City Council Regular Meeting

Star City Council Meeting Minutes October 2, 2012 The regular meeting of the Star City Council was held on October 2, 2012 at 7:00 pm at the Star City Hall. Mayor Nathan Mitchell called the meeting to order and all stood for the Pledge of Allegiance. Roll Call: Councilman Tom Erlebach, Gary Smith, and Chad Bell were present. Tammy McDaniel was absent. Agenda: Bell moved to approve the Agenda, Erlebach seconded the motion. All aye: motion carried. Consent Agenda: Bell moved to approve the Consent Agenda consisting of: Claims Against the City for September 2012, Regular Meeting Minutes of September 4, 2012, Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law for: Burrus Conditional Use Permit and the Brave Girls Conditional Use Permit. Erlebach seconded the motion. All aye: motion carried. Presentations/Public Input: Republic Services – Rachele Klein stated she was before the Council to give her annual “State of Trash” summary. Klein reviewed the statistics for Star with regard to refuse collection. Republic serves 1843 Star households. They are currently building a “MRF”, a materials recycling facility where they will be breaking down our recyclables and sending the stuff out to different companies that make different items out of our recyclables. HAWK Light Discussion – The Mayor stated the Council had previous discussions regarding the light at Main Street and this time will be for public input. Council will be making a decision at the next meeting regarding this light. Jeannie Nail, 1011 S. Star Road, stated she would hope that if we put a red light up that it will get people’s attention. She believes we should put the red light in. Denise Templeton, Primary Staffing, 10985 W. State Street, stated she has an office right by the light. She has seen that the little signs in the road don’t work and now there is a yellow flashing light and it doesn’t work. When she crosses, she just wants to shoot cars with a paint gun when they don’t stop. Some of the kids that cross don’t have supervision and so she goes out the door to help them across. She does not want to be like Middleton or other places where something bad happens. Templeton stated that it’s not just the cars that aren’t stopping; it is trucks and company vehicles as well. Steve Green, Star Auto Care, 10915 W. State Street, stated that he took his daughter and three granddaughters across at the yellow light and a car was coming west bound; the driver was on the phone and wasn’t paying attention and almost hit them. He believes drivers think the yellow light is a caution sign and he believes it is unsafe. 1 Richard Tinsley, 10459 W. Achillea, asked how much revenue has the City generated from tickets from this crosswalk. John Laraway, Police Chief stated that he did not have those numbers right now. Christina Flores, 12336 Bridger Bay, stated the problem at the post office is with cars going around other cars and not seeing people in the crosswalk. Bruce Archer, 10683 W. First Court, stated that he has almost been hit several times. Erlebach asked about the paperwork on the lights the Council had received. Chief Laraway explained the Tucson Study. He stated that a representative from Ada County Highway District will come to the Council meeting on the 16th to explain the study and the different lights if the Council wants. The flashing light is at acceptable standards according to ACHD. The Mayor stated that prior to the flashing light going up; the light was not warranted by ACHD standards. The Chief stated that ACHD does send out their own people to watch vehicles. The Mayor stated that there will be no current study in the world that could measure the need for the light at Main Street right now. Denice VanDoren, 11061 W. Frost Street, asked what the fine amount was for driving through the crosswalk when pedestrians were crossing. The Chief stated it is $75.00. VanDoren stated that Canada has made it very expensive for running a crosswalk. The Mayor stated we could adopt a higher fee. Bell asked at what point is it enough. Ray Stokes, 10166 Arrowleaf Court, stated that part of the Master Plan’s recommendation was to restripe Highway 44 to get it down to one lane and it will improve crossings. The Mayor stated that the Idaho Transportation Department will be restriping State Street in Star and they will be bringing the lanes down to three lanes with one being a turn lane. Christina Flores – Community Garden – Flores stated that the Star Outreach has been working with Josh Harris to get a community garden going. They had tried at Heron River, but the soil was not good. This year they are coming to the City to request the southeast end of Hunters Creek be donated as a community garden. This is an Eagle Project for Harris. They will work with the library to help children learn to garden. They would charge fees for plots and the fees would go to the Star Outreach and then back to the public. Erlebach asked if there is water over by the restroom at Hunter’s Creek. The Mayor stated the Council has talked about putting a very large concrete pad on that spot. Flores stated that the plot sizes will depends on the property size given. The Mayor asked that the Community Garden discussion be scheduled for December. 2 Flores stated that the “Adopt a Family” program will be coming up soon and they need a place to put boxes together. They will need it for about five weeks from the middle of November to Christmas. Public Input – No public input was given. Old/New Business: Impact Fee Committee Recommendations - (See attached) Along with the suggested fee, the Committee also suggested looking at moving the fee to the occupancy stage of the building permit. Council will need to codify the amount. Erlebach would like to leave it at the same rate. Bell would like to see it stay at the same rate. Bell moved to accept the recommendation of the Committee and leave the fee at $2100.00. We will put the rate together for multi-family buildings. All aye: motion carried. IMAP Discussion/Decision – The Mayor explained that this is about United Water and wanting water rights for 50 years. Councilman Bell did not believe we should sign the document. Hunter’s Creek Bid Documents – The Mayor stated that bids were sent out to Butte Fence, Power Enterprises and Boise River Fence. The Mayor reviewed the bidding procedures. Power Enterprises bid was $32,152.96 and it was the only bid received. Erlebach asked about getting new bids since this was the only one. The Mayor stated that businesses are just busy right now. The Mayor stated that the bid from Power Enterprises can be taken out of last year’s budget; if we re-bid we will need to re-open the new budget. Bell is comfortable with this for two reasons –we went through the correct process and Power knew they were bidding against other bidders; and they have done a good job for the City before. Bell moved to approve the contract for Power Enterprises to build the baseball amenities at Hunters Creek Park in the amount of $32,152.96. Erlebach seconded the motion. All aye: motion carried. Reports: Erlebach stated that he was embarrassed that not a lot of people showed up at the Fund Raiser for the Outreach Program. We need to figure out a way to get people to this event. Smith asked what was happening with the web page. The Mayor stated that we will be back on track soon, Christopherson has a new job. Smith asked about contract renewals and if we do them each year. Most are renewed each year; the landscaping contract is on a 30 day renewal. Smith asked about an update on hockey rink? The Mayor will get information. Smith asked about the community grants. The Mayor will call SAGE. Smith stated that he heard someone is moving dirt at Heron River. Bell stated he did not have anything to report. The Mayor stated ITD will be restriping from October to November and there will be people that are unhappy. Pavilion Commons are in negotiations for the school property. 3 Bell moved to go into Executive Session under ICS 67-2345 (1)(c) Real Property, Erlebach seconded the motion. All aye: motion carried. Adjournment: Bell moved to adjourn the meeting, Erlebach seconded the motion. All aye: motion carried. The meeting was adjourned at 9:45. Approved: Respectfully submitted: _____________________ Nathan Mitchell, Mayor ____________________ Cathy Ward, City Clerk 4