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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983.08.17 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESsaid they were going to have one man in each park who will be responsible for that park and take care of the restrooms in that park. Jim said next year we would advertise for someone to supervise the parks. I~ RE: BIG FLUSH Jim Morris said the Big Flush would increase the pool revenue. RE: UTILITY RATES Richard told the council that we won't have to raise the utility rates. RE: BUDGET CORRECTIONS Richard said he would make the corrections on the budget and have it ready for the next meeting. RE: REVENUE SHARING The Revenue Sharing was discussed. Mayor Porter told the council it was $132,500.00 with $2,600 carryover. It will increase $18,000 if the congress passes the bill and it was put in the budget in case it is passed then we won't have to open the budget. If it doesn't go we will have to cut some of it out. A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Jim Morris to approve the Revenue Sharing Budget. All Aye. RE: APPROVE BUDGET A motion was made by Morgan Garner and seconded by Nile Boyle to approve the tentative budget. All Aye. MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING August 17, 1983 State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held August 17, 1983, at the City Hall. Present were the following: RE: APPROVAL OF MINUTES Mayor: John C. Porter Councilmen: Glen Pond Morgan Garner Jim Morris Nile Boyle Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Also Present: Mary Smith, City Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, Treasurer A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Jim Morris to approve the minutes. All Aye. RE: CLOSING ALLEY Mayor Porter asked the council if they had had a chance to go up and study the alley closing. Morgan Garner suggested that we close it. Nile Boyle said it is used too much as an access to the garages, and suggested that speed bumps be put in instead. Mayor Porter said they are public alleys. Morgan Garner said he did not think that the garbage people should be going back there to pick up garbage. Mayor Porter said the police had checked it and he thought it was quite a bit better. Mayor Porter said the only way it could be closed would be to have a public hearing and abandon the street and then the property owners would be responsible for. it, but he wasn't sure the property owners want that done. Chief Blair Siepert suggested that we make it one way. Gary Thompson was at the meeting, he owns property and a garage on the alley. He stated that he was opposed to closing the alley, because he needs to get in and out of the garage. There are also other li rental units would effect. Steve Terry showed the council a sketch of the alley. He said he had made a survey and all of the traffic was pulling out going west. The mayor said that when the police made their report they didn't hardly feel there was a speeding problem, they felt that it was so narrow and rough. They thought the problem was with three wheelers. Nile Boyle said we can stop the three wheelers, they are classed the same as snow mobiles and they are not allowed on the city streets. Mayor Porter told Mr. Terry, now we are aware that it is a city street, we will make sure the snow plow goes through the alleys. The council told them we would start to work on it and try to solve the problem by possibly making it a one way alley, by putting gravel in it, by putting in some speed bumps, and by stopping the three wheelers from being on the alley. Mayor Porter said he would talk to Farrell Davidson and have him start working on it. Darlene Blackburn said she would see that the property owners were notified that all garbage would have to be put out on the curb and no garbage would be picked up in the alley for three blocks. RE: TENTATIVE BUDGET Richard Horner presented the Tentative Budget which needs to be adopted tonight. Richard said he had the tentative budget in balance. Mayor Porter said the only problem is the $18,000 we have put in from Revenue Sharing, and if we don't get that $18,000, then we have to cut out some of the capital expenditures we have in the revenue sharing budget. If the Revenue Sharing money is increased by the $18,000 as we anticipate then we don't have to open up the budget agian. The mayor said as they went down the list of capital expenditures they had cut everything so it would balance with the $18,000. The Senior Citizens Bus budget was discussed. The Mayor told the council that we are in the process of getting a new bus which will .help bring the budget down. Jim Morris asked if we had the crossing guards in the budget, and the mayor said we do. RE: GREEN THUMB PROGRAM Mayor Porter told the council about a Green Thumb Program. It is a work program for Senior Citizens.. There is four spots that we can fill. Anyone over 55 years of age whose income, if they are married for a couple, is not over $6500 - $6600 are eligible and we can hire them for 24 hours a week and they will be paid by this program the minimum wage. All we have to do is have a supervisor to supervise the program and send in the time sheets and the check comes direct to the individual. The hours are flexible, if we just want them for twenty hours, as long as it is not over twenty-four hours or less. It was suggested that it would be a good idea for the parks. RE: APPROVE TENTATIVE BUDGET A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Morgan Garner to approve the tentative budget as presented in the budget book. All Aye. The hearing would be held on September 7, 1983. RE: HAZARDOUS BUILDING Mary Smith reported on the hazardous building on South 2nd East that is supposed to be torn down. The lady's son is in Alaska and will take care of it as soon as he returns. RE: WATER PURCHASE AGREEMENT The mayor told the council they needed to go over the water purchase agreement, and if they decide to go with it have Mary prepare an agreement. In the mean time, let the college start work on it. The mayor explained that the college gets the power cheaper because they buy it right off the transformer. It costs the city almost twice as much for power. The mayor said the only problem is if we turn off our wells and if there is a fire or an emergency and we have to have more water we will have to turn it on and it will cost us $1800, if we do that three or four times, then we have lost the savings. A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Glen Pond to proceed with the agreement with the college to buy water from them on an annual basis. All Aye. RE: WORK ON 1ST NORTH The mayor asked the council if any of them had noticed where the work had been done on 1st North. He and Farrell had been talking and they would like to continue that work to the stop light. It would cost $2000 and we will still have a little grout left. over and there is places around town that is starting to break up and we will fill them too. If we can't get it done with the ton we buy, he had talked with Brent Frank from the highway .department and they buy the material they use to fill them in with. Farrell will go talk to them to see where we can buy some so we can get all these places patched. RE: GLEN STELTZER TRAILER i; Morgan Garner said Glen Steltzer had called him and he said if we will give him 30 to 60 days he will have the trailer moved. RE: AIRPORT PROJECT The mayor said the airport has a project to repair the apron and to construct and mark the segment of the parallel taxiway and pave the air craft parking. It has been all okayed and is ready to go, but because the city and the county own the airport, we have to sign the papers, and the council has to give the mayor permission. A motion was made by Morgan Garner and .seconded by Darlene Blackburn to authorize the Mayor to sign and enter into the agreement. All Aye. RE: ANNEXATION DESCRIPTIONS The mayor said we have been working on the city map and have found some errors in annexation descriptions. We will get the ordinances corrected on the property descriptions and while we are at it we will annex some areas in the city that we thought were in and are not. RE: PAY BILLS A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Jim Morris to pay the bills. All Aye . RE : ADJOURNMENT A motion was made by Darlene Blackburn and seconded by Nile Boyle to adjourn. City Clerk Rose ey MINUTES OF PUBLIC HEARING 8/24/83 State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) RE: SPECIAL USE PERMIT J May ohm. C. Porter Mayor Porter started the meeting by stating that the meeting was for the purpose of a special use permit for the corner of Center Street and Second South. Ardyth Carlson, manager of the Ricks College Credit Union, was at the meeting to request a special use permit for professional business offices to be located on property zoned Residential. Said property being located at the corner of Center Street and Second South. She said ire July they had an average of about 50 people in the day. She said they do a lot of the business by mail and do a inquiries each day. They had taken a survey of the people on they felt about building a credit. union building and 68% were ones they received through the mail were about 80% in favor. building would be quite compatable with the neighborhood. It and would only be open from 9:00 a.m, to 6:00 p.m. They had gone to the Planning Board and they had okayed it. credit union each lot by telephone campus to see how in favor of it. The She felt that the is a quiet business Mayor Porter said the only problem he could see is that someone builds a home in a residential area and they do it because they think it will be residential and now you want to change that. Letters had been sent out to everyone within 300 feet of the property and there was one resident that had sent a letter to object. A protest letter was received from Edan Lucille Wood and Seth Wood, residing at 166 South Center. (copy attached) Glen Pond said one of the problems that. he saw with it was that we turned. down some for spot zoning a few weeks and asked them not to encroach in residential areas. The mayor said on the drawing it shows that the drive-in-window is right next to