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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1989.12.06 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES MINt1TES OF THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING 12/6/89 State of Idaho County of Madison) City of Rexburg( Those Present: Mayor: John C Porter Councilmembers: Bruce Casper Nile Boyle Bruce Sutherland Darlene Blackburn Nyle Fullmer Also Present: Mary Smith, City Attorney Rose Bagley, City Clerk Richard Horner, Treasurer The pledge of allegiance was led by a scout that was present. A motion was made by Darlene Blackburn and seconded. by Nile Boyle to approve the minutes. All Aye RE: INTERSECTION ON 2ND EAST Jeff Hawkes, principle of the Lincoln Elementary School, and Jim Terry, School Board Member acted as spokesman for a group of parents of children attending the Lincoln School. Mr. Hawkes stated that there are about 70 to 75 children who live on the other side of the 2nd East, who attend Lincoln School. Out of the 70 - 75 students there are 59 who could qualify in order to get to school, they have to go past the intersection of 2nd East and 2nd South. After watching. the intersection there are only about 30 kids who cross there. There a lot of parents who take their children to school. He said they have a series of safety problems up there. He said they have had three kids get hit this fall with cars, and there have been three near hits on the corner of 2nd East and 2nd South. Everyone is going to work and school at the same time, 8:00 A.M., Mr. Hawks proposed another 4 way stop on 2nd East and 2nd South. The reason would be to slow the traffic down there, after they come down the hill after they stop at 3rd South and come on down to lst South they have gained speed. There are a lot of children who sit and wait and wait for the cars to go by and then run out as quick as they can. Another idea is a flashing yellow light, or a third idea is a paid crossing guard. In working up the hours for a guard would be from 7:50 am to 8:10 pm and again in the afternoon for 20 minutes. RE: MODIFY THE INTERSECTION Mayor Porter said the council is aware of the problem. He said the 4 way stop on lst South has been there since before. the road. was changed. When the street was planned, we did everything we could to modify the intersections. The intersection at 2nd South has so much rock and also because of the steepness of the grade, it was only modified about 4 inches. We did modify 3rd South so we could put a 4 way stop there and cars could still start up. RE: CROSSING GUARD ON 2ND SOUTH AND 2ND EAST Bruce Sutherland gave a report from the safety committee. They proposed for 2nd East and 2nd South the installation of school crossing signs both north and south of the 2nd South and 2nd East intersection, and the engagement of a crossing guard between 8 and 9 A.M. They recommended that the city participate with the school board. A stop sign will not stop a car but a crossing guard will stop a child. Mr Hawkes ask if the city would pay for the crossing guard. The mayor said we now pay on a 1/3 for the city, 1/3 for the school and 1/3 for the county. A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland that we except the suggestion of the Traffic Safety Board and install the school crossing signs both north and south, add the cross walk and engage a school crossing guard fram 7:50 AM to 8:10 AM and from 2:30 PM to 2:50 PM. Seconded by Nyle Fullmer. It was ask if there could be a lower speed limit on the street. The mayor said it was 25 mph, it was requested to <,~ be changed to 20 mph. The mayor said. it would be hard to control the speed at 20 mph. We could past a police officer there every once in a while. The motion was voted on, all voting aye. RE: A FENCE TO BE REMOVED ON MILLHOLLOW Darrell Anderson at 339 Millhollow. A map of the Millhollow Sub Division was passed out to the council. There is an alley way on the plat. A neighbor built a fence blocking the alley on property not owned by him. Mr Anderson. said he would like the fence moved. The mayor said the only part of the alley that should be closed is behind Benfields. Mike Day at 321 Millhollow was aware of the boundaries. Bob Ward was also at the meeting, he was under the impression the easement was for fire safety. The open space is needed to string the fire hose. Mrs Anderson said they felt secure knowing that a fire hydrant is just down the street. Mr Anderson's issue is someone has illegally put a fence across the easement or city property. Nyle Fullmer made a motion that Mr Mike Day be sent a letter telling him he will have to move the fence. There was some discussion. The motion was seconded by Bruce Sutherland. All Aye. Mayor Porter suggested that if we close the street that we annex the Sifford property to the city. RE: FIRE LANE AT VALLEY RIVER SHOPPING CENTER Bruce Sutherland explained that the Safety Committee had addressed the danger a the Valley River Shopping Center Fire Lanes. They suggested that the Council urge the stores there to: a. Post no parking and/or fire line signs in front. b. Request Rexburg Police patrol and issuance of citations. c. Announce in their stores that cars are in violation. At the same time, we recommend that the council would: a. Raise the parking fine to $100. b. Consider the passage of a stronger parking ordinance. c. Direct the Rexburg Police to patrol and cite offenders. They discussed it for some time and felt if they could get the cooperation of the owners of the stores, and owner of the mall, we could solve the problem. Bruce said he had a found an ordinance from Pocatello allowing the police to come in on private property to site offenders for various things. The fire lane should be painted and signed. Nyle Fullmer said he agreed with what they had recommended except for a couple of things. It is unrealistic to put a fine on it that won't be enforced. A $100 fine is a little unrealistic, your are going to have store owners and store managers reluctant to call the police and try to enforce that fine. After it gets to the judge I don't think he will give them a $100 fine. We need an ordinance to enforce, but a reasonable fine such as $15 or $20, and instruct the police to enforce it. The mayor said he would like the council to authorize the city attorney to immediately draw the ordinance so it can be passed at the next meeting. A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland to authorize the city attorney to draft an ordinance so we can try to enforce the traffic control at the fire lines through out the city. seconded by Nyle Fullmer All Aye. Bruce Sutherland said the postmaster suggested that there be a service zone which could be a designated area for vehicles such as their own which have a daily need to service the businesses involved. A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland that when this ordinance is set up that we include a service zone. RE: ENTRANCE TO THE MALL Richard Smith was at the meeting he said he appreciated what the council was doing. He suggested that the north entrance to the mall by the Albertson Store be closed and that the middle entrance be improved, and make it the entrance to the mall. It would force the people to enter the parking lanes before going in front of the Albertson Store. Bruce Sutherland said the Traffic Committee would look into that. RE: TREE TRIMMING Bruce Sutherland suggested that there is a shrub on the corner of 2nd South and Znd East on the North East Corner. It is right out to the corner and it needs to be removed. You cannot see around the corner. V~ The mayor said we have a number of areas that need to be have the trees trimmed. Bruce said on 3rd East and 3rd South the trees need to be trimmed you can't see around that corner. Also there needs to be a stop sign on Millhollow at 350 South. Richard Smith agreed it would be a good idea, he would be in favor of it. Richard said Millhollow is busy congested and narrow. It would also be a good idea to have that street widened. The mayor agreed that that street is bad. The curb line is the property line. In order to widen it we would have to buy the right-a-way from the property owners. Nile Boyle said he thought we should do some study on it. RE: STREET FINANCE REPORT The mayor read the Street Finance Report for the State Highways Users Fund. A motion was made by Nyle Fuller and seconded by Darlene Blackburn to except the report. All Aye. RE: FIRE MUSEUM The mayor said the Planning & Zoning is concerned about the Fire Museum. They want it moved. The mayor said he would like to explain. We have an old 1925 Fire Engine that is the same model as the first fire truck that the city had; it will be in there. There is an old rig over there that the fireman, when Rexburg was first started, would grab it and run down the street pulling it by hand. They have pictures of some of the big fires and one of when the city hall was blown up. It will be lighted at night. The reason the sight was chosen where it is, makes it so people can just walk along the sidewalk and stop and look inside. There will also be a sign telling people where the museum is and inviting them to go and find out more about the history of Rexburg. He said possibly maybe it should have been back farther, but there were other things to take into consideration. After the city acquired the tabernacle property it was hard to beautify the outside. We got a grant for the inside which we had to match. We got donations from everyone we could to get money from to put the building back together, and donations of scrubs. The fireman use to mow the lawn, but it was too big of a job so we put it in the parks department. Then we had to get someone to turn the water on, so the mayor got more donations to put in a sprinkling system. When the fire department decided to put in the building, we decided to put it there so we wouldn't have to change the sprinkling system. The mayor commented that he didn't see anyone coming around helping get donations. Nyle Fullmer said he has been impressed. The fire department has done it all on their own. They paid for it out of volunteer funds and volunteer labor. They have put a lot time and effort into it and should get a pat on the back. It fits with the theme and is a nice looking building. The money used is from their fireman dinner. Because we had to run the wiring to the building we continued it out to the Pioneer Monument and the Monument to the volunteers after the flood are now lighted. RE: PLOT FOR A NEW SUB DIVISION Wayne Parkinson was at the meeting to present the preliminary review of the plot for a new sub division that Bill Henderson wants to put in. It is located South of Park street and West of South 5th West. Wayne requested that the street by the Park street church be dedicated to the city to allow an entrance to the sub division. The Planning. Board made a recommendation that zoning of that property be changed from R2 to Rl. They also recommended that Park Street zoning be changed from R2 to R1. A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded By Bruce Sutherland to start the hearing process for the zone change. All Aye. RE: PROJECT AT THE AIRPORT The mayor said they had completed the project at the Airport they fixed the cracks. The City did some of the work and there is still some work to be done by H & K in the spring. We received a grant for $10,000 for the work on the runway. RE: LETTER FROM THE CABLE COMPANY The city received a letter from the Cable Company. Dean Jones the new manager talked to the mayor about it. They will refund the additional charges for tax, but they are going to increase the fee to $16.25 per month. RE: BUSINESS LICENSE TO SUMMIT PRODUCTION A year ago we gave an approval for a business license to the Summit Production. It is a video production and publication. This is in the home of Maurice Wilkee. A motion was made by Darlene Blackburn to approve the business license for one more year. All Aye. RE: CITY HATS A group of employees went to Blackfoot to a meeting. All the employees have hats with the City of Blackfoot written on them. Our city employees now want hats one for each season. The cost will be $2.50 or $3.00 a hat. The council okayed them. RE: AWARDS The next meeting on the 20th of November. We have some awards to give out to people who have done special things for the city. RE: BEER LICENSES Mayor Porter read the Beer Licenses to be sold but not consumed on the property. Country Market Flying J Albertsons A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Darlene Blackburn to approve the beer licenses. Those voting Aye: Bruce Sutherland, Darlene Blackburn, Nile Boyle, Nyle Fullmer; Those voting Nay: Bruce Casper RE: CLAIM We have received a claim against the city from Jeff Rawson. It has been made out wrong, the vehicle was impounded by the County and he listed the city as impounding it. There was some items stolen out of the vehicle with no amount. A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Nyle Fullmer to deny the claim. All Aye. RE: DRUNK & DRIVING AWARENESS WEEK The mayor announced that next week on the 10th is National Drunk & Driving Awareness Week. A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Nyle Fullmer to approve the bills. All aye Meeting Adjourned. ,~ ~ ~ , ,~ /' ,f.. Johb C. Porter, Mayor ~E'_ Rose agley, Cit ler