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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1995.07.05 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESDATE: (070595) State of Idaho) County of Madison (ss City of Rexburg) Present: Mayor: Councilmen: Attorney: Engineer: Finance Officer: City Clerk: City Council 07/05/95 7:30 p.m. Nile L. Boyle Jim Flamm Farrell Young Glen Pond Bruce Sutherland Nyle Fullmer J.D. Hancock Joe Laird Richard Horner Rose Bagley, Excused. Janet Williamson was present to take minutes for Rose Bagley who was excused. Pledge to the Flag. Nyle Fullmer moved to approve the minutes with corrections. Bruce Sutherland seconded the motion. All Aye. RE: OBSTRUCTED INTERSECTIONS TOPIC: (20,1,,, SAFETY COMMITTEE,INTERSECTIONS) Mayor Boyle gave the list of "Obstructed Intersections" to Bruce to give to Kay when he returns. Kay will take it to the Safety Committee to review. RE: SUPPORT GROUP FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TOPIC: (20,1,,, POLICE,SUPPORT GROUPS) Lisa Barnes, 250 East 4th South #1, was at the meeting to explain to the council the purposes of their forming a support group for all of the police in the area - City, Ricks College, and Sheriffs Department. She handed out an outline of their goals. (Handout on file.) Their first and main goal is the family unit and family relations. August - December are their Family months where they will have local people come in to talk to them. Also, they want to bring all of the officers and their families together to get better acquainted with each other. They will be having some fund raisers to finance some activities they would like to have. They plan to support the D.A.R.E. Program. They are here tonight to let the Council know what they are doing and to ask for their support. The Council felt they could give them their support unanimously. RE: CLOSURE OF PART OF MAIN STREET FOR DANCE FESTIVAL TOPIC: (20,1 ... DANCE FESTIVAL,MAIN STREET,DOWNTOWN) Next item discussed was the closure of part of Main Street for the Dance Festival day. It would be from the west side of 1st East intersection (West One Bank across to Subway) and from the Food Center parking lot across Main. It would be about 1 1/2 blocks including 2 intersections - Main and College Avenue, and Main and Center. Chuck Porter, owner of Porter's (College Avenue), said that when ever you close off any of Main Street it not only hurts the merchants on Main Street but every business downtown. For the last 2 years when it was closed it killed their business. He brought it up to the Chamber of Commerce and they assured him that in planning this year he would be specifically invited to any meeting and he has not. He wants to voice an objection to closing Main Street. Any time you stop the traffic on Main Street you cause that flow to go another way and you are hurting the businesses downtown for that period of time. Even closing College Ave., Center and Carlson Ave. does not hurt them as much as closing Main Street. Glen asked what we are gaining by closing the streets at all. The Mayor said the main reason is for safety because you have booths on both sides. It was felt that the businesses need to be more involved in the decision next year. Jim moved to close a portion of Main Street for the Dance Festival. Nyle seconded the motion. Jim, Nyle, Bruce voted Aye. Farrell voted Nay. Glen abstained. The motion passed. RE: DOWNTOWN PARKING - MILLHOLLOW YOGURT TOPIC: (20,2,,, DOWNTOWN PARKING,PARKING,MILLHOLLOW YOGURT) Joe Romney, 53 Millhollow - they have finished the work on their building, Millhollow Yogurt on the corner of Carlson Ave. and 1st E., and finished the parking lot and landscaping. They would like to request that 8 spaces in the parking lot be designated 2 hour parking. Mr. Romney had a handout of a map of the downtown area, the number of parking spaces available and their designation, and the 8 spaces he is requesting be designated 2 hour parking were outlined in red. (Handout on file.) Glen asked what the original designation was and Mr. Romney said it was unmarked. A lot of it was used by the Beauty College. Jim asked how many parking spaces he had of his own and he said they have 4, one of which is handicapped. There are 6 in the back that would be private for employees to use. Nyle asked how many he .was required to provide when he built and he said none, they were under the downtown area. Chuck Porter said that on the handout, where Mr. Romney had counted 52 spaces in the lot behind Porter's that included the 6 that were directly behind his store and those 6 are his own. Mayor said that he helped with the selling of the LID for this and they were selling it not for employee parking but for customer '.. parking. He has no problem if there is more parking there then the .--- customers will use that you use it for employee's, but the main reason for the LID was for customer parking. Vern Liljenquist said that the biggest assessment was the old hotel. They are still required to park over by Anderson' Photo. His was the second largest assessment. Chuck Porter gave some background - originally the whole lot behind his store was set up for 2 hour parking. The spaces in the street and the spaces by the career beauty college were used for employee parking. It was understood by a lot of them that that was all part of the city project. Over the years employees started to park in the lot that was intended for customers and they lost the 11 spaces on the south end. Originally there were 56 spaces on the LID that were for customer parking and now 18 of those are designated as employee parking or all day parking. The Beauty College has put the most pressure on the lots. When Kings was closed last year that helped. He has a rule that none of his employees can park in the lot and at Christmas time they can't even park on the street. Mr. Porter got the minutes regarding all of the meetings when the -- Yogurt shop was being planned. on the meeting of March 2, 1994, Kay Beck is quoted as saying "the project would be putting in more parking spaces there then the city actually had." I think what has happened is we lost some parking spaces. It was stated, at that same meeting, "that all of the businesses would be contacted and see if they feel all the parking lots along the road need to be posted for 2 hour parking." That wasn't done. No one has ever contacted us about changing the status of the parking. Third, it quotes Mr. Romney as saying that Mr. Taylor owns the parking across the street on College Avenue and the employees and students for the Career Beauty College can park over there until that is sold. First of all that isn't much of a solution for the congestion because it is only until they sell the property. Second, the students from the Beauty College are specifically instructed not to park over there. The reason Mr. Porter is against reclassifying the 8 spaces Mr. Romney is talking about is because it will put more pressure on the lot that he has. Another thing that needs to be considered is the contributions verse the benefits of the LID. This whole issue needs to be studied out further. He would like to see the 7 places he lost last year restored to him. (Discussion). Vern Liljenquist asked that you put yourself in an employees place. That lot was torn up and existing parking that belonged to the city was used to build this new place. It took out parking that could have been used all winter because there was dirt there. Then, when the dirt was gone, they put up a barrier and he had to talk to the --- Mayor to get the barrier removed. The idea was that that was free parking before with no restrictions, why shouldn't it be the same now. From October until now they lost a lot of parking. He feels a lot of people feel those spots belong to the Romneys but they don't. Anyone can park there and he would like it left all day parking. Jim asked if the net effect now of parking spaces available on property owned by this parking coalition is back to where it originally was? Yes. A solution that Mr. Romney offered was: 24 spaces on Carlson be all day 11 in Porters be all day 10 on 1st East 16 & 20 behind Anderson's & by Morris be 2 hour 48 Unavailable (More Discussion). Jim was not willing to designate these 8 spaces as 2 hour tonight. He would suggest that they be given a copy of everyone who was involved in the development of those parking lots and their contributions to start with so they know who they are talking about. The Mayor said they are City owned and the City does the maintenance. The Police need to know what to enforce. They get their direction from the Council. The Council didn't realize that Carlson Avenue was not being enforced as 2 hour parking. (Discussion.) It was decided that a committee of the Mayor, Jim Flamm and Chuck Porter get together within the next 2 weeks and gather information and contact merchants. They need to find out the original intent. RE: 2ND READING OF THE SIGN ORDINANCE TOPIC: (20,3,,, SIGN ORDINANCE,SIGNS) 2nd Reading of the Sign Ordinance - Mayor Boyle read a letter from the Chamber of Commerce saying they have received no comments on the sign ordinance. (Letter on file.) Jim said he has talked to two members of that executive committee and Joan Chicos said she knows of no one that is for it and Keith Steiner said he knows one or two who are for it and the rest would rather not have it. Bruce said the P. & Z. have worked on this for more than 24 months and they voted unanimously for this ordinance. Mayor read through the ordinance and the one part that might be questionable and need to be changed was the part about the maximum height. Bruce said that they discussed this long and hard and they felt like highway businesses adjacent to highway 20 might feel 24 feet would be too short, but, they could handle it easily with a C.U.P. and P. & Z. could take each request individually. (Council reviewed some of Schedule B that was done according to our ordinance.) This item will be on the agenda next time for the final reading. Jim sees no need for a sign ordinance. RE: RESOLUTION 95.09 CHANGING THE TRUSTEES FOR THE 401K, PASSED TOPIC: (20,3,RES,95.09,401K PLAN,REXBURG FINANCE COMMITTEE, WEST ONE BANK) Mayor Boyle read Resolution 95.09 changing the trustees for the 401K Plan from West One Bank to Glen Pond, Farrell Young and Bruce Sutherland, constituting the Rexburg Finance Committee. A motion was made by Jim Flamm and seconded by Bruce Sutherland to adopt Resolution 95.09. All Aye. RE: STREET OVERRIDE ELECTION DISCUSSED TOPIC: (20,3,,, ELECTIONS,STREETS) The Street Override Election was discussed. Bruce Sutherland moved to table it, have a 10 year plan by the first of the year which would give us plenty of time to have the election in May. Jim Flamm seconded the motion. All Aye. Joe Laird, Richard Horner, and Kay Beck will put the 10 year plan together. RE: WASTEWATER SURCHARGES TOPIC: (20,4,,, WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT,SURCHARGES) Jim asked where are we on refiguring the Wastewater Surcharges? EPA is going to send some information and when Dave gets back they will go over it with him. Richard said that EPA has something that will make it easier to figure it. Joe said that they are going to have to change the way they figure the charges per pound for B.O.D. and T.S.S. because of Melaleuca's unique problems. RE: SURVEYING TOPIC: (20,4,,, SURVEYING) Farrell asked Joe how the surveying was going. Joe said they flew the southerly 3 sections that they were scheduled to do this year. We did not feel that the photography was adequate and we asked them to fly it over again. They have re -flown it now and Joe has not seen how it turned out. Bruce moved that they pay the bills. Nyle seconded the motion. All Aye. Meeting Adjourned. Mayor, N le L. Boyle// i City Clerk, RoselE�agie