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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2009 05-05Meridian Citv Council Meeting Mav 5, 2009 A meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday, May 5, 2009, by Council President Charlie Rountree. Members Present: Charlie Rountree, Keith Bird, Brad Hoaglun, and David Zaremba. Members Absent: Mayor Tammy de Weerd. Others Present: Ted Baird, Jaycee Holman, Anna Canning, Kyle Radick, Tracy Basterrechea, Bill Johnson, Steve Siddoway, and Dean Willis. Item 1: Roll-call Attendance: Roll call. X David Zaremba X Brad Hoaglun X Charlie Rountree X Keith Bird Mayor Tammy de Weerd Rountree: Well, good evening. I'm going to open the Tuesday, May 5th, 2009, regular City Council meeting at 7:00 o'clock to a full house. Thank you who did venture to be here with us this evening. The first item on the agenda is roll call attendance. Jaycee. Item 2: Pledge of Allegiance: Rountree: Next item, if you'd all join us in the Pledge of Allegiance. (Pledge of Allegiance recited.) Item 3: Community Invocation by Dave Duron with Meridian First Baptist Church: Rountree: And the next item, if you would join us in the community invocation or a moment of reflection. We have David Duron with us this evening. David. Duron: Let us pray. Father, I thank you for these servants of yours here tonight. And, Lord, we thank you for their ministry in this community that they serve. We ask that you would bless their time tonight. May they tend your presence. Lord, may they gain from your infinite wisdom in matters that concern the people of this community. God bless them and their families. Reach into their homes and continue to work your goodness and your grace in their lives, in Jesus' name, amen. Rountree: Thank you, Dave. And I don't know that you have been with us before, but I have a City of Meridian pin for -- Duron: I have before. I don't remember if -- Meridian City Council May 5, 2009 Page 2 of 10 Rountree: You probably don't have one of these new ones, so there you go. Duron: I don't have a cool one. Item 4: Adoption of the Agenda: Rountree: Cool one. Good for you. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is the adoption of the agenda. Zaremba: Mr. President? Rountree: Mr. Zaremba. Zaremba: On the agenda -- let's see. On the Consent Agenda, Item F, the resolution number is 09-662. Item G, the resolution number is 08-663. And there are no other requested changes to the Consent Agenda. On the regular agenda we have had a request to vacate Item 6-B-1. The Parks Department discussion will not be on the regular agenda. And with that I move that we adopt the agenda as amended. Hoaglun: Second. Rountree: It's been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda. All those in favor? Opposed same sign? Motion passes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 5: Consent Agenda: A. Approve Minutes of March 10, 2009 Pre-Council Meeting: B. Approve Minutes of April 21, 2009 City Council Special Meeting Workshop: C. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law for Denial: VAR 09- 001 Request for Variance to allow 1 right-in/right-out access point to State Highway 20/26 and to reduce ITD right-of--way adjacent to Chinden Boulevard from 100 feet to 70 feet for Knighthill Center by James Wylie - SWC of W. Chinden Boulevard and N. Linder Road: D. Change Order No 1 with Paul Construction for Settler's Village Sauare Phase 1 for $5,484.76: E. Sanitary Sewer and Water Main Easement Agreement for Education Campus #2 by Meridian Joint District No. 2: Meridian City Council May 5, 2009 Page 3 of 10 F. Resolution No. :CPA 09-001 Request for a Comprehensive Plan Amendment to change the text of the Comprehensive Plan incorporating the Pathways Master Plan for Pathways Master Plan Text Amendment by City of Meridian Planning Department: G. Resolution No. :CPA 09-002 Request for a Comprehensive Plan Amendment to change the text of the Comprehensive Plan to include Linder Road overpass and associated pathways for Linder Road Overpass /Pathway Text Amendment by City of Meridian Planning Department: H. Initial Point Gallery Acceptance Agreement: Refinerii: I. Interface Aaency Agreement with Ada County for County Computerized Records: J. Reauest to Rescind Previously Approved ACHD Change Orders 3, 5 & 7 in the Amount of $12, 729.50 and Approve City of Meridian Change Order No.1 for $8,332.00 for Main Street / Meridian Road -Split Corridor Phase 1: K. Memorandum of Understanding with Meridian HUB, LLC for Idaho Power Easement in Centennial Park: L. Approve 2010 Renewal of Beer and Wine License for Costa Vida Restaurant located at 3340 N. Eagle Rd. Meridian, Idaho. Rountree: The next item is the Consent Agenda. Zaremba: Mr. President? Rountree: Mr. Zaremba. Zaremba: As noted, Item F is Resolution 09-662. Item G is Resolution 09-663. And with that I move we adopt the Consent Agenda and authorize the Mayor to sign and the Clerk to attest. Hoaglun: Second. Rountree: It's been moved and seconded to adopt the Consent Agenda. Roll call vote, please. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea. Meridian City Council May 5, 2009 Page4of10 MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 6: Department Reports: A. Planning Department: 1. Recommended Use of Idaho Power Donated Money Rountree: Next item, Item 6, Department Reports. Planning Department. Canning: Thank you, sir. And I'm going to do just a really quick recap of last week and, then, eat a little crow and, then, we will move forward. So, this discussion was about the 100,000 dollar check that we had in the General Fund from the Idaho Power for initiating Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design in the construction of City Hall. And in determining some projects to re-invest that money into, I looked at -- the criteria I looked at were related to the goals of energy conservation or sustainable community. Investment in the community of Meridian. Projects or programs that were visible to the public and priority given to projects that might not be eligible for energy block grant funding, which you had a detailed presentation last week on that. The three projects I proposed were the McFadden Co-op Farmers Market, which is outside this evening. That was nice to see. Public art with green theme. And, then, a green business scholarship fund. Council had not received many details on this and they had asked for a memo outlining the details, so I presented that -- or provided that to you last week. And, again, I apologize for not getting that to you sooner. And in preparing for tonight I noticed that I had put the comment in red that I was looking for Council approval on proposal to spend those funds and I really overstated what I was looking for last week. I think, really, what I was looking for was a general nod from Council that those projects were worth at least considering and getting -- gathering more details on. So, that should have been how I presented it to you last week. It was not. I think because I had assigned numbers to it, it seemed a lot more formal than it was -- than I was intending. So, that's where we are tonight. I think at this point the best process is to -- if you -- I know some of you have projects that you'd like to add to the list, so I'd like to get whatever information you can provide on those and that we have further discussion on all these items at a future date and what I really need from you all at this point is probably what information do you want on these before you will be ready to make a decision. What kind of details do you -- like, for instance, the budget that you got from McFadden Market, is that enough? Do you want more? I have more details on all those projects. And I think in particular the jobs project is worth having them come in and do a presentation, because I know they have thought about it more and have been talking to the Mayor more about some partnership opportunities on that one. So, that one's certainly worth greater discussion led by somebody who knows the details far better than I at this point. So, that's what I would recommend and ask that you give me comments related to those. There is no real rush on these. We do need to come up with a plan before the end of fiscal year '09, so that we can roll those funds over if they are not spent within fiscal year'09. And with that I'll open it up to Council. Meridian City Council May 5, 2009 Page 5 of 10 Rountree: Comments? Direction? Mr. Hoaglun. Hoaglun: Mr. President, I just had a comment. I have been doing some poking around trying to find, you know, what projects meet the criteria and I just like the fact that we have 100,000 dollars coming in for LEED designation. Is there -- are there projects that we can tum around, invest that money into energy saving projects that, you know, reduce the -- the amount the taxpayers have to pay to support the cost of energy and that sort of thing to the city? You know, I was thinking big projects -- lighting is very expensive, energy intensive, and I asked Mr. Siddoway of the Parks Department if there were any field that had lights or needed lights and if they did and they weren't funded, should we take a look at those and make sure they are energy efficient, low cost, reduce that as much as possible. He did have a lighting project. It wasn't for a field, though. I did find out that downtown for the banners that are lit downtown, they are on 24-7 and that would be something that we could consider. They want to add light sensors to them. They also want to put some receptacles in there. Those receptacles are -- the outlets are in different locations and sometimes they have to run extension cords. So, there is two costs here. One is 2,500 dollars to put in the time -- the light sensors and change it from incandescent to fluorescent. So, that's not a huge amount. And, then, Steve's going to be looking at what it would cost to add the outlets onto those as well. But that's not going to be a huge cost that we would think off the top of our head. So, that is -- that is one of the things that poking around I found and -- and that's something I'm sure Mr. Siddoway would be happy to give you more information, because the other one he made his pitch and I'm always interested and that's -- you know, when we talk about saving energy, we also look at getting out of our cars and biking and walking more and, of course, they have been working on the pathways project throughout the City of Meridian and they have a stretch of pathway that they are trying to find funding for from the Porter Pathway at the Meridian Road area, behind the Albertson's, and connecting it up around to the care center is it, Steve, that's up there? Go ahead and jump in and help me out on that. Siddoway: Yes. Up to the Fairview Lakes development where Hastings and DMV are. Hoaglun: Right. That would complete that to Fairview and, hopefully, with the work that we funded on the other side of the road we can get some connections in there down the road. But that's a little bigger project. That's a 50,000 dollar, 175 -- 50,175 dollar price tag on that one. So, that eats up a big chunk. But I just put that out there. That is something that is there for Council if you want add that to the list, but, certainly, the small amount of 2,500 dollars, plus whatever it is for the outlets, would differently be a long -- in the long run a savings to the city. So, I'd definitely like to see that one. And the 50,000 one is one just to think about and if we go there, we go there, if we don't, we don't. Zaremba: Mr. President? Rountree: Any comments? Direction? Mr. Zaremba. Meridian City Council May 5, 2009 Page 6 of 10 Zaremba: Along the same lines of lighting, I was thinking about are there places where we can change not just incandescent, but maybe mercury vapor or whatever else we have to LED and somebody mentioned that we occasionally have requests to add city lamps -- city light, street lighting. And my question there would be could we find an LED light that was powered by a solar pack that sits on top of it and install a post without having to install any wiring or have any electrical charge for new street lights that are requested, what it would cost to look into that kind of stuff. And I think there would be long term savings both from the LED and in the possibility of powering them by solar. Rountree: Any other comments? Bird: I have none. Canning: Council President Rountree? Rountree: Anna. Canning: Those projects were ones that were mentioned in the energy efficiency block grant program. We did talk about the LED light conversion. Those are ones that would be eligible for that. I don't know if new lights would be. And so I was intrigued by the -- it's hard to justify it as conserving energy when you're adding lights to the system, but perhaps that would be something to consider, but -- Rountree: Well, it appears along the lines of the discussion last week, we now have more thoughts and more projects than we have money, as opposed to having just spent a hundred thousand dollars. And I think as we think about this more we are going to find there will be more worthy projects. I agree we don't have to rush into this. My guidance is -- I think some of the projects that have been mentioned are good. I would like to see a more thorough approach in trying to find projects. I support the ones that have been mentioned so far, but probably not in the amount that necessarily means they get done. I would like to find some matching opportunities. I think I'd like to leverage some of these dollars with the energy grant as well and see if we can't do some of the things with respect to energy consumption within the city street lighting, that sort of thing. I like the incubator job project, but not to the tune of I believe it was 50,000 dollars. As far as I'm concerned what I would like to see -- I would like to see at a minimum a budget and what the expected outcomes are going to be from these projects. Some best guess or analysis what the energy savings might be or what the educational component might be, how Meridian and its citizens benefit or could benefit from this particular demonstration, to possibly a full blown business plan that might related to somebody who is going to look at getting a business grant. Canning: Sir, could you repeat the last one. Sorry. Rountree: Some sort of a -- not only a budget, but possibly a business plan of some sort from those entities that would participate in the jobs grant aspect, if, in fact, we move forward with that particular piece. Meridian City Council May 5, 2009 Page 7 of 10 Canning: So, just to clarify, sir, you would want that to be part of that program, but you wouldn't necessarily be looking for that in a later discussion before you decide on it or do you want us to -- Rountree: I would like to have that as part of the criteria for providing the grant. Canning: Okay. Rountree: So that you all, the committee that's established to sort through this or the Council, whom ever, has something to base that decision on. Canning: Okay. Thank you, sir, for the clarification. Rountree: Any other comments or direction? I guess this item will continue, Anna, as you have an opportunity to -- to pull this together I'm thinking maybe another couple weeks. We might want to have it on our June workshop. That gives you about four or five weeks. And gives us some more time to generate some ideas on projects. Canning: That sounds like a good time frame, given the level of detail you're looking for. I think that it will take me awhile to round that up. Rountree: Okay. Thank you. Canning: Thank you, sirs. I appreciate your comments and we will work those as best I can. B. Parks Department: 1. Discussion of Heroes Park Easements: Rountree: Next item on the agenda, 6-B has been requested to be vacated. I don't believe I need a motion for that. Item 7: Items Moved from Consent Agenda: Rountree: So, we will move on to Item 7. There were no items removed from the Consent Agenda. Item 8; Ordinance No. 09-1404 Reimbursement Code (3rd of 3 Reading): Rountree: The next item on the agenda is No. 8, Ordinance 09-1404. If we could have that read by title only. Meridian City Council May 5, 2009 Page 8 of 10 Holman: This is the third reading of City of Meridian Ordinance No. 09-1404, an ordinance of the City of Meridian repealing Title 9, Chapter 1, Section 13 and Title 9, Chapter 4, Section 19 of the Meridian City Code, relating to cooperative and/or reimbursement agreements, enacting a new section, Title 8, Chapter 6, Section 2, relating to reimbursement agreements for infrastructure enhancements and providing an effective date. Rountree: The title of that ordinance has been read. Is there anybody wishing to have the entire ordinance read? Seeing none, I would need a motion. Bird: Mr. President? Rountree: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we approved Ordinance No. 09-1404. Zaremba: Second. Rountree: It's been moved an seconded to approve Ordinance 09-1404. Roll call vote, please. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 9: Amendment to Ordinance No. 04-1116 A: AZ 03-037 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 46.40 acres from RUT to R-8 zone for proposed Chesterfield Subdivision by Centennial Development, LLC -east of North Black Cat Road and north of West Franklin Road: Item 10: Amendment to Ordinance No. 08-1350 A: AZ 07-017 Request for Annexation and Zoning of 40.4 acres from RUT to C-C zone (21.3 acres), R-8 zone (6.27 acres) and R-2 (12.87 acres) for Three Corners by David Dean - 6380 North Locust Grove Road: Rountree: Next items on the agenda, Items 9 and 10, amendments to Ordinance No. 04-116 and Ordinance No. 08-1350. If I could have those read by title only. Holman: City of Meridian ordinance amending Ordinance No. 04-116, an amended ordinance AZ 03-037, Chesterfield for annexation of property located in a portion of the northeast one quarter of the southwest one quarter and a portion of the northwest one quarter of the southeast one quarter of Section 10, Township 1 north, Range 1 west, Boise Meridian, Ada County, Idaho, as described in Attachment A and annexing certain lands and territory situated in Ada County, Idaho, and adjacent and contiguous to the corporate limits of the City of Meridian, as requested by the City of Meridian, establishing and determining the land use zoning classification of said lands from RUT, Ada County, to R-8, Medium Density, in the Meridian City Code, providing that copies of Meridian City Council May 5, 2009 Page 9 of 10 this ordinance shall be filed with the Ada County assessor, the Ada County recorder, and the Idaho State Tax Commission, as required by law, and providing for a summary of the ordinance and providing for a waiver of the reading rule and providing an effective date. Holman: City of Meridian amended Ordinance No. 08-1350, an amended ordinance AZ 07-017, Three Comers Subdivision, for annexation of a parcel of land located in the north half of the northwest one quarter of Section 29, Township 4 north, Range 1 East, Boise Meridian, Ada County, Idaho, as described in Attachment A and annexing certain lands and territory situated in Ada County, Idaho, and adjacent and contiguous to the corporate limits of the City of Meridian, as requested by the City of Meridian, establishing and determining the land use zoning classification of said lands from RUT, Ada County, to C-C, Community Business District, R-8, Medium Density Residential District, R-2 low density residential, in the Meridian City Code, providing that copies of this ordinance shall be filed with the Ada County assessor, the Ada County recorder, and the Idaho State Tax Commission, as required by law, and providing for a summary of the ordinance and providing for a waiver of the reading rule and providing an effective date. Rountree: You have heard the titles for both amendments for Items No. 9 and 10. Anyone wish to have those ordinances read in total? Seeing no one -- Bird: Mr. President. Rountree: Mr. Bird. Bird: I move we approve Ordinance No. 04-1116 and 08-1350, with suspension of rules. Hoaglun: Second. Rountree: It's been moved and seconded to approve Items No. 9 and 10. Roll call vote. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Item 11: Executive Session per Idaho State Code 67-2345(1)(c) - (to conduct deliberations concerning labor negotiations or to acquire an interest in real property, which is not owned by a public agency): Rountree: Last item on the agenda this evening is an Executive Session per Idaho State Code 67-2345 (1)(c). I need a motion. Bird: So moved. Meridian City Council May 5, 2009 Page 10 of 10 Zaremba: Second. Rountree: It's been moved and seconded to go into Executive Session. Roll call vote. Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. EXECUTIVE SESSION: Rountree: We are out of the Executive meeting at 7:53. Need a motion. Bird: I move we come out of Executive Session. Zaremba: Second. Rountree: It's been moved and seconded to come out of Executive Session. All in favor? Opposed? Motion passes. MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Bird: I move we adjoum. Zaremba: Second. Hoaglun: Second. Rountree: It's been moved and seconded and third to adjoum. All in favor? MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES. Rountree: We are adjourned. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:54 P.M. (AUDIO RECORDING ON FILE THESE PROCEEDINGS) ~~r~ ~ ~ /z ~ ~ ~,,~ TAMMY EERD, MAYOR DATE APB ATTEST: JAYCEC-CLL. HOL~IIA , CI~RK ", ~ ~~'~' ., ~ ~~. \``o. a