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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1995.04.19 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESDATE: (041995) City Council 4/19/95 7:30 P. M. State of Idaho) County of Madison( se City of Rexburg) Those Present: Presiding Council President: Councilman: City Clerk: Attorney: Glen Pond Kay Beck Farrell Young Nyle Fullmer Jim Flamm Bruce Sutherland Rose Bagley J. D. Hancock Excused: Mayor Boyle, Joe Laird, Richard Horner. In the excused absence of Mayor Boyle, Glen Pond conducted the meeting. Pledge to the flag. Introduction of the scouts. A motion was made by Farrell Young and seconded by Kay Beck to approve the minutes of 3/15/95. All Aye A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Bruce Sutherland to approve the bills for 4/5/95. all Aye A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland approve the minutes of 4/5/95, seconded by Farrell Young. All Aye Glen Pond welcomed Brooke Passey, County. Commissioner and Spence Larson, Fire Chief. RE: BID FOR SEAL COATINGS 1995 AWARDED TO H & K TOPIC: (19,120,,, SEAL COATING,H & K,BIDS) A motion was made by Kay Beck and seconded by Bruce Sutherland to accept the bid from H & K for the Seal Coating Contract for $144,774. All Aye RE: MUTUAL AID AGREEMENTS FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TOPIC: (19,120,,, FIRE DEPARTMENT,AGREEMENTS,MUTUAL AID AGREEMENT, B.L.M.) Fire Chief, Spence Larson was at the meeting to discuss the Mutual Aid Agreements for the Fire Department. The first one is the Reciprocal Fire Fighting in Assistance Agreement which was discussed at the last meeting with I.N.E.L. and surrounding departments. The surrounding communities is Pocatello, Blackfoot, I.N.E.L, Rigby, Jefferson Central and Idaho Falls. It covers a large geographical area and allows us to pull from departments with a lot of resources to help supplement us in case of a disaster that basically takes us beyond our own resources. Both Spence and J. D. Hancock had reviewed it. He felt to the community it would be a great asset. The second Agreement does not affect the city as much as it does the Fire District, but the city has a vested interest in it because of the cost of the equipment. This one is with the B.L.M. In the past it has been difficult to work with the B.L.M. because it is hard to distinguish where their jurisdiction starts and where ours starts. Basically they will pull up with their equipment and sit on the fire line and not participate until it actually crosses over into their territory. With this agreement basically it will give us a one mile leadway in both directions. If there is a call and we are not sure which jurisdiction the fire is in, we both respond until we can make that determination. With this agreement for the first 12 hours we will both jump in and fight fires on either side. At the end of the 12 hour period they feel it will be determined who's jurisdiction it will be in and at that time we will decide if we want them to help us or if we continue to help them. At that time there will be a charge on the equipment of $100 per hour and our agreement will be similar. This agreement has been before Ray Rigby because he is the Fire District's attorney. J. D. had not reviewed it. A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Farrell Young to approve the Reciprocal Fire Fighting Assistance Agreement. All Aye. A motion was made by Jim Flamm and seconded by Nyle Fullmer to approve the Annual Operating Plan for the Mutual Fire Aid between Rexburg/Madison County Fire Department and the East Zone -Upper Snake River Ecosystem District Bureau of Land Management pending J. D. Hancock's review of the agreement. All Aye Spence said there is a provision if we are called to send equipment in and we are not comfortable with it or not able to, we are not required to do so. We can also pull out of the agreement, but it takes a two month period and it has to be submitted in writing. He felt it was a positive thing. RE: ARTERIAL ROADS IN THE IMPACT ZONE TOPIC: (19,121,,, D.A.R.R.,ARTERIALS,IMPACT ZONE,P & Z,BARNEY DAIRY RD) Glen read the recommendation from Planning & Zoning recommending the following roads be designated as Direct Access Restricted Roads (DARR) within the Impact Zone: (1) Salem Highway, (2) Hibbard Highway, (3) Moody Road - from Salem Highway East, (4) Millhollow, road from 1/4 of a mile North of the South Section line of Section 29 (from Richard Smith's south), (5) Barney Dairy Road, (6) Poleline Road, (7) Highway 33 North to Sugar City, (8) Highway 33 West (West Main St. by Mother Hibbard's), (9) Old Highway 191 (U.S. 20) from Poleline Road on the East side, North to the City Limits (to Taylor"s Chevrolet). This is strictly in the Impact Zone. Discussion on Barney Dairy road. Bruce explained, understanding the situation that already exists on the Barney Dairy Road, the P&Z opted to suggest that because if that was in there they would have some input when there is going to be more development out there. The board could not necessarily require them to do a reverse frontage, but to possibly have common driveways so there would not maybe be as many direct accesses onto that road. When a new home or new project was put in, it would come before the board and they would make some recommendations. Jim suggested that they could at least do something so there wouldn't be any backing onto the road. Brooke Passey stated that in the zoning, you have reverse frontage spelled out and they felt it had developed so much now. The major support of it is it is the only East West Major Arterial in that area. At this point it is not going to serve justice as being an arterial. Brooke said the county had not voted on it yet. Jerry is in real opposition of having it as an arterial and Marlin does not care. Brooke said his concern is designating it as a main arterial because it has lost all it's function at this point. Possibly the reason for doing it is to prevent it from getting into a worse situation. A motion was made by Jim Flamm to designate all the arterials as recommended by the Planning & Zoning except the Barney Dairy road and recommend that the Barney Dairy road have some designation that would eliminate cars from backing onto the road and creating additional problems, without designating Barney Dairy road as an arterial, and require restrictive access onto the road. Seconded by Kay Beck. All Aye. RE: RESOLUTION 95.04 PASSED ESTABLISHING FEES TOPIC: (19,121,RES,95.04,ZONING,C.U.P.,VARIANCES,SUBDIVISIONS,FEES) Glen Pond read Resolution 95-4 that certain fees established in the resolution be established for processing of applications for re -zoning, conditional use permits, variances and sub -division plate. (copy on file) A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Jim Flamm to pass Resolution 95-4. All Aye Nyle Fullmer reported that Gordon Tychsen would be retiring at the end of April. His retirement party would be on April 27. The new fire chief is doing a good job. RE: SIGN ORDINANCE DISCUSSED TOPIC: (19,122,,, SIGN ORDINANCE,SIGNS) Bruce Sutherland reported on the Planning & Zoning work meeting for the Sign Ordinance. They have been working on it for two years and put in a lot of work. All councilman had a copy of a proposed ordinance in their folder. Bruce felt they had come up with an ordinance that is very well explained and it is not a big ordinance and is simple. The -- signs are sketched out with their definitions of what they are. There is a chart with a schedule going through each zone and what is allowed with the size of the sign and maximum height and location and what is allowed. It is not overly restrictive. This will be in addition to the U.S.C. Jim did not agree with adopting the U.S.C. He did not think we need a sign code. He recommended that we need to let the Chamber of Commerce look at the ordinance. Kay stated he thought we needed a sign ordinance. (discussion) Bruce said he would take a copy to Donna Benfield and to Keith Steiner. We would table it to the next meeting. RE: TREE TRIMMING AT PORTER PARK TOPIC: (19,122 ... TREES,PORTER PARK,PARKS) Farrell discussed the tree trimming at Porter Park. He had complaints that this is not the right time of the year to trim trees. Kay said it is not the best time. They are still dripping. Alan Wilson stopped them from trimming any more. RE: IRRIGATION - REXBURG CANAL COMPANY TOPIC: (19,122,,, IRRIGATION,REXBURG CANAL COMPANY) Glen discussed Irrigation. It came to our attention that we have 14.5 shares in the Rexburg Canal Company, that we have been paying on every year. We will take that into account as we negotiate. They have been getting water from us plus we have been paying them for shares. RE: HEALTH INSURANCE DISCUSSED TOPIC: (19,122,,, HEALTH INSURANCE) Glen told the council we met yesterday morning with the Employee Committee. Our Health Insurance is expiring the end of April. Travelers contacted us about the renewal, their fees went up over 30%. We determined that there wasn't a way the city could afford to go along with the 30% increase in the insurance. Richard contacted some insurance agents to get some other proposals. They presented it to the employee committee in the morning yesterday. Some of the employees have a real concern about what is going on. Tentatively what the employee committee had agreed to yesterday morning was the mayor and Glen told them, the city would go for a 10% increase but no more based on council approval. We did have that contingency built in the budget. Glen explained the increase. Based on the questions asked, Glen recommended the council give their approval tonight to go with the 10% increase give or take a little bit. We will have a meeting with the employees next Monday when Richard comes back and get the insurance in place. Jim asked about the retired employee extending their insurance? A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland to grant a 10% increase on insurance and negotiate. Seconded by Nyle Fullmer. All Aye RE: A.D.A REQUIREMENTS FOR TABERNACLE TOPIC: (19,122,,, A.D.A.,TABERNACLE) Glen said he had received a call the other night about the accessibility for the A.D.A. requirements. He had explained that we were in the process as soon as money was available. That is an issue and we need to get it accessible. Rose explained that she, the mayor and Ann Zollinger had gone up to the college to look at their chair lifts, the one in the Austin building and the one in the Hart building. We found out they are replacing them. They are replacing the one in the Hart building this year, which is one that goes straight up one flight of stairs and are replacing the one in the Austin building next year which is one that goes up one flight of stairs and turns the corner and goes up a second flight of stairs, which would be perfect for the tabernacle. The mayor called the college and asked Chuck Frost and President Bennion about them and they indicated that they would give us a good deal if we wanted both or one of them when we were ready. Which would make it affordable. Glen said we would get the costs and present them at another meeting. The council felt that if they push us with a law suite because we aren't in compliance, we might have to close it until we get the money. A motion was made by Jim Flamm and seconded by Bruce Sutherland to pay the bills. All Aye Meeting adjourned. dt6 � Mayor, Nile L. Boyle' City Clerk, Rose Ba ley