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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Meeting - Council - Minutes - 05/04/1964 Kent, Washington May 4, 1964. Regular meeting of the Kent City Council called to order at 8:00 PM. Present: Mayor jhornton, City Attorney Bereiter, Councilmen: Armstrong, Buxton,Durand Mooney and Strain and Woodworth. By motion the last minutes were corrected to make inspection of unsafe buildings come under the jurisdiction of the Fire Chief instead of Council Committee. WATER 2ND TRANSMISSION LINE Strain moved for the call for bids to be made under two seperate calls, one to cover the entire operation and one to cover from west to east to the area in which we are now trying to obtai the easements. Motion passed. Strain moved for the City Attorney to initiate condemnation procedure against the property owners who have refused the easements for the transmission line unless an agreement was reached within one week. Motion carried. DERBYSHIRE A letter was read from the trust department of the People 's Bank reporting that they had received a request from the Kent School District for additional service through the Derbyshire Water System for a proposed school in that area. Strain made a motion for the bank to b notified that the City is against any further expansion of the system at this time. Motion carried. City Attorney Bereiter noted ghat litigation is still underway in the Derbyshire matter. Mooney noted that it would 'be advisable for the School Board to meet with the Water Committee to discuss the water problems which will arise in the East Hill area, not only for school use but also for fire protection. EAST HILL A letter Was read from Riggs-Mullins & Associates requesting water for a subdivision to .be known as Kent Highlands on East Hill. Strain moved for them to be notified the city will serve water to them as soon as the East Hill Water Company is officially taken over by the city. SOUTH KENT & SANITATION NORTH KENT Mooney moved for the Mayor and City Clerk to be authorized & HEALTH to sign the necessary documents for the application by the City of Kent for the federal assistance grant in the construction of the North Kent sewerage facilities consisting of sewage treatment plant and outfall and South Kent intercepting Sewerage facilities consisting of pump station and force mait. Motion seconded and passed. Mooney reported further that Boeing is anxious to get started by January and requested the City Engineer to keep check on the progress so bids can be called for in July. TREATMENT PLANT Mooney commented on adverse statements broadcasted re- cently by disc jockeys relative to the operation of the treatment plant. He reported that the blame could be placed on the Pollution Control com mission,whose office took 90 days to approve the plans for the modifica- tions to the plant. The contractor is working on the project now and the City Engineer reported it probably would be finishedi..by May 15th. PUBLIC NUISANCE Vir. Leonard of 24616 35th. Ave. South asked about the Status of his complaint against the pigeons being kept by William Denni at 24615 35th. Place South. Bereiter said he would prepare a criminal complaint for Mr. Leonard to sign. STREETS WOODFORD AVE. City Attorney Bereiter reported he had started condemnation action against the Coopers for the acquisition of property necessary to extend Woodford Ave. through to the park. The property has already been acquired from the Slettos and Virs. Ameny. ARTERIAL STREET FUND";ORDINANCE 1236 creating a new fund to be known as the Arterial Street FVnd was read and passed by motion. BUILDING Buxton reported that repairs to the Blue Banner building were progressing INSURANCE A letter was read from the Safeco-Lifeco Insurance Co. informing lthedCity Attorney that the Rasor. case has now been settled and the file Letter placed on file. BIDS CRAWLER-DOZER Bids were read from Ray Bock Co. ,Puyallup,Smith Tractor & mp ement Co. and International Harvester of Seattle. By motion, the bid was awarded to Ray Bock Co. ,low bidder. at $ 5, 530.72. PICK-UP Bids on the pick-up trucks were rejected by motion and a recall for bids authorized. DRANGSHOLT- The 75% petition for the Drangsholt-Taylor annexation was introduced, TAYLOR accepted and placed on file. By motion, a Board of Review meeting was ANNEXATION set for Tuesday,May 12th at 11:00 AM, and a public hearing was set for the June 1st Council meeting. PLANNING A letter was read from Del Davis of the Kept. of Commerce and Economic Development reporting that Kent 's application has been forwarded to HHFA in San Francisco for final processing and approval. The letter was placed on file. ZONING GRIFFEN' APPEAL Mayor Thornton announced that the Griffen appeal which was to a continued tonight would be heard at the May 18th meeting by mutual consent of the attorneys. ALLIED POULTRY APPEAL Mayor Thornton announced that the Allied Poultry appeal scheduled for tonight's meeting had been cancelled, since the company no longer planned to build the processing plant in Kent. CALHOUN REZONE Mooney moved for the Planning Commission to be informed that the Councii is considering a rezone from R-1 to R-4 for the hill- side area on Titus Street, with the request that the special committee appointed within the Commission study the request,consider it at its May 12th meeting, and make a report at the Play 18th Council meeting. Motion seconded and passed. RAMANO REZONE A public hearing was opened on the Ramano request for a rezone from M-1 to M-2 for the Midway Gravel Pit area on the West Hill, to allow National Disposal Co. to operate a sanitary land fill. Mr. Edema, of the Disposal Co. was represented by attorney Simon Wampold of Seattle. He submitted a letter stating that when the pit was filled, ghe area would be seeded and donated to the city as a park. He stated also that if the disposal company was not awarded the Seattle garbage contract the property would then revert back to its M-1 zoning. Mr. Edema showed slides of the method used by his company and showed pictures of land that had been reclaimed by this method. Mr. Derril Bastian represented objectors,and submitted petitions totaling approx- imately 800 names. He declared that granting this request would be spot zoning and that the property values in the neighborhood would be lowered The residents objected to the increase in traffic,odor,danger of rodant� and general nuisance. Bastian showed slides of the pit,and of the substantial homes in the area. He reported that the people weren 't interested in the promised park as it would be in a dangerous location due to the close proximity of the freeway and old Highway 99. All, citizens wishing to speak were heard during the two hour hearing. The The Planning Commissions recommendation to deny the rezone was read. , along with numerous letters against the rezone, The Midway Chamber of Commerce offered a letter in favor of the land fill proposal. By motion the public hearing was closed and the Council went into closed session to consider the rezone. Hearingreonvened by motion. Woodworth moved for the Council to uphold the recommendation of the Planning Commission and deny the rezone. Motion seconded by Durand,Under discussion, Mooney stated that he was going to vote against the motion because he felt that the people from the area had never shown interest in the affairs of the city,as has been indicated by the small turn out in the area precints, however much time and effort had been put into fighting this issue. Woodworth stated that he was letting his better judgement by swayed by the large number of those against the issue and said he hoped that the people would not be sorry in the future that they fought against a mean of filling up a dangerous pit. Strain and Armstrong concurred with Woodworth. The motion was passed with Mooney and Buxton voting nay. PARKS EMERGENCY ORDINANCE Bereiter intorduced a proposed emergency ordinance making an appropriation and providing for the issuance of warrants for payment for a parcel of real property for park purposes. Proposed emergency ordinance read for the first time and held over to be read again at the next regular meeting. Resolution 517, repealing a section of Resolution 503,was read by the City -Attorney. The section erroneously provided that certain funds mentioned therein should be used only for the purpose of land for the park and recreation facilities. Strain asked the reason for changing the original resolution, stating he thought the money paid the city by the Kent Swim Klub would be reserved for future parks. Bereiter explain that the property was never park property to begin with,that it was originally a garbage dump site and that the state auditor had advised him that the money received from the dale of a portion of it must go into the general fund. Resolution 517 was adopted with Strain's nay. PARKS (CONT. ) Mooney made a motion to have the Finance Committee evaluate each piece of property owned by the city and to report back to the Council. Motion passed. PISTOL RANGE Mrs Hogan submitted a letter from the King ounty Property Agent giving permission for the Police to use a piece of County property for a pistol range. The property is located behind the Hillcrest Cemetery. CLAIMS PRESENTED AND ALLOWED AS FOLLOWS: Current Expense $ 8,308.82 Water Const. 310.32 Sewer Const. 1,500.00 Garbage 504.70 Park 680.81 Payroll 30,806.36 Water 2,$73 .04 Sewer 948.49 Street 1,746.21 Library 50.79 Parking "Teter 21.70 MEETING ADJOURNED 11:45 P.M. City Clerk Alex Thornton Chas. Bridges