HomeMy WebLinkAbout2010 11-09 WorkshopMeridian City Council Workshop Meetina November 9, 2010
A Council meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 6:15 p.m.,
Tuesday, November 9, 2010, by Mayor Tammy de Weerd.
Members Present: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, President David Zaremba, Charlie
Rountree, Keith Bird, and Brad Hoaglun.
Others Present: Bill Nary, Jacy Jones, Anna Canning, Pete Friedman, Joe Silva, Tracy
Basterrechea, Rick Dees, John Boyd, and Dean Willis.
Item 1: Roll-call Attendance:
Roll call.
X David Zaremba X Brad Hoaglun
X Charlie Rountree X Keith Bird
X Mayor Tammy de Weerd
de Weerd: Thank you all for your patience in our late delay -- or our delayed beginning
of our regular meeting and welcome. It is, for the record, Tuesday, November 9th. It's
6:15. I will start tonight's meeting with roll call attendance. Madam Clerk.
Item 2: Pledge of Allegiance
de Weerd: Item No. 2 is our Pledge of Allegiance. If you will all rise and join us in the
pledge.
(Pledge of Allegiance recited.)
Item 3: Adoption of the Agenda
de Weerd: Item No. 3 is adoption of the agenda.
Hoaglun: Madam Mayor?
de Weerd: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Lost in thought there for a moment. Sorry about that. Under tonight's agenda
just want to point out some additions under Item 9, Department Reports, 9-A is
resolution number 10-753 and 9-B is resolution number 10-754. And with that, Madam
Mayor, I move adoption of tonight's agenda.
Bird: Second.
Rountree: Second.
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de Weerd: I have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda as stated. All those in
favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 4: Proclamation
A. Idaho Non-Profit Awareness Month Proclamation
de Weerd: Item No. 4 is a proclamation for the Idaho Nonprofit Awareness Month and
will ask Joey Schueler and I see we have some members of the Boys and Girls Club, if
you will join me at the podium. I will read this proclamation and, then, I would like to
present it to the members of one of Meridian's nonprofits, the Boys and Girls Club -- the
Meridian Boys and Girls Club. Thank you for being here. Okay. Whereas nonprofit
organizations help build and sustain healthy communities in our state while enhancing
the quality of life for Idahoans and for others throughout the country and whereas
thousands of nonprofit organizations based in Idaho contribute significantly to a viable
economy by providing Idahoans with jobs, goods, and services with expenditures of
more than two billion dollars and whereas Idaho's nonprofit leaders are often
entrepreneurs creating new solutions to problems and will fill previously unmet needs in
areas of health, recreation, education, research, arts, social services, and more and
whereas the nonprofit sector works as a responsible partner with private enterprise and
government to alleviate the most pressing social issues of our time and whereas
nonprofit organizations often fulfill their missions by advocating on behalf of those who
cannot advocate themselves. Therefore, I, Mayor Tammy de Weerd, City of Meridian,
do hereby proclaim November 7th through the 13th as Idaho Nonprofit Awareness
Week in the City of Meridian and I encourage all of our citizens to recognize and
continue to support the nonprofits in our community and this is signed the 9th day of
November 2010. So, I would like to present this to -- I would like to present this to you,
Joey, and the members that you brought here with you tonight.
Schueler: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, and guests, just want to thank you
for this honor to be able to represent nonprofits in Meridian and thank you for your
dedication to nonprofits based here in the city and preserving the quality of life that you
set such high standards for the city. Thank you.
Item 5: Consent Agenda
A. Approve Minutes of October 26, 2010 City Council Regular
Meeting
B. Acceptance Agreement: Display of Artwork in Initial Point
Gallery, Meridian City Hall between the Idaho Watercolor
Society and the City of Meridian
C. Joint Use of Storage Space and Hold Harmless Agreement
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Between Meridian Development Corporation and City of
Meridian
D. Memorandum of Agreement Between Joint School District No.
2 and the City of Meridian for Joint Use of Sports Facilities for
a Not-to-Exceed Amount of $8,000
E. Memorandum of Understanding with Lynx Investments, LP. as
Part of a Sewer Line Replacement Project
F. Sanitary Sewer and Water Main Easement Agreement with
Lynx Investments, LP
G. Approval of Agreement for Hookup to the City of Meridian's
Sewer/Water System Outside the City Limits for Jay W. Clow
Located at 2301 S. Ten Mile Road
H. License Agreement with Nampa & Meridian Irrigation District
to Cross the Kennedy Lateral with a Trunk Sewer Line for the
Victory Road Sewer Connector Project
I. Water Main Easement for Ada County Paramedic Station #36
Located at 3195 North Linder Road
J. Amendment to Original Contract Dated August 24, 2009 for
Liquid Emulsion Polymer with Weschem, Inc. for aNot-To-
Exceed Amount of $112,100.00
K. Award of Bid (IFB #PD-11-10213) for ShoreTel Phone System
to VLCM at the Police Department for aNot-to-Exceed Amount
of $52,556.35
L. Order for Approval: TE 10-021 Arch Rock Subdivision by CTD
Development, LLC Located at 4550 N. Linder Road Request:
18-Month Time Extension to Obtain the City Engineer's
Signature on the Final Plat
M. Order and Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law far Approval:
PFP 10-003 for Raisin' Angels Subdivision by Capital Holdings,
LLC. Located at 1125 E. Pine Avenue Request: Combined
Preliminary /Final Plat Approval of 2 Building Lots on 0.96 of
an Acre
N. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Approval: RZ 10-002
for Raisin' Angels Subdivision by Capital Hill Holdings, LLC
Located at 1125 E. Pine Avenue Request: Rezone Approval of
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0.43 of an Acre with a C-C Zoning District
O. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Approval: CUP 10-
010. for Raisin' Angels Subdivision by Capital Hill Holdings,
LLC Located at 1125 E. Pine Avenue Request: Conditional Use
Permit Approval for a Daycare Center for up to Sixty (60)
Children in a Proposed C-C Zoning District
de Weerd: Thank you. Item No. 5 is the Consent Agenda.
Hoaglun: Madam Mayor, there are no changes to the tonight's Consent Agenda, so I
move approval of the Consent Agenda and the Mayor be authorized to sign and Clerk to
attest.
Bird: Second.
Zaremba: Second.
de Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the Consent Agenda. If there is
no questions, Madam Clerk, will you call roll.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
de Weerd: All ayes.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 6: Community Items/Presentations
A. Introduction and Recognition of Police Department Newly
Hired and Promoted Officers by Deputy Chief Tracy
Basterrechea
de Weerd: Item 6 under Community Items/Presentations, I am pleased to recognize
Deputy Chief Tracy Basterrechea and ask him to introduce some of our police officers
that will be officially or ceremonially -- ceremonially? That was a good word.
Ceremoniously swearing in this evening.
Basterrechea: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. First I'd like to point
out the chief would -- he can't be here tonight, he would really like to be here. Most of
you know he enjoys talking about the men and women of the Meridian Police
Department and I get the honor tonight. Unfortunately, he's had a death in the family
and he won't be here. He did want me to pass on to all of you that he really appreciates
all of your thoughts and prayers that you have sent out to him. The first thing I'm going
to do is I'm going to announce some of our new hires. We have two officers who are
brand new officers. They are currently in the police academy and I will call them up and
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have them just step right up here. The first is Shaun Eichmann and Shaun actually
comes to us from the Ada county dispatch. He was a dispatcher prior to getting hired
on with us. And next is Scott McKinney and he is an engineer, right? A little -- I don't
know why he's doing this, but --
de Weerd: It's not for the money.
Basterrechea: The other two new officers that we have are new to the Meridian Police
Department, but they are not new to law enforcement. They are lateral transfer officers
and the first of them is Rick Brockbank. He comes to us from Caldwell. And Jake
Durban from Garden City. The next group of officers that I would like to introduce to
everybody our newly promoted officers and I will tell you that we have had a lot of
promotions within the Meridian Police Department within the last few months and we
are very, very excited about the promotions that we have made. The chief and I and the
command staff really believe that these gentlemen that we are going to introduce to you
here to tonight are going to bring a new level -- take us to the next level tactically and in
delivering the services that our citizens deserve and should demand and we believe that
these officers or the officers that they are going to be, will be able to take us there. First
I'd like to have newly promoted Corporal Mark Ford. Corporal Chris Figal. Corporal
Jeremy Lindley. Sergeant Chris Simms is not here, he's elk hunting. I don't blame him.
Sergeant Branden Fiscus. And Sergeant Shawn Harper. And, Mayor, if you would lead
them in the oath of office.
de Weerd: Even though it's ceremoniously, I appreciate the opportunity to stand in front
of you this evening. It's an honor for me. So, if you will raise your right hand. I think
this is my right hand. And when I say state your name, if you will insert your name that
would be good. I, state your name, do solemnly swear or affirm that I will support the
Constitution of the United States and the Constitution and laws of the state of Idaho. I'm
glad you practiced. And the laws and ordinances of the City of Meridian. And that I will
abide by the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics. And the policies and procedures of the
Meridian Police Department. That I will obey the lawful orders and directives of those
appointed over me. And that I will, to the best of my ability, faithfully discharge all the
duties of the office of police officer in and for the City of Meridian, Idaho, so help me
God.
(Repeated by officers.)
de Weerd: Thank you. I can say that I know you don't hear it often enough, but we
appreciate the service that you provide our citizens and our city and that you serve our
city so well with dignity and honor and I truly mean that. So, thank you for being here
this evening.
Item 7: Items Moved From Consent Agenda
de Weerd: Okay. There were no items moved from the Consent Agenda.
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Item 8: Action Items
A. Open Public Hearing and Public Comment Period for PY2009
Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report
(CAPER) Regarding the City's Use of Community Development
Block Grant (CDBG) Funds
B. Open Public Hearing and Public Comment Period for a
Substantial Amendment to the Community Development Block
Grant (CDBG) 2009 Action Plan
de Weerd: So, we will move to Item 8 under Action Items. We have an open public
hearing and public comment period for the 2009 Consolidated Annual Performance and
Evaluation Report on our CDBG funds and also the open public hearing period for
substantial amendment for the Community Development Block Grant 2009 Action Plan.
will turn this over to staff.
Friedman: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. The first item you have
tonight is opening the public hearing and comment period for the CAPER. That's the
report that analyzes and highlights the accomplishments and expenditures of our CDBG
program over the past year. Normally it's a 15 day comment period, but because you
have the other comment period we would like to extend that concurrent with the next
public hearing and recommend that you keep the public comment period open and hold
the record of the hearing open until December 14th and that is for our annual evaluation
and performance report. The second item or the second public hearing item is an
amendment to the 2009 action program. It would be to reallocate 40,000 dollars from
our 2009 action plan that was earmarked for the MDC facade improvement program.
Those didn't go forward and there is a real need for our community center to come into
compliance with the ADA and so there has been a reallocation proposed to move the
40,000 dollars over to the community center project. The plans have been completed
and, really, this project is ready to go forward in January, so staff was -- there is a 30
day comment period on this, so we are recommending that you open public hearing,
keep the record open until December 14th and available for comment until that time.
de Weerd: Thank you. Any questions from Council?
Rountree: I have none.
Bird: I have none.
de Weerd: Very good. So, you will be back.
Friedman: We will be back.
de Weerd: Very good.
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Hoaglun: Madam Mayor, do we need any formal action to keep the first one open until
December 14th or is that by consensus? Because I'm fine with that.
de Weerd: I don't believe so. Mr. Nary?
Nary: Yeah. I think as long as you open it, that's fine.
de Weerd: Okay. We are good to go, then.
Friedman: Okay. Thank you.
Item 9: Department Reports
A. Mayor's Office: Resolution No. 10-753: A Resolution of the
Mayor and the City Council of the City of Meridian Establishing
the Appointment of Tom Sauer to the Meridian Solid Waste
Advisory Commission
B. Mayor's Office: Resolution No. 10-754: A Resolution of the
Mayor and the City Council of the City of Meridian, Appointing
Chelsea Mason to the Traffic Safety Commission; and
Providing and Effective Date
de Weerd: Okay. Under Department Reports, 9-A and B, I do have appointments to
two different to commissions. The first one is regarding the Solid Waste Advisory
Commission. This will completely fill our SWAC and in front of you today is the
appointment of Tom Sauer. He has served on our consulting planning group and we
found that he provided excellent and -- excellent feedback. He was dependable and
have his name in front of me to place on the Solid Waste Advisory Commission. And,
second, is the appointment of Chelsea Mason to the Traffic Safety Commission.
Chelsea would be our Youth Council representative and we interviewed her earlier this
week and she was very -- very interested in transportation, wants to be involved at the
traffic safety level and you probably know her dad a lot better than you know Chelsea
and that's Doug Mason. So, Council, I would open myself up to any questions you
might have.
Rountree: I have none.
de Weerd: If there is no questions, I would ask. for your confirmation.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
de Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we approve resolutions 10-753 and 10-354.
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Zaremba: Second.
de Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the two resolutions under 9-A and
B. Any discussion? Madam Clerk, will you, please, call roll.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
de Weerd: All ayes. Thank you.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
C. Planning Department: Strategic Plan Update
de Weerd: Okay. Our next Item 9-C is our Planning Director Anna Canning for the
strategic plan update.
Canning: Thank you, Mayor and Council. I am here again this year to present our
action plan, very similar to the methodology I used last year. I did, however -- I was
using Brenda Sherwood's presentation as my template today and I thought mission
statement, now we used to have a mission statement for the planning department back
to the old Luthy strategic plan days, so I decided to go dig it up again and this is what it
was and it, actually, still rings pretty true. The planning department's mission is to
provide property development guidance and direction while administering standards that
insure the orderly and harmonious use of land to preserve and enhance the quality of
life, property rights, and tax base for current and future generations. So, it's kind of
funny you can leave something sit for a few years and you come back and it's like,
yeah, that's what we are doing. That's pretty good. I liked it. And even better than that
was the vision I thought and it's the department will seek new efficiencies through
electronic technology, better public and professional education, updated ordinances that
support the community vision and clear guidelines that can guide decisions by elected
officials. And I think that as you go through, one, the memo that I submitted to you with
your packet tonight and, two, tonight's presentation, you will see that those really are
what we are trying to accomplish and through its works the department will help create
a community with a sustainable small town atmosphere, a positive progressive image
and a reputation for prudent harmonious growth. So, that's enough of the John Luthy
days and I'll move onto the new stuff. So, tonight I'm going to talk about some of our
accomplishments. I kind of hit those more in the memo than I am tonight -- in tonight's
presentation, because, basically, almost everything I told you last year that I was going
to do I got done and C'm really proud of that, I'm really proud of my staff. I think we
came up with a method of holding one another accountable and it really worked and I'm
excited about using that again this year and -- and moving forward with the many things
we have planned. So, the accomplishments and action items I've kind of grouped them
a tad bit different than they were in the memo, just to kind of speed things along, but I
will talk about Destination Downtown, some of our other plans, transportation and
transit, grant programs, code amendments, customer service, economic development,
training and, then, administrative tasks and fun stuff. Destination Downtown is a great
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document. It has got a ton of stuff in there about MDC's vision for the downtown and I
was able to take the time to go through that document, compare it to our own kind of
goals for the Comprehensive Plan and really come up with a laundry list of many items
that we can do to help implement Destination Downtown and really flush out our Old
Town designation or just the planning for those areas identified in Destination
Downtown. In particular they call out five different areas, traditional city core,
Washington and Main district, neighborhood preservation areas, the TOD, which stands
for Transit Oriented Development, a cultural district, the southern gateway
entertainment and hospitality district and the northern gateway district and that's six, I'm
sorry, not five. So, those are the six districts that they call out and what I would like to
do with each of those kind of a little mini sub plan -- sub area plan, which would just
mean talking with the -- all the property owners, inviting them to a meeting, sitting down
saying, okay, this is the vision, how do we get there, what code amendments do we
need. You know, what do you need -- what tools do you need as property owners to get
you toward that vision. The other plans we are looking at is wrapping up the
Comprehensive Plan update. This is one of those items from last year's action plan that
slipped a little bit, partly because Matt Ellsworth left, partly because it just slipped a little
bit and -- but we are wrapping that up the end of this year, so that it will be done soon.
Another plan for next year is the Rails With Trails initiative. Every year we do a little bit
of work on that and it's, you know, kind of keeping our shoulder to the grindstone and
it's starting to move a little bit. I suspect that Ada county will make us work on our south
Meridian future planning area. I think I have mentioned that to you before. I think that
that's going to be something that they -- they are going to want to see us do, so we will
probably need to spend a little time on that. And, again, the field's district is another
one of those that because of the slow down in the economy hasn't been real pressure to
work on that, but definitely need to do some additional planning for that area. Moving
on. I think I skipped one. No. Moving on to transportation and transit. You know, with
regard to transportation I have just been delighted with the way Caleb has taken it over.
It's two years into it now and I think he's just doing a phenomenal job keeping
everything -- keeping track of everything and making sure everything coordinates and
works together and we hope to continue those efforts and even use the website even
more to kind of keep people connected. The Destination Downtown had quite a few
transit items on there. We want to explore those with MDC and with Council and see
where you all want to go with those transit items, but there is a new emphasis at least in
looking at those things from Destination Downtown. The grant programs, energy
efficiency and conservation, as you know, Pete has been working on that and continues
to administer that. It's kind of out into the project managers now that the projects are
underway, but he is still kind of overseeing that. And, then, of course, the Community
Development Block Grant program, with Lori taking on that as -- as a part-time job was
a great decision. I mean she is just tickled to have meaningful part-time work. She
doesn't want full-time work, she's been able to catch on really quickly due in large part
because Matt left this tremendous guide on how to get that done. He just documented
everything that the -- basically the standard operating procedures for the CDBG block
grant administration and she's been able to grab that and just really hit the floor
running. She brings in many things for me to sign. Every day she comes in. So, she's
doing a great job. We have a whole bunch of code amendments. I kind of detailed
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them and I can go into more detail, but there is the general housing ones which we
always bring in, those are just little tweaks, but we also want to look at daycares, we
want to look at the stuff that's called out in Destination Downtown. We want to work
with Mr. Silva on a pipeline ordinance. We want to look at -- it's not really code
amendment, but some ways to encourage voluntary annexation in those areas where
we want to kind of establish a city boundary. Wireless communication is -- needs work.
Adult entertainment is in a different section of the code, it probably should be brought
into the land use and updated to something other than 1960 standards, which is I think
kind of what we are working on now. Same with mobile home parks. That is very
antiquated code, it really should be pulled into the land use section. Because they were
in different sections I didn't tackle it when we first did the UDC, but Emily Kane and
have been talking about it for a couple years and I think this is probably the year to get it
done. We will continue to work on customer service. I don't know if you can read. the
jokes, but the first -- the internal customer service -- one of the things we want to work
on more is those interactive pdfs. A little over a year ago I think we brought in the first
one that we did to show off to Council where, you know, you kind of figured out which
CZC process you needed to go through and we have really enjoyed those. We did
another one for temporary uses that's very helpful. We have one on how long will it take
to get through the development process and we just thought of all sorts of different ways
we can do more, especially geared toward the customers and even talked to the Mayor
about maybe integrating some video if we can in those -- make it really a useful
customer service tool for folks. This year we were able to get all our SOPs pretty much
done, so where we had had none, truly none, we finally had the chance to sit down and
really detail what our standard operating procedures were throughout the office. We are
going to need to redo those all once the Accela comes on line, but it should be fairly
easy compared to coming up with it the first time and, actually, because we had got
them all done this year it made the discussions with the Accela folks much easier,
because we could say, well, this is what we do and we just handed all of them to them
and so it really streamlined that process of trying to figure out our business model. The
courses -- sometime I put it in quotes. We took some time this year to offer planning
101 to anybody that was interested. Some of the directors that didn't know much about
planning took advantage of it. Some of the clerks who sometimes didn't understand the
whole planning process -- it was just really helpful. We just said, you know, come to us
for an hour, we will show you how this works. And they were really well received. So,
we kind of want to continue that just to give the people the opportunity to have a little bit
better understanding of all the crazy things we are trying to get done and why we are
picky about some things. Externally we want the second part of our ambassador
program. The first part was with our -- our tried and true customers, those folks that
come in time and time again, we were talking to them about, you know, what could we
do better, basically. And this other one would be more of going out to those folks who
only use the process once, they are only going to do a baby delivery place once in their
life and, you know, they come through and have to get the CU. What can we do for
those folks to make it less intimidating, to make it smoother, to make it so that, you
know, they understand what they can expect at each level and what the financial
commitments are as well. And, then, kind of related to that is we are going to spend
some time working with other folks in the development services fund to really try and
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bridge that gap between planning and building department, because sometimes making
that transition is difficult and I think we are looking at it in a couple of different ways.
Economic development. I went through Brenda Sherwood's presentation to you all and
pulled out the things that kind of relate to planning. Those are pretty basic. So,
additional site selection tools on GIS and a guide to starting businesses, the processes,
the zoning, any incentives we might get -- be able to offer. So, we will work with her on
those and a couple of other smaller projects. And we get to administrative tasks and a
few fun things. The administrative tasks are more training on geographic information
systems. New templates for findings and orders. Working with other jurisdictions to
coordinate our plans. And, then, some of the fun stuff. I want to take one break before
that. My favorite thing in the whole CARE is the one that says enjoy your job and do it
well and I think that that means so much to the employees that they can come in and
know when they come to work that they enjoy their job and that they are expected to do
it well and given the tools to do it well. So, sometimes enjoying your job means
dressing up as Umpa Lumpas for the day on Halloween. This is last Halloween. And
the other things we have planned are a holiday get together with Planning and Zoning
Commission. We haven't done anything with them in awhile, so we thought it would be
nice after Christmas to do a little thing together. A team building event sometime in the
spring. Somebody gave me a 75 dollar Wahoo's gift certificate for some work I was
doing for a nonprofit group. It wasn't related to work. So, I'm going to use that and take
the -- take staff over to Wahoo's and have some fun in the spring. And we'd like to -- to
somehow secure some paint and come in and paint our lobby walls one of these days.
We are the only lobby that has no color on the walls, so we thought we might try and do
that and maybe even get a new poster for the lobby. So, those are our fun things. So,
on my action plan list last year there was about 60 to 70 things to do and, as I said, we
got most all of them done or they are largely complete by this time. This year's action
plan has closer to 160. So, a lot more. Now, they are a lot smaller some of them.
Some of them -- a lot of them came from MDC, so it's just kind of trying to figure out are
we already doing this, do we need to do more. But I still think even though we have a
lot more items on there we can get them done. This year the one item that was the
biggest delayed item was the Comprehensive Plan update, but that will wrap up. Next
year of those items on those lists I have put a date next to each of them on when they
kind of start or wrap up and there are some that are programmed out for next fiscal
year, so they fall into October, November, December of next fiscal year and those are
largely some of the Destination Downtown plans, about half of them, and the interactive
pdf and all those items rely on the skill set of Brian McClure. Brian is my new -- Matt's
other half, so Lori and Brian make up Matt's farmer full-time position and Brian has a
great skill set, he's turning out to be a great worker, just jumps in and gets a whole
bunch of work done, but, still, because we have to rely on him for those tasks, it just
takes time, because -- to get through that list, because he's only here part time and it
only goes so far. So, given that I do have a request for you tonight and this wasn't in
the memo. In my current budget I have three part-time positions. One is for Lori and,
then, one was for Will and one's for Brian. I would ask if you could give me some
guidance or whether you might accept a budget amendment to combine two of those
part times into a full time. There are sufficient funds in my budget to cover the salary.
The question just becomes is there enough funds to cover the benefits that come along
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with afull-time employee. There is a lot left over from the salary to cover it, but I would
need about 17,000 dollars. There is a shortfall there -- to pick up the rest of the
benefits. I talked with Stacy. In the development services fund balance there is an
excess in the amount of the -- if you look at the four month emergency balance
necessary, there is still some funds left over and those funds would be sufficient to
cover the shortfall of the 17,000 dollars and those are based on rather conservative
forecasted revenues for the planning department, even more conservative than last
year. Our general sense is that things are picking up and we have actually had some --
three large projects come in this fiscal year already. So, we are optimistic that we will at
least meet our revenues, if not exceed them for this year. Did want to point out some of
our department efficiencies from last year. We saved 200,000 dollars from our
budgeted money. So, our budget was cut and we cut folks and we needed to cut folks
at that time. But in addition to that we saved 200,000 dollars. Some of that was on
personnel, 16 percent, but a lot of it was on operating, 70 percent. So, we only used 30
percent of our operating budget. We just really hunkered down last year and didn't use
much. So, I'm hoping that we will be rewarded for those great efforts last year and that
perhaps we can get just a little bit of money to move apart-time employee up to full
time, consolidate those positions, and really get to work and roll up our plans and dive
into that Destination Downtown and get some planning done. I mean that was the thing
that didn't get done last year was planning. We got a lot of the administrative stuff done,
we did a lot of the current planning stuff, but we just didn't have the resources to get a
lot of the planning done and with that I'll end my presentation and answer any questions
or darts you want to throw at me or -- I'll dodge the darts.
de Weerd: Thank you. Councilman Rountree.
Rountree: Anna, under the transportation item we talked about transit and we have had
a conversation about also factoring into that discussion VRT, because that's an effort
that they will be undertaking this next year is looking at the transit plan for the Meridian
area. So, I would hope that all three entities could come together and form one plan so
we don't have a couple competing plan working against each other.
Canning; The intent was to not do a transit plan, but to, instead, work with VRT on those
transit plans. The other items that MDC brings up is like what does the furniture look
like. What does the street furniture look like for transit. So, those kinds of items. You
know, what do the shelters look like, what do the bike racks look like, all that kind of
stuff. But -- and Caleb did tell me I think that they -- VRT had hired a consultant, so the
intent would just be to work with VRT on that plan and actively to accurately engage.
Rountree: Very good.
Canning: I'm not into competing plans whatsoever.
Hoaglun: Madam Mayor?
de Weerd: Mr. Hoaglun.
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Hoaglun: Anna, sometimes here in Council some of our decisions we throw you guys a
curve ball when we say we approve something and say, well, we will have you check
back six months, a year, two years from now. Are you in a position now where you're
satisfied with the system you have in place for documentation, so you can do the follow
up? Do you need other assistance in different types of systems or are we good moving
forward, so when we throw you a curve ball and say, well, you guys are going to have to
follow up, you know, a long time from now, you guys are able to do that?
Canning: Oh, yeah. I mean Accela is going to be amazing as it's sold. And I'm starting
to believe the hype. I mean there are a lot of flags and tools that you can use on that
enterprise software to make sure that we are notified of the things and the flags come
up in the future. So, I am very hopeful. Plus if we just all have it in the same place
think it will help there, too.
Hoaglun: Okay. Good.
de Weerd: Any other questions from Council?
Bird: I have none.
de Weerd: Thank you, Anna.
Canning: Thank you. So, thoughts or comments?
Rountree: She wants a reaction to the full-time position.
de Weerd: I think people have been waiting for your liaison to say something
Rountree: Well, we, obviously, have talked about that and certainly it's going to be at
Council's decision. There is work not getting done and it's not terribly efficient to do
some of that work on a piecemeal part-time basis. If we are going to get the plans done
for the various areas identified by MDC, we are going to need staff to do that. If you do
it with three part-time people or two part-time people, that's not as efficient as having
one person working on it full time. There are other areas where that position could be
utilized in terms of learning the other activities in the planning department and support
with potential for increased work if we have already had three fairly sizeable projects
come before the city through planning this fiscal year, I would anticipate we are going to
see a few more and we have down sized and down sized appropriately by three full-
time people just past year and a half. For your consideration, I think the efficiency is
there for the one full-time person. I think we could probably -- well, obviously, the
money is there, it's a matter of a budget amendment.
de Weerd: Okay.
Zaremba: Madam Mayor?
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de Weerd: Mr. Zaremba.
Zaremba: I would just comment that I think it's fair to couple the two ideas that you and
your department have saved 200,000 dollars and that proves your efficiency and desire
and when you come and ask and say, look, Ineed afull-time employee out of two part-
time employees, I think it's fair for us to consider that and if it costs 17,000 dollars out of
the 200,000 dollars that you have already saved, that's a good deal for us, and I would
also say that that's a good example and incentive for all departments that -- if we can do
things like that, if you find ways to save and there is other things that you think need to
be done that weren't on the budget in the first place, then, that's the right time to talk
about it when you're telling us what you have saved. I'm in favor of it.
de Weerd: Council, any other questions or comments? Certainly I would like to
underscore maybe something that Charlie mentioned. It's more efficient manpower in
combining the two half times into afull-time focus and as we discussed at the directors
meeting today, the downtown and the vision through a great deal of collaborative efforts
and public participation in the Destination Downtown plan does -- does require the city
to step forward and be a leader in the implementation as well and that leading does
come in the large part from the planning department. Anna has done a very good job in
taking the Destination Downtown plan and evaluating partners to the implementation of
the four different primary focus areas of prosperity, mobility, livability and sustainability
and bringing to fruition a number of the initiatives that they have outlined, but it will take
a very focused and concerted effort to engage and to deploy a lot of the activities that
need to be done in order to move that plan forward and in discussion of it you could
continue to do it with the three separate half-time positions, but I don't think it will be as
effective, efficient, and could be more costly in the long run.
Hoaglun: Madam Mayor. I appreciate, Anna, the efficiencies that you -- you have done
in your department and everyone was tightening their belt and you did it and made it
work and, you know, a lot of work slowed down out there from the planning end and I'm
under no illusion that here in the near future, even though we have some projects
coming through that we are going to have a flood of projects, but at the same time I like
the idea of being a little ahead of the curve, making sure our planning process is as
good as we can get it and, then, staying focused on the customer service aspect that
you guys and that is making sure when projects are coming into the door we have great
customer service, because you're doing it now, continue that and as that grows we have
got people who can help them and get those projects through the pipeline, which in my
mind puts people to work and we can recover a lot faster and not. have any delays as
that -- as those things come in the door and we are not behind the curve trying to hire
and find adequate people to fill and I think from that approach that will help and through
the efficiencies you found we can make the funding available for your request.
Canning: I did want -- well, one, tell you a little about Brian. He comes from a
consulting firm that I'm familiar with in California. They have got a few offices in
California and they are a real quality consulting firm. They do pretty much general plans
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and specific plans. Specific plans for developers and, then, general plans for different
cities and he pretty much just worked on general plans and -- like downtown plans --
mean just -- he's got the perfect skill set for -- for helping implement this Destination
Downtown. I know we're really excited to find him. Good set of skills. I have -- the
second thing is I want to apologize for not presenting this at the budget. I think Matt
gave notice maybe two or three weeks before your budget hearings and at that time I
think what was really motivating me to want to split that job was the CDBG part was I
just -- I couldn't find somebody that wanted to do that -- have afull-time job that was
part-time CDBG and part-time planner. It just wasn't working. So, I really wanted to
split off that and it never occurred to me to combine the other two part-times. So, I
guess I was partly hopeful that I would find somebody who never wanted to work full
time, similar to Lori, she doesn't want to work full time. Brian I'm afraid I will lose him if I
don't have part time -- if I don't have full-time employment at some point. I could
probably keep him for a year, maybe, but I will probably lose him if I don't give him full-
time employment after awhile. So, those -- again, I wanted to apologize for having to
propose a budget amendment and Idon't -- I'm not sure I have done one before.
might have done one a few years ago. I try not to. I really try and stay in my budget,
but I guess I just wasn't quite thinking clearly when Matt left us. So, thank you for all
your comments and I guess I will work on something to bring to you at a later date it
sounds like. If that's the way it works. I have forgotten.
Rountree: Works for me.
Canning: Okay. And let me know if you have comments on any of those items in my
strategic plan or you want to know more, I would be happy to let you know.
de Weerd: Anna, I guess I would ask in the Destination Downtown Anna has put
together a very Comprehensive Plan and detailed listing that she extracted out of the
plan and tried put it into manageable format to better assign some of the tasks or areas
to all areas of the city, because it does reach into all areas and if you could get that -- I
know you're getting it out to the department directors, but to City Council as well to seek
any feedback comments and once we can wrap all of those comments together we will
meet with the MDC project coordinator to discuss those. There are items that I don't
know that the consultants realize that the city already does that's in process or it's
completed and so some of that needs to be cleaned up so that the citizens that are
getting involved in these steering committees are not so overwhelmed and intimidated
by this -- this huge list of to do's when some of it has already been done. t would invite
you to, please, take a look at that, give comments, and, then, we can include those in
the dialogue that we have with MDC. I'll make sure I send it out.
de Weerd: Okay.
Canning: But it will probably be Friday. Hopefully.
de Weerd: Thank you.
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Canning: Thank you.
D. Public Works Department: Ten Mile Road/Franklin Road to
Cherry Lane Project Close Out
de Weerd: Okay. Item 9-D is our Public Works Department.
Boyd: Good evening, Madam Mayor, City Council. My name is John Boyd, I was a
project manager on the Ten Mile, Franklin to Cherry project, and I'm here tonight to
present that close out as per the new purchasing policy requirements.
de Weerd: Thank you, Tom.
Boyd: Public Works project inspector was Murray Jones. This is another joint project
between ACHD and the City of Meridian. Construction started on December 18th,
2009. Substantial completion was achieved on August 24th, 2010. The project
consisted of installation of the re-use water line in Ten Mile Road from a connection to
the re-use line that was installed with the interchange project and it was left just south of
Cherry Lane. I'm also working on the next leg of that, which will complete this backbone
for our reuse. It's scheduled to start in May and -- or, excuse me, in February -- or
March 1 and should be done by May to complete your goal of feeding that landscaping
up at the interchange with re-use water. Same wastewater facilities were installed to
the east on Franklin for the next project that we will be doing and that will serve people
to the north and south of Franklin Road. Other domestic water facilities were installed
to accommodate the increased width of Ten Mile and to allow extension -- excuse me.
Yeah. Extension for future facilities. Some of the project highlights -- we had a
contractor change about two months into the project when Sommer Construction went
out of business. Nampa Paving, the general contractor, selected Brown Construction,
they thought they would meet their needs of getting that project completed, they were
under pretty hard time constraints by ACRD and they worked out. The final project cost
was $624,365.54, which was under the original budget, as well as under the original
amount that you all approved for that project. There was six change orders totaling a
total of 38,200 dollars. This amounted to an increase of 6.37 percent over the original
contracted amount. Two property owners reimbursed the city a total of 26,000 dollars
for water and sewer services stubbed to their properties. That's all that I really have for
you for highlights of the project. I'll stand for any questions you may have. Be more
than pleased to.
de Weerd: Thank you. John, any questions from Council?
Bird: I have none, Mayor.
Rountree: I have none.
Bird: Good job.
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de Weerd: Thank you.
Boyd: Thank you very much.
Rountree: Great to have it done.
Boyd: Yeah, it is. Want to finish Franklin now. Thank you very much.
E. Police Department Report: Discussion Regarding Revisions to
the Animal Control Code
de Weerd: Thank you. Item 9-E is our police department report regarding revisions to
the animal control code. Tracy? You can do it there or here. Okay.
Basterrechea: I think Mr. Nary will be able to help a little more on a lot of this stuff,
because a lot of it was just cleaning up code to make it more enforceable. But from the
police department perspective one of the big things that we wanted to do was we
wanted to change the animal at large or the dog at large code from making it an
automatic misdemeanor when somebody's dog gets out, changing it to an infraction, like
a traffic ticket and have it graduated that on the third offense, then, it becomes a
misdemeanor. The reason we like that better is, one, it really does make it easier for us
as far as enforcement goes, as far as time and money put into this and we really don't
see the fairness in somebody getting a misdemeanor charge on a first offense when
their dog's out. You know, if it hasn't attacked somebody, if it's just running loose, and it
has caused a lot of headaches over the years that when you tell somebody that that is a
misdemeanor and they have to appear in court and that they could go to jail, trust me,
they are definitely going to fight it no matter what and it's just caused us a lot of
headaches over time and, then, we look at the fact that somebody's dog gets out the
first time and they get a misdemeanor and they have got to show that on an application
for a job every time they go and even though it's at dog a large people look at, you
know, you have been convicted of a misdemeanor. So, we would like -- we worked with
the city attorneys to changing that to more of an infraction, a graduated penalty, so that
if we do have repeat offenders, then, we do have that hammer to come down on them
and charge the misdemeanor with. The other things that, you know, we looked at were
taking care of -- of requirements of removal of dog feces. You know, we get people all
the time walking their dogs and they let their dogs go to the bathroom on the sidewalk or
whatever and they will leave it and there is really not a lot of recourse trying to charge
them with a littering charge becomes. real convoluted and this code really shores that up
and you would be amazed at how many times we either get called on that or that we
end up dealing with that. So, Mr. Nary can probably talk to anymore of the other areas
in there or I can stand for questions on what we have discussed so far as far as the dog
at large.
Nary: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, as Deputy Chief Basterrechea said -- I
mean we started -- we started this project on the issue of the dog at large. You had a
couple of folks come in front of you that had concerns about the misdemeanor. We did
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contact the city of Boise, they were uncomfortable at that particular point, they had
somewhere in the area of 47 to 57 outstanding dog at large tickets. So, they weren't
real comfortable in simply just dismissing all of those. They would work with those folks,
they were willing to consider bond forfeitures, which is --
de Weerd: How many?
Nary: Between 47 and 57, something like that. I can't remember the exact number.
Quite a few. I mean there is a lot of loose dogs in this town and so they were not
comfortable --
Zaremba: Do we have that many dogs licensed is the question.
Nary: Probably about 47 to 57 is what I would guess. But they were willing to consider
a bond forfeiture as a remedy for those folks. That's an opportunity to post the bond.
It's like posting a fine, but it does not count as a misdemeanor. Bond is forfeited, no
conviction is entered, so there is a remedy for that. I did receive a contact from -- if you
recall there was a young lady that, essentially, took the ticket for her mother's dog, so
the mother did contact me, I connected her with the Boise city prosecutor and they did
offer that opportunity, then, so I think that case got resolved and -- so, that's where we
started and as you well know, Mrs. Kane from my office doesn't like to just fix one thing,
if we are going to fix it we are going to fix it and Mrs. Kane tries to address a variety of
the problems that we have had and if we are going to bring it back to you we want to
make sure we are trying to address a variety of concerns and sold as Deputy Chief
Basterrechea said, we have this other issue with people out walking dogs and sort of
leaving their dog's deposits all over town and not having a real clear code of how to
address that, so wanted to address that. We have some other issues that are
addressed in the code that we have had some discussions with the planning
department as well. We have people that want to keep chickens in the city and we don't
find that to be problematic and, actually, people --
de Weerd: Chickens?
Nary: -- for a variety of reasons. Besides eggs, they are a good bug control and so
there is some other reasons that people will keep chickens and they are generally not
problematic -- the problem -- pardon me?
de Weerd: They are agood -- what did you say?
Nary: Bug control.
de Weerd: Bugs?
Nary: They are good for bugs. They are good for eating bugs around your house, so
they are good for bug control. And, of course, the eggs are another -- another reason.
The complaints we get many times is about roosters and so what we were trying to do is
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address roosters through this animal ordinance, because you don't need a rooster
unless you want more chickens. So, we don't really see this to, I guess, encourage the
keeping of roosters, because they do cause a lot of noise and -- what was the term,
Anna, they used for -- decrowed roosters. You can actually -- you can get roosters that
are decrowed, so they don't crow, but from what we were told they make a much more
horrible sound than crowing and so we just were wanting to discourage the
accumulation of roosters in the city, but not the keeping of chickens. But we also have
other types of people that are keeping large amounts of -- quantities of animals,
domesticated animals, rabbits and those kinds of things. So, we were trying to address
a number of different things. If you look through the ordinance that Mrs. Kane provided
on your packet it was, again, trying to address the new code, the infraction for the first
two offences of dogs at large, prohibiting, basically, the behavior of allowing your animal
to simply use the entire city and other people's property for their own and, then, creating
some better process. For vicious dogs we have -- we created a vicious dog ordinance
about six years ago. We haven't had to enact it I think more than once, but we wanted
to clarify some of the process in the code. We have actually had it used by other cities
based on our model, but we wanted to clean up a little bit of that and, then, we also
wanted to start limiting the types of livestock that you can have within the city, so there
is a variety of different parts here. I don't know if planning had any over additional
feedback. We think we could put it on for a first reading if you're comfortable, if you
would like an opportunity. I know this may be the first time you have seen it, so if you
would like to wait until next week and give us direction on putting it on for a first reading,
we can do that. If you'd like to get public input you certainly are welcome to invite that
like you have done on other ones. I'm not certain the pulse of our community on
whether or not roosters are a big deal or whether some of these other types of issues
that this is addressing are going to be of concern I don't know.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
de Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: Bill, there is still a lot of infractions in here that result in a misdemeanor and I
don't know where we draw the line. I think anybody who is crazy enough to harbor a
rabid animal probably ought to be given a misdemeanor, but excess dogs or fraudulent
dog license, I don't know, I don't know if we should have that staggered approach into
some of these issues or not. I'm not sure that they merit necessarily the full court
appearance for a resolve. And certainly, you know, it seems -- we have a 13 page
ordinance on how to deal with people's personal property and Ijust -- that just gets me
all fuzzed up.
Zaremba: Madam Mayor?
de Weerd: Mr. Zaremba.
Zaremba: As kind of a side issue or a related issue, is there any way to get
veterinarians involved in making sure that animals are licensed? I don't -- you know, if a
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doctor discovers somebody that I think has abused they have to report it to somebody.
Can we make veterinarians report unlicensed animals?
Nary: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council --
Zaremba: Or do we want to?
Nary: -- Council Member Zaremba, actually, veterinarians -- and I think, chief, some of
those -- don't we also use the local pet stores as well to sell the licenses?
Basterrechea: They sell our licenses.
Nary: So, they actually sell them for us.
Zaremba: Okay.
Nary: So, they don't -- they aren't required to require people to do it and they don't
require people to license it as part of their -- because they are -- I mean it is a private
business, but we do sell them, at least, so they have access through both their
veterinarians or in PetCo and -- I think it's PetCo.
Basterrechea: Petco and several of the local vets. All the local vets we provide with
licenses and they sell them for us.
Zaremba: Okay. That helps.
Hoaglun: Madam Mayor. Bill, question about rabbits. Some people have rabbits as
pets and they have them indoors, they have them run outdoors, but they stay outside in
a cage. You know, under our ordinance that -- which are housed outdoors and/or in
outdoor enclosures, such pens, et cetera. And I know if you're breeding rabbits, you
know, for fryers and one thing, that to me would meet a definition of livestock -- I mean
you're doing something as opposed to a pet, which you have a rabbit for the kids. Is
there a way to distinguish that difference?
Nary: You know, I know we talked about this in regards to -- to chickens and we sort of
touched on rabbits, but I don't recall if we had a discussion specifically.
Canning: The discussion we had on rabbits, Council Member Hoaglun -- and perhaps I
don't understand rabbits, but I thought, when kept as pets, were inside also.
de Weeds: Huh-uh.
Canning: No?
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Hoaglun: Not necessarily. Some do. But others put out at night in the cage and -- like
the dogs, you know, at night it goes outside. Yeah, it can come in the house, but at
night it goes outside.
Canning: I think that would be the difference is if you treat it like a pet that comes inside
and outside -- I mean most people don't bring their cows inside and --
Basterrechea: Actually, where I come from --
Zaremba: Too much information.
Canning: I think it's -- you know, it is difficult to write animal regulation ordinances and
we could put an exception in for pets to say if it's a pet and, then, you know, somebody
who has got a rabbit can come in and say it's a pet and they have got 5,000 rabbits that
they sell that we could probably figure out that they weren't telling the truth, but it's a
difficult -- it's a difficult ordinance.
Nary: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, you probably may recall that Council
Members Hoaglun may not -- it may have been prior his tenure here, but about every
couple years we have this discussion on how we deal with people that want to keep
snakes and spiders and exotic animals and -- I mean some of them have to be licensed,
some don't. Some think pigs are pets, some think pigs are livestock. Some think goats
are pets, some think goats are livestock. I mean -- so I mean I would agree it's very
difficult and, you know, I'm so grateful for Mrs. Kane, because she is very persistent at
wanting to try to figure out exactly how we can address these, because we do receive a
number of complaints and, you know, some of them are situations where, in my opinion,
we are still a city in transition between rural and urban and there are areas within our
own city that are still rural within the urban fabric of the rest of the city. So, there are
people that are keeping what are traditional sort of farm animals on larger lots than a
normal subdivision lot, because it may have been the family farm that's now been
subdivided in to the remainder of the subdivision and they are still maintaining horses
and other farm animals and the like. So, trying to address that, you know, if all -- all we
feel comfortable at the moment in addressing is chickens, because we want to make it
clear that chickens are allowed and we would like to make it clear that roosters aren't
allowed, I know people do raise roosters for -- for eating and Iknow -- but I don't think
that's as common in our community or at least is common here with chickens, so I don't
know that if we -- if we just decided to take the bite out of chickens and roosters, that we
need to address rabbits --
de Weerd: I glad you said that differently.
Nary: -- and if you want to simply -- if you want to not address rabbits now, because --
would agree with Councilman Hoaglun that there are circumstances where people do
keep rabbits outside, they certainly can be maintained outside safely and they can be
maintained as a pet outside and it is difficult to distinguish between one or two rabbits
versus 25 or 30 or 40 or 50 rabbits. And why would people keep that. Predominately
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those are going be for sale and the like, but we don't address every animal in the world
in this ordinance, so I mean certainly if -- if the comfort level of the Council is let's
address this and, you know, sort of one animal at a time, that's fine. Again, I don't know
that we are getting -- and Chief Basterrechea could probably tell us better, but I'm not
aware that we are getting a lot of complaints about noise from goats or noise from
sheep, mostly what you're getting is -- if you're getting complaints to the police about --
about animals, especially livestock type of animals, it's usually dust and smell and if we
need to address -- and we don't have a tremendous amount of horses and cows in the
city, but if that's something we need to take another look at, we could certainly do that. I
think we wanted to make sure, if nothing else, you brought the -- the dog offenses back,
the leash offenses, the licensing offenses, those type of things back in front of you in a
timely manner and if we need to just hold off on the others at the moment, that's
certainly fine.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
de Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: There is one provision in here that talks about the relinquishment of living or
dead dogs. It makes the disposal there the responsibility of the police department
subject to a fee. I don't know that we have a fee established, so I don't know what that
fee would be, but in another section it talks about you can't leave dead animals --
Section O of one of the later paragraphs on your premise that's legally owned by
whoever owns the animal, which made me start thinking about this whole ordinance. A
good share of it deals with dogs and, then, some of it just talks about animals and, then,
it's a misdemeanor to leave a dead animal on your property, does that mean
somebody's pet hamster or rat or whatever that typically gets buried out in the garden
when they succumb, which is probably an appropriate way to deal with it. Is that legal
and would it have been ratcheted up could you bury Buffy out there if Buffy happened to
pass away. We just create all kinds of issues when we start messing with this and we
have gone through all of this, as you said, Bill, time and time again and there is no easy
answer, but I think the more ordinances that we make the more gray areas we create.
Nary: Well, as a lawyer I love that, but I do agree with your concern that -- I mean --
well, for example -- and what you pointed out, I mean even in the improper disposal of a
dead animal, it is my opinion, certainly burying your dog in your yard is not an improper
disposal of a dead animal. I think that's what most people do, unless they take it to the
vet. I have a rabbit buried in my side yard, so if that's improper, Iguess I --
Rountree: Well, we can call the police chief now for the dogs specifically and the police
chief gets rid of it for you, so --
Nary: And, actually, the police want to maintain that. I mean they actually want to allow
that to remain, because, again, there is a health issue and a health risk as well with
people not having an ability to disposed of animals. But maybe what would be best and
I'm going to have Mrs. Kane come the next time we have -- in two years when we have
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this discussion again I'm going to have Mrs. Kane come. But what I think what we need
to do is I think we need to deal with the problem first, which is the dog issues in regards
to animals at large, people not cleaning up after their animals, we have some licensing
issues that we want to address with that as well that's not part of the ordinance, that
would come separately, but there are some licensing and fees and things like that that
are still not getting addressed properly or at least that we think satisfactorily. So, why
don't we -- why don't we at least address that issue first and we can deal with livestock
separately, because I would agree with you, Council Member Rountree, you know, it --
the message gets mixed sometimes to folks when we try to take too large of jump all at
once and if our intent really is -- and, really, how we started and, then, this particular go
around was to try to deal with the animals at large and the licensing issues and things, if
we could stick with that first, then, probably is the -- the bulk of the issues or problems
or calls that we get are related to those types of things. We are not addressing cats,
because I know that's the next biggest thing and every third call is either licensing cats
or leashing cats and I don't think we want to go there either, so -- but I think if we would
bring back to you just addressing the dog issues and the dog licensing and the dogs at
large and the people cleaning up and their behaviors, we can probably deal with the
livestock issue separately and gather a little more data about what would make some
sense as we become less rural and more urban in our community, what would make
more sense going forward and we can bring that both through planning, because
planning will address that sometimes in the annexation arena, as well as from the police
animal control side. So, if that would make some sense, we can bring it back probably
in two weeks for you to look at again and see if we just captured really what the -- what
the core problem is today and, then, we can bring that forward for reading in front of
you.
Rountree: Works for me.
de Weerd: Okay. So, Council, would you prefer to see it next, then, as a first reading
document?
Rountree: Yes.
Bird: Yes.
de Weerd: Okay. Thank you for the can you opened. Okay.
Nary: Notice I did not once say who let the dogs out.
de Weerd: You just ruined that. Okay. We are at the end of our agenda and in the nick
of time. I would entertain a motion.
Rountree: Madam Mayor, I move we adjourn.
Zaremba: Second.
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de Weerd: All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carries.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:28 P.M.
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