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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1993.02.03 CITY COUNCIL MINUTES City Council 2/3/93 7:30 P. M. Those Present: Mayor:Nile Boyle Councilman:Farrell Young Glen Pond Nyle Fullmer Brad Liljenquist Jim Flamm Bruce Sutherland City Clerk:Rose Bagley Attorney:J. D. Hancock Finance Officer:Richard Horner Pledge to the flag A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Bruce Sutherland to approve the minutes. All Aye RE: RECYCLING --- STEVE NEWTON Steve Newton was at the meeting to discuss hie Recycling business. He got a Home Occupancy License in January to start a Recycling business. He set up collection agreements with businesses in town and has scheduled with them a time when he can come to pick it up and deliver the recycling material to Western Recycling. The reason he came to city council is he would like to see some public involvement in recycling. He discussed what he had read about recycling all over the nation. He did not think we had the same problem in Idaho that they have back East. He would like to see more involvement and would like to see a recycling system in all the city buildings. The mayor told him we were doing that already. He also wanted to start curb side recycling in the residential area. He would like to see about setting up bins at the parks and golf courses. He had submitted a proposal to the school board. He asked the council if they would be interested in setting up recycling in the parks. Brad Liljenquist asked him if he was on the agenda for the last council meeting. At that time we had another fellow come in and present recycling. Mr Newton said he had missed the meeting. Mr Newton said a lot of places charge for their services, he would not charge. The money he would receive would be from the recyclable material. He would propose that the city would pay for the recycling bins. Glen Pond told him if he put them in the parks and golf course, there would be a lot of junk put in the bins, would he be willing to clean out the junk that is not recyclable. He said he would sort it out. The mayor told him everyone here is in favor of recycling, because everything we recycle does not end up in the landfill. It would have to be cost effective for the city and also for you to stay in business. The landfill will have to be closed by October of 1993. There will be a transfer station and be compacted and hauled to a landfill. RE: SOLID WASTE PROGRAM Richard reported on the Solid Waste program. Golden Reynolds will be over the program in Madison, Teton, and Fremont County. His office will be at the ECIPDA Office. They are trying to locate some land for a landfill. (discussion on Solid Waste) The mayor said as far as recycling, it has been on a voluntary basis. We would like to encourage it. The mayor told Mr Newton to contact Mr Reynolds. RE: PERCENTAGE BREAKDOWN OF PAYMENTS FOR BLUE CROSS INSURANCE The mayor told the council that we received a letter from Blue Cross and they have raised 15~. Richard handed out a spread sheet on the costs and explained it. We budgeted 20~. (council discussed the issue) Brad Liljenquist suggested that the city maintain the same share they have paid 80$ and the employee pay 20$. A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Brad Liljenquist to maintain paying the same share with the city paying 80~ and the employee paying 20$. All Aye RE: APPROVAL OF LOW BID FOR THE NEW PRINTER Richard Horner discussed the bid opening for the new printer. The low Bid was $8500. This printer is faster than the old printer. The cost for maintenance will be lower than the one on the old ones. We will be able. to get it in 30 days or less. We put $11,000 in the budget for the printer. A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Bruce Sutherland to approve the low bid for the printer. All Aye. RE: PUBLIC HEARING FOR AMENDING BUDGET --- SEAT BELT GRANT 8:00 P. M. Public Hearing for consideration of an amendment to the 1992-1993 fiscal year budget by appropriating additional monies received by the City of Rexburg, the proposed additional expenditures and revenues would be a State Seat Belt Grant of $10,000. Mayor Boyle asked if there was anyone at the meeting with any comments. Cliff Jaussi was at the meeting to comment. He asked where the $10,000 was going to come from. The mayor told him it was a grant from the Law Enforcement. He wanted to know if it was from the taxpayers. The mayor told him no. He asked if it was already in the budget and could we use it for something else. The mayor told him if we accept the grant we have to use it for what they tell us, which is for the Seat Belt program. He asked if the police would come around and check you to see if you had a seat belt on every little while and heckle you. Nyle told him no more than they already are. The mayor told him it is mostly going into educational things to try to encourage seat belts. Cliff asked if the state promotes going around and checking everyone's seat belts or if it was just when you get into an accident. He asked if this would be contrary to what they are doing in general. The mayor said sometimes they set up and check as you come out of a parking lot. At the high school they give pop or something to the kids that are using seat belts. Cliff said he wondered if the city could use it in another department rather than going around checking seat belts. The mayor said we can't use it only for what the grant will allow. Nyle Fullmer explained that they are using it for education, for some hats that are embroidered, and some T-shirts that say buckle up. RE: ORDINANCE #743 PASSED: SEAT BELT GRANT ORDINANCE NO. 743 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REXBURG, IDAHO, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 736, THE APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 1992 AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 1993: APPROPRIATING ADDITIONAL MONIES THAT ARE TO BE RECEIVED BY THE CITY OF REXBURG, IDAHO, IN THE SUM OF $10,000 AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. A motion was made by councilman Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Jim Flamm that the rules requiring an ordinance of a general and permanent nature to be read on three occasions be dispensed with and that said ordinance be numbered 743. Those voting aye: Bruce Sutherland Glen Pond Jim Flamm Brad Liljenquist Farrell Young Nyle Fullmer Ordinance 743 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 by Bruce Sutherland that ordinance 743 be passed. Those voting aye: Glen Pond Jim Flamm Brad Liljenquist Nyle Fullmer Farrell Young Bruce Sutherland 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 was duly and regularly passed. Mayor Boyle declared the motion carried. RE: ORDINANCE #742 REPEALING ORD. #50 ABOUT SNOW REMOVAL FROM SIDEWALKS DISCUSSED & PASSED Mayor Boyle read Ordinance 742 AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 50 OF THE VILLAGE OF REXBURG, MADISON COUNTY, IDAHO; AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE. This was an ordinance passed in 1899 requiring the removal of snow and other things from the sidewalks on only the sidewalks on the South side of Main Street from 2nd East to 2nd West. Rather than enforce that we will repeal it and we decided if we weren't going to enforce it all over, why have it on the books anywhere. Brad felt we should require the downtown area to be cleared of snow. Bruce asked if we could be selective like that. Brad said he would like to talk to the merchants and some of the people downtown and see how they feel. Bruce felt we should repeal it and maybe draw up a new ordinance. J. D. Hancock said he had checked with other cities at a meeting with the Association of Idaho Cities and most of them don't have an ordinance, because they think it is a private matter. If they don't clean their sidewalks they get sued. If cities don't have an ordinance then they will not have a liability because they did not enforce the ordinance. A motion was made by councilman Farrell Young and seconded by Bruce Sutherland that the rules requiring an ordinance of a general and permanent nature to be read on three occasions be dispensed with and that said ordinance be number 742. Those voting aye: Those voting nay: about it. Farrell Young Glen Pond Bruce Sutherland Nyle Fullmer Jim Flamm Brad Liljenquist, he would like more time to think Ordinance 742 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 Glen Pond an seconded by Nyle Fullmer that ordinance 742 be passed. Those voting aye: Farrell Young Jim Flamm Glen Pond Nyle Fullmer Bruce Sutherland Those voting nay: Brad Liljenquist The roll showed that the majority of the 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 was duly and regularly passed. Mayor Boyle declared the motion carried. The mayor told the council if they had a better solution bring it in and we can pass a different ordinance later. RE: DISCUSSION ON REMOVING, TRANSPLANTING, & TRIMMING TREES The mayor said he got a call from the people that own Tangles. They rent a place behind Subway Sandwich. They say that the trees along there are so big that they mask the business and they are a problem for their customers coming in. They would like those trees removed and either replaced by smaller trees or taken out. The mayor told the council to take a look at them and we will bring it up in two weeks. (discussion on removing trees, transplanting the trees and trimming the trees) Glen said the trees in front of the old Blocks Building need to be trimmed. Bruce stated that we need to keep the trees uniform in size. RE: DISCUSSION OF THE RAILROAD CROSSING ON 2ND SOUTH We got a letter from the State Transportation Department saying the railroad crossing on 2nd South was ranked as the 16th most dangerous in the state. Last week we had another accident there, making the second accident at that crossing this year. We will be high priority to get that fixed. The mayor talked to Blair and they cost about $100,000 to $125,000 and our share would be 10$. The railroad and the state put up 90~ of the money. It would cost us about $10,000. It is up to us to request this and up to us to develop the plans. Nyle Fullmer suggested that we have the engineers look at it and give us an idea. RE: RESOLUTION 93.3 --- VISA CARD Resolution 93.3 (copy on file) Under the law if we use a Visa or any credit card we have to get permission from the council. They are handy when the city employees go on a trip and can't use other cards, the Visa would be handy. If we don't have this, then they have to use their own money and get reimburse when they come back. Richard told them they would mostly be used by those that take city vehicles. A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer to pass the resolution, seconded by Jim Flamm. Jim said he would recommend that we have low limits and limit it to be used for certain things. The council felt that $500 should be the limit. All Aye Brad Liljenquist asked if we could discuss items that are not on the agenda. The mayor said we could discuss them but not vote on them. RE: H & K PROPERTY BY THE NATURE PARK The mayor told the council that H & K had called on their property by the Nature Park. The property was appraised for $42,000, but now they have come down to $35,000. We have $20,000 in the budget now. (discussion on how important it is) RE: ROAD ON 5TH WEST THAT IS CLOSED BY THE RACE TRACK Brad Liljenquiat discussed the road on 5th West that is closed by the race track. J. D. Hancock said he would check and see if it was deeded to the county. It was suggested to set up a meeting with the Fair Board and County Commissioners to discuss it. RE: NEED HIGHWAY SIGN BY IDAHO FALLS DIRECTING TO REXBURG Jim Flamm asked if there was any possible way to get a sign down by Idaho Falls, that says Rexburg. (discussion) The mayor said he will check with the Legislatures and see if they will help us. Jim Flamm reported on the meeting with Planning & Zoning. RE: DISCUSSION OF TABERNACLE UP KEEP AND NEW ROOF Farrell Young told the council we need to decide on putting a roof on the tabernacle. The mayor said we could take the money out of the contingency fund. We need to put on a new roof because it has been leaking bad. We spent a lot of money just getting the snow off the roof.(cost of upkeep on the building and if it is used enough to keep putting money into it) RE: REPORT FROM REXBURG RE-DEVELOPMENT AGENCY: WIDENING OF THE BRIDGE & THE LIGHT BY WAL MART Glen Pond reported on the meeting with the Rexburg Re-Development Agency meeting. The bonds have been sold and Forsgren have the engineering done for the widening of the bridge and they are getting ready to get the bids let out so construction should be starting in the next 60 days. The bid has been been awarded for the light. Wheeler Electric got the bid on the light and they should be starting within the next 30 days. Bruce Sutherland asked if they had any engineering done at the Horkley intersection? Glen told him it was out of the scope of the Re-Development Agency, until the state decided what they are going to do with it and then we can make that part of the Re-Development Agency. The mayor said the state has told us they will do nothing until the traffic counts are warranted to see if something needs to be done and the traffic counts will not be done until March or April. There will be curb and gutter put in on the west side of the road which will be done on an LID. The road will be widened out until you get to the Bowling Alley and then it narrows back in. The owner of the Bowling Alley does not want to do anything, and rather than force the issue we will bring the road back in. Bruce Sutherland felt we should look into increasing the lighting on 2nd East. RE: SIDEWALK BY NEW KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN AND WAL MART The mayor talked to the council about the plan that was approved for Walmart without a sidewalk. Now Kentucky Fried Chicken doesn't want to put a sidewalk in. Glen said the developer is required to put a sidewalk in, but there are some alternatives he has, possible winding the sidewalk around the green area and into the parking lot. Jim Flamm told the council we need to face the issue of sidewalks all over the city. A motion was made by Glen Pond and seconded by Nyle Fullmer to approve the bills. All Aye. Meeting adjourned. ./ Mayor, Nil L. Boyle City Clerk, Ros a y