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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Meeting - Council - Minutes - 11/15/1988 Kent, Washington November 15 , 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. Approximately 30 people were in attendance. TOWN HALL MEETING The Mayor announced that the Third Annual Town Hall Meeting will be held at 7: 00 p.m. on November 17 at the Senior Center, and that there will be an exhibit hour from 6: 00 to 7: 00. He noted that public input is encouraged and invited all citizens to attend. CONSENT CALENDAR BITEMAN MOVED that Consent Calendar Items A through I be approved. Houser seconded. Item J was removed from the Consent Calendar by Councilmember Mann. The motion carried. MINUTES (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3A) Approval of Minutes. APPROVAL of the minutes of the regular Council meeting of November 1 , 1988. HEALTH & SANITATION (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3C) Panorama View Apartments (aka Lake Fenwick Estates) . ACCEPTANCE of the bill of sale and warranty agreement for approximately 1 , 467 feet of water main extension, 1 , 264 feet of sanitary sewer extension and 1 , 078 feet of street improvements constructed in the vicinity of Reith Road and Lake Fenwick Road and release of cash bond after expiration of the maintenance period. (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3D) Apple Lane. ACCEPTANCE of the bill of sale and war- ranty agreement for approximately 365 feet of water main extension and 384 feet of sanitary sewer exten- sion constructed in the vicinity of Summit Avenue and James Street and release of cash bond after ex- piration of the maintenance period. STREETS Street Sweeping Contract. Bid opening was held on November 8. The only responsive bid was submitted by Best Parking Lot Cleaning and this exceeded the budget. Therefore, the Public Works Director recom- mends that the bid be rejected and the City readver- tise for the street sweeping services. JOHNSON SO MOVED. White seconded and the motion carried. Neighborhood Pedestrian Improvements. This project was awarded to Design Enterprises, Inc. on October 18 , 1988, for the bid amount of $47, 720 . Design November 15, 1988 STREETS Enterprises has since notified the City that they are dissolving their corporation. The Public Works Director recommended that the bid be awarded to the second low bidder, Juarez Construction, whose bid was $47, 802 , pending approval from King County. JOHN- SON MOVED that the original award to Design Enter- prises be rescinded and to award the contract for Neighborhood Pedestrian Improvements project to Juarez Construction at $47, 802, pending approval from King County. White seconded and the motion carried. EQUIPMENT RENTAL Equipment Rental Vehicles. Bid opening was held on November 7 , 1988 for two 1989 sedans. The two vehicles had different equipment and were adver- tised separately. Three bids were received on each vehicle. The low bid for the 1989 white sedan for the Building Department was submitted by Good Chevrolet in the amount of $10, 816. 45 for a Corsica. The low bid for the 1989 black sedan for the Police Department was submitted by Bill Hazelett Chevrolet in the amount for $11 , 550. 18 for a Corsica. The Director of Public Works recommended that these two bids be accepted. Wickstrom noted that the vehicles are covered by warranty and Dowell suggested that the distance driven for warranty service should be taken into consideration when purchasing vehicles. JOHNSON MOVED to award the bids as recommended. White seconded and the motion carried. LIBRARY Demolition of Sea-Kent Building - New Library. As lead agency, the King County Library System has received bids for the demolition of the Sea-Kent Cold Storage facility, the site of the new library. This is a joint effort of King County and the City of Kent and as such, the City will be a party to the bid award. McFall announced that Center Dozing submitted3 the low bid in the amount of $132 , 525 and recommended acceptance of the bid. WOODS SO MOVED. White seconded and the motion carried. McFall noted for White that the project will begin within three weeks. SUBDIVISION CODE Subdivision Code Amendment. On October 24, 1988 , AMENDMENT the Planning Commission recommended a subdivision code amendment to incorporate review procedures for lot line adjustments and to clarify the definition of piggy-back or accumulative short subdivision. Planning Director Harris noted that there has been - 2 - i November 15, 1988 SUBDIVISION CODE an increase in the number of applications for lot AMENDMENT line adjustments and that this addition would provide a system for processing the applications . WOODS MOVED to adopt the recommendation of the Planning Commission to amend the Kent Subdivision Code and to direct the City Attorney to prepare the amending ordinance. White seconded. The motion carried. ANNEXATIONS (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3E) Hehr Annexation. AUTHORIZATION to set December 20, 1988, as the date for a public hearing on the pro- posed Hehr Annexation located in the vicinity of 116th Avenue S.E. and S.E. 227th Place, as approved by the Public Works Committee. Zoning of East Hill Community Well No. 2 Annexation - Area C. Jack Bereiter, attorney representing William Carey and others, noted that on October 24, 1988 , he had delivered a letter with copies to each Council- member, and to staff, requesting that the City recon- sider Ordinance 2771 which zoned this annexation. Such letter has been filed for the record. He noted that City Attorney Driscoll had responded to the letter stating that the Council had already addressed the issues raised. Bereiter conceded that possibly two of the four issues have been addressed. He briefly described his issues as follows : 1 . It appears that there may have been an inadvertent designation of some of the areas in the property to be zoned, either by designation in the area or by the zoning involved. 2 . Resolution 1123 calls for 20% downzoning through- out the City. The resolution calls for this to be achieved through revisions to the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Code and not by individual zoning situations . 3. The Zoning Code requires that amendments to the text of the Code be considered at a hearing be- fore the Planning Commission followed by the Com- mission ' s recommendation to the Council and that it appears that this had not been done. 4 . Kent City Code 15 . 05. 055B requires that the Plan- ning Director make a threshold determination on annexed property, which is under consideration for initial zoning, as to whether there is a Comprehensive Plan for that area and also whether 3 - November 15 , 1988 ANNEXATIONS such plan is current. Bereiter stated that he had determined that through an inadvertent error, such determination had not been made, and sug- gested therefore, that Ordinance 2771 should be repealed and the zoning matter for the annexa- tion be referred back to staff for appropriate procedure. East Hill Community Well No. 2 - Area C Johnson suggested that action had already been taken Zoning on this matter. Upon questions from the Council , City Attorney Driscoll noted that in view of threatened litigation on this matter, any discussion should be confined to executive session. No further action was taken. PARKS (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM I ) Arts Commission Appointment. CONFIRMATION of the Mayor ' s appointment of Inga Schulz to the Arts Commission to replace Jeannine Dowell who has resigned due to other commitments . This term will expire in October 1991 . (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3G) Name-A-Park Contest. AUTHORIZATION to name the 516 pond property "The Old Fishing Hole" . In cooperation with the Kent Rotary Club, the Kent Parks and Recreation Department ran a contest to name the former 516 pond property. The Rotary Club has done extensive voluntary work to clean up the park and improve accessibility. The contest was open to children ages 14 and under. The Rotary selection committee, composed of Jim White, Sandra Driscoll , Neil Sullivan, Jim Nelson and Frank DeGaetani selected "The Old Fishing Hole" , submitted by 7-year-old Katherine Bourne of East Hill Elementary. Golf Complex. Mickey Stray, Golf Pro for the City, stated that he had sent a letter to Barney Wilson and the Council last week pointing out that the City has violated its contract with him. It was determined that no answer had been received and Stray referred to letters and memorandum dating back to August, 1987 . He noted that he had met with the Mayor and City Administrator and had spoken also to several Councilmembers. White suggested that the matter be referred to the Parks Committee and then concurred with Johnson' s suggestion that prior to referral to the Committee, the matter 4 - i November 15, 1988 PARKS should be considered administratively, with a response made to the Council by the City Attorney. There were no objections to this procedure and no further action was taken. Parks Personnel. Mann stated that it had come to his attention that the Parks Department Information Officer had used City funds and City time to secure PDC reports on the elected officials. He acknow- ledged that such reports were public information and available to the public, but thought it inappro- priate for a City employee to become involved in the political realm with the intent of influencing future elections. He requested that an executive session be held to discuss this matter and noted that he had questions as to whether the Council should have approved a position of Information Officer for the Parks Department. Driscoll deter- mined that an executive session was proper to receive or evaluate complaints against an employee. TRAFFIC CONTROL (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3J) REMOVED BY COUNCILMEMBER MANN FASSTRAK. The Public Works Committee has recommended acceptance of the Puget Sound Council of Governments final conclusions and recommendations for the Free- way/Arterial System Study for Tukwila, Renton, Auburn and Kent (FASSTRAK) . Mann asked for more informa- tion and Wickstrom explained that this cooperative effort of the valley Cities , County, State and PSCOG showed how the freeway system would operate in South King County based on traffic projections for the future. This is a follow-up of the Valley Trans- portation Action Plan. The recommendations would eventually go into the regional plan for South King County and would be further reviewed before imple- mented. White noted that this was an ongoing pro- ject for more than two years and that Dowell had represented the City. He noted that this study had evolved from the Green River Valley Transportation Plan. Dowell noted that this is a section of the overall traffic improvement plan and would not in any way delay the City ' s attempts for the corridors. Wickstrom noted that this study looked at the free- way system, additional interchanges and considered that the projections for the State freeway system had determined that high occupancy vehicle types of operation would be needed in order to make the system work. JOHNSON THEN MOVED to approve Item 3J. Houser seconded and the motion carried. - 5 - November 15 , 1988 RECYCLING Mayor Kelleher announced that Steve DiJulio would TASK FORCE chair the Recycling Task Force authorized by the Council at the last meeting. Appointments include all members of the existing Solid Waste Task Force and Councilmembers White, Johnson, Dowell and Mann. He pointed out that others interested in serving will also be appointed. Those involved in the recycling field will be invited to the meetings, but will not be appointed as voting members. The Force is asked to establish a work plan with a date for submittal of a report on evaluation of the suf- ficiency of the City ' s present recycling system and to make suggestions if it is found that the program should be modified. The Mayor ' s memo on this sub- ject has been filed for the record. COUNCIL MEETINGS (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3F) Council Meeting Locations. AUTHORIZATION to esta- blish the Kent Library as the location for the City Council meetings and workshops beginning in December, Change Location through Tuesday, March 28, 1989 , with the exception of Tuesday, January 10, 1989 when a workshop ( if conducted) will be held at the Kent Senior Activity Center. All meetings will be held at the regularly scheduled time of 7 : 00 p.m. (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3H) Special Council Meeting. ESTABLISH Tuesday, Novem- ber 29 at 7: 00 p.m. in the Kent City Council Chambers as the date, time and location for a special meeting of the City Council. Action to be taken by the Special Meeting Council at this special meeting consists of: November 29 1 ) adoption of the tax levy ordinance which is required prior to December 5, 1988 2 ) adoption of the 1989 budget and 3 ) consideration and award Chambers Remodel of bid for the remodel of the Chambers and for the Bids sound system for the Chambers . Other items to come before the Council at this meeting may be placed on an agenda to be distri- buted prior to the Council meeting. Workshop. White noted that a workshop has been scheduledfor Tuesday, November 22 at 7 : 00 p.m. to Workshop review committee reports on the 1989 budget and to November 22 attempt to finalize the budget. He noted also that he would be out of town and unable to attend. December 6 Meeting. White noted that inasmuch as December Meeting several Councilmembers would be attending the Date National League of Cities conference, a quorum 6 - November 15, 1988 - COUNCIL MEETINGS would not be available for the regular Council meeting of December 6. He suggested therefore that the December 6 meeting be cancelled, and that the regular meeting of December 20th be the last meeting for 1988. There were no objections to this proposal. FINANCE (CONSENT CALENDAR ITEM 3B) Approval of Bills. APPROVAL of payment of the bills received through November 17 , 1988 after auditing by the Operations Committee at its meeting at 8: 30 a.m. on December 1 , 1988. Approval of checks issued for vouchers: Date Check Numbers Amount 10/11 - 10/13 65685 - 65698 10/14 - 10/25 66113 - 66146 533,910.14 10/31/88 66160 - 66586 1,142,818.87 1,676,729.01 Approval of checks issued for payroll: Date Check Numbers Amount 11/04/88 111093 - 111722 644.281.80 REPORTS Public Works Committee. Johnson noted that the Public Works Committee will meet at 4: 00 p.m, on November 22. EXECUTIVE SESSION At 7 : 50 p.m. the Mayor announced that an executive session would be held for approximately ten minutes to discuss a personnel matter. ADJOURNMENT At 8: 00 p.m. the meeting reconvened and then adjourned Marie Jens(Q CMC City Clerk 7 - I