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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 6:30 p.m.
City Council Chambers
33 East Idaho Avenue, Meridian, Idaho
"Although the City of Meridian no longer requires sworn testimony,
all presentations before the Mayor and City Council are expected
to be truthful and honest to best of the ability of the presenter."
1. Roll-call Attendance:
David Zaremba t~ Joe Borton
Charlie Rountree ~ Keith Bird
_~ .Mayor Tammy de Weerd
2. Adoption of the Agenda: .~~~ ~-
3. Update from Boise City on Prosecution Services Contract:
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on the discussion. Please use the designated minutes as a guideline only.
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NOTICE OF PRE-COUNCIL MEETING
MERI®IAN CITY COUNCIL
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of
Meridian will hold aPre-Council Meeting at City Council Chambers,
Meridian City Hall, 33 East Idaho Avenue, Meridian, Idaho, on
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 6:30 P.M. The Meridian City Council
will be discussing the following agenda items:
Update from Boise City on Prosecution Services Contract:
The public is welcome to attend the meeting.
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Meridian City Pre-Council Meeting. May 22, 2007
The Meridian City Pre-Council meeting was called to order at 6:30 P.M. on
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 by Vice-President Councilman Charlie Rountree.
Members Present: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, Keith Bird., David Zaremba, Charlie
Rountree and Joe Borton.
Staff Present: Ted Baird, Anna Canning, Pete Frame, Bill Musser and Will Berg.
Item 1. Roll-call Attendance:
Roll call.
X David Zaremba
X Charlie Rountree
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O Joe Borton
X Keith Bird
Mayor Tammy de Weerd
Item 2. Adoption of the Agenda:
Bird: Mr. Vice-President.
Rountree: Mr. Bird..
Bird: I move we adopt the agenda as published..
Zaremba: Second.
Rountree: It has been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda. All those in
favor say aye.
THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRfED.
Item 3. Update from Boise City on Prosecution Services Contract:
Rountree: This is an update of the Boise City Prosecution Services Contract and
Kerrie Coliani will start this off and it is yours.
Coliani: Good evening Madame Mayor, Council Members. If anybody has
forgotten me, Kerrie Coliani, Boise City Attorney. We are here as you all know to
present the 2008 Meridian Prosecution Contract. We have had a fantastic 2006.
We achieved many successes, but the first thing I want to say before we get into
all of the details is that we appreciate this contract. We have never and will
never take it for granted. We think we work very well with the Chief, Command
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Staff, Lieutenants, Sergeants and one Sergeant in particular, Chief. But the
relationship has grown in size, strength and it is not one just of a professional
nature; at this point we have a personal relationship with MPD that goes right
down to the officer on the street level. We are very proud of that. We are very
proud of our training program, not to mention the prosecution piece and public
records that we do, the requests and we will get in and talk about some of those
in detail, some of those other things. But, we are really looking forward to the
coming year under this contract and for a number of reasons. I have a little
surprise tonight that I will talk to you about the end of the presentation, but we
intend Mayor and Council Members to enhance our service this coming year.
We are in the middle of some things that we are about ready to close on that will
help us in the prosecution of your misdemeanor infraction and code enforcement
cases. Not just the City of Boise, but you all will benefit and Chief and his folks
will benefit from that as well. I would like to introduce very quickly the folks that
are here with me tonight. Chief Deputy, Steve Rutherford and the Chief of our
Public Safety Division, Allison Tate. Allison will talk to you first about some of the
support that we provide to Meridian Police Department and the prosecution
services, so without further ado, Allison.
Tate.: Madame Mayor and Members of the Council briefly I had the public safety
division, which means that one of my jobs was to provide legal advice to Police
Departments, both Boise Police Department and the Meridian Police
Department. Generally speaking, of course, the core duty that we provide to you
or the core function that we provide to you is the prosecution of your
misdemeanors and your infractions. In 2006 there were 6,965 cases. There are
projected to be 8,564 for 2007. So as you hire more officers and they get more
productive, a lot more cases are coming our way keeping us busy. We are also
trying. a lot more cases. This last quarter we tripled the number of jury trials that
our attorneys tried from the year before and 'the year before that. So we are
trying both in court trials, trials in front of a judge and then trials to a jury; we are
trying many, many more cases. It is good experience for our prosecutors. It is
good experience for the officers and it allows us to more aggressively prosecute
the cases when our attorneys are good trial attorneys. Finally we provide civil
advice to the Meridian Police Department. We continue to have an onsite police
advisor two days a week out in Meridian. We also have an on call prosecutor or
several on call prosecutors that at all time they have access to a pager number to
call a prosecutor and then cell phone numbers for me and several people on my
division so they can at. any time get a hold of one of us. Sometimes they shop a
little bit. Sometimes we find out that they have called three of us in a row to see
if we will say the same thing.. We try to touch bases with each other. It
happened recently. We will call Allison she will let us do it. So, we are fine that
they call a few of us, but that is a great service that we provide. We review the
ever increasing number of public record's request that come through the Police
Department. Citizens that want information about their own cases want
information about their neighbor's cases; want information about cases that are
just of interest to them that they have read about in the paper. Some of those
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are large cases to review. Many are very small. We also review property
dispositions; specifically dispositions of weapons because based on federal law
there are things that we need to look for before we can return a weapon to a
person. Finally and most importantly to me, we provide training to the Meridian
Police Department. Dear to my heart is what I continue to do for Meridian even
though I am not on site out here any more. This year we did live K-9 training
scenarios, ran ail of the patrol officers through that. We used real drugs and all
of the dogs and had everyone come in. We had traffic stops set up in the bays.
We had a little motel room set up in the kennel. The K-9 training facility and half
of our staff were playing as actors and it was great. It was very much more
hands on. The officers had to come in and tell us what they would do in a
.particular circumstance and we had a wonderful time with it. Finally, we have
just. started doing some training scenarios at briefings -briefing training and so
they are meant to be little like three minute pieces of legal information that we do
at each patrol briefing with the idea that maybe giving them smaller pieces of
information at one time.; it makes it easier to digest, otherwise we do these day
long trainings and it just kind of a lot of information. So we are sending our
prosecutors to the briefings and they discuss little cases, little updates and I think
that has been successful. I think that will be a good program for us to continue.
It continues to be a pleasure to work with you and all of the officers and unless
there are any questions, I am going to hand it over to Steve Rutherford for the
heavy lifting.
Rountree: Any questions Council?
Bird: I have none.
Rountree: Thank you Allison.
Rutherford: Madame Mayor and Members of the Council, Steve Rutherford,
Chief Deputy City Attorney, former Meridian City Prosecutor. I have some
information -
De Weerd: Does that mean traitor?
Rountree: Thank you Steve. Politics are in his future.
Rutherford: I handed you a facts sheet. Just information that isn't necessarily
something you need for tonight, but something you can have a look at. I am here
to talk numbers. Interesting when you have a lawyer talking numbers, but just to
give you a little history, but in 2006 with the Victim Witness component, the
contract was just about $240,000., just a little over. In 2007 you will. recall that we
transitioned away from a victim witness provided by us and put that into the
Chiefs hands and so the contract that we are existing under currently is
$200,196. This year our proposed amount of the contract is $241,380. It is a 20
percent increase over the current amount. I have got reasons for that and at any
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time if you feel like you need clarification or you want to ask questions, feel free
and I will do my best. There are reasons and' the reasons are myriad.. One of
them is in front of you here. The case filings are up. Again, projections are going
to be somewhere between eight and nine thousand cases. That results in
additional work for our prosecutors. As you hire officers and I put those numbers
on the sheet as you continue to hire officers those folks are busy and productive
arrest citations and the like go up and that leads to those increased case
numbers. We really keep a bead on how many cases per prosecutor we have
per month and how many cases per support staff member we have per month.
We have got a study from 1999 that tells us when the numbers start to creep
over 300 and especially when they start to get up in towards the 400 per
prosecutor that we have got a problem; that things start to fall through cracks and
in cases like domestic batteries and DUI's, you don't want those cases falling
through the cracks or not getting the attention they deserve. So we keep a really
close eye on that. We have done a pretty good job on our prosecutors, although
they are starting to creep up a little bit. That is probably more associated with the
Boise City increases than with your increases. So you don't anticipate lawyers
on the back of fhis new contract that will go forward next year. The part we
neglected for some period of time is our support staff. We operate in three
divisions that have criminal responsibilities and when we started this contract
some years ago., each division had two criminal judges associated with it. So we
had six courtrooms and each of the divisions had three support staff and they
handled the criminal cases with various two judges and then the associated civil
work with the other things we did; the Public Works, the Planning and Zoning and
those kinds and we kind of split those up. Well the trial court administrator in
response to increasing caseloads has changed -five years ago they changed
the way they schedule things and now they have added judges. So we have
gone from six to eight very quickly and there is actually a ninth now that is doing
what was supposed to be part time, a couple days a week and now its three and
one half days of work. So effectively for us it is four days a week, which leads to
increased numbers of lawyers in court. In fact, the perfect storm happens every
Monday when 12 of our 18 criminal prosecutors and sometimes up to 15
depending on what kind of hearing they are set - 15 of our criminal prosecutors
are in court and we basically have about 18 prosecutors that are dedicated to
criminal stuff and they are in court at any one time and that is a huge -when you
only have got three prosecutors and given the offices 29 lawyers, there are other
things that come up, people go on vacation -you know 12 to 15 lawyers in court
at any one time is a substantial burden. We are currently in negotiations with the
trial court administrator to try some other things. fn fact in one instance, we just
took a trip to Idaho Falls to look at their system. Instead of sending one
prosecutor over like we do with 60 pre-trials fora day, so 60 different
misdemeanor cases for pre-trial for the day and settlement conferences, they set
120 over there and they shovel a lot more through. So we are looking at some
potential option to do that. Quite frankly, we can't have one prosecutor handling
120 cases, so what it would mean is we would send two prosecutors. So again
the resource required would go up. We would hope fhat would translate into less
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days of work. So we are working with them to try and refine and really kind of
other than just throwing judges, maybe we look at some process improvements
that don't require us to hire more prosecutors, maybe there is a better way to do
business. So we are engaged with them. In addition the City of Boise just did a
market adjustment for wages city wide, everybody from our contract janitors up
through Chief Deputy kind of positions, lead supervisors like myself and adjusted
everybody across the board.. So our starting salaries for Attorney I, which was in
the mid forties, now is at fifty. We think that is a lot closer to market and then the
(inaudible) cities, regional (inaudible) cities as well as local -Ada Counties, the
Attorney Generals of the world - so in the two attorney's that we have associated
with this contract, ~we bumped their salary and that is reflected in the bid for this
year as well. Really again, what we are doing with the contract for Meridian this
year is we are going to -right now your contract is associated with two
prosecutors and a half time legal secretary. To get us where we need to be, our
office has determined that we need to hire another secretary and we need to
bump the secretary that is associated with this contract to full time. So what we
have done on this contract is added a half time secretary, which would make the
existing part time a full time. That is basically the reason for the bump because
there is an associated indirect cost that are associated with Human Resource
stuff, the computers and that type of stuff. A couple quick things that I want to
give you information about so you know what is coming down the road from -
these are things that our office is looking at in terms of things that we have to
plan for in the future. It is somewhat the basis for our request and our numbers
this time. Again, case load for prosecutor, case load for support staff is high
based on rules of discovery, other things that we have to turn cases around fairly
quickly when those numbers get too high, those numbers start to suffer and we
get in trouble with the court if we start dragging on filing briefs, filing discovery.
Again that trial court administrator, we are working with them. Hopefully we can
find some solution, but ultimately they are looking at a whole host of cases that
they have got to figure out how to get through before the six month speedy trial
time runs and if a misdemeanor case runs longer than six months, the judge has
to dismiss that case. A person has a right to a trial within those six months. In
some cases we get pretty close and when somebody walks in and says I want
my court date, Iwant atrial -there are cases where it is really close when they
set them just because they have that many cases. So again, we are working
with them on a solution for that. Finally I want to tell you something that we are
kind of excited about. On one hand, I am up here complaining if you will about or
at least apprising you that reality of a whole .host of court rooms to occupy and
trying to do that and trying to shoehorn all these cases with our existing
resources and get them done. Our Mayor and our City Council, not unlike
yourselves are really interested in livability issues or interested in making sure
that code enforcement cases get dealt with constructively and quickly because
they lead to significant neighborhood problems. One edge of that are dog
citations; the barking dogs, the vicious dogs. and those types of cases. I am
currently working with the trial coordinator administrator and some of our
Planning and Zoning folks to establish a livability court. A livability court really
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would be a court that for folks only on cases that involve code enforcement. So
we get a judge that has those cases.. Right now they go to all the judges and
none of the judges like them. They all think this sounds civil to me, what am I
doing here?
De Weerd: I am glad you defined that. I was going to ask you what timely meant
about code enforcement and court.
Rutherford: And it is difficult because when a case goes to criminal court,
Madame Mayor, you are exactly right people think it is going to happen now and
the criminal court isn't necessarily fast, but part of that is because we mainstream
these things and put them in there and we have gotten -the pre-trials that I was
talking about where a prosecutor goes over 60 files and they have about this
much time to deal with all of those cases. So when you want a neighbor there,
who is living with this problem next door. and when you have the person there
who is causing the problem, you don't have a good time to talk and get things
sorted out and you can slap the person with a $300 fine; that doesn't fix the
neighborhood problem. Those things persist. So the idea would be get a judge
that has some subject matter expertise, the judge we've identified is a visiting
judge from Mountain Home that used to work with the City Attorney's Office,
understands code enforcement issues and that judge would - it would be a little
more mediation, a little more where we could sit down with the affected parties in
the neighborhood and the defendant in the case; barking dogs is a perfect
example. First time barking dog case, you want the person to know what the
problem is. You want the person to make the problem stop and give them
solutions other than just getting rid of the dog. There are all kinds of programs
where folks can go rent or buy bark collars; humane ones that emit an ammonia
when the dog barks. There are other solutions. There are some classes that
these people teach that the Humane Society can hook you up with. So ideally
one of those first situations you say here are your options. We are going to hold
this criminal case right here for you. We are going to give you six weeks. Go get
a bark collar. Go take that class. Go figure something out. Your neighbor is
going to come back in six weeks and we are all going to come back and if you
haven't taken care of the problem, you plead guilty and pay a fine and be on.
probation or you can have your trial. We are hoping that that will lead to some
more constructive lasting solutions other than when people leave the courthouse
with a $75 fine on a barking dog ticket, the neighbor is unhappy because they
think I came in for this and that guy got a $75 fine? And this guy is not happy
because he had to pay a $75 fine and nobody leaves happy. So the idea is to try
to work to solution. There are going to be those cases that don't work out. But
the idea is to get code enforcement cases where we can give them some actual
attention as opposed to just shoving them through with every DUI., domestic
battery, driving without a license. So I am currently in negotiations with the trial
court administrator and I am hoping that we have some news on that by fall, but
my attention with your permission and this City Attorney's permission is to shove
Meridian Code Enforcement and dog cases in there as well. I think it will be
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meaningful. Otherwise unless there are questions, I am going to turn it over to
Kerrie for the close.
Rountree: Any questions Council?
Bird: I have none.
Rountree: Thank you, Steve.
Coliani: Madame Mayor, Council Members I made a promise at the beginning of
this when I told you that I was going to un-wrap a surprise and tell you about our
service enhancement we intend to provide this coming year. We are in the final
stages of negotiating and talking to two vendors about a case management
system that will track, provide statistics, reports, show trends in the prosecution
of your cases, not just the City of Boise's but yours as well. These folks that we
are talking to and one we saw a presentation of today are the top of this industry
and when you have the number of citations, filings, the code enforcement and all
of that when you consider the number somewhere in the order of 110,000 over
the last few years we want a system, we need a system that takes care of your
business as well as the City of Boise's. I think we will be on the cutting edge of
that when we get this system in place. We will be making that selection within
the week, actually within the week -and moving forward with contract negotiations
and installing the system. So think about that when we think about the entire
scope of this contract and the other services that we are providing. Let me say
this in closing we all know in this day and age that there is some acrimony
between government agencies that we see from time to time. Maybe it is a lot
more than we would like, but I would tell you this particular contract is a shining
example of two governments working together, the City of Boise and the City of
Meridian. In fact, I would say this is one of the great success stories under
governmental relations in the State of Idaho. We intend to make that case from
here on out as long as you policy fit to allow us to have this contract. Thank you
very much for time, I appreciate it. Chief, thank you. I will see you all soon.
Rountree: Any questions? Mayor?
De Weerd: Yes. Well I was hoping that part of your big surprise included
tracking of restitution and who is paying. Does it?
Coliani: Madame Mayor, Council Members these systems include that. We are
down to the final two vendors and they look a little different, a little different
software approach., but all of that is in these packages. More than we can talk to
you about tonight, there is so much that these systems provide in tracking cases
at every level. It is almost overwhelming. We are just looking at the different
versions, of course it is price dependent, but we can certainly get those things
squared away and be able to track these things for future.
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Tate.: On restitution because that had not been originally part of the services we
provided, we had been. just kind of doing enough in keeping up with everyone.. I
assigned that this last year to my screening secretary Andrea Dietrich, who loves
doing restitution because she loves sending those letters and calling people and
that is just her style, so actually Meridian restitution is in much better shape than
it had been before we got it and in the years previous that we have had the
contract and it is in a whole different situation and she is sitting in on all of the
.presentations from the vendors on case management and one of the things
know that she has been asking a lot of questions on is what additional software
or what programs does it come with so she can do a better job on Meridian
restitution.
De Weerd: Just a follow up.
Rountree: Madame Mayor.
De Weerd: So will it inter-communicate with the county system?
Tate: That certainly is our hope and that is one thing that we are looking for in
the vendors is being able to work with AS 400 in the county system. I mean it is
the hardest thing about picking these vendors, but that is our hope.
Rutherford.: Madame Mayor, Council Members these two vendors that we are
talking to tell us that they do this all over the country and we see that. We see
the examples of them dealing with city attorney offices, who have to talk to AS
400 systems that are county based. So they are not rookies at this. It is not their
first rodeo. We are confident that we will be able to accomplish that as well.
What we will be able to bring back to you in coming years is a report card on how
we are doing because we will be able to look at the numbers at that level.
De Weerd: That is exciting.
Rountree: Thank you. Are there any other questions?
Bird: I have none. Thanks very much.
Rountree: :Kerrie, Steve, Allison thank you for your time and your presentation
and we will certainly factor that information in our budgeting process. Mr. Clerk is
there anything further that we need? That concludes our agenda for the Pre-
Council this evening. I would entertain a motion to close the meeting.
Zaremba: So moved..
Bird: Second.
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Rountree: It has been moved and seconded to close the Pre-Council meeting.
All those in favor.
THREE AYES. ONE ABSENT. MOTION CARRIED.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:00 P.M.
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MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING May 22, 2007
APPLICANT ITEM NO. 3
REQUEST Update from Boise City on Prosecution S~tvices Contract
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:
Materials Aresented at public meetings shalt become property of the City of Meridian.
May 18, 2007
MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING May 22, 2007
APPLICANT ITEM NO. 3
REQUEST Update from Boise City on Prosecution Services Contract
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:
Emailed:
P'~
Date: Phone:
Staff Initials:
Matsriala prosenMd at public morrttn~s shall become property of the City of M~rldign.
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B O I S E
C I T Y O F 'T B E E S
Cary B. Colaianni
Boise City AHorney
Boise City Hall
750 N. Capitol Boulevard
Mailing Address
P. O. Box 500
Boise, Idaho 83701-0500
Phone
208/384-3870
Fax
208/384-4454
TDD/TTY
800/377-3529
Web
www.cityofboise.org
Mayor
David H. Biefer
Cify Council
President
Maryanne Jordan
Council ProTem
Elaine Clegg
Vernon L. Bisterfeldt
David Eberle
Alan W. Shealy
Jim Tibbs
poise City Attorney's Office
MERIDIAN CONTRACT FACT SHEET
Meridian Cases
FY-OS FY-06 FY-07
6,856 6,965 4,282*
,MAY 2 2 2007
~itq of Meridian
~Y Glezk ~
*Year-to-date (projected year-end total of 8,564 -increase over FY-06)
Meridian Officer Count
~ FY-05 ~ FY-06 ~ FY-07
54 62 71
Current Starting Salaries
Attorneys - $50,916 - $59,403
Legal Secretaries - $32,640 - $38,067
Boise City Attorney's Office Resources
29 Attorneys
10.5 Legal Secretaries
6 Other Support Staff
3 Paralegals
Contract Amounts
FY-05 FY-06 FY-07* FY-08**
$172,440 $240,480 $200,196 $241,380
* Without Victim/Witness services
**Proposed
~ RECEI~I)
An Equal Opportunity Employer
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May 18, 2007
MERIDIAN CITY COUNCIL MEETING
APPLICANT
May 22, 2007
ITEM NO. 6- F
REQUEST Approve Public Utilities, Irrigation and Drainage Easement for Paramount
Subdivision No. 13
AGENCY COMMENTS
CITY CLERK:
CITY ENGINEER: See attached
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 pubUe meeMnps shall become property of the City of Meridian.
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City of Meridian
Public Works Dept.
Memo
To: Mayor De Weerd 8~ City Council
From: Karie Glenn
CC: File
Date: 5/14/2007
Re: Proposed Agenda Items for 5/22/07 City Council Meeting
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MAY 1 4 2001
City pf111eri~~
City Clerk Office
The Public Works Department respectfully requests that the following items be placed on the
5/22/07 City Council agenda, on the Consent Agenda, for Council's consideration:
1) PUID Easement for Paramount Subd #13.
Paramount #13 was approved without side setbacks to allow for site speafic
easement configurations. At this time, side setbacks for lots 1-6 of block 35 are ready
to be established.
Recommended Council Action: Approve the PUID Easement for Paramount
Subd #13 and authorize the Mayor to sign and City Clerk to attest.
Thank you for your consideration.
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City of Meridian, Public Works
Engineering
/nter~~ce Memo
To: Tara Green
From: Karie Glenn
CC:
Date: 6/14/2007
Re: Original /Recorded Docs for Vault
107085123 6/14/2007 PUID Paramount Paramount #13 (several easement
Development LLC lots)
107085124 6/14/2007 WATER Tals Professional LLC Talus Medical Bldg easement
From the desk of.
Karie A Glenn
Dept. Sp~aalist Supenrisor
Public Works: Engineering Division
660 E Watertower Ste 200
Meridian, Idaho 83642-2600
(208) 898-5500
Fax: (208) 898-9551
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. ADA COUNTY RECORDER J. DA~VARRO ~ AMOUNT ,00 5
BOISE IDAHO 06/14107 01:21 P
DEPUTY lrcki Allen ~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ ~ ~~~
RECORDED-REQUEST OF
City of Meridian 107085123
PUBLIC UTILITIES, IRRIGATION AND LOT DRAINAGE EASEMENT
THIS INDENTURE, made this 8th day of Mav , 20 07 between PARAMOUNT DEVELOPMENT,
INC., the parties of the first part, and hereinafter called the Grantors, and the CITY OF MERIDIAN, Ada
County, Idaho, Qwest Communications, Intermountain Gas Company, Idaho Power Company, Cable One, and
Settler's Irrigation District, parties of the second part, and hereinafter called the Grantees;
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Grantors desire to provide a public utilities, irrigation and lot drainage easement
across the premises and property hereinafter pazticulazly bounded and described; and
WHEREAS, future public utilities, irrigation and lot drainage facilities;may be installed within said
easement; and
WHEREAS, it my be necessary to maintain, and service said public utilities, irrigation and lot
drainage facilities from time to time by the Grantees;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the benefits to be received by the Grantors, and other good
and valuable consideration, the Grantors do hereby give, grant and convey unto the Grantees an
easement for the installation, operation, and maintenance of public utilities, irrigation and lot drainage
over and across the following described property:
(SEE ATTACHED EXHIBIT A and B)
The easement hereby granted is for the purpose of installation and operation of public utilities,
irrigation and lot drainage and their allied facilities, together with their maintenance, repair and
replacement at the convenience of the Grantees, with the free right of access to such facilities at any
and all times.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the said easement and right-of--way unto the said Grantees, it's successors
and assigns forever.
IT IS EXPRESSLY UNDERSTOOD AND AGREED, by and between the parties hereto, that after
installation, making repairs, or performing other maintenance, the applicable Grantee shall restore the
area of the easement and adjacent property to that existent prior to undertaking such installation,
repairs and maintenance. However, Grantee(s) shall not be responsible for repairing, replacing or
restoring anything placed within the area described in this easement that was placed there in violation
of this easement.
THE GRANTORS hereby covenant and agree that they will not place or allow to be placed any
permanent structures, trees, brush, or perennial shrubs or flowers within the azea described for this
easement, which would interfere with the use of said easement, for the purposes stated herein.
THE GRANTORS do hereby covenant with the Grantee that they aze lawfully seized and possessed of
the aforementioned and described tract of land, and that they have a good and lawful right to convey
said easement, and that they will warrant and forever defend the title and quiet possession thereof
against the lawful claims of all persons whomsoever.
Public Utility Easement
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said parties of the first part have hereunto subscribed their signatures
the day and year first herein above written.
PARAMOUNT DEVELOPMENT, INC.
STATE OF IDAHO )
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County of Ada )
On this ~ day of ~~_, 20 ~ before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in
and for said State, personally appeared DAVID W. TURNBULL
and REBECCA. A. HANKS ,known or identified to me to be the President and
Secretary, respectively, of the corporation that executed the within instrument, and acknowledged to
me that such corporation executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year
fist above written.
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GRANTEE: CITY OF MERIDIAN
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STATE OF IDAHO
County of Ada
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On this `2 J~ day of ~~~,~,~ti~~ , 20 C~ before me, the undersigned, a
Notary Public in and for said State, personally appeared TAMMY DE WEERD :and WILLIAM G. BERG,
JR., known to me to be the Mayor and City Clerk, respectively, of the City of Meridian, Idaho, and who
executed the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that the City of Meridian executed the same.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year first
above written.
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Public Utility Easement
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A 5.00 foot wide Public Utilities, Irrigation and Lot Drainage Easement located on bow sides of
the common side lot lines of Lots 1 through 6, and the Easterly side lot line of Lot 6, Block 35 of
Paramount Subdivision No. 13. as recorded in Book 97 of Plats at Pag®12,128 of Ada County
Records. Meridian, Ada County, Idaho.
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PARAMOUNT SUBDIVISLON N0. 13
EASEMENT Qp-11BIT MAP
EXHIBIT B
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