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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983.07.06 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESR 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 will 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 built in the fire district and take out the gas tank he had put in the back of his 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 has set up a set of rules that we should go by. There is a form, after a study has 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 City Clerk e B ley State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING July 6, 1983 A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held July 6, 1983, at the City Hall. Present were the following: Councilmen: Jim Morris Morgan Garner Nile Boyle Glen Pond Sander Larson 1 RE: APPROVAL OF MINUTES Mayor: John C. Porter Councilwoman: .Darlene Blackburn Also Present: Mary Smith, City Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, Treasurer A motion was made by Morgan Garner and seconded by Sander Larson to approve the minutes. All Aye. RE: APPRECIATION FOR FLOWERS Mary expressed her appreciation for the flowers the council sent her while she was in the hospital. RE: RETAIL BEER LICENSE The Mayor read an application for a Retail Beer License to sell canned and bottled beer not to be consumed on the premises for the Maverik Store. A motion to approve the license was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Sander Larson to approve it. All Aye. RE: STREET REPAIR Mayor Porter told the council they had the bid opening for the Street Repair. The total was $105,000 the estimate was $80,000. He said there are some things we can cut out. He said we had. decided to put fabric down, GO Textile Fabric, if we took it out it would only save us about $10,000. We did not award the bid, but we will probably work it down to save $5,000 or $6,000. He suggested that they won't be able to start until August and then we can work it into this years and next years budget. He said they were going to meet on Friday to work it out. Tiger Asphalt was the lowest bid. There was only $800 difference between the two bids. RE: PARKING PERMIT Mr. Gardner from the Career Beauty College was at the meeting to ask if there was a way to get a permit for himself and people that come in the shop to be able to park longer than two hours. in the parking lot next to the school. The council told him they could park over across the street, he said it was not convenient. He said he would like a permit for himself and seven other permits so he could check them out to people in his shop. Mayor Porter said he_did not know how we could work it because there are stores all over town and other beauty shops that have the same problem and would object. RE: VARIANCE Harold Jones and Jim Dressen had met with .the Planning & Zoning requesting a variance for the property at 107 East lst North to which is zoned R-2 for the purpose of putting an insurance and financial planning office in a home on that property. They had made a canvas and only one person objected in that area. The Planning & Zoning was concerned with off-street parking. Mr. Jones showed a map of parking, they would take out the fence and put parking where the garden now is, it would give them eight off street parking places. A motion was made by Nile Boyle to proceed, with the publishing of a public hearing of a request for a special use permit for professional business offices to be located on property zoned Residential R-2 at 107 East 1st North and for a variance permit for special parking space and blacktopping to be held on June 28, at 7:30 p.m. Seconded by Morgan Garner. All Aye. Mayor Porter told them they would be required to pay any publishing and other costs, they agreed. RE: BENFIELD HORSE The Council discussed the Benfield horse. Mary Smith said the city would have to get with the county and the Planning & Zoning to pass an impact Ordinance. Mayor Porter said he asked John Millar. to check the boundry lines to make sure it was not in the city limits. Mary Smith said they had to go through certain procedures, to get the impact area, the council asked her to proceed. RE: VACANT HOUSES Mayor Porter asked the council if they had read the Planning & Zoning minutes. They want us to get a list of all the vacant houses that people are complaing about and do something about them. Vacant lots were discussed that needed to be cleaned up of weeds (1) Corner of 5th West and Main, (2) West side of canal on both sides, (3) there is a car on 5th West, the mayor said he thought it was on old time car of Jerome Berrick's (4) car across from Porter Park on 2nd South and 3rd West (5) a lot by Davenports by Cora Nelson's belonging to Higleys which is a mess. The mayor said he had talked to some cities at the AIC meeting and they are having the firemen. burn the lots. He had asked our fire department, but they do .not have enough firemen on duty to take care of something like that and also the fires. If someone wants to burn some weeds and have all the neighbors get out with garden hoses it would be okay. Another thing is we have been getting complaints about the lot that Fergusons own behind Farm Bureau and across from the shopping center. People are dumping in the hole that is there. The mayor suggested that it should be leveled and then put up NO DUMPING signs. Jim Morris said he would talk to them. The mayor said we have had some complaints about the Mitchell property, but they have started to clean it up. There has also been a lot of complaints about the Walters property on East 1st North. RE: CENTENNIAL The mayor said we have a number of people who are doing a lot on the Centennial. Bill Christensen went out with some scouts and walked along the road from Rexburg to the landfill sight and picked up all the trash along the road. The people that have put on the pageant, Eunice Layton and Mary Lou Leavitt, they have done a tremendous job. He proposed to give .them a certificate of appreciation. He said he had bought a plaque for the "Winner of All Who Participated" from the City in the race on the 4th of July to be hung in the tabernacle. RE: PHONE SYSTEM. Gregg Merrill from Engineered Communication Systems Inc. was at the meeting to make a presentation on a phone system for the city. He presented (1) Six Button Key System, (2) 701 Electronic Key Set (3) Strata. He showed two different types with a difference of $300 between them. He suggested that we go over and look at Rigby & Thatcher offices and look at their new system. It was decided by the .council to have the Mayor, Richard, and Rose check the proposal through. Richard was to check the cost proposal. RE: CROSS WALKS Mayor Porter told the council that last year we hired two city employees to paint the cross walks. This year we have a bid from them to do the work for $2706. The city will furnish the paint and they will do the work. Jim Morris suggested that we could hire two men to do the work and .pay them a wage which would be cheaper. Mayor Porter said he would check into it. RE: ANNEXATION OF REXBURG HEIGHTS Mayor Porter said he had not heard anything about the annexation of Rexburg Heights. Nile Boyle said they were probably going to go through the county for an LID. RE: REZONING AND VARIANCES Glen Pond told the council that the Planning Board wanted the council`s feeling on what they wanted the Planning Board to do over all on rezoning and variances. Mayor Porter said the council needs to consider that we have a lot of commercial property. RE: APPROVE BILLS A motion was made by Morgan Garner to pay the bills and seconded by Darlene Blackburn. All Aye. RE: ADJOURNMENT A motion was made by Jim Morris to adjourn and seconded by Nile Boyle. All Aye. ~~ City Clerk Ros Bag y M oho C. Porter