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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983.08.09 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESRE: FIREMEN'S RETIREMENT Mayor Porter told the council that Richard had gone to Boise to an AIC meeting to see if there was any way we could get out of paying the extra money for Firemen's Retirement, but there wasn't anything that could be done. RE: COST OF LIVING INCREASE The mayor told the council they need to make a decision on the Cost of Living Increase for the Budget. Richard had put a 5% on it while having department meetings. The council discussed it. RE: STEP RAISES In the meetings with the employees the .mayor evaluate the employees before they gave step will be a Personnel meeting at 7:30 a.m. on RE: BUILDING PERMIT REPORT The mayor gave a building permit report. RE: IMPACT AREA had told the department heads to raises. Next Tuesday morning there the 9th. The mayor said we need to appoint a committee to meet with the county about the Impact Area. We need three councilmen and three residents. They will make recommendations on the impact area. The three councilmen will pick the three residents. The councilmen appointed need to meet with the County on Monday. The mayor appointed Jim Morris, Morgan Garner and Darlene Blackburn with Glen Pond as an alternate. RE: APPROVAL OF BILLS A motion was made by Sander Larson to approve the bills and seconded by Darlene Blackburn. All Aye. RE: ADJOURNMENT A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Morgan Garner to adjourn. All Aye. y~ ~,~ ~~ JtrYin C. Porter City Clerk Rose gle PERSONNEL MEETING August 9, 1983 Present were the following: RE: DISCREPANCY IN SALARIES Mayor: Councilmen: John C. Porter Morgan Garner Sander Larson Glen Pond Jim Morris. Nile Boyle Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Mayor Porter said there seems to be a discrepancy in some of the salaries. For example, Rod Matkin who is the forman over the street department makes $1062 a month and Charlie Niederer makes $1243.' He said he was sure the Rod Matkin is worth a lot more money. Lynn Grover who is over the shop and is making $1021 a month and Robert Foster, who is the assistant makes $1243. What is happening is that someone that is mediocre starts to work for the city when they are young and get the step raises and cost of living raises, and pretty soon it doesn't make any difference the- type of work they are doing, they are doing pretty good. We have got to change. He would like to have an evaluation once a year of all the employees and tell them if they are not doing their job .and if the evaluation shows they are not doing their job when their step raise is due, they don't get it unless they have changed. He said he thought their needed to be a ceiling on some jobs, after a person.has worked so long in that job, he hits the ceiling, and he only gets the cost of living raise. Good men work for the city who can make more at another job and will quit and go to another job, and someone who does nothing will get the step raises and they are doing okay too. For example, Charlie used to be a good worker but now it is hard for him to do the job. That is why we need to put a cap on it. RE: 5% RAISE The mayor said he talked to the county and they are going to give a 5% raise. They feel they have a problem just like we do and they would like to make some kind of announcement that .this is probably the last time they will give a step raise. RE: MERIT AND STEP RAISE SYSTEM Jim Morris said he thought we should go on a merit and step raise system. Sander said we would need a form that would be the same across the board and it would have to be done very carefully. Mayor Porter said the step raise is a merit system. Sander said it acts as safety valve, if you have an employee that isn't doing the job and it shows up on the evaluation, then you. are in a position. that you can release them without falling into a law suit. He suggested that they be reviewed every six. months. He said the situation we have is that your dedicated employee gets slighted, and they get locked in and then you have some that are just floating and get the benefits and they aren't necessarily the ones that do the best job. The mayor said there are truck drivers that are always banging the trucks up and our costs go up, and he thought that should be taken into consideration. He thought if it was okay, we would tell the departments we were going to change the system so next year when the budget comes up they will know about it and it will benefit the city. The mayor said he would like to announce that next year there won't be a cost of living raise. RE: BENFIELD'S BARN The mayor said he understood that Benfield is going to build a barn, and the people up in that area would like us to annex that property up there so eventually we will have control. He would still be able to have his horse but not the barn. He said the building that is in back of his store he did not get a permit and it is not in compliance. The mayor suggested that we just take the sub-division of Sierpert's into the city. RE: MAYOR AND COUNCIL SALARY Mayor Porter said he is not going to run two years from now, and he thought it would be a good time to increase .the salary of the council and mayor. This was discussed by the council. The council decided to increase the Council's salary to $100 a month and raise the mayor's salary to $800 a month with $400 for travel expense. The mayor said he would have Mary draw up an ordinance to be passed at the next council. RE: WATERSLIDE The mayor told the council that they are going ahead full speed on the slide and it will be ready in about two weeks. RE: RE-CYCLER Mayor Porter told the council that we have .been leasing a Re-cycler and been using it this summer. Because of it we haven't had to buy any oil and we are doing a better job. It has costs us $450 a month which is applied to the purchase. The total cost is $13,500. We have paid $1800 on the lease to be applied to the balance of $9700. He thought we should go ahead and get it, we have put it in the budget. 1 RE: ALLEY The mayor said he had checked the alley city. The people should be able to shut and make it an L shape. RE: HAULING GRAVEL that was in question and it belongs to the it on one end. We could make it a one way Madison County says the water is down in the canal. The county wants us to help haul gravel to help the sub. Dell Klingler is an engineer and has a plan which should help the sub problem. The mayor said it would take about two weeks for a truck and a man. The council decided to go ahead if it was minimal. RE: MOVING AMBULANCE TO FIRE STATION The Mayor said the county is talking about moving the ambulance to the fire station, and they would pay rental on the building. MINUTES OF SPECIAL WATER MEETING WITH RICKS COLLEGE August 9, 1983 Chuck Frost said about a year ago Richard and he were discussing the water rates for the college. One of the things we noticed was the cost for kilwatt hours for the city for pumping water. At that time we were wondering if there was a way to save the city some money by having the college furnish power to some of the pumps or some other way because there was an enormous difference between the two. We got authorization to have Forsgren Perkins to pump water back to the city. Forsgren Perkins studied it and the general attitude was, yes it is feasible if we do some changes in the way our system is set up. And it is only feasible for part of the year. The reason for that is when you irrigate from the city well in the summertime, you can't pump into the city water lines because of the cross connection. By making some piping changes and a few control changes, Forsgren Perkins felt that we could pump water into the city lines during the winter months when we have no irrigation using our power rate which is lower and save both the college some money and the city some money. The basic design is real simple. You have to have afloat control up on the tank connected into the college well and then you have to have a physical break into the line between the irrigation system and the drinking water and twice a year you have to change the spool pieces in .the line. So when you go into the irrigation system, there is no way irrigation water can get into the city system. The changes are estimated at about $11,500.. The current cost for the city to pump water is somewhere between 10~ and 11~ a 1000. It is estimated that the college can pump water at about 5.6~ per 1000. Water Supply Feasibility Study on file. He said what they tried to do with the Engineers was come up with a distribution with the savings that would occur during that six month period. They tried to factor in the cost to replace the pump, there is a maintenance cost, plus the power cost. (on table 2) They tried to set a rate somewhere between the actual cost of college to run the pump and the cost to the city to furnish water. 2/3 of the savings would go to the college and 1/3 to the city. What they need with the city is the permission and an agreement with the city that they would buy the water that we would pump out to them. The estimated cost from the engineers is that the college would save somewhere between $7000 and $8000 a year and the city would save around $4000 a year. (table 3) He said if we have a failure on our pump, then you would have to turn on the pump, then the city would have to turn on the pump.. The engineers said there needs to be a provision in the agreement if there is a failure and you have to turn it on, someone has to pick up the cost. DeLynn Edstrom said the demand charge to turn on the water was about $1800. The college would have to assume the cost to get the well tested. Farrell said one advantage would be we would have a fourth well for an emergency. Mayor Porter said it would save us from putting in another well. Chuck reminded them this well would not be available during the peak summer use. The college pay back is about two years and after that they will realize some savings. The college stated that they could pick up the front end cost but could not realize any cost if the college pump was knocked out for a demant charge. DeLynn Edstrom said he thought we should go ahead with it. Chuck told the council to take time to decide what they want to do and they would like to implement it this fall. There would have to be service time built into it, and if we made an agreement we would have to say okay by a two week notice we would have to notify the city two weeks in advance when we are ready to start pumping to you and two weeks in advance when we have to get ready for the irrigation. Chuck recommended that if the city feels good about it, they get an agreement developed and get the council approval and college approval. Mayor Porter said they would make a decision and have Chuck and Richard make up a rough draft then let Mary draw up the agreement.