HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000 05-16 PreMeridian City Pre-Council Meeting May 16, 2000
The Special Pre-Council meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:35 p.m. on Tuesday, May 16, 2000, by Mayor Robert D. Corrie.
Members present: Robert Corrie, Cherie McCandless, Ron Anderson, Tammy deWeerd, Keith Bird.
Others present: Bill Nichols, Shari Stiles, Janice Smith, Gary Smith, Ken Bowers, Bill Gordon, Pauline Skeggs, Will Berg, Cathy Dennison.
Corrie: Okay, we’ll open the Pre-Council meeting of the City of Meridian on May 16, 2000, at 6:35 p.m. Staff, comments, questions? Excuse me. Comments to staff? Okay. Yes. From
the (inaudible) from ACHD and the BUS. I’m sorry.
Nelson: Just wanted to come tonight and briefly let you know what’s going on with our commuter shuttles. We do have a few copies here (inaudible – walked away from the mic) some of
the information was left out on a couple of the copies. So if you have a blank space, you know (inaudible). Yes. They’re rough copies. It’s a draft. These are the ones that we’re
using in the interim. It’s on this one. You’ve got the “T”? On our printer, this afternoon, some of the things were dropped off. There’s one area that has no pick-up points, but
we’ll get you a good copy. The mid-day shuttle did start on April 3rd. We do have a count on April’s ridership. We had 186 rides from Caldwell, Karcher Mall, into Meridian, and 176
from Meridian into Boise during the month of April. That was a brand new month. We haven’t done very much advertising on it. The Statesman did do a story one week after we got started.
They hadn’t done anything since then. So right now we’ve got Rosemary Curtin that we’ve hired to do kind of a grass-roots effort to outreach to the schools, to businesses. We’ll start
our commuter shuttle on the 5th of June. We have a contractor, Treasure Valley Transit, which is the same contractor that’s doing the mid-day shuttles that is going to be doing the
commuter shuttles, too. So we’ll actually have service in Meridian from 7:00 in the morning until 6:00 in the afternoon. There’s one extra run in the middle of the day that TVT has
put on without charge to us, so there’s five trips in the mid-day, and then we’ll have four in the morning, four in the afternoon. So we’ll have all-day service. Like I said before,
it starts the 5th of June, and we’re working with businesses on the Boise side to get some employees to know about the service and start utilizing it as soon as it starts. We will be
having, we hope to have a breakfast kick-off on the 5th of June. You’re all invited to come down at 6:00 in the morning if you want to.
Bird: Where’s it at?
Nelson: It’ll be somewhere in the neighborhood of Gem Street. Either the bowling alley or the restaurant across the street to have breakfast. We’ll have a little hoop-lah here in
Meridian, and then carry dignitaries across into Boise and
have another hoop-lah on that end. Have the Mayor of Meridian, the Mayor of Boise be some of the speakers unless you other folks want to talk.
deWeerd: At six a.m.? I don’t talk.
Nelson: Well, the dignitaries’ bus will leave here at about 8:30 and have the other ceremony on that end about 9:00. So Mayor Corrie has said that he will cook pancakes for us if we
wanted to do that. So we’re still in the process of putting that all together as we know more details as we get into it. We just wanted to let you know that it is alive and well, and
we've working toward getting it up and running. Rosemary Curtin has a couple of things that she wants to cover with you to see if we can’t get some help on another avenue.
Curtin: Just real quick. Part of what we’d like to do is engage you all in helping us support and market this program. So I will probably be calling you individually asking you to
brainstorm with the community leaders that are worthwhile to us to go out and speak. I called Mayor, I called Jack today, and out at the homeowners for Cherry Lane, I believe – delightful.
We’ll be bringing him a stack of brochures. He’s going to try to get those to his neighbors that he knows that will more than likely use the service. So if you all start thinking
and be ready for a phone call, and see if we can – we’ve almost scientifically got this down that we would like almost 50 people on that bus by the end of June. That’s doable. That’s
– each one of these buses, I think, carries 16 people. So if you kind of take it in small increments like that, it’s very doable to make this successful, and you get to add more routes
and more conveniences to your residents.
Nelson: One thing that I would add that Rosemary has talked to the School District, and there are fliers that are going to be printed that are going to go out to all the school kids
so that they can utilize that mid-day transportation out to Boondocks and Roaring Springs. We also have two of the runs that are going to be on the commuter side will serve Boondocks
and Roaring Springs, too. So you’ll have that afternoon connection back to their homes either in Boise or in Nampa or Meridian. So it’s good partnership.
Bird: Thank you.
Nelson: Any questions?
Anderson: Has there been any effort to advertise it to the senior citizens’ center down here?
Nelson: We took brochures down there, but I think it’s going to actually take going down and sitting down and seeing those folks work through a schedule that works out best for them.
Boise Towne Square Mall has also agreed that they would put brochures out and help promote that on that end. That might be one of the destinations of St. Luke's and St. Al’s has passed
out the mid-day shuttle
brochures to doctors’ offices around the facility. That’s another draw right there. But anybody that you can think of that we might go out one on one, we’ve got an appointment with
Kiwanis to talk to the spokesman. Any of the civics groups, we’d be happy to come out and talk one on one with them.
Anderson: Will had a good idea that maybe you could have a bus or a banner or something in the Dairy Days Parade just to help promote it and let citizens know that you’re out there.
Nelson: When is that?
Bird: Second or third week in June. Usually the second.
Nelson: We’re also looking at banners across the main street if you know somebody to talk to about that. We’d be happy to work with that, too.
Bird: Is that one still set up for that one by Zamzow’s?
Corrie: I haven’t seen it for awhile, but it might be.
Bird: They used to have a string across there that you could set up right over the railroad tracks there. You have to get permission from ACHD.
Nelson: I can do that. Thank you.
Corrie: Okay. Questions on the agenda?
Anderson: I haven’t gotten that far.
E. Tabled May 2, 2000: 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:
F. Tabled from May 2, 2000: 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:
Berg: Mayor, members of the Council, we have not received Development Agreements for Touchmark or Bear Creek, so those items will have to be tabled again.
Stiles: Do you know why they’re not signing them?
Berg: Touchmark is just getting –
G. Tabled from May 2, 2000: Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law: 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: Was there a question about Woodhaven?
Stiles: The only thing on Woodhaven, Item G, is they have submitted a revised plat that I would like the Findings to reflect the new revision date that would appear on Pages 2, 3 and
4.
Bird: Wait a minute. What’s the date?
Stiles: What is the date?
Bird: Woodhaven, the last thing we said when we approved that is no more changes on your plat. What is the date of the plat?
Stiles: Is that Woodhaven? We asked them for changes on the plat because the plat didn’t comply with our R-8 standards.
Bird: What’s the date on the plat?
Stiles: The new one they submitted is May 8, 2000.
Bird: That’s the one we got.
Stiles: And the Development Agreement has been signed on that one.
Nichols: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, can I address a point of order for Shari? We called – I think this was the developer. I had Marlene call and ask for the numbers on the
plat. Have you checked those Findings if they don’t match up with the numbers?
Stiles: You asked them for the numbers?
Nichols: Yes, because we weren’t getting – we hadn’t gotten that final one, so we just went directly to the developer to get it so we could have some information – have you checked
these proposed Findings?
Stiles: The only ones I have are from last time.
Nichols: Okay.
Stiles: I didn’t have new ones. Just wherever it would reference 3-28 should reflect 5-8.
Nichols: Mr. Mayor, in order to not put this off any longer, I think it would be okay if Council approved these on the regular agenda and that counsel be instructed to submit a final
one that anyplace the date appears it should say May 8th. With that we can just move on and not have this tabled again.
Bird: Do we need to pull it from the agenda?
Nichols: I think it needs to be put onto the regular agenda.
Bird: That’s G, and how about O, then? They have – Mayor, can we move that to 1a? Because 1 is –
Corrie: Yes, G to 1a.
Item I. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law: PP 00-004 Request for Preliminary Plat for 40 building lots on 3.98 acres in an R-40 zone for proposed Heron Brook Townhome Subdivision
by Pinnacle Engineers, Inc. – northeast corner of Meridian Road and Blue Heron Lane:
Item J. Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law: CUP 00-011 Request for Conditional Use Permit for a 40-lot townhome development in an R-40 zone for proposed Heron Brook Townhome
Subdivision by Pinnacle Engineers, Inc. – northeast corner of Meridian Road and Blue Heron Lane:
Nichols: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, if I may interject again. Items I and J, there were some errors in my notes when I prepared these Findings of Fact. I submitted a memo
to you asking for clarification on some of the items. In fact, Councilwoman deWeerd’s motion did clarify those items, and it did refer to the May 2nd letter from Pinnacle Engineers
had covered those things, and I didn’t have that from the meeting, and it wasn’t in my file folder. Mr. Berg had pointed that out to me today. I had revised those, and I have them
here with those revisions in them if you want to move that to the regular agenda, I’ll pass out the revised Findings, and you can look at those specific items if you wish.
Bird: Where do you want to move it, Mayor?
Corrie: 1b and 1c.
Bird: 1b and 1c? Okay.
Corrie: That’s I and J?
(inaudible discussion amongst Council members)
Item 5. Continued Public Hearing from April 18, 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, may I ask a question of Shari? Shari, on No. 5 for the Fairview Mini Storage, are they making significant changes so that it may have to go through Planning and
Zoning again? They’ve asked for it to be continued or tabled.
Corrie: It’s a public hearing –
Stiles: I thought that was the one that you wanted to wait until they proposed some additional landscaping; isn’t that the one that you –
Corrie: They’re the ones that sent the letter.
Bird: We just asked them to come back.
deWeerd: We just had some questions regarding their project.
Stiles: I hadn’t seen anything new at all on it.
Corrie: It’s a public hearing. (inaudible) dies.
Stiles: They’ve never shown up and make a presentation – did they make a presentation to you ever?
deWeerd: No, they never appear.
Stiles: But you went ahead and talked about it?
deWeerd: Yes.
Stiles: I hadn’t seen anything new, so –
Corrie: If you want to keep continuing the public hearing, I don’t know.
Bird: Mr. Mayor, I think there is some confusion there. You were gone. What we had asked or what the Council had asked was that they come back. They had some questions on the road,
and we had nobody here from their part to answer. The question was whether that road was theirs or not if I remember right.
deWeerd: No, the question was just that they – it’s a private road. Their project started directly off the road, and my question was just, you know, why. There was not a representative
here, and Brad couldn’t answer it. So we asked that a couple of the questions that were brought up that the applicant be able to answer those when they came back the next Council meeting.
Then they had sent a letter requesting that they be postponed until this meeting. Now we have a letter asking it to be removed for an indefinite period of time. They’re trying to
negotiate for the purpose – the purchase –
Stiles: Maybe they don’t want to do anything.
deWeerd: So shall we continue it until the next meeting, and in the interim you can find out what the timeframe is on this?
Stiles: I sure will.
Item 16. TE 00-003 Time Extension on the final plat of Gemtone Subdivision No. 4 by Becky Bowcutt Planning Services at NE ¼ Section 8, T3N, R1E (west of Hickory Avenue between Pine
and State):
deWeerd: Okay, thanks. Mr. Mayor, I have one more question for Shari. Item 16 for a time extension for the final plat on Gemtone Subdivision, I couldn’t find any information on that.
Stiles: All they would have had would have been the actual letter, just the letter requesting it. This was the one where they came before the Council, they were doing another phase
of Gemtone, and they had already been approved as a final plat with Pine Avenue in it, then they submitted another final plat taking Pine Avenue out of the plat. The Council directed
them instead of proceeding with that plat to go back to the old version and just request an extension. So that’s what they did.
deWeerd: Okay.
Item 4. Tabled from may 2, 2000: FP 00-007 Request for Final Plat approval of 102 lots and 14 other lots on 31.94 acres in an R-4 zone by Projects West, Inc., for English Gardens Subdivision:
Stiles: Mr. Mayor, on Item 4 of the regular agenda, we would ask that to be tabled again to just revise the plat, and we don’t have copies of the revised plat yet that we need to review.
Corrie: English Gardens?
Stiles: Yes.
deWeerd: Shari, do you have staff comments on that?
Stiles: On English Gardens? No because it was – we had some significant changes we are asking to it, and we didn’t want to make our comments until they made the changes that we asked
for.
deWeerd: So when is that to be continued or tabled until?
Stiles: Well, if they get that into us, it’ll be three weeks before your next meeting on June 6. If they get it into us soon, we would be able to do our comments in time.
deWeerd: So we should request to table that until June 6th?
Stiles: Yes.
Corrie: Any other items?
Item 2. Tabled from May 2, 2000: CUP 00-012 Request for Conditional Use Permit for Maple Grove RV for RV sales, RV retail and repair in an I-L zone – 2490 W. Franklin Road:
Corrie: On Item No. 2, I believe you had a meeting with Maple Grove RV. The Council last time was trying to see if we could find out some changes for the Conditional Use Permit. I
believe we had a meeting, is that correct, with the applicant and the Fire Marshal and you and Daunt?
Stiles: Yes.
Corrie: And there was still some questions of what can and can’t be done? Is that correct? They’re trying to figure out if they can use the dry chemical and the wall and that part
of it?
Stiles: I didn’t know that was being discussed still. They were talking about a firewall, but I don’t know if Chief Bowers has any other information. What we had discussed in the
meeting was a firewall.
Bowers: Talking to the Fire Marshal, Daunt, the building inspector, would have them put in a firewall and divide it up into two parts at this part of the building. To my knowledge,
there wasn’t anything said about sprinkler systems or water systems or anything at that time.
Corrie: So we’re still not quite sure what to do on that yet; is that correct?
Bowers: Attorney Bill Nichols was there. Possibly he might be able to help out on that, too.
Corrie: Do we need to discuss that (inaudible) meeting? Regular agenda? What I’m looking at is if we’re going to have enough information, then we can table that until we get everybody
on board. I didn’t have to talk to you, I guess.
Nichols: Mr. Mayor, members of the Council, I believe if you leave it on the regular agenda, I can certainly give you my perspective of the meeting and what I think the remaining issues
are, and then you can, Mr. Dugan can respond to those if he’s here. Then you can decide whether to continue it or make a decision.
Corrie: Any thing else? Shari?
Stiles: Mr. Mayor, Council, I had a request from Ada County yesterday. I know it’s not on the agenda, but they have asked for a response on Star’s area of impact. They’re proposing
to come clear to Meridian’s area of impact and south of Chinden. I didn’t know if any of you had any comments on that whether you even saw a copy of the application when that came in.
Corrie: No.
Bird: Haven’t seen it.
Corrie: Haven’t seen anything.
Stiles: Well, since they are in mediation now on their area of impact, the 10-year limitation may not even apply to Star. They may just get the area of impact if the mediation goes
in their favor.
Corrie: The last I talked to the Star Mayor, their area of impact that they said they were going to ask for did not extend south of Meridian – Chinden Boulevard.
Stiles: They have requested –
Corrie: They have requested that now?
Corrie: That’s a lot of territory that the Ada county Commissioners don’t see eye to eye on.
Stiles: Right, and that’s why their in mediation now. They think – their county is afraid that they’re not going to be able to impose that technical assurance clause for serving all
of that area within the 10-year timeframe, but the County Commissioners just want to know if we have any concerns about extending south of Chinden.
Corrie: I don’t think the Council has had a chance to talk about it yet. I think it’s a little premature.
Stiles: So do you want me to –
Corrie: The proposals are – we had some concerns. They’re not going to – do I understand you right that they’re not – wouldn’t include the 10-year that they have the sewer and water
in the 10 years like they did us?
Stiles: They are – they’re concerned that as part of that mediation process that they’re not going to be able to impose all of their requirements that the County has.
Corrie: I would certainly like to hear what the County has to say.
Stiles: They do want some type of response. Do you want me to just tell them that the City does have a concern with that area of impact?
Corrie: We’d like to hear what it is.
Stiles: Then we’ll bring it back before Council on June 6th?
Corrie: Council, comments?
Bird: I’d like to see a map.
Corrie: I would, too, because that’s not what I was told. Going another (inaudible) into this formula.
Stiles: Okay, thanks.
Item 15. FP 00-008 Request for Final Plat approval of 50.9 acres with 164 building lots and 41 other lots in an R-4 zone for Woodbridge Subdivision by Woodbridge Community, LLC – east
side of South Locust Grove ¼ mile south of Franklin Road:
Smith: Mr. Mayor, Item No. 15 on the regular agenda, Woodbridge Subdivision, we have a lack of information, for lack of a better word, on the water system in that area as far as what
we can supply and what the requirements are going to be for connection of that subdivision. We’ve had a problem with getting information from our consultant, and at this point we do
not have it. I’ve talked to Bill Nichols about it, and it’s his recommendation that we table this until the next City Council meeting. Then Shari said there’s another issue concerning
road names that needs to be answered by you and the fire and police services.
Corrie: I believe there’s also that Nampa Meridian has a little question on the use of the ditch.
Smith: Okay. I’ve talked to the applicant’s engineer, and Shari has talked to the applicant about this issue. We just felt that it was better to get this water supply required connection
nailed down before the final plat is before you for approval for your action so we don’t have that loose end. I consider that a pretty major loose end. That would be my recommendation.
Thank you.
Corrie: Okay.
deWeerd: Mr. Mayor, Gary, did you speak to Woodbridge? Are they going to be here tonight? Did you already speak with them?
Smith: I talked to their engineer. I did not talk to the applicant, and he did not tell me whether they were going to be in attendance or not.
Corrie: Any other questions?
Item G. Tabled from May 2, 2000: Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law: 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:
Item O. Development Agreement: AZ 99-023 Request for annexation and zoning of 8.25 acres to R-8 for proposed Woodhaven Subdivision by Dan Wood / D.W., Inc. – west of Eagle Road between
Overland and East Victory:
Stiles: Mr. Mayor, I’m sorry. I did receive revised Findings on the Woodhaven plat today that had the correct date on them. So that doesn’t need to be brought up. We still have the
Development Agreement issue, but can that be left on the Consent Agenda now?
Corrie: G you mean?
Bird: Just leave it on the consent, then?
Stiles: G and then the O. Was that the –
Bird: O was left on anyway.
Stiles: Okay. Sorry about that.
(inaudible discussion amongst Council members)
Corrie: Staff, any more comments?
Stiles: I don’t.
Corrie: Okay. I want to do – Council, do you want to hear some of the department reports?
Bird: Yes.
Item 19. Department Reports:
A. City Treasurer – Janice Smith:
Treasurer’s Report:
Corrie: Janice, City Treasurer.
Smith: Thank you, Mayor and Council members. You received at your chair there this evening the balance sheet. I did want to go over on the first page of the balance sheet. This three-page
balance sheet. More or less, if you were comparing it to last month, you will notice that in the Enterprise Account, there was more money in the cash in the bank. What we’d done is
we had closed a non-active account from US Bank. We were only getting two percent, two point something percent, so we moved it into the Farmers and Merchants where we were getting 5.4
on that. We will be using that for projects that we will not have to take as much money out of our investments as the projects become completed. So, more or less, there was $852,000
put into that account if you noticed a jump.
Anderson: In which account?
Smith: It’s in the Enterprise – in the cash in the bank. You probably didn’t have time to compare since you got it this evening. ON the second page where it’s actually page 1 of 1
on our summary of investments, if you just compare, if you take this home tonight, after the meeting tonight, go home and compare our totals against our Buffington Moore, we show the
$30,000,818 and they show $30,000,817. They’re off on my amount of $1,706. I think it’s – we feel it’s their error. We show it in their detailed report which is lots of pages, so
we have a message into them to please check that and correct it. So if you do compare theirs, we feel ours is correct. A change that you’ll see in expenditure reports, that’s the all
the departments’ expenditure reports that we’ll be doing this month after the approval of the May 2nd Council meeting minutes, the Parks Department had requested to move the $33,000
to the equipment account because they had purchased a Bobcat, are purchasing a Bobcat, taking that from the pathway and rentals. It was approved – his inner-office memo from the Parks
Department to us said it was approved, just waiting for the approval which is on the agenda
tonight. As soon as we get those minutes, that’ll be done. On Page 27 on his, you’ll see that he’s getting pretty close to being in the red because of some purchases. That’ll offset
that. Did you have any other questions on the expenditure report or the investments because I do have a couple other items, and I don’t want to go too long.
deWeerd: Mr. Mayor, Janice, can you explain that one more time about the Parks?
Smith: The Parks? The Parks director requested to move $33,000 into their equipment account, move that to that and they’re taking it out of the pathway and rental account.
deWeerd: Okay.
Smith: In the end, they still balance. The bottom line will still be the same. It’s just so it doesn’t run into the red.
deWeerd: Thank you. I have one more question. Janice, can we get an update on the budget calendar?
Smith: Sure. I’ll put it in your box tomorrow, and don’t forget that next Tuesday we have a special workshop that you guys will be able to see on a screen here how the software works.
It’s really great. We’re cleaning everything up. I’ll put that in your box. I do have two other things here. It was brought up May 2nd, the latecomers. You requested that the final
– May 2nd on the Council meeting, it was brought up on the latecomers on some – we over-collected on some fees, so we’re refunding back to the builders that were over-collected. So
this is the list of all the builders with the 12 percent interest up through May, so we’ve got to get this done by May so that otherwise, if it goes into June, we’ll have to calculate
June on – talked to our attorney, Bill Nichols, and we’ll follow up with a letter, a voucher. Hopefully get those out before the end of May. So I just – so you have this, I would like
to have that approved. Bill, did you have any comment on this? Did you get this list?
Nichols: I have the list, and Mayor, members of the Council, I’d like to – what Janice is asking for is you to approve the refunds so on the regular agenda under Department Reports
if you could approve these refunds, then we could get the refund claim forms and letters out and so forth so those folks can get what’s due.
Corrie: Okay.
Smith: Did you have any questions on any of these refunds? I know you got a list before breaking it down to 9 percent and 12 percent.
Anderson: What is the total that we’re refunding?
Smith: It’d be the 267.
Bird: How far back do these go, Janice?
Smith: On the Western States, they’re way back, but it was also interpretation of the agreements because we had a problem with that is why some of them are so low. I think in 1995
I had a letter that I felt at that time Western States was done, complete, other than we didn’t calculate any interest in it. All the other agreements had the interest calculated in,
so we felt that we wanted to be consistent.
Bird: These go back, basically, since we put the sewer under the freeway?
Smith: Yes. But it really boomed over there, too.
Bird: Have we got in place now so that we don’t have this happen?
Smith: Yes, and I think with our new agreements between the engineering and the developer right up front, and Bill Nichols worked with them on that is that we’re going to collect it
from the developer. We’re not going to have any of this collecting it from the builder and then refunding the developer. It’s just too much – it’s an accounting nightmare.
Bird: So there’s not going to be anymore latecomer fee agreements? Is that what you’re telling me?
Smith: I’ll have Bill comment on that.
Nichols: Councilman Bird, Mayor, members of the Council, we’ll still have latecomer agreements, but what Janice is referring to is when the latecomer fees are collected from the later
development. Currently they are being collected as the building permits are pulled, and now we’re going to collect them as that later development gets to the final plat stage so that
when that development is ready to sell those lots, they will have paid the latecomer fee on all of those lots. So it’ll cut down the number of receipts and make it easier for the treasurer
to compute those and get them out to people that they’re due.
Bird: That’s what I thought.
Smith: Also no surprise to a builder when he goes and gets a permit. Oh, by the way, there are some latecomers fees because a lot of the times that’s not calculated in when they’re
going to build a house.
Bird: We’re collecting up front on the complete development from the developer or whoever –
Smith: Right. Developer wants it in, he pays for it.
Bird: That answered my question.
Smith: So I’d like that on the agenda for later to approve those. Another thing that I brought tonight is some information on our LIDs. I’m not sure if the other two new Council members
are familiar with the LIDs, but we’d have the – the City formed in 1991, it’s Local Improvement District. This is just an update. Our LIDs are due June – the first part of June. If
they’re not paid by the end of June, they’re past-due. Well, this is just an update. We only have 15 accounts left. We have two outstanding. The Tammy Shoemaker property, that’s
Item No. 11, we’re working with an engineering department, I guess there’s some changes that need to be made. So we’re working with the Engineering Department, and as soon as that’s
done, we’ll work out a payment schedule for her. The only other one that I would like to request, not tonight, but this is just a heads-up. Item No. – Property No. 15 has not made
a payment. He’s made one payment since 1991. We did send, he received all letters. We sent him a letter last week, and he came in yesterday. He doesn’t want to pay it until he sells
his property. That is the property north of Knotty Pine there. In between the Burger Den property there. But he had it for sale for a long time. It’s not – so we told him, and follow
up with our letters, is he will go ahead and get the bill for the LID, and that we would like to pursue putting a lien against the property. We don’t want to wait until the LID is up
front and due. This is the end of this is 2002. We’d like to pursue it now. We haven’t in the past, but with the assistance of the city attorney and working with the County, we had
the procedures to do it. We’d like it done before the LIDs at its term. So that’s just a recommendation from our department to pursue this, and we’ll get the formal process going after
June 30th. Other than the LID, that’s all I had for this evening.
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Smith: -- Thanks.
Corrie: Questions on that?
Anderson: On No. 11, the little note about the work is not complete, what’s not done?
Smith: I guess there was some changes that were requested and weren’t satisfactory. The Engineering Department would have the comments on that.
Smith: (Gary) Mayor, Council members, there’s a very short block wall against the edge of the sidewalk. I guess two blocks high. They wanted the area between the sidewalk and the
blocks grouted. That was never done. I’ve been in contact with a couple block masons to go out there and look at it, and I can’t get them out there. I guess business is really good.
I’m going to keep trying to
find somebody to go look at it to see what’s involved if that’s really – I can’t see why it’s an issue or where it’s an issue because nothing detrimentally is happening to the sidewalk
or the wall.
Anderson: Sounds like something that we need to take care of if we’re going to collect on that.
Smith: Yes.
Corrie: Thank you, Janice.
Smith: (Janice) Thank you.
Corrie: Pauline, do you want to give your part about on this insurance between the two companies, and then we can later (inaudible)
Skeggs: Mayor and Councilmen, I’m not sure what information you’ve received. I’ve given information to Ron. We’ve been researching accident insurance because Lone Star has disband.
They went with a 3rd Party Administrator, and this is the voluntary insurance that we’re offering our employees. Therefore, we’ve solicited insurance companies to give us some bids,
and what we’ve received is we’ve gotten two bids: one from AFLAC and one from American Heritage. The difference is that from AFLAC, that benefit is equal to the benefit that we were
receiving from Lone Star. The cost difference is a little bit more expensive than American Heritage. American Heritage is $100 difference for the disability benefit that the employee’s
currently receive under Lone Star, and also their disability limit is six months versus a year that they were receiving from Lone Star. This is for our own employees plus our volunteer
firefighters. The City pays for the volunteer firefighters along with the Rural Commissioners with the firefighters. I’m not sure, Ron, have you had a discussion with the Rural in regard
to it? I know I’ve been sending you information, and have they made a decision on where they want to go?
Anderson: I have not, and I think they will go with whatever our committee recommends so that the last word that we heard, we were waiting for the committee to make a formal recommendation.
Skeggs: I know that we met and even thought the cost is like $5 more, the benefit under AFLAC is equivalent to what we currently had. That’s what we’re proposing is to go with AFLAC
versus American Heritage. They had on and off the job benefits. They were only going to give it to the white-collar workers, and then they agreed to give it to the blue-collar workers
as well. We’ve had problems with American Heritage, going back, getting quotes. We actually had to go to the Vice President because they weren’t responding back. So with the difference
of $5, we think we’re going to get the service that we need from AFLAC versus that we haven’t even received from American Heritage, and we’ve
already been – we haven’t even gotten to an agreement with them. So that’s what we’re looking at. The embers were proposing AFLAC>
Anderson: Thank you.
Corrie: Any other questions? Thank you, Pauline. Okay. Why don’t we take a two-minute break if you want, and then we’ll come back and I need to get some instructions to the people
here tonight the way we’re going to handle tonight’s meeting and then there’s a lot of people here tonight so that you’ll know where we’re going and what we’re going to be doing. So
I would like to have a motion for adjournment for about five minutes and then come back for our regular meeting.
Bird: Mr. Mayor, I move that we adjourn the Pre-Council meeting for five minutes.
Anderson: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded to adjourn the Pre-Council meeting and come back in five minutes. All those in favor say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:35 P.M.
(TAPE ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS)
APPROVED:
ROBERT D. CORRIE, MAYOR
ATTEST:
WILLIAM G. BERG, JR., CITY CLERK