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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981.03.04 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESI /a MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING MARCH 4, 1981 A Meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held March 4, 1981, at the City Hall. Present were the following: Mayor: Councilman: John C. Porter Norris Reese Jim Morris Nile Boyle Sander Larson Morgan Garner Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Also Present: Mary Smith, City Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, City Treasurer RE: PLANNING BOARD MINUTES - CONCERNING TRAILERS Mayor Porter discussed with the Council the Planning Board Minutes. Marie Hathaway, secretary of the Planning Board, is going to make a windshield survey of the city and mark on a map where trailers are parked, designating those that are placed on foundations and those that are not. They will then designate an area in the city for trailers. Two years ago Arlo Nelson brought our com- prehensive plan up to date. He made suggestions for changes in zoning. The Planning and Zoning are reviewing his recommendations and adding the decisions and changes in zoning that the planning board has made since Mr. Nelson made his study. When they finish with their study they will make their recommenda- tions to the City Council for changing the Zoning Ordinance. Mary Smith, City Attorney, suggested redrafting all zoning ordinances at the same time. A public hearing will have to be held before the ordinance is passed. RE: PLANNING BOARD RECOMMEND FOR KENNETH BENFIELD The Planning Board recommended that Kenneth Benfield of the Millhollow Sub- division be allowed to go ahead and put in curb and driveway, subject to the existing easements as platted. A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Jim Morris to concur with the decision of the Planning Board. All Aye. RE: NEW BEER ORDINANCE Nile Boyle suggested that we should draft a new Beer Ordinance to go along with the State. Mary Smith told him that research and work had already been started on it. RE: SCRAP METAL Mayor Porter told the council that the scrap metal had been hauled to Idaho Falls, and sold to Stewart Metal Inc. for $1-93.16. RE: MONEY ON FLOOD CLEAN UP Mayor Porter reported that we received the balance of money on Flood Clean Up, the payment was $24,999.99. RE: INSURANCE ON CITY PROPERTY Mayor Porter said that we are now in the process of reviewing our Insurance on all city property. He was going to have Farrell Davidson take an inventory of property that should be on our insurance. We would take off the old booster pump by the reservoir, that will be torn down. RE: MONEY FROM INSURANCE COMPANY FOR DAMAGES AT TABERNACLE The city received a check for $4200 from the insurance company for damages done when the electrician working on the tabernacle turned on the heat when there wasn't any water in the boiler and it cracked the unit. 1 RE: C. A. HARRIS CLAIM -AMENDED Art Smith, Attorney for C. A. Harris, who had previously presented a claim for $100,000 for damages done by water after_ a water line break, submitted to the city an amended claim. He had had the damages appraised, and the new claim would be $3,984.89. Mayor Porter suggested that we turn it over to the insurance company. Art Smith suggested that it should still be H & K's responsibility. He told the mayor that if we want to fight it they would become a part of it. RE: BID FROM HILL PLUMBING FOR HEATING THE SWIMMING POOL Hill Plumbing would like to present to the council a bid to heat the swimming pool with Solar Heat. This will be turned over to the Park and Recreation committee for further study and their recommendation. RE: STREET LIGHTS Jim Morris told the council that he was still reviewing the street lights in the city. He had designated on the map places where he thought lights should be added, and changes should be made. In the north East part of the city there need to be lights added. He ask for suggestions on any areas where there might need to be changes or lights added, he then will make a list for city council approval of recommended lights, recommended lights to be taken out, and recommended changes for the next meeting. RE: COMPLAINTS OF PLAYING BALL & THROWING FRISBIES IN THE STREETS Mayor Porter told the council that now that we have been having spring weather, we have been having complaints about people playing ball and throwing frisbies in the streets. He said that he was sure it was just spring fever, and if it gets too bad we will have the police take care of it. RE: PROBLEM ON THE STREET NORTH OF THE EAST STAKE CENTER We have a problem on the street north of the East Stake Center, when the sewer line was put in, people who had lots along there paid to have the sewer stubbed in and now we can't find the stubs. Norris Reese told the council that Thompson Engineering had done the work and would probably have a map showing this. The sewer stubs had been indicated by marks painted on the curb, but that had been ten years prior. RE: URBAN D STREET MAP Mayor Porter told the council that he and Clint Kingsford, of Forsgren Perkins had met with the State Highway Department, they want us to revise the Urban D Street Map. Clint Kingsford was present at the meeting to show a suggested map with the suggested boundries, he also gave each member of the council a copy of the proposed revisions. (copy attached). Mr. Kingsford told the council that any city with a population of 4000 or 5000 or over was eligible for urban D funds. The council recommended to Mr. Kingsford to add 2nd West and delete 5th West, after these changes they tentatively approved the new map. Mr. Kingsford was told to have the Planning and Zoning Committee look at the map for their recommenda- tions, and have the County Commissioners look at the map and approve it. We would then have to advertise and send the map to the State . RE: LID # 25 Larry Perkins was at the meeting to discuss briefly LID #25. The Council discussed some of the protests that they had already received. Mr. Perkins ask that Forsgren Perkins be given these protests so they could check them out before the hearing. Mayor Porter said that some of the people owning property that the city had wanted to buy previously for parking lots and would not sell, now that they have received their assessment have called the city hall wanting to sell. RE: ZONING AND SUB DIVISION ORDINANCE Mayor Porter passed out the Zoning Ordinance and Sub Division Ordinance drafted by Arlo Nelson for the council to review. RE: BILLS A motion was made by Morgan Garner and seconded by Jim Morris to approve the bills. All Aye. RE: ADJOURN A motion was made by Sander Larson and seconded by Darlene Blackburn to adjourn. All Aye. C .� Mayor John C. Porter City Clerk ose Bagley. MINUTES OF PUBLIC HEARING LID # 25 March 11, 1981 A meeting of the City Council for a Public Hearing for LID 25, for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held March 11, 1981, at the City Hall. President of City Council Presiding: Nile Boyle Others Present: Councilman: Councilwoman City Attorney: City Clerk: Legal Minutes to be kept by City Attorney, Mary Smith. RE: LID # 25 EXPLAINED Norris Reese Jim Morris Morgan Garner Darlene Blackburn Mary Smith Rose Bagley Nile Boyle explained LID #25 for the Downtown Parking Lots. After the Teton Dam Flood, Boeing Corporation of Seattle did a study and made recomm- endations to the Federal Government ways to put Rexburg on its feet again. Parking was one of the five or six things that was not funded. Later the funds for these things became available under TEDRO funds. The one stipula- tion was that we would have to have an audit after the project is finished. RE: STUDY DONE BY ARCHITECT FROM SALT LAKE East Central Idaho Planning Association contacted Kevin Watts, an': architect from Salt Lake, who did a study on the downtown area. He came up with ten proposed areas for parking lots. We were only able to buy six lots. Three zones were established according to the distance the business is from the parking lots, the amount of parking that the business already has, and the square footage of the business space, and the number of employees each bus- iness has. These were divided into three districts, Zone 1, Zone 2, and Zone 3. Zone 1 would be 69%, Zone 2 - 28.7%, and Zone 3 - 2.3%. The bases of the Planning and Zoning Ordinances was used as a bases for figuring the parking. All Businesses would be helped by the parking. It would make the property more valuable. Even property that is vacant, will be figured on a percentage. It the lot is big enough to enable a lot to have a business built and still have enough parking they will pay 20% on the parking, if they would not have enough parking after the business was built they would be charged on a 80% basis. RE: DALE WINN REPRESENTING MADISON COOP Dale Winn representing Madison Coop ask if it had been taken into considera- tion any future plans that a business might have. Madison Coop plan to tear down the building behind their store and would have more parking at that time. Nile Boyle told them that he would be contacted by the engineers and they would take that into consideration.