City Council Regular Meeting

Star City Council Meeting Minutes September 7, 2004 A regular meeting of the Star City Council was called to order at 7:00 pm at the Star Fire Station. Mayor Nathan Mitchell presided over the meeting; all stood for the Pledge of Allegiance. Roll Call: Council members Tammy McDaniel, Dustin Christopherson, Chad Bell were present; Councilman Tom Erlebach was absent. Amend/Approve Agenda: Christopherson moved to add 4-C Police Officer Introduction and 5-B Senior funding request and approve the agenda, Bell seconded the motion. All aye: motion carried Councilman Erlebach arrived. Consent Agenda: Christopherson moved to approve the Consent Agenda consisting of: a) Approval of August 3, 2004 regular meeting minutes; b) Claims against the City for August 2004; c) Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law for Giles Annexation & Zone; d) Amended Intergovernmental Agreement for the Freilich Report; McDaniel seconded the motion. Roll Call: McDaniel, Christopherson, Erlebach and Bell. All aye: motion carried. ) Public Input: Building Inspector - Daunt Whitman - Whitman is the Building Inspector for the City of Star. Whitman reviewed his job duties and the fee structure of his contract. Whitman is paid at 50% of each building permit issued by the City. Whitman is also the Building Inspector for Meridian and Middleton. In those cities, he is paid 50% of first $40,000 and then the percentage declines as permits go up. Public - Sandi Johnson, 11650 New Hope, Star - Johnson is thrilled to see City limit signs moved and the lowered speed limit signs moved. She noticed two days later that the speed limit signs were put back in the same place. The City Ordinance says it should be 35 mph in City limits. A daycare was just approved and traffic is going by there at 55 mph. She would like to encourage the Council to follow its Ordinance and stick to the 35 mph. New Police Officer Introduction - Deputy Ken Ramage stated that five other officers wanted to come work in Star. Three of the five have been assigned to other duties. Rod Marshall was the best candidate. He has many years of experience. Ramage introduced Rod Marshall. Marshall stated that he has twenty-six years of experience with eight years on patrol, and sixteen years as a detective. Marshall will retire in four years.  Old Business: Tempe Park Final Plat - Staff stated that there were no changes to the final plat. Bell moved to approve the final plat for Tempe Park Subdivision to include the sixteen conditions of approval, Christopherson seconded the motion. All aye: motion carried. Senior Citizens Funding Request - The Mayor stated that the Seniors are asking for matching funds for a grant to purchase a van. Ada County Commissioners will give the Seniors $4,000. They will need another $4,000. Bell asked Legal Counsel if the City could give this money. Chris Yorgason, Legal Counsel stated that the money needs to be available in the budget and will be required to be used for the public. The City could approve the number tonight, but needs to enter into a contract with Seniors allowing for the City to use the van. Costs for the garage for Seniors is above and beyond this request. The matching funds are required by mid-July 2005. The van is a fifteen passenger van with a lift. Erlebach moved to approve $4,000 subject to a contractual agreement with the Star Senior Citizens, Bell seconded the motion. All aye: motion carries. ) Public Hearing: Area of Impact Comprehensive Plan - Staff Presentation - Craig Eckles, Zoning Administrator, stated that this process was started on February 6 and the land uses are before you tonight. Eckles described the extended areas of impact. Star has three miles of developed land with more annexation coming. The Area of Impact (AOI) has been depleted. We have held nineteen meetings on the AOL There have been a lot of people involved in the process for amending the AOL We have few people and a lot of land involved in this amended AOI with a lot of public input. The last meetings were August 4th and 5th•. We are amending the text tonight. Ada County Highway District and Idaho Transportation District have reviewed the plan. Most of our citizens are in Eagle tonight where they are holding their AOI meeting. Multiple use areas are shown on the map. A study is being done on State, Joplin and Chinden streets. Over 400 people have attended the land use planning meetings held in Star. Changes in the text were reviewed by Eckles. Mayor Mitchell questioned the limiting access onto public roads, limiting commercial and prohibiting school accesses. Legal Counsel, JoAnn Butler stated that the Comprehensive Plan is a guide, the Zoning Ordinance is where you will prohibit or control access onto public roads. Language can be "discouraged" instead of "prohibited" or they can be conditional uses.  Public Comment: ) Sandi Johnson, 11650 New Hope Road, Star- Johnson complimented everyone for getting through an extensive process and accomplishing it in a timely manner. She has been to all of our meetings, we have few landowners with a lot of land. Star's meetings were held before they were required. Star Citizens have had a wonderful and extensive opportunity to have input. Everything has been considered - utilities, lay of the land and private property rights have been respected- if they didn't want it - they didn't have it. Johnson believes that we should never prohibit things - things change - large parcels of ground are good for batch plants - it's a good industry. We should allow our conditional use process to guide the specifics. Council and members of staff should be complimented on how they handled themselves before the Ada County Planning Commission - the other side was not polite. We have staff that can take care of the new area. Marianne Garrett, 11756 W. Blake, Star, wants to get a copy of the plan. Alyce Lewis, 7020 W. Chinden Blvd, Meridian -Complimented everyone on the meetings, they did receive letters from the City. She would like to know if her property is multiple use one or two and what that means. Lewis asked when she would be annexed. The Mayor explained how the annexation process takes place. Eckles reviewed the process again. Eckles stated that the wording "prohibit" and taking the number off high density are two ) amendments to the plan presented tonight. The Mayor stated that the full Council did not attend most of the meetings as we did not want a quorum situation. Eckles added one additional clarification change - "prohibiting on arterials" should be changed to "discouraged on arterials". Mr. Lewis asked about the area in brown that comes across the back of the property. The Mayor stated that nothing is being annexed at this time. Christopherson asked if the three changes can be included in tonight's resolution. They can be changed. Ed Nail, 1011 S Star Road, Star-Nail is curious to know if a green belt has been included in Comp Plan connecting to Boise. Bell stated that it does include a green belt. Nail stated that aggregate areas in Sacramento came in initially and extracted and were not made to restore the areas. They were left with unsightly areas. Has Star addressed this concern. Bell stated that we have. The Mayor closed the public hearing. } Bell thanked staff for this Comprehensive Plan.  Resolutions & Ordinances Resolution 2004-06 Comprehensive Plan - Bell moved to approve Resolution 2004-06 a Resolution of the City Council of the City of Star, Idaho, approving and adopting, pursuant to Section 67-6509, Idaho Code, a Comprehensive Plan for the City of Star; repealing Comprehensive Plan Resolution No. 2000-8, adopted on October 3, 2000; and providing an effective date, with the changes that have been noted, McDaniel seconded the motion. Roll Call: McDaniel, Christopherson, Erlebach, Bell - all aye: motion carnes. Giles Annexation & Zoning Ordinance - McDaniel moved that pursuant to Idaho Code, Section 50-902 the rule requiring an Ordinance to be read on three different days, with one reading to be in full, be dispensed with and that Ordinance No. 111 be considered after reading once by title only, Bell seconded the motion. Roll Call: McDaniel, Christopherson, Erlebach and Bell - all aye: motion carries. McDaniels moved to approve Ordinance No. 111 an Ordinance annexing to the City of Star certain real property located in the unincorporated area of Ada County, Idaho, and contiguous to the City of Star, establishing the zoning classification of the annexed property as residential (R-2) of approximately 11.53 acres; directing that certified copies Of this Ordinance be filed as provided by law; providing for related matters; and providing an effective date, Bell seconded the motion. Roll Call: McDaniel, ) Christopherson, Erlebach and Bell - all aye: motion carries. New Business: Star Joint Fire Protection District Funding Request - postponed until later in the meeting in order to accommodate the Fire Chiefs schedule. Reports: The Mayor reported that he will be gone to the Treasure Valley Partnership meeting - Wednesday through Friday and then gone until the 23rd of the month. Bell will run the second Council meeting and there is a joint ACHD meeting scheduled. Bell will contact ACHD regarding the meeting. The Mayor attended a meeting today to discuss animal control concerns. Discussion was in regards to working with Meridian's animal control program. Eagle's will be holding a meeting regarding their technical testimony regarding the electrical lines running through downtown Eagle. The AOI public hearing is on September 29 with the Ada County Commissioners. COMPASS and ADA Land Use Plan, we will be selecting two committees. ) The Mayor thanked everyone involved with Mule Days. Bell stated that the bid for street lights were awarded to Alloway Electric for lights for park, they were ordered ten days ago. The irrigation system is out to bid, and will be awarded soon. We need to get the lot fine graded. We will have power at the park. Striping of the parking lot will hopefully be done this month. Erlebach had nothing to report. Christopherson reported on the Chamber of Commerce bylaws they are patterned after Boise Metro Chamber. They have talked about having an economic development committee within the City. He attended an Emergency Management meeting where they talked about emergency systems in place. McDaniel stated that citizens in Shooting Comet are asking about the property on comer of Taurus and State Street and what is going on. The property is owned by Jerry Taylor and he is tearing down the buildings. The Mayor asked about the abandon trailer on Main Street. Eckles stated that there are sixteen liens against the property. Eckles will give legal counsel the information. The Mayor will be discussing changes to the office building at the first of next month. Eckles stated that the Five Year TIP information will be out this week. There will be a cut across State Street, Mr. Ingles has been given the okay by the road district. Star Fire Department Funding Request - Chief Kevin Courtney of the Star Fire District is requesting funds for the CPR program. Start up cost will be $2,504.68 and will benefit the entire community. Bell moved to approve the Fire Departments request for the purchase of the listed items for the Fire Department in the amount of $2,504.68, Erlebach seconded the motion. All aye: motion carried. Adjournment: It was moved by Christopherson and seconded by McDaniel to adjourn the meeting. All aye: motion carried. The meeting adjourned at 9:15 pm. Re�pectfully submitted: Approved: )II IL � Nathan Mitchell, Mayor