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1 Star City Council Meeting Minutes June 16, 2015 The regular meeting of the Star City Council was held on June 16, 2015 at 7:00 pm at the Star City Hall, 10769 W. State Street, Star, Idaho. Mayor Nathan Mitchell called the meeting to order and all stood for the Pledge of Allegiance. Approval of the Agenda: Bell moved to amend the agenda moving the Chamber sign discussion to July 7th, 2015 and adding the Grindline Proposal, Lockett seconded the motion. All aye: motion carried. Consent Agenda: Bell moved to approve the Consent Agenda consisting of: Regular Meeting Minutes of June 2, 2015, Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law for: Outlet Fireworks and TNT Fireworks, Erlebach seconded the motion. All aye: motion carried. Presentations/Public Input: Ada County Prosecutor – Bob McQuade reviewed the primary roll assessment notice summary. Everything seems to be stable. We were 3% over last year. Discussion was held on residential and commercial values. (See Assessment Notice) Public Input - No public input was given. Staff Reports - Ron Weston stated that the current sport going on is softball. The baseball fields have been full since March. Activities for July include baseball, sports scramble, youth soccer and football. The month of August they will have wiffleball and family versus family. We are holding the first softball tournament for seniors (age 60 and up), they have six teams. Almost all participants are from outside of Star. This will be a two-day tournament. Bell asked about any little leagues looking for tournaments. Weston said they always ask about it, but no one follows up. Kim Ingraham stated that she has been promoting camp, both golf and tennis. Adult classes will continue through summer. She is halfway done with the bench projects, three are done. She sat through training for recognizing the signs of abused children. One in ten children are sexually abused. She is gearing up for the Home Town Celebration and working on the five year anniversary party. The pump track and scoreboards are on hold for right now. The rink project is moving forward, interest in the land was sent to family for property donation. The Community Garden is producing food. The Diaz family donated $800 last November and have been wondering when it will be used. Possible use could be benches. The Relay for Life group will be part of the parade with a float. Bell asked about the scoreboard we already have. Ingraham stated that it was an indoor basketball scoreboard. Todd Crockett stated that we have put bark down at Blake and Hunters Creek parks. He is working with Chris Rogers on people to do community service. The group will be connecting the path at Hunters Creek. He is looking to plant trees at Hunters and Blake Park this year along ---PAGE BREAK--- 2 with replacing the Blue Willow bushes at Blake. He is hoping to get sod down before the 4th of July. He does have his box for the back of the truck and is working on tools he needs. The City has a kid working on weed eating around the City. The path at Hunter’s Creek will be a fractured rock that compresses better than regular rock. Financial Report - The Mayor reviewed the financial statement for the year. OLD/NEW BUSINESS: Annexation/Zoning/Lot Split – Hofman Property – The Mayor stated that this is a public hearing. He opened the public hearing and asked Council if they have any conflicts of interest or ex parte contacts, hearing none the Mayor asked the applicant to speak. Applicant: Cornelius Hofman, 12000 W. New Hope Road, Star, Idaho stated that he is requesting annexation and zoning to Rural Transitional and to split the existing property into two lots. The property is ten acres. His intention is to live on the land with two lots. The location of the property is on the northside of the intersection at New Hope and Munger Roads. Council: Erelbach asked about the driveway. Hofman stated that there is an existing road on the east that will be used and he will eventually ask for a western side road. Hofman has discussed the septic issue with Central District Health. Staff : Ward stated that the Council has before them a copy of the letter received from Central District Health. The Mayor stated that the lot split is administrative. The application is for Annexation, Zoning and a lot split. The Mayor explained that there is also a Development Agreement. Specifics of the Development Agreement are: we are limiting road access, limiting it to two lots, the applicant comply with agencies having jurisdiction and there can be no further development without coming before the Council. The Mayor declared the public hearing closed. Bell moved to approve File #AZ-15-01 and LS 15-01 with standard conditions of approval and authorizing the Mayor to sign the development agreement on behalf of the City, Erlebach seconded the motion. All aye: motion carried. Steve’s Auto Mural Decision – Green would like to have the mural put on the side of his building. He would like to show support for the City, it won’t have advertising on it other than Steve’s Auto Care. A local lady will paint it on the building. If approved, it will be done by the end of July. The Mayor would like to see a final proof before it goes up. The Mayor said there may be people that have a problem with the word “Family”. Council will have a final proof next council meeting. ---PAGE BREAK--- 3 Boat Launch/River Master Plan - The Mayor showed three different drawings of Heron River. The Mayor reviewed the three drawings. The Land Trust proposal includes the boat ramp. Bell asked if the ponds were bigger and further north. The Mayor stated they were and the one pond is where the open space used to be. Bell asked who authorized them to have a bigger pond? The Mayor stated it was a discussion between the owners and the Mayor. Bell stated that this is a new plan and wondered how it evolved to this new plan. Erlebach stated that we have more property to the east. The Mayor stated that we would have the water rights associated with the property from the Little Pioneer through the pond or the irrigation system. The ponds are ground water. Erlebach talked about a canal to connect the two lakes and asked how will they keep it from flooding? The Mayor stated that The Land Group proposal discusses pit capture by building up certain areas. The Mayor sees value in us hiring The Land Group so we can tell them how we want it to look. The Mayor said the developer would have to rebuild the pond. In the proposal we would do the engineering and hand it back to the developers and we will negotiate the cost. Erlebach sees the developer making money on the ponds and us taking care of the cost of the property. He doesn’t want to bankrupt the city developing it. The Mayor has been talking with the developer not the Council. The Mayor is asking Council to spend $100,000 to develop it. Council could tell the developer to go fill the second pond and it is within our right and our options to do so. This will be a regional park. Bell wants to have a conversation with Craig Groves regarding his participation. The Mayor wants to get the City to the point of a contractual agreement. Erlebach stated that we need to see something. Bell would like to have Groves come before the Council and he would like a feel for what they are going to do. The Mayor will make arrangements with Groves to attend a meeting. Grindline Skatepark Proposal – The Mayor talked with Grindline regarding construction documents that would be put out to competitive bid, at the time the proposal was $7-15,000. It is now $24,720. Erlebach stated that he spoke with Micah and Micah spoke with our City Engineer. The increase in cost is for storm drain calculations. Bell would like to see Grindline back off their proposal number to around $18,000 and move forward. The Mayor stated that we can approve task one and two and the others can be done by our engineer. Bell moved to approve the Grindline proposal approving tasks one and two and not three and four, Lockett seconded the motion. All aye: motion carried. Reports: Staff – no reports were given. Council – no reports were given. Mayor – The Mayor stated that planning for the fourth of July is going well. ---PAGE BREAK--- 4 The Attorney is absent as he has sent a notice to end his contract as of June 30, 2015. The Mayor would like some direction as far as legal services, it does not have to be competitively bid. Erlebach stated that we had a past attorney that everyone was happy with – Chris Yorgason and he would be happy to contact him to see if he’s interested. The Mayor said he would contact him and see if he’s interested and if not we can put it out to bid. Bell and Lockett are both fine with this direction. The Mayor will call him in the morning. The Mayor poured a form for a fire pit at his house. Bell stated that the Worsley’s that live adjacent to the park have just lost their daughter to brain cancer. They could use our community support. The Mayor stated that Terry Fetters and Chuck Misner also passed away. The Mayor has ten or eleven official submissions for the open Council position and will be sitting down with everyone. He will have a name for Council at the next meeting. Adjournment: The Mayor adjourned the meeting at 8:48 pm. Approved: Respectfully submitted: Nathan Mitchell, Mayor Cathy Ward, City Clerk