HomeMy WebLinkAbout2002 10-07 Joint ACHDMeridian City Council Special Joint Meeting
With Ada County Highway District Commission October 7, 2002
The joint meeting of the Meridian City Council and the Ada County Highway
District Commission was called to order at 12:00 P.M. on Monday October 7,
2002.
Council Present: Mayor Bob Corrie, Keith Bird, Bill Nary, Cherie McCandless
and Tammy De Weerd.
Staff Present: Bill Nichols, Gary Smith and Will Berg.
ACHD Commission Present: David Wynkoop, Dave Bivens, Susan Eastlake and
Sherry Huber.
Wynkoop: We will go ahead and start the meeting. It looks like we will welcome
everybody. Thank you all for coming over to our place for a little bit of pizza.
I. Traffic Signal at Ten Mile Fire Station
Wynkoop: And we are going to start with the traffic signal at Ten Mile Fire
Station and I’m not sure who put that on the agenda. So is there anybody that
would like to jump up and talk about that or did the City put that on.
Corrie: Cherie. Is that part of that signal we are still trying to get at Ten Mile.
McCandless: Yeah that was – it came out of the transportation committee
meeting.
Corrie: Okay.
McCandless: But Kenny said the other night at City Council that it wasn’t that
much of a priority. So I don’t know what he wants to do now.
Corrie: What would that signal? I think we were talking about 40,000 dollars.
McCandless: Using used material.
Corrie: Do we even have that available to us?
McCandless: Would be temporary.
Wynkoop: Terry what do you know about the subject?
Little: I dug through my letters and the last one was about two years old where
we said that if Meridian paid for us to construct it with our forces we would
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provide materials on it. Now the way fire signals have gone in and school
districts and special districts like that. There are a mixture of special districts
cities typically with fire there are several special districts in the county and
several have their own fire departments and what we have done is if its new
development it goes in as part of the development the way the schools do.
Where it is paid for by the entity that either the special district or the city. If it was
a retrofit on our project the volumes have increased to the extent that we – the
problem has kind of created over time we’ve done some partnerships on that and
brought back and maybe provided them with materials or built it and the city paid
for the materials or something like that. We’ve done a number of them that way
and I guess that the bottom line is if you go in with the fire station and you don’t
need it initially then you can wait it out until we need to do a project and then it
gets done with the project. But with Franklin signal we did the – we had to put it
off because of the scheduling projects and that we did as (inaudible) to that. We
did it temporary and we will do it final when we do that project at our cost. With
Ten Mile we’d offer that we would build it if you paid for the cost of constructing it
and we’d use the materials.
Wynkoop: Is that offer still on the table as far.
Bird: What is the cost to install.
(Inaudible discussion amongst Council members)
Little: It’s about 35 to 40 thousand dollars. It was 35 at that time.
McCandless: To install?
Little: Yes.
De Weerd: I believe the conversations that the fire station our fire department
has had until the interchange comes in the traffic volume or the problems getting
the trucks in and out had not been an issue. Probably will be an essential like to
have one as you change down on Ten Mile but at this point they see a higher
priority on the third station at Locust Grove because of the amount of traffic they
have. That’s kind of the initial of conversation.
Wynkoop: Well Mr. Mayor. If its with your permission then why don’t we just kind
of leave that on the table and. When the city is ready to get back to us on that.
We would certainly be happy to talk or facilitate that conversation.
Corrie: I think that is a good idea.
Wynkoop: Okay any other comments on this one?
II. Opticom – Process, Policy and Procedure.
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Wynkoop: Opticom. Let’s address that first if we could. Council members and
Commissioners. The opticom is just a device that sits up on the signal and