HomeMy WebLinkAbout2003 11-18 PreMeridian City Pre-Council Meeting November 18, 2003
The Pre-Council Meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:00
P.M. on Tuesday, November 18, 2003, by City Council President Tammy de
Weerd.
Members Present: Tammy de Weerd, Cherie McCandless, Bill Nary, and Keith
Bird.
Members Absent: Mayor Robert Corrie.
Others Present: Bill Nichols, Gary Smith, Bill Musser, Anna Powell, Steve
Siddoway, Kenny Bowers, and Will Berg.
Item 1. Roll-call Attendance:
X Tammy de Weerd X Bill Nary
X Cherie McCandless X Keith Bird
O Mayor Robert Corrie
De Weerd: I will go ahead and open the – are we ready? I will go ahead, open
the Pre-Council Meeting Agenda for Tuesday, November 18th
, and welcome
those of you that have joined us. I’ll ask the City Clerk to call roll.
Item 2. Adoption of the Agenda:
De Weerd: Item Number 2 adoption of the agenda. Do I have a motion?
Bird: Madam President.
De Weerd: Thank you. Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move that we adopt the agenda as published.
Nary: Second.
De Weerd: Okay it’s been moved and seconded to adopt the agenda as
presented. All those in favor say aye. All ayes motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES
De Weerd: Item 3 presentation of the downtown revitalization market study. Mr.
Siddoway.
Item 3. Presentation of the Downtown Revitalization Market Strategy
by the Hudson Company:
Siddoway: Thank you Madam President and Members of the Council.
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De Weerd: I should have said the Tom and Jerry show.
Siddoway: We are here to report back to the Council on progress made since
we were here last month. As you will recall when the Hudson Company was in
town last month we were conducting a long series of interviews with local
business owners, local property owners and gathering feedback and ideas and
issues from them. Since that time, the Hudson Company has been synthesizing
that information as well as doing a lot of market research. Looking regionally
looking locally and looking at demographics, looking at market nitches and
they’re here to share their preliminary observations on that as well. I have
handed out a couple of items. The first is the flyer that was put together for
tonight’s open house. This does begin at 7:00 P.M. across the street at the
Nazarene Church. We will be holding a public open house and workshop on
these issues tonight. We have had excellent coverage in the paper as I also
handed out from the Statesman as well as the Valley Times. In last Tuesday’s
addition on the second page, I’ve included the article that was in that paper for
you as well. You have a copy of the full presentation as will be given to the
public at the open house tonight. We have pulled out from this a – we have
selected a hand full of what we feel are some of the most important in key slides
that will give you the main points of what we intend to speak about at the public
open house tonight. Tom Hudson from the Hudson Company will be presenting
that to you. We have about 20 slides to get through in about – hopefully in about
15 minutes so what we would like to do is just give Tom that time to run through
the slides, get through the presentation so that we can make sure you get all of
the points we are trying to make. Then we will have time on the back end for any
questions and answers. We can go back to any slides you want to discuss. With
that, I would like to turn some time over to Tom Hudson.
De Weerd: So that was your nice way of putting don’t interrupt right?
Siddoway: Thank you.
Hudson: Madam President Members of the Council it’s great to be back. We’re
excited to be here and we have a lot of very interesting news. We appreciate
your time and we understand you have a number of things to get on with this
evening. To agree I feel like I need to apologize for a brief briefing but I assure
you that we’re ready to take your questions now or if you would like to speak with
us after tonight leave us a message and we will get back to you. We want to
make sure that all of this information is something that you’re comfortable with,
you’re clear where we’re headed with it, and if you have any guidance or
concerns, we want to respond to that as well.
De Weerd: Well I think it would be helpful – oh, I see some of you have the
slideshow. I don’t. No, I don’t have it. Okay. Thanks. Just so, we can jot notes
on it.
Hudson: Does everyone have one now?
De Weerd: It’s just me.
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Hudson: We’re about one third of the way through our work on the marketing
analysis and strategy for downtown. Tonight we’re here to share our preliminary
observations and findings. I think you will see quite a range of issues addressed
and a number of interesting conclusions. We are not at the stage where we’re
ready to propose future strategies or a collective vision but I think you will see
that there are a number of pieces of information that lean us in certain directions
and I think that’s exciting. We’re definitely on track a little bit of schedule with our
research and I must say that we’ve had a tremendous amount of support from
city staff here from officials at almost every level of government in the Treasure
Valley folks that we went to asking for information and assistance and really
received it. You’ve got a lot of allies in the Treasure Valley. The first thing that I
would like to share with is I’m sure you’re quite interested to see this is a
summary of what we heard back from the interviews. There were three levels of
information that I wanted to share tonight. The first was citywide priorities,
second is views about markets and the third is about downtown priorities. On
citywide priorities it’s a very consistent theme practically every person that was
ever interviewed talked about the need to overcome traffic congestion. You may
recall last time we were together we talked in terms of traffic management. I
think that’s an end. There were lots of different means that were discussed by
people. There were people in pro couplet. There were people who were pro
destination versus that is destination-oriented traffic versus getting through traffic
around and so on. We’re not here to promote one way or the other tonight but
we do have some observations about traffic in the context of downtown
revitalization and I’ll get to that in a few minutes. Focusing now again on the –
what people were talking about. That particular item was followed very closely
by a lot of comments from people from many walks of life. People who have
lived here for a long time and people that were new to the community were very
interested in restoring a heart or a central place for the community. That I think
was linked to that general comment of we need a stronger sense of community. I
want to emphasize that a lot of people that we spoke to who are from here, grew
up here or what have you still have a very strong sense of community. That was
not the issue it was more about many of the people who have moved here who
may work some place else or shop some place else and are looking for ways to
be more strongly connected to the community. There were a number of
comments about growth management in terms of again the – maintaining or
looking toward a unique look and feel of the community and one that is not just
recognizable but also comfortable. As you look at some of our transportation
figures on places like Eagle Road, you will see why people would feel that way.
The Better Public Private Partnership and Vision – I didn’t hear many people say
we have a bad public/private partnership. A lot of people, in terms of the down
town said things like the conditional use permit process right now is, while it’s
very understandable, does make it difficult for people to predict what is
appropriate for future development. I think that was most of the context. Close
public/private partnership in terms of implementing a vision for the community,
especially the downtown was the other side – or the primary remainder of the
source of that comment. In terms of market – pardon me, I am going to skip that
because it comes up in a number of other ways. Downtown priorities, we talked
about a heart social, cultural, even civic hub of the community. Many people
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were interested to see the City Hall remain in the downtown. This would be a
great place to be; came up quite often. Not just from nine to five, but in the
evenings as well. A place where the community can come together and
including residential uses where folks can shop after five o’clock and it still feels
like it’s their town. A number of people talked about – well, if I was to say what
kind of a priority we should have and I wanted to give you a look or a feel of it,
how about Hyde Park on a larger scale? It was remarkable to us how often Hyde
Park came up as a very livable and visiting comfortable kind of place. This idea
of a clear vision for the future I think that’s one that is clear to the private sector
and clear to the community and one that is broadly adopted, endorsed and
supported in everything from the regulatory environment to various tools that are
available for community development. I think the other one that I would
emphasize on this particular slide is the Multi Generation Destination Center.
You will see in a couple of moments that one of the most remarkable things in
your demographic here is that you have the highest density of families of any
community in Treasure Valley, about fifty percent of your households as well as
very young families as a whole. I think that, as important as that is, many folks
still talked about -- is not just about one age group, it’s about all age groups and
demographics being able to have a place that they collectively call their own.
Just touching on a couple of points, you have a substantial number of people in
this area. You see from 40,000 in the immediate Meridian community to about
330,000 in a 12-½ mile radius. That is very important to note. It’s also and
perhaps even more important to note that not all those people are your primary
markets. The question is who do we go after first and where do we focus limited
resources? Go ahead. One of the most remarkable things about Meridian is
your traffic. I am not telling you anything that you don’t know of course. Those
of us who live elsewhere often hear about your statistics and they truly are
remarkable. If you look at the lower right hand corner of this slide you see
51,600. That’s the number of vehicles on an average weekday going
northbound at that one intersection. You probably know that is the worst
intersection in the state and it really doesn’t have significant competition at that
level. If you about double that number to get to two-way traffic, imagine over
103,000 vehicles per day. If you divide that by the number of hours and
seconds in a day, it still comes up to be a whopping big number. Now, if you just
move to the center lower screen 43,000 people moving north from the freeway,
there will be a number of those who stay in that area for work or what have you,
business shopping and so on. Moving north of Franklin, if you divide Meridian
and main it’s still 27,700 people moving to heart of the community. That’s an
extraordinary number of people. It is something like a – if eight percent of the
vehicles were trucks, that’s something like a truck every 25 seconds throughout
the day. So, that’s a lot of vehicles and think of your sense of what is a great
destination place to be and we will get into that in a moment too. That’s a lot of
folks. Notice a smaller number just above the 17,700 that’s on Idaho going
eastbound on an average day, 1,500 people. So, that’s more or less your
internal circulation numbers, so about 3,000 vehicles a day for the downtown as
a destination. The rest are truly through traffic. The vast majority of those are
going to be parties who have no inclination whatever to be in the downtown. Go
ahead.
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Hudson: I think it’s very important to comment on the concept of through versus
to traffic. The great downtowns of the world are downtowns that are great
destinations and as destinations I mean where people get out of their cars and
they walk, they are pedestrians. One of the Litmus tests done of a downtown is
how positive it is for pedestrians who are walking around. When you have such
high levels, 28,000 going one direction – that’s 56,000 vehicles a day through the
downtown heart, how much of a pedestrian environment can you have? How
positive can it be? Is it pedestrians over drivers? You may recall I mentioned
how long it takes for a pedestrian like me to push that button on Main and wait
and wait and wait and what is the message that is going on there? This is not a
pedestrian place. This is a place for automobiles and larger vehicles. So, what I
see is people starting to take chances. As soon as they think there is a place to
dodge they will try – those that can. That’s not healthy. So, through traffic can
degrade the downtown experience and I can say from my many, many years in
this business, more is not equal to better. I know that for some people it would
be – seems to be common sense that if you just have more vehicles going in
front of a store, that’s better. But, what is the nature of the business? And if the
nature of the business is one that supposedly trying to attract people who are
doing multi purpose shopping and want to linger and maybe go to lunch while
they are also going to do business. All of that extra traffic isn’t making it a better
place. There is everything from the splash to the noise to the waiting to the
diesel fumes, all those kind of things that degrade the experience of going to a
central place. We believe as one of our roles is to act as champions for that
central place. So we are being frank about this particular, what we perceive to
be a need. So we’d like to share the failure of the regional transportation
network does not justify sacrificing the heart of your community to through traffic.
We thought, we need to say it in a nutshell. Where do we stand on the issue of
through and to traffic. That’s our position at this time. We stand to take your
correction on that of course, but I think you understand where we are coming
from that we are trying to do everything that we can to move downtown forward
as a central place. One of the things that you won’t see is all of our charts and
graphs and so on. We have limited the numbers of those for the purpose of
saving time. I just wanted to show you among other charts this is one that shows
something truly remarkable about your community and that is how young it is. If
you look at the deep red columns there, these are all your communities
compared to each other in the Treasure Valley, as well as Ada County and you
have got the highest population of young people and the highest population of
people in the 25 to 44 age group. Now, there are lots of other kinds of insights
like this that we have got for you in your hand out and in our ultimate report, but
go ahead to the next slide. What it comes down to is this is kind of a summary
now. You’re significantly young as a population. While certainly you have a
variety of people here the fact that you are 30 years old, have the highest
percentage of children in homes – that is 33.7 percent. You have got the largest
households, nearly three per household and highest percentage of families –
that’s 50 percent verses 38 percent in the County. It’s truly a remarkable set of
numbers. You have got the second highest household income. Eagle is the
highest. Second lowest households in poverty and the lowest housing vacancy
rate. One of the things that I also found very interesting was the highest owner
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occupied households at 84 percent. While, I am not going to show you the slide,
I think it’s important for you to know that if you compare your local average
income to the average cost of a house, you have the highest ratio in Meridian of
any community in the Treasure Valley. Now, one of the implications is that it is
very likely that that would indicate a much higher disposable income, in
comparison to others because you are paying less of your income for your
house, which is typically the largest cost of living. Okay. Next. This is one of a
number of tables that we put together to indicate how important your local market
is. You are certainly not the largest – second largest community, but you are the
second largest community in terms of consumer buying power. You note that
your ahead of Nampa, substantially a large community, but because of your
income level you have got a lot of income here that collectively these other
communities fall behind. If you compare down to Eagle that’s about – what 342
million dollars more than Eagle in terms of consumer buying power. That is, you
don’t have to go far away to find markets. The question is what are great
primary markets? It’s your own people. We do have another slide – go ahead –
that I wish I could have had time to show you, but fundamentally what it shows
us is that while you’ve got 21 percent of the Boise population you only have 17
percent of the retail trade potential. So, to a degree it says you are under
retailed and that is very consistent with what’s going on with the other numbers.
That is, you are a tremendous market and it seems that a lot of your consumers
are going elsewhere to buy. So, that’s an opportunity. A substantial opportunity.
These are some of the traits – I’ll just ask you to take a look at down the list, the
ones that I have emphasized there in yellow are the ones that I think are very
important to take away with you. We looked also at the – not just the
demographics, but the behavior of consumers through a variety of information
that is available out there and found that you are remarkably different here in
your community from other cities in the Treasure Valley. For example, the top
three consumer behavior groups, they are called psycho graphic groups in your
community represent 78 percent of the population. The only other town with
anything close to that of those three particular groups is Eagle with about 50
percent. Boise, Nampa and Caldwell are about zero. So, the primary people
who live here are not well represented in the other communities. You are
different. I think you always knew that. I have talked to a lot of people who said
you know we are just not the typical Boisean or the typical Nampan. That’s right.
It’s absolutely born out in the research that’s out there. So, it would also imply
that in terms of service to those people, you have a great opportunity to respond
to their unique nature. Go ahead. I am sorry this is very wordy, but if you saw a
really slick presentation each one of those boxes fades in and out as we talk
about them all, but we just had to throw them up in the interest of time. To give
you a sense of some of the central strengths of the communities around you, as
well as what’s going on with you – go to the next one please – so we are taking a
look at that and in looking at it we started to see a pattern here of Meridian’s own
strengths. Now some of these are clearer and some of them are growing. Retail
along Eagle Road, Medical Office over to Meridian and then an education
component that is actually broader than the circle board – we are just trying to
say that you are starting to anchor your community with certain areas of
specialization that can be tapped and grown. Now, the one in the middle,
industrial, that’s an (inaudible) strength -- go ahead – We think that’s probably
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not going to last a lot longer given the kind of growth that’s going on here, the
kind of densities that are here with more and more people coming into your
center it’s going to be more in conflict with industrial uses. We anticipate that
there will be an evolution there that will move toward mixed use – mixed use
being more residential, office place, retail, social and cultural kinds of activities
that make it a really a dynamic core. One of the things that is most exciting to
me about that is that you have this rail corridor with an extraordinarily wide right
of way. It has the opportunity to provide you with some of that infield, but still
growth potential. Go ahead. Now one of the things that we always look at is
what are your niches and who is your competition in looking at downtowns?
Well, downtown as a whole isn’t competing. It doesn’t have what you would say
a logical market place collective strength that’s identifiable. Individual
businesses, George’s, for example, the cycle shop do very well within the region,
but outdoor recreation is not a niche for all of downtown. Do you see where I am
going with that? So, as a whole you really don’t – you don’t have competition
because you are not a competitor collectively. Now that can change rapidly as
you identify a vision and a market strategy and start to build and we anticipate
the very insightful kinds of numbers and other information that we are collecting
is a powerful argument for some specific niches. I don’t think you are going to
have a lot of trouble given your very solid demographics, your buying power, etc.,
consumers and so on to begin to build a highly focused kind of a downtown
that’s reflective of both community values and economic realities. That’s a
direction that we are pushing. You do have strengths and I think they are
important ones. City Hall representing the civic nature of place. Your Post Office
is still in your downtown and it tends to anchor that kind of northern end of the
walk-able part of the downtown. Food and beverages here, a lot of people come
from around the region to some of your restaurants. That’s an important point of
the social side of community. That fire is an acronym for finance, insurance and
real estate. The post office I mentioned, certainly your schools, churches, and
the rail line I have talked about and access is definitely a strength. But, you
know strengths – you often hear about the double-edged sword. If it’s highly
accessible and you have got a regional transportation system that’s not working
well, that access can become a weakness. Go ahead. So downtown
opportunities that we have seen include this list. We have looked at it a number
of different ways, but what I mean by social retailing is the kind of retailing that
brings people together where they can congregate, they can linger, they can
have a meal or do culture in the arts or experience culture in the arts in any
number of ways, not just performing but to see if – heritage oriented activities
would be included there. Here is an interesting question: Where is it that all the
people of Meridian go to be Meridian people? Where do we collect? Where are
we Meridianites? Is that what you call yourselves? We are wocsomonians in
Moscow. That is Moscow spelled backwards. It goes back a century. I don’t
know if I should apologize for that, but that’s who we are. Anyway, the kinds of
opportunities that are out there, I think, are ones that aren’t marginal
opportunities, they are substantial ones. With people – who – very large in
growing population that’s well to do, has disposable income, but according to our
psycho graphic kinds of information they don’t necessarily travel nationally or
internationally. They tend to travel more recently, there is a lot more stay at
home orientation. What do they do? What can they do at home? Well, that’s
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again, opportunity. I won’t go through the entire list, but we believe that this is
very exciting stuff. Go ahead. Some of the things that have come up both in
terms of the interviews and also our own observations include an essentially
oriented city hall that may tap into a future refinement of the rail line if it becomes
a transit corridor. It may be your second front door and you might contemplate
that. The Creamery is an icon of your heritage and it’s a visual highly identifiable
place that’s somewhat on the decline, but what if it was – (laughter)
Bird: -- sorry.
Hudson: -- okay, that was a diplomatic thing, come on, I get some points for that
I am sure. It’s the kind of place that I have been to in other communities and
seen get redeveloped in fascinating, very exciting ways. There are a few places
that I will see in a community – I would love to be a part of that one. I would love
to be a part of an adaptive, reuse of the Creamery building, to sustain the
heritage and tap its eccentric architecture. Now it’s eccentric for things other
than diary, right? I mean, it was a creamery, but I have seen wonderful places all
over the country. I am sure you can think of them. There is a torpedo factory, for
example, in Virginia. A torpedo factory that’s a phenomenal arts center and the
scale is extraordinary. Just type in torpedo factory on the Internet. That’s all you
got to do and you will find it. Gate ways and signage, oh pardon me – the
Farmer’s and Merchant Bank and block I think it’s a wonderful opportunity. What
a great partner in your community, as I am sure you have heard they are working
hard to be a future great partner as well. That is something that’s coming up
soon. Gateways and signage. Let’s make sure we know that we are in and out
and how to get around and to the parking places and when have you arrived and
so on – I talked to you a bit about that last time. Zamzows Mill is another
remarkable icon. What’s it’s future? Could it hold a place. I know a super
regional mall, the Safeco subsidiary Win mar, not too long ago bought up some
buildings over in the Seattle area that were old grain silos and what not for the
purpose of turning them into a farmer’s market that was going to be aligned with
and part of a super regional mall. They wanted community there too. So, when
you have places like this and they are unusual and they are part of your heritage
they also can speak to your future in remarkable ways. Traffic circulation –
There may be things that can be done there in the near future and I think that
everyone we have spoken to has hope that that will be something that will be
addressed soon. Central open space for events – a lot of people talked about
being able to come to the downtown core, not just the inside places, but outside.
Go ahead. These are some of our conclusions. Your immediate past has been
a past of decline, but you have a truly a public/private partnership that has got
wonderful strengths that’s moving forward with visioning a viable future and I
think it is truly not restricted by where you have been recently and in fact, you
may be inspired by what you have been in a more distant past, in terms of strong
sense of community. We believe your own community is just extraordinarily well
suited to be your primary market. There are very few places that have such a
great market built in, not even next door, but right here. Family and youth
markets I think are important moderate price point. This is not necessarily the
Beverly Hills kind of downtown future, but certainly a moderate price can be
sustained with these kinds of demographics. I think we have spoken about most
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of these. This small scale I will touch on in the sense that many of your
properties in the downtown are relatively small lots and it gets fairly difficult to
pull those together into larger chunks to do something big. I don’t think that’s
necessarily a disadvantage. Many of the people that we talk to talked about
scale as something they wanted to be able to recognize in the future. At the
same time, you do have the potential for higher density along the rail line should
that ever become available to the community. I know that there is some
discussion about that. So, then linking business residential and government to a
transit line and service in the future, I think, are important. Very quickly, it seems
to me that as with other places around the greater Boise area one thing you
might think about is if we did nothing – go ahead-- what might happen to
Meridian? One great architect said to me if there is no center can there really be
an edge? I think that is a very remarkable question. Or, alternatively, can you
have a distinct community that’s with a truly strong center that’s identifiable and
sustainable over the long term? I think that’s the cross roads where you are
today. If – and I am not implying in any way that the community is doing nothing,
in fact, on the contrary you are doing a lot in both in the public and private
sectors. But, if you weren’t focusing on a guiding development in the future,
what would be the future? I think these two images as alternatives are thought
provoking. Go ahead. Finally, next steps we are taking this information, pulling it
together, focusing more and more on target markets, putting together a strategy
and with that strategy you will be hearing from us about a draft strategy and
giving us your guidance on that. We will move into, once it’s finalized along with
a vision, an action plan and that acronym at the bottom is who, what when,
where, how, why. We don’t believe that any action plan can be an action plan
without those things. So, we will be here with that kind of information in hand
very specifically talking about how to accomplish the mission. I would be very
happy to take your questions or comments.
De Weerd: Council, any questions?
Bird: I don’t. I just appreciate the study that they have done so far and the
information they have brought back.
Nary: Sounds like you are on the track that we have been talking about. I think
it’s great.
Hudson: Thank you.
De Weerd: I think you did a great market study that anyone can use in trying to
attract certain industries. It reconfirmed that I think the Creamery is a great spot
for a spaghetti factory. I think it’s marketable now.
Nary: Now that we realize it’s only in transition.
De Weerd: So, thank you very much. I do look forward to finding out tomorrow
morning what the comments you get tonight at the workshop are. That will be
exciting to find out.
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Siddoway: Madam President. I just wanted to ask if I may to make sure that the
Council is comfortable with the statement that we made on our view of traffic in
downtown in the to verses through and that we do see it as destination as the
high priority there. Is that agreeable?
De Weerd: I think that it was noticeably no one commenting on that was
(inaudible) well, you should have been here. You’ll have to attend the workshop
now Jake. I think the point was very well taken. You built on what you told us
when you were here the first time and you have actually strengthened what the
original thought was and we need to decide if it’s to or through. Through your
market analysis, through your discussions with the different folks that we asked
you to talk to that’s a pretty clear statement. I guess the next steps are going – I
will look forward to seeing what the traffic management solutions are and how we
are going to utilize – probably Meridian Road is the only north south link as to
managing some of that. Are there any other comments?
Bird: I don’t.
Nary: Nope.
McCandless: No.
De Weerd: Well, great.
Hudson: Thank you very much for your time.
De Weerd: This is really exciting. I think you have given us a very positive step
forward and I look forward to the rest of the story.
Hudson: It will be coming soon, Madam President. Thank you all very much.
Item 4. Executive Session per Idaho Code 67-2345 (1) (c) and (f):
De Weerd: What I look forward as to being part of the rest of the story. Okay,
Item Number 4 is Executive Session per Idaho Code 67-2345 (1)(c) and (f). I
would entertain a motion.
Bird: So moved.
Nary: Second.
De Weerd: Okay, it’s been moved and seconded to adjourn into Executive
Session per Idaho Code 67-2345 (1)(c) and (f). Mr. Clerk will you call role.
Roll call: Bird, aye; McCandless, aye; Nary, aye; De Weerd, aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES
De Weerd: Thank you.
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(Enter into Executive Session)
(Come back from Executive Session)
De Weerd: Okay, it’s been moved and seconded to come out of executive
session no decisions were made, for the record. All those in favor say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES
De Weerd: I would entertain a motion to adjourn the Pre-Council Meeting.
Bird: So moved.
McCandless: Second.
De Weerd: Okay, it’s been moved and seconded to adjourn the Pre-Council
meeting of November 18, 2003. It is 6:55 p.m. All those in favor say aye.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 6:55 P.M.
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APPROVED:
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ROBERT D. CORRIE, MAYOR DATE
ATTESTED: ________________________________
WILLIAM G. BERG, JR., CITY CLERK