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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983.06.14 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES1 so we will have them to give to these people.. Lf we order .them now we .can. get ,them for $2.00 off. A motion was made by Morgan Garner and seconded by Darlene Blackburn to authorize the mayor to purchase 25 books. All Aye. RE: TETON PIPE LINE PEOPLE The Teton Pipe Line people were in the city hall and want to sign the lease. Mary Smith said the lease is ready. RE: UTAH FLOOD FUND Mayor Porter said another thing, he thought the council and the city should start a fund for the people in Utah that are in the flood. The money can be sent or brought to the city hall and we can send it down to them. Sander Larson suggested that we send man power down, the mayor said that would probably be handled by the church. RE: BLUE CROSS PREMIUM Glen Pond discussed the increase in the Blue Cross premium. It has gone up about 20%. Single Membership from $53.46 to $66.55 Two-Party Membership from 118.55 to 145.25 Family Membership from 136.75 to 166.20 The employees have been paying 20% and 25% and the city has been paying 75% and 80%. This increase will start July 1. Glen read an additional clause "A new Idaho law requires that the charge for benefits for elective abortions be defined and made optional. Your current health care program includes this coverage at a cost of $.05 per contract, per month. If you prefer to remove this benefit from your group program, you may do so be completing a waiver card.." It was decided by the council. to go ahead for the balance of the budget year with the same percentage scale as we have, and then at budget time take it under consideration as to what percentage the city will pay. It was also decided to leave the elective abortion as part in the policy. RE: REXBURG IRRIGATION COMPANY Members of the Rexburg Irrigation Company were at themeeting. The council approved a contract with them and they are to pay the city $300 a year. RE: PAYING BILLS A motion was made by Morgan Garner to pay the bills and seconded by Sander Larson. All Aye. RE : ADJOURNMENT A motion was made by Glen Pond to adjourn and seconded by Sander Larson. All Aye. -~ , ~ r hn C. Porter ___~~1~~ City Clerk R B ey MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING ,June 14, 1983 State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) __.i A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held June 14, 1983, at the City Hall. 'Present were the following: Mayor: John C. Porter Councilman: Sander Larson Jim Morris Glen Pond Nile Boyle Morgan Garner Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Also Present:. Mary Smith, Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, City Treasurer RE: MINUTES APPROVED Minutes of June 1, 1983, were approved by a motion made by Darlene Blackburn, and seconded by Sander Larson. All Aye. ~~ t~ .: RE: FIREWORKS PERMITS Mayor Porter read Fireworks Permits for: Chateau Durg 121 East Main Gina Garner Junior High Parking Lot Richard Henderson 160 North 2nd East Mighty Mite 167 West Main Lynn Webster Rexburg Equipment Building Skaggs 325 North 125 East Kings 448 East Main Howells Country Corner Route ~~ Box 162 Rexburg, 10 miles south of Rexburg. If that's where they sell, they don't need a license. A motion was made by Morgan Garner and seconded by Nile Boyle to approve these Fireworks Permits. All Aye. The mayor said they were allowed to sell only safe and sane fireworks, and the police will check all the places that have permits. RE: FLOOD RESTORATION FUND The mayor said we have had a good response to the Flood Restoration Fund. We have collected $2075. It has come from a number of places, not only from Rexburg, Glen Pond said they had received several anonymous donations at the bank. RE: REXBURG HEIGHTS Richard Horn representing the Public Health Department. He said they wanted to meet with the City Council and express their concern about Rexburg Heights. It is, in their opinion, a potential health hazard. He said they have had meetings with the people to let them know that it is the intent of the Health Department to come before the City Council to present some documents and complaints sufficient to ask the city council to take some action. People have corrected their sewage problems a number of times and they have no where to correct them. Every year at the Health Department they get phone calls of open sewage complaints. He showed the council a paper that was signed by property owners who were in agreement to coming into the city. Mayor Porter said Clayter Forsgren, the engineer, was at the meeting to give estimated costs on sewer and curb and gutter. He gave handouts on the estimated cost of the sewer system and also showed a drawing. Sanitary Sewer System Cost Summary Sanitary Sewer Collection System $2,750 Pump Station and Pressure Line 43,100 Number of Lots Served 35 Collection Costs Per Lot 2,365 LID Costs Per Lot For Sanitary Sewer 10 year bonds @ 10% $31.25/month 15 year bonds @ 10% 25.41/month These costs would include the engineering and administration. Clayter explained you have the sanitary sewer and then .you have the pump station pressure line. Stubs would be put in across the street, it will not run lines to the houses, it would make a collection line and a tie into every home. Nile Boyle asked Clayter Forsgren if he had looked into the feasibility of a grant for this. He said they are inquiring about it; to get a grant on a collection system is almost next to impossible. The only place they are giving out grants is where people can show economic problems or extreme health problems, but even then it is generally on the trunk line, it would be easier to get a grant on the lift station and on up the hill than it would to get a grant over to Rexburg Heights. G~ , Mayor Porter said he talked to the state and suggested that if there is a chance to get the city's share, then what ever we got for the city's share we could apply to help on the other. The only way we could get it is if the health department would certify that this was an extreme health hazard. There could be a matching grant, we could get from 25% to 50% of the cost of those two lines, that would reduce the rest of it a little. We may be able to get a grant for $25,000 which would reduce it 20% to 25%. Nile Boyle asked the group if they would want to pay that much per lot cash and circumvent the annexation. Clayter Forsgren said there would be no reason that they could not do that. Annexation would make it so you could have an LID, but they could possibly get one in the county. Clayter said it would cost about $4 a foot from the septic tank to the line to dig and connect onto the sewer plus a hook-up fee, $300 from the city. Clayter said we could figure into the LID 100' or 150' of connection pipe for every house and then divide that into the total, and if people are more than that feet, they would have to pay for additional feet. Clayter told the people after the LID is set up it would take about 30 days for construction. Clayter Forsgren passed out a work sheet on the cost of road construction and curb and gutter. Road Cost Summary Road Cost Typi Frontage Total Cost 175' $5,425.00 220' $6,820.00 Construction Total Cost $213,900 Per Front Foot $31.00 gal Lot Costs Cost/Month Cost/Month 10% for 10 yrs. 10% for 15 yrs.. $71.69 $58.30 $90.13 $73.29 Clayter showed drawings explaining that our Sub-division ordinance calls for Curb & Gutter. John Millar had checked it out and said there are some places that the road will have to be completely re-built to bring them up to city standards. Nile Boyle said if he had a lot up there, he would rather get a loan and pay for the sewer and curb and gutter. He said the. reason he thought there should be curb and gutter put in is we require it of everyone else and as soon as we accept those streets we are going to have upkeep on them and. if the upkeep starts quick, it is not fair to .the rest of the people to have them cone in contrary to the Sub-division ordinance. Richard Horne said the best solution is annexation. There are a number of homes up there that have no choice other than hooking onto the sewer. Clayter Forsgren said the Rexburg Heights could get together and put in a sewer line. Richard Smith asked what kind of studies have been done to see if septic tanks will work. Richard Horne said there is always new research, initial study by the Health Department was that they thought it would work up there, when the project was initially put in. Ken Burt--I feel that we are at the mercy of the City Council, and I think the only solution of the problem is being hooked up to the city sewer. He said at one time the city council agreed to turn it over to the Planning & Zoning and take their recommendations. The minutes of the Planning & Zoning was that. they recommended that Rexburg Heights be annexed, and wave the provision for having curb and gutter. He felt that putting curbs and gutters in Rexburg Heights was prohibited because of the cost. He didn't think it was fair because the developer did not put the sewer system in when he developed the sub-division, and didn't put curbs and gutters in. He said they didn't have a bad drainage problem. He said he would appreciate it as a home owner if the city would wave the curb and gutter; the roads are good roads. He said he didn't think the curbs and gutters would be an advantage to them, the lawns and driveways are right up to the side of the road. Nile Boyle asked Clayter Forsgren how the road would last without curb and gutter. Clayter said the main thing curb and gutter does is to keep the water from getting on the edge and working under the road. He said he didn't believe that the roads were constructed at city standards. Nile Boyle asked Mary Smith what would happen if we annexed and had a stipulation in the annexation that when improvements had to be done it would be done at the expense of the property owners. Mary said you would have to stipulate that any improvements would have to be born by the property owners of Rexburg Heights. Mayor Porter said he thought it would be a good idea for the city council to go up and look at it. Dr. Dave Crandall--I moved to that area two years in September. One of the things that attracted me to that area was the chance to have a little more spacious area of my own. Where I came from in California, there was no room, and very little privacy; and I appreciate the rural environment and also being able to live close to work. He said he saw that area as being different to the downtown area, because it is rural in orentation, but the controls are there to keep that area nice. He felt this was keeping the value higher. He suggested considering going ahead and solving the sewer problem separate to the annexation. He would like to see keeping the rural environment. He did not feel that curbs and .gutters are necessary. He would be in favor of keeping the animals up there. He would be in favor of having the city help solve the sewer problem and letting the residents pay the additional outside of city rates, without annexation. Nile Boyle said the only thing the city can do is put in the pump station, which we are going to do anyway. If they are not in the city, we cannot help with the financing. He said if they want to just put in the sewer, most of the people could finance $3000 per lot and not go through an LID. Richard Horne--He said he would like to see the city council make a stand as to if they are going to be annexed and what standards they would have to meet, or they would have to form their own LID and let them hook onto the sewer. Mayor Porter said we won't take them in with the horses. Mayor Porter said if they put in their own sewer district and hook on to the city sewer, the costs would be l~ times that of the city residents for hook-up fees and regular sewer service. Richard Smith asked if we could annex them and state in X amount of years they would put in curbs and gutters & streets, and. from the date of .annexation start charging from a formula for the LID and set that money aside to do this work. Mayor Porter said that one of these days the county. will tell Rexburg Heights they won't maintain .the streets. The mayor said for instance he pays taxes to the county and they take care of several sub-divisions in the county and they don't help the city on their city streets. In Salt Lake City the county has put a tax on the sub-divisions to maintain the roads. Eventually you will have to take care of your streets, because you won't get a farmer that pays taxes to fix your streets. Richard Horne--He said he understood that the city has the power to annex them in without permission of the people if the Health Department insisted they annex because of health .problems. Mayor Porter said he knew that, but we don't want to annex people in the city that don't want to be annexed in. Sander Larson told the people that there were several alternatives: 1. you can annex with the sewer and the curb and gutter and it is very expensive. 2. you annex with the sewer without the curb and gutter. 3. & 4. the same thing and if you annex with horses or without 5. you establish your own special LID or finance your own sewer system. Nile Boyle told them that if they can't get their money for the sewer system, there is no alternative than to be annexed. Ken Burt said there are. some people that could not get the money. Ken said without curb and gutter he thought he could get 75% to sign the petition for annexation. Mayor Porter told them they could have their own sewer district and then enter into a contract with the city to maintain it. The county could form the LID. Mary Smith said she thought we should have the property owners come to the next meeting with a request for annexation and present us with what they would like and we could either accept it or turn it down. If they don't want curbs and gutters at this time they need to state that and that they would come in as R Residential and comply with .the zoning laws of the city. This should be on a petition signed by the property owners. A motion was made by Nile Boyle that the city council go on record as stating that if annexation occurs, they will comply with all the regulations of the Sub-division Ordinance of the city or they will form their own sewer district and stay out of the city and we will aid anyway we can with the sub-station. Seconded by Morgan Garner. All Aye. RE: LUBRICATION ENGINEERS Mayor Porter said there is some Lubrication Engineers that want to put on a movie and program to see if they can save us any money. The mayor said he would tell Farrell to arrange it. RE: TELEPHONES The mayor said one day we w'11 have to buy our telephones. We have some people that want to give us a demonstration, Gregg Merrill. He would have them come to the next meeting. RE: WATER DEPOSIT RULE Mayor Porter discussed the Water Deposit Rule. We have run into some problems with hardship cases. What we have decided to do now is to get someone to sign them. That person would become responsible for the bill if the person cannot pay the bill. RE: HORSE ON BENFIELD PROPERTY The mayor said we have another problem with a horse that has been moved into the city on the Benfield property. Jay Willmore said it had been. there since Thursday at noon. The mayor said he thought we would just have to tell him to move it. Mary Smith was instructed to check on it and write them a letter. She was also instructed to write Ken Benfield a letter telling him he had to tear down the frame building he had b ilt in the fire district and take out the gas tank he had put in the back of h's store. RE: APPROVAL OF BILLS A motion was made by Morgan Garner to pay the bills. Seconded by Sander Larson. All Aye. RE: PARKING OF A TRAILER The manager from Arc Electric was at the council meeting to ask permission to park a trailer in two parking places for three days in front of his store. The council gave their okay. RE: SPEED LIMIT CHANGE Mayor Porter said from time to time people come in and want a speed limit changed on various streets. This is happening all over the State of Idaho, so the Transportation Department h~s set up a set of rules that we should go by. There is a form, after a study ha been made we fill out the form and it is a resolution we pass. RE : ADJOURNMENT A motion was made by Jim Morris and seconded by Nile Boyle to adjourn. All Aye. yor John C. Porter r City Clerk e B ley MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING July 6, 1983 State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held July 6, 1983, at the City Hall.