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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1987.07.17 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES~ v The roll showed all councilmen present voting "Aye" carried, the mayor declared that the majority of all the members of the city council had voted for the passage of said ordinance, and that said ordinance-was duly and regularly passed. Mayor Porter declared the motion carried. RE: DEDICATION CEREMONY FOR THE VOCATION REHABILITATION CENTER The mayor told the council that there would be a dedication ceremony for the Vocation Rehabilitation Center on Friday from 1:30 to 2:30 P.M. RE: PJEW ASSIGPJh1ENTS FOR. PLANNING & ZONING BOARD Glen Pond reported on the Planning & Zoning meeting. The board wants to make some new assignments to the Planning & Zoning Board. They recommend that we replace 4 of them now and hold over 4 of them for two years and then in two years replace 4 that are held over and then rotate them every two years. The board will submit some new names to the council for their approval. RE: CLASS PUT ON BY THE IDAHO PLANNING COUNCIL W en we get t e new oar t ere is a c ass a ~s put on b~ the Idaho Planning Council which would ba good to train the new board. Rod Gilcrest from Idaho Falls would come and teach the class. The city would have to pay his expenses to come to Rexburg and teach the class. The mayor suggested that we invite the real estate people. We will get it organized by this fall. The council agreed that we should go ahead with the class. Glen said alot of people on the board have been on it for a lot of years and have done a good job. RE: IDAHO CENTENNIAL COUCPJIL MEETING The mayor to t e counci tat on u y 31 at the library, the Idaho Centennial Committee will hold a meeting from 9:00 A.M. It will be a breakfast and a reception. They have invited the mayor and council. RE: SPEED BUMP ON BIRCH The counc~ iscusse t e speed bump on Birch again. The mayor said he thought it was too deep. Bruce Sutherland ask who decided where to put the bump. The mayor told him Farrell and Blair went up and checked it out and decided where to put it. Bruce Sutherland suggested making it a little less deep and also paint it yellow. Nile Boyle said we need to do something and soon. Glen said there is not a street in town that doesn't have speeders. It is too severe and needs fixed. Bruce Sutherland said he would like to see them get and LID to put in sidewalks. RE: COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE STOP PAINTED ON CORNER OF CENTER AND 1ST The counc~ a a so a comp ian s a ou a way e a een painted on the road at the 4-way stop at the corner of Center and 1st North. The council said it should have been painted in big white letters further back. The council said that the regular painting of the street was not staying on the streets like it should and they wondered why. RE: NILE BOYLE ASK IF THERE IS AN ORDINANCE KEEPIfJG VECfJICLES OUT OF THE PARK Ni e oy e as i ere was an or finance eeping ve is es ou o e r e College had called him anal told him they were having 4 or 5 events in the parks where they are bringing 400 of 500 chairs in the park and can't carry them. The mayor told him that all they had to do is contact Jack Van Houten and he will show them how to drive in without breaking the sprinklers. A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Bruce Sutherland to pay the bills. All Aye Meeting Adjourned. ~.~ o C orter, Mayor -~ - :~ ,- Rose Bagley, Cit e MINUTES OF SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING July 17, 1987 Minutes of a special City Counicl personnel meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held July 17, 1987 at the City Hall. Those Present: Mayor: John C Porter Councilman: Bruce Casper Bruce Sutherland Glen Pond Nile Boyle [] r Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn h1ayor Porter told the council that he had an application fora beer license for Rays Inc. Since this was not a regular meeting ti~ere cound not be a vote on it, but there was no objection. He would give them permission to sell beer until we had a regular meeting and voted on it. The mayor told the council that he wanted to bring them up to date on what has been done with the county with the dispatch. He had met with the Sheriff. He reported on what they discussed (1) They continue with the program we have now until the 1st of October. (2) The present dispatchers would be used as jailers, and would walk throught the jail every 30 minutes. The mayor had also suggested because we have two police officers on duty during the night, and one of these officers in so the dispatch desk would have someone on it. (3) All dispatchers would be able to apply for jailer job if they wanted to. Glen Pcnd ask if the sheriff wanted the dispatchers to apply for the jailer job and take their chances with every other applicant. Nile Boyle stated if they apply and he doesn't hire them or if they don't want to be jailers that would mean that we would have to pay unemployment on them. The present jailer would give instructions to the dispatchers. There would be an advisory board that would be set up city, the county, the ambulance service, a fireman representative and someone from the college. They would meet every month. The jail charge for the city would be $15.50. The dispatchers while they are making the jail check, would have their insurance and liability covered by the county. It is understood that this is an emergency measure and a study can be made to see if a better system can be established. Blair, Tom Leham from Ricks College, and Ken Anderson from the County Fireman were in the mayor's office and they did not agree with the plan. So the mayor had called the sheriff and told him to forget the plan and left for a trip to Seattle. ~Jhen he came back he read the paper and saw that the county had decided what they were going to do. The mayor reported that he had called several cities and counties to see what they are doing tnd reported his findings. The mayor said he would be inclined to take the dispatch and pay all the costs. We move the dispatch to our annex and we charge the county fireman and the ambulance a fee. The county will be running the jail anJ ~rde will be running the dispatch. In the present situation, you can't go in to visit the sheriff unless you go past the dispatchers. The dispatchers are not loyal to the county, they are loyal to the city. The dispatchers keep a record of everything the county officers do. They are spies for people that are going to be running against them. When Blair hires someone he does not consult the sheriff and it is in his office. Blair needs to cooperate with the sheriff. The mayor said he thought the dispatch should be run by the city, but the county commissioners won't let us run it and keep it in the sheriff's office. Nile Boyle ask if the ~~mmsisioners would let us move the dispatch. The mayor said he didn't know, but if we agreed to pay the whole thing, it would give them the money to hire a jailer. Blair Siepert said they had not had a lot of turnover in dispatch. About two years ago we had a vacancy and one of the mothers of a duputy applied for the job and after talking to the sheriff he decided it was not a good idea to hire her. We had an opening about three months ago and 61a~ir had called the sheriff and advised him that they were going through applications for dispatch and ask them or a representative to serve on the oral board. The sheriff sent Janet Statham over and she served on that board for two days. We interviewed eight or ten applicants and we hired the one that Janet was totally in support of. Blair agreed with the mayor that it is an awkward position to have city employees in the county building. It is also awkward for Blair to administrate the dispatch where they are located. He slid they could serve much better if they had it in their building he said he had been accused of not getting along with the sheriff. He disagreed with that, he did say he did not agree with some of the sheriff's policies. He explained some of the problems in the last few months. The county won't share them with us. The mayor said he did't agree with the way the sheriff is running everything, but we can't do anything about it. He told Blair if he knew there are problems try to find out what the matter is instead of everyone getting mad up there. He suggested that they all get together and try to work it out. Blair said he was showing an operation that in his opinion is run very loosely. The mayor had said that if the sheriff has the dispatch it will have to be run properly. Blair s~_d that over a number of years things have not been run properly they have been run loose and apparently the public does not know or does not care. Blair felt that if they take over..the dispatch it would be run same way and it would effect the city police performance. ~ihere is a lot of frustration on the way the county department is being run. He had discussed things with the sheriff and they continue to go on. Blair said when they come ;3 to him with an error he tries to correct it. The mayor said he agreed with him. The. commissioners a,re convinced that as long as that dispatch is over in his office, he should, run it. The mayor said he is inclined to agree with it. Nile Boyle ask if the city goes to county and tell them we are going to move the dispatch to the annex do you think they will do it. The mayor said if we do that we would write up an advisory board to run it he thought we could get them to go along with it. Nile said if they don't go along with it we should tell them they will have to pay for the whole thing. Glen Pond said the only option we have to set up our own dispatch. The mayor said that Tom Lehman for the College Police has made quite an issue about this dispatch and the college is upset. They don't want to be involved. The mayor had met with Mack Shirley about it yesterday, and they think every- thing is going fine now and they want to keep it like it is now, and they would like to keep it just like it is. I told him that no matter what kind of an agreement we had I would have a written agreement that the county would sign that the security people can use that system just the same as anybody else. If we change the dispatch, the city and the county might each have to have a teletype. Blair said the college had said to have the access to the teletype they would be v~i.lling to split the cost of the teletype. The council discussed the situation at length and it was decided that the mayor would talk to the sheriff and Bruce Webster and tell them that the city wanted to move the dispatch and the city would take over the dispatch. The city would pay all the salaries. The council also discussed the problems in the swimming and recreation department. ,-~ City Clerk, ose Ba Ma n C Porter MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING July 23, 1987 State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexuurg, Madison County, held July 23, 1987 at the City Hall. Those Present: MEDICAL INSURANCE FOR EMPLOYEES Mayor: John C Porter Councilman: Glen Pond Nile Boyle Bruce Sutherland Bruce Casper Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Also Presnet: Mary Smith, City Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, Treasurer A meeting to discuss madical insurance for tf~e employees was held prior to the regluar council meeting. All department head, city council and Ken Anderson, insurance agent, were in attendance. Rate increase of 35% for Blue Cross Insurance was discussed. Alternate insurance plans were discussed. Regular council meeting started at 7:30 P.M. a motion was made by Darlene Blackburn and seconded by Nile Boyle to approve the minutes. All Aye. BEER LICENSE FOR RAY'S INC. [' 1 Mayor Porter read a beer license for Ray's Inc. for sale of canned and bottled beer not to be consumed on the property. A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Glen Pond. A1.1 Aye