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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1968-11-12city council minutes540 Warrant Numbers 931 thru 970, Special Funds Can't.: Street ------------------ , ------ 1,596.45 Street, Capital ----- --- -- - - -- 64.4.0 Sanitation Contract ------------ 6,554.22 Armory -" °- ------- - ---------- 120.00 Irrigation -- --- -- ----- - - - ---- 12.45 L.I.D. #62 ------ ------ ----- --- 397.75 Warrant Numbers 1634 thru 1700 - (excepting 1634, 1635 and 1637) General Fund Payroll - October --__- __-__..--- ------ ---- ----- -----27,123.46 Warrant Numbers 1701 thru 1754 - (including 163h, 1635 and 1637) Special Funds Payroll - October ---------------------------------- 15,416.54 Warrant Numbers 1755 thru 1779 - Water & Sewer Fund Payroll - October --------- - - - - -- 7,101.02 A vote was taken and the motion carried. It was moved by Councilman Keys, seconded by Councilman Carpenter, that the meeting recess until 8:00 P.M. on November 18, 1968. A vote was taken and the motion carried. The meeting recessed at 9:45 P.M. COUNCIL CHAMBERS NOVEMBER 12, 1968 7:30 P. M. The Council met pursuant to call and acknowledgement of notice in the following form: We, the undersigned Mayor and Manbers of the City Council of the City of Caldwell, Idaho, do hereby acknowledge notice of a Special Meeting of the said City Council to be held in the Council Chambers in the City Hail in the City of Caldwell, Idaho, at the hour of 7:30 P.AL, on the 12th day of November, 1968, for the transaction of all business in connection with the following objects: Consideration of certain amendment; to the City Code, consideration of the 1968 irrigation water assessment by the Golden Gets Irrigation Districr consideration of Engineering and Planning Firms to represent the City in presenting an application for Federa: matching funds for a Comprehensive Plan, and review of documents prepared by Treasure Valley CATV Committee. Witness our signatures this 12th day of November, 1968. Mayor V Mayor N. E, "Coley" Smith presiding. Upon Ball Call, the following Councilmen answered present: Charles C. Banks, William S. Harrison, James W. "Bill" Keys, V. Jay Martin, Charles W. Carpenter, and C. A. "Chet" Davenport. In opening the meeting, Mayor Smith asked the Gouncil if they would return the old City Code book binders as they could be utalized for other documents. City Code changes recommended Recommended changes in the Electrical Code for the City were presented for the consideration of the Council and included the deletion of Chapter 7 of Title II and the amending of Section 5 -3 -1; paragraphs (G), (H), and (I) of Section 5 -3 -4 and paragraph (D) of Section 5 -3 -14. Deletion of Chapter 7 of Title II would iminate the provision for an Electric Examining Board. Section 5 -3 -1 would be amended to adopt the current's ition of the National Electrical Code adopted by the State of Idaho. Paragraph (G) of Section 5 -3 -4 would amended so as to recognize the Journeyman's Electrician Certificate of Qualification of the State of Idaho qualification for a City Journeyman Electrician License. Paragraph (H) of Section 5 -3 -4 would be amended establish the initial fee for a Journeyman Electrician License at Ten Dollars ($10.00) and Pe- newals at re Dollars ($5.00), paragraph (I) of Section 5 -3 -4 would be amended to eliminate the provision for charging{ double fee as now set forth, and paragraph (D) of section 5 -3 -14 would be amended to eliminate the provision r a metal box and to provide for "an approved" box. Also recommended was an addition of a Section 5 -2 -7 in the Plumbing Code clarifying the fees and ich would read: "A full ears license fee s y li n hall be collected for each license issued. " 54i The City Attorney entered the meeting at this time. It was moved by Councilman Martin, seconded by Councilman Keys, that the City Attorney prepare the necessary Ordinance for making these changes in the City Code. A vote was taken and the motion carried. Certificate of appreciation presented At this time Councilman 1Nartin was recognized and he presented to Mayor Smith a Certificate of Appreciation from the Association of Idaho Cities for his valuable and distinguished service to the Association, with the Certificate being issued in recognition thereof by the $card of Directors on behalf of its membership. Mayor Smith expressed his thanks to Councilman Martin and stated that this was quite a surprise and nice to receive. levy of Golden Gate Irrigation District to be challenged Mayor Smith then reported to the Council that a report had been received from Councilman Harrison who had been working with the Golden Gate Irrigation District. The District now does not wish for the City to take over the operation and merger of their District with the City District. He said then that some de- cision should be reached by the Council concerning the assessmenta of the Golden Gate Irrigation District fox certain City properties on a lot basis for the year 1968. It was pointed out that the levy would probably be continued mn the same basis in future years so it was not just this one year under consideration but future assessments as well. After considerable discussion; it was moved by Councilman Davenport, seconded by Councilman Hanks, that the City Attorney take the proper steps to challenge the levy assessed by the Golden Gate Irrigation District. There being no negative votes cast, Mayor Smith declared the motion had carried. City to enter into negotiations with Engineering and Planning Arms Mayor Smith referred to the previous action of the Council concerning putting the wheels in motion for application for 701 money for a Comprehensive Plan for Caldwell and said that he had mentioned then there would be more than one firm capable of doing this; that since then he had been contacted by two firms. He said he had talked with Sumner Johnson of Johnson- Underkofler & Briggs of Nampa who was interested in doing the engineering work and they had a working agreement with Arlo Nelson & Associates of Boise to do the planning. He added that he thought they could do a beautiful job and were mostly based in Canyon County. The other firm that was very qualified to do the work was Cornell Howland Hayes & Merryfield of Boise who had previously done the City's water study and were the consulting engineers on the City's Sewage Treatment Plant ,however, he thought it possible that their planners would be brought here from Seattle. r" The Mayor informed the Council that he hadn't wanted to get into the business of personally talking with these people because they didn't bid against each other and he thought the Council should have a meeting of the minds and then they could call in whichever firm they wanted to talk to. He said this was the next i a tap; that the planning money would come from 701 funds and it was quite complicated to make the application the firm contracted by the City would compile all the material necessary for making application and would eventually be paid for it. The Mayor added that once the funds were granted, the specific projects could then be worked on as previously discussed. The merits of contracting with as near local a firm as possible was discussed as well as other procedures concerning the application and cost. It was moved by Councilman Harrison, seconded by Councilman Martin, that we enter into negotiations with Johnson- Underkofler & Briggs and with Arlo Nelson & Associates. After some further discussion of qualifications and of the merits of negotiating with more than the one firm; a roll call vote was called for when the following Councilmen voted in the affirmative: Harrison, Keys, Martin, Carpenter, and Davenport. Negative vote: Banks. Absent and not voting: none. Mayor Smith declared that the motion had carried and said that he would request the two firms to appear at the nest meeting of the Council. CATV Committee documents tentatively approved with suggested correety:ons The final order of business was then taken up and was a review of documents prepared by the Treasure valley CATV Committee. Prior to being excused from the meeting in order to attend the City Council meeting at Wilder, the City Attorney expressed his opinion that the Council should not adopt the documents for the reason that they could not delegate their authority for future City Administrations as set forth in these documents. _ A 542 After some discussion, Mayor Smith stated that the documents would be considered for tentative and preliminary approval by the Council at this time and would be considered again at a later date for final approval. j The City Attorney then excused himself from the meeting. The Mayor and Council proceeded to review and ,study the following documents: (1) An agreement be- tween the Grantee and all of the Cities covering the formation of the CATV Committee, its function and duties) (2) The Cable Television ordinance. (3) The contract between each individual City and Grantee. Councilman Carpenter excused himself from the meeting at this time. It was moved by Councilman Hanks, seconded by Councilman Keys, that we tentatively approve the documents subject to the reco=ended changes and approval by the City Attorney. A vote was taken and the motion carried. Also briefly discussed was a consideration of the position of the remaining Cities should one or more Cities fail to approve the documents and whether or not the documents were so prepared that the remain- ing Cities could proceed. It was moved by Councilman Keys, seconded by Councilman Harrison, that the meeting recess until 8:00 P.m on November 18, 1968. A vote was taken and the motion carried. The meeting recessed at 9:10 P.M. yl � .c_ COUNCIL CHAlEM NOMiEER 18, 1968 8 :0o P. M. The Council met pursuant to recess and acknowledgement of notice in the following form: We, the undersigned Mayor and Members of the City Council of the City of Caldwell, Idaho, do herab, acknowledge notice of a Recessed Maeting of the said city Council to be held in the Council Chambers in the City Hall in the City of Caldwell, Idaho, at the hour of 8:00 P.M., on the 18th day of November, 1968, for the transaction of all business in connection with the following object: New and unfinished business. Witness our signatures this 18th day of November, 1968. r Mayor N. E. "Coley" Smith presidiyj,-.*� 1 Upon Roll Call, the following Councilmen answered present: Charles C. Banks, William S. Harrison, James W, "Hill" Keys, V. Jay Martin, Charles W. Carpenter, and C. A, "Chet" Davenport. Garbage pickup service Mayor Smith recognized Mr. Melvin Parks, of Parks and Sons and stated he had asked Mr. Parks to come to the meeting to explain his problems on the 5 -day garbage pickup and the pickup service following a holiday. Mr. Parks stated he had hoped to run on a 5 -day week basis,that it just wouldn't work out here in Caldwell. In other cities where they operate on a 5 -day week basis, they only pick up once a week, but where there is a twice a week pickup, it is almost a financial and impractical situation to set the garbage pickup an a 5 -day week basis. As for a pickup after a holiday, Mr. Parks stated it would mean he would have to have five or six extra trucks sitting around all the time, and then trying to find men to operate