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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981.09.04 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESmcm BUDGET MEETING CONTINUED A motion was made by Darlene Blackburn and seconded by Nile Boyle to except the budget as presented with the cuts suggested by the Mayor and Treasurer.' (copy attached) Mayor suggested giving a bonus of $100 to Richard for the excellent work he did on the budget. Council agreed. A date for the Budget Hearing was set for September 9, 1981. oz c Mayor John C. Porter City Clerk R Bagley MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING September 4, 1981 State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held September 2, 1981, at the City Hall. Present were the following: MINUTES Mayor: John C. Porter Councilman: Nile Boyle Jim Morris Glen Pond Morgan Garner Councilwoman: Also Present: Darlene Blackburn Mary Smith, City Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, City Treasurer A motion was made by Morgan Garner and seconded by Nile Boyle to approve the minutes. All Aye. RE: DAVENPORT RENTAL PROPERTY ON COLLEGE AVE. Mae Davenport and Betty Davenport were at the meeting. Nile Boyle reported on the rental property on College Ave. owned by Price and Betty Davenport. He and Nile Brown had gone through the old hospital at 118 College Ave. Things were quite minor. The fire escape had been ruined by a very well meaning neighbor, Risa Johnson, who tore some steps off the fire e§cape so children would not get hurt playing on them. The fire escape has now been repaired. There had been an exposed cable but it has been repaired. In order to reach the fire escape in the upstairs, students would have to go through one room to another to escape. He said he did not think it was out of code. Some of the houses would meet code for houses but not for apartments, but corrections was being made. There was wires that had been put in and not covered, the problem is now being fixed. The outside appearance of the houses had drawn the attention of people. We have trouble when zone 1 is next to another zone. If these houses had not been next to zone 1, people would not have noticed the appearance so much. In comparison to other apartments around town, they are equally as good. The things on the list that was given to the council have either been corrected or will be corrected. 1 Mayor Porter ask Nile Boyle about the parking problem. He said they were either going to rent parking from Taylors or will make parking behind the apartments. Nile said he felt it sounded worse than he found it to be. He had been in all the apartments previously when he visited girls in his ward and they are nice apartments for boys. Mayor Porter mentioned the supervision problem was between Davenports and the College. Outside of the parking problem they are now in conformance. The landscaping was a problem, but has now been corrected. Price Davenport did a good job in correcting the problems. Mayor Porter told the Davenports they need to be careful parking cars on the street; they are towed away and then the students come in and complain because they do not have the money to pay the impound fee. Nile Boyle explained to the Davenports, in the past College Ave has been a street people in Rexburg have been proud of, people walk back and forth to the College and notice the yards and outside appearance of the houses. If these rental houses was in an area by other apartments there would be no problem. RE: STUDY AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON 3rd WEST- ALSO POWER AGREEMENT Jim Morris told the council he would have a study and recommendations on 3rd West and present them to the council at the next meeting. He also has gone over the power agreement and had taken the information to Clyde Johnson and has not heard from him since. RE: DISCOUNT FOR PEOPLE WITH LEAKS IN THEIR WATER SYSTEM Mayor Porter told the council from time to time people have leaks in their water system, sometimes they are large and they think we should give them a discount. The council need to make a decision for how much of a compromise the city should make. Jim Morris said if the leak is on the home owners side of the meter, they should pay for it. Richard Horner told the council the pumping of the water is 46% of the bill. The mayor said in ordinary circumstances you know you have a leak, but there is sometimes you can't do anything about it because you are away or there is another reason. A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Darlene Blackburn that the homeowner should pay z the cost of the water caused by the leak for the first bill and after that it would be their problem to pay the entire bill. All Aye. RE: APPEAL BOARD FOR TRAILER HOUSES Mayor Porter explained since they need to appoint an appeal board for trailer houses, he thought we would have to ammend the Zoning Ordinance, but after checking the Zoning Ordinance it calls for a Board of Adjustment. This board could be organized to comply to the Planning & Zoning recommendations. Mary Smith suggested it might not be a good idea to have a council member on the board. If it would be ok with the council he would try to have the board ready to present to the council by the next council meeting. We would have to amend the trailer ordinance and also the zoning ordinance to allow trailers in the designated zones which was recommended by the Planning & Zoning Board. RE: COMPUTOR PROPOSAL PRESENTED BY RICHARD HORNER Richard Horner presented a computor proposal. ECIPDA have curtailed operations. They have computor software, hardware, and a phone line hooked to Dean Ferney's computer. They have made us a proposal to either buy or lease their equipment. (copy on file) He had talked to Dean Ferney and Ed Richardson at the college, he does the programming, and he said we could get good backup. The lease payment for this year would be $6500 but they would cut it to $4500 which could be applied to the purchase. Glen Pond suggested the way equipment is changing we wouldn't want to buy.. Jim Morris ask what advantage this computer would be. Richard told him it would save time and also our computer is getting old, we could get the utility program from Pocatello for $150, and we could also save time with the payroll. Richard pointed out that we would not have to increase the budget this year for the computer, we already have $3000 in the budget for maintainance on the old machine and $1300 in the budget for a card reader. The cost of the computer next year would be $7080. Jim Morris said he did not understand how we could think about laying off employees and then consider buying a computer. He ask why we did not stagger our utility bills like the power company does. Mayor Porter pointed out there is work that is not getting done because we don't have time, the computer would save enough time the city would't have to hire extra help to keep up the paper work. Richard said he would like to get the utility program on the new computer by October 1, and the payroll on it by Januaryl. The mayor pointed out that we would never be able to get into a computer as easy and cheap as this one, he suggested 56 RE: RE: RE: the council think about it and decide at the next meeting. Glen Pond pointed out the computor would give us better equipment. Jim Morris suggested we have a computor company come to a meeting and give us the advantages and disadvantages. Jim Morris ask if we get this computor to save time what percent of payroll will we have to cut.. Richard pointed out we are going downhill. With the system we have now. Jim Morris thought cutting people was going downhill, he was not happy about the budget at all. THE NEED FOR PEOPLE AT BUDGET MEETING NEXT WEDNESDAY Mayor Porter told the council next Wednesday at the budget meeting we need to get a lot of people here. He would write to Service Clubs and Legislators to get them here, and we could present a program to let them know our problem. The legislatures have froze our taxes and we only have a 5% raise to work with. Richard Horner handed out diagrams on revenues and expenditures and explained them. (copy attached) Jim Morris ask, if the law stated we could not charge anymore for water than it costs, he was in favor of raising garbage, sewer, and water rates. The mayor said he didn't think that was the way to do it. We can raise rated, but we need to raise the base rates, it isn't fair for widows, when places like Utah Power & Light will not have to pay more. Jim Morris said the ones that complain use the services and should pay. Mayor Porter said a man who owns a store in Rexburg that is the same size as the same type of store in Burley which is open 18 hours a day and 7 days a week, and the one in Rexburg is not open that much, has a power bill twice as much as the one in Burley. We can't change the power but we can try to equalize as much as we can with our other utilities. Jim Morris stressed the question is the city suppose to decline and go down hill, all businesses have to adjust to their costs. Nile Boyle said there is a better way to do it. The Mayor pointed out we have to have rates in line with other communities. Nile Boyle explained the problem is not with the local government but with the legislature, they have frozen the property tax for five years. Jim Morris compared Rexburg with Blackfoot, the mayor told him Blackfoot's property tax is double Rexburg. Mayor Porter had called Boise and talked to the tax man. Rexburg only gets .2766% of property assessed valuation. We held our tax low and then they froze it. We need to get the Legislature to let us go up to 1%. Mayor Porter read from a survey the AIC made. Pop. Full Time Employees Rexburg 11,500 33 Moscow 116,400 83 Blackfoot 10,000 93 Burley 8,600 89 Mt. Home 7,500 52 Jerome 6,800 44 We have 10 employees less than we had one year ago. The Police want another man and we have a problem in the street department because they do not have enough men and are behind on their work. We need to convince the people we need the override. We have had money from TEDRO to help now it is gone. We have got to decide on how big of an override we need. We need to get the facts of how much it would cost for an average house of $50,000. If we have to let four men go we will have to hire part time employees. We have 100 volunteers coming from the college this weekend to help. We are just getting the streets painted. There are a lot of ways we couldsave for example we could leave the petunia plants out on Main Street, Mayor explained. BILLS A motion was made by Jim Morris to pay the bills and seconded by Nile Boyle. All Aye. CLAIM AGAINST CITY FROM ROBIN SYLVESTER A claim against the city was read by Mary Smith, City Attorney, from Robin Sylvester for an accident on 350 South Street. A motion was made by Morgan Garner and seconded by Darlene Blackburn to turn down the claim. All Aye. �+ 1 + I { � 1 p ; -44 Y .17 i a it CITY O F REXBURG ESTIMATED REVENUES Oct. 81— Sept. 82 (without override election contingency fund) t O i'N 010�\ �ZZ tt' 0: W W 1% � v si D>< O \� t N ` Q it U �~O O Z W ix O QC M O �w -W1 Woa to C{ - J 4 O Cr O U.W W O Q g o4 W O 4 OND ''- in 469- W XL6 N ( W O W> CL O N O co W k- 4 V W O W O (� Nto 1n W t- Z ?- O O W d .gyp. 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O 0 0 0 0 0 RE: ADJOURN A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by.,lim Morris to adjourn. All Aye. MayAcC. John C. Porter City Clerk se Bagley MINUTES OF A SPECIAL BUDGET HEARING September 9, 1981 State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) A Budget Hearing of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held September 9, 1981, at the City Hall. Present were the following: Mayor: Councilman: John C. Porter Sander Larson Morgan Garner Nile Boyle Jim Morris Glen Pond Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Also Present: Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, City Treasurer Mary Smith City Attorney Mayor Porter told the council there were two or three items that needed to be discussed before the hearing. A resolution was read by Mayor Porter proclaiming a General City Election to be held on November 3, 1981, designating the polling places, designating the registrar and deputy registrars, and ordering the city clerk to give notice of such election. The boundaries of the precincts will remain the same. The following are designated as the polling places for such election: FOR THE FIRST PRECINCT: Adams School FOR THE SECOND PRECINCT: Washington School FOR THE THIRD PRECINCT: Erickson Pontiac FOR THE FOURTH PRECINCT: Lincoln School That Rose Bagley, City Clerk, is hereby designated as Registrar and the following as Deputy Registrars: Nancy Otteson, Deputy City Clerk, Marie Hathaway, Deputy City Clerk; Barbara Sorenson, First Precinct; Laurie Dance, Second Precinct; Joan Brunson, Third Precinct; Joyce Larsen, Fourth Precinct. A motion was made by Morgan Garner and seconded by Nile Boyle to pass the resolution. Those Voting Aye: Darlene Blackburn Sander Larson Morgan Garner Nile Boyle Jim Morris Glen Pond Those Voting Nay: None The mayor told the council he had not been able to find an appeals board for mobile homes yet. The mayor told the council Steve Meikle has moved, leaving a vacancy on the Golf Board, he suggested appointing Keith Larson to this board. About 20 persons attended the public hearing including State Legislator, Mark Ricks and Representative Mel Hammond, also some city employees were present. The proposed budget was presented, by the Mayor. (copy attached) He explained the Police, Fire and Street Department should be financed through the property tax. The Utilities should pay their own way, because of the freeze on. -our property taxes they can't be raised.