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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1982.09.16 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESNile Boyle said we will have the police patrol the intersection and check it with radar, and have the police ticket cars that do not stop for kids in the crosswalk. Nile suggested that we educate the children on how to cross the street.. Mayor Porter said since the police department has been cut, sometimes they are in a different place and cannot be at the crossing. Morgan Garner said he thought we needed to paint the road and put signs up. Nile Boyle said maybe we could. write a letter to the State Highway people and when they come to the ribbon cutting for the new. highway they maybe could .come and look at it. The council told the PTA .they would have a representative from the council and the chief of Police at the meeting on September 22. Lee Boyle of Reed Ave. said in his neighborhood there are not sidewalks and all the kids walk in the middle of the street which is very dangerous. RE: COUNCIL MEETING ON SEPT. lg. The council decided that there would not be a council meeting on Sept. 15, the next meeting would be held on October 6, unless something comes up. RE: ADJOURN A motion was made by Nile Boyle to ddjourn and seconded by Morgan Garner. All Aye. Jo C. rter Mayor Rose Bagley ty er MINUTES OF A SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING WORK MEETING Sept. 16, 1982 State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) A special work meeting of the City Council of the City of Rexburg, held September 16, 1982 at the City Hall. Present were the following: Mayor: Councilman: John C. Porter Morgan Garner Jim Morris Glen Pond Nile Boyle Sander Larson Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Also Present: Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, Treasurer RE: AUDIT BIDS The council discussed the audit bids. Rudd, DaBell & Hill had first given a bid of $8100, when the mayor gave that figure to the council they had. told Mayor Porter to get bids. After we had sent out requests to all the auditors in the area and received them back, Rudd, DaBe11 & Hill's audit is $1000 more for this year than the lowest bidder and $400 more for next year. Their bid for this year is $7500 and Galusha Higgins's bid is $6500 for this year. The council discussed if Galusha would charge extra for consultations. Rudd, DaBell and Hill in the past have given the city extra help. The Mayor felt that if we meet the bid from Rudd,DaBell & Hill the public would rebel. Morgan Garner said he felt like we should go with a local firm if they would come down in price. Darlene Blackburn said she was in favor of saving money. Mayor Porter said he had talked to Mary Smith, who had advised that since we had called for. bids we might have a legal problem, if we did not take the lowest bid. The council felt that Rudd, DaBell and Hill had done a good job in the past. Sander Larson said that if by law we are locked into these bids, you would probably by hung up by public critism. He said he would prefer to keep the money in town, he suggested they give Rudd, DaBell & Hill until 10:30 a.m. today to come down the $1000 so their bid would be the same as Galusha Higgens, even if it is for the one year bid. The .motion was made by Sander Larsen to give Rudd, DaBell and Hill until 10:30 A.M. to meet the bid of Galusha Higgens. Those Voting Aye: Those Abstaining: Morgan Garner Sander Larson Darlene Blackburn Nile Boyle Glen Pond Jim Morris Sander Larson said as a result of this we would have to say we would have to be as careful with other kinds of bids as we have been with this because the money is not there. He said he had received a lot of criticism about the crossing guards and if we did pay the extra .$1000 for the audit this would come up. RE: DEAN DALLING REPRESENTING MOBILE HOME BOARD Dean Dalling was at the meeting to clear p some questions for the Mobile Home Board. He said the Board would like to know what the council wanted the board to apply as far as the law was concerned. .The original Zoning Ordinance passed in 1968, indicated that you can .have mobile homes in Industrial, Commercial Zones and also in R3. In October, 1981, the city council passed an ammendment of the ordinance which says that ordinance is ammended and changed to include double wide mobile homes on masonary foundation for residential purposes as one of the permitted uses in Residential Zones 2,3 and commercial zones and industrial zones. Mayor Porter said where the confussion comes is we also have a mobile home ordinance that makes it so they can't put them anywhere in Rexburg, except in a Mobile Home Court. Dean Dalling said he thought the problem they would run into is that if they were in a certain place before the ordinance was passed, we might have a hard time kicking them out. Dean .said the problem the board had run into is if they are not allowed to have a trailer anywhere except in a court, there are clot of trailers out there that look nice and are set up and the people have lived there for years, and if you are going to start granting variances, under general-.law you should only grant a variance in extreme hardships, that people in similar situations don't have. It is going to be really difficult for anyone to show that kind of a situation. You are also going to have to show a good reason why you suddenly stopped granting .variances, or you will be liable for a law suit.. He said there are some people that have some nice looking mobile homes and it will be hard to make a decision, but if you let anyone stay that is outside of the zoning ordinance-and someone else comes in with the same situation in another neighborhood, it is going to be difficult to say this guy can stay and you can't, unless you .can show a good reason. Mayor Porter said the big problem is, some people after the flood actually have a trailer court. Jim Morris said that people owning property aren't the big problem, it is the .ones that are .rented. Nile Boyle said we need to be sure not to let any trailers stay in Rl and R2. Sander Larson said that after the flood the trailers that were located on a temporary basis should have had ample time to re-locate. Nile Boyle suggested that .they get all the neighbors within 300 feet that didn't object. Dean Dalling said that might present a problem too. Dean dalling said any of ..them that .are out of compliance will not be inclined to let them have the trailer unless they can show a good .reason, and if that is the standard the council would like applied, that is what they would do as aboard, and if the council wants to be more lenient the board will leave it up to the council and just make a recommendation. Morgan Garner said those families that own their own property and have a trailer in the right zone and keep them up, he thought they should give them some serious consideration, the others we can take care of. RE: ADJOURN Meeting adjourned. ~1~~~~ Jo Porter Mayor 1 Rose Bagley City Clerk