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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1997.10.01 CITY COUNCIL MINUTESDATE: (100197) State of Idaho) County of Madison( ss City of Rexburg) Present: Mayor: Councilmembers: City Clerk: Attorney: Finance Officer: City Council 10/01/97 7:30 P. M. Nile Boyle Farrell Young Kay Beck Bruce Sutherland Marsha Bjornn Rose Bagley Stephen Zollinger Richard Horner County Commissioners Brooke Passey, Jerry Jeppesen, and Reed Sommer were in attendance to the meeting. Pledge to the flag. The mayor told the council Marsha would be a little late because of a family emergency. RE: DEAN GROVER CONCERNS ABOUT HIS PROPERTY ZONING IN THE IMPACT ZONE TOPIC: (21,105,,, GR0VER*DEAN,1000 NORTH,COMPREHENSIVE PLAN,WATER TANK, IMPACT ZONE) Stephen explained that Dean and Lois Grover are concerned. The '.. property on both sides of 1000 North are in the Impact Area and at the time we did the Impact Map that property seemed so far out of town that we zoned the property Agricultural. The people owning the property are concerned about having to build on five acre or bigger parcels. They would like to see it changed to one acre at the very least. They would like the whole thing looked at in the Comprehensive Plan for rezoning. Right now they have a single lot sandwiched between their current home and our current water tank. That piece of property would not allow for a five acre parcel without making a very strange shape. They would like some input from the council as to how it would be received if it was run through Planning & Zoning next week. The council did not see any problem. The mayor stated that when we had the hearings on the Impact Zone the family were at the hearings. There is a narrow strip of land between them and the neighboring property that they want to sell to one of their children for a house. The mayor stated that his feeling is that they need to get all the property they own and that the rest of the family own and request it rezoned the way they want it. John Millar stated that the only concern of Planning & Zoning is that they don't sell off all the frontage because in the long term that is a collector road. Stephen stated that is what they want to do. RE: INFORMATIONAL HEARING REGARDING INTERSECTION AT 1500 SOUTH AND YELLOWSTONE HIGHWAY TOPIC: (21,105... 1500 SOUTH,YELLOWSTONE HIGHWAY,WILCOX FRESH PACK, TAYLOR CHEVROLET,RAILROAD CROSSING,RIGHT OF WAY,BLOCK GRANT) 7:35 P. M. Informal Informational Hearing regarding Intersection at 1500 South and Yellowstone Highway. A notice was published in the paper and was sent out to all the property owners within 300 feet of the property and all those who objected at the hearings for the Wilcox Property. The only person to the hearing was David Taylor representing Taylor Chevrolet. John Millar showed a site plan and explained. The existing road coming off U.S. 20 is two lanes in both directions going east and west. On old U.S. 20 is a single lane going north and south with turn lanes going onto U.S. 20. The proposal before was to come down 600 feet south of the existing connection and to do a full railroad crossing stop arms and planking for a commercial approach. The budget for that was approximately $200,000. That would serve the Wilcox development only. They could see no benefit to alleviate the traffic problems at the intersection both long term and short term. It would not make the intersection worse because the traffic would be diverted but some would come back anyway. He referred to the problem in Rigby when they did the Rigby Produce north of Rigby. They had money there to do a new approach crossing but in instead of doing that they went down 200 feet and put $200,000 into a crossing and the county still has a bad crossing down there and gained nothing. So what they looked at is can the money be better spent? What they looked at is instead of doing the crossing south of the intersection, coming in and doing a full signalized intersection with traffic signals on the three legs; with full activated signals that you see just north of town. In addition to that, right now the road going north has a widened section for about 200 feet and then it narrows back down into one lane until it gets down to Taylor Chevrolet and then it widens out again. So there are two lanes and about a 14 foot turn lane from Taylors on into Calls Service station. What they are proposing is widening the piece from where it narrows down now up to Taylor Chevrolet and maintain two lanes of traffic north bound to Taylor Chevrolet. That would allow two lanes of traffic to turn left at one time from that intersection. Then they would be required to narrow down into one lane. We are looking at the same dollars either way. A full traffic signal is approximately $150,000 leaving about $50,000 for the widening of the road north of the intersection. $200,000 was the crossing itself, but we would eliminate a piece of road so there would be some funds we could use from that. He said they could look at it more and see if they could widen it a little bit more and see if we could develope two north lanes. Brook stated that one problem is the power poles. The right -a -way is 66 feet. (discussion) Mayor Boyle asked John if we could wait to finish this discussion because Marsha had arrived at the meeting and would need to leave because of a family emergency as soon as we could take care of the business that needed a quorum to vote on. A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Farrell Young to approve the minutes. All Aye RE: ORDINANCE 798 ANNEXATION OF PROPERTY NORTH OF WALMART TOPIC: (21,106,ORD,798,WALMART,ANNEXATIONS,COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, SILVERTREE) Mayor Boyle read the Annexation ordinance to annex the property north of Walmart, next to the Grease Monkey, south of 1000 North excluding the Sears property which was already annexed. ORDINANCE 798 AN ORDINANCE ANNEXING CERTAIN LANDS TO THE CITY OF REXBURG, IDAHO; DESCRIBING SAID LANDS AND DECLARING SAME A PART OF THE CITY OF REXBURG, IDAHO; AND AMENDING AND CHANGING THE ZONING MAP OF THE CITY OF REXBURG, IDAHO, AND THE MADISON COUNTY-REXBURG COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2000 TO SHOW SUCH ANNEXATION AND THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE SAME UNDER THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF REXBURG, IDAHO; AND PROVIDING WHEN THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE. A motion was made by councilman Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Kay Beck 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 798. Those voting aye: Bruce Sutherland Marsha Bjornn Kay Beck Farrell Young Those voting nay: none Ordinance 798 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 Kay Beck and seconded by Farrell Young that ordinance 798 be passed. Those voting aye: Bruce Sutherland Marsha Bjornn Kay Beck Farrell Young Those voting nay: None 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. A motion was made by Bruce Sutherland and seconded by Marsha Bjornn to approve the bills. All Aye Mayor Boyle excused Marsha so she could go back to her family emergency. John Millar continued with his presentation. one thing that would be a benefit on the north side is if we could stack cars two wide. The mayor stated that 7th South will be finished in the spring and there will be more traffic. (discussion) Ted Hendricks stated as far as changing the scope on the Block Grant, we can do that. We just have to do it formally. It won't be a problem. The mayor stated that we are spending block grant money and he felt this was a better way to do it. David Taylor asked if this would be a good time to decide what they are going to do with the rest of that road where it is deteriorating? Kay suggested that we tried to get an L.I.D. to fix the road, and there was too much opposition. (discussion) Farrell asked if there had been any thought of future development on that road on to the east at that intersection and will that light have to be changed at that time? John Millar told him they would just need to add a fourth pole. He told the council that the project will pick up all the costs. RE: BRICK FOR THE WATER TANK TOPIC: (21,107,,, WATER DEPT.,WATER TANK,1000 NORTH) Ted asked if this was the Public Hearing for the change? The notice was published in the paper and all the people within 300 feet were mailed a notice. Ted told the council on the Water Tank project, we had a line item for blocking the tank and we bid it about $100,000 to $150,000 over. That tank is under the heavy highway schedule which is $20 plus per hour for labor work. The city could delete the blocks for the time being and come back in when it was needed and block it with the city's own funds. Because it was a cost overrun, we are still going to meet our match requirements and meet our scope of work. The funding agency doesn't care if it is blocked as long as it is functional and it covers the solutions to the problems which have been identified. It is really a decision of the council at this point, but the city should be able to save money because you would not have to pay that kind of wages. The city could do it on its own at their convenience. If the brick is ordered, we could stock pile it and do it later. John suggested that it would be a good idea to put the brick on sometime for protection of the tank. The mayor told him we will vote on it in two weeks when we have a quorum. RE: RECREATION DISTRICT ELECTION CONCERNS TOPIC: (21,107,,, RECREATION DISTRICT,COMMISSIONERS,CITY COUNCIL, SMITH*DOUG,RECREATION COMMITTEE) Doug Smith was at the meeting to discuss the Recreation District Election. He gave a handout to the council (on file). It has been a year since the council voted to close the pool. They then organized a committee to save the pool and then started working on a Recreation District to fund that. He had a couple of concerns. (1) He was not sure the leadership of the city and county government are totally behind the Recreation Committee for the Recreation District. If we are going to do this the leadership of our community needs to be behind it. He felt they should be carrying a lot of the ball rather than the citizens committee. He is saying that because of the number of doors he has knocked on and they ask why the leadership are not out carrying the flag on it. (2) It concerns him that the county is going backward in the funding and the expenditures toward Recreational things. He felt the reason for that is they feel that recreation is just fun and something that is expendable. He is here to ask for the council and county commissioners full support. (he discussed it in the budget) We have just built a new jail and are locking people up fast but are we not doing anything to help eliminate them from going to jail? Kay asked if he had given this same plea to the county commissioners prior to this meeting? The mayor told him that is the reason they had invited them to this meeting. Kay stated that everyone comes to the city for money regardless if it is a city or a county issue. He said the city have promoted a lot of recreation programs for years and the county benefits from them. He said he is in favor of the Recreation District. Doug stated that if the Recreation District passes, with putting $21,000 in the city budget we will not have enough money to do much more than fill the swimming pool and make sure it operates for the next 15 to 20 years. We will need a pledge from the city and the county to continue to commit some funds and some help particularly to keep the parks and the ball diamonds and those things up and maybe in the part to help with an administrator. The Recreation Committee needs that pledge or this thing will never fly. The mayor stated that he will personally attend any of the meetings that they want him to attend and help in anyway. Bruce, Kay and — Farrell said they would support it. (Discussion on amount assessed for the district and costs to the citizens and other pools.) Bruce Sutherland told Doug how much we appreciated all the work the committee had done. RE: LEASE AGREEMENT BETWEEN U.P.& L. AND THE CITY OF REXBURG TOPIC: (21,108,,, POLICE DEPT.,U.P.& L.,BUDGET,MAIN STREET) Lease Agreement between U.P.L. and the City of Rexburg. We would lease the front two thirds and they would keep all the engineering room in back and four offices upstairs. They will pay for the electricity and we will pay for the sewer and water. We pick up janitorial and they pick up taxes. The dispatch will stay the same as it is now. To lease it will cost $5.50 to $5.80 a square foot which is a going rate for downtown. It will be $2900 a month. It is within the budget amount. Stephen stated that a little over two weeks ago the County Commissioners did authorize their attorney to put together the paper work for the purchase of the present police department. Kay felt we should set tight until that paper work is completed. Stephen stated that we have a lease with U.P.L and if we are not interested they have other interested tenants. (discussion) Meeting adjourned. City Clerk, Rose Bagley If 1 7 -� ,/ Mayor, 4ile L. Boyle >J