination of the powers
8 herein granted; to make covenants other than and in addition to
9 the covenants herein expressly authorized, of like or different
10 character; to make such covenants as will tend to make the bonds
11 more marketable, notwithstanding that such covenants, acts or
12 things may not be enumerated herein.
13 SECTION 19. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Code, be, and
14 the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a
15 E TI N, to be known and designated as Section 40-2119, Idaho
16 Code, and to read as (allows:
17 40-2119. LIMITATION ON AMOUNT OF BONDS AND REVENUES PLEDGED.
18 Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 40-2115 through
19 40-2118, Idaho Cade, no authority shall have outstanding at any
20 time an amount of bonds that requires more than twenty percent
21 (20~) of the authority's revenues in such year to pay the highest
22 amount of principal and interest on the bonds coming due in any
23 year thereafter to and including the maturity date of the bonds.
24 SECTION 20. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Code, be, and
25 the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a ,N~
26 E TI N, to be known and designated as Section 40-2120, Idaho
27 Code, and to read as follows:
28 40-2120. RIGHTS OF OBLIGEES -- MANDAMUS -- INJUNCTION. An
29 obligee of an authority shall have the right, in addition to all
30 other rights which may be conferred on such obligee, subject only
31 to any contractual restrictions binding upon such obligee:
32 (1) By mandamus, suit, action or proceedings at law or in
33 equity, to compel said authority and the board, officers, agents
34 or employees thereof to perform each and every term, provision
35 and covenant contained in any contract of said authority, with or
36 for the benefit of such obligee, and to require the carrying out
37 of any or all such covenants and agreements of said authority and
38 the fulfillment of all duties imposed upon said authority by this
39 chapter.
40 (2) By suit, action ar proceeding in equity, to enjoin any
41 acts which may be unlawful, or the violation of any of the rights
42 of such obligee of said authority.
43 SECTION 21. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Code, be, and
44 the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a J},~E
45 E TI N, to be known and designated as Section 40-2121, Idaho
46 Code, and to read as follows:
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issuance or carrying of bonds, but only for the purpose of
reducing the amount or duration of payment, interest rate, spread
or similar risk, or to result in a lower cost of borrowing, and
not for purposes of investment or speculation, the authority may
enter into contracts, which the authority determines to be
necessary or appropriate, to hedge such risk or to place the
obligation of the bonds, in whole or in part, on the interest
rate, cash flow, or other basis desired by the authority,
including without limitation, contracts commonly known as
interest rate swap agreements, interest rate futuresororflhedse
forward payment conversion agreements, g
contracts.
14 SECTION 22. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Cade, be, and
15 the IsNmetolbe knowbyandmdesegnated tas aSection t40r2122~f Idao
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l7 Code, and to read as follows:
lg 40-2122. TERMINATION OF TAX F:EVENUES. Except as authorized
19 pursuant to an election by the quala.fied electors of the region
20 as provided in section 40-2112, Idaho Cade, no local sales and
2l use tax assessed by the authority sr-all have a term exceeding
22 twenty (20) years from the date the resolution approving the tax
23 is adopted by the board, except that: the term may be extended by
24 the board at the rate in effect if:
25 (l) The maturity date of any bonds issued to provide funds
26 for a specific project of the authority and payable from the
27 authority~rovidedrsuchubondxmaturityeisenotogreaterocthanalthirty
28 use tax, p
29 (30) years; or
30 (2) The board determines that in order to avoid a default on
31 the bonds, it is necessary to refinance outstanding bonds payable
32 to a maturity exceeding the maximurn term of the tax permitted by
33 section 40-2112, Idaho Code; and
34 (3) puring any extension set forth in subsection (1) or (2)
35 of this section, all local sales and use tax revenues collected
36 by the authority shall be applied tq the payment of principal and
37 interest on the bonds at the sooner of maturity or upon call for
38 redemption of such bonds. Any local sales and use tax revenues
39 collected by the authority that cannot be immediately applied to
40 the payment of principal and interest on such bonds shall be
41 deposited into an irrevocable escrow fund for the payment of such
42 bonds. Any local sales and use tax revenues collected by the
43 authority exceeding the amount necessary to repay the bonds
44 during the period which exceeds the term of the local sales and
45 use tax, shall be remitted to the county for property tax relief.
46 SECTION 23. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Code, be, and
47 the same is hereby amended by the addition thereto of a FI~~'
48 ~EGTIQN, to be known and designated as Section 40-2123, Idaho
49 Code, and to read as follows:
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2 any local sales and use tax or bond election held pursuant to
3 this chapter, the provisions of section 34-2001A, Idaho Code,
4 shall be applicable to the same effect as if the election were a
5 bond election conducted by a county and a contest of same were
6 being pursued in accordance with the provisions of section
7 34-2001A, Idaho Code.
8 SECTION 24. That Section 40-2112, Idaho Code, be, and the
9 same is hereby amended to read as follows:
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budget and cause a public hearing to be held upon the budget.
(2) Notice of the budget hearing shall be posted at least
ten (10} days prior to the date of the meeting in at least one
(1} conspicuous place in each county within the boundaries of the
regional pab}xc transportation authority and at the
administrative offices of the regional pab}ie transportation
authority. A copy of the notice shall also be published in
accordance with the provisions of section 40-206, Idaho Code. The
place, hour and day of the hearing shall be specified in the
notice, as well as the place where the budget may be examined
prior to the hearing. A full and complete copy of the proposed
budget shall be published with and as a part of the publication
of the notice of hearing.
(3) The budget shall be available for public inspection from
and after the date of the posting of notice of hearing at a place
and during business hours as the board may direct.
(4) A quorum of the board shall attend the hearing and
explain the proposed budget and hear any and all objections to
it.
(5) The budget shall be completed and finalized not later
than the Tuesday following the first Monday in September for the
ensuing fiscal year.
(6) The fiscal year of the authority shall commence on the
first day of October of each year.
SECTION 25. That Section 40-2113, Idaho Code, be, and the
same is hereby amended to read as follows:
40-21}32~. EXEMPTION FROM TAXATION. It is hereby found,
determined and declared that the creation of a regional pab}ie
transportation authority is in all respects for the benefit of
the people of the state of Idaho, for the improvement of their
welfare and prosperity, and for the promotion of their
transportation, and is a public purpose and that projects and
services operated by authorities are essential parts of the
public transportation system, and that such authorities will be
performing essential governmental functions in the exercise of
the powers conferred upon them by this chapter. The state of
Idaho declares that authorities shall be required to pay no taxes
or assessments upon any of the property acquired by them or under
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supervision or upon the activities of authorities in the
operation and maintenance of projects and services, or upon any
ehargea;-f tea; revenues;-or-other-tntome received by authorities,
or upon special fuels used in motor vehicles owned or leased and
operated by authorities, and that the bonds of authorities and
the income therefrom shall at all times be exempt from taxation.
Regional pttbltc transportation authorities createdtpxrs~mnosed
this chapter shall be exempt from the sales and use P
1 n 63-3621, Idaho Code,
under the provisions of section~~
aha~l--be--tamed--a-tax-excmptron-c~erttftcate-aa-prenrded-for-sn
aectton-63-362,-Idaho--Code; and shall be entitled to such
credits and refunds as other political subdivisions of the state
of Idaho are entitled under section 63-2423, Idaho Code.
SECTION 26. That Section 40-211.4, Idaho Cade, be, and the
same is hereby amended to read as follows:
17 40-211$,2. SEVERASILITY. The provisions of this chapter are
18 hereby declared to be severable and if any provision of this act
lg ~hag~ or the application of such provision to any person or
20 circumstance is declared invalid for any reason, such declaration
21 shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
22 chapter.
23 SECTION 27. That Chapter 21, Title 40, Idaho Code, be, and
24 theTIaNe itohebebyknowndeandydesignatedrasoSectione40-2127,aIdaho
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28 public transportation authorities in existence on July 1, 2008,
29 shall remain in existence as regional transportation authorities
30 pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
31 (2) Nothing in this chapter shall infer or be interpreted as
32 creating in the authority any power ar duty to own, operate,
33 maintain or construct any city higl~way system, county highway
34 system, highway district system or ;7tate highway system.
35 (3) It is the intent of this chapter to grant to the
36 authority only the power and duty to provide additional funding
37 over and above funding from other sources, to such highway
3g systems.
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Transportation Funding Opinion Poll
When asked what single issue is of greatest concern, the results were:
Education 27%
Health Care 21%
Economy 20%
Taxes 12
Transportation 10%
Environment 5%
However, in the Treasure Valley, transportation ranked near the top:
Ada 23%
Canyon 21%
When asked their views on potential transportation funding options:
Statewide Su ort O ose
Tax on rental cars 54% 33%
Impact fees on commercial, residential and
industrial develo ment 54% 36%
A local sales tax a roved b voters 41% 55%
An increase in vehicle re istration fees 36% 61%
A fuel tax increase 15% 84%
When told that Idaho is one of four states without a state or local funding
source for public transportation, respondents were more likely to support a
local option tax for public transportation:
Su ort O ose
Statewide 58 % 32
Ada and Can on 66 % 26
Survey conducted Sept. 11-13, 2007, by Moore Information. Sample of 600 likely voters.
The potential sarnpling error is f/- 4% at the 95% confidence leve%
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November 9, 2007
MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING
APPLICANT
REQUEST Update on New City Hall Building Construction
AGENCY COMMENTS
CITY CLERK:
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUILDING DEPT: % /~
CITY WATER DEPT: ~/~
CITY SEWER DEPT:
CITY PARKS DEPT:
MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT:
SANITARY SERVICE COMPANY
CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH:
NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION:
SETTLERS IRRIGATION:
IDAHO POWER:
U S WEST:
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
OTHER:
Contacted: Date: Phone:
Emailed: Staff Initials:
Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian.
November 13, 2007
ITEM NO. 3-E
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November 9, 2007
MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING November 13, 2007
APPLICANT ITEM NO. 3-F
REQUEST Findings on the State of the FEMA Program
AGENCY COMMENTS
CITY CLERK:
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT: I r7 dr/IY
CITY BUILDING DEPT: ~(/'' ~„ /r~ "
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CITY WATER DEPT: ~
CITY SEWER DEPT:
CITY PARKS DEPT:
MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT:
SANITARY SERVICE COMPANY
CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH:
NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION:
SETTLERS IRRIGATION:
IDAHO POWER:
US WEST:
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
OTHER:
Contacted: Date: Phone:
Emailed: Staff Initials:
Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian.
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Tara Green
From: Will Berg
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:52 AM
To: Tara Green
Subject: FW: FEMA Issues
Follow Up Flag: Follow up
Flag Status: Green
Place on the agenda please.
From: Joe Borton [mailto:jwborton@foleyfreeman.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:48 AM
To: Will Berg; Bill Nary
Subject: FW: FEMA Issues
FY I
From: Len Grady [mailto:gradyl@meridiancity.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:48 AM
To: Joe Borton
Subject: FW: FEMA Issues
Page 1 of 2
Good to go.
From: Kyle Radek
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:47 AM
To: Len Grady
Subject: RE: FEMA Issues
I'll be ready (by then).
Kyle Radek, P.E.
Staff Engineer
City of Meridian Public Works Department
ph 208-898-5500 ext 213
From: Len Grady
Sent: Thursday, November O1, 2007 9:45 AM
To: Kyle Radek
Subject: FW: FEMA Issues
I assume you're ready.
From: Joe Borton [mailto:jwborton@foleyfreeman.com]
Sent: Thursday, November O1, 2007 9:38 AM
To: Len Grady
Cc: Tammy de Weerd; Will Berg
Subject: RE: FEMA Issues
11 /9/2007
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Nov 13; is that too soon?
From: Len Grady [mailto:gradyl@meridiancity.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 9:30 AM
To: Joe Borton
Cc: Tammy de Weerd
Subject: FEMA Issues
I think it's time to present Council our findings on the state of the FEMA program. We have identified several
issues, but have not completed an exhaustive search. Kyle has been refining his presentation, which will highlight
the problem areas we have found and the proposed solutions.
I would assume one hour would be adequate and that this would be a workshop item. Do you want to schedule
this presentation?
Len
11 /9/2007
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November 9, 2007
MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING
APPLICANT
ITEM NO. 4-A
REQUEST Ada County Use of City Property
AGENCY
CITY CLERK:
CITY ENGINEER:
CITY PLANNING DIRECTOR:
CITY ATTORNEY
CITY POLICE DEPT:
CITY FIRE DEPT:
CITY BUILDING DEPT:
CITY WATER DEPT:
CITY SEWER DEPT:
CITY PARKS DEPT:
MERIDIAN SCHOOL DISTRICT:
ADA COUNTY HIGHWAY DISTRICT:
SANITARY SERVICE COMPANY
CENTRAL DISTRICT HEALTH:
NAMPA MERIDIAN IRRIGATION:
SETTLERS IRRIGATION:
IDAHO POWER:
US WEST:
INTERMOUNTAIN GAS:
MERIDIAN POST OFFICE:
OTHER:
Contacted: Date: Phone: _
Emailed: Staff Initials:
Materials presented at public meetings shall become property of the City of Meridian.
November 13, 2007
COMMENTS
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DECEIVED
ao~ ~ ~ 2007
City of Meridian
rite Clerk Qffice
DELIQUENCY FOR TURN OFF
Schedule for November 13, 2007
Cycle 2
MAYOR: This letter attests to the fact that no water users have requested
a pre-termination hearing for November 13, 2007. Users having delinquent
utility bills will be shut off on November 14, 2007.
The total amount past due is $ 19,143.48.
The number of past due customers is 223.
Jaycee Holman
Billing Manager _
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CITY CLE:Kk - F~'Y\ 888-4218 CITY ATTORNEY i HR - F,1~ 884-8723 FINANCE & UT[LI'1'Y BILLING - F.-l\ 887-4813 MAYOR'S OFFICE - I'A?i 884-8116
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CITY OF MERIDIAN Shutoff Account List CITY COUNCIL Page: 1
Standard Payment Customers Nov 13, 2007 05:18pm
Current Period: 11/20/2007 -Transactions Included Through: 11/20/2007
Shutoff Minimum of $ 50.00 compared to Delinquent Balance
Report Criteria:
Terminated customers not included
Customer.Cust No Q = {<}7700000001
Customer.Bill Cycle = 2
Customer.disconnected = No
Customer.shut off list = No
Ref
No Cust No Name /Service Address Past Due Balance
1 9.92.1307.03 ACKERSON, CHAD 77.40 102.61
4717 ZACHARY WAY N
2 15.21.1720.02 ADAMS, SHIRLEY 50.61 102.32
2121 LEANN WAY
3 3.18.1232.03 AFRAM, HAMOURABI 64.25 101.78
2095 SAGE SPRINGS CT W
4 6.06.9124.03 AGNETTA, ROBERT & KAREN 88.90 136.03
2341 REDWICK CT E (CORNER)
5 3.15.4205.02 ALBERT, GABRIEL 77.43 175.27
2625 WOLF RAPIDS DR W
6 9.90.1912.02 ALLEN, RALPH 52.64 145.72
3945 BRYCE CANYON PL N
7 3.03.5876.02 ALLEN-DRAVES, KELLY 67.02 109.85
5884 COUGAR FLAT AVE N
8 17.33.3766.02 ANDERSON, RICHARD & KRISTIN 97.47 144.51
350 HAW K ST E
9 14.20.2006.01 ARNETT, DUKE 140.97 182.27
3720 QUAKER RIDGE DR
10 15.21.1476.03 ARRUDA, STACY 93.42 151.42
2725 CHATEAU DR W
NO ARRANGEMENTS AND CASH ONLY
TIL 8/20/08 DUE TO RENTER (ARRUDA)
WRITING NSF TO GET/KEEP WATER
ON.-DB 8/27/07
11 3.15.2514.02 ASARO, MATTHEW & JENNIFER 78.35 122.80
5934 TEEKEM FALLS WAY N
12 16.32.1362.04 ASH, TRAVIS 104.15 231.16
308 WATERBURY DR W
NO ARRANGEMENTS FOR
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CITY OF MERIDIAN Shutoff Account List CITY COUNCIL Page: 2
Standard Payment Customers Nov 13, 2007 05:18pm
Current Period: 11/20/2007 -Transactions Included Through: 11/20/2007
Shutoff Minimum of $ 50.00 compared to Delinquent Balance
RENTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
13 16.32.0744.01 BARNARD, WILLIAM 107.10 147.53
30 WILLOWBROOK DR W
14 18.42.0444.04 BATCHELOR, ROBERT & MARINA 58.32 104.70
2327 GRAPEWOOD DR E
NO ARRANGEMENTS ALLOWED FOR
RENTER (ARELLANO/BITTICK) AND
CASH ONLY PERMANENTLY DUE TO
BROKEN ARRANGEMENT AND NSF TO
GET WATER BACK ON. THIS IS TO
PROTECT OWNER
15 18.42.1134.05 BATES, KEILA 85.40 169.52
2000 APPLEWOOD AVE N
16 15.21.2128.02 BATES, SUMER 107.84 175.20
2860 ANN ST W
NO ARRANGEMENTS & CASH ONLY
PERMANENTLY FOR BATES DUE TO
NSF WRITTEN TO GET/KEEP WATER
ON. THIS IS TO PROTECT OWNER.
17 3.18.1903.02 BEESON, MARE & CURT 56.01 126.76
5408 STANLEY CREEK AVE N
18 15.22.1512.02 BENSON, KENNETH & JULIE 85.25 166.25
1856 SANDALWOOD DR W
19 16.31.0808.01 BENT, JASON 8~ LAUREL 61.96 120.75
2121 12TH ST NW
20 9.09.9404.02 BERTRAND, BRUCE 66.28 134.04
1049 GREAT BASIN DR W
21 15.21.0130.01 BESKER, GLORIA 73.26 165.29
2624 LEANN WAY N
NO ARRANGEMENTS ALLOWED FOR
CUSTOMER UNTIL 9/11/08-USED 2ND
ONE ON 10/9!07--DB 10/9
22 15.21.1990.02 BICKEL, DWIGHT & CYNTHIA 86.41 133.53
2935 ANN ST W
23 16.31.0240.03 BLABBER, DARREN G 71.16 96.68
1440 CHERRY LN W
24 15.21.0064.02 BORUP, BRENT & JEANETTE 117.12 184.09
2270 LEANN WAY
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CITY OF MERIDIAN Shutoff Account List CITY COUNCIL Page: 3
Standard Payment Customers Nov 13, 2007 05:19pm
Current Period: 11/20/2007 -Transactions Included Through: 11/20/2007
Shutoff Minimum of $ 50.00 com pared to Delinquent Balance
Ref
No Cust No Name /Service Address Past Due Balance
25 3.92.0613.02 BOWMAN, JEFFERY 110.14 180.87
2579 GLADE CREEK DR W
26 16.31.3392.02 BOYLE, ARTHUR & MOLLY 56.57 90.69
1074 DELMAR DR
27 8.85.0014.02 BRAUN, DEREK 56.08 89.52
4067 DONAVAN WAY N
28 7.52.0113.02 BRAUN, ERICA 75.19 100.40
3647 SUMMERPARK PL N
29 7.52.0116.02 BRAUN, ERICA 71.16 96.37
2060 LOBELIA ST
30 9.09.0546.02 BRIGHT, TERRELL & LINDY 89.39 141.08
3804 RHODES AVE N
31 17.33.1830.05 BROOKS, LINDA 97.07 216.93
149 WOODBURY DR E
32 10.20.0066.03 BROWN, CHRISTOPHER M 90.53 130.84
3830 COOL RIVER WAY N
33 17.79.0513.03 BROWN, SARAH & 52.42 86.80
640 WILLOWBROOK DR E
34 18.42.2718.03 BRYANT, JOHN 75.47 163.39
2507 LAUGHRIDGE AVE N
35 18.42.2460.01 BURTON, JACK 65.09 123.59
1784 LOCHMEADOW ST E
36 15.21.2174.06 BUTLER, MICHAEL 197.15 256.00
1905 BING AVE N
37 15.21.0522.01 CALWELL, MARC 79.93 125.66
2597 PARK STONE DR W
38 16.32.0910.03 CANNELL, FRANK 8~ CATHY 79.78 190.96
2395 KELSEY PL N
39 9.15.2805.02 CARVER, KART 115.91 164.43
4179 RHODES AVE N
40 6.06.1436.04 CASE, LEX 108.84 164.15
2294 HANDEL ST E
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CITY OF MERIDIAN Shutoff Account List CITY COUNCIL Page: 4
Standard Payment Customers Nov 13, 2007 05:19pm
Current Period: 11/20/2007 -Transactions Included Through: 11/20/2007
Shutoff Minimum of $ 50.00 compared to Delinquent Balance
Ref
No Cust No Name /Service Address Past Due Balance
41 12.40.0215.04 CECIL, JENNIFER & RAYMOND 74.97 123.77
3536 OAKSTONE AVE N
NO ARRANGEMENTS PER THE PM!!!
42 13.13.8540.03 CHALOUPKA, DANNYEL 63.21 126.83
2530 VALLEY GREEN WAY N
NO ARRANGEMENTS ALLOWED FOR
RENTERS PER OWNER
43 15.22.1464.04 CHENEY, HOPE 109.30 163.37
1684 HENDRICKS ST W
44 16.21.0503.04 CHIN, GEORGE & GRACE 71.72 128.73
717 CLAIRE ST W
45 10.55.3210.02 CHUBINSKY, IRINA & NIKOLAY 68.48 126.44
2320 LOS FLORES DR W
46 17.33.2426.05 CLAY, SUSAN & STEVEN 115.44 172.36
2499 CAPECOD WAY N
47 15.21.1766.01 COFFMAN, RICK K. 82.96 186.93
1960 MARIANNA PL
48 16.31.0776.03 COLLINGSWORTH, JESSE 64.30 120.42
2218 FAIRWOOD DR
49 15.22.0922.04 COX, KATHY 136.96 209.23
2155 MONACO WAY
50 8.81.0512.02 CROGH, LORI & LASON 64.79 125.16
479 HERITAGE PARK ST E
51 3.15.4617.01 CRONER, CHAD 73.34 121.87
2211 TANGO CREEK DR W
52 15.21.2812.02 DANAHA, STEPHEN & SANDY 63.24 111.15
2470 MORELLO AVE N
53 15.21.2228.03 DAVIS, JESSICA 72.31 119.43
2864 KANDICE CT W
54 12.40.0229.02 DAVISON, CLINT 8~ KARA 98.37 173.20
3478 ELMSTONE PL N
NO ARRAN EMFNT~ FOR
CITY OF MERIDIAN Shutoff Account List CITY COUNCIL Page: 5
Standard Payment Customers Nov 13, 2007 05:19pm
Current Period: 11/20/2007 -Transactions Included Through: 11/20/2007
Shutoff Minimum of $ 50.00 compared to Delinquent Balance
RENTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
55 3.15.1406.02 DEGRAFF, HAROLD 98.59 130.64
1861 HAM RAPIDS ST W
56 12.40.0205.02 DELAY, JON & DAWN 112.61 175.80
3420 OAKSTONE AVE N
NO ARRANGEMENTS ALLOWED FOR
RENTER.
57 16.31.3002.03 DENKER, ERIN & JEFF 66.74 125.50
2240 W EST 15TH ST N
58 9.09.0330.02 DILDINE, DERIN 100.21 152.87
3732 GREENWICH WAY N (CORNER)
59 3.15.4521.01 DILGARD, JENNIFER 51.48 111.98
2193 RATTLESNAKE DR W
60 8.81.0818.02 DOHERTY, KATIE & KILLIAN, L. 83.37 142.12
556 HERITAGE PARK ST E
61 13.13.8962.02 DOMINGUEZ, FELIX 79.56 125.93
2732 DAYSIDE AVE N
62 17.33.2612.06 DONALDSON, NEAL 109.74 174.67
2924 CAPE COD AVE N
63 17.34.2090.02 DON, CHRISTIANA 103.69 168.04
1041 TAMMY ST
64 17.34.0398.01 DUNCAN, RICHARD 68.63 124.25
1164 TORRINGTON CT
65 15.22.1342.02 DUNN, LINDY 107.98 237.33
1877 MCGLINCHEY ST W
NO ARRANGEMENTS ALLOWED &
CASH ONLY FOR RENTER DUE TO NSF
WRITTEN TO GET/KEEP WATER ON BY
KAYLA BURROUGHS. THIS IS TO
PROTECT THE OWNER.
66 8.08.1592.02 DUNN-GLASS, JULIE 79.72 128.21
3306 W EATON AVE N
67 10.20.0230.02 EATON, RONDA 70.71 119.20
3713 TIMBER LAKES WAY N
NO ARRANGEMENTS ALLOWED FOR
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CITY OF MERIDIAN Shutoff Account List CITY COUNCIL Page: 6
Standard Payment Customers Nov 13, 2007 05:19pm
Current Period: 11/20/2007 -Transactions i ncluded Through: 11/20/2007
Shutoff Minimum of $ 50.00 compared to Delinquent Balance
RENTERS, PER RPM!!!
68 8.08.1050.03 EDGAR, MIKE 8~ TAMARA 110.37 165.73
173 MOSKEE ST E
NO ARRANGEMENTS ALLOWED FOR
RIDDLE (RENTER) UNTIL
1/29/2008-WROTE NSF TO GET/KEEP
WATER ON. CASH ONLY.
69 17.34.1898.01 EDINGER, REX S. 73.09 174.49
2111 LARK PL N
70 10.20.0248.02 EDWARDS, ROBERT 57.78 127.48
3804 TWIN EAGLE WAY N
71 13.09.0628.03 ELLIS, TERRY & LINDA 63.93 109.69
3001 ELISHA AVE N
72 13.13.0010.04 EVANS, MICHAEL "BRAE" & KIM 58.05 131.14
2344 AYRSHIRE PL N
73 9.09.9608.02 EVERITT, DARCY 65.58 105.89
1087 WHITE SANDS DR W
74 9.09.0512.02 FIELD, LISA 99.00 137.92
748 ANTON DR W
75 9.15.2712.04 FIELDS, MICHAEL & JULIE 145.96 196.22
568 YOSEMITE DR W
76 16.16.3640.02 FITZEN, LARAE 8~ LINDA 146.22 216.04
93 SEDGEWICK DR W
77 10.10.2562.03 FOLKES, ELON & MAMOKETE 97.71 157.24
2037 WINDCHIME DR W
78 3.18.0802.02 FRIEDRICHSHEN, PAUL & INGE 62.76 115.74
5105 LOLO PASS WAY N
79 9.92.0420.02 GABICA, MIKE 69.83 125.14
4644 ZACHARY WAY N
80 9.90.1919.03 GAGNE, JAMES & AMY 85.78 154.75
3844 BRYCE CANYON PL N
81 18.42.2526.01 GARCIA, JOEL 130.19 216.02
2400 LAUGHRIDGE AVE N
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No Cust No Name /Service Address Past Due Balance
82 14.14.3614.04 GARRETT, DAMON 63.94 127.39
4133 BEDROCK DR W
NO ARRANGEMENTS ALLOWED FOR
RENTERS, PER HPM!!!
83 3.90.0318.03 GEHA, MINERVA 52.09 112.80
5367 AREZZO AVE N
84 6.45.0302.02 GEORGESON, HOLLY C 54.18 80.78
5138 SCHUBERT AVE N
85 6.45.0405.02 GEORGESON, HOLLY C 54.18 79.39
5074 SPANGLE AVE N
86 18.42.1240.01 GILLETT, JOSHUA 81.18 131.99
2413 CLARENE ST E
87 10.20.0294.03 GOODEN, DUSTIN 58.06 109.33
3841 MORNING SKY AVE N
88 5.50.0222.02 GRAVEN, DEL 8~ ERICA 79.82 140.66
736 BONITA CANYON ST E
89 9.92.1206.03 GRAY, STERLING 96.19 238.14
1206 T I DA ST W
90 17.34.0382.03 GRIMM, KEITH & DESTINY 71.84 140.34
1184 WILLOWBROOK DR E
91 10.20.0160.02 GUERRERO, DEBRA 68.13 96.09
3917 WATERSONG WAY N
CASH ONLY TIL 9/13/08 DUE TO 2
NSF-D/P IN LESS THAN AYEAR.-DB
9/13/07
92 9.92.7112.01 HALIFORD, TOM & KERRY 71.87 143.01
1273 ANN TAYLOR ST W
93 17.34.2732.01 HAMILTON, FLOYD 79.00 135.01
1178 COUGAR CREEK DR E
94 16.31.3394.02 HANHARDT, ANDREW & CAMILLE 91.74 146.07
1080 DELMAR DR
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Ref
No Cust No Name /Service Address
95 9.92.0417.03 HARRISON, J. & BOMAN, R.
1250 COBBLEFIELD CT W
Past Due Balance
133.34 198.17
96 13.09.0304.02 HASKELL, JEFF 8~ REBEKAH 66.91 120.14
3059 CHRISTIAN WAY N
NO ARRANGEMENTS FOR
RENTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
97 16.32.0652.03 HATCH, RUSTIN & DEBRA 101.75 159.91
451 WILLOWBROOK DR W
98 3.03.5576.02 HAVILAND, V. PAGE 70.96 121.26
2172 CEDAR GROVE ST W
99 14.14.3006.04 HAWS, ANTHONY & GALLEY 60.93 126.90
4286 NIEMANN DR W
100 15.21.2798.01 HERZIG, RONALD & CARISSA 61.44 108.17
2543 MORELLO AVE N
101 9.15.2813.01 HIGH DESERT CONSTRUCTION 87.06 121.92
738 GREAT BASIN DR W
102 17.79.0605.02 HILL, DAVIS 54.24 123.28
693 WILLOW BROOK DR E
NO ARRANGEMENTS FOR RENTERS
PER PM!!! RENTER (HILL) WROTE NSF
TO GET/KEEP WATER ON. IS NOW
CASH ONLY PERM. TO PROTECT
OWNER.--DB 7/25/07
103 17.34.1870.02 HILL, RONIE 8~ CARLA 127.15 251.91
904 WILLOWBROOK DR E
104 17.33.4346.01 HOLLOWAY, PAIGE 64.56. 147.13
2531 LARCHMONT AVE N
105 12.40.0102.03 HORNE, KEVIN &HEATHER MITCHELL 95.61 154.37
3402 MAPLESTONE AVE N
NO ARRANGEMENTS ALLOWED FOR
RENTERS, PER HPM!!!
106 9.09.9118.01 HRISTOV, JORDAN 66.99 110.00
1495 WHITE SANDS DR W
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No Cust No Name /Service Address Past Due Balance
107 18.42.2388.03 HUDDLESTON, TIM 123.08 165.03
2255 GREEN MEADOW CT E
108 3.92.0610.02 JACKSON, RICHARD & JOSEPHINE 102.05 154.69
2639 GLADE CREEK DR W
109 6.45.0504.02 JARES, STEWART 72.31 150.17
4957 SCHUBERT AVE N
110 8.08.1374.04 JENSEN, ALOHA LEILANI 88.68 134.47
228 CARVER DR E
111 8.30.2706.02 JENSEN, ARTHUR 66.16 91.37
3968 QUENZER WAY N
112 16.31.3434.03 JENSEN, J. & D./STONE, P. & B. 78.71 110.05
1142 FAIRWOOD CT
113 8.81.0541.03 JOHNSON, MARCUS & STEPHANIE 68.93 139.63
3790 TIPTON WAY N
114 15.22.0330.01 JONES, ELDON & LORI 106.44 225.43
2312 MONACO WAY
NO ARRANGEMENTS TIL 7/26/07!! DID
NOT KEEP LAST ARRANGEMENTS!!!
115 17.33.3660.03 JORDAN, KATHY 85.19 180.90
529 BALDWIN ST E
NO ARRANGEMENTS FOR RENTERS!!!!
116 15.21.1058.02 JORGENSEN, ROBERT & TERI LYNN 138.06 256.32
2915 FIELDSTONE WAY N
117 16.32.1270.03 KENNING, JENNIFER 60.11 104.45
287 WOODBURY DR W
118 3.90.1009.02 KUMAR, MANISH 58.05 83.26
2951 WAPOOT ST W
119 8.08.0568.03 LABARTUNEK, MICHELLE 52.23 107.64
3878 LEGACY WOODS AVE N
CITY OF MERIDIAN
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No Cust No Name /Service Address Past Due Balance
120 10.10.1046.03 LAND VENTURE, INC 97.85 155.99
3501 STATION AVE N
121 15.21.0456.04 LAWRENCE, CHRISTINE & JOE 69.67 129.59
2944 OLD STONE WAY N
122 14.19.4430.03 LAWSON, SUZANNE 65.41 154.95
3458 ANGELICA DR W
123 13.13.5000.03 LEWIS, DAWN 67.76 118.25
4925 TOURNAMENT DR W
NO ARRANGEMENTS ALLOWED FOR
THE RENTERS PER THE PM!!!
124 15.22.2178.02 LEWIS, LAWRENCE 94.63 137.64
3019 ASTAIRE AVE N
125 18.42.3044.03 LIGHTFOOT, MEGHAN & MASON 79.90 124.40
1932 CHALLIS DR E
NO ARRANGEMENTS ALLOWED FOR
TENANTS PER THE OWNER!!!!
126 8.15.0104.02 LINEBERRY, LAURA 90.48 147.23
728 KAIBAB TRAIL DR E
127 15.21.0040.03 LUCERO, JERRY 116.84 178.12
2002 KRISTEN WAY
128 18.42.2726.04 MADENFORD, NATHAN & ROBIN 70.62 166.47
1924 GLENLOCH ST E
129 14.14.4428.02 MAKA, ANN 118.30 199.67
2950 TURNBERRY WAY N
130 15.22.2552.03 MALLOY, PATRICK 77.13 129.95
2845 ROUGH STONE WAY N
131 18.42.1206.01 MARTIN, LOREN 94.42 127.51
1975 DIXIE AVE N
132 12.40.0209.02 MARTINEZ, ROBERT 91.98 183.05
3397 ELMSTONE AVE N
133 7.04.1012.03 MASON, BARBARA 81.40 125.80
1725 EXPEDITION DR E
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No Cust No Name /Service Address
134 14.02.0102.01 MATRIX HOMES
4536 NEIMANN CT W
Past Due Balance
52.57 78.09
135 7.52.0106.02 MCGINNIS, REBECCA 62.42 87.63
3629 SUMMERCREST PL N
136 16.31.3514.04 MCGRATH, MICHAEL J. & ALMA L. 85.57 141.58
1786 WEST 11TH AVE N
137 7.48.2106.02 MCIVER, BRENT & DENISE 60.22 103.23
2553 SUMMER DAWN ST E
138 15.15.0278.04 MEHMOOD, ADINA 97.11 148.38
2226 WHITELAW DR W
139 9.09.0740.02 MENDOZA, PEDRO & EVA 147.68 215.42
550 WELCH ST W
140 12.40.0231.02 MILLER, M./AYEN W./ FELL, T. 58.32 177.44
3498 ELMSTONE PL N
NO ARRANGEMENTS FOR
RENTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
141 18.42.1878.02 MOFFIT, DON 100.22 228.35
2072 SEQUOIA PL N
142 16.32.0636.02 MOORE, AARON & TIA 133.80 232.12
635 LONGFORD DR
143 9.90.1707.02 MOORE, ERIN 151.48 223.20
809 YOSEMITE DR W
144 16.31.3352.04 MORAND, DANIELLE C. 57.11 102.87
2222 WEST 10TH AVE N
145 15.21.2564.04 MORRIS, MONIKAH 67.07 83.49
2220 TEN MILE RD N
146 9.09.7170.03 MUNOZ, MICHAEL 59.50 216.05
1580 LORETTA ST W
147 8.08.1256.02 NEBRIGICH, ANTHONY & ALLISON 50.49 108.58
3512 WESTON WAY N
CITY OF MERIDIAN
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No Cust No Name /Service Address Past Due Balance
148 17.33.2280.02 NGALU, ITILIAME 60.74 138.80
2511 ARROW WOOD WAY N
NO ARRANGEMENTS FOR RENTERS
PER HPM!!!!!!!!!!-!!
149 15.21.1158.03 NILSON, ERIC & CHRISTINE 72.14 192.26
2472 MAXIE WAY N
150 3.15.0908.03 OVITT, KRISTEN D. 112.98 160.16
2163 ROOT CREEK ST W
151 15.21.2226.03 PAGOAGA, KENNETH 70.06 114.43
2850 KANDICE CT W
152 15.15.3010.03 PAMELA DE JONG TRUST 109.00 156.13
1734 EMERALD FALLS DR W
153 12.40.0304.02 PENA, JESS & SUSAN 54.29 110.27
3341 MAPLESTONE AVE N
154 8.08.5050.02 PETERSON, A. & SMITH, A. 58.80 114.16
4402 SUPAI AVE N
NO ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE
RENTERS PER PM!!
155 7.04.0804.02 PIRWITZ, JENNIFER 77.40 102.61
1746 GRAND CANYON DR E
156 7.48.1203.02 PISOR, MATHEW C & HELEN W 54.29 126.09
2445 NAKANO DR E
157 15.21.0508.02 PITCHER, CHRISTA & MIKE 120.77 209.63
2858 QUARRYSTONE WAY N
CANCELED D/P FROM SAVINGS, AS
BANK STATED "RDFI NOT QUALIFIED
TO PARTICIPATE"--DB 9/11/07
PUT ON D/P (PITCHER/RENTER) 7/9/07
(SAVINGS)--DB 7/9/07
158 8.81.0208.02 PLANTE, JERRY & THIA 124.70 223.90
269 ANTON ST E
NO ARRANGEMENTS ALLOWED FOR
RENTERS, PER HPM!!!
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No Cust No Name /Service Address Past Due Balance
159 16.16.3638.03 PLAZA, CHRISTOPHER 52.05 87.27
101 SEDGEWICK DR W
160 5.50.1907.02 PLAZA, CHRISTOPHER L 8~ TINA 70.88 126.21
5541 ROSA SPRINGS AVE N
161 8.81.0114.02 POE, GERALD & CHELSA 109.00 154.74
215 CORNELL DR E
162 9.92.7164.03 POSTON, BLAKE 64.73 103.68
1524 LORETTA ST W
163 17.34.3254.02 POULSEN, BRIAN 58.91 161.70
3065 SHEEPHORN AVE N
164 17.34.1940.02 PRESLEY, ALLISON 130.08 158.90
723 WILLOWBROOK DR E
165 4.70.0032.02 PRITCHETT, HEATHER 62.80 107.52
5672 BERGMAN AVE N
166 17.33.2712.03 PRIZE, OWEN & NANCY 51.32 120.23
713 ADDESON ST E
167 18.42.2112.02 PROUTY, CLAYTON 123.76 168.36
2361 WINGATE PL N
168 15.21.0012.02 RAINFORD, ROBERT & ALINDA 77.77 179.54
1722 TODD WAY
169 15.21.2876.01 REBER, RANDY & DARLA 60.86 120.28
2974 FOXTROTTER DR W
NO ARRANGEMENTS FOR RENTERS!!!!
170 17.34.1792.01 REED, PATRICIA 96.67 223.87
2167 JERICHO WAY
171 8.30.1303.02 RESNICK, NEIL & PATTY JO 62.32 104.73
3988 HOLLYMOUNT WAY N
172 3.18.1806.02 REYES, CHRISTINA 110.67 172.62
5421 STANLEY CREEK AVE N
173 18.42.2620.02 REYNOLDS, PATRICK T 82.53 121.44
2650 CHANCERY WAY N
174 4.70.1916.02 RICHARDSON, ERIC & VANESSA 78.29 129.56
694 VALENTINO DR W
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No Cust No Name /Service Address Past Due Balance
175 15.21.2880.03 RICHARDSON, STEVEN &VANESSA 629.69 657
96
3006 FOXTROTTER DR W .
176 9.09.9100.03 RICHARDSON, VANESSA 90.46 164.86
1355 GREAT BASIN DR W
NO ARRANGEMENTS FOR
RENTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
177 10.10.0078.01 ROBERSON, JACK 60.11 103.62
3073 PUDU ST W
178 18.43.0328.02 RODIN, ADAM & HEATHER 98.96 209.34
2286 CHANDRA WAY N (CORNER?)
NO ARRANGEMENTS TIL
7/28/07!!!--CASH ONLY
PERM.-CUSTOMER WROTE NSF TO
KEEP/GET WATER BACK ON. 2ND NSF
179 9.09.9232.03 RUEPPEL, RON 63.97 113.85
4167 MCKINLEY PARK AVE N
180 7.48.0743.02 SAMBHI, NIRMAL & SARBJEET 54.82 85.51
2335 NAKANO DR E
181 15.21.0208.01 SILSBY, TERRY 98.68 172.23
2674 OLD STONE WAY N
182 10.10.2020.02 SIMONDS, ADAM 56.67 88.75
2143 GRASSY BRANCH DR W
183 15.21.2836.02 SINGLETON, RODNEY 132.22 198.16
2777 STALLION ST W
184 17.34.0820.02 SITZLAR, RON 101.00 158.40
975 BLUE HERON ST E
185 17.34.0822.01 SITZLAR, RON 81.50 160.30
973 BLUE HERON ST E
CANCELED D/P ON 12/4/06 FOR
RENTER (HAMER)---DB. PUT RENTER
(HAMER) ON DIRECT PAY 7/17/06.
186 3.90.0319.02 SMITH, JAMIE & KIMBERLY 53.07 53.07
5343 AREZZO AVE N
187 16.31.3562.03 SMITH, JUSTIN & TAMMY 85.55 187.96
1028 STOREY AVE
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188 15.15.0414.03 SMITH, MARK & SHELLIE 66.91 114.04
2380 BAYSTONE DR N (CORNER)
189 8.08.1534.04 SMITH, SHERYL & JASPER 98.72 123.93
315 PATAGONIA DR E
NO ARRANGEMENTS PER OPTION NOT
CHOSEN
190 15.21.1402.03 STALLINGS, WILLIAM D 100.54 174.01
2757 GEMSTONE DR W
NO ARRANGEMENTS & CASH ONLY
PERMANENTLY FOR CHAPMAN (?) DUE
TO NSF WRITTEN TO GET/KEEP
WATER ON. NOT SURE WHO THEY
ARE, NOT ON THE ACCOUNT, BUT THIS
IS TO PROTECT OWNER.
191 3.90.0190.02 STANTON, KC & POWELL, HEATHER 54.45 107.85
5220 TOSCANA AVE N
NO ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE
RENTERS PER THE OWNER!!!!
192 8.08.1406.01 STARR, RANDY 79.75 136.50
122 CARVER DR E
193 12.40.0104.01 STONE, BRANDON 52.15 147.20
3456 MAPLESTONE AVE N
194 16.31.3032.04 SUNDI, YUSUF 88.26 173.37
1321 CHATEAU AVE W
195 15.22.1842.03 TARDIFF, PENNY 106.34 169.80
2221 LOWRY ST W
196 9.15.2706.02 TAYLOR, JENNIFER 102.31 146.71
643 CRESCENT ST W
197 16.31.2254.02 TAYLOR, SHAWN 71.04 148.74
1402 DARRAH DR
CANCELED D/P ON 11/13/06---ACCOUNT
CLOSED.
198 13.13.8966.04 TRAUTWEIN, JON & BARBARA 55.51 126.11
2778 DAYSIDE AVE N
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199 15.15.0516.03 TRINIDAD, MICHAEL 86.41 133.75
2385 BAYSTONE DR N
200 17.79.0207.02 TURCOTTE, TINAE 74.74 127.68
756 BLUE HERON ST E
201 16.31.0818.02 VARGAS, ALBERTO & RHEDA 50.00 107.53
2104 12TH ST NW
202 15.22.2496.03 VEGA, FREDDY 52.32 117.28
3081 BLUE SPRINGS AVE N
203 6.45.0406.02 WALLACE, JEFF 62.08 87.29
5048 SPANGLE AVE N
204 15.15.0126.06 WALTERS, CLAUDIA & DAN 114.03 173.51
2220 LONESOME DOVE ST W
205 19.10.0510.02 WALTON, KENT & NANCY 83.85 109.37
2536 SHARON AVE N
206 15.21.2240.01 WARD, MIKE 66.38 146.77
3020 KANDICE ST W
207 10.55.2105.02 WATSON, SCOTT AND TONI 65.47 103.03
2855 TORANA DR W
208 19.10.0903.02 WEAVER, BENJAMIN &TERAH 71.58 108.71
4152 CHANDLER ST E
209 19.10.1619.02 WEBER, ERICA 113.64 152.19
2992 SHARON AVE N
210 9.09.0610.02 WEBSTER, LARRY 98.28 127.63
617 ASHBY DR W
211 18.43.0396.04 WELCH, BOB 70.89 155.70
2535 LOCHMEADOW ST E
212 15.21.1868.03 WHITE, RITA 128.07 223.60
2638 REBECCA WAY
213 8.08.1118.02 WIGGER, ALAN & PAULA 67.05 157.46
155 WASHAKIE DR E (CORNER)
214 15.22.1382.01 WILCOX, MARK & CYNTHIA 80.75 144.44
2028 MONACO WAY
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215 5.50.0265.03 WILDE, KRISTEN & DANIEL, KELLY 84.40 128.80
5356 RED HILLS PL N
216 17.34.0806.04 WILLIAMS, JOSH 72.38 143.55
966 CHATEAU DR E
217 8.85.0524.02 WINGET, CARSON 117.06 185.25
417 HALPIN DR E
218 14.19.1286.04 WITT, CARRIE 77.40 106.70
4590 DAWSON DR W
219 14.20.1988.02 WOLFE, MELISSA 98.49 218.55
3749 QUAKER RIDGE DR
220 9.92.1308.03 WOODSON, ERIC 97.85 139.55
4723 ZACHARY WAY N
221 9.09.9126.03 WOYAK, CYNTHIA 96.68 134.21
1425 WHITE SANDS DR W
222 12.40.0230.02 WRIGHT, RANDOLPH & LINDA 55.62 137.82
3482 ELMSTONE PL N
NO ARRANGEMENTS FOR
RENTERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
223 15.22.1530.02 WUPPER, ROBERT 8~ JENNIFER 106.35 192.17
1931 KINGSWOOD CT
Grand Totals: 223 Customers Listed 19,143.48 32,737.20
Report Criteria:
Terminated customers not included
Customer.Cust No Q = {<}7700000001
Customer.Bill Cycle = 2
Customer.disconnected = No
Customer.shut off list = No