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The ~~ayor told the council that there are thr;.~e Circle K, Brouliurns, and ThP:~nuerl~ird
Oi 1 that ~~avc Sot ~gvt '~hei ~ county 1 i cense because the Coui<1 t,~ have nqt hay, tr,~~i r meeti ny .
He ask the council~fthey would approve thew tEnree with the others and authorize t'~e
clerk to issue those three licenses a- ter she gets 'the license from the county to go
with the other paper work. A motion was make by ,di1e Boyle and seconded by Darlene
Blackburn to apNro~~e all the beor licenses listod above a7d Gutl~orize the ci~rk 'to issu,~
the 1 i ceases for the Circle I:, Broul ~i~ns, and hui~~~;erbi rd t7i 1 ~•d~:~en th?y get ~th~e-i r county
licenses. All Aye.
RE : 2ND E=AST PR~OJ ECT
The council set January 7, at 7:30 P. M. as the date :vhen the;/ could act on the znd
East project. They would have a man from the highway department ocme to the meeting,
d also somcon-= from Forsgren Perkins and any people that are interested.
A motion ^~as made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Bruce Casper to pay the bills.
All Aye.
meeting adjourned.
SPECIAL MEETING
January 5, 1987
Those Present:
~9ayor: John C. Porter
Councilman: Bruce Sutherland
Bruce Casper
Nile Boyle
Sander Larson
Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn
Also Present: Rose Bagley, City
Clerk
The mayor handed out a sheet with three options for the signal on 5th I,Jest & Main
and discussed them. (attached)
(1) To use urban money which would take about two years.
(2) To use secondary money, the problem with that, the county has used all their
secondary money and that would take about two years.
To go with 1 & 2 would take more engineering because the federal government is in-
volved.
(3) The state and the city would get together and sign a contract to put that in
ourselves. The total cost is $63,000. The state would furnish all the material and
the cement. It would cost the city $10,000. The state would put up $53,000. If
we go this route, they can get it in August. The reason is they have all the material
themselves. They suggest that we get the people down in Idaho Falls that have
a concrete saw, to come in and saw everything out. That is included in the $10,000
price. When we get everthing done, the state would come in with their crews and
put the post up and ,the electricians would wire it. He suggested that we get together
with the schools and the county. The only thing is it will cost us $10,000, we
have saved spine money with snow removal. Some of the money will be in labor. The
mayor suggested to go with #3, the council agreed. We would have to give up the
remodeling of .our other lights for a year or two. (After the meeting Sander Larson
contacted the school, and they said they would give $2,000, when they start their
new budget in July. He called Bruce Wevster byt was not able to get in touch with
him yet, but was going to ask the county for $3,000.)
Charles Zollinger has his shc~ on Center Street in the middle of the block, he
wants to enlarge his shop to house some of the equipment. The zoning laws won't allow
him to, because he is there under the grandfather clause and they can't enlarge.
He took a petition out. and there is no one against it. It will not be used to in-
crease the traffic or business. The council did not object. Bruce Sutherland men-
tioned that they needed to get morn names of people on Center Street.
Mayor Porter said he had dug out the comprehensive plan for 1973, Dick Davis was a
councilman on it and Dan Hess ^r~as representing the College, Art Porter was on the
Transportation nad circulation committeL. The porgected population was from 12,000
to 15,000 and they are right there. Randy Porter and Dick Davis want to go with 2nd West.
The problem with it is that is nobldy lives on it. P~lost of it is outside the city.
The council told. the mayor to mention some of those things at the meeting Wednesday.
We also agreed with Ward when we were negotiating with him on the sewer line, to map
w~jere 2nd 6Jest would go through his property. Forsgren-Perkins drew a blueprint and
and he accepted it and the council accepted tt. We have done a lot of planning.
All of the people that were here and wrote letters wanted a compromise and did not
want the project to be killed. They wanted it so we could get the snow removed
and a buffer strip, and we have done this. The people can go on an improvement
district and widen it to 40 feet, maybe we cna get the south end but it will cost
everyone on_that street two or three thousand dollars. There would be a lot of
opposition in that. Nile Fullmer says that if the road is built it would divert
traffic around Rexburg, so the business would be hurt. No one is going to use that
street to go around Rexburg unless you live up there now. 46 feet is not a wide road.
The mayor said he would be in favor of limiting heavy trucks, by only .letting them
go down to 5th South. That would take care of all the farm area up there, they could
go from there South to the Erikson Road.
Mayor Porter told the council he had talked to Chuck Frost about and Inspector. He
recommended Glen Bean, he is retired. The college uses him all the time, when they
have a big project. The mayor talked to Glen and he is willing to inspect part time.
Within the next month he will try of get a certificate from the state. Sander
Larson said he is an easy man to work with and Very accommodating. He would inspect.
the bigger things like the nursing home and do the safety inspection. He would
rather not do the smaller things like houses, which is okay, we can keep Nile to
inspect them. We would pay him $100 a month. The mayor talked to Chuck Frost about
Tom Mathews, and he thinks Tom is as good as anybody we can find. The only thing
is he is too tough.
Sander Larson said he ahd talked to Rex and told him that we are anxious' that he
sent Gordon Tychsen to these safety schools, and to let us know which ones he is
going to, possibly twice a year. He also told him that we wanted them to meet once
a month to review projects that are going on in the city.
Adjourned.
~'~INUTES OF THE. CITY COUNCIL MEETING
January 7, 1987
State of Idaho)
County of f~adison(
City of Rexburg)
A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held
January 7, 1987, at the City Hall.
Present were the following:
Mayor:
Councilman:
Councilwoman:
Also Present:
John C. Porter
Bruce Sutherland
Sander Larson
Glen Pond
Nile Boyle
Bruce Casper
Darlene Blackburn
Mary Smith, City Attorney
Rose Bagley, City Clerk
Richard Horner, Treasurer
A motion was made by Bruce Casper and seconded by Bruce Sutherland to approve the
minutes. All Aye.
RE: SECOND EAST PROJECT
The mayor announced that tonight the council was going to ~~~ke a decision on the
Second East Project. There were several people at the meeting to participate in
discussion. Le Roy f~1eyer and Clyde Gillespie from the Rigby Highway Office, and
Clint Kingsford from Forsgren Perkins were at the meeting to answer any questions
the people might have.
The mayor said the first thing he wanted to do was to go over the p~~ject and
explain what the city has done to plan this project, it wasn't done overnight. The
street was designated on the urban route of the City of Rexburg, as a minor arterial
by the comprehensive plan that was created in 1973 and expected by the city. The
mayor at that was h1ayor Shirley. One of the members of that committe was Dick
Davis, another member was Dan Ness, and on the traffic circulation committee on the
Comprehensive Plan was Art Porter. At that time they designated 2nd East as a minor
arterial and 1st West and 2nd North. Since then we have had hearings and added
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more streets to .that plan. When I, became Mayor there was no money available
to widen the streets or improve it, so ~r~e did nothing about lt,. Wh.en the college
developed that street on the south end from fourth south they did widen that street,
you will see that the curb was put over so it could be 60 feet wide. This has been
nothing new to the present administration for improving the street. After the ononey
became available, and we could get 95% of the project funded, we decided to take
action, so we started a planning process. We knew there would be a lot of
controversy, but we went ahead with the 52' and after the hearing, we found that
there were many people that were against it. We decided to look for a compromise.
In the letters and in the testimony that were given, the majority of the people
wanted the project but they didn't want to compromise. The big problem was. the two
blocks between 1st South and 3rd South, they wanted that as narrow as they could
get it. The problem the city had was we coundn't get the project approved by the
state and federal people unless there was something done with the two blocks that
were so narrow. After the hearing we went to work to see if we could get the
compromise that everyone wanted, so we could go ahead and get the project underway.
At the time we thought that 46' was about as narrow as we could get it down to.
LJe talked to the state people and they in ty~rn talked to the federal highway
agency. We had one of their representatives come here, at that time. he was talking
48', and then he decided they would go vaith 46'. We decided we had to bite the bul-
let and decide where the project was, and vahat was going to happen to it. We have
decided row that if we go to 44', we think that the state will except that, and so
will the federal people. Before we get into the actual discussion, to let you
know we are thinking about the future as well as those people did back in 1973,
(he showed .the drawings and map and explained it). In 1980, we held another public
hearing to determine what would be the south entrance and exit. At that time 2nd
East was named as an arterial, 1st West was also named. When we negotiated the
right-a-way with Mr. Ward's property, we at that time drew him a map with a street
that would eventually go through on 2nd West clear through to Erikson Highway. This
is something that would be done in the future. If someone developer this area they
will know where this street will be. We took no action on that street because it
serves no one at this time. We have improved 3rd 4Jest from 4th South to 7th South.
From that point to the Erikson read is outside the city limits. We felt that it
would be faulty to spend all of out urban money on this route and then have these
people that live inside of the city and on 2nd East not have the advantage of the
new street, we would strill have to build a street for them. We feel that the only
traffic that will be generated on 2nd East that is not already there is from the new
homes that will be built in Cresthaven. The council decided that on 5th South where
the Green reservior we would put signs "no heavy trucks north of that point". The
farmers would not allow trucks, from there down to Main Street. They would have
to go back to the Erickson Road and go down to 5th West or to Millhollow.
Cliff Jaussi- I noticed that in the paper they are planning on making the road up
above 4th South, 42 feet clear through. The mayor said we had received a letter
allowing 44 feet. Cliff ask how he was going to measure the width of that from
what points, concerning the curb. Clint Kingsford said it would be from the face
of the curb to the face of the curb (the top part of the curb that is sticking up.)
It would be 44 feet from face of curb to face of curb. He ask about the grass and
sidewalk. The mayor told him they would have a 6 foot strip of grass and a 5 foot
sidewalk. The mayor said if we are talking about a 44 foot street we are actually
taking about a 40 foot mat. The r~~ayor and council told the people that the parking
might have .to be on one side of the street only.
Dan Hess ask if we would have the 44 foot street, if so he had no argument. The
mayor told him there would be a 44 foot street.
Jim Long-Architecture Landscape from Ricks College-ask if there was a commitment in
the budget to replace trees, the council told him there was. He ask what the specs
on the size and style of trees was. The mayor said, we haven't got themyet, but we
would probably plant the largest tree that can be planted. Bruce Sutherland discus-
sed the size of the trees. Jim Long stated that he hoped there would be a standard-
ization in the size of the trees. One thing we have discussed in other meetings is
that all the neighbors decide the type of tree they want.. We should make sure it
is hardy enough so it won't die, and it should be a tree that won't dirty up the
neighborhood. Mr. Long suggested that the city hire a landscape architect as a con-
sultant. He said he was not licensed in Idaho so he was not asking for the job.
The consultant could help you select the trees that would be best.. The mayor told
the coucil that Mr. Long had brought him a book a couple of weeks ago, it has a
model ordinance in it for tree planting and tells what type of trees you should plant.
according to the area you are in. Todd Bagley who is an Architecture Landscape in
California, was in the office the other day and the mayor showed him the book, he said
he had one in their office in Riverside California and agrees with Mr. Long on the city
needing a tree ordinance, and the type of trees to be planted. The mayor thought
we would do something like that but it would be all in the planning of the road. He
would suggest that the people ors that street should decide what type of tree ti7ey want.
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Nile Fullmer-.We have an existing 35' wide road,, less 10 feet of parking which gives
us 25' travel space. We propose now a 44' foot road, less 20 feet of travel space,
Sp we are spending two million dollars to loose 1 foot of travel space. The mayor
corrected hi.m haying that it would not be spent on the two blocks, that would be for the
whole project. He also told him we are widening the street 9 feet. You also will have
the road rebuilt, and we will replace the sewer line on trhee or four bolcks. The suer
line has been in for 60 years, and the;clay pipe is beginning to collapse.
Cliff Jaussi- If you stay with the 44 feet from curb to curb it is okay with me.
Jay Slaughter- I would like to propose that we all give the city council a round of
applause and get on with it, lets build the street.
Jim Meyers- What will be done with the intersection on 2nd South? Clint Kingsford
showed a drawing and explained that we will raise the grade slightly and widen
the street and go up the street and dish it out. It will be better than it is.
We will do the some on 1st South.
Nile Boyle .ask Mr. Meyers from the Highway Department about the traffic signal on the
corner of Main and 2nd East, and ask if that would included in this project. The
men from the Highway Department asid they had done a traffic count and it-had not
been analyzed yet. We will see if the signal is warranted. If it is warranted,
it would be nice to make it part of this project. I am not sure we can get our
financing that soon or not, but we will do ,our best, to try to gey enough money or
does it have to come out of a different fund. Mr. Meyers told him it could be done a
couple of ways, urban or under safety. We should be getting and analisis on the count
within a month, and we will know where we are at. Nile told him. it would be nice to
include it in the project, the state man said they would do their best.
Jim Meyers- How much of the new read will go through county property? Up where
Dr. Archibald lives is county property. The mayor fold him there would not be .any
improvements on county property, on the west side is city property. Clint Kingsford
said we may have to change the city limits. When we are tight on the edge where it
is city and county, there is nothing we c~a do. Mayor Porter said where there is
any homes in the county.. such as Rexburg Heights, they are going to pay for curb and
gutter, and sidewalk. The street will be a part of the project, but they will reimburse
the city for the part of the project, also the other people that live up along
the street, just South of Cresthaven, have agreed to pay the 5% that the city has to
pay. So those people are participating in the project to some extent, but the people
that have farmland are non participating, and they are going to get the road, but there
isn't much we can do about it. Nile Boyle said if they ever develope it they would
have to put in their own curb and gutter. We are not putting curb and gutter on that
side
Mrs. Sid Brown- Is there any chance they can pull that stop sign on 2nd East and 1st
South? Will that stop sign stay there? The mayor said yes. The ~ eason he wa~n.ted it
to stay there is, we have done through all the hassle for having it there. Now
if we take it out we would have to go through the same thing again. Mrs. Brown
ask about 2nd South and 2nd East, will there ever be a proposal for a stop sign there?~
The mayor said he didn't know if we would ever have the courage to pint one there or
not. Randal Porter thensuggested we sould have a stop sign on 3rd South, the grade
is too steep now but when it is fixed, it might be a better place. to put the four-way
stop.
Niles Fullmer- I don't agree with the road but I will support you. in it.
Mayor Porter said he had a lot of petitions and letters wanting the road.
Nilw Boyle ask the highway people when it would be done. Mr. Meyyers said in the summer
of 1988. Nile ask that the bidding be done and ready to go between April and August
so it will be finishea~l when the college students start to come back to town. Mr.
Meyers said they would try and get the bidding done during the winter, and get the
right-a-way and design process all done and have it ready to go in the spring.
A motion was made by Darlene Blackburn to approve the 44' right-a-way on the 2nd
East Street. Seconded by Bruce Blackburn.
Those Voting Aye: Glen Pond
Bruce Sutherland
Bruce Casper
Nile Boyle
Darlene Blackburn
Sander Larson
The mayor told the group that the Highway Department presented us with a proposal
for installing a signal on Highway 33 and 4th West. There are three proposals.
The third one calls for the city and the state to enter into an agreement to install
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the signal. That is the one the council prefer. The reason we think it is the best one,
if we can get in by the start of school next year. A motion was made by Nile Boyle
to expect the third proposal to install the signal at the corner of 5th West and Hgh-
way 33 and authorize the mayor to enter into a agreement with the state Glen Pond ask
the mayor if we have budgeted for those funds? The mayor told him that we are meeting
with school and the county and getting them to share the cost, and we do have the bal-
ance of the money. All the council votig aye.
Sander Larson thanked Mr. Meyers and Mr. Gillespie from the Highway Department for
their help and cooperation.
We have had a request for Charles Zollinger, he has a shop and warehouse in the center
of block 22, at 152 North Center. It is under a grandfather clause. He would like
to enlarge it, so he can put some of his equipment in the building. We have taken
a petition around to the property owners. There was no one opposing it. I suggest
that we give him a variance. A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Bruce
Sutherland to grant Charles Zollinger a variance to enlarge his building. All Aye.
Mayor Porter told the council that Jeffrey Bell who was in to the meeting two weeks
ago asking fora business license to rent appliances, has another proposal. He has
moved to another place, it is on the boundry of commercil and residential on South
4th West. He talked to Chuck Frost about it and Chuck told him to come to the council.
Chuck did tell him because it was on the boarder and he would not have any traffic only
a telephone sercive, it would probably be okay. The council discussed. The council
made a decision to turn it back to the Planning & Zoning.
i~1ayor Porter announced the Zoning Meetings and ask the council to make an effort
to be there. Glen Pond said he would appreciate as many as possible to be there.
January 14- Adams School
January 15- Lincoln School
January 28- Kennedy School
January 29- City Hal l
The Mayor reminded the council that two weeks ago we approved getting a Tax Anticipation
Note, for $330,000. We will borrow that until August. The low bid was 6125% from First
Security Bank. A motion was interduced by Nile Boyle and seconded by Darlene Blackburn.
All Aye. (Copy on file)
A motion was made by Darlene Blackburn and seconded by Sander Larson to approve the
bills. All Aye.
A motion was made by Bruce Casper to adjourn, seconded by Glen Pond. All Aye.
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f~IINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL ^1EETING
January 21, 1937
State of Idai~o)
County of Madison(
City of Rexburg)
A meeting of the City ~o~a ~ici 1 for the City o~` Rexburg, Madison County, hel d January 21,
1937, at the C i t~~ Ha11 .
Present were t•~e following:
Mayor: John C. Porter
Councilman; Sander L~~rson
Bruce Casper
Nile Boyle
Glen Pond
Councilwoman; Darlene Blackburn
A motion vvas made by Bruce Casper and seconded by Darlene Blackburn to approve the
minutes. All Aye.