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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council Committees - Operations - 11/01/1989 OPERATIONS COMMITTEE MINUTES Rl (s V November 1, 1989 NOV 2 11989 CITY OF KENT COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Christi Houser CITY CLERK Paul Mann Steve Dowell STAFF PRESENT: Ed Chow Jim Hansen Mike Webby Sandra Driscoll Ron Spang Tony McCarth/�\ Alana Mclalwain May Miller Priscilla Shea Tom Vetsch GUEST PRESENT: Anita Methvin, Citizen APPROVAL OF VOUCHERS All claims for the period ending November 1, 1989 in the amount of $1, 191, 811.59 were approved for payment. LID 301Z300 PAYOFF Finance Director McCarthy presented to the Committee a proposal to retire outstanding debt on City owned property in LTD 300 and 301 due to lower current investment interest rates of 7.8% and an available fund balance in the Capital Improvement Fund. The City has $252,433 in outstanding ,d,ebt on these LID's and available CIP funds by over collection of sales tax and real estate excise tax. McCarthy further stated that the City is currently paying an interest rate of 10.35% on LID 301 and the additional amount needed for payoff is $89,830 due November 15, 1989. LID 300 has an interest rate of 10.06% and the additional amount needed for payoff is $162, 603 due February 15, 1990. It was recommended to the Council to payoff LID 301 in 1989 creating a 1990 budget savings of $83,906.41 and postpone LID 300 payoff until 1990. The Committee recommended this proposal to Council by a vote of 3-0. ROUND OFF PROGRAM Finance Director McCarthy presented Anita Methvin a friend of the Mayor at the City of Vienna, West Virginia where they are currently accepting rounded up utility payments and using the extra funds for a Parks Department program. McCarthy noted that handling this type of program internally would be more difficult than in Vienna because the City uses Iockbox processing for its utility bills. In this process the actual utility bill payments are sent to the City's bank and deposited. The bank then sends the City a listing on computer tape. Under this program it could not be easily determined whether the individual was rounding up the bill on purpose or whether the intention was to receive a credit on the next month bill. A discussion continued about the future possibility of doing a utility survey to determine in advance whether people would roundup their payments. It was noted that following the implementation of a new City utility bill, this program would be pursued. No vote was taken on the roundup program as it was presented for information only and will be reviewed at a later date. As an add-on discussion to this program Anita Methvin noted that in recent visits to Lake Fenewick Park she had noticed loud music and was inquiring of the City on the implementation of a noise ordinance similar to Seattle. The information was referred to the City Attorney for review. KHERSON, SOVIET UNION TRIP FOR DR. WOODS Council Chair Houser noted that she was recommending that $500 be appropriated to assist Dr. Woods on her trip to Kherson, Soviet Union sister city inaugural program. As noted in the presentation, the funds would come from the Council travel budget which appeared to be about $5,000 under budget. It was also noted that Dr. Woods had minimal expenditures totalling only $33 through October 1989. Council member Dowell noted he felt the program was a people-to- people program and not a government-to-government program, and that he would not be supporting the expenditure of City funds for this purpose. The Committee approved the recommendation on a 2-to-1 vote with Councilman Dowell voting "no". 1990 BUDGET REVIEW The budgets of the general government departments of Administration, Finance, Law, Information Services and Personnel were available for questions by the Council members. No questions were raised and no reports were given by the departments on any changes requested in their budget proposals.