HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000 11-08 PreMeridian City Pre-Council Meeting November 8, 2000
The Meridian City Pre-Council Meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order by Mayor Robert D. Corrie at 7:15 p.m. on Wednesday, November 8, 2000.
Members Present: Robert Corrie, Keith Bird, Tammy deWeerd, Cherie McCandless, Ron Anderson.
Others Present: Bill Nichols, Shari Stiles, Gary Smith, Ken Bowers, Bill Musser, Janice Smith, Tom Kuntz, Steve Siddoway, Will Berg
Corrie: Okay, I’ll open the Meridian City Pre-Council meeting at 7:15 p.m., and, Mr. Clerk, would you read the roll, please. On the Agenda – one of the agendas of the Pre-Council Meeting
was the discussion regarding the Idaho Power Substation – South Locust Grove Road and Victory Road. That will not be done. The Ada County Planning has told them that they can’t have
it, so it’s not – it’s a moot point at this point at this point right now. Council, at this point we will go over the Agenda and anything that you want to discuss with staff.
Bird: Mr. Mayor.
Corrie: Mr. Bird.
Item G. Tabled from October 17, 2000: Findings of Facts 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:
Bird: I’ll ask some questions, then somebody else can jump in. The Touchstone Living still needs to be tabled?
Nichols: Councilman Bird, Mayor, members of the Council. We’re still waiting on some material from the attorney for the developer on that, so that should be tabled. They don’t seem
to be in a hurry. We could table this to mid-December.
Bird: Until the 19th? Okay.
Item H. Tabled from October 17, 2000: Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law for Approval: AZ 00-006 Request for annexation and zoning of 12.73 acres from R-T to L-O and R-15
zones by Vicki Welker / Gold River Companies, Inc., for proposed Valeri Heights Subdivision – northeast corner of Pine Avenue and Ten Mile Road:
Item I. Tabled from October 17, 2000: Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law for Approval: PP 00-005 Request for Preliminary Plat approval for proposed Valeri Heights Subdivision
with 10 building lots and 2 other lots on 12.73 acres in proposed L-O and R-15 zones by Vicki Welker / Gold River Companies, Inc. – northeast corner of Pine Avenue and Ten Mile Road:
Item J. Tabled from October 17, 2000: Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law for Approval: CUP 00-014 Request for Conditional Use Permit for proposed Valeri Heights Subdivision
for a 128-unit apartment complex, townhouses and office on 12.73 acres in proposed L-O and R-15 zones by Vicki Welker / Gold River Companies, Inc. – northeast corner of Pine Avenue and
Ten Mile Road:
Bird: Also, Mr. Mayor, I think that H, I and J, with the Council’s approval and your approval, I think we need to take that to the Regular Agenda for discussion.
Item R. Architect Service Contract for Police Station with Lombard Conrad Architects:
Bird: And also, Item R, the service contract for the Police Station with Lombard Conrad, I’d like to move that to the Regular Agenda so the attorney can do some stuff. Under Department
Reports, with your permission, I would like to add discussion with Cherry Lane Golf Course Club House, if that is satisfactory with yourself and the Council. With that, I’ll shut up.
Corrie: Okay.
Item 2. Continued Public Hearing from September 13, 2000: Proposed changes to the Landscape Ordinance by the City of Meridian:
De Weerd: Mr. Mayor.
Corrie: Mrs. De Weerd.
De Weerd: I believe on Item No. 2, on the Regular Agenda, Steve Siddoway asked for that to be continued until November 21st.
Stiles: He would like to make a couple of comments about that, though.
Bird: So we let it go through, and then he’ll comment and then we can table it. Okay.
Item 3. Continued Public Hearing from October 3, 2000: PP 00-014 Request for Preliminary Plat approval of 5 building lots and 1 other
lot on 8.29 acres for proposed Waltman Court Subdivision by John and Sandra Goade – Waltman Lane and SW 5th Street:
Bird: Is Waltman ready to go now?
Item 1. Tabled from October 17, 2000: FP 00-018 Request for Final Plat approval for of 61 building lots and 3 other lots on 23.02 acres by Packard Estates Development for proposed
Packard Acres Subdivision No. 2 – south of Ustick between Locust Grove and Vintage Lane:
Stiles: As far as No. 1, staff would request that that be tabled to November 21st. We haven’t received a response to our comments.
Anderson: Which one?
McCandless: No. 1.
Bird: Mr. Mayor.
Corrie: Yes, Mr. Bird.
Bird: I think we need to discuss on that even before we table it, though. We’ve got some major problems out there which Gary can –
Corrie: Is this No. 1?
Bird: Yes, Packard. We have got to come up with a solution to make them live to the conditions of that agreement.
Stiles: We’ve discussed that with Bill Nichols today, so he’s up on it.
Bird: Mr. Nichols can give us an idea. Okay. In other words, after we do that discussion, you want to table it until two weeks.
Stiles: Yes, please.
Bird: Until the 21st.
Item 1. Tabled from October 17, 2000: FP 00-018 Request for Final Plat approval for of 61 building lots and 3 other lots on 23.02 acres by Packard Estates Development for proposed
Packard Acres Subdivision No. 2 – south of Ustick between Locust Grove and Vintage Lane:
Bird: Is Item No. 3 – everything ready to go on that or –
Stiles: We still have some – the plat doesn’t show an easement for Ten Mile Creek. They have received a verbal indication of what that easement is. Tom and I met out at the site and
we have some suggestions that apparently have been approved by the owner. We could address those as part of the Continued Public Hearing.
Bird: Mr. Mayor. Shari, Gary – everything else on the Agenda – everything is up to snuff and ready to go?
Stiles: Yes.
Corrie: Any other changes? Gary.
Smith: Mr. Mayor, did you want to go through the Department Reports at this time?
Item 8. Department Reports
City Treasurer – Janice Smith
Treasurer’s Report
Corrie: We might be able to get through with one of them and the Treasurer Report. Janice.
Smith: Thank you, Mayor and Council members. The Treasurer Report will be for the ending September 30th going over the expenditure reports in your investments. I’m not sure if you
have those with you, but I’ll just do a quick summary of – on your investment report in cash summary, we had made some notes. We had made the budget amendment on the general and on
the Building Department Fund. Your expenditure report is not final. We are making our closing entries. There will not be a final expenditure report until the audit is finished and
that will be in December. We project December 15th for our side and then maybe one more week for the auditors to finish up. The expenditure of the report that we had given you for
September does not have those closing entries. We do have some money in our checking account we would like to move. I was going to get with our Investment Committee on Friday. Then,
I just realized today that it’s a legal holiday, so I try to get a hold of everybody and have a meeting tomorrow. We would like to move 1.3 million of our construction fund checking
account into the investment account with Buffington Moore. We’d be receiving more interest on that. Then, we would also like to move 2 million from the enterprise checking account
into the Buffington Moore, also, because the enterprise, which is the water and sewer, will not have any projects until June because of the weather. Then we will make sure they will
put it into some funds that we could pull it out in June and not have any fees if we pulled it out early.
We do have – I think we had some Park Impact Fees, but I have to review that and I’ll have that together for the Investment Committee tomorrow. That’s just a quick overview on our cash.
We just need to move some money from the checking account into the investments to get better interest rates. We won’t be receiving any big money from the property taxes or revenue
until the early part of the year 2001 – the first part of that, so we’ll have to leave enough in there to operate on. If you do have your Expenditure Report – I hope I’m not going to
fast. If I am, tell me to slow down. If you have your Expenditure Report that is the landscape – this is a quick overview without our closing entries. The general fund has brought
in 9.8 million dollars in revenue and has spent at this time 9.2, but that does not include any closing entries, which is your accrued vacation or some bills still outstanding or contracts
still payable. We do project to be able to pull out $400,000 after this from the Capitol Improvement Fund – that is our Building Department Planning and Zoning Fund. We would be pulling
that out of there per Ordinance No. 140 – to go into our capitol improvements for future parks or whatever the Council deems a capitol project. I will also put together a short calendar,
because we are really busy in the Accounting Department doing our closing entries. Sometimes, I’m telling you what we we’re doing and maybe I will give you a calendar by tomorrow.
We’re doing our closing entries right now and next week, there will be an auditor coming out to review some of our closing entries. We’ll also be reviewing all of the investment accounts
and all of the water and sewer bonds. Sometimes we don’t get the information from the banks as timely as we’d like. I have sent out confirmation letters to all of the banks, and State
Liquor and State Revenue of Property Tax. We are just waiting to receive those back so the auditors can start the work in December. The audit – the actual audit is set for December
4th through the 15th. The Audit Firm will be out then. They’ll be sending two auditors out and they’ll be here for two weeks and they have set – the set date is the 15th to finish
up. If we’re lucky, we’ll get it before then. December 20th is when I will start – if I haven’t heard from the Audit Firm, I’ll be calling them and finding out what the status of the
Audit Rough Draft – there’s always a rough draft so that we can review it and see if we find any corrections that need to be made. That’s pretty much the schedule in our Accounting
Department on where we stand on investments, checking, cash and bank and we’re really busy. If you have any requests that you would like, we’ll be happy to get those for you.
Bird: Thank you, Janice.
Corrie: Any questions.
Bird: I have none.
Corrie: We’ll meet probably tomorrow, then.
Smith: If you’re feeling okay.
Corrie: I will. Thank you.
Smith: Thank you.
Bird: Mr. Mayor.
Corrie: Mr. Bird.
Bird: May we take a five-minute recess before we open our regular one?
Corrie: Yes.
Bird: I move that we close our Pre-Council Meeting.
Anderson: Second.
Corrie: Motion made and seconded to close the Pre-Council Meeting. All those in favor, say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:28 P.M.
(TAPE ON FILE OF THESE PROCEEDINGS)
APPROVED:
ROBERT D. CORRIE, MAYOR
WILLIAM G. BERG, JR., CITY CLERK