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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1997.04.16 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESDATE: (041697) City Council 4/16/97 7:00 P. M. State of Idaho) County of Madison( ss City of Rexburg) Present were the following: Presiding: Council Members: Excused: City Clerk: Finance Officer: Attorney: Assistant Engineer: Commissioner: Pledge to the Flag Glen Pond Kay Beck Farrell Young Marsha Bjornn Bruce Sutherland Nyle Fullmer Mayor Boyle Rose Bagley Richard Horner Stephen Zollinger Val Christenson Brooke Passey A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Nyle Fullmer to approve the minutes. All Aye RE: EMPLOYEE COMMITTEE SERVICE PROJECT TOPIC: (21,48,,, EMPLOYEE COMMITTEE,SERVICE PROJECTS) Employee Committee Service Project: Corey Foster, President of the Committee, acted as spokesman. They want to find an elderly person, or a widow in the community, someone that needs their house painted and the committee will provide the service to paint the house. They have contacted Anderson Lumber and they will donate any supplies that would be needed to paint the house. They wanted to present it to the council and ask for suggestions and invite the council to be there. The tentative date they have set is June 21 which is a Saturday. They plan on the week prior to get a few employees to prep the house, scrape it and get it ready to paint. Bruce Sutherland suggested that they have power rollers that work really good and Cal Store have them on sale. Corey stated that they want to get all the employees out to help and Anderson Lumber will supply what they need in rollers. He asked the council to think of someone that needed it done and call Daniel or Nancy. RE: PROCLAMATION FOR MOTORCYCLE AWARENESS MONTH TOPIC: (21,48,,, PROCLAMATIONS,MOTORCYCLES) Next month is Motorcycle Awareness month. Kay Beck read a proclamation, (on file). A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Marsha Bjornn to approve the proclamation. All Aye RE: POLICE BIKE PATROL APPROVED TOPIC: (21,48,,, POLICE DEPARTMENT,POLICE BIKE PATROL) Police Bike Patrol- Glen Pond reviewed a letter from the police chief regarding a police bike patrol. (on file) There is some interest from some of our police officers to participate in a bike patrol. They have contacted Pocatello and Idaho Falls and visited Rigby who use bike patrol. They think it would be an asset to the community to have patrolman on bikes during the summer, spring, and fall. The cost of the bikes would be about $1000 a piece and there will be expenses for uniforms and helmets. The City of Rigby is happy with the success they have had with the bike patrol. Larger cities use the bike patrol especially Seattle likes it and their drug arrests have gone way up. They do have to have a backup to come when they do make an arrest. Nyle stated that the campus police have used bikes for the last several �7 years and feel it is a good program. Nyle felt it was a good idea. Kay stated that it really works well in Las Vegas. Glen told the council that Rigby claims that they can come up on a problem without people knowing they are there. The issue is the police don't have the money in their budget. They feel it would be good public relations and as a public relations tool we need to find other ways to fund it other than out of the police budget. The funding amount would be about $3000. A motion was made by Kay Beck to look to see if we can find the funding to help the police with this project. Seconded by Bruce Sutherland. All Aye. RE: URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY REPORT TOPIC: (21,49 ... URBAN RENEWAL AGENCY,WASHINGTON SCHOOL,BROULIMS, REDEVELOPMENT,ORDINANCES) Jeff Sommer, E.C.I.P.D.A., was at the meeting to report on the Urban Renewal Agency. (he gave out copies of the Urban Renewal Plan and Project) on file. They are ready to move forward. He explained the plan. Showing the map, we are talking about block 30 and 31 as the Urban Renewal Area, this is the redevelopment part. Through out the plan it stated that this has to comply with all city ordinances. This plan will now go to Planning & Zoning. Phase 1 are those things directly related to the Washington School block. Phase 2 & 3 are other improvements that are identified that are around the Washington school but not directly related to Phase 1. For those activities to take place we will need additional development to take place. Right now the plan is to just do Phase 1. He explained attachment 5A, 5B and 5C. Stephen will prepare the Ordinance to be passed the first meeting in June. There will need to be three readings on the Ordinance. RE: DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION TOPIC: (21,49,,, DOWNTOWN REVITALIZATION,ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WATER PROJECT,DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE) Downtown Project- Diana Cluff from the Department of Commerce was here and went over the city and looked at the buildings and the alleyways. They are going to make some decisions on April 26 on all the projects they have in for this year, including Rexburg's water project. At that time they will see how much money they have left over for what they call Economic Development projects for the next two cycles which will include June and September. Diana told him after looking at the other projects, Rexburg has a chance if there is no one else there or the competition is low. The best chance is to look at jobs. There is a possible 21 new jobs and they give $10,000 for every job. RE: LID #29 BID AWARDED TO ZOLLINGER CONSTRUCTION TOPIC: (21,49,,, L.I.D. #29,Z0LLINGER CONSTRUCTION,BIDS) Val Christenson explained the Sidewalk LID #29 Bid Summary. The low bid was Zollinger bid for $77,205.10. A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Kay Beck to accept the low bid. All Aye RE: HEALTH INSURANCE, BLUE SHIELD #2 OPTION APPROVED TOPIC: (21,49,,, HEALTH INSURANCE) Richard gave handout on Health Insurance renewal premiums and explained them. Because of current health insurance claims Blue Cross does not want to put the city on their insurance. What was on the handout is from Blue Shield. (copy on file) Blue Shield has an increase of 18% for health insurance and 0 increase for dental. 18% increase is about average. From the handout sheet option 1, 2, and 3 have the same benefits as we have now. The only difference is how much the city would contribute. He explained. (council discussion) Richard told the council we put in a 20% increase in the budget. Corey Foster from the Employee Committee told the council that last year he had done some research from other cities about their insurance. As far as their deductible and premiums, the deductible was as high as ours, but the city had kicked in a portion of the deductible for each employee. It was felt last year that the deductible was good for those with big families, but those who don't have big families don't usually meet their deductible. (discussion) A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Kay Beck to choose #2 Blue Shield on the schedule unless the Employee Committee comes up with another option for the same price range. All Aye RE: CLEAN UP OF ENTRANCES & EXITS TO CITY DISCUSSED TOPIC: (21,50,,, CITY CLEAN UP,RICKS COLLEGE,MADISON COUNTY) Marsha reminded the council that we had talked about the man power we would have this summer to clean up the town. Glade Merrill had talked to her about a plan to beautify the entrance and exit to the city. Marsha thought maybe the city and county could get together and help. He had talked to President Bennion, to the County Commissioners, to Wards and Stakes about it. Everyone seems to want to do something to make the entrances more appealing by doing something to beautify these areas. He felt we should make it low maintenance. President Bennion is not going to be here long but he is for the project and would offer the services of the Horticulture Landscaping Department and of the equipment that might be needed and also the grounds department to prepare it. The Horticulture Department could say what we could plant that would take a minimum of water and a minimum of upkeep. The stakes and the wards would be the best to help clean the areas all up. The county has spraying equipment we could use to kill off the current grasses that are there. We could look into the Ladybird Johnson foundation for wild flower seeds. He proposed getting a committee representing the church, city council, county commissioners, and college. Glen Pond suggested that we include the Chamber of Commerce and possibly Clair Boyle would be very helpful. The Service Clubs would also help. Stephen suggested that the city water only goes to the business park, but the city does have surface water shares for the Business Park, they maybe could exchange with some farmers for watering out there. The south and west have water in those areas. The property also belongs to the state and that will need to be approved. A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Bruce Sutherland to go ahead with it and that Marsha work on the committee. We need to get some plans from the Horticulture Department and get some costs on the sprinkling system. All Aye to the motion. RE: GAE GRANT APPOINTED CHAIRMAN OF TABERNACLE COMMITTEE TOPIC: (21,50,,, TABERNACLE COMMITTEE,GRANT*GAE) Farrell Young told the council the the Tabernacle Committee had appointed Gas Grant as chairman. A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Kay Beck to approve Mrs Grant to that position. All Aye A motion was made by Nyle Fullmer and seconded by Farrell Young to approve the bills. All Aye Meeting adjourned. ]ZL i Mayor, N 1 L. Boyle City Clerk,s/ BAgley