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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983.04.20 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESn ~~ MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING April 20, 1983 A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held April 20, 1983, at City Hall. Present were the following: RE: WATER SLIDE Mayor: John C. Porter Councilman: Jim Morris Nile Boyle Morgan Garner Glen Pond Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Also Present: Mary Smith, City Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, Treasurer Barton Jensen presented a proposal for a Water Slide, showed the plans for the slide and the slide area. He said 90% of these slides are built on a hill, which is much cheaper and more feasible. because of the expense of the tower and the support system. The tower will be approximately 40 feet high, the pool is 15' x 32', it is self-contained, has a filter system and has its own gas heater to keep the water warm. He said we would have to go with a different ticket situation than they do in most cities because you will be doing more repeat business than you would have in a larger city. Barton said they would not be fully dependent on the city pool. The council felt that the slide would be a good idea. Barton Jensen said this would give the concession stand more business and might need to be expanded. The construction time for the slide would be about 30 days. Mr. Jensen also suggested having lockers put in the dressing rooms and rent them at 25~. Mayor Porter thought we should look at the dressing rooms and see if they are adequate. Barton Jensen said it would be about a $170,000 investment, and they would need to get at least that money back. He said they would like to meet with the Parks & Recreation Committee and present their proposals. RE: WATER LINE EXTENTIONS Mayor Porter said there had been a question on water line extentions. When someone had to extend a line, we have had them extend the line the size that we have needed it. If there is a 10" line on the street it should be extended with a 10" line and if they only need a 6" line for the connection, the city would pay the difference between the 6" and 10". The property owner would have to pay the cost of burying it. That would be the proposal we would give to Lyle Robison on the extention across the river for his new building. The mayor said we have enough 10" and 8" pipe on hand so we don't have to buy anymore. The council agreed to this proposal. RE: METERS INSIDE HOMES Mayor Porter said we have another problem. We still have some meters that are inside homes. Every once in a while one of the lines from the main water line into the house will get a leak. There is one in town that has been leaking all winter. DeLynn has told the homeowner that they should fix it, but it is on our side of the meter, and they haven't done anything about it. The mayor had told DeLynn that we would give the people 30 days and if they didn't get it fixed within that time we would turn it off, but we haven't even got a turnoff in the street. The council felt that we need to move all the inside meters outside. RE: READING METERS Mayor Porter said we are in the process now of reading all the meters for the first time since last fall and we have discovered there are a few places where the line is broken and because we have not been reading meters, no one has known. We have one rule that says we will pay for half of the first billing and then after that if they do not get it fixed they have to pay the whole thing. Mayor Porter said last year the ones we found that had a broken line we estimated what they would have paid if they would not had a leak and charged that. It was decided by the council that we charge what we would estimate they would normally use for the whole winter and charge them that amount. RE: CONTRACT WITH IRRIGATION PEOPLE Mayor Porter said we have got to enter into a contract with the irrigation people, with Rexburg Irrigation; we already have a contract with Teton Pipe Line. Mary Smith has been in touch with the Water Resource Board, and they told us we have got to have a written contract lease all the time. He said it is alright with the council, he and 1 6.'~ Mary would go ahead and get it all lined up. Last year what we did is they cancelled our assessment on our stock in the Canal Company. The mayor said, what we need to do is find out what the actual acreage they are watering from our irrigation ditch and base our charge on that. Mary said we are obligated to furnish the water for those farms. The mayor said we have more shares of water now than it takes to do that, we are also dumping the wastewater from the city ditch in it. He said now that Idaho Power has control of all the water in the Snake River, our water is pretty valuable. A motion was made by Jim Morris and seconded by Darlene Blackburn to authorize the mayor and city attorney to enter into a perpetual lease with the Rexburg Irrigation Company. All Aye. Mary Smith said that Ron Carlson from the Water Resource Board suggested that we make it perpetual to let either party have the right to terminate it at anytime. RE: PRIVATE LINES Mayor Porter said DeLynn was concerned, he thought there should be something in the ordinance concerning private lines that hook onto the city water main. What we have always done is at the curb between the meter and the mainline the city has taken care of and from there into the home is the property owners line. On the homes that have meters inside their home, the rule has always been from the meter to the mainline is the property owners line. If anything happens to that connector line, they have to take care of it. It doesn't spell that out in the ordinance but that is the rule we have always followed. Jim Morris said he thought we should change the ordinance to include that. DeLynn thinks what it should be is from the mainline into the house, if the meter is in the house. If the meter is at the curb, have it from the mainline to the meter as the cities responsibility. The council suggested that a resolution be made and that the Mayor and DeLynn Edstrom get together and decide the best way it should be handled, and get the resolution ready. RE: RAISED•FEES THAT FARMERS PAID Mayor Porter said last year we raised all the fees by 50% that the farmers paid for water that comes out of the ditch. This year we have made arrangements for a backhoe to go through the ditch and clean it all out. The mayor said what we should do every year is keep an accurate account of all the costs on the ditch and have a meeting with the farmers showing the costs and assets accordingly. RE: 4TH SOUTH NEEDS TO BE REPAIRED Mayor Porter said 4th South is in bad shape and needs to be repaired. If we don't do something there won't be much left. He said we need to check and see the streets that need to be repaired and then check with H & K and see how much it will cost to repair them. RE: COSTS TO REPLACE CONCRETE The mayor said he had previously asked Farrell to talk to concrete firms and see how much they would charge per foot to replace concrete. Instead he got bids, and we had not advertised for them. The mayor had opened up the bids and they would charge $11.50 per foot which is too much. Jim Morris asked if we had our own forms because if we do, he thought we could hire someone to just do the cement work at a reasonable price at so much an hour. The mayor told him we have the regular curb and gutter forms, except for the ones going around corners. He said he was going to go along and talk to the people and see if we dug out the old curb and gutter if they would pay for the installation. Jim Morris said he would check into hiring someone by the hour to do the cement work only. RE: GOLF COURSE AND PARKS Jim Morris reported on the Golf Course and Parks. There is only two changes in the green fees. The daily fee went from $4.00 to $4.50 with the 50~ being earmarked for the Clubhouse. The other change .we have come up with is a 30 day pass for some people that come to our area for a short period of time. He said he had met with Farrell and discussed the people that are taking care of the parks. He said they had decided to pay them a minimum wage and pay the supervisor a little more. They would knock the wages down from $3.75 to $3.35 for minimum wage. RE: PAYING BILLS A motion was made by Morgan Garner to pay the bills and seconded by Nile Brown. All Aye. RE: CALLS ABOUT MOBILE HOMES The mayor said we have been having a few people call in about mobile homes. Some are senior citizens that forgot to come to a hearing. He suggested that we get the committee together and meet with them. ~j'~8\ a 7' RE: ADJOURNMENT A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Darlene Blackburn to adjourn. All Aye. City Clerk Ros ag ~. M or C. Porter MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING April 30, 1983 A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County,. held May 4, 1983, at City Hall. Present were the following: RE: APPROVE MINUTES Mayor: John C. Porter Councilman: Jim Morris Nile Boyle Morgan Garner Glen Pond Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Also Present: City Attorney, Mary Smith City Clerk, Rose Bagley Treasurer, Richard Horner A motion was made by Darlene Blackburn and Seconded by Nile Boyle to approve the minutes. All Aye. RE: REQUEST FOR VARIANCE The mayor said that there had been a request for a variance on North 3rd East. Chuck Frost had called him and the Planning Board had planned on calling everyone on the Planning Board about it, but after he had called one or two, they decided they had better have a public meeting. He said after the f1QOd, anyone that had a 50 foot frontage that had had a one-family dwelling on that property we had allowed them to build back, but this is for a four-plex to be put on it. RE: STREET REPAIRS Mayor Porter discussed street repairs. He said we have two or three streets in the city that are in bad shape. H & K is going to come in and do some work for the college and some parking lots. The mayor asked them to go up and look at 4th South and Mohawk and suggested to them that on Mohawk and 4th South we needed to have two blocks done. He had asked them to give him a price per yard to repair the road and put a half soul on it and seal coat it with chips. To do 4th South and Mohawk the cost would be approximately between $45,000 and $47,000 and the seal coating would be $1.00 a square yard for any streets that they do. The mayor said we have to bid it, but he wanted to get an idea on how much it would cost. Mayor Porter reported there is also an Asphalt Maintenance Company that has come .up with a proposal to fill the cracks in the streets. On 1st North it is starting to crack. What these people do is they rod out the cracks 1/2 inch wide and 3/4 inch deep and put a product in the cracks. He had called up the Highway Department to check on it and they use something like it. The rod out the cracks and put it in the cracks for $2000 a ton. Barton Jensen said they had done some of it in the parking lot at the East Stake Center if anyone wanted to go look at it. The mayor said he would recommend that we go ahead and let them put a ton on 1st North. and see what it looks like and then have some others done. These same people have been talking to Dr. Mix in the Professional Plaza and they are going. to have their parking lot done with this same thing. He has gone around to everyone up there and has got them to agree to have them pay to have it done on the street. The fellow told Dr. Mix it would cost about $2696 that is a little more than he planned on. The mayor said he thought if they were willing to pay 60% of it, maybe the city could pay the other 40%, which would cost the city $400 or $500. Jim Morris suggested that they go look at the streets around the city and go by priority.