HomeMy WebLinkAbout2010 06-22Meridian City Council Meeting June 22, 2010
A Council meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 7:00 p.m.,
Tuesday, June 22, 2010, by President David Zaremba.
Members Present: President David Zaremba, Charlie Rountree, Keith Bird, and Brad
Hoaglun.
Members Absent: Mayor Tammy de Weerd.
Others Present: Bill Nary, Jaycee Holman, Pete Friedman, Bruce Freckleton, Warren
Stewart, Matt Ellsworth, Steve Siddoway, James Leslie, Mark Niemeyer, Robert
Simison, 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
Zaremba: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'll call to order this regular meeting of
the Meridian City Council. It is Tuesday, June 22nd, and it is just 7:00 o'clock. We will
begin our meeting with roll call attendance. Madam Clerk.
Item 2: Pledge of Allegiance
Zaremba: Thank you. Next on the agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance. If you will all,
please, rise. We will be led by Boy Scout Troop 600 from the Autumn Faire Ward of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, led by David Swenson. If you want to
come forward.
(Pledge of Allegiance recited.)
Zaremba: Thank you. If the three of you would step up here for just a second. Thank
you very much.
Item 3: Community Invocation by Pastor Gordon Slyter with Treasure Valley
Worship Center
Zaremba: Next on our agenda is the community invocation, which will be led by Pastor
Gordon Slyter of the Treasure Valley Worship Center. We invite you to join us in the
invocation or to take this as an opportunity for silent reflection of your own. Pastor,
thank you.
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Slyter: Let us pray. Our God and Father, we thank you for your kind and gracious hand
upon our city and its community life. May those who call Meridian their home enjoy the
peace and stability that allows them to live quiet and dignified lives. And we pray
tonight for those who lead and serve our community, remembering your own example,
Lord Jesus, when you took a towel and a basin of water and went around the table and
washed your own disciples' feet, teaching them that the greatest leader is also a
servant. Help us to remember, Lord, that as we lead we are called to serve. Give us
the wisdom, the grace, the foresight and the understanding to do that. So, bless these
who will deliberate here tonight and we pray that your hand would be upon all of the
proceedings that take place, in Jesus' name, amen.
Item 4: Adoption of the Agenda.
Zaremba: Thank you. Next on the agenda is the adoption of the agenda.
Hoaglun: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: We have a couple items we need to go through before we adopt the agenda
and under the Consent Agenda, Item 5-H, staff is requesting that we vacate that item
from the Consent Agenda. Under 5-N, that resolution is 10-730. Under O, the
resolution is 10-731. And there is a request to move this from the Consent and move it
to the regular agenda for discussion. Item P is resolution number 10-732 and we are
adding item Q, which is MDA 10-005, 512 Subdivision by Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints, located on the west side of Stoddard, midway between Overland and
Victory Road, request to remove the 512 subdivision from recorded development
agreement. And under Item 6, as noted, we are moving Item 5-O, proposed resolution
number 10-731, to that agenda item. Under Item 7, 7-B, we have a request to continue
that public hearing to July 6th, 2010. Item 7-D, staff requests to vacate. It will be
noticed for July 27th, 2010. Under Item 8, Department Reports, right off the top we will
hear from the Planning Department from Pete Friedman, so we are adding that. And
under Item 9, ordinances, we have the second and third reading of ordinance number
10-1450. And with that, Mr. President, I move adoption of the agenda.
Rountree: Second.
Zaremba: We have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda as amended. All in
favor say aye. Any opposed? That motion carries. Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 5: Consent Agenda.
A. May 4, 2010 City Council Pre-Council Meeting Minutes
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B. June 1, 2010 City Council Regular Meeting Minutes
C. June 3, 2010 City Council Special Meeting Minutes
D. Legal Department -Budget Amendment for Contracted Legal
Services
E. Memorandum of Understanding Between the City of Meridian
and the Meridian Speedway Regarding the Joint Presentation
of the July 4, 2010 Event
F. Memorandum of Understanding -Emergency Management
Services Advisory Council.
G. Meridian School Resource Officer Agreement
I. Artist Acceptance Agreement for Initial Point Gallery -Dwight
Williams
J. Agreement for Independent Contractor Services with Alta
Construction, Inc. for Well 28 Pumping Facilities Construction
for ANot-To-Exceed Amount of $351,105.00
K. License Agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation to Cross
the McDonald Lateral, Located in the SW 1/4 SW 1/4, Sec. 21,
and in the NW 1/4, Sec. 28, T. 3N., R. 1 E., B.B., with a 12-inch
Water Line and an 8-inch Sewer Line in Conjunction with the
Ada County Highway District EagleNictory Intersection
Project. The License Agreement Requires a Fee of $200.00
Which was Included in the City Council Approved FY 2010
Budget.
L. MDA 10-004: Third Addendum to Development Agreement for
The Tree Farm by Spurwing Greens, LLC Located North Side
of Chinden Boulevard on Both Sides of Black Cat Road, West
of Spurwing Subdivision: To Remove a Provision from the
Recorded Development Agreements (Inst. #106151218,
#107025555, #107141993) Associated with The Tree Farm
Annexation (AZ 06-004 and AZ 06-050) and Include a New
Provision to Allow the Construction of a Tennis Court Facility
and Related Site Improvements
M. Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law for Approval: MDA
10-005 Five Twelve Subdivision by Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints Located West Side of Stoddard, Midway
Between Overland Road and Victory Road: Request to
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Remove the Five Twelve Subdivision From the Recorded
Development Agreement (Inst. #1061511232)
N. Resolution No. 10-730: A Resolution Revising the Secondary
Employment Policy of the City of Meridian Police Department
Policy and Procedures Manual Including the Hiring of On-Duty
Officers by Private Parties, (MPD SOP 2-6-9)
O. Resolution No. 10-731: A Resolution of the Mayor and City
Council Adopting the Interagency Governmental Agreement
for Waiver of Cost and Fees with the Ada County Highway
District Moved to Item 6A on Regular Agenda -Approved
P. Resolution No. 10-732: A Resolution by the Mayor and City
Council Adopting the Energy Efficiency Conservation Strategy
(EEGs)
Q. Amended onto the Agenda:
MDA 10-005 Five Twelve Subdivision by Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints Located West Side of Stoddard,
Midway Between Overland Road and Victory Road: Request to
Remove the Five Twelve Subdivision From the Recorded
Development Agreement (Inst. #1061511232)
Zaremba: Next item is the Consent Agenda.
Hoaglun: And Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: On the Consent Agenda as noted, Item H, the Professional Services
Agreement with Steve Hobbs, the staff is requesting that we vacate that. And also on
the Consent Agenda, 5-N, it is resolution number 10-730. Under 5-O we have moved
that resolution number 10-731 off the Consent Agenda and we will discuss that later.
Item T is resolution number 10-732 and we have added item MDA 10-005, the 512
Subdivision by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. So, with that, Mr.
President, I move that we approve the Consent Agenda.
Rountree: Second.
Zaremba: Motion and a second. And, Madam Clerk, will you do roll call, please.
Excuse me. Before you do, maker of the motion, is it the intent to authorize the
President to sign and the Clerk to attest?
Hoaglun: Yes. Thank you, Mr. President. And with that, President will sign and the
Clerk to attest. Thank you.
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Zaremba: Second agrees?
Rountree: I agree.
Zaremba: Okay. Madam Clerk, please.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
Zaremba: All ayes. That motion carries.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 6; Items Moved From Consent Agenda
A. Item 50 Moved to Regular Agenda
Zaremba: We are going through the pages very fast. All right. We are at Item 6, which
is a discussion of what was Item 5-O, resolution 10-731.
Nary: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Nary.
Nary: Mr. President, Members of the Council, the reason we had asked to have this
removed is just to give the Council a brief heads up and a couple of issues. Council's
familiar with this, it's the inter-agency agreement with the Ada County Highway District
for waiver of cost of fees. You discussed it at your recent joint meeting with them. We
didn't have any issues that -- I don't think will change your action tonight, but we wanted
to make you aware that we -- in discussing it yesterday among the staff we were looking
at implementation of this particular direction. One of the things we wanted to make you
aware is that we will -- through the building department will be attracting any type of
these sort of fees that are being waived, so that we will have measure for the Council in
the future as to what -- what the cost has been and, additionally, there is a requirement
in this agreement that if we were to cancel the agreement we would have to, then, go
back over an 18 month period and evaluate what fees should have been paid and,
therefore, what fees would, then, have to be paid back to ACHD by canceling this
agreement. Secondarily, there is some -- in our discussion yesterday this agreement
doesn't incorporate any information or any direction in regards to our contracted
inspectors. They don't come into play very often with ACHD projects, but Public Works
is currently working on a subsequent agreement with ACRD that would deal with that.
Mr. Stewart I think could probably address that for you briefly and, then, I have just got a
couple of other things to mention before we move on.
Zaremba: Warren.
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Stewart: President, Members of the Council, the Public Works Department, specifically
engineering, has been working with ACHD to develop a memorandum of understanding
to address a few issues that have come up over the past few months, kind of put these
things to rest, and we are planning to come before you on the 13th at the regular
workshop and present the information in that memorandum of understanding. But one
thing that may play into this is we have -- one of the issues that's come up that we are
trying to resolve is the situation where our inspectors, our regular Public Works
inspectors, would be requested to come out on a job site and do inspection work after
hours. Our ordinance normally calls for us to charge an after hours fee, an additional
fee for after hours inspection. ACRD is, you know, not too excited about that. There is
a lot of different things that come to play when that happens. We will be bringing that
forward before you in discussing that a little bit more, getting your feedback and getting
your direction for us as we prepare that memorandum of understanding, but that
particular fee may play into this agreement a little bit as well. Just wanted to make sure
that you were aware of that.
Zaremba: Okay. Thank you.
Nary: And, lastly, Mr. President, Members of the Council, just want to, again, give you a
heads up on this. We are exploring whether or not this is a viable type of arrangement
we can make with any other governmental entity and from a staff discussion -- and,
obviously, we would have this further discussion with you when the Mayor is present as
well -- this was very specific to ACRD and in trying to evaluate the city's needs and the
city's -- the impact of the city's full staff, administrative, as well as cost, this seems like a
very good relationship of -- type of agreement to have. The balance between what the
city's impacts are financially and ACHD's seem to pencil out in a very positive -- or
positive way for the city, but it is really very specifically, because ACHD, essentially,
doesn't construct buildings and that's probably the biggest impact to the city if we were
to look at other entities at how that would impact us, is how to offset both the inspector
issues, the plan reviews, those types of things. But we did have that discussion, again,
in the future. We just wanted to make sure it was clear on the record for the public that
this -- this agreement was really geared specifically to ACHD and their inner workings
with the city and like Mr. Stewart said, there has been other issues that will, hopefully,
get ironed out in a separate agreement.
Zaremba: And we could do those as an addendum or --
Nary: Yeah. This contemplates other agreements may exist, so any other agreements
may simply reference this one, if necessary. But, yeah, we can go forward on this one
as it is.
Zaremba: Okay. Council, any discussion? I would entertain a motion.
Rountree: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Rountree.
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Rountree: I move that we approve Item 5-O, 10-731.
Bird: Second.
Zaremba: I have discussion, which I should have mentioned earlier. I am aware that
ACHD approved this on their Consent Agenda about 13 days ago. Madam Clerk.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
Zaremba: All ayes. The motion carries.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 7: Action Items
A. Continued Public Hearing From June 1, 2010: PFP 10-002
Freedomworks Subdivision by Wally Morgas Located
Southwest Corner of W. Overland Road and South Stoddard
Road: Request for Approval of a Combined Preliminary /Final
Plat Consisting of 3 Building Lots on 11.91 Acres of Land in a
C-G Zoning District
Zaremba: All right. That brings us to the first of our action items and I will open the
continued public hearing for PFP 10-002 and start with the staff report.
Friedman: Thank you, Council President Zaremba, Members of the Council. This is a
combined preliminary/final plat for Freedom Works. The subject site is located at the
corner of Overland Road and Stoddard Road. By way of background, the property was
actually annexed and zoned and given a Conditional Use Permit for a planned
development back in 2004 and at that time it was contemplated that there would be nine
mini-storage buildings, 3,200 square foot office retail building, 1,600 square foot care
taking apartment and indoor storage building. In addition, also approved was a concept
to build 27,000 square feet of office retail space at the corner. In 2007 the CUP and the
planned development were modified to allow for a single story 15,000 foot -- square foot
retail building and the addition of 3,000 square feet of existing storage building. So,
what is out there, really, is the Venga Works building and the Freedom Storage building
and so the applicants have come in and what they would like to do is -- or what they
propose is this three lot subdivision. On Lot 1 you would have Venga Works. Lot 2 you
would have the storage unit. And, then, at the corner you would have a future site to be
developed. The conditions of the previous approvals require that a Conditional Use
Permit will be necessary to develop that lot. The access to the site currently is through
just the one existing access off of Overland Road. The applicants have requested that
the Council grant a second right-in, right-out access on Stoddard Road. As Council
knows, our UDC restricts access from arterials and directs them to be taken from a local
street. However, there is no local street there. So, under the provisions of the UDC
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normally access would be taken via across-access easement between the future three
lots and the applicants have requested that the Council waive that restriction. They are
proposing aright-in, right-out, on Stoddard Road. Currently here is the existing access.
There is an emergency access for the fire department farther down Stoddard Road, but
proposed access that the applicant has requested is further to the north on what will be
Lot 3. See if we have a -- there is a little close up of what they are proposing. At the
Commission hearing the applicants, represented by Laren Bailey, spoke in favor of the
application. There was no opposition. There was no one neutral. There was no written
testimony. And the Commission did not identify any key items to be discussed, nor
were there any changes to the staff recommendation, so, really, the outstanding issue is
the requested access to Stoddard Road and that was written testimony that we did
receive since the Planning Commission hearing was included in your packet. So, in
summary, that is the recommendation from the Planning Commission and I would be
happy to answer any questions.
Zaremba: Council, any questions? Mr. Rountree?
Rountree: Mr: President, this goes back six years and I don't know how good my
memory is, but as I recall that there was a stipulation with this annexation that there was
to be some type of an amenity or feature on the corner of Overland and Stoddard. I see
a landscape buffer and berm, which is consistent with our ordinance. But I don't see
anything on the plat that indicates that. Nor have we seen anything with the
development that's occurred out there that there is any indication of anything that's
going happen there. What's the status of that and maybe the question is better asked to
the applicant.
Friedman: Thank you, Council Member Rountree. I think I can answer that question.
You're correct, the development agreement required that there were two amenities to be
provided on this site. It didn't -- one was to be provided at the corner, as you indicated.
I am not certain where the other one was. If you look at the conditions of approval of
the plat, it still says. that the property must abide by the conditions of the development
agreement. I did contact the applicant and let them know that and ask them to convey
that to their -- to their owner. I also indicated that we will be looking for that at the time
of CZC for the future development of that third lot.
Rountree: Thank you.
Zaremba: Any other questions? Okay. And I note that ACRD apparently has
considered the access that they are requesting on Stoddard and it meets their
requirement, the distance from the intersection and all that sort of stuff.
Friedman: Council President Zaremba, Council Members, in fact, I believe ACRD has
approved that access -- the access that they have requested.
Zaremba: Okay. Thank you. All right. Is the applicant here? State your name and
address for the record. Welcome.
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Bailey: Good evening. My name is Laren Bailey, representing LEI Engineers and
Surveyors, on behalf of Freedom Works this evening. My address is 2040 South Eagle
Road, Meridian, Idaho. 83642. Council, tonight, as Mr. Friedman indicated, I think the
-- really, the only item is that access. As indicated, we have worked with ACHD and
have met all of their requirements as far as spacing and access. They will require us to
put in a raised six inch median to force that into aright-in, right-out. I think that will also
alleviate the issue with lining up with the access across the street. Beyond that I did
bring some examples of some other intersections around Meridian that have similar
access and similar spacing from the intersection. I can go into that in more detail if you
would like or I can just stand for questions.
Zaremba: Council, any questions?
Rountree: I have none.
Hoaglun: Mr. President? Just a quick question. The only reason for that right-in, right-
out access is that way you don't have to turn right -- if you want to go to -- up to Victory
or that way, you can just exit that way, as opposed to going out to Overland and, then,
right on Stoddard. And also the ability to turn left at the light, than to make the right; is
that --
Bailey: Correct. I think -- I think more importantly, it's just the safety aspect of using the
light, so you're not turning -- if you are headed eastbound you're not turning across
traffic on Overland to get into the site. I think it makes it flow better and from a traffic
safety standpoint I think it's a better situation.
Hoaglun: Yeah. Thank you.
Bailey: Okay.
Zaremba: All right. Thank you.
Bailey: Okay. Thanks.
Zaremba: This is a public hearing. I don't have anybody signed up to testify, but you're
certainly welcome to and this would be the time, if anybody has any other comments to
add. Seeing none, any further comments from staff?
Friedman: No.
Zaremba: Okay. Council, discussion? Motion?
Rountree: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Rountree.
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Rountree: I move that we close the public hearing on Item 7-A.
Bird: Second.
Zaremba: We have a motion and a second to close the public hearing. All in favor say
aye. Any opposed? Motion carries.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Rountree: Mr. President, I move that we approve PFP 10-002 for Freedom Works
Subdivision.
Bird: Second.
Zaremba: And are you --
Rountree: With the access --
Zaremba: Specified with the access -- right-in, right-out access.
Bird: Second agrees.
Zaremba: Thank you. We have a motion and second. Madam Clerk.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
Zaremba: All ayes. Motion carries. Thank you very much.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
B. Public Hearing TE 10-016 Trilogy Subdivision by Conger
Management Group Located 4325 W. Chinden Boulevard:
Request for Approval of an 18 month Time Extension to Obtain
the City Engineer's Signature on the First Final Plat
Continued to July 6, 2010
Zaremba: Next item on our agenda is TE 10-016 and there has been a request to
continue that to July 6th.
Bird: Mr. President, will you open it and, then, we will continue it? I thought I was
opening it already. Yeah. I intend to open that one. Public hearing for TE 10-016 is
open.
Bird: Mr. President?
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Zaremba: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move that we continue TE 10-016 to July 6th, 2010.
Rountree: Second.
Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed?
Motion carries unanimously.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
C. Open Public Hearing and Comment Period Regarding the Draft
2010 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Action
Plan
Zaremba: Item C is to open the public hearing and comment period on the action plan
and I believe that would be staff. Mr. Ellsworth.
Ellsworth: Thank you, Council President, Members of the Council. As City Council is
aware, one of the requirements of the city in securing its annual CDBG entitlement each
year is to adopt and forward to HUD for review an annual action plan that outlines the
different goals, objectives, and action items the city will pursue with that program over
the course of the following program year. So, over the last couple of weeks staff has
dived in and drafted a plan based in part on public input received during apre-draft
public meeting conducted on May 26th. We were also before City Council June 8th to --
to receive some direction as to what City Council's priorities are. So, to cut to the chase
on the action plan staff drafted, the activities on the screen there, the ones proposed for
use of next year's funds, 20 percent of the allocation of 274,368 dollars is proposed
toward administration, which in addition to staff time managing the day-to-day activities
of the program will be devoted to an update of the city's consolidated plan, which is a
five year plan that will, basically, set the direction of the program for the -- as I said, next
five years. In addition, public facilities project was generally the second top priority
identified by City Council as one that the city invested some resources in already to
date. That is to construct Five Mile Creek pathway at segment H-1 as identified in the
city's plan and improve the creek between Pine and Fairview to the tune of 120,000
dollars. Now, we don't have the exact cost estimates in just yet and we are not one
hundred percent sure if that's going to cover the entire amount of construction, but
based on the information that was available at the time of the draft we figured that was
enough to at least get that project started, with the understanding that some additional
funding maybe necessary in a future CDBG program year in order to complete that
project. City Council also indicated support for continuing the partnership with the
Meridian Food Bank. The maximum amount of funding for public service projects,
which -- which is what the Food Bank would fall under, is 15 percent of the total award.
So, I think the total would have been 41,000 and change, but we went ahead and
proposed 40,000 dollars, which was very close to that 15 percent mark for the Food
Bank. In addition, affordable housing is one that the Department of Housing and Urban
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development identifies as top priority and there is an expectation with the rate some of
our activities into the overall framework as established by HUD. So, home ownership
assistance is -- is identified for the use of 60,000 dollars or 22 percent of the total award
and this year's staff proposes splitting that funding between two separate sub-recipients,
the first of which is Ada County Housing Authority to continue the partnerships that the
city has enjoyed with them for the last two program years and in addition to award a
20,000 dollar grant to neighborhood housing services to provide similar assistance, the
main difference between the two being that Ada County Housing Authority selects
eligible home buyers, low, low moderate income home buyers from the Section 8
housing choice voucher program, whereas neighborhood housing service will open up
those opportunities to folks who are not currently enrolled in that program. So, we
thought it was a great way to build a new partnership with another very solid sub-
recipient organization and also to reach a different component of the LMI populations
here in Meridian. So, on your screen now is a timeline for actions moving forward
toward adoption and submittal to HUD of the 2010 CDBG action plan. The items in gray
have, obviously, already occurred per that pre-draft public meeting on May 26th,
followed by June 8th, which was the City Council prioritization direction to staff. Staff,
then, drafted the action plan. Right now we just presented the draft. The two next items
in yellow there are the actions before you this evening. The first is to open a public
hearing and received preliminary testimony on the draft, which was released for public
review last Friday. And also to open a public comment period, which is our citizen
participating plan in compliance with federal regulations mandates at least a 30 day
public comment period. We are shooting for the next Council date after that 30 days is
closed, which ends August 3rd, to close the public hearings, consider input received
during the public hearings and comment periods and two take action on the plan, which
would allow staff enough time to go ahead and forward that adopted plan to HUD in
order to meet our deadline in the middle of August. So, with that I'll stand for any
questions.
Zaremba: All right. Thank you. Let's see. If people wish to read the document and
comment, it's available on the city's website; is that correct?
Ellsworth: President, Members of the Council, that is correct. The city planning
department website has a link to community development. It's listed under plan
documents on that page. If you have any trouble tracking it down, please, feel free to
contact me at the Meridian planning department and we can point you in the right
direction. Printed copies of the draft are also available for public review at the city
clerk's office, at the Meridian senior center, and also at the Meridian public library up on
Fairview.
Zaremba: Great. Thank you. I know we have had discussion before. On the housing
assistance did we get any closure on whether that will be given within Meridian or is that
just given anywhere in the county that HUD and the neighborhood housing authority
work?
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Ellsworth: Council President Zaremba, Members of Council that has come up in the
past. We have not formalized in any sub-recipient agreements, but it is expected to
purchase a home within Meridian city limits, but the unspoken policy in all the homes
purchased to date have been within Meridian city limits. It's a great idea for us to
include that in the sub-recipient agreements for this next round of funding. But, as I
mentioned, it hasn't come up and informally with the housing authority that's why all
purchased to date are within Meridian city limits and that's something that we can
formalize, like I said, with the sub-recipient agreements go around.
Zaremba: Great. Thank you. Council, any other questions?
Bird: I have none.
Rountree: I have none.
Zaremba: Okay. The action is to open the comment period. It is officially open and
comments are welcome until August 3rd. Next item on the agenda is -- I'm sorry? Any
further comment?
Ellsworth: Mr. President, typically at the intro hearing it's also the second action is to
open a public hearing, as well as the public comment period.
Zaremba: Yes.
Ellsworth: So, it's kind of a matter or process there.
Zaremba: Okay. That is --
Ellsworth: Thank you.
Zaremba: That is what we are doing.
Ellsworth: Oh, I'm sorry.
Zaremba: Okay. I don't think we need to do anything else.
Rountree: There might be testimony.
Zaremba: Uh?
Rountree: There might be testimony.
Zaremba: Oh. Well, actually, you're right, since it is an open public hearing, would
anybody care to testify now? You're welcome to send your comments in several
different ways, but if you wish to speak we'd love to have you. Please come forward
and start with your name and address, please.
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Rodriquez: My name is Lupe Rodriquez, I'm with the Neighborhood Housing Services.
We are located at 1401 Shoreline Drive, Boise, Idaho. And I'm here just to let you know
Neighborhood Housing Services likes the draft that's been proposed with no changes.
and also just to let you know in 2009 Neighborhood Housing Services assisted 40
families in obtaining home ownership, with an average area median income of about 58
percent. At over 40 families, 17 were at or below 50 percent of the area median
income. Four of those families obtained a home here in Meridian. The 40 families
utilized federal and local resources in leveraging homeownership assistance. Based on
changes it has become more difficult for low moderate income borrowers to obtain
mortgage loans, because of a decrease in state and federal and local funding sources.
The federal budget grant fund leverage, with other state, federal, and local funding
sources will increase approvals for low moderate income borrowers on obtaining home
ownership. Thank you.
Zaremba: Thank you. Council, any questions?
Rountree: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: What's the leverage ratio or -- I suspect it varies, but what does it average?
Rodriquez: The usual leverage 20 percent.
Rountree: Okay. Thank you.
Rodriquez: You're welcome.
Zaremba: Thank you. Anybody else care to testify? All right. Thank you. The
comment period is officially open and will continue until August 3rd. I guess that's --
now we are ready to conclude that. Okay. Thank you.
D. VAC 10-004 Gramercy Subdivision No. 1 by Gramercy, LLC
Located at Southside of Overland Road, East of Wells Avenue:
Request for Vacation of the 20' x 20' Public Domestic Water
and Sewer Easement Platted on Lots 1 and 2, Block 2
Zaremba: Next item on the agenda, Item D, is VAC 10-004. With a request to vacate
and renotice to July 27th.
Rountree: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we vacate Item 7-D, VAC 10-004.
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Hoaglun: Second.
Zaremba: Motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed? That motion
carries.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 8: Department Reports
A. Mayor's Office:
1. Economic Development Update
2. Budget Amendment for Meridian Business Day IV for a
Not to Exceed Amount of $6,000.00
3. Budget Amendment for State of the City Budget for a
Not to Exceed Amount of $3,570.00
4. Budget Amendment for Meridian Arts Commission for a
Not to Exceed Amount of $4,500.00
5. Budget Amendment for Mayor's Youth Advisory Council
for a Not to Exceed Amount of $6,060.00
Zaremba: We are onto Item 8. Department Reports. And we will begin with the
Planning Department, short comment by Mr. Friedman.
Friedman: Thank you, President Zaremba, Members of the Council. I have a rather
bitter sweet report. I regret to inform you that Matt will be leaving his employment with
the city. He's taken another position. Matt's worked for the city for about four and a half
years. He's been a valuable employee. He's carried a lot of heavy water on a lot of
different projects and has become a master of many things and we will certainly miss
him. We are also a little bit torqued off at him, but change happens, and we wish him all
the best. The other news is that in addition to him embarking on a new job, he's
embarking on another career, he's a new father of a baby girl and so we wish him well
on both of his endeavors, so that's the report.
Zaremba: Congratulations on the baby girl and we will miss you. That's sad. We have
depended on you for many important things.
Zaremba: Wish you well in your next endeavor.
Ellsworth: Thank you. Yeah. It's been a great experience and I appreciate the
opportunity. So, thank you guys.
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Bird: Thank you, Matt.
Rountree: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I just want to take a moment to express my appreciation for Matt's activity in
the planning department. He's been invaluable with land use planning aspects and
some of the activities that have gone on there in the past three and a half, four years.
He took on the area, the assignment of transportation planning and brought us from
doing essentially nothing to being not necessarily on the leading edge, but the cutting
edge of transportation knowledge to the Council in planning activities with ACHD and in
the citizen advisory groups and he's been key to developing our grant plans and grant
administration and for that the community owes him a great deal. I haven't added it up,
but it's probably several million dollars that has come to the community with those
activities that we would not have had otherwise and it's neat that you got to celebrate
your first Father's Day here recently and congratulations there as well. Wish you the
best. I'm not sure that knowing where you're going -- it's going to be a challenge and --
but, remember, you always have a home here.
Ellsworth: Thank you for those kind words. I appreciate that.
Zaremba: I would add that the list of things you have accomplished would be long, but I
also know you have been very valuable to the Parks and Recreation Department and
commission and helped them with a lot of things as well. So, you will be missed by a lot
of people on a lot of fronts.
Hoaglun: Mr. President. I just want to say publicly, Matt, thank you for everything that
you have done. You have done a great job. You will be missed. I can see why Pete
said a little torqued, because, yeah, you know, we kind of are, you know, but we
understand great opportunities and we just wish you well and do appreciate everything
you have done. Thanks.
Ellsworth: Thank you.
Zaremba: Thank you, Matt. All right. Next will be the Mayor's office. Begin with our
economic development update. Brenda, welcome.
Sherwood: Good evening. Okay. Council President, Members of the Council, I wanted
to start out this evening, first of all, by just saying thank you for this opportunity. It's
been an exciting 14 weeks. We have a lot of projects in the pipeline and I only
anticipate exciting things to come in the next few months. I wanted to just kind of give
you an update of some of the activities that I have been working on since I started. Like
any economic development professional, I started out, of course, looking at our
resources. I began laying the foundation for my strategic plan. I am in the strategic
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planning process. We have some great ideas. But at this point our partners and some
of the projects are in that mode of confirmation and, then, of course, looking at funding
opportunities. So, we have decided that in August we will roll out the strategic plan for
the Council, so that they can give approval to that. So, my first few months I spent a
great deal of my time aligning my partners and resources and there is a few people -- or
a few that I would like to -- there we go -- just kind of point out. These are the
partnerships that have been very vital to my acclamation here in Meridian and I'd like to
start with the Idaho Department of Commerce. They have been just phenomenal and
we have been looking at ways to kind of put together some of the plug and play. When
we have a company that comes into the valley and into Meridian being able to provide
them with an opportunity of all the resources that are available. So, we have actually --
they took something that I had in Chicago from the Department of Commerce, we went
through it, changed things so that we could align with the incentives, so that I was
familiar all of them, created a database and a spreadsheet so that when companies
come in I can actually crunch the numbers based on how much investment and jobs
that they would be creating. So, that's been vital and it's a great tool. Another thing that
we have done is created a wonderful portfolio for Meridian for when companies do
come in, when they send out the site requests looking for space available for companies
and I know that because of that effort we have taken a lot of that burden off of planning
and it's really, like I said, created sort of a plug and play when those opportunities arrive.
Also, we -- there are actually -- we have been looking at different programming and
some of the things that we have available, so, believe it or not, the Department of
Commerce has been calling me to let me know what incentives are available and what
we can use here in Meridian. So, they have been a great partner. Idaho Department of
Labor, obviously -- you know, I came in with this dichotomy of here we are with probably
about 25,000 people unemployed in the valley and, yet, I have corporations telling me
that they don't have the talent to fulfill some of their engineering positions, things of that
nature. So, what I did was started working with the Idaho Department of Labor and sort
of cataloging our industries, cataloging our talent, so that when we do put forth our
strategic plan we are able to identify what would really fit. The developers -- I'd like to
take this opportunity to thank Councilman Bird for doing some of those introductions.
We have a great relationship with the developers. We have created a database of the
available properties. We also have sort of a database of people to contact when those
requests come in. So, when a company calls me for a piece of property that they are
looking for, usually that turnaround time is about 24 hours. So, we have moved forward
with that. Business leaders have been phenomenal. We are right now identifying an
economic development advisory council for me. Through that we are looking at putting
together ambassadors of the business community, but also looking for mentorship
programs that we can provide to some of our service companies. The FCA -- we are
also putting together a portfolio of all the loan programs, which has been vital. A lot of
the companies that I have met with have talked about some of the issues that they have
had with financing and, then, of course, Idaho National Lab, we have been working with
them for new procurement opportunities for companies, so that they could expand their
markets. I know there is a few things -- why am I having problems with this. There is a
few things that you're all aware of that I kind of wanted to update you on, because I'm
sure you're kind of curious what's going on. The Boise Valley Economic Partnership,
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there is an overall consensus that there is the need for a regional development
corporation, so they are going to continue to move forward. They are going to replace
their director within the next probably two months and I have been very active on the
working group, so that we are making sure that we are represented. So, they have
been highly responsive, they are really looking at overcoming some of those gaps in
communication and I see great things coming out of that in the future. The core is
currently -- we are working on a membership drive and that has been very positive. We
are also looking at companies that would add to the core and in creating a strategic plan
for marketing. And, then, in addition, the BVEP familiarization program is going to be
this week, so they are coming in Thursday and Friday. We are going to be meeting as a
core at ISU, so if anyone is interested in joining us, it would be nice to have you. I will
be presenting, along with Earl Sullivan. And, then, the Chinese delegation, as you
know, it was definitely a success. We actually followed up with our development
projects. We are looking for new opportunities and we actually have -- one of the
Chinese delegates -- one of the investors has actually contacted us, he would be
coming back in September. So, the Idaho Technology Council and I have been
identifying additional projects that could be viable. And, then, I also wanted to bring up
the Idaho Technology Council. If you're not familiar with it, that is the new Council with
Jay Larsen. Jay Larsen and I have been working very closely to kind of highlight some
of the advanced technologies here in Meridian, but also looking at opportunities and
also for potential investors with the training delegation that's come back. And, then,
just wanted to -- moving forward. Just kind of talk to you about some of the things that
are coming up. My strategic plan, as I mentioned to you, is planning to be rolled,
guess, in August. We are just working on the final approvals, kind of aligning our
partners in identifying funding. We are currently working with the Mexican consulate for
an export process to be held in August. The Idaho Department of Commerce is also
looking at opportunities in Mexico for export, business exchange, other business
opportunities. At EB5 they are also utilizing them in Mexico, so we are kind of going to
create this opportunity for companies to learn how to do this in Mexico. The regional
center, we are still -- these are ongoing opportunities that we continue to look at. I think
really right now what we are still pushing is looking at creating a TA in Meridian, so that
we can have that 500,000 dollar investment and, then, also we are also looking at what
partners or what organization would be best to host the EB5. And, then, of course,
companies looking to move to Meridian, I wanted to kind of end things on an up note.
We are getting a lot of calls. I currently have a corporate headquarters that is looking in
Meridian. It would be about 200 jobs in the next year. I have several companies
coming in that would like to do the sports arena, so those are kind of exciting for our
entertainment area down in the downtown area and, then, I also have a manufacturing
company. I have two very large expansions that would be about 300 jobs within
probably the next year. Unfortunately, as you know, I can't really say at this point, but
they are definitely -- the two expansions are pretty much in the final stages. So, there is
exciting things happening, working in a lot of interest, I'm getting a lot of calls, so I really
see -- and a lot of property is changing hands, so I see it as a positive piece of
economic development, so at this time if you have any questions I would like to --
Zaremba: Thank you. Council? Mr. Rountree.
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Sherwood: Sure.
Rountree: Explain for me the core membership that you mentioned.
Sherwood: Because it's a 501(c) (6), they are actually looking for, basically,
membership. It will be both public and private membership. And right now what they
are doing is putting together those benefits and, obviously, the obvious benefits of
having that synergy with other companies that are within the core, but also looking at
programming that would be a benefit as well. But a lot of the project companies would
be members of the core.
Rountree: And when you mentioned partners, along with that, shortly thereafter when
you were talking about the -- some of the folks on your list, you talked about Department
of Labor and the shortage of skills. I know you have been working with the University,
CWI, and BSU, as well as TVCC and what's -- is there anything exciting going on there?
Are we looking at maybe helping direct them in job skills that we need for the things
you're seeing come down?
Sherwood: Absolutely. Council Rountree, Members of the Council, actually, what
have done is been facilitating business retention and expansion efforts between myself,
Boise and Nampa, so that we can actually pull that data together and several of those
universities are actually willing to kind of keep track of that data, find out what the needs
are and what the deficiencies are in the training and the education. So, they have been,
you know, highly active in that and will continue and that was BSU and, then, the new
college that's coming in as well.
Rountree: Thank you.
Zaremba: I know the technology Council has identified the need to education more
technology enabled people, so I know that's something that's been on a number of
fronts. Cool.
Sherwood: President Zaremba and Members of the Council, one of the things that we
looked at is there is that gap for technology companies and some of the companies --
some of the people -- the talent that comes out of the universities oftentimes leave the
area and primarily it's because of the pay grade. So, that's one of the things that we
have been talking to with some of the companies is about, you know, making sure that
they are paying that talent, so that we can keep them here. So, that's been a big void.
Hoaglun: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Question, Brenda. Since you have been on the job now three and a half
months, you still have the fresh look of Meridian, you know, coming from a different
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location, you know, from the 30,000 foot level what do you see as the pluses and
minuses of this community? Just kind of your impressions on areas that we need to
build on? Probably education to create talent, especially in the high tech area, but kind
of what are some of the things that stand on both ends of the spectrum?
Sherwood: Councilman Hoaglun, Members of the Council, actually, right now we are
looking at doing some branding, some marketing, and one of the things that I think is
highly beneficial to Meridian is we are kind of branding at the heart of the valley and the
heart of the pacific northwest. Our location is by far one of the most positive aspects of
it, but not only that, you know, transportation, infrastructure, rail -- you know, the
connector, all of these things play a viable part for companies that are looking from out
of state and so we are really playing that up quite a bit, because I think when I have
talked to my site selectors in Chicago, you know, those are the things that they are
looking for is accessing those markets. So, I think it's a big plus. As far as the
negatives, you know, we are trying desperately to -- well, not desperately, but we are
pulling together all the colleges and looking at those gaps. I have had at least four
companies come in and tell me that they'd love to move to Meridian. Unfortunately,
they can't find the talent. So, we need to really align our education with our workforce
and there is a lot of programs that we are kind of looking at and you will see some of
those in my strategic planning, but -- and, then, of course, just getting everyone to the
table, so that we can do this all together and really look at how we can change that.
Hoaglun: Thank you.
Sherwood: Sure.
Rountree: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: Brenda, what were the date, time, and location for the core meeting for
Friday?
Sherwood: It's this Friday at 1:30 and it's at ISU.
Rountree: Thank you.
Sherwood: Sure.
Zaremba: That was going to be my next question. Mr. Bird.
Bird: Brenda, I -- this is a fantastic economic report, probably the finest or first one we
have really had that has had some substance to it. I appreciate what you have done in
your short time. You are truly a benefit to the city in your short time and have done a
great job, in my opinion, and it's just nice to hear the facts and figures and not being let
down some prim rose lane like we have been for years.
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Sherwood: Councilman Bird, Members of the Council, thank you so much for that
comment. I'm actually -- like I said, I spent a lot of time there and the reason I do is
because there are so many exciting things in the pipeline. So, I know that there is a lot
to come from Meridian.
Bird: Thank you.
Zaremba: And we are happy to have you in charge of it. Cool.
Sherwood: Thank you.
Zaremba: Thank you.
Sherwood: Thank you very very much.
Zaremba: All right. The next four items are budget amendments through that Mayor's
office and as I have -- have interpreted these, the amounts of money -- oh, Robert will
explain, but I think what we are doing is spending money that has been donated to the
city.
Simison: That is correct. That's pretty much the premise for all four of these budget
amendments. I will -- if you want, I can walk through them all at once very briefly or
take them individually, whatever your preference is, but --
Zaremba: Anybody need a thorough explanation?
Bird: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Bird.
Bird: Just one -- no, I don't need a thorough explanation, but I would like to see when
we do stuff like this, I'd like to see a P&L on the project that brought this extra money in,
how we derived at that extra money, not just the figure set out there and I know it's
there, but I think it should be part of the budget --
Simison: Okay.
Bird: -- amendment. You know, have a P&L on each deal. But we don't need to on
this, because --
Zaremba: And certainly in of that process is conveying our thanks to whoever collected
the money.
Bird: You better believe it.
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Simison: Yeah. And just going very briefly through them, I can tell you the first for
Meridian Business Day, that's been funds raised primarily by Brandon Wright with Ultra
Clean, who has been leading the Meridian Business Day team. He's been the one
that's really brought that in. I couldn't tell you who all those sponsors are for that event,
but they had their first planning meeting for the next Meridian Business Day, which they
decided was going to be in September of this year. As of right now all the money has
been collected for that event. We have -- we are going to be asking them to try to find
another way to fund these in the future, so it's not coming through the city, but we will
have that discussion with them as we move -- move forward and we will ask them not to
collect any fees that they bring to the city this year. This will, hopefully, wrap them out
from the city's umbrella. But we will be working with them on that. So, that would be
the first one. The second one to save the city a similar practice where, again, the funds
have all been raised for this, the expenses have been accounted for the State of the
City, the scholarships have been accounted for and this is extra funds. I know some of
it will be going towards things such as challenge coins for the police and fire public
safety academy. They'd like to give those out to some of the participants and other
projects like that. I imagine there will probably be some stuff done with the Chinese
delegation and perhaps some of the artwork that was left, but those -- those will be -- all
that has yet to be decided. The Mayor's Youth Advisory Council -- or I'm sorry.
Meridian Arts Commission -- it's noted they are taking on the Concerts on Broadway
series, which the first one was just held this last week. A large portion of these funds
have already been -- come in will be coming in or -- and so these funds, again, are
funds that they have raised to help put on this event. And, then, the last one is MYAC
budget amendment, which is the funds, basically, that they have raised for their dinner.
This allows the extra spending authority for that -- those funds to be expended to the
group that that money was raised for. And with that I will stand for any questions.
Zaremba: Thank you. Council, any questions?
Rountree: I have none.
Zaremba: All right. I would entertain a motion to approve all four, unless somebody
wants to do them individually.
Bird: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I would move that we approve the budget amendment for the Mayor's office,
Meridian Business Day number four, not to exceed 6,000. The State of the City budget,
not to exceed 3,570 dollars. Meridian Arts Commission not to exceed 4,500 dollars.
And the Mayor's Youth Advisory Council not to exceed 6,060 dollars.
Rountree: Second.
Zaremba: We have a motion and second. Madam Clerk, please.
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Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
Zaremba: All Ayes. Motion carries. Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
B. Legal Department: Sewer and Service Agreement Between the
City of Meridian and Coleman Homes, LLC.
Zaremba: Item B is a short comment from the Legal Department.
Nary: Mr. President, Members of the Council, this is a sewer service agreement
between the city and Coleman Homes. We had put it on this portion of your agenda in
case it hadn't come back yet and we could discuss it or hadn't been signed. It has been
signed now and there is no other further discussion. You can move to approve it if you
wish.
Zaremba: Okay. Gentleman? Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move that we approve the sewer and service agreement between the City of
Meridian and Coleman Homes, LLC.
Rountree: Second.
Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. Madam Clerk.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
Zaremba: All ayes. Motion carries.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
C. Joint Department Report: Development Services and Legal
Department -Discussion with Council Regarding the Time
Extension Conditions for Cavanaugh Ridge
Zaremba: C is a joint report, Development Services and Legal Department.
Nary: Thank you. I can start that off, Mr. President, Members of the Council. This is a
discussion regarding the time extension -- originally there were some conditions placed
on the Cavanaugh Subdivision as part of their request for time extension. You heard
that -- was it 60 days ago? Was it 60 days? And part of that -- if you recall the earlier
discussion, there were some easements that were necessary for the city to be able to
put the sewer pipe in along Victory Road. Because the property went into foreclose and
there is a bankruptcy trustee and such, there was some concerns on the part of the
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current property owners in giving the level of assurances that we normally require on
these types of easements. We, basically, require that they -- that, essentially, indemnify
and hold the city harmless and be able to defend, if necessary, those easements, if they
are legitimate, and they had the right to grant them at the time and they had ownership
and such. Because of their concern, we were willing to look at some -- some lesser
language that maybe doesn't have the same force as before, if the Council was
accepting of that. In evaluating it, both Mr. Baird and myself, and with the Development
Services Department, really feel that the risk to the city is fairly small. These are areas
-- where these easements are are right in the adjacent right of way and there are --
actually, Mr. Ward, a representative of the property owners is here tonight, too. We
anticipate that as this property gets resolved and the issues and foreclosure in the
bankruptcy courts get resolved, that the property is actually going to become part of the
right of way. So, the risk to us that somehow another property would claim an interest,
whether the current property owners didn't have actual right to do that, is pretty small.
So, because of that and their concerns, we were willing to, basically, accept language
that was less than our normal standard, but we don't believe, at least in our legal
opinion, both mine and Mr. Baird's, that we put the city in any great risk by accepting
that. But the direction was the Council -- the requirement was the Council's direction to
them and so we wanted to bring that before you to get your approval before we
consented to that. And Mr. Freckleton has, I guess, the Development Services piece of
that as well.
Freckleton: Thank you. Mr. President, Members of the Council, as Bill mentioned, this
easement is across the frontage of the Cavanaugh property. It's an easement that is
critical for us to complete what we call a gap in the Black Cat sewer trunk extension.
We have been working with the developers for probably a year and a half to two years
now on this project and, unfortunately, because of the economy and the situation with
the property and DBSI's situation, we kind of fell flat there for awhile, but negotiations
that we have had recently, we have gotten to this point and we feel it's a good solution.
Discussions that I have had with Mr. Ward late this afternoon, they are in negotiations
with the Ada County Highway District for the conveyance of the right of way -- the future
right of way, which would be the ultimate build out for Victory Road. The sewer that we
are talking does fall within that future right of way, so Mr. Ward is here tonight, if you
have any questions of him, but we feel that -- that it's a good solution and just wanted to
get your input on it.
Zaremba: Thank you. Council? Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: Let's move forward, as long as we have got willing parties.
Zaremba: I guess my only question would be when you say this would eventually be
part of the right of way, I assume you're talking about ACHD right of way?
Freckleton: Yes.
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Zaremba: There is more to that question. Are we comfortable that ACRD would not
see any obstacle here?
Nary: Mr. President, Members of the Council, we don't -- we don't believe there is any
issues for ACHD for -- where the location of these services are I don't see any problem
with that. It's pretty common with our other utilities, so --
Zaremba: Okay. Thank you.
Freckleton: I might add a little bit to that.
Zaremba: The desired action would be -- uh?
Freckleton: I might be able to add just a little bit to that. The plans for the sewer -- a
year and a half, two years ago, they were part of the overall development plan for
Cavanaugh and so the overall development plan for Cavanaugh, the right of way, the
curb, gutter, sidewalk location, everything has already ran through design review and
been approved through both agencies, so --
Zaremba: Great.
Freckleton: One other point I was going to make is that the 90 day time extension
condition that was -- that was placed on Cavanaugh, that condition has been met. They
did deliver signed easements to us yesterday. Yesterday was the deadline. So, we do
have those and so it's just a matter of coming back for a formal adoption, I believe, or
formal acceptance through the Council.
Zaremba: All right. Thank you. Can we do that tonight or do we need a resolution?
Nary: It's on here. You can -- the easements are on here for the Council to approve.
Freckleton: Okay. I'm sorry. I thought we were just having discussion tonight.
Nary: Yes.
Zaremba: Okay. If there is no further discussion, Mr. Bird.
Bird: Can we pass on this? Is that what we are doing? We don't have a resolution?
Nary: You have the easements actually on here that can be signed, so you can
approve them.
Bird: Okay. Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Bird.
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Bird: I move that we agree on the Development Service and Legal Department
discussion of Council regarding the time extension conditions of Cavanaugh Ridge with
the easement for utilities.
Zaremba: Is there a second?
Hoaglun: Second.
Zaremba: Okay. We have a motion and a second, Madam Clerk.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
Zaremba: All ayes. Motion carries. Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Freckleton: Thank you.
D. Reimbursement Agreement Regarding the Irrigation Pump
Station for the Split Corridor Project Phase One Landscaping,
Between Meridian Development Corporation and the City of
Meridian
Zaremba: Item D, reimbursement agreement regarding irrigation pump station.
Nary: Mr. President, Members of the Council, Mr. Siddoway can probably speak to the
specifics here, but you have an agreement -- a reimbursement agreement signed by the
chairman of the MDC, the development corporation, and approved by them I believe
last week and it's regarding the split corridor landscaping project and Mr. Siddoway
could probably speak to the specifics.
Zaremba: Is this the one that's previously been mentioned that's near Zamzow's?
Siddoway: Yes sir. This is the split corridor phase one, which was constructed a couple
of years of ago. As you may remember, it's currently connected to the city potable
water and is in need of a pump station to deliver irrigation water. This agreement would
allow us to move forward in helping MDC to get that constructed. The agreement would
be such that MDC provides the city the plans, the city manages that construction project
for them. As we learned through the Finance Department, if we are managing that
project we cannot pass the invoices and have them pay them directly, we must pay
them ourselves and, then, get reimbursed. So, this is a reimbursement agreement for
up to 55,000 dollars, which is the spending authority that the MDC Board has allowed
for this project. It's been signed, as Bill Nary mentioned, by MDC's chairman Larry
Lipschults and is here for your consideration and approval tonight.
Zaremba: Thank you. Council, any questions?
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Rountree: I have none.
Bird: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Bird.
Bird: Steve, who is responsible for getting the easement for the electrical, MDC or
Meridian City?
Siddoway: The city is moving forward with that, sir. The -- Elroy has a meeting
scheduled with the dairy board next Wednesday on June 30th at their next available
meeting.
Bird: And everything is in place? We have nothing that's going to jump up and bite us?
Siddoway: They will be updating that and the plans are to be back from MDC. We
received an a-mail from Shaun Wardle today that he hopes to have us those plans for
review tomorrow.
Bird: So, we can go to bid -- we get the easement for the 30th, we can go to bid about
the 6th; right?
Siddoway: That's -- that's one option. If we want to have all the ducks in a row before
going to bid. The other option is that we go to bid and we do not award the contract
until we have that easement and I would seek your direction on how you prefer to
proceed with that.
Bird: I would like to have everything in line, get the thing done, so we don't get bit in you
know where. That's my preference. I don't know about the other councilmen.
Rountree: I'm okay with the agreement, but I think the easement needs to be in place
before we contract it -- or if it's not in place the contractor can start and, then, you start
paying.
Bird: That's right.
Siddoway: We will get the easement before we send it out.
Rountree: Yes.
Siddoway: Not just award it. We will do so.
Zaremba: Okay. Do we need any --
Rountree: But you need action on the -- on the agreement?
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Siddoway: We do need action on the agreement. It's tied to the upcoming budget
amendment for the same amount.
Rountree: Okay.
Zaremba: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: Mr. President, I move that we approve Item 8 -- what is it here?
Siddoway: D.
Rountree: 8-D, reimbursement agreement regarding the irrigation pump for the split
corridor.
Hoaglun: Second.
Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. Madam Clerk.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
Zaremba: All ayes. Motion carries. Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
E. Parks and Recreation Department
1. Budget Amendment for Forestry Stimulus Grant for a
Not to Exceed Amount of $44,500.00
2. Budget Amendment for Stn Street Park Funds Transfer to
Borup Dog Park for a Not to Exceed Amount of
$52,800.00
3. Budget Amendment for Split Corridor Pump Station for a
Not to Exceed Amount of $55,000.00
Zaremba: Next item on the agenda is Mr. Siddoway as well.
Siddoway: Thank you, Mr. President. Three budget amendments this evening for your
consideration. The first one is we have applied for and received a forestry stimulus
grant, 44,500 dollars. The four projects that we would intend to spend those funds on is
in the budget amendment form and this amendment would give us the spending
authorization to spend that grant. The second item is -- we received a budget
enhancement for this current fiscal year for the 8th Park pathway and we were also
successful in getting CDBG grant funds for the same project. Therefore, we would like
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to take those funds and transfer them to the Borup property to use as some initial seed
money toward the dog park that is proposed out there. That would be a budget transfer.
And, then, the third item is related to the agreement that was just approved for a not to
exceed amount of 55,000 dollars for the split corridor pump station, authorizing us to
spend the funds and, then, get reimbursed from the MDC on those and I will stand for
any questions.
Zaremba: Gentlemen, any questions? Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: Steve, I have question and concerns about your second one, the item E-2.
don't see on our recently delivered CIP that there is anything proposed for Borup Park
until 2013. My suggestion is if we have 52,000 dollars extra this year, we do -- maybe
we apply that to something that's not funded yet in 2012 or how about putting that aside
and using that to help do the contribution we have to make as it relates to the collection
of impact fees. I don't think it's consistent with the CIP and final comments on that is it
was my understanding when we talked about this particular issue that a good share of
that effort was going to be volunteer and that doesn't seem to come through with this
item.
Siddoway: Yes, sir. A great portion of that project is intended to be through the
volunteers. They have submitted for a grant themselves for up to 500,000 dollars. The
CIP for the Borup property, as you mentioned, does show it in 2013. It is the hope of
the dog park task force, though, to move forward with the dog park portion of
development of that property in advance of the full development of that -- of that park.
So, the intent was to have those funds available for the dog park use that would go in
prior to the 2013 improvements of the full park. But if -- I will --
Hoaglun: Mr. President, I just wanted to --
Zaremba: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: If I recall in the Parks and Recs Commission, as they are working on their
priority projects upcoming, I think the dog park has moved on almost to the number one
spot, if my recollection serves me, but I could be wrong on that. It's one of the top two
or three.
Siddoway: Yeah. It is --
Hoaglun: It's not number one.
Siddoway: It is -- they set five priorities for the year for the overall commission. This is
one of those. They are very engaged with the dog park task force. They met here last
night and talked with their financing committee and they are working on a funding
strategy and, you know, we don't have -- I don't have a specific plan for you for those
funds right now. They could be used for the irrigation system, they could be used to get
the initial green up done and require them to do all of the improvements, the fencing,
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the pathway, those kinds of things. But it is a very high priority for the commission and
we have an active dog park task force and that's why I'm here to propose the transfer.
Bird: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Bird.
Bird: Steve, refresh me, what's this fifty-two eight going to get for us? Are we going to
start putting a fence up or greening or -- because we don't have water or sewer or
anything out there yet, which to me a dog park you really don't need it to just have dogs
running inside of a fence. Well, I don't want to -- you know, make sure we have
adequate dog facilities and stuff, I'm like Council Rountree, I think there is some other
priorities within our park system that has been sitting around longer than this and if we
are -- I can't see where 52,800, if we are just going to fence in an area out there, you
don't even really have to green it up. I mean, you know, dogs -- dogs don't need to run
on grass.
Siddoway: The 52,800 would not construct the dog park. The proposed improvements
as envisioned and presented to the Council about a month ago were about 300,000
dollars worth of improvements. So, this is, you know, a fraction of that cost and I would
expect that this would probably be carried forward until the point that they have the
funds to bring to the table themselves and move this forward in a significant way.
Bird: Follow up, Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Bird.
Bird: Okay. If it's going to be brought forward and not going to be used at this time,
there is surely something else there in our park system, as even Councilman Rountree
said, the impact fees or anything that -- because you're talking three, four thousand,
you're not even CIP until 2013, partnership -- when there was a percentage to us, it
was, basically, presented that they would do the fundraising and stuff and hoping that
we would be able to, through the police department, to give -- to keep that budget of
about 50,000 a year that we do for dogs now, you know, for what Brenda does out
there, so -- or is this -- is this going for planning? I know you got a deal going with
Parametrics. Is this what this is going to be used for, the layout, or --
Siddoway: No. The concept plan was budgeted and approved two or three years ago
and was -- it is currently underway. We, actually, have that public meeting set for June
30th. I believe you received an a-mail on that today. But that -- that project is funded
separately from this.
Bird: And, by the way, not to change the subject, but I appreciate the a-mails I get from
your -- from Rachael. She does a nice job. Thank you.
Siddoway: I will pass that on.
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Hoaglun: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Just to comment further on this, I guess sitting through the meetings in the
parks commission and whatnot and the dog park task force and different things, the
adequacy of our current location we know is limited and how long we are going to be
able to be there -- this was a way that the director saw of starting to get seed money to
encourage their push for outside funding, private funding for this dog park. It would
show our commitment to a new dog park, what that final view would look like -- I think
there is potential at this location, whether or not it's ultimately there, that may change,
but this would be the seed money to put into the pot to say, okay, the city knows there is
a need, we are committed to that, and off you go to see if you can -- you can find the
money to make this a reality. So, it likely would have to be carried forward, but, you
know, in the event that there are other priorities, but knowing that the parks commission
is looking at this as one of the top priorities and that's why it's here before you in this
type of an amendment.
Zaremba: I would add that in the citywide survey that was done earlier, that the dog
park was very high on the list for the citizens as well, which is why we even attempted
the -- to share the police facility and I tend to feel that it's important to show the dog park
people that we are committed to finding a solution. So, I would be in favor of this
amendment.
Siddoway: Mr. President, it did show up very high in the public survey, as you
mentioned. It was the impetus for partnering with the police department and opening
the K-9 facility as a dog park. As we know, the use has been more than we anticipated
and it's, you know, wearing down and is too small for the demand and so our goal is to
try and provide impetus to the dog park task force fundraising efforts and see if we can
get this at another site. A larger site.
Zaremba: Just a question. In the discussion of the dog park task force, are they
considering -- how should I say? Closing or unusing the police dog training facility.
Would we move out of that?
Siddoway: That group would very much like to have it back open and available seven
days a week, but that's not going happen, but --
Zaremba: Are going to have two facilities or -- I'm sure they'd like that.
Siddoway: Yes, that is the vision, that if we can get a new and larger facility that we
could give that one back to just be the K-9 facility and, then, open the dog park.
Zaremba: Good.
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Hoaglun: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: I'm going to make some motions here. I'm going to do them as separate --
separate items, if you don't mind.
Zaremba: Thank you.
Hoaglun: I would move under 8-E that the Parks and Recreation Department budget
amendment for Forestry Stimulus Grant for a not to exceed amount of 44,500 dollars be
approved.
Rountree: Second.
Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. Madam Clerk.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
Zaremba: That motion carries.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Hoaglun: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Yes. Under Item 8-E-2, I move approval of the budget amendment for the 8th
Street Park Fund transfer to Borup dog park for a not to exceed amount of 52,800
dollars.
Zaremba: We have a motion. Is there a second? Am I allowed to second?
Rountree: Uh-huh.
Bird: You can second.
Zaremba: Okay. I didn't know whether Robert's Rules of Order would allow it. I would
second it. So, we do have a motion and a second. And Madam Clerk?
Rountree: Mr. President, discussion. The point I made about the capital improvements
plan, I think this sets a minor precedence in that a department came about a savings,
which is a good thing. Now we have to find a place to spend it. They went through a
very diligent process to identify capital improvements for the next 15 years. This
project, nor any project, if Borup park isn't included until 2013. I think this money can be
better spent at another location within our existing parks as it relates to operation and
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maintenance and facilities improvement, as opposed to be set aside somewhere or to
be a demonstration for a partnership that has been spoken of, but there has been no
effort that I have seen anywhere to bring that two any kind of fruition. So, I think it sets
a bad precedent. I don't care if it was -- any of these departments, if we are going to
adopt this thing, we ought to use it. Otherwise, we ought to make a note to our financial
director, Mrs. Kilchenmann, and say it was a very nice effort, but when somebody
comes up with some extra money and they want to make a capital improvement, they
are going to do a budget amendment and not even look at this thing. I'm sorry. That's
where I am. I think it's important, the effort that they went through to get this and, you
know, this was known about at some point in time, it could have been added to this.
Anyway, that's my point. I think we are setting a precedent if we approve this.
Zaremba: That's a very valid point and overall I agree with the point that you are
making. I feel the exception in this case would be at the time that we were doing the
CIP we didn't understand the depth of the need for the dog park, even though people
were telling us, we didn't have it in place, so we didn't have it operating, we didn't have it
being overwhelmed, and while I absolutely agree with you in principal, I do think this
may be an exception and I certainly would not want to establish it as a precedent or
could be telling department heads or the finance department you can make it up as you
go along. I think we do need to stick with the CIPs, but my feeling from last year when
was the parks liaison was that the dog park is almost an emergency at this point.
Hoaglun: Mr. President, just to comment.
Zaremba: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Yeah. Councilman Rountree makes a good point and we do have a long
range plan that we are -- we are trying to implement when it comes to capital projects
and being the first one out of the box where we might do things differently, makes --
makes it tough and I think it's going to be coming to departments now with the plans that
are in place to figure out when something comes up, how do you -- how do you move
projects around and I'm not sure how to do that myself, but I think this might be the one
we learn on, but I think it's worth moving forward and using it as the example for other
departments to say, hey, you know, better take a close look at things when you have
got a savings and where they are going to. So, that's something that we should
definitely note.
Bird: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I agree with Charlie a hundred percent, but lalso -- I mean if we -- if we had
something that this was going to right now, I could understand it more, but we are just
going to set it in the budget. I don't -- I don't get -- I mean if we want to put a dog park
out there, I can take this 52,800 and put you a dog park out there three times bigger
than what we got. I mean you don't have to have the Taj Mahal for a dog park. Most
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people take their dogs out to the desert and run them, you know, but to just set it aside
for the next three years -- as I take it that's what we are going to do -- I don't see what
point we are getting at. Because nobody wants to take care of dogs anymore than I do
and I realize we need a dog park and, my goodness, we -- if we are going to get one --
and it was going to be a partnership. Well, I haven't seen any partnership come up, you
know, and talk about partnerships, I'm getting tired of being partners when we put all the
money up and they get all the fun.
Siddoway: Mr. President and Councilman Bird, I agree and the -- there is a plan that
the dog park task force has put together and a cost estimate for that plan and it was
about 300,000 dollars as presented. And the onus is on them to do the vast majority of
the fundraising and as was described, this was viewed as a portion of the needed funds
and the city puts forward, you know, a certain amount and they have to come up with a
larger amount in order to make it into a partnership, that this would say that this is a
priority for the city and we want you to do this.
Bird: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Bird.
Bird: Steve, I agree with you, but a partnership to me is we furnish the land, they build
the facility, and, you know, we have -- dog maintenance or whatever you want to call it,
of budget in the police department. I have no problems with continuing that and it's out
there for a nice facility, that's fine.
Siddoway: You mean the animal shelter?
Bird: Because we all -- for the animal shelter. Because we all know that the one at the
wastewater treatment is -- is not adequate today and, you know, in five, ten years it's
definitely not going to be adequate. But that's money that we are going to budget every
year I'm sure. That is -- to me I just -- I can't see setting this one -- when I know within
your parks department you could use this money for something, .instead of setting this
aside for three years.
Zaremba: Okay. Mr. Hoaglun, further comment?
Hoaglun: No. I was just going to say, Mr. President, that, you know, this is a little bit
like as we plan for our fire station we know that a fire truck's coming, we have got to set
some money aside and build up to that and if they come forward with -- with some
funding for this dog park and, yes, we provide the land and it might be -- I have seen a
couple different variations of that dog park, instead of the full seven acres was it, that
long strip, Steve. I can't remember the exact acreage amount, but cutting that in half
and doing it in phases and that was an option and that -- I think that's dictated --
predicated upon the funding sources and how that comes about. So, it was just seen as
a way to -- to get that seed money and some money from the city to -- to go into a park
for our citizens and -- but that's what we are looking at.
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Bird: Mr. President? Let me ask you one question, Steve.
Siddoway: Yes, sir.
Bird: We are in dire need of some kind of enclosed dog park. It doesn't have to be the
Taj Mahal, it just has to be an enclosed area. Right?
Siddoway: Yes.
Bird: We have got to get them away from the police station, from that facility, period. I
could see us -- and it don't have to be temporary, because you got some kind of an idea
of where that dog park is going to be.
Siddoway: Out at the Borup property?
Bird: Yeah. You could put permanent chain link up and, my goodness, afive -- four or
five acre-park is quite a bit of square footage. You know, four acres is 170,000 square
feet for dogs to run around in. A six foot chain link fence is all you need -- a few other
facilities -- you know, a few other amenities, plant a couple of trees -- could you do that
for the 52,800?
Siddoway: Well, probably for close to that. I'd have to go back and look to be fair as to
the actual cost for the -- for the fencing. But we do have those costs identified. The --
know when we were looking the last year potentially at doing this out at the Jabil site,
you know, for 45,000 dollars, but one side is already fenced there, we were able to do
the remaining fencing and some -- some basic improvements. The problem there is
that we don't own the property, it will eventually go away, we are trying to find a
permanent solution. So, this is the most likely permanent solution and, you know, if you
wanted to see these funds spent on fencing or something like that, just to have them
spent and not wait for the rest of this to come to fruition, we could look at doing
something like that.
Bird: I just think it would be better to -- for the taxpayers to see something -- to see
something going down the road that -- you know, we don't know what the economy is
going to be like.
Siddoway: Correct.
Rountree: In 2013 we might not five dollars to put toward this. And we have set a
precedent by having a dog park. We have got to get -- we have got to get it away from
the police station, as you said. It's been outgrown. It was outgrown six months after we
open it.
Siddoway: Correct. Yeah.
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Bird: And -- I don't know. I -- this was a tough decision on my part.
Siddoway: Mr. President --
Zaremba: If I'm understanding the thrust, to me it would be very comfortable to say the
current old dog park is -- was a third of an acre. The people that are seeking a dog park
-- if we could fence off three acres or four acres or whatever for 50,000 dollars, I would
be comfortable saying, okay, the city's contribution is the land and the fence and we will
do that fence now and it's up to the committee to add whatever amenities or
entertainment -- I mean trees, park benches, grass, the committee has to come up with
that. But I would be comfortable saying our contribution is the land and the fence and I
would like to see that happen fairly quickly.
Hoaglun: Mr. President, to comment, this land is still in the county and so we would
have to go through that approval process. On the parking lot -- I don't know if they
would let us go with gravel, they might, might not. There was discussion of having port-
a-potties -- not for the dogs, but for the humans and maintaining those and, then, the
fencing and getting the irrigation process up. So, I don't remember the final amount, but
just the bare bones was definitely more than -- more than the 52,000. So, that's -- and I
think that's what they were looking at was -- was this going to be -- see what type of
fundraising they could do to bring it forward and say, okay, we have raised this amount,
what can we partner with the city, provide the land and this little bit amount and let's see
what we can do and go from there. So, I don't remember what that total was, that's
what we are looking at with moving these funds to that one.
Siddoway: Mr. President, two comments. One, regarding the timing, 2013 is the year
that is targeted for development of the Borup property as a full park. Even that depends
on development and utilities being available and things like that. The goal for the dog
park task force would be to do this in advance of that. So, 2013 is not the goal date for
the dog park, they'd like to, you know, see this done within the next year. But that, of
course, depends on their fund raising. If the Council would like, rather than setting this
money aside to be used with the larger partnership, if you'd prefer to see it -- to see a
plan for specific improvements like fencing that we would go out and build with that
money in advance of anything else happening, I can actually -- I could work on that and
bring that back to you. But the impetus so far hasn't been to go out and build something
in advance of the partnership, it's been to get the seed money, wait for them to raise
their funds and, then, build the full thing.
Bird: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Bird.
Bird: Steve, how urgent is this -- to pass this budget amendment tonight?
Siddoway: It's really -- it's not so urgent for me as it is for the finance department,
because there -- they have a deadline for when budget amendments can be made and
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we are trying to respect that -- that deadline. Is there any -- there is no one from the
finance department, is there?
Bird: No.
Nary: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Nary.
Nary: Mr. President, Members of the Council, Ithink -- I think what Steve just said the
last is probably what's driving this more than anything. There is a cutoff by finance of
when all budget amendments need to be requested and brought before you. It's not
imperative that you pass it tonight. As you all know, in August we will have another
hearing on this budget re -- budget amendment and do a re-budge ordinance for FY-10.
So -- so, you don't have to approve it tonight, but I think what the direction both the
parks department needs and finance needs is do you want this as part of your re-budget
discussion in August or not. And so whatever direction you want to give parks, if you
want them to gather more information on specifics or costs or whatever, I mean they
can certainly do that. They could certainly have this in August, but I think that's really
the concern from finance is when they are preparing the budget amendment do we
include this 52,000 dollars or do we not.
Zaremba: Well, I think it would be -- if we don't have to actually do this tonight, I think it
would be legitimate to ask if in maybe the next meeting or the meeting after you could
come back and say, okay, with this 52,000 dollars I could put so much fence in and
have something to show for it this year.
Rountree: Mr. President?
Bird: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: My preference is that if we are going to do a capital improvement in the City
of Meridian, as a budget item it needs to be on the CIP, and it needs to have the
opportunity of public input. Leaving it in a capital improvement budget amendment, in
my opinion, is wrong. I don't care what it is. Unless it's an emergency. We have it in
an emergency. The money is not going to evaporate. Quite frankly, that money might
be better used in another department for a safety issue. We don't know that. So, that's
where I'm coming from. It's not you, Steve. Don't take me wrong. It's -- it is a principle
and it's our fiduciary responsibility to take care of the money. I don't care if it's a dollar
or 50,000 dollars or ten million dollars, that's where I'm coming from.
Bird: Call for the question.
Zaremba: Okay. We have a motion and a second on floor. We have been called for
the question. Madam Clerk.
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Roll-Call: Bird, nay; Rountree, nay; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
MOTION FAILED: TWO AYES. TWO NAYS.
Zaremba: And the motion does not. It would need a majority to pass, so -- just as a
discussion, are we interested in having Steve do some work on it and tell us more or is
that likely to be a final decision? Any comment?
Rountree: Mr. President, I think Steve's heard me with -- would be my desire, but I don't
know about the rest of you.
Zaremba: Okay.
Bird: I agree. I think it's obvious at this point through the whole CIP -- I agree with
Charlie that I would sooner see it done as a whole CIP, instead of bits and pieces and
stuff like that. I think there is a lot of planning that needs to going out there. before we
get too far. I think you're in the right direction starting next Wednesday.
Siddoway: I can bring it up through the CIP process, if there is at least general --
Rountree: Excellent.
Siddoway: -- interest in going that direction with -- with the CIP. I can do that.
Rountree: I don't think you heard anything different.
Zaremba: And I'm agreeing with the principle, just trying to find a way to do it.
Siddoway: Thanks.
Hoaglun: And you just get the joy of being the first one.
Siddoway: Thank you.
Rountree: It's new and we just -- and we just have it. So, let's adhere to it.
Zaremba: Okay. We still have Item E-3 to do.
Hoaglun: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Under Item 8-E-3, Parks and Recreation Department, I move approval of a
budget amendment for split corridor pump station for a not to exceed amount of 55,000
dollars.
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Bird: Second.
Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. Madam Clerk, please.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Siddoway: Thank you.
Item 9: Ordinances
A. SECOND and THIRD READING Ordinance No. 10-1450: An
Ordinance Repealing Title 4, Chapter 1, Meridian City Code,
Related to: Title, Purpose and Intent; Definitions; Compulsory
Use Required: Enforcement Authority; Franchise Agreement;
Bond; Rules and Regulations; Solid Waste Advisory
Commission Established; Fees; Collection of Solid Waste and
Recyclable Materials; Special Collection Services and Specific
Collection Standards; Prohibitions; Nuisance Declared;
Penalty; Severability; and Providing and Effective Date
Zaremba: All right. Thank you. We are up to Item 9, which is an ordinance. We have
a second and a third reading of Ordinance 10-1450. Madam Clerk.
Holman: City of Meridian Ordinance No. 10-1450, an ordinance repealing Title 4,
Chapter 1, Meridian City Code, related to title, purpose and intent, definitions,
compulsory use required, enforcement authority, franchise agreement, bond, rules and
regulations, solid waste advisory commission established, fees, collection of solid waste
and recyclable materials, special collection services and specific collection standards,
prohibition, missions declared, penalties, severability and providing an effective date.
Zaremba: You have heard this ordinance read by title only. Anybody wish to hear the
entire ordinance read? All right.
Rountree: Mr. President?
Zaremba: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we adopt the Ordinance 10-1450 and authorize the President to
sign and the Clerk to attest.
Bird: Second.
Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. Madam Clerk.
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Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
Zaremba: All ayes. Motion carves.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Zaremba: We have come to the end of our agenda. There would be one more motion.
Bird: I move we adjourn.
Rountree: Second.
Zaremba: We have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Any opposed?
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Zaremba: We are adjourned.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 8:41 P.M.
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