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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1989.02.01 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESS ~~~ State of Idaho) County of Madison( City of Rexburg) Minutes of The City Council Meeting February 1, 1989 A meeting of the City Council for the City of Rexburg, Madison County, held February 1, 1989, at the City Hall. Present were the following: Mayor: John C Porter Councilmembers: Glen Pond Bruce Sutherland Nyle Fullmer Bruce Casper Nile Boyle Also Present: Mary Smith, Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, Treasurer A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Bruce Casper to approve the minutes. All Aye. RE: ORDINANCE 686 Mayor Porter stated that we have had before us in the last two meetings Ordinance 686 AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING A STATE CONTRACTOR'S LICENSE TO ENGAGE IN THE BUSINESS OF A PLUMBING CONTRACTOR; PROVIDING THAT THE PERMIT FEES SHALL BE ESTABLISHED BY THE CITY PLUMBING BOARD; PROVIDING THAT THE CITY SHALL NOT BE HELD TO ASSUME ANY LIABILITY BY REASON OF INSPECTION, REQUIRING A CITY LICENSE BEFORE ENGAGING IN WORK OR BUSINESS REQUIRING A CITY LICENSE FEE; PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF A MASTER PLUMBER'S LICENSE, THE RENEWAL OF A MASTER PLUMBER'S LICENSE, APPRENTICE REGISTRATION AND WORK SUPERVISION. All the plumbing contractors in Rexburg have had an opportunity to look the ordinance over, and do not have any objections to it. The mayor said the ordinance is now before the council for the third reading. Ordinance 686 was then placed before the council. The Mayor then called for the voting for final passage of the ordinance, and the motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded that ordinance 686 be passed. Those Voting Aye: Those Voting Nay: Glen Pond Bruce Sutherland Nyle Fullmer Bruce Casper Nyle Boyle None 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: SCOUTS The mayor welcomed the scouts. RE: DRUG AND ALCOHOL COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION Edie Miller,Linda Stoddard, and Bonnie Meyers were at the meeting. They wanted to talk to the council about a community organization that will help to fight Drug and Alcohol Addition to educate people not to use drugs and alcohol. Chief Blair Siepert was also at the meeting to discuss the problem. He had a chart and gave a presentation. The chart shows that we are on a steady increase. He said we do have a problem, and the law enforcement is concerned. They have made it a point that everyone under 18 years of age, when we pick them up we take them to the office and notify the parents, and the parents come and pick them up or they ask us to release them. The parents cooperation ~i. I has been good, there has been very few that have been negative. Some that is the last time we see them but obviously there are some coming back as repeaters. We are not getting to that type of youth for some reason. The Judge has expressed concern and we feel that he is going to put some pretty stiff penalties on. He said they are patrolling the dancers heavier. That is where we are picking up some of the more out of town students. Blair said he wanted them to know that we support any type of program that will help as far as solving some of these problems with the youth. He said in his department they are probably giving two to three drug alcohol related talks per week. We are handing out a lot of information. They had talked to kindergartens on up to high school groups. He said he thought we should get to them at a fairly young age. The mayor said every quarter he attends the governers commission on drug and alcohol awareness and advisory board. They are advised about various programs that are going on in the state. These ladies are concerned that in our own community there is awareness. Linda Stoddard acted as spokesman for the group. She showed a flip chart. The national average of encounter with alcohol is in the 4th grade. A lot of problems start in the Junior High. That is why they got involved at level as a PTA. As they became involved and started some community awareness series, instead of PTA meetings, reams of information have fallen into their hands. One statistic she told the council was that marjuana stands next to potatoes as the cash crop in Idaho. One problem we have in Rexburg is deniel, another is apathy, the media needs to stand responsibility, there needs to be alternatives, also lack of planning. What they see as a solution is a comprehensive Community Action Plan. We need to develop our own plan. There are three areas we need to be concerned about: the family, the institution, and the community in the action plan. She said the plan of choice has been in effect for 15 years. There is a consultant who has been setting up programs unique to communities. He comes in and trains and gives you information, he gives a four day training and included in that is teachers, businessmen, church leaders, citizens, lawyers, law enforcement, and the school. He will train 30 student counselers and they go back into the school and they can recognize the symptoms of drug abuse and they steer those kids on a level of three to six months earlier than when teachers or parents, or law enforcements see it. They have decided to call the Action Plan CAP, Comprehensive Community Action Plan. She said they needed some people to help, they needed a steering committee of about 36 people. The council can help by endorsing the plan and they need help for volunteers. It needs to be self supporting. Madison School District has applied for a grant. They have used a lot of that money for videos, candy bars, and self-esteem things. They are trying to coordinate the effort with the schools and the community. Mayor Porter said he thought the ladies are interested in for example the Law Enforcement People have a grant for law enforcement of drugs and alcohol. In Rexburg we have the Accohol Rehabilatation Association, and have a room in the Courthouse. There are a lot things going on but no one knows about it. There needs to be some organization that understands everything that is going on and try to get someone to do something. There is federal money that is alloted to the schools. There has to be somekind of coordination. Education is the thing that is becoming most effective. A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Bruce Casper to endorse the program. All Aye Nyle Fuller said he and his wife would help on the committee. Chief Siepert commented that on a police level they see more effort from the community to accept that there is a problem. Four or five years ago when we would call parents to come and get their boy or girl they would get upset but now it is accepted. RE: RESOLUTION FOR DESTRUCTION OF SOME CITY RECORDS ~~~ ~ Mayor Porter told the council that every year we have to pass a resolution to authorize the destruction of some of the city records. (copy attached} A motion as made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Nyle Fullmer to authorize the destruction of the records. All Aye AT&T PAY TELEPHONE AT&T has got in touch with the mayor and they want to do the same thing with the pay telephones as ITI wanted to do. The mayor said if it was okay with the council, he recommend that we go with AT&T for the pay phones in Rexburg. A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Nyle Fullmer to go with AT&T. All Aye. RE: POLICE POST ACADEMY All of our Police Officers have to go to the Post Academy and we pay their salaries while they are at the academy, they pay everything except the salaries. We feel that by paying their salaries and the other expenses attached to this, the the officers that go to the academy owe the city a certain amount of time after they go through this certification program. Blair has made a Police Officer employment agreement in which they agree to stay with the city for two years after they go throughthe academy. If they don't then they have to pay so much of this expense. The council discussed it. Blair said the officers that have been to the academy are really in demand. The small cities are loosing them. Blair said he felt that the officers did not really get to be a good officer until he gets two years of experience. He tries to give them on street experience for about six months, they have to be certified within one year. That gives us a chance to feel them out to see if they will make it as an officer. A motion was made by Nile Boyle and seconded by Glen Pond to adopt the Police Officer Employment Agreement. All Aye. Blair ask if it would be better to put it in the Employee Manuel. The council agreed. RE: SAFETY COMMITTEE REPORT Bruce Sutherland reported that the Safety Commettee met. They got the information from the police department on the intersection on lst South and Center Street on the 4 Way Stop. They felt that it would be counter productive to have a 4 Way Stop there. They will review it in in six months. Mary Smith said she goes through that intersection several times a day and people are treating that stop as a 4 Way Stop. The people going North and South will stop for a minute and go right in front of a car. Nyle Fullmer suggested that it would be a good idea to label the stop signs TWO Way Stop. The council thought we should check into that. Also the snow needs to be cleared from that intersection so you could see the traffic. The snow needs to be cleaned from all the intersections where it obstructs the view. Glen Pond said the trees and shrubs by Albertsons are really bad for obstructing the view and something needs to be done about it. RE: AIRPORT BOARD MEETING Nyle Fullmer reported on the Airport Board Meeting. Dave Furness has asked to be released from the board. Richard Smith has been put on the board. All of the members are excited to be serving on the board. The airport board are all in favor of the extention of the airport. The entire runway is in need of some serious repair. To go though and re-surface the entire runway, we are looking at about two million dollars; but it will cost about that same amount to re-surface the runway and do the entire project. We are looking at getting 90~ of it paid for with the federal funding. Nyle said the council needs to decide what the decision is on the runway. Nile Boyle told him the council had already done that possibly before he was on the council. motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Bruce Sutherland to verbally endorce the program to expand the runway. All Aye We need educate the public that we are not going after commercial aircraft. RE: CONSERVATION PROGRAM A to Glen Pond reported on a meeting with some people from the AIC, Bonneville Power, and people from Idaho Falls about a conservation ~~ [1 1 program to include it in our building code. They have a building standard for homes. They would like a building code so all homes have to be built to this standard. They limit it to electrical heated homes. A lot of contractors was there, but he did not get a feeling that they were oppose to it. What advantage is it to the city. If the city adopts it now they will put the money in to train the building inspectors. One of the drawbacks that we have is if we go along with it, the building inspector has got to be full time and very knowledgeable. Nyle Fullmer said he had some contractors in talking to him about it. Glen said he could not see a lot of advantage to it. We need to put more study into it. The mayor told the council that we are going to do some further study on the rewinding program for energy saving and maintenance on the pumps. Glen had some information on it that he gave to the council. He said he had some reservations on it. They need to show us the savings before and after. Nyle Fullmer said he talked to Delynn about it and there are two pumps that need to be overhauled. DeLynn had given him a letter to read on it with a list of some cities that have gone this the program. Nyle planned on making some phone calls to check into it. RE: SUNBIRD COMMITTEE Nyle Fullmer reported on going down to Arizona with the Sun Bird Committee. They put together a better presentation, and revised the slide presentation. We need to do everything we can to help them. They would like the city to donate $1000. Mayor Porter said we have $10,000 Economic Development in the budget which this would be a part of, and he would recommend to the council that we go ahead and pay our share. RE: APPROVE BILLS A motion was made by Glen Pond and seconded by Bruce Sutherland to approve the bills. All Aye. RE: CURFEW DISCUSSED Bruce Casper stated that when he was in high school they had dances at Teen Town and they had to be closed at 12:00. He is concerned that the Galleria is open until 1:00 A.M. and 2:00 A.M. It was discussed. He asked Mary if there is a curfew ordinance. Nyle Fullmer said he had mixed feelings about it. Meeting Adjourned r POI.! CE O1~'F ICER EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT Thls agreement, entered into this day of , 1988, between herein referred to as the EMPLOYEE and the City of Rexburg, a Municipal Corporation of Idaho, herein referred to as the CITY. WITNESSETH: WIiEREAS, the EMPLOYEE desires employment with the CITY as a police officer; and, WHEREAS, the Parties recognize that there exist job requirements which set this job apart from other types of city employment; NOW TIiF.REFORE in consideration of the mutual promises contained herein, the parties agree as follows: 1. The CITY agrees to employ the EMPIAYEE as a police officer at a starting salary of ; per month. 2. The EMPLOYEE understands that his employment is on probationary status for a period of up to one year and agrees to comply with all City employee rules, all policies of the Rexburg Police Department, and all laws. 3. The EMPLOYEE hereby agrees to reimburse the City far salary earned by the EMPLOYEE while the EMPLOYEE was at. the P.O.S.T. Academy .if the EMPLOYEE should term- inate employment or should willfully cause termination within two years of the date of employment. The amount reimbursed will be prorated under the following sch~~dulc~: - Tess than one year employed: full reimbursement - one year to eighteen months employed: fifty perccant (50x) of salary reimbursed. - eighteen to twenty-four months employed: twenty-flue (25X) of salary will bs reimbursed. 4. Pursuant. to Federal law and Bxecutive Order 11246, EMPIAYEE hereby waives any right to payment of overtime during the period EMPLOY88 is attending basic training at the P.O.S.T. Academy. 5. EMPLOYEE hereby agrees to return all equipment issued to him/ her within three (3) days of the date his/her employment term- • ,.. inates. The parties agree that BMPLOYEB shall pay, and the C1TY shall accept, a penalty of one hundred dollars (100) per day for each day that City equipment or clothing is withheld by EMPLOYEE in violation of this agreement. The parties fur- ther agree that if it is necessary for the CITY to take legal action to seek specific performance of this provision or dam- ages, the EMPLOYEE shall pay the reasonable costs and attorney fees incurred by the CITY. The EMPLOYEE also consents to the CITY retaining his/her final paycheck until all equipment. is returned. 6. This agreement shall be in effect from and after its passage, approval and publication according to iaw. Employee For the City: Title REQUEST FOR AUTHORIZATION FOR DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS Description of Record Bank Statements Cash Sheets Uarcoes - Yellow copy alt-~-1-rt Meter Sheets Purchase orders Recreation Dept. reports Golf Course Reports U S West Reports Intermountain Gas reports ~!~ Senior Citizens reports Gas Slips Police receipts Absentee slips Recommended by Approved by Date of Record 1978 1983 1983 i a Qrs. 1985-86 1985-86 1986 1986 1986 1986 1986 1985-86 1986 1985 Recommended Retention Period 10 years 5 years 5 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years 2 years /- date -8 date