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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1987.01.07 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES~4 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 1 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. ~~ 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 `# , , 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. /~ _~ 4'" ~ City Clerk, lose 6ag~ 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.