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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1981.12.16 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES9�1 A motion was made by Darlene Blackburn to pay the bills and seconded by Nile Boyle. All Aye A motion was made by Morgan Garner to adjourn and seconded by Glen Pond. All Aye. 0t1L(f-q&k- Jo rter, Mayor Rose Bagley, Ci Cl MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING December 16, 1981 A meeting of the city council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held December 16, 1981, at the City Hall. Present were the following: Mayor: John C. Porter Councilman: Jim Morris Morgan Garner Sander Larson Nile Boyle Glen Pond Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn C Also Present: Mary Smith, City Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, Treas 3 RE: BEER LICENSES READ AND APPROVED Mayor Porter read beer licenses for: Safeway, for sale of beer not for consumption on the premisis. Rex Tac Inc. owned by Dean Hollist for sale of beer not for consumption on the premisis. Circle K for saile fo beer not for consumption on the premisis. VI Oil for sale of beer not for consumption on the premisis. A motion was made by Morgan Garner and seconded by Jim Morris to approve those beer licenses. All Aye. Hebden's Little Giant for sale of beer to be consumed on the premisis. A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Darlene Blackburn. All Aye. RE: AGREEMENT ON SEWER TRUCK Mayor Porter told the council we have to approve an agreement with Rexburg and Sugar City for the Sewer Truck. Richard and Rondo Barrus from Sugar City got together and drew up an agreement. (copy attached) Everytime the truck is used we make a charge of $30 per hour when we take it to Sugar City, Sugar City has approved the agreement; if we take it to any other city we will make a charge of $100 per hour. Jim ask about theuse of the truck locally for private use. The mayor said if it was just here in town the city has just been going and cleaning them without a charge, however Richard Horner told the council, the truck had been used at Idaho First National Bank and they had charged them $100 per hour and they had paid it. It was moved by Nile Boyle and seconded by Morgan Garner to approve the agreement. All Aye. Richard also mentioned that the extra $70.00 per hour would be put in a holding fund for future repairs. RE: DICK GRIGGS REQUESTS THE CITY TO HELP OUT ON BILL FOR FINDING SEWER LINE Dick Griggs presented a problem tothe council. This concerns a building on 22-26 Carlson Ave, the city purchased the property to the west of the building for a parking lot. His building was where Bowen Shoe Shop, Hoggie Heaven and a T Shirt shop are now. The building has a basement in it with a couple of toilets and sinks down there. The basement wasn't rented for quite a while and last March we rented it and the sewer plugged up. He had got the Toto Rotor and Gallup Plumbing and they put their line in and it went out about 100 feet and hit something hard and could never get through; that was when they discovered that the line had gone under the old basement, which had been filled up. When his wife first called about it, Mayor Porter thought the city could take care of it. The sewer line had been crushed under all the debris that was used to fill the hole. In August or September we decided we needed to get the sewer line fixed, and thought they could dig down and find the line and get it repaired. The city did not have the equipment to do it at that time, and H & K Contractors was doing work for the city, so Mr. Griggs got them to dig down and .try to find the line and found it and followed it out to the street about half way and lost it. So we abanded the project and decided we would have to go inside and go out the back of the building and put in a pump, the sewer in back of the building is quite a bit higher. Our bill was $1058 from H & K Contractors for search project and the plumbing and roto rotor was about $250 and the total bill was $1301.86 and we still don't have the sewer; we wondered if the city would help out on the bill. Mayor Porter said after Mrs. Griggs called him the first time he had gotten in touch with the fellow who orginally put the sewer line in, Dwayne Wilding. He still has the contract for the easement that he had with Tanner who owned that property, but it was about 30 years ago and was only for about 5 years. When the city purchased the property from Tanner we had a title search and it did not show any easement on the property, so it came as a surprise to me when Mr. Griggs told me the sewer line went under the old basement, and talked to Dwayne Wilding and he said they had just had a floor drain and hooked on to the floor drain by the furnace, and that is why Tanner would only give them a five year lease. Then we let a contract with H & K to pave the property and finish it, and the reason I told Mr. Griggs I thought H & K should do the digging was because no matter who did it, they would have to guarantee that when it was filled again it would not sink, so I thought it would be better for you to hire H & K in the first place to do the digging because it would be easier for them to repair it than if you got somebody else. When I told you to get H & K I thought you understood that you would have to pay for everything. I did not at anytime authorize the digging with the idea in mind that the city was going to pay anything. When we first started to fill the hole up it belonged to Tanner. We started to put big rocks in it because they came and ask us to because it was a big hazard. Morgan Garner suggested that the council table it until the next meeting to make a decision. RE: CHIEF OF POLICE DISCUSS CARS AND JUMK STORED ON MR. GRIGG'S PROPERTY Blair Siepert, Chief of Police, told the council he would like to mention while Mr. Griggs was there, that as they are patrolling they have noticed his property and all the bikes, old cars, and car parts, and it is starting to appear to them to be an old salvage yard. He had been going to talk to Mary about this; if it was out of the city, the county or state would require that a fence be put up. Mr. Griggs said his son had been working on the cars to get them ready to sell, and he will be home from college soon and will clear the cars off, he would also try to get the bikes cleared off. Chief Siepert said there was one other thing that should brought to the attention of the council Hollist has several abandoned vehicles behind their business, cars they have used in those derby crashes. RE: BLAIR PRESENTED PROPOSED BUDGET REDUCTIONS FOR POLICE Blair Siepert handed out a copy of his proposed budget reductions. (copy attat:zed) He explained the elimination of the one dispatch position would be filled by the assistant secretary, Janet Statham. She will be moved into this position at the same wage the senior dispatch is getting, she would be considered the senior dispatch at that time, hopefully we can get our reports typed up at the same time while she is dispatching, she will work straight day shift. We will eliminate Tom Leman's position, and he has been given notice, there is some consideration apparently by the college at this time to give him a position in their department, but it isn't final. There are other cuts, and some might be hard to live with. He ask the council for their assistance with the crossing guards to get it out of his salary budget. They would eliminate all training, and travel to meetings, which are important to their department as well as the city. Freeze all step increases and rank, and cut half of their overtime which would be hard to do. In April he would go back through the budget and see where they stand, and possibly more reductions at that time. He said he had four people who are seeking employment elsewhere. It is very unfortunate, because we are talking about senior men who have been with the department for four and five years, and of course we have a lot of dollars invested in them. He is looking at eliminating the reserve program, and going to the Cadet type program azd'there,wouldn't be any money put out by the city. This would be working with the older married students from the college and they would receive some sort of credit in their police sciences. We would use them on a regular basis downtown to cover some of the slack we will have. He said he hated to loose Tom Leman, he was very experienced and had been doing the crime prevention, but he has only been with the department for eight months. The next man to leave would be the K9 officer, Darrell Pettersson, and the next would be Dan Pettersson, who will be given notice in April. The county has raised the prisoner fees and we will see an extra four or five thousand expenses, we had not anticipated. The meals use to run $2.00 a day and now they have moved it up to $7.50. The mayor told him he thought they could get by with the way he has it this year, the only problem is next year he would have the same thing again. There doesn't seem to be any change from the state. Sometime during the year when someone resigns the thing tow do is not replace them. Blair said they would certainly run into service problems, they would not be able to cover some of the things, the public will just have to expect that, the calls will have to be delayed. RE: MAYOR PORTER QUESTIONS BLAIR ABOUT THE DOG PROBLEM THEY HAD ON SATURDAY Mayor Porter ask about a dog problem that they had had on Saturday, and had had trouble getting the dog out of the dog pound, and then had paid overtime to the dog catcher to get the dog out, when the officer on duty should have been able to do it plus it took three or four hours to do it. RE: CROSSING GUARD TO BE ELIMINATED Jim Morris said in order to make this budget work we would have to get rid of the crossing guard. A motion was made by Jim Morris to notify the school board that as of January 1, 1981, the crossing guards would be eliminated as far as the city is concerned, seconded by Nile Boyle. All Aye. RE: CHANGE IN SEWER AGREEMENT WITH SUGAR CITY Mayor Porter said when we started in on the sewer project, we entered into an agreement with Sugar City on the pipeline. After we checked over the agreement there was one part of it we noticed was pretty hard to live with, "Any connections made to this new trunk line outside the corporate limits of Sugar City or any annexed area shall be assessed $9.50 per equivalent residential unit for the purpose of reimbursing Sugar City it's share of the costs." So they had the idea that that half went to them too. There were two or three other things in there we discovered that should be changed, so now we have a new agreement. We changed that part so they get everything north of the Moody Road and we get everything south of the Moody Road. The council gave their approval for the Mayor to sign the agreement. RE: COST OF A SPEED DIP ON MILLHOLLOW Jim Morris ask Earl Kemp what it would cost for a speed dip on Millhollow. Earl said it would cost about $18 a foot total of about $500. A motion was made by Jim Morris and seconded by Sander Larson to pay the billls. All Aye. A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Z,., � 0 , UZ, Rose Bagley, tyerk Jim Morris to adjourn. All Aye oz, --7• ��& Jo orter, Mayor BLAIR K. SIEPERT HIEF OF POLICE Rexburg City Police Department 12 North Center REXBURG, IDAHO 83440 TELEPHONE (208) 356-9343 December 15, 1981 FIRST REDUCTIONS IN BUDGET Budget needed for same activity as last year 452,000.00 Eliminate one dispatch position 10-1-81 12,500_00 TOTAL 439,500.00 SECOND REDUCTIONS IN BUIX33F1.11 Eliminate Patrolman position (Tom Leman) 1-1-82 for 9 month saving -13,300.00 OTHER CUTS: Patrol car 8,580.00 Photo equipment 400.00 Office furniture 375.00 Physical Fquipment 305.00 Travel j 600.00 Crossing guard 3,000.00 Training 1.,000.00 Gas 2,000.00 Ammunition for training 500.00 TOTAL -16,760.00 FREEZE ALL STEP INCREASES AND RANK Captain Don Fowler, 10 months at 4% 600.00 Act., Cpl. Dane Bean, 9 months at 40 425.00 Act. Cpl. Austin Edwards, 9 months at 4% 460.00 K-9 Officer Darrell Pettersson, 10 months at 4% 310.00 Dispatcher Dahrl Palagi, 6 months at 4% 200.00 Dispatcher Shannon Rydalch, 5 months at 40 165.00 Secretary Sheila Villella, 6 months at 4% 310.00 Cut i of overtime, 9 months, 15 hours at $6.00 per hr. 800.00 TOTAL -3,270.00 TOTAL REDUCTIONS 33,300.00 TOTAL BUDGET AFTER REDUCTIONS 406,200.00 More reductions in April if necessary GSC C.`4�i of -SEWER TRUCK COSTS Agreement between the City of Rexburg and Sugar City GE14ERAL MAINTENANCE (parts costing less than $100 per repair) 5.00 (does not include Hired out repairs) LABOR Ist Man Salary 800 Benefits 232 2nd Man Salary 584 Benefits 169 17.85 hUEL 5 gal per hour 5.50 INSURANCE' 1.00 TOTAL $ 29.35. SUGAR CITY RATE PER HOUR. (Direct cost rate) $ 30.00 Reserve for deprecitation, large repairs and maintenance over $100 each $ 70.00 RATE CHARGED PER HOUR ALL OTHER USERS $100.00 The above reserves charged other users shall be put in a holding fund for use as needed. Any cost of repairs over and above the amount in reserve shall be split between the City of Rexburg and Sugar City Pro rate.. their populations as agreed upon by contract for sewage treatrient. All excess funds shall remain in holding to cover future repairs and maintenance unless there is a resolution by both City Councils to do otherwise. Ma o , y of Rexburg Date Mayor, Sugar City Date