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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Meeting - Council - Minutes - 12/06/1982 i Kent, Washington December 6, 1982 Regular meeting of the Kent City Council was called to order at 7: 00 o'clock p.m. by Mavor Hogan. Present: Mayor Hogan, Council- persons Bailey, Biteman, B. Johnson, J. Johnson, Kelleher and Woods, City Administrator Cushing, City Attorney DiJulio, Planning Director Harris, Public Works Director Wickstrom and Finance Director McCarthy. Leahy was absent. Also present: City Treasurer Drotz, Administrative Assistant Webby, Police Captain Rees, and Parks Director Wilson. Approximately 40 people were in attendance at the meeting. CONSENT B. JOHNSON MOVED to approve Consent Calendar Items CALENDAR A through L, with the exception of Items E and H. Bailey seconded. It was noted that Item E, CATV Service Contract, would be on the workshop agenda of December 13, and returned to the Council meeting of December 20 for action. Item H, Merchant Patrol Licensing Ordinance, will be on the December 20 agenda also. MINUTES (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5A) Minutes . APPROVAL of the minutes of the regular Council meeting of November 15, 1982 and the Special Meeting of November 29, 1982 . STREETS (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5K) LID 301 - South 252nd Street Right-of-Way. AUTHORI- ZATION for the Mayor to• sign a statutory warranty deed to convey a strip of Campus Park property to the City of Kent for street purposes to make said document a matter of public record for the LID 301 Improvement Project. The Parks Department portion of the LID assessment will be credited with the current value of the property deeded for street purposes. (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5L) LID 301 - Puget Power Easement. AUTHORIZATION for the PZayor to grant an easement to Puget Power on a portion of Campus Park property near the south corner of 252nd Street and Kent-Kangley Road and a 20 foot strip west of 97th (Crow Road) at Kent- Kangley to allow installation of the electrical services portion of the LID 301 project. - 1 - December 6, 1982 WATER (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5J) Water Quality Program. APPROVAL for an allocation of $10 , 000 as Kent' s 25 percent match to obtain a $30 ,000 grant from the State Department of Ecology to implement a portion of Kent' s Water Quality Management Program. GARBAGE (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5G) Garbage Haulinqi. Permits . At the November 22 Council wor s cep, stair propose an ordinance with rats which were aareed upon at the November 8 workshop. The ordinance sets the fees at $100 per year for 12 of the 13 current permit holders with the Boeing Company permit established at $7 , 500 based upon their tonnage being above 150 tons . Based upon the input received and Council' s actions at the workshop, ADOPTION of Ordinance No._ 2378 establishing these rates. TRAFFIC (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5F) CONTROL Traffic Signal Interconnect and Synchronization Project. AUTHORIZATION for Mayor to sign agreement accepting Department of Transportation Grant in the amount of $145 , 040 for traffic signal synchronization. The Public Works Department has been advised their proposed traffic signal and interconnect synchroni- zation project has been selected by the Department of Transportation for funding by a 100 percent grant. Federal aid funding is limited to $145, 040. The Project consists of installing new traffic control equipment with time base coordinators and some new vehicle detection at 10 intersections, 8 on West Valley Highway and 2 on South 212th. ZONING (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5I) Adult Use Zoning Study. ACCEPTANCE of the completed Adult Use Zoning Study document and referral of the Study to the City Council Public Safety Committee. POLICE (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5D) Mutual Aid Agreement. AUTHORIZATION for Mayor to sign Mutual Aid Agreement for Police services. This agreement was discussed at the November 22 workshop. 2 - i i December 6, 1982 POLICE Criminal Penalties - Emergency Ordinance. An ordi- nance was presented by City Attorney DiJulio relating to criminal penalties. He explained the ordinance was necessitated by the change in State laws relating to criminal and non-criminal violations. He also pointed out that the passage of the ordinance was necessary because of the increased emphasis on vio- lations for driving while intoxicated and the need for better methods of enforcement. B. JOHNSON MOVED to adopt Ordinance No. 2384 , J. Johnson seconded. Motion carried. DISABILITY (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5C) BOARD Disability Board. CONFIRMATION of the Mayor ' s re- appointment of Billie Johnson to the Disability Retirement Board for a two year term, ending December 31, 1984. LICENSES Amusement Device Licensing. Based upon input received from the City of Kent Police Department and from various vendors at the November 22 Council workshop and at previous Council and committee meetings, the staff is presenting the ordinance establishing fees for the amusement license devices. The fees are established at $500 per arcade and $50 per amusement device. Based upon the recommendations of the Police Department, the fees for transferring of machines are left in the ordinance and left at $10 each. B. JOHNSON MOVED to adopt Ordinance No. 2381 setting the rules, regulations and fees for the operation of an arcade and for the licensing of- amusement devices within the City of Kent, J. Johnson seconded. Motion carried. Business License Fees. At the November 15 City Council meeting the Finance Committee recommended that the Business License Fees be increased to $75. 00 per _year for a new license and $50. 00 per year for renewals . The matter was discussed at the workshop on November 22, at which time it was suggested that home occupancies might be licensed at a lower rate. A memo relating to this subject is included in the packet. B. JOHNSON MOVED to adopt Ordinance No. 2383 setting the Business License fees , Bailey seconded. Suzette Cooke spoke on behalf of the Chamber of Com- 3 - December 6, 1982 LICENSES merce, noting that while they did not object to an increase in the business license fees , they felt that the amounts proposed were over and above the costs of administering the licenses. B. Johnson clarified that the new license fee structure would not require the payment of zoning permit fees. BITEP'IAN MOVED TO AMEND the motion to provide for the following schedule for license fees: New Licenses Renewals 1983 $40 $25 1984 $75 $50 and FURTHER that Home Occupancy license fees be set at $25. 00 per year . Woods seconded. Biteman clari- fied that while it was logical to raise the business license fee since it had not been increased for many years, he felt that the fees should be increased over a period of time. Kelleher concurred with Biteman. City Attorney DiJulio clarified that Home Occupancy licenses would be defined as in the Zoning Code: Businesses conducted in a home in a residential area. He also clarified that license requirements for apartments would also .follow the Zoning Code: Com- plexes of three or more units would require a business license . There were no- further comments and the amendment carried. The motion as AMENDED CARRIED. FINANCE Tax Levy Ordinance. The deadline for submitting the 1983 Property Tax Levies to King County is December 15. Therefore, this meeting has been set to finalize the tax levy information. As of December 1, the completed tax levy information based upon what the maximum amount the City can levy is not available but should be available for Monday night. The 1983 Budget anticipates the proeprty taxes to generate about 11 percent more than the 1982 levy based upon some preliminary information about assessed valuation and new construction. McCarthy explained the tax levy structure, noting that he had had to call the County today to get the necessary figures. He noted that the assessed valuation of just over two billion had increased 19% over last year ' s figures. He pointed out that the total tax levy for 1983 including debt service and the LID Guaranty Fund is 2 . 05750, almost as much as last year . BAILEY MOVED to adopt Ordinance No. 2379 setting the tax levy for 1983 . Woods seconded. Motion carried. 4 - December 6, 1982 FINANCE Utility Tax. An ordinance has been prepared reducing the utility taxes from 3 . 5 percent to 2 . 5 percent to become effective March 1 . The rates prescribed in the ordinance have been requested to be effective March lst because of the timing required by the various utilities in implementing this change. It: should be also noted that the ordinance deletes the exception for the utility tax charged to Metro based upon the fact that the Budget includes such increase. A separate analysis has been prepared by staff and is included in the packet relating to this subject. B. JOHNSON MOVED to adopt Ordinance No. 2380 setting the Utility Tax rate within the City of Kent at 2 . 5 percent and eliminating the exception for the METRO portion of the sewer bill.. Bailey seconded. Motion carried. Water Revenue Bonds . Based upon discussions at previous Council meetings , the City has established tonight' s meeting for the evaluation of a proposal from Foster & Marshall/American Express Inc. to purchase the 4 . 8 million dollar 1982 Water Revenue Bonds issue. Jerry Nowlin and Mary Hughes presented the contract for the purchase of the bonds with a net effective interest rate of 10 . 89540 . B. JOHNSON MOVED to adopt Ordinance No. 2382 providing for the issuance of Water Revenue Bonds 1982 and to accept the Purchase Contract presented by Foster & Marshall/ American Express Inc. Kelleher seconded. Motion carried. (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5B) Payment of Bills . APPROVAL of payment of the bills received through December 3 after auditing by the Finance Committee at its meeting at 4 : 00 P.M. on December 15. BUDGET City Budget - 1983 . Legal notice has been given for this date for the public hearing on the 1983 budget for the City of Kent and copies of the Pre- liminary Budget have been made available to the public. Input will be received from the public and the Council will meet at a budget workshop session at 3: 00 o 'clock p.m. on Wednesday, December 8 , 1982 to make final ad- justments prior to the adoption of the budget on December 20 . 5 - December 6, 1982 BUDGET The public hearing was opened by Playor Hogan. It was noted that a resolution had been received from the Chamber of Commerce and B. JOHNSON MOVED to make the resolution a part of the record. J. Johnson seconded . Motion carried. Ed Nelson and Art Wright addressed the Council on behalf of the parks programs, as did Jack Cosby and Steve Burpee. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Blanton spoke in favor of the senior center programs . Jan Lainoff addressed the Council in support of a meeting room for a -)roposed social club for the developmentally disabled. Jack Meredith spoke on behalf of the Library budget. Laurel Whitehurst and Maureen Curran asked for continued support of the Arts Commission and its programs . Glenn Votaw spoke on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce and ex- pressed appreciation of the efforts of the Council and the staff in the budget process. There were no further comments and BAILEY MOVED to close the public hearing , B. Johnson seconded. Motion carried. B. JOHNSON MOVED to instruct the City Attorney to prepare an ordinance to adopt the 1983 budget for presentation on December 2.0 , 1982 . Biteman seconded. motion carried . FEDERAL Federal Shared Revenue. On October 18 a public REVENUE hearing was conducted on the proposed use of Federal SHARING Shared Revenue funds for 1983 . The 1983 allocation is anticipated to be $535,414 . No input was received at that hearing other than what is included in the Preliminary Budget based upon proposals by staff and area health and social service agencies. This date has been advertised for the Federal Revenue Sharing budget hearing as required by FRS laws. Cushing clarified that the City has allocated revenue sharing funds for capital improvement items only, with the exceptions of funding for Kent Valley Youth Services, Rape Relief , and the Community Service Center. The public hearing was opened by the Mayor. There were no comments from the audience and no correspondence has been received. BAILEY MOVED to close the public hearing, B. Johnson seconded. Plotion carried. B. JOHNSON MOVED that action on the Federal Revenue Sharing budget be held over to the December 20 meeting to coincide with the adoption of the City budget for 1983 . Kelleher seconded. Motion carried. 6 - December 6, 1982 COUNCIL Public Works Committee. Kelleher reported that the COP,1MITTEES Public Works Committee would meet at 3 :00 o'clock p.m. on Tuesday, December 7 , 1982 . Parks Committee. It was reported by Bailey that the Parks Committee would meet on December 16 at 4 : 00 p.m. ADJOURNMENT B. JOHNSON MOVED that the meeting be adjourned at 8 : 05 o'clock p.m. , Bailey seconded. Motion carried. Plarie ensen, CMC City Clerk 7 -