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CITY COUNCIL REGULAR
MEETING AGENDA
Tuesday, October 04, 2011 at 7:00 PM
1. Roll-Call Attendance
X David Zaremba X Brad Hoaglun
X Charlie Rountree X Keith Bird
X Mayor Tammy de Weerd
2. Pledge of Allegiance
3. Community Invocation by Stephanie Moore with Ten Mile Christian
Church
4. Adoption of the Agenda Adopted
5. Proclamation
A. Proclamation for 2011 Fire Prevention Month "Protect Your
Family from Fire" amended to read: Proclamation for 2011 Fire
and Crime Prevention Month "Protect Your Family from Fire"
(Pg. 2-3)
6. Consent Agenda Approved (Pg 3-4)
A. Approve Minutes of September 20, 2011 City Council
PreCouncil Meeting
B. Approve Minutes of September 20, 2011 City Council Regular
Meeting
C. Approve Minutes of September 27, 2011 City Council
PreCouncil Meeting
D. Approve Minutes of September 27, 2011 City Council Regular
Meeting
E. Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law for Approval: MDA 11-
005 Walmart-Overland/Stoddard by Walmart Real Estate
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Business Trust Located Southeast Corner of W. Overland
Road and S. Stoddard Road Request: Modification to the
Existing Development Agreement to Amend the Conceptual
Development Plan and Certain Sections of the Text of the
Agreement in Accord with the Proposed Changes to the
Development Plan
F. Sewer and Water Main Easement for Kingsbridge Subdivision
#2
G. Professional Services Agreement with M.D. Willis for
Transcription Services
H. Professional Services Agreement with Powerhouse Fitness for
Instructor Services
I. Professional Services Agreement with Kristy Swinney for
Massage Therapist Services
J. Professional Services Agreement with Laurie McElroy for
Instructor Services
7. Community Items/Presentations
A. Check Presentation by Bob and Judy Ricketts of the Light My
Fire Committee to the City of Meridian Fire Department
(Pg. 4-6 )
B. Floodplain Variance Request of Building Addition at 975 E.
Pine St by Ada County Operations Department Approved
(Pg. 6-11)
8. Items Moved From Consent Agenda
9. Action Items
A. Public Hearing from July 21, 2011: AZ 11-001 Ten Mile
Annexation by Janicek Properties, LLC; Fedrizzi Ten Mile,
LLC; and SJJV, LLC Located West of S. Ten Mile Road and
North of I-84 Request: Annexation and Zoning of 116.25 Acres
of Land From RUT in Ada County to C-G Zone
Continued to November 15, 2011 (Pg. 11)
B. Public Hearing: TEC 11-007 Bellingham Park Subdivision by
Northside Management Located Approximately 1/4 Mile East of
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S. Locust Grove Road and 104 Mile North of W. Amity Road
Request: Two (2) Year Time Extension on the Preliminary Plat
Continued to October 18, 2011 (Pg. 12)
C. Public Hearing: TEC 11-006 Shops at Victory by DMG -Eagle &
Victory, LLC Located at 3210 S. Eagle Road Request: Two (2)
Year Time Extension on the Preliminary Plat and Conditional
Use Permit for the Shops at Victory Approved (Pg. 12-14)
D. FP 11-008 Spurwing Grove No. 2 by SWG Brighton, LLC
Located at Northwest Corner of N. Jayker Way and W. Magic
Spruce Drive Request: Final Plat Approval for 10 Residential
Building Lots and 2 Common Lots on 3.03 Acres in an R-8
Zoning District Approved (Pg. 14-15)
10. Department Reports
A. Public Works Department: Outreach Plan for Water
Conservation Plan (Pg. 15-16)
B. Parks Department: Memorandum of Understanding between
the Meridian Development Corporation and the City of
Meridian for Downtown Trees and Tree Boxes for aNot-to-
Exceed Amount of $25,000.00 Approved (Pg. 16-17)
C. Parks Department: Budget Amendment for FY2012 for aNot-
to-Exceed Amount of $25,000.00 for Downtown Tree
Maintenance Approved (Pg. 17-18)
D. Parks Department: Agreement Between the Ada County
Highway District and the City of Meridian for Landscaping a
Stormwater Facility Located at the Linder and Chinden
Intersection, Project No. 611018 for aNot-to-exceed Amount of
$25,000.00 Approved (Pg. 18-19)
E. Parks Department: Budget Amendment for FY2012 for aNot-
to-Exceed Amount of $25,000.00 for Landscape Installation at
the Linder Road Stormwater Facility Approved (Pg. 19-20)
F. Amended onto the Agenda: Mayor's Office: Discussion
Regarding Redistricting Commission (Pg. 20-22)
11. Future Meeting Topics
Adjourned at 7:53 p.m.
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Meridian City Council Workshop ®ctober 4, 2011
A meeting of the Meridian City Council was called to order at 7:05 p.m., Tuesday,
October 4, 2011, by Mayor Tammy de Weerd.
Members Present: Mayor Tammy de Weerd, Brad Hoaglun, David Zaremba, Keith Bird
and Charlie Rountree.
Others Present: Bill Nary, Jaycee Holman, Pete Friedman, Warren Stewart, John
Overton, Parry Palmer, Steve Siddoway, Robert Simison, 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 for your patience and welcome to the Meridian City Council
meeting. For the record it is Tuesday, October 4th. It's five minutes after 7:00. We will
start with roll call attendance. Madam Clerk.
Item 2: Pledge of Allegiance
De Weerd: Item No. 21 is our Pledge of Allegiance. If you will all rise and join us in our
pledge.
(Pledge of Allegiance recited.)
Item 3: Community Invocation by Stephanie Moore with Ten Mile Christian
Church
De Weerd: Item No. 3 is our community invocation. Tonight we will be led by
Stephanie Moore with the Ten Mile Christian Church. If you will all join us in the
community invocation or take this as an opportunity for a moment of reflection. Thank
you.
Moore: If you will pray with me. Our God, we thank you that we can count on you to be
with us, that we can count on you to guide our city leaders and community members
with your wisdom and we rely on you tonight, as always, for your input in what will make
our community pleasing to you and what will be of help to our community. I thank you
for the people who are here who are investing in that in a very concrete way this
evening, in Jesus' name I pray, amen.
Item 4: Adoption of the Agenda
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De Weerd: Thank you, Stephanie. Item No. 4 is adoption of the agenda.
Hoaglun: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: A couple things to note on tonight's agenda. Under Item 5, Proclamation, that
proclamation for -- is for 2011 Fire Prevention and Crime Prevention Month, Protect
Your Family. So, that was just mislabeled. I think the police department said the fire
department had something to do with that, but it's both fire prevention and crime
prevention month. No changes on the Consent Agenda. Under Item 9, Action Items, 9-
A and 9-B, the two public hearings, there is a request to continue. 9-A the request is to
continue to November 15th, 2011. 9-B is a request to continue to October 18th, 2011.
And under Item 10, Department Reports, we would like to add 10-F, which is the
Mayor's Office, a discussion regarding Redistricting Commission. And with that, Madam
Mayor, I move adoption of the agenda as amended.
Rountree: Second.
De Weerd: Thank you. I have a motion and a second to adopt the agenda as changed.
All those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 5: Proclamation
A. Proclamation for 2011 Fire Prevention Month "Protect Your
Family from Fire" amended to read: Proclamation for 2011 Fire
and Crime Prevention Month "Protect Your Family from Fire"
De Weerd: Item 5 is a proclamation and I will ask Pam Orr and Melissa Delaney to,
please, come forward to the podium. Well, I -- it is with pleasure that I stand with our
two crime prevention -- or crime prevention and fire prevention specialists. They do a
lot in our community in being proactive in making sure that we keep our community
safe. So, it's with great pleasure that I read this proclamation. Whereas the City of
Meridian is committed to insuring safety and security of all those living in and visiting
Meridian and whereas Meridian's first responders are dedicated to reducing the
occurrence of home fires and crime through prevention education and whereas
Meridian's residents are responsive to public education measures and take personal
steps to increase their safety from fire and crime and whereas the 2011 Fire Prevention
Month theme, Protect Your Family From Fire and the 2011 Crime Prevention Theme is
Celebrating Safe Communities, effectively serves to remind us all of the simple actions
we can take to stay safe from fire and crime, therefore, I, Mayor Tammy de Weerd, of
the City of Meridian, do hereby proclaim the month of October 2011 Fire Prevention and
Crime Prevention Month throughout the city. I urge all citizens of the City of Meridian to
heed the important safety message of preventing home fires and crime in support of
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public safety and a safe community. And I signed this today and I would like to ask
Pam or Melissa if they would like to make any comments.
Delaney: Add on to celebrating our safe communities, tomorrow night is kind of an
important night for -- where we will be celebrating some Neighborhood Star awards.
So, it kind of goes along with this and I would encourage you to attend. But other than
that just thanks for acknowledging two very important months for both Pam and myself.
Orr: And I would like to just piggyback that on October 22nd we are coming together as
a joint effort for Public Safety Day at Meridian Fire Station No. 1. So, that runs from
10:00 to 2:00 and it's an opportunity for the community to come out and learn all that we
do, but not only that, to learn how to keep their family safe from both fire and crime. So,
along with that both of us will be doing quite a few events throughout Meridian in the
schools and in other public venues that -- that we have been requested at. And so it's
going to be a really busy month for us and so thank you, Mayor Tammy, for supporting
us in this. We appreciate it.
De Weerd: I would also like to thank you, Melissa. We had a neighborhood summit last
month that was well attended by some of our neighborhood association representatives
and our neighborhood watch captains. A lot of good feedback on that. Lisa and I did a
program that we work with through the Mayor's Anti-drug Coalition and so it was a good
event that gave a lot of good tools on how to improve the safety and create community
within those subdivisions in the City of Meridian. So, thank you.
Item 6: Consent Agenda
A. Approve Minutes of September 20, 2011 City Council
PreCouncil Meeting
B. Approve Minutes of September 20, 2011 City Council Regular
Meeting
C. Approve Minutes of September 27, 2011 City Council
PreCouncil Meeting
®. Approve Minutes of September 27, 2011 City Council Regular
Meeting
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F. Sewer and ln/ater Main Easement for Kingsbridge Subdivision
#2
G. Professional Services Agreement with I~.®.ln/illis for
Transcription Services
H. Professional Services Agreement with Powerhouse Fitness for
Instructor Services
I. Professional Services Agreement with Kristy Swinney for
Massage Therapist Services
J. Professional Services Agreement with Laurie McElroy for
Instructor Services
De Weerd: Okay. Item No. 6 is our Consent Agenda.
Hoaglun: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: There were no changes to the Consent Agenda, so I'd move approval of the
Consent Agenda and the Mayor to sign and Clerk to attest.
Rountree: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the Consent Agenda. If there is
no discussion, Madam Clerk, will you call roll.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 7: Community Items/Presentations
A. Check Presentation by Sob and Judy Ricketts of the Light My
Fire Committee to the City of Meridian Fire ®epartment
De Weerd: As I get into this next community item I think, Melissa, I do want to note one
more thing about the neighborhood summit and neighborhood watch in general and the
value of these community prevention programs. If we did -- we did an overlay in the
police department of crime in our communities and where there are Neighbor Watch
organizations within our city there is notable lower crime and I think really helps to have
that preventive program where you have an additional set of eyes on the streets and it's
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not only that, it's what do you do with the information when you have it. So, having
partners helps us create a safer community and I think that is very well worth noting.
So, hats off to you and to our next community organization as well. These folks I have
had the -- the honor of being part of the banquet this last year and what an energetic
and dynamic group of -- group in raising money and their passion about this next topic.
So, I will ask Pam to come on up and introduce this item. And, I'm sorry, I didn't turn
around that podium, but you can just shift it around if you would like. There. Thank
you.
Orr: Well, I have the pleasure of presenting to you or to -- I'd ask for Bob Ricketts, who
happens to be our fearless leader in the Light My Fire committee. This group of
dynamic volunteers, they are just an amazing group, just as Mayor Tammy already said.
They have been working to help us prevent fires by doing fundraisers, so that we
financially have a little bit of extra that really has helped in our community and they not
only do that, but a couple of years ago they also implemented some additional funds
towards our burnout fund as well. So, all proceeds that they -- that they bring in from
both the banquet and an annual golf tournament now -- this is how energetic this group
is -- all of it goes back to the Boise and Meridian departments in one way -- whether it's
prevention or in the burnout fund. So, I have two members of the group here tonight,
Bob Ricketts, who -- he just so happens to be our fearless leader, he and his wife Judy,
and, then, I have Mary Calhoun, who many of you may know she was our -- she won a
community volunteer for the City of Meridian a couple of years ago. So, just so busy
these two. So, they would like to present, ma'am, the city with a check for the
department. So, if you two would like to come up. And I would like to say also -- Parry
Palmer, who is, you know, my new boss as the fire marshal, he -- prior to receiving this
job he worked on our committee for many years and so -- and he still is on our
committee as well. So, chief, would you like to come up as well, please.
Ricketts: Madam Mayor, Council, it's my pleasure to be here this evening.
De Weerd: Thank you, Bob.
Ricketts: And I want to personally thank you for joining us at our February event this
last year and we hope you had a good time and --
De Weerd: We did.
Ricketts: We always do, so we hope those who join us do also.
De Weerd: We walked away slot -- with a lot less in our pocket.
Ricketts: I brought it back.
De Weerd: Well, good. Thank you.
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Ricketts: It all comes around. But do want to encourage any of the other rest of the
City Council to try and maybe join us in the future if you can. Just so you can mark your
calendars, February 11th of 2012 is our next event and so if you have the opportunity to
come join in our festivities, please, do so, because we guarantee you, hopefully, you will
have a good time. I want to say it's been a real pleasure to have the association with
the City of Meridian and for us to be able to, you know, help raise money for what we
feel is an extremely important need and fire prevention is a -- is something that's really
dear to our hearts and we have a bunch of passionate people on this committee and we
recruit I think probably the best folks in the community here to help us on this and they
do just a bang up job. They -- you know, they give me the credit, but, believe me, they
do all the work, you know, so if you ever have the opportunity to mention thanks to
some of those people they do a lot of hard work. I also want to thank Pam for all that
she does. She was a -- when we brought Meridian into the Light My Fire organization,
boy, she was a -- I don't want to say a ball of fire, but -- wrong terminology. But she --
she really lit things up. She really did. And our community just welcomed her and she
fit in really well and, as you know, when -- or I'm sure you know, she's a doer and so,
anyway, I want to thank Parry also for all his contributions. Parry's kind of our main man
on the golf tournament and he does a wonderful job for us and so we want to thank him
immensely for that. Tonight we have a couple of checks. We have two checks,
actually, and one check is for the -- the fire prevention and that check for 8,880 dollars
for the fire prevention. And for the Meridian burnout fund, which we have recently
contributed to, we have an additional 2,200 dollars for them and that's money that goes
right to the -- to the citizens of the City of Meridian from the fire department itself to help
those people when they need it the most. It's before us insurance guys can get there
and the Red Cross and so forth. These guys do a wonderful job and we are happy to
contribute to them.
De Weerd: Thank you.
Ricketts: With that, again, we are -- we are still firing and ready to go. We are going to
hope we come back with more checks next year.
De Weerd: Well, thank you, Bob, and Mary for being here this evening and thank you to
the organization for the support you give our community, to our prevention programs
and our burnout fund. All of it makes a difference in our community. Thank you. Oh,
Frank will probably want a photo.
B. Floodplain Variance Request of Building Addition at 975 E.
Pine St by Ada County Operations ®epartment
De Weerd: Okay. Item 7-B is our floodplain variance request and I will turn this over to
Warren.
Stewart: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, I'm actually going to turn the time
over to David Miles, but before he -- or while he makes his way to the podium I want to
just -- this is his first opportunity to actually appear before the Council, so many of you
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may know him, but some may not. He is -- David Miles has joined us as our new
surface water program administrator. One of his roles is to serve as our floodplain
administrator and we are very grateful to have his knowledge and experience and --
within the Public Works Department and look forward to working with him and he's
going to take a few moments, maybe say a couple things about himself, but also give
you some background on this issue.
Miles: Thanks, Warren. Good evening, Madam Mayor and Council Members. Thanks
for the opportunity tonight. As Warren said, I have been with the environmental division
for about five months and I'm excited to be here with the city. It's a great organization
as far as I can tell. It's been a lot of fun to work with. Tonight I'm here in support of a
floodplain variance request by the Ada County Operations Department for a
construction project which is 975 East Pine, which is just west of Locust Grove. This
building is a unique situation for the floodplain, because it's located in a special flood
hazard area in the floodplain. It's been constructed originally in 2006, but since that
time our ordinance has changed and we -- and the floor height requirements under the
floodplain guidance has increased. So, we have an existing building that is constructed
at an elevation zero, for simplification of terms and that proposed addition would be
required to be built one foot above that. This building is used for traffic flows within the
building. They supply pesticides onto trucks and off of trucks and make transitions of
these vehicles back and forth through the building. So, to have a one elevation change
would be a difficult issue to resolve in the design aspect. In our floodplain ordinance,
flood proofing is a technique that's not in our ordinance, however, is approved under
FEMA techniques to be used. In our ordinance we also have the -- the section for
variances, which is why we are here tonight, because they are to be heard by City
Council and we worked with the applicant to discuss possibilities in variations of what
would work best and determined that a variance to allow the flood proofing of the
building to be constructed at the same elevation of the existing building with the
techniques to flood proof the outside of the building to still protect it from flooding, was a
viable solution. So, with that I will turn it over to any questions that you may have either
now or after we have the applicant here, Angie Cornish from Engineering and Waste
Solutions and she will provide you some more of the technical information from the
building and their specific request.
De Weerd: Thank you, David. Council, any questions right now?
Rountree: I have none right now.
Bird: Not at this time.
De Weerd: Okay. Thank you.
Zaremba: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Oh, just -- David, hold on. Mr. Zaremba.
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Zaremba: Thank you. Sometime around when that was a new building I had the
opportunity to take a tour of it, in my recollection, and as I think you mentioned, they do
-- it's where they keep a whole lot of nasty chemicals.
Miles: Yes.
Zaremba: Even if it's flood proofed, is there -- if the new requirements -- or if the new
floodplain is a foot higher, whatever is causing the new requirement to be a foot higher,
is there any opportunity to asked them to put like a one foot rack underneath their
storage area, so even though their floor level is equal to the other floor level and they
are not tripping over stuff going up and down, at least chemicals are a foot higher by
just having some kind of rack?
De Weerd: Councilman Zaremba, they are already ahead of you on that.
Zaremba: Okay. All right. Well, some of the things were very big. As I recall they were
huge and that might be difficult, but --
Miles: Madam Mayor, Councilman Zaremba, it is a chemical pesticide storage building,
but we have worked with the applicant and they have resolved that and, in fact, as part
of their presentation the chemical storage will be elevated to the current ordinance
requirements and will be stored in its own separate housed portion of the building. So,
they have addressed that.
Zaremba: Okay.
Miles: You're welcome.
De Weerd: Thank you. If you would, please, state your name and address for the
record.
Cornish: Madam Mayor and Council Members, my name is Angela Comish. My
company is Engineering and Waste Solutions and I am a civil engineer on the design
team for Ada County operations for this addition. You have a little drawing in front of
you that just kind of shows that building. The upper left kind of corner of it is actually the
existing building. So, yes, right there. That section right there is the existing one. And,
then, when you see all the kind of striping it looks like diagonally, that's the addition right
there for the parking and, then, just a little bit below that is a chemical storage area that
he was just talking about that will be elevated the two feet above the floodplain
elevation. So, that parking area you can see is proposed to still be a foot above the
floodplain elevation, which meets FEMA standards and will match the rest of the
building where we will be driving vehicles through and as a civil engineer trying to figure
out grades, that one foot difference is pretty impossible to try and handle inside of a
building. If it was a parking lot I could grade it, but I can't really do that inside of a
building. So, it will make this building nonfunctional if we are not able to match that and
the county's operation staff and myself have met with Dave and Tom, they were very
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generous to work with us to try and come to a reasonable solution that met FEMA's
requirements and came as close as we possibly could to meeting the city's ordinances
and the city's ordinances changed, like you said, between the time this first portion of
the building was constructed in '06 and now. So, it wasn't anybody's intent to try and
bypass anything when it was constructed, at the time it was done per the city's
ordinances and FEMA, it's just the city's ordinance has increased to require a two foot
clearance, instead of just the one foot clearance above the flood elevation. Does that
make sense?
De Weerd: Yes.
Cornish: Okay. So, that's really it. If you have any other questions of me I'm more than
happy to answer as best I can.
De Weerd: Thank you, Angela.
Hoaglun: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Angela -- and we had to change our ordinance, because FEMA changed the
ordinances and -- but my understanding is, basically, at the openings and whatnot you
would put in some sort of flood proofing?
Comish: Correct.
Hoaglun: So, if there is an incident, flooding, then, the doors are closed and --
Comish: Exactly.
Hoaglun: -- keep it watertight and --
Comish: Exactly.
Hoaglun: -- we are all --
Comish: And not only that, but an actual written plan and a document for the staff that's
in that facility so you know exactly what to do in that event, so that maybe take a proper
measure at that time. So, there is a document that will describe the measures they
need to take during an event like that. And also, too, if you look at this building, just --
just so you understand, it's a storage building. There is not offices in there, there is no
sewer going to it. This is not a building that, you know, some day next they might
change it and make it an office. We aren't trying to trick anybody, this is just truly a
storage building and it just will help cover these vehicles that have the chemicals and
things in the back of them, so it's just a good way to kind of contain it and protect those
and protect the environment.
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Hoaglun: Thank you.
De Weerd: Any questions?
Rountree: I have none.
Bird: I have none, Mayor.
De Weerd: Thank you joining us.
Cornish: Thank you.
Zaremba: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Zaremba.
Zaremba: I don't see a variance number attached to this. Do we need to take an action
on this and -- how would we reference it without a variance action -- a variance
number?
De Weerd: Mr. Nary?
Nary: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, Ithink -- let me see what's in front of
you. I was looking at something else.
Miles: Madam Mayor, if I may?
De Weerd: Yes.
Miles: This -- by ordinance a variance is requested to the City Council, so what we are
recommending is to support the variance request, so that, then, the permit application --
applicant can file the permit and we can review the permit to meet the criteria of the
variance and the ordinances.
De Weerd: Council, his question was do we need a variance number to reference for
the record.
Nary: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, if the motion of the Council is to approve
the variance request we can prepare an order for your agenda next Tuesday to then
move that forward, so they have some documentation to prove that it was granted.
De Weerd: Okay. Very good.
Zaremba: Thank you. That would work for me. Madam Mayor?
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De Weerd: Mr. Zaremba.
Zaremba: I move that we approve the floodplain variance request for the building
addition at 975 East Pine by Ada County Operations Department.
Rountree: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Madam Clerk, will you call
roll.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item ~: Items Moved From Consent Agenda
De Weerd: There were no items moved from the Consent Agenda.
Item 9: Action Items
A. Public Hearing from July 21, 2011: A 11-001 Ten Mile
Annexation by Janicek Properties, LLC; Fedrizzi Ten Mile,
LLC; and SJJV, LLC Located West of S. Ten Mile Road and
North of I-~4 Request: Annexation and Zoning of 116.25 Acres
of Land From RtJT in Ada County to C-C Zone
De Weerd: Under Item 9, Action Items. Item 9-A has been requested to continue to
November 5th, for the purpose of continuing this I will officially open the public hearing
on AZ 11-001. With that said do I have a motion to continue this item?
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we continue Item 9-A to November 15th, 2011.
Hoaglun: Second.
Rountree: I have a motion and a second to continue 9-A to November 15th. All those
in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
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B. Public Hearing: TC 11®007 Bellingham Park Subdivision by
Northside Management Located Approximately 1/4 Mile East of
S. Locust Grove Road and 1/4 Mile North of 1IV. Amity Road
Request: Two (2) Year Time Extension on the Preliminary Plat
De Weerd: Item 9-B is a public hearing on TEC 11-007. Again, this item has been
requested to continue to October 18th. City Council, do I have a motion?
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we continue Item 9-B until October 18th, 2011.
Zaremba: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to continue Item 9-B to October 18th. All
those in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
C. Public Hearing: TEC 11-006 Shops at Victory by ®MG ®Eagle ~
Victory, LLC Located at 3210 S. Eagle Road Request: Two (2)
Year Time Extension on the Preliminary Plat and Conditional
flee Permit for the Shops at Victory
De Weerd: Item 9-C is a public hearing on TEC 11-006. I will open this public hearing
with staff comments.
Friedman: Thank you, Members of the Council. This is a time extension for the
preliminary plat and Conditional Use Permit for the Shops at Victory. Those approvals
were granted originally in September of 2008. They did request an extension of the
director in 2010. That was granted in March of 2010. However, citing current economic
conditions the developer is not ready to proceed with the actual development and under
the UDC they are seeking the Council's approval for a time extension to continue both
the preliminary plat and the CU for the drive-thru establishment. Council may recall that
we actually modified the development agreement about a year ago to extend the life of
that agreement, so that was another previous action by the Council. At this time staff
does not foresee any need for additional conditions and we'd recommend approval of
the time extension, subject to all the conditions that are currently in place. The
applicant is here today. He has indicated he is in agreement with the staff report and
recommended disposition of this. So, that's -- I'd be happy to answer any Council
questions.
De Weerd: Thank you, Pete. Council, any questions?
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Rountree: I have none.
Bird: I have none.
De Weerd: Does the applicant have any remarks? Good evening.
Coins: Hi.
De Weerd: If you will, please, state your name and address for the record.
Goins: Greg Goins. DMG Real Estate Partners, 350 North 9th, Boise, Idaho.
De Weerd: Thank you, Greg, for joining us.
Coins: Well, thank you. My only comments are I really wish to express my appreciation
and my partners' appreciation, Dave McKinney, for the city's willingness to work with us
during these challenging economic times. We really believe there is going to be an
opportunity to fulfill the development plan that we have for this property, but we need
the additional time to kind of work through some things that continue to stand in the way
of finalizing what we hope is going to be a deal with a drug store tenant one of these
days. Also wish to express appreciation for Pete and the planning staff, they worked
very well with us as we have tried to progress this, so thank you and we appreciate it.
De Weerd: Thank you.
Rountree: Thank you.
De Weerd: This a public hearing. Is there anyone who would like to offer testimony on
this item? Okay. Council, seeing no further comment, do I have a motion to close?
Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I move we close the public hearing on TEC 11-006.
Hoaglun: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to close the public hearing on 9-C. All those
in favor say aye. All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
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Bird: I move we approve TEC 11-006 and include staff and applicant remarks.
Hoaglun: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 9-C. Any discussion on this
item? Madam Clerk, will you call roll.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
®. FP 11-008 Spurwing Grove No. 2 by SWG Brighton, LLC
Located at Northwest Corner of N. Jayker Way and W. IVlagic
Spruce ®rive Rec{uest: Final Plat Approval for 10 Residential
building Lots and 2 Common Lots on 3.03 Acres in an R-8
Zoning ®istrict
De Weerd: Item 9-D is FP 11-008. I will ask for staff comments at this time.
Friedman: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. The application before
you tonight is for a final plat approval for ten residential lots and one common lot in the
Spurwing Green Subdivision that was approved by Council last October -- actually,
about a year ago. This is the second final plat proposed for Spurwing Green. The
proposed plat is in full compliance with all the conditions of the preliminary plat and staff
recommends approval. The applicant has reviewed the conditions and has indicated
that they are in agreement also with the staff report and the recommended conditions of
approval.
De Weerd: Thank you, Pete. Any comments? Okay. Thank you, Mike.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we approve the final plat for Item 9-D, Spurwing Grove No. 2, FP
11-008.
Bird: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 9-D. Is there any discussion
by Council? Madam Clerk, roll call.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
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De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Item 10: ®epartment Reports
A. Public UVorks ®epartment: ®utreach Plan for 1Nater
Conservation Plan
De Weerd: Under Item 10, Department Reports, we will start with our Public Works
Department. Warren.
Stewart: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, you may recall last week Kyle Radek
of my office brought a water conservation plan before you and as part of that plan
presentation you had requested a plan for public outreach. I believe he put together a --
along with the Mayor's office a public outreach plan and submitted that to you for your
review and he was unable to be here tonight due to some family commitments that he
had and so I will try and answer any questions that you may have in regards to the plan
that he gave you, but I also know that Robert Simison was instrumental in working with
him and putting that together, so he might be able to fill in on some of the details if -- if I
don't have the answers. So, I will stand for any questions that you may have.
De Weerd: Okay. Council, any questions regarding this item?
Bird: I have none, Mayor.
Hoaglun: Just -- Madam Mayor, just a note that -- and I think it's a good plan. It's there.
It something to do. It's just -- we are getting into the holiday season, it's just always
tougher for people to focus on those things as we head into Thanksgiving, but I think we
are early enough that it's better now than between Thanksgiving and Christmas, so it's
just one of those things that's always hard to capture people's attention, but I think we
have got a plan at least then we will bring awareness to it by the public.
De Weerd: Any of other comments from Council?
Rountree: Madam Mayor, I'd reflect the same concern is that it is the holiday season
and folks are probably not interested particularly towards the end of the schedule that's
set up to participate in these kinds of events, so you might want to look at that, but in
terms of plan and the outline and what is to be accomplished it looks spot on.
Stewart: Thank you.
De Weerd: Okay. Any other comments?
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Stewart: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, maybe a little bit of direction. Would
you prefer to see the initial outreach moved until after the holiday season or should we
just plan to follow it up with a secondary set of events to sort of get that message out
after the holiday season is over?
Bird: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Bird.
Bird: I think while the season is coming up we are basically off the schedule we are
finishing by November 22nd. I -- I don't think we want to delay it anymore. I -- you
know, if not you're throwing it into next year. I would say we go ahead with it on
November 22nd we can discuss steps at that time and if you want to delay it until after
the holiday season, then, we do. That would be my -- that would be my preference.
Rountree: That works.
Hoaglun: Works forme as well.
De Weerd: Okay.
Stewart: Thank you.
B. Parks Department: Memorandum of Understanding between
the Meridian Development Corporation and the City of
Meridian for Downtown Trees and Tree Boxes for aNot-to-
Exceed Amount of $25,000.00
De Weerd: Item 10-B is our Parks Department. I will ask Mr. Siddoway to present this
item.
Siddoway: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. The next four items
are mine. It's actually two -- two items with each with an agreement and a budget
amendment associated with them and the good news on the budget amendments are
that they are a net zero impact to the city's budget and I will go over that for you. So,
Item B is the memorandum of understanding between MDC and the City of Meridian.
As you know, we have a downtown tree well replacement program and MDC has
offered to increase our budget by 25,000 dollars that they would reimburse to the city for
us to be able to replace more tree wells per year than we currently do. It would give us
the ability to do about four more per year, but in order for us to spend that money that
they are offering we need to get it added into our budget, so Item B is the memorandum
of understanding that would specifically ask us to give them a list of the trees in June of
each -- prior to each fiscal year. MDC board would, then, approve that. We would, then,
do those the following fiscal year and, then, we would submit our invoices and proof of
payments to them for reimbursement, at which time they would reimburse the city that
amount. So, then, Item C is that budget amendment for a not to exceed amount of
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25,000 dollars to be added to our budget, but, then, would be reimbursed by MDC and
will stand for any questions.
De Weerd: Thank you, Steve. Council, any questions? Okay. That leads to the next
item, Item 10-C is a budget amendment to authorize revenue and expenditure.
Siddoway: Madam Mayor, we do need a motion on Item B as well for the MOU.
Bird: Yeah.
De Weerd: Thank you, Steve.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we approve MOU between the City of Meridian and Meridian
Development Corporation.
Hoaglun: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the MOU. Any discussion?
Madam Clerk.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
C. Parks ®epartment: Budget Amendment for FY2012 for a IVotto~
Exceed Amount of $25,000.00 for ®owntown Tree
Maintenance
De Weerd: Item 10-C.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we approve Item 10-C, the budget amendment in the amount of
not to exceed 25,000 dollars for downtown tree maintenance.
Hoaglun: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second on Item 10-C. Any discussion?
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Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
D. Parks Department: Agreement between the Ada County
Highway District and the City of Meridian for Landscaping a
Stormwater Facility Located at the Linder and Chinden
Intersection, Project No. 61101 for a Not-to-exceed Amount of
$25,000.00
De Weerd: Item 10-D is also Mr. Siddoway.
Siddoway: Thank you, Madam Mayor, Members of the Council. These next two items
are related to the project with the Ada County Highway District. As you know we
maintain the landscaping at the storm drainage facilities that ACRD constructs within
the city. We have an existing master agreement that covers those. The reason why
this one is not simply an addendum to that existing agreement and is an accepted
agreement are two fold. The main reason is, number one, it's not in the existing city
limits, though it is in our area of impact and the existing agreement specifically refers to
city limits and existing annexed properties. This property is on Linder Road between
McMillan and Chinden. It's part of the ACHD project that's underway in that area. It is
part -- adjacent to Lochsa Falls Subdivision and is an area that will be annexed to the
city in the future. The -- ACRD did have a construction project underway with the road
improvements that are up there. However, when we got to review the -- the
construction plans they had, you know, sprinkler heads and different things that didn't
match what we currently maintain. They would plug more easily, et cetera. We asked
them to change them. They actually offered to pull their project and allow us to move
forward and manage that project for them, so that we get what we want to maintain. So,
the agreement is one for us to manage that construction project for them, it's the
landscaping part of that project and, then, we would take over that with the others that
we currently maintain. The ACRD would pay for and reimburse us for the cost of
construction on that project, so the Item D is the agreement for us to manage that
project and Item E is a budget amendment also for a not to exceed amount of 25,000
dollars that ACRD would reimburse us to do that landscape project for them. And I will
stand for questions.
De Weerd: Thank you, Steve. Council, questions?
Bird: I have none.
Rountree: None.
Zaremba: Madam Mayor?
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De Weerd: Mr. Zaremba.
Zaremba: I do have kind of a sideways question, since you mentioned that this is not at
the moment annexable, but will be at sometime. The other storm water facilities where
we maintain landscaping, have they all been annexed into the city and --
Siddoway: Yes. It's my understanding that they are all currently annexed sites and
that's why they are part of the existing agreement.
Zaremba: Good. Okay. Thank you.
De Weerd: Okay. Any further questions?
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we approve the agreement between Ada County Highway
District and the City of Meridian for the management of a landscape project for Item 10-
D.
Zaremba: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve Item 10-D. Any discussion on this
item? Madam Clerk, roll call, please.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
E. Parks ®epartment: Budget Amendment for FY2012 for a Nottom
Exceed Amount of X25,000.00 for Landscape Installation at
the Linder Road Stormwater Facility
De Weerd: Item 10-E is the budget amendment.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move that we approve Item D-E, the budget amendment not to exceed
25,000 dollars for landscaping installation management on the storm water facility at
Linder.
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Zaremba: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to approve the budget amendment in front of
you on Item 10-E. If there is no discussion, Madam Clerk, roll call.
Roll-Call: Bird, yea; Rountree, yea; Zaremba, yea; Hoaglun, yea.
De Weerd: All ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
Siddoway: Thank you very much.
F. Amended onto the Agenda: Mayor's ®ffice: ®iscussion
Regarding Redistricting Commission
De Weerd: Thank you, Steve. Item 10-F. I will ask Robert to make comments.
Simison: Madam Mayor, Members of the City Council, as you may recall we came
before you in June to talk about the re -- the commission for reapportionment that was
meeting and at that time received direction from City Council on writing a letter
regarding what we would like to see as far as legislative districts here in the City of
Meridian. For those of you who haven't followed the process, the first redistricting
commission didn't succeed in time and they have been replaced by six new members.
They are having a public hearing on Friday in Boise from noon to 2:00 and I believe we
have made arrangements before the Mayor to attend to give the city's perspective on
this issue, but want to make you aware of that. And in addition lalso -- in what I have
handed out to you, the first item is the final map that was submitted by the previous six
commissioners, which shows the agreement that they said they would all sign off to. In
this map Meridian potentially could have five legislative districts. We could also
potentially have zero people that live in the City of Meridian in one of these five districts.
So, I -- one of the directions I'd like to seek some guidance from you on is if we were to
revise our letter that we had previously sent to the commission, making any specific
comments regarding the proposed map that was agreed to, or if we should just send
them our -- make sure they have our previous version and stick to those points. So,
with that I'm -- I'm open to hear comments or suggestions you have about how you
would like us to proceed forward.
De Weerd: Thank you, Robert. Council, any comments?
Zaremba: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Zaremba.
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Zaremba: The new commission is not required to accept the old commission's late
submission, but there seems to be some opinion, I guess, that they may use it as a
starting point and in that case I would encourage us to make a specific new letter that
addresses what they are proposing. In looking at this map I am not finding enough
reference points to really understand what those districts -- there is no street names or
anything on here that I recognize to locate exactly what they are having, but I think it
might be wise to analyze this version and submit our comments. One man's opinion.
Hoaglun: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Hoaglun.
Hoaglun: Yeah. I would like to see us move forward and have you discuss as we did
before about having to try and attempt to have Meridian as close to one single district as
possible. I know it may not be possible, it's very difficult to get the numbers to work, but
when you look at this map and they taking neighborhoods -- say Bridgetower where I
live and they are actually splitting that neighborhood within two legislative districts, it just
-- it just doesn't make sense. I know they are following some roads here, but you have
got one subdivision that's being divided in half. Anyway, I'd just like to see a letter talk
about keeping the core of Meridian whole if at all possible. I know they may have to be
-- right now we are at three legislative districts, but to jump that to five and -- and the
three we have now there is a common interest between them all, even though we are
tied to Kuna and to Eagle, but there is a lot of common interest, but as we go east to
west, tying this into parts of Boise -- there is some differences here and there is some
things that I don't think will work quite as well, but it's just something we can make a
recommendation and request and what they do with it from there remains to be seen.
De Weerd: Kind of like we did before.
Hoaglun: Yes. Absolutely.
De Weerd: And, you know, I guess, Council, I would remind you that before we sent
that letter and the accompanying map we did talk to all of our elected -- or most of them
that -- the ones that are inside the city.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Yes.
Rountree: I agree with what David said in terms of not having enough reference points
on the proposed map, other than it seems like some of these districts -- I assume 22 is
one of them that would be part of Meridian and 14, which seemed to spread across the
county north to Gem county and south at least almost to the Snake River. So, I'm not
sure that that's consistent with trying to keep our community and our community values
together, but I also agree with Councilman Hoaglun that we ought not to split up the
neighborhoods if we can best do that and we present the case to the new commission
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along the lines of what we presented before and I would like to see that before it goes to
press in terms of the map and suggested comments back to the new commission, much
along the lines of our letter of June 21st.
De Weerd: Okay.
Simison: I would make the recommendation that we probably wouldn't update our -- the
map that we sent, just resubmit that from our previous version, but to reiterate maybe
focus more on the map that was -- they were presented with and the issues that we may
have with that map that doesn't go with what we originally recommended.
Rountree: That's fine.
Zaremba: Madam Mayor, that works for me.
Bird: Works for me.
Item 11: Future tVleeting 'topics
De Weerd: Thank you. Okay. Council, Item 11 is future meeting topics. Any items that
have been brought to your attention that need to be placed on future agendas?
Rountree: I have none.
Bird: I have none.
De Weerd: Okay. Thank you.
Rountree: Madam Mayor?
De Weerd: Mr. Rountree.
Rountree: I move we adjourn.
Bird: Second.
De Weerd: I have a motion and a second to adjourn. All those in favor say aye. All
ayes. Motion carried.
MOTION CARRIED: ALL AYES.
MEETING ADJOURNED AT 7:53 P.M.
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