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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Meeting - Council - Minutes - 10/04/1988 Kent, Washington October 4, 1988 Regular meeting of the Kent City Council was called to order at 7: 00 p.m. by Mayor Kelleher. Present: Councilmembers Biteman, Dowell, Houser, Johnson, Mann, White and Woods, City Administrator McFall, City Attorney Driscoll, Planning Director Harris, Public Works Director Wickstrom and Finance Director McCarthy. Also present: Police Chief Frederiksen and Fire Chief Angelo. Approximately 40 people were at the meeting. PRESENTATIONS Employee of the Month. Mayor Kelleher announced that Battalion Chief Al Bond has been named as Employee of the Month for October. Fire Chief Angelo noted that Chief Bond has been with the City for twenty years , and that he is currently supervising the $12 million public safety construction projects which will include three new fire stations and a training center. A plaque was presented by Mayor Kelleher. Distinguished Budget Presentation Award. Mayor Kelle- her noted that the City of Kent had been awarded the Distinguished Budget Award for 1988, one of 250 such awards presented to local and government units . A plaque was presented to Finance Director McCarthy and May Miller. McCarthy introduced Priscilla Shea and John Marchione of the Finance Department. CONSENT CALENDAR BITEMAN MOVED that Consent Calendar Items A through J be approved. Johnson seconded and the motion carried. MINUTES (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3A) Approval of Minutes. APPROVAL of the minutes of the regular Council meeting of September 20, 1988. WATER (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3J) Guiberson Reservoir Control Modifications. ACCEPT as complete the contract with Omega Contractors for the Guiberson Reservoir Control Modification Project and release of retainage after receipt of the releases from the State. STREETS (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3I ) LID 297 - Meeker Street Improvement. ACCEPT as com- plete the contract with Scarsella Brothers for con- struction of LID 297 - Meeker Street Improvements and release of retainage after receipt of the releases from the State. SR516 Improvements - Union Pacific Railroad to Central Bid Avenue. Bid opening was held September 28, with three bids received. Gary Merlino Construction submitted October 4, 1988 STREETS the low bid in the amount of $287, 496 . The Public Works Director recommended that this bid be accepted upon receipt of approval for award from the Transport- Bids ation Improvement Board and Washington State Depart- ment of Transportation. JOHNSON SO MOVED. Woods seconded and the motion carried. Asphalt Overlay. Bid opening was held September 17, with three bids received. The low bid was submitted by M. A. Segale, Inc. , in the amount of $207, 568. 10. The Public Works Director recommended that this bid be accepted after receipt of authorization to award from the Washington State Department of Transportation. JOHNSON SO MOVED. Woods seconded. The motion carried. STREET VACATION Union Pacific Realty Company - No. STV-88-3. This public hearing will consider an application filed by Union Pacific Realty Company to vacate a portion of 63rd Avenue South, south of 212th Street. The City Clerk has given proper legal notice. The Mayor declared the public hearing open. There were no comments from the audience and JOHNSON MOVED to close the public hearing. White seconded. Motion carried. WOODS MOVED to approve Street Vacation No. STV-88-3 with one condition as recommended by staff and to direct the City Attorney to prepare the neces- sary ordinance upon receipt of compensation. Biteman seconded and the motion carried. ZONING CODE Hearing Examiner Consideration of Conditional Use AMENDMENTS Permits - ZCA-88-6. On July 25, 1988, the Planning Commission recommended to the City Council that KCC Section 15. 09. 030E be amended to allow the Hearing Examiner discretion in approving, denying or condition- ing exceptions to development standards including height of unique structures, signs and setbacks , when a conditional use permit is required. On September 6 , 1988 , the City Council referred the recommendation to th,s Planning Committee, which on September 20, 1988 voted unanimously to recommend approval of this amend- ment. WOODS MOVED to approve Zoning Code Amendment ZCA-88-6 as recommended by the Planning Committee and Planning Committee and to direct the City Attorney to prepare the amending ordinance. Biteman seconded. Houser and Biteman questioned having such hearings before the Hearing Examiner instead of before the five- member Board of Adjustment . Harris and Woods explained that this proposed procedure would expedite the pro- cess. Under the current codes, if there are excep- tions to the development standards , the applicant must first go before the Board of Adjustment for a variance 2 - October 4, 1988 ZONING CODE With discretion given to the Hearing Examiner when a AMENDMENTS conditional use is required, the entire project could be reviewed at one time. It was noted that this pro- posed change was considered "pro-applicant" and that any appeals from decisions of the Hearing Examiner were brought to the City Council. The motion then carried with Biteman dissenting. Exception to Height Regulations - ZCA 88-8. On Sep- tember 26, 1988, the Planning Commission recommended approval of the Zoning Code amendment to except fire and/or police training towers from the height limit- ations of the Kent Zoning Code and Ordinance 2805 has been prepared by the City Attorney. BITEMAN MOVED to adopt Ordinance 2805 with the addition of the words CITY OWNED in the last sentence of Section 2 : "C; y- owned elevated reservoirs, water tanks, fire and/or police training towers and standpipes are exempt from height restrictions ." Houser seconded and the motion carried. Appeal - Regulatory Review - ZCA-88-1 . On August 16, 1938 the City Council referred an appeal from the Plan- ning Commission's recommendation to deny public storage facilities in the CC Community Commercial zoning dis- trict to the Planning Committee. The appeal was filed by Pete Curran, representing Chris Leady. On September 20 , 1988, the Planning Committee voted unanimously to recommend that the Council overturn the Planning Com- mission ' s recommendation and allow public storage facilities as a conditional use in the Community Com- mercial zoning district with accompanying design stan- dards. Greg McCormick of the Planning Department noted that the Planning Committee had this afternoon reviewed the design standards that would apply to any mimi- warehouse development in the CC zoning district. He noted that several changes to the draft had been recom- mended and distributed copies of same. Chris Leady, the applicant, praised the City ' s regulatory review process and expressed appreciation for the efficient cooperation of the staff. WOODS MOVED to approve Zon- ing Code amendment ZCA-88-1 to allow public storage facilities as conditional use permits in the CC zoning district with specific design standards as finalized by the Planning Committee on October 4, 1988 and to direct the City Attorney to prepare the amending ordi- nance. Johnson seconded and the motion carried. 3 - October 4, 1988 ZONING IMPLE- (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3E) MENTATION East Valley Zoning Implementation - Planning Commission.) AUTHORIZATION for the Planning Commission to apply zoning as well as make zoning map amendments as an area wide implementation of East Valley Zoning, and direct the City Attorney to prepare the necessary ordinance. SOOS CREEK (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3F) COMMUNITY PLAN Soos Creek Interlocal Agreement. AUTHORIZATION for the Mayor to sign an interlocal agreement with King County to provide for cooperative planning between King County and the City of Kent for the Soos Creek Community Planning Area. REZONE (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3G) Riverbend Golf Course Rezone. ADOPTION of Ordinance 2804 rezoning a certain portion of the Riverbend Golf Course property from RA, Residential Agricultural, to GC, General Commercial. CENTENNIAL (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3C) COMMITTEE Centennial Committee. CONFIRMATION of the Mayor ' s appointment of Sally Ann Storey to the Kent Centennial Committee to replace Don Campbell. POLICE (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3D) Drinking Driver Task Force Donations. ACKNOWLEDGMENT of a donation of $1 , 200 to the Task Force from the Kent Chamber of Commerce Foundation. These funds will be used for the parent education program entitled "Preparing for the Drug Free Years" . Houser expressed appreciation of the donation. Donations were also acknowledged from Dr. Leland Daw- son and Patterson ' s Optical for prizes in the "Keep A Friend Alive" design contest. COUNCIL CHAMBERS (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3H) Artwork Selection for Council Chambers. APPROVAL of the selection of artist Dana Boussard for the Kent City Council Chambers Fibre Art Commission. Project jury members included: Christi Houser, Judy Woods, Kent City Council ; Sue Jones, Grace Hiranaka, Merrily Manthey, Kent Arts Commission; arts professionals Fred Bassetti (architect Kent City Hall ) , Larry Metcalfe (artist/instructor Seattle Pacific University) and City Administrator Brent McFall. 4 - I October 4 , 1988 COUNCIL EXECUTIVE Executive Sessions. In response to the Council direc- SESSIONS tion at the last meeting, the City Attorney has re- written and distributed Resolution 1184 , relating to Council meetings, gatherings and executive sessions . Also distributed tonight was a letter from Steve Botkin of the Valley Daily News, objecting to the references to confidentiality in Section 2, stating that it would appear to be a permanent gag order for Councilmembers. Section 2 . All matters discussed within such executive sessions or gatherings shall be kept confidential by those present at the session or gathering except to the extent the law requires a portion of the matters to be brought to an open public meeting for final action. White also expressed concern over this and MOVED to delete Section 2 . Houser seconded. Upon questions it was determined that confidentiality was required for discussions such as negotiating a contract for one of the bargaining units. Houser proposed to amend the motion to use the language suggested by Botkin for Section 2: "All matters dis- cussed within such executive sessions shall be kept confidential by those present except to the extent that the law requires a portion of the matters to be brought to an open public meeting for final action or until the matter is settled or implemented or until the matter is officially made public. " Mann seconded,, and further suggested that references to the word "gatherings" be deleted. Driscoll explained that the word was included because the Council could meet in other than regular or special Council meetings to discuss quasi-judical or collective bargaining matters and these could be called gatherings since they were not regular public meetings. Johnson commented that he didn ' t think the resolution was necessary, that all realized that confidential discussions were not to be repeated. Biteman concurred with Driscoll ' s explan- ation. It was pointed out that a resolution is not a law, but is a guideline and that the Council has agreed upon these general principles. Upon the Mayor ' s suggestion, it was agreed that the motion would include the amendments by Houser and Mann: "to adopt Resolu- tion 1184 changing Section 2 to the language as shown and deleting references to "gatherings" . The motion then carried with Johnson voting against it. 5 - October 4, 1988 SEATAC AIRPORT Chris Hansen asked that the Council pass a resolution EXPANSION and send same to the Port of Seattle to object to the third runway now proposed for Seattle International Airport. McFall suggested that staff could research the matter and provide more information to the Council. FINANCE (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3B) Approval of Bills. APPROVAL of payment of the bills received through October 6, 1988 after auditing by the Operations Committee at its meeting at 8 : 30 a.m. on October 14 , 1988. Approval of checks issued for vouchers: Date Check Numbers Amount 8/25 - 8/31 64125 - 64148 8/31/88 64635 - 64638 9/2 - 9/9 64639 - 64649 $ 189.103 .17 9/15/88 64654 - 65159 1,924,231.43 $2,113,334.60 Approval of checks issued for payroll: - Date Check Numbers Amount - 9/20/88 109259 - 109851 $ 631,664.54 REPORTS President' s Report. Council President White noted Workshop that a workshop would be held on Tuesday, October 11 to receive the staff presentation of the 1989 budget. White noted that the present recycling program under consideration would cover only 20% of the recyclables, since only single family residences and up to four- Recycling plexes would be covered. He noted that multi-family and the business community would not be included and suggested that the Public Works Committee consider and report back on the idea of the City again forming a garbage utility so as to try to form a better, more far-reaching recycling program. Operations Committee. Houser noted that the Operations Committee had discussed the possibility of use of advisory ballots instead of the initiative and referen- dum process. She noted that the cost would be far less and that after research by the City Attorney, the matter would be further discussed at a Council workshop. 6 - October 4, 1988 REPORTS Public Works Committee. Johnson noted that the next meeting would be at 4: 00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 11 . Planning Committee. Biteman commended the efficiency Jisplayed by the Fire Department in resolving a pro- blem near the site of the new station on the West Hill related to some dirt spilled on the roadway. Parks Committee. Woods noted that the committee would meet on Wednesday, October 26 at 4: 00 p.m. in the Council Chambers . EXECUTIVE At 8: 20 p.m. City Administrator McFall requested an SESSION executive session of approximately 20 minutes relat- ing to labor relations and negotiations. ADJOURNMENT The meeting reconvened and adjourned at 8: 35 p.m. Marie Jense , CMC City Clerk 7 -