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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1982.04.21 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES/ /~ MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING April 21, 1982 State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison, held April 21, 1982 at the City Hall Present were the following: Mayor: John C. Porter Councilman: Jim Morris Nile Boyle Morgan Garner Glen Pond Sander Larson Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Also Present: Mary Smith, City Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, Treasurer RE: MINUTES A motion was made by Darlene Blackburn and seconded by Nile Boyle to approve the minutes. All Aye. RE: MAYOR PORTER DISCUSSED TRAILER REGULATIONS 1 Mayor Porter stated he had noticed in the minutes of the last meeting that Brent & Pam Camphouse had .requested to put in a new trailer where they now had a Hud Trailer. He said under the new regulations on trailer houses, they can't put any single wides in the city unless they do it by a variance. He said he had. not been able to find anyone to serve on the appeals board. RE: WYLIE'S TRAILER PARKING We have been getting complaints at the City Hall about Wylie's Trailer court. They are renting the trailers out to Mexican. The people that live near there are complaining. It is not a trailer park and does not have any trailer park regulations. RE: DALE Mc INTIRE'S GOATS Mayor Porter instructed Mary Smith to .write a letter to Dale Mc Intire with the goats. RE: GRIGGS PROPERTY ON WEST MAIN Mary. said she had been getting a lot of complaints about the Griggs property on West Main. She was instructed to check into the zoning ordinance relative to that situation. RE: GARY JEPPESON FROM ECIPDA AT THE MEETING i Gary Jeppesen from ECIPDA was at the meeting to talk about Block Grants. Mayor Porter said the city was in the process of requesting a grant to upgrade some sewer lines in the city. Gary said the State of Idaho had .taken over the Hud Community Block Grant Program. It is a 100% grant program, however, the way the state has got it set up, is you get additional points if you have additional matching funds involved with the program. The state requires that we submit a letter of intent immediately if the .city intends on applying for a grant, and they need to have a public hearing between May 17 and June 1. The ceiling on the grant is $350,000. Using what the college put in which is $170,000, we would be applying for a grant of $154,500 from the State, the entire project would be $324,500. This grant does not include the Rexburg Heights portion of the project. The state wants an application telling how many low and elderly income people there are in the City. ,_ The Mayor said that we had a study made and there is two or three areas in the city that we need to enlarge the sewer lines; we have the TEDRO sewer money and also TEDRO money from the storm sewer for matching funds. We still have .about $190,000 sewer money in the TEDRO money. We will have to put in the lift station for Rexburg bench with TEDRO money, and the line to the lift station. A motion was made by Nile Boyle to apply for the grant to upgrade the sewer lines at the four places approved in the Sewer Study, and set the Public Hearing for May 19 in conjunction with the regular council meeting, seconded by Jim Morris. All Aye. RE: LYNN ARCHIBALD DISCUSSED THE WHOOPEE DAYS Lynn Archibald was present at the meeting representing the Chamber of Commerce to discuss the Whoopee Days. He wanted to know if a decision had been made by the City Council with regards to the Chamber using Porter Park and all the facilities including the swimming pool and merry-go-round. The council told him that was one of the big days for the swimming pool and merry-go-round and the city could not afford to let them use it without receifing revenue from it, there would be no problem for them usint the park. Jim Morris told him as far as using the facilities there would have to be an agreement worked out for the exclusive use of them and we would .have to come up with a figure of how much money the city would have to have for the use of the facilities. Jim Morris said he would get with Lynn Archibald and work out an agreement. Mayor Porter suggested a program be .worked out so if they give out tickets, that when we redeem the tickets we collect the money from the Chamber. RE: LAWN MOWER BID AWARDED Jim Morris reported on the purchase of the new lawn mower tractor. The bid was awarded to John Deere Tractor. RE: MAYOR PORTER DISCUSSED CULVERT PUT IN LAST YEAR-BURGRAFF, STEINER & WALKER The Mayor told the council that we have a problem. Last year we put in a culvert and the cost was to be split three ways between the city, Burgraff and Steiner and Walker. Steiner and Walker have not paid their share. The mayor had written Dale Steiner a letter about a month ago and had no reply. It was recorded in the minutes of the council meeting last year that they were to pay their share. Mary Smith was instructed to check into it and write a letter. RE: DISCUSSED PROBLEM WITH WATER CHARGES AT MILL HOLLOW TRAILER PARK. The mayor told the council in their packet there is a letter from Community Consultants which has to do with Mill Hollow Trailer Park. Every since we put in the new water line that serves them and the new meter we have had alot of problems. There is also a sheet in the packet with a schedule of their utility billing over the past year. (copies of both attached). Starting July 1981 their water bill jumped more than .double, so ass last summer we thought there was a leak. Gene Palmer had a backhoe down there digging to try to find a leak and both Gene and the city tried to see what was the .matter. Finally Community Consultants came up and checked all the flows which indicated that there is probably not a leak in the system. They have estimated the water usage for 13 days at 234,000 gal., projected gallons in 30 days 541,904 during the winter months. The city went down, in order to establish the sewage flow for the charge for the sewer, DeLynn put in a meter in the sewer line and recorded the sewer flow and established there was 14,674 gal a day, or 440,000 gal for 30 days. The difference between the average water consumption of 18,603 gal per day and sewage flows of 14,674 gal is normal. The difference being 3,929 gal divided by 328 people who occupy the park is 11.97 gal per person difference. This would be on any used inside or outside that would not go into the sewer system. Mayor Porter had met with Gene Palmer the other day and had suggested that we would go over the account and make some adjustments. He suggested we give him a $900 that he had overpaid. Earl Kemp said we need to get the check valve fixed so it doesn't run backwards on the 8" line, the 6" line is running okay and all services are running through the 6"line at the present time. During the summer when they start irrigating we will keep track and see what the difference is this July in comparison to last July. The council agreed to give him the credit, and bill him on his actual usage. ~ RE: PROBLEMS WITH OTHER SEWER RATES. 0 The mayor said we have two or three other problems with the sewer ,rates. One is Rexburg Food Center where their cooling system uses water so their water usage is tremendous, and their sewer rate jumped from $50. to $390. ~/J They are going to make a new line and dump that water in the storm sewer, so it won't go through the sanitary sewer. The other place in town is Petersons Culligan Soft Water, they flush all of their .tanks and we will have to work out something with them, possibly the same thing. Jim Morris said his system is the same thing, but he would leave it like it is. RE: PROBLEM WITH FLOODED BASEMENTS Mayor Porter told the council that we have had some basements flooded when we had the last run off. The insurance company took care of everyting except one of our city employees, Dave Thibault. The adjuster keeps turning it down. Archibalds Ins. think it is a just claim. His basement was not flooded with surface water, it was sewer water. In Mill Hollow Meadows, water was running into the lift station and it .caused both of the pumps to start working and forced all of the water into an 8" sewer line and it caused the sewer line to sur-charge and started flooding people along there. The mayor ask Mary Smith to write him a letter. RE: TRAILER BOARD Nile Boyle suggested that we need to get the Trailer Board .chosen as soon as possible, so we can give an answer to the Camphouse's in 2 weeks. RE: BILLS A motion was made by Nile Boyle to pay the bills and seconded by Darlene Blackburn. All Aye. RE: ADJOURN A motion was made by Sander Larson and seconded by Morgan Garner to adjourn. All Aye. /° ~~ ' ~~ City Clerk