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Albert Olson, Jr. 322 East 8th Jean Olson 322 East 8th 92-14 Street being slick when paved and all property owners should be assessed equally Occupants of new apartment buildings and duplex use street more and should pay more of cost. ---PAGE BREAK--- SEE ATTACHED PAGE OF MINUTES OF 8/24/92 PUBLIC HEARING . 2.4Jh. ! i' · AuSLus:t . u > . .9.Lĸ.L4 Hodge, Baron, Crookston, Dudley Palmer and Comstock Motion carried. ---PAGE BREAK--- _ _ Community Center Roof Coating Bid Results. Bids were opened August 12, 1992; Bids were received from Wilbur Fletch01·. Inc. of Dayton, WA - $16ļ592.00 and Inland Coatings, Inc . of Pullman, wA - $30,356.00. The project includes pressure water blasting dnd yepainting of the existing metal roof. The last time the roof was repainted was in the late 1970's. ACTION: Aware contract to Wilbur Fletcher . Inc. in the amount cf $16,592.00. G. Mt. View Creek Crossing Widening Project/Change Order No. 1. It was necessary to revise the guardrail supports on the west side of the project. We encountered an alignment problem with a major power pole. The additional cost is $1,009 which revises $73,400 to $74,409. ACTION: Order No. 1 in the amount of the original contract amount of Authorize Mayor to sign Change $1,009. Roll call vote: AYES: Dudley, PalmerĽ Crookston, Baron, Comstock, and Hodge. NAYS: None. The motion carried unanimously. lA. Minutes of August 3, 1992 City Council meeting. Councilwoman Baron stated that she would like to have the statement that Councilman Hodge made on lB Lot Division/Loewenstein On page 3 included and the minutes be submitted at another meeting. lF . Hiring Freeze Waiver/Police Department Councilwoman Baron moved, seconded by Councilman Comstock to approve waiver of the hiring freeze in the Police Department and authorize the filling of the position and to also authorize the hiring of two new patrol positions and one dispatcher position included in the 1992-93 budget subject to the passage of the budget. Roll call vote: AYES: Hodge, Comstock, Baron, Crookston, and Dudley. NAYS: None. ABSTENTION: Palmer. Motion carried. Councilwoman commented she felt we should wait to approve until after the budget hearing. 2. PUBLIC HEARING - LID 115 SOUTH ADAMS STREET BETWEEN 7TH AND 8TH STREETS. Mayor Agidius opened the public hearing at 8:15P.M. Gary Presol, Director of Public Works, stated that at the July 6, 1992 meeting the council passed a Resolution of Intention to create the LID for the purpose of surfacing Adams Street bľtween 7th and 8th Streets. we are in receipt of a petition with two of the three resident property owners in favor of the LID. State Code requires only 60% of the August 24, 1992 5 ---PAGE BREAK--- 1·esident prope ty owners sign in favo1· for the LID to be voluntary. Al of ths r=on-resident property owners (rental property) a1·e n favor. We alrea have money deposited from two developers along the street to improve the street . Albert Olson, J1·., 322 EasL 8th, am concerned if the street is paved it will make it slick and very dangerous in the winter and believe all property owners should be assessed equally." Jean Olson, 322 East 8th, ''the occupants of the three new apartment buildings and the new dķJplex use the street much more than we do as there are from four to six cars at each building." Charles Graham on behalf of the Olson's. think that what they are pointing up is the way this LID was put together. A decision was made when the four plexes were built and- when the duplex across the street was built that these properties would be assessed on a front foot basis but it certainly doesn't make any sense in a neighborhood like this where all the properties along the street benefit to assess or to create an LID where properties are going to be assessed on a front foot basis because a front foot basis there is no relation to the use of those properties. On three of those lots is where the four plexes are two diffe1·ent living units and yet those properties are being assessed on the same basis as properties having only a single family dwelling, or in the Olson's case, two living units. The assessment bears no relation to the use and as this Council has heard before from other people that have protested LID's it is not land that uses streets or roads it is people that use streets or roads. I think the only sensible way to go about designing an LID on a neighborhood street like this at this point of these proceedings is to back up and scrap this LID and give the owner of the four plexes and duplex their money back and say we are going to redesign this LID and we are going to assess these properties on a living unit basis because it is people in those living units that use the street, it is not the front feet that uses the street or the lots themselves. If you are not going to do that I think it doesn,t make any sense to assess on a front foot basis anymore and yet it tough to assess on a per lot basis because on the east side of the street some of those ownerships or at least one ownership owns three different lots. The only fair way to do it at this point is to divide the remaining amount by four and assess all cf those remaining properties equally. I still think the better solution, and what this Council has to look at in future LID's of this kind, is focusing on a use that those propert are being put to and if they are four plexes or multi-unit apartment buildings those properties ought to be assessed more than the property that supports a single family home." August 24, 1992 6 6 ---PAGE BREAK--- Mayor Agidius closed the Public Heari119 at 8ć25 P.M. Councilman Hodge moved, seconded by Councilman Crookston to adopt Resolution No. 92-14 dealing witl1 protests and their disposition to LID 115 as following: Albert Olson, Jr. 322 East 8th, Creating the LID paving the street would n1ake the street too slick to deal with in the winter and the costs were unfair because there were other properties that had more apartments that would contribute to the street more than his property would; Jean Olson that there was more traffic generated from other property owners than from their property and felt that would be unfair to them because of that. The disposition of the protests would be if we felt paving streets in town made them too slick we would never pave any of the streets in our community or very few of them. It has been a position and goal of the council to try to pave more streets in the community not less. As to apartments creating more impact there are no apartments in this LID. There are apartments in the area but they are not part of this LID. There is traffic generated from several areas in the community that are going to contribute to this street and I don't see that the apartments that aTe not part of this LID that that is valid complaint. Roll call vote: AYES: Hodge, Baron, Crookston, Dudley. NAYS: Palmer and Comstock. Motion carTied. Councilman Comstock and Councilwoman Palmer voted NAY because they felt another way of assessing would have been better. Councilman Hodge moved, seconded by Councilman Crookston to adopt Ordinance No. 92-21 waiving the rule requiring three separate and complete readings and that the ordinance be adopted and read by title only. Roll call vote: AYES: Hodge, Baron, Crookston, and Dudley. NAYS: Palmer and Comstock. Motion carried. Mayor Agidius read Ordinance No. 92-21 by title only. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MOSCOW, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, CREATING LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 115; DESCRIBING AND SETTING FORTH THE BOUNDARIES OF SAID LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT; PROVIDING FOR CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS BEING MADE THEREIN; APPOINTING AN ENGINEER TO PREPARE THE NECESSARY PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS FDR THE WORK; AUTHORIZING THE ADVERTISING FOR BIDS FOR SAID IMPROVEMENTS AS AUTHORIZED BY LAW; PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF COSTS AND EXPENSES OF SAID IMPROVEMENTS TO BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE PROPERTY WITHIN THE LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT BENEFITED THEREBY AND THE METHOD OF SUCH ASSESSMENTS; PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT WARRANTS AND/OR August 24, 1992 7 7 ---PAGE BREAK--- . PUBLIC HEARING PETITION TO VACATE ALLEY IN BLOCK 6, MCGREGOR'S ADDITION - GRITMAN MEDICAL CENTER Mayor Agidius oper,ed the public hearing at 9:00 P.M. Dale Pe1·nula, Community Development Director , stat.ed that Grʟtman Medical Center ʠas acquired ownership of all of Block 6 with the exception of a small part of the nol·th south 2lley that at one time extended from Seventh to Eighth Stre0ts. The alley must be vacated to constl·uct a planned additioʡ to the hospital. Bob Colvin, Administrator of Gritman Medical Center . stated that Gritman is planning on expanding their facility and that expansion needs to go over part of the existing alley. Mayer Agitius closed the Public hearing at 9:06 P.M. Gary Presolʢ DirecLor of Ķtlic wc.rksr corrimented that the r,orrr•al oolicy when son1ecn2 over s sewer main that that seʥer main is rec0ĵstr· 2ted w;tn a ffiore stable Mr . Colvin steted tʦ.at ʧhey fgoers:ood thst ttlere might be that kind of requirement and will do what is necessary. Councilman Crookston moved, seconded by Councilwoman Palmer to adoot Ordinance No . 92-22 waiving the rule requiring three separate and complete readings and that the ordin2nce be and read by title only. Roll call vote: AYES: Dudley, Palmer , Crookston, Baron, Comstock, and NAYS: None. Motion carried unanimously . Mayor Agidius read Ordinance No. 92-22 by title only. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MOSCOW, A MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF IDAHO, PROVIDING FOR VACATING A PORTION OF AN ALLEY LOCATED WITHIN BLOCK 6, H. MCGREGOR'S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MOSCOW; PROVIDING THAT TITLE TO SAID VACATED RIGHT-OF-WAY SHALL VEST WITH THE OWNER OF ADJACENT PROPERTIES; PROVIDING THAT CERTAIN EASEMENTS EE RETAINED 8Y THE CITY IN SAID PROPERTYʨ PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE IN FULL FORCE AND EFFECT FROM AND AFTER ITS PASSAGE, APPROVAL AND PUBLICATION ACCORDING TO LAW. 4 PUBLIC HEijĴING - ELJDGEl Mayor Agi.jius bpened the public hearing at 9:08P.M. August 24, 1992 8