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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000 04-18 PreMeridian City Pre-Council Meeting April 18, 2000 The Special Pre-Council Meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order by Mayor Robert D. Corrie on Tuesday, April 18, 2000 at 6:35 p.m. Members present: Robert Corrie, Keith Bird, Cherie McCandless, Tammy deWeerd. Members absent: Ron Anderson Others present: Bill Nichols, Bill Gordon, Gary Smith, Shari Stiles, Ken Bowers, Will Berg. Corrie: I’ll open the Pre-Council meeting on April 18, 2000, at 6:35 p.m. to discuss the agenda items and department reports, and then, at 7:30, we’ll go into the regular agenda session. Welcome, everybody, Senator. Al, I’m glad to see you here today. It’s not quite the Chambers at the Statehouse, but thank you. Okay. Council, do you have any questions on the Consent Agenda, any items that you want to discuss or that you want to break off? Item L. Beer and Wine License: El Tenampa by Rocio Maria Pedraza – 729 East 1st Street: Bird: Mr. Mayor, on the beer and wine license, is everything okay, Chief? Gordon: Yes, sir. It is. We were going to approve that tonight pending the County. They are pending the issuance of their license. We do have the state license, and the background with us has passed. So as soon as they get their county license issued, then we can issue it. Bird: Do we need to yank that off the Consent or is it okay to leave it on the Consent? If there’s no question on it? Gordon: I think we just – exception that when the county license is provided that it’s approved. Bird: Is that part of the policy? Corrie: Policy that (inaudible) City Clerk. Gordon: Other than that, yes, sir. It is fine. Item G. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law: AZ 99-010 Request for annexation and zoning of 150.79 acres to R-4 by Bear Creek, LLC – east of Stoddard Road and south of Overland : Item H. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law: PP 99-010 Request for preliminary plat for proposed Bear Creek Subdivision – 326 single-family lots on 150.79 acres by Bear Creek, LLC – east of Stoddard Road and south of Overland: Bird: Mr. Bird, I still find the Bear Creek Subdivision. Is everything fine on that, Mr. Nichols? Nichols: Councilman Bird, Mayor, members of the Council, yes, I believe so. Bird: I don’t see anything we need to pull, do you? Item F. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law: CUP 99-039 Request for Conditional Use Permit for planned unit development including continuing care retirement community, single- and multi-family residential and office and retail use by Touchmark Living Centers - Joseph A. Billig – east of St. Luke’s between Franklin Road and Interstate 84: deWeerd: Mr. Mayor, Touchmark. Do we need a signed Development Agreement before we do a CUP? Okay. So we’ll probably have to take Item F off so we can continue that or table it until our next meeting. Corrie: Hearing that, do we have a Development Agreement? Berg: No. Corrie: Okay. So we need the Development Agreement first. Okay. So we can pull that off and table it until then. Nichols: Mayor, members of the Council, in the past, haven’t we gone ahead with the annexation and zoning and approved those Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law, but not the CUP? So only that would be pulled? Item H. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law: PP 99-010 Request for preliminary plat for proposed Bear Creek Subdivision – 326 single-family lots on 150.79 acres by Bear Creek, LLC – east of Stoddard Road and south of Overland: deWeerd: And wouldn’t we also need to pull H for Bear Creek on the preliminary plat? Corrie: Has Bear Creek signed one? Bird: Have the got a Development Agreement? Corrie: preliminary plat you can. It’s just the – Berg: We haven’t approved the Findings on the annexation yet to Bear Creek. Those Findings are a part of the Development Agreement. Bird: Then we can’t do the preliminary plat. Nichols: It looks to me like it’d be appropriate to pull that one as well. Corrie: The annexation and zoning? Nichols: No, Mayor. It would be the preliminary plat, Item H. Councilman Bird, members of the Council, Will, we’ve got the Development Agreement, so that’s all done, if I recall, for Bear Creek. Berg: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, we have the Development Agreement, but part of that agreement is the approved Findings attached to it, and we do not have anything signed coming back to us, but I believe you had that done previously. Nichols: I believe everything is ready to go. All we need is the signature. So we can go ahead and do the annexation Findings and just simply pull the preliminary plat, and then we’ll – Corrie: Pull the preliminary plat next time? Nichols: I would assume that they’ll have it signed by the 2nd. They’re ready to go. Bird: Same on it. Pull it. Nichols: Yes. Item 4. Continued Public Hearing from April 4, 2000: CUP 00-006 Request for a Conditional Use Permit for existing car dealership (2 buildings) on front four acres and proposed 72,000 s.f. Fairview Mini-Storage on the back four acres – 1005 East Fairview Avenue: deWeerd: Mr. Mayor, just one more question on the regular agenda. It looks like we’ll be continuing No. 4 to May 16th; is that correct? Corrie: No. 4, the mini-storage? Same thing here, Mr. Clerk? deWeerd: I had a letter in our packet that requested. Corrie: I didn’t get it. Sorry. Berg: We got it late today. (inaudible) Corrie: Oh, that one from Becky? deWeerd: No, this one is from Fairview Mini Storage. Table it to the 2nd scheduled – no – to the 16th. Corrie: Table it to the 16th. So we’ll continue the public hearing to the 16th. Thank you. Bird: They don’t have time to get it in. deWeerd: Right. That’s it for me. McCandless: Mr. Mayor, we don’t have the special Pre-Council meeting minutes of April 4, 2000, either. Item 3. Tabled from April 4, 2000: PP 00-016 Request for preliminary plat for 45 building lots on 8.25 acres for proposed Woodhaven Subdivision by Dan Wood / D.W., Inc. – west of Eagle Road between Overland and East Victory: Corrie: Okay. So we’ll pull that one. I think we had a letter from the attorney on Woodhaven annexation and zoning, the one that they want to replace a page. Page 3. Page No. 5 the owner’s changed to reflect D.W., Inc., and therefore, please replace this page with the old one. Is that just – okay. Anything else? Okay. Do you want to go through the department reports? Bird: I’d love to. Let’s get them out of the way. 10. Department Reports: A. City Treasurer – Janice Smith: 1. Treasurer’s Report: Berg: Mr. Mayor, Reta put in your boxes the expenditure and revenue report, and she felt that if you had any questions that you could probably just contact her since Janice hasn’t been here. And they – any other information that you request for the next Council meeting. B. Fire Department – Chief Ken Bowers: 1. Approval of Fire Truck Contract: Contract for Fire Station II with ZGA Architects: Change Order No. 5 Franklin Road Fire Station: Corrie: Department report, Kenny Bowers. Bowers: Mayor Corrie and City Council members. We finally got the wording on the contract correct, we believe, this time from the Hughes Fire Equipment. Ron has gone through it and okayed it. We would like to have the Mayor and Clerk sign the contract so we can get it sent in to get the new fire truck ordered. Also, do you want to go on with No. 2 or do you want to stay with that a little bit? How do you guys want to do this here? Bird: I’ve got a question on the fire truck. We’ve already approved it. That doesn’t even have to be approved. That one is just waiting for Ron to look it over and get some – I think it’s okay for – we approved the fire truck contract. I think it’s just a matter of the Mayor signing and the Clerk attesting. Bowers: Mayor Corrie and Council members, President Bird, I was just under the impression that all contracts that are coming before the City Council before the Mayor signs it. Bird: We had agreed upon that contract when we accepted the bid. Bowers: I believe not. I believe we just approved buying of the fire truck at that time, and then we still had to do the final work on the contract. Bird: Bring it forward. Corrie: Okay. We can approve the contract. Bird: We can’t on the Pre-Council, can we? We just held off and then he didn’t have to get back up. Bowers: Item No. 2 is our contract through ZGA for Fire Station No. 2 at Ten Mile and Cherry Lane. This has been going on quite a while. Bill Gigray went through it, made some changes. We sent it back to ZGA and they sent it back to us. Then Bill Nichols went through it. Had some comments. It’s quite a lengthy contract, so I didn’t make a copy for everybody. The comments that Bill Nichols had made was passed on to President Keith Bird. He looked the contract over Friday night. He does not have any problems with what Bill Nichols had suggested. Excuse me. Keith Bird does not have any problems of what the contract states at this time. Bill can explain a little bit about it. Nichols: Mayor, members of the Council, I had some technical changes that I requested or there were some issues. Most of this is fairly standard, but, of course, since it’s an AIA contract, it favors the architect, and we have to look it over accordingly. But as it is, I don’t think that the issues that they have not agreed with is on – are that large to prevent or preclude going forward with the contract. Corrie: Does the architects – do they feel the same way? Nichols: They’re ready to go with – I mean, they accepted some of the requirements of changes that I made and didn’t accept some of the others. Corrie: Any question of Council? deWeerd: Mr. Mayor, I just have one of the City Attorney. Of the ones they didn’t agree with, are those significant issues? Nichols: They’re not huge issues. One of the items that they didn’t agree with was – had to do with when the statute of limitations accrues with regard to any cause of action that there might be against the architect for negligence, but it’s not on a project of this size for the Ten Mile Station, I don’t think it makes that big of difference. Might have bigger concern on a project the size of the police station, the proposed police station or some other larger facility. The other thing was a sort of philosophical thing for me, and that is that architects regularly surcharge outsourced item by 10 to 15 percent, and they put it in the contract that way. So if they send something out, copies or whatever, they get to add 10 percent to it on their reimbursable expenses, or mileage. They get, according to contract, to add 10 percent where most professionals don’t surcharge those items to the client, and – but it’s the industry standard. So that was their reply was that it was the industry standard. That’s what we do. So with the police architects, perhaps we need to negotiate that up front and see where they’re at on that. deWeerd: Mr. Mayor, one more question. Kenny, is this pretty much – they were the architects on the main station? Is this quite similar to that contract? Bowers: Mayor Corrie, Council members and Tammy, yes. With the exceptions that Bill stated tonight, it’s the same contract as what we used there. We did use ZGA one time last year, as Bill was talking about, the 10 percent. We had to have the ground tested afterwards, and instead of taking a month to get a contractor and bid it out and everything, we used ZGA. They went and had it done and they charged us six percent. I think our contract said 10, but they charged us six percent. Only one time we used that. deWeerd: So you feel comfortable with that? Bowers: Yes, I sure do, Tammy. deWeerd: Thank you, Kenny. Bowers: Then the third item is Change Order for the fire station on Franklin Road. You – the City Council had already approved Change Order, excuse me, Items 1 and 2 on January 4, 2000. Three and four items we need to have changed. We had a door that swung into the – out of our training room into a bathroom, and we figured we’d have some collisions of people coming out of the bathroom and people coming out of the training room, so we changed that order. Also, the City – in the City you have to have an RP valve for your irrigation, and the contractor had put in a double-check valve. So we need to change that out and put an RP valve in it. Bird: What’s the amount of the change order, Kenny? Corrie: $1360. Bowers: The amount of the change order will be $1,360. Bird: I’m not (inaudible) Corrie: Whose idea was it the first time the door was put in? Was it the architect? Bowers: The architect, yes. Yes. And we didn’t catch it. We walked through it I think three months there. All of us walked through it, and all of a sudden they hung the door up and we realized that we were going to be having a problem. So, yes, we did. deWeerd: Well, you have very few problems with that, didn’t you? Bowers: Yes. I think we had $20-some thousand dollars worth of change orders, and half of that was on that Idaho Power deal. So we did a very good job, I think, with change orders. Thank you very much. Any other questions? Police Department - Chief Gordon: 1a. JAIBG: Corrie: Chief Gordon. Gordon: Mr. Mayor and Council, I’ve got an issue that came up that needs some attention right quick, and that’s a grant. The Department of Justice gives Idaho Juvenile Corrections a block grant and allows them to distribute the money throughout the State of Idaho for programs or projects that meet the criteria. The City of Meridian is authorized $12,000, and we’ve drawn up the project. Craig Fawley has done all the paperwork for it, and then right at the last minute we found out it has to go through legal, and then there’s been some holdups. This needs to be in by tomorrow. So I would like Craig Fawley to come up here and give you a short presentation on what we’re going to use as far as the $1,000. As what he’s going to use it for, and then we need Council’s approval for the Mayor to sign. With that, Craig? Fawley: Thank you, Chief. This is grants titled Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant. The funding does come through the Idaho Department of Juvenile Corrections, and it’s disbursed through the Association of Idaho Cities. A couple of the main criteria grant is – stipulation of the grant, first of all the money is used for accountability rather than information programs. This money is used for juveniles that are already in the criminal justice system to hold them accountable to their probation conditions and their state and local laws. So that makes it a little unique from all the other grants that you’re going to see. The other thing that’s unique about this is to get approval for this grant, and this is what we’ve already done, is we had to form a coalition called the Juvenile Crime Enforcement Coalition. This is a coalition of community and business leaders to determine how this money is allocated. So the allocations that I’m about to share with you have already been approved and endorsed by this Committee. The coalition is made up of myself as the project director, Shawna Dunn as Ada County Prosecutor working with the Juvenile Court; Marcy Chadwell which is Ada County Juvenile Court is a probation quadrant supervisor; Julianne Michaelson works with Ada County Juvenile Court as a victims services specialist; and Marilyn Reynolds is Principal at Meridian Academy. She represents Meridian School District; Mr. Scott Leadbetter is the facilities manager at Jabil Circuits, and he’s on the committee; and Ryan Davis is a community member from the Capital Christian Center. He’s on staff there. So those are the people that currently make up the list. We’ve had a couple other people that have approached us that want to participate in this. We’ll probably add them on later. One of the neat things about the Juvenile Crime Enforcement Coalition is that it doesn’t just look at how to spend the money, but we’re looking at ways to break down the walls and share information back and forth between agencies to hold juveniles accountable. The allocations that the coalition has agreed upon are as follows: The funding comes, the grant amount is $10,901. There’s $1211.54 that are matching funds that have already – that will come from the year 2000 Detective Division Budget. So there is a small amount, for $1200 we’ll be getting nearly $11,000 added to that. Ten percent of those funds can be used for administration. Administration involves training of the project coordinator which is myself, and we’re only using $812 which is 6.7 percent, and that training will include serious and violent juvenile offenders is what’s happening on a national trend; the actual administration of the grant, the paperwork, how to do that; and then also, there is training on how to share information between agencies. The largest portion of the money is going to some technology expenses. This (inaudible) – I’m just going to give you a short list, but basically digital cameras and computers to high-end computers for storing digital photographs of juvenile offenders. When we arrest a juvenile, we take a mug shot of them. That mug shot then helps identify them while we’re looking for so-and-so, and if you don’t know the guy, you don’t really know what he looks like, then we can also do photo lineups for a juvenile suspect. Right now we don’t have access to that. We have no way to capture, store and retrieve photographs of juvenile offenders in the Meridian Police Department. So this will purchase two high-end computers that will do that, three digital cameras, printers and scanners so that we can really be up-to-date with what’s out there with the technology to do this. One set of equipment goes at the Police Department, the other set of equipment will be placed at the Meridian Outreach of the Juvenile Probation Services which is right now on Franklin. They’re moving next door just one office back east. We’re working on different connections so we can share this information back and forth, and they’ve found that this is just a real key in holding juveniles accountable is the Police Department and also the Probation Department’s doing and vice-versa. So that total is $8,041 and that’s 66.4 percent of the grant. The remainder of the funds of $3,259.54 – that 54 cents had to go somewhere – is put into kind of a unique program that we’re looking for a lot of success with. This is 26.9 percent of the allocation. This is going to be to pay above and beyond the normal hours that police officers and probation officers work to team together to go out and (inaudible) society and our community to have what we call Fourth Amendment Waivers. They do not have the freedom from unreasonable search and seizure because of the crimes they’ve committed. But because of our work schedules, the school resource officers’ commitments to the school hours and the juvenile probation department heads, the same problem. It’s hard for us to get out in the evenings and weekends, so they kind of know that outside of office hours law enforcement supervision is not really tight. It’s really hard for us to get out there. So these funds would go to team together at each time a probation officer and police officer would go together, so that way we’re increasing this information sharing between the agencies, and it’s a real effective tool Juvenile probation was excited about it. The Police Departments were excited about it to have occasion to do it on an informal basis, but, again, because of our pretty structured time during the school year, it’s difficult to do. These funds are to be spent during the 2000/2001 school year for us to be out teaming up, and they’ll provide us probably two nights a month to go out and do this. That is, in a nutshell, what the grant is going to do for us. Can I answer any questions? Bird: How much more bookkeeping is this going to take? Fawley: Well, the bookkeeping, I have the – it looks like I have the delight of not only being the project director, but also the financial director. The bookkeeping is one thing that is going to come to me. One of the good things about this coming through the Association of Idaho Cities is that it’s – they make this as easy as they can to administer, and so it’s – yeah, there is bookkeeping, there is quarterly reports, but I think that for the amount of funds and for the use that we’re going to get, it’s going to go to things that are hard for us to budget the money for anyway. I think the majority of the work is done: the forming of the coalition and coming to an agreement on the allocation. That was probably the biggest part of the work. Corrie: Any other questions? Bird: I have none. deWeerd: Sounds good. Bird: Sounds okay to me. Gordon: That’s kind of an example of what school resource officers are doing and plan on doing. So I guess we need Council to approve the Mayor to sign the grant. Corrie: We will do that at the regular agenda meeting. Bird: Can’t do it now. deWeerd: And, Bill, that was called the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant? Fawley: Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grant. Gordon: JAIBG. deWeerd: Thank you. Professional Services / Architect for new Police Department building: Gordon: The next issue I have is on the contract for our architects. It is professional services, and the Council approved me to go ahead and hire these folks until I get a proposal, and it was $258,000, and I don’t think you want me to approve that. So they’re proposal is not a contract, and I understand Councilman Bird was going to talk to one of the architects, Steve Simmons. I’ve been unable to corner him. I was curious as to how you want to proceed on this because we are moving against that October 1 date. I’m kind of at a loss, here. Bird: I have not had a chance to get hold of Steve, in fact, he’s out of town until Friday, to talk to him on that stuff. I think if we do it with the CM like I’d like to see it done, we’d be okay if we go this on board on the 2nd. Let’s get Steve to get a – I think we can do some twisting. This percent, I think, is a little high. Gordon: Okay. So you’re going to meet with him? Bird: I’m going to get hold of him Friday, and if I meet with him, I’ll definitely call you. Gordon: I would request that my liaison and I both be present. Maybe we can learn something, Councilman Bird. I’ve (inaudible) $258,000. Bird: I think we need to talk to – that don’t scare me. Gordon: It doesn’t really scare me. I just shake a little. It’s a lot of money. Bird: It is a lot of money, but they’re going to do a lot of work, too. Gordon: So do you want me to bring this back up – Bird: The 2nd. Let’s see if we can get a firm written proposal there. A contract. Gordon: I think this is their first opening. There was no dickering. Corrie: You say you’re going to a meeting Friday? Bird: No. He’s not back in town until Friday. I’ll get hold of Steve at that point. I’ll call him. Gordon: And those other issues on there, he explained those to me before he left, was the phone and data system was $10,000 – those are additional to the $250,000. The FF and E was a firm that inventoried your furniture and puts little models in your plans to determine how much you have and how much you need. I don’t think we need that one. So I would say just the top part would be what we would bargain with. Bird: Let’s see what he wants to do. 2. Paint the Town liability insurance waiver: Gordon: The other issue came up on Paint the Town, and I’ve been involved with that for several years. This year they have a waiver form that they want the groups to sign which relieves the Paint the Town Organization from all liability and puts it back on the employers. Again, I don't know if the City wanted to be liable. I faxed a copy over to the City Clerk, Will Berg, and he was checking into that with our insurance company, ICRMP. Bird: What’s ICRMP say? Berg: Mayor, members of the Council, ICRMP hasn’t gotten back to me. What this involves is an employee team or the team sponsored by the City, for example, the Police Department, and the liability that we have with them as employees working on that particular house. I haven’t got any word back other than they did receive what I faxed to them which is what you have faxed to me. The other concerns, sometimes there are family members involved with the team, not just employees. Bird: How does the private sector do it? Every private company we’ve – Aluma-Glass and everybody else does, and they’re covered by the insurance. I don’t’ know why ICRMP can’t cover. Berg: I don’t know. I’m not an insurance expert, but I’ll try to find the answer. Corrie: The Police Department is doing it? Do you have a team? Gordon: Well, it was brought back by one of the police officers on our team, but everybody who’s going to be on the team, regardless of who their employer is, they sign this waiver that Paint the Town is not responsible for personal injuries; that the employer of the individual that’s injured would be providing the insurance. Bird: It’s Workman’s Comp? Gordon: Yes. And I have a question there that if we’re covered under Workman’s Comp, are they working? Okay. Bird: It’s a volunteer, isn’t it? Corrie: Do they classify it as Workman’s Comp? Nichols: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, Chief Gordon, you can obtain Worker’s Compensation coverage for volunteers, and they do a – I mean, it’s been done in other places that way, and the actual amount of premium that’s attributable to those volunteers is pretty small where as like a three-day project that usually Paint the Town is like three or four days by the time we do the prep work and do the actual painting on the Saturday. So ICRMP should be able to tell the City what the additional premium, if any, would be for that. Typically it’s not much. But you can get Worker’s Comp for volunteers. Corrie: So that would be – ICRMP wouldn’t be giving it anyway. It would be the State Insurance Fund. So they would – do they have to know before or after the fact? Before the fact. All right. Okay. Would you check that one out, then, Will? Okay. 3. Wages: Review Information Gordon: Last issue, wages. Issue was brought up with the Police Department is under a pay program is under compliance with the City’s personnel manual which was adopted 1995. Some of the comments that were made by the Treasurer’s Office that they were trying to get the Police Department into compliance, but whenever they did, I would intimidate them, I took exception to that. So I went back to find out whey we were still under that pay plan. 1995, the Police Department pay program was approved by the then-Mayor Grant Kingsford. We were authorized at that time to continue on the way we were. The packet that I gave you checked 18 different law enforcement agencies throughout two or three states. If one thing is quite evident there, nobody is doing exactly by the letter of Fair Labors and Standards under the 207K. Everybody has variations. I guess I’m back to I’d like to know where we’re going to go and what you expect me to do from here. Corrie: I don’t think you’ll get an answer tonight. I told you that. Gordon: Well, I wanted to make it very clear why we were under that pay plan and who authorized that. Here again, the previous Mayor and Council when we were a smaller town was done word of mouth. It was not put in writing. That’s why there is nothing in writing with anybody, but it was authorized by the Mayor. Not by my intimidation. Corrie: I think we have one Councilperson that needs to be brought up to speed on this. As soon as we do, we can get your answers to you. Nichols: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, Chief Gordon, somehow or another, that – I think those packets ended up with me in some stuff that I picked up at the Mayor’s office. The Council didn’t get them. That’s my fault. I got them, and I’ll make sure that they get them. That was the information that you sent. So I have it sitting in my office. I’ll get it to them tomorrow. Gordon: And if there are any questions, ask for the information. Grant Kingsford would be more than willing to entertain any phone calls from anybody. Bird: He will get them. Gordon: I hope so. I really do. Thank you. That’s all I had. Sanitary Service Company – Steve Sedlacek 1. Household Hazardous Waste Corrie: I think we have one more. You wanted to say something on the sanitation service on the program that you’re doing? Thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of the Council. I came into City Hall yesterday and met with the Mayor for about half an hour for the simple reason is I wanted to inform you all tonight that we’re moving forward with the household hazardous waste event. We’re planning to have three events this summer. One in May, one in July and one is September. It’s the fourth Tuesday of those months. There’s going to start being some press releases on this. One thing I really don’t want to have happen is I don’t want the Mayor and the Council to read about what’s going on in Meridian in the paper. I’d rather have you hear it from me. I guess I’m a little paranoid about that. And one of the things that you'll see, if it’s okay with you, if not, I need to know, that this program is being done more frequently because we’re tagging along with the City of Boise’s program. We commissioned that in the past. This is also kind of an intro if recycling does get implemented, that recycling program will pay for this more frequent collection. Now, these next three collection events will be paid for by us. But we’re kind of moving into a more frequent collection event if recycling goes through. So I wanted to find out if it’s okay, for example, here’s a potential news release or an ad coming out, and I can give this to you guys. I’m sorry I didn’t make more copies, but basically it just shows the City of Boise’s logo and the City of Meridian’s logo. That’s fine with me. I don’t know if it’s okay with you guys. We could put out something more Meridian-specific if you like and issue it jointly with Boise Public Works. It’s up – I don’t know if there’s any interpolitical issues there. deWeerd: I have no issues. Bird: I just appreciate your effort Corrie: The only thing – I think I told you, Steve, I just want to make sure that you guys handle that. (inaudible). deWeerd: That’s a nice logo we have. Sedlacek: Yes. That’s very nice. deWeerd: I like that. Bird: What is it a water tower? Sedlacek: It’s a circle. An empty circle. On the bottom you see they’re asking for that on the graphic format. I don’t have that. I’ll get it and get it to them. Again, unless you mind having this sort of – Bird: I agree with Bob. Make sure you get our names on it. Sedlacek: We’re also prepared to send out a flyer in next month’s bills describing what’s going on, where it is. Our name will be on it, your name will be on it. We don’t care if our name’s on it, but we want to make sure that the City of Meridian gets credit for it, for things going on in the City of Meridian. Bird: Appreciate it. Sedlacek: That’s all I wanted to say. Corrie: Questions? Bird: I have none. Corrie: Thanks, Steve. Sedlacek: Thanks. Corrie: Anything else? Gary? City Engineer – Gary Smith 1. Summers Funeral Home waterline extension: Smith: Mayor and Council, I apologize for not having an agenda item on the agenda for tonight, but I do have some additional information on this Summers Funeral Home waterline extension that we talked about. I’ll just hand that out and I don’t know if you want to or would be able to at this late date take any action on it tonight. I know they’re really anxious to get something started. But hopefully you’ll have time to just kind of look this stuff over, and if you want to discuss it toward the end of the meeting, I’ll be more than happy to answer any questions. deWeerd: Thanks, Gary. Bird: Thank you. Corrie: Shari, do you have anything at all? Okay. Anything else, Council? Bird: I have nothing. Corrie: Then I will close the Pre-Council meeting, and we’ll adjourn until 7:30 when we’ll open the regular Council meeting. MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:15 P.M. (TAPE ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS) APPROVED: ROBERT D. CORRIE, MAYOR ATTEST: WILLIAM G. BERG, JR., CITY CLERK