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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Meeting - Council - Minutes - 08/01/1983 Kent, Washington August 1, 1983 Regular meeting of the Kent City Council was called to order at 7 : 00 o' clock p.m. by Mayor Hogan. Present: Mayor Hogan, Council- persons Bailey, Biteman, B. Johnson, J. Johnson, Kelleher, Leahy and Woods, City Attorney DiJulio, City Engineer Gill and Planning Director Harris. Assistant to the City Administrator Mike Webby attended in place of City Administrator Cushing. Also present: City Treasurer Drotz, Police Chief Skewes and Police Officer Koransky. Approximately 40 people were in attendance at the meeting. CONSENT B. JOHNSON MOVED that Consent Calendar Items A CALENDAR through N be approved, Woods seconded. Motion carried. MINUTES (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5A) Approval of Minutes. APPROVAL of the minutes of the regular Council meeting of July 18. STREETS (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5H) LID 297 - West Meeker Street Improvements. ADOPTION of Resolution 1000 expressing the City' s intent to form Local Improvement District 297 and setting the public hearing date for September 6, 1983 as recommended by the Public Works Director. (CONSENT CALENDAR TTFM 5I) LID 312 - Woodland Way Street Improvement. ADOPTION of Resolution 1001 expressing the City's intent to form Local Improvement District 312 and setting the public hearing date for September 19 , 1983 as recommended by the Public Works Director. (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5J) LID 283 - Street, Sewer & Water Improvements. APPROVAL of a change order in the amount of $44 , 010 . 81 for additional asphalt overlay of West Valley High- way as recommended by the Public Works Director and by the Public Works Committee. WATER (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5G) Bill of Sale - Guinn Office Building. ACCEPTANCE of the Bill of Sale and Warranty Agreement CORRECTED - REFER TO for continuous operation and maintenance for approxi- MINUTES OF mately 30 feet of water main extension and 224 feet of sanitary sewer extension constructed in the vicinity of 104th Avenue S . E. and South 250th (Guinn Office Building) . - 1 - August 1, 1983 WATER (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5K) Request for Master Meter. APPROVAL of a request for a master meter to serve a parcel located at East Valley Highway and S. 186th as recommended by the Public Works Director and by the Public Works Committee. Approval for use of the master meter will terminate upon development of property for other than its present use. (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5L) S. 212th Street Well. APPROVAL of the transfer of $50 , 000 from completed Water Project Fund to the project fund for the S . 212th Street Well , as re- commended by the Public Works Director and the Public Works Committee. (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5M) Armstrong Springs Well . APPROVAL of the transfer of $100 , 000 from the unencumbered Water Fund to the Project Fund for the Armstrong Springs Well, as recommended by the Public Works Director and the Public Works Committee. PARKS (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5C) Transfer of Baseball Tournament Funds . APPROVAL of the Parks Department ' s request to authorize a $5 , 000 advance into a special checking account for the purpose of running two baseball tournaments during the month of August. This money will be set up in a checking account for which checks will be signed by the Parks Director or his designee. Following completion of the tournament, the funds will be audited by the Finance Department and the $5 , 000 will be returned to the Park Budget with any excess receipts being credited to a Parks Revenue Account. (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5D) Mill Creek Canyon Phase I Development. AUTHORIZATION for the Mayor to sign an arch itecturzrl� gi- - 9 „ agreement with Jones and Jones contratc � © � Ii�1 . Creek Canyon Phase I Development, jan improvem�11r_ or the Saar ' s Meadow and Earthworks ar�eas>.Cst Mill ' be incurred on an hourly basis with the maximum not to exceed $40 , 000 . Contracting this design work is critical in order to receive additional bonus points 2 - August 1, 1983 PARKS from the State Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation (IAC) in their consideration of this project for grant award ($16 , 000 ,000 worth of projects have been submitted to compete for $2 ,000,000 in available funds) . This matter was discussed and approved at the July 26 Parks Committee meeting. (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5E) Park Six-Year Capital Improvement Program. AUTHORIZATION for the Mayor to sign a Six-Year Capital Improvement Program for the Parks and Recreation Department which follows the priorities set in the recently adopted Comprehensive Parks Plan. The State Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation has requested this information as a grant eligibility requirement. It can be revised and up- dated on an annual basis. This was approved at the July 26 Parks Committee meeting. ECONOMIC (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5F) DEVELOPMENT Economic Development Corporation. ADOPTION of CORPORATION Ordinance 2419 and the summary thereof creating the City of Kent Economic Development Corporation, authorizing a charter, establishing a Board of Directors for the Corporation, and creating a new Chapter 12. 18 of the Kent City Code. This matter was discussed at the workshop of July 25. SOLAR (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 5N) ENERGY Solar Access Implementation Plan. AUTHORIZATION for the Mayor to sign a Solar Access Implementation Plan application to be submitted to the Bonneville Power Administration. This was discussed at the workshop of July 18 . STORM Repeal of Interim Storm Drainage Ordinance No. 2375. DRAINAGE In accordance with Council action of July 18 , 1983, the City Attorney has prepared an ordinance to repeal Ordinance 2375 , the Interim Storm Drainage Ordinance. KELLEHER MOVED to adopt Ordinance 2420 , J. Johnson seconded. There was no discussion an the motion carried with J. Johnson, Biteman, Woods and Kelleher voting in favor and B. Johnson, Bailey and Leahy voting against. - 3 - i I August 1, 1983 CITY PROPERTY Surplus Property. Upon the recommendation of the Public Works Committee, Resolution 998 was adopted by the Council on July 5 , 1983 setting a public hearing for this date on establishing certain City- owned property as surplus to the City' s needs and to establish further that the property is not re- quired for providing continuing public utility service. Proper legal notice of the hearing has been given by the City Clerk. The property is located at 520 Guiberson and does not include the building now used as a residence. The property is incum- bered by a lease which will expire in 1991. The property has been appraised at $20 , 000 . The public hearing was opened by the Mayor . There was no correspondence and no comments. B. JOHNSON MOVED that the hearing be closed , Woods seconded. Motion carried. B . JOHNSON MOVED that the vacant property described above be declared as surplus to the City's needs and that a call for bids be issued for the sale of same with the minimum bid to be $20, 000 . Leahy seconded . Motion carried. TRANSPORT- Six-Year Transportation Program - 1984/1989 . The ATION public hearing on the annual updating of the Six- PROGRAM Year Transportation Program has been scheduled for this date and proper legal notice has been given. The program was reviewed at the Council workshop on July 25. The public hearing was opened by Mayor Hogan. No correspondence has been received and there were no comments . BAILEY MOVED to close the public hearing, B. Johnson seconded . Motion carried. B. JOHNSON MOVED to adopt Resolution No. 999 approv- ing the Six Year Transportation Improvement Program as presented, Woods seconded. Motion carried. 4 - i August 1, 1983 BUSINESS Pawn Shops/Second Hand Dealers Ordinance. The LICENSES public hearing was opened by Mayor Hogan. Several representatives of the business affected were in attendance at the meeting, including Bill Stewart of Stewarts Jewelry, Herb Simon of Valley Metal Recycling , Lou Marenakos of Lucky Loan, Wayne Padgett of Fanny Jeans Antiaues & Things , Ron C i one of Store Front Gallery, a representative of Ti eney' s, Jerry Appleton of Jerry' s Agate Shop, and Pat Crockett of the Creamery. Several concerns were raised over the effect of the proposed ordinance on the various businesses, including the length of time for processing the applications, the need for fingerprinting of the business owners, the holding period for merchandise received and the non-transferability of the license itself. Ques- tions were also raised as to the amount of the license fees and the requirement for obtaining the license number of vehicles transporting mer- chandise to the various locations . Concern was also expressed by store owners over police officers frequenting the premises . It was agreed that records must necessarily be kept and reports made to the Police Department; however, some objections were raised as to the length of time allowed for making the reports. Officer Koransky determined for those present that the new ordinance was designed to bring the operations in line with existing State laws as well as to eli- minate the fencing of stolen property. After dis- cussion, it was determined that a copy of the pro- posed ordinance would be available for those parties who had not previously reauested one, especially those in the recycling business. B. JOHNSON MOVED to continue the hearing to August 15, 1983 , Bailey seconded. Those wishing a copy of the proposed ordinance were directed to pick it up at the City Clerk' s office. Motion carried. COUNCIL Finance & Personnel. Leahy reported that the COMMITTEES Finance Committee would meet on August 12, 1983 at 4: 00 p.m. , rather than on August 15. 5 - { August 1, 1983 COUNCIL Public Works Committee. Kelleher reported that the COMMITTEES Public Works Committee would meet on Wednesday, August 3 at 9 : 00 a.m. to discuss a request from the Nazarene Church regarding access to Cedar Street. He asked that Councilperson Bailey be in attendance at the meeting. PARKS User Fenwick Park (aka West Hill Neighborhood Park aka Reith Road Pit Site Park) . In response to ques- tions from B. Johnson, Helen Adams reported that part of the delay in completion of the park was because of the engineering design work on the realign- ment of Reith Road. She also noted that it was ex- pected that the seeding of the area should be accomplished by September. ADJOURNMENT B. JOHNSON MOVED that the meeting be adjourned at 7 : 45 p.m. , Woods seconded. Motion carried. Betty Gray, CPS Deputy City Clerk 6 - i