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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1961-11-22city council minutes\ I EXPENDITURES BY FITNDS WATER FUND SUPPLIES 30 -032 1,051,.99 WATER CAP. r, 30 -033 1,649.05 TREATITNT PLANT 31-032 798.7 TRF-AT17NT PLANT CAP. " 31 -033 49.05 A4ATER GEN. OFFICE " 32 -032 473.80 FIRE DEPT. 45 -032 1,404.56 CEMETERY FUND 50 -032 41.25 STREET FUND ^ 60-932 9,351.89 IRRIGATION; FUND " 7C -032 257.96 SANITATION FUND ' 75 -032 60.37 SANITATION CAP. " 75 - 033 230.34 L. I. D. ,N 49 " 4 -932 41.20 MID- NOV0.13 1961 9, 15,912.95 Decision Highway Bo -ird The following letter was read from the Board of Highway Directors and ordered spread on the � Minutes: No ✓ember 13, 1961. The Honorable Ed Simmerman Mayor, City of Caldwell City Hall C,ldwell, Idaho 1 Dear Ma or Simmerman: Please find attached herewith a copy of the Highway Board of Directors' Determination regarding the location of the section of Interstate.8ON in and in the vicinity of Caldwell. Very truly yours, /sl wayne Summers, Secretary Board of Highway Directors Decision of the Idaho Board of Highway Directors was ordered filed in the Clerk's office. City Attorney Dean Miller stated unless the Highway Board's decision is appealed within ten days of the announcement it becomes effective. Mayor Simmerman informed the Council requests made by the City have not been granted. Moved by Councilman Smith, seconded by Council�an Eldredge the Mayor, or a qualified representative inform the Highway Board the City of Caldwell will file suit to delay action by the Board. Upon Roll Call it anneared the motion was unanimo ^sly carried. Moved by Councilman Smith, seconded by Councilman Eldredge if the Council does not receive a satisfactory reply from the Highway Board by November 24, 1961, the City Attorney be instructed to file suit. Upon Roll Call it aineared the motion was unanimously carried. Library Councilman Shorb, council member on the Library Board, discussed future planning for a new library building and requested the City to set aside a site in the park for this building. Moved by Councilman 6 horb, seconded by - Councilman Vassar the Council select a site in existing City owned property for a future library building. Upon Roll Call it appeared the motion was unanimously carried. Councilman Smith recommended city men be taken o'f the work at the eighteen hole golf course until the Golf Association provides cart of the man power. Councilman Vassar recommed the Mayor contact the Golf Association and work out some plan with a report back to Council. There being no further business to come before the Council it was moved by 6ouncilman Luby, seconded by Councilman Eldredge that Council adjourn. Motion carried, A Mayor. City Clerk. COUNCIL CHAMBERS NOv3i4BER 22, 1961 - 7:00 P. M. The Council met pursuant to recess and acknowledgment of notice in the following form: CALL AND ACKNarE,rO'.?14T OF '30TICF We, the undersigned Mayor and Members of the City Caincil of the tie City of Caldwell, Idaho, do each hereby acknowledge notice of a Special Fleeting of the said City Council, to he held in the Council Chambers in the City Hall in the City of Ca ldwell, Idaho, at the hour of 700 o'clock P. M. on the ?2nd, day of November, 1961, for the transaction of all business in connection with the following object Discussion Interstate Highway, which object was presented to each of the undersigned in writing. WITNESS our signatures this 22nd day of November, 1961. /1 C6uncilman / pun 4V"A V ' c'lman J T C On ounci l nci a / Coup ilTnan Mayor Ed Simmerman presiding. Upon Roll Call the following Councilmen answered present: E. L. Vassar, Emile Shorb, Alvin K. Bates, L. P. Eldredge and N. E. "Coley" Smith. Mayor Siimeerman stated that City Attorney Dean Miller had conferred with Brice 3ennatt in Boise on this date confirming the Highway Board of Directors' determination regarding Interstate SON and then called upon the City Attorney for presentation of his thouhgts in the matter. Mr. Miller explained that with respect to the f- mtnge road and on -ramn which had been reque ^tad by the City for incornoration into the plans of the, Interstate thru Cald�.•�ell, he was convinced the Highway Board mould make e.,ery effort to get them for the City. He said that the Board thinks it can be none as it is a special situation; however, the local or re > °inal office says it can't be done and the necessity for it must he proven to the Bureau of Roads in Washington. Councilman Max Luby entered the meeting at this time. Mr. Miller aontined by explaining further that an appeal by the City would rot apply to these two items but rather to the location of the "mite of Interstate BON thn,, or around Caldwell and it w aild be the determination of the Court whether traffic volume, economic values and cost values for the present routing as determined by the Board would a greater benefit, to the State of Idaho than the economic loss resulting to the City of Caldwell. He further explained that the City uvld have to be prepared to combat data presently o n hand in the States findings and he wouldn't advise going into it without being prepared to spend 8 or 10 thousand dollars to show that they were wrong in their determination. After discussion of the subject by each of the Councilmen, Crncncilman Vassar moved and Councilman Shorb seconded that the City accept the determination of the Highway Board and a with them to gat the frontage road and on -ramp. Upon Roll Call tiose vot'nc in the affirmative were: Shorb and Vassar. Negative votes were cast by : Luby, Bates and Smith. Eldredge abstained. Mayor Simmerman declared the motion defeated. After some further discussion, Councilman Smith moved and Councilman Bates seconded that the City file the appeal and notify the Highway Board that when the City gets a firm conmitieant on (1) connecting the existing US Highway 30 between the nresent junction with State Highway LL and a point on old US Highway 1 0 in the vicinity of the BON - US 20 -26 int�rchanee and (2) the addition of an on -ramp for west -bound traffic in the vicinity of Bois, Avenue at its crossing of Interstate n)N, then the City will withdraw the action. Councilman Eldredge inquired as to whether it was not correct that the appeal would certain to the route of the Interstate and not to the two items requested by the City in the present routing determined by the Highway Board. The City Attorney answered that this was correct. It was pointed out that probably the Sate would rather not tie placed in a position of maintaining r 41 the present Highway 30 thru C if not made a part of the Interstate System and Mr. Miller inquired of City Engineer Mel Lewis if he could foresee any possibility of the present Highway 30 being taken out of the State Highway System. Mr. Lewis stated that he didn't believe this would be done. The decision of the Highway Board and the City's testimony entered at the hearing were read by the City Attorney after which Mayor Sism:erman called for a vote upon the motion. Unon Roll Call those voting in t he affirmative were: Luby, Smith, Eldredge and Bates. Negative votes were c,st by Shor and Vassar. The Mayor declared the motion ca -ried. 6 ouncilman Vassar stated that he desited for the record to show that his reasons for casting a negative vote were that he thought they were dong Caldwell and injustice in going around with the Inter- state, that they were doing an injustice to the £armes East of Caldwell, were taring a chance of loosing the North -West proposed By -Pass and were squandering the taxpayers money for something in which they didn't know what the outcome was to be. Councilman Bates stated that he thought it should be noted in the record that in voting in the affirmative, it was felt that this vas the only legal way in which the City could attempt to obtain those things which they felt to be necessary. The City Attorney sta ed that he would ?ile the appeal Friday the 24th and said that once it was filed, he wocId suggest that the City begin ijmediate negotiations to determine whether or not the City would actually want to c ntest the decision in Court, The matter of two applications for building permits by T. C. Blacker and Idaho Outdoor Advertising Co. for the placing of Bill -Board r1 -ns along Highway 30 within the City Limits were reffered to. In that the granting of the permits would establish a nrecident and after having looked over the pronosed location, Councilman Shorb moved and Councilman Luby sec - znded that t.atwo applications for placing of the Bill -Board siPns be denied. A vote was called for and motion unanimously carried. Councilman Shorb moved and Councilman Vassar seconded that the meeting adjourn. The motion carried. Meeting adjourned at i:15 P. M. r Mayor. . .� Deputy Clerk COUNCIL CHAY87 -PS DEcri 4, 146 9:00 P. 14. The Regular Monthly 14 -Ming of the City Council met in the Council Rooms of the City Hall, with Mayor Ed Sigmerman presiding. Upon Roll Call the following Councilmen answered present: E. L. Vassar, N. E. "Coley" Smith, Max Luby, Emile Shorb, L. P, Eldredge and Alvin K. Bates. The Bills for November were read and on motion by Councilman Smith, seconded by Councilman Eldredge these Bills be allowed and warrants ordered drawn for the varicys amounts all of which ha.,e been approved by the finance 'ommittee. Motion carried. r—