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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1982.07.07 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES~~ RE: BILLS A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Jim Morris to pay the bills. All Aye. RE: JUNE 16 MEETING CANCELLED The council decided not to have a meeting on June 16, the next meeting would be held on July 7, unless the mayor has to call another meeting for some reason. RE: ADJOURN A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Jim Morris to adjourn. All Aye. i J n Porter Mayor City Clerk Ro Bagley MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL .MEETING July 7, 1982 RE: State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) A meeting of the City Council for the .City of Rexburg, Madison County, held July 7, 1982, at the City Hall. Those Present: Mayor: John C. Porter Councilman: Glen Pond Nile Boyle Sander Larson Morgan Garner Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Also Present: Mary Smith, City Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, City Treasurer MINUTES A motion was made by Sander Larson and seconded by Nile Boyle to approve the minutes. All Aye. RE: REQUEST FOR CITY TO ASSIST WITH LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM Mayor Porter said the Police Association had requested the city to participate with assistance with the Little League Baseball Team. The cost for sponsoring a. team is $65.00, and they ask .the council to help sponsor the .team, and pay z of the fee which would be $32.50. The Mayor said he would start it out with a $5.00 contribution and if the council would each give $2.50 it should take care of it because the city cannot give contributions. RE: INSURANCE CLAIMS The Mayor said we have some .insurance claims, there is a $250 deductable on sewer stoppages. There is one at Emma Bennett's, every once. in a while we have a stoppage up there under Ronald Stones garage in the main sewer and that causes the sewer to back up and go into her home. The bill is for $92.50. He suggested we pay it. He had told Delynn to go up and run the auger through the line about once every two months, to make sure it does`t happen anymore. A motion was made by Nile Boyle to pay the bill and seconded by Darlene Blackburn. All Aye. /~ INSURANCE CLAIMS CONT"D The other claim is up at Rexburg .Heights, there was a small leak up .there in the water line and they went up and fixed it but in the mean time Walters felt that it had filled up their drain field, and after they had their drain field fixed they sent the bill to us. He said he thought we would have to turn it down. The council agreed. RE: TREE PLANTING PROGRAM The Mayor told the council in their packet there is a printout from Wellsville Community Forest Program. It is a tree planting program for cities and it also has a tree ordinance in it. He ask the council to read it over and study it. He said we encourage people to plant trees out in front of their homes between the curb and the sidewalk. In the mean time as they grow up if they are on a corner lot, after about five years, it is so high that everyone complains about it becoming a safety hazard. This ordinance sets up how close they can come to the corner with planting the trees. It also tells how the city can encourage the planting of trees. He recommended the city pass an ordinance similar to this. The Mayor said he went to the soil conversation meeting, they have a tree procurment program, so he ask them about getting some trees. They told him they would give the city 500 trees at no charge. They brought us 500 Pondarosa Pine seedlings. We gave 250 of them to the new golf course and they have .been planted out there. Farrell is going to plant them around on the city property. It will take a long time for them to grow, but they will be beautiful trees. RE: FINAL PLAT FOR THE FAIRWAYS AT TETON LAKES Ross Reese was present at the meeting to present the final plat for the Fairways at Teton Lakes, and two copies of the protective covenents was also given to the Mayor. He said he had all the signatures on the plat except the mayors. He wanted to be annexed to the city, and if it is annexed they want permission to allow golf carts to travel on the streets. Mary Smith questioned if the property was adjacent to city property, she said she would have to check on that. Ross Reese said the advantage of being annexed to the city would be (1) the city sewer and water maintainance of the lines, (2) fire insurance rates are less. The disadvantages are snow removal, since that is out of the way, the crews working in town might have a tnedancy to finish up in town before they go out there and it might be the last thing done. .The county, it is on their way and it might be the first thing they would plow. Sander Larson said there are some people out in that area that had expressed to him being concerned about it being annexed to the city, because they feel that it is the city just taking one step closer to where they live, and the next step would be to annex them. Ross Reese requested that if anyone hooks to the sewer and water facilities that they have out there, that they would have to pay them a rea- sonable share. of the cost for bringing the lines from the city facilities out to that point. Mayor Porter said that the ordinance that we have now allows for any hookup to re-emburse them for putting in the line for a period of three or five years. A motion was made by Nile Boyle to approve the plat and start legal work for the annexation. and public hearing. Seconded by Morgan Garner. All Aye. RE: OUTDOOR DANCES Mayor Porter said he had a letter from Blair Siepert, Chief of Police asking for the consideration of the council on approving outdoor dances. There was a dance held outdoors on June 19, 1982 and they had 13 complaints. It seems that most of the complaints are from people that are working shift work or complaints because their small children cannot sleep. Mayor Porter and Nile Boyle said it had not .been approved by the council or mayor. Nile Boyle suggested that we contact Jack Wilcock at the High School and tell him they cannot have outdoor dances. The Mayor said in the minutes it says that any outdoor dance cannot go after 10:00 P.M, and has to have permission from the City Council. RE: SPEEDING ON COLLEGE AVENUE Sander Larson presented a petition to stop speeding on College Ave. The people living on that block indicate that there is increased amounts of .turn around traffic on that street., and there are 19 children under the age of sixteen and it is a narrow street.. There is a 25 mph speed limit on that street now. The mayor suggested we have the police check it with radar. We have also a problem on Birch and will have it checked with radar. RE: STOP LIGHT AT 2nd SOUTH AND .2nd .WEST Sander Larson ask what the status of the stop light on 2nd South and 2nd West is. The mayor said that last time he talked to the highway department that thdy had_let the contract. Jerry Dick had told him that by the end of July, he was sure it would be in. The highway department said the new highway will be ready to open the 2nd week in September. They ask about having a grand opening and a ribbon cutting ceremony,. he thought it would be a good idea. RE: BOYD CORDON PRESENTED A PLAT FOR A HYBRID MOBILE HOME SUB-DIVISION Boyd Cordon of Golden Valley Development was present at the meeting to present a plat for a trailer park, to be called West Side Estate. It would be treated as a Hybrid Mobile Home Sub-Division, rather than a trailer park. People would buy the property to put the trailer on and maintain the property. This is across the. tracks west of Porter Park. He also gave the city a copy of the pro- tective covenents. This had previously been approved by the council for a mobile homecourt, the difference is it is now a mobile home sub-division, the lots will be sold and in the protective covenents it will be restricted to mobile homes. The minimum s.~e of mobile homes to be put in the sub- division would be 12' x 60'. Originally we had 12 lots and .now we have cut it to 10 lots. They have made a cul-de-sac to help the traffic flow and also to widen the lots. They intend to deed the street over to the city, there will not be curb and gutter down the sides but it will be a cross drain to replace the curb for easy access of backing in of the trailers. There will be no parking on the street. The trailers will have to be set back according to zoning so they will be uniform. A motion was made by Sander Larson and seconded by Morgan Garner to except the plat. Those Voting Aye: Those Voting Nay: RE: RE: RE: PROBLEM WITH SPRINKLING SYSTEMS Glen Pond Darlene Blackburn Sander Larson Morgan Garner Nile Boyle None '<:` Mayor Porter said we have had a number of people putting sprinkling systems in and having it done by people that .are not plumbers. They are not even getting licenses or permits to do it. There is a state law that a sprinkling system has to have a back-flow and a cross drain. If someone puts in a sprinkling system and there isn't a back-flow and a cross drain put in when they turn the water off that water can drain back into the city system. The mayor said he thought the people putting them in should get a journeyman's plumbing license and a plumbing permit, so it can be inspected.. It was agreed by the council. BOYD WEBSTER - AMOCO GAS PUMPS Mayor Porter said he had written a letter to Boyd Webster about the Amoco Gas Pumps and told him he was operating on public property. He came in and talked to the mayor about it, and he plans to move the gas pumps back, but in the mean time he would like to enter with the city on a rental on the property for a year while he figures out how to remodel. A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Darlene Blackburn that the city negotiate a contract with Boyd Webster for such time until he gets the pumps moved off the city property and the council has the right to review it every year. All Aye. REPORT ON AIC CONVENTION John and Richard .reported on the AIC convention. Richard reported on the Planning & Zoning law .passed by the state, House Bill 729. a report was given by the Gibbons Company on personnel. Presentation on legislative proposals on banking, on budgeting, raising revenue and cutting costs. He discussed some cities are billing for street lights. He reported on consolidating bank accounts, administrative sur-charge to operating depart- ments, service charges on bad checks. Mayor Porter said now the zoning law is in effect the council will ha~z~e to be careful about discussing zoning with the public before a hearing. RE: DISCUSSED PROBLEM WITH COMP TIME Mayor Porter said it seems that most cities have a problem with comp time, and abuse of sick leave. Some cities have a maximum of so many days that employees can accumulate and then pay i of the salary for the days accumulated during a years time over the maximum days. The maximum that our city employees can accumulate is 60 days, then they accumulate 12 days a year,. for the days that is unused of the 12 days at the end of .the year we could pay 4 as a bonus, that would stop some employees from abusing sick leave. He ask the council to consider that in budgeting. RE: DISCUSSION OF OVERRIDE ELECTION The Mayor told the council that we need to decide if we are going to have an override election. He would talk to the department, heads and decide the badly needed equpment and add up the amounts and get a total of how much money we need. RE: CITY PARTY The Mayor said we are going to have a city party on August 10. RE: TETON DAM Mayor Porter said he had a letter from a woman in Hampton, Virginia, asking the Mayor to please "don't" proceed with plans to build the Teton Dam. RE: THANK YOU CARD The Mayor read a thank you card from Farrell for the flowers we sent to his dad's funeral. RE: BILLS A motion was made by Morgan Garner and seconded by Glen Pond to pay the bills. RE: ADJOURN A motion was made by Sander Larson to adjourn and seconded by Nile Boyle. All Aye. ~l~ J er Mayor Rose Bagley y C MINUTES OF A SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING July 15, 1982 State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) A special meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held July 15, 1982, at the City Hall. Those present: Mayor: John C. Porter Councilman: Sander Larson Nile Boyle Jim Morris Glen Pond Morgan Garner Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Also Present: Mary Smith, City Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, Treasurer RE: WATER BILL FOR MARK GARNER Mayor Porter ask the council about a water bill for Mark Garner, that was overdue and going to be shut off. The ward was going to pay the bill, and he ask if we could wave the re-connect fee. The council agreed to wave it.