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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1988.04.06 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESs ~F t. Those Voting Aye: Those Voting Nay: SAFETY COMMITTEE Bruce Sutherland said he needed to make a change in the Safety Committee. The name suggested was Doug Thompson. He had given the name to the mayor and he was going to call him to see if he would be willing to serve on that committee. PLANNING & ZONING INVITED ROD GILCREST TO GIVE A SEMINAR Glen Pond told the council that on April 27, the Planning and Zoning have invited Rod Gilcrest from Idaho Falls Planning and the State Planning Association to come and give a Seminar to answer questions and give some training to the people on the Planning Board. He invited the council members to attend the Seminar. It will be held at 7:00 P.M. The cost per person will be $5 for materials. He would not charge for this travel or time. We are going to invite some of the other cities in this area to come. PETITION ABOUT SOCCER Nile Boyle told the council that we had received a letter and a petition about Soccer. They would like to have the games on week nights instead of Saturday. The council felt that would be no problem. Bruce Casper told Nile that he had talked to Clair Boyle and he had agreed to schedule the games on week nights. A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Darlene Blackburn to approve the bills. All Aye Meeting Adjourned. ~_ Joh er, Mayor ~ y/ J~ G~ Rose agley, C' k MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING April 6, 1988 State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held April 6, 1988, at the City Hall. Glen Pond Bruce Sutherland Darlene Blackburn Bruce Casper Present were the following: f~layo r Councilman: John C Porter Glen Pond Nile Boyle Bruce Casper Nyle Fullmer Bruce Sutherland 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 Darlene Blackburn to approve the minutes with one correction. All Aye BID FOR STEINER DITCH PROJECT Mayor Porter told the council that they had a bid for the Steiner Ditch project for $10,000. He had called Mrs. Brown from-chat area and explained it to her and suggested to her that she get all the people involved and have a meeting and get them to agree to pay half of the $10,000. She has arranged to have a meeting at the Kennedy School on April 14, at 7:30 P.M. Mrs Brown ask if they could have two years to pay, she has it figured out at about $500 each. MEETING FOR ALL CITIES & COUNTIES 1N 7TH DISTRICT/JUVENILLE DETENTION CENTER Tommorrow in Idaho Falls at 1:30 P.f~l. there is a meeting that is going to be held for all the cities and counties in the 7th district to discuss the construction and the operation of the Juvenille Detention Center, that will be built at the youth center. The Legislature appropriated about $125,000 or $130,000 to finish one of those buildings .up there. The legislature want the cities and counties to come down to Idaho Falls so they can discuss the daily costs of incarcerating a juvenille in the center. It will probably be about $75 a day, if they have twelve in there. If there are more the cost Mill go down. GROUND BREA~:ING OFR WESTMARK CREDIT UNION On April 12 at 2:00 P.M. there will be a ground breaking for the Westmark Credit Union. OBSERVANCE OF ARBER DAY- PLANTING TREES The mayor said he had talked to Jim Long and Bruce Sutherland about having an observance of Artier Day, on the last Friday in April. Jack Van Houten wants to plant some trees at the Com~,.unity park Jim Long gat a plan of the park and he will get it platted. We will plant trees just inside the fence and also in the playground area. They suggested that we get the service clubs to plant one or two trees and put a little marker by them. He had talked to the principal and he thinks the school would like to participate. We have lost some trees at Porter Park and also at Smith Park. It would ba a good idea to plant some new trees at those parks. The schools could plant trees on the school grounds. Glen Pond ask about planting some trees on 5th West by the industrial area. The council talked about the mess behind the old Porter Building on East Main. They felt it should be cleaned up. Bruce Sutherland suggested that if we plant trees in the industrial area we should decide on a budget and get in and correlate it with the 2nd East project. Jim Long said the college had some Blue Spruce we could have. BUILDING BENCHES AT THE COMP~IUNITY PARK Jack Van Houten told the council that the Ladies Soft Ball League ask him if he would build benches instead of dugouts. We don't have any dugouts at community park, and they would like some benchs. They have given money to plant trees with two years in a row. He had ask them if he could spend that money on benchs and they agreed. It will cost the city some money also. We will make the benchs. Bryce will do all the iron work and Jack would set the wood on them. The concrete would be the biggest expense. They mayor said there was a fellow wanting an Eagle project and he had suggested that after we get the welding and frame work done on the benchs he could bolt the planks on and paint the benchs. Nile Boyle said a couple of Eagle scouts wanted to do some down in the Park Street Park. The mayor said we can get some iron from the INEL sight. PROPOSAL TO MOVE PARK CONCESSION STAND/REPLACE WITEI ICE SHAKE & VENDING P=1ACHINES fdile Boyle said he had a proposal that the concession stand has not been a very good deal. They want to move the concession stand over to the pump house and use it to store stuff in for the parks. Last year Dennis Brown and his boys-had an Ice Shake and they wanted to move it in the area where the concession stand was. He wants to use it for a few years while his kids are young and then sign an agreement that he would donate it to the city after 6 years. We vdould put vending machines in for candy and pop. ~,,.;, PLANS TO FIX UP RESTROOMS AT PARKS Nile Boyle announced that the are planning on fixing up the restroom this year. The mayor suggested we go down to Rigby to the State Highway Department and get their plans on fixtures and everything they use on the new rest areas. They are going to cinder block the windows up. There will be a heavy cast iron ventilation. They are going to check on the cost of the hand drying bhi~wers instead of towels. Jack Van Houten told the council they had cut out a lot of the trees so you could see the restrooms from the street: We will put lights on each corner of that building and they will be on and it will keep the kids from congregating down in that end of the park. PATROLLING PARK The mayor said they would like to find a retired person that would partol the park from 10:00 P.M. to 2:00 A.M. That seems to be when the damage is done. AGREEMENT BETWEEN CITY & COLLEGE POLICE Tom Lehman form the Ricks College Police was at the meeting to get the agreement with the City and College Police signed. We have had an agreement with the college police to use their Law Enforcement people up there. They are sworn in as out police officers, with the duty of patrolling the campus. If there is any need for add- itional officers, our police force call on them. Two or three years ago we added a paragraph or two to the agreement so we could become certified police officers. But now we don't need the extra paragraphs we added. So the city police, college police, city attorney and college attorney have gone over the agreement and updated it and want us to approve it. A motion was made by Nyle Boyle a;~d seconded by Bruce Casper to adopt the resolution. All Aye POTATO TRUCK ACCIDENT ON MILLHOLLOW Nyle asked Bruce to discuss the portato truck accident on Millhollow while Blair was at the meeting. Bruce said they didn't discuss the accident too much at the safety meeting, until they had a police report and were directed from the council to do so. They did bring up ~~me points. The mayor said he thought there should be some kind of a barricade because this is the second time this has happened. Blair Siepert said that the report indicated that it was probably a brake failure. He said they had information that the owners of the truck had knowledge of the condition of the truck and the driver was not accustomed to truck driving. He said he .really didn't have the answer. If we shut it down to trucks, it would force them to other areas. The speed factor was discussed. Glen Pond asked about the land on the other side of the gully that Richard Smith offered for a road. The county doesn't want to put the money into the road. It was turned over to the Safety Committee. SAFETY COMMITTEE REPORT Bruce Sutherland reported on the Safety Committee meeting. They are still looking at the Junior High crossing and have asked for an opinion from Blair Siepert about putting in a left hand turning lane. In order to do that they would have to take out all the diagonal parking form the corner of Center Street to the corner of lst West. They did not think that could be done. Chief Siepert wrote a letter to the Safety Committee stating the reasons he would not recommend the center lane. 1. Establishing a center turn lane would eliminate some angle parking along both sides of the street. The business community of the downtown area has expressed strong resentment to eliminate any parking from in front of their businesses. I'm personally in favor of having a center left turn at all in- tersections on Main Street, but have not had support from the businesses. 2. I believe that a left center turn at only the one area would be confusing to motorists and may create more of a hazard that it~~aauld do good. Consideration would also have to be given to the fact that the highway markings would be covered with snow and ice for two or three months of the school year. 3. Although it is unfortunate to have the Junior High located on ~1ain Street, the department does not show a high accident rate at that location and I cannot remember of a traffic accident involving a school bus. Bruce said they are now looking at some different alternatives. They do feel that the entrance to Rexburg on 4th South from 5th West to 1st West needs to have the city put in a turning lane., The road is wide enough. There is a lot of turning traffic. Bruce said they would like a uniform speed limit along 5th West to the Erickson Dugway. `1 n 1 i ~~~~~ ,~ HANDICAPPED PARKING Handicapped parking was discussed. They thought we should have 2 Handicapped Parking places on Main Street. The mayor said that in Legislation, they passed a bill that you count the parking and take a certain percentage for Handicapped Parking. Bruce said they want one in each of the parking lots down town. STUDENT HOUSING The mayor told the council that the student housing wants to meet at 8:00 A.M. tomorrow about the inspections. CROSSWALK PAINTING The mayor said he had talked to Farrell about the crosswalk painting and suggested that we get plastic paint like the Hiway uses. RICKS COLLEGE WANTS CITY TO PUT FLOAT IN 88'S HOMECOMING PARADE Ricks College Centennial is next fall and they want the City to put a float in the Homecoming Parade. PROBLEMS WITH CABLE COP~1PANY Nyle Fullmer said he had received some calls about Cable Co. having left a mess when they put their new addition on their building. A motion was made by Bruce Casper and seconded by Nile Boyle to approve the bills. All Aye Meeting Adjourned. ~- Jo C r, Mayor G~~ , -~; Rose Bagley, Ci y rk MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING April 20, 1988 State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held April 20, 1988, at the City Hall. Present were the following: Mayor: John C Porter Councilman: Nile Boyle Glen Pond Bruce Casper Councilwoman: Darlene Blackburn Also Present: Rose Bagley, City Clerk P.ichard Horner, Treasurer Mary Smith was excused because whe was ill. A motion was made by Glen Pond to approve the minutes seconded by Nile Boyle. All Aye FREMONT MADISON IRRIGATION HAS SOME STORED RENTAL WATER/GOLF COURSE The mayor said he got a letter from Fremont Madison Irrigation. They have some